The Valley of Peace was originally called that because it was the one place where Oogway, facing a crisis as he wondered if there was any meaning or value in the world, settled and meditated deeply about the meaning of life and the worthiness of the world. In doing so, he achieved enlightenment and inner peace, creating kung fu during the process.

So, in honor to the one place where he was able to meditate uninterrupted and undisturbed for many years, Oogway, upon planting a peach tree on the hill to celebrate his own doing, named this one place the Valley of Peace, and made it a safe haven for all of the people who were looking for a peaceful place to live happily.

Despite this romantic tale, nowadays many considered if the name "Valley of Peace" was more ironic than anything, taking in consideration the amount of times the Valley had been attacked in the centuries that came since Oogway made the place into a safe haven, despite the turtle's, and his subsequent student's, efforts to protect it and make it worthy of its namesake.

And this mission now befell to the Furious Five, who were always rushing in direction to danger to protect their home whenever the alarms sounded, despite of whatever was currently afflicting their hearts, like the heroes they were.

And now it was no different, as they went head-on against the criminals who were attacking the Valley, causing havoc as they went around breaking stands and scaring the people for no reason than for the heck of it.

They didn't realize that the bandits were doing it precisely to call the attention of the Valley's defenders. They were there for them, after all, and they were ready for their coming.

With a combination of weapons, portable cannons based on Shen's original design, but small enough to be carried on their hands and lighted with small torches, they managed to force the Furious Five to back away.

Things were not looking nice for the kung fu masters, who caught themselves being forced back by a bunch of mercenaries with mini-cannons, and who were laughing as they managed to put the legendary Furious Five in a corner.

However, that was when someone came and helped them right on the nick of time.

This time, however, it was not a big and fat panda who came to the rescue, but a Komodo dragon.

Bisa did came in screaming just like Po did, though, and he did as much of a show as the panda did as he arrived with a drop-kick that hit a buffalo right in the head, sending him chin-first into the ground, before he delivered a kick on the stomach of a wolf that sent him flying towards three other animals, effectively taking out all of the animals with cannons there.

"What the heck!?"

"Who the fuck is this!?"

"It's the lizard!"

"Bisa!" Viper said, and the Komodo was soon waving at the five of them, while telling he came to help.

He failed to notice the sixth animal with a cannon coming behind him, lighting it with a torch and getting ready to fire the metal ball inside of it into the lizard. However, Tigress did notice, though. With two consecutive and very fast kicks, she sent a piece of wood into the head of that animal, causing him to lose his aim and to fire a ball that hit a brick wall and broke right through it.

"Bisa, focus!" Tigress said, as she and the other Five were, once more, on the offensive, and now the tides of combat were shifting on the favor of the good guys, as the lizard proved to be just the reinforcement that the Furious Five needed.

"Check your left! Behind you! Jump and strike! Mantis, beat this guy, please? Thanks!" Bisa said as he continued to fight with the Five. He was quite skilled in combat, as a certain figure noticed as he was watching from a distance, scratching his chin as he watched with his hood still draped over his features.

"That lizard got talent..." The figure said as he watched the battle from the sidelines. "His form is poor, though..."

"Did you get stronger since last time!?" The boar said, looking at the same lizard who got to foil their plans two weeks previous, and Bisa proudly said:

"You can betcha! Things have changed since you last tried causing trouble! Two weeks ago, I was just a Komodo dragon who trained fighting by himself whenever he found a tree and a rock! Now I am the student of no other than the former Dragon Warrior, Ping Xiao Po himself!"

"Wait, what!?" The boar said, "That panda made you his student!?"

"You can bet he did! And I will show you what he has been teaching me! Whao-ah-hay!"

Bisa tried to deliver a punch, aiming for the boar's chin. However, his fist instead collided with the paw of the hooded figure, who came, seemingly out of nowhere, and intercepted the attack as easily as he would have if it was a child doing that.

Bisa blinked, and he then looked at the hooded figure, seeing the pair of golden eyes looking back at him from within the shadows of the cloak.

"Why don't you show me what that fat panda taught you, lizard?" The figure said in a gruffy voice, and Bisa saw himself suddenly flung backwards as the figure pushed him back. He managed to steady himself, and that was good, because that was when the figure in the hood started attacking him, throwing blow after blow at the Komodo dragon, from punches to kicks, and he even tried to... jam his index and middle fingers into his body in sharp jabs?

Luckily, Bisa had grown fast enough reflexes from parrying and dodging Po's blows that he managed to avoid being hit by most of the hooded figure's attacks and hold up against him quite well.

"You are quite good." The hooded figure said, "Guess that panda is not completely useless, after all, if he can teach like that."

"He is the best!" Bisa immediately said. "He is the strongest that ever was! No one ever could defeat him! Not even Tai Lung himself! He sent that cat mewing all the way to the spirit realm with his tail between his legs!"

At this, the hooded figure let out a roar, as he grabbed Bisa's wrist and twisted it so hard that it was a miracle it did not downright snapped. Bisa let out a "yewouch!", before he received a kick to the stomach that sent him flying on an arch, only to land on top of a mercenary that was fighting Tigress, causing the feline to look at Bisa into surprise.

However, soon she, and everyone else, from the Furious Five to the villagers who had been brave enough to stay and watch from a safe distance, would forget all about the Komodo. Because that was the moment when the figure removed his cloak, revealing himself to everyone and drawing many gasps.

"What!?"

"Huh!?"

"I-is that...!?"

"How!?"

"No way!"

"It can't be him!"

