AN: Just fixed a little problem, in the previous two chapters the text was a bit blocky, it should be sorted in this chapter. The copying and pasting in sort of messed it up, I've had to delete and re-enter every carriage return, which seems a little unnecessary, but never mind.

Also, first AN :D

Dimension - 384.2

Local time: Unknown - 03:12

Energy coursed up 01's arm, flowing on and above his hand, crystallising into brilliant blade of energy. The R-Sabre, now in the tigress' possession, didn't hit 01, but instead hit the blade formed on his arm. The blade shattered on impact, sending disintegrating shards of energy outwards, dissipating to nothing. The impact also flung my sabre out of the tigress' arms, and into the wall beside me. Convenient. I plucked it out and shouldered the weapon.

"Tigress!" the small red panda said again. The tigress noticed this time, and after a short while of breathing heavily and glaring knives at 01 - who frankly couldn't care less - she turned and joined her comrades.

"That... Was... Awesome!" Po cried, as fanboyish as, well, a fanboy.

"02," Inferno spoke up, "I assume you wish these ULFs to remain unharmed?"

"Uh, I suppose."

"Then let us lower our weapons, there is no need for more fighting this day."

Slowly but surely, weapons were lowered, and eventually some were holstered. Stances became less aggressive, and eventually settled into relative comfort.
After a short while of no-one saying anything, I chose to break the silence.

"So, what now?"

"I would suggest that you leave." the red panda answered me, dead-pan.

"Psshh, that's not happening any time soon, we have a job to do."

The red panda raised an eyebrow. "A job?"

"Tell you what," I suggested, "how about we deal with the "problems" here for now, then we'll talk. Explain some stuff."

As if to prove a point, Inferno turned and let off a burst of fire.

"One more down." he said. The seven ULFs turned to each other and almost formed a huddle. They conferred in hushed tones, with the occasional raised voice from someone who either wanted to get a point across, wasn't happy with a point that had just been made, or both. Eventually, it seemed they had come to a decision.

"Alright. We will allow you to do your "job"..."

A good start, but I could sense a "but" coming.

"But," there it was. "first, we will be needing introductions."

Oh. That was fair enough, relatively easy.

"Alright then. I'm 02, this is Blaze, Inferno, Blue, White, Red and 01." I gestured to each of my teammates in turn, and they each gave their own personal "hello". A "Hey", from White, a "Greetings", from Inferno and a blank stare from 01, ever the people-person. I waited for the ULFs to introduce themselves, but they said nothing.

"So, are you going to... Introduce yourselves?"

"Will it be necessary?"

"Probably, and it'd be nice, too."

The red panda muttered something under his breath, then gave in, and the seven introduced themselves to us.

They were Master Shifu, Po the Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five, who consisted of: Master Monkey, Master Mantis, Master Crane, Master Viper and Master Tigress. For each introduction, there was a flourish of Kung-Fu, which annoyed me a bit. They didn't see us blowing holes in their walls to show off our skills. White also took on quite a sarcastic approach, although that was generally just him.

"I sense great creativity in your titles..." he said mystically, "They truly deserve awards. Give those five medals!"

"White," Red said false-sweetly.

"Yeah?"

"Please stop talking, or I might just ram your missile launcher down your-"

"-That's... enough of that, Red." Blue interrupted her.

White was visibly scared.

"I'm scared." he said.

The red panda, Shifu, cleared his throat once more, now quite highly strung. "Your job?"

That brought us back to business. "Right." I said, "Red, stop threatening to ram things down places, and White, stop being generally annoying." White looked offended, but no-one cared. "Blue, can I get a recount on the remaining hostiles?"

"Sure thing."

"And you," I gestured to the tigress, "I don't want you attacking any of us."

Tigress' mouth twitched upwards in a small smirk. "I'll try not to."

"Good. You done, Blue?"

"Just about. 14 hostiles remaining."

"Great. Now let's do our job." I turned to Shifu as the seven of us left, "And we might also fix the ceiling." The red panda looked up at the rather large hole. "Might."

We finished the rest of the individual job pretty easily, probably since we no longer had to worry about the resident ULFs. No-one was harmed - although with a job like this I'd be surprised if anyone was - besides, of course, demons, all of which were harmed.

"That went well." White noted.

"That went terribly, White. We alerted everyone." Blaze disagreed.

