Hello previous readers and new readers! Welcome to the first out of three parts of the series finale! After the finale is over, I'm debating on whether or not to stop writing Kung Fu Panda fics and keep trying my hands at new things. Be sure to leave your thoughts!

P.S.: I'm running out of ideas for new stories in this section after this series, so that's why I'm saying this now.

Here is a quick recap of all of the past important events…

"You the boss?" The bull asked.

"Yes, I am. Please, don't call me 'boss.' It sounds so…stuck up. Call me Overlord for now. Are the supplies ready?" The figure hissed.

"Yes. All of our supplies and ammunition are ready. We just need to rally more troops and acquire our sleeper agents, along with buying more weapons." The bull explained.

"Good. Things are coming together nicely. Gather more men in private. We don't want to attract any attention and ruin our plan. As for the sleeper agents, make sure they are in every city as well as in... the prize, is what we'll call it for now. Continue to smuggle weapons into the city via old fruit carts and clothing boxes. Understood?"

"Don't come in here! You don't wanna see this!" Dega's father warned.

The white tiger, Kiro, turned back to face the engravings. All around him, detailed and precise carvings of a ruined Chinese city engulfed in flames were engraved in the walls. To his right, a small army with what looked to be the Elemental Hazards were charging towards a jaguar in light and dark blue combat armor with an army right behind him. To his left, Kiro saw what looked to be Max, Sierra, and Arizona leading another small army against a young snow leopard with a giant mass of soldiers behind him. Behind the white tiger, he saw Po, Tigress, him and the others fighting what looked to be a black tiger in all white and black, with a flaming staff by their apparent foe's side and a large army behind the tiger. Finally, in front of Kiro, a greatly enhanced figure shrouded by a black hood stood before what looked to be Tang. The figure's face or species could not be made out, though. The only body part that was shown was the figure's right arm, which was covered by a black combat armor with horns and spikes traveling up the side. A carving of two cobras intertwined in each other was plastered on the top of the armor. An inscription of "The prophecy will be fulfilled" was edged into the wall above the giant figure.

But most of all, Overlord thought of his stepfather; the one who had given him the idea of conquering China, and the one who drove him to where he was now.

His stepfather; a wolverine named Sage.

Soon, Sin was approaching the farm outside of the valley. The plantations and fields were growing their different types of vegetables while the orchards were busy growing fresh fruit. The shabby old grey tool shed stood about a hundred feet away from the fields, and Sin noticed that the door was slightly open.

Walking up to the cabin, he noticed that a symbol of two intertwined snakes was carved into the wooden door.

That wasn't there before… Sin thought, growing slightly worried.

The fox pushed open the door to find his brother, bound to a chair with a gag in his mouth.

A dagger stuck out from where Kai's heart was in his chest.

Sin rushed over and quickly checked his brother's vitals to see if Kai was still alive.

But it was too late.

Kai was dead.

The black tiger sighed before she pushed open the door to Mr. Ping's room and sat down across from him. The goose was obviously startled to see her, but was also confused as to her identity.

"I don't believe we've met before. Do I know you?" The goose asked.

"Yes," Zina replied, carefully placing a bomb under her chair and setting the dial, "I am an old…acquaintance…of your son's. We knew each other from way back when. I just wanted to see how you were doing. I heard about your incident."

The adopted son of the Dragon Warrior was still getting over the unexpected murder of his grandfather, Mr. Ping. He didn't understand why someone killed his grandfather, but he had a feeling that it had something to do with Xin, the son of Tai Lung and one of his most recent enemies.

Chao, a tiger at heart and the leader for one of the teams that guarded the emperor of China, was a bold, daring, and sometimes funny individual. Not much is known from Chao's past, since he didn't like to talk about it. The only thing he would tell people when they asked was, "It was hard, at the time."

His team, team 59, was one of the best in the palace and was the Emperor's favorite to have with him whenever he went places. It consisted of three soldiers: Himself, Drift, and Specter.

Drift was the funny guy of the group, being that no matter how bad the situation was or how deadly things became, the hyena always had something witty to say. Drift was kind, lighthearted, and very handsome, and would often score up more dates than any other guy in the palace.

Specter was the quiet one. The white monkey was kind most of the time, serious, and was always battle ready. He carried his sword, a small crossbow, and a dagger with him at all times, which weirded some out. Nobody had ever seen Specter's face, because the chimp had it wrapped with grey cloth all around his head, so you could only see the very brim of his nose and his grey tiger lion unsheathed his swords and plunged into the fray.

