Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Girl Lost Part 3

We’d been training for a few months, given the newness of Corinne’s suit, and the fact that unlike those of what Amy, Alexis and I wore, Corinne’s suit was strictly combat, and that meant she couldn’t just pick it up wear it and go. The one thing that I had made sure to design into her suit was that the weapons were all energy based, and the energy could vary depending on what was getting attacked.

The armor that Corinne wore was something like Amy’s suit, an entire experiment that was constantly being upgraded and up dated, and of course all of the suits were modular, which means that they could be adapted to everything. The armor was a cloth to metal flex type, one that would be flexible like cloth, yet when attacked would become as hard as metal and deflect to a point. The one thing that I loved about the suit was the golden hue of her armor, and the fact that her visor was something different that none of the rest of us had in the least.

“Damn it” Corinne stated as she stepped back bringing her arm up and pointing the arm cannon towards the sky. “I still have a problem with the targeting system, it’s off by a few degrees, and it seems that every time that you adjust it, it goes right back.”

I walked over from the table that I had set up out back and took a look at her arm. I plugged in a reader and looked at the display. I went into the programming and saw what the problem was. “Ah it would figure, something that I hadn’t thought of before, it seems that everything was calibrated right, but there a variance now through an inter-dimensional shift. It’s something that I didn’t think was going to matter before, but it seems that it really does matter, and now it needs to be dealt with.” I told her as I unplugged and went over to the table and got on the laptop that I had there.

Now considering the level of tech that this world had, I actually needed something a lot more advanced than what they had available, for that I had brought forth from the other world one that was far more advanced and could be able to help out with all of the suits that we had here.

I quickly made a patch and uploaded it to the scanner device I had, then plugged it back into Corinne’s suit and uploaded it directly to the spot that needed it. I stepped back and had Corinne wait a couple minutes for the system to adjust to everything. Once that was done, Corinne turned to face the target and took aim. The end of the cannon expanded slightly and an energy blast flew forth and struck the target and hit it dead center, blowing it apart. I walked over and scanned the energy signature of the pieces that were on the ground, it showed exactly everything that I thought it would. “Great everything is just as I thought that it might be.” I stated as I walked back over to the laptop to enter everything in.

I had wanted to run more testing, however that wasn’t going to happen, since it seems that someone didn’t like the peace that was going on in town. Amy came running up to the door to let me know. “Alex, we’ve got trouble going on right now in town.”

I looked at her. “I take it that there’s nothing specific that’s being told about it?” I asked.

She looked at me and leaned against the window. “I’m sorry but I think that the reporter running from a big gun aimed at them would be incentive for them to get out of there.” She told me, meaning that since they ran, there wasn’t that much information, which means that we’d be heading in blind, perfect, I hated when that happened.

I looked over at Corinne. “Well looks like it’s going to be trial by fire now, which means that everything that happens to you out in the field, we record everything so that if something goes wrong we can either do in the field solving, or figure everything out after we get you back here.” I told her.

About fifteen minutes later with Corinne being held as we flew over the town, we arrived right on Main St in Martinez, and sure enough there was the nut case with the big gun, and yes this gun was big. Plus it was also a laser weapon of sorts, something that shouldn’t even be on this planet at all. Question in my mind became how in the world did this person (since I couldn’t see their face at all), however right then we needed to get things handled. “I’ve registered the weapons energy signature and adapted our shields to it, gotta love the modular.” I stated with a smile no one could see. “So don’t worry about getting hit, your shields will just absorb the energy. Now you two,” I said point at Alexis and Amy. “Help get the people out of here. We’ll take their attention and make sure that that person shoots at us instead.” I told them.

I waved Corinne with me and started heading towards the shooter. “Well short of blowing them up, what do you think…” I never got to finish the sentence as the shooter pointed the gun at me and fired.

I knew that the shields had taken in the energy, but what I had forgotten about had been the kinetic energy, namely since I had gotten a punch like nothing that I had ever felt before. I got gut punched right into the side of a parked car which, along with me inside of it, got slammed right into a store front and wall. Not only was the air knocked out of me at that point, but I was in such a daze I really had no idea what in the world was going on, plus to top things off, my suit had gone out, and was only just rebooting on me. Once the comms were back up, I reconnected with everyone. “Sorry about that if anyone other than me got hit.” I said as I pushed myself out of the wreckage that had come about became of me and the car slamming into the building.

I stepped out only to see that everyone else had also been hit, my suit had only been damaged from the impact and everything else that came after. “OK that didn’t work right, let’s try this one more time, only this time, we learn from our mistakes and do this right.” I stated as I headed right for the person.

They noticed me, but a second too late as I came in and grabbed the gun, right as the person was hit from a blast from Corinne’s energy cannon, not the hard energy that created something different, but the energy from like an E.M.P. blast in purple form. Their gun stayed in my hand, however as they flew back and smacked into the tree that had been right behind them. Stunning to say, but the impact of person to tree actually didn’t do that much, at least not as much as it should’ve in the first place.

Once Amy and Alexis had gotten everyone clear, even after they had been hit themselves, they came in and joined the battle that was taking place. “Just what in the world was that energy that you fired?” Amy asked Corinne.

“Electro Magnetic Pulse beam. Figured that I they had any electronic gear on them, it’s now fried from that, of course I didn’t know that the beam was going to do that though.” Corinne stated.

I tried walking to the person, but that idea was fast killed, as the person brought up yet another weapon that seemed to fold out to a much larger size before firing it at me, and once again I was off and this time I slammed into a tree instead. “OK this shit has got to stop.” I stated as I got up. I had thought that the suit had compensated, but then I looked at the readings and noticed that there had been a different energy signature. Because of that, my suit had been damaged from it, the suit was repairing, but at the same time, everyone else had been shot as well.

When I got up, I looked around and noticed that everyone was getting the worst of it this time since I hadn’t known about the different energy signature. “Everyone call out.” I shouted.

“I’m still here, though at this point I’m wondering for how long.” Amy stated.

“Still kicking ass, for the most part, though this jack ass is starting to make us look bad.” Alexis stated.

The only one that hadn’t said anything had been Corinne. However when I looked, I noticed that her suit hadn’t been damaged in the least, at least till I scanned it, that’s when I noticed that there was a problem and did a remote reboot of her suit. Corinne had been hit with her own weapons energy, and that right there was something that I had only shortly thought about when making her weapon was only the feedback from it in the first place. Once Corinne was back up and running, I helped her up and looked her right in the eyes. “Let’s see if this person can take a hard impact.” I said and stood back.

Corinne took aim and just pointed her arm at the person. Next thing that happened was a shot of energy that came out and a fiery explosion around the person, with them flying back out and in flames, hitting the building and shattering the windows all around us. Corinne I could tell was looking right at me. “How as that?” She asked me.

I walked over to where the impact had been made and looked around, there was nobody there, and I know I had seen someone fly out of the explosion. Right as I switched to full combat mode, something made impact right to my left side and sent me right into a parking meter of all things. “OK wasn’t paying attention, that’s not going to happen again.” I said as I got up from the ground and looked around. I noticed that this person was about to fire again. “Alright, time to take the toys away.” I said as I fired my wrist grapple and snagged the gun and pulled it out of the person’s hand. Once the attention went back on me again, I knew we had it. “Corinne fire again, full yield, and don’t worry about me.” I told her.

Corinne took aim once again and just fired, and kept firing, shot after shot hitting the person in a no hold barrages, the only thing that was covering the entire place was nothing but explosions and slight flame and that was it, nothing else.

