Will not be shaken and jump into this,
And be persuasive,
Just carry on,
And make my mind up,
To go through this,
Or be firm,
And sit in silence.

Cause I want to fight,
I want to fight,
I want to prove I'm right,
I want to fight,
I want to fight,
So turn and forfeit.

Forfeit
Forfeit
Forfeit
Forfeit

Learn from this,
Prehistoric dance,
And reframe from talking,

The psalms are cry oblongs,
Medicated,
Could do some good,
Or find a way to relate,
Or just shut up.

Cause I want to fight,
I want to fight,
I want to prove I'm right,
I want to fight,
I want to fight,
So turn and forfeit.

Forfeit
FORFEIT

I want to fight,
I want to fight,
I want to prove I'm right

I want to fight,
I want to fight,
I want to prove I'm right
I want to fight,
I want to fight,
So turn and forfeit.
I want to fight,
I want to fight,
So turn and forfeit.

So step up.
So step up,
And forfeit.
So step up.

FORFEIT!

                  -Chevelle "Forfeit"

Guile ran his hands nervously through his hair, a habit he had picked up from Charlie years ago.  This was it.  In fewer than ten minutes him and a small team of about thirty others were going to infiltrate the Shadowlaw base.  He had been praying the whole way here that he would find Cammy.  God only knows what has happened to her in the sick organizations possession.  He would find her for Charlie. Guile watched the sun slowly rise.  A new day was coming.  Before the vehicle stopped Guile checked and double-checked all his equipment.  He led his smaller division of the team to a storm drain.  The others were entering the base from different locations.  Him and the other men and women lowered themselves into the storm drain and crept through the wet darkness towards what they hoped would be an entrance into the base.  Guile found a ladder and continued up it, lifting a metal door above him.  He was in!  It might have been a storage closet, but he was in nonetheless.  He relayed this information over the communication system to the others in the team.  After his small group had entered the building, they armed themselves with their weapons and split up yet again.  Guile was following a narrow hallway carefully.  There were no people.  The place was empty.  That's weird just yesterday the satellites showed this place was bustling with activity.  However he continued forward.  After turning a corner carefully, Guile spotted a man in a Shadowlaw uniform stumbling down the hall.  He couldn't just yell 'FREEZE!' that might alert other soldiers.  So he cautiously crept behind the man, and when he was close enough grabbed him by the shoulders pressing the gun into his back.  The man cried out in pain.  Guile spoke to him.

"Don't say a word you scum."

Then the man coughed and Guile felt blood fall onto his hands.

"What the hell??"

Guile loosened his grip on him and the man fell to his knees before falling completely onto the ground.  Guile rolled him over and saw his face.  He was beaten badly.  Left eye swollen shut, definitely a broken nose, busted lip, and that was just his face.  How horrible!  One of their own men.  It was then that the man spoke, struggling.

"Guile."

Guiles eyes widened.  How does he know my name?  That is when Guile finally recognized then man.  It was Ken.  How the hell did he get here? 

"What the hell happened?"

Ken took a deep breath, speaking in careful words.

"Doesn't matter…their gone…this place is going to self-destruct with us inside."

Ken coughed before speaking again.

"She's not here anymore…they took her with them—"

Ken winced and pain and before passing out spoke one more word.

"…bastards."

Guile was astonished.  Ken had come after Cammy after storming from the meeting with General Watson.  But there wasn't time to think about this right now.  If Ken was telling the truth, him and his whole team only had a few moments to get the hell out of the base.  He made the proper announcement over the radio, then lifted Ken's beaten body over his shoulder and left the way he came.  He was reminded of carrying Charlie out of their first real battle after he had been shot.  It was hard but Guile got him and Ken out and was happy to see all of the team members at the rendezvous point.  They headed for home, while some of the medically trained team members attended to Ken, Guile thought about what Ken had said.  He had seen Cammy.  They were using her somehow.  Guile couldn't wait to get back to the Air Force base so he could, with Ken's help piece everything together.

