Another day dawned, and another morning began.

And everyone moved on with their day.

In the Valley of Peace, everyone proceeded with their day, as they all had something to do. The baker had bread to bake, and the shoemaker had to finish the custom-made sandals with silk covering that the important client requested for the end of the week. The ironsmith had to finish the new batch of kitchen knives to be deliver to the merchant who would sell them on the Valley and on all of the neighborhood areas.

Everyone had something to do. Everyone had a task to perform and a duty to fulfill. Everyone has a mission they needed to perform so the Valley could function normally and everyone could live their lives to the fullest. It was as if every single person that lived in this valley was the piece of a greater mechanism. Every piece needed to be right in place so the machine could continue functioning normally and with as much precision as possible.

Society was like that. Everyone had a purpose, a mission they should perform so society could continue to function. From the humblest artisan to the most influent politician, everyone had a duty for with the community and society.

Including the kung fu masters.

Their duty was to continue Oogway's mission. To protect the valley and its inhabitants while keeping the legacy of Grandmaster Oogway alive. This was a duty they performed, and which all of them were honor to follow.

Everyone looked up at the kung fu masters of the Valley of Peace, who dedicated their time in defending the Valley from any and all threats and training themselves so they could become better and better. All of them led by a master who took the role of the teacher and guided the other masters into becoming the best versions of themselves that they could possibly be.

For years, this role of teacher fell on the shoulders of the legendary Master Shifu, who trained the Furious Five. However, in the last five years, this role has been performed by another one of the masters, whom Shifu himself trained. Perhaps the most talented and most amazing Kung Fu warrior and hero that the Valley has seen since Oogway himself.

The role of teacher of the Jade Palace now befell over the shoulders of Master Po Ping, the great Dragon Warrior. And he was in the middle of a lesson.

"Move up and keep your wings straight!" Po instructed as he oversaw the training. "Fly through those rings as if they were on fire! Touch the edges and you feathers go up in flames! Very good! Girls, keep moving your bodies, you do' want to be caught on those moving thingies! Trust me, it is not a good experience! That's right, with fast and precise movements! And you, don't forget to take advantage of your size! Whoever tells you that being small is a weakness has never meet someone like you! It is your greatest strength! That's right, very good!"

Po continued to give commands to the training animals, who moved back and forth as they occupied different areas of the training course. Each one of them followed their instructions of the panda very efficiently, and said instructions proved to be the best possible to help them perfect their style on each part of the obstacle course they were facing.

Someone who had watched Po's first lesson five years ago would mention on the difference from what happened then to what was happening now, and all of them would agree that this new training was going much better than that one of half-a-decade ago.

Truth to be told, Po was not the best to give lessons back on the day, as his first attempt to train the Furious Five ended in bruises, in a dislocated shoulder and on some second-degree burns. However, after training an entire village of pandas into kung fu warriors to face a Spirit Warrior's army of jade zombies, some could say that Po has gotten the hang of this teaching business.

He certainly was doing a much better job teaching the eleven animals who were training on the field.

Yes, eleven. The Furious Five plus Po's six new students.

A gong was heard into a distance, and Po then stomped hard into the ground.

"Aaaaand, time!" Po announced, and all of the students knew that this was the sign for them to stop training and all gather before Po.

Tigress, Viper, Mantis, Monkey and Crane all gathered before Po. And so did the other six, all of them in line. First of all, there was a water deer, and she stood right by Crane's side, with her hands together behind her back as she stood to attention, waiting for the next instructions, wearing a vest of blue coloration with black spiral motifs in it and a black pair of long pants similar to Tigress'.

By her side stood a pair of other individuals, nearly identical. This pair of swallows had the same blueish and red on their feathers, and the only thing that could tell the two apart was the clothes they wore, as one wore a black jacket and the other wore white, and they wore the same purple pants. They stood side by side, with their smart eyes in attention and their black beaks chirping just for a moment before they settled to attention and waited alongside the animal standing next to them.

