Here we see yet another face-off with Sabi...this time in a market shop and takes her aim at the Masters.
Chapter 9: Face-Off with Sabi
As the afternoon goes on, Takami, Arizona, Ryo, Max, Tigress, Shifu, Po, Musaki and Monkey head to the market to bring in some items for the Jade Palace as well as Mako's place because half of the time, it's running a little low on food despite having a huge array of food in the kitchen. Max looks at the list for things needed in Mako's place and he said, "All we need are like vegetables, noodles, dumplings and some instant soy sauce. And also some kung pao chicken."
"Basically, everything that's essential to home, Max." Arizona replied.
Musaki looks at the other half of the list and took a glare at Max for all the random snacks surrounding the list and he said, "You and your sibs need to live a day without snacks."
Max scoffs at Musaki's comment and he said, "Saki...a day without snacks is like watching Tigress bore herself to death with her writing her diary."
Tigress quickly glared at max, assuming that he indeed watched her writing something on her diary and she asked, "And what part of my diary did you read?"
"None...except for the fact that you said you'd use Po's butt as a pillow one day." Max responded.
Tigress looked completely mortified that Max utter it out loud and it even shocked Shifu, Po, Arizona and Takami after overhearing that and Po had the decency to ask, "Did you really?"
Tigress groaned in embarrassment and covered her face to even face Po's reaction, then turned to Max and said, "I'm really gonna fix you up for this."
"I think you've corrupted her, Max." Arizona said, muttering under breath.
Minutes later
Shifu, Max, Tigress, Arizona and Takami headed towards this part of the market to find some kinds of vegetables and fruits for the Jade Palace and at Mako's place and they picked up everything from bananas, grapes, celery, carrots, onions, garlic, leeks and everything under the sun and Shifu looked over at the list and saw a bunch of random snacks on the back and he comes to Max and asked, "I don't suppose that cookies and candy will be well suited for your home, Max."
"That's what my brothers put in. We eat pretty much about 200 cookies in one week." Max replied.
Takami was surprised to hear that come out of Max's mouth the minute Max explained how many cookies he and his brothers eat and asked, "200 cookies a week?! I'm so jealous of you right now."
"You'd feel the same way if you had to fight for the cookies." Max replied.
Tigress sighed heavily and she said, "Shouldn't you eat more healthier stuff so you wouldn't gain weight?"
"At least I don't starve myself." Max added.
Tigress felt like that was aimed directly at her and she thought it's best to let it slide before it gets into something she'll regret later on and Arizona came with Takami and brought in some whole wheat rolls and he asked, "Who eats this stuff?"
"My mother. I don't know why she would actually eat stuff that is whole wheat." Takami answered.
"Maybe to get healthy, I guess."Arizona replied.
Meanwhile, Monkey, Po, Ryo and Musaki went towards another part of the market to get some rice and miscellaneous items and Musaki keeps his eye on the kiwis and he could not resist getting a couple of those and he asked the produce pig, "Are these ripe?"
"They're just fresh and in season." the produce pig replied.
Before long, Musaki got 15 pieces of kiwis and that surprised most of the gang, including Ryo and he asked Musaki, "Why do you like kiwis, Musaki?"
"Who doesn't like them? It's my favorite fruit...next to bananas and berries." Musaki answered.
Monkey and Po went towards another section to get more stuff and before long, they found themselves being blocked out of their way by somebody. Monkey clears his throat and he said, "Excuse me, we need to pass here."
"Well, too bad for you. I was here first, so you can beat it."
Po suddenly recognized that voice and he figured that it was that black panther that gave Max a hard time at the Noodle Shop and he said, "So...we meet again."
She turns around and sees Po and Monkey standing there and got disgusted that Po's here and said, "You again? Don't tell me you run this market too."
"No, we came to get some food." Po answered.
She chuckled maliciously and said, "Well...I can see that. Your butt is so fat that it can hold 12 amounts of apples and grapes."
Then, the panther took some shots at Monkey and she asked, "And what are you, his skinny sidekick?"
Monkey looked a little offended by that particular comment and he said, "I'm not that skinny. I'm most built."
