Chapter 13

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[The scene opens on the Ninja Temple. Sakura Igawa is standing in front of the gigantic stone structure.]

Sakura: Master! Master, I need your help!

[The rage suddenly strikes Sakura, who falls to her knees in pain. Just then, a blonde woman teleports behind her in a flash of lightning.]

????: There are no masters or ninjas here

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????: There are no masters or ninjas here.

[Sakura is trying to fight the rage as she speaks.]

Sakura: This place is not for you! Listen to me: your presence here places my world in great danger!

????: It is you who does not belong. I am Glynda Goodwitch, Headmistress of Beacon Academy.

[As thunder echoes around the valley, Glynda goes over to the Ninja Temple and inspects it.]

Glynda: Ethereal power courses through this place. Yet, it is unfamiliar. Tell me, for what purpose does this place exist?

Sakura: This is a focal point between the world of the ninjas and mutants. My ancestors give me these weapons.

Glynda: Which ancestors?

Sakura: Please...I'm losing control! You're corrupting this place! You have to leave...I will make you leave...NOW!!!

[They fight. With the rage taken her completely over, Sakura Igawa overpowers Glynda and defeats her. Lifting up her unconscious form, Sakura strikes Glynda with a right hook that sends her sailing into the distance. Over the horizon, Glynda teleports away and Sakura falls to her knees. The rage has left her.]

Sakura: He's gone...the disturbance is clearing...but for how long? Their gods will be drawn here. I have to--

Master: --Stop them, Sakura Igawa.

[Sakura turns around. The face of the her master appears before her in a white cloud.]

Sakura: Master!

Master: This is only the beginning. You must stop Apocagax.

[Another vision appears in front of Sakura Igawa, showing a large, green-skinned warrior with an "A" in his that glows the same yellow as the rage. His face structure resembles Vilgax, but his body is an unfamiliar cybernetic body.]

Sakura: Is that...Vilgax?

Master: Vilgax's essence has been fused with evil magic from the other realm. This new being - Apocagax - is the focal point where both universes freely intermingle. His existence will turn this world into a nexus of evil.

[The vision of Apocagax dissipates.]

Master: If the connection between the universes is not severed and Vilgax freed, the rage will reach out and devour us all. You must gather an army of both dark and light and find a champion who has defeated Darkseid in the past.

Sakura: Then we must find Monstrous Man!

[To be continued]

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