Hard Days Work
September 10th, Mishima Zaibatsu Headquarters, West Tower, Tokyo, Japan…
As Julia Chang and her friends were trying to figure out how to disarm the missiles that would destroy the entire planet, Master Raven quickly made her way to the West Tower of the Mishima Zaibatsu complex. Her subordinate, Phoenix, notified Master Raven about the presence of the Spetnaz, a private Russian special forces group led by Sergei Dragunov. They were breaking inside the West Tower to eventually blow the entire complex! Master Raven had to give Julia's group more time to work so she needed to make Dragunov stop his plan.
Master Raven: "Just what are they planning?" (Uses her binocular glasses.)
With her specialized electric binocular glasses, Master Raven zoomed in to see the Spetnaz tanks shooting at some bystanders who were in immediate danger. She recognized two of them to be Tekken fighters, but not the third guy. However, Phoenix was able to get help from the nearby Rebel force squadron who had just finished up wrapping a battle themselves. Their warning shots at the Spetnaz surprised them and it forced them to stop shooting at the bystanders. This gave the threesome a chance to escape. Master Raven had no idea why they were being attacked, but her focus was finding Dragunov, the Spetnaz leader.
Master Raven: "Hmmm…it looks like he's not outside." (Phoenix calls her once more.) "Master Raven here."
Phoenix: "I did it master! I convinced the top general to come at the West Tower and fight the Spetnaz tanks."
Master Raven: "Good. Just stick by them and help them fight these guys."
Phoenix: "Copy that. Have you found Dragunov yet?"
Master Raven: "Not yet. Still looking."
Phoenix: "Understood. Phoenix out."
Master Raven (Hanging up.): "Now." (Uses infrared sensor mode on the glasses.) "Where are you hiding." (Sees Dragunov and about thirteen of his soldiers setting up the C6 blocks across the main lobby.) "Aha! Found you! You're not detonating those explosives."
Deep inside the main lobby of the West Tower, Dragonuv and his men carefully placed the C6 bombs along the corners of the West Tower. The main engineer of the group began to set up the countdown for 15 minutes. The countdown would not begin until all Spetnaz troops evacuated, tanks included. However, they were not expecting Master Raven to come in all alone and surprise them. Using the shadows to her advantage, Master Raven made her move as she took out one Spetnaz soldier. The noise of the soldier's body falling on the ground scared the others into high alert.
Spetnaz Soldier 1: "What was that?"
Spetnaz Soldier 2: "Man down! Man down!"
Master Raven finally revealed herself within the daylight as she began attacking the Spetnaz Soldiers trying to protect Dragunov who was interrupted while planting the last of the C6. She drew out her electric sword and one by one she paralyzed the soldiers as their efforts to fight the kunoichi were utterly useless. Dragunov looked at her with a worried expression. She was the last face he wanted to see.
Master Raven: "Well now. We meet again! Are you surprised?"
Dragunov says nothing of course…
Master Raven: "I see what you are planning to do. Give it up! It's over!"
Dragunov draws a pistol from behind his pocket…
Dragunov fires shots at Master Raven. Master Raven had to teleport as the bullet hit nothing but her after image from where she appeared. Then Master Raven was behind Dragunov and she kicked the gun out of Dragunov's hand! She tries to hit Dragunov with her electric sword, but he got of the way. Now Dragunov pulls out his knife from the strap of his left thigh. Then the two got into a melee exchange.
The last time they fought, Dragunov resorted to dirty tactics by blinding Master Raven with a concoction from his mouth. But this time he didn't have it ready to use because the ingredients were not on him. Dragunov got kicked in this torso, sliding back several feet near the edge of the lobby desk behind him. Master Raven wasn't going to keep playing with him because there were explosives surrounding her after all. It was time to end this duel. Without warning Master Raven dashed at Dragunov to knock him out with a battou jutsu style slash technique! Dragunov retaliated with an upward knife thrust. And then.
SLASH…!
Dragunov managed to cut Master Raven but it was not deep at all. The cut was only above her right breast, but Master Raven turns around to see Dragunov collapsed as his body got paralyzed from getting hit on the right side of the neck. Dragunov lost consciousness, but he was not dead. Master Raven breathed a sigh of relief. Before she could leave, Master Raven had to find the device that controlled the C6. Eventually she found it on one of the Spetnaz soldiers and stole it out of his backpocket. Still, this place was too dangerous to stay put, so Master Raven would escape the building from the second floor so she wouldn't be spotted by her pursuers. However, at that same time, the 12th Division of the Tekken Rebel Forces managed to fight and force them Spetnaz to surrender. When Master Raven found a safe area away from the West Tower, she called Phoenix to get an update on her whereabouts.
Master Raven: "Phoenix? Do you read me?"
Phoenix: "Master! There you are! I couldn't reach you about five minutes ago. Your Bluetooth was cut off somehow. Did you find Dragunov?"
Master Raven: "Yeah. I took him down, but it was too risky to stay inside that place. However, they can't think of blowing up the building now. Not with me having the device in my hands."
