First thing Mike needed to do was get out of her apartment lease- pay off her landlord of she had to. For this task she was glad she kept in touch with her friend and tag team partner Yamato Nadeshiko. Since Mika was in Russia all alone she had no one to confide in outside of Zangief. The email she wrote Yamato read like a diary; every moment of fear, sadness, stress, courage, love. Yamato knew it all so she wasn't surprised when the last email was "he proposed! OMG I'm going to marry him!"

"oh c-p." Yamato said to herself. She would need to play middleman. Mika sent her a short list of things to do. First, tell the boss. Second get her out of her apartment lease. Mika instructed her to contact her when those 2 things were done.

"I will contact my sister to tell my parents- through email of course." Mika added. She was scared; she knew people would be upset.

Yamato went about her friend's requests. First was the boss.

"Mika's not coming back." She said, bringing a copy of the final email. He went pale.

"so she's just gone?!- I need a plan." He would start to promote Yamato as the new star of the company. She was the only one with the seniority and star power to pull it off.

"Can we wait a week or 2? I need to help Mika clear out of her apartment. " Yamato asked (though she did like the idea.)

Meanwhile Zangief made a public announcement of their engagement and Mika really wished he had not. There was media everywhere and they had to get married in less than a month (because the media was expecting them to.)

Yamato finally contacted her; she closed out the apartment and all her stuff would be shipped via cargo plane- and Yamato would forward the bill. Mika had one last request "Will you be my maid of honor?"

"uh, sure, when?" was Yamato's reply.

"next week." Mika was already stressed.

"you don't expect a bachelorette party or anything right?" Yamato replied. She could have asked Mike to pay for her ticket but that would have been a bit much.

"of course not. I just want someone from my old life there and if you get here by tomorrow you can help me pick out my dress." Was her final message; Yamato laughed. Sure why not. After all she missed her best friend.

8 hours later Yamato boarded a plane for Russia. Mika picked her up at the airport, with Zangief waiting in the limo.

"So this is the legendary Yamato?" he said in his usually overly dramatic voice.

"And you must be the legendary Zangief. " she said with a sarcastic smile. Yes he had as great body, but she could not see what Mika saw in him.

They didn't go to a bridal store; a woman with a giant array of dresses can to the house.
With each dress she asked, "would Zangief like this?", "do I look beautiful enough for him?"

After a while Yamoto had to ask; "why are you choosing him over your family?

"Are you really asking me that?" MKika could not believe what her friend was saying.

"I understand; he needs you and you want to be needed"

"it's more than that." Mika added, clearly hurt.

-Will you at least come vist? Airlines were invited for a reason."

"maybe…"

That was the end of that. She picked out a goen on her own and Yamoto was given a fold out bed to sleep in.

In the days leading to the severely publicized wedding Mika fell very ill. Under the stress and media pressure she had started to vomit blood, while shivering badly. She became so weak she could not get out of bed.

This lasted for 3 days. The day before the wedding she had to be hospitalized. She was sick, weak and in so much pain she drifted in and out of consciousness.

As she lay unconscious the doctors revealed the true cause to Zangief and Yamato; Mika had been pregnant, but miscarried- horrifically. She had cysts in her uterus, and the stress made her so sick, one of them ruptured. She might never be able to have a child.

Yamato grabbed him as they he turned to leave, "If you love her at all you will not tell her."

"Not right away, but she deserves to know. " he said walking away.

That was not the correct answer. Yamato punched him in the head and then the hospital staff (and security) was treated to an unscripted, very real match. That tore though the hallways of the hospital.

They were both detained (even though only Zangief was asked if he wanted to press charges.) He declined, but he did want to talk to her.

The police allowed him in to her cell. After all he was the 'red cyclone' he could defiantly handle an unruly girl.

She was sitting on the floor, legs crossed as if she was mediating.

"What can I do to gain your trust?" he said sitting beside her.

"Postpone the wedding." She said, not even looking at him. "I know about the wedding- your manager is trying to outdo England's royal wedding."

He knew she wasn't wrong. It was meant to be a spectacle, with a massive guest list of celebrities and political figures (though only from Russia- there had been no time to invite anyone from Japan, not even her family.)

"You KNOW she won't ask you herself. She loves you with all her soul. I'd bet she's willing to walk down the aisle in a wheelchair for you- but is that what you want?" Yamato was upset, not only for Mika but for her self- she would have to abandon her friend to this jerk? No she could not live with herself. If he didn't make a public statement by midnight, she would go to the Japanese embassy and get Mika out of the country.

She was released and went back to the hospital (thankfully she wasn't banned.)

Zangief wasn't there; but he left her a note in the form of an ipad with a single clickable file. It was a video of him meeting with the press – while getting a marriage license. He explained that he planned to legally marry Mika while she was in the hospital, so she could start the process of becoming a changing her citizenship.

The wedding would be 6 months away, plenty of time for her to heal, and to actually invite her family (and the Japanese press.)

Yamato was satisfied, for now. She held sleeping Mika's hand, "I guess you were right, he does love you."