(DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE KUNG FU PANDA FRANCHISE/SERIES OR POKÉMON. KUNG FU PANDA (FRANCHISE/SERIES) BELONGS TO DREAMWORKS ANIMATION. POKÉMON BELONGS TO GAMEFREAK/NINTENDO).
Chapter 9: Welcome to Eindoak Town
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(Having finally arrived in Eindoak Town, Meowscarada jumps from the ship onto a cargo hold with a ton of stone blocks on them, before climbing to the top. While Snorlax struggles to follow her but manages to climb onto the cargo. Once the crane carries them around to the side of the building where the crane is, Meowscarada jumps and uses the ropes carrying boxes and large sacks to swing along. When Snorlax tries to do it, he panics upon grabbing hold of a crate).
(Meowscarada, meanwhile lands safely on the ground. While Snorlax falls and crashes onto the ground, while Meowscarada sends him a smug grin, feeling a bit amused by his clumsiness).
Snorlax: Ah! (Then the two looked to see the bustling city that was Eindoak Town. With Pokémon serving as a sort of Crossing Guard. Leaving Snorlax feeling amazed and in awe at all the sights of the city before him). Whoa! (But then citizens bump into him when they are trying to get past him).
Gabite Citizen: Move!
Citizen: Look out! (Snorlax says to apologize for being in the way of all the bustling citizens).
Snorlax: Sorry! (But then Snorlax sees a group of Pokémon rushing in his direction, and someone pulls him out of the way in time to keep him from ending up trampled by them).
Excadrill: Out of the way! (Snorlax felt both excited and a bit surprised by how big and populated the city was in comparison to his hometown as Meowscarada grabs his paw and drags him along with her to keep them moving).
Snorlax: Man, I have never seen so much traffic before.
Meowscarada: You do not have rush hour in Machina Town?
Snorlax: No one is ever in that much of a rush. (Then Snorlax accidentally bumps into another citizens). Oof. (The Citizen gives him a light glare before moving on. By then Meowscarada is already far ahead of Snorlax, preparing to climb a set of stairs, as she calls out to him).
Meowscarada: Come on! (Snorlax rushes to catch up with Meowscarada but struggles when two carts come running past him from opposite directions. He manages to get past them, before having to carefully make his way past a group of Bunnelby and Tepig kids. As they keep walking through the city together, Meowscarada begins fondly reminiscing about her hometown). Well, it sure is good to be home again. The Sights. The sounds. (But then she bumps into Snorlax from behind, who is taking in the stuff that Meowscarada were just talking about. Specifically, he was taking in...).
Snorlax: (Sniffs). The smells. (... The aroma of all the food in the air around him. And then he begins imagining a variety of foods all flying around him. As he imagines sticking his head into an open restaurant window and gazing at all the food that was on the tables). It is a wonton wonderland! (Then he begins imagining himself ending up surrounded by food carts. All this makes him Chuckle happily. Then he begins eating food given to him on chopsticks. Before imagining food raining from the sky above him). Yes! (Then he imagines himself at a table with a spinning wheel, making it a lottery wheel... of Food! As the wheel spins, Snorlax laughs and pants happily until Meowscarada shouts to get him to snap out of his food induced daydream).
Meowscarada: Snorlax. Snorlax! Focus! (But Snorlax is unable to focus due to his own overwhelming feelings of excitement).
Snorlax: This city is the most amazing place I have ever seen! (Meowscarada cannot disagree with Snorlax on that as she agrees with him saying).
Meowscarada: Well, I used to feel the same way (Meowscarada turns and walks behind them as Snorlax follows her) until Mew got her claws into it. (They see that a pair of Kommo-o from Mew's army was terrorizing a Tepig, with one of the Kommo-o holding the Tepig upside and shaking it to make it fork over whatever money it had. As the Tepig kept whimpering, the Kommo-o were chuckling to themselves. Not far away a trio of Kommo-o was threatening another citizen with their fists, before one of them snatched the citizen's bag of coins. While another small group was threatening a lone Ampharos citizen for her coins. She whimpered sadly as she gave her bag of coins to the Kommo-o. Elsewhere in the city, a trio of Kommo-o began growling as they made it their way to an Excadrill running a small stand, who at once puts bags of coins on the table for them. Seeing this, Snorlax was full of determination as he said to Meowscarada).
Snorlax: Tonight, we take down Mew. (Meowscarada agrees with Snorlax telling him with a grin on her face).
Meowscarada: Oh, yes. Well, I will show you where this villainous sorcerer lurks as she dominates the city. (Snorlax already had a suppose as to where Mew "Lurks" as he asks Meowscarada).
