Chain Reaction
It was raining as Po and Tigress was carrying a statue of Oogway with a red ruby. Leo was walking besides Tigress. Po has been daydreaming out loud for a couple of hours. "Hm." Leo sighs as he turns his head around. "Will you stop daydreaming out loud, Po?" Leo asks him. "All three of us need to stay focus."
"I wouldn't help it if you just talk to me a little." Po said with a skip.
The statute almost fell but didn't.
"Po, we're on a mission." Tigress said.
"Okay then." Po smiled. "Just mission critical stuff. Very important stuff."
Leo turns his head around forward and shakes his head. "This is going to be a long trip." he muttered.
All of them have been traveling for a couple of hours. Po has been talking about "What's your favorite color?". The three of them stopped as Tigress turns her head to look at Po. "I have a rule about idle chit chat. I don't do it." Tigress said, facing her head forward and they resume walking.
"You have a rule for everything." Po said. "Before we're going to be best friends like the way I dream about since I was five, you're going to have to loosen up."
"Ah." Tigress sighs. "Look, I say this with complete respect. I don't have a favorite color. I don't have a favorite mushroom." She stops walking and turns her head around.
As his girlfriend was talking to Po, Leo thought he heard something. He didn't have his diamond sword with him because Leo left it back at the Jade Palace.
Tigress turns her head forward. "And when we get back to the palace, I'm taking a month long vow of solitude, alone."
"Fine." Po said angrily. "That's how I like my solitude, alone. With maybe Crane."
"Ugh." Tigress muttered as they continued walking.
"After this mission is over, I will be meditating by myself for a month." Leo said. "Alone from everyone else."
"In another quarter mile, we'll have that lunch we packed." Tigress said, looking over shoulder.
Po tilts his head over with his mouth full, making the three of them stop. "Was that for all three of us?" Po asks them.
"You have got to be fucking kidding me!" Leo growled.
Po drops the statue. The statue was about to fall over. Tigress quickly ran over to Po as the two of them tried to put it back into place and Leo helps them out. As they got the statue back into place, the croc bandits cuffed them. Leo was handcuffed to Po on his left with Tigress on his right.
"That was easier than I thought." Fung said.
"Hmph!" Leo said as the three warriors got into their stance.
"Take the statue and get the ruby!" Fung ordered.
His men started to attack.
"You're not taking anything!" Tigress snarls as she tried to punch one of them. But the chain wouldn't let her as it pulls her back to Leo.
"Yeah, what she said!" Po agreed. He was about to do a kung fu move, but he tripped.
The croc bandits laughed.
"Looks like we're going to do this the hard way." Fung said.
Two croc bandits attacks Leo. Leo threw in a couple of palm strikes and a kick to his attackers. Before he can attack, Leo was drag down onto his stomach.
"Get off of the chain!" Tigress snaps at Po.
Leo quickly got up and threw in some kicks. Before Leo can speak, Po jumps on top of the statue and Leo slammed into it, but he grabs the statue before it can fall. With Po attacking, Tigress slams into Leo, causing the statue to fall and Po falls on top of them.
"I don't want to be a downer, but we can't fight them like this." Po said as he was on his knees, looking at them.
"We took an oath to protect that statue." Tigress said to him.
Leo was having a difficult time. He tries to throw in some punches, but his arms were being pulled in the opposite direction. Leo, Po and Tigress began backing away from their attackers. He looks over his shoulder and see they were standing on the edge of a cliff.
"Capture them!" Fung commanded. "Spears!"
His bandits grabs some spears and pointed at the three of them.
"Damnit!" Leo cursed.
"I'm not changing anything." Tigress said. "We can still take them."
"Good idea." Po agreed. "But let's not die first. Don't be mad."
"Why would I be...?" Tigress began to ask Po but then she realized it. "Oh no."
Po fell backward, taking Tigress and Leo with him.
"Bad idea!" Tigress screams.
Leo sees a branch as they were falling. He hits the branch hard as they stop falling. "Yeow!" Leo shouted in pain.
"Leo!" Po called up to him. "Are you okay?"
"Gr!" Leo grunted in pain. "Don't worry about me. What about you two?"
"We're fine." Tigress replied.
Leo looks down at her. "Tigress, I'm going to try swing you over to the wall." Leo said. "You need to kick Po for a little extra power."
"What?" Po asked confused.
Tigress began kicking him to swing. She grabs the wall but the branch broke, having the three of them fall again. Po landed on a cliff and he tries to hang on with Leo and Tigress, dangling beneath him.
