Chapter Thirteen





"Thanks for teaching me the Cho-Hadouken," said Jasmine. She and Ryu are walking down the streets of London. From a few buildings down, they could see their hotel.

"It was my pleasure," Ryu replied with a shy smile. "If you need any more advice, just let me know."

Jasmine smiles with excitement. "Sure, I'll take to you whenever I need to."

Ryu scratches the back of his head. Since finding out Jasmine's dark past, he had forgotten the bubbly side of her. He was glad to see that in her once again.

They reach their hotel. They walk in and go towards the elevators. Ryu presses the call button and the doors quickly open.

"So," said Jasmine as they step into the elevator. "What time is it now?"

Ryu looks at his watch. "It's around dinner time."

"Great," she replied. She presses their floor button and the doors close. The elevator begins to make its way up. "When we get back to our rooms, let's get everyone to go out to eat again. I promise I won't go ballistic with my powers again."

Ryu laughs at the comment. "Okay."

The doors open. Ryu and Jasmine become startled when they suddenly hear what sounds like a handful of fights.

"Uh oh," Ryu said. "Sounds like our friends need our help."

Jasmine smiles evilly. "Let's kick some a**!!"

"After you?" Ryu asked.

Jasmine quickly steps out of the elevator with Ryu following her. They run a few doors down until they reach their hotel door. Ryu kicks the door off its hinges.

Inside the room, all of their friends are fighting off a handful of men wearing ninja suits. Ryu and Jasmine realize that the ninja suits are VERY similar to the ninjas back in Paris.

"Looks like these boneheads want us for something," Jasmine said.

Wagner looks at Ryu and Jasmine. "Hey you two!" One ninja grabs him from behind. "A little help would be nice!"

"My pleasure," Jasmine said. Jasmine performs a few backward flips towards the ninjas. The ninjas notice her and run towards her. Jasmine manages to kick a couple of them with her feet. Then, she straightens herself out. About five ninjas surround her.

Ryu runs up to some of the ninjas surrounding Wagner. He jumps in the air, aims his foot out, and kicks two ninjas in the head.

Wagner looks up. "Thanks, man. I owe you one." He punches a ninja right in the gut."

Guile looks up at everyone. "They're too many of them! We need more help than this."

"If only Mason was here with his baton," said Chun-Li.

Suddenly, the ninjas pull away from the fighters and run towards the door.

"What the......" Fei-Long manages to say.

Ken laughs. "I think they are giving up!"

Suddenly, all of the ninjas take out handguns. Since there were about thirty of them and only nine of them, the good fighters had no choice but to give up. All of them raise their hands.

Then, someone appears in the hallway of the hotel room. No one could see who the person is.........until they step into the light.

Both Ryu and Ken look up at the figure in shock. He was tall and bald with an eye patch covering one of his eyes.

"Sagat?" asked Ryu. He met the Muay Thai Champion seven years ago when he and Ken were in Thailand.

"Well, if it isn't Ryu and Ken," Sagat said followed by an evil laugh. "Shadowlaw has been looking for you."

"Shadowlaw?" asked Jasmine. "What kind of organization is that?"

"We'll explain later," said Guile.

"Sagat," said Ken. "You were a good guy when we met you and now you're in Shadowlaw?"

Sagat laughs again. "We met seven years ago, didn't we? People can change a lot between that time and now."

"What is it that you want from us?" asked Fei-Long angrily.

Sagat holds up a tape. "Ransom money."

"Ransom?" asked Veronica. "We're all here, so who could you possibly be holding for ransom."

Sagat walks over to the VCR set and pops the tape in. "This is for what you've done seven years ago."

The tape plays.

At first, everyone becomes confused. There were only people walking around. Then, a figure appears in the tape. Everyone but Veronica and Jasmine gasp with horror. The man was all too familiar to everyone else. Just looking at the gray cape and the rim of his hat tells them that no introduction was needed.

"Bison!" cried Guile angrily.

Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Fei-Long, and Liang stare at the TV with anger. Wagner slowly walks up to the TV and stares at the madman.

"Bison, so that's his name," Wagner said. His heart fills with anger and tears start to develop in his eyes. His right hand becomes surrounded with yellow shocks. "HE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED MY FAMILY!!! HE WILL PAY!!!"

Before Wagner punches the TV, Guile runs over to them and grabs Wagner's wrist. "Wait! There may be more."

Indeed there was. Bison smiles at the camera. "Greetings, old friends. Have you ever heard of the word, resurrection? Well, as you can see, an invention here at my lab has resurrected me so I can continue to dominate the world under my power."

"You won't get away with it!" cried Fei-Long.

"Who the hell is he?" Jasmine demanded.

"A madman," Ken replied clenching his teeth.

Bison continues. "I'm pretty sure that you are all surprised by this, but you will eventually get over it. By the way, look behind me."

The camera moves over his shoulders. Chained to a wall are two blond women.

Ken and Guile immediately recognize them.

"Oh God!!" cried Guile running up to the TV. "JANE!!"

"ELIZA!!!!!" Ken cried following him.

The camera quickly turns back to Bison. "Don't worry about your daughter, Guile. We have her here as well. My guards are taking very good care of her."

Guile clenches his fists knowing that a madman kidnaps both his wife Jane and his daughter Amy.

"Two billion dollars will cover the ransom," Bison said. "You have 72 hours to give me the money, or else you will never see your women again."

Bison laughs evilly until the camera turns off. All the TV shows are white fuzz.

Guile turns to Sagat, tears falling out of his eyes. "I swear, if something happens to my family, Shadowlaw will wish that they never existed!!"

"Same here!" cried Ken.

Sagat laughs. "We'll see about that!"

The ninjas fire their gun.

Instead of bullets, everyone was shot with a couple of darts. The darts contain poison. The poison quickly enters their body, making them feel dizzy. Before anyone knew it, all of the good fighters fall to the floor, unconscious.

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"Wha......what happened?" asked Liang. Hours later, everyone wakes up from the treatment.

"Ow!" cried Ken. "We're chained to a wall." He pulls down on the tight chains holding him and everyone else against the wall.

Suddenly, lights turn on making everyone close their eyes tightly. When they open them again, they see a small fighting ring. Sagat stands in the middle.

"Release my chosen opponent," Sagat demanded.

Everyone becomes confused as the guards run over to the fighters.

"What the hell?" asked Veronica in confusion.

The guards run over to Ryu and unchain him off the wall.

Jasmine's eyes become wide. "Ryu....."

Ryu looks over at Jasmine. "Don't worry. I'll be fine."

The guards drag Ryu over towards the ring where Sagat waits.

Sagat gets into a Muay Thai stance as the guards throw Ryu carelessly into the ring. Ryu tumbles down on his stomach. "So," Sagat said. "I remembered a promise we made seven years ago. The next time we would meet, we would have another match."

Ryu slowly gets up, still feeling weak from the poison. He looks up at Sagat, narrows his eyes, and gets into a fighting stance. "I remember, I never forget a promise. Let's fight."

"Are you sure?" Sagat said. "You still look a bit weak from that treatment we gave to you and your friends."

Ryu slowly walks over to Sagat. Suddenly, he breaks into a sprint.

"I'm sure!" Ryu cried out before jumping in the air. He lets out a battle cry and aims his foot at Sagat.

Sagat immediately blocks the move. Ryu jumps back down to the ground. Sagat immediately knees him in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

"Come on Ryu!" cried Veronica.

"You can do it, Ryu!!" cried Ken.

Unfortunately, Ryu was still weak from the poison. Sagat starts throwing series of punches at him. Ryu tries to block them, but he couldn't focus.

Wagner feels a bit of rage inside of him. Yellow shocks surround his right hand. He clenches his fist and immediately breaks the chain surrounding his right hand. The chain falls to the ground as sand particles.

"I'll take care of him!" he cried.

