Fists, Feet, and Deleted Data
Disclaimer: I do not own Tekken or any of its characters for they are the property of Namco Bandai. I do own Jae-Hong and he is the property of me and may not be used without my permission.
This chapter's actually something I wrote a year ago; I was just waiting for the moment where I could put it in somewhere. Anywho, enjoy.
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Gym
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The next day after all the commotion, Jae-Hong had been getting all kinds of attention, requests, girls, and all that jazz. He had become popular in two days and he wasn't even trying nor did he want it. Jae-Hong just wanted to be with Christie and that was it... well her and getting a PS3, learning to how to skate, and many other things... but at the moment his primary goal was getting close to Christie.
In the gym of the university, Jae-Hong was playing Tekken 5, he was about to finally beat the game with every character and finally say he completely beat the game. All of a sudden he heard one familiar voice arguing with someone else as they opened the door. 'Oh great…'
"I won that bet!" Hwoarang hollered at the other man, Steve Fox. Jae-Hong had seen Steve around campus, but he never interacted with him.
"Look mate, the bet was that you could get a date with Christie. The only thing you got was a slap in the face." Steve said in a heavy British accent, only making the red head angrier.
"At least I was closer than you! She didn't even look at you!" Hwoarang spat back, getting at wits end with Steve. (Actually, Steve was closer than Hwoarang.)
Jae-Hong just sighed as the two argued, knowing a fight was inevitable. Kim knew that someone like Christie wouldn't be swept off her feet by stupid pick up lines and cash and whatnot. Jae-Hong just kept playing until he finally beat Jinpachi, giving him the great satisfaction that he had finally completed the game. He watched the ending as the two fighters behind him argued even harder.
"You want a piece of me you bloody twit!?" Steve barked, clenching his fists.
"Thought you'd never ask!" Hwoarang got into a fighting stance.
'Here we go.' Jae-Hong thought
The two started going at it as Jae-Hong finished the ending and watched in glee as the auto-save box came up. He then read the text on the bottom of the box 'Don't turn off the system or remove the memory card'. Suddenly Hwoarang shoved Steve hard, making fall against the PS2, his hand pressing against the reset button before it could save completely.
Jae-Hong stared at the screen like he had just seen a ghost. "No, no! Please don't be gone!" He begged in his native tongue towards the TV screen, Steve shook his head and raised his eyebrow at Kim. The whole room was still as the PS2 restarted, Jae-Hong was begging the system to have saved his memory. Both Kim and the British boxer heard a negative sound and looked at the red box which said the data had been corrupted. Kim was devastated.
"Sorry mate…" He apologized and walked towards Hwoarang ready to keep going. Jae-Hong was staring at the screen motionlessly, everything blacked out in his vision, 'How can this be!? Do these two punks know how many hours I've spent into this game!? How many times I've won!? HOW MANY TIMES I'VE HAD TO OVERCOME JINPACHI'S SNK BOSS SYNDROME TO GET THIS FAR!!!?' Jae-Hong thought as his anger rose dramatically.
Hwoarang and Steve were about to go at it again until…
"HAAHHHHHH!!!!"
They stopped when they heard that high pitched shrilly scream, and looked back and saw that it was Jae-Hong. Beyond infuriated, Jae-Hong got up and turned towards the two, "I'm gonna kick both your asses right now!" He shouted in English, dabbing a finger at the two of them.
Hwoarang smirked and walked up to Jae-Hong, "I'd like to see you try dumbass." He taunted, shoving Jae-Hong. Steve then got in on it and the three started arguing like a bunch of kids. The whole argument escalated when Kim shoved Steve, who shoved him back. Hwoarang took this chance to shove Steve. Tired of the shoving crap, Jae-Hong started the fight by backhand slapping Hwoarang across the face and using the momentum to punch Steve in his face.
Hwoarang retaliated by throwing a kick towards Jae-Hong's head. Jae-Hong dodged the foot only to get punched in the face by Steve in retaliation, knocking the Taekkyon master to the ground. Hwoarang then sent a kick towards Steve's mid section, making the young boxer grunt in pain. Making sure his foot was in deep, Hwoarang then sent his other foot towards Steve's head, only to hit nothing. Steve had dodged the foot and had his fist reared back, Hwoarang had no time block as the fist made contact with his sternum, knocking the red head back and causing him to roll on the ground.
Steve smirked at his damage, only to get it knocked off his face, literally, by Jae-Hong's foot. Steve fell to the ground and cursed as he landed next to Hwoarang. Hwoarang slammed his fist on the ground, muttering some choice cuss words, and charged at Jae-Hong. The red head then thrust upwards, spinning in the air performing a 540 kick which Jae-Hong was barely able to dodge. The two Koreans began to trade blows, but whatever one would throw the other would counter. The two of them seemed to be equal, until Hwoarang landed a kick to Kim's cheek.
Steve ran towards them, thrusting his fist in Jae-Hong's gut. Jae-Hong gasped for air and clutched his stomach as he fell to his knees. Steve turned around and ducked Hwoarang's incoming spin kick. Steve then started going on the offensive, sending dozens of punches towards the red head. Hwoarang took a few punches before he had had enough. Angered, he kicked Steve in his thigh, using it to propel him upwards. Hwoarang spun in the air, sending his foot towards the back of Steve's head.