I got up and went over to Corinne who wasn’t letting up once. I x-rayed the area and saw that the person had a hard time even trying to get up in the first place. However even through all of that I saw that they were still moving. This person had personal micro shields. This isn’t something that one can be able to get around here. I thought, something was not only wrong, I had a feeling that something else was going on here. I took out two things that I knew were going to be helping out here, one of them was an em pulse disk, the other was an em pulse shield. Something that would normally be used to keep a person safe from the effects of a pulse, however if the shield was surrounding the one where the pulse was going to be used in the first place, it would be completely reverse and everyone out side of the shield would be kept safe. I knew that there was a bit of a delay to the pulse so I trigger it first and tossed it, then I walked over and arranged the area of the shield and placed it on the ground then activated it. The shield went up after the last attack flew through and now who ever this person was, was now trapped.

No one said anything, and the person was now slowly getting up, right as the pulse went off, and not only did it cancel out the suit, but at the same time it caused a feed back that seemed to fry everything, and you could see the electrical arc cover the entire body. This was something that I had seen before on a different world, but I honestly didn’t think that it would happen this time. I walked back over to Corinne and let the pulse do its work completely.

Amy and Alexis walked over to us and stood next to us as we all watched what was going on. “So any idea yet who they are or who they’re with at all?” Amy asked.

“No idea, but that’s something that I do intend to find out.” I stated as I walked over to the edge of the field. “Alright considering that your entire suit it looks like is shut down, I want to know who you are and who you’re working with. After all the level of the tech that you’re wearing isn’t something that is at all normal, and there’s something wrong with that, because it doesn’t belong on this world. So who are you and who are you working for?” I asked.

The person lifted their head up, and I noticed that the head piece was loose, and slowly they pulled it off to reveal a woman’s face. “They’re coming for her again. They know what you did, and they want you dead.” That was the only thing that was said before she passed out.

I walked back over to the girls and was about to say something before I picked up a sound and a direction that it was coming from. “You’ve got to be kidding me!” I stated as I looked up towards the sound and saw what was coming. “Corinne these morons are coming for you. We need to head these guys off before they do something that they’re going to regret.” I said as I called the glider over and got on.

Once into the air, I noticed that the choppers that were heading towards us had not only stopped in mid air, but at the same time turned around and headed off, since they knew for a fact that we’d be coming towards them.

After about twenty minutes, the chopper arrived as a warehouse and we landed about a block away already knowing that they were going to be ready for us. “Corinne I need you to come with us yes, but to hang back. We already know that these clowns want you, but for some reason for the love of me I’ve no idea why they want you at all. So for now, just hang back, and considering that you happen to be the now major fire power of this team, I have a feeling that if everything goes south, that you’ll be taking everyone in that building out.” I said. Corinne didn’t say anything but nodded.

I should’ve realized that right from the start, the entire thing was going to go south fast. This wasn’t something that should’ve happened, but considering that we had no idea in the world what was happening, I should’ve expected right in the first place. The gear that they had was like nothing that was on this world at all for the level that it was at, and I knew that there was no one outside of this building that even knew about it in the first place except for those that were already here.

The moment that my foot stepped right through the door, the attack started taking place, and we got hemmed in. I had my gun out, but it wasn’t doing a damned bit of good considering that I couldn’t see anything that was going on here at all. Our comms got jammed for all of about five seconds before I canceled that out and regained that ability again. “Damn, you would think that these guys would know a few things, guess they really don’t know anything at all here right now.” I stated as I checked over all of my systems. Turned out that they had tried to block all of them, but that was quickly over turned.

I looked around and scanned the place, and noticed that there was nothing that I could be able to do to stop them, but then it was then that I realized something, they were leaving a path open, they wanted to make sure that Corinne came back to them, and they couldn’t understand why in the world that she wasn’t stepping through. “Corinne, we’re pinned down here, but I have  a feeling that they don’t know about you or the new suit that you’re wearing, not only does it have a personal shield, but at the same time that shield will also protect you against em pulse shots. Basically it’s the same shield that I had used before on that other girl, but for you the effects are constant as long as you suit is active, namely considering the em blaster that you have in that arm cannon you’ve got.” I told her. “So come on in and show these idiots what they’re really screwing with, let lose.”

That right there was the damn breaking. Corinne’s suit was not only new, this was what it had been designed for in the first place, when she came in, it wasn’t like anything that anyone had ever seen coming. She not only came in firing, at the same time, she used each of the four cannons that she had and switched between them in rapid fire like crazy. She was jumping around and flipping and firing and a lot of the shots that were fired at her missed completely, for the ones that did hit her, they just dispersed along the suit becoming nothing. The rage that I could see in her eyes was something that I could tell had been pent up for years, thinking that there was no one out there that knew what was going on that would come to find her and free her from the hell that they had put her in. They were feeling the effects of what had been done to her in the first place, and even that was something that I was thrilled not to be on the other side of that emotional force.

Once everything had stopped and Corinne was looking around for more people to lash out on, I knew that there was no way we could come out from hiding. “Corinne.” I called her. I looked at her through the HUD and what I saw in her eyes was pure rage, and nothing but. I stepped out and the moment that she saw me, her arm cannon went right for me, but she didn’t fire. “It’s alright, you’ve won, they’re down and done. They’re not getting back up.” I told her. I walked slowly towards her and, put my hand on the top of the arm cannon and to the side and slowly push it down. “Everything is going to be OK.” However I was wrong, this was going to be something that was going to be extremely hard for her to come back from. “It’s all over now.” I said softly.

Amy and Alexis came out and over to us, they took Corinne out of the there while I looked around the place, and that was when I noticed there was one person that had suffered, but was still around and watching us. “Whoever is behind this, since I know that you’ll live, let them know that I will be personally coming after them, and that they won’t be able to hide from me at all.”

The guy laughed slightly. “Do you honestly think that this is going to be the end off all of this, they will still come for her, and there’s not a damned thing that you can do about it.” He said.

 I took my stun plasma gun and pointed it at him. “I already know all this, however they still will never stop me.” I said as I shot him right in the chest.

I walked out of the place and saw the girls getting ready to leave, I looked around and knew that this was only going to be the start of everything, and to be honest, this was going to be one challenge that was going to be very different. “Game on mother fuckers.”

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Girl Lost Part 2

As the SUV came up the dirt road, I knew that I had to think of something, and fast, plus knowing who these people were I knew right off that they weren't expecting anyone to be here, yet prepared for it either way..

"OK, this isn't good." Amy stated as she huddled next to Corinne.

Alexis turned to face me. "Is there any chance that we could be able to get away from this without a fight?" She asked.

Looking around, I could see that they had a clear line of sight in every direction, if we tried to get away, this wasn't going to bode well, considering that we didn't know what they had in there that might be able to take us out as we got away. Personally I didn't like the thought, but the only wild card here was me, considering that no one knew (not even my own team mates) what I carried on me at any given time.

Without looking at them. "Get Corinne out of here, I'll deal with these guys." I told them. "Look don't argue with me, I'm the only one here that happens to be the most unpredictable since no one, not even you guys, know what I carry on me at all times." I told them. "Use the glider to get her back, I'll recall it to me when I get done to get back to the house. In the mean time, Corinne needs medical attention and yesterday. We have everything that we need in the basement. Now go"

I watched them head over to the glider and take it with them. I turned to see that the SUV had stopped and there were men getting out of the car, one of which had something that I did actually fear they might have, an R.P.G., not good. Taking out some small razor birds as I'd come to call them during my multi-world adventures, I targeted the men that were close to me and let loose. All of them hit their targets and the men dropped in pain, none of them however had been killed, but that wasn't going to stop them from still trying to take out the girls. I brought up a shoulder mounted laser targeting system and fired a micro missile dart directly at the nose of the R.P.G.. Upon making contact, the resulting explosion not only tore the launcher apart as well as the back end of the SUV, but the one holding the R.P.G. was killed instantly as well, leaving on parts behind, and that wasn't a good thing either.

