Union of the World's Strongest

Guile and Chun Li had waited for over an hour. What was taking the guy so long?

Both had already run out of things to talk about and were simply bored out of their minds.

"Hey. You're here!" Shouted a voice.

The two looked up to see a familiar face running towards them as they got up.

"Phew, sorry I'm late. Traffic was terrible." The man said with a grin.

"No harm done. So why did you ask us to meet you to talk about Bison, Ken?" Chun Li asked.

"And who are they?" Guile pointed behind him.

"Oh, they're fellow street fighters." Ken turned and waved a hand towards them.

"Those are the Bogard Brothers, Terry and Andy."
The two waved.

"That's Mai Shiranui."

"Hi." The red-head smiled.

"This is Keith Riey and his little sister, Lina Riey."

The two smiled at them.

They all sat down again.

"So what's the deal, you didn't mention what was going on?" Guile asked.

"That's because I don't know much myself to tell you the truth. I thought you guys might be able to fill in the blanks." Ken replied.

Guile looked grim that he came all the way down here for bad information.

"Well what I do know is that he's back, that's for sure. I don't know where he could be, but you can bet he's up to his old ways, only this time, he's trying to wipe out other street fighters with the same technology that Professor Sadler used a while back."

Chun Li grew angry as she remembered the last one she faced. An unbeatable monster that Ryu himself barely defeated.

"If Bison has that technology, he could create armies of those walking machines. I have a feeling that he's about to start a revolution against the world's superpowers."

"Then we'll have to stop that lunatic." Guile said as his muscles tensed from his anger.

"But we don't have a clue where he could be." Ken stated.

Guile cursed, knowing that he couldn't do anything if he didn't know where Bison was.

X

Ryu stepped off the plane and started walking, not sure of Rose's words.

"What could she mean by Vengeance?"

He picked up a very familiar ki and looked around. Then his eyes fell on a man with long blonde hair.

"Ken?"

X

Ken looked up as did the others.

"I know that ki."

It didn't take him long to find the person.

"Ryu!" Ken shouted.

"How's it going Ken?" Ryu said with a wave as he reached them.

Introductions were briefly made.

"So you're Ryu. I always wanted to fight someone as powerful as you. Care for a spar sometime?" Keith asked.

"Maybe." Ryu simply said.

"So why are all of you here at the Terminal?" Ryu asked.

"Ken called us from our homes and I had to take a plane to get here. Guile came to pick me up so we could wait on him." Chun Li explained.

"Yeah, Bison's back." Ken told Ryu.

"I know. Rose told me." Ryu said.

"Rose, huh? You never really said who she was?"

"I'm not really sure myself?" Ryu replied.

"Well anyways. We might can grab some info with the Base I just came from." Guile suggested.

"Well it's a step in the right direction. So let's check it out." Said Terry and they left.

The group reached the parking lot and reached Ken's Porsche.

"Hehe, this could be a problem now that more people have joined." He laughed as he scratched the back of his head.

"Don't worry about it. I brought my own mode of transportation."

Guile reached into his pocket with his keys and pressed a button.

An engine roared as tires squealed and people were screaming as a black Hummer turned around a tight corner of cars and braked to a stop right in front of them.

"Whoa, retro-Batman." Keith said as Guile patted its hood.

"It a state-of-the-art Prototype. They let me test it out to see how remote vehicles could be useful to help troops that are pinned down. Soon tanks might have this technology."

"So who's going with Guile? Mine will hold four easy." Asked Ken.

"Shotgun!" Ryu shouted as he hopped into the Porsche.

"I'll go anywhere with Andy." Mai said as she clung to his arm.

"I guess I could take the Hummer." Andy said.

"I'll go with Guile." Chun Li offered.

"I'll go with Ken and Ryu." Terry offered.

The last ones were Keith and Lina.

Keith tried to act inconspicuous as he pushed Lina in the back a little towards the car.

Lina got really nervous and she fiddled with her hands a little as she blushed.

"I'll go with you guys." She said, barely audible.

"Alright, it's been settled. Let's get this show on the road." Ken said as he hopped into the driver's seat and revved the engine as everyone got into their vehicles and headed out of the Airport.

X

Everything was hectic from the start. Even after getting a decent vehicle to hold the five of them, the group was a spark away from a violent free-for-all.

"Get your elbow out of my side, Kusanagi." Iori snarled.

"Sorry, what about now!" Kyo snarled back.

"Ouch! You're pushing your luck."

"Oh really, then how about this?"

"Argh, all right, you asked for it! Prepare to die!"

The SUV shook as the two fought in the enclosed space.

Alba, who was driving, grew irritated and reached back with a hand surging with electricity and fried the two without looking back.

That stopped the two as they sprawled out in the back, smoking and twitching.

