Chapter two: The crash

(Crash Site:2 hours later)

John blinked weakly as everything was blurry for him. He could also feel immense pain in his chest and head as it felt like someone detonated a nuke on him. He then slowly opened his eyes to see he was still strapped into the pilot seat which was sitting at an angle along with the rest of the aircraft.

He took a few slow breaths as he struggled to raise his head and see what was in front of him. As his head came to rest with the back of the seat he saw it was currently day time and saw that it was about mid day by the position of the sun.

He then tried to shift his body slightly, but gasped as a sharp pain flooded his chest. He then hesitantly looked down, only to see a piece of metal about seven inches long and about four inches wide sticking out his abdomen on the left side.

He gave a groan as he slowly raised his left hand to grasp it, but immediately let go as the pain shot through him like a bullet. He turned his head away as he took quick deep breaths as he then raised his hand once more. He slowly wrapped his hand around the twisted piece of metal as his breathing now was like that of a dog panting.

He gritted his teeth as with one quick thrust of his arm he pulled the metal out which was in him about six inches.

He dropped the blood-stained metal as he then brought his right hand to cover the now open wound, before once again trying to pull himself out of the chair. He once again gritted his teeth as on the fourth try he successfully got to his feet as he lent against the controls in front of him. He then weakly grasped the wall next to him as dizziness from the pain began to set him as he knew he had to deal with this wound and possibly the many others that were on him. He slowly staggered his way down the hall of the aircraft before he reached a section where a bunch of drawers were located.

'Please let everything still be in here.' He prayed as he began opening the draws, and to his shock saw the med kit exactly where it was supposed to be.

He then very hastily removed it from the drawer, before sliding down on the floor. His first attempt at opening the med kit was unsuccessful as his hands shacked to much to open the latch that held it closed. Mark took several deep breaths before trying once again as he brought his hand to the latch. His thumb missed it on his first two tries but on his third try his thumb caught it, and unhooked it. Unfortunately, though he lost his grip and the contents of the kit spilled out onto the floor.

'Crap!' he thought as he struggled to grab the items while still holding his wound.

Weakly he grabbed the items and scanned over them to see if they were intact. He found a few surgical tools, which all looked to be alright. Some bandages, still in its packaging, and a needle and nylon thread.

Taking a deep breath, he removed the clothes from his chest in order to get at the wound. He then scanned over the surgical tools and took a pair of abdominal retractors as he placed the ends into his wound, which caused him to clinch his teeth in pain. He took a few deep breaths as he slowly opened the wound in order to see inside of it.

Hesitantly he looked down to see if there was any shrapnel in it and upon inspection saw a few sharp pieces and grunted as he reached for a pair of haemostatic forceps. Slowly he pulled one piece out at a time before removing the final one with a face of sheer pain. He then let go of both tools before grabbing the needle and thread as he braced himself for the pain he was about to feel. Taking one final deep breath he inserted the needle through the wound which caused him to gasp as pain surged through him.

John gritted his teeth as he put the needle through him one final time before reaching for the scissors to cut the thread. He then reached for the bandages as he wrapped them around himself to cover the wound.

Once done John let out a sigh as he rested against the wall and took a few deep breaths in order to slow his heart rate. He then heard a light thud above him, followed by another, then another. John looked back to the cockpit and saw a few raindrops fall onto the window.

'Well looks like it's going to be a long day.' He thought as he closed his eyes to get some sleep.

(Later)

John didn't know where he was as he stood on a battlefield filled with fog. He could hear screams of fear and pain around him, as he had no idea how he got here.

'Where am I?' he thought as he continued to scan his surroundings. He then heard a familiar scream as he turned around to see a figure lying in the mud about twenty feet away.

Quickly he ran over to see who it was and once at the person's side he rolled him over to see who it was, and to his shock and horror saw Carter covered in burns and was even falling off in some places.

'Jesus Crist!' he thought as he immediately tried to aid his close friend.

"Carter, stay with me!" he commanded as he looked frantically over his wounds.

Carter coughed as he slowly raised his head to look at John. John gasped as Carter opened his eyes to see they were now steer white as it looked like they had been burned almost completely away.

"You…" said Carter weakly as he pointed to John. "You… abandoned us." He then accused with pain and anger clear in his voice.

"No… no." responded John as he grasped Carter's hand as Carter's head slowly slumped back towards the ground.

"No! no! stay with me Carter!" he said as he watched Carter slowly drift away from the land of the living.

'No' thought John as he lowered his head.

"You abandoned us." He then heard as he instantly jumped up to his feet and turned around.

To his horror though he saw the rest of his team as they were just like Carter, covered and burned with some even missing limbs.

