Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: New Atlantis Part 1

After the fight with Blood Ninja, everything seemed to settle down, which personally I was extremely thankful for, after all I didn't need any more nut cases running around trying to take pot shots at people, other than the gangs that had been around the county, but seemed to realize that this was an area that they couldn't touch with me around. Believe me when they had tried taking me on personally, they wasted a lot of ammo, but nothing ever came of their shooting me, except for those that got away after the police had shown up, the vast majority of them ended up getting locked away on gang related charges.

 

However that had been back before Blood Ninja had tried anything, and after the entire fight with Blood Ninja had made the news, not even petty thieves wanted anything to do with this county any more, and what I was surprised about was that people were actually coming outside in some places and enjoying the sunny days that were coming around. Even on the rainy days, they were coming out then too.

 

But the one thing that I knew was that eventually something had to break and I knew that it would soon too. The only question I had was when it would, and in what form would it take, after all on this world, that was something that even I didn't know about.

 

Personally I was going back and forth in the lab between this world and the second world through the connection point that I had set up in the first place. I was busy working on different things that I knew would help out my world that I lived in without problems.

 

That problem that I mentioned, it actually came in a form that I seriously hadn't been expecting at all. It turns out that an underwater research center had been created right out in the bay and they were experiencing problems that they were needing help with, and mind you these problems weren't technical, since I couldn't handle that any way, no it turned out that there was someone down there doing major damage to the place, so they got in touch with people to get in touch with me.

 

I got the call about two weeks after everything with Blood Ninja calmed down, and I was told that there was an entire under water city in the middle of the bay just north of Martinez, the only reason why it was there, was because of the research that they needed to get done, and it had been there for the past couple of years. That was why I didn't know about it, because the place had been put there while I had been off jumping different dimensions, and it had even been on the news so everyone but me. I went through all of the news files that I could find on the place, even having both Alexis and Amy helping me out on this considering that they would going as well. I knew that Amy already knew about the place, but Alexis and I had been off world at the time when this had been placed into the bay.

 

After going down to the lab, all three of us went over to a lift at the side of the lab, located at the southern end of the lab, after we stepped inside (and since we were all suited up too) I thumbed a trigger on my belt that sent us heading down to a much lower level. When we arrived, we stepped out to a slightly smaller bay than the lab up above, and this one had a specially designed sub parked inside. The sub looked like a sting ray, with an overhead hatch access to the ship.

 

Alexis and Amy both looked around the place and couldn't believe what they were seeing, of course that was only because they had both never been down here before. "When in the world did you have this made, or has it always been here but we just never came down here?" Amy asked.

 

I smiled. "It would be the second one. There are sections of this base that you both have never entered into at all, however at the moment you're not going to be able to get access to them because right now the lift can only operate through the remote that I have right now on my belt." I told them pointing at the little unit on my belt. I walked over to a control board next to where the ship was docked and started entering in pre-launch information to the panel and getting the ship ready.

 

I noticed that both Amy and Alexis were continuing to look around the ship and the hanger that it was located in. Once I was finished, I jumped onto the wing and climbed up to the hatch on the top of the ship and entered the lock code to open the ship up. "You two might want to finish up what you're doing and eventually get up here. I've got the computer system running through the pre-flight right now, and considering that I've actually never taken this ship out here on this world, there are things that might be a little bit different that the world that it came from in the first place."

 

Amy turned to look at me. "And just what world did this ship come from in the first place?" She asked me.

 

"Believe, me this ship came from a war torn world, and to be honest, it was blown out of the water on the second world on the east coast. I brought it over here before bringing it over to this world. However I never really noticed if there were any differences between the two worlds here." I told them.

 

Alexis's head jumped up on hearing that. "Wait a minute, you never bothered to check at all, so you have going to fly us out into unknown waters here?" She asked.

 

At that moment I popped the hatch open, looked up at her, and nodded my head. "Yup, essentially." I stated as I dropped down into the ship and headed over to the main control board located to the left center of the main bridge area. Actually it was the only deck on the ship considering how small the whole ship was. Yes there were other stations and sections, but they were located all right there in the main section of the ship.

