Saikyo
Ch. 5
Chains, Blades, and a plot. Oh my!
Dan and Retsu had left each other to search around agreeing to meet back in front of the hotel in one hour each one taking off in a diffrent direction.
"Hahahahahaha!" Dan laughed standing alone in a park. "I guess this 'Mad Gear gang' heard I was in town and decided it would be best not to get involved."
"Please. Why would anyone be afraid of you?" A voice from behind Dan demanded of him.
"Because I'm the legendary master of Saikyo Ryuu." He said turning around looking at a cop with a scruffy beard, holding his nightsick out for ready use.
"Hmph. And what do you intend to do eh?"
"Simple. Im going to beat this 'Mad gear' into submission and finally get the glory and recognition I deserve!"
"I see. Well...I can't let ya do that!" With a move that belied his girth he charged at Dan swinging the nightstick satisfied hearing the crack as it connected with the martial artists head...and then gaping in shock as Dan stood there.
"Well...that wasn't very nice. I'm gonna have to pay you back. GADOUKEN!" yelling his attack Dan thrust his hand foreward and the ball of ki went foreward all of eight inches.
"Ha! What was that suppo-" The cop was cut off as Dan's fist hit him in the gut quickly he moved again slamming his left foot into the cops head staggering him back a little.
"Ha. You fell for it." Dan said thumming his nose as he took a fighting stance again. "I knew the Gadouken wouldnt make it that far so I used it as a diversion from my REAL attack."
"Assaulting an officer? YOUR UNDER ARREST!" The cop yelled swinging his nightstick again, this time however Dan was prepared and moved to the side landing a whipkick into his side as the cop tried to hit his leg with the nightstick.
"Hey YOU started this fight." Dan said ignoring the painful bruise that had formed just after the cop hit him. 'lets NOT let him know he hurt me...'
"Well...you might wanna know who your messing with then you punk." He said stepping back a bit. "I'm a member of the Mad Gear gang you've just decided to oppose. You can call me Eddie E."
"What?" Dan asked grinning. "Don't they give you minions last names around here?"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" Eddie yelled trying again to hit Dan and this time taking a punch int he face breaking his nose rather easily.
"Hey. You got blood all over my new fighting gloves." Dan said inspecting them. "I think you owe me money to buy new ones."
"I'll...give you...something." He growled throwing the nightstick at him and drawing his gun.
"Oh...hell!" Dan yelled leaping away from the 'projectile' noticing Eddie had drawn his firearm, and certainly didn't seem averse to the idea of using it, showing a good deal of anger, as well as blood dripping onto his uniform from his broken nose. "Hey...c'mon now, can't we talk this over?"
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Eddie asked moving towards Dan. "Heh. Shoulda just taken the beatdown. Too bad."
Dan was nervouse but seeing Eddie moving slowly closer to him he got an idea. 'Hope this works...' he thought. 'cuz if it doesn't I die...' With a shaky hand Dan reached into his Gi into a pocket he sewed into it a while ago pulling out a pre-autographed picture of himself. "Premium sign!" He yelled throwing it at Eddie like a shuriken but a wind caused it to vear off instead of hitting his hands it went up and cut his cheek before floating away and to the ground.
"What the hell was tha-" He was stunned to see the ground Dan had covered. In fact he was within arms reach of him.
"SHINKUU GADOUKEN!" Dan yelled releasing a much larger version of his Gadouken, and with the distance closed between them managed to impact the lage ball of ki into his chest knocking Eddie backwards and onto the ground gasping for breath. "Want some more, or maybe since you say your a member of Mad Gear you can tell me where to find them huh?" He asked walking over to the downed cop making sure to kick the gun as far away from him as he could.
"F-fine..." Eddie groaned. "It's...one of the warehouses...downtown."
"Thanks." Dan said. "Better tell the old man." He thought taking off back to the hotel at a light jog.
Eddie E. smirked taking out his radio. "Boss?" he asked. After a few moments of static on the other side a voice with a light spanish accent answered.
"What is it?"
"We've got trouble..."
"You assured me that the ninja, the convict, and the mayor would not be a problem." The voice snapped at him. Anger showing easily making Eddie shudder.
