Chapter nine: Nina
Nina entered the tournament as soon as she could after Kazuya informed her about Xiaoyu's abduction. Like Kazuya, she wasn't used to helping out others, but after the time she had spent with her son Steve, she became more used to a quiet and normal life. She was allowed to bring Steve to the tournament, because Kazuya had figured he'd need all the help he could get. After the tournament started, Nina used skill to take down the competition, managing to land three straight victories against Yoshimitsu, Roger and Bruce respectively. Nina prepared herself for her fourth fight.
(Fight 4: Nina vs. Paul)
Nina stood on a busy street at nighttime, waiting impatiently for her opponent to arrive. The road had been closed off for the fight, so the fighters wouldn't be bothered by the normally busy traffic. Many people stood on the sidewalks and road to watch the fight.
Nina was deep in thought about her last two battles. Granted, she wasn't surprised to meet up with Yoshimitsu again, but seeing Roger and Bruce was a complete surprise to her. She was slowly getting her memory back and had remembered them. One, she had fought Roger twenty years ago, meaning that he'd either be real old or dead. Two, she had heard that Bruce had died shortly after the tournament said years ago. And he looked like he hadn't aged a day! Nina deduced that the Roger in this tournament was the son of the original, but she was completely baffled with Bruce.
The middle-aged woman was brought out of her thoughts by a voice from behind.
"Hey, Nina!"
Nina growled, recognizing the voice. Turning around, her suspicions were confirmed. Standing a good several meters away from her, clad in his traditional leather coat and jeans, love-struck smile on his face, was Paul. He had asked her out so may times in the past that it wasn't funny to her anymore. Even after twenty years, Nina still considered Paul a severe annoyance.
Nina waited. She knew Paul was going to ask the familiar question she was used to by now. {3...2...1...} She thought.
"Wanna go out?" Paul asked hopefully.
Nina instantly put her fists up. "NO!" She roared angrily.
(AFTER BATTLE)
Nina furiously threw her fist at Paul, nailing him in the face. Paul flew back, twisting several times before finally landing on his stomach. Nina had given him quite a beating. Two black eyes, torn clothing, completely messed up hair, Paul did't look so tough anymore. He managed enough energy to look up at Nina's angry face and smirk. "What a woman." He said before passing out.
Seeing her opponent defeated, Nina sighed. "Pathetic." She said.
While Nina was ticked off, she was pleased that she was now halfway through the tournament. Continuing, Nina defeated Jack and Hwoarang. Nina was getting closer than ever to Heihachi. Just one more battle.
(Fight 7: Nina vs. King)
Nina paced back and forth on the roof of a skyscraper, where her battle was supposed to take place. It was dark out, and there were only a few lights, which was just enough to light up the whole roof. However, it didn't help that it was extremely cold this high up, and Nina was really wanting to get her fight over with so she could get someplace warmer.
Suddenly hearing footsteps, Nina looked up, and saw her opponent approaching. Wearing a blue shirt and dark pants, anyone would think that this would just be a normal fighter. The tiger mask gave away his identity. King.
Nina smirked. "So, you're my opponent?" She asked.
King replied with a silent nod. Nina lightly chuckled as she shook her head. After all these years, King was still as silent as ever.
Nina put up her fists. "Shall we fight?" She asked.
Again, King nodded as he put up is fists.
(AFTER BATTLE)
Nina leapt overtop of King just as he was about to unleash a grapple. Nina soared over the wrestler until she came back down behind him. Before she landed on the ground, Nina thrust her foot into King's back, knocking the wrestler to the ground.
Standing up, Nina brushed herself off and smiled triumphantly as King slowly staggered to his feet.
"How'd I do?" Nina asked the wrestler. "I hope I wasn't to hard on you."
Clutching his shoulder, King stared at Nina and confidently stuck his thumb into the air. Nina nodded. "Thank you. I must admit though, you almost had me defeated there."
After King replied with another nod, Nina sighed. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a mission to return to." She said.
