The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

"Incident in Haiti"

written by: Nix C.

Location: Quest Compound, Maine

The rush of adrenaline surged through his veins as he quickened his pace towards the fictional dragon. He slashed out his sword with all his might striking the beast with one hard blow after another. A thrilling sensation washed over him as the gigantic scalely lizard puffed and wheezed before finally collapsing in total defeat.

Letting out a cry of triumph, Jonny Quest was logged out of Questworld and back to reality. The blonde haired boy grinned at his two bestfriends, Hadji Singh and Jessie Bannon.

"And he's out of there!" Jonny yelled victoriously.

" Not bad Jonny," Jessie commented as she prepared to log onto Questworld herself. "Prepare to be exterminated out of the top list!"

Jonny laughed mockingly. "Oh we'll see!"

"Come on you two," Hadji said as he punched in the command codes into his laptop. "This is just a game!"

Both Jonny and Jessie rolled their eyes.

"Questworld log on, subject Jessie Bannon, going hot in 5….4…..3…"cried Jessie but then suddenly Race Bannon her father burst into the room.

"Hadj, take Jessie out," Race commanded. His red polo shirt was slightly dirty as so were his black pants. His platinum blonde hair was messy due to the strong winds brewing outside. He was a little breathless and small beads of sweat trickled down from his forehead.

Jessie stood up from her chair and asked worriedly what was wrong. She pushed a lock of her long red hair behind her ear as her dad explained what was going on.

"Nothing is really wrong ponchita, well not yet…" Race said calmly.

"Oh dear I don't like the sound of that," Hadji nervously said.

"The thing is, your father and I Jonny, are going to Haiti to assist Dr. Alain Zafra in his studies," Race began, "we were scheduled to meet him in Haiti next week but one of his colleagues just called and said Alain was missing and so we have to go to Haiti pronto."

"*We* that includes us right?" Jessie asked inquisitively.

"No ponchita," Race said shaking his head. "You can't come, not this time."

"But dad, we always come!" Jessie protested.

"And you always get into trouble!" responded Race. "I just don't want anything to happen anymore."

Jessie's expression softened, as she understood that her father had a point. She embraced him tightly. " I love you dad," she whispered softly into his ears. "I just don't want anything to happen to you."

Race grinned and looked down at his daughter. " Man you always know the right buttons to push don't you?"

They all laughed heartily and left the light- house to start packing.

Departure: Quest Compound, Maine

Destination: Port Au Prince, Haiti

In a matter of a few hours the Quest Team was already on their way to Port Au Prince Haiti. They took the jet, which was equipped with many gadgets and equipment Dr. Quest and the others had created.

Race was flying with Dr. Quest sitting beside him. Hadji was calmly meditating in one corner, while Jessie was listening to her walkman, and Jonny in the meantime was taking a short nap.

An air current shift rattled the jet slightly, but not slight enough to keep Jonny in his sleep.Rubbing his blue eyes and yawning loudly, Jonny walked up to Race and his dad. "Are we there yet?"

"In a matter of moments," replied Benton to his son. " Better tell them to strap in," he told Jonny nodding his head towards Hadji and Jessie.

Hadji Singh was his adopted son, and also the sultan of Bangalore. It was hard to tell that he was a sultan dressed in black jeans, a purple long sleeved shirt, and his traditional turban.

Sitting on a couch across to Hadji was Race's little girl Jessie. Although, she was not such a little girl anymore. She was slowly blossoming into a lady, despite her usual rough and tumble attitude. She was swaying to the rhythm of the music from her walkman, wearing light denim jeans, a pale pink long-sleeved shirt, and black leather boots.

"Hey Hadj!" called Jonny loudly.

Hadji opened his eyes and immediately sat down on his chair. Jessie looked up and saw all of them strapping in and got the message.

Jonny couldn't stop himself and took a quick glance at his red haired friend. His heart skipped two beats when she smiled at him casually before once again returning her attention to the music poring into her ears. *Man, she is so pretty* Jonny thought to himself. He had always thought of Jessie as just a friend until recently when he noticed that a lot of guys in school have been flirting and making comments on how pretty she was. Then Jonny felt protective and even angry at times. Now he realized he himself was developing a strong crush on her.

Upon arriving at Port au Prince, the Quest team took a car to Les Cayes a nearby city. They were to meet with the friend of the missing Dr. Zafra.

Les Cayes was a noise filled city. It was bedecked in colorful arrays of light, and lively people. All around them was laughter and festivity.

"My, this reminds me of an Acapulco festival!" laughed Dr. Quest as he looked at all the frolicking,

"Yeah this place looks like a huge party!" grinned Jonny.

