Deadly Directions
Nina Williams In:
Gamble and Risque
MiSSIoN: INVeSTIgatE hEihaChI MIShimA SaLuTE CASIno
Heihachi Mishima watched the scientist. "I'm waiting" he growled.
Dr Abel swallowed nervously. "We've finished the prototype" he yelped. "However we need to investigate the fuel cell before we can f-f-finish it" he tapped the voice box at the side of his neck so that the tin noise left his voice. The box mimicked his real voice perfectly but it often glitched.
"Well hurry up" growled Heihachi. "I intend to turn to outside help soon... and that will imply you failed me...and that would lead to your - liquidation". Abel flinched. Heihachi smirked and turned the console off. Rising he took his cane and fur lined coat from the rack byt he door. "Ladies" he called. The secretaries giggled and linked his arms. Lotus and Lilac giggled and followed him to the White Rolls Royce out front.
Ling was accompanying his grandson to the Casino. The boy was pathetic but he did what he was supposed to. He was part of an image for family. He barely did that well enough.
- - - - - - - - -MOntE carLO
(5 hours previous)
Nina and Hwoarang walked through the airport in their black outfits. Very cool. Once they were in the Taxi Hwoarang opened the case. "All right, Anita Stevens, you're a tourist and you're on vacation" he looked at the Agent driving the cab. "Silvio here says that Heihachi is regularly at the Casino." He handed Nina the purse. "Five Thousand Euros worth of chips with Mercury's compliments"
"Pay day" smiled Nina.
"Let's continue" sighed Hwoarang. "The Casino blue prints have been downloaded into these" he handed her the lilac tinted sunglasses. "These act as communicators and data screens...they cost 10 grand a lens so don't get punched in the face."
"Who could be THAT fast?" she smirked. "I can handle myself thanks"
"Next up, this charming cell phone...is a downloader, you magnetize it to the side of a computer and it downloads everything. Next there's a bracelet for you that can jam radio signals and screw up video cameras and lastly we have the tube of Tracer Dye, once this gets ingested its virtually impossible to get rid of, you have to slip it into Heihachi's drink and we can follow him from there."
Nina nodded as she put the items into her purse. "What about the Grandson?"
"He's only to be gone after if Heihachi is unreachable. We recently learned Heihachi will be at the casino tonight so make what you can of it."
"I love this, I'm getting paid...well no...I have a reason to go to a casino" Nina muttered.
"Ever here of having fun?"
"I have fun but like Mercury said there's the matter of Warrants For Arrest" she shrugged. "Sometimes it depends on the risk you're willing to take and a few poker chips isn't always that good a reason."
Hwoarang shrugged.
...Saulte Casino, Monte Carlo 21:20
The limo pulled up and the legs swung out as the valet held the door. Dressed in a tight burgundy dress with slits to the hips and a slightly paler trail Nina looked stunning. Her wig mimicked the style of Cleopatra somehwhat. Hwoarang had blackened his hair and was looking unhappy in his tuxedo.
"Let's do this" Nina said flatly when she saw him shift uneasily. "Then you can get out of your penguin suit"
"That an invite?"
"Do you normally talk to your hand?"
"Bitch"
"We've been through this before"
Ling and Jin were just friends. They'd been boyfriend and Girlfriend for a while but it hadn't worked out. So Jin stuck with her because she was his best friend...he trusted her and he knew she was able to cope with Heihachi where other girls would fail.
"Come on! We ditch the Casino crew, climb out a back window and hit a nightclub, double back and then that's it!" she exclaimed.
"Ling? The Minders would catch me faster then you could sneeze!" he hissed.
"Fine!" she relented and took her cocktail. "What's the point of being 20 and not raving with other College People?"
"Studying?"
"Yeahokaywhatever" she smiled.
Jin shook his head and looked at his Grandfather who was smoking a huge cigar. For a man who preached about weakening the body and mind... he drank, smoked and screwed around a LOT.
Nina looked at Hwoarang skeptically. "You are NOT going to try and slip him the tracer" she stated.
"What makes you think that you can do it better then a Spec.Ops trained professional?" Hwoa snapped as they walked past the Roulette tables.
"They're called boobs" she replied. "And they trump your training since I had the same training and more. Comprende?"
"Hunh"
"He's speechless...call the papers"
"Bitch"
"Get a thesaurus" she snapped as she took the micro-vial from him and strode along towards Heihachi and his two women at the bar. "Mr Mishima?"
He looked at her and then his eyes gravitated (as all mens do) to her chest. "Yes?"
"Anita Matthews" she said. "I'm a writer and I'm writing a book on the worlds most influential, powerful and elligible men you're one of my first chapters, being the icon that you are to businessmen, martial artists and-" Mobsters, her mind interjected. "-atheletes everywhere".
