Opening song: 50 Cent - Irregular Heartbeat Ft. Jadakiss, Kidd Kidd
Time: 8:30 AM, IS Academy
"Liu!" boomed a voice. Liu woke up from his dreams as he got off from his bed.
"Hurry up and get dressed or you'll be late for class!"
"Yeah I'll be there, Rin." said Liu. He wore his IS uniform with a blue tie, which was uncommon for a uniform to have. As Rin waited for Liu, he made final adjustments to his hair, and stepped out.
"Remember, you're not in China, so please behave yourself." said Rin.
Liu gave a bored expression at her warning. "Ok, but tell me why I'm in IS Academy?"
"Don't you remember? I enlisted you here because of what you did at the warehouse? You could have been arrested or killed for your actions. Or the fact we ran our asses off from Cafe Cruise?"
"I can claim it was in self-defense that those guys attacked me first."
"Still, I had to save you from the hands of those gangsters." Liu went silent momentarily, not wanting to remember Three Dragons Tsao that nearly killed him.
"Fine, I'll listen to you." They arrived at Room 1-1 as Liu stared at the sign.
Time: 9:00AM - Room 1-1
Swarm of women walked past him as 2nd year students were talking about the IS.
Who are these girls? Liu thought.
Liu looked outside of IS Academy Stadium until a tall Japanese woman with long black hair in a business suit stood in front of him.
"What are you doing standing outside of class?" she said.
Liu turned his attention towards the woman in front of him. It was Chifuyu Orimura, Ichika's older sister, former IS Representative of Japan, and Mondo Grosso champion.
"Oh I'm sorry," Liu apologized. "I wasn't paying attention that I was outside of your class."
"You need to be aware next time. Come inside the classroom to introduce yourself to the students."
"Ok, Orimura-sensei." Liu knew right away Chifuyu was strict after hearing her words, so he addressed her Orimura-sensei for formality.
Liu and Chifuyu entered the classroom as the short green hair woman made an announcement. "I would like to introduce a new student!"
Liu observed the classroom, and saw the girls shocked. Something wasn't right after seeing all girls, but Ichika. Is this an all girls boarding school?
"I'm Liu King-Sang...that is all!" he said. Just like Laura's short introduction, the class went dead silent.
"Nothing else you want to say?" Chifuyu questioned.
Liu shook his head as he went to his seat, and the class begun.
Time: 11:45 AM -Cafeteria
Girls huddled Liu's lunch table with Ichika and his friends.
"Why did you enroll IS Academy?" a female student asked.
"To get education." Liu said, eating his steak stir-fry with bell peppers.
"You must be Chinese. Do you know Rin?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I'm just wondering. Are you two related?" Rin stood up, slamming her hands on the table.
"We're not related at all! Who thought we are siblings just because we're Chinese?" Liu shook his head as the girls stood in silence before walking to their tables.
"You're Liu, aren't you?" said Ichika, eating his ramen.
Unfortunately, Liu was not quite easy to get along since he's not completely familiar with IS Academy. "Did you listen in class?"
Houki slapped Ichika's head in the back.
"Pay attention, Ichika! Were you daydreaming again?" said Houki, annoyed.
"Hey! Do you know who I am?" Cecilia said. Liu looked at her with no interest.
"No, get lost." She took offense of Liu's uncaring attitude and she won't let that get away.
"You're rude! My name's Cecilia Alcott, the Cadet Representative of Great Britain! You should show some res-"
"Bitch, shut the hell up! You're in my way."
Liu said, interrupting her. Cecilia was furious of being called a bitch, and tried to slap Liu, but Houki held her back.
"What's your problem?" Houki scolded at Liu. "Cecilia didn't say a word, that doesn't give you the right to put her down."
Houki turned towards Rin to question her. "New guy is not Mr. Sunshine, how exactly do you know him?"
Rin sighed. "Yeah I know him, but it's complicated to explain."
Charlotte sought some interest of Liu's training, and tailed him.
Time: 12:35 PM -Stadium
Liu walked to the training area, materializing Sockdolager with Venom Slug and Rattler. As Liu took flight, multiple targets appeared, and he fired every targets until they were destroyed.
"Liu! I'm impressed with your marksmanship, but I think I can finish that course faster than you." said Charlotte.
"You better watch what you wish for."
"Why don't we have a friendly fight? I hope your words comprehend your actions."
Liu tilted his head, and a sadistic grin crept on his face.
"I like to see you try!"
Charlotte activated Rafale-Revive Custom II, readied her Vent .55 cal semi-automatic assault rifle and fired. Liu ducked, firing his Venom Slug as gunshots cracked in the Stadium.
She crouched beneath the concrete dividers, firing rapidly, one-man army style. Every time Liu tried to make a move, he had to avoid constantly being shot from barrage of bullets.
