A/N: And Chapter 4 is done, finally, it felt like it took longer then usual for some reason. Well, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kung Fu Panda or Alchemax, just my own OCs.


The Valley of Peace and the Furious Five 2099

Darvel woke up the sound of his alarm blaring; he set it for 6:30 AM so that he would have time to do something before his 'master' came to pick him up. He looked over at a small metal sphere on his desk that had holographic letters orbiting it that read: 6:30 AM, March 18, 2099. He pushed one of the buttons on the top of it and the alarm immediately turned off. Darvel took a moment to completely wake up and then started his morning routine, he went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth, had breakfast, took a shower, and got dressed. As soon as he was finished he jumped out of his window, found a hovercar that was taking off, and used it to get to the second traffic level. After a few more rooftops and a freefall Darvel finally made it to his destination, the rooftop of a homeless shelter where his good friend Frank was sitting.

"Hey Frank." Darvel greeted gaining the orangutan's attention.

"Bonjour mon ami, back for a rematch I see." Frank replied with a smile on his face.

"Not today Frank, actually I came to say good bye." Darvel said in a bit of a sadden tone.

"Good bye, you are leaving?" Frank asked with surprise.

"Yeah, I'll be gone for a month, apparently I have to "fulfill my destiny and become the Dragon Warrior"." Darvel said the last part in an exaggerated voice.

"Dragon Warrior, what is this Dragon Warrior you speak of." Frank questioned as he grew up in France and thus never heard of the Dragon Warrior before.

"It's not important, the point is I'm learning Kung Fu from some guy and I'm leaving today, I just thought I'd let you know."

"Are you sure you want to leave, a month is a long time you're Parkour will get rusty." Frank pointed out.

"I promised my dad I would try this, so have to." Darvel said, in a tone that showed he obviously didn't want to do it.

"Well, I'm sure it will not be that bad, you'll do fine, but I must admit I am going to miss you." Frank admitted as he put his arm around Darvel.

"Yeah, same here, but it's only for a month, I'm sure we can survive." Darvel said. "Well I better get going, or I'll be late, see you Frank."

"Au revoir my little protege." Frank said as Darvel left the rooftop.

Once Darvel made it back he waited where Master Chen had told him to with his bag in hand. It was almost 7:30 so he was expecting them shortly. After a minute or two Master Chen and Ji appeared through the doorway and walked up to him.

"Are you ready to go?" Chen asked.

"Yeah, let's just go." Darvel said in a mixture of sadness and bitterness in his voice. He then led the way out of the building and he was surprised to see none other than his dad and his friends waiting for him. "What are you guys doing here?" Darvel asked.

"We came to see you off." Rex replied.

"Yeah after all we're not going to see you for a month." Nolen added. Darvel smiled and spoke.

"Thanks guys, for everything." Darvel said. All of a sudden Rex and Nolen got him into a group hug, which admittedly felt a little awkward to him. Once they let go Darvel moved on to his dad.

"Thank you for doing this son, who knows, you might end up liking it." Mr. Richeen said as he put his hand on Darvel's shoulder.

"I doubt that dad; just make sure that my internship is still open when I get back ok." Darvel said a bit jokingly which caused his dad to laugh a bit.

"Sure son, I promise you that." Mr. Richeen replied as he brought Darvel into a hug. "Take care Darvel."

"I will dad, say hi to mom for me." Darvel said as he pulled away from the hug, Mr. Richeen nodded. Darvel took one last look around the city, making sure to memorize every detail he could to sustain him until he came back. Once he was done he sighed sadly and continued onward, following Master Chen and Ji out of the city.

After a few minutes of silent walking, Darvel spoke up.

"So where is this Valley of Peace of yours?" Darvel asked the elder tiger.

"Not far, it's actually just beyond the mountains." Master Chen said as he gestured to the tall Wu Dane Mountains in front of them.

"Ok cool, we'll be there in no time." Darvel said which surprised Chen and Ji.

"I'm glad you think that, shall we?" Master Chen said as he continued walking. Darvel did the same but after a minute or two Darvel and Master Chen split up, both going in different directions. Darvel noticed this and spoke.

"Hey, where are you guys going?" Darvel questioned, gaining the others' attention.

"We're going up the mountain like I said we would." Master Chen said wondering where else he would go.

"Up the mountain, why would we do that when there's a tunnel right over there?" Darvel said as he pointed to a metal circular tunnel just a short walks away. "We would get there much faster if we just use that."

"That's what I said when we first came to the city." Ji said.

"The quickest path is not always the right path." Master Chen said in a wise and mystical tone. "Sure if we go through the tunnel we could cut our trip in half or so, but then we will be missing out on the beauty and majesty that these mountains have to offer. It is because of these mountains that the Valley of Peace has been protected for the last three thousand years." After that speech Darvel knew that he wasn't going to back down, so he just sighed in defeat.