"How are we going to find that guy?" Jessie asked her dad quizzically.

Race rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Well, I met him once before, when Alain was in Russia for awhile," Race said.

"Race Bannon?" asked a man with a slight French accent.

Race spun around and came face to face with a familiar face. "Beau! Beau Bordeaux!" he cried out.

"Speak of the devil," whispered Jonny to Jessie and she stifled a giggle.

"Beau this is Dr. Benton Quest, his son Jonny, my daughter Jessie, and Hadji," Race said introducing them the dark skinned man.

Beau gave a small smile. "It is a pleasure to meet all of you. I wish your visit to Haiti was a more pleasurable one, but as you know my employer, Dr. Alain Zafra is missing for quite sometime now. The local officials have done nothing but ignore my requests for an investigation. I had nowhere else to turn to, so I called and thought perhaps you knew where he might be, Dr. Quest. When I discovered that you had no knowledge of his whereabouts as well, I began to fear that he has been kidnapped."

"Any idea who it might be?" asked Race seriously.

" Unfortunately yes," Beau began shaking his head sadly. "Dr. Zafra was writing a paper on the local religious cults of Haiti, and well I suspect one of these cults have taken him because they did not well….appreciate the doctor's prying."

Dr. Quest looked slightly perplexed. "What kind of religious cult?"

Beau sighed heavily and replied, "Are you familiar with the concept of voodoo?"

Their faces all seemed to tense up a bit. Voodoo was a supposed to be an old wives tale so to speak.

"The voodoo cults are very much alive here in Haiti and have gone into bigger proportions over the last year," Beau said depressingly. "I did not believe this myself until I saw it happen with my own eyes."

"Let me get this straight, a bunch of voodoo cultists have kidnapped Dr. Zafra?" asked Jessie in disbelief.

"In a mouthful yes, I know it is hard to believe, but before this happened, the doctor began experiencing small but painful migraines, which escalated to three to four hours of none stop headaches."

Hadji shuddered. "Do not underestimate the paranormal powers of the ancients, for they can be very destructive when put to evil uses."

They all felt somewhat disturbed with Hadji's last comment for he knew what he was talking about.

Later on, Beau took them to Dr. Zafra's office where Dr. Quest began searching through Dr. Zafra's computer files.

"Remarkable!" cried Dr. Quest as he read through the reports on the computer. "It says here that the local cultists have discovered a way to channel their powers to one source, to which they could do almost anything. Yet it indicates here that the source is still yet to be found. When the source is found they will take its soul and present to its leader to make him more susceptible to the ancient powers."

Jessie connected her laptop to Dr. Zafra's computer. "I'm downloading the files so Iris can take a look at them."

"So where do we start looking?" Jonny asked them as he looked at Jessie's laptop.

" It would be most logical if we go, the *hideout *," Hadji suggested

Race was all geared up to take action and they were all about to leave when he stopped Jonny and Jessie. "You two stay here," he told them sternly.

Jessie was about to protest when Jonny stopped her.

Dr. Quest, Race, and Hadji ran out with Beau waiting for them outside in his jeep. Jonny and Jessie heard the engines roar and then Jonny grabbed her arm forcefully.

"What the...Jessie protested.

"There is no way I am just going to stay here!" Jonny cried as he took two hoverboards out of one of their bags and handed one them to Jessie.

"Dad's warnings never stopped us," said Jessie grinning as she and Jonny jumped on their boards and tailed after the others.

" Can you still see them?" Jessie called out as she squinted trying to catch a glimpse of the jeep ahead of them.

"It's hard there's so much dust!" Jonny yelled against the noise that the jeep's loud engines were making.

Jonny and Jessie rode side by next to each other when Jonny cried, "Let's go faster, they can't be that far ahead!" He increased his speed and bolted ahead of Jessie.

"Hey!" she screamed. Sighing she sped up to try and catch to Jonny. She was almost near him when suddenly a hand came out of nowhere hitting her on her on stomach, sending her flying of the hoverboard and rendering her unconscious as she hit the dirt filled ground.

Jonny's attention was concentrated on catching up to the jeep that he barely even noticed that Jessie disappeared from behind him. He was still far off but he could see the outlines of the jeep. Strangely, his father, Race, and Hadji all got out of the jeep and went inside an establishment, which resembled a cement box.

