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Sora Sayama - mechanical mastermind, heroic soul and the great, great grandson of Buffa Christian AKA Brewster I AKA "Brewster Buffalo".

 

Since the age of 10, while attending private school in Singapore, Sora was considered a prodigy.  When asked to build things, he was able to do so faster and better than anyone else in his class.  By age 14, he was taking college classes. By age 20, he had a double Masters Degree in Robotics Engineering and Nonotech Engineering and was designing a new generation of robots for Aerospar Science Associates in their Mechanical Automation Division.

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Although Sora was a truly brilliant young man, he was also only 4 foot 8 inches in height, weighed above 230 lbs, and was incorrectly called, since childhood, a 'humunculus' (usually meant as a derogatory remark for his unusual physiology and race). As such, Sora didn't have many friends.  He spent most of his life reading and learning about engineering.  On the odd weekend, he would work at a small airport repairing airplanes and engines.  He always wanted to fly...but due to his height, he was never medically allowed to earn a pilots license.  Instead, he invested his time in robotics and mechanical engineering.

 

Sora also dreamed a lot; he dreamed of flying in space; becoming the Lead Engineer of a business like Aerospar, and most importantly...dreamed of meeting his great, great grandfather, a legendary hero from World War II known as Buffa Christian AKA "Brewster Buffalo".

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When Sora was young, his Great Grandmother, "Jiji" (affectionate title for grandmother), would tell Sora hundreds of stories of Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan and eventually Singapore.  In one such story, she told Sora of his ancestral ties to a great American hero, his great, great grandfather - her father.

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Jiji, whose name was 'Jane Miyago', told the tale that in 1974, while she was trying to get a new passport to fly to Taiwan with her husband on a business trip from their home in Japan, called her 60 year-old mother, who also lived in Japan, and asked her for a copy of her birth certificate. Jane's mother wept.  She told Jane it was time for her to know the truth and to come home immediately.

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Home for Jane's mother was on the uppermost tip of Hokkaido Island in the Japanese Islands. There, they'd lived a simple life, farming, while Jane became a banker, and a very good one at that.  Jane rose to become a junior executive in half the time others did due to her incredible math and organizational skills.

 

When Jane arrived, it looked as if her mother had been crying for the hours since their phone call.  Jane's mother set out a box of old black and white photos on the table before Jane.  She'd never seen them before.

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The pictures were of Jane as a baby...in a Japanese Internment Camp with her parents.  Jane's mother told her a story never before uttered; it was a story of how her parents found "Jane" on the "Date that will live in Infamy", 7 December 1941, swaddled-up in a charred and burnt bassinet wrapped in mosquito netting resting on a stack of oil soaked debris found floating along the Pearl Harbor shore next to their home in Pearl City.  They heard a baby crying in the bassinet. Jane's 'father' swam out to the debris and brought the debris closer to shore, finally pulling the baby from the sinking debris. The baby was Jane/Jiji.

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Jane's 'parents' brought the baby home with them, went to the corner store, got some formula and fed the baby.  Both Jane's parents knew the baby belonged to someone, but since they didn't know English or Hawaiian languages, and the island was in absolute chaos, they knew that at first chance, they'd take the baby to a hospital.  Sadly, that night, Jane's rescuers, the Motos, had the door of their house kicked in by US Army men who told them they had 5 minutes to pack up their things and leave in a truck with them.  They tried to talk to the military men, but they were out of their minds with rage over the attack that had just happened.  They didn't strike or hurt the Motos, but they had blood in their eyes; anything could have set them off. When the Motos tried to explain about the baby handing the baby to the troops, the troops didn't listen and handed the baby back to them and put them all on a truck, with one of the troops griping about 'what savages they were to try and bribe us with their own baby'.

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Hours later, they arrived at a make-shift compound.  There, they were interrogated and asked for identification, tickets birth certificates, anything. They showed the interrogators what they had, but it didn't matter.  They were Japanese citizens living in Hawaii...they were now considered 'the enemy'.

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Months later, the Motos arrived at the Manzanar Internment Camp in California.  There, they lived until the end of the war.  The baby was called a "Jane Doe", for which became "Jane Moto" in the Internment Camp records.  The Motos quickly realized the baby would most likely die without their care, and as such, both the Motos called "Jane Moto" as their own.

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After the war, the Motos, wanting to help prove that all Japanese were not the enemy, went back to Hawaii. where they helped rebuild Hawaii into a bustling tourist trap it is today. They all became US citizens, however, Jane's parents had dual citizenship being from Japan. "Jane" went to public school, but was soon ostracized for her unusually short height and large upper torso, making her look like a "Little Buffalo", as they called her.

