By: Ominae
Rating: T
NOTE:
All characters of Martin Mystery are under the copyright of Marathon; all characters of Striker/Spriggan are under the copyright of Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa; all characters of Street Fighter are under the copyright of Capcom. I exclusively own the rights to the characters Mark Sy and Patrick Chan.
Previously:
Bison's elite Psycho Doll unit has ambushed Center agents Martin Mystery and Mark Sy while conducting R&R in the streets of Britain, catching them off guard and clueless to their intentions. Now corned at all sides, the two agents are now prepared for a fight to their deaths as they will try to ward off the Psycho Dolls. Unknown to either the Psycho Dolls or to the Center agents, ARCAM agents Yu Ominae, Jean Jacquemonde and Patrick Chan have unintentionally appeared on the scene after discovering that Shadowlaw has appearead in British soil. Will the additional help of ARCAM's finest would finally help Martin and Mark win the day and defeat the Psycho Dolls once again? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.
Chapter 5: Ambush
Outskirts of Shopping District - 11:10 A.M.
Yu, Jean and Patrick have reached the outskirts of the Shopping District after checking on the condition of two knocked out police officers. Once they've sited the battle between the Psycho Dolls and the agents, the three ARCAM operatives quickly ducked in a nearby alley without making any sort of distraction that would draw their attention near them.
"So far, so good!" whispered Patrick as he peeped a bit of his head out of the alley.
"Hey, one of them babes is trying to snipe the good guys!" said Yu is a low voice. He pointed her out to Jean and Patrick.
"Probably Shadowlaw." suggested Jean. "Stay here, I'll try to knock her out." Jean sneaked out of the dark alley and crept his way towards the back of one of the Psycho Dolls, who was aiming her Heckler and Koch MSG-90 sniper rifle at one of the two Center agents.
"Martin Mystery and Mark Sy, you two will be under my scope." said Fevrier in his own monologue as she prepared to depress her rifle's trigger. Jean knew that this Doll had a French accent.
"Il n'est pas sage que vous dirigiez en arrière une arme comme cela à quelqu'un. C'est une tactique sale." (It's not wise for you to point a weapon like that at someone's back. That's a dirty tactic.) answered a voice from behind Fevrier.
"Qui êtes-vous?" (Who are you?) Fevrier was about to turn around and surprise her attacker when she felt a foot kicking her back before the attacker did a karate chop on a certain area on her neck, rendering her unconscious.
"Je suis Jean Jacquemonde" (I am Jean Jacquemonde). He brushed some of his bangs from his face before finishing his speech, "Prince de la brigade de butée." (Prince of the Striker Brigade.). Jean discarded Fevrier's sniper rifle before he faced the direction of the alley and signalled to Yu and Patrick that the coast is clear... for now.
"Let's boogie!" yelled Yu as the trio ran towards the source of the commotion at the heart of the Shopping District.
Shopping District - 11:15 A.M.
"UNGH!"
Mark had received a violent knee to his chest by Juni while smiling to the Filipino Center agent, with the blow sending him to a nearby wall.
"Wel, well..." smirked Juni as she pinned Mark onto the brick wall by his shirt collars held on her hands, "It look likes that I got you at last.". The other Psycho Dolls were too busy engaging Martin in battle, who was trying to convince the girls to back down even if they were under Shadowlaw control.
"I guess it's the end for me." said Mark under gasps as he was trying to get some air after Juni had mercilessly pummeled him with several punches before Juni kneened him in his chest.
"I guess so." Juni released one of her hands from his shirt and began to trace his sweaty face with her finger. "You know, I have to admit that you're kinda cute though." She then had a wide grin on her face.
"Is that suppose to be a compliment or some last words for me?" snarled Mark as he tried to get away from her grip.
"Maybe a bit of both." whispered Juni to his ears. "If you maybe worked with Shadowlaw, we could...", Juni continued to trail her finger from his face all the way to his neck and chest. "Be something. We could be alone and all, get away from Shadowlaw and live together happy ever after." Juni grinned wider after commenting to the surprised Center agent.
