"Name" Said the rough voice one the other side of the recruitment desk.
"Niko Ivanov reporting for a visit, sir" I say with a lazy salute. It has been quite a while since my last visit to the army base for the Special Forces. I couldn't wait to see Takeda and meet his girlfriend Jacqui, mostly because if the stories Takeda had told me about her, she must be really something.
"Why is a Shirai Ryu doing here?" the Soldier said in a menacing tone. Sure, the Shirai Ryu was not well accepted with the exception of Kenshi and Takeda, but a lot has changed since Shinnok was eliminated for the clans. "And why do you look like an assassin?"
"It's a tradition for my clan. It considers honor and lo-" I was cut off with a blunt "I don't care" from the soldier.
"Sooo, my I proceed or are you just gonna stand there like a stone wall?" I ask with a playful smile.
"Go." Said the officer, clearly annoyed with me.
I proceed with a smile under my hood and my Titanium Composite facemask. The place was much bigger than I remembered it before. The base could hold more than a 3 Battalions and had still had plenty of room for the vehicles and arsenals. Of course, there was a portal right smack in the middle of the place. After a few minutes of exploring and admiring the amazing setup S.F had made, I see Takeda's barracks. I start walking towards it and I feel a shark jab into my shoulder. I spin around and General Sonya Blade is right there. "Just my luck" I murmur to myself.
"What the holy hell are you doing here Darkstar?" demands General Blade.
"General Blade, long time no see eh? Listen I just want to see Takeda and Kenshi, then I'll be outta your hair. Sound good?" I reply as calmly as my heart would let me.
"I told you to never come back here after your incident with Erron. I will not tolerate you being here."
"Trust me, I totally get it that you hate me and wanna shoot me through my fuckin head whenever you see me, but I am to see Takeda and I will not leave till it happens. Don't think I'm still one of your little shit-headed subordinates who have to kiss your oh-so-great general ass to get a promotion."
I suppose I deserved what was coming to me, because in the blink of an eye she punched me in the nose, making little drops of blood leak out of it. I recover and get into my battle stance, ignoring the stinging feeling of my nose starting to leak a little bit of fresh blood. She thrusts another punch at me and I parry it by grabbing her arm and using my other to deliver three swift punches to her ear, making the blood start to trickle down her head. I let go of her arm and thrust my leg into a roundhouse kick, my boot going into her stomach. She gasps for air falls to her knees. I grab her long, soft ponytail and say with my thick Russian accent" I have learned a lot since I last saw you". I let go and stalk off to Takeda's barracks, wiping the blood from my nose and fixing my loosened gauntlets.
I arrive at His barracks and the guards inspect my for any outworld or netherrelm equipment. They let me though and I start going up the long flight of steel stairs, making a metallic sound each step I took. I eventually find Takeda's room and knock on the door. A woman opens the door and looks me straight in the eyes. She was strikingly beautiful just to look at. She had Dark brown hair and Hazel eyes, which matched her golden brown skin. She wasn't as tall as me "You're Jacqui, right?" I sheepishly ask her. I was never good with talking to girls, especially beautiful ones like her.
"That'd be me" she replied with a sweet smile. "And you are?"
"My name is Dar- I mean Niko Ivanov. I'm looking for Takashi Takeda, is he here?"
"yeah he's here" Jacqui opens the door enough for me to slide by her, Takeda is on the computer working on some sort of report.
"Hard at word as usual?" I jokingly say to him.
Takeda looks over his shoulder and his eyes widen with excitement as he sees me. I'm not much to look at. I have messy black hair that I will sometimes spike when I have the time and my eyes are emerald green. My face has a few edges and a bladed scar on my right cheek. I'm about 5 feet 10 inches tall and somewhat muscular, not enough to show off though. I have a tribal tattoo of a wolf on my left shoulder blade and a corrupted star tattoo on my right shoulder blade. But nonetheless, Takeda was ecstatic to see me. He springs up from his chair and tackled me hitting the floor hard knocking the wind out of me. He gets up rather quickly and says "What are you doing here man? I thought you were dead." He offers his hand to help me up.
"I've been trying to stay out of trouble" I weakly say taking his hand and pulling myself up. I sluggishly move to my feet. "Wasn't exactly fun getting in here either. Those soldiers outside are dumb as a bag of rocks and General Blade decided to- Never mind."
Takeda looks at me hard in the eyes "What about General Blade? I thought she forgot about the incident when you and Erron- Oh right." He looks down at the floor. "I guess she is still sore, she never forgets a man's mistakes."
"I'll say. I think I have to get outta here before the whole battalion breaks down the door looking for me." I say with a giggle
"You do have a pass, to see me right?" He looks at me and I look away quickly. His tone suddenly goes menacing "What did you do?"
I look at round for a while and then close the door to his room to make sure no wandering ears find anything out. After I'm sure we are all alone I quietly say "I may have fucked up General Blade to get here."
It was Takeda's turn to be out of breath. He sits down slowly and stares in disbelief at me. "You beat up the General of Special Forces?" He exclaims with the small amount of air he had in his lings. His skin was ghost white just from the thought of General Blade getting in a fistfight and losing in front of the whole Alpha Battalion. The work she will go through to see that his long lost friend was brutally punished.
He looked up at Jacqui and then faced me, his gaze was cut short when he sprang up from his chair and charged at me, throwing me aside and made me end up landing on Jacqui. Takeda fixes his hair and looks outside the door window as Jacqui instinctively puts her arms into hooks and drags me away from where I was standing. What the fuck are they doing? I wonder as I am being dragged away. Takeda puts a finger over his lips and opens the door. "Hello General Blade. We were not expecting you."