Fight One Half: Origins
A Street Fighter/Ranma ½ crossover fanfiction
By The Headcrook
Legal Disclaimer: Street Fighter (characters and locations) belongs to Capcom, while Ranma ½ (characters and locations) belong to Rumiko Takahashi. In effect, this fanfic bridges the events before and after Fight Hina (in the Love Hina section) with Fight One Half. Origins is basically a prequel to One Half, so enjoy. Also, the characters are slightly OOC, and various techniques and origins are revealed.
Prologue
Ansatsuken Dojo - Kuwata, Japan – One year before the Jusendou incident (and one year before the Hinata interim job)...
The three men and one teenage girl watched as the two warriors, one Japanese and male and the other, who was Chinese and female faced off in the dojo. The man was dressed in a simple grey-black karate dogi, the sleeves ripped off showing off his muscular arms, while the attractive female was dressed in a one-piece blue-and-white tracksuit and matching vest.
"Once you mastered yourself, come to Japan and find me at the Ansatsuken dojo outside of Tokyo. I will grant you your rematch."
For the past eight months, Chun Li Xiang had trained and trained whenever she wasn't working at Interpol. As much as she hated to admit it to herself, Ryu was right. Her mind was so clouded with hate that she wouldn't have gotten passed General Bison. The first time she had fought against him was during the Zero Tournaments four years earlier. She thought she had killed him then, since Bison's own arrogance proved to be his downfall.
But Bison had resurfaced and lured his enemies to compete in the Second World Warrior Tournament. Ryu also competed, and this time around, Ryu had defeated Chun Li in order to face Bison.
Now, her mind was clear as she faced off against her opponent, one Ryu Houshi. Her face a mask of determination, she turned to the two Ansatsuken grandmasters, Gouken and Gouki – known to those close to him as Akuma - and bowed, as did Ryu before turning and bowing to each other. Ryu's student, Sakura Kasugano and his friend, Ken Masters, looked on with worried expressions on their faces.
Gouken raised one hand...then brought it down. "Ready? HAJIME!"
The audience watched as the two martial artist fought tooth and nail, each delivering blow after blow as the fight raged on. As the fight continued, Chun Li got a good look at Ryu's eyes. They were shining, as if he enjoyed testing his skill in the heat of battle!
That was a distraction since Ryu was now spinning in the air, Chun Li getting a close-up view of his foot as it connected with the side of her face, sending the young woman spinning to the ground. Chun Li flipped to her feet in order to avoid the knee to the face and flipped upside down, legs extended in a split, spinning, striking Ryu repeatedly, forcing him back.
At that moment, Chun Li capitalized...and at the same time, made her mistake.
Flipping forward in a handspring, Chun Li brought her foot down on Ryu, only she missed his head and nailed him in the shoulder. Ryu grunted in pain as he felt his shoulder being dislocated upon impact.
That was when the pain in her ankle started upon impacting his shoulder, causing Chun Li to cry out in pain as she landed on her good foot before stumbling to the ground.
Almost immediately, Gouken, Gouki and the younger Ansatsuken fighters were tending to the two injured fighters. Ken was successful in popping Ryu's arm back into place, while Gouken carried Chun Li to one of the guest rooms.
Pain was nothing to Chun Li. Then again, her body was sore all over, mostly at her ankle. Groaning to herself, she opened her eyes. She saw that she was inside her guest room at the dojo, and that she was still in her tracksuit with her injured ankle heavily bandaged.
She also saw that she wasn't alone in her room. Ryu was there, seated in a chair, dressed in a simple black T-shirt and denim pants. His injured arm was in a sling, the end result of Chun Li's slip-up in her missed Seneshu. His face was also bruised and battered but despite of that, Chun Li knew that he was attractive in a rugged sort of way.
Ryu turned to her. "You're finally awake," he said, giving her a small grin that was borderline roguish Chun Li also noticed that he spoke perfect English, with no hint of an accent. "You slept like the dead."
Chun Li managed to assume a sitting position. "How long was I out?" she asked, also in English, albeit with a Hong Kong accent.
"A day." He smiles at her again, a complete contrast to the fighting machine that has bested her twice in combat. "I really should thank you, Inspector. It's been a while since someone's made me fight with my all."
"It's Chun Li," she replied. "My name is Chun Li."
"Chun Li..." Ryu repeated. "'Spring Beauty.' Nice name." He gave her that same grin upon seeing her shocked face. "Surprised? I'm fluent in several languages, including Chinese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and several others. Pretty helpful when you're on the open road."
He pointed to her bandaged ankle. "You cracked your ankle in our last match. You need some time to heal." He stood up. "Consider yourself a guest of the Ansatsuken Dojo. If you need anything, feel free to ask." He pointed to a pair of crutches nearby. "Those are for you, should you need to get around the place. If you excuse me, I got to stop Gouki from trying to kill my student."
Ryu exited the room, leaving Chun Li alone. She looked at her bandaged ankle and sighed. She haven't lost the battle, since it had ended in a draw when they both were injured, which made her slightly better.
Despite Chun Li having detailed files on Ryu's friends and enemies, the Ansatsuken warrior himself was an enigma to all. His fighting abilities were second to none, which was why Bison wanted him as his right-hand man.
Chun Li's mind went back to that climatic fight when she had fought Bison the first time. She was only eighteen, a fresh-faced rookie within the International Criminal Police Organization. While Ryu had his hands full with fighting Sagat, Chun Li had tracked Bison down just as he was boarding his personal VTOL, having lost his Psycho Drive. Bison was weakened by the lost of his secret weapon, but that didn't stop him.
