Jack never felt this much pain before in his 300 years of life. He stood up with the help of his staff. Jack leaned on the staff and looked up at the sky.
He could no longer see Po or Tai Lung, nor could he even see signs of struggles in the black smoke that now badly covered the once clear blue sky.
Jack felt a hand on his shoulder and looked down. Sandy was there, leaning on Jack to stay awake, which is becoming harder with each passing minute.
"Jack, we saw you falling." North, who was still a little good besides his limping as well as the others, said. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Jack said. "What happened to Po?"
"Looked like he heard something and ran off, last I saw him." Bunny said.
Jack exhaled the breath he held. Hopefully, that means that they won't get angry enough to turn-
Jack's hopes were dashed when he felt a wave of aggression like he did before. The other Guardians felt it as well.
"What was that?" Tooth said.
"...That was Po." Jack said, but really didn't want to.
Ke-Pa, Shen, and Tai Lung felt it too.
"That goose was all it took?" Tai Lung scoffed. "That panda is too childish for his own good."
"It doesn't matter how childish it is." Ke-Pa said as his demons held a struggling brownish bag. "If he keeps this up, He may be able to do most of the work for us."
Shen chuckled.
"Oh, I do love it when people make messes they try to prevent." The peacock said. "It makes them all the more stupid."
The citizens of the Valley of Peace, and even the lower fire spirits, stopped their fighting and destruction and looked up as they saw what, in the mortal's eyes, looked like a bright blue fire. But if they had believed he was there, they would have seen that there was Po.
His originally red fur was now completely a bright blue color. His eyes, which held much anger and hatred for the three strong fire spirits, were now glowing a whitish-blue color. He didn't stand on a fire ball like he would normally to stay in the sky. He now had blue fire in the form of dragon wings on his back, flapping as if they were actual wings.
Inside his mind, Po knew this was worse than it was with the Jade Palace. They were the ones who were planning on taking away all the happiness and friendship in the world, and they started with his. He wanted to stop them so much that it almost physically hurt. If Po was in control of his body, he would do exactly that since he had enough power to do so now.
But he wasn't in control. His blue form was.
Po looked down at the people, holding out his hand in their direction. He didn't take off his glove, but the fire still came through and charred the glove. Everyone below ran away and fire came down and burned down the remains of their Valley. Po used both hands, charring the other glove.
Jack finally saw Po doing this and readied himself to fly.
"No! You are too weak!" North said.
"You are too!" Jack said, setting Sandy in North's arms. "Someone has to snap him out of it before he hurts someone or himself."
"Jack-"
"North, he's my friend!"
Not waiting for an answer, Jack was off, leaving North to feel proud and think Jack was an idiot. Jack stopped in front of Po. The panda said nothing, just stared at Jack with an angered expression.
"Po, are you in there?" Jack said.
Po just stared.
"Po, please listen." Jack said. "If you stay like this, you might actually hurt someone this time. Gain control, Po!"
Po still said nothing and held out his right hand. Jack flew back a little.
"Po, please! People are gonna get hurt worse than at the Jade Palace!"
Po shot fire at Jack, who only got his foot shot as he dodged. Jack cringed and looked at his foot. It was severely burned, luckily not severe enough to have it removed. Jack wasn't given time to look at as Po smacked him into a building.
Jack sat up in a daze before trying to tie his foot up with the ripped off part of his hoodie. When he was done, Jack reached for his staff only to have it kicked away by Po's foot.
Po took out his staff and held Jack down with it by his neck. Jack started choking as the staff pressed down harder. He tried grabbing the staff and pushing Po off, but the panda was too strong.
"Stop...Po..."
Po smirked maliciously and pressed down harder. Jack, whose face was turning a blue color, felt the air leaving him quickly. Another wave of aggression and rage hit him again, but this time, he felt its strong effects as his eyes went bloodshot.
"I said Stop!"
Jack lifted his legs to the staff and used them to split the staff apart into two pieces, freeing himself. Po gasped and backed away, clutching his chest. Jack crawled the opposite direction to breath and looked back at Po.
Po collected the severed staff while on his knees. Jack was too angry to feel sorry.
"Listen to me panda! We need to-"
A much stronger wave hit him before Po grabbed Jack's neck and started to drag him into the stone road of the Valley.
North, along with the others were surrounded by fire spirits, felt the wave too and started weaker. The fire spirits luckily were just around them as if waiting for orders, so they needed to look cautious. The children of the Valley were able to convince their bickering and fighting parents to leave the Valley with them.
North looked to the distance where dust and debris was flying into the air from Po dragging Jack.
"This ain't good, mates!" Bunny said as he started to shrink.
"Sandy's asleep!" Tooth, holding Jack's staff that she was able to find, said as a wary, weak looking Sandy also slept in her arms. "I can't wake him!"
North felt weak in the legs and he leaned on his sword, feeling worse than last time.
"We have to do something!" Bunny said about to go to Jack's aid.
North caught Bunny before he could get anywhere.
"No!" North said. "Is too much for us now!"
"Then what the bloody hell do we do?!"
Tooth, who was now on her feet, clutched to Sandy. They heard Ke-Pa's voice say something and the fire spirits walked closer, circling them. They felt trapped.
"Hope that Jack can get Po back to his senses..."
Jack takes back what he thought earlier. This was the worst pain he's ever felt in 300 years. He felt himself being dragged upwards, still in stone that made Jack guess they were on stairs. This went on until they were in the air and Jack was thrown in the Jade Palace.