But it was, and the leopard seemed to ignore their shock as he was making his way to the lizard, who was getting up and then looking at the feline who just kicked him. That was when he noticed the horrified looks on everyone's eyes as they stared at the snow leopard.

"Guys? Guys, what happened?"

"B-B-Bisa!" Monkey said, causing the Komodo to look at him.

"That's Tai Lung!"

Bisa blinked, his brain taking a few seconds to process what he just heard. When it did, he had the same look of horror as everyone else as he stared at the snow leopard.

"So, you do think highly of the panda, don't you?" Tai Lung growled at Bisa as he walked to him. "Well, if you are so impressed by that fat moron, then let me show you what a real warrior can do."

And with a roar, Tai Lung charged at the Komodo, a fist raised and ready to attack.

That was when Bisa, acting with a combination of sheer instinct and of Po's lessons, used the Three-Bolted Top again.

With a hand planted on the ground, Bisa started spinning, and Tai Lung had to jump back to avoid the blows from the lizard's lower limbs. He then used a single arm to parry both the legs and the tail that came towards him as the Komodo continued to spin while making a handstand.

"Bisa!" Viper said, as she was going to help him, and so were the five, but that was when the mercenaries seemed to catch on, and they started attacking the Five with their weapons, including the hand-held cannons. This forced them into defensive once again, while Bisa was left to face Tai Lung.

It was an unbalanced fight.

Tai Lung could easily overwhelm the lizard, and nearly seemed to be toying with him in some moments, but Bisa showed he was no quitter, and that he was not a weakling. Particularly when he delivered a punch to Tai Lung's chest so hard it sent the snow leopard flying and colliding with the side of a house, demolishing the wall.

"Oh, man..." Bisa said, "W-whose house that is!? I am so sorry! I will pay for the damages, I swear!"

The Komodo made the mistake of looking away from the demolished house to apologize to whoever owned it, and he failed to see the snow leopard getting up from there and slapping the dust off his fur, before charging at Bisa once more.

The Komodo turned back in time to see a foot coming towards him. Said foot collided with his cheek in a kick that sent the lizard face-plating into the ground and stumbling a few times, ending with his back bend in a painful-looking angle as he came to a skidding stop, and then he had to quickly jump back to his feet to avoid Tai Lung's axe kick, and then the snow leopard tried to punch him again, only for Bisa to block it with both of his arms and then push him back.

Tai Lung then tried hitting him with his fingers, but Bisa was able to dodge it, and then to counter by whipping the snow leopard into the side with his tail, giving him the opening to deliver three powerful blows to his chest and one to his face, what caused the feline to stumble back.

As he recovered, Tai Lung wiped the side of his lip and, as he had suspected, he was bleeding from a broken lip from the last blow.

"Huh..." The snow leopard said, and then he looked at the Komodo, who was still in fighting pose. "Impressive." He said as he nodded, and then he charged at Bisa again. This time, he beat Bisa quite hard, with the Komodo barely able to keep up and block his blows as Tai Lung seemed that he had stopped holding back completely, causing Bisa to stumble back.

As he did, Tai Lung used another nerve strike, this one aimed right at Bisa's chest.

"No!" Tigress said, jumping on the way and taking the blow. Because she jumped on the way like that, the attack was not as effective as it could have been, but it was still enough to send her to the ground, clutching the side of her body in pain and trembling.

Bisa was about to help her, when he was grabbed by the shirt and tossed into the air. Then, with a jump and a downwards kick to the torso, Bisa was sent to the ground so hard he cracked the solid rock as he bounced off the floor and landed a few feet away heavily.

Landing on his feet, Tai Lung then calmly walked to the lizard, who was groaning as he tried to get up.

Bisa was on his hands and knees, when he was suddenly pushed back into the ground by a pressure on the middle of his back, result of Tai Lung pressing his foot down on him.

"Hey!" Viper shot forward. "Leave him alone!"

Tai Lung, however, saw her coming, and he grabbed her by her sinous body, spun her around, and then slammed her into the ground, causing her to whip into it and let out a pained sound.

"Hey!" Bisa said, "Stop it!"

Tai Lung pressed his foot down on Bisa harder, forcing him further into the ground, before tossing the snake to two of the mercenaries, who quickly picked the snake and started tying her up to a pole.

"Now that does it!" One of them, a wolf, said, "Let's teach this bitch a lesson along with the rest of the others!"

"I want to teach her a lesson alright, if you know what I mean..." The other one said, and this granted the wolf to look at the buffalo.

"Dude, she is a snake!"

"I know! I love snakes! Something about them is just so hot! I will have to remove her fangs, though, make her safe to use..." He then turned to Tai Lung. "You don't mind, do you, boss?"

To that, the snow leopard, despite showing a frown at what the buffalo was saying he would do, was dismissive.

"Do as you want, I don't give a crap about any of those idiots." He then turned his attention to Bisa, who was still struggling.

"But I have to say, you are quite something, lizard. I can see why Po decided to train you." Tai Lung said to the lizard. "Had I found you before the panda, I could even have considered taking you as my apprentice instead."

"Like I'd ever agree to be your apprentice!" Bisa shot back.

"What? Am I too intimidating to you?" Tai Lung was towering over the lizard as he said that, being sure to keep his foot on Bisa's back and keeping himself in a position where the lizard would not be able to bend his head enough to spit his venom on his face. And watching for the tail as well.

"Am I not as friendly-looking as that panda? Are you scared you would not be able to handle my type of training in place of whatever crap that idiot is making you do?"

