The Hybrid

It's Done... Right?

Tigress and Raven stood opposite of each other, about four meters apart. They were facing each other in the small clearing they were camped in. "My power is derived from learning the true meaning of strength. Tell me, Raven. Where does your strength come from?" Raven thought about it for a while. Pictures of her life back on Earth popped and bubbled into her mind. She recounted every hardship she helped in and every struggle they helped in. Her friends, her true family, gave her the strength she had now.

"My friends," Raven answered honestly. Tigress smiled.

"We are strong together. Anger clouds that idea. It will make you think that you can do it on your own, reject and criticize your friends, and even give your enemies control over you. Your strength doesn't come from just yourself. It comes from others," Tigress replied. "Now the Super Strength is a little different from the other powers. In fact, it actually increases the strength of the other powers." Raven's ears perked up. "Think about it. If you're using something that increases your entire strength and add, say, super speed-"

"Then I would be able to increase my powers tenfold," Raven said, looking at her fist and clenching it. She saw Tigress gently grab it.

"It's time," Tigress said. She looked up into a tree where the noise of swinging branches swooshed through. "Anything Po?"

"I see Ed coming!" Raven breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, there was a snap.

"Oh no," Tigress and Raven said, scrambling away from the falling panda.

"WAHHAAAAAHHH OFH!"

"Forecast: falling pandas," Raven muttered under her breath as Tigress helped Po up.

"Thank you, and sorry for that," Po said with a goofy smile. Tigress smiled back, shaking her head. Then Ed broke through the canopy of the trees and landed on Raven's shoulder. His face couldn't really be interrupted, but it seemed troubled in the least.

"Ed, where's Dhaal?"

"He's with the villagers. I told them to stop when I saw the Mongols directly in the path they were going. They're everywhere; North, South, East, West. They have us completely surrounded. But I know for sure that Khan's down the evacuation route. I saw him for a moment before I flew as fast as I could."

"Come on," Raven said, cracking her knuckles, "Let's not keep Khan waiting."

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The vulture looked from the high peak that he was pierced on, overlooking the valley. Khan became impatient. His army stood ready at the foot of the valley but the villagers hadn't come yet. His immediate mind-controlled bodyguards were around him. "Where are they?" The vulture grumbled, looking with his superior vision down the sharp V of the valley.

"They must have been caught by the others, Lord Khan," a puny wolf soldier suggested in an upright tone. The Khan looked up into the sky. It was a cloudy day. The sun's rays didn't pierce through the sky. Khan growled in annoyance.

"They're in the clouds."

"Sire?"

"Get up in the clouds and-"

"Lord Khan! They're coming!" Genghis Khan looked and saw the approaching villagers, carts, and all, rushing down the valley. But something was off. It looked like they were running... towards them? Suddenly, a small glimpse of purple darted through the air, carrying a tiger by the hands. Raven dropped Tigress onto the army. Tigress with her power, which emitted a red aura around her, she quickly smashed through the front line of warriors, slashing, and tearing their shields apart. Dodging the swings of the soldiers' axes, she clanged together the heads of her enemies' helmets on their heads, knocking them out. Punching one soldier, she punched the whole line from the valley wall to her in a cascading line. She did the same to the other side. But she didn't push forward, only dealing with the front line.