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:
The research base was now under attack by Shadowlaw forces. With a swift and lethal response from the Center, Delta Red, US Air Force officers Charlie Nash and William Guile with ICPO agent Chun-Li Xiang, they manage to penetrate the besieged facility in hopes of finding Bison or what he wants from the complex. Can the teams stop Bison before it's too late? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.
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Chapter 9: Meetings
Somewhere inside the Center Research Facility - 12:50 P.M.
BOOM!
CHIK-CHIK!
BOOM!
Jean Jacquemonde, the French Striker, had opened fire with his Franchi SPAS-12 automatic shotgun, sending two shells hurling into the chests of two Shadowlaw troopers armed with SIG 550 assault rifles.
"Hell yeah!" shouted Patrick, firing his Norinco QBZ-97/Type 97 assault rifle at incoming Shadowlaw troopers from the main hall, taking cover behind an overturned table.
"HA!" shouted Martin, twirling his quarterstaff just enough to drive it into the stomach on a Shadowlaw trooper before he twirled it again to strike his weapon into his groin before the enemy passed out.
BRRRTTTTTTT!
Yu Ominae and Mark Sy aka "Hiryu" were busy engaging squads of Shadowlaw soldiers that have entered the compound with their assault rifles at hand.
"I bagged 7 troopers today." grinned Yu as he checked his Heckler and Koch G3A3 rifle. "How about you?"
"10." shrugged Hiryu, hoisting his Howa Type 89 rifle near his shoulders.
"Show off." muttered Yu.
Soon, the gunfire in their area ended. All 5 agents were busy checking on pulses on Shadowlaw soldiers to see if they were still alive.
"What does this facility hold anyway?" asked Patrick, who had his Norinco QBZ-97/Type 97 rifle up on his shoulder.
"Mostly R&D." answered Martin. "But this complex is also designed to temporarily hold mystical artifacts found in Britain."
"So does anyone know what does THIS facility recently had?" inquired Jean, now a bit angry in his tone.
"I do remember that an archaeological expedition in Britain has recovered some strange item, but I don't know what it is though." suggested Hiryu.
"I see." replied Jean. "Well, we better move on before some Shadowlaw thug decides to drop by and say hello."
"We better." added Patrick in comment.
"By the way, Mark." Yu paused to look at Hiryu's scarfed face. "You decided to strike the 'ol Hiryu disguise like in the old days." Hiryu shrugged as Yu kept on observing his friend's new disguise. "What gives anyway?"
Hiryu walked only a few feet away from Yu when he said. "Family stuff."
"Oh." Yu jogged up to join with Hiryu and the others as they continued to scour the facility. "By the way dude, you're using your old disguise back in our Striker days. Guess it looks cool on you, still."
"Indeed." was the answer from Hiryu before they left their area. But he had a thought on his head.
"How long must I keep using the damn codename! Can't let cousin know!" He then stroked his chin. "Besides, basing my codename from the Strider videogames sure is cool!"
He then smirked under his mask before joining with his comrades.
"Sonic Boom!"
One Shadowlaw soldier was caught in the projectile's way while aiming his SIG 550 rifle at the young brash Air Force Lieutenant when Charlie performed his Sonic Boom technique.
"Flash Kick!"
Charlie turned around to see Guile knock out another Shadowlaw soldier, who was sneaking behind him with a combat knife on his hand.
"Got your six covered, pal!" said Guile with a mock salute.
"You do that!" replied Charlie, giving a thumbs up.
Rita Luwanda and Matthew McCoy were now engaging a platoon of Shadowlaw troopers, who were now faced with fists and their combat knives. Cammy White was assisting the Delta Red duo by executing Cannon Drills and Cannon Spikes in order to incapacitate and disable the enemies.
"Kikouken!" yelled Chun-Li, launching a projectile from the palms of her hands, hurling a Shadowlaw trooper into a wall.
"That's that, I guess." suggested Charlie, who wiped his hands off his cargo pants.
"Area's clear for now." Guile had adjusted the sling of his Heckler and Koch MP5A4. His weapon had barely fired off a round since he used his hand to hand combat skills to ward off his share of Shadowlaw soldiers.
"I wonder who else is in this area?" inquired Matthew McCoy.
SMASH!
The group had enough time to duck; a metal door was kicked off its hinges.
"Me and my big mouth." muttered Matthew to himself.
