A/N it's time for another chapter. Sorry ahead of time for any mistakes, I had two hours to make this work and if you are reading this… it did…
He knew the perfect place to gain momentum and get the ball rolling… Gongmen City.
He knew exactly where to go.
Once more he went towards the rising sun with a confident smile.
…
Tigress had fallen asleep holding me. Everyone else was knocked out.
Eventually Shifu came looking for them.
He was walking down the path when he found Viper wrapped around a bamboo tree.
He was shocked; who or what… could had done that?
He kneeled down and tried to wake Viper.
She opened her eyes slightly.
"Viper" he said "what did this and where are the others."
"Tiger… Black and Red… gone" she forced out, pointing towards an open field.
"Don't worry he said I'll be back you just rest."
He then went towards the field with a quickened pace.
He saw Po laying down, and he ran up to him and woke him up.
"Po are you ok?" He asked with a worried look.
"I've been better" Po said rubbing the back of his head as he sat up.
"what happened to you" Shifu asked.
"I got flung across the field." Po said.
Shifu looked shocked "Where are the others".
Po pointed in front of him.
Shifu nodded "ok I'll go find them you just sit here and rest." He said running off towards an orange ball in the middle of the field.
When he got there he was relieved…
He saw Tigress and me cuddled up, so he knew that we had won against this foe, whatever it was.
He was happy but upon taking a better look he saw Tigress' paw had a huge bruise on it, he also noticed Crane lying on the ground.
He decided that Niko and Tigress were ok, and that crane was in more dire need.
So he attended to Crane first.
He walked up to him and kneeled down.
He tried to wake Crane… no avail, he checked cranes pulse… it was there.
He then be gan to examine crane and noticed a small burn mark, in the dead center of his chest, with perfect precision.
He decided to try to wake up me and Tigress.
He walked up to Tigress and me and decided that Tigress should sleep; it wasn't something that she did often.
He tapped my shoulder.
I felt it, because my armor was off.
I woke up slowly.
I looked around and remembered where I was.
I then saw Shifu standing up looking at me.
"We need to talk" he said quietly.
"Yeah we do, just one problem…" I said looking at the tiger that had her arms wrapped around me in such a fashion that I couldn't be pried from her arms unless she wanted to let me go.
He sighed "What happened here?"
I looked at him for a moment "I wish I could tell you but I was asleep."
He cocked his head to the side, "you slept through all this?"
I was a little embarrassed "Look, I don't know how it happened, just that it did, and that I can't answer, the whos, whats, wheres, whens, whys, or hows… just know that it happened, that's all I can offer you?"
He sighed again and shook his head "how could the six greatest masters in all of China be defeated by whatever this was? Tai Lung did it, but he was trained far better than any of them?"
"I don't know Shifu… I don't" I said.
Upon hearing the name Tai Lung, Tigress' peaceful dream world turned into a war zone.
One moment she was sitting in the kitchen with all of us while Po was cooking, and then it all was gone… something happened.
And loud boom was heard outside, and then something blew the whole side of the building off…
The explosion through everyone across the room…
She slowly opened up her eyes and saw a man that was the same type as Niko standing there with some sort of stick like object, it reminded her of Nikos 'pulse rifle but it was different'.
"Wha… Wha" she said as she looked at the place around her, it was foggy, with dirt walls around her, her friends where gone and there was flashes coming through the fog as well as screams and pops and booms.
"Get up" He said with a deep unfamiliar and unfriendly voice, he was about six foot three and he was white and dirty and he had a big nose.
"Get up" he commanded jerking her by the collar of her yellow uniform.
"Where is your Rifle and your helmet?" He asked again.
"My wha…" she said quietly.
"SHOW RESPECT! YOU CALL ME SIR, OR COMRADE" He yelled pushing her backwards.
She would had said something but she noticed men all around looking at her with hateful looks.
"Sorry, sir, but I do not know what you are talking about." She said straightening.
Everyone laughed.
He looked at everyone and laughed too…
"Ha, Leon thinks she is capitalist scum" He said with a laugh pointing at her with his thumb gaining a laugh from everyone else.
Tigress noticed a patch on his arm that was red and had some sort of yellow symbol in the top-left.
She looked down at her own uniform she had the same thing.
Why were they calling her Leon? It didn't matter she just had to just play along.
"Um, sir, where are we?" she asked.
He laughed again, "You have lost it haven't you? We are in Washington DC. Throne of that Capitalist dog… Dugan." He said the name with hatred.
Tigress was confused…
"I never would had thought that in only 70's American dogs would elect man stupid enough to try to resist the red army… We will make spectacle for all of capitalist world to see… We will kill Dugan on side of street, and we will burn down this 'white house' and march through city with huge army! Then they will surrender" he said with hatred, gaining cheers from the other men in the trench.
Americans!? Niko had talked about this.
"What about this South Africa, I hear of, sir" she said trying to make her accent sound like theirs.
"THERE YOU GO! NOW YOU SOUND LIKE WOMAN OF SOVIET PEOPLE! I ASK YOU TO DANCE AFTER THIS! HEH HEH" he said with excitement, gaining laughs form the other soldiers.