This next animal was threatening looking, and many thought that his kind had a bad reputation. This scorpion had an exoskeleton of a very black coloration and red eyes. This appearance certainly helped pass fear, alongside with his claws and his stinger, both which had a red coloration that horribly looked like blood, but was just the natural color of those areas of his body. He had his claws down, closed and united before his body. It was his kind's version of an attentive and respectful pose.

By his side, there was a bigger animal. This amphibian has strong legs and a bulbous body, with thick legs and a thick body that kind of looked like muscle-gut. However, despite his volume, he was shorter than Shifu, albeit he had a pretty big mouth. His skin was slimy and with dull shades of grayish green, and his eyes were yellow with long pupils. He was wearing clothes of a dark brown coloration, both the jacket and the pants, and he had a small black hat on his head. The toad stood in attention as well, with a grumpy expression on his face.

Finally, right by the toad's side, stood what could be the biggest of them all. He, like Po, didn't wore any shirt, only a pair of long white shorts, with a huge opening on his back to allow his thick and muscular tail to go through. He had scales of a dark-green coloration. Someone could mistake him for a crocodile, but looking intently revealed that he was not. For example, that his snout was different, and his teeth did not showed when his mouth was close. He stood in a very lax position compared to the others, and he looked at the sides nearly as if distracted, until the toad used his long tongue like a whip to hit the back of his head and make him pay attention.

Those six new animals were younger than the other animals on the room, as their ages varied from sixteen to eighteen. All of them were Po's students, having become so one year ago, all within a few weeks from each other. The swallows, who were identical twins, became his students at the same time, and they were the first ones, followed by the toad, then the gator, then the girl deer, and then the scorpion.

Po meet each one on a different situation, and on each time he saw potential on them. Enough to offer for them to come to the Jade Palace and become his students. They all agreed, and now they studied under Po, training under his command alongside the Furious Five to one day become the next generation of kung fu masters.

And they have all done great so far.

"Okay, guys, today was great." Po said to his students, as he walked before them like a general walking through his troops. "Furious Five, you guys are succeeding in keeping yourself on an acceptable level of awesomeness, great job. The rest of you, you are also doing very great at your training! A few more years and you will one day be as awesome as the Five. Keep up the good work!"

Po turned around as he reached the end of the line, in which the gator was standing and making a salute. Once more, the toad slapped him in the back of the head with a whip of his tongue, to make him get into a proper position as Po continued walking before them.

"And all I can say to all of you is... you are all doing great, my awesome crew of awesome warriors and warriors-in-training!"

"Thank you, Master!" The eleven animals all said as they bow to the panda, and Po then turned to them all.

"So, with this, I think you have earned a break from training, since it is time for lunch and you are all probably as hungry as I am! So, our next stop is down on the village for a lunch at my dads' restaurant! My treat!"

The swallows both sang in joy and the scorpion jumped in place as he swung his claws. The toad had an indifferent expression on his face while the gator clapped his scaly hands happily, looking like a child rather than the eighteen-year-old massive alligator he was. The rest was pretty much blasé on it, as they already knew it was that day of the week again.

Po soon was guiding all of his friends and students down the stairs and in direction to the restaurant. The panda, of course, was on the lead and he took time to high-five everyone who was on his way as they walked straight to the restaurant, with the other eleven animals having to go pretty fast to keep up with the panda.

Yeah, Po was more mature after a number of years being the Dragon Warrior and after the challenges he had to face to come to where he was now. However, in the end, Po would never stop being himself. This was probably one of his best qualities, and one that all of his friends and students certainly could love about him. Even though sometimes the panda could be a little insufferable to the more serious ones.

"And, we have arrived!" Po said as he got into the entrance of the restaurant, making a dramatic pose, while the others all stood behind him in neutral stances. Meanwhile, everyone on the restaurant cheered as the same panda whose image was adorning all of the walls in posters arrived to join them for his weekly visit.

