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In a completely unforeseen event and to everyone's surprise, G Corp had decided to make its first move. It was a completely random attack in the middle of the night around 2300 hours at the Mishima military air base. Despite being wholly unprepared for the assault, the Tekken Force unit stationed at the base were able to defend their position and prevent the G Corp soldiers from completely overwhelming them with barely any casualties. The attack on the base was completely unprovoked and unexpected, but it was clear that it was an invitation to heighten the conflict between the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation.

Jin had received the call early in the morning after the conflct had resided, and unfortunately he had to call an emergency meeting with the Captain of the unit that defended the base, Lars Alexandersson, along with Eddy and Nina. It was nearly three in the morning he knew that neither of them had had a sufficient amount of sleep, but the circumstances called for all of their immediate attention. He paced in front of his large office windows slowly as he tried to think of his next course of action. 'Why would he randomly send his soldiers to attack my base? What is he really after? Damn you, Kazuya…' he pondered silently to himself. He stopped pacing and turned towards the other three occupants in his office.

"Captain Alexandersson, how many soldiers did you say were involved in the attack and how did they get in?" he asked.

The Swedish man stood to attention as he answered his superior. "A score of them, sir. They must've been dropped in by helicopter not too far from our base before they arrived and began opening fire on our men, injuring some, but luckily no fatalities. After defending our position, they quickly retreated into the night," the blond man reported.

Eddy folded his arms as he tried to understand the motives behind the attack. After hearing about the incident he visited the base to see the aftermath of the damage and he just got a strange vibe from the entire situation. "It doesn't make sense. Their tactics were abnormal. It almost seems like they're toying with us or were there to cause a distraction," he weighed in.

Jin thought on his words for a moment. That seemed very feasible. His father was after something, but he didn't know exactly what it was. Whatever it was, it wouldn't stop him from moving on to the next step of his plan. "It is very odd, but now that he has made the first move we'll have to strengthen our defenses and retaliate if necessary," Jin said, attempting to shield his amusement. 'What a petty attempt at trying to inconvenience me…deluded fool,' he thought with a small smirk.

Nina, who had remained quiet until now, began to piece together the information in her head with another conclusion in mind. She touched her finger to her lips as she formulated her own input on this situation. "It's clear that they came there with a purpose, an ulterior motive you might say," she surmised as she looked directly at Jin, ignoring the stares from the other two men.

He was surprised that she had anything to say at all seeing as how she looked completely drained upon arriving at his office at such an early hour in the morning. Jin stared back at her, interested in hearing her take on things. "What ulterior motive might that be?"

The blonde folded her arms across her chest as she slightly shrugged her shoulders. "It could be anything. They could have been looking for something, planted bugs, or even explosives," she theorized. "Kazuya's strategies shouldn't be underestimated."

"If that's so, I'll have my men check the base thoroughly," Lars quickly piped in with vigor.

"We can also run the video footage back to see if the security team finds anything suspicious,& Eddy added.

Jin leaned back against his desk with folded arms. He took in everything they all had to say, meditating a little longer on Nina's words, before looking up at them. "Do whatever is necessary and send me reports of your findings ASAP," he ordered. "You're dismissed," he said with a nod. They all turned to leave once given permission. He watched as Nina prepared to to leave as well before saying, "Not you, Nina."

She halted in her tracks and turned around to face him once again. "Yes, Mr. Kazama?" she said with a slightly playful tone. She had learned over her time spent working for him that it was best to be as agreeable as possible with him to avoid conflict and slightly awkward situations.

Jin studied her tone of voice and wondered why she didn't seem as peevish as she normally would after missing sleep to attend a late meeting. Her behavior perplexed him at times, but then again he never fully understood women. "Be ready to leave for a flight to Egypt at 6:00 a.m.," he told her casually with no further explanation.

Nina tried her best to compose herself after hearing this order. Egypt? What possible reason could there be for him to go there? She wanted to probe him with questions, but she'd never end up with the answers she sought out of him. Perhaps, had she gone to sleep earlier instead of hitting the gym to train she'd feel better about traveling, but just as she was ready to get a good night's rest he decided to spring this up on her. In spite of her disapproval of the situation, she bit her tongue to keep the peace. "I will see you in the morning," she nodded in acquiescence as she turned around to walk out once more.

"That's it?" he asked as he walked towards her slowly.

Again, she turned to face him with a blank stare as he approached her. "You were expecting more?" she countered with a raise of her brow.