Bisa hissed as he heard those words.

"Don't you dare insult Po!" Bisa was still struggling to get up, but it was hard with Tai Lung's foot now shifting to be right between his shoulders, keeping him with his cheek pressed on the floor. "He is a hero! He is my hero! And he defeated you, in case you've forgotten! You would be lucky if you ever became half the warrior he is!"

Tai Lung growled as he heard those words came out of Bisa's muzzle. Once more, his foot shifted, and now he had it literally on the Komodo's head, pressing his cheek even harder into the ground and making Bisa squirm and hold onto his ankle.

"You know, I came here for the panda." Tai Lung said to Bisa as he continued to press his foot down, Bisa let out a cry of pain as h felt the pressure on his skull. "But I don't mind mauling you as a little warm up before I do the same to him."

As he said that, the snow leopard's claws unsheathed, and he was bending over to the Komodo, who opened an eye to look around and see that the Five were not on a favorable position. Viper, Tigress and Monkey were caught, and this left only Crane and Mantis to fight, as they took advantage of their size and wings to fight, but even they were slowly but surely being backed into a corner.

"Now..." Tai Lung got Bisa's attention again as he had his claws right on Bisa's eye. "Would you like to lose your eye, or one of your arms?"

Before Bisa could form an answer, Tai Lung's ear suddenly perked as his senses caught the sound of a whistle as something flew across the air and right on his direction.

With reflexes quick as lighting, Tai Lung quickly grabbed the oncoming projectile onto his hand.

It was coming in harder than he expected. So hard, in fact, that Tai Lung had to pass it to his other hand so he could fan the pain away from the hand that just grabbed the object, which was a pebble.

Looking over, Tai Lung quickly saw where the project came from, and a smirk formed on his muzzle.

"Well and look who came to join us if not the big, fat panda himself!" Tai Lung said as he opened his arms, nearly as if welcoming the newcomer, and everyone was soon looking at the direction that the snow leopard was looking.

"Po!" Viper said, looking at the panda standing on top of the building, along with the wolf and buffalo who tied her up to that pole. Po, surprisingly, looked her way and, seeing her situation, shifted his gaze to the two animals holding the pole se was tied to. His lips curled into a growl.

"Drop her!" Po said from up there while giving the two a death glare. When they hesitated, Po swung his hand, causing one of the four pebbles he was holding in there to be flung in their direction and hitting the ground so hard it produced a small hole in it akin to a bullet hole.

"Right. Now." The panda said, and the two obeyed, quickly dropping the pole and letting it clank into the ground, with the snake still tied to it, as they both walked back with their hands in clear view to show they were cooperating.

Po looked at them for another moment, before turning his gaze back at Tai Lung, who was looking at him with a smirk.

"Hey, Po." The snow leopard said to the panda. "Been a long time, hasn't it?" He looked at Po up and down, seeing his appearance. From his clothes to the scars on his chest and face, as well as his blind eye. "I like the new looks. Quite hardcore."

The panda's answer was:

"How are you here?"

There was no playfulness on his voice. Not even a single hint. That only made Tai Lung's smirk widen ever so slightly.

"Surprised? Well, I don't blame you." Tai Lung said, "I was surprised when I found out there was a way for me to come back as well. It is not easy, you know? Even though you managed to do it at one point, with the help of Oogway's staff." He looked at the panda as he said those words. His foot still firmly planted on Bisa's face to keep him down.

"Where is it, by the way? Did you leave under your bed or something? Don't tell me you were dumb enough to lose it."

"Why do you want to know?" Po asked, still not being even the slightest bit playful, as he glared at Tai Lung with a cold glare. This time the snow leopard's smirk faltered. For a moment, he nearly seemed... disturbed.

However, he recovered quickly.

"Just tell me where it is." Tai Lung said, as he pressed his foot a little harder on Bisa's face.

"Or what?" Po asked defiantly, to what Tai Lung said:

"I step on this lizard's neck hard enough to sever his head off."

Po didn't react, as he continued to glare at Tai Lung. As he did, the leopard glared back at him. The two spent nearly thirty seconds on this glare-off, with everyone else looking at them in a tense silence so deep it seemed no one was even daring to breathe.

Down there, Bisa looked in between his panda teacher and the leopard who was threatening to stomp his head off.

"Uhhh, will you guys be at it for a long time?" Bisa asked. "Because, it that's the case, then could you not step so hard? Kinda hard to breathe..."

Tai Lung looked at the Komodo for a second, taking his eyes off the panda for the same amount of time. That was all Po needed.

With a swift movement, Po tossed not one, but two pebbles at once, like back on his first day of training Bisa. Tai Lung dodged one of them, but the second hit him square into the shoulder with a surprising strength, causing the leopard to growl in pain and to stumble back, getting his foot off Bisa's neck as the lizard gasped and squirmed away from the leopard.

Bisa was quickly adopting a fighting stance. However, the snow leopard didn't even look his way. He was too busy checking the area that had been hit by the pebble, seeing that it was already starting to show a bruise, such was the power of the throw.

He snapped his head back at Po, who was looking at him with a cold green eye as he lifted his mechanical hand, showing the last pebble he had.

For a moment, it seemed like a threat that he would throw it as well. However, he instead closed his fingers around the pebble and squeezed.

"Leave." Po said coldly as he crushed the pebble. "Your friends too." He uncurled his fist, allowing the dust that once was the pebble to run through the fingers of his prosthetic hand. "Or I will be the one to stomp all your fucking heads off."

