So the story modes for Dragunov and Lili are out on youtube...I WAS RIGHT!
The Russian government DOES want the Devil Gene! And if you look at the final screen of Drag's prologue where he's getting briefed on Devil Jin(who gets tortured by the Russians in Drag's ending...so I'll be sure to cover that in this fic when Sergei makes a cameo and explain why he acted like he did in my fic despite how he acts in DR)...there are 3 mugshots just under Drag's chin. One of Jin...one of Kazuya...AND ONE OF ASUKA(or at least, looks a heck of a lot like her.)
Lili's ending is funny too...gotta love how she falls in love with Ganryu. Just goes to show that don't count out the sumo pimp!
Anyhoo, Tekken is copyright Namco-Bandai Games, Inc. Super Sentai and Kamen Rider are copyrights of Toei and Bandai Ltd.
In other words, Tekken, Kamen Rider(also known as Masked Rider) and Super Sentai are all owned by Bandai.
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"Jin! I'm home!"
Opening to door to the great Mishima mansion, Ling Xiaoyu cheerily skipped into the main lobby and put her jacket on a nearby rack. Now in her final year of high school, Xiaoyu, with her slim body and long black hair tied back in pigtiails, was in particularly high spirits due to the knowledge of being so close to the next step of her life: the business world. Although her old dream of building her own amusement park in her homeland China was still one of her goals, Xiaoyu could now see that there were bigger, more important things to do before venturing into personal entertainment.
She now had a responsibility as a key figure of the Mishima Financial Empire.
At the conclusion of the previous King of Iron Fist Tournament, Heihachi Mishima and Jin Kazama agreed to run the Mishima Financial Empire together in an effort to stand strong against the recent advances of G-Corporation. Though the two of them were blood-related, Jin greatly distrusted Heihachi, and that bothered Xiaoyu a great deal. She loved both of them dearly, and she promised herself that she would do anything to keep their alliance alive. Thus, when both Jin and Heihachi asked her if she was willing to take a more active part in the Financial Empire's activities…Xiaoyu leapt at the chance.
At the moment, most of the key members of the current Mishima Financial Empire were away. Heihachi was somewhere in the mountains on a training trip, Jun and Lee were on business in the states overseeing a major deal, and Kazuya was simply "away to contemplate his next move." Jin and Xiaoyu were the ones in charge while everyone was out doing their business…and that meant they had the place all to themselves: a fact that Xiaoyu relished.
"Jin?" Xiaoyu called out his name again, curious as to where her dear friend happened to be. She had helped arrange his daily schedule before she left for school: Jin had no appointments today. I wonder where he is…maybe he's in the study?
One of Jin's favorite places to go when he needed peace and quiet was the study room. A rather spacious room, the study allowed Jin do just about anything that required silence. It had a desk at which he could sign papers or do legal work involving his share of the Zaibatsu, and it was large enough so that he could practice his martial arts technique or perform a few kata. Xiaoyu had used the study for that purpose on a few occasions, and she was inclined to agree that the study room did have its benefits.
Xiaoyu's hunch was correct. Sitting at the desk in deep contemplation was a black-haired Japanese youth with his hair slicked back so it was standing in a point, his bangs hanging slightly in front of his face. Xiao smiled as she looked at Jin sitting there so silently. He truly was beautiful, with an impressive physique to boot: no matter how many times she saw him, her heart always skipped a beat.
"Hello, Xiao," Jin, wearing a dark gray muscle shirt and black sweatpants with red flames etched in them, murmured quietly as his gaze didn't move from the desk. "I didn't here you come in. I'm sorry…"
"No need to apologize, Jin," the young woman replied cheerfully. "You probably have your mind on something. Any chance you can tell me what it is?"
Pulling something out of his desk, Jin lightly tossed an object to Xiao, who caught it with one hand. The object was platinum in color, about the size of a computer mouse, and on it were two transparent yellow windows in the shape of kanji that she knew well: the two symbols meaning "Iron Fist" or "Tekken." Noticing a strap underneath the device, Xiaoyu wrapped the strap across her wrist and wore the device as a bracelet. At least, that what I think I'm supposed to do with this thing…Jin has one strapped onto him, as well, except the kanji on his doohickey is red…
"Hey Jin," Xiao walked over to Jin's desk, noticing that his expression hadn't changed at all since she entered the room. "What are these things?"