To many fans, it was the perfect chance to get autographs. Soon, however, Po and the others were making their way into the restaurant, as they greeted two familiar figures.

"Po, my boy!" Li said as he hugged his son, lifting him from the ground with a very firm hug, "How nice of you to come, we were waiting for you!"

"Not for us?" The alligator asked. This time it was Mr. Ping the one who answered, as the goose came right by the side of the two pandas.

"Why, of course." He said, looking at him. "All of our son's friends and students are more than welcome here, and have special discount. Free deserts if you have bought at least three items of the menu."

The alligator cheered as he heard that, sounding really exciting, while the toad on his head seemed stoic like a stone statue as he stayed on all fours in the traditional toad position, so still that someone could even mistake him for some weird hat.

Soon, Li was taking all of their notes, with all of them asking for something they were in the mood or for one of their favorite dishes. All save for the alligator, who said:

"Whatever you have is fine for me!"

Li took it in and soon he was giving Ping their orders, before going to take the requests of the other patrons, as well as to take their orders to their tables, what was considerably easier for him than it was for Po, considering that the restaurant itself was bigger since Ping earned enough money to buy the abandoned construction right at the side. From there, breaking the wall between them and reforming the restaurant to make it bigger was simple, and business has been booming ever since.

The eleven animals on the table all chatted with each other, until Li came back with all of their orders.

"Mr. Li, do you have any news from the panda village?" the scorpion asked to the panda, who soon was answering:

"Oh, yes. Got a letter just yesterday. Everything is going swimmingly back there. The guy I put to manage the village in my place is doing a great job. Oh, by the way, Po, your cousins both say that they want to come visit for New Years', and asked if you could prepare a room up in the Jade Palace for them."

"Yeah, I'll do it." Po said as his huge bowl of dumplings was place before him just as he finished signing yet another Dragon Warrior mug. "And, Dad? Do you miss being the leader of the village?"

"A little bit, yeah." Li said, "But, honestly, it is kind of a weight off my shoulders. Managing an entire village is not an easy task, I'll tell you. Also, I get to live near you and have you visiting regularly. I really don't regret having accepted Ping's offer to manage the restaurant with him."

"And I couldn't ask for a better business partner." Ping said as he came into view carrying a bow with himself. "And this here, is for you, my son's scaly student."

"Yay!" the alligator said as he saw the bowl on Ping's wing and he was soon asking if this was the famous "secret ingredient soup".

"Oh, no, this is something else." Ping said to him, "It is a new recipe."

"Oh, boy..." Mantis said as he was right by the scorpion's side on the table as they shared a bowl of noodles. Both of them all of a sudden looked worried, and so did the rest of the animals sitting on their table. Even the alligator stopped smiling as Ping placed the bowl before him, and he looked at it as if it contained poison.

They all certainly remembered the last "new recipes" that Ping had offered to them. The goose was a genius when it came to noodles, but his experimentations with flavors could be a bit... hazardous.

They still remembered that one new recipe that Monkey tried and that made him throw up immediately. And keep throwing up for nearly an entire hour afterwards.

The following one was give to Tigress, who thought she could take a suspicious-looking soup with no problems, considering she survived a direct blast from a cannon. It seemed fine at first but, as Tigress was halfway done with it, she all of a sudden got so sick that she fainted on the spot, and the others had to rush her to the nearest doctor as fast as they could so she could have her stomach emptied.

The next one was one that Crane tried up, and it nearly destroyed his vocal cords. He was unable to even speak for a month afterwards.

The one after that did not really made it to anyone's mouth. It smelled so strange and had such a weird coloration that even Po, who was always about trying new foods and known for his iron stomach, vehemently refused to try it.

And now there was yet another new recipe, and everyone was looking at that bowl with dread.

"So?" Ping asked, causing the alligator to look at him. "Go on, try it!" The goose urged him, and the gator looked at him for a while, before looking back at the bowl, which was strangely black in coloration. The reptile swallowed a lump on his throat as he took a spoon offered by the goose, and everyone else was on edge, as they were all ready to rush the gator to the nearest doctor to treat food poisoning.