The cold way the panda said those threatening words made a lot of the mercenaries around to flinch. Even Tai Lung, for a moment, had a shocked expression on his face. However, once more, he recovered very quickly.

With a roar, he gave a jump.

A very high one.

"Po! Look out!" Bisa cried out as he saw the snow leopard sailing through the air straight at the panda. However, Po only stood there as Tai Lung made his way to him, his fist lifted and ready to deliver a punch, as he firmed his feet into the roof.

Tai Lung was expecting the panda to try that belly thing, and that was why he was putting extra strength on his punch to be sure that he would be the one knocking the wind out of that fat buffoon instead.

But Po did not try to counter with a belly blow. Instead, he let out a guttural panda growl as he countered Tai Lung's punch with a punch of his own. A fist of metal and wood collided with one of flesh and bone, causing a shockwave to spread into the air around the owners of said fists. Po's feet cracked the roof under them as Tai Lung was forced back by the strength of the blow.

He landed on his feet, looking at the panda in surprise, before snarling in pain as he shook his hand. His whole arm was trembling from the impact, while the panda only jumped off the roof and stood there, looking at Tai Lung.

"Come at me, pussycat." The panda said to the leopard. Tai Lung growled and then charged at the panda.

Just as it happened, it seemed that Crane and Mantis took this as the signal to go back to battling the mercenaries, as they needed to rescue their friends.

And Bisa was in favor of it as, while wanting to go and help Po, he knew the Five needed help as well. He quickly dove into the nearest of them, which was Viper. He managed to snatch a knife that one of the bandits had dropped, quickly using it to cut the rope and free the snake.

For a moment, Viper also seemed like she was going to help Po, when a cry made her stop:

"Li Hua!"

This made the snake turn her head as she heard Crane's voice, and saw that Crane was now facing two criminals who were holding a pair of blades to Tigress's neck.

"Leave her alone!" Crane demanded, but the criminals held their blades dangerously close to the feline's trachea, not daring to take their eyes of the avian as they demanded him to surrender.

And because they were so focused on the avian, they failed to see the green being slithering towards them until it lunged and wrapped herself around one of their wrists and forced him to attack the other one, making him drop his sword. At this stage, Tigress finally managed to fight back, and she slammed the other one into the ground before tossing him into other criminals, while Viper finished fighting the one she had been controlling like a puppet.

As they did so, Mantis went for his pal Monkey, saving him from the criminals by flinging them around like toys and then using his "thingies" to slice through the ropes and free the simian.

Soon, the Furious Five were once more on their traditional formation, and Bisa hurried to join them in the center, on the same spot that was once occupied by Po.

Speaking of the panda, he was currently fighting Tai Lung in a fierce combat in which each one of them was fighting the other with a ferocity that would make any of those mercenaries not want to get anywhere close to them.

Po was truly fighting with a determination and fierceness that one would expect on the most experienced and legendary kung fu warriors.

And that was something that Tai Lung had not been expecting at all.

There were no playful feints. There were no moves that nearly seemed accidental. No belly blows. Nothing of the things that he would ever expect from Po when he started preparing for their rematch.

Only a combination of calculated dodges and blocks followed by violent punches and kicks.

What the hell is he doing? Tai Lung caught himself thinking as he continued to fight the panda. What are those moves? That's not the Panda Style! That's not any style! He is like he is just trying to hit me as hard as he can. And he keeps aiming for my head and chest, and he has been trying to hit my liver for a while. He... he is aiming at my vitals! Is he actually trying to kill me!?

Tai Lung realized that he was, and he would have probably succeeded already if he was not fighting someone who was skilled enough to block his attacks, even though those prosthetic hands were harder and stronger than the real ones ever were...

Bisa's hands, while not being as strong, could still deliver strong enough blows that they could shatter the wooden shields that the mercenaries were used, as well as their axes and maces. It honestly still shocked the Five to see how Bisa could deliver such powerful blows with such fluid movements.

Nearly like a dragon striking. Especially with how he held his hands in the same position of a dragon's claw whenever he was delivering a blow.

His help certainly made it easier for the Five to overwhelm he criminals. Especially how many of them became quite defensive as soon as Bisa came close to them before the Komodo would even turn to look at them, as if they were afraid that he could kill them with a single gaze.

Or with his highly-venomous spit.

Bisa, on his end, continued to fight as best as he could in the middle of that mess of a combat relying on the Five to cover his back as he fought and focusing on the battle. Until the moment something fell out of those pants and landed on the ground, and Bisa looked to see one of his most prized possessions.

"My limited-edition Dragon Warrior's figurine!" Bisa quickly dove after it, only for it to be kicked away by the feet of one of the bandits as he tried to swing his curved swords at Master Tigress, who fought back the best he could. Bisa would spend the next three minutes or so trying to recover his precious figurine as it was kicked around by the feet of both bad and good guys.

And closer and closer to where Po was battling with Tai Lung.

"What is going on here!?" Tai Lung finally said after he had to block a punch from Po, which was followed by the panda trying to bite his neck like a rabid dog.

"This is nothing of what I imagined it would be! Why are you fighting like this!? What's gotten into you!?"

The panda growled.

"Why the fuck it matters the way I am fighting! You came here to fight me, didn't you!? So shut your shithole and just come at me!"

And Po tried to deliver another punch into the snow leopard, only for Tai Lung to grab his wrist and sidestep, all in one fluid motion, as he pulled Po's hand behind his back and pressed his chest against the ground while twisting his arm painfully.