Considering that the ones that had been trying to kill me were now out of commission, I went over to one of the ones that were on the ground in pain and picked him up by his throat. "I want to know who the one that you take orders from is. I don't care if you know the one at the very top since I know that you don't know that. I just want your boss and that's it" I stated as I lifted the guy off the ground.

As I lifted him off the ground, his eyes met mine and in his silence I scanned him to make sure that he didn't have anything that might prevent me from getting the information that I wanted, and discovered that he had a remote linking him back to someone else that actually had been watching the entire thing. I ran a trace as he struggled to say something, something that I now knew was going to be completely useless. "I don't know who in the world you happen to be, but I don't know who my boss is, we just get our orders through the phone and that's it, there's nothing else.." He told me.

The trace complete, I knew that he was right, but I wasn't going to let him know that. I dropped him to the ground and turned to walk away. "You'll live, but let your boss know, Ninja is coming for him, and it's not going to be pleasant." With that I activated the recall and summoned the glider back to me. I kept walking even as the glider came. "Be thankful it's only your hand, you could've ended up the way that the other one did." I finished as the glider arrived.

I didn't say anything else, I got on and flew off, leaving them to whatever they might end up thinking of.

About less than five minutes later, I arrived back at the house in the back yard and at once went down to the basement. I noticed that the ladies still had Corinne with them, but Corinne was sitting in a chair. "What happened. I thought that you two would've brought her there by now." I said as I picked up Corinne and started walking away.

"Well we would've but considering that you said we had the everything needed in the basement, and last I knew we didn't." Amy stated.

I turned and looked at them. "Come on, do you two know remember nothing here." I said as I turned and started walking. Taking a couple stepped towards a wall, I could hear that they were about to say something, but whatever it was got cut of, as I crossed between dimensions through the opening that I had left open. It was a controlled sliver, one that I could be able to keep open only between this world and the one that I had just left. The world that I now was on, was the same world that I had first traveled to back when I had started out my little adventures. The sliver with in a geo-dimensional lock, meaning that between the two worlds, unless someone knew about it other than myself and those that I personally let know, that it would stay put even as the worlds rotated and moved around their suns.

After walking through, I brought Corinne over to a bed that was laid out with medical equipment and gear that I knew was going to need for helping Corinne out. About a minute into setting Corinne up on the bed, both Amy and Alexis walked through and were completely stunned. "Ah how in the world is this possible, I thought that any dimensional link was closed." Alexis stated.

They are, but this one isn't like the rest, this is a completely controlled access, meaning that unless authorized on this side, no one on this side can be able to cross over to our world. However the same can't be said from our world to this one, and the only reason why I had it set up this way is because all of the tech that is needed to maintain the access point can only operate in this world, not ours." I told them as worked the medical equipment for Corinne.

Without looking around I could tell that the two of them were looking around the place, and seeing everything that this world had that ours didn't. Suddenly I hear a sharp intake of breath. "Where are we, because this isn't Martinez?" Amy asked.

While still working and finishing up, I knew I was going to shock her. "The dimensional access is in Geo-Dimensional lock, which means that on our world we're in Martinez, yet in this world we're in their version of New York City." I told them as I came over to the window after finishing with Corinne. Even though it's a different dimension, it doesn't mean that the location are going to copy from one world to the other, everything changes even slightly at times, which means that land masses change and even the location of cities happen to change. For the most part, this world is a mirror of ours, with some minor exceptions, one being that even though in our world and this one the land and the cities are the same, with that access point being there, it means that the locations are completely different. Here I'll show you." I told them as I walked over to a wall terminal computer that had been located directly in front of the access point, which mind you had made sure was blocked off on three sides, so that no one could actually go through without actually knowing that it was there in the first place. I brought up the holo-projector and called up a dimensional view of the two worlds. "When I first arrived on this world, it was literally the first world that I visited upon leaving our world, now considering that I wasn't doing that much exploring at the time for the world's that I was traveling to, it meant that for some of them that I didn't get to take the time and learn about them. Considering that this was the first world that I did travel to, I came back here. I wasn't planning on going back to our world ever again, at least not till you convinced me Alexis." I said. "But as you can see from what's being projected, the worlds are moving at the exact same rate and pace, however everything from our world to this one is a whole land mass off. Meaning that when this world formed up, it didn't settle into place, until it had gotten to this point, mind you that was before the planet had grown and the continental drift happened. Even after that had happened, everything is as you see it now." I finished explaining to them. "However there was a minor hitch when I first arrived, since I hadn't perfected out the leaping unit. I moved not only in dimensions, but also in space as well, however not in time. That right there was the one thing that I had actually worried about. But as things would go, everything worked out, at least everything except for the missile that I leaped right in front of upon arriving here." I remembered that day all too well, including the reception upon returning after a few years of being gone from here.

No one on this world had any idea of the adventures and the different worlds that I had traveled to since I had first arrived, nor of the many things that I had learned as well. "Come on, I'll give you two a proper tour of the place." I told them. Considering the window looked out over the vast city, it meant that we were in one of the highest parts of the building, and when I showed them they found out that it was just part of the top floor of the place. "Much of the tech that you see here on this world, I actually brought over to ours for the house, which also includes the field that surrounds the house and part of the hill as well. Everything developed on this world and brought over to our world, and basically all of the tech there R&D'd here and tried out over there. Believe me, the one thing that I discovered on this world is that thanks to the war that I had tripped over onto had brought the tech up faster than it had on our world. It's something that I still find fascinating to be honest." I told them.

The tour brought us all over the building, but considering Amy at least had never actually stepped foot on this world, it meant that she couldn't (at least for the time being) step one foot outside the building. Upon arriving back to the main lab, we discovered that Corinne was just coming around, the medical equipment here doing the work faster than it normally did. "Well looks who's coming around." I said as I walked over to her. "So how do you feel?" I asked.

Corinne gave off only a moaning sound as she also tried to move around. I let her try and get her bearings, but the one thing that I wasn't going to do was try to keep her lying on the bed if she didn't want it. After all, if I did, then she would only struggle and fight back and that right there was the last thing that anyone needed.

I turned to Amy and pointed at some water that was nearby, and right as I had done that Corinne started to moan again, only this time something different happened. "Wh..wh..where am...I?" She asked haltingly.

I got the water and pressed the class to her lips. "Don't try to move too fast, after everything that you've been through you're a bit dehydrated, here drink some, and not too fast." I said.

Corinne brought her hands slowly up to the glass, and I helped her out. She took a sip and wanted more, but when she tried to get more water and faster, that's when I stopped her and pulled the glass away. "Easy there, it's going to take time to get fully back to normal. After everything that you've been through you're going to need the time to recover. Do you know how long you were there for?" I asked her.

Corinne for the first time started to look around, and that's when she noticed that she wasn't in that shed any more. "Nn..no." and it was then that I could tell that she still needed more time.

"OK I know you're not going to like this, but I need you to lie back down, that way the medical system has more of a chance to be able to help you recover more. Right now the first stage has been completed, but there are more stages that you need to go through, and right now we need to start you on the second stage.

Corinne lay back down, but I could tell that she wasn't going willingly at all. The next stage actually didn't take that long compared to how things were done in our world, within about an hour we were onto the third stage, but by that point I knew that it was time to show everyone there the world that we were currently on at that time.

After putting Corinne into a wheel chair, I brought them all over to the lift that was nearby and brought them up to the roof of the place. Once on the roof, we got to see the entire city that was around us. "Welcome to the secondary world to our own." I told them.

The city that we were looking out on looked like a future version of the New York city that we had on our world, however unlike the New York in our world, this city was brighter and cleaner than ours, and much bigger too.

"This place is amazing." Amy stated as she walked to the edge. "You said that they were ahead, but I had no idea that they were this far ahead."

