Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Blood Sport Part 1

I've got to say that things around not just town, but around the word were returning back to the levels that they were before I had come back; I could actually walk around town without actually thinking that I might get my head ripped off. I was thinking about someone else when things actually slowly started going wrong not only in Martinez, but the rest of the county as well. It seemed that someone was doing some killings and the only thing that was getting reported was a red suited figure.

I had Amy start to look into the reports to find out what was going on, and nothing was matching up at first, but the reports of what the person looked like were all coming together, however the police had a little bit of a problem and called me in, and I went with Amy and Alexis to check things out.

As we walked into the station, we were escorted over to a central computer section. "Sorry about the armed guards Ninja, but this is something that we can't take a chance with." The officer stated.

I seriously wasn't worried, after all while in full suit mode, there was a shield in place that would not only stop the bullets from hitting me, they would disintegrate them and transfer the kinetic energy right to the suits battery, however I wasn't going to say anything about that, I just let them be.

When the officer motioned to the computer monitor, we looked down and watched the play back, the problem soon became apparent as we watched. Considering that everything was in black and white (and these guys were having problems getting everything upgraded because of budget problems, I knew that was going to have to be solved soon, but right then I couldn't worry about that), it was almost hard to tell what we were looking at, however the answer soon came on screen. What I was looking at was myself, only I knew that I had never been at the location the camera was looking at, and I noticed differences in the suit compared to mine, things that the police hadn't picked up on at all. In almost two seconds, it was over, the figure had come into the scene where a couple of people had been at, and killed all of them in less than a heartbeat. I started running a playback on my H.U.D. to see what he had fully done, and even slowed things down. What he had was retractable claw blades on his arm and hands, ones that when he moves fast enough were able to be used with deadly precision; something that I had never thought would ever be used. And I had only seen this be done once before, but on a world that this world considered only a comic book world.

When I got finished and returned the H.U.D. to real time everyone was looking at me. "Not only is that not me, I know the style that was used and I know where it came from in the first place. However that place you actually consider it a comic world only and don't believe that it's real. What he has on his arms and hands are retractable blades, I don't know about the rest of the suit since those were the only ones he used, but he moves like he knew how to use them. For this guy killing that many people in less than two seconds is something that only someone with great skill can be able to do. Yes I'm at that level, but I'm also beyond that level, and I don't kill, I knock out and leave for people like yourself officer, but I don't kill, it's not worth it at all. Besides, his suit is red not black." I finished telling them in the end.

I could see by the look in their eyes that they were shocked by everything I told them. "Wait, how can you tell that his suit is red?" Amy asked.

I looked at her. "Because there's different level shades of gray, each corresponding to a different color, and my suit told me that that level is with red, his eye lenses however are black, so there is going to be no way to see what his eyes are without taking his helmet mask off, and I doubt that he's going to be willing on that note to do that for us." I told them. "Besides on the time code there, I was at Sun Valley Mall stopping a couple of gun men from trying to kill a bunch of women and children, and you can check the security tapes on that one."

After getting the footage from them, we went back to the house I and ran the footage through the computers in the connected second world to see what they would come up with, and not only did it find the location for where everything took place, but it showed me the full suit and everything that there was to know about it. Amy called the computer the God computer because of everything that it could do, but it was set up to check out all dimensions and times and to show everything. However it couldn't affect anything that it saw, and it couldn't see the future, only the past and that was it.

Going back to my world, I went to the location that was on the camera and checked things out. I went without the suit on to see what I could find out, and to find out if this red Ninja would come back to kill anyone else at all. Sadly he never showed up, however there was crime scene tape there and I checked it all out with the shades, and discovered that there was one thing that had been left behind that the police never found. I was able to quickly snatch it since I doubt that the police were ever going to see it and it wasn't on camera at all. It was a card that had a black version of the Phoenix bird that I have on my chest, only mine's red not black. Whoever this guy was, he was copying me and I didn't like that in the least. Turning the card over I saw that there was only one word written in all capitals "BLOOD"

Whoever this guy was, he wanted blood plain and simple.

