AN/: Le continuation xD. This part should be at the previous chapter, but it was damn too long, especially the attack at zaibatsu sequel chapters =_=" so I'll make it random. Whew…so…OCs part here is a bit long. But enjoy instead =v=
Chapter 12: Au puissance (in power);
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"So…why are we here again?" asked Chris to both Will and Yua, as he walks with his arms behind his back. Will sighed as he turned to reply to Chris.
"Chris…CHRISANTO Lamonte, when will you ever stop asking?"
"Hey, William Mclorne, President of damnation, stop calling me by my full name!"
"Will the two of you stop that nonsense and beat those soldiers instead?" as Yua scolded to them and pointed to the 5 armed soldiers coming their way. "…and don't let your guard down!"
"Yes, LADY Yua!" replied the 2 young men. Yua was about to hit them but they ran so fast and made their way to the soldiers.
The 5 soldiers were aiming their rifles to Will and Chris.
"Remember Chris…" noted Will. "…just like the old times." he said as they ran towards them.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever Will." then Chris arm-locked a soldier and twisted its neck, making it unconscious.
Yua only watched them, having fun in beating up the soldiers; a sign that they still have that gangster attitude towards them. She crossed her arm as she watched Chris flip a soldier down to the pit.
"That was new, Chris…" said Yua, chuckling about it, but Chris didn't even turned to mock at Yua.
When they were done, seeing the 4 helpless soldiers (and the other still underground), Yua walks towards them. She placed her hands to their shoulders, indicating they should keep going now.
"We don't have much time." said Yua. "Everybody is depending on us. Once we destroy the main system of the ship, they'll surely retreat."
"Yeah…" said Chris, lifting his gun and resting it to his shoulder. "…hope nothing interferes."
"Wow Chris…" mocked Will to him as Chris turned to glance at him. "…this got to be the first time I saw you THAT serious."
Chris flinched and frowned at Will. "Shut up! Now let's go…"
Then the 3 of them went to the main control room.
…
Kazuya was walking at the corridors of the Mishima Zaibatsu, with the necklace on his pocket. He beat up every soldier that would try to stop him. He could feel Jin is indeed with Xiaoyu, trying his best to get Xiaoyu away from him.
"How peculiar…" whispered Kazuya to himself. "…is she really that important to you?"
Woman is indeed the weakness of a Mishima.
He chuckled slightly at his thought. He knows Xiaoyu is in a close relationship with Jin, considering the fact that she is the only one he's comfortable with. Now, he's going to take her, knowing that Jin will loathe him more…and maybe…
…let his Devil Gene pounce back.
Another heap of soldiers began to aim at him, telling him to surrender instead. He sighed at the stupidity of the soldiers. He thought they have underestimated them.
"This is such a bore…" then he began to run in front of them and beat them up.
He walks a little more, as calmly as he could. He could feel it; Jin is just nearby.
….
"Hey! Look what I've found!" shouted Chris to both Will and Yua after they have beat up another wave of soldiers. He raised a folded paper to them.
"What is it?" asked Yua, lifting her chin to refer to the found paper.
"I don't know…" then Chris unfolded the paper. "…I guess…a map?" he said tilting his head to it.
"Let me take a look at that." said Will, approaching Chris and stood beside him. "Yhup; definitely a map. This must be the outline of the whole ship." he said turning to Yua. Yua walks towards them and stood in the middle of the 2 boys.
"Will…can you tell where we are?" asked Yua.
"Let's see…I think we are here." Will said, pointing at the lower portion of the map. "And I think…here…is our destination." as Will pointed to the slight upper part of the map with a note 'CONTROL ROOM'.
Chris whistled with satisfaction. "Guess we have a heading."
"Right…" replied Yua. She then lifted her head up and looked at the direction they should take; forward.
"If we go forward, we'll only end up beating the soldiers over and over again." then Yua turned to them; her eyes having a shade of crimson. "But if we do that, it'll only waste our time."
"So…" as Will scratched his head. "…we need to come up on a strategy, is that it?"
Yua nodded. Chris began to smudge his chin. He came up with a…crazy idea.
"Hmmm…why don't we…" then Chris lifted his head up. "…use the ceiling?"
"The CEILING?" shrieked Will to Chris. "That's just crazy talk, Chris."
"Well, don't we have other ideas?"
They all went silent. Moments later, Yua, the Supreme Commander of the group, began to speak up.
