Kitten Update: Hibiki's Transcript

To: All Power, Incorporated Personnel
Re: Update on Kitten with a Whip

Team -

I recently received a telegram from Mason Shura with information about Kitten With a Whip's whereabouts. As we all suspected, the infamous villain Sake Bomb is behind all this. Mason's connection in Japan, a Mr. Hibiki Tokai, has filed the following transcript:

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This is Officer Hibiki Tokai with Japan's Undercover Super Taskforce (JUST), badge number 42379, reporting.

The case began with a call from the superhero Mason Shura, who requested the involvement of JUST to keep an eye on Kitten with a Whip, a hero from his supergroup Power, Incorporated. He indicated that she was officially in the country to visit her father, but that he suspected that something else was going on.

I agreed to help him, and immediately dispatched a team of specialists to be alert for her arrival. Within minutes, she was spotted while flying past the Harajuku train station, which was luckily just around the corner from my current location.

I trailed her to Harajuku Street in the shopping district -- it was easy to keep a descrete distance because there was no way my jet pack could keep up with her super flight speed, even if I opened the throttle all the way.

It did seem very strange to me that she would head directly to the shopping district and not to her father, but Mason had related to me that a recent article had come out about her and that she had not taken it well. Poor girl. Why does the media have to drag a hero's reputation through the mud like that? She certainly didn't look like she'd put on any weight to me, although I really didn't care for the new outfit.

Where was I? Oh yes.

I trailed Kitten as she travelled quickly from store-to-store. She never stayed long enough to purchase anything, nor was she carrying any bags. She seemed to be looking for something important or even trying to get away from someone, although I could not spot a tail other than her own. She kept looking nervously over her shoulder, at one point tripping over a vendor selling cell phones. She was extremely distracted, poor thing.

Her last stop was Daiso Harajuku, a famous japanese coutier. And that's when it all started. There was a huge explosion just as she was about to enter. There were screams of panic, smoke and glass everywhere. The front doors burst open and she was enveloped by the rush of escaping customers. Huge blue electrical sparks, flames and arrows flying all over the place followed by a cloud of smoke. This went on for almost 10 minutes. In the mean time I called for back up -- lots of back up.

Then suddenly, it all made sense -- this had to be the handiwork of Sake Bomb, a well known villain originally from this area. I waited, and sure enough, out she ran with her band of ninja slaves in tow! She turned and through a small a metal tube in the building, completely destroying the building with Kitten inside.

After the firefighters and HAZMAT crews secured the now almost empty lot, I noticed that one small area of the shop had survived. This area was about 3 to 4 feet around, and it had not been touched by the flames at all. Strange.

Meanwhile, all bodies left in the rubble have been identified, and their families notified. I've assigned extra men to continue the search for Kitten, and I pray that she is still alive. I have also spoken to Kitten's father, promising to do everything in my power to find her.

Mason has agreed to fly in with more heroes from Paragon City to help in the search.

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There you go -- we have got to find Sake Bomb and shut her down. Power.Lad, I want you to join Mason Shura on a rescue and recovery mission to Japan. Take any other heroes you need (I recommend White.Witch and and Power.Boy, just in case) and report back as soon as you can.

-- PW