Street Fighter 2

The White Angel: part 6

Chun Li took a shower in order to wash off the tears before she also went to bed. Her long, brown hair glistened from the lights as she picked up a towel and dried it. She left her hair long, since she never slept with her hair in her usual style.
In the background, Mozart's Piano concerto No. 24 in A major was playing from her stereo quietly. She picked up the tape recorder, and rewound the tape to the beginning. She played back through it over and over again, hearing Cammy's story several times. It was as if she was making sure that Cammy's story would have the acquired affect she desired. A way to end the brainwashing of innocent children. The story showed how Shadowloo created its assassins, now the only thing to do was find out where.
She put the tape down, and sat back on the chair, pondering her next move. She could either try to find the fortress that Cammy was incarcerated in, or find some more assassins that Shadowloo had brainwashed. The second option was not going to happen. Chun Li couldn't handle more than just Cammy, there were limits to what she could do.
She thought she saw movement outside.
She walked up to the window, wondering what was happening outside. She looked out of the window, and couldn't find anything. She opened the window, looked out, and was instantly greeted by two feet pushing her into her chest. She fell backwards, the carpet halting her slide across the floor. She looked up, and her eyes met a tall man wearing a white mask and a claw on her left hand. A snake was tattooed around his body.
"Hello, my sweet detective. Where's your friend?"
The accent was Spanish, but Chun Li did not need to hear the accent, she know who she was facing.
"Vega." she said with anger.
"So nice that you know me. Where is she?"
When she said nothing, he lunged the claw down towards her chest, but she rolled sideways to avoid it. She flipped backwards to her feet to face him.
Vega swiped at her with his claw as a softening attack, to test her abilities. Chun Li moved her head back, avoiding the claw which swept past her inches from her face. She also had to avoid a number of attacks with his claw. The man was fast. Chun Li was having a hard time avoiding his attacks, and hadn't managed to get an attack of her own.
As Vega lunged at her head with the claw, Chun Li managed to block the attack with a gaan sau, a splitting block, stepping back and blocking with her inner left arm. Within the space of a second, she circled Vega's left wrist with her defending hand using Kau sau, and punched Vega in the ribs. Vega felt a small pain, but didn't faze. He brought his right foot to her head, sending her sprawling backwards. She recovered, and sent a right uppercut towards Vega's chin, hoping to attack under the mask to cause some pain. The Spaniard stopped it with his claw, and then brought it down, causing three cuts to appear on her forearm. She grimaced from the pain, as the blood dripped from her arm onto the cuts. Vega lunged at her face with his claw again, but Chun Li managed to swing her head back to avoid it. She managed to release herself from Vega's grip, and flipped backwards, landing on her two feet. Vega stood upright and faced her.
"Well, I expected such skill from you, Miss Li."
"You're going to see more of that, you twisted psychopath."
She leapt forward and took a flying kick towards Vega's mask. Vega just stood still, expecting the attack. At the last minute, Vega jumped, spun his body to avoid the kick, grabbed Chun Li by the throat, and threw her down to the floor. As he landed, he thrust the claw into her midriff. Chun Li screamed in pain as the claw deep into her side.
"Where is Cammy?"
Chun Li couldn't move. The pain was too much to bear with the claw deep inside her.
"Find out for yourself."
"Hmmmm. I wish I didn't have to kill someone as pretty as you. Tell you what, how about we make love, just this once, before I retake our beautiful, but deadly, assassin. If the answer is no, something really tragic is going to happen. So what do you say? Want to be my Eve? I'll buy you a fig leaf. Me and you – what do you say?"
Chun Li spat onto his mask. "Go screw a dog"
Vega shook his head sadly as he pulled out the claw.
Chun Li moaned in pain. "You evil bastard."
"Mi mano, su vida. Say 'hi' to your father for me…."

