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Chapter 30

No way out

In the meantime, Hwoarang, Baek and Asuka were fighting, but there were more Jacks arriving.

-'They need help!'-Julia said watching the screen.

-'Fine…lets go Christie!'-Eddie called.

-'Great! Lets have some fun!'

-'I'll stay here and try to open the doors!'

As soon as Eddie and Christie left, Julia started to work on the door commands, but it was hard, since she wasn't an expert in that kind of things.

When she pushed a button, the room door where she was closed automatically and all the other doors opened instantly.

She got up from the chair and tried to open the door.

-'Shit!'-she said.-'At least I opened the other doors.'

Eddie and Christie arrived just in time to help Asuka and the others. The Jacks weren't easily knocked out, but after twenty minutes they were all on the ground.

-'Who are these guys?'-Asuka asked.-'They are all the same!'

-'I don't know…but we better get way from here!'-Baek said and pulled Asuka.

-'Well done guys…'-Hwoarang said to Christie and Eddie.-'Thanks for the help!'

When they arrived to the room where Julia was, the door was locked but it had a small window so they could speak.

-'Julia? What happened?'-Hwoarang shouted.

-'I managed to open the other doors, but this one is locked!'

Hwoarang tried to knock the door down but he didn't succeed.

-'Leave it!'-Julia said.-'I'll be alright! Find Ling and the others and then call the authorities…I'm sure they have experts who are able to open this!'

-'Lets see if we can find Steve first!'-Christie said.-'See you later, Julia!'

-'Hwoarang?'-Julia called.

-'What?'

-'Be careful…'

-'You too, babe…'

In the meanwhile Lei, Nina and Paul had found Steve and Anna.

-'Raven's gone and I guess Julia managed to open the doors!'-Steve announced.

-'Look…Nina, isn't Steve the cutest thing?'-Anna asked, making Steve give some steps back with a scared look.

Nina looked at her sister and sighed.

-'Stop that!'

-'He's blonde…just like you! And his eyes are blue…like yours!'

-'ANNA!'

-'What?'

After a few minutes Asuka, Hwoarang, Baek, Eddie and Christie joined Lei and the others.

-'We have to find Kazama and Ling, free Julia and return to Fuji-Nion!'-Hwoarang said.

-'Lets go upstairs…this sub-level is creepy!'-Christie said pulling Eddie's arm.

-'Ok…but are you sure there's nothing here?'-Lei asked.

-'We walked around in this stupid place forever…it's empty!'-Hwoarang said.

-'Except for those guys…'-Asuka explained referring to the Jacks.-'They were tough.'

-'Come on!'-Paul called.-'Lets move…'

The group went to the secret stairs and started to go up. Asuka was the last one and she was going to follow Steve when she felt a pain in her chest and fell on her knees. She tried to talk and even scream for help, but she wasn't able to do it. Her voice didn't come out. No one noticed that she wasn't with them.

Asuka was going to faint when she saw something moving on the wall and she realised it was an elevator coming down. She could hear the noise but she couldn't see the doors. It was obviously that the elevator was hidden behind the wall. With her last strengths Asuka managed to get up, she found the elevator and she pushed the last button.

When she got to the Honmaru, the pain stopped and she couldn't believe her eyes. There was a man holding a gun and he was talking to an old man, it seemed Wang Jinrei.

Asuka hide and saw some men taking Jin's body to a military helicopter that was near the balcony. She immediately froze. Was Jin dead? She didn't know the answer but she knew that she had to go with Jin, she could feel it.

While Heihachi was talking to Jinrei and the militaries were picking up Kazuya's body, Asuka managed to hide inside the helicopter.

-'Leave Xiao here!'-Jinrei asked Heihachi.

-'Sorry…I can't. She's too involved now!'

-'She's just a child!'

-'If Jin loses control, I'll be able to control him since I'll have her! Besides she has the devil gene, and I need it for myself!'

-'That will kill her!'

-'So what?'

-'You can't use her like that!'

-'You helped my father to kidnap her…why are you worried now?'

-'Your father wasn't going to hurt her!'

-'That's what he told you!'

-'He's not a liar! Besides…Xiao's expecting a baby…you can't kill her! The baby is a Mishima…'

-'She's pregnant?'