"Why're these guys attacking you?" Dega asked his friend.

"They weren't! They were attacking her!" Max replied, fending off a wolf with one hand and pointing to a quivering teenage tigress.

"Hello! What might your name be?" Dega asked the girl, punching a bandit in the face and blasting another with his power swords.

"Catherine…"

Kiro spread out his sketches of the two intertwined serpents on the table and studied each one closely.

There must be a connection with these symbols… The white tiger thought.

After a while of studying and pondering, the answer hit Kiro in the face like a hard punch.

They all stand for death!

"So, professor, whaddya say?" Dega sighed. "Is it logical to date me?"

Crane smiled and Viper bounced in joy slightly. Kiro nudged the avian master with his elbow. "Told ya so."

After a few moments of silence, the snake was able to find her voice. "Highly logical."

The room erupted in applause and shouts of happiness as the crowd carried Dega and Lily out of the club and into the streets, where Lily wrapped around her new boyfriend and gave him a monstrous kiss.

"At ease, soldiers. I'm afraid I have some bad news. You see, we have reason to believe that one person in all of you put together, is a traitor." The Emperor stated gravely.

Immediately, whispering and murmuring spread through the soldiers like a plague.

"Quiet! Quiet, all of you! Quiet! Now, we don't know who it is yet, but we know for a fact that it is one of you. This person is a traitor—an assassin sent to harm us all. From who, you may ask? We don't know. We are currently investigating all of you as we speak. If anyone has anything that would help us, please feel free to talk with us afterwards. Be wary, be alert, and trust no one. You're dismissed." The snake explained.

Master Monkey agreed and the two entered Dega's room and began searching. Eventually, Max noticed a carving on one of Dega's walls.

"Weird that he would have this symbol on his wall." Max stated, looking at it.

"Meh. I'm sure he just thought it looked cool." Monkey replied, shrugging it off and continuing his search.

They kept on searching, forgetting about the symbol of two intertwined snakes on the wall.

As Max moved towards Dega's window, he stopped searching and stood up; his ears were twitching.

"Do you hear that?" The Bengal tiger asked.

"Hear what?" The chimp questioned, pausing and listening.

"Sounds like ticking. I don't know where that i—"

Max was cut off by an explosion that went off in the room, sending the tiger flying out of the window and rolling down the large mountain.

The masters and some of the students collapsed and started to weep over the charred, lifeless Monkey, who was slumped in the corner of the room. The other students were frantically searching for Max, who was nowhere to be found.

The tigress got up and walked inside the palace. She dug into her nap sack and brought out two time bombs and walked towards Dega's room. She smiled and scratched the back of her neck, where a small tattoo of two intertwined snakes was and entered the tiger lion's room.

A shame that these people have to die. I really was growing to like them. Catherine thought, placing the time bomb under a chair in the room and setting the dial.

After doing so, she carved the snake symbol into Dega's wall and exited the room. Cat then walked back to the group of students, claiming that she had just gone for a little walk and also had to use the restroom.

Overlord'll be proud…

"I'm worried about Tang," Takami stated, "He hasn't been himself since Mr. Ping died."

"We'd better keep an eye on him. Agreed?" Ryo added.

"Agreed." The rest of the Elemental Hazards replied.

"Your friends are dead because you failed to stop Overlord. He seized control of China and took all of its cities. As long as there is one city still standing, though, this won't happen to them. Why I'm here? How are we in the same dream? I have no answer for that. I'm not sure why I'm even speaking with you right now. Maybe it's to make you understand why I did what I did."

"You did it for your master, Overlord." The Bengal tiger shot.

"No. I did it for my father and sister. You see, Max, Overlord has them captive. If I don't do their bidding, then they die. He already killed my mother to make a point…"

Max cautiously walked over to the grave she was looking at and saw the inscription on the stone:

Stephanie Tigre. A loving wife, and a great mother to Catherine Tigre and Hannah Tigre.

"I'm…sorry. I didn't know. Why didn't you tell us this when we first met you, though? We would've helped!" Max reasoned.

"No. Overlord has eyes and ears everywhere. He would've found out and killed them."

"I work for a person named Overlord. They've hired me to raise money for them and sent me here to primarily extract any information that you guys have collected on our group." Sin began.

"Overlord?" Tang exclaimed in surprise. "Why does this Overlord want us dead?"