"You abandoned us." They all said as John took a step back.

"No!" said John to which he took another step back.

"You Left Us!" they shouted back as to John's further horror he saw them pull out their weapons and started pointing them at him.

"NO! stand down!" he shouted as he reached to his side and pulled out his side arm to point at them in self defense.

He could feel the cold sweat pouring down his face as his pistol switched from one member of his team to the next.

"YOU LEFT US TO DIE!" They shouted for the final time, their weapon's now aimed for John.

"Stand down… that's an order!" he shouted.

'Please...' he thought. 'Don't make me do this.' He silently pleaded.

He switched the safety off as he watched his team take another step forward as they once again spoke the same words.

"Stand down!" he shouted as his arms shook as they raised their weapons at him.

"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he shouted as he pulled the trigger.

"No!" yelled John as his head shot up and his arm reached for the pistol at his side.

But to his shock he was back in the black Hawk. He breathed heavily as he slumped against the wall. Just a dream… It was all just a dream. Tears slowly filled his eyes as the pain on his heart was too much for him to bear. Those who had effectively became his family, and now they were gone.

He let out a slowly shaky breath, as he closed his eyes and let out a silent prayer for those he lost, just before crashing here, and to those who he lost before.

(Three days later)

Over the last three days John had slowly gained his strength. He had tried his radio but strangle couldn't get a signal. He also looked through the ship to see what else was here with him and found a few of his belongings as well as some belongings that belonged to his team.

It would seem Kaon decided to leave the ship as it was, which John couldn't believe he was just about to say, but he was grateful for.

John got up from the makeshift hammock he had made inside of the ship and walked to the open loading doors and out into the open air. He pulled out a pair of high pair of binoculars to see if he could identify anything. Though he hadn't been able to see anything before.

John let out a sigh as he turned around after scanning the horizon and not seeing a thing. He then began hobbling back towards the ship before stopping. His head shot up though when a noise hit his ears, it sounded like a… Bell… a very faint bell.

He immediately turned to where he thought the sound was coming from and looked over with the binoculars. At first, he saw nothing before he could see the tip of a tower, he also saw some dark clouds rising and realized it was smoke.

'Why would there be smoke?' he wondered as he zoomed the binoculars to their max to see if he could spot anything else. He couldn't see any explosion to indicate, and could hear any gun fire to indicate an attack.

'Perhaps a celebration?' he thought for a moment, 'Or a local house fire, maybe.' He then pondered. Whatever it was it gave him a direction to head for. Once he gets to the building he can figure out where he is and see if they can get into contact with the U.S. military so he can be extracted.

He continued to look through the binoculars he tried to see if he could see anything else. He could still hear the bell, so whatever was going on over there was still happening. John squinted his eyes for a moment as he saw something round that was black and white pop up in the air before falling back towards the ground.

"Probably a celebration." He concluded as he turned around to head back towards the ship.

Once inside he removed the green shirt he was wearing as he examined his wound. It had healed fairly well over the last three days as it started to scab over. He also looked over the rest of his body and saw that most of the minor wounds were pretty much healed, with the exception of a few dark bruises which looked like they would take longer to heal.

'I can get a proper doctor to look at it once I'm extracted.' He mentally noted, as he pulled his shirt back over himself.

He walked over to a bin and pulled something out before grabbing a spoon and some water before heading back outside and sitting on a rock near the front of the aircraft. Once he sat himself down he looked at the package he grabbed which turned out to be an MRE, to see it was buffalo chicken. He poured some water into it and stirred it with the spoon before taking a bite.

Tomorrow he would gather a few things before heading towards what he assumed would be a village, to see if they could aid him. He took another bite as he looked over to where the smoke was and wondered what kind of celebration was going on over there.

(Musician Village, 15 minutes earlier)

What John was unaware of though was that it wasn't a celebration but was in fact an attack. Many of the villagers who happened to be sheep or rabbits ran as leopards, boars and crocodiles ransacked the place as they took anything of value.

One boar grabbed a rabbit who tried to shield his wife and children by the feet before shaking him, causing any gold on him to drop to the ground before reaching down to grab the loot. However just as he was about to grab them he heard something to his left.

"WEHA!" came the voice as a fist collided with the boar sending him backwards across.

Some of the bandits saw this and turned to see a panda with an outstretched fist followed by a tiger, crane, monkey, snake, and a mantis. But they were no ordinary people, they were in fact the dragon warrior and the furious five, named Po, Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Viper, and Mantis.

"It's the dragon warrior and the furious five!" one of the villager shouted as others began cheering as the bandits put all of their focus on the six warriors in front of them.