Tigress put on a fake smile and silently agreed, even though she really didn't want to.
"As for this 'South Africa'" he said as everyone got quiet and listened intently "they are Communists and belong on our side, and they don't even know it… it will not take show of force to make them true believers, when they see how much we have in common we will party, and drink Vodka… together!" he said gaining cheers from all of the other soldiers.
For a bunch of killers they sure were a happy bunch.
Tigress nodded…
Then through all of the racket came a loud whistle.
"Huh… there it is, FOR MOTHER RUSSIA!" he said as they hooped over the dirt walls and took off running as they yelled and hollered through the fog, some of them got cut in half by some unseen force but they ran forward still screaming and firing their guns.
Tigress was horrified by the blood and gore…
She saw a stick like he had, had, leaning up against the wall.
She grabbed it and pulled the lever on the side.
She then peaked back over the wall.
The only pops and booms that could be heard where coming from far away.
It was silent in this area, she was scared now…
She saw some silhouettes moving through the fog towards her they were quieter and slower and they appeared to be hunched over a little.
She ducked down and listened, her hearing wasn't that good anymore, but when they got closer she listened to the way they were talking… they had accents like her!
She dropped the stick that we know as an AK-47 and jumped up and yelled "I am on your side!" She caught one glimpse of them they looked like the others but their uniforms where different and their sticks were also different and the patch on the arm was way different, this was all she saw before they cut loose on her with their sticks.
Her world went black and she found herself in a new place.
It was a room and she was back in her normal clothes, she was sitting down in a chair, there was table in front of her and there was a door on the other side of the room. She wanted to open it up, but she was too scared.
She sat there for a minute and then it opened up.
Then the same Black and Red tiger she had fought came in and sat down on the other side of the other side of the table he sat there and looked at her, she put her ears down and looked back at him.
They sat there a little while like that…
She stared into his red eyes and he stared into her orange eyes.
Then he spoke up…
"So… you couldn't make it my world after all, could you?" he said.
She sat quietly…
"Tell me, Tigress, what has he made you into? You seem weak now you aren't the same any more…" he said.
She still didn't say anything…
"Hmm, guess you aren't very talkative anymore, either." He said.
She still didn't say anything.
"You might as well say something, after all you have no right to barge into someone's mind and be rude like that" he said.
"Wait, this is your mind?" Tigress finally said.
The other Tiger smiled "there we go; see talking to me isn't so bad is it?"
"Don't play with me" she said.
"Ooh and you're feisty too? I guess I should answer your question now shouldn't I? But seriously, yes this is my mind, how you got in not even I know, but you did somehow…" he said.
"Ok, what was that back there?" She asked.
"Oh, that, that's my mental battlefield, and a welcoming to any intruders like you, but it's a shame I haven't been able to use it in oh, I don't know, let's say, five thousand years?" The wanderer said.
"You are really that old?" Tigress asked in disbelief.
"I have been alive that long, but I have been living for twenty four years." The wanderer said.
"How did you get that old?" Tigress asked.
The wanderer looked offended…
"They stuck my ass in a freezer when I was a kid OK?" The wanderer said.
Tigress felt sorry for him…
"Why were you trying to kidnap Niko?" Tigress asked.
"Because… well… that's a very sensitive subject, and it's also for me to know and you to find out, which you will in due time" He said.
"Ok…" Tigress said slowly "why did your fur turn blue?"
"What do you mean like this?" he said as his fur turned blue and black.
"Yeah…" she said.
"Well, it basically means I have changed personalities, or had an attitude adjustment, when you grabbed my arm it gave me a… uh… reason to change." He said changing black and red again.
"Which on are you at the moment are you black and red, or black and blue, and what's the difference." Tigress asked.
"Well for right now I am black and blue, but I prefer the Black and Red color so I stay this way. The difference between us is that Black and Red is evil and I am the good guy. That's why I haven't killed you yet" The wanderer said.
Tigress nodded, "so how do you do that?" she asked innocently.
"Honestly, its genetic, bad things happened to me a long time ago and here I am a shadow of my former self."
They sat there silent a minute.
"Any other questions?" the wanderer asked.
"Yeah, what are you doing right now, and will you be back for more" Tigress asked.
"Once more that's for me to know and you to find out" he said.
Tigress nodded once more.
They sat there silent a minute.
"When you are ready to leave just go out of that door" the wanderer said.
Tigress just got up and walked to it, she turned and looked to The Wanderer and the headed out.
She slowly opened her eyes, and looked around her room.
"Oh, it's finally over" she said in relief as she tried to sit up.
When her paw touched the bed she felt a pain pulse through it.
She looked at it and there was a huge bruise running across her knuckles…
She laid back down and stared up at the ceiling, shocked…
A/N Ok so now there it is, when the Russians were talking yes I intentionally made some errors to substitute for their accents, sorry to everyone who has a big nose, don't take that personally. Leave a review, and good night, oh and also happy Veterans day, and thank you.