"What was that?" asked Rita in shock.
From the dust, six strange but familiar figures emerged into the lobby area.
There were way to familiar; they were wearing standard Shadowlaw uniforms, especially with the appearance of female jumpsuits, meaning...
"Damn! The Psycho Dolls are here too!" shouted Charlie.
"Well, well, this is interesting." Guile cracked his knuckles in anticipation.
"What are we waiting for?" yelled Rita.
"Let's go!" barked Matthew, charging for the nearest Psycho Doll.
Garage, Center Research Facility - 12:59 P.M.
"We're not alone, guys." suggested Hiryu, checking the abandoned vehicle garage area with his Howa Type 89.
From out of nowhere, six figures leaped from the balcony area, leading to the main area, all the way down to the ground floor. What came next was shocking to the first team.
"The Psycho Wankers are here!" barked Patrick, aiming his Norinco QBZ-97/Type 97 rifle at them.
"Isn't that a surprise?" sneered Jean, leveling his SPAS-12 shotgun at their shadows.
"Wonder who they are?" inquired Hiryu, still readying his grip on his Howa Type 89 rifle.
"Who cares?" objected Martin, swinging his quarterstaff above his head.
"Show yourselves!" ordered Yu, leveling his Heckler and Koch G3A3 assault rifle.
"Are you surprised enough to see us, agent Hiryu?" asked one of the figures.
Then, the six shadows emerged out of darkness and made themselves known to the agents.
"NO!" gritted Hiryu under his black balaclava.
"Suprised, Hiryu? Or perhaps, Mark Sy?" hissed Juli from the darkness, smiling. The other five were Enero, März, Satsuki, Xiayu and Noembelu.
"How did you know?" demanded Hiryu.
"Shadowlaw has lots of resources. You think that you can hide your true identity from us?" Juli got into her Shadowlaw Special Forces combat stance.
"I won't allow you to win!" barked Hiryu in reply.
"Let's see who will win, eh?" suggested Juli.
"Enough of this talk! Let's get them!" shouted Patrick.
"I agree!" hollered Yu.
"Charge!" shouted Hiryu, charging towards Juli. Soon, a battle has been initiated in the facility' garage area.
Main Lobby, Center Research Facility - 1:13 P.M.
The other six Psycho Dolls engaging with the second team were consisted of Fevrier, Aprile, Santamu, Jiayu, Decapre and their second leader, Juni.
"Why you little tramp!" shouted Charlie, launching his fists at the Russian Doll, Decapre, who parried every single punch that tried to land on her body. She swiftly grabbed his arm and threw him over his shoulder. Lucky for Guile, his street fighting skills paid off as he landed safely on his two feet.
Charlie retailated by performing his Flash Kick and connected it with a Sonic Boom. In other words, Decapre never had a chance to recover.
Matthew McCoy was now facing Aprile, the Italian Doll, on his own. She initiated a Sniping Arrow attack on the British operative. At the last minute, Matthew sidestepped and waited for her to finish performing her move before he landed an elbow attack on her vulnerable backside. She staggered for a few feet and tried to do a foot sweep. Matthew jumped and before he landed, did a thrust kick on her chest.
Rita Luwanda had her personal encounter with the feisty Vietnamese Doll, Santamu. With the advantage of a spear (Her Golden Lion Tamarin pet monkey was nowhere to be seen for now), she was attempting to stab Rita at every part of her body while the blonde Delta Red operator dodged every spear stab attempt.
With a clear opening, Rita grabbed the wooden end of Santamu's spear, twirled it and rammed it onto her chest before spinning it into her legs and twirling it upwards, striking the Vietnamese Doll's chin before it rendered her unconscious.
Cammy White, the newly reformed ex-Psycho Doll turned Delta Red operative, was now fighting against Jiayu, one of the Chinese Dolls in the Psycho Doll commando unit.
"Traitor!" cried Jiayu, swinging her quarterstaff to Cammy, formerly known in her Shadowlaw life as Killer Bee. "You dare fight with the enemies of Shadowlaw?"
"I was never a traitor!" shouted Cammy, assaulting the Oriental Doll with her fists and her feet.
"That's enough!" Cammy prepared her Shadowlaw Special Forces combat stance, parried her quarterstaff swing that was meant for her head before she shouted "Cannon Spike!".
