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Kung Fu Panda and its Characters belong to DreamWorks.
This World and Idea is mine.
Space Panda
Reaching the Stars
Chapter IX: Prison Break
Why am I so greedy always?
This damn greed had brought me here.
In this damn small cell. No bracer-blasters. No staff. No glasses. No money.
…I could cry.
I look up.
And there is the second reason for my misery: This big fat and sleeping panda. Since the battle he lost consciousness.
The first battle I have lost…..Doesn't feel so bad…
…If I wouldn't have ended up here!
"Uhh…"
Oh he seems to wake up.
"What…What happened?" he mutters slowly, holding his head while standing up.
"Have you lost your memory as well as your consciousness back then?" I asked him sarcastically.
He turns his head to me. While he was sleeping on one of the two beds here, I am leaning against the wall closest to the shields, which stop me from leaving this cell.
"You….What are you…Where am I?"
"Have you never been in a cell?"
"No! Of course not!"
"Congratulations. This streak is over."
"Wha…" slowly he gets it, "We are in a cell?...I am in a cell? Why? I am not a criminal!"
"Oh you are."
"What? Since when?"
"Since I declared that you are my accomplice-in-crime. For minor punishment."
"You did what?"
"I will not repeat it."
The panda stands up and seems rather angry.
"I am not your accomplice!"
"Yeah, I know. But no one else will believe you. And by the way…" I stand up to him, "…your help is one of the reasons for me being here. So in a way, you were my accomplice."
I sit down on the other bed. He stares at me.
"…I can't believe it."
"Believe it. You have no other options."
He lowers his head and grabs it again, before he shakes it.
"How we end up here anyway? I remember only this explosion…and three slim shadowy figures…"
"These figures were beautiful kitties." I remember this nice memory, "There were three of them and before I could recover from this explosion they sent me to sleep so that I could dream about them."
He looks at me with a disgusted look.
…I think I said too much. I cough slightly and then look away from him.
"Okay….What will happen with us now?"
I think about this.
"I was never caught before, but I think first we will get a visit by Admiral Shifu."
"For what reason?"
"We did a capital offence. There for he needs to interrogate us."
"…That is good then I can explain…"
"And then we end up in a high-security prison."
"What?"
"Yeah, Shifu will ask us about how I did the crime. And because you have no idea about this and I will not talk, he will send us there till he gets what he wants."
"But I am innocent!"
"Yeah, but not after my statement. Shifu will not believe you and you will end up in prison like me."
He seems to be angrier than before now. And then he grabs his head again and moans.
"Have you migraine or something like this?" I ask curious.
"No…actually not…but since I touched the Orb it started…"
"What?" I stood up immediately, "What did you say?"
"Eh…since I touched the Orb…"
"You touched the Orb?"
"Yeah…there was a short and intensive electroshock and then I had an odd dream. And then I lost consciousness. But what of it?"
I can't believe it.
"Do you want to ass me?"
"What?"
Shit. I forgot that this sentence is my creation.
"Are you shitting me?"
"No, of course not…why?"
"No one can touch a Jade Orb without dying."
"What?"
I chuckle in a negative manner.
"Jade Orbs are big energy sources. No one knows from where they get this energy, but it seems to be endless. No one can touch a Jade Orb with bare hands and hoping to live after this. The Energy shoots from the hand to the body and pulverizes it in an instant."
He looks like he had a brush with the death.
…Maybe this isn't only a metaphor in his case, when he was right.
"So how the hell you can still stand, think, talk and screw things up, when you should be dead already?"
He falls on his ass.
"I…I…don't know….Really…."
I lean back again. And then I realize something.
I stare at him.
"From where do you know that this thing is called ´Orb`? You called it ball the last time."
He looks startled.
"…I…I don't know. I know it simply."
"Do you want to ass me?"
"No, I said it already… I don't know from where I know this….But…"
"What?"
"I had a really odd dream right now. About my dad. About stars and planets. And temples and green lights. It was the second time I had such a dream…uhhh…since touching the Orb…"
Then his look gets something like determination.