King raised an eyebrow, which asked Nina what she was talking about. It was then that Nina realized her mistake. Not being able to see a way out of it, Nina sighed. "Can you keep a secret, King? If Heihachi found out I was onto him, the mission would fail."
King nodded, signaling Nina to continue. "Okay. Have you wondered why Xiaoyu hasn't entered the tournament?" She asked. King nodded. "Well, Kazuya found out that Heihachi kidnapped her to lure Jin into a trap." Seeing King's eyes widen, Nina continued. "Kazuya asked me to help, and I was allowed to bring Steve as well. He also got Miharu to help, but she doesn't know it was him who sent her the info."
King pointed his thumb at himself and nodded. Nina cocked an eyebrow. "You're on some sort of mission as well, aren't you?" She asked. King nodded. "Well, I hope that you'll be successful." King thanked her with another nod.
"Anyway," Nina said, turning around. "I need to break into the Mishima Zaibatsu before Heihachi gets wise."
(Fight 8: Nina vs. Heihachi)
Nina stealthily walked down the many hallways of the Zaibatsu alone, trying to find any passage that could lead to Xiaoyu without falling into a trap.
Originally, she and Steve were running together, but Steve said that he'd look somewhere else, not just for Xiaoyu, but for some sort of formula that could help Tiger.
Nina was surprised at how little security she came across. She was reminded that King was also on a mission, so maybe he and whoever else he was with was attracting more guards.
Sooner than later, Nina came upon another door. Daring to look inside, Nina knew that she had found what she was looking for. Inside the room, Heihachi was confronting the group of Jin, Bruce, Miharu and Xiaoyu. Nina quickly opened the door and ran in.
Hearing the door open, Heihachi looked to see Nina running into the room. He smirked. "Why, hello miss Williams." He said.
"Cut it, Mishima." Nina said as she arrived at the group's side. "Why are you here? You're supposed to be at the arena, waiting for me to show up."
Heihachi laughed. "I WAS waiting for you, but only until I was told that Jin head broken into the Zaibatsu. I went inside through a different door and got here quicker."
Nina growled as she turned to the others. "I'll take him on. You guys stand back." She said.
"Are you sure about this, Nina?" Bruce asked.
Nina nodded. "Hey, the reason he's here is because I didn't fight him. His is the least I could do."
The others nodded as they stood back, leaving Nina to have what seemed to be a stare-down contest with Heihachi. The old man snickered. "let's see what you've got."
(AFTER BATTLE/Final Battle)
After receiving a powerful kick to the stomach, Heihachi staggered back, pausing himself to recover. Nina took this chance and charged at Heihachi. Leaping into the air, Nina landing a flying kick to the evil man's jaw. That was enough to send Heihachi to the ground.
Knowing that her opponent was defeated, Nina dropped her stance and turned around to face the ground.
"Come on!" Jin said. "Let's get out of here before he wakes up!"
Everyone else agreed as they all turned to leave. However, a loud and menacing howl interrupted them and stopped them from running from the room.
Slowly and slightly fearfully, Nina turned her head to look over her shoulder. Her gaze was focused on a door on the far side of the room, where the noise was coming from. Suddenly, the door flew open and a huge figure stepped into the room and started lumbering over the where the group was standing. Nina's eyes snapped open, remembering the creature from a year ago.
"Ogre!" Nina, Jin and Bruce shouted at once.
An evil snicker was heard from where Heihachi was laying. Slowly, the old man got to his feet and turned to the group, folding his arms. "Not quite. It's a clone. Your friends Julia Chang and King tried to prevent my scientists from creating it, but as you can see, they were a little too late." In the meantime, the clone of Ogre came to a halt at Heihachi's side.
Nina raised an eyebrow. Well, at least she knew what King's mission was now.
Heihachi turned to Ogre. "Destroy them, my creation." Heihachi ordered the monster. "Destroy them all."
Ogre continued lumbering towards the group. Nina turned to everyone else. "You guys go on! I'll be right behind you!" She said.
