I DO NOT OWN COBRA KAI OR THE KARATE KID OR THE DIALOGUE.

(Daniel's POV)

As Daniel Larusso changed out of his gi, he felt like he was on top of the world. He had resumed practicing Miyagi-Do karate and found that he was still as good as he once was. Cobra Kai was invading the valley and they had to be stopped. Daniel was not going down without a fight. He had his brand of karate, now all he needed was a student. As he left his pool house/dojo, he saw his daughter Samantha, sunbathing by the pool. When she was eight, she had wanted to learn karate and she had shown a lot of potential. Sadly, she seemed to have grown out of it. However, Daniel was not going to give up.

"What's going on?" He asked. "You going for a swim? You gonna invite the girls over?"

"No, not today." Samantha replied.

"Great, you wanna spar with your old man?"

"Karate?"

"Yeah, you don't have to say it like it's the flu." Daniel said.

"Come on, Dad." Sam groaned. "That was, like, eight years ago.

"Well, eight years isn't that long." Daniel countered.

"Eight years ago, I was eight." Sam countered in return.

"All right, come on, remember that time you nailed me in the jaw with the flip kick?" Daniel reminded. "I mean, you know, I had to eat soup for a week. It was funny.

"Today's just not great." Sam stated. "I've got a lot of homework."

"All right, I gotcha." Daniel relented. "No sweat, gotta hit the books, you hit the books."

"Is that okay?"

"Yeah, come on. You'd be doing me a favor. I don't have to block that foot of fury."

"Thanks, Dad." Sam replied as she went back to her phone. Defeated, Daniel decided to try another approach.

"All right, so what do you say I come to spin class with you today?" He asked his wife Amanda.

"Really?"

"Uh-huh."

"I thought you said spin class was a sweaty pointless bike ride to nowhere?" She asked.

"Yeah, but I figured I'd ride some bikes with you and then maybe you would, um, come into the dojo with me." He explained.

"Ah, Sam said no, huh?"

"Yeah, I don't get it...Man, she used to love karate."

Well, she's not your mini-me anymore, can't dress her up and teach her tricks."

"Yeah, but what about you?"

"Oh, I already know all your tricks." Amanda countered. "And let's try to remember what happened ten years ago when you and I hit the mat for a little karate." The result being their son Antonio. He was Daniel's last hope for a student. He would have to do.

"You hear that?" Daniel asked as he came up his son playing his video games. "It's the real world calling out to you, Antonio. The time has come for you to do a little karate with your dad."

"Karate's boring." Antonio argued as Daniel saw that he was playing a fantasy karate game.

"What do you think you're doing right there?" He asked. "Look, it's practically karate."

"This one has fireballs." Antonio explained.

"All right, give me that." Daniel said as tossed the game aside. "Come on, Anthony. Let's go, come on."

"Alexa, order new PS Vita!" Anthony ordered to Daniel's chagrin.

"No! No! Alexa, override! Parental override!" He called out, but it was too late.

"Ordering PS Vita." Alexa said as Anthony basked in victory.

(Ellie's POV)

A few days after her first day at school, Ellie Wheeler finally found time to sneak away from her old man and go in search of Daniel Larusso. She looked through the phone book and eventually found the address for Larusso Auto Group. Ellie had to take two buses and walk a mile, but eventually, she made it to the dealership. As she walked in, she had never seen so many sweet cars in her life. She came up to a desk were a beautiful looking lady smiled at her. Unknown to her, this was Amanda Larusso.

"Welcome to Larusso Auto Group, are you here with your parents?" Ellie was annoyed, but didn't show it. She was 15, she didn't her mommy and daddy accompanying her everywhere.

"No ma'mm." She replied. "I'm looking for Mr. Daniel Larusso."

"All right...wait here please." Mrs. Larusso said in surprise as she stood up and went to the back office. A couple minutes later, she came back with the man from the commercials.

"Hi, Daniel Larusso." He said as he offered his hand.

"Eleanor Wheeler, But everyone calls me Ellie." She replied as she shook Daniel's hand.

"It's nice to meet you Ellie." He said. "So, what can I do for you? Something tells me your too young to be buying a car."

"I know. I saw your commercial, the way you chopping and kicking and all that. Is that like martial arts or something?" Ellie inquired.

"It's karate." Daniel explained.

"Great, well...I was wondering...if maybe...you could...teach, me." She stuttered. Mr. Larusso was taken aback, as was his wife.

"You want me, to teach you karate?" He asked.

"Yes please." Ellie replied. Daniel took a second to compose himself.

"Look kid, the stuff that I do on the commercial. It's just for show."

"So you don't actually know karate?"

"No, I do." Daniel assured her. "I was all valley champion two years running."

"So you can teach me karate?" Ellie said with hope.

"I didn't say that." He stuttered. "Let's just back up a little bit. This is a car dealership, not a dojo. There's plenty of karate classes in the valley you can go to..." Ellie could tell that she was being turned down and she threw her hands in the air.

"Figures." She said as she moved to leave.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Daniel asked.

"It means that every time I ask for help, people tell me to get lost!" Ellie exclaimed. "No one cares. Do you have any idea what it's like to be me? I have mean girls telling me that I'm a mistake, I have pervy guys making passes at me, and I have this Cobra Kai jerk threatening to hand me my ass. I can't even find help at home because my dad...he's..." Ellie almost told Mr. Larusso the family secret, but thought better of it.

"Ellie..." Daniel started to say.

"Forget it, you clearly don't care so I'll be on my way." She said as she started walking away.

"Ellie, wait!" Daniel exclaimed as he caught up to her. Ellie was sobbing by this point. "Of course I care, please don't cry. It's just...I've never had an actual student before, except my daughter."

"I just wanted to stop being a loser." She wailed. Mr. Larusso put his hands in her shoulders.

"Ellie, you're not a loser." He said as he took a deep breath and thought about it for a couple moments. "Look, if we do this. I need you to be serious about this, OK. You have to give one hundred percent, nothing half assed."

"I am serious." Ellie nodded. "I'll do whatever you say."

"All right then." Daniel said as he dried her tears. "You're training begins tomorrow, at the crack of noon."

"So, does this mean you're going to be my karate teacher?" Ellie asked as Larusso walked away.

"No." He said as he turned around with a smile. "I'm going to be your sensei."

ELLIE HAS FOUND HER SENSEI. NEXT TIME, SHE BEGINS HER TRAINING IN THE WAYS OF MIYAGI DO KARATE. REVIEWS NEEDED AND APPRECIATED.