"It's not them...it was some guy in a pink karate uniform."
"A man in pink? How strange. I'll have to use some people who can actually fight now." The voice sighed. "be thankful I'm allowing you to keep your life."
"Y-yes boss!" Eddie yelped. "I'll...uhm...update you later...oh...eheh...he's...going to be heading for the...base...soon?"
A sigh on the otherside was followed by a growl. "Hide yourself Eddie E. Hope that your ugliness will not make you too easily found by my blades. Or I will kill you."
Shivering Eddie turned off the radio and limped to his car leaning against the seat for a few moments before he drove off.
Retsu had walked off soon after Dan had taking the opposite direction.
"Now...where to look?" He asked himself. "I suppose...near the section of town where more affluent people live. It would at least be a place to look for muggers and such."
Following his theory Retsu walked around in the area of town he and Dan had already been in. 'well...I must appear to be pretty good prey, just an old man walking around.' He thought slowing his speed and slouching slightly to make himself seem more vulnerable.
"Heh. Well well well old man." Retsu smiled to himself turning around too face the people behind him.
Instead of multiple people there was actually only one. A large man wearing what seemed to be dressed in samurai gear including a helmat. In his hands he held a pair of Sai's.
"And you would be?" Retsu asked eyeing the weapons as he took a defensive stance.
"The names Sodom. You should remember it although...your probably gonna be in the hospital too long and to soon for it to make a diffrence." He said holding the sai's in a ready position.
"Oh?"
"Yeah. See I heard from the guys you and your freind beat up about an old Japanese guy and some guy in a pink gi walking around beating up people in the gang. Now I'm willing to let you and your freind off easy all you need to do is join Mad Gear, with my recommandation I'm sure the other two leaders'll have no problem letting you in."
"No." Retsu said evenly. "I have no desire to join such an orginization nor can I allow you to hold me away from my own goal. However I shall use you to determine my current strength."
"Fine. I can tell from your clothes your a martial artist, lets see how strong you are!" Sodom challanged thrusting his sai at Retsu.
The elder martial artist moved to the side and planted his knee into Sodom's gut leaping back before Sodom could return the blow.f
"Ha." Sodom laughed. "See this? I can take everything you can dish out." He said pointing to his 'armor' which appeared to be football pads.
"Yes. They do seem to have absorbed some of the blow but your still having a little trouble breathing."
"Your about to as well." Sodom said rushing him.
Retsu planted a front snap kick into Sodom's face, achieving little more then slowing him down but that wasn't the end as he grabbed his arms and stepped foreward slightly putting his left leg behind both of Sodom's and straitening the leg while pushing Sodom with enough force to knock him to the ground and skidding him across the ground. However Sodom got to his feet faster then Retsu bargained for and made a slash with his Sai's cutting through part of his gi and leaving a light trail of blood on his arm.
"Ah you have some level of skill I see." Retsu said looking over the cut on his bicep. Light probably only going through the first two or three layers of skin although it did managed to get some blood. "Then there's little reason for me to hold back like this." That said Retsu kicked out at Sodom's kneecap, the samurai wanna-be quickly jumped back leaving Retsu to dash at him leaping up planting a flying sidekick into his head then dropping low when he hit the ground driving an uppercut into his chin. Sodom finally made a counter with a few wild swipes of his sais cutting Retsu's gi more but he wasnt paying attention to that as he jumped up kicking him in the chest as Sodom tried to block the headshot he expected.
"You...you are good." Sodom said holding his sais in an 'x'. "So why don't you take my advice and join us?"
"Because I do not do evil." Retsu said watching him carefully.
"The mad gear is NOT evil!" Sodom yelled running at Retsu with all his speed. "Jigoku scrape!" He yelled using the attack on Retsu. He realized though that he passed through Retsu's body a bit TOO easily. The realization came late however as he felt a punch hit him in the back, followed by a leaping kick in the back of his head, and finally an elbow drive right over the top. Even with the pads and helmat the blows left him dazed.