 As I heard the ship's engine coming to life, I heard feet hitting the deck in back as both Alexis and Amy come on board the ship and I could tell even though I couldn't hear them, that they were looking over everything in the ship. I knew that with this new area that they were studying everything and putting everything to memory, and I knew that they wanted to know this ship just as well if not better than I did. However there was only one person that I would ever know of that would ever be able to know the ship and everything far better than I ever had or will. Once the two of them sat down where they figured they would, I started the ship and sank it down into the water and set us off towards the underwater city.

 

We cleared the tunnel bay and went right out into the bay and the only thing that I noticed from the ladies was the pressure difference after we left the tunnel. "Sorry about that, still haven't figured out how to get the pressure difference down and equalized out."

 

The city came into view a few minutes later and the sub dock was located towards the top of the place, however I noticed that there was another location for the ship to actually go into for the top hatch to actually come out into open air. The comm link between the ship and the city was by radio text message only, which actually surprised considering that the ships tech was from another world, and I actually didn't think that anything beyond the radio communication would actually be available here. I was told to dock at the spot that I had seen for the ship in the first place. Settling down the ship, I entered into the tunnel that was there for the ship, and I noticed that there was a water sealed hatch right there for the tunnel which meant that there was a very short tunnel right there.

 

After we entered and lifted the ship up, I noticed in the rear camera the hatch close, but the water level never dropped. Once the top part cleared the surface of the water, Alexis, Amy, and I climbed out of the ship and noticed that there were people standing there before us.


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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Martinez, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Blood Sport Part 3

The power that I had unleashed could and would never be matched by anything on this or any world ever again. The effect was one that had everyone blinking for a little bit, however the one that got the full force of the effect had been slammed and dented in the side of the bank walk where he had hit. I could see that he was hurting from it, but he wasn't dead.

When I had unleashed the powerful blast, Blood Ninja had just made contact with me, but whatever he had been planning hadn't been enough to stop what had slammed right into him. It had been like a wall of physical energy had slammed right into him and forced him not only off of his feet, but at the same time slammed him right into the wall, and since the energy hadn't stopped there, it had pushed him slightly into the wall causing the dent in the wall to appear behind him. I knew that the wall was trying to stop him from moving further, but it wasn't working that well and caused a crater to be formed around the side of him.

When the flow had stopped and even I was drawing breath, everything cleared around me, and everyone was either looking at me, or they were looking at Blood Ninja who was still slightly stuck in the wall. I slowly straightened out, right as Blood Ninja slowly slumped to the ground in a heap and even though you could see him breathing, he wasn't moving at all. As I looked around, I noticed that this was something that they had never seen before, and I knew that it was something that was going to be talked about for ages to come. Plus I could also see a few video recorders in the crowd, which meant that the news would eventually get ahold of this and then the world would see this.

Eventually everything returned back to normal, and even the people started moving around a bit. Alexis and Amy walked over to me and then looked towards Blood Ninja. "Ah just what did you do?" Alexis asked. "Never on any of the worlds that we'd been on when you've fought have you ever done anything like that before."

I turned to slightly look at her, as the emergency people show up to tend to the slumped Blood Ninja. "I learned to do it before I met up with you. That training world I told you about, that's where I learned it, and considering that that entire world is in a minute universe it took almost eight hundred years to fully master it and to get the levels high enough, but for some reason I always held back and I don't know why, but today that was the highest I'd ever been able to do that, before I could never get that high, no matter how hard I had tried." I told them.

I walked over to where Blood Ninja was still passed out but getting checked out. I just stared at what was being done, knowing that there was nothing that I could do, and namely since I didn't know fully what had happened to him since he had slammed into the wall. The medic looked up at me and I could see in his eyes that he didn't even want to mess with me on anything. "How's he doing?" I asked him.

The medic looked at him and then went back to his work. "I honestly have no idea what in the world you did to him, from what I could tell so far, you broke his back when he slammed into the wall at the level of force for which you threw him there. Of course that was no throw that I had ever seen before." The3 medic stated.