"Your face went terribly."

"I don't even have a face, White."

"Your face doesn't have a face."

"That doesn't make any sense."

"Your face doesn't make any sense."

Blaze sighed, or maybe it was more of a growl. There was silence for a while before White concluded:

"Right, I reckon I won that one."

"AARGH! Will you just SHUT UP?!"

"Will your face shut up."

"I'm gonna MURDER you!"

"I'm gonna murder your-"

The conversation was ended with a shot from 01's Lacerator.

"THANK you." Blaze exhaled, and 01 gave a curt nod in response. Blue simply sighed and picked up White's unconscious form. Believe it or not, this wasn't actually the worst argument our team has had, in fact it was pretty routine, if a little bit over the top. The arguments we had were almost always between White and Blaze, due to White's tendency to annoy people and Blaze's hot temper (you see what I did there?). There were occasionally arguments between some of the other members, but most of the time we all got along pretty well.

Returning, we received a few looks from the 6 ULFs before us (Shifu had probably gone off to do... Something. Yeah, pretty sure that's exactly what he was doing.).

It was Mantis who actually spoke.

"Will he be needing any... Medical attention?"

I turned to Blue, who was still carrying White.

"Who, White? No, he'll be back up in an hour or so. If anything, Blue's more likely to be needing medical attention."

"Amen to that." Blue agreed, slowly setting White down against a paper wall. "Why do I have to carry him, anyway?"

"What happened?" Tigress asked out of curiosity, not concern.

"He started an argument with me." Blaze answered, "01 stunned him to shut him up." I didn't bother to tell her that she'd technically started the argument, and it was just White who'd made it ridiculously childish.

"Wouldn't that harm him at all?" Viper this time, though she actually seemed concerned. I answered her.

"No, our stun weaponry causes no permanent damage to any life form. Of course, it'll kill demons, but technically they're animated, not alive. Basically, it renders people unconscious, nothing else."

Mantis laughed, "That's good to know."

"Oh, no, we're not going to be using them on you, don't worry. Well, not unless you give us a reason to, anyway. Besides, we're in a truce-y situation here."

Crane spoke next. "Sooo... What exactly are you here to do, then?"

"Well..." I decided after a while to just give it to them straight. "We're highly-trained warriors from another dimension who've come to stop our also dimension-travelling demonic enemies."

Crane paused for a while. "... Right. Well, that's a new one on me."

"Oh, yeah, and not forgetting Fear."

"What?" Most of the others asked, including some of my team.

"God of Fear, classy guy, but you never know what he could be up to. If we didn't keep tabs on him, he could well have screwed up... Everything. Let's say everything."

White regained consciousness and got up. Thinking back on it, it's kind of odd that no-one really made anything of it. Most of the ULFs seemed to be wondering if I was insane, though considering how our team looked I wouldn't expect them to think I was lying. The only ULF who didn't seem to be contemplating my insanity was Po, who instead thought what I was saying was awesome.

"Let's go stop him then!" Po said suddenly, "Me and the Five will take him down!"

This amused my team, although Po's enthusiasm was refreshing.

"You know he said God of Fear, right?" Blaze reminded him, sceptically.

"Yeah, but I don't care, we could take him."

"Uh, yeah, no offense, but you guys wouldn't even get near him." Blue said.

"Oh, really?" Tigress raised an eyebrow, "If you can manage to keep tabs on him, I know we can bring him down-"

"Excuse me," I interrupted, "you have no right to criticise our fighting, you only got lucky that you managed to disarm me for a second. Besides, we could down you all in less than that if we wanted to right now."

She got into a fighting stance. "Go on then. "Down" us."

I shook my head. "You know we're not going to do that." White lowered his rifle with a disappointed "Aww...", "Anyway, how the hell did you know I was there? We couldn't have woken anyone with that level of noise."

Tigress humphed (that a word?) "I wasn't asleep."

"That explains that then..." I muttered. "Anyway, we'll probably be going out on individual missions every time something comes up, all the while looking for Fear. I reckon we could be in this dimension for a while."

I sensed a few suppressed groans amongst both groups.

"Does that mean you'll need a place to stay?" Viper asked. I could tell it was an offer of hospitality, although I doubt she'd discussed it with the others beforehand. I reckoned it would be best not to jump at the proposal straight away.