Phoenix: "Oh thank goodness. But no worries Master because the 12th division just stopped the Spetnaz dead in their tracks!"
Master Raven: "Excellent! Where are you exactly?'
Phoenix: "By the entrance of the West Tower courtyard. I'm with the General right now."
Master Raven: "Ok. I'll be there soon. Master Raven out."
Once Master Raven met up with Phoenix, she talked with the main General of the 12th division about the planted C6 bombs that were planted inside the West Tower lobby level. The general sent his engineer specialists to safely take off the explosives while the rest of the soldiers began arresting the Spetnaz soldiers who did not put up a resistance. Some more surprising news would come Master Raven's way with an audio text message from Condor.
Message (Female Voice): "You won't believe this Master, but G Corp's top assassin, Anna Williams is currently on Ito Island to stop the missile launch from taking place. I hope you guys can hear this."
Master Raven: "Say what?"
Phoenix: "Master? What's wrong?"
Master Raven: "Well well…it turns out Anna Williams of all people is going to be the one to stop the missile launch. She's on Ito Island as we speak."
Phoenix: "Wow! Are you serious?"
Master Raven: "No joke. Now the question is can she do it?"
Phoenix: "Well if she can't do it. Then we all die!"
General Winston: "I don't care who it is! They need those missiles shut down! Let's just hope it happens!"
General Winston's radio calls…
Engineer: "General. We got the C6! Where do we take it?"
General Winston: "Take into Truck 47. That one is empty."
Engineer: "Sir!"
Phoenix: "Master was that Condor who sent you that message just now?"
Master Raven: "Yeah. He is still with the Chang team. Hey General take this." (Hands General Winston the detonator.) "I will let you guys have it. Phoenix, we haven't heard back from Tweet yet. Eliza should be with her too. Better go see where they are."
Phoenix: "Yeah she has been too quiet. Thank you General for your occupation."
General Winston: "Oh. Yeah! Pleasure is all mine! Are you both coming to the Rebel base if at all?"
Master Raven: "We might go there, but we really should look for our companion. Be safe going back. Come Phoenix!"
Phoenix: "Hai! Master!"
In the vicinity of the East Tower…
Master Raven: "Tweet! This is Master Raven. Do you read me?"
No response…
Master Raven: "Nothing."
Phoenix: "Master look!" (Points at the large robot up ahead near the intersection by the East Tower gates.) "Is that her?"
Master Raven (Using her binocular glasses.) "Yes, she's there! Talking with a girl and a panda bear?"
Phoenix: "Did you try calling her just now?"
Master Raven: "I did and she didn't respond. Ugh. C'mon!"
When Master Raven and Phoenix arrived at the intersection, they both confronted a weary Tweet who was resting with Alisa Bosconovitch and Panda. They were friends of Ling Xiaoyu who came back to Tokyo in order to rescue Jin Kazama. Unfortunately for them, they were separated because of the Zaibatsu's security machines like the very machine they just finished destroying. Tweet just happened to come by at the nick of time in order to save their lives and help destroy such a massive machine.
Master Raven: "Tweet!"
Tweet: "Master! You're ok!"
Master Raven: "I'm glad you are still alive, but why did you not answer my call?"
Tweet: "Sorry, my communicator broke while I was fighting that android. I had no way to talk to you guys."
Master Raven: "Seriously?" (Rubbing her head.) "It's good thing we found you. Otherwise I would have had a fit."
Panda (Growls): "Just who are you guys?"
Tweet: "Ohhh…" (Nervous laugh.) "Hey Master this is Panda and Alisa. They are Tekken fighters! Kinda like you!" (Laughs.)
Master Raven: "Hmmm…actually I do remember Alisa in her fights. I just don't remember seeing a Panda. Is it another one of the Zaibatsu's experiments?"
Panda (Ticked): "I'm no experiment! Grrrrrr!" (Turns away.)
Alisa: "Panda was never property of the Mishima Zaibatsu, but you are right about my identity. It is a pleasure to meet you!" (Bowing.)
Phoenix: "Now Tweet, where is Eliza? We never spotted her."
Tweet: "Oh, she's up there!" (Points at Eliza hanging on a street light sleeping.)
Master Raven: "What the?!"
Phoenix: "Why is she up there?"
Tweet: "She fell asleep right after the robot sent her flying up in the air. I have never seen anyone like her do that! In the middle of a battle too!"
Master Raven: "I don't believe this!"
Master Raven angrily leaped in the air using her sword to slash away the street light holding Eliza in the air. Eliza fell down and bumped her head on the street. The pain was more than enough to make her wake up from the deep sleep. Apparently, Eliza never did get over her jet lag. Even while facing the NANCY MI847.
Master Raven: "Are you up now!"
Eliza: "Huh…what's going on?! That really hurt!" (Holding her head.)
Master Raven: "I should do worse than that! Why are you sleeping?"
Eliza (Standing up): "I'm sorry! I was too tired!"
Master Raven rants on as the girls look on in amazement…
Master Raven (turning around): "At any rate we should leave out of here. There is a possibility that the missile crisis might be averted so I want to go to Lars's camp."
