"Did you hear the loud noise? What the hell was that?" Steve asks to Raven while running down a seemingly endless hallway.

"Lars should have told me if he planned to blow this place up." Raven replies.

"Well, he didn't mention anything about blowing something up. It can't be his doing. Anyway, do you still know where these guys are going?"

"I have a shadow clone following them. Both of them separate at the next intersection. My target goes to the right while yours goes straight ahead."

"Finally we can get down to business. Who the hell would want to operate in a base like this anyway?"

As Steve and Raven reach the intersection, they part ways with each other. Steve wishes him good luck, but Raven does not reply back. Steve just decides to shrug it off.

Steve punches the door down on Balrog's room. He sees broken mirrors everywhere with some worn out punching bags.

"Geez, you live in this mess? I almost feel sorry for you here." says Steve in a sneer tone.

"I was just warming up on how I am gonna pummel you like a little bug you are, punk!" Balrog yells and bumps his fists to each other.

"You sure are a loud one. Come at me and let's finish this!"

Balrog dashes straight at Steve. He quickly dodges his attack and leaves Balrog punching the wall in front of him. The wall is left with huge cracks and Balrog's fist penetrates the wall deeply and he budges it with ease. After his fist is budged, the wall crumbles and falls apart, creating a huge smokescreen where Steve can no longer see his enemy.

"Where is he!?" Steve checks his front, left, right, and back but still cannot see Balrog.

"Up here!" A voice suddenly comes out, Steve looks up and on his sight, Balrog's fist zooms in and Steve couldn't react, so he took a full blow to the face and knocks his head down to the ground. Blood can be seen below Steve's head and Balrog already thinks that he is done for.

"Is that all you've got, kid? I was expecting much more of a fight! What a waste of time!" Balrog turns his back on Steve. Then, Steve grabs him by the leg and surprises Balrog when Steve keeps his head up and smiles with blood coming out from his mouth.

Steve pulls his leg and causes him to stumble, creating a perfect opportunity to strike back, but he does not attack him while he's down.

"Get up! Let's do this with the rules, yeah?"

Balrog gets up and strikes his right foot. He can hear a bone cracking and Steve twitches his eyebrows.

"Rules? Don't give me that crap! I just care about getting paid killing little punks like you. Now, die!" Balrog charges again, but Steve rolls to the side to dodge it.

"Well if you insist, I'll make an exception for this one." Steve gets up as quick as he can with his right foot shaking.

Balrog repeats the same attack and Steve easily dodges it again.

"He may be strong but he isn't too bright. I can read him easily like a book! I'll just wait for him to come at me again and counter him with my most effective moves."

As predicted, Balrog rushes to attack Steve again. This time, instead of rolling to the side, he ducks under his strike and gives Balrog a heavy hook to the face. This does not bring him down, however so Steve adds things up with very fast strikes of punches to his stomach. After that, he gives him another hook and a strong uppercut that leaves him flying up to ten feet in the air and opens up a hole in his ceiling that leaves his head stuck in there. Balrog does not move his hands to get himself out of there, which presumes of his defeat.

'You are stronger than me, I'll give you that. But the better boxer has more technique than strength, something a muscle-bound moron like you can never understand."

Steve tries to leave the room, but his head is ringing. Steve touches his head and cries in pain.

"Agh! You got me good back there. I'll just find a place to lay down for a bit."


Raven enters Vega's room which is full of clean mirrors lining up next to each other, and so many reflections of different things can be seen. Raven sees Vega holding down his mask.

"Oh, it's you again. Came here for revenge, ugly scum?" Vega insults, but Raven ignores him and gives him a deep cold stare.

"Your time ends here." Raven unsheathes his two daggers from his lower back. Vega licks his own claw and begins to wear his mask back on.

"I will enjoy getting rid of your ugliness from this world."