Jack got on his hands and knees, close to passing out. He couldn't think or see straight, but he was able to see the water puddle he was making when he looked down. He had several scars and bruises on his head and his nose was broken. Hoodie has long-since been destroyed, exposing his seemingly fine chest. There was also a visible handprint burned into his neck.
If he was human, his would have been dead right now.
Some blood dripped from his nose into the water, but Po was still seen flapping down to him. Jack started to look for his staff before he remembered that he didn't grab it. Jack back away quickly into a fallen pillar as Po landed, holding both halves of his staff. He still felt angry, but he tried to calm himself down.
"Po..." Jack said as Po started to walk to him. "You need to calm down...If you don't; everyone will stop eating fog..."
Po stopped and raised a brow at what Jack said.
"You kinda gave me a little...Nevermind. I meant 'everyone will stop being friendly'..."
Po appeared to have thought about it. Jack felt a calmer wave hit him.
"I'm sorry for the staff." Jack said. "Worst things will happen if you don't calm down."
Po gasped. He eyes stopped glowing, but the iris was still blue.
"…Jade Palace…"
"Yes, Po. Worse than what you said about the Palace. Everyone will be as bad as those bandits and there will be no one to stop it! We can help you control this side of you. The only thing you have to do to prevent that is calm down…"
Po felt himself turning back to red. Po was about to smile when someone started clapping. Po and Jack looked at the entrance and saw Tai Lung, who was holding the brown bag from earlier, and Shen, who was the one clapping, both standing outside.
"I think we've seen enough, panda." Shen said when he stopped. "But that was quite a show!"
Po growled and was back to his previous state. Jack held his arm.
"Po, stop! You can't-"
Jack was backhanded to the ground before Po flew at the two fire spirits.
"Oh no, panda!" Tai Lung said, reaching into the bag. "You would want to harm him, would you?"
When Tai Lung took something out of the bag, Po stopped and gasped. Tai Lung was holding Lin by his shirt. The little, squirming goose was fine other than the fact he was covered in ashes and his right wing, which had little to no feathers.
"Let go!" Lin screamed at to the top of his lungs.
Po stood there in awe as he went back to his original red form.
"Surprise!" Shen said with an almost insane laugh. "My wolves were able to get the poor thing before he was crushed! And apparently, go unnoticed to add."
Po just stared in disbelief. He did all that for nothing...
Jack saw how Po reacted to the little goose, and knowing that Po can't actually hold him at the moment, he limped in front of the still stocked panda and held out his hand.
"Give him here." Jack said.
Tai Lung looked at Lin, who still tried to punch and kick, then back and Jack.
"Here," Tai Lung said. "Don't need him anymore anyway. We were able to take hsi anger out for you too, panda."
The leopard tossed Lin to Jack, who was able to catch him. Lin held his wing and looked at Po.
"Po! What happened?"
Po looked at Lin with a small, relief filled smile.
"It doesn't matter, Lin. I'm glad you're...still here."
"I wouldn't leave you, Po!" Lin said smiling.
Lin held out his arm for Po to hold him. Po frowned and held up his hands, which still had the remains of his gloves on them.
"I can't right now, Lin..."
Lin frowned and hung his head. Jack looked at his with a sad look.
"By the way panda, thanks for the help!" Shen said.
Po looked confused. He knew that he was talking about his blue form, but he wasn't too sure what it would do other then make him look like a maniac. Then he remembered that that he also felt the waves coming off of him, he just paid it no mind. He gasped the moment he realized what he was doing.
"You mean that I...?" He asked.
"That's right, big guy." Tai Lung said. "While you were in that form, you sent off an aggression wave that takes up a large chunk of the world. The longer you stayed that way, the more of the world turned into our image. By now, about three-fourths of the world is giving us power and it's thanks to you and your idiotic want to be friends with the wierdos. Oogway would be so proud..."
Po looked in horror as Tai Lung clapped in a slow, sarcastic manner. He really did play right into their hands because of his own lack of control, and he could feel the contempt and anger in the air.
"Too bad, panda. In another universe, you'd probably be a good fire spirit like the rest of us." Shen said. "But unfortunately, you services are no longer needed."
Shen smirked and held out his right arm. Po and Jack looked that way and were surprised to see a canon outside that was being lifted by other fire spirits, waiting to be fired. Po started to shake. This felt too uncomfortably familiar for his taste.
"Fire!"
A wolf on the top of the canon triggered it, making a jet of water shot at the trio. Po acted on reflex, pushing Jack and Lin out of the way.
Jack fell to the ground and watched as Po was hit with the water.
"No!" He yelled as Po shot though the already damaged wall of the Palace.
The water was able to shoot Po through the Palace and far into the mountains. Jack heard Po screaming in agony as he flew. He even covered Lin's earholes so he couldn't hear him.
"Well, that was easy." Shen said to Tai Lung.
Tai Lung chuckled as he snapped. A large crocodile in and grabbed Jack, who was not in the mood to fight anymore.
"Take him back to the other Guardians."
Jack and Lin held on to each other in fear as they were taken out of the Palace.
Po opened his eyes and sat up. He looked at his person, seeing he was all wet from the water.
"At least I'm clean..." Po said, not laughing.
He looked out into the distance and saw smoke and light not too far away, but far enough, from where he was. Po stared at the sight with an empty look. He had no energy to do anything anymore. He failed at being a Guardian, or any hero in general, and now they were gonna die because of him.
Po got into fetal position and hid his face into his knees. He really wished that he had just stayed home instead...