"Gr!" Leo growled, trying to climb up.
But due to Po's weight, the cliff broke and all three of fall again, screaming. They all landed on the ground. Po was laying on his back as he lifts his head, rubbing it.
"I thought that would be a serious bone crusher." Po said. Then he notice Leo and Tigress wasn't with him. "Guys?" he called out. Then he heard someone underneath him. The Dragon Warrior got up and sees Tigress laying on top of Leo with his face in the ground.
"Show me how to revive you!" Po shouted, grabbing Tigress's shoulders and started shaking her.
Tigress responded by punching Po in the face. She sits up as Po fell on his back. "Po, when you're chained to someone, and you jump off a cliff, get them to agree with it first." Tigress said angrily. "That's the protocol."
"Damnit." Leo said as he lift his head up from the ground. He shook his head before standing up.
"Are you okay, Leo?" Tigress asks him.
"I'm fine." Leo answered her, looking at Tigress.
"I can't believe we lost the statue." Tigress snarled. "And the ruby." She angrily kicks a bamboo tree in half.
"Oh, did we?" Po asks them, taking out his Tigress action figure.
Tigress gave him an annoyed look on his face.
"Oops." Po said, putting it away. "Did we?" He takes out the ruby.
"You got it?" Tigress asks Po with a surprised look.
"Impressive." Leo said. "But we need to move now. They'll be looking for us when they realize the ruby is missing."
Leo, Tigress and Po have been running for half an hour and was walking through the forest.
"We should've been more careful and alert." Leo said. "I don't see how are we going to get the statue like this."
"I have an idea." Po said, running pass him as the Dragon Warrior drags Leo and Tigress. He walks up to a bamboo tree. "Tigress, walk around the tree to stand with Leo on his left and I'll stand on his right."
The two warriors walks around the tree.
"Leo, since I'm standing on your left, we're both going to pull the chain together at the same time." Po said. "Pull on three. "Ready?"
"Ready." Leo said.
"Three!" Po pulls the chain hard as Leo was slammed into the tree.
"This. Is. Not. Working!" Leo grunted each time he slams into the tree before falling backwards.
The bamboo snaps and fall sideways.
Leo got back on his feet. "Why didn't you count to three?" Leo snapped at him. "You were supposed to count to three, not yell "three"!"
"I never heard that before." Po said.
Several axes landed on the chopped three. Tigress turns around to the bandits running towards them.
"Run!" Po shouted.
Po and Tigress runs in opposite directions. Leo had to spin around and his arms stretch, pulling the two of them back.
"Not that way!" Po yelled. "This way!"
"We're not running that way!" Leo shouted.
"You always break for cover." Tigress said.
"Fine." Po said as he hops over the tree and ran with Leo and Tigress.
The trio kept running as they saw a giant boulder. They jump over the boulder. Leo poke his head out.
"I don't see them." Leo said, pulling away from the side.
"I think we lost them." Tigress said as she leans back.
"We should have a name for our adventure." Po smiled.
"How about the adventure of shut the fuck up?" Leo asked sarcastically. He peeks at the side of the boulder. "We've got company!"
An axe startled Po. "Gah!" Po yelled, startled. "You mean pudding!"
Po and Tigress bumps into each other.
"What are you doing?" Po wondered. "You said you always break to cover!"
"Then get to higher ground for cover!" Leo snaps at him.
Leo and Po followed Tigress. They ran uphill to an abandon house in the courtyard. All three of them ran inside and barricaded the door.
"That's a nice bell." Po said, looking at a rusty old big bell. He took a couple of steps forward. "This is a great thing about traveling. You see things you never see at home."
Tigress looks over her shoulder. "Believe it or not, Po, I've seen a bell before." Tigress said, before taking a peek.
Leo didn't say anything with his arms crossed.
Po turns around to look at them. "I'm getting the impression you're not having a good time as I am." Po said.
Tigress turns around. "Getting out of these cuffs will be my good time." Tigress said. She loos pass his shoulder and got a idea. "And that bell could cut the chain."
"Then let's get to it." Leo smiled.
They walks toward the bell. The bell was old and rusted as Po was standing underneath the bell while his two friends were a couple feet away.
"Are we really going to do this?" Po asks nervously.
"Yes." Leo answered.
Tigress deliver two palm strikes at the same time causing the bell to ring and shake. The rope snaps and fell with Po inside. The side of the bell cracked. Tigress notices the chain didn't brake.