"Thanks, they were beginning to bother me." K' said as he was in the passenger seat, trying to take a nap.

"What's cooking?" Soiree asked as he sat up from sleeping in the far rear of the vehicle, then noticed the two and understood what had happened.

"They were fighting again?" He asked.

"Yep, I think they're growing tolerant to my shocks because they're still conscious." Alba replied.

Soiree just shrugged and placed his cowboy hat over his face and lay back down to sleep.

Suddenly, a Honda motorcycle screamed by them; making them look like they were standing still.

"Who the hell was that?" Alba said as the noise alerted all of them.

"Damn, he was hauling ass!" Soiree said in amazement.

Not long afterwards, they saw the bike stopped in the middle of the road, as if waiting for them.

Alba slowed the SUV down to stop.

The person was revealed to be Rock Howard.

"I thought I sensed something familiar." He said as Alba stepped out of the car.

"So it was you? Terry Bogard's pupil. What brings you way out here?"

"I was heading towards LA. Something big is going on and I want to know what it is?"

"You ran into a big guy, incredibly tough, but not Human?" Alba asked.

"Yeah? How did you know?"

"The same thing happened to us? They're some sort of bioweapons made by a group called Shadowlaw. We're trying to figure out where they might be and give them some payback."

"Terry's in LA which is why I'm heading there. I'm sure they attacked him too. I'm just not sure what their plan is?"

"Well we barely know much more than you do?"

"We can I come along?"

Alba just shrugged.

"I don't see why not."

Rock started his bike as Alba got back in and the two took off down the highway.

X

Bison found his next target hard to find, but it would only be a matter of time before he found him. Once he eliminated all of these nuisances, he would show the world the true meaning of power.

X

Ken and Guile roared through the grassy hills of California in their vehicles.

Lina simply watched the twisting and winding roads. She was growing nervous about being so close to quite possibly her biggest crush.

Terry and the others were silent, just enjoying the music and the wind hitting their faces.

Lina sighed, guessing it was now or never.

"Ter..?" She said, but her voice was caught in her throat.

"Did you say something?" He asked.

"I… I um… I was just wondering. What do you like to do? When you're not fighting I mean?" She asked, trying the break the ice.

Terry smiled, but didn't see any harm in a simple conversation.

"Well let's see. I like to hang out, playing basketball with friends. Joe, Andy, Mai, and Rock. We'd go to the Arcade sometimes just or fun. Mostly we just like having eachother's company. Joe was always goofing around and Mai would cling to Andy like a tick which was quite amusing itself." He laughed a little at the idea, which Lina joined with a soft little giggle of her own.

Feeling more comfortable listening to him, she decided to go a little deeper, hoping she wasn't going too far, but she had to know.

"I was wondering, Terry." She edged herself closer to the point that her seatbelt reached its limit.

"Are you currently seeing anyone?"

Terry looked at her in a state of shock as such a forward question.

Ken and Ryu glanced back just as a giant plane shot by just over their head.

"Not this again." Ken growled as he hit the brakes and the Porsche skid sideways to a halt as Guile quickly stopped next to them.

They all got out as the plane circled around until it hovered just in front of them.

A figure stepped out on the wing, a tall man with a patch over his right eye and a long diagonal scar across his chest.

"Sagat!" Ryu shouted in anger as the man grinned down.

"It's been a long time, Ryu! Unfortunately I didn't come here to fight you! We'll have our chance again soon enough!"

He pulled out a scroll and threw it down, Ryu holding out his hands and catching it.

"We'll finish our fight for good this time!"

Sagat disappeared into the plane as it roared and took off over the mountains.

The others grouped around him.

"What is it, Ryu?" Ken asked.

Ryu unrolled the scroll.

"It's a map… of New Mexico."

"What! Let me see." Guile muscled his way closer and was quite angry.

"I can't believe it! Bison has been this close to us the entire time and we never even had a clue." The man was coming down a headache from the idea of Bison fooling them so easily.

"He wants us to go west about twenty miles from a place called Roswell." Ryu said, pointing to the map.

"Roswell. Area 51?" Keith said.

Guile was even more furious.

Bison was almost right next to the most secured base in the entire U.S. Didn't anybody notice?

"So I guess that's where we're headed. Everyone ready for Route 66?" Ken asked.

The others agreed and they quickly changed directions and headed South.

X

(Place unknown)

Bison stood alone in the tundra, unaffected by the chilling winds.

But he knew he wasn't alone.

"Come out. You can't hide from me." Bison called to the plains.

A flash shot at him from behind, but he teleported, avoiding the sharp lance without effort.

Bison appeared, facing the man who had his arms stretched out, which was a long spear.

"Who said I was hiding." Replied the man in a cold tone as his arm retracted, returning to its normal length, the blade turning into five fingers.

"Just what do you want anyway? Did you come here to fight me?" K9999 asked.

