Tokyo, Musashi Region, Japan
King of the Iron Fist Tournament IV, Day 1
At the very eve of the fourth King of the Iron Fist tournament, one of its soon-to-be contestants was climbing one of the city skyscrapers in Tokyo to complete the assignment given to this one. As the climber reached the designated floor under a thick layer of darkness due to the short power outage, it was no problem to get through the security guards to the facility's secret compartment through a computer-locked blast door after a small moment of hacking. As the person entered the facility, the brought-up lights from a reserve generator revealed the deadly intruder.
A dark-blue leather bodysuit accompanied by a pair of dark gloves and white heeled boots, blue eyes with a cold-blooded glance covered by light glasses and a smirk hanging on her bright lips. Nina Williams, probably the world's deadliest assassin, just broke into one of the prized military installations of Mishima Zaibatsu and cast a stunning entry to the watching guards and officers of the Tekken Force.
Nina was long MIA due to the incident with the Ogre creature that mind-controlled her in a failed attempt to remove Jin Kazama. After a failure of healing her amnesia caused by a long cryosleep procedure, Nina vanished from everyone's sight and radar - Mishima Zaibatsu, her sister Anna, Lei Wulong - and focused on the only work that gave her some purpose to live - assassination contracts, killing people for money.
One day, Nina got a contract from a Cosa Nostra mafia - to target and eliminate Steve Fox, a world champion boxer. And the contract was an official invitation to the fourth King of the Iron Fist tournament, signed by Heihachi Mishima himself.
[ Nina Williams,
You have been officially invited to attend King of the Iron Fist tournament IV!
Earn honor, glory and triumph against foes of old & new in the toughest challenge of all upon places all over Japan!
You are welcome to attend the Entry Ball held in Mishima Zaibatsu Building at 8 P.M. in Tokyo.
Best of luck!
Signed,
Heihachi Mishima
CEO, Mishima Zaibatsu ]
As much as how prestigious it sounded to her ears, Nina had no intention of attending the ball. Not only was it a risk of spoiling out her objective, but she could grow a bond to other potential opponents, which would only ruin her focus.
Or at least not initially, as there was a new mail coming in…
"Infiltrate the facility, beat the guards and destroy a weapon prototype. Piece of cake."
Nina cracked her gloved knuckles as she spotted four khaki-armored guards charging at her, which made her frown and went to engage them. Their poor training showed up quickly as Nina easily dismantled them like toys, one by one, with her precise hand strikes and fast, on-point kicks. The last one, blasted through the ledge down on pavement, turned on the security alarm, which the guards were afraid to do as they thought it's no use due to blonde's experience toppling theirs.
As the loud, annoying alarm sounded through the installation, the assassin just shook her head as she proceeded through the inexperienced Tekken Force recruits.
Even though it looked like the guards had her pinned down and surrounded, it proved to be no issue to Nina as she went to slaughter them, anyway. Using both weapons at her disposal, a handgun with a silencer and a knife, she was cutting through the Tekken Force like a hot knife through butter, leaving only death and agony in her wake. Combined with recruits being afraid of the blonde woman and skills weighing on her side majorly, their desperate defence in form of a mass assault (Nas Mnogo - Ty sama, one guard dared to say through his armored mask with a strong Russian accent) failed miserably.
Level by level, door by door, Nina was proceeding through the chaos she started. Snapping bones and breaking spirits, the Irish assassin had no mercy with anyone. Jabbing strikes, roundhouse kicks and leg sweeps were aimed with deadly precision, a trait familiar to the silent assassin. If anyone else was watching the security records - they would be watching a flawless dance of death, led by Nina Williams upon the bones she crushed with her surgeon-level aim.
She ended the onslaught upon entering the laboratory and as she snapped the neck of the facility's commanding officer in red-plated armor - he got disarmed of his weapon with a slicing roundhouse kick with his throat crushed beneath aimed a crushing stomp kick, which severely damaged his vertebrae and cut his breathing apparatus.
After all the guards that were thrown at her were dispatched and eliminated, Nina took the security key from the dead officer and sliced the door console with it, giving her access to her final objective - a robot.
"... You must be joking."
She said with an obvious cynical snark in her face as her eyes spotted a machine standing in the middle of the lab. Mechanical claws and can-like head, this one seemed to pose no threat - till it was turned on and the assassin heard a slightly familiar - arrogant, cocky, gentleman-like tone reaching her ears.
"Oh, my dear Nina. Be a little more understanding, he's quite sensitive."
Nina furrowed her brows. She could recognize that voice easily and replied to the man. in her usual cold nature.
"Lee Chaolan. From a business man to a joke. You failed in beating me and dating Anna, so you decided to compensate for it on a robot?"
A snarky chuckle could be heard well coming from the speaker. Lee seemed to like it, sort of as his response was rather sarcastic.
"Oh, Nina. Always on point with your humor. Let's see how much jokes you will throw like daggers after my creation is done with you. May I introduce you - COMBOT!"
Upon its name sounding through the test lab, the robot stretched out his wired and bolted limbs like a human usually does, aiming its red sights upon the blonde woman almost immediately. It looked like it was mimicking her moves and posture, a gimmick Nina noticed as she went into her usual stance.