I smiled. "I truth this is everything that came after their second civil war, the one that I ended. Before that war happened, which actually lasted far longer than either theirs or our original ones, their tech level was on par with ours. However once that war started, the tech level started going through the roof at an alarming speed, something that I had never seen before and haven't seen since. Though mind you I had thought that it might be something other worldly besides me, however considering that I had been here for so short of time, I know that I had nothing to do with this world in the least. So at this point I am kinda wondering about it, but I also know that there's nothing that I can currently do either." I told them as I helped Corinne over to the edge as well to see the city.

Amy turned to face me, and I noticed a look in her eyes, one that I had only seen once before in my life, a look of sheer determination. "Tell me, on this world, is Martinez still around? You said that they had a second civil war and that when you first appeared on this world you appeared right in the middle of it since the worlds were synced together at that time before moving." She said.

I didn't know how to tell her this, so I figured that it was best to show all three of them. "I think that it's going to be better if I just show you all." I told them as I took them back to the lift and brought them down to a sub-transport level. "This transport will take us back to the west coast, and from there you'll get to see what the place looks like on this world."

About fifteen minutes later of underground travel, we arrived at the other end of the line. We came up into another building, but this time after signaling ahead, there was transport ready and waiting for us there. We traveled over the bridge and to the other side of the hills to see what everything looked like on this world. Pretty much once we got to the other side of the tunnel what was left of the war everyone could see, and this wasn't something that anyone should ever have to see.

The entire country side was still trying to grow back from the loss that took place during the war, and knowing that there was no one living on this side, made the impact all the more harder. We arrived at the same location that I had first arrived at years ago. The ground was still scorches from the missiles and the fires that had taken place here. This wasn't anything that one would have expected to take place right in their own back yards. The bunkers and everything that had dealt with the war was still there, but since the war was over, everything had been abandoned.

We walked around the place just seeing what was there, and all during this time, the girls were quite, and I understood that completely after all how could one be able to get through the mind numbing thoughts of what had gone on here, even I couldn't.

"Where did you arrive at?" Amy asked.

I walked over to the spot and pointed up. "About thirty feet straight up. I didn't want to arrive landing in the middle of something so I tried to grab as much air as I could, though after I had done it I realized that it wouldn't have mattered since I didn't know what I was leaping into in the first place. That was the problem right there, but after from the different worlds that I traveled to, that it didn't matter since each world was going to be different in their own different little ways. The only thing that I did know, was that each of the different world that I visited would have the same land masses period." I told them as I looked around. "As soon as I appeared up there, the first thing that I saw was a missile coming from that direction right there." I told them pointing in the direction that it came from.

"I can't believe that this happened on this world, I mean did we really end up in a war here?" Amy asked. "What in the world were they fighting over in the first place?" She asked.

That was something that I didn't know how to answer, after all how do you tell someone from a different dimensional world that the one that they were on fought over something that is slowly becoming a reality on our own world, and that it took a civil war of epic size to bring them to the brink all for someone that he thought he should rule with an iron fist, or that I was the one that had to bring him down. Since I really didn't know what to say I just stayed quiet and just looked out on the battle field that had come so close to wiping out the rest of the country. This being the closest any war ever came. "This is the closest that the war ever came to wiping an entire country out, changing the maps forever. No one lives in the center area of the country any more, only along either side. There is literally no law in the middle any more, anyone that is living out there is only living with the fear that they might be killed by literally anything at any moment in time. That transport that we came in, that right there travels under the entire country and moves at such speeds that it takes only 15 minutes to get from one side of the country to the other." I told them as I walked back over to the car that brought us here in the first place.

Corinne stood in place looking over the field as if she could see the battle raging before her, and maybe in some small way she actually could, but I was never going to know what was going through her mind at that point. The one thing that I did know was that all Corinne wanted right then was revenge for what happened to her for all those years, and that was something that I could very well understand. However I knew that she was going to need more medical attention before she fully recovered from all those years. "Come on we should get back." I said to her. "You still need more care than what you've had so far, you're still a long way off, come on."

Reluctantly without saying a word Corinne turned and came back to the car. The trip back took the same amount of time, but in truth it honestly felt a lot longer than it had, I just wish I knew some way of being able to help her recover faster but I knew that she would have to take her own time in doing that.

The total time in all for everything took about two more weeks on both worlds, and Corinne was coming along nicely, all things considered. I had a feeling that she had a drive in her to take on those that hurt her and hurt back. That was something that I could very well understand. However I had decided that she was going to need to direct that revenge in a different direction after everything was all said and done, and that meant joining Alexis, Amy and I in what we were doing, and that also meant not only giving her a suit of her own, but also doing the one thing that Amy and Alexis never had and that is the training needed to focus her mind.

Corinne knew about the cross point and had traveled through several times before in the past couple of weeks to both worlds, she had been brought fully up to speed on everything when I came over to the second world with a small box in hand. Corinne looked up from what she had been reading when she heard me come through. "Hey there, what's up?" She asked and then noticed the box in hand. "And what's that?"

I held up the box looking at her. "This right here is a little gift, something that I came up with on the other side that I believe will help you out a great deal. It's something that Alexis, Amy and I already have." I told her as I placed it on the bed beside her. "When you're ready that is, we'll be waiting on the other side, there's a note inside telling you everything that you need to know." I told her as I walked back over to the portal and stepped through.

Once through, I saw Alexis and Amy standing off to the side. "She's got it, but I left it by her side, leaving it all up to her in the end." I said as I sat down at the table and picked up a pad that I had there with something that I had been working on.

A minute later I heard a sound behind me, and turned to see a figure stepping through the portal coming into this world. Corinne had taken the unit that I gave her, read the instructions and had suited up. She wore a golden armor that was similar to what I had with the flexible metal. The only main difference between my armor and the one that she wore was that her right arm is where the majority of her weapons were kept. Her helmet was a full head helmet, but you could be able to see her eyes out of the visor, and that right there was where you needed to watch, because right there you could tell if she was pissed or not, and right then she seriously looked pissed.

"I'll be, you look like you're going hunting." Amy spoke up seeing the armor.

Corinne turned to look at each of us. "Damn right I'm going hunting, and I dare anyone to get in my way, this huntress is going to kick some serious ass." She said.

I looked at her. "Good, then that's what we'll call you from now on, Huntress. Because once we get you trained up, then we're all going hunting, and low be the ones that stand in the way." I stated.

Corrine cocked her arm and one of the cannon weapons came out. "Good, time to kick some ass."

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: Girl Lost Part 1

It had been at least a week since the ninjas had taken over the school, and we were doing our best to find the one person that I knew would be able to help us out, one whose mind was even greater than my own, and that right there was saying something. Corinne was the one person out of the entire school that had a natural mind, a mind that had an IQ that was as great if not greater than my own but was completely natural, nothing enhanced like mine had been.

"I can't find her literally anywhere, I mean we're talking from the day we got out of school till now, there's not a trace of her, and no one actually said anything, not even her parents. For her parents it was like they never even had a daughter at all, and no one even thought to ask about her for the past seven years now except for you. Could it have been the same thing that happened to you happen to her?" Amy asked as she hefted her note pad.

I thought about it, but realized that it could be highly unlikely given that the one that targeted me had come from a different dimension and I pointed that out to her. "Plus considering the likely hood that it could've been someone from any of the world's that I had visited the first time around, that's about a thousand to one that it could be any of them considering that I never mentioned nor thought about her the entire time that I had been gone. No whatever or whomever did this; I'm thinking that Corinne was targeted; however this does give me the chance to actually use something that I came up with on the other world that I'd been dying to use for the longest time. I did bring it over, but I never actually figured that I get the chance to ever use it at all. I'm going to go get it, meet me over at the high school entrance, not the Shell entrance, but the clock tower entrance." I told them.

