Chapter 20
Ken, Ryu, and Jinpei landed with a thud.
"Where are we?" Jinpei asked, trying to keep the alarm out of his voice. Ken jumped up just as two halves of a bubble emerged from the ground.
Katse gave his menacing laugh. "You're not going anywhere." he stated. Then the strangest thing happened - Katse broke into rhyme.
"Sing a song of resistance,
A pocket full of lye;
5 little ninja birds
Preparing all to die!
When the demise is done
Katse will begin to sing;
Isn't that a wonderful wish
For me to give to our king?"
"What the hell?" Ryu asked, startled. "Now Katse thinks he's a poet?"
"No, there's more to it than that." Ken broke in. "First it was the song on the tape. Now this rhyme. And the microchip. They're all connected..."
"How, Aniki?" Jinpei questioned, but never received his response, for at that moment the bubble cell filled with a putrid gas. Ken, Ryu, and Jinpei all lost consciousness within seconds.