More Training?! Part II
Acceptance and Acquaintances
"Let's go!" the stranger yelled sending a spinning heel kick to the spies' heads. The spies were able to dodge it and jumped over the sweep that followed.
"Is that the best you've got," Alex mocked. She rushed him and set several punches all of which he easily blocked. Sam and Clover joined in with two jumping kicks to his back. The stranger barely dodged Sam's kick while blocking Clover's and Alex's attacks. Seeing the position he was in Alex flipped their attacker only for him to roll on the ground and turn to face them.
"If this is the training well be getting we were better off staying in Beverly Hills," Clover said flipping her hair out of her face.
"Well lets make things interesting then," he said standing up. Suddenly two exact copies of him appeared at his side. The spies took a step back in surprise, but stayed in their defensive position. The now three attackers went for each of the spies one rushing at Clover with a knee to the gut, Sam was attacked with a flipping kick which she dodged but was caught off guard by a tackle, and Alex with an uppercut and backhand combo.
Alex was holding her own against the attacker, but with one of her punches she was nearly taken out. He had grabbed her wrist and twisted it behind her back. Pushing her down to the ground he grabbed her other hand and tied her wrists parallel to each other. As he went to tie her ankles Alex spun her legs around and caught him on the side of the head. Struggling to her feet she tried her best to kick him. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to balance as well and he soon had hold of her ankle. The attacker tied some rope around her ankle and bound her ankle to her thigh doing the same with her other ankle.
Clover saw what was happening and jumped over an attack from her attacker and pushed off his shoulders trying to attack the one binding Alex. However, her attacker teleported near her and grabbed hold of her ankles pulling her to the ground and tying them together. After he had her wrists crossed and tied he pulled her ankles as close to her wrists as possible and completed the hogtie. Both Alex and Clover were cleave gagged and blindfolded to finish their bonds.
Sam had better luck against her attacker and had even landed some blows to him. She punched at his gut, but that would be her last move. He used the same technique as the copy used on Alex, but had her tied, gagged, and blindfolded quicker in a similar way to Alex. The attackers joined in a small group to discuss what happened and the length it took. The spies tried to get out from their bonds but realized that he tied them better than any villain they had faced. The attackers turned and said, "Congratulations, you passed" as the three picked up one of the spies and teleported out of the area.
Unknown Location
The spies were still bound and gagged on a what felt like stone tile floor, and could hear two people conversing in Japanese. They were ungagged and their blindfolds taken off revealing two men. One was sitting in a wooden chair and had red samurai style armor with gold trim and had a skull for a head which the spies assumed was a helmet to scare opponents. The other was the same person who attacked them, but they could see he was about 5'11" had black hair and had removed his partial mask. "Welcome," said the seated figure, "to the Manjitsu clan's base; Alex, Clover, and Sam."
"How do you know us?" Sam asked.
"Simple, I told them," said a familiar voice. Jerry's face appeared on a view screen behind the two figures. "I'm glad you were able to pass this test, but I can't chat for long spies so I'll leave you with your new trainers, tata."
Jerry signed off and let their hosts continue. "I am the leader of the Manji clan, Yoshimitsu," the seated figure stated. "And this is will be your trainer, one of my best, Phoenix."
"The three of you have great potential," Phoenix said. "But there is still a long way to go with each of you."
"Like what?" Alex asked.
"To start off your escape abilities. Those are some of the loosest knots. Anyone should have been out by now."
"We were never trained in escaping," Clover said.
"Clover, your knots are within reach of your fingers," Phoenix said. Clover felt around her bonds and discovered that he was telling the truth and blushed. "No wonder you end up in a death trap basically every mission."
"Just how do you know about our missions?" Sam asked.
Phoenix pulled out a file containing pictures of the spies in various binds and restraints from old missions showing them to the spies and said, "Jerry was kind enough to let us survey each WOOPH agent for probable ninjas."
"Okay, we where never told about becoming ninjas," Clover replied.
"The exam you will be training for will be the basic entrance exam we give new members," Yoshimitsu began. "You shall train under Phoenix and when you believe to be ready the exam will be given. Untie them and take them to their room."
"Yes, m'lord," Phoenix said with a slight bow.
After the spies were untied they were lead to their room. "So were are we exactly?" Sam asked looking at the cave like structures around them.
"Since you are going to be training here, I suppose you can know," Phoenix began. "You are standing underneath Mt. Fuji."
The spies stopped in their tracks and looked at him surprised. "How is that possible?" Alex asked.
Phoenix turned and said, "Several centuries ago, our founding Yoshimitsu found a cave leading deep into the depths of Mt. Fuji." He turned and motioned for the spies to follow. "He decided it would be an excellent place to set up a base since it was considered a place of the gods and most people did not approach the base. Soon the lava from the volcano hardened and we finally began to turn the caves into their current state."
"So the volcano made the cave you just decided to take residence here," Sam concluded.
"Okay, but what about Yoshimitsu? Is the one back there the same as your founder?" Alex asked.
"No, he is the chosen wielder of the sword named by the original Yoshimitsu, Yoshimitsu. He found the sword while on one of his journey's after being thrown out of his samurai clan. He trained a small group ninjas to be Robin Hood like and decided he would pass down leadership and the name of Yoshimitsu by giving his chosen leader the sword before he died," Phoenix explained.
The spies remained silent till Alex broke the silence, "So how old are you? I mean you don't look a lot older than us."
Phoenix turned and said, "I am 21 years old, and before you ask I have been training since I was 8 and no I don't want to talk about it." They soon arrived at the spies room and Phoenix knocked on the door a teen aged girl's voice answered, "Who is it?"
"I have some partners to train with you," Phoenix said.
The door opened revealing a girl about the spies age wearing a light blue uniform and darker colored bodysuit underneath, she had long black hair, and purple eyes. "BRITNEY!" the spies yelled surprised running up and hugging their friend and fellow spy.
"Good to see you, again," Britney said.
"Why didn't you tell us you were here?" Clover asked.
"I wanted to surprise you."
"At least we're training with someone we know," Sam said.
"Actually, Britney has already completed the exam," Phoenix stated.
The spies threw a surprised look at Phoenix and back at Britney. "Yea, after one of my missions here I was confronted by Phoenix and passed his test. I decided to stay and help out here for a while and maybe become a full time ninja for them," Britney said. The spies looked down, but Britney replied "Hey we can still be friends beside I won't completely quit WOOPH for now."
"Yea, let's enjoy this while we can aside from the training and danger," Alex replied dryly.
"Why don't you girls rest, you'll need the energy for tomorrow."
"That's probably a good idea," Sam said with a slight yawn. The spies entered their room which was comparable to a two bedroom apartment in size. It had four sleeping mats on the floor and a dresser with three uniforms with the same color scheme as each of the spies catsuits. Sam, Alex, and Clover went to sleep rather quickly and Britney soon after. As the spies slept they wondered what would be in store for them as their training was about to begin.