"To be honest, I have no idea," Jin shook his head as he looked up to make eye contact with Xiao. "When my mother left this morning, she gave me three of those things and told me that something bad was about to happen…that the conflict between the Zaibatsu and G-Corporation was about to spill wide open and it would be up to us to make sure that it was contained so that no innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire…and then she just left it at that."
"You mean, just like that she left?"
"Exactly, and I haven't been able to get my mind off of it," Jin stood out of his chair and walked to a nearby window, looking out at the massive estate of the mansion. "I remember the last time my mother told me that something bad was about to happen…and sure enough it happened, and I believed her to be dead for the next seven years. When Mom says that something is going to happen, chances are that it's guaranteed. She also told me that-"
BZZT!
Walking away from the window and back to his desk, Jin turned on the intercom and saw that the transmission had come from the front door. It seemed he had a visitor. "How may I help you?" Jin said with sincerity as he spoke into the intercom.
"Hey, Jin! Any chance you could let me in?" The voice was obviously female, with an accent that Jin instantly identified as an Osaka dialect. Before Jin could turn the intercom off, however, Xiaoyu was already racing to open the door for the familiar voice.
Opening the door, Xiaoyu spotted her friend: a voluptuous Japanese teenager with short brown hair, wearing a white tanktop, a silver sleeveless jacket, and a pair of light blue jeans. It was none other then Asuka Kazama, Jin's cousin from Osaka. "Asuka! It's been a while," Xiaoyu said as the two girls hugged each other for a couple of seconds before going inside. "What brings you to Tokyo?"
"Nothing much," Asuka said as she put the two suitcases she was carrying onto the couch in the main lobby. "I'm just here to visit my relatives, and also to give Kenichi his schoolwork, being that he's at Mt. Fuji now."
"Oh, that's right...he's the cute brown-haired guy you introduced me to," Xiaoyu snapped her fingers as she recalled the 18-year-old youth who competed in the previous King of Iron Fist tourney. "Yoshimitsu told me at the arcade last week that he's doing really well, and he's already reached the rank of 'genin' or whatever it is that denotes rookie ninjas. He also told me that Kenichi's actually learning to use that sword that he carried around with him the last tournament!"
"Are you joking? Kenichi hates using swords," Asuka raised an eyebrow as she heard Xiaoyu mention "sword" and "Kenichi" in the same sentence. "If Kenichi is using a sword, I'm just going to give him some room so I don't get hacked to bits along with him!" Although one of the reasons he left was because he wanted to give me some time to think after all that happened to us during the last tournament, Asuka added in her mind as she recalled her friend and rival's solemn words before she left for Osaka. What an idiot! I didn't want time to myself. I wanted to get freakin' NAKED with him…and maybe have a few more sparring matches…
"Well, anyway," Xiaoyu continued, "you're welcome to stay here, Asuka. Maybe we can share a room!"
"Hmmm…late night pillow fights," Asuka rubbed her chin thoughtfully before raising an eyebrow and smiling. "That's sounds kick-ass! Now where's the TV room? Kamen Rider is going to be on any second now, and I want to watch it on your awesome hi-def television!"
"Hello, Asuka," Jin walked into the main lobby just before Xiao could show Asuka to the recreation room. "It's good to see you again. I'm afraid my mother isn't here right now…however she did leave you a present."
"She left me a present?" Asuka repeated the words with a hint of surprise. "Well, that was nice of her! Come on, I wanna see!" Catching the item that Jin threw at her, she looked down at the object in her hand with curiosity. It was just like the devices that Jin and Xiaoyu were wearing on their wrists, except the kanji on Asuka's happened to be milky white. "Cool gadget…what does it do?"
"Your guess is as good as mine, Asuka," Jin walked with the two girls into the recreation room. "I've spent all morning trying to figure what these things do. I guess it's something that'll come to use later." Picking up the remote from top of the television, he went over to a couch and sat down next to Xiaoyu and Asuka. "I think Kamen Rider is on TV-Asashi…"
Pressing the 'on' button on the remote, the TV instantly displayed a sharp crisp picture and the speakers activating along with them. However, what the trio witnessed was not the famed tokusatsu hero destroying a fiend in a rubber suit, but a black-haired Asian woman dressed in formal business attire with a microphone in her hand.