In minutes, her entire body was launched from the ground and struck Jiayu at her chin. Recoiling from the attack, Cammy was able to get to safe ground before utilizing her Spinning Knuckle attack, throwing Jiayu head first into an empty table.
Not wanting to be open to any attack, Jiayu immediately recovered and dashed towards Cammy with her quarterstaff held above her head. Cammy responded by leaping into the air and she initiated her Cannon Strike technique, landing her foot onto her face.
Cammy landed and before Jiayu could recover, she thrusted her entire body towards her enemy before yelling,
"Cannon Drill!"
Jiayu was violently knocked onto a wall, leaving several crack marks on it before she fainted again, who would not recover for some time.
Guile, now armed with the Heckler and Koch MP5A4 submachine gun, was facing off against the French Doll named Fevrier. The main advantage for her is that she's now armed with a SIG 550 assault rifle.
"Damn, she's good!" muttered Guile, taking cover behind a corner wall as Fevrier unloads 5.56 NATO bullets meant for the American colonel. Guile and Fevrier were on a hallway near the main lobby area.
Guile opened fire while Fevrier tried to reload her SIG 550 rifle with his MP5A4 submachine gun. So far, he failed to make his mark.
"I'm out!" Guile quickly went back into cover under the safety of a security booth and hastily ejected the used magazine and fumbled his hand on the Eagle Tac-V3 Assualt Vest to search for a fresh mag. He grabbed one from the vest pocket and slapped it into the MP5A4's empty mag hole.
Before he could grip his firearm, he felt cold hands that grabbed his vest. Suddenly, he was thrown out of the lightly smashed security booth, head first onto the floor.
"This is the end of you, Colonel William Guile." Guile immediately opened his eyes just in time to eye the French Doll aiming her SIG 550 assault rifle.
Guile simply smirked at her before kicking her head, which gave him enough time to stand up. He grabbed the barrel of the SIG 550, whacked her chin with the weapon's butt and disarmed her before leaping over her head. Once it was done, he tightly grabbed her waist and performed a German Suplex Manoeuvre.
Fevrier was now dazed out, with face down on the cold tiles, with her SIG 550 rifle was swiftly kicked out of her hands by Guile, who could only at her unconscious body with sympathy. "Sorry, gal. Had to apply some 'pressure' on you." Guile then ran off from the corridor, MP5A4 in hand, back to the main lobby.
Chun-Li, with her hands full, was clashing with Juni, one of the German Psycho Dolls and the Vice-Commander of the group.
"Give up, Detective. We know everything about you." sneered Juli, who initiated her Spinning Knuckle move.
"Really? You Shadowlaw punks know everything about me, what else is there to know?" mocked Chun-Li, blocking the attack.
"Heh." Juli grinned at her, leaning her head on one side. "We know something about your family, especially your relationship with your estranged cousin."
Chun-Li suddenly had a shocked look on her face, but still kept her guard up.
"I'm sure that Master Bison will be very interested in the information that we've found." Juli kept grinning and dashed towards the Interpol agent.
"Keep him out of this! Hyakuretsukyaku!" shouted Chun-Li, initiating a multiple kick attack that kept the second German Doll from guessing, trying to stay one step on top of her by swatting away every kick that she could deliver with most of her strength.
Juni now leaped into the air and readied herself as she executed her Hooligan Combination move.
"Oh no you don't! Tenshokyaku!" With her agility, Chun-Li initiated her anti-air attack, twisting her legs in the air as her feet connected themselves into Juni's curled body.
Juni came crashing down onto to a sofa, which smashed due to the force of the impact that had knocked her out of the air.
"That oughta teach her not to mess with my personal life." muttered Chun-Li, eyeing Juni for signs of consciousness.
She was about to kick her body to revive her, when she heard voices from behind.
"Chun-Li, you okay?"
She turned her around and saw Charlie, running towards her with the rest of the gang.
"Looks like my interrogation session's cut short." Chun-Li walked towards Guile and slowly, the team planned their next course of action, unknown of another battle taking place
Garage, Center Research Facility - 1:19 P.M.
"Why you! Take this!" shouted Martin, swinging his quarterstaff at März, one of the main German Dolls. She countered it and with a bit of handwork, had his quarterstaff in her hands. Martin, remembering his martial arts training with Mark in his Center recruit days, began to duck under every swing from his own weapon. He felt pain swelling from his left hand when he tried to punch her with no luck.
