Here's another set of shuffles! I really am having fun with these, in case you guys didn't notice. Read and review please!

"Got You Where I Want You" by The Flys

Sneaking up into the mercenary camp wasn't all that difficult, considering most of the men were still nursing their wounds, courtesy of the famous Master Tigress.

He found her in a small cave turned into a makeshift cell, barricaded by a large steel door lined with spikes. Inside, Tai Lung saw the female master, shackled from head to toe, thick ropes around her form and her mouth gagged with a piece of sack-cloth.

"Hey love, sorry for making you wait, had to get a disguise together."

"Mmmph," she responded as he walked over the door, a look of appreciation in her eyes.

"They treating you well? Did they hurt you?"

She shook her head. "Mmmph-mmmph." She tried to hold up her paws, indicating her desire to be freed.

Nodding, Tai Lung took out what looked to be a small carpenter's file from the thick cloak he wore and began to slowly scrape out an escape route.

Shhhk. Shhhk. Shhhk.

"You know, while we're here, I want to say something…"

"Mmmpphh. Mmmmphh-mmmmpphh!" she replied, glaring as he took his time.

"Will do me the honour of having dinner with me? I mean, this is the fifth time I've asked you…"

"Mmmmpphh!"

"All those other times, you said you'd think about it. You know, after you hit me."

"Mmppphhh-mmmph-mmmpph! Mmmmmppph!"

"Well, now that you can't, I just want to say that…"

CRASH!

Dumbfounded, Tai Lung gaped as he saw a large, Tigress shaped hole in the opposite end of the cave, the beam of light streaming brightly from the exit.

"Does that mean you'll think about it?" he called, hearing a frustrated growl in the other end.

"Man Of Many Words" by Joe Bonamassa

Roaming the Jade Palace grounds, Viper tried to look for a flash of orange fur or tail or anything that might lead her to Tigress. The poor girl had apparently seen something that turned her into a quivering mess and she had seen the infamously tenacious feline leave the Jade Palace in a hurry.

"Tigress? Are you here?" she called out. "Come on, what's bothering you?"

"V-v-v-v-i-p-p-p-per…."

The serpent leapt in the air as she heard the quavering voice behind her. Turning around, she found a soaking wet female tiger, her clothes and fur drenched in what seemed to be freezing water.

"Eeep! Tigress, what happened to you?" yelped Viper, helping Tigress sit down on the grass. The poor thing was still shivering violently, glaring angrily at the air in front of her.

Swallowing nervously, Viper looked over at her companion. "What happened? I thought you were going to review the Thousand Scrolls with Tai Lung."

"I was," she muttered, her breath coming out in a fog as water continued to drip down her whiskers. "He already….started when I got there."

"So? From what I saw, you barely walked into the training room before you decided freezing yourself to death was a good idea."

"He was reviewing….it."

"Wha-?"

"Scroll Number 458. Master Hoi Chuen's Scroll."

The serpent's entire head turned purple and she began to sputter. "Er, you mean…the scroll about…the…um…."

"Yeah, the pushups," Tigress muttered again, face blanching red. "He was right in the middle of….reviewing it, too."

Viper swallowed mightily, staying silent for a while. "So….can he really do it? You know….the pushups?"

Without answering, Tigress stood up and walked towards the Pool of Sacred Tears. She stood on the precipice of the pool for a few seconds, before falling into the icy water like a downed tree.

Viper could only look, her mouth agape. "Hmmm, guess he can."

"Green Christmas" by Barenaked Ladies

"So…that Captain Shang seems like quite a fellow," said Tai Lung, brightly and more importantly, normally. Because, honestly, why shouldn't his voice sound normal? The tiger captain seemed to be a genuinely nice man, if a bit gregarious and overly ambitious.

"Yes, he is," replied Tigress with a smile, looking approvingly as the large tiger waved goodbye to them from his tent, far in the distance. "He's been an unofficial military liaison to the Jade Palace for a year now."