"I have one thing to say to your proposal and that's..." Mark performed a Katate Dori move, tightly grabbing her wrist. "TO GET OFF ME!"
WHAM!
With that, Mark delivered a sharp and powerful Mae Geri (Front Kick) to her chest. She flew very fast before landing near a trash dump.
"That'll teach 'ya." shouted Mark to Juni's unconscious body before fixing himself up. He began to look at the battle when he felt that Juli was charging at him with his psychic sense, "Oh shit! Juli's coming for me!". Mark quickly prepared to assume a Junzuki Daichi stance, but he wasn't quick enough to block an incoming double punch attack that landed on his unprotected chest and a forward kick as well. Mark was forced back again to the wall again, helpless as he struggled to stand upright with his back facing the wall.
"Mark! A little help here!" shouted Martin as he clashed with several Psycho Doll commandos with his extended X-Staff, but was always beaten with several Spinning Knuckles and Sniping Arrows.
"Not again!" Mark also tried to escape, but he was pinned to the wall by Juli's extraordinary strength as her hands were clenched to his shirt.
"What next? You have likings for me, as well as the other Psycho Dolls in your units?" mocked Mark.
"How did you know? Let me keep you quiet for a while." smirked Juli as she applied a rough jab on his stomach. "There, that's much better."
Mark had coughed several amounts of blood from his mouth on Juni's Psycho Doll uniform while trying to maintain his Junzuki Daichi stance, but felt a bit weak. He needed to rest up and heal before he could even attempt to fight back.
"Did you know..." narrated Juli, "that almost all the girls in the unit liked you?" Mark was then confused after Juli flashed her smile at him.
"Do tell, Juli?" replied Mark between coughs.
"We couldn't help admire your face though." explained Juli while touching his face with her hand. "Even I had an admiration for you. I even overheard what Juni proposed to you and I was..." Juli continued to touch his face with her finger, all the way down to his neck and chest before wrapping one of her arms around his neck, "Thinking of the same thing, we could be together you know."
"Even some professional assassin comes to like me, huh? How weird!" Mark was getting antsy over Juli's unsual advances. "Sorry, girlie! Juni asked that question to me a while ago and I gave her an ultimatum to her question. Besides, I don't want to get together with a psychopatic assassin." He stealthy raised his leg and prepared to go for a Mae Geri move.
"Really now?" Juli countered his kicking attempt by kicking his leg with her foot, sending pain signals to Mark's brain.
"If I can't have you for myself after this is over..." Juli prepared to raise her fist aimed for his face after removing one of her arms from Mark's neck, "Then no one will. It's a shame that I have to ruin your cute face."
"OFF WOMAN!"
Mark shouted the remark before he immediately executed another Mae Geri move, which made Juli was thrusted back away from him for several feet. He followed it by performing a Hayagake (Rapid Running) technique and stopped for a few seconds, making Juli wonder at what he would do next.
"This is for Martin! Houzanto!" Juli threw a jab punch at Mark, but ducked underneath it while he spinned his body around for one revolution before landing his elbow onto her solar plexus. As soon as Juli staggered for a few more feet, he commenced his Bushin Senpuu Kyaku move, completely incapacitating her for the rest of the battle.
"Martin!" shouted Mark as he ran towards to his aid, but was blocked off by Satsuki and Santamu, armed with their weapons.
"Get out of my way!" shouted Mark as he reactivated his U-Watch to pick up his X-Staff and extended it to quarterstaff mode. Before Mark could defend himself, he felt someone friendly was coming from behind.
"Take this!" yelled an Asian sounding voice as the mysterious person did a flying kick move to the rear of Santamu. Satsuki turned around and prepared to raise her katana, but was knocked out as well when another person did a high kick to her chin.
"Hey pal, missed us already?"
Mark focused his vision on the two people and noticed that they were his old pals from his Striker days, namely Japanese Striker Yu Ominae and his fellow Xavierian classmate, ex-teammate and Filipino Striker Patrick Chan.
"Man, am I glad to see you guys." said Mark with a smirk in his face as he held his quarterstaff with a bit of ease.