"I have to think fast or I'm in trouble!" Martin began to sweat after dodging and ducking from März's attacks on him. When he noticed the German Doll preparing to swing the quarterstaff like a baseball bat, Martin quickly dashed towards her with a tackle, ramming her unprotected chest with his shoulder.
März, due to the violent tackle that Martin had used on her, bonked her head on the concrete wall. She got up, with her vision cloudy. Before she could refocus her vision completely, she only noticed something clenched streaking towards her face.
Martin Mystery, eyed his left hand with glee and shook it to ward off the pain as he eyed März for any sign of life. "My work here's done."
Yu Ominae was facing Enero, the Spanish Doll on the balcony leading outside the Garage. With the aid of his Armored Muscle Suit, Yu had the advantage over her in terms of strength, which was multipled by 30.
The only problem that he's facing was that Enero, like most of the Psycho Dolls, underwent gene enchancement, meaning that she was much stronger and faster than any other ordinary woman, who had no martial arts experience in her middle '20s.
"HIYAA!" shouted Yu, driving his fist into her chest even if it was blocked by Enero's arms. The force of his punch was so strong that Enero's genetic enchancement could not even save her from her own predicament, propelling her towards the concrete wall.
"HA!" Yu leaped in the air, with Enero getting up and looking for the Japanese Striker.
"Where is he anyway?" sneered Enero angrily.
"You looking for me?" said a voice from the air.
Enero looked up with her fists in the air.
"Damn, girl! Maybe you should have paid attention to the air instead of the voice!"
Sure enough, Yu kicked her in the face, sending her to the metal floor. The surge of the attack was powerful enough to send her to dreamland, literally.
Yu landed safely, but he was barely able to stabilize his footing as he almost collapsed when one of his feet landed between the edge of the metal steps.
Jean Jacquemonde had his fists busy for Noembelu, the Mexican Doll. Jean could have easily dashed towards her and use the advantage of his "natural" speed to fight her. The presence of Noembelu's sharp twin hatchets as her weapons only made his situation worse. The French Striker that to find a way to defeat her fast before he turns into his werewolf form, something that he doesn't want to do for now.
"Is that the best that you can do?" boasted Jean, nimbly avoiding her hatchet swipe that Noembelu did, making her infuriated than ever. When she kept swiping her hatchets, she didn't notice that Jean was out of her vision.
"Where are you?" yelled the Mexican Doll.
"I'm over here."
Noembelu swiflty turned around and did a slashing motion with one of her hatchets. Unfortunately for her, Jean took one of her wrists, elbowed her chest and did a spinning kick to the same area before doing a judo throw on her towards some discarded chairs, completely disabling her of her hatchets.
"Heh!" grinned Jean, cracking his gloved knuckles.
Patrick Chan was now in trouble; his opponent happened to be Satsuki, the Japanese Doll.
"Dammit, no fair!" barked Patrick, who was now backed towards a wall with Satsuki's katana blade near his throat.
"Looks like I win." grinned Satsuki.
"I think I've got an idea." Patrick eyed a discarded water bucket near his foot. He suddenly had a plan in motion.
"I'm sorry, but it looks like that I got the upper hand." Patrick swiftly kicked Satsuki, staggering for a few feet before he kicked the bucket just above his chest to deliver another kick, which went for Satsuki's hands.
"Thank god for soccer intramural training." snickered the Filipino Striker, watching the bucket sail to the Japanese Doll.
"Agh!" Satsuki painfully released her katana from her hands due to the pain that the bucket had inflicted when Patrick kicked it.
"Quit being such a crybaby!" shouted Patrick, delivering a backfist to Satsuki's rear. She had just enough time to counter it by blocking it. In response, Patrick went for fist flurries at her. "Dangit! She keeps blocking! Must be from Shadowlaw's gene enchancement."
Patrick's train of though was interrupted after Satsuki kicked her on his side, making him vulnerable for a few minutes. Satsuki then followed it with a hopping kick to his chin, tumbling him to the ground.
"That hurt!" Patrick leaped up on the ground, fists at the ready. When Satsuki was about to swing her katana to decapitate the agent, Patrick was now prepared for it and went for a strong uppercut before adding a roundhouse kick to her face.
"Whata!" Patrick did a Bruce Lee impersonation, making his body shake with his shaking arms on both sides of his body before he ended his attack with a jab punch to her chest.
