PREVIOUSLY: We finally found out how the karate war ended 30 years ago, Daniel, Johnny and Chozen teamed up to train the students, but on the day of the tournament things weren't looking good, Cobra Kai's new star Shawn Payne defeated Robby, Hawk and Miguel and now the only hope was Demetri, he was scared to fight but is encouraged by his friends, when the fight was tied at 2-2 he feels a strong pain because of a hit he took in the chest, Yasmine gets off the stands and encourages him, the situation looks difficult, but in the end, Demetri turns the tables at the last second, Shawn is humble at the end and congratulates his opponent, now it all depends on the fight between Samantha and Tory (who was still in Cobra Kai), after an extremely hard fight, Samantha is the winner, Silver gets angry and demands that the tournament be redone, but at that moment, Tory reveals that she was on Cobra Kai just to collect evidence of Silver's cruelties to destroy him, and that's what she does, she shows the video of him beating up Stingray and also a video of him bribing the referee just like he did in the previous tournament, as a last act of revenge, Silver tries to choke Tory, but Chozen saves her and defeats Silver and Mike Barnes, Cobra Kai is defeated and what happened after that?
The previous chapter told the story of what happened 30 years ago, how Cobra Kai was defeated.
Vivian: Wow, I never thought Cobra Kai had so much history.
Samantha: This is just the tip of the iceberg, ask your grandfather, but now I think everything will get better, you know, Mr. Miyagi always said, 'there is no such thing as a bad student, only a bad teacher' and Tory had some of the worst teachers ever, luckily she doesn't want to make the same mistakes as John Kreese, Terry Silver and Mike Barnes.
Vivian: I'm glad to hear you two are getting along again, I trained with Tory for a while and even though I'm your niece she was kind of nice to me, I can't say the same for sensei Kyler Park.
Samantha: And I'm glad you left Cobra Kai and came here, which reminds me, there's still one thing you need to do.
Vivian: What are you... (she understands what Samantha was talking about) oh no, I'm not going to talk to my parents.
Samantha: You know, your parents work for a big tech company, that's why they travel so much, I understand you have issues with them but...
Vivian: No, you don't, you always had your parents with you, you have no idea what's like.
Vivian's Flashback
Since I was a child I always wanted to spend time with my parents, I did everything I could to make them pay attention to me.
Vivian (at age 4): Daddy, can you play with me?
Anthony (working on computer): Sorry sweetie, Daddy is busy now, ask your Mom to play with you.
Vivian leaves Anthony's office and goes to talk to her mom.
Vivian: Mommy, can you play with me?
Lia: Mommy is busy now, but I promise I'll play with you as soon as I can.
At school I always heard stories of my friends having fun with their families and I was jealous of them because my parents barely had time for me.
During the summer vacation I imagined that my parents would finally have more time for me, but they were almost always busy.
Vivian: Mom, Dad, I'm finally on vacation so we can spend the whole summer together.
Anthony: As much as I'd like to do that, I can't, your mom and I have an important trip, we'll be gone all summer.
Lia: But don't worry, you'll have a lot of fun with Aunt Sam and Uncle Miguel.
Little did I know that it would be one of the best things that ever happened to me, when they left me with you, those were some of the best days of my life, I finally knew what it's like to have a family, you took me to the beach, to the amusement park and spent a lot of time with me.
Even when you had to work I was not alone, because I stayed with my grandparents.
All of you, my grandma, my grandpa, uncle Miguel and you too, Aunt Sam, taught me so many things, there was even that day, I bet you remember it too.
We were at the playground, you were sitting on a bench while I was playing in the sandbox, when suddenly a masked man grabbed me, so I screamed and you came to my rescue.
Samantha: Hey you, let go of the girl and nobody gets hurt.
Masked Man: Don't worry ma'am, you'll get your daughter back, or whatever she is, as soon as you pay for her.
Samantha: Listen, you're kidnapping the wrong woman's niece.
Masked Man (sarcastically): Oh, I'm so scared, what are you going to do?
Samantha kicks the masked man in the face, which knocks him down, he gets up and tries to hit Samantha, but she easily blocks the attack, Samantha then grabs the masked guy and throws him to the ground, he tries to get her off him, but he can't, but at that moment other masked guys appeared, Samantha remained calm, even when the five guys attacked her at the same time, she dodged the attacks, made them hit each other using one of them as a human shield and finally, taking down the biggest and strongest of them with the crane kick.
