Street Fighter II Chapter 3
Somewfere over
Thailand
"This
is Hornet 1, we are flying towards the target at mach 5 and the
Paveways are ready to fly, over."
"Roger that Colonel Guile, you have approval to strike. Kick
ass out there."
Across the sky two F/A-18 Hornets flew through the sky on a
bombing run in eastern Thailand. Their target: a Shadowloo arms
depot, which only until now was hidden from most eyes, until an
MI6 agent happened to find the damn thing.
"Hey Guile. That MI6 agent had better get out of there once
we drop these boys."
"Hey don't worry, Charlie. It's Cammy, remember?"
"You mean that cute girl that Bison once had under his
control before he was killed?"
"Yep, the very same girl. Thanks to Chun Li, Cammy had
recovered from Bison's brainwash, but strangely, Cammy remembered
every skill that she had learnt as an agent of Shadowloo.
Remember our helping out with her training into becoming a
British officer in the fight against Bison? MI6 let her in. She's
been a superb agent ever since. Sorta like a female 'James Bond'."
"Damn. She's down there, targeting that depot? She'll be
fried!!"
"Don't worry. She'll get out."
Cammy kept the laser targeting system in focus of the depot, her
camouflage keeping her out of sight from unfriendly eyes. Only 8
minutes now, she thought. Working with the US air force had some
bright spots. At least it helped her wipe out Shadowloo's forces,
as well as being able to work with Colonels' Guile and Nash. They
had helped her in their own way, helping with her training into
MI6, which was far better than working under Shadowloo's agents.
But it was Chun Li that really helped her on the road to a self
controlled life. After killing the Minister of Defense in England,
under Bison's command, she was captured by security agents and
police, and sent to Interpol for questioning. She had no
recollection of what really happened, except a few small details
of when she was kidnapped by Bison from her home in London, and
how she had undergone tremendous pain and torture, as they
prodded needles into her and experimented on her like she was
some animal test subject. Chun Li helped her out, enabled her to
gain a new life again. When she decided to join the fight against
Bison, a British Commander introduced her to MI6, who snapped her
up immediately. Cammy had never looked back since. She didn't
remember how many people were killed by her, but she swore she
would avenge them. Maybe she should give Chun Li a visit after
this whole damn thing was over.
She pushed those thoughts out of her head, and concentrated on
her mission. 7 minutes, better make any last checks, see whether
any hostages are nearby. Looking through her binoculars, she
looked at the depot. She saw no hostages, but her eyes widened as
she saw something even worse.
There were two VX chemical missiles loaded onto a MIG nearby, a
little biological chemical weapon that Bison once used for what
he'd called 'a hostile takeover'. If the Paveways hit that, it
would wipe her, the Shadowloo agents, and any nearby civilians
nearby.
Oh shit!
Cammy had to move quickly, there wasn't any time to warn
Guile and Charlie…..
Digging the laser targeting system into the ground so as to keep
it on track with the base, Cammy ran towards the base. If she was
going to do this she would have to make a major distraction.
"All right Charlie, lets drop to the deck. 100 feet below
radar!"
"Roger that, I'm starting my descent." The two hornets
dropped down making sure that they were not discovered by any
radar that was around , so that any SAM sites couldn't take them
out of the air. Guile remembered a particularly nasty Shadowloo
SAM site he overlooked on one occasion. The missile it fired was
a bastard to shake off.
"Let's do it."
A lone soldier sat down, lighting a cigarette. Finding a match
and setting his smoke alight, he shook the flame from the match
and looked around, gun in hand. He didn't notice two hands
curling around his face from behind, and twisting his head
sharply, breaking his neck in the process. Clutching the gun from
his limp hand, a FAMAS assault rifle, Cammy noticed. Just
like them to carry illegal assault rifles, she thought.
Checking the magazine she saw that she had a full clip, as well
as a spare clip from the dead soldiers belt. 5 minutes.
She rushed past a control tower towards the MIG carrying the Chem.
missiles, grabbing onto a passing truck. Latching a timed mine to
its exhaust, she jumped off, where it promptly exploded, alerting
the guards but surprising them at the same time.
