Tekken Tag
By: Lady Lowe
Disclaimer: If you would like to read the disclaimer (don't see why you would, anyway) then check in the Prologue
AN: Rated R, and you'll see why...
Tekken Tag
A Nice Visit with Nina Williams, the Silent Assassin, and Bryan Fury, the Snake Eye
By: Lady Lowe
"That was a lucky break for them. He's playing games with us, isn't he?" Bryan stretched his legs across the chairs after coming back from Xiaoyu and Jin's "battle."
"Perhaps," answered a vague Nina. She picked up the phone and dialed a number that she held in her hand. "Pepperoni, and be here in fifteen minutes. It better be good--no, I don't care. Fifteen minutes or else someone's going to get hurt, and that someone will be you." She hung up the phone and sat down on the couch.
"Just a little bit hungry? And mind you, I'd rather have it plain," Bryan smirked as she looked at her reflection in her switchblade.
"We need to be prepared--rather, I need to be prepared. That's all."
"What for?"
Nina didn't move, didn't answer, didn't seem to do anything for a couple of seconds. "What are you here for?"
Bryan moved to the refrigerator and brought out two Jack Daniels. He handed one to her, and sat back down in a kitchen chair. He leaned his head back and put his feet on the table, taking a long drink. Nina could see the way his cheeks sucked in, the way his neck moved...oh, yes, this was going to be a fun time for them...
"Aahhh..." he breathed. "Where should I start, where should I start..." His eyes took a faraway look in them, and Nina let one graceful hand cover the yawn that was threatening to come.
"Well, hurry up, old man. Once the pizza's here, I'm gone."
Bryan smiled and swung the bottle around. "That's the first time anyone's ever called me an old man. After all, people died at the sight of me, and the ladies crowded around me."
Nina laughed loudly, "Yeah, that'll be the day!"
He smiled ruefully at her, and answered, "You're too young, little girl. Too young for those days when the name Bryan Fury brought fear to the crime lords..."
Rolling her eyes, Nina spoke, "Yes, old man, I bet you are too old. Why do you think I'm here?"
"Why? Why? I don't know, I don't care. So long as we win our battles together, after this is over, after we win, you won't exist to me, and you better get with that, doll."
"So, tell me, and stop beating around the bush why you used to 'bring fear to the crime lords' because I tell you this--you never brought fear to me!"
Bryan turned around and dropped his feet. "Who are you?"
"Continue with your story."
He leaned back in his chair again but didn't rest his feet up. Instead, he crossed them in front of him in a dignified manner. "Before all this, I was a cop. A bad, hard detective, and I busted so many riffs, crime began to drop down to normal. But, then, I Heh, that was only in America. But when I was sent to Hong Kong, China...
"I met this girl. I remember. Her name was Jun Kazama. Sweet, innocent, maybe a bit on the wacky side with all her aura talks and shit like that. But her partner...damn, I knew that guy was a bad seed right from the start. Lei Wulong, yeah, that's his name.
"So when the big guy told me about some kind of big case and they wanted me on it, I checked it out--it seemed pretty simple to me. Simple, of course, compared to the cases that I handled in good ol' America. So, one night, I went there and..." Bryan ran his fingers through his blond hair, before tracing the scar on his face with a finger.
"It was a set-up." She announced for him.
He nodded and continued with his story, "They later told me that I went 'too early' and that I should've waited for backup. But, how can I wait for backup? They killed me.
"Next thing I knew, I was resurrected with a robot body of incredible speed and strength. Dr. Abel urged me to leave, and look for Dr. Boskonovitch, and I did leave, and when I was back at Hong Kong, all I wanted was one thing--Let Lei Wulong see what he had let me become.
"I saw him while I was busting another riff," Bryan's body jumped at the remembrance, and Nina was wrenched out of her sleep. He laughed, loud and bawdy as he saw her jump. She stretched and grinned at the door. "Go answer the door."
Nina stalked over to the door, not surprised that the pizza-boy was surrounded by the Tekkenshu force. She knocked down all of them unconscious and paid the little boy. "Take them away from here and run before they wake. Or else," she threatened.
As he ran off, Nina laughed, and Bryan stared at her. He took the pizza box from her and continued (again), and changed the volumes of his voice to keep Nina from taking another catnap. "There was a tank there, don't ask me why, and I ripped the top part with the gun on it, and I ran to him with that. I laughed as his bullets were ripping through my metallic body, and I just laughed...and laughed...and laughed..."
Nina yawned again. "Nice story. Lemme guess, that's what you want to happen, right?"
"Perhaps."
Nina nodded and finished her slice. "Well, I'm off. The place better be clean when I'm back."
Bryan stared at her, and chuckled. "I am no housemaid here. If you wanna see this place clean, do it yourself.
"Oh, and you never did answer the question. What are you here for?"
Nina stopped, her fingers playing dangerously close at her switchblade. "Just finishing a mission--to kill."
~~~
She was in the bathroom, the steam curling around her face. After she dried herself, and changed into her purple suit, she dabbed some lipstick on. Gathering her weapons, and securing them in the right places, she strapped her boots on.
Yes, she was ready.
Yes, Toshin, God of Fighting, she was ready.
She climbed out the window and headed towards the practice room. With any luck, she'll see Jin there--just like how she saw Kazuya there.
However--so possessed was she--Nina didn't see the cold blue eyes watching her every move. Nor did she see the shadow that seemed to be following where she went.
~~~
Nina Williams was in the practice room, laid out comfortably waiting for Jin to arrive. And when he did, she was about to jump down and destroy him, but he wasn't preparing to fight. No, he was looking for something--WHERE HE MOVED OUT OF HER REACH--and when he found it, he left. He seemed to be furious, and he slammed the door so hard, Nina almost fell out of her hiding place.
But then someone else came.
Bryan Fury was there, right under her, and seemed to be looking for something. He casually looked to his left...to his right...down at the floor...and into her eyes.
"Hello, sweetness." He yanked her down and threw her down at the floor.
But this assassin that was awakened from cryosleep wasn't entirely unprepared. Ok, so maybe the throwing at the floor was unexpected, but at least she was still able to move. She jumped back up, her feet ready to leap out of the way, but was totally caught surprised when his lips crashed into hers.
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Nina walked past Bryan into their flat, holding the videotape in her hand. She crushed it into smithereens, her anger only obvious by the way that she seemed so controlled, so tight.
Bryan looked at her and laughed. "The Silent Assassin..."
She looked up, slapped across the face, and said, "Go to hell."
"Now that's more like it! Show that fire, little girl, show it!"
She punched him again, kicked him, double-slapped him, and threw him on the floor. "If you ever touch me--EVER AGAIN--, I swear that I will fucking kill you! I'll go to that Mishima, and I'll kill you! I won't give a fuck! I won't give a fuck with what they say!" She was grinning madly, and tears began to develop in her eyes.
Nina slammed the door to her room and turned the shower on. She changed into her pajamas and slept soundly, her hand on her switchblade, ready to kill whoever dared to wake her.
Bryan chuckled, grabbed another beer bottle, and sat down to watch the late shows. His eyes shimmered, and his scar began to radiate.
Yes, Dr. Abel, you are a good man. And Dr. B? Hm? Well, we'll see how you'll like it, later on… Still, Dr. Abel, you just never knew how good your cyborgs can work…