About twenty minutes later I met them over at the school and had a little something with me that wasn't actually little. The device was a temporal reader that could read any point in time at the space that it was being shown. However it couldn't take you back physically, it could only project what really happened back at whatever time that you set. And the reader as about the size of a fire extinguisher and almost weighed about the same too.

I took the sensor node and pointed it towards the area of the entrance to the school and activated the device. I had the date set to June 14^th 1997, day after we had graduated from high school, that morning to be exact. A beam shot out from the main unit and spread wide covering the entire section that I was reading, it gave an overlay in color showing everything that took place, no matter what it was, and we actually didn't have to wait long at all.

Shortly after everything started up, an image of Corrine came out from behind one of the pillars and walked towards them. I still couldn't believe that this was the same person that I'd pinned over for years. The golden curly hair, the way that she had attitude in her walk that said that if you didn't like what she said, then you could kiss her ass. It was the one thing that I had always loved about her, but could never say. However I knew that once I found her, I'd get his chance, depending on how things were with her in the first place.

I kept the sensor trained on her image and moved the projection around to make sure that everything stayed the way that it was supposed to in the first place. We saw that she had stopped and had been standing next to the curb waiting for her parents or her ride to go where ever the future might take her. However what had arrived instead was the one thing that I noticed that even she was surprised about. A van had pulled up to the curb with Corinne slowly backing off, and before she could really do anything, the side opened up and several men, all armed, jumped out and grabbed her. It was at that point that the van drove off and headed back towards the main street that it was going in the first place.

I knew that I had to follow and find out where in the world she was taken, but at the same time, I wanted to know what they had done in order to wipe Corinne out from everyone's mind, that's what didn't sit well with me at all. I mean it had been one thing to use a satellite in order to make everyone hate the hell out of me, but it was something else altogether too completely wipe someone from literally everyone's memory. I mean who in the world Corinne had pissed off in order to cause this in the first place.

Getting the guilder I flew up with the temporal projector and both Amy and Alexis followed suit. "These guys either are working for someone or they're doing this on their own, either way, they did something that completely wiped out Corinne from everyone's mind with the exception of the three of us. However the one thing that I still don't get is that I left this world and I can understand how I wasn't effected, Alexis you're not even from this world so you don't count at all, and Amy you've never left this world so how in the world were you not effected. It's almost like the emotional satellite all over again, only this time it's wiping someone from the minds of literally everyone on the planet. I can't even begin to understand how in the world that happened, let alone anyone that Corinne might've pissed off in the first place in order for this to happen at the start." I told them.

"That's actually two things now that I haven't been effected by, and even I'm wondering what in the world I'm so special that I'm not affected by it all." Amy wondered.

"Good question, on my world, everyone had a natural immunity to something like this, so no one even tried. I mean it had been tried once in our history on a global scale, but literally no one was touched by it at all, so it was given up on. I don't know why or who would want to do this and to one person too, it doesn't make sense. Unless of course whatever Corinne did, have yet to happen and they actually came back to make sure that she was taken out of the picture beforehand." Alexis stated.

Now that thought right there actually scared me in thinking about it, after all no one on this world had any clue about time travel other than in science fiction, and the only one that did have anything that actually worked was myself. However everything that I had was from a different world, considering the tech that was needed in order to be able to pull of time travel didn't exist on this world.

Traveling over the majority of the county, I noticed that we were leaving the cities and homes behind to go out into the middle of nowhere. The image projection came to what looked like a seldom used road, and yet in current time, the road now seemed to be very well used. I followed the projection to what looked like a shed and saw that they had put her into it, I sped up time on the projection and noticed that they what looked like a shed and saw that thekept coming back to make sure that she was alright, but at the same time after all these years wouldn't let her go either, it was like they wanted to make sure that they kept her away from anyone.aer all these years wouldn'

Landing next to the shed, I got off the glider and took readings through the scanner on my H.U.D., there was still a pulse, a faint one but it was still there. "She's alive, but just barley, I really don't know how in the world she could survive after all these years, but she's done it. I mean aside of them only slightly feeding her to keep her alive, sthe scanner on my H.U.D., there was still a pulse, a faurprisingly, she's kicking ass after all this time." I told Amy and Alexis. The only thing that I didn't know was how Corinne was going to handle all of this after all the time that she had been in there.

Now considering that there was nothing for miles around, I knew that not only was there no sound insulation, but at the same time, no one could hear her either. "I know that you're not going to be expecting this Corinne, but I'm someone that you used to know, and in all honesty hate the day lights out of too." I said loudly to the door. I heard nothing, I figured that for all I knew, that this was something that they used in order to be able to show her a false sense of hope. This only told me one thing; she was sitting at the back of the shed.

I looked at the door and the lock that was being used to keep her in there and saw that it was a short chain and lock, and the lock looked like it was fresh and new. For me it didn't matter since new or old, I could still crush the damned thing. I took a grip on the lock and squeezed hard, and the lock became a twisted mass of metal in my hand. I let go and the entire thing fell right to the ground in several pieces. I took hold of the handle of the door and slowly opened it up; I knew that the light was going to be harsh for her, so I wanted to make sure that it didn't hurt that much to her.

 going to be harsh for her, so I wanted to make sure that it didnt lowwly nd. I let go and the entire tWhen the door was open, we got our first look at Corinne and what we saw just about…no it was inhumane. Not only had they only just kept her fed, but at the same time, that was the only thing that they did. Corinne was lying down on the only bed that she had in there, and her clothes were nearly coming off of her and was just about covered in dirt to the point that you couldn't see actual skin under, plus the stench that came out of there was one where you could tell that she had been living in her own bile for years and nothing had been done.

Alexis was the first one to run in and take something out of her belt and cover Corinne's eyes to protect from the light that was now coming in and wouldn't stop coming in either. "We've got to get her back to the house." She stated.

I knew that Alexis wanted to get her cleaned up and out of everything that had happened, and so did I, but there was something that I needed to do beforehand. "Hold up." I said. I switched the H.U.D. over to x-ray and scanned her entire body. I saw something in her, actually several something's, and knew what they were. " "actually several somethings, and knew what they were.er  everything that had happened, and so did I, but there was something tStep outside and bring Amy around the side, then fully deactivate your suits." I told her. "Don't ask any questions, just do it, and make sure to let me know when it's been done.estions, just do it, and make sure to let me know when it' suits."" I told her.

Since I had been keeping my eyes on Corinne, I only heard them shuffle off, a minute later they let me know that they had shut their suits down. Corinne had something inside her that wasn't supposed to be there and when I had checked I had noticed that it was a tracking unit of sorts. Once I had gotten the tracking device that had been planted inside of her disabled, I let both Amy and Alexis know that it was safe to put their suits back on.

"What the hell was that for anyway?" Amy asked after she was back in her suit and had come back around.

I crouched down in front of Corinne and took her face in my hand and looked her right in the eyes, what I saw there I seriously didn't ever want to see again. "Corinne here had a tracking device imbedded inside of her; I flashed her and the area around us with an EMP blast, that's why I had you shut your suits down in the first place." I told them.

"Ah, I hate to say this, but we've got company, and I don't think this is going to be of the good kind either." Alexis stated.