Then he looks at Jasmine who is chained next to him.

Her green eyes become filled with tears as she watches Ryu get his beating. Wagner could also see anger in her eyes.

Wagner smirks at her. "Actually," he said. He reaches over to her and breaks both chains off of her wrists. She lands on the ground with her feet. "I figured that you would take care of this."

Jasmine smirks at Wagner feeling dizzy. "Thanks, Wagner. You're a nice guy when you're not such a bonehead."

"Har har har," Wagner replied. "Now beat Sagat and save Ryu."

"Right," Jasmine replied. She runs over to the ring.

Another blow in the stomach makes Ryu cough up blood. As Ryu looks up, he sees Jasmine somersaulting in the air flying towards the ring.

"Jasmine, no!!!" Ryu cried. "He's dangerous!!"

Jasmine extends her feet out and tries to kick Sagat in the head. Sagat sees this quickly and blocks the move. Jasmine lands back on the ground as Ryu collapses.

"How about you fight me instead?" Jasmine asked, her teeth clenched. She jumps in the air and plants her feet on his shoulders. She clenches on to his jaws and attempts to flip him over.

Then, to her surprise, Sagat grabs her legs.

"WHOA!!" Jasmine cried. She ends up hanging upside down by Sagat's hands.

"Jasmine!!" Veronica cried.

Sagat swings her around a couple of times before letting go. With a loud shriek, Jasmine flies across the ring. She lands back on the ground and slides a few feet back. She quickly gets up.

Sagat puts his hands out. "Tiger!" he cried. An energy flies out of his hands. Jasmine gets hit by the energy sending her flying in the air.

Then, everyone watches in horror as Sagat jumps up, puts his knee out, and plants a very hard blow to her chest.

"Tiger genocide!!!!" Sagat cried out.

"Oh God!!" cried Chun-Li. "Jasmine!!!!"

Ryu looks up as he sees Jasmine scream in pain. As she disconnects from his knee. Ryu gets up. "You bastard!" he cried. He crouches down and puts his fist up. Then, he jumps in the air.

"SHO-RYU-KEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ryu cried out. He manages to hit Sagat...right across the chest. Blood immediately sprits out of his chest.

"Ouch!" cried Wagner. "That's going to leave a nasty scar!"

Ryu lands back on the ground. Sagat lands back down with a hard thud.

The guards run up to the ring with their guns out.

"Hands up!" one guard cried.

Suddenly, their guns are sucked out of their hands. They turn around and see that their guns are turned into sand particles. Wagner stands over them with his hand out.

"Ha!" Wagner cried. "Looks like my powers are a magnet too!" He winks at the guards

The guards run away with fear.

Wagner turns back to his friends and rips the chains off of them.

"Jasmine!" Veronica cried. Everyone runs over to the ring.

Ryu looks over towards where Jasmine lays. He runs over to her and bends down to her.

"Jasmine?" Ryu asked.

Jasmine looks up at him, her eyes half open. "I....I tried to help...AAAHH!!!" she cried out. She held on to the side of her chest.

Ryu slowly reaches over to her and checks with two fingers for any broken ribs. Then, he felt a couple of them cracked. As he touches them, Jasmine cries out in pain.

"They're broken," he said. "Let's try to find our way out of here and get you to a hospital."

Because of the intense pain, tears fall out of Jasmine's eyes. "I can't believe I lost........AAAHH!"

"Jasmine," said Ryu. "Just don't speak."

"Ryu," Jasmine said. "Just hold me! Hold me, damn it!"

Ryu nods. He carefully lifts her up and holds her in his arms like a small, fragile kitten. Jasmine wraps one arm around him. Tears continue to fall out of her eyes.

Ryu looks at her and wipes the tears away. "I know it hurts," he said. "But you'll be fine, I promise."

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Okay, I admit I was a bit lazy when I wrote the last part of the story, but I've been pretty excited about the final chapters of my other story The Outworld. I hope you guys enjoy this story, and PLEASE review this, but NO flames.