The spirit realm, a desolate and lonely place. It spanned for large amounts of territory making the few masters that lived there utterly lost and divided. For the first time in years, it sparked with golden energy. Golden Chi. It had been a very long time since it was fully golden and now only a sliver remained. Oogway's lasting residue in the realm he found so peaceful.

A golden explosion shook the jade sky, but only for a moment. The energy disappeared leaving two figures in it's wake. ONe of them breathed a sigh in relief, "Oh, man. That was a close—OW!"

Po clutched his head as he backed away from the figure in front of him. "What was that for?!"

"You idiot! Why did you do that?"

"Kai was going to kill us! Jade us! You know, like the others . . . we are ALIVE! That is all that matters." Po took a deep breath to calm himself.

Tigress snorted at Po's reasoning. "We abandoned everyone we care about."

"No, no ,no. Don't look at it like that. If Kai got our chi then who could stand in his way? We would just be helping him. Besides we don't have to stay here. I left before!"

"And we can leave. How do we do it?"

Po chuckled nervously, twiddling his fingers together. "Well, I kinda did a yin-yang symbol made of chi to leave. Here, you try it."

Tigress thought for a moment before shaking her head. "Leaving now won't help the situation. You need your chi."

Po groaned, "This again?"

"Shifu only gave you a portion of your chi back. I will give you the rest." She sat down. "Now, sit."

"But—"

"SIT!"

Po's ears folded back. "Tigress, listen. Promise me that you won't over exert yourself. I don't want to see you hurt over me."

Tigress sighed, if they had any chance to give Po back his chi, it was now. She wanted to see this through to the end. It was the only way Kai could be beat. Not to mention Tai-lung. Well, at least she didn't have to deal with Shen anymore. "Fine." She held out her pinky, ready to make the promise.

Po stared at her outstretched paw. His face was blank, devoid of emotion.

That worried Tigress, she had never seen Po so lifeless, so broken. He reached a paw forward and clasped it around her arm and pulled her into a hug. He had pulled her into an embrace. He whimpered, "I'm sorry."

A few minutes went by before Po let her go, Tigress realized one thing; the damage wasn't just physical.

They were both sitting now. Po took a deep breath, "I'm ready."

Tigress nodded and put a paw forward. It sparked with golden energy. Po eyed it nervously. "Um . . . Tigress maybe we should take it a little slow . . ."

Tigress's paw lit up with golden energy, a light glow of chi.. "I'll be fine, Po."

Po looked down at his now dimly lit gold body. The streams of Tigress's chi didn't falter even as the minutes ticked by. "How much chi do you even have?"

Tigress didn't respond, focused on her own thoughts. Where is all this coming from?

"Hey, Tigress?"

She grunted as a response, trying to keep her focus on the task at hand.

"How do you think Shifu's fairing?" Tigress's ear twitched at the red panda's name. Their last encounter now brought to the centerpoint of her thoughts. There was no doubt in her mind; Shifu would lose.

Shifu grabbed the jaded Monkey by the shoulders and grunted as he threw him over his shoulder towards the jaded Crane. It stopped the immediate attack that almost came. Shifu landed on his right leg, his left leg hung in the air. He flipped backwards as Mantis jumped at him. Shifu cringed at seeing the different shade of green Mantis wore. He would not get used to this.

Shifu's ears twitched and he turned to the jaded snake advancing towards him. He blocked her attack and grabbed the end of her tail, swinging her into the jade form of Crane, bringing them both down to the ground. Shifu entered a stance, keeping his left leg off the ground.

HIs students gathered in front of him. Their eyes glowed and their mouths creaked open. "Red Panda, why do you resist? You have no hope."

Shifu narrowed his eyes. "There will always be hope, Kai. Many have tried to take that away and you will not succeed."

"Oh, we'll see about that." The jombies pounced forward, putting Shifu on the defensive. He blocked a strike from Monkey and jumped backwards. Crane charged him, slicing a jade wing at him. Shifu sidestepped the attack and kicked Crane in the chest. He blocked an attack from Mantis, Shifu's eyes widened slightly before he hit the bug away and kicked the approaching Viper back.

"Interesting. The more you use—" He jumped forward and kicked Monkey in the cheek, causing him to smash into Crane's jaded form. He landed and hopped twice to hand onto his right foot. "The less unity they have. Not to mention that you exert your own control, not their own techniques."

He heard Kai laugh, from four different directions. "Oh, you think you're so smart. Don't you! Well, news flash, you're the last one left and I will soon have your chi. It's . . . exceptional."

"You will be stopped!"

"By who?! The panda has already failed. There is no way you can succeed."

"Where there is a will, there is a way!" Shifu jumped into the air, aiming a kick downwards. His foot glowed a deep gold as he smashed into the jaded form of monkey. A explosion of gold energy forced monkey back into his pendant form. Shifu landed and turned to see the other jaded warriors enter their pendant forms and lift into the sky.

Shifu didn't miss a beat. He started to run as fast as he could to the noodle shop, ignoring the gold and jade clouds formed in a thunderstorm. As his students would say—he choked up on that thought—he had the speed of a demon. He ignored the pain in his leg, although his speed was greatly reduced, he reached his destination in no time.