I looked at Blood Ninja and then around the area. "That's because I didn't throw him that was a chi energy blast that I hit him with, and at the level that I hit him, I'm honestly surprised that I didn't put him through the wall. I just wanted him to feel what he had been doing to everyone else, give him that same level of pain."

The medic looked up at me. "Well you not only did that, you broke his back, I'm thinking he passed out from the pain when his back broke, but we're not going to be able to tell for sure till we get him back to the hospital." It was at that point that the gurney came over and they placed Blood Ninja on it to take him to the hospital.

I couldn't say anything as they took him away; I knew that there wasn't anything to say in the first place. Then I remembered the little problem that we currently had and went back over to where Amy was standing. "Let me guess, you still haven't figured out the device yet?" I asked as I came over to her.

Amy looked up at me and handed it to me. "In all honesty, except for this suit, I really don't know how to work any of the things that you make." She stated.

I took the device and started the scan, which covered every single level that was out there and then some. I knew that Blood Ninja had covered just about everything since I knew that he wanted this to go off no matter what, but it had been something that he had said, about traveling to other worlds that gave me a clue. Now I honestly couldn't tell you if that meant other planets or like myself other dimensions, but I figured that I would check literally everything that could possibly trigger off the bomb, and low and behold there it was, the bomb was multi triggered, and would detonate a full square block with everyone and everything within. It was located two meters directly below us in solid concrete, and had to have been placed there ages ago, back when they had last fixed the street so that the creeks flow was going right below us instead of where it had been. Plus what didn't help matters was that it was located in literally two other time periods and dimensions as well, and that told me that Blood Ninja was a time traveler and had been on other dimensional worlds as well. This was something that I didn't realize could happen at all, my only question now was, how do I stop this after all did matter who was with me, I had no way to travel through time at all, and the kicker was this bomb had to be stopped at several points at the same time.

It was at that point that Amy spoke up and I had no idea that she was looking over my shoulder at the readings as well. "Just wondering something, but besides being able to detect the problem and how it's connected up, can it also be able to disarm it as well?" She asked me.

I shook my head. "No it's configured to detect only, nothing more." That's when I gave it some thought and realized that it was configured that way, but not made that way, I had made it to be multipurpose. "Wait a second here, I configured it that way, but that's not how I made it in the first place." I said as I turned the unit over to the access panel to the inner workings. I opened the unit up and started working on the problem. I hooked up the device to my suits computer through a part on my right arm guard and started checking out the hardware and the programming of the device. It turned out that it was possible, but it was something that would only work once and would burn out the device for good.

After changing the configuration around, I set it down on the ground directly above the bomb and turned the unit on. The device phased out and started going down. It was set to detect exactly where the bomb was and then unphase on it. Once that part was done it was to teleport the bomb (after connecting up with it at all of its points in dimension and times) over 200 miles up into the air and detonate the bomb, making sure that no one came to harm and that nothing was damaged. Two minutes later I looked up, and everyone else noticed as well and looked up into the sky, a minute later there was a bright flash and the report from the explosion came back to us, and as I stood there, I noticed that a few people ducked down thinking that they might get hit by something, but the debris from the explosion was so small that nothing and no one would be hurt from it at all.

Alexis looked at me. "Now that right there was way too close."  She stated. "I don't know how you did that whole chi energy thing, but I seriously want to know."

I didn't bother to answer her on that, all I knew was that a lot of people were going to be asking a few things after this, and that people would be on the lookout for those that might do harm to others. There would be more of those types that the police weren't going to be able to handle, and I knew at that point that my job had just gotten that much harder. All I knew was that I had to handle each things as it came along.


Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Blood Sport Part 2

During the following weeks, all I did was just check for the same situation all over the county, after all, this guy had no set pattern or location that he would stick around at, and that was the one thing that was driving me nuts. It was like he hated staying in one place and wanted to make an example in the entire county.

