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Chapter 8: Get the Holocron

Zakee was laying in his bed wide awake thinking about Revan. People were saying that a heavy pressure made your knees weak when you were around him. That no one stood a chance against him as ISIS members fell by the dozens, and he made it seem effortless. Legends were already starting to develop about him. Where was this guy from? How come Dr. Rogers couldn't detect him because he was a human. Anyways, there's no way he'll be able to figure out this now. Zakee rolled over and saw his ninja pouch, and it reminded him of the battle.

Zakee kneeled to fix the strap on his boot. He was almost done when a slash of air flew right by his head! He got up and saw a swordsman running towards him. He side stepped the incoming slash and kicked him in his side sending him into the rock wall.

Squads of soldiers began charging Zakee shooting their laser blasters. Zakee did a set of hand signs and said, "Wind Style: Hurricane Fists!" He gathered a large amount of chakra into each fist and punched in the direction of incoming soldiers.

"Electric Snake Technique!"

Zakee jumped quick enough to avoid a giant snake made of electricity slam a few feet away from him. He saw a soldier doing another set of hand seals, but he was struggling with them. Zakee noticed this and began to do a set of seals too.

"Wind Style: Wind Dragon!"

"Lightning Style: Lightning Blast!"

The ISIS member must not have known that Electric Jutsu is weak to Wind Jutsu. The Wind Dragon swallowed the Lightning Blast and landed right where the ISIS member was standing.

Those two jutsus used up a lot of Zakee's chakra. He took a deep breath. He sensed a sword coming his way. He quickly drew his katana and coated it with his chakra swinging it to meet the incoming sword. The man that was attacking had black robes with a symbol that read Shinigami. Zakee began to attack with quick stabs and side swings. He threw in some kicks and punches to keep the Shinigami on his toes.

The opponent was blocking them all with ease. Then the Shinigami disappeared. Zakee stopped and looked around but didn't see him.

He heard "Kido 31: Red Flame Cannon!" from above and saw a giant ball of fire heading his way and it was too late to jump out of the way. He threw up his forearms to block to the blast. The explosion was strong enough to throw dust and smoke everywhere and pushed him back at least fifteen feet and only the ground.

When everything settled, Zakee stood up burnt and bleeding all over with a large shuriken in his hand. He lifted his head and threw the shuriken towards his opponent. The ISIS member side stepped the projectile getting ready to do another Kido spell. With the soldier fully turned towards Zakee, the shuriken turned into a cloud of thick smoke. Zakee yanked his arm away from his opponent. The soldier noticed a string, that must have been attached to the shuriken, tighten. He turned around to see Zakee, strapped to the wire heading towards him with his sword aimed at his stomach. He was going too fast; the soldier could not react quickly enough to dodge or block the attack. Zakee's katana went right through the stomach of the soldier. The ISIS soldier turned around to see the other Zakee poof into smoke. He looked back at the real Zakee. "Damn your Transformation and Shadow Clone Jutsu," he said coughing up blood.

Zakee pulled out the sword looking him in the eyes then stood up raising his glare towards the ongoing battle. From the corner of his eye, he saw a few fireballs fly right past him. Revan was about thirty yards away, making sure Zakee wasn't getting hit by the incoming fire jutsus.

'The leader,' he thought. 'How am I going to lead these guys if they can't even count on me to make it through a battle.'

Zakee took a deep breath and rolled over towards his window. The burns on his body didn't bother him anymore; they motivated him. He closed his eyes and waited for them to reach camp back at Area 51.

I took about two days to get back to camp. Everyone got off the ship and went their own ways. Many went to the doctor to get medicine and heal. Some went to the library to try and learn about new powers they had seen. There were even people that went to their rooms to mourn someone that they had lost.

Zakee was sitting in the lobby of the Hotel thinking about how weak he was towards the end, and it bothered him. He stood up and turned towards the library to go learn new jutsu. In the middle of the hallway to the library stood Sensei Rodan. Zakee walked towards him and said, "I'm going to the library to learn new Jutsu."

He tried to walk past his sensei, but Sensei Rodan put out his arm and stopped him. "Follow me if you really want to become stronger." Zakee could tell that his sensei was being completely serious about this by his stern face.

