PREVIOUSLY: After their victory in the tournament, Kate and Victor thank some people who were very important to them, like Robby, Johnny, Vivian and especially their senseis, hearing this, Bianca finally realizes the mistakes she made, she knew what Kyler planned to do, so she asked Julia to warn Tory that Kyler was planning to set the Karate Kids dojo on fire, just before that, Anthony was heading home with Lia and Vivian, when he finds Kenny at the dojo, they fight and Anthony seems to be getting the upper hand, but that changes when Kyler enters the fight, however the tables turn again when Demetri arrives to fight Kyler, Jacob tries to help his uncle, but is easily defeated by Vivian, in the end, Kyler is defeated and he and Jacob leave the Valley for good, the next day the Karate Kids have a party to celebrate their victory, Cobra Kai is also invited, but Bianca refuses to return to the dojo, Hawk Jr. encourages her and she asks forgiveness from Tory and everyone else, in the end everything is fine, but that same night, Kate returns to her house and finds her mother dead, beside her body there is a letter apparently addressed to Samantha, besides, Chozen calls Samantha and asks her to come to Okinawa as soon as possible, it looks like something big is happening.
At that same moment, Samantha and Miguel were at home, when Samantha heard her phone ring, she answers the phone and...
Samantha (on phone): Chozen, what happened?
Chozen: Samantha-San, we have problem, come to Okinawa as soon as possible.
Miguel heard his wife talking to Chozen and went to see what was going on.
Miguel: What's going on here? what does Chozen...
Before Miguel can say anything they hear someone desperately knocking on the door.
Samantha and Miguel go to see who was knocking and it was Kate.
Samantha: Kate, what are you... don't tell me you ran from your house all the way here.
Kate (saddened and scared): Sensei, it's my mother, when I got home she... she was dead, on the couch and there was this letter... I believe whoever wrote this was referring to you .
Chozen: Letter, what was that letter like?
Kate: A letter that talked about Miyagi Do and had a strange emblem, it looked like a broken and burning bonsai.
Chozen: So it's already started, it's worse than I thought, Samantha-San, you and your friends should come to Okinawa as soon as possible, so I'll tell you about the dark side of the Miyagi family.
Miguel: The dark side of the Miyagi family? what does he mean by that?
Samantha: I don't know, but I think something big is going on, we'll probably need help, Kate, you can stay here tonight if you want.
Kate: Honestly, nothing would make me feel safer.
Samantha: Great, tomorrow we'll see exactly what's going on.
The next day, Samantha and Miguel called the others to try to find out what was going on.
Demetri: Wait, let me get this straight, so someone killed Kate's mom last night and whoever did that wants Samantha to go to Okinawa, so Chozen says something bad is about to happen and says something about 'the dark side of the Miyagi family', so she's thinking about going to Okinawa to find out what's going on, did I miss something?
Miguel: No, that's basically it.
Samantha: Guys, I don't know what's going on, but I feel like it's really important.
Hawk: Whatever it is I'm sure it's related to karate.
Suddenly Victor, Richard, Laura, Bianca and Julia arrive, they look scared.
Victor: Sensei, something strange happened, my parents disappeared and... (he sees that Robby and Tory were there) I mean, my foster parents disappeared and I found this letter.
He shows the letter, which was the same as the one in Kate's house, Richard and the others show letters like this one, with that same broken and burned bonsai emblem.
Johnny: What the hell is this anyway?
Vivian: Well, whatever it is, not all of your students' parents are gone, my parents are still right here.
Samantha: It's because they said they would attack my family later, I can't let that happen.
Miguel: Well, if you're going, so am I.
Hawk: I say the same, we won't let you go alone.
Demetri: That's right.
Victor: It was our parents who were kidnapped, so we're going too, by the way Kate... I'm sorry about your mother.
Kate: Thank you Victor, well if you're going, so am I.
Tory: Messed with my students, messed with me, whoever did this, better start praying, I think if I talk to my brother he'll get us a plane to go to Okinawa.
Samantha: Thank you all for your help.
Daniel: Do you want us to go too?
Samantha: No, you and Johnny and Anthony have to stay here protecting our family, I mean, I still don't know what we're facing, so I think you'd better stay here.
