Tsunade sat in her chair and took a deep breath; the last couple of hours had been too crazy for her to handle with the daily things that went on in the village. As Shizune walked through the door she quickly sat up.
"Did you give them rooms?"
"Yes Lady Tsunade."
"Good, I need to go speak to Sam to get a better insight on their friend, this situation, and what they plan on doing to the infected villagers." Tsunade said getting up and walking through the door.
Soki stepped out of the shower and wrapped the towel around herself; a large smile etched across her face.
"That shower was amazing! So happy to wash all the dirt, grime and blood off."
As she turned the corner she saw Neji leaning against the wall, eyes closed.
"Umm...you lost there buddy?"
"You said you would tell me later what the deal with your friend Sonya was." he said opening his eyes to look at her.
"Right, right...(sigh) Without giving away info I know I shouldn't, I'll just give you the basic idea of what she is. See, withing each alphabet of our society they were given one weapon; a sentient, thinking weapon. They were experiments, usually orphans that no one would miss that were rounded up and shipped off to those facilities for testing."
"That's barbaric!" Neji said in disgust.
"Yeah, that's why it didn't last long, but long enough that each section had it's own weapon."
"But I thought Sam said those experiments were underground and that Nori and Sonya were special cases."
"They were; they were end results that were found after raiding their labs and getting hold of all their records. Based on what they could do they were distributed to each alphabet to serve as their 'champions', if you want to avoid any political backlash about recruiting them. Each one is similar to another, but different in either scale or ability. Like you saw with Sonya, she's a rift jumper like those gremlin and can snatch things from other dimensions as well as use the energy to attack, defend and amplify herself."
"What about Sozin and Nori?"
"Look I've already said too much. If you want to know feel free to ask them since I'm pretty bad at keeping these things secret but know when I've really said enough." Soki said walking off,"Now where did I put my clothes?"
Sam lay in the bed staring at the ceiling, thinking over the events of the day and what he'll do tomorrow, when a knock on his door snapped him out of his thoghts.
"Come in." He said standing up as Tsunade walked in."Oh, Lady Tsunade...I take it you have more questions."
"Just one...you make it sound like this guy you're looking for, Nori, is something beyond any or your men or my men in terms of power and ability, why?"she asked folding her arms.
"Because Nori is unique, moreso than Sonya and Sozin."
"As in?"
"From all the experimentation done to him in those labs, those scientists were able to unlock a new kind of energy and fused it within him, and one other person."
"Who is this other person then?"
"Since their experiments were orphans, there weren't any real records on him, he was just simply referred to as Alpha and his ability, according to reports, was space whereas Nori, Theta, was time."
"So Nori has the ability to control time?"
"Just about, along with a few perks to make him better. You see these children that were experimented on were meant to be the future of all mankind...mutants you might say. With their combined power they could've easily crush our military and our government effectively destroying our society and causing anarchy; however the gremlin that escaped, changed all that."
"Those monsters escaping stopped your society from collapsing."
"Gremlin are nothing but children, lonely, sad and angry at the world that wronged them."
"So with the escape of those scientist...those experiments continue. Why are you all the only ones who are out here hunting them down? I'd think with the amount of trouble these people can cause there'd be more people?"
"My team consists of people who were former experiments and end products of some of "Operation: Kekkei Genkei"."
"Operation: Kekkei Genkei?" Tsunade narrowed her eyes.
"A few years ago, we took interest in the shinobi world. Most of our resources were spent on upgrading our technology so that we could effectively watch you from a distance and document the things we observed. Among the incredible qualities that shinobi have, what caught our eye were your kekkei genkei. Our scientists wanted to study the blood of ninja who possessed these powers, and so began a long hunt for multiple samples of DNA."
"I don't think it would be easy to capture a shinobi and study them; we've gotten quite good at making sure our secrets don't get out." Tsunade said proudly.
"We figured that out when those samples came up with nothing to report. It was then that we had to get...creative..."
"What do you mean?"
"When shinobi fight...the battles are intense, grueling, and even gruesome. In those battles...blood will spill...and in that blood..."
"Is how you acquired the DNA..."
"Exactly. Using nano-technology in the form of various insects...flies, ants, bees, whatever crawls around and is no bigger than your thumb, acted as our collectors. And with those samples...we were able to replicate those abilities and put them into some of the experiments. Many did not survive, the power from those abilities instead destroying their own biological makeup; but in the end, there was success."
"So who was it?" Tsunade said now took a seat.
"Two are on my team...Sonya, who survived the splicing of your hyuuga clan's byakugan, and Sozin, who survived the splicing of your now extinct uchiha's sharingan."
Tsunade's eyes went wide with shock and disbelief.
"Impossible...how...how were you able to achieve this?"
"I told you...our civilization is beyond your world's years in technology. It's rare, the things that we can't do, and terrible, the things that are possible..."