"Hmph!" Leo grunted, throwing the bell to the side.
Po was covering his ears. "Did it worked?!" Po yelled.
"Sh!" Tigress shushes him, covering his mouth. "Keep your voice down!"
"I can't hear anything!" Po continues to yell. "What words am I saying?!"
"If Po doesn't shut the hell up, those bandits will finds us." Leo said to Tigress as the three of them walks towards the door.
"Stop shouting!" Tigress hissed at Po.
The Dragon Warrior looks up. "It is cloudy." Po shouted as he looks back him. "But we need to get out of here! Will you focus please?!"
As Tigress was about to lift the lock open, they heard Fung's voice.
"Hit it!" Fung ordered.
Po, Leo and Tigress brace the doors. Tigress turns her head around and sees a stone wall. She had another plan.
"Brace yourselves!" Tigress told them as she run several feet away from the door.
"What?!" Po yelled.
"Brace yourselves!" Tigress shouted. She begins to spin Leo and Po around quickly. Leo used his chain throw Po into the wall. Po destroyed the wall and Leo and Tigress escaped with him.
It was the afternoon. Tigress and Po were sitting underneath a tree from each other as Leo sat in the sun.
"Hm." Leo said as he laid down on his back in the sun.
"I can't think." Tigress said. "I haven't eaten all day."
"We had lunch." Po said.
Tigress leans to her left and gave Po a look. Leo shook his head.
"I ate lunch." Po said sadly. He looks up and sees a couple of apples high in the tree. "Ho ho." Po chuckled. He smiled to himself and looks at Leo and Tigress. Po decided to make it up to them by grabbing a couple of apples. He hops onto a branch and then onto another branch before laying on the branch. "Don't mind if I do." Po said as he tried to reach the apple. He couldn't reach with his hands as he turns around and tried to use his feet. But Po fell off the branch.
Leo and Tigress hits the first branch.
"Ah!" Leo grunted.
They hit a couple more branches.
"Gr!" Tigress grunted.
"Ngh!" Leo grunted in pain.
After heading to the top, they broke several branches on the way down. Leo broke a branch with his body and fell flat on his back besides Tigress and Po.
"Ah." Tigress moaned, rubbing her head as she sat up. "I can't believe you did that."
"What the hell, Po?" Leo groans as he sat up and looks at him.
"All I wanted was something..." Tigress was saying before she notices the apple in her paw. "To eat."
"Why do I feel something on my lap?" Leo wonder as he looks down at his lap. On his lap was a couple of apples. This reminded him of his friends back in his world.
"You're welcome." Po said as he sat up.
"Thank you, Po." Tigress said quietly.
Leo looks over his shoulder and nodded before turning away and looks back at the apples.
Later on it was nighttime. They made a small fire under the same tree. Tigress was making a wood key, sitting in front of a rock as Po found some honey in the tree. Leo was sitting in between them.
"There's a lot of honey in here." Po said, his paw covered in honey.
"They produce more than they can eat." Tigress replied.
"No." Po said in amazement. He turns around to look at her. "You know a lot of stuff."
"I studied." Tigress said. "For a long time."
"And what about friends?" Po asked.
"My friends are the twins." Tigress said. "Discipline and sacrifice."
"I don't think they like me." Po said, licking the honey.
"That's okay." Tigress said. "You'll never meet them."
"That was a funny joke." Leo said.
"It was pretty funny." Tigress smiled. "It has a meaning on two levels. You can't meet them because its an obstruct idea and you won't because you're lazy-"
"Now you're just wrecking it." Po said.
"Sorry." Tigress apologized.
Po looks at her. "Can I ask you something?" Po asks Tigress. "You wanted to be the Dragon Warrior, didn't you?"
"Everyone wanted to be the Dragon Warrior." Tigress answered, looking at Po. "But things don't always turn out what you think."
"You think Oogway made the wrong choice." Po said.
"Hm." Leo said as he continued looking at the fire.
"Leo, what about you?" Tigress asks Leo.
Leo sighed and stood up and takes a couple steps back before sitting back down. He shrugs his shoulders in response.
"Okay." Po said, feeling a little awkward. "Fire's getting a little low." He grabs some fire wood and a key before he stands up and throws it in the fire.
Tigress gasps before she stands up and rushes to Po. "Po!" Tigress yells at him before turning to fire and kneeling down. "I was carving a key to get the shackles open. I've work hours on that thing."