Daniel: No problem.
Later, Tory had spoken to Brandon and he had arranged for a plane to take Samantha and the others to Okinawa.
Robby: You don't think it's Kyler again, do you?
Miguel: Very unlikely, that coward wouldn't try to face us again, especially after Demetri and Vivian defeated him and his nephew.
Kate: Too bad Vivian couldn't come with us.
Vivian (coming out of a box): I agree.
Samantha: Vivian, I thought your parents had forbidden you to come with us.
Vivian: They did, but let's be honest, when do I obey them?
Samantha: Well you're in luck, there's a guy in Okinawa who can help heal you, I would, but I need some ingredients.
After a few hours they arrive in Okinawa and are greeted by Chozen.
Chozen: Glad you guys arrived.
Samantha: Chozen, these are some of my students and... I think you remember Tory, don't you?
Chozen: Hai, Chozen remember her.
Tory: Well I... I just remembered that I never thanked you for saving my life that day so... thank you.
Chozen: No problem Tory, deep down Chozen always knew you are a good person.
Miguel: Look, I hate to interrupt this beautiful moment, but I think someone owes us an explanation.
Samantha: Miguel is right, we still don't know what we're up against.
Chozen: Honestly, even my knowledge of them is limited, until now everyone thought it was just a legend.
Kate: What are you talking about?
Chozen: You all know of course, the origin of Miyagi Do karate, what not everyone knows is that practically all Miyagi masters had only one child, it was almost like a curse, but around the 1700's a master had two sons, twin brothers with practically opposite personalities, with the death of the father the two sons took over the dojo, but as I said they had very different personalities, while one wanted to follow his father's legacy and teach karate just for defense, the other was powerhungry and wanted to use his knowledge to dominate Japan and eventually the world and punish all those who opposed him, so he and some students who supported him created a group that became known as Miyagi Fist, this group knew the same techniques as Miyagi-Do, including those created especially to kill enemies, so the two groups fought for several years, in a period that became known as the Miyagi War, in the end Miyagi-Do won and the master exiled his brother and his followers to a remote part of the forest, but the brother swore that one day the Miyagi Fist would return and annihilate Miyagi-Do once and for all.
Hawk: Yikes, so the guys who are kidnapping our students' parents are from Miyagi Fist, right Chozen?
Chozen: Hai, that emblem on the cards you showed me, that's them for sure.
Robby: But how did these guys survive? I mean, weren't they exiled to a remote part of the forest over 300 years ago?
Chozen: Nobody knows, like I said, everyone thought it was just a legend, including me, until a few days ago, I was at the dojo as usual, after class I was walking home when some guys with black gis and that same emblem attacked me, I fought, but I soon realized that they knew a lot of my techniques, in the end I defeated them, but this was the hardest fight I had in many years.
Bianca: So what are we waiting for? we already know who we're going to face, let's go there and kick their butts.
Kate: Hey, take it easy there, didn't you hear sensei's sensei saying he had a hard time defeating those guys?
Victor: Kate's right, we'd be crushed like bugs under the Miyagi's fist.
Richard: There goes Victor with his jokes.
Samantha: Kate and Victor are right, you need training.
Chozen: Hai and I know someone who can help you with that.
Chozen makes a call and soon a tall, black-haired Japanese man walks over.
?: Sensei, did you want to see me?
Despite having trained with Chozen for a while, Samantha was confused to see that man.
Samantha: Chozen, who is this?
Chozen: This is Nariyoshi Nakamura, if Samantha-San was my best student outside Japan he was my best student in Japan.
Nariyoshi (to Samantha): Samantha-San, I've heard great things about you, it's a pleasure to finally meet you.
Samantha: I say the same.
Chozen: Nariyoshi trained with me for several years, when I went to the US to help fight Cobra Kai he wanted to go with me, but his parents wouldn't let him.
Nariyoshi: Hai and now I'm going to help you guys, but first I'd like to see how good she (Samantha) really is.
Samantha: Alright then, I accept the challenge.
Everyone leaves the dojo to watch the fight.
Hawk Jr.: This is going to be awesome.