Po growled as he struggled, but Tai Lung managed to hold him down hard.

"You know what? Fuck this!" Tai Lung said, sounding like he was pissed. "I am not enjoying this nearly half as much as I thought I would! I will just kill you and get this over with! But, first, you will tell me where you put Oogway's staff! Now!"

"Why are you so fixated on that fucking staff!?" Po demanded, to what Tai Lung said:

"Personal reasons! Now tell me where it is! Spit it out, now!" He twisted Po's arm even harder, causing the panda to growl louder.

"Tell me where it is!" The snow leopard demanded. "Tell me, or I will start breaking your bones one by one until you do! I want that staff! Where did you hid it!?"

"I burned that piece of junk years ago!" Po snarled at the snow leopard.

That was not something Tai Lung had been expecting to hear.

Po suddenly saw himself flipped, now laying on his back on the ground while Tai Lung held him down by the shoulders and looked him straight into the eye.

"What!? What was that!? What did you just say!?" The leopard demanded. "You burned it!? That's a lie, right!?"

"I didn't need that thing anymore!" Po said, "I didn't want to even look at it! So, I snapped It in half and set it on fire! If you want it so much, then I can tell you were to find the ashes! Hope you don't mind digging!"

Tai Lung stared at Po, as his green eye, nearly as if he was trying to see through the lie the panda was telling him and see the truth.

And then, he seemed to realize what Po was telling him was the truth.

"You... destroyed the Staff of Wisdom!?" Tai Lung said right on the panda's face.

"I did! So what!?" Po said, seeming unimpressed. Tai Lung stared at him for a few moments, before his face morphed into one of rage.

"You... stupid panda!"

He lifted Po from the ground, only to slam him into it again, and then to toss him, causing the panda to slam with his back into a nearby house.

"Do you have any idea of what you've done!?" Tai Lung roared as he made it to the panda with quick steps while Po was still recovering. "Do you know how important that staff was!? How precious!? How powerful!? Do you even realize how much Oogway trusted you when he delivered that on your fat, incompetent hands!?"

He grabbed Po by the neck, the panda then slapped his hand away and tried to attack him again, only for Tai Lung to pin both his hands above his head by holding him by the wrists with one hand, while he used the other to start hitting the panda.

"He trusted you with that spiritual treasure of immense power!" Tai Lung said as he punched Po in the face, followed by a punch to the stomach that made the panda double over. "And you went and destroyed it!? Are you kidding me!? What were you even thinking you stupid ball of fat!?"

As Tai Lung continued to beat the panda, he was screaming so loud that a lot of people stopped to look his way. Among them was Bisa, who finally managed to recover his figurine only to look to the side and see Tai Lung beating up the person who it was modeled after.

"Mister Ping!" Bisa said, rushing to help the panda, but being stopped when two huge water buffalos with swords got on his way and started swinging their weapons at him, causing him to have to dodge and fight them before he could go to help his teacher. Meanwhile, Tai Lung continued to punch and admonish the panda.

"You ruined everything!" The snow leopard said. "You destroyed what could be one of the most precious treasures this world has ever seen, and of the likes there would be no other in all of eternity!" He punched Po hard, making both saliva and blood fly off his mouth. He was panting as he glared at the panda, who was panting as well.

"I always knew that Oogway had made a mistake by making you the Dragon Warrior... I realized this after the time I spent meditating on the Spirit Realm after you sent me there." Tai Lung growled at the panda. "But I had not realized how big his mistake was... until now. You truly are a disappointment in all possible ways."

He continued to growl at the panda, while Po looked to the side, feeling the taste of mouth on his own mouth.

It was not a new taste to him.

Opening his eyes, Po turned his head to look at Tai Lung... and spat right on his face.

Tai Lung was, once more, shocked, and he could only stare at the panda, processing the fact that now he had his saliva and blood smeared across his face, while the panda took this as his chance to snap back at him:

"Do you think I give a fuck about any of that!?"

Tai Lung looked at him as he continued.

"You say that you realized Oogway made a mistake by making me the Dragon Warrior!? Well, guess what!? So did I! I wish that senile scale-bag had never made me Dragon Warrior! Fuck, I wish I had never gotten involved in this whole kung fu shit! I would be much happier today if it wasn't for all that useless stuff!"

Po was yelling at Tai Lung with even more ferocity than the snow leopard had yelled at him.

"Just look at you! The big and strong Tai Lung! So strong that you can beat up a panda while telling him how fat and stupid he is!" Po said to his face, spittle flying from his mouth as he screamed at the snow leopard, who looked back at him in shock. "You seem to be conveniently forgetting that this same fat and stupid panda handed you your sorry, worthless tail years ago and blasted it all the way to that land of has-beens that is the Spirit Realm!"

"So, tell me, great warrior, what does that makes you!?" Po demanded. "If a fat and stupid panda like me is a disappointment, then what is a guy who lost to this fat and stupid panda!? Huh!? Can you look into my eyes and tell me you are not even lower than me!? You, who lost to a panda like that! You, who that old scaly never even considered as a Dragon Warrior candidate! You, who was tossed into a prison by your own father after you had your little tantrum like a fucking brat! You are way more of a disappointment than I have ever been! One so big that Shifu tossed you away like the GARBAGE you are!"

"And now here you are, beating me up like that is going to fix anything! That's now how it works, you idiot! Even if you beat me up, I will always be the one who became the Dragon Warrior instead of you!" Po roared at the feline. "You don't think so!? You think that beating me will change things!? That killing me will make you any less of a disappointment!? Of a failure!? Then go ahead! Go ahead and do it!"

