The fight was raging on inside the fortress. While the numerous ghost Lin Kuei were not that much of a problem for our heroes, the subordinates were much harder to deal with. Monkey and Mantis were facing off against the assassin ladies and were currently panting in exhaustion as they were covered of cuts and bruises. "I'd never we would get our butts handed to us by two girls." Mantis admitted.
"Me neither." Monkey agreed and whipped some blood from his forehead.
Quingyu whipped some blood away from her metal claws on her paws. "Well, boys? You don't want to play with us anymore?"
"I though the legendary Furious Five were way tougher than this!" Snow added as she swung her two daggers around.
Monkey smirked. "Are you kidding? We're barely getting warmed up!" He then focused and exploded with Chi as his fur turned red and white. "TRANCE MODE!"
Meanwhile, Koji in Cong Wo mode and Crane were facing off against Shadow who was a pretty strong fighter too. So far, none of them had landed a scratch on him and he was fighting with a strange purple Chi. "Man, that guy's some challenge!" Koji said with reforming his demon mask again and lifting his sword.
"We can't lose: we need to keep pressing on!" Crane said and got back in his fighting stance. The two kept attacking Shadow as Kovu was watching the show with a smirk.
"Well this is entertaining. I should have brought some bean buns and this would have been just perfect."
"KOVU!"
Before the tiger could react, a canonball came crashing into him and sent him fly back from a few feet, but he regained his balance and shrugged the pain away. He then saw that it was Po who charged into him and was then joined by a no longer naked Tigress who took a fighting stance beside him. "You're done!"
"Oh, so my collar didn't killed, huh?" He said with a smirk before taking his own fighting stance. "No matter, I'm gonna kill both of you right here right now!"
Back to Koji and Crane, the duo once again got pushed away by a wave of Purple Chi from Shadow. "Crap..." Crane mumbled and tried to stand up as the tiger charged toward them, ready to deal the finishing blow.
However, Toka suddenly jumped in and delivered a violent kick to Shadow's face which knocked him away and also made him drop his skull mask.
"Gotcha, pal! No one can hurt my friends and simply get away with it..." Toka stated, but stopped as Shadow's appearance suddenly started to change.
His orange and white fur turned to grey with yellow spots and his tiger head took the shape of a snow leopard one. His yellow eyes glared at Toka while Po and the Furious Five all looked in shock. It was Tai Lung with a new dress!
Silence ruled in the place as our heroes looked in shock. Well, safe for the New Legend members who simply looked curiously. "Who's that guy?" Koji asked which caused his friends to fall on their back.
"Are you serious, dude? You don't recognize him?!" Crane asked him, dumbfounded.
"No." The beetle said, clueless.
"Neither do we." Alena pointed out.
"Who is he?" Neyo asked.
Po chuckled as he wasn't the ridiculous one of the scene for once. "Guys, it's Tai Lung!"
This caused all New Legend members to widen their eyes in shock. "What?! THE Tai Lung?" Neyo asked to which they all nodded.
"Your former friend and student of Shifu?" suya asked and they nodded again.
"The first movie's bad guy?" Koji asked, getting nods again.
"The guy who caused chaos across the Valley?" Alena asked. Nods again.
Toka gave an angry glare. "The same guy who's responsible for all the hard things I went through as a kid?"
Po nodded. "Yes. But how did you came back?!"
"I can explain that." Kovu said. "When creating the Spirit Realm Army, Lord Zhan Jun sensed Tai Lung's spirit and knew he could be very useful. However, he judged that he wasn't made to be a disciple and instead allowed him to be my subordinate. Let's say that he instantly liked me as I promised that I would do anything to help him come back here and get his revenge. Though I asked him to wear a magic mask and use another name so that he would be able to follow me through the Mortal Realm without getting in trouble."
"It's been good to come back here after all those years!" Tai Lung said with a smirk before he turned his glare toward Po. "Now, I can finally take my revenge on you for sending me to the Spirit Realm, panda!"
He was about to charge at him, only for Toka to get between them. "Leave him alone! I am your opponent!" He said with holding a thumb toward himself.
Tai Lung simply crossed his arms. "And you are?"
"Toka! My name is Toka and I'm the Phoenix Warrior!" He answered with taking his fighting stance.
"Oh, so you're this famous warrior Lord Zhan Jun has been talking about? Well, you don't seem that strong to me."
Toka growled. "You're gonna pay for all the trouble you caused to me and to all my friends!" He then exploded with jade Chi as he turned into Phoenix Warrior mode.
Tai Lung widened his eyes. "Wow! what a power!" He then smirked. "Looks like I'm gonna have to go hard too. PURPLE LEOPARD MODE!" He exploded with purple Chi and his appearance matched well with Toka's, but with purple instead of jade.
Toka turned toward Po. "Po! Tigress! Take care of Kovu: I'll handle him!"
After hesitation, they nodded and turned toward Kovu who smirked. "Oh, this is gonna be fun!" He charged his fist with green energy. The others returned to fight the ghost Lin Kuei and the assassin ladies too.
Glaring at each other, Toka and Tai Lung exploded with Chi before the later charged forward and went for punches which Toka dodged before receiving a knee strike in the stomach that made him spit saliva followed by a double axe handle smash in the back that knocked him on the ground. Tai Lung then jumped in the air and went for a dive kick which Toka avoided by rolling out of the way in time, letting him make a crater on the ground.
"He hit hard!" Toka though as Tai Lung charged for another knee strike, but he blocked him with his own knee.
The two snow leopards pushed hard with their knee, trying to force back the others, but ended up jumping back as they were on equal level power. They then charged forward again and Toka blocked a punch from Tai Lung while this last one blocked one from Toka.
"Do you have any idea of all the pain you putted me through?!" Toka angrily screamed as he started exchanging knee strikes with his opponent as their arms were kinda stuck.
"Do you have any idea of all the pain SHIFU putted me through?!" Tai Lung angrily replied as he headbutted Toka in the face before starting delivering punches to his stomach. "He promised that I was destined to greatness, but changed his mind simply because this damned Oogway told him otherwise!"
Pushing through the pain, Toka managed to block both of Tai Lung's fist and hit a knee strike under his chin followed by a side kick that sent him crash into a rock wall. "You really think I'm gonna accept your crimes simply because your ego didn't got satisfied?!"
Tai Lung growled angrily and exploded with Chi which destroyed the rock wall. "A dumb and innocent kid like you wouldn't understand that!"
"What I understand is that you caused a lot of pain for no good reason! You caused a lot of pain to Tigress and she saw you as a brother!" Toka angrily replied. "And don't deny it: recently, while I trained with her, she told me that I reminded her a lot of you and that it was one of the main reasons she wanted to train me! So that I wouldn't end up like you!"
At the mention of Tigress, Tai Lung's air seemed to soften a bit, but he immediately glared angrily again. "It doesn't matter! I don't care about this whole Dragon Warrior story anymore! I found a new purpose and it's following Kovu's will!"
"Then may our fight continue..." Toka said and they both exploded with Chi before engaging another close combat.
You didn't saw it coming, did you? Tai Lung's first appearance in my New Legend Reboot storyline!
I'm sure all of you wanted to see Toka face off against him and you guys know that I like to do fan service. So here we go for what should be an epic battle!