After wiping the floor with the kidnappers' faces, Samantha goes to check on her niece and she was fine.
Vivian: That was amazing!
Samantha: Did you like it?
Vivian: Yeah, I loved it... what was that again?
Samantha: That was karate.
Vivian: Teach me, please.
Samantha: Hmm, I was about your age when I started learning, so, okay.
From that day on, Samantha and Vivian started training karate together and Vivian got better and better.
One day, they were training and Vivian manages to break a board for the first time.
Vivian: I did it!
Samantha: Nice going, sweetie.
Vivian: Now anyone come at me I'll kick their butts.
Samantha: That's right, but don't forget, never start a fight, but if someone is threatening you or your friends, use everything you have and remember (she bends down) true karate is here, here, but never here.
Vivian: My tummy?
Samantha: Yeah, something like that, come here (they hug) but remember never let your guard down and watch out for the spinning hug move!
She hugs Vivian, just like Daniel did in that scene where he was training young Samantha.
And remember when I said that Miguel had stopped training after the dojo war? well, that's kind of true, but not entirely, as he also helped train Vivian.
One day when Vivian was about 7 years old they were training near the pool.
Miguel: Okay girl, let's see what you learned, let's see if you can hit your uncle.
Vivian goes up to Miguel and starts trying to hit him with punches, but he dodges all of them, she then tries to hit him with a kick, but Miguel blocks the attack, she tries to hit him a few more times, but to no avail, until at one point Miguel was near the pool, she then hits him with a spin kick and makes him fall into the pool.
Miguel: Good thing it's hot today.
Vivian reaches out to Miguel to help him out of the pool, but then he pulls her into the pool.
Even Daniel helped train his granddaughter and impressed her by telling stories about Mr. Miyagi.
Vivian: Grandpa, tell me a story about Mr. Miyagi.
Daniel: Sure, this is the story of when I won my first tournament, after I beat Johnny in the finals using the crane kick a bad man tried to kill Johnny, so Mr. Miyagi went there and defeated that man without even hit him, do you know how he did it?
Vivian: I don't know, how?
Daniel: When he was going to hit Mr. Miyagi he dodged and made him hit a car window, so after the guy had both his hands hurt Mr. Miyagi grabbed him and did that.
He honks her nose and she laughs.
And that was practically every day of Vivian's life, Anthony and Lia worked a lot and she stayed with her grandparents or with Miguel and Samantha, but she wasn't complaining, on the contrary, she was very happy, because she finally had someone who spent time with her.
End of flashback
Samantha: Wait, so you're angry at your parents because they don't have time for you, but think about all the things we did because of that, I mean thanks to that you learned karate and remember the good times we had while training? remember when you kicked your uncle and he ended up with his head stuck in a bucket?
Vivian (laughing): Yeah, that was really funny, there was also that time when they called you at school because I had a fight with some guys who were tormenting my friends, but then you told the principal that I would have a punishment for that, but then you took me out for ice cream?
Samantha: How could I forget? you are like a daughter to me, but i still don't understand, why this hatred for your parents?
Vivian: Oh yeah, it started when I was 11.
Samantha (in her head): Hey, I think I get it.
Vivian's Flashback
It turns out that my parents' trip, which was supposed to last the whole summer, was repeated in the other summers, in fact they had to travel almost all the time, but I didn't bother anymore, I was happy, because that meant more time training karate with my aunt, learning first aid from my uncle, or listening to my grandfather tell cool stories about Mr. Miyagi, until one day, my parents arrived with great news.
Lia: Vivian dear, we have great news for you.
Vivian: Let me guess, you're going to have to travel again, aren't you?
Anthony: No, not this time, the truth is that your dad was promoted.
I tried to be happy, but I didn't even know what he worked with.
Vivian: Wow, that's great, congratulations dad.
Anthony: There's only one problem, we're going to have to move to another city.
Vivian: What?
Lia: Don't worry dear, you'll make new friends in your new home and if you want, you can come here in the summer.
It was at that moment that I felt like my world was falling apart, all these years my parents were like strangers to me and now they were taking me away from my family (Daniel, Amanda, Samantha and Miguel) sure, I could see them in the summer, but it wasn't the same and the worst thing was, they didn't even give me a choice, they just forced me to move with them.
They tried to get close to me, but please where were they for the first 10 years of my life? all those birthdays and christmases and other holidays i asked where my parents were and they were never around, now after all this time they just show up and take me away from the people I love the most, so I got rebellious I started skipping classes, fight at school and do everything to make my parents look bad.