"If this means doing the mission fast, why not?" said Yua, having a satisfaction smile to the 2 of them. "Besides…" then she turned once more to the direction. "…he might be coming towards us now."
Hearing that, turned the atmosphere go dense; Will and Chris knew what she meant. Yua's eyes made a shaded red, staring with an eerie look. Her eyes' color only change depending on her mood. Now, she feels fired up, somehow she knew she'll face another problem.
But now is not the time to think about it.
"Let's go." started Yua, facing them with her full red eyes, walking past behind them. "We have other business to do." and so Will and Chris followed her.
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Nina woke up, finding herself left on a corner, with soldiers having their rifles pointed directly to her. The red lasers aimed right to her body. She stood up with her 2 hands raised up in the air.
"How cute." she scoffed. "Is this a total ambush? Or just another decoy like the last time?" asked Nina mockingly to the soldiers, remembering the decoy that Anna had last time set up for them.
"Put your weapons down." ordered the woman behind the soldiers. She appeared right before them, smiling at her sister. "It's been a while now, Nina."
"I know…" said Nina. "…I was expecting this to be a happy reunion. But it seems like you haven't prepared for the party, Anna."
Anna made a 'tch' sound on her lips, before replying to Nina. "I was busy, and I have no time to prepare for your 'so-called' party."
Nina and Anna only made eerie smiles to each other. They like to tease each other like this; maybe the reason why they haven't killed each other yet.
"You almost destroyed the Mishima Zaibatsu, came here trespassing, killed quarter of my soldiers, and pointed your rifles at me; what are you planning, Anna?"
That question made Anna breathe a laugh out of her lungs. "I came here to see you, sis. Don't you want to see your sister too?" mocked Anna, spreading her arms to Nina like she was going to hug her.
"Don't even think about it." as Nina backed away. "I'm not fond of giving off hugs from persons hiding their daggers behind them."
And Anna was. Anna backed away when her sister discovered her hidden intention towards her. "I thought you're dumb enough not to realize."
"Hn." jeered Nina out, making a line to her cheeks. "We are sisters, Anna. Nothing is different between us."
Anna narrowed her eyebrows down. She curled up her fists tightly. Of course she's different from her sister; she's way beyond her, she's greater than her, and she's more a capable assassin than her.
Noticing Anna's reaction, Nina ran towards Anna. She was so fast that the soldiers had no time to react. She made an evasive jump and aimed at Anna. Anna looked up, preparing herself to guard her body, making her arms cross in front of her upper body.
Nina landed to Anna, precisely to her crossed arms. She slowly smiled at Anna, knowing that she'll make a move to defend her air kick; then Nina circuses around, passing each soldier until she made another jump and landed on an elevated rock pile.
Her body shadowed the fire behind her. Anna looked up at her as she tries to stand up. Nina was staring down at Anna's frustrated expression. She made a mocking smile, making Anna fury.
"Get hold of yourself!" shouted Anna to her soldiers. "STOP slacking your ass and get her!" then the soldiers began making their pace. Nina ran away from the multiple soldiers chasing her. She's running away but she's not leaving them. She has another plan on her mind. What she needs is a little timing.
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From the ceiling, Chris popped his head to check if there are soldiers around.
"Clear." announced Chris, and then they began to jump off from the ceiling and landed their shoes to the floor. They used the anti-gravity so no one could hear their heavy shoes touch the floor.
"That was something…" said Will as he stood up. "…next time…we need a better SHORTCUT." complained Will, shoving away the dust from his polo and pants.
"OH please, just say your 'thank you'." retorted Chris, turning his head to him.
"Save your 'thanks', we have better things to consider." reminded Yua. They all loaded their guns with ammunitions and set off. "Move out."
They were moving fast and swiftly while lowering their stance, when Yua suddenly halted; Will and Chris, who was behind her and following her lead, stopped immediately.
"Yua?" asked Will, noticing Yua's sudden numbness.
"He's close." she stiffened and stared behind them, looking at an edge of a wall. Her eyes glowed slight red, and her eyebrows meeting in place. Chris and Will stood up slowly, looking behind them.
Then a shadow of a person appeared at the wall. It was walking slowly; like that person doesn't know that the people near him/her are armed.
Will made curious yet astounded feeling to his face, as he slowly noticed who the person was walking towards them. Chris could feel the pressure going through the atmosphere.
