Po/Red: What?
Furious Six: What?!
Shifu: What!?
MR. PING: [Entering through the doors.] WHAT!?
[The announcer strikes the gong. Shifu snatches away the mallet, but is too late as the crowd cheers wildly and confetti rains down. Po stares around him, speechless. A group of palace geese rapidly descend the palace stairs with a palanquin.]
Shifu: Stop! Wait! Who told you to-
[The geese move straight past him, down the remaining steps, and stop right in front of Po and Red. Shifu races down after them as the panda and red bird are hoisted up on the palanquin. The geese struggle to lift the palanquin with Po and make their way back towards the stairs. While the Six are bowed behind them, Shifu finally reaches Oogway.]
Shifu: Master, Master wait! That flabby panda can't possibly be the answer to... our problem! You were about to point at Tigress and that thing fell in front of her! That was just an accident!
Oogway: There are no accidents.
[CRUNCH! Shifu, Oogway and the Five look up, startled. Po has broken through the palanquin and is now stuck in the newly-made hole. Shifu looks at Oogway, who simply smiles. Palace pigs surround Po and lift the palanquin with relative ease, and make their way up the stairs. Shifu stares after them in disbelief, as the Five slowly approach him.]
Tigress: Forgive us, Master. [She kneels forward and bows. The others follow suit.] We have failed you.
[Shifu holds up a paw to stop her.]
Shifu: No. If the panda and bird do not quit by morning, then I will have failed you.
[Around them, the crowd continues to cheers and the confetti rains down from the sky.]
[Meanwhile, far away in the snowy mountains of Mongolia, Zeng the palace goose is approaching the fearsome Chor-Gom Prison. A rhino guard watches as Zeng flies past him, tired from the journey. With a cry, he crash lands on the ground outside the entrance doors, clutching a scroll. In an instant, two rhino guards thrust their spears in his face.]
ZENG: Wait, wait, wait wait! I bring a message! [The guards keep their spears pointed.] From Master Shifu! [The rhinos relax slightly. The enormous entrance doors are opened. Minutes later, Commander Vachir, the warden, is standing in front of the frightened Zeng, reading the scroll. What he reads enrages him.]
VACHIR: WHAT?! "Double the guard? Extra precautions? Your prison may not be adequate?" [He slams the scroll shut and glares down at the quaking Zeng. The guards behind the goose grip their weapons, equally outraged, and stare daggers at him.] You doubt my prison's security?
ZENG: Absolutely not. Shifu does. I'm just the messenger. [He gulps, intimidated.]
VACHIR: I'll give you a message for your Master Shifu. [He proceeds to lead Zeng along the bridge across from the doors.] Escape from Chorh-Gom Prison is impossible!
[Zeng looks in awe around the cavernous prison. He then looks over the side of the bridge into the dark and seemingly-bottomless abyss. Vachir suddenly slaps Zeng on the back, startling him and knocking a feather from his body, which floats down from the bridge.]
VACHIR: [Laughs.] Impressive, isn't it?
ZENG: [trembling] Oh yes, it's very impressive. It's very impressive!
[Vachir leads him deeper into the prison, while gloating about the security.]
VACHIR: One way in, one way out, one thousand guards, and one prisoner.
ZENG
Yes, except that prisoner is Tai Lung...
[The warden and the palace goose step into an elevator.]
VACHIR: [to guards] Take us down.
[The guards obey, and the elevator descends in the darkness towards the very bottom area of the prison. Vachir shakes the elevator to scare Zeng, and laughs at his frightened reaction. Eventually they reach the bottom. Zeng is led towards a set of heavily-armored doors, which open one after the other.]
ZENG: Oh my...
[The final door falls forward, creating a bridge towards a circular stone island in the middle of the abyss. In the middle of the island is a figure shrouded in darkness.]
VACHIR
Behold, Tai Lung.
[Zeng's eyes widen.]
ZENG: I'll, um... I'm just gonna wait right here.
VACHIR: [Laughs.] It's nothing to worry about. It's perfectly safe. [He pushes Zeng across the bridge, and follows after.] Crossbows! At the ready!
ZENG: Crossbows?!
[In sentry towers around the walls of the prison, guard train enormous crossbows on the figure on the island as Vachir and Zeng approach. Tai Lung, once a mighty kung fu warrior, is now weighed down with chains attached to enormous rocks hanging over the sides of the island, immobilized by a special stone tortoise shell on his back.]
VACHIR: Hey, tough guy! Did you hear? Oogway's finally going to give someone the Dragon Scroll and it's not going to be you!
ZENG: What are you doing? Don't get him mad!
VACHIR: What's he gonna do about it? I've got him completely immobilized. [He stamps on Tai Lung's tail, which crunches on impact. Zeng leaps back with a gasp, but Tai Lung makes no movement. Vachir laughs.] Awww, did I step on the wittle kitty's tail? Awww...
ZENG: I'm good! I've seen enough! I'm gonna tell Shifu he's got nothing to worry about.
VACHIR: No he doesn't. [They walk back across the bridge.]
ZENG: Okay I'll tell him. Can we please go now?...
[Zeng and Vachir walk out of view. Meanwhile, Zeng's feather floats down and rests right in front of Tai Lung... and his eyes open. He whips out his tail and snatches the feather.]