"Probably. Well, I can see you're no strangers to fighting, so it might be a good idea if we taught you guys how to fight demons. Could save us a trip or two in the future if they ever decide to come here again."

Viper turned to look at her comrades. Crane looked a little uneasy, and Tigress reluctant for sure, but perhaps they could be swayed, Crane probably a little easier than Tigress. Monkey and Mantis both seemed pretty impartial, and Po seemed rather excited, which was reassuring on my team's part. I guess the real decision, if it was to be made, would be made by Shifu more than anyone, which didn't give me an incredible amount of confidence, considering that we were hardly on friendly terms, and he was probably still mad at us for breaking his ceiling. The Five knew it wasn't their decision to make, not here and now, at least. Because nothing had really been said on the subject, the conversation moved on. Or, it was about to, at least, before Shifu returned.

"Alright," he said, massaging his temples, "it's getting late - well, early - and we have training tomorrow, students."

He raised his head, which had previously been pointed slightly downwards. His voice took on a more official tone as he spoke again, this time to my team.

"As for you seven, you will also be staying here, where we can keep an eye on you."

Tigress protested, "But, Master-"

"I will have no objections, Tigress. I have consulted-" It seemed as though he was about to say something, but instead caught himself. "I have consulted someone on this subject, and my decision has been made. Now, as our guests seem to have made no real move to kill us-"

"Totally true." I interjected.

"-I suggest we restart as if this whole situation had never happened." He frowned slightly, "Besides the ceiling, of course, which you will be fixing."

I sensed various winces and groans from my team, but I continued on. This was turning out easier than expected, although I doubted that we would carry on as if this had never happened.

And no, I'm not just talking about the ceiling.

Never the less, I carried on, in some kind of odd... Thing. It's that odd that I've been forced into calling it a "thing".

"Greetings... Masters...? Is that it?"

"Get on with it." Tigress ordered.

"Alrighty, uh... We are... Specialist... People?"

I heard the distinctive thud of gauntlet meeting helmet. Clearly Blaze thought I was really bad at this, and - rather depressingly - I suppose I had to agree.

"What happened to what you said before?" Red asked me.

"What did I say before? Should I say it again?"

Blaze let out a sigh and stepped forward. "Look, you guys know the deal, can we just get done with this and wait 'till morning?"

Shifu seemed a little irritated, but ultimately relieved. "Close enough." he said, "Your quarters are in the building just around from this one, mirroring it. Now let's all just get some sleep."

He was about to walk past us when Blue said quietly, "We don't... Sleep."

Shifu stopped slightly, then simply said, "Then wait." and passed us, exiting the way he had came. The Five and Po turned, returning to their quarters too, hoping to get what sleep they could from what little was left of the night.

We decided it was time for us to go, too, and turned in the opposite direction. Red was reminding Blue that she actually did sleep, and enjoyed it. Blaze was talking with White about Po, Shifu and the Five; neither of the two held a grudge about any of the arguments they ever had, that is, until they were engaged in another. Inferno seemed to be going over something within his helmet, so I was left with 01.

As we entered the guest quarters, I noticed how similar it was to that of the Five and Po. When Shifu had said it mirrored it, he hadn't just meant in positioning. A corridor stretched down the middle, with individual rooms branching off to the left and right, separated by paper doors. We decided that 01 and I would share a room, and Red and Blue would share another. The remaining room would later probably be converted into a make-shift armoury.

As 01 and I moved into our given room, I decided to question him on what had happened in our standoff against the ULFs.

"What was that back there? I didn't know you could fight like that."

01 simply nodded. You can't really get a good, complex answer out of a mute. Luckily for me, though, I was one of the few people that 01 chose not to ignore, so there would usually be some kind of acknowledgement, at least. "Yes or no" questions were generally the way to go with 01. Nodding and shaking his head were the general forms of communication he used, although he generally points his gun at whoever's annoying him.

"And by the way, why were you staring at Tigress like that, just before you released her? Was there something wrong?"

01 nodded again.
"What was it? Could you tell she was going to attack you?"

01 nodded, but then waved a hand and shook his head. I guessed that meant that he could tell, but that wasn't the reason for staring at her beforehand.

"Right, right... Uh..."

A thought occurred to me, but it wasn't a nice one.

"Was it Fear?"

01 paused for a while. Then he nodded.