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"You've trained hard. You've gotten stronger, tougher, faster. You've done your best. You're ready for this tournament, am I right?" Johnny yelled, standing on top of a bus while his students stood below him in an abandoned junkyard.
"Yes, Sensei!"
"Wrong!" He yelled, throwing his beer can onto the floor, right at the students feet. Frankie let out a small yelp, side stepping away from the beer can before it can splatter on her.
"Your best ain't shit! If you want to win the All-Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament, you gotta give me better than your best. Which is why from now on, you're gonna get my worst. You understand?" Johnny asked and Frankie looked up at the man with a nervous look.
Johnny seemed to always have some dangerous tasks for the students to do and it really did stress Frankie out.
"Are you losers?" Johnny yelled and Frankie sucked in a breath of air, courage settling in her chest with the oxygen. "No, Sensei!" She managed to yell out with her teammates.
"Are you nerds?"
"No, Sensei!"
"Are you sure?"
"No, Sensei!" The students screamed. When Johnny dropped his head and groaned into his hands, Frankie thought back to what her sensei asked and how she answered. Realizing her mistake, Frankie cringed as Johnny climbed off the bus. He let the kids to a row of ties and started to have all of them run down them.
Frankie was the first in the line and as always, Frankie did the task with ease. She brought her knees as high as she could without faltering, her knees aching, or breaking a sweat.
Johnny loved the fact that Frankie was good at anything he through at her and clapped his hands enthusiastically as she past him. "Let's go, Frankenstein, good job!" He screamed, making the girl smile wide.
What she didn't know was behind her, Aisha tripped trying to catch up with Frankie and when she fell, it was like dominos falling, none of the students having time to catch themselves before they toppled over each other. When Frankie got to Johnny, she heard the groans behind her. She turned around and gasped at all of her teammates.
"Oh my God." She whispered, her hand coming up to her mouth in shock as Johnny groaned.
"Come on let's go." He muttered to Frankie, starting to walk away. When he looked back to see if Frankie was following him, his eyes fell on the rest of his students slowly starting to get up. "Hurry ip! Move those asses!" Johnny screamed.
Johnny let his students to a metal storage bin, and gestured for the students to walk up the small stairs beside it to get on top of it.
Frankie's jaw fell when she looked into the bin and saw broken glass and rusted metal inside. There was a long wooden beam that went from one end of the bin to the other.
She felt Miguel and Hawk come up and stand on either side of her and she heard both of them gasp when they looked inside the crate. At the same time, Frankie, Miguel, and Hawk all looked up at Johnny standing on the other side of the bin.