"I thought it was firewood." Po said.
"You didn't think at all. You never do. Dragon Warrior." Tigress said coldly.
"I'm just trying to-" Po was saying.
"Do what?" Tigress snaps, turning around to look at him as she throws the stick away. "Trying to do what?" She stands up. "Trying to lose the statue? Fumble through everything? Is that the Dragon Warrior Way?" She takes a breath before speaking again. "Maybe Oogway did made the wrong choice."
"Tigress, you may be a great warrior, but you stink at friendship." Po said to her. "I'm out of here." He turns around and walks away.
Tigress didn't say anything as she watches him walk away. She turns around and walks back to the rock to sit down. Several minutes has passed before Tigress spoke. "You haven't said anything for the past few minutes, Leo." Tigress spoke.
"I've been thinking of what the three of us went through today." Leo replied. "We could've taken the bandits if it weren't for these shackles. There was no way we could've fought them like this."
Tigress wanted to say something, but she didn't.
"Even if I wanted to use my tiger-like strength, you and Po would be injured in the process." Leo said.
"Leo, I'll be fine." Tigress said, looking at him. "We're warriors. We don't die easily."
"Heh." Leo chuckled. "Are you going to apologize to Po?"
Tigress lowers her head.
"Don't worry about it." Leo said, kissing her on the cheek. Before he would say anything, his left shackle tugged. "Po?" Leo calls out to him, turning around.
No answer. Before Leo can say anything, someone pulls the shackles fast, dragging Leo and Tigress away from the campsite.
Tigress was tied to a tree trunk as Leo was on his knees, roped to a boulder.
"Why don't you tell me where the ruby is?" Fung asks them.
"I've been in worse interrogations than this." Leo answers him. "And don't think the "Good Croc Bad Croc" routine is going to help too."
Gahri threw the weapons down. "We're not playing games around here!" Gahri shouted.
"Forget it, Gary." Fung said. "He knows."
"Oh." Gahri said. He picks up the weapons. "I'll just clean these weapons then. And it's Gahri."
Fung pushes him before looking at Leo and Tigress. "If you're not going to tell us, then we'll do this the hard way." Fung said, walking up to Tigress.
"You've said that before, twice." Leo said.
"It's a good line." Fung snaps at him.
"And here's one for you." Leo said. "You're seeing the Nutcracker Show in two seconds."
"Why?" Fung asked confused.
Tigress kicks Fung between the legs hard and Leo kicks the same spot.
"Oh!" Fung groans, backing away and looking at his gang. "They have a vicious kick." Fung said.
The two warriors kicks him at the same time, making his hat fall to the ground.
He picks up his hat and looks at them. "That's it." Fung said. "I'm done going easy on you."
"Let me guess." Tigress said. "You're going to do the hard way."
"Heh heh." Fung chuckled. "Bring it, boys!"
The ground started to shake.
"Prepare to be torn to pieces." Fung said to them.
Leo saw big machine coming through the bamboo forest. "Huh?" Fung asked confused. "It's facing the wrong way!" He was right. It was facing the wrong way. "Just hold on a sec!"
"Pathetic." Leo muttered as the bandits was keeping an eye on them.
Then they all heard a noise.
"There's an intruder in the woods." Fung told his bandits. "Find them." He was about to go look but went back to Tigress. "Looks like we're doing this the hard way!"
Tigress kicks him in the face and Leo kicks Fang in the back towards his bandits. As Fung runs off, she heard a noise and notice Po. "Po." Tigress said softly.
"Hm." Leo smiled as he walks up to them.
"Are you guys okay?" Po asks them. "Let's get you and the statue out of here." He begins to untie Tigress.
"I'm surprise you cam back for me." Tigress said. "Thanks."
"Well it's protocol." Po said. "Friends?"
Tigress gave him a smile.
Leo brakes free from his rope Po destroyed the log. He rushes to them as Po and Tigress picks up the statue. But they were quickly surrounded.
"It's show time." Leo said.
One of the crocs grabs Leo's shackle while the other grab the other shackle to stretch him, but Leo pulls back and was free from the shackle. Leo tackles into the croc and quickly block two spears. He jumps over them before grabbing their tails. He spins them around, jumps in the air and slams them hard on the ground. The two crocs got up and charges at him.
Leo backs into a bamboo tree. Before he strike, Po and a few other crocs rolled into him, making Tigress, the statue and several other crocs fall on top of them.
