2.
Rendezvous of Violence
Three years later...
1:35 AM
San Francisco.
"So Clark." a man asks a fellow street punk. "did you hear anything from Master Bison?"
"Sorry Bennett." Clark replies. Both men are standing in a city dock near the ocean in the dead of night. "aside from the shipment we have to deliver tonight, I haven't heard jack shit from Master Bison."
"Ah." Bennett replies back. "Now...i've sure as hell noticed that the rivalry with S.I.N. has really waned recently. I wonder why?"
"Shit man." Clark responds in a rather surprised tone. "I just realized that. Then again, I heard from the higher ups that Master Bison has been working on a pact with our rival organizations. Mainly S.I.N., so maybe that's why."
"Ummmm...if that's the case then I suppose Master Bison and S.I.N.'s boss had finally buried the hatchet. Very surprised to see that." the voice of gruff British man grumbles out.
"Boss!" Bennett shouts out in response. "you haven't heard of the rumor yourself?"
"Not until now." the man replies. "and please. Just call me Birdie. I feel embarrassed to be called boss when i'm not really your boss, per say."
"Yeah, yeah." Bennett shrugs back.
The crosshires of a sniper rifle are examining the exchange between the three men. The holder of the sniper herself is none other than Juli, now sporting a black leather vest, black fingerless combat gloves, sleek black camo pants, black combat knee pads and long black leather combat boots.
She continues to scope at the conversation with quietly grumbling, "Can't shoot Birdie. Need that fucker alive. Who can I shoot?"
She then realizes that Bennett, for some odd reason, is sporting a psuedo buzz cut, a very scruffy moustache and strangest of all, a chainmail vest.
"That's it!" Juli informs herself in satisfaction, "I'll blow that Bennett fucker away."
She resumes her sniping position, waiting for the right moment to pull the trigger and strike.
"Better get in there quick enough or Birdie will get out of there." Juli inquires.
"So anyways, we got the shipment here, boss." Clark informs Birdie.
However, Birdie grabs Clark by his shirt, pulls out his bladed chain, holds him with said chain and grunts "Dammit. I told you guys to not call me 'boss'. Damn."
"S..s...sorry Birdie." Clark whimpers in response. "I'm just used to calling my superiors 'boss'. That's all."
"Meh." Birdie grumbles. He then lets him go while adding "Fine, but mark my word that i'll gut you like a fish if you call me sir again."
He then turns to Bennett and adds, "This goes for you too, bozo."
"Bozo?" Bennett replies with a slight snicker. "I'm not a fucking clown. Do you see overlong shoes and a red squeaky rubber nose on me?"
Birdie chuckles for a little bit then replies, "Nope, but your wise guy act sure makes you look like one."
"Figures." Bennett shrugs.
"Now. You two better keep an eye out on any weirdos that could pop up and cause a rukus. Master Bison would order my ass for dinner if we lost the shipment." Birdie informs the two grunts. "and considering how much Bison loves to smack failures around like a crack ho with his Psycho Drive, you sure as hell wouldn't want to fuck up his plans."
"Sure thing." Clarke replies.
Bennett begins to add in his own piece of mind, but suddenly the front of his forehead erupts like a blood and guts stuffed volcano, with all of the nitty gritty bits splashing on Clark and Birdie.
"Aw shit!" Clark screams in horror after witnessing his buddy getting a bullet in the head. "Someone got Bennett.
Call some backup, Birdie!."
"Don't worry, punk. You stay here and wait for the calvary to arrive." Birdie shouts at Clark in response.
"What about...GWAHHHGHH!" Clark replies. However, he is then quickly pulled into the darkness without warning, only squelching out a scream and leaving Birdie alone.
Birdie then starts to look around, grunting, "Clark. Where the fuck did you go?"
Aside from the shuffling of wind and the sound of water swishing around and his own breathing, Birdie hears the sound of punches connecting and grunting. Some that belong to Clark and the other a woman.
Birdie remains standing, scratching his head in confusion as the shadowy brawl continues.
Out of nowhere, Clark is tossed out of the shadows, flying right into Birdie and knocking him down in the process. Clark's face appears to be bloodied and bruised, along with some of his limbs notably being broken and shattered in several place.
Horrified by the sight, Birdie lets go of Clark and letting himself up.
As he stands in the docks, he hears a voice shout out, "Birdie. Its been a long time."
"Show yourself, bitch!" Birdie yells out.
"Fine then, your biker punk. Suit youself." the voice replies.