Vega begins by jumping from a wall and launches himself to augment the speed of his aerial claw attack. Raven blocks it with his two daggers, and then Vega jumps to land. Raven jumps high in the air and throw shurikens at him, but suddenly Vega disappears. Raven looks confused and then feels a presence from behind in midair. Vega holds him tightly and performs the Izuna Drop. Vega tries to get up and attack again, but Raven's body turns to smoke and Raven strikes him from behind by slashing Vega's back. It was Raven's shadow clone that Vega performed the Izuna Drop on and Raven is left with no injuries.

"You'll pay for that!" says Vega.

Vega goes straight to Raven and extends his claw, and Raven dodges by jumping up. Vega baits him to be in midair and starts to jump at a wall and launches himself and manages to strike Raven in the guts. The claws almost punctures his vital point, but blood splatters from his stomach and groans in pain. He drops to the ground lying down. Vega laughs maniacally and tries to go for another strike, but Raven quickly gets up and grabs his right hand where the claw is being equipped. He quickly slices the claw in half, reducing the range of it, but also making it sharper.

"You fool, you think this is over!?" Vega asks.

"Enough talk. I'll finish you real quick." Raven responds.

Raven runs towards him and starts to strike with his daggers. The sounds of metals clashing into each other can be heard until Vega's claw lunges into Raven's shoulder. However, Raven also manages to slice his mask in half that hurts Vega's face in the process. Vega screams in pain and budges his claws quickly off Raven's shoulders, which also cause extreme pain on Raven's end.

"Agh! My beautiful face! What have you done!?" Vega screams while trying to hide his face with his hands.

"Good. He is getting distracted. I will finish this with one final strike." Raven thinks to himself.

Raven performs some hand seals to create a shadow clone and runs up to Vega again. Vega doesn't notice because he is distracted by his injured face. A shadow clone kicks him up on the chin and sends him flying. The clone jumps up and breaks his neck, while the real Raven waits until he falls down, and when he does, he slices him up multiple times and then clean the blood off his daggers and sheathes them.

"This time, I win." says Raven, showing his back on the unconscious Vega.

Raven's wound is still open, and if he doesn't have a medical attention soon, he can die from blood loss. He search around the room and finds a first aid kit next to a table. He uses bandages to stop further bleeding and then leaves the room. As soon as he leaves, his vision becomes blurry, starts to stumble around, and then falls to the ground.

Steve is ready to walk again, but he decides to check in with Raven before going to the front. He sees Raven on the ground breathing heavily and sweats heavily.

"Hey! Are you OK!?" Steve asks.

Raven is too weak to reply back.

"You look really pale. Don't worry, I'll carry you out front. Hang on there, pal."


Steve carries Raven as quick as he can despite still having a broken foot he received from Balrog. When they regroup with the soldiers and the rest of the students assigned to guard the front, Steve puts him down.

"Julia, you have any idea what happened to this guy?" Steve asks.

Julia has some knowledge about medicine from her mother and her experience with nature. She examines Raven and comes up with a quick conclusion.

"He has been poisoned." Julia adds.

"Damn, that bastard must have his claw coated with poison. Can you do something about it?"

"I'm afraid not. I need a special plant to create an antidote."

"What plant? Let's go get it."

"There are no plants near Mount Fuji. It's all snow, Steve! I have the plant at my house."

"Damn! How much time does he have?"

"I can say that he only have five hours to live."

"Five hours!? It takes three hours for us to get here! Let's just hope these guys would hurry and finish their businesses!


Ibuki slowly opens her eyes and struggles to get up. Her vision is not clear because of the smokes caused by the explosion. She starts coughing from the smoke and scratches her eyes. Her clothes are ripped and she received minor cuts from the shrapnel. She then looks up to Alisa who's in front of her in a badly damaged state with her left arm detached to her body and some of her synthetic skin peeling off. A blue transparent digital shield Alisa activated is still active, which protected both girls from the big explosion.

"Alisa! Oh no, what happened to you!?" Ibuki sheds a tear from her eye.