"I must have underestimated you!"
"This is just the beginning!" said Charlotte, firing her Garm .61 cal sub-machine gun. Projectiles whizzed from both parties while they take cover from the obstacle course at every turn. One of the bullets from Charlotte hit its mark on Liu's left shoulder.
Liu was frenetic with bewilderment, shouting "Shit!" with another smattering of gunshots. He backed through the collapsed infrastructure, seeing nothing. Marbles of granite cracked and tinkled, dust clouded his vision.
Liu tried to shoot back, despite the skewed vision, but his attack missed. Liu backed straight out of his cover, crouching, keeping Charlotte in sight as he returned fire. Charlotte dodged, sprinting with her Bread Slicer knife, but he countered with his own knife.
Steel blades clashed, screeched as they fight, determined to win the battle. Charlotte threw Liu down on the ground to finish him off. Liu narrowly avoided the execution blow by rolling over. Liu raised his Rattler and fired back.
Liu hurled a huge chunk of rock like a hammer throw. Charlotte shot the rock to pieces, but that was a setup. Liu closed in on her, threw a 1-2-5-2 boxing combination, followed by left cross that knocked Charlotte to the ground.
He was about to execute his finishing blow, but Charlotte counterblow with a roundhouse kick. She delivered a hook kick to the temple, stunning him, and unleashed a rain of bullets, damaging Liu's energy shield.
Liu defended from Charlotte's frontal assault. Glancing at his helmet, he saw the shield power at 22%. I don't get what that number is saying, get away!
He grabbed the tip of the knife and threw at Charlotte. She swiped it away, only to see him charging with a flying knee. Charlotte blocked the attack, and Liu responds with an axe kick, but missed. He threw a right hook, but hitting in thin air.
Charlotte pistol-whipped that made Liu reeled back. Charlotte caught him with a spinning back kick to the stomach, and a backhand swipe at the nose.
Retreating, Liu blindly fired, but none of his bullets scored a hit. She stood to her ground, returning fire. To make things worse, he ran out of ammunition. Charlotte saw an opportunity to end it, but she also ran dry of magazine.
The bullets dissipated as Liu appeared battle torn, and Charlotte had some minor scratches, being the most experienced IS pilot.
"What will it take to finish you off?"
"Come now, is that all you got?"
Charlotte teased. They charged full speed as Liu threw an uppercut, which she retaliated with a right cross. Charlotte struck a direct hit, and Liu ran out of energy shield from the finishing blow.
"The mock battle was enjoyable, but your consumption on energy shield needs a lot of work, mon ami."
"Guess I have a long journey awaiting for me..."
Time: 1:00PM -Rin's Dorm
"You must have like fighting so much, do you?" said Rin, applying rubbing alcohol on his back filled with bruises.
"I haven't gotten a workout after I was in the bed for too long." replied Liu, wiping blood oozing from his temple. Rin grabbed his wrist to stop it.
"Don't clean it off with your hands, you'll get infected." She gently dab the cut with cotton swab with hydrogen peroxide, before adding antibacterial cream on the bandage.
Rin sighed treating his injuries. "There, that should do it. Take some rest because you'll really need it before you can have mock battles."
"If you insist."
"It's fine to have mock battles, but to the extent of destroying IS armors? You know better than that."
Liu came up with an honest excuse, but not even close to answer the messy fight.
"Once I'm in fight mode, it's hard for me to control myself."
"Must I have to remind you again this is an IS Academy, not a personal fight club?" Rin wasn't finished to reprimand Liu. "I dragged you to IS Academy so you won't get targeted by people that's after you, and the first day of class, you got into a fight!"
"Rin..." Liu got cut short by Rin's short tempered outburst.
"Second, you didn't bother to properly introduce yourself with your rudeness! How arrogant did you have to be when you fight Charlotte?"
Liu thought back for a moment that he was indeed out of control, but there was more than his arrogance.
"How can you take actions without thinking of the consequences? If you continue your rash decisions, I won't be able to cover you again like last time!" The hard hitting words struck Liu to the heart, leaving him lost of his words.
"Look, I don't want want to see you finishing personal vendettas with your personal IS because you'll abuse its powers. Please don't turn what you learn into your selfish use."
Rin enlisted him to IS Academy for good reasons: If it weren't for her, Liu would most likely be sent to jail for the fight, or worse, Liu may have died on the spot. Most of all, keep Liu away from foes that were after his life. As of now, Liu knew some basics of Sockdolager, but his lack of defense was inadequate, and doesn't know what his advanced weaponry is.
Time: 2:23PM - Dojo
Ichika and Houki sparred as the shinai echoed each strike. Liu was about to step inside until Chifuyu stood behind him.