Snorlax: Is she lurking in that villainous tower dominating the city? (Meowscarada looks up to see that Snorlax was gesturing to the Giant Building that resembled a Sword perched into a Mountainside. She was surprised that Snorlax was able to guess the location of Mew's Hideout, asking him).
Meowscarada: How did you know? (Snorlax tells her while trying to sound casual about it).
Snorlax: Eh, not my first time taking down a villain. (Snorlax remembered how he and the Animarium Wild Force had chased Genesect's lead army soldier, Darmanitan through Crown City, and just so happened to arrive at Genesect's Tower Lair before he later destroyed it. Then Meowscarada said to Snorlax before she took off showing him the way).
Meowscarada: Well, it is the Sword of the Vale. But let us keep moving. (Snorlax follows Meowscarada as they went ahead to walk through the city. As they walk through a city street, a couple of citizens greet Meowscarada friendly).
Citizen #1: Hey, Meowscarada!
Citizen #2: Heya, Meowscarada.
Citizen #3: It has been a while.
Citizen #4: How are you doing, Meowscarada? (Snorlax was surprised to see the way that people were acting upon seeing Meowscarada).
Snorlax: Wow, you are quite the local celeb. (Meowscarada just played what Snorlax said off, telling him playfully).
Meowscarada: Yes, well, let us just say a face like mine is hard to forget. (Meowscarada then walks off to continue leading Snorlax, when he suddenly spotted something hanging on a wall. It was...).
Snorlax: What? You are a wanted criminal? (... A Wanted Poster! He walks around a corner, where Meowscarada went, only to find a massive group of them all over the place. Snorlax felt shocked to learn that his traveling companion was a wanted criminal. But this does not bother Meowscarada, having Snorlax find out about her criminal status, telling him casually).
Meowscarada: You sound surprised. Is this surprising? I do not think this is surprising. (Snorlax said to Meowscarada, still feeling shocked by this revelation).
Snorlax: You never mentioned you were a wanted criminal.
(But Meowscarada reassures Snorlax, calmly telling him as she walks backwards away from him. Meowscarada did not feel worried about ending up caught by the law as one of the most wanted criminals, after all she was Cunning Like a Fox, due to having used her cunningness, which has most surely helped her evade the law for so long. Not to mention that although the citizens of Eindoak Town knew that she was a thief and con artist, she was extremely popular, and everyone who saw her smiled at her and greeted her, even the one citizen who was painting her wanted posters had waved and greeted her).
Meowscarada: Do not worry. The law has better things to do than look for me. (Unfortunately, at that moment, Meowscarada just happened to back up into a Pair of Emboar Officers, who do not look the least bit pleased to see her).
Emboar Officer #1: Hey, Magician.
Emboar Officer #2: We have been looking for you. (The Emboar Officer grabs her and goes ahead to carry her away, as she says to herself).
Meowscarada: Must be a slow workweek. (Meowscarada felt like her "Villain with Good Publicity" status was not going to help her here. But then Snorlax stepped in to tell the two Emboar Officers).
Snorlax: Look I will manage this. Morning, officers. Dragon Warrior here. The Magician and I are here on official Dragon Warrior business. (This gets a Confused reaction from the Emboar Officers, as one of them asks).
Emboar Officer #2: Dragon who?
Emboar Officer #1: Warrior what? (Snorlax was surprised to hear that the Emboar Officers have clearly never heard of him).
Snorlax: Dragon Warrior. Anyone? Nothing? (The Emboar Officers continue to give Snorlax bewildered looks, as Snorlax says to hopefully get them to recognize him). Likely you know me better as... (Snorlax does a series a fancy Kung Fu Moves, while dawning his Straw hat, and flowing Red Cape) The Kung Fu Panda! (Moments later, Snorlax hears Metal clanging as he realizes that the Emboar Officers have put him and Meowscarada together in Cages, protesting this).
Snorlax: Wait, wait! (The Emboar Officers begin Chuckling to themselves as the cart the cages that he and Meowscarada are in begins moving away).
Emboar Officer #2: Can you believe that guy?
Snorlax: Aw, come on! (Despite being annoyed by Snorlax's antics just now, she said to him having a plan in mind already).
Meowscarada: Okay, so we tried it your way. Now we try it mine. (Meowscarada then pulls out a key she swiped and uses it to open their cage prison. As Snorlax asks her, wondering what she was planning to do here).
