SHIFU: I've been taking it easy on you, panda, but no more! Your next opponent... will be me.

PO: Alright! Yeah, let's go!

The Five exchange worried looks. Po and Shifu face off.

SHIFU: Step forth.

Po doesn't even finish the step as Shifu whirls him around with no effort and and throws him to the floor pinning his arm behind him.

SHIFU: The true path to victory is to find your opponent's weakness and make him suffer for it.

PO: [In pain, but delighted.] Oh ho, yeah!

Shifu throws Po around again.

SHIFU: To take his strength and use it against him. [Shifu kicks Po repeatedly in the face. He throw him to the floor again, and grips Po by the nose.] Until he finally falls, or quits.

Po is totally inspired.

PO: [Nasally] But a real warrior never quits. Don't worry, Master, I will never quit!

At his breaking point, Shifu flings Po into the air and then leaps at him with a flying kick. Po crashes out of the door and tumbles down the steps. The Five walk outside and watch him fall.

TIGRESS: If he's smart, he won't come back up those steps.

MONKEY: But he will.

Tigress walks back inside.

VIPER: He's not gonna quit, is he?

MANTIS: He's not gonna quit bouncin', I'll tell ya that.

He begins laughing, but Viper silences him with a stern hiss. Po yells in the distance as he continues to tumble...

In his bunkhouse room that evening, Po is still yelling in pain.

PO: Aaaoo...whoohoo...EEEee...hee- hee... OW! I thought you said acupuncture would make me feel [Mantis pops us from behind Po holding a handful of needles and sticks him again.] better!

MANTIS: Trust me, it will. It's just not easy finding the right nerve points under all this...

PO: Fat?

MANTIS: Fur, I was going to say fur.

Removes the needle and moves to another part of Po's back.

PO: [Skeptical] Sure you were.

MANTIS: [Adjusts a needle and taps Po's back for nerves.] Who am I to judge a warrior based on his size? I mean... look at me.

Po looks for Mantis...

MANTIS: I'm over here.

...But Mantis is now on his other shoulder. He jabs another needle into Po.

PO: Ah-HAH!

VIPER: Maybe you should take a look at this again.

Viper, who is also in the room, is holding a diagram of acupuncture meridians (onto which someone has overlaid a drawing of a panda.)

MANTIS: [looks at the diagram] Oh! Okay.

Meanwhile, Monkey is meditating in another room.

PO: Ow! Don't... [laughing]

Monkey opens his eyes. Annoyed at the disturbance, Monkey sticks his fingers in his ears. In another room, Crane is doing calligraphy.

PO: Stop it, stop... YOW!

Startled, Crane accidentally smears the paper. Back in his own room, Po settles down. We see moxxie and Millie are in the room too with a few needles on their bodies as well and they were okay now

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