Author's notes: Sorry for the delay folks. Wait no longer for the next chapter is here.

Nina could feel the aching wounds she had received during the fight with Heihachi beginning to hurt and sting even more. No longer could she keep her voice down, the pain was just too unbearable to resist. One of the security guards stepped closer to the far corner where Steve and her were concealed by darkness. He could hear the sounds her heavy breathing and suffering groans. From the moment he heard the groaning noises, he knew somebody was there.

Slowly pulling a gun from his strapped waist, the guard shined a bright laser from the scope of the weapon to the wall. Steve could see the laser reflecting off the plaster as the guard drew closer to his position. Nina was in bad shape, and he didn't want the guard to see her in the condition she was in. Doing the only thing he figured he could do, Steve came out of hiding and revealed himself to the guards. They quickly tackled and restrained him to the floor, not giving him the chance to move his legs or arms. Nina heard Steve struggle and grunt, but there was nothing she could do at the moment to help him.

"Mr. Heihachi, we got the man, but we don't know where the assassin is," the guard said, speaking into his radio.

"Search everywhere! I want her alive, and bring the guy up to me; I'll deal with him myself!" Heihachi shouted back.

"Yes sir."

Nina was left alone inside the messy office in the corner of the dark corner of the room as the guards exited with Steve held in their custody. She understood that he practically sacrificed himself so the guards wouldn't catch her. What he did was brave but also foolish, so she thought. He was now a prisoner of Heihachi, and there was no telling what the owner of the Zaibatsu would do to him.

Nina crouched forward onto the carpeted floor and lied there, bleeding small portions of blood from her wounded side. She wanted to get up, get up and fight, but her injuries were holding her back from doing anything. The searing pain had constrained her to the floor. It was difficult to move with being scratched and cut nearly everywhere. Although she was hurt, Nina wasn't going to let the injury get the best of her.

She got up slowly, taking in all the heavy pain she could feel while she stood up. Across the office on a wooden coated desk lied a roll of duck tape. Nina eyed the roll as she walked towards it like a crippled old woman. The pain got even sharper with every step taken and blood continued to spill and stain the expensive carpet. She took the tape, ripped a piece of it from the roll, and placed it on every wound felt on her body. It wasn't a properly suited bandage, but it got the job done of keeping the blood in.

All over herself she could feel soreness. The aching wounds stayed with her, but at least the bleeding had stopped. Letting her leather coat drop to the floor, she pulled out two submachine weapons that were tightly strapped around her belted waist, and proceeded out of the office.

Outside in the halls, security guards roamed everywhere, searching the area like vicious bloodhounds. Before one of the guards almost spotted her, Nina hid behind a cement-layered wall. If she went out with guns blazing there was no doubt it would draw attention and create even more problems. Nina didn't want to attract anything. It was best to keep things quiet for now .The biggest problem at the moment was finding Steve and getting out of the building alive and in one piece.

Quietly, she crept up the stairs to the next floor and was confronted by a wandering guard on the way. Without making any heavy sounds to alert anybody, Nina kicked the guard in the stomach and snapped his neck as he bent over. She dragged his lifeless body down and hid it underneath the staircase to avoid having it exposed to his looming comrades. Checking his pocket, she found a couple keycards that went to certain locked rooms within the building. The cards were going to be a huge help in getting in all the locked rooms Nina wouldn't have been able to get into without them. Each guard within the building carried a certain specific keycard that went to a certain room door. Only the employees that worked for Heihachi could obtain one.

Soon, another guard could be heard coming down the steps. Nina hid herself under the steps and waited for him to pass. Once he was off the steps, the Irish assassin grabbed him by the neck and clinched it tightly with her arms. She could see he was trying to reach for his radio and alert the other guards, Nina made sure that didn't happen and snapped his neck. More guards came down the steps, at least five of them. There wasn't going to be anytime to hide or leave the staircase before they showed up. Quietly, they descended down the stairs seeing no one in site.

"I could have sworn I heard something down here," said one guard.

"Maybe it was just your imagination," added in another guard.

With that, the five guards departed from the area. Nina then came down from the ceiling of the staircase after clinging to it like a spider. Up ahead, she checked all the offices on the floor but found nothing but empty rooms. Opening the other doors with the required keycard, Nina stumbled upon more computer mainframes. The rooms were much larger than the one Steve and her infiltrated earlier. It was likely the mainframes contained the information they were looking for, but now was not the time to worry about that. Every wasted second that went by Steve could be getting tortured or worse for what she knew by Heihachi and his men. Suddenly, Nina could heard familiar voices coming through the air vents.

"I'll ask you one last time, little man, where the hell is the assassin hiding?"

"Assassin? What assassin?" A voice said, pretending to be oblivious to everything that was going on..

"Don't play stupid with me! I'll have you shot instantly if you don't cooperate!"

"What makes you think I know anything about an assassin?"

"That woman you were with when you broke in here. I can have you arrested for trespassing, you know? Now tell me, where is Nina Williams?"

Judging by the conversation, Heihachi was going through interrogation procedures to get Steve to talk, but the young Brit refused to be cooperative. He'd rather die sell Nina out to the likes of Heihachi.

Eyeing the vent beside her, Nina took the cover off and crawled inside, following the sound of the bellowing voices. Filthy rat vermin scurried in fear towards the other direction as Nina made her way through. Minutes later, she reached the office containing Heihachi, his guards, and Steve Fox. Steve looked as if he had received a beating far worse the one Nina had gotten earlier. His blonde hair had been ruffled and his face had been busted up.

"I will ask you one more time and you better not give a stupid or sarcastic remark!" Ordered Heihachi.

Before Heihachi p questioned Steve again, Nina smashed through the air vent and shot all the guards in the room dead. The searing pain in her sides started to hurt again while dropping to the floor from the vent, and she attempted to ignore it but it was getting worse. She needed to be taken to a hospital.

"Nina, it's about time you showed up," Steve said.

Nina had her gun pointed directly at Heihachi's face. There was a small button on his desk that would alert all the guards in the Zibatsu and call them up to the top floor. To make sure he didn't press it, Nina commanded him to step away from his desk.

"Get away from the desk, now!"

Heihachi was in no position to disobey, so he did as he was told.

"Why have the two of you come here?" the old man asked.

"I should be asking the question around here!" Nina snapped. "I know you have something to do with all these hit-men that have been chasing me."

"Ah, yes, the hit-man," Heihachi said, pointing up to Nina's bruised face. Rub the upper left side of your neck."

Nina didn't know the reason behind doing as the man asked, but she did it anyway. On her neck she felt and pulled off a small tracking device that had been somehow planted on her.

"That tracking device is how the hit-men found you. Its been planted on you for months without you knowing. With it, I was able to trace your every move and pinpoint your exact location."

After taking a good look in at the tracking device, Nina dropped it to the floor and crushed it into pieces underneath her black leather boot. She hoisted her gun back up and directly aimed it at Heihachi's bare chest.

"Alright you senile old fool. What do you know?"