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Cause and Effect Part 3

(Writer's note: Happy New Year everyone, guess we're starting this year off with a bang, and sorry about the delay in getting this out, but I know that once you read this, it'll be well worth it, just to let you all know there are spoilers in this story that tie it into the first Ninja Chronicles, but it's still worth the read in the end, trust me on that)

The actual day of hitting City Hall didn't take place for another three weeks, giving all three of us loads of time to get other things done and taken care of that needed to be taken care of. For one, Amy was building up a reputation as Phoenix helping people out and taking major criminals down (I actually helped out on a couple of the major criminals, some of which I really didn't even know were in here in town and the county, but save that for another time). The news reports and the videos that were being uploaded to the internet were showing Amy in her suit combating those that actually tried to fight back, and that was a joke right there considering her martial arts skills that she had. Hell her and her ex still ran the dojo couple of towns over and it was actually still doing well.

All the information that we could gather up I could only hope would be enough when the time came to do the actually hit on the place. Sitting down in the living room with Amy and Alexis, we went over our plan of attack and the information that we had gathered.

"Ok are we seriously going to attempt this, I mean we're talking that this place has the police station right there with them, and one call and the police will be all over us in no time." Amy stated.

Alexis looked at it all and stated what was going through my mind but I couldn't say at all. "We have no choice, if we're going to end this, we need to do this, and otherwise it's not going to be worth it, and Alex here will never be able to show his face outside of his mask ever again. Besides, they won't know who in the world we happen to be anyway considering that we're going to be wearing our suits the entire time." She stated.

Amy nodded; she already knew what I was thinking the entire time. "Alright then, let's do this."

Two days later, we did what we would later call the blitz right on the building, we literally just walked right in the front door with our suits fully on and stunning the hell out of everyone when we just kept walking right past the front desk person. The office that we needed was on the top floor, and instead of taking the elevator, we took the stairs and walked right up to where we need to go. Everyone was too stunned to do anything, even to the point that no one called the police next door at all.

Walking through the front door of the office was a simple matter, but who was on the other side actually blew my mind away, I had not been expecting the one person that was sitting right there in front of us.

"I was wondering when you would arrive, and don't worry, I've been watching you three since before you entered the building. It's been a long time; it looks like things have changed for us. It's been six years since you left, and now I understand why the system hasn't been working right. Then again it never was from this world, nor is half the tech you have in that or those, suits." He stated as he got up and walked around us and closed the door and then pressed a button on the wall next to the door. "Don't worry, I believe that Alex here knows what that little item happens to be." He stated as he walked back over to the desk and stood behind it looking out the window.

I still couldn't believe who it was that we were looking at, I had honestly thought that I had left him long behind, with no way to leave his world at all. All three of us were looking right at my double, one from a world that was nothing but tech, a world that I had later called the Tron World. I had thought that I had stopped him from leaving his own world so that way he couldn't leave and try to take over any other world like he had on his own world.

"How did you get here?" I asked him.

He turned and smiled at me. "Believe me it wasn't easy, but then again I didn't know at the time that not only was it going to be a one way trip, but it would be a trip through time as well. After you took the component that I was going to need to activate the device to leave my own world behind, I realized that I was trapped and had to come up with something else in the meantime. So I came up with something else that would send me to your world, namely this one. However when I stepped through the portal from that one to this one, I had no idea that it would take me to this world, but several years into the past before you left six years ago. Then again, I guess I really had miscalculated when it came to how to travel the barrier, and so when I traveled to this world, I thought that I had arrived right after you had left here, and it turned out that not only did I travel to a different world, I had traveled back in time as well. When I had arrived, you were a child still, so I decided to bide my time and wait, all the while knowing what would happen. So I created this system and decided to let the people here hopefully change everything and take you out before you left. Of course that never happened." He said as he gestured to a nearby room that hadn't been there before. I figured that it had been hidden behind a cloaking hologram of sorts and only just became visible to us now.

