And we see a teamwork session in the works!

Chapter 2: Teamwork

When they got to the room, Max was standing beside Kiba as Jason stood in front of them and both of them were looking forward to see what's coming next and Jason said, "You know, Kiba wanted to see what your moves were like during our sessions and he wanted to see firsthand how it looks in person. Think you can demonstrate, Max?"

"Of course." Max replied.

Kiba was definitely looking forward to seeing this and Jason came over to Max's side and got on his basic stance and said, "Whenever you're ready, Max."

Max got on his basic stance as well and ready to pounce on Jason as the two started sparring with each other and Max secured a whole lot of new moves; the left-right ankle hook, wrestling Jason down to the ground and doing a cartwheel/backflip mix to go with the MMA styles while incorporating kung-fu into the mix and Jason was sparirng with him with every chance he got, but Max ducked and dodged these moves and attacked him quicker than ever.

Kiba was standing there looking awestruck through the whole thing and realized that everything Max taught by this guy was nothing like what he learned at the Jade Palace and figured that he's got the amazing abilities to succeed and as he was watching, Kiba kept wagging his tail with full-on excitement like crazy.

After the sparring, both tigers looked at each other and bowed in respect to their amazing abilities and Kiba howled in deep excitement and exclaimed, "That was awesome! I've never seen anything like it before! Max, you own the freaking place!"

"Thanks, Kiba." Max said, happily.

Kiba went over to him and gave him a double-fist bump and Jason said, "All right...now today's lesson is about teamwork. It's much more difficult to accomplish a huge task when it's just by yourself and that's where you have to rely on your partner to complete it very quickly. Sometimes, we think it's much easier to do the task by ourselves, but it's actually a lot harder than anyone else thinks. You guys look like the kind of team that really resemble what it is when you can accomplish everything together."

"That's us." Max added.

"So...who's a better team player?" asked Jason.

"Max is. He's an amazing team player when it comes to accomplishing a huge challenge that most kids could never do." Kiba replied.

Jason was very surprised to hear that coming from Kiba and looked at Max and asked him, "Really?"

"Yeah, I did." Max added.

"Excellent. Now...I'm gonna see how you guys work together as a team really well with your moves and skills." Jason said.

And with that, Kiba and Max faced other in both sides as Max was way eager to show Jason how well him and Kiba mesh together as a team and Kiba started first by pouncing on Max, but the cub slid underneath his legs and struck him from behind. Kiba got himself back up and he jabbed at Max, but Max blocked and dodged every punch Kiba gave him and Max did a backflip twist spin to miss Kiba's attack.

Both of them were sparring each other and once they saw a dummy version of Temutai right in front of them, their teamwork skills were front and center as Max attacked him first and Kiba had his turn to punch, smack and kick straight to the face of that dummy and once it was flying all over, Max went towards Kiba, grabbed him by the arms and both of them attacked Temutai on the ankle.

Jason was immediately impressed by the teamwork performance that's been showcased right in front of him and he could see that they're the real deal, the true team when it comes to fighting skills and he was fully more impressed with Max and Kiba's example to examine true teamwork than anything else.

Both of them fought the crap out of the Temutai dummy and soon enough, Jason has seen enough and stopped the whole thing, blown away and awestruck by what they did and he said, "That's all I needed to see. And I get it, you guys have an amazing team ethic. Just...I just can't put it into words. You guys could be like a kung-fu duo team."

"That would be awesome! I can imagine me and Max kicking butt together, side by side." Kiba added, deepening his excitement.

"And I think you guys have shown what teamwork is all about. Knowing that you have someone to back you up in times of peril and your loyalty to each other is very important because it takes two accomplish the task ahead of you and it could never be underestimated...no matter how small or young you are." Jason added.

"Max has always accomplished everything at such a young age and I'm constantly blown away by his sheer awesomeness and how he stays true to himself, even when some say that he can't because he's too young. It's one guy you would never underestimate or doubt that he can make the impossible become possible." Kiba added.

Jason smiled after hearing Kiba's personal thoughts about the cub and realized that he's much special than he thought he was before and said, "Interesting..."

And now...we have an introspective look on Jason and see that there's more to this MMA trainer than meets the eye! Stick around to see what I mean!