Slowly and slowly, a figure came before them. A familiar chuckle stiffened them, setting their backs feel the cold down to their knees. They were like unable to move; like something is stopping them to move freely. Then the man in the shadow began to speak.
"What a horrible face." mocked the man. "Aren't you glad to meet your man again?" then the military-suited man came closer to them. He noticed Yua looking at him sternly.
"General Max." stated Yua, turning her eyes to bright flames. "Or should I consider not calling you that?"
General Max began to chuckle. "My, my; you only rebelled against me you turned out to be like that." Then he looked at her red fiery eyes. "You still have that amazing eyes, like new born flames casting it to destroy everything." Then he smiled annoyingly. "Only urges me to take them out.
Yua grew even angrier, clenching her fist to her samurai, which was tied on her back. Chris came to interrupt their conversation.
"Don't lift your hopes yet, blockhead." snapped Chris quickly.
"Aries…you still have that disrespectful mouth of yours." reminded Gen. Max, and then he glanced to Will. "You still enjoy your romance, Leo?"
"That's it…" then Will knuckle-crackled his fist while aiming to come towards him, but Yua stretches out her arms and halted Will. Her expression was still the same, then she began to speak up.
"Go to the target position." commanded Yua, telling them to leave. "Make sure you destroy it at once."
"Yua?" as Will looked at her with total confusion. "W-What are you saying?"
She started to put her arms down and pulled out her samurai behind her. "Leave him with me."
"NO Yua! You can't do that!" shrieked Chris back, standing in front to the young girl. "Are you saying we'll just leave you and fight him ALONE?"
"What I'm saying is do the mission without me!" as Yua glanced back with her blood red eyes to Chris. Chris flinched at the sight; her eyes, they look even more dangerous than before.
"Yua…" said Will softly. "…we…we can't just leave you here." His tone emanating with despair, truly worried to Yua. Yua inhaled and made a deep sigh. He turned around and faced Will.
"We can't make 2 missions at once; at least this one will buy you more time." told Yua to Will. "I'm going to distract him."
"Yua you know that's not what he meant." said Chris. "We need to fight him together."
Yua scoffed a breath and shook her head in the process. "You guys never learn, do ya?" then she lifted her head looking at them. "Go; I'll fight him while you do the rest. I'll buy you time."
Will doesn't want to go, but they have a mission to do. They HAVE to leave without her, but his deep love for Yua only makes him more worried. Firstly, she might get killed by Gen. Max and; finally, her Phoenix state.
"Alright, Yua." said Will in defeat. "Just promise me one damn thing…" then he embraced her, right on front of the enemy. "Please…don't die." He doesn't care if he'll mock around them; instead he dropped his pride down for Yua. He finally pulled away, and took in charge for the mission. They walked past Gen. Max; gladly not halting them.
"So…" as Gen. Max began to speak. "…you're going to fight me, Gemini?"
Hearing her name, she pointed her samurai to him. "Don't call me by that name; I loathe it…just like how I loathe you…" she said in deep monotone voice.
"Oh? How peculiar. You once liked that name when I call you Ge—."
He was cut off when Yua ran towards him and swung her samurai to him, but the General was fast and placed his gloved hands to take hold of her weapon.
"You…" she said, whispering to him with still great fury. "…destroyed my family, took away my happiness, and yet, you still have the guts to chuckle about it?" she said, while her samurai was trembling with supreme pressure from her, pushing it to slice him.
"Of course…" then the General narrowed his eyes to Yua. "…want me to tell you how good it felt, killing the longest living clan in whole Japan?"
"ENOUGH!" then she flipped herself, kicking the unguarded general as he rests with his own feet. "You took away everything; you lied to us completely, and made us believe you're our salvation." Then her eyes gleam red and flames began to climb to her whole body. "You're going to—."
She was cut off by the sudden heavy feeling.
Feeling her rage has come to limit, her heart began to pound hard. She felt it, that she kneeled down to the floor with her one hand placed to her chest. She could hardly breathe, sweat began to pour her face and neck; the 'hidden' power is revealing itself.
The general chuckled, noticing Yua has come to her state finally. "Don't you ever hide that tremendous power you have, Yua." sang the general. "That will bring you victory, that will grant you control for the whole world! Let it out…let it out!"
"N-No!" said Yua, still clenching her hand to her chest where her heart is. She could feel that she could not take it anymore, but she needs to control herself.
