What up? This was inspired by an episode of 'Full House' where a girl can win a boy's sport...so I wonder what would happen if little Maximus would take part in a Junior Kung-Fu Tournament in which he's under 10? Well, that's where this comes in. Dedicated to SpiritualLoneWolfXIII and Master of Stories and feel free to have your OC's weigh in. Enjoy!

Small Cub, Big Skills

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Spar Mode

It was a typical day at the Jade Palace training hall where a whole lot of sparring matches are going on and little Maximus is looking his opponent in the eye; Master Tigress. She figured that she could easily demolish Max due to his size and age with her kung-fu skills because if anything...she wants to obtain victory after being beaten by him so many times because of his quick moves and also...mischevious persona. Max lets out a little smirk at the tiger master and Tigress took it as if he's calling her out without saying anything and she lets out a growl and said, "Enough games."

"Who's playing?" Max asked, still having that smirk.

She immediately lowered in all fours and she lept up in the air to grab him with her paws, but Max immediately slipped down to the ground without falling down to the ground, causing Tigress to be distracted by how he does it so effortlessly, not knowing that she's already bashed her head to the wall.

Max quickly gets himself back up on his feet, dusted himself off and watched Tigress bump herself to the wall and he said, "I know that feeling. It's not that much fun."

She immediately got herself back up and she couldn't take anymore of Max's constant quick movements and she began sparring with him with much kicks, punches, throws and marks that she could swing at, but Max dodged and blocked all of those hits very quickly and he does a backflip, lands on the ground with his feet and then trips her ankle.

As Max slipped Tigress' ankle, he landed on her back, supposedly jumping and pouncing on her very quickly and quickly jumps out of her and does that basic stance. Tigress growled at this as she got up and gave Max one of those dangerous glares and she said, "I refuse to be beaten by an eight year old again!"

"I'm 9." Max replied, cooly.

Realizing that her dangerous glare didn't really scare Max, she figured something else would scare him and that was to show her how much of a dangerous fighter she is by literally letting her rage to the talking and she pulverized him with everything she got and then some. But not even that would make Max scream in fear as he slid underneath her legs, flipped her up, down and all around and did some extreme punches and throws at her as hard as he could go.

Frustrated, Tigress did the ultimate...calling him out in every single way and when Max didn't respond, that ultimately set her off and she asked, "Aren't you even gonna give up?!"

"Over my dead kitty body." Max answered.

Tigress snarled in frustration as she went ahead and kicked him down to the jaw and pinned him down with her hands on her shoulders, she was still looking for fear on Max and she asked, "You scared now?"

Max rolled his eyes at her and he knows that this is just to prove that he's too small to take down Tigress, but in his own way, he looked her in the eyes and replied, "You tell me."

Max lets out a little smirk and he bit on Tigress' finger, causing her to roar in pain and that was enough to be released and he gave Tigress a blow to the head and shin as he whipped her down with his quick moves and very rapid fire skills with one sitting and the final blow is knocking her down in the air with his knuckles and he watched her land on the wall, completely defeated in the process.

After that, Max cheered himself and does his little victory dance to ensure that his skills would never be underestimated by Tigress and he said, "I beat ya! Again!"

After that, he took a deep breath as he sees Tigress getting herself up again and she just could not understand how Max has gotten so good so far and again...got beaten by him in the process. That was something she severely hates the most and she lets out a very bitter snarl at him and said, "Why do you always do better than me?"

Max then turns around and replied, "Practice."

"Okay...that's a good reason. But...how?" asked Tigress.

Max lets out a little snicker and a smirk to go along with it and replied, "I'll never tell. Besides, you're so easy to battle with and that you can be bested by a cub."

Tigress did not get this cub...the one tiger master that never gets defeated and will undoubtedly intimidate anyone that stands in her way and here Max comes and totally flips her world upside down because he's so young and active that his mini-training moves looks like something a pro could do, but he's never one to make any big reasons or even brag about it. He's got a good attitude about everything he does and just keeps it cool. She then lets out a deep sigh and said, "This is why I will never understand you."

"You may not understand me now, but maybe when I'm older...and a little wiser, you'll see the difference. Maybe..." Max finished off.

Even that completely ticks her off because he's so calm and laid-back about anything, even after all the things he's been through when he was younger means nothing to him. She felt like grabbing ahold of his head and just squish it so hard that she'll see his blood come out.

Soon enough, Takami and Arizona comes in the training hall and they see Tigress and Max standing there and Arizona said, "Hey, guys. What's doing?"

"I just beat Tigress in another sparring match." Max answered.

Arizona chuckled at this and he said, "That's awesome, buddy! I guess those tactics that Takami taught you to beat Tigress paid off, huh?"

Tigress looked shocked and stared at her student after finding out that Takami taught Max to beat her in a sparring match and Max looked up at Arizona and said, "Yeah, about that...that was between Takami and I."

Arizona realized that he had spilled the beans and he quickly said, "Oops."

"Thanks a lot, Zona." Takami muttered.

Tigress looked infuriated at Takami for teaching Max to defeat her quickly and she said, "You know you're gonna pay for that, right?"

Soon enough, Tigress was gonna claw him out, but when Takami ducked down...she clawed someone else and without even taking a second look, her eyes were focused on Takami and as she turned around, she saw her claw marks...on Master Shifu's face.

"Master Shifu...I am so...sorry. I..." Tigress said, horrified.

Shifu looked up at Tigress and said to her, "May I see you for a minute, please?"

Max did his casual innocent walk where he puts his hands behind his back and walked out of there like nothing happened and said, "Better him than us."

Started off really awesome! Stay tuned for chapter 2!