Alexis ran over to the computer and started flying over the keyboard like she had been born to do it, then again I had a feeling that she might be considering that she was my double. "This is the system that runs the satellite in space. Currently running the menu right now to see if there's any chance that we can do something from here to disable it right now." She stated.

My double looked at the floor, he knew something that much I could tell right there. "You have no idea how long I waited for this. The moment that I knew something would happen was when I heard reports of a house and drive way that appeared right out of nowhere, and none of the police officers could gain access to the front gate. We had reports of only one person that actually teleported thirty miles away, but that was before we had known about the teleportation field that surrounded the entire place. Once he came back, it was determined that there was no way anyone could ever be able to gain access to that location, that is unless you wanted them to enter the place. Right then I knew that it had to be you, through all of those six years that you had been gone and the places that you had gone to in the first place. Once this is all said and done, I do have one request."

"I'm in, what do you want me to do here?" She asked. Alexis wisely used no names considering that we didn't know if anything was being recorded.

I looked at my double before looking over at her. "See if it has a self-destruct option to it." I stated.

A second later I could tell by the sound of her voice that she was surprised. "I'll be, there is."

"Use it, and destroy that thing up there." I told her.

Alexis looked up at me. "Wait, don't you want to change it over to work for us instead, I'm sure that there's loads that we can use it for."

I looked back at my double. "No there isn't. You knew what was going to happen long before, and you set it up that in case we did try to use it that it would be a direct link right for you to our systems. There's no way that I'm letting you even get access to those systems at all. I know what you did to your own world, and that's not going to happen to this world at all." I told him. Looking back over at Alexis. "Blow it" I told her.

One look in my mask covered face, she understood right then what I was talking about and what I was doing. "Entering in the command, signal sent." She stated.

Miles over our heads, a few actually saw a flash of light before there was nothing, the flash had been so bright that it could be seen in broad daylight. We wouldn't hear about the reports of the flash till later that night when watching the news and knew right then that it had been the satellite that had blown up.

"It's done. It's gone." Alexis reported. "The computer is shutting completely down and the hard drive is wiping it's self out, when it's done there won't be anything left of this system at all. Even the internal components are melting down, once everything for this thing is said and done it'll be nothing but a pile of slag." She finished as she walked back over to us while keeping an eye on the meltdown.

"Now that that's done, the request that I've yet to make. I only ask  that you send me back to my own home world." My double asked.

I walked over to him taking a small oval like device out of my belt. Setting the controls for it, I placed the device in the center of my hand before touching his shoulders making contact with him. In a low whisper, "I'm sending you some place alright, however you're not going home, no one needs the level of control and tyranny that you brought to your own world and almost did to my own. You're going someplace where you'll never hurt anyone ever again." I told him. And right before he had a chance to say anything, I pressed the button on the side of the device and the look on his face right as he leapt, I will always remember. Once the blue field that had enveloped his astonished body vanished, I turned and left that office with Amy and Alexis following right behind.

Later that night, both Amy and Alexis came to me in my office, I could tell that they had a burning question. "We want to know where you sent him." Amy asked.

I looked at the both of them. "All you both need to know is that he went some place where he'll never harm anyone else ever again. And that's all I'll say about it, I'm sorry but I had seen what he had done to his own world, and that's the last thing that needs to happen to any world." I told them. They could tell by the look on my face that I seriously wasn't willing to talk any more on the subject.

During the coming days and weeks, I could tell that things were slowly returning back to the way that they had been shortly after I had first arrived here after I had left. When I was a kid I could never tell if anyone actually hated me at all, so I never bothered to count that period of my life before everything had gone crazy on me. But I knew now that since the sat had gone down that the hatred that people had was no longer there at all anymore.

I just wish I knew what happened to one person that I knew would be a great addition to the team, but had been missing since high school.