Bison snickered.

"Only if you insist, but I've come here for a different reason. You see, I am the greatly feared Bison of Shadowlaw. I'm currently recruiting the strongest evils to aid me in my ambition. You and several others could become very powerful men should you join me."

K9999 didn't react to his offer.

"So what do I care about power, nobody give me orders. That stopped a long time ago."

"But look at what you'll be missing. Once my armies have crushed all who oppose me, the world would be mine. All of those who aid me will be richly rewarded. Think of it, entire countries, maybe even a continent you can be master over."

"So what do I care about ruling over other people's lives. That would be a complete waste of my time." K9999 replied.

Bison was growing tired of this man's stubbornness.

"Well there is one thing that might get your attention. I was hoping that you would be different from the others, but I guess not. Vengeance can be so trivial."
K9999 looked at him curiously.

"I know that you desire the destruction of the one called K'."

K9999 flared with anger and his aura of fire came to life at the mention of K's name.

Bison knew that he touched a soft spot.

"You were traveling with another, a white-haired woman?"

K9999's aura died like a candle put out.

"Angel, I had to leave her. I needed to find a way to control this raging power within me that threatens to destroy my body every time I use to excessively. She fears it, which is why I am doing this."

"I'm sure that can be easily remedied once this K' has been eliminated, don't you think?"
K9999 grinned as his hands became five razor sharp blades.

"I do believe you have a point."

X

Rock, Alba and the others were looking at the map.

"Why the hell in New Mexico? This one-eyed freak in a huge plane throws us this map and we're supposed to follow it?" Kyo stated.

"Well we don't have much of a choice. This is the best lead we've got." Alba said.

"I'm really starting to get pissed off with all of this. First they interrupt my fight with Kusanagi and now they want us to go to the desert?" Iori growled.

"Can't argue with that, but I say let's go. It could be fun?" Soiree said with a grin.

Rock just shrugged.

"Terry might be headed that way so I agree with Soiree."

Eventually, the others decided it was their best and only option.

"This time, somebody else is driving. I need some sleep." Alba said as he went straight to the back of the SUV and laid out.

K' looked at the others with his usual don't-give-a-damn attitude.

"I guess I'm the only one responsible enough to drive." He said as he walked to the driver's side and got in.

"What is that supposed to mean?" The three said.

"It means whatever you want it to mean." Rock said as he hopped on his bike and rode off.

X

Now Bison had everyone that he needed to accomplish his goals.

Geese Howard, Don Duke, and K9999. The world's most powerful evils.

He stood upon a floating chariot as he looked down at the three. Behind them Bison's army of Shadowlaw soldiers.

"You are the best and strongest in the world as some would say. That is why I have brought you here. We all share a common hatred for the world that was once in a grasp before it was stolen from us by those unworthy of its power. You three will become my generals and with our combined power, we will destroy every civilization and rebuild this world the way it should be. A world in our image that we will rule for all eternity."
The three seemed quite intrigued, he had the charisma to make good on his actions.

"But before that can happen, we have to show the world that we are the strongest by defeating the strongest. Currently, the world's greatest street fighters are heading this way and once they do. They will know the power we wield with the fires of hell itself!"

The entire army roared as one.

As the army cheered, Bison's scientist appeared.

He floated down as the man bowed.

"Sir, the information has been completed for these new cyborgs. These are far stronger than even the great Professor's, but only a few could be made I'm afraid. Weaker models are easily duplicated, but these require more time to make and no more can be created by the time the fighters reach us." He explained.

"No matter, they could barely face the weaker ones anyway. What of Sagat's progress?"
"He's improving remarkably. His desire to face Ryu is actually making his progress move faster and he should be finished by the time the fighters reach us. This was only supposed to be for the cyborgs, not on a Human subject. Even I'm not sure what the outcome will be." The scientist explained.

X

Elsewhere, Screaming and howling could be heard, echoing throughout the base.

Sagat thrashed wildly, but his arms, legs, and head were pinned tightly, restricting his movements as he underwent the procedure that he willingly offered himself too.

His mind was flooded with data on Ryu's fighting style and various mechanical limbs were inserting enhanced cybernetic instruments through freshly cut wounds.

His cries in pain and agony erupted from the occasional shock he received as something was placed inside his brain via a partially cut skull.

Sagat's mouth frothed blood from his cries.

"I'll kill you Ryu! I won't be defeated again! I'LL KILL YOU!"

X

Alright, the best is yet to come.

Ki and fire will be tearing up the battlefield in a display of power that no man-made weapon could ever fathom.

Drama, action, maybe a few unexpected twists thrown in.

And that's just the beginning.

The world's greatest street fighters may have met their match, or are they just getting warmed up for what's to come?

Find out the line-up and witness the true power that lies within these great warriors.

See ya.