Plot

## Jinxed Beginning Saga

After getting her Profectus application denied, Lacey Chu and her best friend, Zora Layeni, have gone to the vet to get Lacey a baku. After looking at all their options, Lacey chose a scarab. She was then embarrassed by Carter Smith, a long time rival and son of Eric Smith, cofounder of Moncha. He was followed by Tobias Washington and other Profectus students.

Lacey, in a point of rage, yells an insult at Carter. This results in Carter's boar rushing towards Lacey. Just then Tobias's bird baku swoops up and swipes something small that could have hit Zora.

In the confusion Linus, Zora's dormouse baku, slipped off of Zora and fell down under the bridge. Lacey offered to go down and find it for Zora. When Lacey finds Linus, she slips and cuts her hand while falling on something sharp. Once she lands, she finds a strange metal object. She takes it with her before Moncha guards question her on something.

Once she gets away from there, she goes to the underground locker to fix up Linus before discovering that the piece of metal is actually a burned baku. Lacey spends the whole summer fixing it up with the help of Paul, her tinkering buddy. After fixing it up with the spare pieces of baku lying around, Lacey soon discovers what this charred piece of metal was supposed to be: a cat.

## Profectus Saga

Lacey soon discovers that once booting up the new baku she rebuilt, now dubbed Jinx, can talk inside her mind. Another thing was that Jinx talked more like a human than a baku. She also finds out that her application to Profectus has now been accepted since apparently Jinx has a Baku Level of 3. This means she can easily go to the school.

Once Lacey arrives on the first day, she is immediately confronted by Carter who is shocked that she is now going to Profectus. Lacey brushes him off , but Jinx damages Carter's baku before they leave. After the opening ceremony, Lacey goes her classes before finally going to her favorite class: Companioneering, a class that was taught by Mr. Biard. Once class started, Jinx already knocked some objects down on the floor which caused him to get black marked. In the end, captains were summoned to pick students to be in their team. Lacey was chosen by Team Tobias.

In the next few days, Lacey got to know her teammates(Ashley, River, Kai) and had a meeting with Mr. Biard in which he thought that Jinx was self aware and needed to be given to him. Lacey had convinced him Jinx was not. She had also helped Tobias repair Aero, his Level 5 bird baku.

After that the Baku Battle's started. Ashley had offered to go, but lost to Carter after he had trashed her baku, Jupiter, to almost nothing. Ashley then goes into a depressive state until Lacey decides to fix up her baku for her. Lacey then brings her friends down to her locker where they spend the time fixing Ashley's baku and having fun.

The next day, Ashley brings in her newly fixed Jupiter who has been fixed to almost 98%. Carter, who was the one that destroyed it, is shocked and blames Lacey for this.

## BRIGHTSPRK Saga

After an ice skating event, Team Tobias all go their separate ways, but not without Tobias questioning Lacey if she wants to be the team captain due to her skill of fixing things up. Lacey denies, but before she can leave Tobias gives her a kiss. A few days pass and Lacey is walking home when she notices Carter is following her. She finds out Carter wanted Jinx. Before Carter can steal Jinx, Mr Biard interrupts them and tells Carter to leave Lacey alone. He offers Lacey a ride and she accepts. After stopping at a warehouse, Mr Biard reveals that he is an undercover agent for BRIGHTSPRK, a rival company to Moncha.

Turns out Jinx was created by Moncha as an experiment. They had lost him for some reason and now are on patrol for Jinx. Lacey is scared, but Mr. Biard tells her to calm down. He will help her keep Jinx away from Moncha.

## Team Lacey Saga

After that, Lacey and her team went to a baku party spot. They had a ton of fun. This was before the next Baku Battle was supposed to begin. This time Kai and Ashley went against Team Gemma. Carter destroyed Jupiter like last time, but decided to smash it even more so Lacey could have a harder time rebuilding it. Jinx then went rogue and destroyed Carter's boar. The announcer, not sure what to think of it, counts Lacey as a surprise attacker.

This is when Team Lacey was born. After the Baku Battle, Team Tobias tries to not socialize with Lacey due to them thinking that she abandoned them just to win. Lacey tries to not think of losing her teammates as she now has to go to the semifinals.