"Think Gator will be okay?" the Scorpion asked to Mantis. "Should we just let him try it? Wouldn't it be better to spill a little of it on that plant on the corner and see if it dies?" Mantis didn't said anything in return, but he did thought it would be a good idea.

The gator was very hesitant to take a sip of the black soup. So hesitant that it crossed on being comic. Eventually, someone seemed like they have had enough.

The toad sitting on his head whipped his tongue, snatching the spoon from the alligator's hand and grabbing it on his own, smaller hands. Everyone looked as he unceremoniously took the entire spoonful in one go.

Everyone looked at the toad, waiting to see if he would be dropping dead on the spot. However, instead, the amphibian only said:

"Good soup."

Everyone blinked, as they looked at the toad for a few moments. Gator, who had the spoon returned to him by the little amphibian on his head, decided to actually try the soup himself, and his eyes bulged open.

"Oh, my swamp! That's delicious!" He said in surprise, and he started taking spoonful after spoonful of the black soup, while everyone looked at him with surprise.

"Mr. Ping, this soup is amazing!" Gator said to the goose. "Seriously, you guys should try this! It is so good!" He continued to viciously consume the soup, with Mr. Ping being very happy that his new soup was approved.

"Great, I'll be putting it on the menu tomorrow! Thanks a lot, Gator, my boy."

"And Toad too, since he proved it too." Li said as he referred to the small amphibian who was still on Gator's head, eating toad-sized dumplings. "By the way, I thought toads' tongues were not that long."

Toad looked at him, and then croaked:

"Part frog... from my mother's side."

This did caused Tigress and Crane to share a look in surprise.

This was the first time that they ever heard Toad mention anything about his family, and he, like the others, have been with them for around a year now.

In fact, both Po and the Furious five knew little to nothing about Po's six students. They hardly knew their names, as the six, much like the Furious Five, went by the name of their species. The water deer, for example, was "Doe", while the alligator was "Gator". The two birds were known as "Swallow One" and "Swallow Two".

And all of them barely ever talked about the life they had before meeting Po and becoming his students.

They knew that the Swallows were orphans, and so was Gator, who grew up alone on his swamp since he was eleven, but none of them ever elaborated further about the life they had before being invite to come back to the Jade Palace to study under the Dragon Warrior. Doe and Scorpion, on their end, flat out refused to answer to any questions regarding their past, including any question about their families or homes, nearly as if they wanted to forget whatever past they had before living with them on the Palace.

And Toad... well, Toad simply didn't spoke. The amphibian showed to be the silent type. A man of action rather than words, as Po had put it. It was rare to hear the amphibian say more than two or three phrases a day, and said phrases were usually short. This often led to a lot of awkward silences whenever someone tried to have a conversation with him, to the point where most had just gave up trying to ask him questions. Save for Gator, who would have long one-sided talks with the amphibian about all manners of topics while Toad, still like a statue, just listened to everything, only occasionally croaking before Gator would resume.

Could those two be consider friends, or something similar? Po thought it did, as he mentioned the guys did seemed pretty close, even though the Five didn't really saw it the same way.

"Seriously, Mr. Ping, I loved this new soup!" Gator said to the goose, "It has this tangy flavor that hits like a punch to the snout and I love it! What is that?"

"Well, I do plan to keep this recipe a secret." The goose said to the crocodilian as he picked up his bowl, and he was getting ready to bring another upon Gator's request. "But I can tell you that the tangy flavor is probably the squid ink. I heard once that people in Japan use it to cook, so I decided to give it a try. It is the main ingredient of the new Black Soup."

"Oh, that's why it is this color." Gator said, "I'll have as many as you have, please!"

Ping was only glad to bring Gator what he requested.