"That attack was fairly impressive. Keep training though. It will be a long time before you can beat me like this. With that said Retsu got in front of his opponent driving a foreknuckle punch into the eye of his helmat's mask staggering him back and finally sent a front stretch kick hitting the unprotected jaw of his foe. Retsu quickly moved back waiting for Sodom's next move.
He didn't need to wait long before Sodom, in a rage, charged him both of his sais pointed at Retsu's chest. Retsu quickly moved to the side suffering a fairly deep cut across his side but he quickly wrapped his arms around Sodom's head cutting off as much of his oxygen as he could with the helmat interfearing.
In his surprise Sodom dropped the sais and soon began punding as hard as he could on Retsu's back as the old man held firm choking him until he eventually passed out.
"Whew. He was stronger then I gave him credit for." Retsu said tossing his sais away and quickly stripped off his pads leaving the helmat on to leave SOME of his dignity he then pressed a point on Sodom's chest with a gasp he sat strait up. "I see my expertise in pressure points has not faded over the years."
"What...what did you do?"
"I won." Retsu replied glaring at him. "So then tell me more about mad gear. Like where I can find all of them and how many of you there are."
Sodom groaned but decided to give in. 'After all' he reasoned to himself. 'He probably wont be able to beat both of the other leaders.' "We went through a shrinkage the last two times...we only have about a twenty-five members. Our base is the biggest warehouse downtown."
"Thank you." Retsu said hitting a diffrent point on his chest and Sodom fell back to the ground snoring. "I wonder how Dan's luck went." He said walking back to the hotel occasionally rubbing one of his injuries.
"What kept ya old man?" Dan asked sitting on a bench."Finding out abour our enemies."
"You could have just let me do that. They're-"
"Downtown. Numbering between twenty and thirty." Retsu cut in. "Well then lets go."
Dan nodded. "Let's go whoop some ass!"
Retsu shook his head smiling lightly. 'At least he's enthusiastic.'
"Well...this is annoying." The voice with the Spanish accent said, it now seemed to belong to a slim well muscled man although his face was hidden behind shadows, his right hand seemed to have knives protruding from it also sitting on a large comfertable looking chair. "Sodom has just called in. It seems the old man defeated him." He shook his head. "And now the pink gi and old man BOTH know where we are. BIRDIE!" he yelled out.
"Yeah Vega?" Another man asked entering, a sharp contrast to his 'freind' he was a large burly well muscled black man speaking with a thick british accent, wearing a leather jacket and blue jeans with chains wrapped around both his forearms, his hair was swept up into a mowhawk that came into a point with a whole cut into it and a tattoo of a heart on his head.
With a growl the man showed his face glaring at Birdie. "Your going to take our people and guard this building. Prove to me that I didn't waist my time sparing your hidious face from prison and taking you with me after Lord Bison was killed. I had best have not waisted that portion of my money from working for shadowlaw staying here either."
"Ha. Don't worry about that." Birdie said swinging one of his chains. "I'll show ya how strong I am!"
"Good." Vega said watching him exit the room as he leaned back into his chair looking at his claw. "However if they fail..." He smiled. "You shall again taste the blood of a victem. The whole reason I stayed afterwards...setting up my own orginization, to destroy that which is ugly while preserving that which is bueatiful. And of course, to find a strong, beautiful opponent."
Alrighty then time for the explinations again.
One: If i recall about Eddie E. from the final fight games he didnt really 'fight' you but chased you down in his car. So he isn't really a fighter. Thats why dan was able to beat him so easily.
Two: I'm sorry about how I used Sodom...i couldnt remember his moves...and ah...the fight he had with Retsu ran longer then i expected it too...
Three: Okay as for Vega and Birdie, when Bison is beaten in alpha three shadowlaw gets in bad straits. And since Vega (as far as i know at least) was really more of a hired mercenary for shadowlaw then a real member he no doubt got enough money to fund a few gangs...maybe more...heh heh heh.
And now for a fun fact: Zangief was ment to be gay. He's actually the Japense stereotype of a gay guy. Large, hairy, wears little clothing. Eheh...scary huh? can you imagine HIM hitting on you fellas?
His victory quote to ryu (in the original japanese characters have a specific win quote for the people they beat) he tells him 'i dont like projectiles but i like YOU personally'