The others were hesitant, but didn't have any time to argue. Everyone ran out of the room as Nina turned back to the clone, which was charging straight at her.
(ENDING)
Ogre staggered back, clutching the shoulder that Nina had struck for the final blow. It started letting out low whines of pain.
Nina took this chance to look around. Heihachi was gone, obviously escaped through a back door. Nina sighed, knowing that she had finally accomplished what she had started. She was about to turn and leave the room when she heard a strange noise coming from where Ogre was. Again turning to look at the defeated monster, Nina saw light starting to erupt from its wounded shoulder. The light was quickly spreading throughout the creature's body.
Nina's eyes sprang open, knowing what this meant. Quickly turning around, Nina ran from the room as if her life depended on it.
Tearing through the hallways of the Zaibatsu, Nina could only hope that Steve already made it out. She was quickly starting to feel tired from the running, but she didn't give in. She made it this far, and she knew that she was going to go all the way.
Nina quickly came upon the front door to the Zaibatsu and ran outside without a second thought. Luckily, she WAS the last one out, and as soon as she was down the hill, away from the Zaibatsu, the entire building exploded in a mushroom cloud of flames.
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It was nighttime. Nina quickly climbed to the top of the fence surrounding the large house owned by Lee Chaolan. Apparently, she was curious as to why Lee hadn't entered the tournament, and she needed something to do because Steve had gone to visit Christie, who was showing signs of recovering in the hospital in a hospital far away. Nina had also taken a trip, but to Lee's tropical resort.
Nina jumped from the top of the fence and landed on the ground silently. She was dressed in a black ninja outfit with only her eyes showing to keep herself hidden in the dark. Slowly and silently, Nina worked her way through Lee's giant backyard and around his swimming pool, occasionally having to knock out a guard or two.
Eventually, Nina had arrived at the building that was Lee's home. She hugged the wall as she walked along the side of the house, looking for a way in.
{An open window.} Nina thought. {All I need is an open window.}
She quickly found what she was looking for, spotting an open window high above the ground. She could tell that the lights were off. It was a little too high for Nina to reach, but with a good jump, Nina was able to grab the windowsill. Nina pulled herself up and climbed inside.
The room looked like a normal office room, with a desk and a couple cabinets against one wall and a couple plants against the other. Nina walked over to the desk first and opened one of the drawers. Nina pulled out a folder of papers and photos.
Opening the folder, Nina looked through the contents. She didn't need to turn on any lights, as the dim light coming from the moon was enough. Inside the folder were several sketches and blueprints for enhanced versions of that 'Combot' thing Lee entered a year before.
However, there was one particular item that made Nina's eyes widen in shock: A small, yellow, sticky note attached to one of the blueprints. It read 'TAKE OUT MISHIMAS'. The message replayed several times in Nina's head.
{Take out Mishimas.} Nina thought. She knew Lee wanted to take over Heihachi's business, but this was just crazy!
Suddenly, Nina heard a startling sound: The doorknob unlocking. Nina's head snapped up to see the knob turning around. She knew that she didn't have any time to lose, so she ran for the window, forgetting to put the folder back in the drawer.
The door opened, and Lee walked into the room. The first thing he saw was the folder lying on the desk.
{Strange.} Lee thought. {I never leave the folder outside of the drawer.}
Lee walked by the window to put the folder back in the drawer, but something outside caught his eye: A fleeing woman dressed in black. She tore through the yard, climbed the fence, jumped off on the other side and ran off.
Lee wasn't stupid. He knew that that woman had read the contents of the folder. Now, normally, a person would be extremely ticked off about his secret projects being found out, but Lee did something very unexpected.
He snickered evilly.
END of Nina's story
Author's notes: Man! I can't believe how long I've taken to finish this story, and I'm only halfway through! I can't wait until I finish this, so I'll be able to start another set of fics. Well, at least you guys know why Lee didn't enter. Now, PLEASE read and review! I'm starting to get desperate!
