BIG GAME HUNTING

yep I'm finally back after my long hiatus. And without further wait onto my chapter!)

Adam shivered regretting his choice of waiting on top of the van. "Baka!" He thought to himself. "Russia, plus wind chill factor ALWAYS equals cold has hell!" That thought kept playing in his mind as the gusts of wind blasted his face. Although he was still silently thankful that none of the other vehicles seemed to notice him.

But he had done a few things to take his mind off of the cold, such as upon remembering their reference to going to a base in Thailand he quickly pulled out his cell phone and called the local airport, it was pretty difficult given his limited grasp of Russian but eventually he ordered himself a first class ticket to Thailand. "Thank god for that bank account I've got…." He murmured under his breath. Soon after he had placed the phone back into his pocket however the van stopped in the middle of a parking lot. As soon as the young man observed Charlie and Chun-li get out of the van, and a safe distance away he hopped off silently behind them.

At least he THOUGHT he was silent, however he was quickly startled to see the sole of a tennis shoe about half an inch from shattering his nose the moment he touched the ground. "Uhm…" He grinned sheepishly groping for words before setting on: "I come in peace?"

Chun-li let out a very angry groan. "You AGAIN!" After that she muttered to herself in Chinese. Charlie just smirked, as though trying not to laugh.

"Too think, we were getting spied on by a kid." He said adjusting his glasses.

"Shut up Nash…" Chun-li said in a dangerous tone. "And YOU!" her fury was once again centered on Adam. "STAY! HERE!"

"No way, I just spent good money buying plane tickets to Thailand, do you know how expensive and time consuming it is to change or return them?" Adam asked her.

"Charlie…knock him out…we'll just put him in the van and take him back to the city…" Chun-li was obviously showing great restraint in not hitting the boy by the tone in her voice.

"Uh…sorry Chun-li…but if we do that we'll miss the plane, and seeing as it's the last one and this IS our big chance at getting to Bison…"

"Well…we cant leave him here!" Chun-li yelled at an impass.

"I can fight."

"Yeah but can you fight GOOD?" Charlie asked.

"Well…I can do this," He let that hang before doing a rolling attack actually leaving a crack in the wall he hit. "And this." With that he showed his more unique talent and a bit of electricity crackled between his fingers.

"It'll have to do." Chun-li said distastefully as she started walking, picking up her duffle bag and whispering to Charlie as they walked. "We ditch him first thing off the plane." Charlie simply nodded as the (mostly) unwilling trio walked to the plane to Thailand.

The hours passed in boredom for Adam who was in first class while Chun-li and Charlie conspired against Bison in coach.

"Alright, as soon as we infiltrate the base we have to plant the bombs before Bison can get to us. Any interference-" Chun-li began.

"Is to be suddenly and quickly eliminated." Charlie finished in a cold tone.

"Can you do that Charlie?" She asked him.

"I am United States Air Force. I have been deployed to hostile war zones with orders to terminate military and political leaders. I am a two time champion of the North American Karate championships. If I cant handle it I cant think of anyone else that could. Except perhaps you and Guile. But he still thinks WE'RE on the wrong side." Charlie stated looking out the window.

Chun-li nodded and the rest of the trip passed in silence.

Eventually they arrived, Adam snoring in his seat, Chun-li and Charlie at rapt attention and attempting to sneak away from the boy.

"Tryin' to ditch me?" Adam asked (speaking English as they both can understand it).

"No." Chun-li sighed.

"Good, so where do we go from here?"

"To that mountain." She said pointing to a rather large ominous looking expanse of stone.

"Peachy…"

"If your not up for it…" Charlie let the offer hang silently hoping the boy would take it.

"I can handle it." Adam said nodding.

"Perfect…"

As it turned out less true words were rarely spoken then those by Adam as the trio began their assent over the mountain paths, Adam struggling along behind the Interpol inspector and the United States Air force agent.

"Hurry up kid!" Charlie shouted, holding a heavy pack of provisions over his shoulder, despite the amount of time the three had been hiking to two older members of the group had yet to break a sweat, while Adam wasn't in horrible condition he was tired. His training with Blanka was useful here at least.

"I'm coming!" He shouted running to catch up to his two counterparts.

"Alright, lets set up camp, we'll take three hours break from the hike, no use in getting to the base if we're exhausted." Charlie said, obviously a plea for Adam's health more then anything else Chun-li, thankfully to Adam, nodded.

"There's a river nearby right?" She asked sitting on a log.

"Yes." Charlie acknowledged.

"Good," The Interpol agent said untying her shoes and setting them down, followed by her vest. "Then I'm going to take a bath." She then glared pointedly at Adam. "And SOMEONE'S hormones had best not get hold of him." With that warning she walked off.

After a few minutes Adam heard what he believed to be a rustle near the direction Chun-li left in, dreams of glory seemed to override his fear of the woman as he stood up while Charlie was preparing a meal and snuck off into the woods. Soon enough he heard it again and when he looked was met with a sharp blow to the face, and a loud shout of 'PERVERT!'. Completely disoriented Adam stumbled around groping for purchase to keep from falling, he grabbed something that felt like cloth as he hit the ground. Although not able to feel ki, he was able to feel malice radiate from direction in front of him. That sobered his vision enough to see what was in front of him, and blush because it was Chun-li, and he was holding a towel. The towel she WAS wearing.

"AHH! I'm sorry! Sumimasen! Sumimasen!" He yelled apologizing in English and Japanese, crouched low, just as about a dozen kicks knocked him into a tree.

"What the HELL do you think your doing?" Chun-li yelled, angry to the point where she was forgetting her current state of dress.

"I…I heard something…" He replied weakly. "I came to check on you…" He quickly realized that was a bad choice of words, but was luckily saved by a shout behind the tree, as a man came out from behind it, and pointed a gun at Chun-li.

"Kikouken!" She shouted throwing her ki projectile at him, just as Adam clamped his hand around the man's shin sending a surge of electricity into him. The combination of the two attacks was enough to knock the man unconscious.

"Damn…" Chun-li grumbled looking the man over, ignoring Adam's blushing for the moment then grabbed her towel blushing herself remembering what she had been ignoring. "Uhm…sorry…about the pervert remark…" She said haltingly.

"No...problem.." Adam said finally on his feet. "So…he work for Shadowloo?"

Chun-li nodded in the affirmative. "We should head off now." She said going behind a large tree and dressing. "If one of Bison's goon squad is here others are going to find us too."

"Right…" Adam said. "I'll tell Charlie…" He said rushing off to give her some privacy.

Within five minutes they were all running at top speed to the top of the mountain. They had lost their advantage, the element of surprise. It was during this that Adam felt his foot loosing purchase on the ground, soon he found himself rolling down the stone face of the mountain, and his allies shouting, he blacked out when he felt his head smash into a tree.

He wasn't sure how long he was out but his head was throbbing and he was suddenly shocked to see a man towering over him, he was large, bald, with a scar over part of his head, and a patch over one eye, an even larger scar over his chest, he wore a pair of shorts and wrist and foot bindings. The man definitely did NOT look pleasant.