Cammy fired a few rounds into the surprised guards, killing a few
of them and forcing the rest to jump out of harm's way. The
guards were now running around, trying to locate the intruder
that disrupted their operation. Firing wildly, Cammy was easily
able to dodge their fire and run to safety. Unfortunately, 'safety'
turned out to be in the path of a solitary soldier, who kicked
Cammy's FAMAS out of her hands. Cammy immediately launched an
unarmed attack on her assailant, side-kicking him right in the
gut, knocking the wind out of him, and leaving him defenseless.
Cammy grabbed his jacket then flipped into the air, performing a
hand-stand onto the soldier. Twisting her body round, she twisted
his neck, then went down with her knees smashing into his back,
killing him instantly. 2 minutes. Jumping out of the way,
some bullets fired into the dead soldier's body, missing Cammy
entirely as she ran to the MIG, her own handgun, a CZ model 75, a
present from Charlie, firing onto the soldiers. She Cannon
Drilled through a soldier, crying out her move as she span into
the soldier's knee. She then leapt into the air and kicked her
opponent unconscious with a cry of "FRONT KICK." When
she finally reached the plane, there was a pilot already climbing
into the cockpit. Cammy called out to him, "Excuse me, I'm
just borrowing your plane for a while, OK?"
She suddenly jumped onto his back and performed an aerial suplex
onto the ground, crashing his body onto the desert floor.
Flipping onto her legs, she ran up to the cockpit. She knew how
to fly this thing, thanks to the training offered to her by Guile
and Charlie. Starting up the engine, Cammy drove the plane to the
runway, firing some cannon rounds into the unsuspecting soldiers
running towards her, stopping only to fire a Maverick ASM into a
nearby SAM site, thereby covering her exit. Reaching the runway,
she put the engines on full throttle……
"10 seconds to target, prepping Paveways." Guile and
Charlie's hornets flew rapidly over the floor towards the target,
rising in order to provide minimum distance with which to fire
the bombs.
"5…..4….3….2….1….IT'S AWAY!"
The Paveways hurtled to the ground below, guided by Cammy's laser
targeting. It hit the depot, and immediately turned the depot,
and anyone in it, into a blazing mass of fire .
"YEEEESSSSS!!! Nicely done, Guile." Charlie cried out
in victory, "I'm going to buy Cammy a drink when we get back."
But Guile wasn't listening, he was too busy radioing Cammy.
"Hornet 1 to Black Widow, over……….Hornet 1 to
Black Widow, do you hear me?"
A faint hissing was heard in his ear piece, "Black Widow?"
"YOU ALMOST BLEW UP SOME VX CHEM. ROUNDS YOU JERK!!!!!"
Guile winced at the loud British voice emanating from his ear-piece.
It was certainly louder than his wife's shouting. "Cammy,
where are you?"
"On your right, you blind Yankee."
Guile looked to his right, and saw a MIG fighter in formation,
with what looked like a VX missile strapped to the right-hand
wing. Guile noticed that any other missiles that were supposed to
be on that bird, save one Maverick, was already fired. He also
noticed cute li'l Cammy in the cockpit, waving her middle finger
at him.
"You've still got that attitude of yours, huh, Captain White?"
"Only because you, Colonel, have no idea what I've been
through to retrieve these things. Could you ask your General
where he would like his missiles delivered?"
"Follow me to base, we're heading ho…"
"Guile, wait!" Charlie interrupted, "I've got
multiple bogeys heading for us at 4 o'clock."
"Crap! How many do you count? I can't see 'em." Guile
knew better than to simply regard his best friend's warning as a
radar malfunction or a simple joke.
"I count 4 bogeys vectoring in. They must have been signaled
when Cammy 'borrowed' that MIG."
"Hey don't blame me, I didn't want any civilian casualties,
and you certainly wouldn't want anybody to have to clean up any
melted skin and intestinal remains."
Guile's face remained serious. He knew the effects of VX gas. VX
gas was designed by terrorists as a gas that could withstand
standard anti-poison napalm bombs. The only way it could be
neutralized was by thermite plasma, which was still in it's
testing phase. Guile learnt about it from a weaponry lecture he
once attended. He remembered the scientist's words to the letter.
