Street Fighter 2

The White Angel: part 1

Darkness.
That was all she could see. It wasn't a darkness to be afraid of. What it was she couldn't really tell. What she could feel was the pain in her back, as if everyone had piled onto her at once, crushing the life out of her. She did not remember why. She thought there was good reason for this to happen, but when she tried to think about it, she couldn't quite recall why.

Back in reality.
Albert Sellers, the minister of defense, was dead. He lay there, his body doubled up backwards, his neck twisted and his spinal cord broken. Everyone saw the gruesome murder, his bodyguards, the press, the public who was standing by the whole affair. The bodyguards had dived onto the woman responsible for his death. A number of them had been kicked in the head and had remained unconscious, but it was not so bad for them as it was for Mr. Sellers.

Back inside the darkness.
Cammy opened up her eyes. All she could see was a blur, but she thought she could see the vague image of someone on the concrete floor, sitting with his knees, his back bent so that the back of his head was on the floor. She closed her eyes, and the pain vanished.
She was naked, flying through the air under a storm. The wind blew into her face. Am I dead? She saw no wings, she wasn't an angel. She walked forwards for what seemed like many miles. She stopped, and saw a prison van, driving towards a huge fortress. Looking closer, she saw a little girl, her face gazing out of the chain mesh window, with her hands pressed towards it. The little girl was sobbing quietly as the van vanished inside the doors of the fortress. The image vanished,and was replaced by an image inside the fortress. Cammy staggered down the corridor, still naked. A couple of armed men walked down the corridor, and walked straight through her. Stunned, Cammy kept walking. She leaned against the wall, weak and feeble, and stumbled her way down the corridor towards a set of double doors. The doors opened, and she saw a terrifying sight. The young girl was subject to a torture of needles and instruments, crying her eyes out while the instruments continued to pierce her flesh.
Cammy doubled over. Every time the young girl was hurt, Cammy felt the pain. She saw the girl's face, and instantly recognized who it was.
That girl…..is me!
She saw the girl grow older, from an eight year old to a fourteen year old. Still the different ages would be subject to the same immense torture. Cammy saw two scientists looking at test results. They were talking while compiling data. Cammy couldn't hear what they were saying. One of them took off his jacket, and left. The other, looked at the data some more, then locked the door. He said something that Cammy did hear. "Now for my fun to begin."
He rotated a dial. The fourteen-year-old's legs separated until they were pretty far apart. The scientist walked up to the girl, undoing his belt. "You've grown very pretty. You will enjoy this." The girl, surprisingly, was strong enough to spit into his face. Wiping off the spit, the man drew out a small pocket knife, and swiped it at the girl's cheek. A large cut was clearly visible. Cammy put her hand to her face, feeling the scar that resided where the cut had been. The man ripped off the little girl's clothes. He placed a piece of cloth over her mouth so that she couldn't speak or scream.
He then pulled down his trousers, and then his underwear. The little girl turned her head away. He was hurting her. Cammy watched in pain as the man raped the defenseless little girl. He was breathing heavily, sweating and cursing, his body pushing in and out. When he finished with a long groan, he slapped her face and laughed.
He was just about to do it again when a man crashed through the door. He was a big man, wearing a red uniform and a hat with a skull emblazoned on it. The scientist cowered away. The large man grabbed his throat, and pulled him up into the air. With a twist he broke the man's neck, and dumped the lifeless body onto the floor. He walked towards the little girl, and lay a hand onto her chin, the little girl's tears streaming down her face. The man suddenly turned towards her, and faced her.
He can see me!
The man sneered, his white eyes glowing purple. The man opened his mouth, and suddenly a large fiery skull shot out of her mouth towards her.

She woke up and started screaming. She screamed heavily, but she would not stop. She was strapped down to the bed, and that made her scream even more.
A doctor, some nurses, and a couple of armed guards ran into the room and tried to restrain her. She continued screaming.
"NOOO!! GET AWAAY!!!! LEAVE ME ALOOONNNNEEE!!"
One of the nurses cried out, "Quick, inject her!"
The doctor received the needle. The nurses pulled her left arm, Cammy still screaming, and watched as the doctor injected the Valium into her bloodstream. Within a few seconds, Cammy's voice quietened, her eyelids became heavy and her body cold, and limp. She could not hold her eyelids up anymore, and she lapsed into a deep sleep.

