The Magic Hat

* Secrets of the Scroll (Short film)

**The Magic Hat** is the second episode in The Awesome Universe series The New Adventures of Kung Fu Panda.

## Synopsis

After a terrifying experience on the beach, Po and Monkey find the magical top hat again. They try to hide it in the basement, but they can't help put anything in it.

## Plot

The episode starts with Po and the Furious Five taking a walk on the beach. Po and Crane discuss that they wish they could find something that was the same as the top hat. Although they thought what it did to Tigress was horrible, it was fun to the fly on the clouds. Po takes a nap while the five play kung fu-tag, he dreams they're flying on the clouds again. Mantis wakes him up and says that Tigress is in danger, she has fallen into the hole of the ant lion. Meanwhile, Monkey, Crane, and Viper try to get Tigress up but they can't reach her. When Po and Mantis arrive, the ant lion appears and decides to eat Tigress. Po and Monkey use Crane as a rope while Viper and Mantis hold onto his feet, they grab Tigress and they get out  get out of the hole at the last minute. The ant lion gets thanks in Crane, but he gets free and the ant lion disappears underground. Tigress embraces Po and thanks him for saving her, but she drops him and talks it away.

But that night, Monkey wakes up Po and tells them that while they were on their way home, he discovered the top hat some distance down the river and something comes out of it. They go and finds it stuck on a branch in the middle of the river, and something red flows out of it. Po goes into the river and examines the red coming out of the hat and finds out it's raspberry juice. They dry their hats and wonder what to do with it. Po insists that they keep it to make more raspberry juice, but Monkey thinks that it is only the river water that becomes raspberry juice, but Po wants to experiment with the hat and decides to hide it in his father's Noodle shop.

The next morning, Elida wonders why Po is so tired. Po says he woke up and couldn't sleep again. But Mantis says he was also awake and he knows what Po and Monkey have done. Po is rushing out and Mantis is following him. He finds Monkey on the beach. He tells Po that he has found out who owns the hat: the Hobgoblin. He said Mr Ping had seen the Hobgoblin a long time ago. Po says his father told him about a trolman who rode a black panther. Monkey has heard that the Hobgoblin is hundreds of years old and cares only for rubies. He looks searching for them all over the world, he's truly awesome. Po and Monkey believe that the Hobgoblin must have lost his hat when he was searching for rubies in the Kung Fu Panda Wall and it looks like he doesn't know where he lost it.

Po gets an idea what he's going to use the hat for. They bury it in the sand and go to the ant lion's hole. They pretend to disagree on how fast he can dig. The ant lion comes and tries to show them, but they don't believe him since it was ready-made hole. The ant lion says he can dig himself anywhere. They lead the ant lion to a circle in the sand and he burrows under it (and ends up in his hat). Then Po puts a huge stone on the circle and sits on it. Monkey starts digging out hat, fearing that the ant lion is really mad. Mantis comes up to them and tells them he followed them and he did it last night too, but  he hasn't told the others. The screen then shifts to The Hobgoblin who rides on his panther and searches for his hat. The screen then shifts back to beaches with water pouring out of the hat.. Po gets off the rock and nothing happens. They move away the stone, but the ant lion does not come out. They empty their hats and along with the  water comes out a little hedgehog. The hedgehog complains about them, but Po, Monkey and Mantis laugh at him and he walks off humbly.

Later, Po and Mantis sneak down into the basement to the Jade Palace and hiden the hat there. When Po goes back to the Noodle shop, Monkey tells him that he saw the Hobgoblin and that he is looking for his hat. Po is sure the hat is safe in the basement and is only they and Mantis know it. Meanwhile, Mantis finds a thread, he puts it in the hat, believing it will change it into a noodle. But thread instead becomes a tree that grows quickly out of the hat. Mantis runs up and adver Master Elida. The tree comes out of the basement and Mantis admits everything to Elida and she runs to tell Daniel. With no chance of getting a song or using their weapons, Daniel decides to break the branches off with their hands. The tree covers the entire Jade Palace inside and outside, Tigress comes and is shocked to see the situation, but she can't get in. Mantis, Viper, and Crane are trapped between the branches while Daniel, Elida, Olivia, and Shifu break off the branch. Tree gets itileg flowers and fruit.

Po and Monkey arrive and are also shocked to see the tree, they find Tigress who was looking for Po but the others can't get out, but before Po, Tigress and Monkey could do anything, the Hobgoblin appeared and he sees that they have found his hat. Po explains that they found it on the Wu Dan Mountains. The Hobgoblin is grateful and thinks that the tree seems to be doing remarkably well before he broke a spell that caused the whole tree to wither. Daniel, Elida, Olivia, Shifu, Crane, Mantis and Viper come out giving his hat back to the Hobgoblin, he apologizes for all the problem that his hat has caused and asks if they have any unusually large rubies here, because he thinks that when they found his hat here must be a sign.

Elida hands him a ruby on a ring she had received from Rush Clovis. The Hobgoblin tells them that it is not the king's ruby that he looks for for hundreds of years and he is obsessed with it and cannot find it anywhere. Elida tells him that if they see it they are going to send up a Empire attack flare, the Hobgoblin says they will meet again soon and leaves. Kung fu warriors begin stacking the tree remnants. The narrator ends the episode by saying "and so the hobgoblin's hat finally disappeared from the Kung Fu Panda Wall. Po rather missed having never-ending supply of raspberry juice. But his masters were more than happy that it had gone."

## Voice cast

* Po .... Mick Wingert
* Daniel .... Max Charles
* Tigress .... Kari Wahlgren
* Monkey .... James Sie
* Crane .... Amir Talai
* Shifu .... Fred Tatasciore
* The Hobgoblin .... Jeff Harding

- Viper .... Lucy Liu

- Mantis .... Max Koch

- Elida .... Moira Kelly

- Olivia .... Helena Bonham Carter

- Mr. Ping .... James Hong

- The Antlion .... Garrick Hagon