Sticky Situation

Leo was doing some exercises in the courtyard. He threw in a couple of jabs, a right hook punch, an upper cut with a mean axe kick. Leo has only been doing his exercises for an hour before breakfast. "That should do it." Leo said. "I should join the others before we begin training." He walk down the hall and into the kitchen where the Furious Five was sitting down, eating except Mantis.

"What's wrong with Mantis?" Leo asked, sitting down next to Tigress.

"Mantis's girlfriend dumped him." Crane answers. "Now he won't eat."

"I know just the dish to sooth you tiny broken heart." Po smiled. The Dragon Warrior went to the counter. "Need a few bean paste. Some plum sauce, extra sticky. Now for my secret ingredient." He sprinkled some tiny pebbles onto the dish.

"Isn't that what we use to patch up the walls?" Crane asks him.

"So now we patch a broken heart." Po said. He began to stir the food quickly for a few seconds. "Voila! Po's famous sticky dumplings. "Try one, Mantis."

"Thanks, Po." Mantis said as the Dragon Warrior walks up to him.

Leo looks up and sees Mantis's face stuck to the dumpling.

"I guess I went overboard with the sticky." Po said. He began to shake the dumpling around.

Leo sighs and shook his head.

"This is ridiculous." Tigress muttered. She stands up and turns around to grab the chopsticks. "Here." Tigress said, grabbing Mantis.

The two warriors began to pull and Mantis was free and they were sent flying in opposite directions. Shifu walks in and sees the kitchen amess. Po was upside down and Shifu sees the Furious Five laying besides the table. Leo, however, was hanging on the side of the table and slides forward on the other side. He stands up and looks at Po with an annoyed look on his face. "Next time, Po, use a knife to slice the dumpling in half." Leo said annoyed.

"Mealtime is over." Shifu announced. "Let's train."

Leo walks around the table and follows Shifu with the Furious Five.

Shifu stood and watches his students train. Leo threw in a few punches and a sweep of the kick towards a wooden warrior. He dodges a couple swipes from behind as he extends both his left leg and right arm to stop both attacks. He jumps next to Tigress, striking his pose.

"Excellent work." Shifu said. "Po, I-" Shifu was saying as he turns around and stops to look at Po. "Are you eating in here, panda?"

The Dragon Warrior didn't say anything as his mouth was full. He swallowed before answering. "No." Po said.

"We have rules about eating at the training hall." Shifu said.

"Is one of them that we should?" Po asked.

Shifu sighed as looks over his shoulder. "That's enough training for today." Shifu announce. "You're dismissed."

The Furious Five and Leo bowed to their teacher before leaving the training hall.

"So what are you guys doing today?" Mantis asked.

"Crane and I are going to the valley to pick up a few things." Viper said.

"I'm going to be doing some training on my own for a few hours." Leo said to them. He made his way down to the fight arena and began his own training. Leo did a couple of knee strikes and done a triple tornado kick. The teen caught his breath as he did a hand stand with one hand. He began to focus for standing still.

"Hmm." Leo sighed deeply as his shirt slid down in front of his face.

There was something that caught Leo's eye before he left the Training Hall. He saw a mark of Shifu and a warthog.

"Hey Leo." Viper smiled, slithering up to him. "I see that you've doing your own training."

"Thank you, Viper." Leo said. "It's better than doing nothing."

"I agree." Viper said.

"Viper, something caught my attention in the Training Hall today." Leo said.

"What caught your attention?" Viper asks him.

"The mark of Shifu and a warthog." Leo answered.

"Oh." Viper said. "You must've seen Shifu and Taotie's mark."

"Who is Taotie?" Leo wondered.

"Taotie used to be a friend of Shifu when the two of them were training at the Jade Palace many years ago." Viper explains to him. "Shifu and Taotie built the Training Hall to train better. But Taotie was still poor. He took the Jade Orb Of Infinite Power and built a wooden warrior. Shifu and Oogway took away Taotie's creation and the Jade Orb before dismissing him from the Jade Palace."

"Interesting." Leo said. "Let's just hope Po doesn't get him involved."

A couple hours has passed as Leo was doing some handstand pushups. Leo got back on his feet, wiping the sweat off his forehead. "Po should be done with Training Hall by now." Leo said, looking at the sun. "I should finish my training in the Training Hall." He made his way up to the training grounds. Leo was a couple feet away when he saw Po coming towards him.

"Don't go in there!" Po shouted. The panda trips and rolls to Leo.

Leo stops with both of his hands. "And why shouldn't I go in there, Po?"

The panda stands up. "I'm just redecorating the walls in there." Po smiled nervously. "You really don't want to go in there."

"Sorry Po, but I'm going in there to finish my training for the day." Leo said to him.

