Hey guys! I know I haven't been updating the Marauders Mission a lot, but I'm trying. I promise though that I won't abandon this story even if I made some of you guys wait two years. Thanks for reading!

-Potter Jackson22

It was a normal Friday evening and the gang was sitting around the television watching Mickey. Another commercial break came on (the second one in thirty minutes) and Two Bit jumped up and rushed the kitchen to get another beer before the show started up again. Everyone else had nothing to do so they continued to watch the advertisements.

It was a slow day in the Curtis house, and everybody was just relaxing and enjoying their evening. It was great because nobody had work at this time.

"I wanna check the news about that stuff happening in Vietnam." Soda interrupted the slow silence between the bored gang. "Before Mickey comes back on."

He changed the channel and instead of news on Vietnam, it showed a video clip of some sort of arena with people milling around cheering and an excited news reporter saying "Daniel Larusso wins the California karate tournament with his new trademark move! Pete- can you pull up the video?"

"Sure, Sara." The other news reporter smiled, as the screen turned to a dark haired kid standing on one foot with his hands raised by his sides. The blonde opponent charged toward the boy, but the kid jumped and kicked the blond in the face.

Forgetting about trying to find news on the Vietnam War, everybody's attention was suddenly drawn to the dark haired karate star that was currently on tv.

Soda gasped jokingly, "Johnny! You never told us you had a twin!"

It was true that the champion looked just like Johnny: the face, hair color, the size, his eyes, and the height. Ponyboy was shocked at how similar they appeared. It was actually creepily similar...

Johnny looked shocked for a moment at Soda's joking outburst and then said quietly "oh. I guess I forgot to tell you guys about him. He actually is my twin."

Dallas sat up and chuckled at Johnny for a moment. "I didn't know you could be that funny, Johnny. You're joking with us, ain't cha, kid?"

"No, I'm not. Daniel really is my twin. Did I seriously forget to tell you guys about him?" Johnny asked, looking very confused. Ponyboy was seriously doubting his memory skills at the moment.

"Yes!" growled Dally and Steve at the same time. They both seemed pretty bothered by this important unvoiced fact, and to be honest, so did the rest of the gang.

"Oh. Sorry. Well we were split up when we were really little. Like five years old. My mom sent him away because my parents didn't want two 'brats' to take care of. He was sent to New Jersey and adopted by another woman. I guess they moved to California because this state tournament is in California and it isn't a National tournament. Could you turn the tv volume up a bit? He's being interviewed right now." Johnny said normally as if none of this were a big deal. He did seem very wary of the shocked gang, though.

Darry quickly turned the tv up to nearly its full volume as they all listened to Daniel speak, trying to take in every word that he said.

"So Daniel- how long have you been training for this tournament?" The news reporter asked, holding the microphone near Daniel.

"Um I think it's been about two months."

"Wow. How long have you been taking karate?"

"About two or three months."

"Really? What a prodigy! Many people in this tournament have been training for years. How have you become so good in such little time?"

"Mr. Miyagi is the best teacher I could ever have. I have learned so much from him in only a few months. I just moved here to California from New Jersey recently and I met him a few weeks into the move."

"Well Mr. Larusso- do you think you'll be moving on to the National tournament in January?"

"I don't know. Mr. Miyagi and I haven't talked about it yet. We'll just take it one step at a time. Although I have been thinking about visiting an old friend for a while now."

"And who is this old friend?"

"I have a twin that I haven't seen in years that I'm kinda missing."

A crash was heard from the kitchen as Two Bit raced into the living room and joined everyone in staring at TV with open mouths.

"Seriously? I'm just... so... just... wow..." Steve muttered, turning the volume of the TV up even more. Ponyboy was certain that if the volume was turned up even more, everybody's eardrums would surely burst.

"And where does your brother live? And why have you guys been separated?" The news reporter asked, sounding very curious.

"Uh... I think he lives in Oklahoma. And I don't know that answer to the last one. All my mom told me was that she basically adopted me and I have a twin named Johnny who lives there. I've always been wanting to go one day and meet him." Daniel replied, smiling at the camera.

"Well thank you for your time answering these questions tonight, Daniel. Now we'll interview Johnny, who was second place in the tournament..."