I ducked out the door and looked towards the way we came and saw what she was talking about. There was a black SUV heading right towards us, and it was covered in men. "You know I honestly didn't think that nestly didn' right towards us, and it was covered in men. "e was talking about. THere was legal on any world." I stated as we watched them coming towards us. This wasn't going to be good either way. s, what I saw there I seriously  supposed to be there and when I had checked I had noticed that it was a tracking unit of sorts. Once I had gotten the trackingly heard them shuffle off, a minute later they let me know that they had taken

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: School Under Siege Part 3

(Writer's Note: The Aaron that's named in the story is dedicated to Aaron Hern of the Hern Family, they actually have zero idea that I've actually written this story up in the first place, however since I had started writing this story back before the Boston Bombing had taken place, I didn't know that it would actually go in this direction at all. The school that was originally used wasn't the Martinez Junior High School, but actually Alhambra High School, however when the entire thing took place I decided to change the school. Now I don't know if I spelled the young man's name correct or anything, but I figured that I would mention that yes this story is dedicated to him and his family. Please enjoy)

I seriously couldn't believe what I had gotten myself into with this, here I was fighting someone that I seriously had no chance of beating, and yet I honestly thought that not only could I take him on, but that I could defeat him and rid the city of this guy once and for all, hell kick him out of the country. Thing was, it wasn't him that I was fighting; yeah I know that he was the one giving me the pounding at the moment, but in truth it was his master that I was fighting. I was just doing it through him.

So as I lay there on the floor, I kept wondering to myself, why was I here, I could seriously be any place else in the world and yet I was right there. Thing was I knew, I just knew that if I didn't stop them no one would. So as the foot came again for my rib cage, I realized that I had to come up with some way of being able to defeat this guy. Thinking back though, I should've realized what I was getting myself into.

30 minutes earlier…

Now that I knew who was really in charge, it was now just a matter of dealing with it; however the one thing that I knew I couldn't do was just barge right in with guns blazing. Nope tried that before on a different world and believe me, it didn't work out to well, which means that I needed to try a different tack in order to make sure that nothing went wrong.

After doing some research on the marking that I had seen on the uniform that the head person wore, I realized that this group not only wasn't from this town, they weren't even from this country, plus one of the other main problems that I had was that these guys were all under a mind control, the likes of which I had never seen before on this world or any other world that I had ever been to. Which meant that this was going to be a first, though how to approach the situation, which became the sole main topic of my mind, and that wasn't something that I happened to like too much to say the least.

I gathered everyone around, my team, the local police and the ones from Homeland Security as well. "The packets that I'm handing you contain the information that I was able to gather when it comes to our ninja like friends in there. Now the leader that I saw is only one of several, but they're all connected up through a hive like mind set, which means that the one that has control in there, that person can literally see the entire campus of this school all at once, and that includes whenever we happen to make a move. Which means that we needed to find a blind spot, in fact a few of them, in order to be able to get in there and take the leader out? However there is one slight hitch to the whole thing, and that hitch is that in the location right here," I noted point out the cafeteria, "and it's going to be a tuff nut to crack right there. The reason why is right there, the hostages. While they've got them there, there's no chance in the world that we can actually do anything and that is the main problem that we happen to have. We need to take those people out of the equation in order to be able to take not only the leader out, but this entire ninja like squad that he happens to have." I told them.

They took a moment to organize their thoughts before the questions came to light. "You're asking us to do something that has never been thought of before, after all, there's no tactics that happen to cover ninja like incursions on United States soil at all." The Homeland Security lady stated.

I looked at her. "Actually that's where I'm going to be coming in there. My team and I can be able to do things that you and yours can't do, no offence chief." I stated nodding to Chief Peterson.

He nodded to me. "None taken."

I looked back at the screen and pointed out several things. "OK the problem that we're going to have here is that these guys are going to see and hear you coming a mile away, and it's going to be relayed directly to the one in charge, and then right there everything is going to be blown. No we need to take them out without them knowing, yes it might be a slight tip off, but by the time the leader of this pack figures it all out, it'll be long over."

Amy looked up at me for the first time. "You said that they have some kind of link before, what if he happens to get tipped off from that." She pointed out.

That right there hadn't been something that I had actually thought about, however I figured that what she was talking about was also true and right in the first place, and that if they were connected by some kind of link, then the leader would be tipped off right off the bat, and there would be no getting around that. "At that point I really don't know, but I have a feeling that we're going to have to do something." I told them.

It was then that Alexis came up with something that I hadn't even thought of, and it was honestly the best idea as well. "Why don't you just straight out confront him right from the start, challenge him to a fight, one where if you win, he has to with draw and submit to the local authorities."

I looked at her. "That's not a bad idea, the only problem there is one thing, even if I win, he won't submit in the least, at least not unless someone happens to tell him that he has to. So unless you know someone that can be able to end all of this. That's not going to happen." I told them.

I had noticed as I had been talking to them, that there as a family standing off to one side with a kid next to them. Earlier I had noted that there was only one type that honestly wanted to be both in school and out at the same time. So after the list had been gathered, I had a couple of officers with Amy go over the list and see who would actually be the one that would want to, and this now had to be the family that wanted that. I walked over to them and stood looking down at the kid, Amy stepped up next to me. "I take it that this is the one?" I asked her.

Amy nodded. "Yes, everyone else that we looked at, we couldn't get ahold of them at all."

I kneeled down in front of the young boy and looked at him not only on his level, but right in the eyes as well. "So what's your name, I'm called Ninja, this is my friend Phoenix, and the lady over there that's looking at those computer screens who looks like me, well we'll just call her Lady Ninja for now." I said as I jerked a thumb over to Alexis.

The young boy looked at his parents, and when they nodded turned to look back at me. "Aaron, I'm Aaron." He said. I could tell that he was nervous and I wasn't going to press him for his full name right then.

"Look Aaron, I need your help here, you see I need to get my two friends and I into that school without letting a bunch of wanna be ninjas know that we're trying to get in there. You see I'm thinking that they're all linked in some way that would actually prevent me from sneaking past one yet getting spotted slightly by another one. So I'm needing a way in that won't let me be seen by them at all, and something tells me that when you've been on your own you've come here and explored the place more than you should've and that you actually know of a few places that one can actually get into that no one knows about. Am I right in thinking that?" I asked him.

Aaron looked at me and gave a slight smile that told me everything that I needed to know, without saying another word, I brought the family over to the computer that Alexis was staring at and let Aaron look at it. After a minute or so, he pointed at the screen but didn't touch it.

Alexis looked at where Aaron was pointing at and then typed something into the keyboard and the area on the screen that he had been looking at enlarged and gave us more detail then what had been there before. "Now that we've got more detail there, can you get more exact, and don't worry about touching the screen either OK." Alexis told him.

Aaron again, and touching it this time, pointed to yet another spot on the screen and Alexis once again zoomed the picture in, and for the last time Aaron pointed. "Right there is a place that one can be able to get into the school without being seen at all. You'll have to travel underground for a little bit, but it come up right into the main school building." Aaron stated. I looked at the point, and saw that it had been just off campus. It was a place that unless one knew where to look, they would never find it and never be able to get onto the campus in the end. Aaron knew about it only because he had used it before.

"You have no idea how much this actually helps us out." I told him as I compared the map to the heat screen. There wasn't anyone near it at all, and there were rovers, but right at the moment there was no one near it.

I took the remote to my H.U.D. and displayed that information in front. "OK now that we know where to hit, we can be able to get in there and end this." I stated as Alexis and Amy went with me.

It took about five minutes to get over there, and then yet another minute to the access point which happened to be a sewer pipe.

"I can't believe that I'm about to enter into a sewer pipe, this seriously was never even thought of when I signed up for this gig." Amy stated.

I could see Alexis smiling on her COM screen. "Then I guess you're never going to be visiting the smell world." She stated.

Amy looked at her. "What is that Earth connected only through sewer lines?"

"No she just calls it that because of the plants that are there, they admit an odor that would make this sewer pipe smell like a fresh mountain spring." Stated as I entered the pipe.

I entered and went in and crawled along the line the entire time having a map on the screen showing me real time where I was exactly in relation to the school above our heads. Believe me this wasn't something that I actually wanted to stay in for very long, considering that even though Alex and I had full face masks, Amy didn't and that's where my concern was at that moment right then.