"You're afraid of me?" Po teased him.

Leo tighten both of his fists as the panda took a couple of steps back and ran past Leo. "Get back here, Po!" Leo shouted, running after him. He exits the courtyard and looks around the area as he was running down the steps. "Po may went back to the training hall." he said. Leo turns around and heads back to the Training Hall.

Once Leo arrived in front of the Training Hall, he could see the Dragon Warrior laying on the ground with Tigress standing behind him while the others confronted Po and Leo walks up to them.

"I don't know what you're talking-" Po was saying as the wall exploded.

Everyone landed safely except Po as he lands on his back. The Kung Fu Invention was exiting the dust cloud.

"Is that the Training Hall?" Leo asked, looking at Po.

"Yes." Po answered.

"And who is that?" Shifu asked, noticing two people inside the machine.

"Hello, Shifu, my old friend." a male voice spoke.

There was two people in the cockpit and these two people were two warthogs. The two warthogs were wearing pants. One was a young warthog while the other one was middle age.

"Taotie!" Shifu gasps. "How did this happen? How did he get in here?"

"Oh, it was quite simple, Shifu." Taotie answered. "Your Dragon Warrior showed us the way in."

Shifu and the Furious Five all looks at Po angrily. Leo looks at the Dragon Warrior with anger.

"About that, heh." Po chuckled nervously. "I kind of got some sticky dumplings in the training machine that went which went boom, crash and I found Taotie to fix it and he blah blah blah made that!"

"You're responsible for all of this?" Shifu asked, angrily.

"I thought you and Taotie were friends." Po said.

"We were once." Shifu said, looking back at Taotie. "Until he abandon Kung Fu when his heart turned dark."

"Oh..." Po said. "Would've been good to know."

"Gr." Shifu growled angrily before he looks back at Po. "I'm very angry with you, panda. So angry I can't come up with a harsh punishment for you."

Taotie pulled a switch and one of the iron claws slammed Po into the ground, leaving a hole in the ground.

"That's good enough." Shifu said before looking at his students. "Everyone, positions!"

The Furious Five took their positions as Leo drew his diamond sword. Po climbs out of the hole. "Yeah, we can do it!" Po cheered. "We can take this thing down!"

"Po, I gave you a broom and this happened!" Shifu shouted, angrily at the panda. "Do you think I'm going to let you fight?"

"Sit this one out." Mantis said.

"Haven't you done enough?" Tigress asked coldly.

"As a wise man said, get the hell out of here!" Monkey shouted at Po.

"But-" Po was about to say something but Tigress cuts him off.

"We don't want your help." Tigress said coldly to him.

Leo didn't bother looking at Po as he kept his eye on Taotie. "Listen to them, Po." Leo said coldly. "Stand down."

The Dragon Warrior looks down in defeat. Po turns around and runs away.

"Look at that, Shifu." Taotie smiled. "All of your precious training, running away. You'll never see a machine do that."

"And you'll never see a machine do this." Shifu said, tapping his walking stick.

Tigress ran up to the machine and landed on the spike ball. Tigress did a backflip in the air and did a double palm strike, destroying the spike ball before she landed. Crane flew towards the machine, dodging the spike ball. He can see the stone hammer coming and destroys it with his limbs. Monkey threw Viper onto one of the other weapons destroying the spike ball.

Monkey took the opportunity to run over to the machine and destroys another spike ball.

"Ha!" Leo shouts, grabbing one of the claws with one hand. He notices one of the other claws coming for him and have no choice but to dodge the claw. "Damn you!"

"Ha ha!" Taotie laughed.

The machine extended both its claws at Leo, The Furious Five and Master quickly avoided the attack. Tigress made an attempt to run towards the machine dodging the rope that was tied with rocks. But Tigress got captured and was sent to the ground.

Crane knocks the arrows away and was caught. "Oof!" He grunted as he landed on the ground.

"Ha!" Monkey yelled, doing a flying kick. His leg was caught in chains and he was thrown backwards.

Viper was dodging the shuriken's but she got captured as well.

Mantis jumps onto the knife and the knife was fired. "Bad idea!" he screams over Leo and Shifu's heads.

Leo got into his tiger stance with his weapon ready, keeping his guard up. The machine fired several rock-ropes at him. He dodges them quickly and deflected the shuriken's as well. But the machine fires a knife at him, grazing his arm. "Gr!" Leo grunted. As like his comrades, Leo was captured by the rock-ropes.

Shifu got into his stance. He deflected several shuriken with no sweat. The red panda master leans back a bit as the big knife lands behind him. He quickly dodge to the right from the chains and the fire.

"Ah!" Shifu gasps as he sees a claw coming to him. He jumps into the air but the claw grabs him.