 

In 1960, the Motos went back to Japan when their parents fell ill and died, leaving their estate and farm on Hokkaido to them. In 1970, Jane met a handsome and adventurous Japanese man named Mitogo (who went by 'Mito').  They fell in love and married a year later.

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That's what brings us to 1974 and the realization that Jane (Moto) Miyago was a "Jane Doe" baby to parents that she'd never known. With that, Jane called her husband and told him to go on to Taiwan without him until she could 'resolve' her birth certificate issue.

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For the next few years, Jane traveled from Japan to Hawaii to California back to Hawaii and back to Japan, all trying to get records about her potential parents, but she found nothing. Instead, her and her husband moved to a new set of executive jobs in Taiwan and began raising their own children.  It wasn't until Jane and her family attended a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony in Hawaii in 1981 that she'd finally find out the truth.

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During the solemn ceremony, survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack were allowed to recount their stories at the podium  Once such veteran of the attack was retired US Navy Admiral Roger Richmond, the World War II Allied Fighters (retired) superhero known as "Dauntless". In his recount, he mentioned the story about many brave men that day, but the losses as well. He recounted how his dearest friend, Buffa Christian AKA the superhero know as "Brewster Buffalo", lost his family on Ford Island in one simple bomb blast.  He mentioned that the explosion was so severe, that they'd never found the remains of their baby girl.  Hearing this, Jane almost fainted.

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When Jane regained her composure, at the end of the ceremony, she raced toward the podium to speak to Admiral Richmond/Dauntless.  As she approached Richmond, Richmond saw her and immediately did a double-take, staring at Jane.  They look at each other for what seemed like an eternity.  Finally, Jane asked, 'do you know me?', to which Richmond responded, "My God, there can be no question about it; you are your father's daughter....you're Shangri-La!" In an emotional display that would make movie-goers weep from their seats, the two hugged each other for several minutes until they finally got to talking.

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Richmond explained everything about Buffa, and that most importantly, that he still had some of Buffa's personal effects from when he worked on Ford Island - including his old hairbrush, complete with his old hair.  Being a Navy advocate for blood testing and DNA sampling, the old admiral called in some favors and had Jane's blood and hair and Buffa's hair from his hairbrush tested. The tests would take months, and as such Richmond said he'd let her know the results the second they were complete, but he already knew it was her, just by her looks and build; he knew.

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2 months later, it was verified: Buffa Christian WAS her biological father.

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Rather than tell the world, Jane wanted to keep the knowledge 'low key', and as such opted for only a handful of friends and relatives to know and see the the truth.

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Shoot forward to the 21st century and to our brilliant young Sora Sayama.

 

Sora, knowing he was related to the great American superhero "Brewster" filled him with pride.  He wanted to be more; do more; show others that he wasn't a 'hermunculus'.  Regrettably, Soma got his wish.

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One day while Sora was working on the final tests of his new robotic Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm with several "Testbots", Aerospar was attacked by Baron Berlin, his evil band of Axis Force super-villains and 100 "New Reich Army" troops. The baron's goal: take all data, files, equipment and the AI program from Aerospar to use to help rebuild the Baron's old 1940s robotic Nazi juggernaut known as Panzerkrieger.

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The Baron's troops began slaughtering anyone in Aerospar not affiliated with robotics. Seconds later, Sora was brought before the Baron.  The Baron looked at Sora and laughed, saying:

 

"Vat do ve have here? A physical oddity! A freak! How is it you people allow such inferior creatures like this to even work here?  Just looking at him disgusts me...", for which the Baron slapped Sora across the face. Sora was shaking in fear over what was happening

 

The Baron continued his soliloquy, "You even remind me of another freak who was about your size.  he was an annoying little bastard.  Sadly, the Japanese cut him out of the sky before I could end his miserable life myself.  But enough about you; give me access to your servers and files now and I will spare the lives of everyone else left alive in this building. If you choose not to, I vil rip the servers from the floor, take what I want AND kill all of you! What shall it be, freak?!?"