Nina entered the tournament as soon as she could after Kazuya informed her about Xiaoyu's abduction. Like Kazuya, she wasn't used to helping out others, but after the time she had spent with her son Steve, she became more used to a quiet and normal life. She was allowed to bring Steve to the tournament, because Kazuya had figured he'd need all the help he could get. After the tournament started, Nina used skill to take down the competition, managing to land three straight victories against Yoshimitsu, Roger and Bruce respectively. Nina prepared herself for her fourth fight.
(Fight 4: Nina vs. Paul)
Nina stood on a busy street at nighttime, waiting impatiently for her opponent to arrive. The road had been closed off for the fight, so the fighters wouldn't be bothered by the normally busy traffic. Many people stood on the sidewalks and road to watch the fight.
Nina was deep in thought about her last two battles. Granted, she wasn't surprised to meet up with Yoshimitsu again, but seeing Roger and Bruce was a complete surprise to her. She was slowly getting her memory back and had remembered them. One, she had fought Roger twenty years ago, meaning that he'd either be real old or dead. Two, she had heard that Bruce had died shortly after the tournament said years ago. And he looked like he hadn't aged a day! Nina deduced that the Roger in this tournament was the son of the original, but she was completely baffled with Bruce.
The middle-aged woman was brought out of her thoughts by a voice from behind.
"Hey, Nina!"
Nina growled, recognizing the voice. Turning around, her suspicions were confirmed. Standing a good several meters away from her, clad in his traditional leather coat and jeans, love-struck smile on his face, was Paul. He had asked her out so may times in the past that it wasn't funny to her anymore. Even after twenty years, Nina still considered Paul a severe annoyance.
Nina waited. She knew Paul was going to ask the familiar question she was used to by now. {3...2...1...} She thought.
"Wanna go out?" Paul asked hopefully.
Nina instantly put her fists up. "NO!" She roared angrily.
(AFTER BATTLE)
Nina furiously threw her fist at Paul, nailing him in the face. Paul flew back, twisting several times before finally landing on his stomach. Nina had given him quite a beating. Two black eyes, torn clothing, completely messed up hair, Paul did't look so tough anymore. He managed enough energy to look up at Nina's angry face and smirk. "What a woman." He said before passing out.
Seeing her opponent defeated, Nina sighed. "Pathetic." She said.
While Nina was ticked off, she was pleased that she was now halfway through the tournament. Continuing, Nina defeated Jack and Hwoarang. Nina was getting closer than ever to Heihachi. Just one more battle.
(Fight 7: Nina vs. King)
Nina paced back and forth on the roof of a skyscraper, where her battle was supposed to take place. It was dark out, and there were only a few lights, which was just enough to light up the whole roof. However, it didn't help that it was extremely cold this high up, and Nina was really wanting to get her fight over with so she could get someplace warmer.
Suddenly hearing footsteps, Nina looked up, and saw her opponent approaching. Wearing a blue shirt and dark pants, anyone would think that this would just be a normal fighter. The tiger mask gave away his identity. King.
Nina smirked. "So, you're my opponent?" She asked.
King replied with a silent nod. Nina lightly chuckled as she shook her head. After all these years, King was still as silent as ever.
Nina put up her fists. "Shall we fight?" She asked.
Again, King nodded as he put up is fists.
(AFTER BATTLE)
Nina leapt overtop of King just as he was about to unleash a grapple. Nina soared over the wrestler until she came back down behind him. Before she landed on the ground, Nina thrust her foot into King's back, knocking the wrestler to the ground.
Standing up, Nina brushed herself off and smiled triumphantly as King slowly staggered to his feet.
"How'd I do?" Nina asked the wrestler. "I hope I wasn't to hard on you."
Clutching his shoulder, King stared at Nina and confidently stuck his thumb into the air. Nina nodded. "Thank you. I must admit though, you almost had me defeated there."
After King replied with another nod, Nina sighed. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a mission to return to." She said.