Alisa: "Hang on! About that crisis! It looks like the missiles have stopped according to G Corp satellites. It's over!"
Phoenix: "What?"
Alisa: "That woman Anna Williams managed to shut them off at the launch base! This is fantastic!"
Panda (Dancing and clapping.): "Alright!"
Some of the ladies were celebrating after hearing the announcement…
Master Raven: "Okay! Okay! I understand you guys are happy! But we need to catch up with everybody else! I need to have a word with Lars when I get to the camp! Now come on!"
Finally at the Tekken Rebel Force Camp in Tokyo Harbor…
Master Raven and her team made their way into the Tokyo Harbor. However, Panda and Alisa decided to stay near the Zaibatsu headquarters because they wanted to wait and find their friends Miharu Hirano and Ling Xiaoyu. Back at the camp, everybody celebrated the news of the missile launch cancellation. The staff members were even preparing a big dinner party because of the big news. Of course, some people were still let down because they lost a few friends in the fighting but everyone else was so happy that the world was safe once more. When Lars finally had some time for himself back in his tent, this is when Master Raven snuck inside and started to brief him about today's events.
Lars (Feeling Master Raven's aura): "And here I though you weren't gonna be able to make it today."
Master Raven: "So you knew I was behind you walking in this tent?"
Lars (Nervous laugh): "Sort of. Plus, you have loud feet."
Master Raven: "Very funny wise guy."
Lars: "General Winston told me you defeated Dragunov before he and his guys could destroy the Zaibatsu headquarters. For that you have my upmost gratitude."
Master Raven: "When it comes to Sergei Dragunov and his family, I make it a point to find out what they are planning. It was important that I stopped him before things turned South for all of us."
Lars: "Yeah no kidding. He should have been helping us stop Kazumi but clearly he had other ideas."
Master Raven: "Naturally."
Lars: "Oh and I met your other ninja teammate Condor. He was instrumental in guiding Julia Chang and her team into the Main Central Tower. Did you teach him your ways of fighting and espionage?"
Master Raven: "Yes. Ever since he was a young boy."
Lars: "Amazing. Are your other teammates here too?"
Master Raven: "Everyone except Finch. He is still in New York working with our scientists to examine that talisman we took from the Zaibatsu."
Lars: "Oh right. Is that going well?"
Master Raven: "Not quite. We know its properties can reverse aging, but immortality, still not clear."
Lars: "I see." (Phone starts ringing from Lars's table.) "Hold on…let me take this."
Master Raven waits for the call to end with Lars…
Lars: "Looks like the Zaibatsu have fully retreated from the area according to my other general. G Corp is leaving too, but now we will have complete control of the area once both armies are gone."
Master Raven: "Any word on Jin Kazama? And where is Kazuya?"
Lars: "Well Kazuya got rescued by G Corp but he is not in good shape from what I heard by my men. As for Jin, he disappeared after chasing Kazumi Mishima into a portal of sorts. At least from what I could see on television."
Master Raven: "A portal? I mean are you serious?"
Lars pulls up the video on his cell phone…
Lars: "Look. See for yourself."
Master Raven views the video…
Master Raven: "No way! I mean he's gone! And those girls who chased them down too!"
Lars (Gets the phone.): "Yeah and there is still no sign of any of them right now. Gotta hope they can find a way to stop Kazumi. Otherwise, we might be celebrating victory too soon."
Master Raven: "My master long ago told me about spirits that were strong enough to enter the living world with ease, but I never once thought it was actually possible. Because of that, I wasn't sure if Jin would be strong enough to stop Kazumi or even his father Kazuya. So that's when I found out about Eliza's existence. Remember?"
Lars: "Right and where is she?"
Master Raven: "Sleeping again here! That damn vampire! Can you believe she actually slept in the middle of a fight? This is the biggest problem I have with her! She's too narcoleptic!"
Lars (Laughing.): "In the middle of a fight?"
Then out of nowhere Lee Chaolan appears at the tent…
Lee Chaolan: "Oooohhh! I thought I heard a lovely voice inside this tent! Lars! You naughty dog you!"
Lars: "Huh? Lee what are you talking about?"
Lee: "It's okay, you should have told me this ebony jewel would be here at the camp tonight!" (To Master Raven.) "Are you hurt my dear? Can I bring you some food?"
Master Raven: "No thanks. I can get it myself."
Lee: "Oh! Then I shall escort you to the mess hall! You don't mind do you loverboy?" (Winks at Lars.)
Lars: "Loverboy?"
Lee (Laughs): "No need to be embarrassed! Come my friend! We have a lot of catching up to do!"
Master Raven (Rolls eyes): "If you insist."
Reluctantly, Master Raven decided to eat after all. She did not expect Lee Chaolan to barge in unannounced like that, but she was getting hungry after such a hard day of investigation and fighting. Lars could only shake his head at his overzealous brother who really thought Lars was flirting with Master Raven. He would wait until Lee and Master Raven were a good ways off before leaving his tent once more.