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Sora stopped shaking and instead, slowly looked up at the Baron with angry, insolent eyes and said, "My Baba (grandfather) has a message for you...", from which Sora then yelled, "BREWSTER BUFFALO SAYS GO TO HELL, YOU DEMENTED NAZI!  All testbots! Code 20! Go to security mode! Save all Aerospar staff members! Capture all non-Aerospar employees! COMMIT!", for which several Testbots then grabbed, shielded and roared off with several Aerospar employees, while two testbots clamped their mechanical hands onto Baron Berlin's arms.  Sora then grabbed a Testbot power core pack and ran across the lab, trying to kit-bash it to explode, but before he could, the Axis Force villain called Stuka clothes-lined Sora to the floor.

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Sora looked up long enough to see his testbots become scrap metal thanks to the rest of Axis Force and the Baron. Pulling back a tab on the pack, Sora jammed the pack up into Stuka's crotch, where the pack exploded.  Sadly, Sora's face, hand and arm were mangled as a result of the blast; Stuka, even though he was wearing armor, was in sheer agony.

 

That's when Major Invader and three members of the Allied Fighters, Doc Alleviation and the French super-powered twins, French Right and French Left, arrived. Doc Alleviation dragged Sora off to safety, using his mutant healing powers to save Sora's life, while the others fought.  The Baron delayed Major Invader and his team long enough to rip out five server racks and escape through a teleportation portal made by Kondor.

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Days later, Sora awoke in the hospital.  His right arm had been amputated and he was bandaged from head to his lower torso.  The explosion of the power pack, meant for Stuka, did its job equally as well on Sora.  Sitting next to him was the legendary near centennial-aged WWII hero, Major Invader.  It looked like he'd been there for days.  When Sora tried to speak, the Major held up his hand to quiet him. The Major looked sullen, tired and sad.  He told Sora that he now knows who he is, and that he was the great, great grandson of one of the most incredible men the Major said he'd ever met.  He also said that he never knew Buffa's daughter, Shangri-La, survived, and that if he'd known about her, he would have ensured nothing would ever happen to her or any of her family, in honor of what Buffa did for the world.

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That's when the Major said, "...if..." again.

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The Major looked down at the floor, trying to form words, but kept failing.  He finally stood up and said, "I don't know any way to tell you this, boy, but I failed you and your family a second time in my life.  Just before Baron Berlin walked through the portal, he gave me a look...a look I hadn't seen in several decades. It was the same look he gave me when he went and hunted down and killed my parents and grandparents and murdered them in cold blood.  I wasn't able to save my family, but knowing that look of his, I knew I had to go save your family. In that...I failed on one count; maybe the most important one..."

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The Major spoke, faltering in his words, "I wasn't fast enough to save your Jiji. I couldn't save Jane...Shangri-La. I missed the Baron by minutes. Son...I'm sorry....your Jiji is dead, and Baron Berlin was the one that killed her...and I failed to stop him."

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The Major kicked everything in the hospital room except Sora's hospital bed and equipment.  The Major crashed into a chair and began to cry; an action maybe only four people in the world have ever witnessed.

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Sora took in what was happening. As the Major cried in his chair, Sora got out of his bed and hugged the Major, both embracing in silent tears.

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It wasn't long before Baron Berlin's pet robot, Panzerkrieger, was functionally rebuilt and updated, doing everything the Baron ordered it to do.

 

Sora went back to Aerospar to finish his work, but Aerospar wouldn't take him back, saying he was a liability to their company now.  With nowhere else to go, he contacted Major Invader who immediately brought Sora back to the United States and within hours, got him a visa, a new passport and all the documents he needed to stay in the US for as long as Sora wanted. The Major tried setting Sora up in a penthouse apartment, but Sora insisted staying at the Allied Fighters HQ.

 

Over the next few weeks, Sora went to work in the Allied Fighters' base and built a new robotics lab in what  was once Brewster Buffalo's old quarters. He built new mechanoids, armed with lasers, pulse cannons, shields, energy weapons, you name it, as well as a high-capacity energy rifle he'd been working on secretly in his spare time during college.  He also built a new robotic arm and packets of millions of nanobytes designed to repair and rebuilt his mechanoids and heal damaged human tissue.  As such, the nonobytes helped relieve his pain on a day-to-day basis.  By the end of the month, Sora had crafted his own armor as well.

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During one of Major Invaders 'severely' intense combat training sessions in the base, Sora arrived with his mechanoid bots, in his new armor, flight pack and energy rifle and said, "Is this where I sign up for the Allied Fighters, old man?", to which the Major smiled, told him he didn't have to do this, saw Sora's 'shake of the head' and engaged to testing Sora.

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Sora and her mechanoids wiped the floor with them.

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Taking the code-name "Brewster" out of respect for her Buffa, Sora fights with the Allied Fighters in Delta Squad.

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