"Fine whatever, we'll go over the mountain." Darvel said with a bit of annoyance in his voice. "But just for that, I'm going to give you guys a lecture of the development of the Atomic Theory." He added as payback. Ji glared a bit at Master Chen, who only gave him an amused look. "The first Atomic Theory was developed by a man named John Dalton, who suggested that all matter…" Darvel began as the group started up the mountain.

"So elements in different groups will react to other substances in similar ways." Darvel said. He had finished his lecture on the Atomic Theory and has moved on to chemical reactions. "With that said, there's this one particular group of elements called Nobel Gasses that don't react to anything because they have a full outer energy level" He continued. Chen and Ji were walking behind the young fox, listening intently on his lecture, well at least Chen was.

"Master Chen… I don't think… I can go on anymore." Ji said in an exaggerated tone of voice.

"Oh please Ji, don't be so melodramatic, I actually find his lecture quite interesting." Master Chen said as he has probably learned more about non Kung Fu stuff in the last few hours then he has in his whole life.

"Well, I just hope we get to the valley soon." Ji said in an exasperated tone.

"Well actually, I can see it from here." Master Chen said just loud enough for Darvel to hear.

"Really well where is it?" Darvel asked as he didn't see the village anywhere.

"Come, I will show you." Master Chen said gesturing for Darvel come over to him. Darvel then did so and walked up the top of a hill. "Behold Dragon Warrior, the Valley of Peace." Chen said as he pointed out to the distance. Darvel looked to where he was pointing at and his eyes widened in amazement at what he saw. The scenery of the mountains and the shadows they made where breath taking and smack dab in the middle of the lush valley the mountains surrounded was a village, presumably the Valley of Peace.

"Wow, i-it looks like a painting that you would see in a museum or something." Darvel said as he stared at the sight.

"Yes, it is quite magnificent isn't it? Well, come now, we are nearly there." Master Chen said as he continued on the trail. Darvel and Ji followed sue and after a half an hour of hiking, they finally made it to the Valley. Once they entered, Darvel took a look around the quaint little village. Besides the occasional gadget or two, the entire village seemed completely untouched by time, the housed and shops all looking like they were kept the exact way they were built all those centuries ago. There seemed to be three species living in the village, bunnies, pigs, and geese and all seemed very friendly. When they walked down the street they greeted one another happily, something Darvel rarely saw in the City of Prosperity. There were little children playing about, darting through all of the adults as they chased one another, most likely playing tag. The whole village gave off a welcoming vibe and Darvel just couldn't believe that he had never been there before.

"I suppose you've never been to small village before have you." Master Chen said as he walked up next to Darvel.

"I guess I haven't, you don't really see many places like this around anymore since the industrial revolution after WWIII." Darvel stated.

"That's one of the things I love about the Valley, for the most part it has stood the test of time. Well enough dilly dallying, we must be on our way to the Jade Palace, my other student's are probably waiting." Chen said as he walked further into the valley. Darvel and Ji followed and eventually they all ended up near the border of the Valley. "Well here we are." Master Chen said.

"Here, but where's the Jade Palace?" Darvel asked in confusion as he started scanning the area looking for anything that remotely resembled a palace. Once he couldn't find one he looked back at Master Chen who was pointing up above them, Darvel looked up and his jaw dropped. Above him was what seemed to be a large black platform with a glowing blue ring around the edge and a blue dot in the very center.

"Whoa, an anti-gravity platform, so the Jade Palace is…" Darvel began but was interrupted.

"Yep, it's placed right on top of it." Ji said.

"Yes, we got it to replace the thousand stairs as a security measure, though the values of Kung Fu are still well in tacked, the times have changed, and like anything else, Kung Fu changed with it." Master Chen said as he went over to a small keypad and entered in a serious of digits. Once he was finished a holomatter (A/N: a hologram you can touch and feel.) platform appeared in front of them and the trio got onto it. "All right, up we go." Suddenly the platform began to rise up off of the ground up to the Jade Palace. Darvel had to admit he was a bit nervous, Chen mentioned something about other students and Darvel, being the socially awkward person he was, didn't like the idea of meeting new people, especially ones that could kill him without even trying. After what seemed like hours they finally made it up to the palace and walked over to the large front door. "Here it is, the entrance to the courtyard, are you ready Darvel?" Master Chen asked as he looked back at the young fox. Darvel could hear noises coming from the other side of the door, mainly the sounds of people punching and kicking each other, which made Darvel even more nervous. He took in a deep breath and spoke.

