No One P.O.V

The battle between the heroes and the Brotherhood had begun, the heroes were split into groups of three

"Ohohoho! I don't know how you stomach it, brother" Peng said as he sent his golden feathers at Macaque who managed to dodge them all "The Six-Eared Macaque, fighting side by side with his own replacements!" Macaque entered into one of his shadow portals to get away, and later appeared behind Peng with his bow staff in hand and tried to strike Peng from behind, but Peng blocked the attack with his wing "Is there anything Wukong could do that would break his hold over you? Pathetic!" Then Peng sent Macaque flying and charged towards him, luckily Macaque blocked Peng's attack

"You know what, Peng?" Coming out from Macaque's shadows were Sakura and Mei with their swords in hand "Straight up, I have never liked you" Macaque said as Mei went to strike Peng first, when Peng dodged

"You little brat" Peng said to Mei

"Give it a rest, would ya?!" Mei said as she summoned her dragon, and Sakura used the Samadhi Fire to strike them from above as Mei's blasted her attack at Peng, but they blocked both of the girl's attacks

"I'm surprised a descendent of Ao Lie has so much bark. Your bite, however needs some work. Perhaps I can give you some pointers! As for the descendent of Konohana, her battle style is the same as ever, with some surprises as well. Who would've thought you'll gain the power of the Samadhi Fire! That makes you even more worthy woman for any man to have!" Peng said

"I hope you're not planning on flirting with her!" Mei shouted

"It's my choice if I want to flirt with Sakura. After all, she has the same beauty as Konohana, so why I wouldn't flirt with her?" Peng said as he smirked at Sakura

'Oh boy' Sakura thought with a sweatdrop

With Tang, Pigsy, Sandy and DBK

In the golden sphere, Tang landed in the forest looking a bit beat up. Landing in front of them was Yellowtusk

"Surrender, mortals and brother. My strength far outweighs yours" Yellowtusk said

"We don't want to fight you, Mr. Elephant, but..."

"But we will if we have to!" Pigsy said and Yellowtusk lifted his hammer up and brought it down. It would've crushed Tang if DBK didn't move them in time

"It we don't stop him, then-!" Tang's sentence was cut off by Yellowtusk

"I know full well what will happen should Azure fail, but... But he is my brother. I owe him my life" Yellowtusk said as he gripped his hammer tighter

"We get it! I'd do anything to help my friends and niece" Sandy said

"But at the cost of the world? Do you have any idea how insane this is!?" DBK shouted

"I'm sorry, pal, but nothing is worth that price!" Pigsy said, and hitting the ground was a piece of the memory scroll. Everyone looked up, zooming past the skies was a golden straight line, and raining from above was the memory scroll pieces. Tang immediately put up a barrier on the group as the pieces of the scroll came down

With MK, Wukong, Iris, and Huli

The group was passing through the skies, dodging the memory scroll pieces. After the group zoomed past the crumbling mountain, they landed on the ground

"MK!" The group looked up to see Azure "Stand down. You do not need to share your mentor's fate" Azure said to MK

"So, that reduced my sentence on the table for me too, or..." The memory scroll pieces aimed at Wukong as Azure glared at him "Imma take that as a no" Wukong said with a sweatdrop

"Last chance, MK. Same goes to you, Iris" Azure said as MK tackled Wukong into a tight hug

"Never!" MK said

"Same thing!" Iris said

"So be it!" Azure said as he sent pieces of the memory scroll at the group

"Uh oh" The group dodged it the attack, Iris was on the cloud with Wukong and Huli was on the cloud with MK as they charged at Azure, but he blocked their attacks. The group continued to attack Azure with everything they got

Then Azure summoned the ink versions of Nezha, Princess Iron Fan, DBK, and the Lady Bone Demon. The ink version of LBD charges at them, but they managed to dodged it. As MK was about to summon his cloud, the ink version of DBK trapped him against the mountain wall