Snorlax: Wait, what is your way... (Meowscarada opens the cage door, and pulls Snorlax out with her, as they jump to a lower-level area of the city, with Snorlax screaming the whole way down. While Meowscarada lands safely on a kart carrying sacks of flour, Snorlax is not as fortunate as he crash-lands on a Merchants Cart carrying a combination of Cabbages and Durin Berry's. Upon seeing the damage he caused, Snorlax quickly apologizes to the Merchant as Meowscarada pushes the cart carrying Snorlax away). Sorry. (All the poor Merchant could do is mourn his destroyed Cabbages and Durin Berry's thinking to himself, "My Cabbages. And my Durin Berry's").
(Meowscarada was running down the street as fast as she could with Snorlax right behind her).
Meowscarada: Come on, come on, come on, come on! (As they kept running, Snorlax shouted to her).
Snorlax: You cannot run away from the law. (They stop and hide behind a building as Meowscarada peeks behind a corner). You are a wanted criminal! (Meowscarada smirks as she responds to Snorlax telling him while pointing at something she saw).
Meowscarada: Yes? Well, it looks like I am not the only one. (Snorlax looked at where Meowscarada was pointing and saw there was a wanted poster with both her and now him).
Snorlax: Wow. City life really has a fast pace. (Meowscarada knew they had to move fast as she told Snorlax).
Meowscarada: We gotta get out of here before they call for... (They heard a Rumbling noise and look over to see a huge swarm of Emboar Officers coming around a corner for them) ... backup. (Then they looked to see that coming from another corner was even more Emboar Officers. When they turned around, they saw even more Emboar Officers coming their way. Seeing all the incoming Emboar Officers, destroying whatever stood in their way, Snorlax says to him and Meowscarada).
Snorlax: That is a ton of Emboar's. (Meowscarada shouts, feeling a sense of panic and dread overwhelm her).
Meowscarada: Run! (Then without a second thought, Meowscarada takes off doing just that. And Snorlax does the same as he too takes off running away with her from all the surging Emboar Officers. Meowscarada grabs a pair of bamboo sticks, and tosses one to Snorlax, the two then run to an extremely high wall at which point they use the Bamboo sticks to launch themselves up over the wall. While Meowscarada does it successfully, Snorlax is not as successful, but he does manage to burst through the wall).
(Snorlax and Meowscarada keep running through the city, hoping to lose the Emboar Officers after them).
Meowscarada: Let us go, let us go! (The two run into a purple tent and disappear. When the Emboar Officers arrive, two of them rip the tent away revealing that Snorlax and Meowscarada have escaped using an open sewer hole).
(In the pipeline, Snorlax was sliding through the hole with Meowscarada right behind him, as they both screamed the whole time. When they finally made it to the end, Snorlax got stuck in the exit due to his size. As he tried to wiggle himself free, Meowscarada bumped into Snorlax from behind, thereby dislodging Snorlax from ending up stuck there, while also sending them plummeting towards the ground).
Snorlax: Oh! (They ended up crashlanding on a cart that a Pignite was pulling. Then they saw that they were heading straight for a large swarm of Emboar Officers. Luckily, Snorlax managed to maneuver the cart away from the Emboar Officers, and onto another street. But they ended up going down a flight of stairs. With the vibrations of the cart hitting the stair making them all scream in panic, before they go and come close to hitting a group of citizens before the cart hits a fence and sends both Snorlax and Meowscarada flying into the air, and then into a rooftop. Before they go bouncing over the rooftiles, and go over the edge, until Snorlax manages to grab onto a hanging sign. Then Snorlax and Meowscarada gasp when they look up and see that standing on the roof were a group of Emboar Officers. They quickly came after the two once more, before a long Dragon string kite comes flying by, and they decided to use it as their means of escape. They jumped and grabbed onto the kite and were able to use it to escape the Emboar Officers. This frustrated all the Emboar Officers. Snorlax and Meowscarada continued to fly through the city via the Dragon Kite, while holding on for dear life. As they continued to fly, they went down for a dive, coming close to flattening the Emboar Officers chasing them from the ground. Then Meowscarada said to Snorlax).
Meowscarada: Let us go! (They went and jumped off the kite, before grabbing onto a pair of rope connected to the kite). Unfortunately for Snorlax, he ended up tied up in the kite strings.
Snorlax: Whoa! Whoa! (And in trying to untie himself, he ended up pulling on the strings held by a group of kids, causing them to panic before he shouted in panic). Well, I am falling very slowly. (But then enough of the strings snap to cause Snorlax to go freefalling towards the ground with a scream). Ow! (But luckily, he manages to land on a group of lanterns, directly above a group of Emboar Officer. His weight was causing the lanterns to bend downward, nearing him closer to the Emboar Officers who were reaching out to grab him... until suddenly the lanterns launched him back into air again with a scream. Snorlax continues screaming as he goes crashing into more building rooftops. After crashing into multiple rooftops, Snorlax goes and falls towards the ground, but instead of landing on the ground... he lands on the cart belonging to the same Cabbage and Durian Berry Merchant that he crashed onto earlier. Snorlax, realizing what he did, was quick to apologize... again, telling the poor merchant). Sorry. (Just then Meowscarada arrives to push the cart bound Snorlax away, leaving the poor merchant to burst into tears, sobbing loudly as he shouts to the skies above him).