"Let's just get this over with." Darvel said in a nervous tone of voice. Once he said this Master Chen opened the large doors and the trio walked into the courtyard. The very first thing that caught Darvel's eye was the people in the center of it. There were five of them in total, two were fighting, three were watching. One of the spectators was a snake, a Cobra to be exact, who was light brown with a dark brown pattern all down his body. The thing that really stuck out about him was the fact that he wore a black device with blue lights and blue tip on it that ended at the very tip of his tail. The next one was a female black widow spider. As her name suggests, she was all black but had a red hourglass shaped marking on her abdomen, not that Darvel could see it since it was covered by a similar device the cobra had, black with blue lights that went all around half of her abdomen but had a hole at the tip to allow here webbing through. The third watcher was a Bald Eagle; his weapon was less noticeable as it was hidden among his other feathers. In his wings were feather shaped devices tucked in to look like part of his actual wings (A/N: Think of futuristic versions of Shen's feather blade things.). One of the fighters was a baboon wearing read pants, black heavy duty gloves, the same Mr. Richeen would use when working plasma energy, and holding what seemed to be a long pole completely made of said blue energy. His opponent, and final student, was a female white tiger, wearing a blue silk vest with silver vine patterns on it as well as black silk pants. Her weapons were black metal gloves she wore on her hands that had blue plasma claws extending from the tips of the fingers. Darvel watched as the two warriors fought, the baboon was swinging his plasma pole at the tiger but she was able to dodge or block all of his strikes. Eventually the tiger roundhouse kicked the baboons arm knocking the pole into the air, allowing her to land a combo which ended with a swipe that sent him across the field.

"Tag out." The spider said as the tiger rushed over to the baboon. The primate then taped the spider's leg and left the ring. The spider then turned her abdomen towards the tiger and shot out some webbing, only instead of being just plain white the web was glowing with a light blue. Once the tiger saw the web net she sliced through it with her plasma claw and quickly retreated. The spider then proceeded to shot a multitude of webs at her until finally one of them pinned the tiger's left arm to the floor. The spider then went in for a combo but the tiger used here free limbs to defend. She eventually broke free from the webbing and used her newly freed hand to swipe at the spider, but she dodged it. But as the spider came down from the air the tiger kicked her across the field, luckily the cobra caught her.

"Tag out." The cobra said to which the spider agreed. The spider then took a seat at the side lines and the cobra dashed towards the tiger. The device he wore then activated and generated a plasma sword at the end of his tail, which he swiftly swung at the tiger. Eventually the cobra was able to trip the tiger and then turned the sword into a plasma hammer which he tried to bring down on his opponent. The tiger however was able to role away just in time and found an opening that she could use to finish it, but just as she was about to counter attack an alarm sounded, ending the round.

"Well done everyone, excellent sparing matches." Master Chen said gaining all of their attention.

"Master Chen." The students said in unison as they all rushed up to him and bowed.

"At ease my students." Master Chen said as causing the five warriors to get back on their feet. "Now I am sure Ji has already told you of the situation to you all, so without further a dew, I present to you the Dragon Warrior." Master Chen said as he gestured to Darvel. The warriors then looked at the fox with blank expressions which made him very uncomfortable.

"Uh… hey there." Darvel said nervously as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Darvel, these are my students; Spider, Cobra, Eagle, Baboon, and Tigria; the new Furious Five." Master Chen introduced.

"Ha." Darvel said as he found it amusing and ironic that a new Furious Five was formed just around the same time a new Dragon Warrior was named.

"So, you're the new Dragon Warrior huh?" Tigria said as she walked up to the young fox with her arms crossed.

"Um… yeah I guess." Darvel replied awkwardly as Tigria began to examine him.

"Oh god, here we go again." Baboon complained as the rest of the student's groaned in annoyance, gaining a glare from Tigria. Tigria then walked all around Darvel, as she continued to examine him. This made him uncomfortable and he immediately stiffened something that Tigria noticed.

'Doesn't have much of a back bone, kind of scrawny too.' Tigria thought to herself. Suddenly she finally noticed the young fox's strange deformity. "Where's your tail?" She asked.

"I was born without it; I'm getting really tired of people asking me that." Darvel replied in an annoyed tone.

"I see." Tigria said. "So fox, do have any experience in Kung Fu?"

"No." Darvel replied.

"Have you ever been in a fight?"

"No."

"What first got you interested in learning Kung Fu?"

"I'm not."

"What?" Tigria questioned in surprise.

"I'm not really that interested in learning Kung Fu, I'm only here because your master insisted that I was the Dragon Warrior, I'm just going to try to not get myself killed and then I'm done." Darvel explained which got Tigria very angry

"Well if you're not going to take this seriously then you might as well leave right now," Tigria said an angry tone. "Because there's no reason the Master Chen should waste his time…"

"Tigria that is enough." Master Chen said in a stern voice, causing the white Tiger to reluctantly back off. "My apologize Darvel; my granddaughter can be quite rude at times." He apologized with a slight bow. Suddenly something he said hit Darvel.

