"could you repeat that Jody?"

"I said that you have permission to teach the entire team how to be Samurai and also the boss' body guards are going to learn as well. Once the season is over we are to train even more people to help rebuild the Red Halls clan"

"are you absolutely sure about this Jody? I mean training to be a samurai usually takes years, and we're doing this in the midst of racing season"

"we're sure Maria"

John speaks up

"wait Maria, remember when my year had to go through accelerated training because of a sudden flare of criminal activity that the intergalactic police couldn't handle?"

"you're right I do remember that training now, looks like the team is going through accelerated Samurai training but be warned it is not a pretty sight"

"we understand"

"OK then and John, you're going to mechanic school soon so do your best"

"will do"

and so whenever the team wasn't racing they were learning how to be samurai and as it turned out their previous training as police officers and task-force members cut down on training time significantly. Three months later it was the end of the racing season and for the first time the rest of the team had their blades with them in the car plus the two
mechanics were also armed, then again one of the mechanics was John, who had passed his tests within two months and became the second mechanic of the team because it turned out that the reason he made level one mechanic was because of photographic memory. Finally the race ended in Maria's win and right after that they went to where the
Red Halls clan used to be based. On the planet

"so this is where the Red Halls were based"

all they saw for quite some time was graves and upon seeing them Maria asked a valid question

"John, how long did it take you to do this?"

"a day and a half Maria and that was with the help of the locals who kept us supplied"

"I see, well come on we need to salvage what we can and get back to earth"

"right"

and so they quickly finished the salvage operation but before they left Jody surprised the team by turning around and saluting the graves and also saying a phrase that, if they were still alive would make the elders proud

"we'll carry on the tradition of the Red Halls clan and take down the Mesanic Brothers once and for all, I promise"

and with that they leave the planet and go back to earth. A few days later everyone was practicing their swordsmanship while discussing how they would choose trainees to become samurai

"after all we're only samurai because of the fact that the Red Halls clan needs to rebuild and we have two samurai with us already"

"valid point Jack and let's not forget the fact that the president's main security force are also samurai now"

"there's also the fact that accelerated training was easy for us because of our previous experience as either officers or because of being in the task-force"

"hey Maria I forget, is there anything in the laws of the samurai that dictate how we're supposed to pick potential new samurai?"

Maria thinks for a bit

"not that I recall, John?"

"sorry Maria but I'm also drawing up a blank when it comes to the laws and the rules and codes can't help either"

everyone stops what they're doing and sighs