Zakee stared at him and said, "What are we waiting for then."

Sensei Rodan cracked a small smile and said, "Okay, I'll meet you at classroom twenty-four in ten minutes. I have to get some supplies." Zakee nodded and walked towards the classroom to wait.

Sensei Rodan walked into his room and laid a sealing scroll on his bed. He turned towards his room and began rummaging through his bookshelves looking for scrolls, books, and anything that might have information. He looked on his dresser and threw his Icha Icha series out of the way to grab thick books with dust all over them. Sensei Rodan had a lot of books stacked around his room. He considered himself an expert on knowledge. He walked over to a chest that had a lock on it and proceeded to pull a key out of his pocket. He unlocked the chest and pulled a book the size of a dictionary and placed it on the sealing scroll. He closed and locked the chest then put the key back in his pocket. He put all the books and scrolls that he wanted onto a giant scroll and sealed them into it. He rolled up the scroll and began walking towards classroom twenty-four where Zakee awaited.

Sensei Rodan walked into the classroom, and Zakee looked towards him. Sensei stood behind the podium and said, "I don't want you to say a single word until I'm finished. You almost got yourself killed out there. You were supposed to read the book on how to use the water in the air and in your body to perform Water Style Jutsu. You could have easily defeated any fire based opponent with that. This tells me that I have been too lenient on your training and studies. It shows that you've only focused on learning more jutsu instead of honing and perfecting the ones that you do know. From now on, all you will be doing is training and studying. Hell, most of the time they will be at the same time." Sensei Rodan pulled out his sealing scroll and rolled it across the a table.

"Sensei…" said Zakee but was immediately cut off by his Sensei unsealing the scroll.

"I'm not done yet." The smoke settled. "These are some books I have in my room. I want you to read each three times and practice what each book says every waking moment. Here are some books on kenjutsu that will help your footwork and swordsmanship dramatically. Some are Water Style Jutsu training guides along with Wind Style. Here's a book on hand to hand combat technique and old Jutsu books in general. This is a lot of the knowledge that I can teach you right now, but with me teaching other people, you will have to teach yourself a lot of it. We now house over a thousand soldiers with powers and the number only rises with each day that passes. I want you to start training the novice ninjas as well to sharpen your fundamentals and hand sign speed. However, I want you to do this with a Shadow Clone. In fact, I want you to have six Shadow Clones active always to increase your chakra reserves and stamina. Learn the Rasengan as well, it's in one of those books. I don't have much time, but I want you to begin at once. Your first classes will be tomorrow at ten in the morning." Right when Sensei Rodan finished, he turned into a puff of smoke. The shock wave of the poof sent dust flying off some of the covers of the books in the pile.

Zakee grabbed a few books and looked at the titles, "Battle Strategy 101," "Water Jutsus," there was a book that had a strange symbol on the cover, and the last book had two swords clashing on the cover. Zakee set all of them down except for the book that had a strange symbol. He opened the book and on the first page, "THE DRAGON CLAW TECHNIQUE" was written across in big letters. What the hell is this, thought Zakee. He looked up at the clock, and it read four o'clock in the afternoon.

Zakee created five shadow clones because that was his limit and then began reading his books. The first four books he chose were, "Battle Strategy 101," "Kenjutsu and Sword Techniques," "The Art of Water Jutsu," and "Chakra Reserves," and the last clone went to the training fields to practice his hand sign speed other techniques.

Clayton and Luca were practicing their sword fighting when they saw Zakee working on his signs. This was the same Luca that grew up with Ryder and Zakee. Luca stopped his attack on Clayton and looked over. However, Clayton followed in with his attack and kicked Luca in the face sending his five yards back onto the ground.

"Hey! I was looking the other way!" yelled Luca.

"Well maybe don't stop in the middle of a fight!"

Luca glared at Clayton and stood up brushing off dirt that was on his clothes now.

"I wonder what Zakee is up too over there… Wanna go check?" Clayton nodded in agreement, and they walked over to him.

"Hey, Zakee! What're doing?!" Zakee looked up and turned to them with sweat running down his face.

