Monster

## Premise

"When Master  Bear calls upon the Nightsisters seeking a replacement for Su Wu, she and her kin seize the opportunity to exact revenge. Su Wu visits Dathomir and the males of a lion pack seeking the most brutal and powerful warrior among them. Talzin has Su Wu secretly select a warrior from the Wanderer: Savage Opress. With the power of dark magic, Talzin transforms Savage into a lion warrior ultimately loyal to Su Wu. She then delivers Opress to Bear, where he will serve as his secret dark master apprentice in a plot to overthrow the Unknown Enemy."

## Synopsis

Master Bear travels to Dathomir to meet with Mother Talzin so that she may aid him in procuring another personal assassin to replace Su Wu. He also attempts to form an alliance with the Nightsisters, an offer that Talzin rejects for unspecified reasons. Talzin asks if he recalls the evil lion Harry, to which Bear responds that he does, but remembers that he was killed by Daniel a decade ago in the outside world. Talzin suggests recruiting a male from a village from the other side of the reserve, a warrior of Harry's caliber, though she cautions him that male Lions are often harder to control. Believing the Kung Fu Warriors to have perpetrated a previous attack on him and Ventress to be dead, Bear agrees to this offer. After Bear has departed, Talzin sends Su Wu herself to the village to select one of its warriors to serve their revenge plans against Bear.

Following a preliminary weeding out of the less capable potential candidates, Su Wu sets up three tests to aid in the selection: A test of arms, in which the candidates attack Su Wu; a test of darkness, in which they have to face Su Wu hidden in the shadows and their own fear; and a test of skill, in which they have to elude Su Wu while navigating a maze of rising stone blocks. By the beginning of the third contest, only two contenders remain alive: Fleck and his younger brother Feral. When Su Wu corners Feral and prepares to kill him, Fleck steps in and faces her in single combat in exchange for his brother's life. Though he is defeated, Su Wu is sufficiently impressed to accept him in her service.

Back in their abbey, the Nightsisters use their mystical powers to increase Fleck's strength and ferocity, turning him into a hulking brute, and putting him under Su Wu' complete control. As a final test of his loyalty to her, Su Wu assigns Fleck to kill Feral, who has been brought there as a prisoner, which he does with little hesitation. Deemed ready for his task, he is armed with blastproof armor and a mystically empowered vibro-ax and introduced to Bear. Impressed, yet cautious, Bear sends Fleck to the jungle world of Devaron to take out a small kung fu Temple located there. Fleck arrives at the Temple and quickly ends the ongoing fight between the temple's guardians and the invading Arkeyan forces, taking out kung fu master Halsey and his apprentice Knox, along with their clone troops in a matter of moments. Thoroughly satisfied, Bear takes Opress in as his new apprentice and promises to teach him in the ways of the Dark Side of kung fu in order to eventually overthrow the Unknown Enemy, the Robot King and rule the Kung Fu Panda Wall..