She scoffed at the primate and said, "Built for what? Ugliness?"
Soon enough, Po stood in front of her and in a very serious tone, he said, "You don't talk to my friend like that."
She swiped Po with her claw and growled at her and said, "I can talk about anyone however I want and you ain't doing anything to stop me. So there!"
She then kicked Po in the crotch and Monkey in the stomach hard and when she attempted to knock on Po, she got tripped on the ground and when she turned around, she saw Max right behind her and she felt like this was a good opportunity to battle him.
"So...you're back for more, pipsqueak?" asked the panther, with a smirk.
"Hello, Sabi. I came here to stop you from messing with my friends." Max answered.
Before long, Takami, Tigress, Shifu, Musaki, Arizona and Ryo raced towards the scene to see what's going on and Sabi looked at the others and said, "Great...the oddball losers committee are here with their geekiness...plus one old coot."
Shifu did not take that comment lightly and he said to her, "Listen, young lady...I am the grandmaster of the Jade Palace and I would not tolerate that disrespectful comment you made at me."
"Look, old man...nothing you say matters or applies to me. I do what I want whenever I want and there's not a stupid slimebag in the universe to stop me." Sabi said, with a growl.
Tigress stepped right in and she could tell that she could not take much more of it and she said to the panther, "I could. You don't talk to Master Shifu like that."
"And what are you gonna do about it, you skinny little twig?" Sabi asked.
Tigress had every mind to knock her out, but that wouldn't look right inside of a market and she said to him, "You don't know who you're dealing with here."
"And you don't know who you're dealing with. Put that in your attitude and shove it, bitch." Sabi replied, before spitting at her face.
Takami growled lowly as he faced her and said, "I don't appreciate you spitting at my master."
"Ooh...the little pussycat is gonna kill me with his cuteness! I'm scared!" Sabi said, in a mocking tone.
Sabi's focus was on Max and she came closer to him and pinned him to the wall and said, "You think you can beat me in the match when I know you have no chance? The only thing I'd like to see is watching you cry when I win and you lose. So don't even try to beat me. You're way too baby-ish."
Arizona gets in front of Sabi, defending Max and he angrily said to her, "I suggest you'd back off and leave us all alone, starting with my tiger brother."
Sabi laughs at his face, completely making fun of both of them and said, "You? How can a smelly, disgusting wolf like you play big brother to that baby kitty? Couldn't you just kill him and eat him up?"
"No, I would not. Because at least I'm loyal to my brother." Arizona added.
Sabi looked up at Max and she said to him, "This guy can't protect you from me. I'll give you such a thrashing at the match you won't even know what'll hit them."
Max looked all calm throughout this situation and said, "At least I'm not better than everyone else and puts on a show to prove it."
Sabi unsheathed her claws and proceeded to scratch Max's face, but Max got out of the way and bumped into her own self and gets pummeled with peaches. She groans at this and said, "I just bought this new outfit!"
She gets herself up and puts on a spiteful, yet fierce glare on Max and she said, "This isn't over yet, pipsqueak! When we have the pre-match, I'll take you down so hard it'll make you quit!"
"I'd like to see you try." Max said, smiling at her.
She storms off, shoving the rest of them down and Tigress wanted to beat her up for disrespecting the others, but Max yanked her by the tail to stop her and said, "Let it go, Tigress."
He lets go and Tigress asked, "I don't get why you're so calm in situations like this!"
"There are a lot of things about me you don't get...but I've learned to just take the good with the bad. Besides, I don't wanna waste my energy before the match." Max replied.
Although Max did have a valid point, Tigress still didn't get who Max handled this situation so calmly instead of getting mad and starting a fight and she said to Arizona, "I don't get your brother."
"Max is the semi-mature one of the family. He knows better to start something no one can finish." Arizona replied.
That pretty much intrigued Shifu to a point where he sees Max as the only one who's smart enough to know what's right and wrong and he said, "Maybe you should be more like Max, Tigress."
That made Tigress furious to a point where even Shifu commends Max for keeping himself cool under pressure and just grumbled to herself as they continue shopping at the market.
Extreme, wasn't it? What would you have done differently in that situation? Stick around for more!