"I'm practicing my hand sign speed and chakra reserves," said Zakee blasting another Gale Palm. He stood up tall locking his hands over his head taking a break. "Sensei Rodan gave me a lot of books full of jutsus, techniques, and a lot of other useful information too. Y'all should read a few."

Zakee knew in his mind that there were a few books that he wanted to hide for himself. "Go ahead if you want, I'm just a shadow clone. The original is in classroom twenty-four reading right now." Luca and Clayton looked at each other and told the Shadow Clone thanks and that they're headed to see Zakee.

Clayton turned to Luca and said, "I hope that they're some advanced fire and earth jutsu books in there."

"Yeah, you need to work on more earth jutsu. I hope that there is a lightning jutsu book. I've already learned everything in the Ice Jutsu book Sensei Rodan gave me." They walked up to the classroom door and saw five total Zakees through the window.

Luca opened the door and said, "Wow, your clone sure wasn't lying when he said you have a lot of books."

Luca began reading the titles to some of the books over the clones' shoulder. Clayton walked over to a clone and looked at his book, "Battle Strategy 101."

Zakee looked at them both and said, "Feel free to read some of these. It's not like I can read all of them at once, well not yet at least." Clayton and Luca summoned two Shadow Clones each and began looking at the books on the table. Clayton grabbed: "Destructive Fire Jutsu," "Taijutsu," and "Battle Strategy 101." Then walked to the back of the room and began to read and study.

Luca paced the table and grabbed: "Hidden Art of Ice Release," "Lightning Techniques," and "Chakra Control." He walked to the side of the room and started reading and studying too. The three of them stayed up reading all night long. Zakee looked at his watch and saw it was nine fifty in the morning. He stood up without dispelling his shadow clones and said, "Okay, I'm headed to go teach." The two others just threw up a hand to show that they had acknowledged and understood what he had said.

Zakee walked to his classroom, room twelve and opened the doors. He looked around and said, "Welcome to Chakra Control. I'm Zakee, and I'll be teaching you for now."

Zakee taught them the basics of Chakra Control and had them do tests. This class lasted for an hour. When the class ended, he was the first one gone, and he was heading back to where all his books are.

He walked into the room and saw Luca and Clayton in the same seats they had been in all night. "Okay," he said, "we need to dispel our shadow clones so we can absorb the knowledge, and once that happens were gonna get tired. So, let's stop for right now and continue later." Everyone agreed, and they dispelled their clones and headed back to their rooms.

On the way back to their room, Zakee told Clayton that he'd meet him there and not to wait up. "Okay, I'm gonna shower then probably sleep so be quiet when you come in," said Clayton.

"Ok, I'll see you later." Zakee headed towards Sensei Rodan's office to ask him a question. He got to the door and knocked on it a few times.

"Come in," said Sensei Rodan.

"Oh, hello Zakee, how are the books?"

Zakee sat in a chair and responded, "Really good actually, I'm learning a lot. I have a question with one of the books though." He pulled out the book that had the strange symbol on it and passed it to his Sensei.

"I want you to teach me this technique. The Dragon Claw."

"Hmm... The Dragon Claw Technique," said Sensei stroking his beard. "Fine, but not before you can create twenty shadow clones, a Rasengan, and punch a 10-ton boulder to mere rubble. This technique demands the user to be very strong and well conditioned."

'Wow,' thought Zakee. 'This is a lot of work to learn this technique, but I know I can do it. I have to do it.' Zakee thought back on how he was knocked unconscious during the big fight they just got back from.

"Alright. I accept the conditions."

His Sensei looked back at the papers on his desk, waited a few seconds, then said, "Don't you have something to read?"

Zakee walked out the room then ran back to his room to take a quick nap. He walked into his room and put the Dragon Claw Technique book in one of the drawers in his dresser then fell asleep on his bed.

Three months later, President Reed and General Hall were sitting in the Oval Office, each with a cup of coffee.

"So, the raid on the Xeno three months ago was a fail. What was all the intel that we received?" asked the President to his general with a desperate look on his face.

"Yes, even though we were able to destroy their base, the number of casualties we sustained were too many to be considered a success. We were able to get an idea of the variety of powers that their forces had. We now know faces and what powers they have. We can use them for targeting and surveillance. The lives that were lost will not be in vein," said General Hall.