"FREEZE!"
Bison turned around, his cape covering most of his massive frame. Imagine his shock that he found himself staring at the young girl whose father he killed, not to mention looking down the business end of a Beretta semi-automatic pistol.
Chun Li had the gun aimed right between the eyes. "General Bison, you are under arrest."
"Is that so?" Bison sneered. "You are just like your father." He stepped down from his VTOL. "How fitting it would be that I now send his bitch of a daughter to meet him in the afterlife!"
Chun Li tossed the gun aside and went into her fighting stance. "I'll save myself the paperwork and kill you myself!"
The fight was brutal. Even without his Psycho Drive powering him, Bison was just as deadly. Chun Li, however, was trained by both Master Gen and her grandmother, knowing several styles of Kung Fu and Kempo. Bison thought he had her scouted, but Chun Li was full of surprises.
Chun Li, using an unknown and forbidden style of her family's Kung Fu, had used crippling blows on Bison, who absorbed them until Chun Li shattered both his right knee and his left arm.
Bison roared in both anger and extreme pain as he felt his knee literally explode from the impact of Chun Li's machine gun-like kicks. He knew that several of his ribs were broken and without his Psycho Drive, he was good as dead.
"You are strong, little girl," Bison growled, "but everyone has their price. Spare my life, and I will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!"
Breathing hard, Chun Li replied, "Money? Power? Anything that I ask for?"
"Yes! Anything you ask for! I will grant it."
Chun Li's response to that was to slam her foot in Bison's face as hard as she can, sending the nose right into his brain. The Chinese female watched in grim satisfaction as Bison let out his death rattle as he fell over, dead.
"I want my father back, you son-of-a-bitch," she hissed as she walked from his body.
'I thought that I had avenged my father,' Chun Li thought as she looked at her injured ankle. 'But then I got that invitation to the World Warrior Tournament, and that bastard openly taunted me in my invite.'
Deciding that even Chun Li needed help, she teamed up with William Guile, an Air Force officer whose friend was killed by Bison and Cammy White, a former Shadowlaw assassin, now working for British Intelligence. The wild cards in the tournament were Ryu Houshi and his friend, Ken Masters. Bison had sent his lieutenant, the Spanish Ninja Vega to kill Chun Li, but he had failed.
While Chun Li had been occupied with Vega, Ryu had went on to fight Bison. By the time Chun Li had put down Vega and had rushed to the location where Bison was waiting with Guile and Cammy in tow, they saw Ryu and Ken fighting both Bison and Balrog, another of Bison's lieutenants. Ken had defeated Balrog, while Ryu fought Bison.
As the three watched in shock, Ryu unleashed one of the most deadliest attacks in the Ansatsuken School – the Twin Fists of Death – on the Shadowlaw warlord. Better known as the Shinshoryuken, the first blows had caused massive internal bleeding, while the final blow breaking Bison's neck, ending the life of the Shadowlaw general once and for all.
While Guile and Cammy were elated that Bison was finally dead, since he had key figures in law enforcement and various judicial elements under his control, and would probably escape justice. Seeing Bison dead had the diametric opposite for Chun Li.
She was downright furious.
In the three months following the tournament's conclusion, Ryu was sent to Tokyo General under guard and in secret. Ryu's fight with Bison had left him with a broken wrist and two broken fingers. Ryu would go on and recover.
But Chun Li wasn't going to let this slight go. To her, it was more than honor. It was revenge, plain and simple. Which was why when she found out that Ryu was visiting Hong Kong, she sent a letter of challenge to him, demanding that he face her in combat.
He accepted.
And she lost.
Which was one of the reasons why she was in Japan. The other? Several of the I.C.P.O.'s agents were on Bison's payroll and with the destruction of Shadowlaw, Chun Li found herself a target. Several of her loyal friends had set her up inside a safe house in Tokyo, but that location was already scouted.
Which was why she was at a dojo in Japan. Both to fight Ryu and to preserve her own life. She could have went to her grandmother's village in the western regions of China, but chose not to. She loved her grandmother dearly, but given the fact that she was raised in the city, and that her late mother's mother was a bit...eclectic, she was an outsider.
So Chun Li went to Japan, while those who wanted her either dead or disgraced thought she was somewhere in Europe, either in London working on a joint operation with Cammy's unit, or in Paris, where the world headquarters of Interpol was located.
Following her first loss to Ryu, Chun Li was part of the team assigned to clean up any and all remnants of Shadowlaw's presence in Hong Kong. Knowing full well that Chun Li's team would find out who inside Interpol's Hong Kong division was on Shadowlaw's payroll, they set her up and in the ensuing chaos, several agents were injured in the following raid and Chun Li was blamed for the screwup, which ended with her suspension until an inquiry would make their final decision.
With Chun Li out of the way at Interpol, she became a target. When her apartment was firebombed while she was visiting Gen, Chun Li decided to leave Hong Kong and lay low. Knowing that Chun Li was going to Japan to challenge Ryu, Gen called in a favor to the Ansatsuken Dojo. As Chun Li found out later, Gen was friends with Ryu and Ken's two masters, which was easy enough to allow Chun Li to stay as she recovered from her injury.
Little did they know that this was just the beginning.
A.N.: The town of Kuwata is not a real town in Japan. The name Kuwata comes from the name Kong Kuwata, known as the voice of Geese Howard in the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series.
