UNKNOWN
Chapter 2: Guess
Never had he been deceived like this.
He had always known the nature of people but perhaps, in this situation, it was her beauty that drove him to distraction.
"Did you now?" She mocked him with that devastating smile of hers.
He didn't know how she could change the color of her hair and her eyes in an instant but not knowing how she did it seemed to aggravate him more.
With his swords, he attacked her.
"Storm stop!" He could hear General Colton shout at him.
What the General couldn't see is that his daughter was matching him move for move.
Snake Eyes joined the fight hoping to tip the balance to no avail. Jinx joined the two of them a minute later.
With the three of them, the girl seems to lose her composure but still was able to fend the three of them off.
A strike there, a strike here, surely she can't keep this up. She'll have to slip up sooner or later especially since her attention is divided among three opponents.
"Burst defense active." A computerized female voice said from somewhere.
Suddenly, the girl launched herself into the air and hit the ground of the pit. "Yahhh!" A great force of air came forth from where she hit the ground, throwing all three ninjas of the Arashikage clan away from her.
Jinx hit the water of the pit, Snake hit some of the newly recruited Joes and he hit a very hard wall.
One of her devastating smiles appeared when she saw the damage she caused the three. "So this is the great triumvirate of the Arashikage clan. Nothing to be impressed about."
"Even if you kill them Rose, you can't possibly expect to walk out of here alive." General Colton was only less than ten feet away from the girl.
"Don't come any closer, dad." The girl pointed her sword towards the General.
"Rose, you're alone. Let me help you." Storm could hear the General say.
The girl again smiled one of her devastating smiles. "Who says I'm alone?"
The alarm sounded.
"Shoot her!" Roadblock ordered.
"Wait!" The General shouted again.
When the bullets were about to hit her, someone blocked and cut all the bullets from the air. From the look of the man's apparel, it appears that he works with the General's daughter.
As he stood up, Storm Shadow saw that the man's costume had the motif of a playing card jack.
He turned to the girl. "We have what we came for." He said in his mask's altered voice.
"Good." The girl replied. "I'm getting tired of playing around with these soldiers."
"Fall back."
From the suit of both the girl and the man, something caught Storm Shadow's eyes.
The playing card hover board the girl came in when she first attacked, descended yet again, now accompanied by another one. No doubt for her companion.
They jumped and boarded the boards.
Just like that, they were gone.
Storm Shadow hit the ground with his fist.
- o -
"They knocked out the Joes we had guarding the sword. We don't exactly know the sedative they used but the Joes are in a coma. Doc says there's no guarantee when they'll wake up." Roadblock massaged his neck while explaining how 10 Joes fell at the hands of four people.
Storm gripped the shuriken in his hand, being careful not to injure himself. He had no idea that one individual can cause so much damage.
"She's the diversion." Flint interjected.
Looking at the each of the people in the room, Storm Shadow saw that General Colton had the look of a man shattered.
"I've got nothing on Rosalie Colton." Jaye announced to the gathered group after tinkering with the computer.
If Storm Shadow's suspicions are correct, they wouldn't find anything connected with that name.
"What are you thinking?" Jinx softly asked beside him.
"No one would find anything under that name."
The group looked to him. "What do you mean we wouldn't find anything?" Looking at Roadblock, he supposes of all the Joes present, he'd be the one to understand the General's dilemma considering he has two daughters of his own.
Storm pointed to the holographic picture of the girl, the picture taken while General Colton tried to reason with her. "Could you enhance that symbol on her thigh?" He requested Jaye.
"Sure."
The symbol, which looked like a three pointed star, was enhanced. If Storm remembered correctly, the same symbol was on the arm of her companion.
"This symbol… It seems out of place with her entire outfit doesn't it?" Storm asked the group.
Those present just looked at one another.
Storm took a deep breath looking at the picture. "Her mother, is she Japanese?" He asked the silent General Colton.
"Half. Why?"
Thinking about it all while looking at another holographic picture of the General's daughter Jaye put up; her heritage, the way she handled herself against him, Snake Eyes and Jinx… What was in his head made sense.
"It's a clan symbol."
Jinx's was shocked. He would be too if he was in her position. "A clan symbol?"
General Colton suddenly stood up. "What? You mean like my daughter is some kind of ninja?"
"Not just some kind. She may not look like it but she is one." Storm Shadow confirmed when the General sank down again on his seat. "What was her mother's name when you met her?"
"Rose Marie is the name of Rosalie's mother."
"What was her family name?"
"Ayame. Rose Marie Ayame."
Jinx and Storm Shadow looked at each other with wide eyes and then they both looked at General Colton.
"The Ayame Ninja Clan."