VX is a cholinesterase inhibitor, which stopped your brain from
sending nerve messages within thirty seconds. If Guile was
epidermically exposed to or inhaled it he would have felt a
twinge in the base of the spine as the poison would seize his
nervous system. Your muscles would freeze, you couldn't breathe,
you'd spasm so hard you would break your own back and puke your
guts out, but that would be after your skin melts. He remembered
a lieutenant next to him saying "My god."
The scientist immediately responded by saying, "I think you
would like God on your side if you ever encountered one of these
things, wouldn't you?"
Guile pushed these thoughts out of his head and focused on the
task at hand. "I've got 'em. Looks like were in for a fight.
Captain White, engage if you wish but don't you dare die on me.
All pilots, weapons free, let's go get 'em!"
As Guile signaled his usual charge command, he, Charlie and Cammy
instantly broke formation and prepared to engage the enemy. They
were MIGS just like Cammy's, but without VX warheads. That made
it easy to locate the enemy. Don't shoot the one with the gas.
Guile instantly came up behind one of the pilots. This one
must be badly trained, he thought, as he locked on with a
heat seeker and fired, instantly destroying the MIG. That made
the job easy, it meant the pilots could now have one each.
Cammy flew toward the enemy, trying desperately to get it into
range of her cannons. She had it difficult. The only missiles she
had were the VX warheads and her remaining Maverick, and
Mavericks were a ground attack missile. She had also used up a
lot of her cannon rounds escaping from the base, which didn't
help her at all. Every time the MIG had got into her sights, it
would still manage to evade her remaining cannon fire. Suddenly,
she heard beeping in her warning indicator. The remaining pest
had gotten behind her, and was trying to get a missile lock.
Meanwhile, Charlie was also having a tough time fighting his
choice of target. I must have picked the wing commander,
he thought, trying desperately to shake of the bandit who was
also locked onto his tail. Strangely enough though, he wasn't
firing. He's going to fire at point blank range! He wants to
see his kill, the bastard. And that will be his undoing.
The enemy pilot was gaining up to him, but he didn't expect
Charlie to slow down. He also didn't expect him to launch one of
his flares from the rear, which hit his windscreen full on and
shattered it.
Charlie couldn't resist chuckling a little as the plane hurtled
out of control, smashing into the ground. Charlie took his time
to enjoy his kill without any weapons usage whatsoever, then
returned to where Guile and Cammy was.
Guile saw Cammy being chased by the MIG as she was chasing the
other remaining pilot. "I'm coming to help."
"Negative, you might accidentally hit the warheads. You take
out the guy I was chasing, I'll shake this bum-bandit off."
Cammy broke of from her target and dropped to the deck, avoiding
cannon fire from the still-chasing bogey. Guile meanwhile,
slightly insulted by Cammy's talk about his aim, had his sights
locked onto the remaining MIG, and saw Charlie coming up towards
it as well. The moment he fired his missile, Charlie fired his as
well. They both hit at the same time, the plane completely
destroyed from the air. "Now that's team-work for ya!!"
Charlie cried triumphantly. Guile couldn't help but bring forth a
little smile.
Cammy flew at 300 feet, at maximum after-burn, the enemy MIG
following close behind, it's cannon fire spraying wildly across
the terrain. Now matter how much it tried it couldn't get a lock
on, with it's missiles either, as Cammy managed to avoid it's
lock-on at every turn. Cammy looked ahead and saw the mountain
closing in front of her. "All right then, let's see if you
can fly undercover." Cammy released the parachute from the
rear of her plane, detached it, and banked hard to the left, to
avoid crashing into the mountain. The parachute completely
covered the cockpit of the enemy. The pilot screamed as the
parachute blew away to reveal nothing but a solid earth wall. It
was way too late to turn or eject.
As the plane crashed into the mountain, Cammy slowed down in
order to preserve fuel.
"Nice flying, Captain."
"I had a good teacher."
The two hornets and the one MIG flew into the horizon, heading
for home, leaving nothing but wreckage in their wakes.