"-47 people have already been confirmed dead in the Marunouchi Building slaughter that has been going on the past hour, thirty of them policemen that were sent in to stop the suspect responsible. The suspect has been confirmed to have done all of this using nothing but a giant battle ax. So far firearms have proven ineffective against this juggernaut. Negotiators are about begin-"
Jin quickly turned the TV off and put on some shoes. It couldn't have been a coincidence that his mother had told him that things were about to go crazy in Tokyo, and the very same day someone is killing innocent people in a crowded part of the business district. One thing was certain: Jin Kazama would not stand idly by while bystanders got hurt. "Xiao, Asuka…let's go."
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1 hour later…
You did well, Astaroth, but I would have preferred if you didn't slaughter the policemen, Kazuya's voice whispered in the behemoth's ear via a miniature radio as the monster walked down the stairs back onto the first floor. I told you only to kill everyone within that office space. I don't wait blood being spilled if it doesn't have to…at least, not while I'm not there.
"Hey, they entered the space, and that made it my turf," Astaroth smiled beneath his mask as he put his bloody axe down and buttoned up his trenchcoat that he wore inside the building. "Tell me, boss…what's a television?"
…a television is something that I'm sure you would find fascinating. When you return, I will show you what a tele-
"There he is!"
Darting around to see where the voice had come from, Astaroth looked down and saw three young people pointing at him. After looking at them for a second, the behemoth felt a feeling of excitement pulse through him. Each one of them possessed an impressive fighting aura. Now that Soul Edge is gone, Astaroth murmured as he picked up his axe and jumped down the staircase, I can harvest these souls for myself!
Landing on the ground level with a thud, Astaroth looked at Jin, Asuka, and Xiao with amusement. It seemed that they intended to challenge him.
"Hey buddy, Kamen Rider got cancelled because of you," Asuka pointed an accusing finger at the golem. "No one does that to my favorite show and gets away with it!"
"I don't know who this 'Kamen Rider' is, wench," the giant bellowed as he continued to observe the group in front of him, "but you better watch your tone, or else you'll find your head on the ground…and your body still standing up!" The giant began to tap the butt of his axe on the floor: lightly at first, but quickly beginning to increase in force and volume. When the tapping evolved into banging, something began to burst from the floor, like a zombie crawling out of its grave.
The creatures were obviously reptilian, but they stood on two legs and had five fingers like a human being. Their skin was red in color, and their bodies were covered in sleeveless bronze body armor with sliver ankle braces and armguards. Their eyes were wide and their teeth were sharp. With their long prehensile tails, Jin originally mistook them for long-extinct raptors. Upon closer inspection, however, he could see that these creatures were not at all natural.
"Here's the deal," Astaroth planted the blade end of his axe on the ground and leaned against it slightly, "if you peons want to play with me, then first you must defeat all of these lizard-men. Either way…you die here!" Seeing the three youths begin to panic slightly Astaroth bellowed out that awful order: "KILL THEM ALL!"
The creatures reached Asuka first, who sent the first creature that reached her crashing into the ones behind her with a forward palm thrust. Grabbing one of the creature's legs, she pulled it towards her then tossed it over her shoulder in a vacuum throw…Right into Jin's roundhouse kick then sent into careening into more of the creatures.
Following Asuka's example, Xiaoyu flipped over a lizard-man's bite and grabbed the creature by its tail as soon as she landed behind it. Using of the strength she could muster, she knocked it into the air with a high kick, and then grabbed the creature's tail in mid-air and used it as a bludgeon against its comrades. This sent the creature and its comrades flying backwards.
Damn…I can't take much more of this, Jin cursed under his breath as the creatures continued to pop out of the ground faster than he could knock them out. I just have to stop from dogpiling on us. Hearing a scream, Jin looked and saw Xiao and Asuka surrounded by the lizard-men and the sound of blows landing. Dogpiling on us…just like that! Wading through the hordes of monsters, Jin did his best to come to their aid, but try as he might there seemed to be no end to them.