Amy checked back through every news agency she could find to see if there was something on him, and even she was drawing blanks. Alexis was in the second world checking the computer system there to see if this guy might be someone that can jump worlds, but even she came up empty. So till this had actually happened, there was nothing, it was like he was just dropped right out of the sky and started doing random killing and didn't matter who it was that he was killing either.

It was then that Amy came into my office with a shocked look on her face. "There's been another killing, a whole group of people, and this time it was right in the heart of our down town." She stated as we headed into the living room. Ok more like she was leading me there, I thought she was about to bring me down to the sub levels, but it turned out that I was wrong, what she was telling me was on the news right on television, this had no attracted media attention, which even I knew that the police weren't going to like in the least, this had to stop and soon. The question was how we would do it. I wanted to confront this guy head on, but there was no way that I could actually do so, after all I had no idea when or where this guy would strike next, and I knew he wasn't going to say anything.

As I walked into the living room, I looked at the screen and saw what was there, the answer was looking at me right in the face, and I could tell that it was intended on getting on camera. It seemed that this double had left a message directly for me. I don't know how, but he knew that I was trying to find him. It was on now.

All three of us went to the scene suited up, after all, this guy had now made everything public, and it was now time to call him out on the entire thing. When the crowd saw us coming, it was the press that almost started running for us, however the people have actually learned to read the position of my head since they can't see my face and know when I actually don't want to be messed with at all. However there were those that still didn't understand that, and tried to call off the ones that were coming towards me.

"Ninja, this red Ninja is calling you out, how are you going to respond?" One reporter asked with the camera right next to him.

It was at that point that I knew what to call this guy, and it certainly wasn't red. "He may be red, but I do know one thing, all he wants is blood so let's call him by what he wants, Blood Ninja, and I have a plan already don't worry about that. Now if you're done asking idiotic questions, I can get down to work here." I told him and left before he had a chance to say anything else further.

I walked over to where the writing had been drawn out, and yes it was all in blood, hence the name. Alexis and Amy were right beside me, and the police were keeping the people back, hopefully a safe distance. I put up my suits sensor to max range, which actually covered a five block radius, and we're talking city blocks here, not suburb blocks, which means that the coverage was huge. If he was there, I would find him.

The message was directed right at me, but I knew that Alexis and Amy would take it personally as well. "Ninja, just like the people here, I will end you and take you're place. Blood will be on your hands." Was what the message stated.

"Well this is a call out if I ever heard of one." Alexis stated as she looked around.

So far nothing was showing up, but I knew that it was only a matter of time, after all unless this guy had been to another dimension as I had, there was no way that he would ever be able to get away from me. However for some reason, he wasn't showing up on my sensors, and the reason why I knew this, we because he was making one hell of a dramatic entrance, from the top of the building across the street.

"If you think that's a call out Ninja, then you have no idea what you're in for." Blood Ninja called from across the street.

Everyone looked up at him, and you could see the crowd below him part like the red sea right before him. They knew danger when they saw it and wanted no part of it. I however didn't care about any of that; I just wanted to take this guy down period. Before I could say anything however, he leapt off the building and landed not five feet away right in front of me.

"However I know that you're not going to do anything to me, after all, you have no idea what I've done, and you can't take the risk that killing me will put these people in even more danger than what they are just being around me." He stated

Well he had a couple of things wrong right there, but I wasn't going to say anything to him about it. I just let him continue on. "After all you and I, we're both the same, we both want justice, and will do whatever it takes to get that justice. So what's it going to be, let me go or let these people die?" He asked.

Right then I knew what he had done, and opening a line to Amy and Alexis I let them know as well. "he's got bomb's planted around here, which means that these people are going to be seeing a fight since if any of them leave he'll detonate the bombs more than likely. I won't kill the bastard, but I am going to make sure that he feels me taking him down hard." I told them, right before I slugged Blood Ninja right in the face.

"You're right about one thing, we both do want justice, however I don't kill, that's entirely you." I told him as I spun around and landed a back round house kick right to his chest sending him flying.

"Ah a fight it is then." He stated as he flipped up back onto his feet again.