Out of the shadows come Juli, which gives Birdie a shocked gut feeling. However, he then replies "Hey. Didn't you used to talk like a mindless robot when we last met?"
"Yeah." Juli replies. "your piece of shit leader had done much traumatizing things to me and now i'm coming after him for retribution. All I need you to do is tell me where he is and we can go our separate ways."
"Heh. Stupid cunt." Birdie scoffs. "You think you can make me talk. Well, too fucking bad." He then pulls out a walkie talkie and shouts into it "Boys. Here's your cue. Attack the bitch!"
Without warning, a group of Shadaloo troopers pop in cue, all armed with various assault rifles while Birdie makes a run for it.
"Shit!" Juli grunts to herself. Right before the troopers begin to open fire, Juli ducks and rolls out of the way, hiding right behind a crate.
"Fucker set me up!." Juli growls to herself, extremely frustrated that Birdie had set up an elaborate plan to eradicate her. "If he wants to fight fire with fire, fine. Two can play that game."
She then pulls out a shiny, silver custom made handgun which has a laser sight attached to it. She takes a slight peak out of the corner and lifts her handgun, shooting one of the troopers in the head. Another takes notice of her, but is instantly killed off by a bullet in the head as well.
The other troopers start to unleash a hail of bullets. However, Juli's skill and finess promptly avoids her from getting hit as she flips and jumps around to avoid gunshots. She then pops the heads of several more tropers, which causes some blood to splatter on nearby crates.
She then realizes that she has taken out all of the gun wielding troopers and decides to chase after Birdie in hopes to catch up and capture him.
She starts to run towards the direction Birdie went, passing by several more shipping crates and eventually entering inside a tunnel sporting poor lighting, even more shipping crates, some oil drums and various worn out pornographic posters taped to the wall.
Inside it, she spots Birdie, who appears to be a bit out of breath. She starts to chase after him but several more Shadaloo troopers jump out of hiding. Unlike the previous troopers, these guys are not armed.
They all attempt to gang up and attack her, but were are knocked back by her rotating headstand whirlwind kick.
Juli then stands in the center, getting herself into her fighting position, awaiting the troopers to strike.
The first trooper stands up and runs straight towards her, delivering a mean body hook. Although it successfully connects, it only briefly makes her wince. She then kneels the trooper right in the gut, delivers a few elbow blows and finishes him off with a mean super kick that snaps his neck back in a fairly stomach churning fashion and flying right into a wall, accompanied by a sickening thud as his back connects with the wall and slides down it.
The second trooper attempts to sneak up on her. However, she mule kicks him right in the gut, possibly causing organ damage due to the velocity of the kick. Writhing in pain, the trooper clutches his stomach, only for Juli to deliver a rather rough snapmare on him. After his body lands in a sitting position, Juli throws out a vicious dropkick that cranks his neck forward, which he ultimately slides down to the ground.
The third trooper jumps to a certain distance away from Juli. He pulls out a pair of tonfas and begins to swing them around while making somewhat goofy kung fu noises. He immediately charges at her, gearing up to smack her with one of them. In a split second, Juli simply knocks him down with a punishing cartwheel kick.
The fourth and final trooper decides to get smart and pull out a handgun. Juli quickly notices this, dodges the gunfire and rolls towards an oil drum to hide behind it. She then pulls her own handgun out, pokes out and in a blinding flash, shoots the final trooper in the crotch, causing a grotesque rupture and eruption of blood and other assorted fluids to splash and squirt out after the bullet is fired. Being in too much pain to continue, the trooper falls down to the ground while clutching his crotch, whimpering. Juli then walks up to him and dryly mutters, "Looks like you won't be having any children anytime soon."
Realizing that Birdie is closer to escape, Juli grunts, "Dammit!", puts her handgun back into its holster and resumes chasing him.
Despite outrunning Juli, Birdie is nearly exhausted from all the running. He has ended up near the end point of the docks and the entry way to the dark, deep blue ocean with various freighter boats floating on the water as the waves bounce up and down in a trance-like manner.
"Fuck. Bison is gonna kill me." Birdie grunts in irritation as he kneels down to recoup his energy. "That bitch better not catch up to me."
"Too late, Birdie." Juli's voice shouts out. She is standing a few feet away from him and remarks, "Now...tell me where Bison and Shadaloo are now. That's all you need to say and we'll be done."
"Absolutely not!" Birdie hoarsely shouts out. "I won't tell you shit about Bison and Shadaloo."
"Fine." Juli replies, sounding mildly annoyed. "Guess I have to get answers out of you the hard way."