One day I was in the attic and I found a box and inside it I found some things from my dad when he was in high school, among them there was a letter that said 'Hey Lapusso, meet me at the following address, if you don't show up I I'm coming after you, so don't even try to run away signed Kenny Payne'.
Kenny Payne? who was this guy? well of course my dad hated him but I had to be sure so I asked him.
Vivian: Dad, who's Kenny Payne?
Anthony: An asshole.
He was visibly annoyed at hearing that name, so I knew he still hated this guy, so I decided to learn more about him.
Vivian (calling Samantha): Aunt, can I ask you a question?
Samantha: Sure sweetie, ask me anything.
Vivian: Who's Kenny Payne?
Samantha: Oh, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, he was your father's greatest rival at school, they fought so much, you can't imagine.
So I realized I could do something to make him angry, so I started researching about this Kenny Payne guy and found out he was a sensei in Cobra Kai, so I ran away from home and took a bus to the Valley and of course you know what happened next.
end of flashback
Samantha: Now I get it, you're not mad at your parents for being absent in your childhood, you're mad at them because they made you move away from us.
Vivian: That's right, you and Uncle Miguel were like my parents, so my biological parents just take me away from you guys, that's what pissed me off.
Samantha: I understand you Vivian and I agree that your parents were wrong to just do this to you without even asking your opinion, but at least they are trying to change, they are trying to make up for past mistakes, you should give them a chance.
Vivian: I don't know...
Samantha: Do you remember Johnny? he also has a son, but he was always absent and his son Robby lived his whole life angry at him because of that, so everything that went wrong in Robby's life he blamed Johnny, but just like your parents, he tried to to redeem himself, he tried to go to Robby and apologize to him, but Robby was happy training with my dad, but after a while Robby realized that his dad was really sorry for what he did, so they made peace and now they live well, everything got better after that, you should forgive your parents, because they are trying to change.
Vivian thought for a while, but then realized her aunt was right, she agreed to talk to her parents to settle things.
A few hours later, Anthony and Lia arrived at Samantha's house to talk to Vivian.
Vivian: Mom, Dad, I wanted to apologize for running away from home, I was angry and...
Anthony: Sweetie, we're sorry too, you had a nice thing here and we blew it without even asking your opinion.
Lia: You have every right to be mad at us.
Samantha: How about I make a suggestion? you forget the past and start over.
Anthony, Lia and Vivian agree with Samantha, so the three hug and Vivian has finally reconciled with her parents.
Vivian: But will you let me stay with Aunt Sam to train for the tournament?
Lia: Of course and on that day, we'll even take a day off just to see you, I mean, if you want.
Vivian: I would love to.
Anthony: Maybe you can achieve what your dad never achieved?
Vivian: What is he talking about?
Anthony: My sister was champion of this tournament, my dad was champion of this tournament, but I never even made it to the final, but that doesn't matter, I'm sure you'll do very well.
Vivian: Wait dad, you never told me you did karate either.
Anthony: I joined Miyagi-Fang and trained with Chozen when I was young, to defend myself against Kenny Payne who swore to make my life hell at school, we fought once and I beat him, but in the quarterfinals of the tournament he beat me, but after Cobra Kai's defeat I never heard from him again.
Samantha: I'm glad to see you guys are getting along.
Yes, after reliving some memories from her past and reflecting on it with her aunt's help, Vivian has finally forgiven her parents and everything is fine.
That same day, Kyler was training some of Tory's students at his home.
Kyler: All right guys, great training today, meet tomorrow at the same time.
Bianca: See you tomorrow sensei.
Kyler: That's right Ms. Silva, if you keep training like this, you're ready to SQUISH Kate Gray and Vivian Larusso in the tournament.
Bianca: Great, that's what I want.
Bianca leaves Kyler's house, but at that exact moment Tory was walking by and saw her favorite student leaving the house of the man she had kicked out of her dojo.
Tory: Bianca?
Since this last chapter was about a prodigy of the Karate Kids, nothing fairer than the next one being about a prodigy of Cobra Kai, right? in this next chapter we will know what happened to Tory after her defeat to Samantha in the tournament, her battle against her aunt for the custody of Brandon, the exact moment she reopened Cobra Kai and also when she met Bianca, speaking of her, how you Do you think Tory will react to seeing her favorite student being trained by Kyler Park? what do you think will happen? find out, IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.