He decided to go on foot from here. "Come on Jess," he whispered softly. There was no response. Jonny turned around and found Jessie gone. "Geez, now what!" Jonny muttered frustratedly. Jessie was gone, where he had no idea. His father and the others were inside some strange looking house, and he wasn't supposed to be where he was. *Race is gonna kill me * Jonny thought worriedly as he decided to go and follow them into the cement block instead of going back for Jessie. Jonny hoped she was okay, but he had a small nagging feeling that she was in danger.

She woke up with a terrible headache, infact it felt like everything hurt. Her arms, her limbs, her stomach, even her face. She tried to move but gave up in around thirty seconds. *Okay Bannon you can't move and you are in some straw hut, * she thought desperately to herself. Opening her eyes widely, she saw faint light behind a thin screen with smoke coming out of incense sticks. She tried to move again, and saw her reflection on a hovering mirror above her.

Jessie turned a deathly pale shade when she saw that nothing was tying her down. *Oh my God! * She screamed but no words came out. She took heavy deep breaths to calm herself. *I am not paralyzed, there must be some logical explanation for this! * Looking at her reflection once more, she saw that black grease streaks have been drawn on her forehead.

Suddenly she realized a very disturbing thought at sent a panic alarm straight to her brain. She was the source, and she was going to loose her soul unless someone came to help her. But who? Jonny was probably still following the truck, and others, well she had no idea what they were going to do. *Perhaps he noticed I was gone and decided to look, * she thought desperately. Somehow, she had a sinking feeling that help wasn't about to arrive anytime soon.

Sensing herself being watched she struggled to see who the other person was through the mirror. Jessie was anxious and a little scared to see the face of her abductor at the same time. She was in way, afraid of what she might see.

"Are you awake?" asked the voice. "Ah yes. My pretty little fire haired girl, do not be afraid, you will soon be joined by your friends in that place you call heaven. If you are wondering why you cannot move or speak, it is because we will it so. The brothers of the Jeremie will be victorious tonight, thanks to you my pretty."

She felt the stubborn and spirited Jessie slowly melt away as the voice gave out a high pitched laugh that could have driven her insane. She had never been so terrified in her whole life. The feeling of total helplessness to the situation was unbearable.

Right now she would take back all those feminist things she's ever said to Jonny if he just burst in through the door.

"No one is coming my dear," the voice said as if reading her thoughts.

Jonny quietly ran to the cement house where his father and the others had come inside. He wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand. Peering inside Jonny's eyes widened at the sight he saw.

His father, Race and Hadji all looked the same, yet their eyes seemed so empty. As if their souls were sucked out of their bodies. They all looked like zombies. *They are all hypnotized, * Jonny thought to himself. That could only mean one thing, Beau must have been with the voodoo cult. *That bastard, * Jonny told himself bitterly. He couldn't believe that Beau had set them up. Now the question was what was he going to do? Barging in there right now would probably get him hypnotized as well, and then what would happen? His next choice would be going after Jessie but he didn't want to leave his father, Race, and Hadji there.

"Okay, I guess there's just one thing left to do," Jonny muttered to himself. Taking a deep breath, Jonny approached the door in ramming speed. "Ahh!!!!!!!!" he screamed with all his might as he knocked the door open and burst into the room.

He looked around the room and saw Hadji's face slightly flinch before everything went black.

It must have been hours before Jonny woke up and found himself tied to a tree upside down. He struggled to loosen the ropes holding his hands together, yet the ropes were like made out of steel. Momentarily giving up, Jonny looked to his right where his father, Race and Hadji were all seated around a campfire. They all seemed lifeless as drums began beating with a low thump-thump.

Jonny tried to see what was happening but it was difficult because all the blood going to head was making him very dizzy. *Come one Quest!!!* Jonny desperately told himself as he worked harder in undoing the rope that tied his hands. Ironically, he was reminded of a scene from the Empire Strikes Back where Luke Skywalker was in nearly an identical situation. *Just a little more!* He winced as the stinging pain in his hands increased with every tug and pull he forced upon the rope. Finally with what felt like eternity, Jonny's hands were out of the rope and he immediately began working on his feet, which were tied to a branch on a tree.

Suddenly the drums stopped and Jonny saw a small man come to the center of the circle. He stepped into the fire and was not burned at all. * That's no man, it's a boy!* Jonny was shocked that the leader of this cult was just a boy!

"Brothers! Today is the day, the day of triumph! Today we will succeed!!!!!!!" the boy cried out with a very deep and masculine voice.

"Whoa," Jonny said under his breath. The leader was in a body of a young boy, but had the voice of a very grown and powerful man. But why? He pulled himself up to his feat and quietly trying to undo the knot, hoping no one would notice him.

"The channel will open to us once more, as it did for our ancestors!" the leader boomed with a voice that trembled the earth.