"... A nice name for a piece of scrap metal."
She said in her cynical nature towards Lee's speaker and immediately widened her eyes as the robot charged against her in a speed that was almost similar to her own. And she was lucky to successfully jump over it... Yet catching a kick right in her back, feeling its metal fool right on her spine.
Almost falling down, Nina went into a roll and quickly turned on COMBOT whilst reassessing her posture, taking a short moment to regain a sense of the situation.
'Looks tough. If that robot can copy and remake my every move, or worse - do the same with moves of other fighters - this might get ugly.'
What followed was a clash that left Nina wondering - COMBOT effectively parried and blocked her every move she aimed on him, with her being left exposed to robot's every single counter attack (for which machine combined not only her moves, but attacks used by her sister Anna). Pain stretching wide through her body, her limbs almost at a point of breaking. Knees into her ribs, combined with perfectly copied jab roundhouses, were enough to render her tries to stop it useless. She could not even hear Chaolan properly due to robot's kicks that hit her head and damaged her hearing. Even with adrenaline raising up in her blood, it wasn't enough to help her endure this beatdown.
As the fake 'Blonde Bomb' sent her flying right against the computer console, the crash and Nina's sharp groan would be a clear sign she's beaten as blood started to pour out of her mouth.
"Ha ha! Excellent! Seems our silent assassin was outmatched!"
Lee's cocky words made it through her slowly bleeding ears. From the outside, it looked like Nina had enough - given that the rampage she suffered in full damaged her outfit in a few places - yet her mind was still working on full effort.
'Egh- that damn robot. I feel like my ribs are almost broken. And my arms.. One breaking hold and I am out. I won't hold out much longer... But I cannot let that bastard win! That heap of scrap won't best me!'
Hya!
With a loud sharp cry coming from her lungs, Nina sprung up back into action and hit COMBOT with a get-up kick right into its metal chest. It pushed the machine back a little bit and gave the blonde some ground to fight back. She flashed a smirk on both COMBOT and Lee.
"You forgot one little detail, Chaolan - round two!"
And with that, the battle went on. However, to the gentleman's surprise, this time it went completely different. As his prized robot tried to apply moves from other fighters and data being given, it gave Nina a perfect opportunity to give COMBOT a hell of a payback - side stepping from a Phoenix Deathfist, she followed it up with a striking uppercut and a series of harsh straight kicks while the fighting robot was in the air. As it landed on the metal floor, it tried to copy Nina's ukemi get up. Failing, as the blonde quickly interrupted her charge and stepped back, only to welcome the robot with her heel piercing through one of its red eyes and followed it up with a high kick aimed for its supposed chin, if COMBOT even had any. Later, as it tried to implement moves of Lee Chaolan, Forest Law, Hwoarang and even Jin Kazama into its attacks aimed upon her, the assassin chuckled for herself as it was clear his owner was getting quite desperately nervous and determined to win this little brawl he got himself into.
"Hey, Nina, my dear... How about we called this a draw?"
His nervously-cackling response drew a wide smirk on blonde's slightly busted lips, her voice being a mockingly-cold manner.
"Giving up so early? Never though you'd be that much of a spineless fool. Don't worry, I'll leave you your toy... After giving it a proper dismantling."
As COMBOT stood up and aimed to hit her with a series of high kicks, combining Lee and Hwoarang's technique, Nina went to side step in such manner when robot's last move missed her, she was standing right behind it. That gave her an idea to try out her mid-high-low kick chain while turning in 360° and given her starting angle, the kicking combo left COMBOT lying on the floor, but as he tried to stand up once more, Nina welcomed it with a real Blonde Bomb, her hand palms striking its metal torso with such power it threw the robot against the electric conduit. Having a lot of electric power going through it, COMBOT was left 'stunned', lying on the floor as the Irish woman did a few moments ago.
Such action left Lee totally silent. If it was possible to see his face, forehead would be covered by thick sweat, his eyes full of silent panic.
Despite the robot being quite resistant to damage, the broken eye with the energy outbreak proved to be a fatal stroke as it wasn't getting up, which gave Nina a chance to stomp the back of COMBOT's wired neck. Sounds of breaking metal and torn cables were indicating she could behead the robot easily, yet she retracted her leg before it could actually happen... only to unsheath her knife and stick it through the robot's other eye. To be honest, Nina had some entertainment from such carnage and it got even better when Chaolan started to breakdown, sounds of angering crying coming through the speaker.
"... You, you Irish bitch! You have no idea how much COMBOT cost me! My friend, I gave him life- He was my-"
But she cut his breakdown talk quickly by finishing it by aiming a harsh heel stomp against it's beaten chest plate, exactly its side as it looked like a weak spot. And it was proven true as Nina's boot came through the robot's body like a sword...
"COMBOOOT!"
As Lee cried out in panicking sadness, pieces of hardware, computer chips and wires came out together in a messy curlball as the silent assassin was pulling her boot away and decided to leave the broken man with his broken toy.
With a smirk hanging on her lips and despite pain getting back up due to dropping adrenaline, Nina left this unofficial entry into the tournament as a victor...