He was still staring at her chest. She rolled her eyes. "Yes?" he was practically drooling.
"I was hoping I could ask your permission to compile something for my book about you and -" here she puffed out her chest. "Get it on...the shelves as soon as possible".
She had plenty of innuendo - she'd use it if she had to. But randy old geezers were easy to work with, one suggestion and off they went.
Hwoarang looked around. He touched the cufflink. Immediately the security camera over his shoulder shorted out. He smirked and went back to the came of cards.
He wanted an invite into the private room. That's where Heihachi had been minutes before coming out to drink up the bar.
Nina batted her eyelashs, puffed out her chest, doped the drink, laughed at jokes, nodded with interest, refrained from poisoning the drink and casually dodged gropes while not appearing to. Then she kissed his balding head, giggled like a school girl and told him she had to get writing on the piece for the book.
Actually she had to go and wash her mouth out with some soap.
There was a beep and she touched her earpiece. "Yes?"
"Mercury here, Nina, Hwoa...I've just gotten some data about who Heihachi was meeting - it was the Casino owner, Heihachi cashed in some chips but the amount he won and the amount handed in to cash...well, big difference. 2.5 million difference he technically only won 2 grand in chips here...on a close up of the chips he cashed in - 2.5 mil in chips from another Casino but still got 2 grand back"
"Pay off" Nina nodded. "Using another Casino's chips"
"Nina, get into the office of the owner and find what you can" instructed Mercury. "Hwoa..."
"I'm going to get into the private room and find out what I can!"
"Are you? Well then, best let me shut off the camera's and other cheating devices" sighed Mercury.
Nina walked down the hall. "Excuse me" the burly guard said. "No players beyond this point".
"I'm looking for the little girls room" she said.
"It's back the way you came and straight ahead from the main staircase" he said with a frown. "It's clearly" Nina jabbed him in the neck with one hand and took his gun with the other. His limbs seized up and his eyes rolled back. She held his tie and then pressed a segment on her bracelet. There was a loud beep and the camera's light flickered. She pushed the man into a seat and slipped the pistol into her garter.
She put on her sunglasses. "Floormap" she whispered. The digital screen revealed what she wanted to see. Satisfied she pushed open a door. She stepped inside and rolled her eyes. A Jacuzzi, a four poster bed (on a raised podium) and a large sofa. There was a computer stuffed into one corner and a bathroom visible through an open door.
"This is his office?" she muttered.
"His name is Renee Dickins...you were expecting what?"
"I see your point, okay...computer" she nodded and turned on the console. She took the mobile out of her purse and stuck it to the side. "Ready" she said merrily. She looked at the screen. "Is this a Windows Program? It's still only at 10" she said after a few minutes.
"Firewalls and stuff" replied Mercury. "Read a magazine"
Hwoarang looked around the smokey and extravagant room. These people knew how to gamble. He checked out the roulette table, lost a few hundred but not that much considering he'd skinned some men at the poker tables in the less private area.
"I know you" someone muttered. Hwoarang turned around. Jin Kazama and a petite girl were standing nearby. Hwoarang raised his eyebrows.
"Doubt it, have you been in -" he thought quickly. "Cape Town recently?" Saved! Not too random but nowhere they'd have been too recently.
"No" the girl admitted.
"I swear I know you" Jin mused.
"Well, you don't"
"I have a feeling he's right" the girl said.
"Ling...imagine him with red hair..."
"Hwoarang" she said immediately.
Hwoarang didn't no how to respond but when he saw Mr Dickins walking towards his private elevator he had only one thing to say. "Nina. Dickins is on the way!"
Ling and Jin stared. Hwoarang shrugged and darted out one of the French Windows. Jin rushed after him, Ling rolled her eyes and hitched up her skirt to give chase.
Nina got the message. "What's in the files so far?" she asked as she prepared to leave, tossing the copy of A Tale Of Two Cities aside.
"A great deal of porn, but Heihachi's files are all coded - according to this Project 17 is near completion. Dr Abel -"
"Abel!" hissed Nina. "What has he got to do with it?"
"He's in charge of the project but there are no details on it beyond rough sketches about things - it's got technology involved...there has to be something more we can find out!"
The door opened. "Leave it to me" whispered Nina. She leapt onto the bed, curled up and spread her arms on the pillows. "Well...Hello Mr Dickins" she purred.
"And who are you" the sleaze muttered while trailing his eyes up her leg.
"I'm just soooooooo interested in the Casino" she said. "Say...does that Jacuzzi work?"
"Yeah" he grinned as he put his foot on a switch.
"Great" she said. "I bet there's all kinds of things you could tell me..."
