Shocked to be confronted by a massive pagoda in an alley in Chinatown, Tien Shi-- in his costume as Red Phoenix-- and Rush are even more suprised when they realized they've walked into a trap.
They find only the minions of Pig waiting for them -- metahumans turned martial artists trained by Pig himself; they are Third Princess, Golden-Faced Buddha, Six-Fingered Demon, and the Iron Scholar.
The fight is prolonged and bloody. It ends in a stand still and is punctuated by the appearance of Pig himself who reveals he was not hired by the Triad at all: he is it's dai lo. The Twelve are no longer killers for hire, they have separated to take control of the criminal organizations of the world and unite them in a global network. And of the Twelve, Pig is the only one to discern Red Phoenix's true identity as the thirteenth son of Huang. Pig laughs as the heroes escape; he will be waiting for Tien Shi.
Mysteriously, when Rush later returns to the Shadow Pagoda to lead the police there, he cannot find it... as if it had never been there at all...
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