this chapter is dedicated to ronin504 who go tme out of my writers block with ideas on how to reveal her and also unintentianally gave me the title as well so some of what's on here is ronin504's work not mine
"one more thing, I think that for now only I should know about you so I won't be able to give you a symbol of our team"
"it's ok better to have an ace up your sleeve in case things go wrong then to reveal all your players and have no one able to back you up when the time is right"
"exactly, though I will give you a special badge for when the time comes"
"got it"
well a few weeks later the team had a big race right after the minor leagues and they decided to join Jody in team hunting so they got there early instead of the time given to them. Early on in the race they found Maria's secret about hiding her skills out and decided that they wanted her...bad
"Jody she's hiding her true skills, can't we get her on our team somehow?"
(groans) "I've been trying for the past few weeks now so far, no go"
suddenly though there attention shifted big time because of a sudden announcement by a new criminal organization
"if the drivers go below green seven or about yellow nine they'll explode"
inside Maria's car
"blast it, who's made the threat?"
"the Mesanic Brothers"
"those guys are back?"
she thinks back to shortly after her samurai training was over with and what she had heard of them. She also remembered that they had supposedly been defeated and either integrated into society if they weren't too far along in there training, or they were put in maximum security prisons with triple locks on their cryosuspension generators. She then asks the officials where the bombs were and quickly gets her answer
"oh great it's on the passenger side of the car, just perfect" (under her breath) "so much for my sword"
she then thinks about the pro race later that day
"what about the professional racers cars are they ok?"
"we're checking them now and also keeping a guard, just in case"
communications are cut and the Maria thinks up a great plan, that she has to run by her superior first
"wait that's it! I can use my spare breathing devices to keep the speed up while I use my sword. Once I get the device off my car I can easily get the other cars as well...if Jody goes for it"
she quickly gets on her key phone given to her by Jody
"Jody are you there?"
meanwhile Jody's team were also trying to think up a plan when Jody's communicator went off
"I'm here Maria what's up?"
"I assume you and the rest of the team heard the same announcement we did?"
"yes why?"
"well I just got an idea that I think will work"
"what is it?"
"I use my breathing device on the gas and break to keep it as even as possible while I use my sword to get the bomb off my car. Once the bomb is off my car, I then use the sword on all the other cars and do the same thing for them"
"if you take off your device you'll die"
"Jody did you forget that I carry spares?"
Jody thinks back for a minute
"guess I did sorry"
"it's ok, the association made it a requirement, which I went with because it make sense"
"anyways as long as you use the spares your plan is approved, good luck Maria"
"thanks I'll need it"
and with that the two hang up and Rick asks the question everyone was thinking
"Jody, who was that?"
"that everyone was Maria Hanslaw, she's been on the team for the past few weeks, actually the last time I went to a minor league race I recruited her"
Lucy speaks up
"what does she mean by using her sword and why does she have a breathing device?"
"for the sword she's a samurai and as for the device...look up a race about eight years ago with her name and you'll find out most if not all of what you need"
then Jack speaks up
"not that I'm not interested in our new team member also but don't we have a criminal organization to research"
everyone speaks up after that
"right"
while that was going on Maria finally managed to get the device off her car and had started to get the device off the other cars as well. Fifteen minutes later everything had finally settled and someone else won the race but at least no one got hurt in the process. Well unless one counted how sore Maria's shoulder was from all the activity it had recently done, plus the association had finally realized that Maria simply didn't belong in the minor leagues, but they also decided that if she didn't show her full potential in the pros she would be bumped back down to pros probably permanently