"They want to take over China, and apparently only you guys can stop him."

"Isn't that always the case…" Tang muttered.

"They're hideout is located inside the old abandoned Sip-Ta Clothing factory, and I know that Zina as—"

Before Sin could finish, an arrow came crashing through the window of the room and slammed into his chest, sending the fox flying to the ground.

"SIN!" The panda yelled, ducking down and crawling over to the dying fox. "HOLD ON! HELP! GUYS!"

"Xin…is an asso…ciate…" Sin choked, coughing and hacking as he rolled on his side.

"Xin? The son of Tai Lung?"

The fox nodded slowly and painfully, clutching his wound and dragging himself across the floor.

"Hang in there, Sin! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?" Tang shouted. "DAD! MOM! ANYONE!"

Sin was able to get close enough to Tang that he could grab the panda and pull him in close enough where he could whisper a warning to his friend.

"A storm is c-coming…Tang. People you…though you knew will…t…urn against you and…kill you-r friends…like me…T-trust no one and…always be on guard… There will… be others, who…die…Prepare yourself, T-ang…You must always be on guard!"

Sin was slowly lifting himself to his feet while saying this to Tang.

"SIN! Get down!" The panda cried, attempting to pull the fox down to the ground again.

Just then, another arrow zipped through the window and smacked into Sin's head, killing him on impact.

"Ah, did you get my scroll?" Overlord asked kindly, strolling up to the panda.

"Why'd you stab Dega?" Tang growled.

"Incentive, to make you realize, if you still had any doubt, that I'm not playing around when it comes to this matter. Besides, he became annoying. However, now that you're here, your other friends can go unharmed!" The figure in black explained.

The teenage panda chucked the scroll at Overlord, who caught it and pocketed the paper.

"Fight me…" Tang snarled.

"With everything that has been going on, I've gotten some time to think about some things and… and… Oh, never mind! It was a stupid idea anyway." Zan backed out, turning to leave.

However, Lupa's paw grasped his shoulder, making him stay in one place.

"What's wrong, Zan?" She asked.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to date me, but with all that's been going on and with this Overlord guy attacking all of us, it was a bad idea. Forget I even brought up this conversation, alright? Sorry to have bothered you…" The avian stated rapidly before walking off.

"Hey Zan. How ya holding up?" She said, standing beside him.

"Oh! Uh, hey! I'm fine. I guess that it… I mean, everything is just… It is a lot to take in, I mean knowing that out there, somebody is trying to kill us, and is willing to do whatever it takes to do so."

"I hear ya. Remember that fight between who Tang described as Overlord and Po? Nobody could just up and vanish like that! I mean, Po's told us about one time he had to fight ghosts to save his old master and his friends, but I doubt that is what's going on here."

"Yeah. So, uh, what's up?"

Lupa sighed. "I've thought about your offer Zan, and…I just don't see us as compatible. I mean, you're sweet and kind and brave, but I just… I don't want what happened to Kai and Sin to happen to you. Both of the guys I used to like are dead at the hand of the guy who's trying to kill us, and I don't want that happening to you too. Can you understand?"

Zan looked up at the sky again and sighed. "Yeah, I understand. Thanks for at least giving me an answer."

"No problem. Friends?"

"Friends."

"I'll get it, I guess." The white tiger sighed, walking over to the door and opening it to find Catherine.

"YOU?" Everyone in the room said, surprised.

"Ok, back to jail you go!" Arizona exclaimed, forcing the tigress to the wall and pinning her.

"Max! I need your help! It's my sister and father!" Cat called out.

"What? Let her go, Zona!" Max ordered.

"Are you insane? She killed Monkey and almost blew you up!" Dega protested, waving one of his green power swords in front of Catherine's face. "Sharp, ain't it?"

"Hear her out!" Max replied. "Catherine, tell your story again."

After Cat explained why she had done what she had done again, the heroes eased up on her, except for Dega, who refused to sheath his swords again.

"Why're you here?" Musaki asked.

"Overlord is going to be attacking in a few hours, so he's too busy preparing for that to keep tabs on me. T—"

"Are we fighting a ghost though? I mean, when we took off his mask, there was nothing there." Arizona cut in.

"No. I know for a fact that someone is under all of those wrappings and all. I don't know the actual name of this guy or his species, but I know there's someone under the mask. As I was saying, this means that after Overlord has left, there'll only be two of his henchmen left, being Xin and Jaguar X." Catherine explained.