We got to the entry point that Aaron had told us, and from what I could see, not only was the school right above us, but so was a closet on the bottom floor that had a drain that lead directly to this pipe here. Standing up, I pushed the drain grate up slightly and popped a mirror up so that way I could see if there was anyone in the room, there wasn't. Moving up, I quietly moved the grate to the side and moved out of the way as I got out of the way to let Alexis and Amy out of the pipe and into the room.

No one said anything as we gathered before the door and I looked under again to see if there was anyone there. There had been one person, but that person had just turned the corner and was now out of sight. Pushing open the door, we made our way as fast as we could without being seen directly to where everyone was being held. Once we got there, that's when I knew that things were going to be changing a bit for us, so I decided to make an entrance, one that they would never forget.

I took out a couple of smoke pellets and Alexis knew right off what in the world I had been planning on doing, it had been the same thing that we had both done on the training world. I rolled the pellets under the door since they were that small to go under, and watched as they rolled for a few feet before going off, and when they went off, the cloud that they put up was not only thick, but huge too.

The ninjas that had been by the door had been confused at first by the pellets as they had rolled in, and didn't know what in the world was going on when they couldn't see anything in front of them. However none of that mattered once they were knocked out. We had come in quick and took them right out fast, making sure that none of them even knew what in the world was going on, after all the one that controlled them was also blind as well and that was the main reason for it in the first place.

Once the smoke cleared, we were standing there over the bodies and looking right down at them. "If you honestly think that this is the worst that I can do, you seriously haven't been paying attention in the least." I said as I slowly looked up at the one that was in charge. Thing was for me, even though they couldn't see it, I wasn't looking at the one standing up before me; I was looking at the real one in charge.

However it was the one in charge that stood up before me and spoke. "For this insolence, you shall pay with your life." He stated right before charging at me.

Personally I really didn't think about how to react to something like that, so that's why I ended up on the floor like you saw at the start of all this, with me getting the crap kicked out of me. However you have to realize that once my mind kicked back in, that was that, after all I wasn't trained in fighting on this world, I was trained on a different world, one where the laws of time were completely different then how they are right now. Right then everything that was there went into such a slow motion for me, it was like everything suddenly wasn't moving, and that's a very good thing for me. I looked up at the one that was kicking me and suddenly something that I had practiced before (something that I was seriously never any good at when I did practice) came flashing back to me, and before I knew it, the guy kicking me shifted not only to the left, but had a bunch of lines following him as well. Then once everything sorted its self out, I was not only behind him, but at the same time his foot was still up like he was about to kick me yet again.

I took the foot and held it; the moment that he turned around I looked him right in the eyes. "Sorry but enough of that." I told him.

Using his own weight on him, I spun him and through him dead up with a second of the place that had no one in the way and right into a wall, knocking him clean out. Yeah I know what you're thinking, no way in the world that it would end that fast, and you're right, I thought he had been knocked out, and it had turned out that he hadn't been. Turned out that I had stunned him and he was faster at getting things back to normal than I actually gave him credit for. This time though I really was ready for him, and instead of him catching me and laying into me, that's when I nail him, right in the jaw that he was sticking out by leaning forward. Guy was stunned right into place and that left me land a few moved of my own, first a couple of jabs to his chest, before a couple of sidekicks to him, before ending the entire thing with a roundhouse that sent him flying back. At that point I did check on him to make sure that he was out, and this time he was.

I turned to look back at the real one in charge of all this, and believe it or not it was not the guy that was also standing there, it was the woman that was next to the guy in the first place. "You might want to reconsider sending this goon after me as well, and don't bother to say that you're in charge, I know that she is." I said looking directly at her this time. "You've been the one in charge this entire time; you're the one with the hive mind that has for some reason gained control over everyone here. I don't know how you did it, and to be honest, I doubt there's anything on this world that could be able to actually counter it, however considering my adventures that I've had during the last six years this world's time, and I would consider that there is something out there that can counter you." I told her.

Her eyes at that looked stunned, just as they had when I had used that sides maneuver, the one that I had a hard time with before. "You are just as he said you would be, however I didn't consider you to be like the way you are now. You are one that is different, and I do not mean in just the way that your suit happens to be, I mean that you personally are different. You yourself are of this world, yet at the same time, you are not of this world. However I will leave you to contemplate that on your own. I will leave, considering that all of this was to draw you out in the first place. Ninja you have made a name for yourself, and you yourself do not realize this, please understand that I am not the first nor will I be the last. Yes there was that Blood Ninja person, but he was a lone one compared to the force and terror that await you." With that, she got up and started walking towards the door aware from the police and government authorities that were out there. "Also," she said turning back. "Remember that this is not the last that you've seen of me and my clan, we shall return, and when we do, will you be ready for it."

I watched her leave, and then about ten minutes later with everyone walking out behind me, I arrived back where everything started in the first place. I still couldn't believe everything that I had been told, and realized that I had been making a name for myself with everything that had been going on.

After going through a debrief with all of the badges that had been there and going back home, I realized that there was one person that I needed to find, someone whose mind was greater than mine was and it was natural for her. Walking into the living room, I looked at both Alexis and Amy. "Ladies there's someone that we need to find, someone that can even the odds out here for everything." I said and then looked directly at Amy. "We need to find Corinne."

Ninja Chronicles: The Return: School Under Siege Part 2

It had been at least close to fourteen hours since all of this had started, of course part of that had taken place before we had gotten here, and at the same time that of Homeland Security, who as it were, were ignoring everything that I had been telling them at all, and had gotten the local police to just about completely ignore me as well. I knew that the only way to get into the school was to think like a kid that didn't want to be there but at the same time wanted to be there as well, since all of his friends were there.

Homeland Security had what I liked to think of as shock troopers trying many different ways of getting into the place, and none of them were working at all. Whoever these ninjas were they were showing a skill that I had never seen on this world before, almost like they had come from the world that I had trained on, but when I checked the guards out at the front of the school, their dimensional signature registered that they were from this world. In fact out of everyone that was here, they only one that didn't register as being from this world was Alexis and that was only because she was my double that had left her own world after devastation had taken it (that however is a tale for another time).

One of the senior shock troopers walked up to the leading lady and thanks to the helmet's mics were able to pick up what they were saying. "We've literally tried everything we can think of that a person can fit into to get into this place, and they have everything blocked off. Anything that isn't blocked off no one can actually fit into at all. So unless you happen to have any more ideas, I'm telling my men to back off." He stated.

The lady turned to look at him. "Until such time as you actually do get in there, you are to keep up your efforts and keep trying to get in there. I don't give a damn how long it takes, but you will keep trying." She told him before giving me a look like she wanted to arrest me right then and there, before turning back to her paper work on her computer.

There was one way to look at the school, and I had it right in A.M.Y., but I wasn't about to get it out considering that I didn't want that lady thinking that I was going to try anything. However I didn't need to worry about that as she walked over to me. "I know that you've got something in your bag of tricks, something that might be able to help us out here. You might want to think about using it."

I looked at her. "Considering that not just six hours ago you were willing to lock me up on the spot for even being here, I'm thinking that you need to back off those men and listen to me for once. However considering that I know you won't it's not even worth the effort to say anything at all. After all, once this is all said and done, you're just going to have the government take all of the end results for yourself and make sure that no one local gets anything. After all it's how you government people happen to work, and it's how more things get screwed by you people than anyone will ever know in the first place." I told her.

I was half tempted on leaving, but at the same time I knew that I couldn't, after all this was my city and I wasn't going to leave it in the hands of those that seriously didn't know what in the world they were doing. Low and behold, she actually realized that and understood. "I know, and I've been awaiting word on what to do, but I'm getting nothing back. However I also know that anything that is done here now that we're here is going to be seen as a government success which means that except for us, no one else here is going to get the credit for saving anyone in that school at all." She told me. "So I will order my men to pull out and away and let you do whatever it is that you do best, and I'll get you whatever you need in order to get this done quickly."