At the semifinals Lacey is ready to win, but Jinx suddenly goes missing before the rounds start. Lacey tries to find Jinx, but to no avail.

Without Jinx, Lacey decides to open up the scarab baku she had got from the vet. She names it Slick. Lacey then goes to Zora and tells her Jinx is missing. After looking through the database, Zora tells Lacey that Jinx doesn't exist. Lacey then requests the help of her friends. They show up to her locker and tell her they are helping her just because Lacey had fixed both Aero and Jupiter. They find out that Jinx had been stolen by Carter and he was going to give it to his dad.

## Operation Jinx Saga

Lacey and her friends break into Moncha Headquarters to find Carter. They find Jinx in a cage with Carter about to do something to him. Lacey asks Carter why and Carter explains that he knows Jinx isn't normal and that he was going to give Jinx to his dad. Soon Moncha protection dogs arrive and attack the crew. They manage to fend them off, but Jinx gets out of Lacey's hands and runs around the corner. Lacey follows him and finds herself at a movie set. There she finds Monica Chan, CEO of Moncha. Monica explains that Eric has kept her down here for something. Lacey also notes that Monica's behavior was carefree despite her being imprisoned. Monica tells Lacey to get out from there because guards are coming. Lacey runs out, but not after being injected with something and going unconscious.

## Unleashed Beginning Saga

Lacey wakes up in the hospital. She finds out that she had been unconscious for about a month. Tobias checks up on Lacey and decides to tell her the bad news: Jinx is missing. After a emotional breakdown on Lacey's part, her mother decides to take her home. After resting for a bit, Lacey decides to go back to Profectus. After her friends enter, she finds out that she can't go inside the building. Her friends drag her in the building, but not without the principal calling Lacey to her office. She tells her that without a baku with the Baku Level of 3 she can't come into the school. She was then sent back to St. Agnes. When Lacey told her mom that she was going to St. Agnes, her mom acted very ignorant. She was happy and had no other emotions. Lacey had also noticed that her mom went to work early and even worked a holiday.

Over at St. Agnes, Lacey tells Zora all about the situation she was having. Zora tells Lacey that she should just turn Slick into a Level 3. After this, Lacey went to a cafe with her friends. She tells her friends that Monica Chan was alive and was held in Moncha. Her friends believed her and connected it to when they found Lacey unconscious in the cold. They went there and had a brief encounter with Carter.

## Return of Jinx Saga

Lacey had just gone to her room when she saw Jinx come in through her window. Jinx explains why he had been gone. Apparently Jinx was hanging out with the real cats that had been abandoned when bakus became popular. Jinx then explains what had been going on behind the scenes over at Moncha. When Lacey was escaping, Slick injected poison into her system that knocked her unconscious for over a month.

Jinx then gives Lacey information on what Moncha has been working on and it included Team Happiness, a team of Moncha customer service workers. Lacey's mom was one of them. Jinx then explained that Moncha was working on an update that would brainwash everyone owning a Moncha baku. They would feel no emotion, but happiness and joy. Not even sadness. The only way to stop the plans was to go to Lake Baku.

The next step of the plan is to recruit Lacey's baku battle team, Team Tobias, to help raid the area. Lacey contacts the team and tells them about the plan. Zora also joins in and finds out that Lake Baku can't be seen from any mapping or satellite system. It is then when Tobias gets them closer to the goal when he suggests they go to his Christmas celebration party at one of his family's mansions. It was near Lake Baku so the team planned to invade and not tip Tobias's parents on what was going on.

## Operation Lake Baku Saga

Lacey, Zora, Tobias, Ashley, River, and Kai arrive at Tobias's Christmas mansion. Tobias's parents didn't mind Zora and Lacey coming over so the plan was going on without an interruption. Team Tobias then go to scope out the area and soon find themselves blocked off by a large metal wall. Nathan, Tobias's brother, interrupts the team and annoys Tobias. Both brothers don't have a good relationship since Nathan gets more recognition than Tobias.