Po glared at Tai Lung right in the eye, a line of blood coming out of his nose.

"JUST KILL ME, YOU FUCKING LOSER!"

Tai Lung could only stare at Po. All anger was gone from his features and replaced with shock.

He only continued to look at Po's eyes, seeing all the rage and fury in them. All the hate.

And then, as he looked at those eyes and saw all the things in them, he suddenly became aware of wasn't in them.

Suddenly, Tai Lung's hand shot forward and grabbed Po's muzzle. The panda growled as the snow leopard forced him to look into his eyes, as he looked intently into Po's green eye. He tilted his head as he did.

"It's... gone..." Tai Lung said, a haunted expression on his face. "I-I can't see it! It's gone!"

Po would have asked Tai Lung "what the fuck he meant", but he didn't had time for, on that moment, Bisa had finished knocking out the buffalos threatening and then he was finally charging in Po's rescue.

"Leave him alone!" Bisa cried out as he grabbed Tai Lung by the scruff of his neck and pulled him back. The snow leopard, caught completely off-guard, could not fight Bisa as he slammed him into the ground, delivered three blows to his chest and then pinned him down by pulling his arm back with a hand and pressing the other on the back of his neck while having a knee on the small of the leopard's back.

"Gahh! Get off me!" Tai Lung said, squirming under the lizard while trying to free himself.

"Surrender!" Bisa said, "Do it or I'll hurt you!"

As he said that, a boar was coming behind him with a raised weapon. However, this one was intercepted by Po, who slammed a fist on his face, sending him into the ground.

"Stop struggling!" Bisa said, pressing Tai Lung down harder. That was when Po said:

"What are you waiting for!? Finish him!"

Bisa looked at the panda in surprise.

"Excuse me?"

"Kill him!" The panda said. "Before he frees himself!"

"What!? But... I got him down!"

"For how long!?" Po asked, and then he intercepted another criminal who had tried to sneak on him from behind, grabbing him by the scruff of his neck and slamming a fist on his stomach, sending him on his knees to the ground while clutching his belly in pain.

"You have to finish him off now before he can fight back!" Po demanded. "Do it!"

"But..."

"Just bite him! Your venom will do the job!"

"I can't do that!" Bisa said right away.

"Will you stop being such a wuss!?" The panda snapped at him, before dodging a swing from an axe and then practically crushing the face of the one who swung that at him.

"They got the boss!" One of the criminals said, and soon a group of them were rushing. However, as soon as Bisa turned his head to look at them, they stopped dead on his tracks. The ones with shields lifted them, while the others hid behind them.

"Do it now!" Po said after breaking the arm of a wolf, who screamed in pain until Po knocked him out with a punch. "Just bite him and pump him full of death! That's what you Komodos do!"

"I can't do that!"

"I am ordering you to!"

"I can't!"

"Just stop being a wimp and do as I say!"

"No, you don't get it! I can't!"

This continued for a while, with Po ordering Bisa to bite Tai Lung and kill him, but the Komodo refusing. And this was making the panda increasingly frustrated.

At one moment, after punching one of his attackers and slamming him head-first through the wall, Po just yelled:

"JUST USE YOUR FUCKING VENOM, YOU MOTHERFUCKING SCALIE!"

It seemed obvious to everyone around that the panda had enough at this point.

And, apparently, so had Bisa. Because, for the first time, he snapped back at Po:

"I DON'T HAVE VENOM, OKAY!?"

As soon as Bisa screamed those words, it was like the world around him froze. Everyone stopped on their tracks and turned their heads to look at the Komodo. The villagers, the Five, the mercenaries, everyone was staring at the lizard the same way Po was. Even Tai Lung was looking over his shoulder to look at the lizard on top of him in surprise.

"Wha...?" Po said, looking at Bisa. "What do you mean 'you don't have venom'!?"

"I mean I don't have it!" Bisa said, "That is why I can't do what you are telling me! I can't 'pump him full of death'! If I bit him it would do nothing!"

"How can you not have venom!?" Po demanded from the Komodo. "You are a Komodo dragon! All of you have venom!"

"Not me!" Bisa said back at the panda. He then removed his hand from the back of Tai Lung's neck so he could point at his own mouth.

"Komodo dragons secrete their venom from special glands inside their cheeks! I don't have those glands! It's a birth defect! I can't produce venom!"

Po stared at Bisa with a baffled expression as his mind processed what he just heard. Then, his expression went from baffled to utterly annoyed.

"Are you fucking kidding me!?"

Meanwhile, others were also processing what Bisa said.

"Wait..." one of the criminals came from behind the shields, addressing Bisa directly. "So, you can't make venom? Like, at all?"

"Yeah, that's right." Bisa said to the wolf.

"Like, none?"

"None."

"Not even a lick?"

"Not even a drop." Bisa confirmed, not realizing the mistake he was making just about now.

The wolf and his fellow mercenaries all looked at Bisa for a few moments, before the canine lifted his mace while crying:

"Get that fucking lizard!"

And, as one, the mercenaries all charged at Bisa, who looked at them with shock as they came his way, weapons ready to maul him as they now knew that he didn't had the dreaded venom his species was so known and feared for.

Bisa, seeing all of them coming his way, was actionless for a moment, as all of them tackled him, resulting on him being off Tai Lung.