Cammy's eyes opened the moment she heard Chun Li being knocked over. She ran to the door, and opened it slightly. From what little she could see, Cammy watched Chun Li fight a masked man with a claw, asking for where she was.
Cammy stepped back in fear, wondering what she was going to do. She saw the Shadowloo gloves she had placed on the dresser, and the Shadowloo uniform scrunched up in the corner of the room. She looked out again, and saw Chun Li being thrown to the floor. She had to act fast. If she didn't do something, Chun Li could die.
She pulled off her nightgown and panties, and put on the uniform. Memories came to her, but she pushed them away. It was when she put on the gloves, that memories flooded back to her. But these memories were different. They were memories of her combat training. The moves she learnt all came back to her. Every fighting ability that she mastered as part of Shadowloo came back to her. These memories were very different to her previous ones. These memories she could use.
And instead of using it to kill innocent people, she could use it to save them instead.
She turned, a fierce sense of confidence in her souls, and she charged at the door.

Vega saw the ex-assassin burst through the door as he was about to kill Chun Li by thrusting the claw into her heart. He hesitated as Cammy ran round and jumped towards him, spinning her body in a cannon drill.
Cammy's feet contacted with Vega's chest, and he was pushed off of Chun Li. Chun Li managed to crawl back to the wall, grabbing a cloth to stop the blood flow in her side.
Vega flipped onto his feet, and fired a series of claw swipes and punches at Cammy. Cammy twirled her arms around, and blocked every one of Vega's attacks. The steel bars inside Cammy's gloves blocked every attack as she raised her forearms successively to block Vega's claws. Finally, she held onto the claw, and jumped, latching her legs around Vega's head. Even though Vega liked the idea, he did not like it when Cammy flipped her bosy, pulling Vega head-over-heels, crashing his head to the floor. The mask absorbed some of the impact, but Vega still felt the pain in his skull as Cammy jumped off from the floor. Vega managed to block some of the pain off before flipping up onto his feet.
"You have improved since I saw you last, Cammy."
"It's a good thing I don't remember you, sir. Otherwise I would have to thank you."
"Well, I'll make you remember, then. I suppose you don't remember the good times we had. Want me to remind you."
"Shut up."
"You were one of my favourites, little Cammy. Every time I saw you coming back to your cell, I felt sorry for your cute little emotionless face. So I always walked into your room…"
"Shut up!"
"And I made love to you. You never made a sound. Oh you were good, Cammy…."
"Shut the hell up!!"
"You were very good indeed. And when we came we…."
Vega never finished the sentence before Cammy sprinted towards him in anger. Vega sidestepped and Cammy skidded past him. She turned as she skidded and saw Vega leap to the wall, and jump off it, flying towards her. He crashed into her and jumped back off her. Cammy fell to the floor on her back, buck twisted her body round and flipped back up to her feet. Immediately, she formed her fighting stance.