Satsuki's defenses crumpled due to the added power of Patrick's Armored Muscle Suit, which generated 30 times his normal power. She took a few minutes observing him before her world became black.
Juli, the leader of the Psycho Dolls, nimbly avoided every blow that Mark Sy, still in his Hiryu disguise, had tried to thrust at her. Wearing a captured Trident Armored Machine Suit, it made the military-trained Center agent faster than before. Although speed was the main factor of his suit, the suit also gives him much power, which also makes him powerful 30 times than his average strength.
"Give up, Mark!" demanded Juli. "We know your relationship that you had with your cousin."
"What?" gasped Hiryu. "Don't get her involved!"
"She's been involved since the day her investigation began. Make it easy for her and just surrender to Shadowlaw... and to me." grinned Juli.
"Never!" Hiryu was stern in facing off the Center's enemies.
"Fine! Sniping Arrow!" Juli yelled, making her entire body a missile.
"Heh! Rising Upper!" shouted Hiryu, he made a slight dash before swaying his body, leaping off the ground after delivering a clear blow to her chin, which had sheer influence from Ryu's Shotokan Karate training.
Juli made an aerial recovery and landed on the ground. "You can't beat me that easily!"
"Try me, girlie!" sneered Hiryu.
Juli wiped some of the blood from her mouth before rushing him with another attack. "Take this! Spinning Knuckle!"
"Not enough!" shouted Hiryu, grabbing her wrist and initiating a Kaiten Nage throw. Before Juli could try to move, her vision suddenly turned black.
"Heh, not a challenge." mocked Hiryu, who viewed Juli's body walking towards Martin and the rest of his comrades, admiring their "handiwork" with the other Psycho Dolls.
"You okay?" asked Patrick, giving a thumbs up.
"The wanker was only giving me an exercise." answered Hiryu, who only had a grin.
"Same here." added Martin, twirling his quarterstaff on his side.
"Spin Drive Smasher!"
"What the?" asked Yu in shock.
"Mark, look out!" barked Jean.
Hiryu hastily turned around 180 degrees and saw Juli thrusting her enitre body again towards the military agent. He cooly did his Junzuki Daichi stance and prepared for the "worst".
"Fool!" exclaimed Hiryu. "You never learn from Killer Bee, did you? Stealth Dive!" Hiryu disappeared momentarily before appearing on top of Juli's propelled body, kicking her abdomen area.
"URGH!" cried Juli, who was coughing more blood than before standing up on her two feet
"You just never learn, you psychopatic android! Houzanto!" shouted Hiryu, dashing forward before delivering a sharp elbow thrust to her stomach. "Take this! Bushin Hassou Gourai Kyaku!" Hiryu dashed again towards Juli's falling body, grabbed her jumpsuit collar and pounded her with several punches and kicks before delivering a Rising Upper on her.
Juli landed on some discarded crates found near the stairs, which stirred some wooden dust due to the force of the impact. When the dust cleared, the Psycho Doll commander was unconscious; her body covered with brown wooden dust.
"Mission Accomplished!" grinned Hiryu. "For now."
"I suggest we get out of here." commented Jean, unslinging his Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun from his shoulders.
The six teen agents soon left the garage and went for the balcony area and the door automatically opened as soon as Martin stepped near it, leading them away from the garage and further deep inside the complex.
Somewhere inside the Center Research Facility - 1:26 P.M.
A lone man was alone. Everything in the room was pitch black, with the exception of a lone computer shining bright in the darkness.
"Interesting! So the bastards have finally arrived, eh?"
The figure now stood from the office chair, before the lights of the abandoned office were opened thanks to a Shadowlaw trooper.
"Sir! The intruders are moving deep inside the complex quickly!"
"Excellent!" grinned the mysterious man. "Deploy more troopers to block their progress."
"Yes sir!" The trooper saluted Bison before running out of the office.
"Soon.." The man adjusted his red officer's cap and his dark blue cape. "Those scumbags will know the true wrath of Shadowlaw." He pondered on his thoughts for a few minutes before going back to his monologue.
"Hiryu, or should I say Mark Sy, will be the one to learn the meaning of fear from me! Just wait 'til I test his fighting skills."
He ended his monologue with a fierce and menacing laughter, roaring throughout the deep interior of the complex.
Chapter 9 END