"Prepare taste justice!" shouted Po as he along with the five prepared to beat the bandit's faces in.

One of the crocs charged forward with a mace and a war cry as he aimed straight for Po, but the dragon warrior blocked the strike with ease as he countered the strike by launching his belly at the attacker sending him into a wall.

All the other bandits watched before they charged forward with their weapons raised as they closed in on the warriors.

One of the first to strike was Tigress as she moved faster than the eye could blink to one of the bandits delivering a powerful punch which caused the bandit to do a complete flip from the sheer force of the punch. She then did a roundhouse kick to an incoming boar which collided with his jaw, causing him to drop like a bag of bricks.

From her left Viper shot forward as she whipped her tail at a croc in the gut causing him to bend over in pain before she brought the war hammer he held down on his head knocking him out. She then looked behind the fallen bandit to see three other charging at her, until a small green blur jumped off of her back towards them. The small blur was Mantis as he delivered a hard kick to a leporid before grabbing him by the tail and swing him into the other two.

Mantis saw another six bandits coming towards him and knew he would need a little help.

"Monkey!" he shouted as Monkey looked over to him as he upper cutted one of the bandits, before running over to help.

While Monkey and Mantis fought off the bandits that were surrounding him, Crane swooped in from above to deliver a series of blows to one before using his wing to deflect an incoming arrow.

He then looked to his right to see a panther on top of a rock as she prepared to launch another arrow at him. The arrow sped straight towards him and once again he deflected it elsewhere. But unfortunately, the arrow went straight towards Tigress as she bashed in a shield one of the crocs were holding, and missed her by mere inches. She turned and glared at Crane who shrunk down slightly as he knew he messed up big.

"Sorry!" he shouted before taking back into the air.

Tigress let out a growl before turning her attention back towards a group of bandits who were closing in fast. She frowned slightly as she knew she was going to need a little help on this one.

"Po!" she yelled as the panda turned and saw her wave him over.

"On it." Responded Po as he could see what she wanted to do.

Running forward he jumped off of a bent over croc before being tossed even higher into air, by Tigress. Po flailed for a moment as had no sense of balance but quickly regained it as started to come back down. Looking at the ground below he saw a panther who saw a shadow on the ground which was slowly going, before looking up to see him plummeting towards him. Focusing on his target Po aimed himself as he spun himself around mid air to land on the panther butt first.

"And Splat." He shouted as he collided with the bandit which left a two feet deep hole with the bandit knocked out.

Po then got back up to his feet as the furious five got alongside him as the remaining bandits started taking some cautious steps back.

"Retreat!" one of them yelled before all of the others turned and ran as those who were also waking up from their beating got up and ran as well.

Once they were out of sight the six warriors lowered their stances as the villagers came out of their homes cheering for the six heroes.

"Thank you for saving our village." Said an elder Rabbit as he then bowed to them, before the rest of the villagers quickly followed suit.

"Hey it was nothing." Said Po with as he waved his hand like it was nothing. "Right guys?" he then asked as he turned to the other.

"Right Po." Replied Monkey as he rolled his eyes.

The six warriors then gave their farewells as they turned to return to the Jade Palace. Soon they were no longer in the village and were on the path that led to Jade palace.

"This is the third attack this week." Stated Viper as she turned to look at the other.

"Ya, you guys think something is going down?" responded Mantis as he hopped alongside them.

"Hard to tell… besides there being three attacks in four days, they haven't been too much trouble." Said Crane as he gave his two cents.

"Speak for yourself that second one went all the way till night." Replied Monkey as he could tell this was going to be one of those nights where they would get little sleep.

"Well at least we got to see those shooting stars… They were very beautiful." Said Viper as she rather enjoyed seeing the rare event.

"Sure was." Replied Crane as he turned to look at Viper.

"Ah who cares about some shooting stars." Responded Mantis which got a hiss out of Viper.

"Ah come on guys…" said Po as he got their attention. "All that matters is that we kick Butt!" he then stated before tripping over a rock causing him to tumble down the path a few times. Monkey and Mantis laughed while the others merely shook their heads.

"What do you think about it Tigress?" asked Viper as the Chinese tiger merely shifted her gaze to look at Viper for a moment before looking forward once more.

"Was alright I suppose." Was her only reply as they continued to walk back towards the palace.

Despite Shifu's change of heart and was now not so cold towards them and stated they could be more open and social able. Tigress was still very much cold and closed off, as she didn't really do anything with the other, besides eating and training.

"She's still scary." Whispered Crane to Viper as a chill ran through him, before everyone continued to make their way back.

To Be Continued...