The President looked out of his window and into the garden that's planted right outside. "How many soldiers do we have in the academy?" asked the President.

"We have one thousand, four-hundred and twenty-seven soldiers. We have one more group coming in that we have found to have the power trait in them," said General Hall.

President rested his head on his hand and said, "Tell General Rodan, I want a squad of four soldiers for a special mission." President Reed gave General Hall a scroll that had the President's Seal of Approval on it.

General Hall stood up and said, "Yes sir, I will get on that right now." General Hall walked out of the Oval Office and pulled out his phone. He dialed General Rodan and waited for a pick up.

"Hello?" answered General Rodan.

General Hall spoke, "Rodan, this is General Hall. The President wants a team of four. He has a special mission that needs taken care of."

There was a pause on the phone. "When does he need them by?" asked Sensei Rodan.

"He wants them here within two hours. I'll get Jerry to send the information over right now," responded General Hall. He hung up the phone and walked to the teleportation room. General Hall looked around and saw Jerry across the room. He walked over and gave Jerry the scroll. Jerry can teleport small objects over a far distance. He took the scroll to his desk and placed it on the surface. He reached over the scroll and closed his eyes. The scroll vanished in an instant.

Rodan walked over to the table where the scroll with a red sign appeared. It read, "General Rodan. TOP PRIORITY." He unsealed the scroll and began reading it.

It said, "General Rodan, there is a caravan that in passing through a desert valley in Egypt. This caravan dug up an artifact that holds great power and knowledge. This group plans to sell it to an ISIS agent. Assemble a small team of four and come to the briefing room within two hours."

Sensei Rodan leaned back in his chair and began to think who the team of four will be. He started to think of the captain that would lead the squad. Zakee is a smart leader with powerful jutsus at his disposal, so he'll be the captain. Since the mission is going to be an ambush, grab and go attack, we need an assassin that can hide in plain sight. Someone that can strike from the air will be useful for intel and sensory. Let's see… Jackson could do this since he can fly, but his Saiyan powers will be too loud if we need to do this quietly. Sarah's Pidgeotto would be great for this! So, that's two. Clayton's high IQ will be a good addition. And the last one will be Taylor. I like his Ghoul speed for this mission. He leaned over and put all their I.D. numbers in on a computer program. An alert was sent to all their mission alert apps on their phone, computer, and watch.

Within ten minutes all four of them were in a line facing General Rodan. He turned around and said, "You four have been selected for a special mission under the President's Orders. What you need to know is that, the mission is in Egypt, so pack accordingly. We do not know how long the mission will take, so pack clothes that will last. If a full fight breaks out, you will be on your own. If that is the case, you need to have anything you need for battle. I will give you two hours to pack, and after that let's meet back here. You may go."

Everyone dispersed and went their own way except Clayton and Zakee. They went to room twenty-four to take one last look at those books. Zakee looked at Clayton, "Hey, let's take a few of these if this is going to be a long mission. That's what I've been doing with my other missions at least."

"Okay, that sounds good to me. I'm going to take these two jutsu books." Clayton took two books and placed them on a seal scroll. He reverse summones and sealed the books within the scroll. Zakee grabbed a tattered book with a dragon on its cover and a mist jutsu book.

They left the room and headed to their room to begin packing. The intercom echoed throughout the hallways, "All new recruits, please report to the cafeteria. All new recruits, please report to the cafeteria now."

Putting some spare clothes in his bag Zakee said, "I didn't know we had new recruits coming in today."

"Yeah, I heard that this is the last group for a while. We're starting to run out of space here, and there are three other academies too, right?" asked Clayton.

"Right, but did you hear about the one in Oregon?" Zakee knew Clayton answer by his blank facial expression. "Well it was an average day at the academy in Salem. A group of Jedi, ninja, and Shinigami were practicing their sword skills with General Fox. He's a Shinigami that teaches a swords class. They were practicing when a body flew onto the floor from a balcony higher up that went outside. Everyone stopped and stood still. Someone dressed in black ninja clothes, a gray flak jacket, and a white mask jumped to the ground. They say that General Fox was about to fight the guy in the mask, but he started to use the Force to knock down the stone pillars inside the academy. The masked guy was a Jedi with a red lightsaber that could use lightning better than a summer storm. The whole academy ended up collapsing. General Fox could only save twelve students out of twenty-three. Rumor has it that he stole a holocron from that academy. They won't say what it had inside, but that's basically what were about to go take from this caravan." Zakee threw that last shuriken he had in his bag and said, "Alright, let's go."