"Hmm, really? Seems a bit young to be captain already," said Tai Lung. It was true; Dao Shang was barely out of his twenties, yet he was one of the most respected military figures in China. Word had it that he was eyeing the position of General of the Imperial Navy.

"Yeah, he's a real catch," said Tigress, sighing.

Tai Lung's eyes narrowed. Sighing? Over a man? Unacceptable! She was Master Tigress for heaven's sake! She was a hero, a legend, the only female….

Well damn. She was a young woman – a beautiful, intelligent and courageous woman - and she was damn well allowed to feel whatever she desired, for whomever she desired.

He glared over his shoulder at the military camp from where they came. Little prick was probably a brown noser through and through. From the looks of him, the tosser likely never turned down an invitation to a woman's bedroom. He wasn't even that good looking!

Tigress smirked at the bristling snow leopard, deciding to twist the knife a little. "Yeah, he really is my type…"

Tai Lung snarled so low that a few people began to avoid him as they made their way to town.

"….too bad he's in love with his lieutenant."

"Huh? You mean…Lieutenant Fa Zhu? The little white tiger? They're…."

"Yep," responded Tigress with a laugh. The snow leopard honestly didn't need to know right now the real nature behind the captain and lieutenant's relationship, though she did plan on elaborating why the small white tiger was known by his father's name.

"Now come on, I wanna get some green apples for Shifu."

"Yes'm," said Tai Lung, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.

"That Fresh Feeling" by The Eels

There was a part of Tigress that wanted to spit out the vile liquid that burned its way down her throat and into her stomach. As soon as the alcohol took effect however, she decided it was worth it, as it helped her forget.

"There you are," she heard a low baritone beside her say. She hastily hid the bottle of rice wine under her bed, greeting her visitor with a hard glare.

"What do you want?" she snapped.

"Just here to talk," said the snow leopard, looking grave as he shuffled inside her room. "Nobody blames you, you know."

"That's my line," she said automatically, remembering an eariler conversation with the ex-con. Her vision beginning to spin; damn it, she really was a light weight when it came to drinking. "Look, I know. We did everything we could. Still wasn't enough."

She took out the bottle again, taking another drought.

Tai Lung walked closer and gently took the bottle from her hands. "It's okay, Tigress."

She glared at him angrily. "How is it okay? We couldn't stop them. I got so caught up in the fighting. Did I even once think to look back and see that those bandits were raiding the crops and the village treasury? I should've just walked away and now look what my idiocy's done! Those villagers are going to break their necks re-planting those crops!"

"We'll help them. Shifu already gave us the go ahead to join the farming."

"They shouldn't have to need our help again!" she yelled, swallowing thickly. "It's all my damn fault!"

Tai Lung knelt gently beside her, imitating her hunched position. "I'm still proud of you, you know that?"

"For what? Don't patronize me with that crap about 'doing my best'. This wasn't a competition, and you know it."

"No, I know you don't like it. I'm proud of you because you've been doing this kind of thing nearly your whole life, but when things go wrong, you still take it this hard. I see that and I think to myself 'that's the kind of person I want to be'."

Tigress turned her head to look at him, dumbfounded but a sign of appreciation in her eyes.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome."

A/N: The shuffle based on "Man of Many Words" is a quasi-sequel to Chapter 2 of my other fic series,"Furious", so you might wanna check that out if you didn't get the reason why Tigress was so bothered by the 'pushups'.

Captain Shang and Lieutenant's Zhu's relationship ("Green Christmas") might not be as obvious as what some of you are thinking. I'm planning on expanding on that eventually but I already gave a hint as to the true nature of the lieutenant ;-) See if you guys can spot it!

Finally, "Fresh Feeling" has its final conversation based on a similar one between Zach Braff and John C. McGinley in a episode of Scrubs. That song always reminded me of that episode so I couldn't help myself x-D