I looked at her. "If you think that this is going to be done quickly, you've got another thing coming; this isn't going to be done quickly at all. However I will try to make sure that no one gets hurt at all, but even then I can't guarantee anything." I told her. "First off I need to know which kids were absent today so that way we can talk to one of them to find out how to get into the place. After all if the ways that a grown up can fit into are blocked, then you go the way of a child. No one ever thinks of that at all."

After I told them that, I walked over to the back of A.M.Y. and barely touched the truck of the car. The way that I had programmed her, I knew that just by doing simple things like the barest of touches that she would know what I wanted and needed. The trunk opened up revealing something that I hadn't touched since coming back to this world, the last time that I had used it on this world had been six years before when I had left this world in the first place. It was the glider that I literally flown away on, only now it sat here folded up like a case waiting to be used again. I took it out and set it on the ground and tapped a button on the side and not only did it light up, but at the same time a buzzing sound started coming from it as well. About two minutes later it had unfolded and sat before me humming along. There were no weapons on it any more since I had added some in one of the world's that I had visited, I couldn't keep the weapons on there because in the folded mode that it had been in, anything might happen that would've set them off in the first place and I knew that I couldn't have that in the end.

Lifting up on the glider I flew up and traveled high over the school and the surrounding area, I wanted to literally see everything that there was to see, and soon I was seeing the entire city just about, but when I looked down I focused mostly on just the school area and picked out everything there. I traveled as high as I did for one main reason, and that reason was this, I didn't want them actually seeing me up here at all, since the level that I was at right there was high enough that the heat from the engines would get masked over by the coldness that was there. I scanned below at everything and brought up the heat signatures of everyone that was there, from the teachers to the students and the police officials that were there. I noticed that the place was devoid of the ones that had taken the place over, I knew that they weren't gone considering that as long as the police were there, they were going to be staying there making sure that their demands are met whatever they were. Considering that I knew they were there, I switched through the different scans and noticed that they weren't on any of them, not even the cold level since I figured that they might be covering their heat, nope not even then. So I switched over to something that I hadn't had to use at all on this world and only used on one world before, and that was the DNA scan, something that I had come up with that could not only tell me the difference between different people, tell me exactly how they look, but at the same time, tell me if they were male or female at all.

When the scan was complete, not only did I have literally everyone down there, I had the exact position of all of the Ninja type fighters that were there. I flew back down and landed exactly where I had lifted off from, and since I knew that only my exact weight would actually fly the glider, I got off and walked over to one of the police computers that were there.

"Hey what are you doing?" One of the officers asked as I shoved him aside and got onto the computer.

"I have the information on exactly where everyone is, and I'm showing you this knowing that you're not going to be stupid enough to actually use this at all." I told them. "I'm going to be using this information, and at the same time, I'm going to make sure that these ninja type people are going to be dealt with swiftly and safely here." I finished.

I brought up the screen and all of the information that I had scanned and recorded down. "Just what in the world are we looking at here?" The lady asked.

I looked up at her. "You're looking at a scan of the entire area around here. However since none of them register I had to do DNA scan just to make sure that I could find out if they were human or not or from this world or not, and it turns out that not only are they from this world, they're all human, but something is masking them from heat sensors, hell any sensors at all except for DNA scans, and that right there has gotten me scared as all day light. Because whoever is actually running this show, they know about all of the scans that can be done except for mine, which means that they don't know that you have this information anymore. This here is showing exactly all of their positions that they're located at right now, and my team and I will be using this to get those kids free." I told them.

Amy came over at that point with a single sheet of paper in her hands; I knew what it was but let her say it anyway. "Ninja, this is the list of the kids that are absent today from school, it might not be long, but do you think that you can find one that might be able to help at all?" She asked.

I took the list and looked at it. Scanning the name on it, my suit computer ghost tapped into the school computer and gave me a face to the name and I saw everyone's records and what they had done. There was one name that stood out from everyone else. "Here this one right here." I said as I showed the officers standing there. "Bring this kid here now, he's not in school here, and he's not playing hooky at all. Get him and his parents and bring them here." I told them. They looked to Peterson and he nodded and they dashed off.

Turning I shut down external voice and opened up a link to Alexis. "Alexis, see if you can start probing them, see what you can be able to find when it comes to these guys." I told her.

The link allowed me to get a full face shot that no one else around got to see. "You got it." She said and took off away from the school.

I looked towards the entrance, and decided to try and make a probe of my own. Walking over there with Amy next to me I walked right up to the front door to the place. "I take it that there's not a chance in the world that you guys would be willing to let me in is there?" I asked them. Their eyes slightly looked at me but for the most part kept looking forward. I knew what that meant right there. "Yeah I didn't think so either." I stated as I slugged the first one hard right in the face and then nailed the other one right in the throat with a tranquilizer dart. They were both down in a heartbeat.

So far there was nothing from the rest of the school, not even a cry out or anything at all. Amy and I walked right into the place and started walking forward while looking around the place. I didn't say anything since I couldn't, but the place had changed much in the six years that I had been gone for, and it amazed the hell out of me how much had changed during that small amount of time.

We had gotten about half way down the hall when two figures came out and blocked our path, Amy and I stopped right there and looked back the way that we came and noticed that there was two others in that direction as well. However in the cross section that we were in, we noticed that there was no one to either side of us. So I figured that we would just pick a way and go from there, I was thinking something but wasn't really sure till it was confirmed when we took two steps in a direction and then two more appeared right before us. I knew at that point that we were getting herded.

"Great, why do I get the feeling that someone doesn't want us to fight, but instead wants to actually meet us." Amy said as we walked down the corridor that no one was blocking now.

"Then let's go meet them." I said as we came to the end and I saw that it lead right to the cafeteria, and as I looked in there, I noticed that there were a load of people there sitting down, and more than what they had seating for in the first place. "And I think that the one that wants to meet us is waiting for us right in there." I said nodding to the cafeteria.

Walking into the cafeteria I started taking note of things that I hadn't seen before, things that I knew weren't right at the start of all of this, namely the look in the ninja's eyes as they moved about, they had a bit of a vacant look in them. However the one that really caught my attention was the one that was standing at the very black of the large room, the one that seemed like he was in control over this whole thing.

"Well if it isn't the one that fled this world at the start. Here I thought that you would never come back, but then you went and arrived back. Please tell me where in the world you went, I would love to know." He said.

I didn't say anything, all I had wanted to do was to probe the place, and I had done that, I had gotten all of the information that I needed in the first place, and I knew right then and there that there was going to be no way that I was going to be able to take on this clown and protect everyone not only here, but also in the school as well. Before he had a chance to say anything, I opened up a program in my suit and tapped it into Amy's as well. Actually this program was built into all of their suits, but no one knew about it, at least not yet.

"So  be able to take how did you do it all, please tell me since I would love to know." He said again.

Then right before their eyes, Amy and I became pure energy, however what Amy and I saw was everyone and everything around us dissolve into pure energy and it was like it all transformed and then the energy went away and everything became solid yet again. Amy and I had just teleported right back out to where we had started from, and when I looked at the time on my H.U.D. screen, I noticed that we'd only been gone for twenty minutes at most.

Amy turned to look at me. "What the hell was that? First thing we're in there with them, and the next thing that I know is that we're out here back where we started, what the hell happened?" She asked me.

I took one look at her before turning and walking back to A.M.Y. "I teleported us out of there, I got all of the information that I needed, and I now know whose really in control, and it sure as hell isn't the one that tried talking to us in the first place." I told her. "Now the real fun begins."