As always, he attempted to study her to get a better understanding of her. He searched her eyes for an answer, but she had one hell of a poker face. She somewhat tilted her head with a small smirk as he observed her silently. He didn't know why she was trying to be so agreeable lately, but he, surprisingly, didn't like it. It didn't suit her, and he had grown to appreciate her candor over time, something he didn't get from anyone else at the corporation.

"Is there anything else you need?" she asked.

"No, that's all," he replied as he turned away from her.

Nina finally left his office and exhaled as she headed to her quarters down the hall. Even when she tried to be nice he still found a way to challenge her. It was a never-ending cycle of confusion with him. Now, she would have to prepare for a flight with hardly any sleep. 'Well, at least the bright side is that I can pass the time by sleeping for most of the flight.' She tried to think somewhat optimistically about her unfortunate predicament.

As planned, they arrived bright and early at the air base and waited for the pilot of the private jet to finish making preparations before they took off. Military operations seemed to have resumed to their daily routine despite being ambushed by Kazuya's men in the dead of night. However, there were more men on foot patrol and in the guard towers to observe activity inside and outside of the base. Jin had checked in with Captain Alexandersson once again about any possible security breaches, but so far there was nothing suspicious found in the vicinity. Pleased with the reports so far, Jin left the hangar to board the jet. Outside, he saw his bodyguard pacing around the aircraft as if she were inspecting it. She was dressed differently than her normal style of dress, wearing a white skirt suit with a red blouse underneath instead of the normal black attire she wore at the office.

He approached her casually. He would have attempted to read her expression to determine her mood, but her eyes were concealed from him by her mirrored aviator shades. "Are you okay?" he asked. Was she nervous about flying? Or did she dread being trapped on a long flight with him?

Nina placed a hand on her hip and lifted her wrist to check the time on her watch. "Is everything clear? If so, we better get a move on," she suggested as she picked up a small briefcase from the ground.

Jin almost frowned at her overly serious demeanor, but decided that she was right to want to focus on the task at hand. "Yes, let's go," he said as they walked together to board the jet.

Once onboard, they got situated and sat down next to each other on the large, spacious seats. Shortly after, the jet took off and soared into the skies, bound for an incredibly long flight to Egypt. Nina was fortunate to get the seat closest to the window, but it didn't really matter to her since she would either be getting some work done or catching up on some well deserved sleep. Almost immediately, she opened her briefcase and pulled out her laptop to keep herself occupied. She hadn't checked her emails in a while, and she definitely had many other things to check on. 'A twelve hour flight to Egypt and I don't even know why the hell we're going to a damn desert…' her thoughts whirled angrily.

He knew that she was purposely putting up a wall because of him. She probably had a million questions at this moment, but she kept to herself to avoid any further disageements with him. To make things right, he had to offer her some kind of explanation at least ease the tension. "When we arrive, I will tell you everything. Just be patient with me," Jin said as he looked over to her.

Her fingers paused for a moment, ceasing to click across her keyboard as he spoke to her. She parted her lips slightly as she sighed to herself softly. She found herself constantly torn between wanting to honestly understand his goals and trust him, or completely regarding this job from a professional standpoint and doing as she was ordered with no compunction for her actions like she did with all her other clients. He was an enigma to her, but she blamed herself for accepting the job because she knew how dysfunctional the Mishima family was from personal experience. However, she put her personal feelings about his family aside to work for him. She reached up to remove her aviators and looked over to the dark haired man sitting next to her. "As I've said before, Jin, you don't have to tell me anything you don't feel comfortable telling me," she paused for a moment as she averted her eyes from his. "I know I questioned you a lot in the beginning, but it's okay if you don't tell me everything because I'll follow your orders regardless."

"I don't want you to distance yourself from me…I want your trust and your understanding," he paused, and in a move neither of them expected, he slowly placed his hand over hers. "I need you to trust me, Nina."

Nina flinched slightly at the sudden contact he'd established with her. It was something she definitely didn't foresee him doing. In fact, she was surprised he had the audacity to pull such a stunt. Even so, she knew he was trying to reach out to her on a humanistic level so she wouldn't reprove his behavior, besides it was a nice gesture, especially coming from someone like him. She looked into his chocolate brown eyes and mustered a small, faint smile and replied, "I trust no one," she stated. "But, I will try my best, Jin."