"Wait..." Swallow Two said as he reflected on the revealed main ingredient, and then he turned to his brother. "But, ain't the squids' ink their-"

Whatever it was that Swallow Two was going to say was, perhaps thankfully, interrupted by a familiar gong sounding in the distance.

"Oh, boy." Po said, as he looked up from his bowl of noodles and in the direction from which the gongs were coming. "Looks like job is calling, guys!"

With this, Po swallowed down all of his noodles at once, while he and the Five all got up and went along to fulfill the mission. The other six were about to go with them, but Tigress stopped them:

"You are not ready yet, leave this to us."

"Dads! Save the dumplings I ordered, I'll be back to grab them later! And put it all on my bill!" Po yelled as he went along with the Five to fulfill his duty as the Dragon Warrior and protect the valley. Ping waved at their boy as he went his way, while Li looked at their departing form with apprehension, what Ping noticed.

"Still worried, Li?" Ping asked to the panda, who sighed.

"I really can't help it. I'll always feel worried whenever Po goes to fight those bad guys. I know it is his job, but still..."

"Oh, don't worry, he will be fine." Ping said to him, patting him on the belly. "It is our boy we are talking about. He can handle anything."

Li continued to look the direction Po go, but he had to admit that Ping was right. This was Po they were talking about. He defeated Kai, for crying out loud. He surely could take care of some invaders.

"Now, you better go deliver the orders for tables 3, 6, 8, 11 and 16, and don't forget to smile." Ping said, handing a lot of bowls to Li with a variety of foods, and the panda dad soon had to focus on serving the foods for the clients, all the while wishing that they could hire a few waiters. And suspecting that Ping made him wait on the tables exactly to save the money he would pay a waiter.

"I just wish they would let us go this time." Gator said as he and the others sat on the table, eating their food.

As the students all continued eating, the full-fledge masters made their way throughout the village in direction to the mission they had to fulfil.

It was not that hard to find out where the problem was. They just needed to see what direction the villagers were running from and run in direction to it.

That's the difference between a hero and normal person. Po thought to himself, Which direction they run to when there's danger!

As they continued running, the villagers who passed by them were quick to inform them what was happening.

"Bandits! On the center!" Screamed a running pig.

"A whole gang of them!" Said a rabbit who ran past with his many children holding his hands.

"Get them, Po!" Said a female pig who passed by them.

"We're counting on you, Dragon Warrior!" Said yet another one, and this one high-fived Po on his way, and the panda was glad to high-five him, as his way of promising that he would take those bandits down.

Crane, who used his wings to fly and his keen sight to see ahead, was able to catch sight of the said bandits, and he was soon flying back to his friends and telling them what to expect:

"They are pricklenapes, big ones. Around fifteen of them. The spikes on their backs seem pretty sharp."

"They spikes might be sharp, but our will to fight is sharper!" was Po's answer, as he and the Five charged forward, ready to chase those criminals out of the Valley of Peace.

They found the reptiles that Crane saw, and they knew that they were pretty big, with one of them standing around the same height of Po's chest, what was considerably bigger than most of their species. They were all wearing black clothes with grey pieces of armor, and they seemed to be busy stealing from the nearby houses and chariots, when the kung fu masters showed up.

The bandits reacted to the presence of the good guys as one would expect: raising their weapons and attacking while hissing and screeching at them like mad lizards. Just like that, the battle between the kung fu masters and the pricklenape bandits started.

Well, calling it a "fight" would not be very precise. After all, those lizards didn't had much chance against highly-trained kung fu warriors. The battle was soon shifting in favor of the warriors, and they were easily pushing the bad guys back, as they swung their weapons wildly and even tried attacking with their spikes, curling into balls and rushing into the kung fu warriors like spinning spiked ball.

Po even commented on how that move the lizards made was impressive, and even tried to name it, but he soon had to focus back on the fight when one of them came dangerously close to his face. Po was soon turning this little tactic against the lizards themselves, by grabbing them on the air while they were still spinning and flinging them back at the other lizards, causing them to yell and to duck out of the way of danger. One of them ended stuck into a wooden pillar, as the spikes of his back sank into the wood and left him trapped upside-down, asking his friends to help him. However, they were too busy trying to escape from the warriors.