His gaze turned to Astaroth, who was now walking toward the mob of monsters where Xiaoyu was, his ax in his hand. My god…Xiao! Jin doubled his efforts to break through the lizard-men. If he didn't hurry up…he didn't even want to think about what Astaroth would do.
"You're first, China-girl," the golem wiped off his axe and raised it over his head just as Xiao knocked away a lizard-man that tried to grab her. "Say good-night!"
"XIAO!" Jin's red ki began to crackle around his body as he knocked away the lizard-men holding him back and made a mad dash towards Astaroth.
But as his ki crackled…the kanji on his wrist device began to glow. The light from the device was so bright that even Astaroth put down his ax in curiosity.
The red light engulfed Jin's entire body, causing everyone in the room to avert their eyes so as they wouldn't become blinded. Jin let loose a roar as the light continued to embrace his body and soul, changing him for better or worse…and when the light faded and the screaming quieted, Jin had taken on an entirely different appearance…a powerful mix of red, gold, and platinum.
The torso was now adorned with platinum body armor with two shoulder pads of the same color attached to it. On the body armor a red jewel that shone as Jin breathed heavily. The rest of the body was covered with a red body-suit, with the wrists and boots being the same platinum color as the torso. Around the waist was a golden belt, bond together with a platinum buckle bearing the two kanji "Tekken." Jin's face, and his entire head, was now covered with a round red helmet, with only black visor with gold trim in front of the eyes allowing for sight. At the side of the visor on both sides was the number "5" written in gold.
Holy Toledo, Xiaoyu was mesmerized along with everyone on that floor as she took a look at Jin's new attire, Jin morphed into a superhero!
Looking back up, Jin ran towards Astaroth and sent him spiraling backwards with a right hook, and then darted back around to see all of the lizardmen move away from Asuka and Xiao and converge onto his position. However, as soon as they reached them, Jin sent fifteen of them flying into the air with a powerful uppercut: his Electric Thrust Godfist, the tail of the first lizard-man uppercutted launching the creature behind with it, until it became a domino effect. It was clear that Jin was much more powerful when he was like this. All Xiao and Asuka could do was gape in wonder.
"What…are you waiting for, girls," Jin yelled as the lizard-men began running away from Jin and back towards Asuka and Xiaoyu, believing them to be easier targets. "Gathering your ki triggers it, so please hurry and help me out!"
"R-right," Asuka and Xiaoyu nodded as they focused their energy into their fists…and just as Jin said, it activated a reaction in their wrist devices. However, unlike Jin (whose ki had been brought up by rage), Xiao and Asuka were quiet as pure energy surged in their veins…following Jin's lead in morphing into something greater.
The light around the two young women faded as they looked at their new garments. They were almost exactly like Jin's, except where there was red on Jin with a number "5" on the helmet, there was now yellow for Xiaoyu with the number "4" and white for Asuka with the number "2"…except while Xiaoyu's jewel was yellow like her suit, Asuka's was a bright pink. Another feature exclusive to the two girls were that just below the belt, there was a skirt of their respective colors
But the skirt wasn't what bothered Asuka.
"Hey, what the heck is this?" Asuka shouted out her discomfort as she looked at that horrid girlish jewel that was between her breasts. "I'm supposed to be the white one! Why is there this pink thing right here? I HATE PINK!" Looking up at the lizard-men still charging at her, Asuka began to spin towards the horde. "Now I'm mad. TAKE THIS!"
After the third spin, Asuka sent a wide arc of lizard-men sprawling backwards with her Spinning Heel Drop. Once she did that, she once again began landing blows upon the monsters, having much more luck getting her attacks through the creatures' thick hides than before.
Not to be outdone by her friend, Xiaoyu flipped over another lizard-man and this time landed on its head. Riding the creature like a rider on a bucking bronco, Xiaoyu used her 'steed' to run down its comrades as it kicked and thrashed trying to get this yellow-clad woman off of it. Once she felt she had done enough, she smacked it in the temple, and the creature crumpled to the ground unconscious.