Her answer would have to do, for now. That small smile from her warmed something deep within him. A ghost of a smile danced along his lips at her response. He didn't have close contact with anyone in his life at present, and he was still leery about letting anyone in due to his "curse", but to mentally and emotionally survive the dark path he was walking down, he would need at least one person to confide in to keep himself sane. No more words were needed, so he sat back into his chair and closed his eyes, hoping sleep would overcome him.

She didn't want to be the "queen of ruining the mood", but she really needed her other hand, the one resting under Jin's larger hand, in order to finish working. She turned towards him and was a little awestruck at how peaceful he looked when he finally relaxed. When he wasn't giving death glares, frowning, or staring off blankly, he was actually quite handsome. "Hmm…" Nina let out in amusement before attempting to return her attention to her work. After figuring out that working with only one hand in use was ineffective, she decided to call it quits. She closed her laptop and set it aside for later. Her gaze was captured by the large, fluffy, white clouds floating beneath the jet as they soared through the seemingly infinite blue skies. It was a peaceful sight. Seeing as how she desperately needed to to replenish her energy, she decided to succumb to sleep as well.

A small bump of turbulence finally rouse him fom his light slumber. It was a shame, because it was actually one of the few times that he slept peacefully without having to resort to taking a pill. His eyes opened groggily and looked around to observe his surroundings. They were still on their flight. Jin lifted his wrist to check the time, it was almost 9 a.m. He thought much more time would've elapsed, but waking up from naps often made him feel discombobulated. It was going to be a long flight. He felt something shift against him and he looked over to see the blonde assassin napping next to him. She had kicked off her red heels and curled up as best as she could in the chair. Somewhere in the middle of her nap, she had decided to commandeer his arm as her pillow.

Jin gazed down at the blonde in interest as he quietly leered down at her sleeping face. She looked like she was in a state of pure serenity as she slept, as if she were completely at ease and content with life. With the way the sun from the small window bathed her face and her white apparel contrasted against her skin, she definitely looked pure and angelic. One would have never guessed that she was a professional killer, not at all. A wry smile appeared on his lips as he reflected back to the night he saw her twirling on stage under the alias, "Angel". Try as he might, he would never purge those images from his mind's eye.

Another rumble of turbulence shook the jet, this time strong enough to wake her from her nap. She groaned softly and refused to wake up just yet, that small nap wouldn't suffice. She attempted to get cozy again by unintentionally nestling against her employer's arm. She heard a smug "hmph" break the silence and she slowly opened her eyes and looked up at the man next to her in surprise.

'Shit…' she thought as she tried to mask her embarrassment . Nina lifted her head from his arm and sat up to regain her composure. She stifled a small yawn with her hand before looking over to Jin, who was still staring back at her. He had seemed to make a hobby out of staring at her lately, it was slightly unnerving, yet somewhat amusing. "Do you see something that interests you, Kazama?" she asked, with a hint of flirtation lacing her tone. She stretched out her legs and leaned down to strap her heels back on.

"Perhaps," Jin replied, calmly and boldly.

That was an unexpected response. Maybe the high altitude was affecting him. As awestruck as she was, she couldn't deny that she was entertained by this more playful side of him. Nina smirked and crossed her legs seductively. "Oh? Well, I'd advise you not to get fresh with me, Mr. Kazama, we have much work to do," she teased as she smiled smugly at him. She decided that it was time to get some work done and grabbed her laptop to resume what she was doing before she fell asleep. Besides, she didn't want her mind to linger on the strange mixed messages the man next to her was sending.

Jin sat silently as he tried to not let himself smile at the fact that he had thrown the assassin for a loop with his words. He secretly enjoyed seeing her confused or flustered, sure it was slightly childish, but it was his only source of entertainment nowadays. He watched her nicely manicured nails dance speedily across the keyboard of her laptop and wondered what she was working on in the first place. "Must you do that now?" he asked.

"What? Actual work? I'm just doing the job you actually hired me for, remember?" she responded, never peeling her eyes from the screen. "Oh…well that's interesting…" Her eyes narrowed.

"What is it?" he inquired.

"Someone has upped the ante on your bounty…and someone has accepted to kill you for this new price," she paused as she looked at him. "Does Bryan Fury ring a bell?"

The name sounded familiar, he had definitely come across the name in the database, but paid it no heed. He was usually too zoned out or focused on his goals during tournaments to pay attention to anyone else. He shook his head and said, "No, it doesn't ring a bell, but I'm sure you'll handle him."