Chozen: All right, there's no point, the first to fall loses, get ready and... FIGHT!
Nariyoshi tries to attack first, but Samantha dodges the attack, but something different happened, normally she dodged without difficulty, but this time she dodged just a little, she then hits Nariyoshi with a kick to the chest, but he stands up, he then tries to hit her several times, forcing her to back off.
Kate: Wow, they're fast, I can barely see the attacks.
Victor: It's not normal for her to be pushed back so far.
Tory: That's because now she's facing someone on the same level as her, yes, I hate to admit it, but after whatever damn training she's done, I'm no match for her anymore... for now...
The fight between Samantha and Nariyoshi continues and both try to hit each other without success, Nariyoshi goes towards Samantha, but she jumps over him, she grabs Nariyoshi from behind and tries to knock him to the ground, but he elbows her and breaks free.
Miguel: Well, he's a lot bigger than her, so it's no wonder Samantha is doing her best to keep a safe distance from him.
Samantha tries to hit Nariyoshi with a punch, but he blocks the attack, he then tries to hit Samantha with several kicks, but then she jumps over him, trips him and while he's on the ground she hits him with a punch and finishes the fight.
Chozen: It's over, Samantha-San is the winner!
Nariyoshi: As I can see, your fame is not for nothing, it was a pleasure to have faced you.
Samantha (helping him to get up): The pleasure is mine.
Unbeknownst to them two masked guys were also watching the fight.
Masked man 1: She is the strongest Miyagi-Do master nowadays.
Masked man 2: We have to warn the master.
The masked men left without anyone seeing them.
Some minutes later:
Chozen: Great, now we can start training your friends.
Samantha: If you don't mind, I think we'd better start tomorrow.
Chozen: No problem, you must be tired from the trip, we'll start tomorrow then.
Samantha: Great, by the way, can you help my niece Vivian? she got hurt in a fight and she's still not up to fighting again, especially against guys like that.
Chozen: Hai, no problem, Chozen help her.
Chozen goes to Vivian and does to her what Mr. Miyagi did with Daniel in the original movie.
Chozen: Leave it there, you'll feel better.
Vivian: Gee, that thing smells bad.
Chozen: Smells bad, heals good.
That night, just before bed, Samantha goes to talk to Miguel.
Miguel: That was a long day.
Samantha: Of course, it's better to prepare, because I guarantee that this training is not easy.
Miguel: Honestly I'm really anxious, I don't know why I didn't want to come with you when you came to train here... (he realizes there's something wrong with her) what's the problem, you don't look good.
Samantha: Oh yeah, I... it's just that I was thinking about Kate, I mean, they're all terrified by what's happening but... that girl lost her mother, I wonder what will happen to her, since she has no one else in the world.
Miguel: She has us.
Samantha: Wait, you're suggesting... I don't know if it's a good idea.
Miguel: Why wouldn't it be? she loves us especially you, she needs someone to take care of her and you've always wanted kids, to me it sounds like a great idea.
Samantha: Yeah, I would love that too, I mean, what I want most is for her and I to be more than sensei and student, but... what if she thinks I'm just trying to replace the mother she lost?
Miguel: Nonsense, I bet she would love it, but if you don't want to...
Samantha: It's not that it's just... I think we'd better settle this after this is all over.
Samantha didn't sleep for several hours that night, she couldn't stop thinking about Kate, she really always wanted children, but she didn't know if Kate felt the same way about her, she was afraid to ask Kate what she would think if Samantha and Miguel adopt her, because despite everything, Kate loved her mother, she was afraid that Kate would think that Samantha would just be replacing her mother and mothers are irreplaceable, the last thing Samantha wanted was to hurt Kate and ruin their relationship.
Samantha left her room and went to drink water when Tory saw her.
Tory: You're still awake?
Yeah folks, after all the guys who killed Kate's mother are new villains, but now the question is, how do they know so much about Samantha? how did they know that by kidnapping those children's parents they would lure her to Okinawa? Could it be that they are alone or have they received some golden... or should I say Silver tips? anyway, the next chapter will talk more about Samantha's training in Okinawa and also the others will go through this same training, what do you think will happen? Find out IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.
