Chapter 2: Heading Up To the Web Cave
While taking a break before heading up to the mountain where Master Spider is said to be located. Rabbit and Skunk were being ordered to keep watch to ensure the envoy to help protect the jade emerald Master Spider kept on his inventory were intact.
"I can't believe Master Turtle forced me to stay up!" cried Rabbit.
"I know what you mean" replied Skunk, "all this climbing up toward the mountain is making me quite tired. I can't stay up all night."
"You're not going to expect me to keep watch are you squirt?" asked Rabbit.
"Hey, now there's an idea" replied Skunk as he then went back to where his temporary resting place was on the summit.
"Hey, get back here!" cried Rabbit.
"Keep a good watchful eye out for everyone, everybody's counting on it" said Skunk as he was about to go to sleep.
"Bah, suit yourself squirt" replied Rabbit.
As Rabbit hesitated to defend the others on the summit, meanwhile, two ninja monkeys were trying their best to head up toward that particular summit. The ninja monkeys were quite cautious as they made their way up the mountain. The two poor monkeys were forced to do this by Baboon, in the effort so that he may see what's up ahead. Meanwhile, back on the summit, Rabbit was quite anxious to get this over with. Yet he suddenly saw at least two ninja monkeys trying to come right up toward the summit. As one of the ninja monkeys was helping his partner up, Rabbit then smiled with glee as he went toward the two ninja monkeys.
"Well, well, well" said Rabbit as he gave quite a grin on his face to the ninja monkeys, "looks like I have something to take my anger out."
Rabbit then launched his attack against the two ninja monkeys. He gave one of the ninja monkeys a good punch, sending the ninja monkey nearly falling right off tumbling right down the cliff. The other ninja monkey then charged toward Rabbit, yet Rabbit managed to give that ninja monkey a good punch. The fighting was quite loud enough to began waking members of Panda's envoy to Master Spider.
"What's going on?!" cried Master Turtle who was a bit cranky as he got up.
"Oh my, ninja monkeys!" cried Duck as she began to panic.
"Oh no, not ninja monkeys!" added Tiger as he was also doing the same thing.
"Should we help Rabbit?" asked Master Frog.
"Nay, I think Rabbit's got this one in the bag" replied Skunk as he also got up.
"Say, why weren't you on watch duty like Rabbit?" asked Master Turtle, "I remember putting you up for that duty."
"Well, I got tired from all the climbing" replied Skunk.
"Enough now!" cried Master Turtle as he stepped right into the fight between Rabbit and the two ninja monkeys whom were getting quite beaten up.
"Oh come on, I was going to finish these two off!" cried Rabbit.
"Don't you raise your tone with me!" replied Master Turtle, "Your form of brutality isn't welcome here, you're no better than Dragon if you destroy a ninja monkey in this manner!"
"Don't question my methods old turtle" replied Rabbit.
"Er, I think the ninja monkeys are getting away" said Crane as she noticed the ninja monkeys were fleeing in order to heal from their injuries.
"Let them, we got to head up there before Baboon and the other ninja monkeys get there first" said Master Turtle.
"Oh man, more climbing!" cried Skunk as he and the others began to climb up the mountain.
Meanwhile, the two ninja monkeys who survived the attack by Rabbit came back to the temporary camp where Baboon was. Baboon was sleeping quite soundly, while at least one ninja monkey was keeping watch over the rest. The lone ninja monkey who was ordered to keep watch when he noticed two beaten up ninja monkeys coming back to the temporary camp immediately went toward Baboon and began to wake him up.
"Hey, I was busy having one of the most wonderful dreams!" cried Baboon as he barked right at the ninja monkey who woke up him, to which he then noticed the two beaten up ninja monkeys before him, "Oh just what is it?"
One of the ninja monkeys then leaned over to Baboon and whispered to him their encounter with Rabbit along with stating that Master Turtle is leading Panda's envoy to Master Spider's cave.
"You mean to say that Master Turtle is leading Panda's envoy to Master Spider's place?" asked Baboon to which the two ninja monkeys then nodded as a yes, "we should get everybody up, so that we can get there first before they do. Now get going!"
While Baboon was doing just that, up ahead, Panda's envoy led by Master Turtle was getting quite close to the top of the mountain where the cave belonging to Master Spider was located.
"Are we there yet?" complained Skunk who was getting to be quite a bit tired.
"Just a few more feet up" replied Master Turtle, "shouldn't take long."
"It better be worth it then" sighed Rabbit.
After an hour or so, Master Turtle and the rest of the envoy managed to get up toward Master Spider's cave. To which case, Master Turtle then led the way into it.
"Ah, old friend Turtle" said Master Spider whom was up on the ceiling watching them enter his cave, "it's good to see you and your fellow Valley friends."
"It's good to see you too old friend" replied Master Turtle.
"Wow, look at this place" said Master Frog as he noticed the entire cave was literally quite a big web.
"I don't think you need our help if you get such defenses like this" said Rabbit.
"And this must be Rabbit, the one who always wants to succeed in becoming the Valley's future successor leader" said Master Spider as he lowered himself toward the rodent, "I have heard quite a lot about you."
"Oh, you might want to meat Panda's apprentice Skunk" continued Master Turtle as he pushed Skunk right toward Master Spider.
"Hmm, let me inspect him for a moment or two" said Master Spider.
As Master Spider began to inspect Skunk, Skunk was a bit nervous in having a medium sized spider inspecting him in this manner.
"Er, you're not going to eat me if I disobey orders, right?" asked Skunk as he began to sweat.
"Oh no sonny, I'm one of those vegetarian spiders no one ever gets to hear about" replied Master Spider, "I don't eat meat, I eat fruit usually."
"Well, we got a lot of preparations if you wish to ensure your precious jade emerald doesn't fall into the wrong hands" said Master Turtle.
"Oh that's right" said Master Spider, "follow me, try not to get stuck in my web."
While Master Spider was showing Panda's envoy where the jade emerald was located, Baboon and his ninja monkeys were closing in on the location of the cave. They were getting quite close indeed to their objective.
