"look miss we all get you're a police officer but you were also poisoned, you could've been killed a few days ago"
"I get that I really do however what you don't get is that my body has natural resistances so I'm better off then you would normally think I am"
"all right how about a compromise"
"what type of compromise?"
"you are on desk duty for a week and if you decide to do hand to hand training you have someone monitor you at all times, and after a week you are allowed back on full duty only if the police medic allows it"
"agreed, besides the hand to hand thing will actually be some physical therapy after not being allowed to move for several days due to being unconscious"
and so for the next week Marissa is on desk duty without complaint and also has a few matches which are closely observed but mainly they keep an eye on her doing katas. After the week had ended she was given a test to see if she was fit for field duty and she was
"well Marissa you're allowed back to full duty"
"that's great"
and so she teams up with Sara her second partner after losing her first and it was a good thing they went on patrol when they did because there was a tense stand off at a convenience store and with Marissa being a good negotiator they needed her badly. Once there she quickly realizes the problem and starts using sign language which eventually works
"thank goodness you're a self professed linguist otherwise things might've turned nasty"
"guess it is a good thing huh?"
well she quickly got back into the swing of things only for her to have to fake her death for everyone's safety a few weeks later. At the grave soon after
"why did she have to die chief?"
"I'm not sure to be honest all I know is that she should still be alive as far as I'm concerned"
"but she's not"
well they leave and a person in a cloak comes out from behind a tree and throws a unique rose into the grave
"sorry it has to be this way but I'll be back some day I promise"
and so the mysterious person disappears and things actually start to calm down, if only because there wasn't as much crime as expected after losing one of their own. Three years later the station was still struggling with the loss of Marissa, though the only way one could tell was because they automatically called the person at her old station Marissa and asked if she needed her reports checked over real quick
"how many times must I tell you I'm not this Marissa person you keep thinking I am?"
"sorry Mary but even though it's been three years I guess we still can't accept she's gone"
"but why not?"
"it's because she had special training before becoming a police officer, so everyone at the station finds it a bit hard that she was killed in a car crash"
"oh I didn't realize that"
well suddenly there was huge trouble in the form of Quintessons and a civilian would've been crushed if not for the fact that another civilian grabbed the kid before anything could happen, but then they did something no one was expecting, she made a circle with her arms and then declared an attack they never thought they'd hear again
"arranyan air ball"
and with that she thrust her hands forward as if pushing a ball, which she was even if it was invisible and the sharkticons in the path of the ball were actually destroyed
"and just for good measure...multiple explosions"
when she declared that attack she took off a necklace and threw it at the enemy, unfortunately it didn't do much against the enemy and in fact only mad them angrier
"so they want to play that game huh, well since my long term cover has been blown to shreds...might as well do that maneuver"
and so she puts her right hand on the ground and suddenly it was as if the earth was a huge wave and that did a lot of damage combined with the immediate standing up and just having her hand out and that did something as well, however it also exhausted her to the point of collapse but only because before hand she had been in some hand to hand combat with the enemy as well unknown to her colleagues though. Five minutes later the enemy retreated and they took Marissa to the hospital though everyone was confused seeing as how she was supposed to be dead. Five hours later an FBI agent showed up and though they didn't know it the officers would finally be getting some answers, but not right away seeing as how she woke up just as he got there
"well now looks who's awake"
"hey guys, guess I have some explaining to do huh?"
"yep"
"OK but first" (turns to the agent) "before you get mad at me for revealing myself my cover was blown by the fact that one of the Quintessons actually recognized me, I just happened to blow my cover to the officers with an attack they weren't expecting to hear after saving a kid"
"I get that but still couldn't you have at least given us a location before they had time to move out so we could take some of them down?"
"not when I'm being shot at right away"
"got it, well at least we tried and at least we have enough evidence to bring in the EDC full time now"
"exactly, now to explain why we faked my death three years ago"
"I'll explain, you rest"
and so that's exactly what happens and a few days later she's able to leave the hospital and is actually cleared for duty since the only real problem she had was severe exhaustion oh and some minor wounds from the hand to hand but nothing that would prevent her from properly doing her job. A few days later though an old wound would come back to haunt her while doing some hand to hand training with recruits
"OK cadet try and get me with your best shot"
"OK but I'm warning you Lt. I was trained in Aikido before I decided to go into law enforcement"
and so the two went at it when suddenly the cadet got in a hit at the right area and Marissa suddenly coughed up blood
"Lt. are you OK?"
"I'm fine, just an old injury showing itself after all these years"
"an old injury?"
"yep from when I was a kid, though since I've been doing hand to hand training since I never expected it to pop back up after so long"
the head instructor speaks up
"maybe it's because of what your body's been through lately Lt."
"yeah, maybe"
"what's the captain talking about"
"none of your business cadet"
not many people actually knew what had caused the injury that suddenly popped back up in the first place and it was for exactly this reason, what most people didn't know was that after her gondola mishap she went to Japan to train in Kendo and Aikido and while there received wounds from a criminal who disrupted a competition. When she had woken up a few weeks later she was told everything that had happened after she was attacked and that it was possible that if hit hard enough the wound would reopen, but it never had and she had been hit pretty hard over the years in training and in combat. Well she recovered within hours and by that time it was time for lunch and things were OK when suddenly the noise level went down and the TV volume went up and everyone paid attention to the attack