Great another martial artist, which means that he, knew not only how to deal out the pain, but to take it as well. Well it was time to find out, just the level of pain he could take. After all, with all of my off world adventures, I could say that I'd literally been to a Hell on Earth world and endured extreme pain.

He jumped up into the air, and for a second there, everything slowed down. Not one thing actually moved, it was a time stall bit that I had picked up from another world that allowed me to gather information that I would need to take down an enemy, and with Blood Ninja I was going to need everything I could get. The only kicker with this though, I had modified the time stall to allow me to be able to move faster than normal, everything around me still moved at the same speed as before, but this only added to things, I just hope that it was enough to be able to deal with Blood Ninja before something went wrong.

As he landed, he tried lashing his foot out at me, but I bent to the right side and threw a punch right at the hip to the left leg lashed out. It was a solid connect, but he didn't go down, he just staggered on one leg. "Ah time stall, I've seen that used before, only this time you've modified it, and I know that you're just wondering how I could know what you're using, well only time will tell for you." He stated and I could just tell that he was smiling under his mask.

The bastard was toying with me, I figured that right out at the start, but I needed the time for Alexis and Amy to deal with the boom problem first, once that was taken care of then, I could deal this guy a final blow and end all this. Blood Ninja and I traded blows left and right like crazy, and I had decided early on not to bother holding anything back, if this guy thought that he knew what it was going to be like fighting me, I knew had to change him on that. I could see that he was getting tired and fast, and all while I had a lot of energy to work with still here.

Then I got word. "We got them, and the police have severed the wireless connection that he had with it, there's no way that he can blow it up now." Amy stated to me.

That right there was good news, however I didn't trust this guy at all, he'd taken a lot of blows from me like they were nothing which mean that he had been prepared for them in the first place, which for my rapidly working mind mean that he had something else planned. I sent my computer to working on different sensors to see if there was something that Alexis and Amy might've missed and even connected up with the big computer in the other world to see what the time line showed for this world. That's when I had it.

Blood Ninja had set everything up in different ways, and the correct tool needed was back in the lab, and there was only one person that I knew who could get there fast enough to get it and come back. "Amy get back to the house, there's a device that I have in the lab that can double check everything on every level including time. You need to fly, and use the Phoenix mode to get there and back. I know that it's untested, but at this point sometimes you need to run before you can crawl." I told her.

The last thing that I saw of Amy was her lifting her head up and taking off into the air, before becoming a flaming bird like mass and heading back for the home. I can only hope that the Phoenix mode didn't do anything bad to her that was going be bad for me if it did. All I knew right now was that I had to end this fight and yesterday.

"Fine you want pain, I'll show your ass pain, you bastard." I stated to him as I gripped both of his armed, leapt up slightly and kicked him dead in the chest while flipping back from him. Once I landed, I stood right up and gathered up energy for something that I had only done once, and when I had done it I had promised myself that it would only be done in extreme cases needed only, never any other time. The energy being gathered was determined by me, as well as the speed that it was gathered up at, and I was gathering it up fast. I had been told that there was no limit, but I could never see that, for me there was a limit to everything, but right now I knew that I couldn't have a limit, I wanted this guy to feel the pain that he was putting everyone else through, and I knew that there was only one way to do that.

To the side from what I could see before everything went tunnel on me, was Amy arriving back with the unit to scan the bomb explosive. She could see what was about to happen and the look on her face was wondering why I was just standing here seemingly doing nothing as Blood Ninja ran right at me, with blades extending out to kill me.

It was at that point that a whole new world opened up to me, one that I had only been to once before when I had last done this and made that promise. Energy was pouring into me now at an unprecedented rate, and the limits that I thought were there before, were no longer there at all. Moving my arms around in classic moves, I picked a focal point to put it all out through and gathered it all starting in my hands to the right side of me before thrusting out and unleashing energy hell upon Blood Ninja. What made it extra painful for him was that he had just come back into contact range when I hit him with the blast. The entire thing could be seen once the energy was unleashed, but the explosive outcome, that no one could see coming.