She begins to crack her fingers in preparation to take Birdie down. However, Birdie pulls his bladed chain out and begins to swing it in a kinetic fashion.
Juli dodges the various chain blade swipes by flipping, jumping, ducking and rolling around, resulting in the blade screeching against the walls, cutting the oil drums open, breaking a few crates and even hits the light, causing it to violently swing around in a schizophrenic fashion.. As she does this, she examines his pattern and starts to wait for the right moment to grab hold of it and get up and close to take him down.
"You can't stop me, dumb broad." Birdie grunts out in frustration. "Your time is up and i'll kill you if I have to."
"Sorry Birdie, but you're wrong." Juli replies. She then shouts "In reality...YOUR TIME IS UP!" and grabs a firm hold on Birdie's chain blade.
Birdie growls in sheer anger after Juli grabs hold of the chain blade. He attempts to suspend the chain blade in the air in hopes of tossing her off, but instead he slowly hoists herself forward closer and closer to Birdie.
She finally gets right into his face. He attempts to knock her down with a blunt roundhouse punch, but she swiftly dodges it, only to punch him in the gut herself. She then delivers a few roundhouse kicks to his head and eventually uses her weight against his to push him down to the ground.
With her right foot firmly on Birdie's neck, Juli pulls out her handgun, points it at him and shouts, "Now..for the last time. Where the fuck is Shadaloo and Bison?"
Birdie, who's trying his best to gasp for air, coughs out, "Okay, okay. To be honest, I don't even know where fucking Bison and Shadaloo are based in now."
Not satisfied, Juli squeezes her foot down a bit harder on Birdie's neck, which results in him wheezing out, "Alright alright. Bison and Shadaloo are no longer based in Thailand, but as far as concerning their new location, I don't fucking now, now please...let me go!"
Despite being extremely pissed over the fact that Birdie has very little to offer in regards to information pertaining Bison and Shadaloo, she lets go of her foot.
Birdie begins to have a heavy coughing fit, due to the intense pressure of Juli's foot. He then wheezes out, "Thank you for not killing me. You're a lot more dangerous than I last remember. Even more so than the Killer Bee herself."
Despite sparing his life, Juli immediately swiftly kicks Birdie in the head, knocking him out cold and walks away from him, rather dissatisfied over the information she got out of him.
"Bastard." Juli shouts out in sheer anger. "Should've known that low life punk barely knew shit. Fuck!" while stomping around and even kicking a few crates and oil drums.
Little to her knowledge, a hidden camera is watching all of her actions on the scene.
"Oh my my my. How little Julia has grown. Ha ha ha ha!" a gruff and rather demented voice chuckles as he watches Juli having a conniption at the docks via a huge wall monitor. "Then again, I should've known when she showed that she possesses the Psycho Drive during our fight several year ago."
The room in question is a dark, shadowy, futuristic throne room decorated with propaganda like paintings of M. Bison in various heroic and glory-filled poses, as well as various monitors and computer stations. The man sitting in the steel throne chair is none other than Bison himself, dressed in his iconic dictator uniform and cape.
"So that's Juli." a seductive female voice draped in shadows, despite a eerie purple light illuminating through the darkness, calls out to Bison. "Last I remember, she sure as hell didn't put up much of a fight."
"That's because she wasn't in her best of abilities." Bison groans back. "You kidnapped them all when you tried to bargin us, remember?"
"Ah yes, Bison" the female voice replies. "Then again, I was a young runt full of rage and animosity at the time and didn't run my own crime organization, if you can remember that."
"Indeed, Juri." Bison replies. "however, despite our own...let's just put it lightly...differences and past history, you, me, S.I.N and Shadaloo are stronger as one."
The woman in question is, in fact Juri, current head of former rival crime syndicated S.I.N., previously led by the late Seth, a failed experiment and body intended for Bison. Rather being dressed in her custom fighting outfit and having her hair in a horn like style, she has her hair set in a rather simplistic pony tail and is dressed in a charcol gray female business suit and skirt. She is also appearing to wear a purple tanktop underneath the suit jacket and shiny black heels.
"Of course." Juri replies, keeping her seductive yet malevolent tone in place. "but how do you take this sudden news of one of your former Dolls planning to take you and Shadaloo down?"
"Heh." Bison chuckles, completely unfazed by what Juri informed him. "i'm actually looking forward to see Juli again, just to really see if she can still use the Psycho Drive." his voice then drops to a lower octave and adds "however...there is no chance in hell she can singlehandedly take me and Shadaloo down."