After going back to the mansion and dressing up in their best clothes, Team Tobias was ready for the Christmas celebration. Lacey has a brief interaction with both Eric Smith and Carter. It is also said during the party that Moncha's new update was coming soon. Team Tobias now has a time limit to find out what was in Lake Baku.

Team Tobias goes back to Lake Baku and scopes the area. Jinx finds an entrance that was opened by Slick. The team goes inside to find a village inside of the area. There are houses scattered around and Lacey notices one that she thinks has Moncha Chan inside of it. They open the door to find Monica just as Lacey predicted. She has a bland outfit on and has a sloth baku which was the only thing different right now other than her bland and energetic attitude.

Team Tobias gets Monica out of the door with Aero and Jinx taking care of the sloth baku. They soon find out that the whole town has been brainwashed just like Monica. They are wearing the same bland outfit and having the same sloth baku as Monica. Lacey then recognizes somebody in the crowd: Albert Chu, Lacey's father and fellow high member of Moncha. That is when Nathan comes in and tells the team that they have two choices: either keep going in the operation and get their bakus destroyed or come with Nathan. All of Team Tobias go, leaving Lacey alone. Lacey left Lake Baku.

Lacey went home to find that The Update was released and her mother was now fully brainwashed. She now feels no feeling but joy and excitement. Lacey then goes down to her locker to work on something when there was a knock at the door.

It was Carter Smith. He had come to ask Lacey for something: help. His mother was trapped in Lake Baku. She, Lacey's dad, and all of Lake Baku's residents had been exposed early to The Update.

Carter's boar had also been broken by his father, Eric Smith, after he had asked about his mother. Carter asks Lacey to fix his baku and in return he will give her something to help her in the mission: access to Moncha. Lacey then brings Zora up to speed and they plan a revolt. They soon find out that when somebody leashes up to Jinx, they get unhypnotized. They get Lacey's mom and Zora's family out of their trance. Zora's sister recommends that Zora spread the word to St. Cloud

Rumor spreads to St. Cloud and students don't update their baku. Eric hits back with an announcement that if you don't update, your baku will get destroyed. Jake, a student who owned a gambling business at Profectus, makes terms to use so Moncha doesn't catch on to what they are doing.

Lacey then sneaks into Moncha using a back door and uses her secret weapon: Jinx. He brings all the cats that have been abandoned when bakus came out. They spread everywhere, stopping security from getting to Lacey. Jinx then leashes up to Monica Chan, but Lacey isn't sure if she got out of her trance. The cats then scatter all over Moncha leaving Lacey to security as they kick her out.

Moncha had a speech later in the day where Monica Chan was speaking. To Lacey's surprise, Monica Chan was free from The Update and had spoken about what was going on when she wasn't in control. She then tells Lacey that she would like to talk to her in her office.

## Farewell Meeting Saga

Lacey comes to Moncha with Zora. Monica Chan was in her office with Mr. Biard. Monica tells Lacey that BRIGHTSPRK and Moncha were working on adding safety measures on bakus if something like The Update starts up again. Monica also recognizes Lacey and her brave efforts to unite all of her town to go against The Update.

She also has bad news: Jinx will have to be shut down.

Monica explains that Jinx is just too special to stay around. Even if Lacey holds on to him, she'll have to look behind her back every time to see if somebody will kidnap Jinx and use him for their evil purposes.

Lacey embraces Jinx for the last time.

Monica tells Jinx that he was her greatest creation and that she was proud of what Jinx did.

Jinx, now blackmarked permanently, leaves the room limp and gone forever. His friend sobs her heart out.

Jinx will never come back.

## Epilogue

Team Lacey have won the Baku Battles. Everybody screams in joy and excitement. Lacey can see her parents. Her father and mother are smiling with joy. Her father had kept the sloth and her mother kept Petal. Lacey walks towards them and sees Tobias. He gives her a peck on the cheek and she gets hugged by her parents.

Lacey then goes to the balcony of Profectus. After The Update had threatened the lives of the town, Lacey and her parents got moved to a neighborhood for only the creative minds of Moncha. Lacey is pondering when a shadow slinks from the shadows. Two paws show from the darkness and the legs after. It's a robotic cat. Lacey's cat. Lacey's Jinx.

"Jinx", says Lacey

The End.