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The Interview with Lee Ping

"Basil doesn't have much interest in taking part in violence." Stated Lee as he led General Barrage into the kitchen of his and Tina's home. "Odd considering the stories he writes and plays he acts in. However, what is an Arthurian story without a Mordred or someone similar? And what is Hamlet without the climatic duel?"

"He knows nothing about the reason I have come, Mr. Ping." Stated Barrage. "I merely stated I wanted to interview you about a job."

"I never stated anything about my ninja work but I doubt you specified what kind of a job you wanted to interview me for." Commented Lee as he sat down in a chair at the table. "Now, what is this job exactly?"

"What do you know about someone known as 'the Leader?'" asked Barrage.

"Isn't that some super villain's name?" asked Lee. "Couldn't this person have thought of a different alias?"

"Yes, well he has heard of the death of RadCircles." Continued Barrage.

"That was last year!" exclaimed Lee. "Good lord, how does it take someone a year to hear of someone's death?"

"It didn't." stated Barrage. "Our late intelligence officer informed us that the Leader had learned of RadCircles death last year and had the search for a 'Black Blade of Anarchy' begun not long after so he might take over the world and engulf it in darkness. So, I am here to recruit you."

"What is the Black Blade of Anarchy exactly?" asked Lee. "Some sort of anti-Excalibur?"

"We have discovered that it was none other than Murgleys, the sword of Ganelon."

"Who?" asked Lee, thoroughly unfamiliar with the name. "In the last three dinner parties of Basil's I have attended, he and Cam Martinez spent all of them discussing the historicity of the Trojan War. That name does not sound Greek or Hittite."

"Ganelon was knight who betrayed Charlemgane's army to the Muslims, which led to the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. Ganelon was based on Archbishop Wenilo of Sens who betrayed not Charlemage but his grandson Charles the Bald. No one knows where Wenilo was buried so…"

"You want me to get the sword?"

"Yes." Stated Barrage.

"Well then, sounds like I'm going to France." Said Lee.