"Seems that you had a problem." remarked Yu while looking at the unconscious bodies of the two Psycho Dolls.
"You better help your pal out there. Jean's here too and we'll keep them at bay for ya." added Patrick before he raised his arm in time to counter a swinging punch from Aprile, the Italian Psycho Doll.
"Thanks guys!" shouted Mark in reply as he ran towards Martin, who was now engaging Xiayu and Jianyu in combat. He also saw Jean landing punch after punch at Decapre, the Russian Psycho Doll, with every blow aimed for her chest and face. Before he went another step towards the two Chinese dolls, März appeared in front of him like a ghost with her arms raised in her Shadowlaw Special Forces fighting stance.
"Dammit! Out of my way! Kubikari!" shouted Mark in his loud voice after running for a certain period of time. He stopped for one second before executing a jumping crescent kick that landed on her face.
With März out of his way, he was on the ground safely on his two feet before he jumped to the air and performed a forward flip before landing next to Martin.
"Thank you, Master Ginzu, Guy and Maki." Mark prepped his quarterstaff at his side with his clenched fist in front of him.
"About time you showed up." said Martin sarcastically as he held his quarterstaff near his chest with his two hands.
"Got holed up by some of the girlies back there." answered Mark.
"Well, let's not keep the rest waiting, shall we?" Martin had began to charge toward Noembelu.
"No problem, comrade!" Mark followed behind Martin, ready to swing his quarterstaff before the duo realized that Noembelu was teamed up with Enero, Aprile, Xiayu and Jiayu.
"Damn!" muttered Martin under his breath as the two Center agents started to take a few steps back until Mark looked behind and saw Yu, Patrick and Jean running to their position.
"Four against two? This isn't fair!" sneered Patrick as he came behind Mark.
"Let's even the odds. Now it's five against five." sneered Jean as brushed his bangs away from his eyes. Now Martin, Mark, Jean, Patrick and Yu were now facing the remaining Psycho Doll commandos.
"EIYAA!" Patrick barked while executing a couple of jab punches aimed at Enero's chest, which she quickly blocked with her arms. Yu rushed in to assist Patrick and delivered a sharp and painful roundhouse kick to Enero before he did some foward kicks and a strong uppercut on Aprile. Mark eyed for his dual ballistic arnis sticks and ran for them, lying on the ground. Once he had them in his hands, he executed his Power Wave with one of his sticks, launching a projectile that connected to Xiayu and performed the Dual Power Wave by swinging his ballistic arnis sticks horizontally that resulted in the apperance of a sonic boom-like projectile that connected into Noembelu before running out to join in with the Japanese Striker and his fellow Pinoy Striker comrade as well. Jean dashed near Jiayu and she swinged her quarterstaff at the French Striker, but he cooly caught one end of it with his hand and with his other hand, gripped it hard enough for him to swing it over his head and tossed Jiayu to a nearby open garbage dumpster.
"Well, I guess that's the lot of those so-called Psycho Dolls." said Martin as he shuffled his hands on his clothes to remove the dust.
"What are you guys doing in Britain?" questioned Mark to the three Strikers.
"As you may or may not know, one of our research offices came under attack in Britain." answered Yu.
Patrick folded his arms across his chest as he supported his comrades with a better explanation, "We think that Shadowlaw troopers and maybe the Psycho Dolls could have been involved here."
"Yea, and Mr. Smarty Pants thinks that all clues lead here to Britain." sneered Jean at Yu.
"It's true, Werewolf boy! You're not listening to me! All the troopers that we took care of back in Canada had Shadowlaw emblems on their uniforms." shouted Yu.
"Which is why that we have nothing to lose. If Shadowlaw is here, god knows what they're planning to do next." insisted Patrick.
"You know, Mark." said Martin, who was walking behind him. "I have to admit that them two Psycho Doll chicks were sure all over you."
"REALLY?" asked the three ARCAM agents in unison with smug grins on their faces.
"Why you little! Ki Fist!" Mark then threw an energized punch at Martin's unprotected chest, sending him way across the Shopping District.
