Millie: what is it with that Rodent? I get he's your boss and all, but ya ask me he's just trying to get rid of us
The others look at each other and smile awkwardly.
MANTIS: I know he can seem kind of heartless...
He violently jabs another needle in Po.
PO: Ah!
MANTIS: But, you know, he wasn't always like that.
VIPER: According to legend, there was once a time when Master Shifu actually used to smile.
PO: No...
Outside, Tigress is walking down the hallway when she overhears them talking. She stops outside their door.
VIPER: But that was before... [She hesitates]
Millie: Before what?
Tigress enters.
TIGRESS: Before Tai Lung.
Crane's shadow is silhouetted on the wall.
CRANE: Uh, yeah, we're not really supposed to talk about him.
TIGRESS: Well, if their going to stay here, they should know.
PO: Guys, guys. I know about Tai Lung.
Tigress looks at Po.
PO: He was a student, the first ever to master the thousand... scrolls of... kung fu... [Tigress gives him a piercing stare. He nervously trails off.] and... then he turned bad... and... now he's in jail...
TIGRESS: He wasn't just a student.
FLASHBACK.
A younger Shifu steps out of the Training Hall Courtyard and finds a baby leopard cub on the steps, swaddled in cloth.
"Shifu found him as a cub. And he raised him as his son."
While being fed, baby Tai Lung yanks off some of Shifu's whiskers.
"...and when the boy showed talent in kung fu..."
A slightly older Tai Lung approaches the training dummy. He kicks it across the floor, and it hits the wall, knocking a spear from the weapons rack. Shifu approaches, impressed, and Tai Lung nudges him affectionately.
"...Shifu trained him."
Shifu teaches Tai Lung how to punch.
"He believed in him. He told him he was destined for greatness."
Tai Lung faces a wooden warrior.
"It was never enough for Tai Lung."
Cut to a full grown Tai Lung demolishing the warrior while Shifu looks on with intense pride. Master Oogway is also watching, but does not look impressed.
"He wanted Manda's scroll and totem. But Oogway saw darkness in his heart and refused."
An enraged Tai Lung rampages through a village.
"Outraged, Tai Lung laid waste to the valley."
Tai Lung returns to the Jade Palace and crashes through the doors into the Hall of Warriors, where Shifu and Oogway are waiting for him.
"He tried to take the scroll and totem by force. And Shifu had to destroy what he had created."
Shifu leaps at Tai Lung to deliver a kick. However, at the last second he sees only baby Tai Lung running towards him.
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Helluva boss: alternate continuation
FanfictionAfter their disastrous anniversary at Ozzie's, moxxie and Millie leave imp city convinced that it was all blitzo's fault quitting the company all together. But little did they know was that they would be taken to a place that would take them to diff...
To learn kung fu
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