"Sure is" he grinned as she got closer. Balding man, greying black hair, a moustache and a tan all stuffed into an armani suit. "All sorts"
"Let's get started" she said...and punched him.
Hwoarang ducked the kick from Jin Kazama. "Nina! I need help!" he hissed. "I've got two fighters on me!" Ling swung her leg into the back of his knees and slapped him across the face as she rose from a spin.
"Be with you in five" Nina said. There was a splash. "Okay make that 3"
Hwoarang was knocked backwards by a punch from Jin.
"Is that all?" he croaked.
Nina pulled Dickins out of the water. "Okay so this Project 17 is for something big... right?" the man nodded. "What?"
"I can't-"
SPLOOOOSH.
"I can do this all night love" Nina sighed. She pulled him from the water again. "So?"
"It's a new money making idea"
"When isn't it" snorted Nina.
"He's going to sell some sort of weapon to people, disposable death he calls them... he's got it all set up in a base out in Arizona! Two projects are working there I swear that's all I know"
"Well this is in case you're lying" Nina said. She dunked him again. When he came up he was crying. "Anything to declare?"
"The password is POWER" he spluttered. "Dr Abel is In charge, the project's cost over 20 million american dollars and they're rivals with Project-43 "Zodiac...that's all!"
Nina dunked him again.
"I said that was all I knowwwwwww!" he gasped.
"Yeah, but that was my sense of humour" Nina sighed. She wahcked him across the back of the head and left him face down in the jacuzzi. Drying her hands on his coat she pulled off her wig and took out her gun before climbing out a window and darting along the ledge. "Hwoarang where are you?"
"Gardens- ow son of a - to the East side of the buil-get off my leg! - east side of the building help!" Nina groaned and checked the gun. She spotted the movement in the gardens, knew what it was and leapt into a tree, she dropped from a branch, grabbed it and snared her thighs around Jin Kazama's neck. He was caught off guard as she rolled forwards and hurled him into a flower bed.
Ling saw the gun and kicked it aside. Nina grunted and spun, swinging her leg high and knocking the small martial artist aside. Hwoarang blasted the machine gun kicks into Jin and attacked with an axe kick. Ling blocked Nina's kick but not the backwards flip that shoved her away.
"Hwoa! let's Go!" Nina exclaimed.
"Okay - one - second!" Hwoarang grunted as he tried to kick Jin a few times but was blocked at each turn until he planted a spinning kick in his chest. Nina took the punch from Ling and returned it in the form of a headbutt. She and Hwoarang leapt over a low hedge and vaulted off a bench to grab the cast iron fence and throw themselves over it.
Jin rubbed his head.
"I told you attacking him again wasn't the best idea" Ling said.
"He was up to something" Jin said. "I'm positive he had a gun on his ankle!"
Jet -M, High in the Sky 07:45
Nina sat in the white leather sofa. "So we're headed for Arizona?"
Mercury addressed them from his screen. "Heihachi's project lab is hidden deep underground, something the files and not the interrogation found. In all probability its the reason Julia Chang went missing"
"Who?" Hwoarang asked.
"Julia Chang, an biology student working on ecological regeneration" Mercury replied. "She went missing three weeks ago after setting up a protest against Mishima enterprises"
The image of the girl appeared on screen. Glasses, braided head band, hair tied up and a serious look on her face as she raised a sign above her head that read: Heihachi: Wanted for Murder of Mother Earth.
"Ah, so hippie-ism is going strong I see" Hwoarang said.
"Her mother is Michelle Chang, I remember she was in the place the froze me" Nina said. "A fighter...yeah"
"Exactly" Mercury said. "Unfortunately she died last year from an illness...one that we can't explain. Michelle suspected M.E of hiding their illegal genetics procedures and toxic waste dumps. Now she's dead so her daughter suspects them of all that and a can of beans - namely her mothers death, despite the official report of the woman being killed by a strain of Typhoid."
"Lovely" Nina said as she took up her small cup of coffee. "So what's the mission?"
"Investigate the site, find Michelle if you can and shut M.E down. The Agency has Agents on standby but the entrance has heavy guards. We've arranged to get you into the cover (a small laboratory for M.E not the gigantic one underneath it) posing as scientists. Once you're in you need to work fast so we can get in, the second you get proof, the second we can send in the troops."
"Better dust off my old Polaroid then" Nina said with a sigh.
"Is it as old as you? Because if it is I want to see the pictures of the dinosaurs you took when you first go it!" Hwoarang snickered.
Two seconds later Nina poured the pot of coffee into his lap.
TBC
Well? Was it funny? Dramatic? Action Packed?
Tell me everything!
I crave knowledge. I hope Nina, Hwoa and Co. aren't OOC! I'm trying to make a dynamic between Nina and her new partner
Is it working?
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