But the Phoenix is still forcing itself out.
"Your father must be proud of you, seeing her only daughter possess that massive strength." then the general began to laugh. "He should have instead joined me, now look at him! He's in the grave, with him lies his unused power! He should have used that to help me gain the world! But yet he hesitated; he made a big mistake of his life, leaving her poor daughter, be picked up by the one who had killed him!"
Still breathing heavily, Yua tried to reply to him. "He…hesitated…because he knew…that you are only going… to use it for your own sake!" her hands were shaking, but she continued to speak. "You shouldn't have picked me up; because…you might just regret it…" then she looked at him with red flaming eyes. "You'll only die in my hands…!"
The general stiffened at the words she just said. Did she said those things? Wait—this is not Yua speaking now. This is her heart—the Phoenix. He knew what will happen next. He started to back away a few steps, still watching Yua flame up.
In just one click, she bursts out her flames, stretching out, letting her flaming aura go hit the walls and alarm the system. She screamed with all her might…letting the power consume her. Her aura broke some walls and strong winds came out. General Max couldn't hide his amused fear; he only watched her clenching her head, waiting for her to calm down.
She immediately glanced to him at the edge of her eyes, and massive power began to explode, destroying big parts of the aircraft. It alarmed the system at the control room; the alarms were loud that Will and Chris could hear them enough.
The big aircraft began to tremble at the power, shaking and making Will and Chris imbalanced.
"What was that!?" scrammed Chris, as he supports himself at a wall.
"Oh no…" then Will turn to Chris. "…it's Yua."
"But…should we go back?" asked Chris. "Yua is depending on us; she doesn't want us to go back for her."
"But—!" Will was cut off when Chris dragged him to a wall.
"Listen to me bro; I know you care for her so much, but she entrusts us her faith to us." Then he let him go, seeing Will rigid. "We need to keep going."
Will closed his eyes tightly, resting his head hard to the wall. He loves her so much and he doesn't want anything to happen to her. He knows Yua is still incapable of controlling her power, but like she has done, he needs to put his faith on her.
"Alright…" then Will straighten up. "…we could hear the control room's alarm system go nuts around by the disturbance Yua made." Then he faced left, the way to the control room. "Let's go."
Yua…please…don't give up on me. I know you could make that promise.
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The huge explosion was even felt at the Zaibatsu from miles away. Each of them, even in different places—Jin, Xiaoyu, Hwoarang, Lili, Asuka, Nina, Lars and Alisa—felt the disturbance caused by Yua's power.
They have one thing in mind; the war will be over soon.
But would it turn out to be good?
"Jin?" called Xiaoyu, as they halted because of the havoc. "What was that?"
Familiar about the tremendous power, Jin turned to Xiaoyu. "I'll tell you later. We need to keep going." And so they kept on running through pile of rocks and debris almost blocking their path.
Suddenly, Jin stiffened as he stopped on a hallway. He couldn't explain it, but he felt even more power; stronger than Yua's. He gripped Xiaoyu's hand, and pulled her to his back.
His eyes were narrowed, staring only at an edge of a wall, until a familiar face appeared before them.
"It's been a long time now…son." said the man in front of them. Xiaoyu squeezed herself to Jin, gripping his arm, assuming that it could protect her. Jin gritted his teeth, seeing his father who had found them.
It's too late now.
"So…it seems like…" as Kazuya turned and made a glance to Xiaoyu. "…the 2 of you have a closer relationship than I could think of." he said, chuckling to the discovery he made just by looking at them. "My, my; women truly is our weakness, am I right, Jin?"
"I know you're not here to fight me…yet; but I won't let you take away Xiao from me."
This young man is indeed in love, thought Kazuya, noticing how Jin is protecting Xiaoyu. He thinks that it was stupid to waste your strength just by protecting one pathetic girl.
"Alright then…I guess I need to use brute force." said Kazuya, making a step forward to Jin. Jin let go of Xiaoyu and turned to her.
"Xiao…I—"
"I know…" said Xiaoyu soflty to Jin. He made a sweet smile, even while at the prologue of the battle. "Don't let him beat you."
"I will…" then Jin gently kissed her forehead before going to the approaching Kazuya.
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AN/: Too long part of the OCs =_= sorry about that. As you have noticed, some of my titles are French. I'm not French but I'm studying them xD. Hope you review. ((whew long story))