"The channel will open?" Jonny asked himself. Suddenly he realized something that made the situation much worse. "Jess! Oh my God, she's the channel !"

Jessie Bannon was wide-awake when she felt her body getting up. *No!!!!!!!!!* she screamed but her body refused to stop. She knew she was walking out of the hut, despite her every wish not too. The cold night breeze hit her like a block of ice. She wanted to shiver but the madman who abducted her refused to give her any control over her body. She saw her father, Dr. Quest, and Hadji all sitting down around the fire where the madman was, but it wasn't a madman, it was a madboy. * A ten year-old boy did this to me? * Jessie was overcome with surprise and disbelief. She was terrified of a boy, yet he had the voice of an adult male. She was slowly moving towards the fire, where he waited for her. She tried desperately to try and communicate to any of them, when she caught a moving figure tied to a tree branch on the corner of her left eye. * Jonny! * she screamed inwardly. She saw him trying to undo the ropes tied to his feet and she prayed hard that he would just do that.

Jonny saw Jessie walking out of one of the huts. She was stiff, and he could tell she wasn't hypnotized. Still something was wrong. She looked like she was trying to break free out of something yet the leader must have done something to her. * Don't worry Jess, * he silently said, * I'm gonna hurt that guy, for doing this to you!*

"Come on," Jonny hissed impatiently. Suddenly the ropes gave in and Jonny's feet fell forward. *Close call! * Grabbing the tree branch with his hands, Jonny pulled himself up and quietly squatted still as he waited for his chance to act.

"Now my Brothers, " he said as Jessie's body reached the fire. "Concentrate your energy to her!"

All of the dark skinned men surrounding the fire except of course the Quest Team all closed their eyes and extended their arms to the center where Jessie was.

Jonny saw his chance as he slipped down from the tree and quickly moved his way towards Hadji. Upon getting there, Jonny violently shook Hadji. "Hadji snap out of it!" he whispered into Hadji's right ear.

The Indian teen seemed to just do that, snap out of it. He looked around and immediately understood the situation. He saw the cultists focusing their voodoo energies into the center where he saw Jessie was helplessly trapped.

"Jonny get Jessie out, her body is being controlled," Hadji muttered softly. He would take care of the leader. Calming himself, Hadji stretched out and focused his energy upon the center where the leader was behind Jessie. He tried to force him out of the path where the energy of the group was being transferred.

Jonny ran to the center and pulled Jessie forcefully out of the hot flames. Strangely, her skin was so cold that it even had Goosebumps. "Jessie!" he said as he grabbed her shoulders and shook them. There was no response, her body was limp, yet her eyes seemed to be screaming inside.

He brought her to Hadji where he was locked in a mind battle. Hadji was frowning as he concentrated harder, putting his powers to the limit. The leader was now very aware of his presence as he fought back, trying to reverse Hadji attempts. Hadji's forehead cringed as he pushed his energy further into the leader. Suddenly the power flow the leader was receiving seemed to evaporate and so his shield against Hadji's own energy. "No!!!!!!!!" the leader gave a final blood curling scream before dissolving into thin air.

Everyone seemed to snap out of it as well. The other Brothers, Dr. Quest, Race, and Jessie who looked relieved and exhausted.

"Yes!!!!!" she cried out. Jessie stood up and jumped like she's never jumped before. Her episode of not having any body control has taught her to appreciate these little things such as jumping and talking.

"What the hell happened?" Race asked in confusion.

"Yes, I would like to know the same thing," Dr. Quest added.

"I'll tell you dad, but first" Jessie began as she walked towards Jonny, "I have a little something to take care off." She spun Jonny around who was talking to Hadji and gave him a short, sweet kiss on the lips. "That's for being my hero."

Jonny was startled as he felt Jessie's soft lips on his. He blinked twice with his mouth hanging open as she pulled away from him. "Uh…..uh….." was all he could say as the others laughed.

"So that's what happened!" Race said as he shook his head in amazement.

It was a week after the incident in Haiti and they were all gathered around the Quest's fireplace. They were all recuperating from their injuries and stresses. Basically they were all back to their usual selves, with the exception of Bandit who was now a little grumpy being left behind.

"Yeah, turns out Dr. Zafra was hypnotized as well, he was being held prisoner in one of those cement blocks," Jonny said.

"What I don't understand is why was the leader in the body of a boy?" Jessie asked them in confusion.

"Well, that is one of the questions we may never get an answer to," Hadji replied as he looked at the burning fire.

THE END

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Jonny Quest the REal Adventures and am not making money in any ways!

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