"We need to get out here."
"Ah, really? Wouldn't have thought this. But the cops had taken away my equipment, so it will not happen."
He stands up and goes to the shield at the entrance. What he wants to do?
He stretches out his hand to the shield….Idiot.
He touches and the energy strikes it back.
"Ahh….what a pain."
"That was a brilliant plan." I reply sarcastically.
He glares at me and then tries it again. I shake my head, while he forces his hand to hold it in the shield.
….Surprisingly he doesn't get struck back again. And…is the shield fluctuating?
I stand up and get closer.
…Yes it is and the fluctuation gets stronger.
What the hell?
Then we hear an explosion and the shield gets deactivated. He had overloaded the shield generator!
….Wow.
He grabs his hand and pants. The hand is burned…wait a minute…..what the hell? It heals in a much too rapid way.
I stare at him.
"What…are you?"
He looks back smiling.
"I don't know. But we need to use this opportunity."
Like on the right timing, the alarm starts and the light changes to red.
Shit!
I run forward.
"Follow me! We need to get my things!"
"No, we have no time for this. Better I have no time for this. I choose the fastest way out without you, when you have nothing against it."
I have nothing against it, but I must admit that my curiosity is awoken.
"I know the way out here and when you don't want to fight against dozens of cops alone, you should better follow me."
He hesitates first, but decides to follow me then.
I sneak to the next corner, where the exit is. I smell the cop, who is running to us.
I signal to stop and sneak closer to the edge.
At the right timing I grab the surprised police officer, whirl him around and dash him against the wall hard.
He passes out.
I grab his Blaster….these scumbags! This blaster is switched to killing. I change it.
Before we can pass the corner, I sense two further cops. I sneak against the corner again and then whirl around fast. As fast as it is possible I detect the cops, who are both without cover and fire two times.
I don't need to mention that these were two hits.
"See and Gape. That is the work of a professional."
We pass the corner and reach the lift, which leads us upwards, rather fast. No further cops in the Cell floor of this Police Station.
We enter the lift.
No power.
Shit!
"It seems the alarm deactivates the energy of this floors lifts automatically." I say and look back to Po.
"Can I?" Po asks and touches the projector
Something like a green aura envelops around his hand and the projector and shortly after it, the lift has power again
…I don't know how he did this, but somehow I don't care anymore. We take the lift and are welcomed at the other end by a horde of police officers, who are aiming at us.
Shit, shit, shit!
They shoot and I begin to see my life in front of my eyes, but….What the hell?
A green aura, which had taken shape in front of Po, is protecting us against the blaster fire. I am not the only one surprised. I think Po is as well.
I take my opportunity and begin shooting below this aura and I hit. Before the cops can react to this, I have shot down all of them.
"To the right." I order, while we leave the lift. There are still more cops. Po is protecting my back, while I shoot them down from the front. No one of them seems to be ready for such a thing.
We reach the room, where evidence is stored. I open it and get in.
"Close the door!" I order Po.
I find my things rather fast.
"Hurry! Before they can regroup." Po warns me.
I grin.
"That will be not a problem anymore." I reply while putting my glasses on. I click the button on them and I see like they get activated. Finally my hacker glasses are active again.
Splendid.
Po looks at me.
"So? Can we go?"
"Wait a minute. I am uploading myself into their system."
"What are you doing?"
It is finished. Now I am controlling this station.
I activate the power again, open the exits and….wow this they have also. Idiots, that they didn't use it.
"Open the door." I say and Po does it with a little hesitation.
Like expected we are welcomed from the path, we had come, by many blasters aiming at us.
But this will not work anymore.
They fire and the shield, which I have activated, repels the shots.
I grin.
"This way. I have secured it completely."
And so we get away.
Hah, and I have thought not to buy these glasses back then.
Without my claim that my last employer should pay more I couldn't buy it in general.
Ha. Greed one, humility zero.
The world is right once again.