Juri then flexes her legs in a psuedo stripper manner, only to stand up and walk sexually towards Bison to reply "So what if she...ummm...tries to get some help?"
Bison turns his demonic blank white eyes towards Juri and replies, "Her fuel of rage doesn't seem to indicate a needing of assistance." Bison then rolls his neck and adds "however. I do have plenty of assests on me to ensure her that i'm waiting for her and to see if she has what it takes to take me on."
"So...you're proposing to build up reinforcement to test her strength?" Juri asks Bison. "can I...well...take her on myself eventually?"
"Indeed, Juri." Bison replies. "That would be perfect. However, I think she would rather interrogate my forces in hopes to find my location, so we'll see what we shall do."
"Excellent." Juri replies in a creepy, orgasmic like matter. She then licks her lips, teeth and freakishly grins while adding. "I haven't felt this hot for a fight in a long time."
Behind a black marble pillar, a woman with long flowing blonde hair covering her face, a long black worn out trenchcoat, black boots and claw blades protruding through the trenchcoat's sleeves is watching quietly. Her freakish, evil eyes are darting at Bison and Juri as her head is peeking out of one of the pillar's corners.
Rather than uttering a word, she breathes heavily as she continues to spy on her superiors, obviously determined to do some dirty work.
7:10 AM
A rough, desolated apartment room.
Full of rust and decay.
Juli is sitting on her bed, topless, checking to see if she received any wounds during her confrontation with Birdie and the Shadaloo troopers.
Aside from a few bruises, Juli is mostly unharmed.
She then pulls her handgun out and unloads the clip. Seeing that the clip is nearly empty, she reaches for a box of bullets to fill the clip up.
After reloading her handgun, she puts it back into her holster and reaches for a M-16 assault rifle.
She removes the clip to check if its full of ammo or not, only to reveal that there is plenty of ammo in it.
"Good." she inquires to herself, setting the gun aside after placing the clip back in its place.
After that, she pulls out a lighter and a box of cigarettes. Taking one cigarette out and lighting it with the lighter, she places it into her mouth and begins to smoke as she sets the light and cigarette box aside to pull out a map of Nevada.
"Balrog. Dumb ass slugger. Maybe he knows more than that idiot street punk Birdie." Juli grumbles as she looks at the map, a pamphlet of various Las Vegas locales and casinos and smokes her cigarette.
Outside of the apartment complex, a tan woman with a black business suit, a white business shirt, a black tie, black gloves, stark red hair put in a rather unorthadox ponytail and yellow sunglasses is spying Juli with C.I.A. Issued binoculars.
"This is C. Viper. I am in position." the woman talks into an earpiece.
"Do you see the woman that attacked the docks early this morning?" a man asks Viper on the other end.
"Affirmative." she replies. "Should I go in and capture her?"
"No." the man replies. "I want you to just spy on her as much as you can."
"Okay." Viper replies. "So what is your plans for her?"
"This very woman is Julia." the man informs her. "She was the girlfriend of T. Hawk of the Thunderfoot tribe. She and Little Eagle, a fellow member of the tribe were kidnapped by Bison's forces and sent to Shadaloo along with 12 other young girls. All of them were brainwashed, genetically enhanced and made into killing machines for Shadaloo. Rumors go around that the girls were not only used for crime, but also for the desires of higher ranking Shadaloo members."
"You're kidding me?" Viper groans out in disgust. "They forced them girls to do unspeakable acts against their wills aside from crime related offenses?"
"Unfortunately, yes." the man replies with a tone of equal, but much more sedate disgust and repulsion in his voice. "However, the girls eventually rebelled against Bison and Shadaloo, but the enhancements had apparently shortened their life spans. One doll in particular, the ever elusive Killer Bee, led the attack and successfully rebelled against Bison. However, they all lost their memories and vanished out of thin air."
Viper simply nods as she hears her superior inform her the info.
"Of course you remember three years ago the time the assassin Juri kidnapped all the dolls, right?"
"Affirmative." she replies.
The man continues by saying, "Well, after that ordeal passed, Julia found herself in a small house with an elderly couple, apparently stripped of her emotions, memories and ability to act remotely human. Some time later, a local gang broke in, murdered the couple and attempted to rape her, but somehow that activated her memory and humanity."
"So...what happened when she regained her own self?" Viper asks her superior.
"Julia singlehandedly took down all of the gangbangers in rather sadistic fashion...then disappeared again." the man replies.
"Until now." Viper replies.
"and that's why we're asking you to secretly monitor her actions." the man replies back. "Understand."
"Yes." Viper replies while adjusting her sunglasses.