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Michiko stood deep within the ancient cavern that still now held her captive. This was all still so strange to her; how this
all has unfolded before her and to her. And still there was dear Dr. Seiko making his way to the burial chamber where she
now stood with her new person and this strange costume that she was wearing. Who was she. Was she really some kind of super
heroine. She had read comic books about wonder woman as a young child but she never imagined in her wildest dreams anything
like this. The costume she wore reminded her more of another heroine, Supergirl. And now that crazy voice kept saying to her
that she now possessed those same abilities and powers that both of those fictional women had in order to fight evil.
“I’ve got to find a way out of here and quick,” , said Michiko desperately as she looked every which way
for a tunnel or a crack in the seeming impenetrable rocky tomb. Just then Michiko was walking around the cavern when she tripped
on a stone and sent herself uncontrollably towards the rock solid wall. As she fell into the wall the force of her impact
broke apart a portion of the wall. She gazed around at the strewed rock fragments that fell from the wall after her body hit
it.
“Did I do this?”, Michiko asked herself. And as she contemplated the impossible.....”Let me see what would
happen if I did this.”, she thought to herself as she decided to do a small test to see if her assumptions were correct.
So, Michiko closed her eyes and punched the rock wall hoping that it wouldn’t hurt her hand too badly. Her balled up
fist felt nothing but the rock wall where she aimed her jab exploded with bits of rock going everywhere. “I can’t
believe it.”, Michiko said with amazement. “My fist went right through that granite rock.” Then she hit
the wall again with her fist and again and again and again until she was swinging her arms like an engine piston and pulverizing
the wall in front of her. “Well, if I can do this,”, Michiko said to herself. “then I wonder what other
super powers I have.” Michiko then squatted to the ground and then leaped into the air and started flying around the
cavern. Then she stopped in mid air and willed herself to gently descend to the ground. Then Michiko went over to a boulder
over by the Samurai’s crypt. The boulder was five times Michiko’s size but she went over to it, grabbed it with
both hands and then lifted the 10 ton boulder off the ground and over her head.
“Now,” Michiko said jokingly to herself. “I once saw supergirl do this in that movie about her.”
Michiko applied intense pressure to either side of the boulder with both her dainty little hands and then within seconds she
began to crush the boulder and reduced it to rubble and dust soon there after.
“Oh....my god......I really am Sukahara.”, Michiko said. Just then she heard Dr. Seiko calling for her. “Michiko,
Michiko.....can you hear me. “Oh, my what am I going to do. I don’t know just how to explain this to Dr. Seiko.
How can I look like Michiko Tanaka again so that Dr. Seiko doesn’t suspect anything until I’ve had time to explain
this all to him?” Just then a voice sounded in her head and gave her the answer.
“Sukahara san, all you must do in order to become sukahara and to resume who you once were you must repeat this one
simple phrase: “Sukahara Des.......Sukahara Des.”
“Okay”, Michiko said. “But first I must finish opening up this wall so that I can get out. Then I can get
out of here and meet Dr. Seiko. No doubt he is now within 100 yards of me by now.” So Michiko, still wearing the mantle
of Sukahara continued boring into the granite wall with her bare hands until the passage way through the wall was complete.
Then Sukahara knelt down with her head bowed, her arms spread open and called upon the ancient phrase saying, “Sukahara
Des” Suddenly, the warrior princess of old relinquished the mantle of Sukahara and resumed the mortal form as Michiko
Tanaka once again.
Then Michiko walked out of the cave and ran up to meet Dr. Seiko. As she walked she wasn’t quite sure if she could comprehend
just what had transpired who she actually was now nor the awesome power she possessed.
“Michiko!!!”, Dr. Seiko yelled being so glad to see his finest student whom he had thought he had lost to these
secretive and unforgiving caverns. “Michiko, did you find the Samurai’s tomb?”, Dr. Seiko said in an exuberant
tone. “Yes, yes I did, Dr. Seiko”, Michiko happily replied. “But I have so much more to tell you Professor.”,
Michiko told him. “Good, I’d love to here it,”, Seiko replied. “Let’s go see what’s in
there.”
Miss Tanaka and her professor both went over the tomb with a find toothed comb. Then on the way back to the car Michiko explained
just what had happened after finding the amulet.
“You what?”, Dr. Seiko said to her utterly shocked to hear such a thing could happen. “That’s incredible”,
he said. “But can you show me; can you demonstrate to me this transformation process?”
They were outside of the cave and a few feet from the car when Michiko repeated the ancient phrase. “Sukahara, Des!”,
she said as she knelt down with her arms spread open. And then just as before Michiko became surrounded by a bright blue light
and when the light passed she was clothed in the mantle of Sukahara again. “Michiko”, Dr. Seiko said with his
eyes wide open in total unbelief. “You have totally changed; your face, your body; everything has been changed.”,
Dr. Seiko said. “But that’s not all that’s different Professor.”, Michiko said as she walked over
to Dr. Seiko’s rented toyota minivan.