"MK!" Iris was about to help him, but she was hit by the ink version of herself

"Iris! Hold on!" Huli went to help Iris

The ink version of DBK disappeared as the saber of Azure was about to strike MK. When the saber destroyed the mountain of where MK supposed to be, Azure didn't see him. Then flying by Azure was tiny MK, when MK returned to his normal size, he went to hit Azure with the staff. Azure blocked it, but Wukong kicked Azure in the face, sending him flying and landing on the third mountain

"Kind of embarrassing for the Jade Emperor to have two lil cheeky monkeys and two kitsunes running circles 'round him first day on the job" Wukong said as he, MK, Iris and Huli were floating over him. Huli was carrying Iris bridal style on Wukong's cloud after he saved her from the inky version of Iris

"Well, one monkey and one unconfirmed, but yeah!" MK said

"I'd be embarrassed that's for sure!" Huli said as Iris nodded in agreement

"This ceaseless chattering! And to think I once called you king! You're an imbecile!" Azure said as he let out a roar at the group

Wukong made the staff turn big, and immediately extended it towards Azure. Azure managed to stop it, but MK went high into the sky and gave the staff one big kick and crushing Azure

With the baby monkeys and Kyubi

The baby monkeys and Kyubi were in the forest gathering the pieces of the scroll and putting them into a pile. So far, the baby monkeys and Kyubi were able to gather most of them. Then one of the baby monkeys pointed at the big staff that crushed Azure into the mountain, then Wukong went to check on the baby monkeys along with Iris and Huli

"Hey, Lieutenant Monkey, Kyubi. How's the plan going?" Wukong asked as he looked at the progress the monkeys made so far

"We almost gathered all of the pieces of the scroll, Wukong" Kyubi said, and then Wukong heard MK's scream "That's my cue!" Wukong then grabbed MK's hand, tossed him up, and MK held tight onto Wukong's waist as they took off

"You all good, bud?" Wukong asked

"I'm not gonna lie, gettin' a little tired, but I'm good! What next?" MK asked

"Something big, and preferably really annoying" Iris said, and Wukong's cloud increased its speed towards where Azure is being crushed

"No..." Azure started to lift up the staff "No! I can do this! I must do this!" Azure started to use the powers of the Jade Emperor and his body structure grew as the size of a giant, and he was able to free himself from the staff above him

"Holy smokes! That's the power of the Jade Emperor?!" Huli shouted

"Looks like it. Well, MK, you know what to do" Iris said and MK jumped off the cloud and destroyed the debris of the mountain and made his Monkie Mech suit, and charged towards Azure

"Enough of these games! My patience is thoroughly at its end!" Azure said as he ripped off the mechs' arms and grabbing hold of the last remaining part of the mech of where MK is. The hatch opened to reveal...

"Hey there, bud! You want a piece of this?" Porty MK said as he pointed his microphone at the cut-board cutout of Wukong

"Get all the exclusive Monkey King merch and toys! Batteries not included" The cutout of Wukong said, and Azure grew angry

"Yoo-hoo!" Wukong called out and both MK and Wukong started taunting Azure

"I'm surprised the mortals made a cut-out version of you" Iris said

"Me too" Huli said

"Don't be jealous just because you guys don't have a cutout of you guys" Wukong said

"Hey! Porty Lion!" Azure turned to look at MK's clone "Here comes Mechie Kid!" Then Porty MK launched a banana peel with a drawing of MK's face with a peace sign on Azure's nose and the peel started beeping

"Ugh... I hate monkeys and kitsunes" Azure said and the banana peel exploded, and Azure screamed in pain

"This plan thing is really working out, huh?" MK said

"Yeah! Who'da thunk?" Wukong said

Rewind~ Sakura P.O.V

"Every time we've gone into a final fight, we've basically winged it without a plan. But it's like Subodhi said, that won't be enough this time. We need to wait for the moment to strike!" Mei said

"But Azure ain't gonna just wait around for us to attack. If he's got as much of a grudge against Monkey King as Macaque says he does, he's just gonna come and attack us first!" Uncle Pigsy said

"Exactly! By not attacking, he'll think we're not ready for him. But he'll be wrong! The plan is to make it look like there is no plan at all, when really, we're already doing the plan! MK's plan!" Mei said