"That'll teach him." mumbled Mark to himself before turning his attention. "Now, do any of you dare to say something like that before I launch my arsenal of street fighting moves on you three?" He had glared at the three ARCAM operatives as if they were about to die.
Not wanting to anger him any longer, the three simply said no with their heads shaking left to right.
"Good." Mark had a sadistic grin formed on his face before he resumed to ask the three agents if they would be secretly helping him and Martin in their operation.
Police sirens wailed through the air and while the ARCAM and Center agents were busy talking to one another, Juli and Juni recovered from their attacks and silently gave the orders to retreat at once.
"You guys better leave the area, the cops are coming. We'll contact you soon after we take care of the police business." Immediately, the three ARCAM agents quickly departed from the scene.
Martin, who had just gotten up from his little fiasco with Mark, surveyed the area after their hasty conversation and found out that the Psycho Dolls go away. "Mark, the Dolls got away."
"Damn!" shouted Mark at the disappearance of the Psycho Dolls. "Forget it, they'll come back somehow anyway."
Teams of SO19 operators, clad in blue jumpsuits, combat vests, black balaclavas, PASGT helmets with Heckler and Koch MP5A3 submachine guns, began to sweep the entire area when one of them raised his weapon to keep the two agents at bay. "SO19, freeze!".
"It's okay, officer." Martin slowly raised his Center ID card to the officer. "We're from the Center."
The SO19 officer motioned to his comrades to lower their weapons as they were not the ones responsible for what happened a while ago. Mark showed his Center ID card and asked the officer one question.
"Who's in charge here?"
Hotel Room, Intercontinental Hotel, Downtown London, Britain - 12:10 P.M.
After meeting with Colonel Wolfman of Delta Red, Martin and Mark went back to their hotel to rest and wait for any message from either Colonel Wolfman or Commander Watson on another move. While doing so, Mark had obtained Commander Watson and Colonel Wolfman's e-mail address so as to inform him of any developments.
"Hmmm! I got a message from Vega, let's see what it says." Mark clicked on his e-mail message and received the following.
My friend,
Make sure that you check everything here. Killer Bee will be sent to "assassinate" a government official on the precise location marked on the map. It wil actually be a trap set for her. Please alert your friends to this.
I sincerely hope that Killer Bee makes it out soon.
Vega
"Martin! Our ticket has arrived!" When Martin had walked to the table, he noted several pictures of the target location, as well as satellite images of the block.
"Wow! Shadowlaw sure knows how to recon an area." said Martin before giving a slight whistle.
"Yep. Killer Bee's headed here." Mark pointed to Martin the specific area where Bison's most prized assassin is suppose to go to.
"So what's next?" asked Martin, brow raised.
Mark whipped out his cellphone from his pants pocket and began to dial some numbers. "I'm going to call some reinforcements to help us out here.". While waiting for the call, Mark had asked Martin to forward his e-mail to both Commander Watson and Colonel Wolfman's, but not without making a mistake when he accidentally sent it to his dad's office e-mail by message before he slapped him on the head to make sure that he did it right.
Colonel Wolfman's Office, Delta Red Headquarters, MI-6 Building, Britain - 12:40 P.M.
"If you're going to apprehend this Killer Bee, you'll need help from my operatives. I insist on it."
"Fine, fine! I give up!"
Mark Sy and Colonel Wolfman were arguing for the past 19 minutes about jurisdiction and logistic problems. Mark, with support from Martin, was a bit insistent on letting them deploy some of their Special Reaction Squad (SRS) teams to contain and seal off the target area, but Colonel Wolfman had warned them that they'll be in trouble if their plan would go through, since they might come under the scope of the British government, which the Center does not want to occur.
"So, when does the operation begin?" asked Rita Luwanda as she walked inside his office with Matthew McCoy. George Ginzu was the only Delta Red operative inside to give Colonel Wolfman some company while the two Center agents were busy explaining to the Colonel their next move.
Colonel Wolfman peered through his wristwatch before he replied to their query. "We leave at 1000 hours tomorrow."
Chapter 5 END