Michiko went over to the minivan, placed her hands underneath the chassis and lifted the car up into the air with her bare
hands. “Thats 10,000 kilograms you are lifting my dear. How are you able to do that? What other powers do possess?”
“It seems,”, Michiko said. “That there is virtually no limit to what I can do.” “Here, Doctor
hold onto my waist and I’ll show you something else.” And as he did Michiko leaped into the air and with Dr.
Seiko holding on with very little left of his reasoning capabilities, Michiko flew over the tree tops and then across the
valley. “Let me make you a little more comfortable Doctor.”, as Michiko shifted the professor so that she was
holding him in a cradling position. Then they both returned back to the minivan where they left from.
“Michiko, my dear”, Dr. Seiko said to his student. “We musn’t reveal this to anyone at the University.”
I wouldn’t want you to be interviewed by all of the sensational newspapers and therefore jeapordize your career. I promise
that I will keep your secret and respect the blessing of Queen Sukahara until my dying day. Let us return to Tokyo immediately.”
Then Michiko repeated the holy phrase that reversed her transformation restoring her back to young Michiko Tanaka.
Michiko sat there at the coffee bar with half of her latte finished when she heard the car horn of her team captain calling
for her. “Oh my,”, she remarked. “I’ve got to go!”
Michiko was busy finishing up counting the result for the team that day when John mentioned to her. “Michiko san.”
He called to her. “Yes Team Captain.”, Michiko responded filially. “Michiko, we have to drive over night
to get to our next area for tommorrow; can you hand out these sandwiches that I bought to everyone. There’s no time
for us to go out to dinner as we usually do.” “Yes, Team Captain; I’ll take care of that right away”,
Michiko said as she began distributing supper.
It was near midnight when the team crossed the state line into Iowa. Michiko just happened to look over to the captain when
she saw him starting to dose off. Michiko reached over to John and nudged his shoulder trying to wake him. “Captain”,
Michiko said in a serious tone. “wake up, your dosing off.”
“Oh, geez”, thanks Michiko. “I guess I ate one two many of those ham sandwiches before.”, John explained.
But this wouldn’t get any better regardless of how many times Michiko tried to wake him. She then turned back to the
other members in the van. They were all fast asleep and still the captain had to drive 50 more miles to get to the town they
would work in tomorrow. Usually Kevin, who sat directly behind the captain could be counted on to give him a good massage
but he had a pretty rough day and he was out cold. Michiko had a worried but determined look on her face. She knew that she
couldn’t dose off and she also knew that she was going to have to be relied upon to ensure the safety of the team.
Michiko continued to watch the captain dosing off until he was no longer coming to anymore. Then she repeated those ancient
words that brought her alter-ego into reality once more. “Sukahara, Des”, she said underneath her breath. And
while still seated in her seat up front Michiko Tanaka was transformed into Sukahara, warrior princess.
None of the peacefully sleeping members of the team noticed as their team mother, a discrete and meek japanese girl was transformed
and totally changed her total outward appearance. Then Michiko quickly dashed out of the van as it was speeding recklessly
at 80 mile per hour down the interstate. Then Sukahara with super speed flew and darted underneath the chassis of the minivan
and then with her super strength lifted the entire car off of the road. With Sukahara as their source of transportation, 50
miles went by instantly and then Michiko saw their destination and descended down to Molletville. Michiko cleverly landed
and set the van down on the side of the road just before the exit for Molletville.
Then Sukahara repeated the phrase, “Sukahara Des!!!” And she again was transformed back to Michiko Tanaka.
“Captain, wake up”, Michiko violently rubbed the captain’s shoulders.
“Wha..Wha....What happened?” “You dosed off again Captain; and you almost hit the rail on the side of the
road just before the exit to where we’re going.”, Michiko explained.
John quickly regained his composure as well as the other members of the team as they all realized how close they actually
came to biting it. Then the captain turned back onto the interstate and took the exit to Molletville and went to the motel
they would stay for the night.
“Michiko”, the team captain mentioned to her. “What would I ever do without you?”, he said expressing
his gratitude.
Michiko smiled and as usual said nothing as her eyes looked down in that humble way she always did. “I really don’t
know, John”, Michiko said in the silence of her own thoughts. Michiko never thought twice about her mission here in
the Unification Church but she questioned whether she was allowing herself the best environment so that she could realize
her fullest potential as a super hero. She always found herself in a situation where she needed to act immediately to save
someone’s life and come to life as Sukahara once again. But why did she settle for being a team mother when she could
have any career or position that she wished for.
“I must prove myself being worthy of being a team captain myself”, Michiko said to herself. “I can do it”,
she said “and then I can go onto become a state leader and go back to Japan to be leader of the church there. There’s
no limit to what I can accomplish. To be Sukahara isn’t enough for me”, Michiko said to herself. “I must
have an alter-ego along with my identity as Sukahara that people can respect.”
Chapter 3 of Sukahara: Supergirl Of Japan
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