Chun Li watched as Cammy and Vega fought each other. The blood flow from the three small holes in her side had stopped, and started to clot, but she felt helpless. She needed to help Cammy.
She noticed that in the fight between herself and Vega, she had knocked over a luk dim boon kwun, a 6 ½ point pole. It was an 8 ft length of sturdy, tapering wood that was tapered at one end to prevent it becoming excessively heavy and allowed the tip to be moved faster. The 6 ½ point referred to the six main movements where the pole is used to block and strike, as well as small half movements. Chun Li took one of these home from Gen's dojo, never thinking she would actually use it. Now, she had to.
Vega and Cammy still battled it out, Cammy deflecting any claw slashes, and Vega using the claw to block as well as strike.
Suddenly, Vega sidestepped an attack than merely dodging it, causing Cammy to stumble. Vega used this opportunity to slash Cammy's stomach. The claw cut through the uniform, and through some of her skin, but didn't go deep. Cammy gritted her teeth with the pain, and turned to face Vega, her hand clutched at her stomach.
"I'm not here to kill you, Cammy. I'm here to bring you back to Bison. You can stop this wretched life and join us in the service of Shadowloo."
"And live another ten years of death and silence? Fuck you."
"I think I will. When you come back to us."
"Look behind you."
Vega turned round, and saw Chun Li smash an 8 ft pole into his ribs.
Vega stumbled back in pain, clutching his rib area. Chun Li span the pole above her head, and finished with the pole behind her back, holding it with the left hand, while her right hand stretched outward, her palm facing Vega, and her right foot raised. She turned her palm, and motioned Vega tauntingly.
Vega rushed forward, and tripped as Chun Li ducked and swung the pole towards her feet, tripping him up to the floor. Vega flipped back up, and jumped. Chun Li, however, was ready. She pressed the pole against his stomach and threw him to the floor. As he got up, she lunged with the pole again. This time, Vega snagged the pole with his claw, and broke it with a twist of his hand. Suddenly, Cammy grabbed her arms around Vega's.
"Chun Li, I got him."
Chun Li walked up, held up Vega's head with her hand, and launched into the hundred-foot kick. Her rapid kicks connected with Vega's mask and body several times as she cried out for every kick, but it was Vega's mask that she concentrated on the most. His mask cracked under the force, until finally, it broke into pieces, revealing a handsome face that only a vain man would want to protect.. Chun Li brought her foot down, examined the face, shrugged her shoulders, and brought a roundhouse kick directly into the right side of Vega's face. Cammy finished it off by performing a suplex.
Vega rolled away and stayed crouching. "My……..my beautiful face is ruined!" Vega's right cheek was badly bruised from Chun Li's roundhouse. He saw the two girls standing before him and decided it was time to retire. One he could handle, but two was too much.
Vega jumped out of the window, clutching a drain-pipe and slid down to the street. Cammy and Chun Li ran to the window, but could only see him running away.
"Well, that was tiring." remarked Cammy.
Chun Li saw the scratch marks wear Vega had scratched her skin where the stomach was. "Are you alright?"
"You mean physically? It's just a scratch. If you mean emotionally, I didn't believe what he said."
Chun Li peered her head out of the window. "How did he find out we were here?"
"I think I've got a pretty good idea."

The stall-holder was slammed against the wall by Chun Li.
"Where is he?!" Chun Li demanded.
"I……I don't know."
"Listen pal. That girl over there," she said pointing to Cammy, "she just beat the shit out of the guy you contacted. Would you like me to turn her over to you?"
"Alright! I'll tell! He's in a hotel in the Tsim Sha Tsui district. You'll find him there."
Chun Li punched his stomach, winding him.
"Did you have to be that rough?" asked Cammy.
"There's thirteen hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui district. Tell me which one."
"(gasp) Okay! He's in the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel, off Salisbury road, near the hover ferry pier. Room 117. Can I go now?"
Chun Li pulled out a pair of handcuffs. "No. And do you know why? You're under arrest for aiding and abetting a known felon……"

Chun Li kicked the door down, the Beretta 92 in her hand. Cammy followed behind. The lights were off, and it appeared that no-one was home. Chun Li switched the lights on. She walked into a room that was pretty much empty, save for the sharp swords and daggers on the bed, and a portable laptop computer on the study table, connected to a CDR writer.
Chun Li walked to the table, opened up the laptop, and switched it on. 'ENTER PASSWORD' flashed onto the screen.
"Great. So now what?"
Cammy walked up behind her. "I think I know. Vega always used the same password. I'm starting to remember."
She reached out in front of Chun Li and typed in 'VANITY'.
"How obvious." said Chun Li with a smile.
The laptop flashed up all sorts of information. Maps, drug deals, names and addresses of contacts. Then a vital piece of information flashed up, the whereabouts of the fortress Shadowloo uses to train and supply it's army of Assassins. If the fortress was destroyed, Shadowloo would suffer a major set back.
"Where is it?" asked Cammy.
"Malaysia. Several miles south of Sarawak. Fancy a trip after we sign this agreement?"
Cammy smiled. Now they were getting somewhere.
Chun Li took the laptop for forensics and intelligence, and they both headed for the Interpol building.

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