That was when the bandits brought about a makeshift weapon that was akin to a rocket-launcher, and that propelled heavy balls of metal with the help of gunpowder on the back end, in a manner much similar to a handheld cannon.

This forced the kung fu master's into defensive, as one of those metal balls hit tigress square in the shoulder, sending her back several feet and making her land groaning and holding her shoulder in pain.

This put everyone in attention. Those things they were holding could not be like Shen's cannons, even thought they were clearly inspire by them, but if they could actually hurt Tigress, of all people, then those things were no joke at all.

The masters had no choice but to dodge the next ball shot, as two more pairs of lizards came holding identical weapons, and they kept firing at the masters in volley, with two of them firing at them while the other one reloaded, and then they repeated. Some blows came very close to hitting them, and they did caused some damage to the structures around them.

And, as if that was not enough, the other lizards, the ones who were not carrying the miniature cannons, were all over the warriors, trying to hit them with their weapons and with their "spinning lizard ball of prickling". This certainly made things a bit difficult to the kung fu warriors to keep up with the onslaught that the lizards were suddenly showing.

"Ugh!" Mantis said, as he had to dodge both a metal ball and a blade in quick succession. "How are we suppose to fight when they keep shooting things at us!?"

He had said that right when he was right to Po's side, and the panda quickly had a plan.

"By shooting something back!" Po said and, before Mantis could voice any protests to what the panda just said, grabbed the small green, grabbed a hollowed out bamboo tube, stuffed the bug inside and got ready.

"Kung Fu Green Dart! Go!" Po said, as he took a huge breath and blew on the bamboo as hard as he possibly could. Mantis was fire from the bamboo at high speed, flying in direction to the lizards who had just finished reloading their cannon. While surprised for this, Mantis was, while still in midair, recover and get prepared to deliver the blow he knew that Po knew he could make.

Mantis hit one of them square on the face, sending him flying back several feet, and it resulted into the heavy weapon being drop to the ground by the other one.

Mantis then attacked the other lizard who had been helping hold the weapon, hitting points on both of his arms, causing them both to go limp nearly instantly, as the lizard screamed. Not out of pain, but out of shock that he could no longer feel his arms, which were both limp as noodles.

Mantis would have told him that this would only last for a couple hours, but he was more focused on the other guys with the hand cannons.

Fast as a green lightning, Mantis jumped into the other pair of lizards carrying the miniature cannons. Mantis, however, didn't focused on them, but on the weapon they were carrying. Those weapons were definitely not like Shen's cannons, finely crafted with quality metal and fancily decorated with a dragon theme. They were crude, seemed to have been made in a hurry and with clear points where they were very weak. Those were the points where Mantis aimed, hitting those areas while moving through the cannon as great speed, causing it to fall apart in the seams and from the scaly hands of the lizards.

The other pair of lizards didn't had time to react as Mantis then jumped into their weapon and did the exact same thing.

With the handheld cannons taken care off, the battle once more shifted to the side of the kung fu masters, and from there it was pretty easy.

Po and the Five dealt with the criminals pretty fast, and soon they were all scatter around like broken dolls, all of them groaning and trying to get up, with the coins and valuables they were trying to loot left on the ground practically untouched.

"And that's how we do it." Po said proudly, before turning to his friends and congratulating all of them on the good work, with Monkey giving his pal a high-five. Now they could work on making sure that those guys would be sent to prison to pay for the crime that they had just tried to commit.

In this, Po looked over and saw that one of the bandits was trying to escape. He was wearing an eyepatch, and he was their leader. Po knew it because, during the while fight, he was the one who barked orders to the other lizards, telling them what to do to fight the kung fu masters, and also constantly reminding them not to lose their loot. Curiously, that guy barking orders was the only one who didn't tried to engage in battle in any way... And now he was trying to run for it, carrying whatever he could on his arms.