-'Yes.'

-'With Jin's child?'

-'Yes.'

-'Great!'-Heihachi said ironically.-'My grandson is a stupid asshole just like his father! But this seems to be our fate…the Mishima heirs are experts getting girls pregnant! I can't have another Mishima heir.'

-'I thought that was your goal…to have an heir to control!'

-'Not anymore! I changed my mind! Both my sons and Jin are sentimental fools! I guess this time I'll try clones…'

-'Clones?'

-'Yes, my clones! This way the Mishima Zaibatsu will always be mine! No more heirs, no more idiots!'

-'You're so cruel…how could you do this?'

-'Well…they are not dead…yet!'

-'You killed your brother and tried to do the same to your father…'

-'Wait a second…I had nothing to do with Seichi's death…it was an accident!'

-'That's not what your dad told me!'

-'I know he thinks it was me…but it wasn't! I would never do that! Seichi was my brother and my best friend! But that doesn't matter anymore, does it?'

-'No, but you could change things by leaving Xiao with me! I'll make sure you never see her again!'

-'No! She's going with me! Now leave old man…or I'll be forced to shoot you!'

Heihachi took Ling in his arms and jumped to the helicopter. Soon he was leaving the Mishima mansion behind.

In the meanwhile Hwoarang and the others had heard the noise of an engine and saw a helicopter leaving.

-'What the hell is happening?'-Paul questioned.

-'Who knows?'-Anna said.-'I don't understand anything…can we go back to Fuji-Nion?'

-'We have to find Kazama!'-Hwoarang said.

-'We can tell that they quitted and that they won't come back!'-Anna suggested.

-'Shut up, Anna!'

-'Fine!'

-'Who was on that damn helicopter?'-Lei asked.

-'Heihachi Mishima!'-a voice said. Everyone saw Raven coming down the stairs slowly.

-'Heihachi Mishima is dead!'-Nina said.

-'That's what I said last year to my superiors…but I saw him just now leaving in that military helicopter!'

-'Are you sure it was Heihachi?'-Lei asked.

-'Absolutely…he was in the tournament too.'

-'What?'-everyone asked.

-'Under the name of Katsumoto…he won Bryan Fury.'

-'Are you sure that was him?'-Hwoarang asked surprised. He had fought against Heihachi twice and he hadn't noticed that he was Bryan's opponent.

-'Was he alone?'-Nina asked.

-'No…he took Jinpachi, Lee, Kazuya, Jin and Xiaoyu with him!'

-'To where?'-Paul asked.

-'I don't know…'

-'Lets go back to Fuji-Nion.'-Nina said.

-'Hey…where's Asuka?'-Steve asked suddenly.

-'She's hidden in Heihachi's helicopter! She's a smart kid.'

-'Shit…we need to get her back…and the others!'-Baek said.

In that moment, a black car left the house with Dr. Abel and Bryan Fury.

-'Where are we going Doctor?'-Bryan asked.

-'To my house…it's a safe place…you'll see!'

-'You have a house?'

-'Yes.'

-'I thought you lived in a damn laboratory!'

-'Sometimes I think that way too.'-Dr. Abel looked back and pushed a button on a remote control.

-'What's that? Are you going to blow the house?'

-'No…the house it's too valuable to blow up! Just the labs…in the sub-level. I have many material there…I don't want them in the wrong hands!'

In that instant everyone felt the explosion in the sub-level. Hwoarang ran to the stairs immediately. There was smoke everywhere. He passed by the Jacks who were still on the floor unconscious and headed to the control room.

-'Julia!'-he called coughing.

-'I'm ok…'-she said approaching the window.-'What was that?'

-'Something exploded…'

Lei had sent Nina, Anna and Christie to the helicopters and the rest of them followed Hwoarang. Raven had disappeared again. As soon as they got in, the sub-level was sealed again. In case of a fire that was the normal procedure to avoid the fire to get to the other floors.

Hwoarang was trying to open the door, but it wasn't working.

-'Let me try!'-Lei asked.-'What happened to the numbers and the buttons?'

-'I had to break them to open the door!'-Hwoarang confessed.

Lei tried to connect some wires but it was no use. The fire was coming in their direction and the smoke was not helping.