King raised an eyebrow, which asked Nina what she was talking about. It was then that Nina realized her mistake. Not being able to see a way out of it, Nina sighed. "Can you keep a secret, King? If Heihachi found out I was onto him, the mission would fail."
King nodded, signaling Nina to continue. "Okay. Have you wondered why Xiaoyu hasn't entered the tournament?" She asked. King nodded. "Well, Kazuya found out that Heihachi kidnapped her to lure Jin into a trap." Seeing King's eyes widen, Nina continued. "Kazuya asked me to help, and I was allowed to bring Steve as well. He also got Miharu to help, but she doesn't know it was him who sent her the info."
King pointed his thumb at himself and nodded. Nina cocked an eyebrow. "You're on some sort of mission as well, aren't you?" She asked. King nodded. "Well, I hope that you'll be successful." King thanked her with another nod.
"Anyway," Nina said, turning around. "I need to break into the Mishima Zaibatsu before Heihachi gets wise."
(Fight 8: Nina vs. Heihachi)
Nina stealthily walked down the many hallways of the Zaibatsu alone, trying to find any passage that could lead to Xiaoyu without falling into a trap.
Originally, she and Steve were running together, but Steve said that he'd look somewhere else, not just for Xiaoyu, but for some sort of formula that could help Tiger.
Nina was surprised at how little security she came across. She was reminded that King was also on a mission, so maybe he and whoever else he was with was attracting more guards.
Sooner than later, Nina came upon another door. Daring to look inside, Nina knew that she had found what she was looking for. Inside the room, Heihachi was confronting the group of Jin, Bruce, Miharu and Xiaoyu. Nina quickly opened the door and ran in.
Hearing the door open, Heihachi looked to see Nina running into the room. He smirked. "Why, hello miss Williams." He said.
"Cut it, Mishima." Nina said as she arrived at the group's side. "Why are you here? You're supposed to be at the arena, waiting for me to show up."
Heihachi laughed. "I WAS waiting for you, but only until I was told that Jin head broken into the Zaibatsu. I went inside through a different door and got here quicker."
Nina growled as she turned to the others. "I'll take him on. You guys stand back." She said.
"Are you sure about this, Nina?" Bruce asked.
Nina nodded. "Hey, the reason he's here is because I didn't fight him. His is the least I could do."
The others nodded as they stood back, leaving Nina to have what seemed to be a stare-down contest with Heihachi. The old man snickered. "let's see what you've got."
(AFTER BATTLE/Final Battle)
After receiving a powerful kick to the stomach, Heihachi staggered back, pausing himself to recover. Nina took this chance and charged at Heihachi. Leaping into the air, Nina landing a flying kick to the evil man's jaw. That was enough to send Heihachi to the ground.
Knowing that her opponent was defeated, Nina dropped her stance and turned around to face the ground.
"Come on!" Jin said. "Let's get out of here before he wakes up!"
Everyone else agreed as they all turned to leave. However, a loud and menacing howl interrupted them and stopped them from running from the room.
Slowly and slightly fearfully, Nina turned her head to look over her shoulder. Her gaze was focused on a door on the far side of the room, where the noise was coming from. Suddenly, the door flew open and a huge figure stepped into the room and started lumbering over the where the group was standing. Nina's eyes snapped open, remembering the creature from a year ago.
"Ogre!" Nina, Jin and Bruce shouted at once.
An evil snicker was heard from where Heihachi was laying. Slowly, the old man got to his feet and turned to the group, folding his arms. "Not quite. It's a clone. Your friends Julia Chang and King tried to prevent my scientists from creating it, but as you can see, they were a little too late." In the meantime, the clone of Ogre came to a halt at Heihachi's side.
Nina raised an eyebrow. Well, at least she knew what King's mission was now.
Heihachi turned to Ogre. "Destroy them, my creation." Heihachi ordered the monster. "Destroy them all."
Ogre continued lumbering towards the group. Nina turned to everyone else. "You guys go on! I'll be right behind you!" She said.
