Marc and Vanessa had been friends from the moment she found him in the woods.
Vanessa was America's best Anchorwomen til she came to Japan to investigate strange expriments by this company nobody heard of. One the experiments escape do to a power failure and ran into the woods where she found him. She even gave him the name Marc named after her father who mysterious disappeared when she was young.
When Marc was train the ways of the Ninja, Vanessa stayed by his side to stop the people who created him.
