More Training?! Part V

Endings and New Beginnings

The spies were lead into the same room Britney and Sam had visited and were forced into steel chairs. Their cuffs were temporarily unlock only for their arms to be pulled behind the chair and quickly recuffed. The spies had tears in their eyes as they continually played back what just happened. Phoenix, their trainer, was gunned down by a machine built by the man standing in front of them, Dr. Abel.

Two Tekkenshu members brought out another girl out about the same age as Phoenix. She wore a suit similar to the ones worn by Sam and Britney when they first arrived, but was a shade of pink. She was about 5'6" with long black hair up in a large bun and blue eyes. "Set the other one by them," Abel told the members.

"So who are you with?" she asked as she was sat down by Britney, and her shackles her rearranged to the same as the spies.

"Phoenix," Britney weakly replied.

"Don't worry," she said, "he'll get us out of this, I know it."

"He's dead," Britney said. "That thing killed him," motioning to the Assault Jack. The girl was shocked at the revelation and bowed her head.

"You see ladies," Dr. Abel said, "there is no one to stop Heihachi and myself from taking over this world. Between my cyborgs and Heihachi's new life forms nothing not even his children can stand in our way. Of course, we don't need the five of you anymore, dispose of them."

The Tekkenshu member that Clover had attacked walked up and asked, "Can I have some fun with the blond first?"

"Do what you want they are of no more use to us."

The member walked up towards Clover and took off his helmet, "They say revenge is a dish best served cold, but I want it to last as long as possible." He menacingly reached for Clover and held her face to look at his face which was twisted with an evil grin. "We're going to have some fun little girl." It was that last thing he said as a throwing knife impaled into his temple with enough force to throw him onto his side on the floor.

"Sorry, but we are out of revenge," a familiar voice said. The spies looked up with surprised yet confused and happy faces while the other had a smirk on her face. Phoenix was standing on the rise above the floor. His uniform was tattered were the bullets had impacted on his chest and his katana had a slight red glow emanating from the blade.

"But how you were dead?" Abel asked surprised.

Phoenix jumped down and landed in front of the spies and the ninja. "Never assume anything you should know that as a scientist. How are you ladies?"

"We're okay," Sam said. "But how did you survive?"

"Titanium chain mail," Phoenix replied. "Heavy, yes, but bullet proof."

"And that is why he's called the Phoenix," the female ninja said.

"Been a while, Jessie," Phoenix said.

"Same to you," Jessie said. "Still playing dead when you can I see."

"What about the two Tekkenshu that was with you?" Alex asked.

"They lost their heads when they saw me alive, literally."

"Destroy him, and make sure he's dead this time!" Abel ordered the remaining Tekkenshu members.

Members of the army jumped at Phoenix with combat knives drawn. Phoenix dodged one and impaled him with his katana. Throwing him off he backhanded another member while an Owl slashed his cheek. Phoenix noticed a remote on the Owl's belt. He teleported behind the Owl and grabbed his waist preforming a Tornado Drop nearly breaking his neck. "Here ," Phoenix said throwing her the remote.

Caught the remote with her bare feet and pressed a green button on the remote. The shackles were let loose and the girls jumped into action to help Phoenix. "You hold off the Tekkenshu. Dr. Abel and the Jack is mine," Phoenix said.

Dr. Abel had ordered the Jack to carry him toward a helicopter to try and escape. Phoenix was behind them and catching up. The Assault Jack formed his Gatling gun again and opened fire on the ninja, but he had vanished. Phoenix's blade sliced through the gun twice severing it from the machine's arm. They had reached the heliport and Abel was set down and ran toward the chopper as the Assault Jack reverted its arm and prepared for a melee battle.

Phoenix ducked a charging clothesline and cut a gash in its left leg. The Assault Jack grabbed hold of the back of Phoenix with its right hand, and after dragging his head on the floor tossed him at least twenty feet in the air. Phoenix was able to recover mid-air and sent down a rain of shuriken and kunai. Several of the weapons were knocked away, but most hit their mark piercing the armor but nothing more. The Jack jumped after toward the ninja to tackle him, but a quick teleport Phoenix sliced down the back of the machine with his katana. By now Phoenix was growing weak, but his katana blade had a deep red aura surrounding it.