Zakee and Clayton were the first ones at General Rodan's office, but Taylor and Sarah came shortly after.

"Okay, let's head towards the briefing room," said Rodan.

They all started to walk there with bags in hand. "Now remember, the most important thing y'all do out there is too WORK together. Deduce the situation and then execute the plan."

They all spoke at once and said, "Yes, sir!"

They walked into the briefing room and saw holograms of President Reed, General Hall, and Doctor Rogers talking around a table.

"Ah, they're here. Come, stand around the table," said the President. "General Hall, here, will go over y'all's plan. I understand there are only four of you all, so pay attention. Take it away."

The four soldiers gathered around the table with their teacher on the outer edge. General Hall pointed towards a valley and began, "This is the canyon where the caravan is going to try and pass through. We want y'all to halt their cargo and steal this artifact that they have." A picture of a red pyramid prism appeared in front of the four. "First, we need Sarah's Pidgeotto to quietly fly ahead for intel. Once we find them and the valley, we wait to ambush the caravan and take the holocron. To get this, I want Zakee to create a heavy fog around the caravan and hide in a river in front of the caravan to trick them. Clayton, use your shadow paralysis jutsu to keep the targets still. Taylor, you run in there and take the holocron from them. This should be a quick mission that has a high success rate. God forbid it if anything goes wrong, Clayton, figure out a plan that has the highest success rate for all of you to come back safely. Any questions," asked General Hall looking at his four young soldiers? "You leave out in thirty minutes." The holograms faded out.

All four of them looked at each other nervously and reviewed the plan. This was their first four-man mission that could turn bad in an instant.

They quickly suited up and walked out of the briefing room towards the hanger. Between them and the hanger was the lobby where all the new recruits were gathered. Zakee tightened his wrist tape and checked his shuriken count while making his way down the hall.

Clayton made sure he had all his supplies and some food pellets for the road.

Taylor began picking a song on his iPod to pump him up when he bumped into another student's shoulder knocking him to the ground. Taylor turned towards him and noticed that he was a fresh recruit and yelled, "Get out of my way rookie! I'm on official business!"

Sarah grabbed Taylor by the sleeve and began to drag him towards the hanger. "Cut it out. You're not tough trying to scare the new recruits," she jeered.

A male about eighteen with brown buzzed hair and a military uniform walked over to the new student that was on the ground. "I hear that they are basically a part of the A-Team here," said the buzzed head guy. He extended his arm to his fellow solider on the ground and helped him up.

"Thanks, Nero." The man that was knocked over glanced back towards the group that was storming down the hallway and said, "That black guy with them looks a lot like someone I knew from my high school."

Nero looked back at the group and took a mental image of him. "Good, so I can go ruff up the one that knocked you into the ground," said Nero with a mischievous smirk as he walked towards the guy that knocked down his friend.

Standing up, he rubbed his head and spoke to Nero saying, "Cool it. We can't be getting into trouble on the first day here."

Nero looked around and then back to the other male. "Fine then."

The lady at the front of the group spoke out and said, "Hello everyone! Does everyone have their name tag on? Raise your hand if you don't have one." She scanned the group and everyone had their name tag.

She continued, "Since I now know your names, let me introduce myself. I am Janice Schmidt, the Secretary to the President, and I control the intercom system for announcements along with introducing new recruits to the Roxy Program. Now, if you all will follow me, we will head to the Roxy Room."

She had seen Taylor knock one of the new recruits in the back down on the ground when she was walking towards the group, but she decided to wait until after the introduction to say something about it. "Also, watch out for others that are passing you through the hallway. We don't need any of you injured on your first day! Isn't that right." She squinted her eyes but couldn't read the name tag because she was so far away.

"Ryder," he said annoyed with the lady.

She threw up her index finger and said, "Alrighty then Ryder! Let's go to the Roxy Room!"