Ninja Syndicate

The Ninja Syndicate (Japanese: 忍者シンジケート) is a collective of ninjas and other affiliated groups of Card-Jitsu, martial artist and Pectosphere users looking to establish a ninja-controlled Antarctica. Created in the wake of an imbalanced Pectosphere, the Ninja Syndicate seeks to bring ninja communities around Antarctica out of secrecy and into the public eye, by taking advantage of the Pectosphere's power.

Founded and lead by the ex-Air Ninja Crimson and a number of followers and supporters, the Syndicate first gained popularity in Nightlife City. Leaders of other ninja or elemental organizations supported and joined the Syndicate, pledging their members to the cause. Shortly after being founded, the Syndicate spread its members out across various countries in Antarctica, hoping to spread their sentiment and recruit more members.

Formation
The Ninja Syndicate was formed in 2018 during Crimson's attempt to control the Pectosphere. Using the Amulet of Absorption and an artifact known as the Zephyr Katana, Crimson would attempt to bend its power to his will, with the intent of establishing a Ninja-controlled continent. While many ninjas were reluctant, Crimson's idea attracted a number of followers and supporters to his cause. After Crimson's defeat at the top of Mount Propeller during the events of Falco's Journey and his inability to take control of the Pectosphere, support for him faltered somewhat, and a number of his followers were apprehended or taken into custody.

Despite his defeat, Crimson would return in order to continue expanding and organizing the Ninja Syndicate in secret, doing so as his enemies dealt with the consequences of Crimson's actions on the elements. During this time, the Ninja Syndicate would establish their headquarters on a set of islands off of Antarctica.

Members
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 * Crimson - Leader and founder of the syndicate.
 * Ninjato
 * Zander
 * Scythe (mercenary)
 * MEK (mercenary)

Weapons
Ninja Syndicate members use a number of different weapons, including water balloons, Hot Sauce bottles, as well as Card-Jitsu cards. Ninja Syndicate members are also known to use katanas, nunchakus, shurikens, hammers, as well as sais or kunais. These nunchakus, shurikens and hammers also include those earned in Card-Jitsu Snow (Hot Sauce Nunchakus, Water Hammers, Snow Shurikens). A few members carry are also known to carry around wooden staffs.

Syndiate members are not limited or bound to using these specific items however, and their weapon of choice in combat can be any weapon they wish to use. Some Syndicate members, such as Crimson, do not use weapons at all. This may be because they have enough mastery over an element to the point where they can channel it through their flippers, are knowledgeable in ninjutsu or martial art forms that do not require weapons (such as Crimson knowing Windjitsu), or simply because they prefer not to use any weapons at all.

Uniform
The members of the Ninja Syndicate often don red ninja masks with their insignia printed on it instead of the typical black ones, and red belts. Ninja Syndicate members can also wear these items in addition to typical ninja equipment or attire, such as Cloud Wave Braces, or any of the Elemental Suits that they may have earned as Water, Fire or Snow Ninjas. Ninja Syndicate members are also known to wear their own variants of their Elemental Suits; dying them black and red in order to match the colours of the syndicate. This isn't true of every elemental ninja in the Syndicate, as most of them still wear the original elemental ninja suits, with the red ninja masks.

In addition to this, Ninja Syndicate members may sometimes don the clothing of a regular ninja, using a regular black ninja mask and a black ninja belt in order to blend in with non-Syndicate ninjas by masquerading as one of them. They may also wear regular elemental ninja suits in order to spy on specific groups of ninjas. They do this in order to spy on these ninjas, as well as convince or persuade them into becoming sympathetic to the Ninja Syndicate and their missions. The Syndicate mainly does this in the countries that they have infiltrated.