Merchant: MY CABBAGES! THIS PLACE IS WORSE THAN OMASHU! (The Poor merchant already was unlucky, having to deal with a crazy kid who had an Arrow on his head, being denied entry into a kingdom named after the earth then having a Platypus Bear destroy his cart, and even after getting into the city a wild Rabaroo descended on his cart and began eating his merchandise. And now a Snorlax had to destroy his Cabbage cart... TWICE!? Why did this keep happening to him?).
(Snorlax and Meowscarada continued running, hoping to find a way to escape the Emboar Officers. As they made their way through the crowd with the Eindoak Town Police Force in hot Pursuit they turned around a corner, and then enter what turns out to be an antique shop and they all slow down as to not damage the merchandise as the only present employee looks on anxiously. As they all maneuver as carefully as they can, they all whimper nervously and afraid that if they make one wrong move, they will break something. Aside from making a couple of the antiques shake, they all manage to get out without breaking anything. This causes the Store owner to sigh in relief).
Store Owner: Whew.
(Once Snorlax, Meowscarada, and the Emboar Officers chasing them make it outside, their high-speed chase resumes. With Snorlax and Meowscarada running down a street past a bunch of streamers. Until they arrive at the end of an alleyway, that was empty except for a bunch Drums and other instruments. Meowscarada then grabbed a pair of Drum Sticks and began playing away on a bunch of drums. When suddenly an Emboar Officer spots the duo and says alerting the others).
Emboar Officer: There they are! (Snorlax begins to panic knowing that the Emboar Officers will be here any moment now and warns Meowscarada telling her).
Snorlax: We do not have time for your drum solo! (The Emboar Officers were closing in on Snorlax and Meowscarada in every direction. Causing Snorlax to shout). They have us trapped. (Snorlax took a fighting stance, ready to fight them if necessary. When suddenly Meowscarada stops playing and sees one of the Drums open, revealing a secret entrance. Moments later, Meowscarada struggles to get Snorlax to fit inside the secret entrance, as the Emboar Officers drew ever closer. Finally, she manages to get Snorlax inside the secret entrance, causing him to scream in panic and fear before she climbs inside too and closes the door behind her. And just in time too, as moments later the Emboar Officers arrive and cannot find either Snorlax or Meowscarada. Not able to understand how they could have escaped like they did. But now Snorlax was wondering where Meowscarada was taking him now).
[A/N #1: Here is a bit of Fun Trivia about Kung Fu Panda 1: In a Case of Awesome Music: Surely one of the most cunning scores of Hans Zimmer and John Powell. There's "Hero" (It plays during the Scene where Po has his dream at the beginning of the movie before his dad wakes him up), "Sacred Pool of Tears" (It plays during the Scene where Shifu leads Po to the Sacred Pool of tears to train him), "Panda Po" (It plays during the movies End Credits), "Oogway Ascends" (It plays during the Scene where Oogway passes on after giving Shifu his Staff), "The Bridge" (It plays during the Scene where The Furious Five battle Tai Lung), "Tai Lung Escapes" (It plays during the Scene where Tai Lung escapes his Prison) ... One can almost say that the entire score is impressive. Special recognition must go to Tai Lung's Theme (or more accurately the theme for Shifu and Tai Lung). First heard played by Shifu on his flute, it gets continual and impressive renderings throughout "Tai Lung Escapes" and "Shifu Faces Tai Lung" and has a presence in a variety of modes in the final confrontation. Even so, it is highly underused and deserves a suite of its own. What better way to end the movie than with Kung Fu Fighting? Not only that, but Cee Lo Green sings it with help from Jack Black!].
[A/N #2: And plus, getting to add an easter egg for one of my favorite Nickelodeon Shows (After "Danny Phantom" of Course) did make me feel better, because it was a HILARIOUS easter egg. And it is always one that either brings a smile to my face or makes me laugh. (And sometimes it does both of those things)].
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Ashpoke55: Thank you. And you will find out next time whether your guess is correct or not. (Or you may not find out). You will just need to wait and see.
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-To Be Continued-
Next time on... MASTER FIGHTER BATTLES 4:
The Den of Thieves