Taotie is glad that Shifu was brought to him. "So, Shifu, ready to admit that machinery is more better than your precious old-fashion kung fu?" Taotie asks him.

"Machinery will never powerful because it has no heart." Shifu said to him.

"And soon neither will you!" Taotie shouted, activating a switch.

Shifu was brought to the other claw and was doing his best not to get crushed.

"Surrender, Taotie!" Po shouted, appearing at the training grounds with a wok on his head as he got their attention.

"Hah!" Taotie chuckled. "Your panda style is no match against my machine!"

"It is you who is no match for this!" Po yelled, revealing a bowl of dumplings in his hand.

"Dumplings?" Taotie asked confused.

"Dumplings?" Shifu asked.

"Sticky Dumpling Style!" Po announced, getting into his stance.

The roof of the tortoise shell opens, firing hundreds of arrows. Po take the wok off and kicks it into the arrows, deflecting every single one. Both opponents stare at each other in the eye, slowly reaching for the chance to strike. Taotie activates a lever, firing those hook rings at Po.

"Hup!" Po shouted as he jumps over the hook rings. He quickly jumps into the air and fires several sticky dumplings. A couple of them went inside the machine.

"Ha ha!" Taotie laughed.

Po didn't act fast enough as his right arm was caught by the chains. He grabs the chopsticks with his mouth and throws the bowl on top of his head as his other arm was caught. "Whew." Po sighed. He was being pulled towards the machine.

Po grabs both chains and yanks them out of the machine. He grabs his weapons and ducked from getting burned by the fire. After eating a roasted sticky dumpling, Po rolls out of the way and fires his dumplings again. "Come on dumplings, do you stuff!" he shouted.

Leo took this opportunity to cut himself from the rope with his sword. It took a few seconds and Leo was free. He notice the machine was moving towards Po and Shifu. The machine lifted its axe and was about to slice them. Leo dives forward and rolls in between them, raising his diamond sword above his head to block the axe just in time.

"Leo!" Shifu gasps.

"Do not think I'm finished yet!" Leo gritted his teeth as he snarls at Taotie.

"You think you could defeat me with dumplings?!" Taotie shouted. He felt the machine shaking. "What's happening?! Crank harder!"

"You crank harder." Bian said to his father.

The machine began to shake violently as the axe retreated.

"No!" Taotie shouted as his machine broke down.

Everyone shielded their eyes from the dust and the dust disappeared, revealing Taotie and Bian standing in their control center. Taotie was holding the Jade Orb above his head.

"Do you-" Po was about to say, but he was cut off.

Leo quickly slices the stands in half before heading back to Po's side. The orb rolls over to Shifu. Taotie pokes out of the wreckage with his blade umbrella. He grabs his son and flies off.

"We'll be back for the Jade Palace someday!" Taotie called down. "And then you'll see the awesome power of my-" But the Warthog was interrupted by his umbrella helicopter. "Did you oil these blade like I asked you to?" he asks Biao.

"Blades are stupid." Biao answers.

The blades stop and the two warthogs fell and crashed.

"Quick, they're getting away!" Po told Shifu. He began to run after them.

"Let them go, panda." Shifu ordered the Dragon Warrior as the panda turns around to look at him. "We'll send them the bill."

"Shifu." Po said. "Sorry for-"

"Everything?" Shifu interrupted.

"I would say a lot." Po smiles a bit.

"Po, I must admit you did a good job defending us." Shifu admits. "So good that I have one more job for the Dragon Warrior."

"Yeah?" Po smiled. "Bring it!"

Shifu takes out a broom.

"Doh!" Po groans.

Shifu hands him the broom as he and Leo watches Po walks away.

"I don't know what he was thinking, Master." Leo said to Shifu. "Bringing a guy over here who used to be your friend, that was a mistake Po should not do."

"I agree." Shifu said, turning to Leo. "You did a good job to protect us at the last second."

"Thank you, Master Shifu." Leo bows to his master.

Nighttime came as Leo was sitting underneath the Blossom Tree, meditating alone. He was glad that they defeated Taotie. Leo looks at the cut that grazed him on his arm. It still hurts a little bit, but he didn't complain.

"There you are." Tigress said, walking up behind him. "How is your arm?"

Leo looks over his shoulder. "My arm is fine." he answered. "I was caught off guard, that's all." Leo stands up and turns his body to her. "So what brings you here?"

"You, Po and myself are going on a mission tomorrow to receive a statue of Oogway holding a red ruby." Tigress explains.

"Good." Leo smiled.

"A mission with you." Tigress said. She kisses him before leaving.

Sorry this took a while. I've been really busy with a couple projects I'm working on. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and don't forget to leave a review!