"so when's the next race?"
"not for another week, looks like the association needs to confirm some things with the planets government about the race or something like that"
"right"
suddenly Maria's special Samurai communicator activates and a message pops up with a person she's seen but never met in person before
"attention all Samurai clans, I am calling an emergency gronthal for two days from this message being sent, it is mandatory for all clans to send the majority that aren't busy, this meeting will be held on earth in mutant city park, that is all"
Maria looks at the date it was sent which was that very day so she knew she had two days until the meeting. Jody then looks at Maria with a question on her face
"Maria what's that all about?"
"it's probably about what you told the boss a short time ago"
"and what on earth is a gronthal?"
"roughly translated it means full clans meeting"
"why roughly translated?"
"because there was never an exact translation, anyhow you know how I've mentioned that Samurai clans meet once a year unless there's trouble in their area?"
"yes?"
"what you don't know is that the groups are broken up so that everyone isn't in one single area"
"is it like police work where there are different sections of the police?"
"not quite it's more like...let's see in old USA the groups were the FBI, the state police and then the local police, and if the city was large enough the police had multiple precincts to protect the city, the different groups are like those precincts"
"and this meeting?"
"the meeting is sort of like a convention held between countries, or if you prefer like the old United Nations"
"and there's an emergency meeting because of what you told me not too long ago?"
"yes, now then even this meeting isn't normally mandatory for all groups, after all since we're Samurai it's not very practical to make it mandatory because multiple things could come up"
"then why is it mandatory this time?"
"because of the information that has been passed on to the rest of the clans...look Jody you may not fully realize it yet but what happened at the F-Zero race was only the
beginning, things are about to get much worse before they get better"
"what going on Maria?"
"intergalactic warfare Jody, with the goal of completely taking down a rogue clan that's isn't officially recognized"
two days later it was time for the meeting and while all the clans had a general idea of what was going on they didn't know the full story yet, in fact so that there wasn't panic the Kralsh clan only passed on that the Mesanic Brothers were back and something major had happened to the Red Halls clan. Normally keeping the full truth from the clans
would've meant that they would no longer be officially recognized as a clan however, because of the fact that Red Halls essentially no longer existed because of the Mesanic Brothers, they were within their rights to withhold that information to keep all clans from panicking at the destruction of one of the largest clans in the group. Finally the meeting got underway with a check to see if all the clans were there, since the meeting was about the Red Halls clan they would be last as was procedure that had been set up years ago.
Fifteen minutes later
"Kralsh"
"here"
"and finally the reason why we're all here Red Halls"
"we're here"
the leader frowns and asks a question that was reasonable but not the best of times to ask, after all the two hadn't even had a full month to process their loss and this meeting made it all the more real of what had happened to them
"I thought I said the majority of the clan that wasn't busy, so why are there only two of you?"
(sighs) "what do you know of the situation?"
"just that the Mesanic Brothers have returned and something major happened to the Red Halls clan"
"who passed on the information?"
"the Kralsh clan"
Maria glares at the leader
"you know the laws why didn't you tell the full truth about us?"
(snorts) "and cause a panic? I think not, I already knew the situation would be stressful enough with the return of the Mesanic Brothers without that spreading amongst the clans as well"
(sighs) "your right as usual" (sighs) "permission to be in front of the entire crowd sir?"
"certainly, so I presume you're the spokesperson?"
"considering the full situation?, yeah I'd say I am"
she gets up on the podium
"well as you've already heard the Mesanic Brothers are back, they attacked at an F-Zero race two...three weeks ago and if not for my Samurai skills could've done serious injury or killed people. What you don't know is that three days before the race I did my mandatory bi-monthly check in and got no answer, which isn't too uncommon, but that wasn't the end of it, I never got a return message by the required time making the entire clan MIA"
everyone was shocked at that and someone from another clan spoke up
"so the entire clan is missing?"
"not quite because it doesn't end there, two days later I was on another planet for a race when another clan member showed up. I now inform you that except for John and I the Red Halls clan has been destroyed"
that shocked everyone even more
"so there are only two survivors of the clan?"
"yes, I survived because of my racing career, John survived because of a mission"
"who destroyed the clan?, we'll get them for this"
"the ones who claimed revenge on the clan so long ago, people the ones who destroyed the Red Halls clan are the same ones we came to meet about today, the Mesanic Brothers"
well that did it that one sentence sent the rest of the group into a frenzy and boy did a lot of things happen at once the Kralsh clan and the rest of the clans withing that section vowed vengeance and discussing making sure their areas were secured, another section talked about going underground and discovering everything they could about the Mesanic Brother's activities and the final group which the Red Halls had been part of took out their blades and made blood vows that the Mesanic Brothers would be stopped no matter the cost. Finally what passed as essentially the Samurai leader took back control and the rest of the meeting was simply discussing plans to take down the Mesanic Brothers and whether or not to integrate the survivors of the Red Halls clan into another smaller clan
"while it has been done in the past I don't feel it's the best option for us"
"why not?"
"simple we work with a police task-force now and being part of another clan would just hinder us, especially because John is also going to Mechanic school to become more then just a class one mechanic for the team"
"she makes a solid point, very well the Red Halls clan is put into reserve status until further notice, hopefully you'll be able to train others in the way of the Red Halls clan and rebuild it"
"perhaps, but only if Jody and her boss approves of it"
what Maria didn't know was that ever since Jody found out she was a Samurai she had been talking to her boss about letting her train them in the ways of the Samurai, especially after she found out that she and John were the last of their clan and the boss actually approved of it, in fact he wanted his security personnel to also be trained in the ways of the Samurai. Once the season was over with he would also allow Maria and John to teach even more people to help rebuild the Red Halls clan. Five hours later at HQ