Well, not on the Dragon Warrior's watch!

Po soon used his great speed to rush to the lizard. He grabbed him by the tail and flipped him over, making him fall to the ground and drop his entire loot while in the air, and Po skillfully grabbed it all in one arm while the other one held the lizard's tail, before letting him go as he was now laying flat on the ground.

Po took a time to take a look into the objects that the lizard stole, which included a statuette of pearly-white jade, a bunch of jewelry that probably belonged to some lady, and a finally decorated knife that looked more like a dagger.

"Cool knife." Po said, as he grabbed the blade and looked at it on his hand, while some people, who had been hiding in there, came out and they were already applauding the Dragon Warrior. Po, of course, received their applause and he then turned his attention back to the lizard, who was groaning as he got up.

"And you..." Po said, ready to tell the lizard that he was going to jail now. However, the lizard saw the panda coming in his direction, pointing the blade to him, and his eyes widened in panic.

"NO!" The lizard said scrambling back. "Please, don't kill me!"

Po was caught off guard.

"What?"

"Please!" The lizard said once more, pleading. "I'll leave and never come back! It was not even my idea to come in the first place! Please, spare my life, please!"

"Wha..." Po said, looking at him. "W-what are you talking about? I'm not going to kill you!"

"You're not?" Someone asked, and Po turned to look at who was talking, and it was a sheep. "Why not? He attacked us and tried to steal our things! And he broke my house! He deserves to pay!"

"Well... I think you're right." Po said, causing the bandit to start pleading for him life again. "But, I'm not going to kill him for it! I'm no killer!"

This caused both the sheep and the bandit to look at him with surprise.

"What do you mean you're no killer?" The bandit said, causing Po to look his way. "You killed Tai Lung, didn't you?"

Po was in shock as he heard the bandit say that.

"I heard the story. You beat him up and then exploded him with the Wuxi Finger Hold when he was pleading for his life. You even smiled when you did it!"

"W-what? No! I didn't..." Po said, but he paused and looked at the lizard, who was looking at him with fear, his eyes still on the blade Po was holding on his hand. "I-I didn't... I didn't meant to... I'm not a..."

Po seemed to be having a crisis, and the lizard looked at him while backing away as quickly as he could. That was when his hand touched something has he was backing away.

The one handheld cannon they still had left. Fully loaded and with the torch that lighted it right by the side.

Not wasting this chance, the lizard took the heavy weapon and the torch and lighted the fuse while pointing it at the panda.

"Po!" Tigress cried out, rushing to him alongside Viper, but the fuse was already lit, and the weapon fired.

The iron ball flew out of the weapon and hit Po right on the stomach, sending him flying back and slamming into his two friends and making them crash into one of the houses.

With this chance, the bandits all managed to escape by attacking the remaining three masters, who were surprise by this.

They were soon on their feet, with the leader barking orders at them while carrying the cannon, and the lizards all managed to escape, as none of the townsfolk dared to stand on their way when they had weapons and that thing.

And they still managed to carry some money and valuables with them.

Meanwhile, the masters recovered, with Po being help out of the house by Tigress and Viper. The panda still looked pretty winded, and everyone was pretty worried with him for having been hit square on by that thing.

Well, almost everyone.

"Why didn't you stopped them!?" The sheep yelled at the panda. "You basically let them escape! And they took my money! Those were my savings!"

Po said nothing in return, as he was still recovering his breath. The sheep scoffed.

"Some hero..." The sheep said, as he made his way out of there to see if any of his possessions was still salvageable. All the while, Po looked at his departing form.

"Well, he does has kind of a point..." Someone whispered.

"Did he really let the bandits get away?"

"Well, not on purpose, but still..."

Po looked around as he heard those whispers, and then he looked down. His friends were all around him, checking to see if he was okay, but Po could hardly hear them over the whispering, as well as of the words that the eye-patch lizard said...