'I've only got about one more shot,' Phoenix told himself and adjusted his stance to counter an attack with his sword held parallel to the ground pointing behind him and his right foot forward. 'Here we go,' he said rushing the machine. The Jack pulled back for a punch and began to spin his wrist turning his hand nearly into a drill. The Jack tried to punch Phoenix's head, but the ninja ducked and nearly sliced the top half of the machine from the legs. He quickly sent another slash and finished cutting the cyborg into two parts.

Phoenix sheathed his sword and walked over to the head of the Jack. As it looked up at the ninja, Phoenix knelled down and punched into the main CPU destroying it. Dr. Abel was trying to get the helicopter to start as Phoenix slowly began to walk over to the doctor.

Giving up on the copter Dr. Abel began to beg, "Please, do not kill me. There is so much I can do for the world. I'll stop working for Heihachi and quit working with cyborgs for good. Just please don't kill me."

Phoenix sent a chop to the neck of the doctor and said, "You aren't worth killing." Picking up the knocked out doctor he walked back toward the shore to meet the extraction squad.

Shoreline

"Well, that's the last of them," Alex said dragging the last Tekkenshu body toward the shore. "Now if you'll excuse me," she said walking off her nauseous feeling with Sam and Clover.

"What's wrong with them?" Jessie asked.

"This is the first time they have ever seen or killed anyone," Britney replied. "We weren't trained to be killers only to capture the enemies we faced."

"Sometimes this is the only way to survive." Jessie said. "Exactly, what rank are they?"

"They haven't passed the initial exam yet, but I have."

"And I would say the mission went very well," Phoenix said still carrying the doctor. Setting him down, Jessie walked up and slapped him in the face. "What was that for?"

"Bringing three girls that haven't even passed the initial exam. What were you thinking?!"

"They survived didn't they. Beside I tried to keep my composure while they were begging me."

"Like this," Jessie said performing the same begging technique as the spies.

"Yes, you know I can't hold up too long against pretty girls begging me like that," Phoenix said.

"We're ready," Sam said. As the three spies boarded the boat. Britney, Phoenix, and followed them and waited for the boat to reach mainland Tokyo. Clover was hugging herself and shaking during the trip back to the docks.

Getting up Phoenix walked over to Clover and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Not really," she said. "I just can't stop thinking about what that guy was going to do."

Phoenix sighed and replied with, "Clover, even though you have experienced a lot of things during your WOOPH missions there is still a lot that you have to experience. Heh heh. Even with all of my training and missions as a ninja I still haven't seen everything that could happen on a mission. You just need to learn to steele yourself from whatever can and probably will happen."

Arriving at the docks the Tokyo Police Force was waiting for Dr. Abel to take into custody. After dropping off Dr. Abel, the ninjas headed back toward Mt. Fuji.

Mt. Fuji Base – Yoshimitsu Debreifing

"Explain to me why you decided to take them with you on the mission, that you knew could have been deadly," Yoshimitsu yelled at Phoenix as the spies and himself were kneeling.

"It's not his fault," Sam said. "We convinced him that if we went on the mission with him we might be able to learn how to preform our techniques better. If you want to punish anyone punish us."

"No, you didn't make the decision, I did if any should be punished it should be me. I made the decision to take you with me despite the danger," Phoenix said knelling his head. "It was a decision that I was not allowed to make, and I will take the punishment for making that decision."

Yoshimitsu began to pace around the room deep in thought. After a minute, he spoke up, "Since this is the first time you have largely disobeyed my orders I shall give you an ultimatum." Phoenix looked up as Yoshimitsu continued, "If the girls have learned anything they should be able to pass the exam, if they can pass the exam in two days then you will not be punished, dismissed."

"Thank you, lord Yoshimitsu," Phoenix said as he and the spies got up to leave. After they had left the room Phoenix spoke up, "Sam, Alex, Clover we have two days to get ready for the exam. Let's put all we have into your training.