The noodle shop.

"He has most likely already been absorbed by Kai."

Po sighed, "Yeah, you're probably right."

Tigress's ear twitched and the chi flow stopped. "Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

Metal against stone. That particular sound could send shivers down her spine and spawn nightmares for weeks.

"Tigress?"

She heard a distant laugh and the sound of an object soaring through the air. She whipped around, just in time to catch a dagger aimed for her back. She tossed it aside. "Stay back, Po."

Po didn't reply, his eyes glued on the white figure descending towards them. The peacock landed with a thud, his talons sending sparks into the air. "Finally made it. Look at you two!" He started circling around the two, his talons scraping the ground. "Trapped and alone. Tell me, panda, how does it feel losing everything you have worked towards? To have everything ripped from your grasp? You goals. Your dreams. Your life. How does it feel, hm? HOW DOES IT FEEL!"

Po stood to his feet. "I probably shouldn't be surprised. Look, Shen, we don't have to do this. We're all dead here, right?"

Shen chuckled, "My one chance to make you suffer and you think I'll just let it pass? I know you can still leave and I can't allow that." He took out his sword and swirled it in his wing. "You will become a resident here with me." Shen dashed forward, swing his sword at the panda. Po ducked and held out a paw, a signal to let Tigress give this fight to him. She hadn't intervened yet, so it must have worked.

Po backed up and kicked the blade away. "Shen, stop! You have nothing to gain from this? Haven't you caused and experienced enough pain?!" He rolled to the side to avoid a swipe of the sword. "Shen! C'mon!"

Shen's eyes held fury as he attacked, his swipes getting progressively faster. Po caught the blade in between his two paws and kicked upwards, knocking the sword from Shen's grasp. It also cut Po's paw. "Ah! Metal cut!" He backed up, nursing his paw. "That hurts." He looked forward and gasped as several daggers head his way. He maneuvered, ducking and twisting out of the way.

Tigress had enough at this point. She charged in, running on all fours to close the distance faster. She slammed into Shen, stopping his assault on Po. "Remember me?"

"Of course." Shen twisted his body and slashed a metal talon across her cheek. Tigress stumbled back and Po gasped. A soft golden light was coming from the cut and slowly healing the wound.

Shen laughed at this. Tigress charged forward slamming her clenched paw into Shen's chest and throwing him to the ground. He didn't stop laughing. He stood to his feet. "Go ahead, do something worse."

Tigress snarled. I have to end this, before someone other than Shen gets hurt. She dashed forward and slammed Shen into the ground She would have to go for his weak spot, his neck. She slammed her foot down, never noticing how Shen made no effort to stop the attack. When she turned back to Po, he was watching with sad eyes.

"Tigress . . ." He trailed off and looked at the downed Peacock.

Tigress avoided eye contact with the panda. "It had to be done."

"Oh, you really believe that, huh?" Tigress whipped around, horror filling her eyes. "You don't understand, do you? You can't die here. We, as Spirit Warriors, connect to this place. Our bodies," He rubbed his neck. "Will fix themselves due to the heightened chi in this realm." Shen's wicked smile widened. "We have immortality, here."

Tigress growled. "Immortal? No one is immortal."

Shen chuckled. "Really? I'm sure that you just crushed my neck." His smile dropped. "Similar to the other panda."

Tigress smiled and Po frowned, "If Li Shan can kill you, so can I."

"Li Shan." Shen whispered the name before smiling again. "I guess I'll have to thank him when he gets here."

Tigress's smile dropped and her eyes widened. "What?"

"Tell me something, tiger. How easy would it have been for you to escape if I wasn't here?" His smile widened as he watched their expressions grow into horror. "If there's one thing I wouldn't trust Kai with, it would be stratagy; he's not too good at it. I knew you would come back here and someone had to stop you from returning. Unfortunately, I only realized this fact after we had already returned."

Po shook his head. "You—you didn't. You wouldn't."

"Don't say that like you know me, PANDA! Revenge has always been everything to me. We contrast in every way."

"Shen, I—"

"Unlike the tiger."

Po took a step back and looked at Tigress. "No, she's not like you."

"Really now? Can't you feel the anger radiating from her? She is . . . furious. She wants to kill me. Like how I want to kill you."

A roar erupted from Tigress's mouth and she charged at Shen, her claws unsheathed. Shen laughed as she swiped at his chest. He watched in satisfaction as his wounds were covered in chi that had the color of blood. "I don't have to fight you, you're already there." He scowled and jumped into the air, his train snapped open. He pumped his wings forward, daggers flying from his sleeves. Several of the daggers nicked Tigress in the arms and legs. A soft golden light came from her wounds. "However, you're in my way."

Po watched as the two faced off. If he was a betting man, he would bet on Tigress. But, that was the least of his concerns. He looked down at his paw. He had most of his chi, now. It was a good feeling. He narrowed his eyes at the cut, no dim light came from it.

"Okay, seriously . . . that is totally not fair."

-Author's Note- Sorry about that, kind of hit a period of writer's block for this story. Almost went back to write the beginning eight chapters, as well. Might revamp them when this is all said and done and after I posted the "deleted scenes". Anyways, that's all. -Author's Note-