                  Ken was walking down a street; nothing special just an ordinary street.  The faces of all the people he passed were blurry. He saw flashes of lights then other faces, but they soon faded and he was back on the street again.  Though he found that odd he continued forward.  Soon he was able to make out the face of a man who was talking to anotheron the street.  It was Ryu.  Ken called out his name.  Ryu turned and smiled at him.  When Ryu did this Ken recognized the man Ryu was talking to as Julian.  His two good friends turned and began approaching him.  Ken saw the lights again, they threatened to blind him with their brightness this time.  Then Ken heard familiar laughter.  It was Cammy who was suddenly running alongside Julian and Ryu.  Ken couldn't help but smile.  All the people he loved most in the world were here.  Ken went towards his three friends, but they stopped. Oddly, Ken felt himself screaming and Cammy fell onto the ground.  Julian began to drag her away.  When Ken tried to ask what was going on, Ryu gave him a brief glance, turned and began walking away. 

Ken's eyes opened suddenly as if water was poured on his face.  What a strange dream.  Ken tried to sit up before he realized where he was.  A hospital.  That's when he remembered the events of the past few days.  He remembered that Guile had saved him from the base.  Before Guile found him he had been wandering the halls of the base trying to find Cammy.  But she was long gone.  Ken gripped his hands together at the thought of this.  He heard the door open and almost thought he was still in the dream because there, in his white gi, stood his oldest friend, Ryu.  Though when they saw each other last, they had separated on harsh terms, Ken was happy to see him.  Ryu's dark brown hair was more shaggy than usual.  He was actually using Ken's old red ribbon to keep some of the hair from falling into his eyes.  His sharp brown eyes met Ken's before he smiled and spoke to him.

"I'm glad to see you awake."

Ken spoke harshly, his chest burning as he did.

"Why are you here?"

"Look at yourself Ken.  You are one lucky man."

For the first time Ken looked at his body and evaluated his injuries.  There was no doubt in his mind that he had a few broken ribs.  He reached up and touched his face.  His left eye stung when he did so.  It wasn't swollen anymore but bruised badly.  He felt the bandage covering his very sore nose and remembered it breaking when Cammy forced her palm down on it.

"I remember when you broke my nose Ken.  I think we were 15.  You were always the more competitive one.  You had more drive to win than I did.  That day I just couldn't get the better of you.  I know it was an accident.  But now your perfect profile isn't so perfect anymore."

"What does this have to do with anything Ryu?"

Ryu shifted his gaze towards the ground before speaking softly.

"I know you haven't forgotten the last time we saw one another.  I'm even betting you're still mad."

"Hell yeah."

"That doesn't matter right now.  I came because I sensed something was wrong.  And I was right.  How did this happen to you."

Ken wanted to remain upset like he had sworn he would for the past two years, but at the moment Ryu was a confidant.  So Ken used him.

"You've heard of Shadowlaw right?"

"The one's that sponsor a lot of Street Fighter tournaments?"

"Yeah, that's them.  Well, long story short I joined—"

"What?!"

"Let me finish.  I joined to save somebody they kidnapped.  It was stupid I know, but I was angry.  Angry like never before.  Well I got in after all these test.  I met another man there, Julian.  He just happened to run into the person I was trying to save and told me about it.  Then we were off on a rescue mission.  I don't know what the hell we were thinking.  Believeing that just the two of us could outsmart Shadowlaw.  Needless to say they found out about my Dad."

"And they did this to you?"

"No."

"Well than who did?"

"The person I was trying to save."

"Huh?  That doesn't make sense."

"They did something to her.  Changed her.   It was her body, but not her mind."

Just then Guile burst into the room.  He must have been listening.

"What the hell are you saying?  That they did to Cammy what they did to Charlie?!"

"Guile, she did this to me, happily.  I tried to talk to her and for a second I thought I had the real life Cammy there.  But it was only for a moment."

Guile eyes darted around the room frantically as if he were searching for an outlet for his rage.  He was.  Guile pulled his hands through his hair before speaking again.

"This can't be true.  She's just a kid.  What kind of sick things did they do?"

Ken wouldn't be able to bring himself to tell Guile that he saw Vega kiss Cammy.  For all he knew that was just to make him angry.  That didn't mean something more had been done.  Thinking about this was making Ken angry again.  I guess Vega succeeded. 

"I'm stuck here right now, but you can go Guile.  They can't be too far, night hasn't even come yet."

"It's been three days since I found you at the base."

Ken was silent.  Ryu spoke now.

"Who is this girl?"

Ken spoke frankly.

"Cammy White."

"And...?"

"And I love her."

Guile spoke again, with more composure than before.

"The only way we are going to get her back is if we work together.  We might not be here right now if we had from the beginning.  Will you help me?"

"Yes."