"I'm sorry that I did not see this coming. I apologize that my latest firmware could not detect a bomb inside." says Alisa in a distorted voice.

"It's not your fault Alisa. We both could not see this coming. Hang on, I'm getting you out of here."

"But, your mission failed. I should truly apologize to you."

"It doesn't matter now. Let's just get out of here."

Alisa doesn't say any more words and let Ibuki carry her and her detached arm. Ibuki stumbles because of the cuts on her legs. She carries on further along the former kidnapped martial artists that turned to dusts after the explosion. She has to walk on a very long hallway to at least reach Hwoarang and Baek.


Juri goes stronger every minute as her Feng Shui Engine influences her ki energy and visible purple aura flows through her body.

"What the hell is that!?" Hwoarang asks shockingly.

"Such foul energy. Be careful, Hwoarang!" Baek warns him.

"Yeah, I got it."

"You boys done talkin'? I seriously expect better from you two." says Juri and she suddenly teleports in front of Hwoarang and kicks him upward in the chin. Baek tries to kick her, but Juri dashes back and kicks the air while releasing a dark energy blade going towards Baek. He blocks it with both of his hands. He groans from the deep burning sensation he received from the projectile.

"Hwoarang, wake up! This is far from over!" Baek shouts at him but he passed out.

Juri charges to Baek again and keeps trying to kick him down. Baek manages to block her kicks even though his hands are injured. He then thinks ahead and sweeps Juri down. While she is knocked down, Baek unleashes a Dynamite Heel to her stomach and cause the ground to crack also. She starts coughing but quickly escapes from another incoming drop kick.

She jumps up and tries to land a heavy kick from the air. Baek blocks it, but the force is too strong and propels him to the wall, leaving him stuck. He struggles to get out from the wall while Juri runs up to him and unleashes her kicks that resemble a pinwheel. Them, Hwoarang regain consciousness and kick her away from his master.

"I'm not out yet, crazy bitch!" says Hwoarang furiously. He then goes to his master and rescue him.

"I have a plan, Hwoarang." says Baek.

"Whatever it is, I'll follow your lead."

"You'll know what to do."

Hwoarang is a bit puzzled, but he trusts his master for doing something that he will understand. Baek makes his move on the stunned Juri she received from Hwoarang's sneak attack. He strikes her left eye, the Feng Shui Engine. Her vision becomes distorted and some sparks comes out from the artificial eye. Baek launches her up into the air with his heavy kick.

"Hwoarang, your turn!"

"Oh!"

Hwoarang spins and propels himself into the air. He raises his right foot above his head and kicks Juri down at high speed for the finishing strike. He chuckles after seeing Juri get knocked down. He goes to his master and gives him a fist bump.

"Well done, my student!"

"Heh, thanks master! That move reminded me of air training. I'm glad I can use it again."

Ibuki finally arrives in the lab with Alisa. Hwoarang is shocked and hurries himself to them.

"Hey! Are you ok!?" says Hwoarang as he holds on to Ibuki.

"Never mind me; we need to get Alisa out of here." Ibuki replies.

Alisa isn't completely shut down, and she spends her remaining energy and looks at Jin. After a few seconds, Jin's capsule starts to open. Baek proceeds to get Jin out of there and removes his breathing mask. Jin feels weak after waking up and can only cough repeatedly. After Jin gets out, Alisa immediately shut down without notice.

"This better be worth all the trouble, damn Kazama!" Hwoarang shouts.

Jin ignores him because he is too weak to say anything right now, and even if he does, he would say nothing to him anyway.

Ibuki is saddened on Alisa's passing, but her body is still shocked from the explosion, and closes her eyes.

"Hey Ibuki, wake up!" Hwoarang shouts again but immediately stop. He check for any pulses on her wrist. Fortunately, there is still a sign of life. He is relieved and starts to carry her and Alisa's remains.