Baek and Steve were trying to open the outside door.

-'Julia try the computer!'-Eddie suggested.-'Maybe you can open all the doors this time!'

Julia tried once more.

-'I can't…I'm sorry!'-she said giving up after a few minutes.

Then Steve heard a noise and saw that the door was unlocked, they just had to open it manually.

-'It's opened!'-Steve said.-'Julia did it!'

Everyone sighed. The problem was that the control room door was still closed.

-'Why didn't this stupid door opened too?'-Hwoarang asked kicking the door.-'WHY?'

-'It's too late! The smoke it's too much…'-Lei said.

-'Go!'-Julia said. The smoke was already inside the room. She knew she would die due to the smoke before the fire arrived.

-'NO! I won't leave you behind! I didn't do it last year; I'm not going to do it now!'-Hwoarang declared.-'Lets try again!'

Eddie and Paul joined Hwoarang's efforts to kick the door down, but nothing seemed to work.

-'Hwoarang…please stop! Go! You can't be here forever!'

Hwoarang looked at her and she noticed he was crying.

-'I can't leave you…'

-'If you don't leave now…you will all die here! I don't want that!'

Hwoarang continued to kick and punch the door. His hands were bleeding.

-'I can't leave you!'-he shouted.-'I can't!'

-'Just…don't forget about me, ok?'

-'Don't say that! This is not goodbye!'

-'Yes…it is! Thank you…I'm glad I met you…'

-'Julia…'

-'I love you!'-she said crying.-'Paul!'-Julia shouted.

Before Hwoarang could see what was happening, Paul hit him and he fainted.

-'I'm sorry for you Julia…'-Paul said, taking Hwoarang with him.

Lei, Baek, Steve and Eddie looked at her. Steve was crying.

-'Steve…tell him…that I love him…and tell him this wasn't his fault!'

-'I will…I'm sorry…you are the bravest person I met!'-Steve said leaving.

-'I won't forget you!'-Baek said.-'Never!'

-'I'm so sorry!'-Eddie said. Lei bowed and he was the last one to leave.

Julia smiled and watched them go. The smoke was now too intense to see where they were going. Julia was hoping they could leave safely. She thought about her parents, her sister, her friends, and especially Hwoarang. She had changed so much since she had met him. She wasn't sorry for anything. She had enjoyed all the minutes they had spent together and she was happy for that, even the arguments had worth it.

She hoped he didn't feel guilty, and she hoped he would go on with his life. As her tears were falling, Julia fainted and her last word was Hwoarang's name.

Minutes later, Lei entered in one of the helicopters when the firemen were arriving to the place. He thought about Julia, she was probably dead by now. Then he saw an old man approaching them.

-'Can I go with you?'-Jinrei asked.

-'Yes. Get in…'

Jinrei sat down in silence. He was worried about Ling.

-'What are we going to do now?'-Paul asked when the helicopter lifted.

-'Where's Julia?'-Christie asked.

-'She…'-Steve started, but he couldn't finish the sentence.

-'You…left her?'

-'Where's Hwoarang?'-Christie insisted.

-'In the other helicopter…he's with Baek.'

-'And?'

-'There was no way out…'-Eddie said sitting down quietly.

Christie sat down too and she looked at him.

-'She stayed there?'-she asked.

Paul nodded.

-'There was nothing we could do to save her!'-he said.

-'She died?'

-'I…think so…the room was full of smoke, we almost couldn't get out in time!'-Steve said with tears in his eyes.

-'Oh my God! And Hwoarang?'

-'He's unconscious…we had to pull him out!'

Christie hugged Eddie and she cried.

-'Where are we going?'-Baek asked Nina while she was flying the G Corporation's helicopter.

-'To the G Corp. they'll know what to do! I'm sorry for your friend!'

-'She was nasty…She didn't like me…and I didn't like her.'-Anna said.

Baek wished he could push her off the helicopter.

-'She doesn't mean it…'-Nina said in a low voice.

-'I think she does…'

-'Will the boy be alright?'

-'No. Not at all! Would you be alright if you were forced to abandon the person you love?'

-'No. I'm sorry…'

-'Unfortunately…there was no way out for her…'-Baek added sadly.