Interpol Headquarters, Hong Kong

"Her name is Cammy White. Born in England in 1980, kidnapped by Shadowloo in 1988. She was eight years old at the time. Both parents, William and Jennifer White were killed in the kidnapping."
Chun Li looked at the profile of Cammy. The past ten years of her life were involved in torture, fear and death. As a brainwashed Shadowloo agent, Cammy was involved in the death of many important political figures. Right now she was watching her last victim, Albert Sellers, filmed from a tourist who was able to watch the whole event. She watched as Cammy grabbed Mr. Sellers' jacket, then flipped up in a handstand on his shoulders. With one deft move, she twisted her body, also twisting Mr. Sellers' neck, then fell down with her knees directed towards his back. Chun Li grimaced as the knees slammed into his back, snapping his spinal cord, bending him completely backwards.
"Geez….How's she doing now?"
"She's recovered, but she won't say anything. She seems to have no recollection of what has happened for the last ten years. Every night she wakes up screaming, and we have to inject Valium into her to calm her down."
"Do you think she can take it?"
"We ran some tests on her. Every time the Valium always disappears from her body. She certainly has a particularly strong defence system."
"She's being subject to injections of lethal drugs and chemicals for ten years, what do you expect?"
Chun Li and the doctor in charge of Cammy walked towards the cell that Cammy was shut inside.
"Are you sure that shutting her in is wise."
"She is a very dangerous woman, Detective. We still don't know whether she is still under Shadowloo's control. She doesn't eat, she rarely drinks. She just sits there looking down on the floor. I've tried everything except yelling at her."
"Don't. It could send her over the edge, if she isn't already."
"She isn't. Physically, she's okay. She has borderline malnutrition, probably from her refusing to eat, but otherwise, she's fine. Mentally, I can't tell for sure, but her motor responses are good. I think it's too early to call it brainlock. I'd say she's on hold."
They walked towards the room. The doctor checked Cammy's record, and saw no major improvement.
"Are you sure that you want to go through with this?"
"She's a very important piece to the puzzle of Shadowloo. I need to question her."
The Doctor opened the door. Inside, Cammy sat on the chair, still in her Shadowloo uniform, looking down on the floor, silent as always. Chun Li looked at her. She was a pretty girl, no doubt about it. It was a great shame that the prettiness hid the cold figure she actually was before she was arrested.
"Hi," she spoke in her calmest voice. "My name's Chun Li."
Cammy did not speak. She did not even move.
"I'm a detective working for Interpol. I would like to ask you some questions, that is all."
Still no movement.
"Would you like a drink?" Chun Li asked, picking up the cup of water from the table nearby. She handed it over to Cammy. When the girl didn't react, Chun Li wrapped her hands around the cup, bending the fingers towards each other. Then she tilted hands and cup upward.
The doctor was right about Cammy's motor responses. She drank mechanically and without watching what she was doing. Water spilled down her chin, but most of it went down Cammy's throat and stayed down.
Not wanting to overwhelm an obviously shrunken stomach, she pulled the cup away when it was still half full.
"You don't talk much, do you? That's okay by me. You feel like keeping quiet, keep quiet. I'm sometimes the same way."
She stood up. This time Cammy moved her head upwards.
"It's hard to believe that there's a strong woman underneath all of this."
Chun Li walked back to the Doctor, "She doesn't seem to be dangerous."
"You try restraining her. Some of my nurses have had their arms nearly broken trying to hold her down."
"Whatever she is, she won't be recovering from her trauma if she just sits here all day."
"You're not thinking about letting her out?"
"Yes."
The Doctor stammered. Chun Li could see that she hit a nerve. "You've gotta be shitting me! Do you think I would let her out onto the streets alone."
"I'm not saying that. I think that someone should take care of her in the outside world, not confined to a solitary room."
"Oh, and I suppose you're going to do that, huh?"
Chun Li thought it over. Living by herself in her apartment was getting to be lonely, it would be nice to have someone to take care of, especially one who, like her, lost their parents at a relatively young age. Also, she knew just about everything that anyone was able to know about Shadowloo, but Cammy could hold some new information about them. She took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and tapped in the numbers for Interpol headquarters. The doctor listened as Chun Li started talking to her Captain on the other line.
"Captain, this is Detective Chun Li, it's about Cammy White…….yes, I'd like to take her into protective custody…….in-home protective custody, yes……I just think that Cammy would be better off in the outside world than this hospital…….yes, I understand, thank you sir."
She switched the Mobile phone off.
"Doctor, I'm taking Cammy home."

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