The others were hesitant, but didn't have any time to argue. Everyone ran out of the room as Nina turned back to the clone, which was charging straight at her.
(ENDING)
Ogre staggered back, clutching the shoulder that Nina had struck for the final blow. It started letting out low whines of pain.
Nina took this chance to look around. Heihachi was gone, obviously escaped through a back door. Nina sighed, knowing that she had finally accomplished what she had started. She was about to turn and leave the room when she heard a strange noise coming from where Ogre was. Again turning to look at the defeated monster, Nina saw light starting to erupt from its wounded shoulder. The light was quickly spreading throughout the creature's body.
Nina's eyes sprang open, knowing what this meant. Quickly turning around, Nina ran from the room as if her life depended on it.
Tearing through the hallways of the Zaibatsu, Nina could only hope that Steve already made it out. She was quickly starting to feel tired from the running, but she didn't give in. She made it this far, and she knew that she was going to go all the way.
Nina quickly came upon the front door to the Zaibatsu and ran outside without a second thought. Luckily, she WAS the last one out, and as soon as she was down the hill, away from the Zaibatsu, the entire building exploded in a mushroom cloud of flames.
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It was nighttime. Nina quickly climbed to the top of the fence surrounding the large house owned by Lee Chaolan. Apparently, she was curious as to why Lee hadn't entered the tournament, and she needed something to do because Steve had gone to visit Christie, who was showing signs of recovering in the hospital in a hospital far away. Nina had also taken a trip, but to Lee's tropical resort.
Nina jumped from the top of the fence and landed on the ground silently. She was dressed in a black ninja outfit with only her eyes showing to keep herself hidden in the dark. Slowly and silently, Nina worked her way through Lee's giant backyard and around his swimming pool, occasionally having to knock out a guard or two.
Eventually, Nina had arrived at the building that was Lee's home. She hugged the wall as she walked along the side of the house, looking for a way in.
{An open window.} Nina thought. {All I need is an open window.}
She quickly found what she was looking for, spotting an open window high above the ground. She could tell that the lights were off. It was a little too high for Nina to reach, but with a good jump, Nina was able to grab the windowsill. Nina pulled herself up and climbed inside.
The room looked like a normal office room, with a desk and a couple cabinets against one wall and a couple plants against the other. Nina walked over to the desk first and opened one of the drawers. Nina pulled out a folder of papers and photos.
Opening the folder, Nina looked through the contents. She didn't need to turn on any lights, as the dim light coming from the moon was enough. Inside the folder were several sketches and blueprints for enhanced versions of that 'Combot' thing Lee entered a year before.
However, there was one particular item that made Nina's eyes widen in shock: A small, yellow, sticky note attached to one of the blueprints. It read 'TAKE OUT MISHIMAS'. The message replayed several times in Nina's head.
{Take out Mishimas.} Nina thought. She knew Lee wanted to take over Heihachi's business, but this was just crazy!
Suddenly, Nina heard a startling sound: The doorknob unlocking. Nina's head snapped up to see the knob turning around. She knew that she didn't have any time to lose, so she ran for the window, forgetting to put the folder back in the drawer.
The door opened, and Lee walked into the room. The first thing he saw was the folder lying on the desk.
{Strange.} Lee thought. {I never leave the folder outside of the drawer.}
Lee walked by the window to put the folder back in the drawer, but something outside caught his eye: A fleeing woman dressed in black. She tore through the yard, climbed the fence, jumped off on the other side and ran off.
Lee wasn't stupid. He knew that that woman had read the contents of the folder. Now, normally, a person would be extremely ticked off about his secret projects being found out, but Lee did something very unexpected.
He snickered evilly.
END of Nina's story
Author's notes: Man! I can't believe how long I've taken to finish this story, and I'm only halfway through! I can't wait until I finish this, so I'll be able to start another set of fics. Well, at least you guys know why Lee didn't enter. Now, PLEASE read and review! I'm starting to get desperate!