au where someone else opens Wuya's puzzle box, so Jack doesn't get involved in any of it, he's just happily making robots and planning world domination, until one day he finds a weird yellow cat by the side of the road and impulsively decides to bring it home as his new companion animal, then gets the shock of his life when the cat introduces himself as Omi and claims to be a cursed monk on the run from the Chase Young!!
events have happened differently enough that Omi never swore to stay by Chase's side before being turned into a cat, and also the other monks managed to cast a spell to hide Omi from Chase's tracking magic forever. unfortunately they were all turned into jungle cats right after and are trapped in Chase's lair, as bait to lure Omi back. Omi was the only one able to escape
it only takes like a day for Jack to decide he's not giving Omi back to Chase, and also he's gonna break Omi's curse and they're gonna be best friends forever. and sure, maybe they can even try to save Omi's other friends too!
and that's how Jack gets in on the shen gong wu hunt
