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    Kensei Tales: Offensive Driving
    Kensei Tales: Offensive Driving
    Kensei Tales: Offensive Driving
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    Kensei Tales: Offensive Driving

    By Jeremy Zimmerman

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    Jamie Hattori, who fights crime as Kensei, is not the only superhero in her neighborhood. Traffic Enforcer is an obsessed vigilante with a grudge against vehicular crimes. When a demon-possessed car begins terrorizing her neighborhood, Jamie is torn between protecting her neighborhood, maintaining her school responsibilities, and protecting the neighborhood from the other "hero."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDefCon One Publishing
    Release dateMay 24, 2016
    ISBN9781311146250
    Kensei Tales: Offensive Driving
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    Jeremy Zimmerman

    Jeremy Zimmerman is a teller of tales who dislikes cute euphemisms for writing like “teller of tales.” His fiction has most recently appeared in 10Flash Quarterly, Arcane and anthologies from Timid Pirate Publishing. His young adult superhero book, Kensei, is now available. He is also the editor for Mad Scientist Journal. He lives in Seattle with five cats and his lovely wife (and fellow author) Dawn Vogel.

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      Book preview

      Kensei Tales - Jeremy Zimmerman

      Kensei Tales: Offensive Driving

      by Jeremy Zimmerman

      Book 1 in the Kensei Tales Series

      Cover Illustration and Layout by Errow Collins

      Copyright 2016 Jeremy Zimmerman

      Cobalt City and many of its denizens are the creation of Nathan Crowder, used here with permission.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Part One: Justice Has an Attitude Problem

      Part Two: Here There Be Monsters

      Part Three: Pulling Off the Mask

      Part Four: Meddling Kids

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Many thanks to Michele Ray for help with Grandpa Hattori's Pidgin and to Dawn Vogel for editing.

      Also many thanks to the generous financial support of Patreon backers: Seth Blumberg, Andrew Cherry, Nathan Crowder, Torrey Podmajersky, and Joe Saul.

      PART ONE: JUSTICE HAS AN ATTITUDE PROBLEM

      The SUV swerved back and forth through the slushy snow on the street below, headed in Kensei's direction. From her rooftop vantage, she saw a black-clad figure clinging to the hood. She hesitated for a moment, still not entirely comfortable with using her grapple gun. But people were getting hurt below, so she shot her hook to hit a nearby telephone pole and swung down to intercept the vehicle.

      As she plummeted toward the oncoming vehicle, she realized that she didn't have physics on her side. If she hit the car head on, she'd be squished like a bug. She pulled her legs up and barely missed the top of the SUV. Her relief was short lived as she soon realized she was going to hit the telephone pole she had latched on to.

      She aimed for a clear spot of sidewalk and let go, hitting the ground running as she resumed chasing after the SUV on foot. It had been slowed by plowing through a smaller car, but it was still going much faster than Kensei could run.

      Once she realized that, she focused her attention on the spirit of the SUV and yelled out, Yamete! Stop!

      The engine stalled out, and the SUV coasted to a stop. Kensei hurried to catch up with the slowed vehicle.

      The man who had been holding on to the hood hopped off and strode over to the driver's door. He wore what appeared to be SWAT gear with a motorcycle helmet. Kensei had encountered this other superhero, known as Traffic Enforcer, a few times. He had an obsession with unsafe driving.

      Traffic Enforcer punched through the driver's side window, dragged the driver out of the car, and threw him into an icy puddle forming in a pothole.

      Talking on your cell phone without a hands-free device while driving is a crime, Traffic Enforcer growled before kicking the driver.

      Kensei arrived about the time Traffic Enforcer had gotten a few kicks in and called out, Whoa, slow down!

      The helmeted vigilante stopped and stared at Kensei, his expression unreadable through his tinted visor.

      Kensei gestured back toward the swath of destruction left in the wake of the SUV. In addition to wrecked cars, she could also see the spirit of the street crouched down, bleeding black blood through multiple cuts in its asphalt skin, and sobbing hysterically. The occasional snowflake drifted through the spirit's insubstantial form. In the distance, sirens wailed.

      This was about not using a hands-free device? Kensei asked. I thought this was, like, drug dealers or something.

      The man on the ground tried to crawl away, but Traffic Enforcer put his boot on the man's neck and pushed him down. In his gravelly voice, he said, Hundreds of thousands of people are injured every year due to distracted driving.

      You probably killed a few more just because this guy freaked out when you landed on his hood!

      Traffic Enforcer tilted his gaze to look past Kensei, then turned his attention back to her. He stomped on the man on the ground, causing the driver to cry out in pain. I'm sending a message.

      I'm going to ask you nicely to let him go.

      Traffic Enforcer did not respond.

      Kensei drew her family sword, Kamigoroshi, and levelled it at the vigilante. Let him go.

      Again, Traffic Enforcer did nothing.

      She was about to say something else when the spirit of the neighborhood, Karl, appeared next to her. In this instance, Karl looked like an older Indian woman in a sari. Something bad is happening.

      Not turning her attention away from Traffic Enforcer, she mentally said, I'm still dealing with the last bad something you told me about.

      This is worse!

      Traffic Enforcer shifted his attention away from Kensei and looked past her again, slowly pulling his foot off of his victim. At the same time, her sword said, Furimuku. Turn around.

      She turned to see a

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