"Wait, granddaughter?" Darvel said in confusion as he looked back and forth between the black furred, orange striped tiger and the white furred, black striped tiger. "I don't see it." He stated as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Master you can't honestly think that this fox is the Dragon Warrior, he obviously has no respect for the art of Kung Fu." Tigria said, seemingly ignoring Darvel's comment.

"All I am certain of is that he fulfilled the prophesy and thus he must be the Dragon Warrior." Master Chen replied.

"But master…" Tigria began but was interrupted.

"He's staying here and that is final." Chen stated firmly.

"Yes master." Tigria replied reluctantly.

"What's the big deal about being the Dragon Warrior anyway, it's just a title." Darvel asked plainly. Tigria let a low growl escape her throat and abruptly she grabbed Darvel by the caller and brought him to her face.

"Listen here fox, being the Dragon Warrior is the highest honor there is, and if you disrespect it then not only are disrespecting Kung Fu you are disrespecting me, my master, and our entire lineage, and I will not stand for that." Tigria stated in an infuriated tone which scared Darvel greatly, but then something occurred to him.

"Lineage?" Darvel said quizzically.

"Yeah, Tigria and Master Chen are both direct descendants of the original Dragon Warrior." Eagle explained.

"And she never lets us forget it." Baboon added.

"Wait, I thought the original Dragon Warrior was a Panda, and you guys are Tigers, how is that..." Just then it hit him like a thousand bricks. "Wait a minute, the Dragon Warrior married Master Tigress… holy shock you guys are hybrids!" Darvel exclaimed in a surprised tone as he wiggled out of Tigria's grip.

"Yeah, what of it?" Tigria said in an annoyed tone.

"What do you mean 'what of it', do you realize how much of a scientific marvel you are." Darvel said excitedly as he began examining Tigria in a similar matter she did.

"Scientific…"

"I mean obviously the tiger gene is a little more dominant, but for the panda gene to still be prominent enough to cause physical anomalies after about forty or so generations is remarkable."

"What are you ta…?"

"That's probably due to a mutation caused by the two different genes fusing together, if we could figure out how to recreate that mutation with other types of genes that would could make a huge leap in genetics and medical science, we could cure people with genetically passed diseases and stop it from spreading. All I would need is just one sample of you DNA." Darvel then tried to pick a hair off of Tigria's head but before he could she slapped his hand away from her.

"That's it, if you think I'm just going to stand around and let you turn me into some sort of science experiment, then you have another thing coming fox." Tigria nearly growled as she brought her hand up in front of his face to show off the plasma claw. Then, to her surprise, Darvel grabbed her hand and examined it.

"And the wonders continue, that's the new Plasma Claw X9-30, these haven't even gone into mass production yet, how the shock did you get these?" Darvel questioned in awe as he would've never thought to have seen that weapon there.

"Sometimes Alchemax lets us test out their new weapons, so what." Tigria explained as she pulled her hand away from Darvel. "Besides if they haven't gone into mass production yet, then how do you know about them?"

"Because my dad helped design them." Darvel explained, surprising the Furious Five.

"Wait, so your dad works at Alchemax?" Cobra asked.

"He doesn't just work there, he's one of the head scientists, and in fact he worked on all of your weapons. The Cyber Spinneret G6-12; fuses spider silk with plasma energy strengthening them then fold, the Hover Feather K7-02; uses anti-gravity technology to allow birds to fly longer distances without getting as tired, the Plasma Pole J5-90; can extend to any length and bend at any degree of the users choice, and finally the Snake's Tail F3-20; transforms into any kind of plasma weapon; short, mid, or long range. All of them totally awesome." Darvel said finishing his rant. Most of the student's were impressed by his knowledge but Tigria just rolled her eyes.

"Well I think that's enough excitement for one day, how about we get you situated Darvel. Students, take him to the barracks and show him his room." Master Chen ordered.

"Yes master." They all said in unison as they bowed to him.

"Come on, the barracks are this way." Spider said as she led the way. The rest of the Five followed sue. Tigria shot a glare at Darvel which he met with his own.

"Hmph." Tigria said as she turned her head way from him.

'Great, I've only been here like ten minutes and I've already made an enemy, this is going to be a long month.' Darvel thought to himself as he followed the others out of the courtyard.


A/N: And there you have it, hope I didn't disappoint anybody, I feel like I'm going to get flames for the whole Furious Five 2099 thing, but oh well. I wanted to get the point across that most of the world is industrialized at this point and thus so is Kung Fu, that's why they'll normally use weapons, so yeah. Well, anyways, R&R please.