The betrayal

When the students got back to school. Terada sensei came up to Sakura "Miss Kinomoto can you meet in our home group room after cheerleader practice?" Terada asked "Yes sensei" Sakura said before running off. 'Please forgive me for what's about to happen' Terada thought.

After practice Sakura entered her home room "Sensei?" Sakura asked looking around not noticing the shifting shadow "Not exactly" a voice said before Sakura turned around to see a cloaked man "Mandarin" Sakura said preparing her key "Sleep deeply" Mandarin said as Sakura fell asleep falling in a heap "Very good now to leave a note for your friends" Mandarin said slipping a note into the desk behind her desk "I hope you'll keep to your side of the bargain?" Terada asked stepping into the classroom "Of course none of the students here will be harmed" Mandarin said "Thank you" Terada said steeping aside to let the Mandarin leave. "Goodbye Yoshiyuki and enjoy your life" Mandarin cackled walking out into the hallway to teleport away.

The next day Syaoran entered the class "I hate doing chores" he grumbled placing his bag at his desk, he noticed a note inside "Probably a love letter from my dear sweetheart, I'll open it later" Syaoran thought as he set up the class room for home group. After the chores were done and the students were walking in he sat down and opened the note, however the contents of it was not what he had expected.

The note read:
Dear Xiao Lang Li
I have the most precious thing to you
forfeit the cards or her life
her future is in your hands

Signed
Zhang Khan The Mandarin

P.S. You have 96 hours as of 9am on the day you read this

Syaoran looked at the clock. In five minutes time he had four days to save his beloved Sakura. "NO!" he shouted enraged making the class look at him. Tomoyo raced over to him "What's wrong?" Tomoyo asked. She gasped as she saw the note from the Mandarin "What are going to do?" Tomoyo asked in tears drawing the attention of the others "What's wrong?" Chiharu asked "The Mandarin has Sakura" Tomoyo said bursting into tears "Ransom?" Rika asked "Those cards Sakura uses in four days, after that I don't want to know what's going to happen!" Syaoran said as the bell rang. "After school we'll look for her" Syaoran said. Then Terada walked in he noticed the group 'They found out' he thought "Good morning everyone today we'll be looking at chapter 3 in your English books" he said to the class.

In Stark Tokyo Tower, Tony had just received an e-mail with an attachment "Video file?" Tony asked accessing it. The video file opened up to reveal a blindfolded Sakura tied to an old fashion chair "Ni Hao Iron man as you see before you I have the young card mistress and I have one thing to say let us play a little game of hide and seek and you're it!" Mandarin said "You want a clue? to start looking I suggest the PE teacher at Tomoeda High school and by the way clock's ticking" Mandarin continued. The video turned off and a timer was reveal with the numbers 3:20:45:30. "JARVIS prep suit for launch!" Tony shouted "What is the emergency?" JARVIS asked "The Mandarin has Sakura" Tony said entering the armoury.

After lunch Terada took his home-room class for PE. "Okay class we're going to play soccer mixed teams with Chiharu and Syaoran as team captains" Terada said. After the teams were picked the game commenced and Iron man landed on the roof waiting for the opportunity to show itself before going to confront the teacher. Tomoyo noticed the newly placed Iron gargoyle and kicked the ball out of bounds "Sorry Terada sensei could you go get that please?" she asked "Sure" Terada said walking away. Tomoyo turned back to the building seeing Iron man gone.

Terada had walked out of the view of his class 'why did she kick it this way' Terada asked "Konnichiwa Terada Sensei" Terada heard a voice say "Konnichi" Terada started but didn't finish due to him receiving a slamming against the wall "Can I help you?" Terada asked "Yes you can start with the reason you backstabbed your own student!" Iron man said menacingly "I don't know what you're talking about" Terada said "Maybe you do, maybe you don't however I'm not going to hear the answer by myself" Iron man said removing him from the wall walking into the view of his student before slamming against the wall again "I know this seems like something Frank Castle would do but I hear it works, NOW SPILL IT!" Iron man roared. Tomoyo, Chiharu and Rika rushed over to their teacher "Iron man what are you doing?" Tomoyo asked "Oh nothing just having a nice little chat with Terada sensei here about loyalties!" Iron man said with a slight growl in his voice. "What does he mean Terada-sensei?" Rika asked "Nothing" Terada strained "Oh, so basically setting up a trap for one of your students and basically backstabbing her is NOTHING!" Iron man roared again. Then Tomoyo realised "It was you, you helped the Mandarin kidnap Sakura?" Tomoyo asked "Yes and I'm ashamed of it" Terada said "Oh, Terada sensei how could you?" Rika asked softly "Yes now I would also like to know that!" Iron man growled "Look behind you, Mandarin was going to kill them if I didn't comply" Terada said "So you traded one life for a small group" Iron man said disgusted "No for the whole school" Terada said. Iron man looked at the timer "Great I've wasted a half hour" Iron man groaned "Iron man-sama please save her" Terada said "Don't worry Terada-san I will" Iron man said "Daidouji-chan you and your friends are allowed to help Iron man, find her" Terada said "Looks like we'll be needing reinforcements" Iron man chuckled. "Who do you have in mind?" Tomoyo asked. "I'll handle that Tomoyo you and Rika tell Sakura's family and ask for their help, Chiharu you Naoko and Yamazaki inform Tao and Fanren Li" Iron man "Yes sir!" they saluted "Let's go!" Iron man said taking off to his base.

"This is Iron man request access to the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Directorate mainframe" Iron man said; before an eagle with a shield appeared "This is Iron man I request: your best tracking agents" he said. "State reason please?" the mainframe asked "To find a missing girl kidnapped by the Mandarin!" Iron man said "One moment please" the mainframe said.

Meanwhile Tomoyo and Rika had delivered the bad news to Fujitaka "What's the ransom price?" Touya asked "The cards" Tomoyo said. "Don't give up hope we can find her before the deadline" Kero said. "I hope so" Fujitaka said depress.

Chiharu had just told Tao and Fanren "This is serious, I'll talk to Yelan about what we should do" Tao said getting up. Syaoran activated his laptop's chat programme and saw SmartguyUK was online

Chat session:
Littlewolf logged on
SmartguyUK: Hello Syaoran
Littlewolf: Hello Eriol, how fast can you get here for London?
SmartguyUK: I can be there by tomorrow, why you miss me?
Littlewolf: I can see why you're called Smartguy, No Sakura's in trouble
SmartguUK: What kind?
Littlewolf: Basically she's been kidnapped and we're calling in reinforcements on this
SmartguyUK: c u tomorrow with Naruku and Spinel
Littlewolf: Thnks
SmartguyUK logged off
Littlewolf logged off

Meanwhile Sakura was slowly waking up to see darkness, until she heard somebody walking in and barking an order. Next thing she knew she was blinded; it took awhile to adjust before looking around she was in a dust covered room with two guys in black commando like uniform and the Mandarin "Ni Hao Sakura Kinomoto I trust you slept well" Mandarin said. Sakura muffled out a death threat "You will be here until I receive the cards for your freedom" he explained. "Now Dai Jin" he said standing up while Sakura was muttering curses and threats towards him under her gag.