"Yeah, boy!" MK cheered

"A team and B team will keep Peng and Yellowtusk busy. Monkey and Kitsune team will get under Azure's skin, annoy him enough so that when he's distracted, he won't know he's lost the scroll until its too late" Mei said

"Mei, that's a great plan! I love how you used MK's plan and combined it with yours" I said

"Thanks! Now, let's do our best for this plan to succeed!" Mei said and we all agreed

"Cherry blossom/Sakura" I turned around to see Red Son and Nezha

"Come back safe" Red Son said

"And don't hold back your punches" Nezha said and I nodded

Back to the present~ No One P.O.V

Both the baby monkeys and Kyubi gathered all of the pieces of the scroll

"Good job little ones" Kyubi said to the baby monkeys, and Wukong, Iris, and Huli appeared next to them

"Welp. That's the last of them" Wukong said

"You did a great job, brother" Iris said to Kyubi as he smiled happily at his little sister's complement, but failed to notice Azure looking in their direction

"No! If you will not kneel before your emperor, you will perish before your emperor!" Azure shouted and went to punch them. The strong wind from impact sent both the pieces of the scroll and baby monkeys flying. Both Wukong and Huli braced for impact, but nothing came, they were surprised to see both Iris and MK blocking the attack

"Kid!" Wukong said

"Iris!" Both Kyubi and Huli said

"After all Sun Wukong has put you through, how much he's let you down, you would still meet your fate trying to protect him?!" Azure shouted as he put more force in his fist and MK's body to flicker again along with Iris

"Azure! Stop this!" Wukong said as he punched Azure's fist away from the duo who's bodies were still flickering

"He doesn't such loyalty, yet you insist on learning the hard way, just as I did! I should've never trusted the Monkey King! The false sage, equal to nothing! And the kitsune with no family, betrayed her master just to be free! Pathetic!" Azure shouted as he brought his saber down to the duo, and they both shouted as they were both surrounded in a golden light

With Sakura, Mei, and Macaque

While fighting against Peng, they saw the golden light

"What was that?" Peng asked he looked over his shoulder

"MK!"

"Iris!"

In the distance, a golden pillar of light showed two silhouettes of MK and Iris, MK has transformed into his monkey form and Iris's form changed as well along with new clothes



https://youtu.be/OsmkZsi9r_M

(Imagine Iris is helping MK fight against Azure Lion)

"All right, I think that's the last of 'em" Wukong said

"Again" Both Kyubi and Huli said in unison, and they look at the distance of where MK and Iris were fighting Azure, and the trio looked worried

With MK and Iris

MK and Iris continued to fight Azure with everything they got, Azure swung his saber towards them and MK blocked the attack

"That's what you were to pretending to be, right?" MK asked

"To be our friend? To care about us, when you really were just using us to get what you wanted!" Iris shouted

Azure brought down his saber towards them, but MK stopped the attack his head

"To turn me against my own mentor!" MK shouted as a giant monkey appeared

"And to make me hurt my first friend I made since I was a child!" Iris shouted as a giant kitsune with nine tails appeared behind her

"Well, put you hand in the monkey/kitsune cage expect to get bit, son/fool!" Both MK and Iris said in unison as both giant forms of a monkey and kitsune attacked Azure, and a giant blast hit Azure. Then Azure, lifted up his saber against the two to block the attack, but both MK and Iris creaked his saber

"Come on! Come on, Uncy Lion!" MK shouted

"You're the big hero, right? Then prove it!" Iris shouted and Azure looked shocked

"Show us!" MK and Iris said as they sent Azure into the mountain

And the burst of energy came out of Azure, and destroyed Wukong's house. The skies started to split apart again, and the power sent them flying into the mountain where Azure is

Everyone were in a state of shock at what just happened

"Azure... No!" Yellowtusk said, getting worried for his brother

In the mountain, it showed golden chains holding the debris of the mountain from fully separating, MK returned to normal as Iris stayed the same. Sweat was rolling down their faces, they both looked at Azure who started to lose control of his power

To be continued in Better Than We Found It

https://youtu.be/ORIu-E_gDu0