The snow leopard was still dazed by what happened, but he was slowly getting up while the guys he hired all pinned Bisa down, one of them getting ready to slam his mace right on that venomless Komodo, when suddenly Bisa was pulled from under them like a rug when Po grabbed his tail, with the Komodo crying out as the panda swung him from under those criminals, effectively saving his life.

And then, he swung Bisa into the criminals, using him as a makeshift mace and sending a lot of them flying.

After this, he just dropped Bisa to the ground, with the Komodo feeling a bit disoriented. However, he had to recover quickly, as more criminals were coming their way. All of them suddenly feeling emboldened into attacking the Komodo now that they knew he didn't have any venom to inject them with.

And this meant that, for the next few minutes, not only Po, but also the Furious Five, needed to act on Bisa's defense as it seemed that everyone wanted to kill him.

"Why are they coming for me!?" Bisa asked as one of them nearly attacked him. Who answered was Po, who seemed quite pissed:

"Because now they think you are a sitting duck!"

Po seemed really aggravated with Bisa, and this caused the Komodo to flinch. However, he soon shifted his gaze as he noticed something behind Po.

"Look out!" Bisa said, and he jumped past Po just as a boar threw a dagger at him, snatching the dagger from midair and making a roll into the ground before getting to his feet in front of the boar and punching him into the stomach hard enough to send him back several feet. All of that in one swift, very elegant, and a bit flamboyant, movement.

While he did it, some of the criminals had managed to get to Po, who got momentarily distracted from the combat by Bisa's actions. They all jumped on him, pinning him to the ground as Po struggled to force himself up.

"Hah! Now we got you, panda!" Said one of the criminals, one of the boars who ran away from Po two weeks ago. "Now I can get revenge on you because of what you did to my boss!" He pulled a knive and held it very close to the panda's face. "Maybe I will take that other eye of yours. Or maybe your tongue. One thing's for sure, I will take my time. I will enjoy taking as much as I can from you."

Hearing this, Po's eyes widened.

"We can take whatever we want from you, panda. I thought you would have realized it by now. Be it your hands. Your feet. Your arms. We can take whatever. The Emperor himself gave us permission. He told us to do as we pleased with you. And that is what we are doing. You are our prisoner, and we will be sure to make the most of our time with you. We will take from you, until there is nothing left to take, if we so desire. There is nothing you can do to stop us, and no one else will try to stop us. Because no one cares about you. No one cares what we do to you. No one cares if you die in here. They have all abandoned you. You are all alone."

Po shook. His whole body shook.

It shook just back on the day he heard those words.

Those words that ringed true because Po really could do nothing to stop them.

He really could do nothing because he was completely immobilized as they ganged up on him.

Just like now.

NO!

With a roar, Po managed to free one of his arms from the criminals holding him, and he then grabbed the head of the boar, squeezing it with his mechanical fingers and making the boar squeal in agony and grab on that mechanical hand to try and pry the fingers open.

Before he could, however, Po moved again, slamming the head of the boar into the ground so hard it got completely crushed with a repugnant sound that made all the bandits back away.

But Po was not letting they just walk away.

With another roar, the panda swung his other hand, and he hit a wolf with his fingers so hard they pierced through his flesh, causing blood to spray. The other bandits didn't had time to reach as Po did the same with a buffalo and then with another wolf, slashing through their skin and muscle with his bare fingers.

Soon, all the attention turned to the panda as he roared and attacked.

At one moment, he grasped the arms of a boar who tried to swing an axe at him, crushing his wrists with his hands and then, with a kick, sending the boar flying away with a kick as his arms detached from his body. Then he tossed the arms away and he attacked a nearby rhino, grasping his head and twisting it hard, snapping his spine and letting him fall to the ground dead. A buffalo tried to hit him with a sword, only for Po to break his arm and then wrap his other hand around the buffalo's throat and, with a swoop movement, rip his entire trachea, causing blood to pour everywhere as the buffalo started choking on his own blood.

Everyone looked in shock at this bloody display, including Tai Lung. Bisa was unaware of this, as he was fighting one of the other bandits, but he soon became aware of it as Po tossed a boar whose neck he just broke into the bandit Bisa was fighting, causing the Komodo to look to the side and be shocked by the sight of Po them breaking the arms of another boar and then crushing his head between his mechanical hands by clapping.

Most people were too horrified to look away, and they saw as the panda tore those criminals apart, getting himself coated with their blood. The black and white of his fur and grey of his clothes being stained with scarlet as the bandits who tried to fight Po were easily overwhelmed and killed. Either by having their skin tore apart as Po forced his hand through their chests, or by having their skulls crushed by the panda's fingers. Or by having their heads crushed with a stomp after falling into the ground, or even by the panda charging at him and biting their neck off.

The bandits, upon fully realizing the threat this panda posed, scrambled back, but Po was not about to let them off easily. Po charged at them, grabbing a fallen weapon and swinging it at them, killing five before throwing it and impaling another bandit with it. Then he charged at two more on all fours, jumping on them and pinning them down under his own weight, before slamming his hands on their heads hard enough to completely crush their skulls.

A final bandit was trying to scramble away, but Po saw it and grabbed him by the ankle.

"Where do you think you're going, motherfucker!?" Po snarled as he pulled the bandit back, before pinning him to the ground.

"No! No, please!" The wolf screamed in fear as the panda glared at him with hatred. "Please! I am sorry! I will leave and never come back! Please, let me go! Please! I have a family! Brothers and nephews!"

Po glared at him for a few seconds, and then he said:

"If they come after me for revenge, I will be sure to toss them on the same ditch as you!"