"Know what we need?" Po grunted. "A plan! We need to do this together."
Tigress put the shackles back onto Po and Leo's wrists.
"Why'd you that?" Po grunted.
"Because you're right." Tigress said.
"Time for a chain reaction!" Leo smiled.
"Together!" Po and Tigress shouted together.
All three of them launch the crocs in different directions. Leo sees several spears flying towards them. He caught them with his hands and all three of them rush quickly towards Gahri and two other crocs.
Po jumps onto Leo. "On three!" Po shouted. "Three!"
Leo launch Po and himself in the air as Tigress spins them and throws them into another group of croc bandits. The three warriors kept swinging each other, knocking some of the crocs down. Leo threw Tigress on a tree branch and he and Po joins her. Leo nodded his head Po and Tigress jumps off the branch as Leo held them while Po and Tigress attacks the croc bandits. The two warriors grabs the crocs with their legs and Leo pulls them all over his head. He quickly jumps into the air and delivers a palm strike to the crocs, sending them to hit the ground hard.
All three of them landed and heard someone clapping. They turn around and see Fung with the statue on the machine.
"Nice job." Fung said. "Impressive. But I got the statue and you got the..." Fung takes the ruby out of from behind him and gasps. "Ruby?" he gasps. "No, I don't think so." he puts the ruby in the statue. "Ha ha ha!"
"No!" Po shouted.
Fung hops off the machine and starts pushing the machine down the hill.
Leo, Po and Tigress looks at each other and nodded before chasing after Fung. The three warriors caught up to him and jumps onto machine. Fung tries to sweep them off their feet but they jump over his tail before Tigress did a kick to his jaw, sending his helmet flying. Fung grabs her with his other hand on the statue. His tail was trying to push Po off. Leo grabs the croc's foot and pulls hard on Fung.
"Hah!" Tigress shouted, pulling the chain.
Po knocks Fung and the statue off but Fung was saved by the wheel. All three warriors jumps up and all four of them landed on top of the wheel. They tried to fight but Fung punches Po in the face, knocking him off the machine with Leo and Tigress.
"Hah!" Fung laughs triumphally. But he turns his head to Leo, Po and Tigress skiing behind him. Tigress jumps onto Leo's shoulders and jumps off of him to the wheel as Po and Leo followed behind her.
Fung grabs the chain behind him with the statue and Leo on top of his head before spinning them all around. Po and Tigress grabs the nearby bamboo tree to take Fung off the wheel as the croc was trapped in Leo's legs and Leo use the force of the chain to kick Fung down to the ground.
Po and Tigress jumps off the bamboo tree as all three of flew after Fung.
"Ha!" Po and Tigress yelled.
Leo threw Po and Tigress around the bamboo tree and capturing Fung.
"Darn it! Fung shouted.
Leo pulls the chain for Po to attack.
"Ha!" Po shouted.
Leo pulls the other chain for Tigress to attack.
"Hmph!" Tigress yelled.
The two warriors kept attacking and the bamboo tree snaps. Po wraps his tail as Tigress wrapped Fung's snout with the chain. All three pulls the chain together and sends Fung flying.
"AHH!" Fung yelled as he was sent flying.
Po, Tigress and Leo smiled as the statue stood behind them.
"Nice work." Tigress said to Po, looking at him.
"You too." Po said.
"You know what?" Tigress asks Po.
"What?" Po asked.
"Oogway did made the right choice." Tigress said, bowing to him. "Dragon Warrior."
"Really?" Po smiles excitedly. "Really? Oh wow! I loved that you just said that."
"Now that was a great chain reaction." Leo smiles.
"Agreed." Tigress said. She leans in and kisses her boyfriend on the lips.
"Heh." Leo chuckled, braking away. "We should get moving."
Po and Tigress agreed. The two of them knocks the statue over and picks it. The sun was beginning to rise as they started to walk.
Po started to sing. "The Furious Three!" Po sang. "Dragon Warrior and his sidekicks! After the rampage!"
"What?" Leo asked.
"Did you just called us your sidekicks?" Tigress asked with annoyed look on her face.
Po stops singing. "No." Po lied. "So what is your favorite color?"
Leo shakes his annoyed. "I am nobody's side kick." Leo thought.
Sorry it took long, everyone! This chapter was little bit tricky to work on but I think it went well. The next chapter is going to be exciting as it will affect Leo and Tigress's relationship. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and leave a review!