So...if you guys caught a little glimpse of Jason on my previous fic 'Blackhawk', I decided that I should give you guys the story about this MMA instructor that is actually more than Max's mentor and how his student's personality made Jason the student as well.

Tiger Trainer

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Another Training Day

It was one of those clear sunny days at the Valley of Peace and at the Bushido-Akio house, we see Blackhawk, Max, Logan and Tae Kwan Do were on their way to the MMA class and both Blackhawk and Max were looking forward to working with their own trainers and Max felt excited to work with Jason again because he considers him one of his favorite trainers to work with despite the fact that he got his early training at the Jade Palace with the masters and Blackhawk noticed a sudden excitement in the tiger cub.

"Man, you're pretty stoked up." Blackhawk added.

"You bet! I'm so looking forward to training with Jason. He's like the best of the best!" Max exclaimed, joyfully.

"By the way, how's it going with Zyro?" asked Tae Kwan Do.

"Pretty good. You know, between learning to control myself when I get angry, learning to take it out on the equipment and meditation, it kinda helps me get in control of myself." Blackhawk answered.

"I can see that. You've been a little laid back since you lived here for three months." Logan added.

Blackhawk did realize that he's gotten really calm over those months and couldn't believe that it had been so long since the whole misunderstanding happened and yet he still feels like he needs to redeem himself even more, if not harder to keep his temper down low and he said, "I never thought that it would happen and that I would make an effort, but I did."

"The class is a good way to start the emotional healing process." Tae Kwan added.

"And kick butt too. Let's not forget that." Logan stated.

Tae Kwan rolled his eyes at Logan's immediate comment and said, "Why are you obsessed with kicking butt so much?"

"I don't know. I just like to learn how to kick someone's butt, that's all." Logan said, making up some kung-fu moves.

Tae Kwan sighed in response after Logan's comment and stopped him for a second and said, "Save your energy, dude. Don't want you to pass out before the lesson begins...or make a fool of yourself in front of Amber."

Max snickered in response to that and Blackhawk was wide-eyed about this and asked, "Who is this Amber?"

"Just a friend." Logan said, half stone faced.

Tae Kwan didn't believe that for a second and he heard that line before and said, "His crush."

"Shut...up." Logan said, gritting his teeth.

Both of them entered to the MMA gym and sees most of the students there and around that walk-in, Max noticed that there's a bunch of youngsters in his age and a couple of older teenagers all waiting for Master Wing to come by and start training and the four walked towards the gym and Max noticed someone familiar coming in...one of those teenagers was Kiba walking in and looking around the place and that surprised Max the most.

"Hey, Kiba!" Max called out.

Kiba's ears perked up and he quickly turned around and saw Max coming by and he was very excited to see him and he said, "Maximum dude!"

He quickly ran towards him and gave him a huge hug with his tail wagging like crazy and Max said, "I didn't know you were here."

"Neither did I. I heard that you're quite the all-star here." Kiba said, chuckling.

Max wasn't quite sure how Kiba knew that for a fact, but he doesn't consider himself an all-star student at all and he asked, "How did you figure?"

"Word on the street, little buddy. We hardly see much of you at the Jade Palace." Kiba added.

"I know. I miss it too. But I come whenever I can." Max added.

Kiba nodded his head in understanding and he rubbed Max's hair and mussed it a little bit and he said, "Anyways...I wanted to see you at work with that trainer of yours."

"You are?" asked Max.

"Yeah. This Jason guy is pretty cool though. He asked me to come over to see you at work and to team up." Kiba added.

That really upped Max's excitement even further because not only Kiba can see Max's work, but to team up with him because Max and Kiba are like a true-blue duo who are good at teaming up at everything they do and they're kinda like the best of friends as well and he said, "Awesome!"

Just then, Jason comes over wearing a red vest and grey sweatpants catching up with both Max and Kiba and said, "Great to see you guys."

"Hey, Jason." Max said.

"Sup, J?" asked Kiba.

Both of them gave each other a bow and switched to a bro-hug, high-five greeting and Jason said, "Nice seeing you again, Kiba."

"Same here, Jason." Kiba said, with enthusiasm.

"So...you guys ready?" asked Jason.

"Yeah, we're ready!" Max and Kiba replied, with deep enthusiasm.

This is the beginning! Stay tuned!

Voice of Blackhawk: Ben Diskin

Voice of Max: Ben Diskin

Voice of Tae Kwan Do: Josh Peck

Voice of Logan: Rico Rodriguez

Voice of Kiba: Greg Cipes

Voice of Jason: Sean Astin