Just as Xiao and Asuka were about to engage the next set of creatures, however, a loud shriek pierced their ears (which, fortunately, were protected slightly by their helmets.) Every combatant turned around to see Jin and a fallen lizard-man that was bleeding at the mouth…and it was missing the bottom half of its mouth, which was now in Jin's other hand.
Jin had ripped the creature's jaw out.
Seeing such a feat of gargantuan strength, the remaining lizard-men quickly retreated into the holes that they came out of. "What are you doing? Get back here, you cowards," Astaroth shook his fist at the creatures as the last one dug its way back into the earth. Looking at the three youths, Astaroth prepared to engage in battle…until a familiar voice yelled in his ear.
Astaroth, what's taking so long? Get back here now or I'll paralyze your lungs!
Grrr…spoilsport, Astaroth muttered to himself as he ran past his opponents and smashed the front door of the building open without stopping his run. I'll get them next time…they can count on it!
Asuka and Xiaoyu thought about chasing after him, but their bodies ached from the reptilian mob they had just faced. By the time the decided to let it pass, Astaroth had already gone out of sight.
Hearing a rather disturbing panting noise, Asuka and Xiaoyu slowly turned back to Jin and realized the sound was coming through him. His red suit was now covered in crimson as the creature at his feet bled to death and breathed its last. Clearly Jin hated killing, and after he just brutally slaughtered the creature that had tried to two of the most important women in his life, it was certainly quite unsettling.
"Ah man," Asuka looked at Jin with a hint of worry in her voice, "…sounds like he's beginning to freak out…"
Undoing the clips at the sides of her helmet, Xiaoyu unmasked herself as she slowly walked towards Jin with her arms outstretched. She had seen Jin deal with this before prior to the previous King of Iron Fist Tournament, when he was running the Zaibatsu alone. Xiaoyu was always aware that she was the only thing standing between a calm Jin and a Jin that reveled in bloodshed.
"Jin…calm down," Xiaoyu gently hugged Jin from behind and stroked his back, "…it's over…so please…calm down."
The panting became quieter as Xiaoyu lightly embraced Jin. After a few seconds, the panting had ceased entirely, and Jin regained his composure and dropped the jaw in his hand. Holding Xiao's hand with his free hand, Jin looked behind him and nodded at his friend. Even though Xiao couldn't see his face due to his red helmet, that was Jin's way of saying it was OK.
"So…the bastard got away," Asuka walked over to the couple and handed Xiaoyu back her helmet. "I guess we'll get him next time, right guys?"
"…yeah…that's right, Asuka." Jin straightened himself and nodded in approval while Xiaoyu clipped her helmet back on. "Next time we'll send that freak into the depths of Mt. Fuji!"
"Hey Jin," Xiaoyu pointed at Asuka's "2" on her helmet, "I noticed how there are numbers on our helmets…but if you're 5, and I'm 4, and she's 2…what happened to 1 and 3?"
"Hmm…I guess there are other people with these powers, Xiao," Jin said as the trio began to walk out the door. "Chances are we'll meet them soon enough, though. Now come on: let's head back so I can shower this offal off of me…"
As soon as they walked out the hole in the wall that was once the door, however, there were deafening cheers and a mob of paparazzi…apparently a shower would have to wait…
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Just who are these mysterious 'Shinkengers', whose name was announced by the woman in white? The Shinkengers, who stemmed the slaughter caused by the mysterious killer with a battle ax earlier today, told the press that they would track the monster down, and then left in a limousine that was parked nearby. In other news-
Kazuya turned the television off as he looked next to him and saw Astaroth sitting on the couch that Kazuya had brought in (being that he was going to be spending an awful lot of time in the abandoned lab, he might as well make it cozier). "You did well, Astaroth," Kazuya nodded his head at the behemoth, "but what are you going to do with these interlopers? Remember, I want nothing to be traced back to me."
"…I'm going to strangle the life out of them," Astaroth grumbled.
"You will do no such thing…you can break their arms and legs, but I want them brought to me in one piece. I must know the secret of their transformation," Kazuya walked away as Astaroth picked up the remote control and turned the television back on.
Who are these interlopers, Kazuya stroked his chin as he went to get a drink of water. I must find out how they acquired that much power without my noticing…but until then…let there be war!