And then, as the wolf screamed in fear, Po lunged, clamping his jaws around his neck.

Many looked away at this point, unable to see that bloody scene. The wolf twitched for a moment as he gargled, before going limp under the panda.

Po got up and, still on all fours, turned to look at the remaining bandits, all of which had retreated close to Tai Lung.

His body was covered on the blood of the bandits he just liquidated. Blood was dripping from his mouth as he snarled at the snow leopard. His blind and healthy eye had the same hateful, murderous shine on them as the panda growled.

The bandits all looked at the panda with terror. Meanwhile, Tai Lung only looked at him with shock. He could not believe what he had just witnessed.

The sheer ruthlessness... no. That... that was beyond ruthless.

That, what he just saw, had been nothing by savagery.

"Who..." The snow leopard said, looking at the panda in shock.

"Who are you?"

Po paused, looking at the snow leopard who just asked him that question.

A question that another feline, another leopard, had asked him years ago.

And Po gave him the same answer he gave to that other sod:

"I am nobody!"

And, with another roar, Po charged, going on all fours towards Tai Lung and the bandits. The latter ones screamed in terror as the panda came to them, while the former, an experienced warrior, managed to react.

Po had always been harder to affect with nerve strikes, but he was not completely immune to them. They could still shake him, and Tai Lung took advantage of it, as he delivered three nerve strikes in quick succession, stunning the panda enough for him to deliver an axe kick that flipped the panda, and the delivering a double punch to his stomach while he was in the air, sending him flying back and colliding with a house and nearly demolishing it.

"PO!"

At this point, Bisa and the Five rushed to the panda. They worked like made to pull the debris off him, revealing the panda to be groaning as he got up.

"Po! Are you okay!?" Bisa said, trying to help Po up by grabbing his arm. The panda's reaction was immediate.

"Don't touch me!"

Bisa backed away at this outburst. Not only because of how Po screamed, but because the panda swung his fist his way, as if he was trying to his Bisa's head. This left the Komodo shocked as he watched as the panda got up, tossing the rest of the debris off himself and walked back to try and go after Tai Lung and the bandits again, only to find out they were gone and nowhere in sight.

This caused the panda to growl loudly in frustration.

The others looked at him, all of them trading looks.

Bisa, who had jumped back at Po's attempt to hit him, continued to look at Po. He still had the dagger he got from one of the bandits, and he went to Po, but not before picking up his Po statuette.

"Po?" Bisa asked, approaching him. "Are you... are you okay?"

Po then turned to him, and his expression was still one of rage.

"You useless bag of scales!"

Bisa jumped back again, even thought this time Po did not actually tried to hit him.

"You don't have any venom!?" Po demanded, "Not only that, but you yell it loud enough for your enemies to hear!? You might as well just bend over and ask them to skew you with a spear and roast you over low fire!"

A lot of people were disturbed by this mental image. The type that Po would never have brought about before he ended up before he ended up like that.

"I-I..." Bisa said, "I... I just said it because I got nervous! You were asking me to use my venom and I couldn't so... i-it was not as if I was hiding it. I... I just didn't think it was worth mentioning?"

"Not worth mentioning!?" Po demanded. "I went against my own principles and decided to teach you how to fight, and you decided that it was not worth mentioning to me you don't have the one and only natural weapon Komodos have!? Are you fucking kidding me!? You should have told me that on the very firsts day!"

"I..." Bisa said, "I'm sorry! I-I just thought that..."

"That what!?" Po's yelling was so loud that people could hear it from the other side of the village by now. "That you didn't needed to let me know if you don't have the one thing that makes a Komodo dragon a Komodo dragon!? That you don't have the one thing that makes your whole kind so feared!? Without it, you no different from an oversized iguana!"

And then Po said:

"You are worthless without venom!"

Bisa gasped in shock, his eyes widen as he took a step back.

He looked at Po for several minutes, not being able to believe those words truly came out of Po's mouth.

The same words his own family said to him so many times as he grew up.

"Po..." Bisa said, lowering his head, he closed his eyes, his body trembling as he clutched both the dagger's handle and the statuette. "You..."

His voice was strained, and tears were starting to leak from his eyes. Po noticed it, and he blinked as he saw those tears.

He... didn't knew Komodo dragons could cry...

"YOU JERK!" Bisa said as he threw the statuette at Po. It hit the panda right on the nose, causing him to stumble back. Immediately, Bisa turned around and ran off in tears, leaving a lot of people to look on his direction.

With one of them, a rabbit with a droopy ear, going after him while calling his name.

Po, after seeing him run away, just said:

"Oh, just go! You fucking crybaby! Go to your mama!"

He then looked down, at the object that the lizard tossed on him.

"Do they still make this shit?" Po said as he picked up the statuette. A depiction of himself, minus the scars, articulated and in a kung fu pose. A memory of a past he long left behind.

Po wanted to smash that thing to pieces.

However, as he flipped it, he saw that the statuette had something written on its back.

Wait... is that my handwriting? Po thought as he saw the words on the back of the little toy. However, before he could read them, he suddenly gasped and then grasped his torso.

It hurt.

It hurt more than anything Po had felt in years, and it caused the panda to immediately go down to the ground, clutching his stomach. He would be clutching his entire torso if he could, but all he could do was curl into a ball in agony as he coughed. The taste of blood was on his mouth, and that was not the wolf's, but Po's own.

He was so overcome by the pain, however, that he hardly registered the taste of his own blood on his mouth, just like he didn't register the many people around him calling his name, and crying out for a medic...