"Let's get out of here, Hwoarang." Baek orders.

"Right."


"Bison! You will pay for all of your crimes. You won't leave this room alive! "Lars swears at him.

"Pathetic words coming even from you! Worms like you deserve no pity. Now die!" Bison releases some of his Psycho energy on his right fist. Both combatants strike at each other. Their hits trade, Bison receives a cut on his cheek with an addition of a zap that causes him to clench his teeth. Lars receives no injuries but some of the Psycho energy got to his cape and starts to spread around him like fire.

"Ha! If you die here because of poor choice of attire, you should be ashamed of yourself!" Bison laughs.

"Don't you dare talk about what I wear when you look like a clown yourself." says Lars as he nullifies the Psycho power with his electricity. Bison laughs looks surprised and stop smiling afterwards.

The furious Heihachi makes his move at Bison. Bison sees this coming and starts to warp away from him. As half of his body starts to disappear, Heihachi manages to grab Bison's head and force himself to cancel the teleportation.

"You... but how!?" says Bison struggles to get his head off Heihachi's strong grip.

"They call me the King of Iron Fist for a reason!" says Heihachi as he throws Bison to Lars. Lars strikes back with a strong charged up electric punch that sends Bison flying across the room.

"Why are you helping me?"says Lars senses something very suspicious.

"You know you can't defeat him by yourself. Am I right?"

"What's your point?"

"We need to work together to beat him."

"If you seriously need my help, then that must mean you are not confident in beating him by yourself. Why the hell should I help you!?"

"You ever heard of the saying 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'?"

Lars is reluctant to agree to team up with him. He is in dilemma and he acknowledges Heihachi as a formidable fighter that can stop Bison and all of Shadaloo operations with his help, and he also knows his limits. However, fighting alongside him is against everything he stands for on the rebellion. For once, Lars decides to give up his conviction in order to stop Bison and possibly saving a lot of innocent lives in the long run.

"Fine, I'll work with you just this once."

"As I expected from a Mishima."

Bison becomes worried at their supposed alliance. He gets off the wall and charge at both if them using his Psycho Crusher. Both Heihachi and Lars dodge it easily. Bison smiles and jumps while they're mid-air. When he lands, the ground violently shakes. His bait works and now he has both of his enemies at his grasp. He then throws them up in the air and performs a double Psycho Punishers. Both are injured and have a hard time getting up. Bison laughs loudly in front of them until Heihachi boosts his strength with pure electricity and willpower. Heihachi runs up to Bison and grabs his head once again. He throws him up in the air and let him have a taste of his Demon Palm. Lars sees an opportunity for a finishing move and does his best to get up to end the fight. He charges his right hand with a huge amount of electricity and strikes Bison as he falls. The force is tremendous, and sends him flying outside of his office and leads to a fall down the lava of the volcano.

Lars checks down the volcano and sees a splash as Bison falls to his scorching demise. Suddenly, Heihachi stabs Lars in the back by kicking him down the volcano. He evilly laughs and turns his back.

"Us Mishimas live under betrayals after betrayals. It's a concept an illegitimate child like you fail to understand."

Lars comes prepared and gets out a prototype grappling device he received from Lee Chaolan. He presses the button and aims it at a rocky wall. He quickly climbs up and grabs Heihachi's foot. The old man is very shocked, but he couldn't keep his balance and curse at Lars as his last words before falling into the deep fiery hell.

Lars pants heavily and proceeds to Bison's desk. He checks the surveillance and finds out all of the locations of all Shadaloo's secret facilities. He notices a self-destruct option on the screen of each one.

"This must be how Bison keeps his men in line, to make sure nobody dare to disobey him." He presses self-destruct on all of the facilities, leaving buzzy screens, and end the regime of Shadaloo once and for all.


Sorry for the long wait. I've been busy and had a writer's block. Writing fighting scenes is new to me too. I hope I did at least a decent job at it.