Nina smirked at his confidence in her abilities. "Of course, I've been looking for a challenge…this should be fun. I'll make preparations once we return." She reassured. 'Bryan Fury…that psychopathic creep…this could be dangerous, actually,' she thought to herself.

Speaking of which, Jin began to wonder how much longer would they be on route to their destination. He pressed a button on the overhead intercom to speak to the pilot. "How much longer until we touchdown?"

"Just sit back and relax. We'll be landing real soon, darling," a voice replied.

"Thank y-" He was cut off when he saw Nina jump up abruptly.

"No!" she yelled angrily. She quickly reached for her gun that was holstered behind her back. Nina hastily made her way to the cockpit door and snatched it open. Her mouth fell agape and her eyes widened.

"Nina? What's wrong with you? What's going on?" Jin asked, utterly confused by her actions. He felt slightly alarmed at seeing her so rattled.

Nina whipped around to face him. "Jin! There's no pilot and that voice is…"

"Relax, dear sister, make a drink and have a seat," the voice laughed.

"Anna?! What did you do?!" Nina yelled frantically at the intercom.

"I'm just having a little fun, sis," Anna said. "You see, I had my boys in tech corrupt your system controls."

"You what?!" Nina exclaimed angrily as she paced back and forth.

"Oh, I love it when you're this upset, it lights a fire in me!" she laughed annoyingly over the intercom.

Jin was beyond lost at this moment. A woman, Nina's sister presumably, hijacked their jet? Why? "What do you want from us? What do you gain from doing this?" Jin asked angrily.

"Oh, hello, Jin," Anna said seductively. "You sound handsome…just like your father. Too bad you two are going to die. Isn't this fitting? The momma's boy and the daddy's girl plummeting to their deaths together!"

Jin sneered at this. "My father is behind this? Bastard…" he cursed angrily.

Nina ran to the cockpit and quickly seated herself in the pilot's chair. She began flipping a few switches and pushing a few buttons to attempt to gain control of the plane. It was useless, nothing she did worked. "Jin!" she yelled from the cockpit with worry. He rushed to her side as she called for him. "It's no use…we're going to have to evacuate!" She jumped to her feet again to head for the exit hatch.

Everything was happening so fast that he didn't really know how to react. The jet began to shake uncontrollably, sending both of them colliding into anything near them. Jin stood up and grabbed onto Nina's arm to help her keep her balance. This was an unexpected turn of events, definitely a cog in his plans, but he would have to worry about that later and focus on survival. Nina staggered to the back of the jet and quickly searched around for the emergency parachutes.

"Oh, isn't she a beauty?" Anna chirped. "Looks like I found a nice mountain to crash you two into! Hold on!" The jet changed direction suddenly and sent its occupants flying off of their feet. "This is like playing a videogame…unfortunately for you two there'll be no continues after this game over!" she laughed.

Nina stumbled to her feet again with Jin's aid as he helped her regain her footing. "You bitch!" she shouted angrily. She pulled down an overhead latch and grabbed a parachute. Only one. "Are you fucking kidding me?!" This had to be Anna's doing as well. There was no time to dwell on it, she could see that they were approaching mainland, no doubt nearing closer to Anna's parting gift. Nina took a deep breath before making a tough decision. "Jin, take this and put it on!" she ordered while shoving the parachute into his chest. They were losing altitude quickly and time was of the essence.

"What about-" he started before he was interrupted.

"There's no time for this!" she yelled as she gripped onto something as she worked to open the door to the jet.

Jin obeyed her and quickly slipped on the parachute. Something didn't feel right about this. 'What is she doing?' he thought as he watched her actions.

Anna's voice disrupted the atmosphere once more. "Well, I'm off to brunch with Kazuya, darlings, have a nice flight, goodbye!" She laughed once again.

Nina ignored the wretched voice and finally opened the door and braced herself for the powerful suction of air. Their hair and clothes blew around wildly as the wind filled the jet. She whipped towards Jin and grabbed his arm, attempting to pull him to the door. "Come on you have to jump!" she urged.

"You don't have a parachute! I can't…"

"I'll find a way!" Nina yelled reassuringly. She averted her eyes from his and looked out into the open sky. "Jin, please go now!" she begged.

He didn't like the sound of that, instead he had to trust his instincts. Despite her orders, he stepped closely to her and said, "Hold on to me tightly!" He quickly wrapped his arms around her waist tightly and dove from the falling jet into the unknown.

Anna, you little devil, always trolling your dear sister until no end!

Next chapter will be posted soon! R&R