"Wait, Tang told us a few months ago that he fought this guy named Xin. Same guy and same mastermind. We also know that Zina is working with Overlord for, more than likely, revenge against the masters. Who's Jaguar X though?" Max asked.

"I'm not sure about X's past. The only thing I do know is that he is able to see into the future when he wants to and can teleport."

The white tiger snapped his fingers. "Remember a while back when we saw that blue guy tailing us but when we almost had him he vanished? I bet that was this X guy!"

"That sounds like Jaguar X. Getting back to my point, after we get past Xin and X, we should be able to get to my dad and sister and free them!" Catherine finished.

"Why should we help you?" Dega asked, walking to the other side of the room.

"If we defeat Xin and Jaguar X, you could capture and question them, I'll be able to show you their new hideout location, and with my family being free, you'll never see me again." The tigress explained.

He pointed his weapons at the black tiger, and soon, red cuffs and chains wrapped around her hands, feet, and torso, immobilizing the assassin.

"Gotcha." Kiro exclaimed proudly, kneeling down to face Zina. "You're a tough one to get rid of. I mean, if a whack from a giant hammer and plummeting back to the earth didn't kill ya, or at least break every bone in your body, I don't know what will. Either you're the luckiest bad guy, er, girl I have ever met, or you're indestructible."

In response, Zina spit in his face and growled. Kiro rubbed off the saliva, stood up, looked down on his cousin, and smirked.

"How the tables have turned, eh? Years ago, you brainwashed Tigress, my sister, and held me prisoner. You killed Crane, but he came back as a shifter. Don't know why he prefers to stay as a crane. It'd be really cool if he were a tiger. Tigers are awesome. We're the most fun to be around, except for Tigress, and we crack amazing jokes, except for Tigress. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. You get what I'm talking about, way back when. Now, though, you're the prisoner…" Kiro rambled.

"Thank you for helping me. I'm sorry I got you all into this mess. I'll free you all and then we'll go our separate ways." Catherine continued.

"We practically did nothing! We got captured and then sat in a chair for a while! That doesn't sound like helping to me!" The tiger lion snorted.

After Catherine freed the three students, they received another huge thanks from Cat and her family, and then they parted ways, never to meet again.

"I'm thinking of getting a tattoo. Ya know, something awesome or vicious that strikes fear into the hearts of bad guys! I want the one that you have, Chao." The hyena stated, stroking his chin.

"Oh? I didn't know you had a tattoo, Chao." Specter added. "What is it?"

"It's nothing. Don't worry about it." The tiger replied, brushing off the question.

"I'll tell ya what it is!" Drift laughed. "It's one of those snake tattoos. Yeah, two of 'em that are intertwined with one another, right on his arm! It looks sick!"

So they don't know the meaning of the tattoo yet, huh? Heh, if they did, then they'd know that I'm the, 'traitor', as they've labeled me. Chao thought as he continued to walk with the two soon to be dead warriors. Well, I guess they'll find out sooner or later, when Overlord claims the royal palace…

As he entered his room, a hand clamped over his mouth and a needle was shoved into his neck, making him dreary and forcing him into a sleep-like trance.

"Mind control formula; the one that was stolen from the Jade Palace." Overlord whispered, letting go of the student. "We may be down, but we are far from out. Kill Kiro Takimuro, the master who captured Zina, and then free my assassin before taking your own life. Understood?"

Kidduo slowly nodded in reply.

"Good." The villain murmured before leaping out of the open window in the room.

In the main hall of the palace, Kiro stood looking out one of the windows. Kidduo took one of his pistols out of its holster and started walking down the hallway. His mind was filled with murderous thoughts and his eyes were glazed over as he made his way over to kill the unsuspecting master of the Jade Palace. As he neared, the student clicked the safety off. Only a few feet from Kiro, Kidd raised the pistol to where the tiger master's heart was and steadied himself.

It was then that Kiro turned to head back to see Mei Ling, who was recovering nicely from the throwing star wounds, when he caught a glimpse of the student, but didn't see the pistol.

"Hey Kidd! What's u—?"

Bang.

The gunshot rang through every hall in the palace, alerting all in the building. Kiro gasped a little, then collapsed to the floor.

There's the recap of the important events that have happened so far! Hope you guys recall all this, and welcome all new readers to the finale!

I'll post more in a little bit.

More to come…