"Were you about to ask Ichika and Houki to spar with you?"
Liu did not expect her to be here. "How did you know that?"
"Don't play dumb with me, I saw what happened between you and Charlotte."
Liu could not comprehend Chifuyu's some sort of mind reading tricks.
Chifuyu knew Liu could not hide his actions, and decides to help him out. "You could have asked me to train you the basics of an IS. The way you fight, what were you trying to accomplish in a friendly fight?"
Liu was shocked his personal vendettas slowly revealed.
"A setup turned my life upside down.."
1-Year Ago
Liu and his group of mobsters approached Three Dragons Tsao and his men at an underground parking lot. He held an IS in the form of a gauntlet. "I got the IS, you got the money?"
Three Dragons revealed a briefcase filled with 15,000,000 Yuan. "I'll inspect the IS first before you get your money."
After inspecting the IS, Three Dragons gave the briefcase to Liu's friend, Chow Wai-kei.
Chow was inspecting the money, but suddenly, Three Dragons turned around and stabbed him in the stomach long enough to kill him. He kicked Chow away as Three Dragons retrieved the briefcase.
"You spineless fuck!" yelled Liu, his men instinctively drew their blunt trauma weapons. "This was not part of the agreement!"
Three Dragons shrugged. "Consider this a done deal to quell down our dispute." He was distracted looking at the briefcase until Liu's lackey punched Three Dragons' mobster in retaliation. Like a domino effect, the opposing parties followed the single punch that instigated a brawl. Liu tried to snatch the briefcase and the IS from Three Dragons' hands, but in the struggle, a mobster accidentally fell onto Three Dragons, and Liu took them away, revealing a knife.
"Get that son of a bitch!" Three Dragons shouted at his men to recover the briefcase and the IS unit.
All hell breaks loose when a fight broke out, wail of fists and weapons collided from both parties. Bodies slammed onto parked cars, endless violence spewed where there were no deciding factors of winners or losers. Liu fought Three Dragons' men without any thoughts of blocking their attacks. Despite being struck by blunt trauma weapons, it didn't stop him to increase his body count. A thug whacked Liu in the spine with a baseball bat. In response, he grabbed the thug's collar, and headbutt him three times until his nose broke. Bloodthirsty to knock more bodies, Liu snatched a knife, and stabbed another goon in the chest, head, and neck. Out for retaliation, Three Dragons' posses beat Liu up with iron pipes, collapsible batons, and spiked clubs. Liu tried to fight back, but they gained the upper hand until his colleagues held him back.
"We have to go!" Liu tried to struggle, but he ended up fleeing with his remaining men while Three Dragons' goons give chase.
"Hold them back, they cannot get their hands on the IS!" Backup arrived to push Three Dragons' mob away as they ran hard to evade their pursuers.
"Take this IS and hide it safely!" Liu gave a fellow member the IS as he ran in different directions. They ignored the crowd fleeing in terror from its bloody appearance and torn weapons.
Liu turned to his mobsters that survived the brawl. "Three Dragons can't let this get away after what he done to us, and those who are still breathing gets to kill this asshole!"
Present Time
"That deal was a setup by Three Dragons..." said Liu in a cold tone.
"How did you get into conflict with Three Dragons?"
"We were in the same set, but didn't get along that eventually turned from bad to worse."
"Keep going."
"Three Dragons and I fought over the IS for rightful ownership. He won't stop until he gets his hands on it." Liu clenched his fist, vowed to wipe Three Dragons off the Earth.
"When I saw Three Dragons, the opportunity was there to wipe him out, but he beat me to it, and tried to take my life away."
"A small dispute that turned into a war, I see," Chifuyu patted Liu on the head. "It appears you're greatly motivated by personal vendettas, but your lack of restraint is problematic."
"Then what do you suggest me to do? Let it sit there like it's nothing?"
"Simple, put your vendettas aside, and hold back when it's crucial. You're here to learn how to pilot an IS, not to settle scores. I can deal with Three Dragons, but don't you pull that off again, are we clear?"
Liu was hesitant to object Chifuyu's order, but her stern tone was enough to change his decision.
"Oh and another thing, make sure you study because midterms are coming up next week. You can make amends to Ichika when they're not training."
Chifuyu left as Liu went back to Rin's dorm. What Liu doesn't know was Chifuyu knew the background of Three Dragons and Righteousness Union because she wanted to put an end on their crime sprees. Even though Three Dragons can't pilot an IS, his extensive connections has made him a threat. His recent access to IS can be used to recruit rogue IS pilots or dangerous crooks for mass destruction.
In the underground parking lot scene, I changed it to knives/blunt trauma weapons to reflect the real world strict gun control laws in Asia, particularly China. There will be a balance between firearms and melee weapons to level out the playing field.