"Yes, sir," the spies said rushing toward the dojo. 'This time we will pass,' they thought to themselves.

Two days later – Yoshimitsu's office

Yoshimitsu, Phoenix, and the spies were waiting for the results from the exam as a news bulletin came on over the TV. "We are coming to you live from Tokyo Police HQ were Dr. Abel is being released from police custody. The details are sketchy at best, but it seems that the government as given him a pardon despite the multiple charges placed on him by the very same government." The TV showed a picture of Abel as he smugly waved at the camera seeming to know that they were watching.

"It seems that the Zaibatsu has their grip in the government as well," Phoenix commented.

"It does not surprise me," Yoshimitsu replied.

The door opened revealing a messenger. "Here are the results," he said handing the folder to Yoshimitsu and leaving the room.

As Yoshimitsu looked through the results, the spies grabbed hold of each others hands and waited tensely for the results. Yoshimitsu handed the folder to Phoenix who read over the results. Yoshimitsu got up and walked over to a monitor. "Well girls," Phoenix began, "I'm proud to say that you have passed the exam."

"Yes, we did it," the three spies yelled jumping up and hugging each other. They rushed at Phoenix and caught him in a group hug.

"I'm sorry if I'm interrupting anything," a voice said.

"Jerry!" the spies yelled releasing Phoenix. "It's good to see you again."

"Well, it's only been almost two weeks," Jerry said. "I'm glad to finally say that the three of you are official super spies."

"Now for your final task here," Yoshimitsu said. "You have a choice, you can stay here and continue your ninja training, or you can return to WOOPH and continue being spies. The choice is yours, but once you make it you cannot change it."

"So if we decide to head back to WOOPH we can't become Manji ninjas?" Alex asked.

"Not until you decide to quit WOOPH," Yoshimitsu replied.

Alex, Sam, and Clover looked at each other and began to talk amongst themselves. After a few minutes they looked at Yoshimitsu, Jerry, and Phoenix. "We dediced that for the time being we will continue working as WOOPH spies," Clover said.

"Understood," Yoshimitsu said. "Here are three tickets back to Beverly Hills. I hope that we can work together again soon."

"Thank you for everything," Sam said. "Goodbye, and see you soon Jerry."

"See you soon, ladies," Jerry said. "Be sure to report to me after you get back," he said turning off his monitor.

As the Spies were leaving Phoenix walked over to Britney, "Here," he said holding another plane ticket toward her. "I saw how much you missed working with them. So go ahead leave with them that way you can work as a four person spy/ninja team."

"Thank you, Phoenix," Britney said hugging him and taking off after the spies.

"Geez, I'm getting more hugs today than usual," Phoenix commented.

"I have something to ask of you, Phoenix," Yoshimitsu said.

"What is it?"

"I want you to continue their training. I may be a cyborg version of my old self, but I can still sense a person's potential and I think they have large potential not only for great spies, but also great ninja in all four of them."

"So you want me to follow them and continue their training with their regular spy work. This could be fun," Phoenix said with a smirk while leaving.

Spies Villa

The spies and Britney are walking up to their door. "Thanks for letting me stay here guys," Britney says.

"No problem," Alex said. "We got plenty of room."

Sam reached for the door with her key in hand and turned the handle. "Um ... guys we did have the door locked before we left didn't we?" she asked.

"I think so," Clover said sliding up to the door. Opening the door the spies see that everything appears in order.

"Hello, ladies," a voice said.

The spies jumped as Phoenix's head popped up from behind their couch. "What the heck are you doing here?!" Clover yelled.

"Orders from Yoshimitsu," Phoenix replied. "I'm to continue your training while you continue your work as spies. So I hope you don't mind me staying."

"Just what we need on top of our spy work and school," Alex said.

Sam, Alex, and Clover walked up toward Phoenix and pushed him on the couch. "Okay there are a few rules you need to follow," Sam said.

"You will not enter our rooms unless we say so," Clover added.

"If you want to enter our rooms, you will need our permission but we probably won't give it," Alex said.

Phoenix sunk back in the couch as the three spies sent a barrage of rules at the ninja while Britney leaned against a wall smirking at the exchange.