Steve had remembered this move from before, when Hwoarang got in a fight with a few thugs a while back. Thinking quickly, Steve moved his head out of the way and used this opportunity to send a hard right to Hwoarang's cheek and followed with an uppercut, knocking the Korean down.
Steve saw that he was the only one standing, he looked at the two smugly, "That's right, that's what you get." Steve remarked and began to walk out, only to get pulled down to the ground by both Jae-Hong and Hwoarang.
Hwoarang got up first and tried to kick Jae-Hong to keep him down, but Jae-Hong had placed his foot under his and quickly pushed upwards, making the red head lose his balance and fall back down. Kim then kipped-up and turned around, barely ducking Steve's right hook, countering with a kick to the gut. Kim heard Hwoarang run towards him, ready to get payback.
Smugly, Jae-Hong quickly footswept Hwoarang when he was close enough, sending him airborne and causing his abdomen to collide with Steve's head. The red head fell to the ground, clutching his stomach in pain. Who would have known Steve had such a hard head? (Duh he's a boxer.)
As the fight went on, King was coming back from the weight room, walking by as the three were beating each other up. King just shook his head, making a growling noise, and kept moving on not wanting to get involved in the tussle.
Jae-Hong gave Steve no time to recover. As Steve gripped his head, Jae-Hong grabbed and yanked his arm towards him. Jae-Hong then thrust his foot towards the back of Steve's head, making direct contact and then performed a spin kick with the other foot towards Steve's face, knocking the British boxer to the ground.
Hwoarang finally got back up, throwing a fast kick towards Jae-Hong's side. The Taekkyon master blocked the kick with his knee and countered with a right kick.
Steve rose up from the ground and charged at Jae-Hong from behind. With great fury, Steve turned Kim around and delivered a hard punch to his gut again, knocking out the Taekkyon master. Hwoarang took this chance to kick Steve in the face, making the boxer lose consciousness. But just as the feeling of victory spread over Hwoarang, he felt a foot knock his chin upwards and darkness took him. Steve used his last bit of energy to kick Hwoarang and take him down with him before he lost.
The three lay sprawled out on the floor, none of them showing any signs of getting up. A few seconds later, Christie Monteiro walked by and noticed the three of them. "What happened here?" She asked, oblivious to the whole fight that just happened. Christie glanced at the knocked out Steve and Hwoarang in disgust, "Serves them right for trying to hit on me." Her gaze then turned to Jae-Hong, who had recently been trying to talk to her. He was still learning English, but he was kinda cute when he tried to speak to her.
Christie then walked over to Jae-Hong and kissed her fingers, she then gently placed them on his lips.
"Goodnight."
As she left, Jae-Hong's lips curved into a happy smile.
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After the fight
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(Steve scenario)
After taking some time to cool off, Jae-Hong decided that he should apologize to Steve for overreacting. Jae-Hong knocked at Steve's door and waited a few seconds for him to answer the door. When the door opened, Steve gazed at Jae-Hong with a neutral expression. "Hey." Steve greeted dully, still a little sore from that kick to the face.
After the two sent a few guilty glances at each other, Jae-Hong decided to start, "Steve, I'm sorry I hit you. I was wrong." He apologized, sounding sincere. Steve looked at him for a few seconds and decided to accept his apology, "It's alright mate, and I'm sorry I ruined your data and kept punching you in the gut. By the way, is your stomach alright?" Steve asked, getting a nod in return, "Friends?" He offered his hand, which Jae-Hong gladly took, "Friends."
(Hwoarang scenario)
Jae-Hong walked towards dorm room 302, wondering if Hwoarang was one to hold a grudge. Judging from how he acts towards Jin, he believed the answer to that was yes. As Kim unlocked the door, he barely avoided a kick to the mouth by moving to the side. An infuriated Hwoarang stepped out, shouting a bunch of hellish profanity towards Jae-Hong. Kim kinda spaced out in between sentences, but words like 'I'll break both your asses in two' and 'I'm gonna get my revenge at the tournament' made themselves known.
Tired, the Taekkyon master made his way to his room, locked the door and laid on his bed exhausted. But this wasn't the end of his day oh no, later he received an e-mail that stated that the security cameras had caught the whole fight on tape, and Mr. Mishima was planning on using it for more advertisement. Jae-Hong was also forced to listen to Hwoarang talk trash outside his door. That did it, he was gonna kick his ass at the competition and shut him up for good.
Now Kim had to add this to his list of stunts. Almost getting into a fight with Craig Marduk, Getting kicked in the head publicly by his hopeful girlfriend, becoming a Bboy and earning him the love/wrath of crazed fangirls, trying to get with Christie and earning him the bad side of Eddy, and his most latest stunt, getting in a three way brawl and completely destroying what little friendly ground he had with Hwoarang. All of this was being practically televised (Some of it was.) and getting him all of this fame that was destroying his private life.
"Oh well, that's college." Jae-Hong muttered and went to sleep. Tomorrow's another day, and hopefully things will look up, but probably not...
To be cont.
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Preview: Jae-Hong's life gets more problematic as both Christie and the tournament get closer to him, King and Yoshimitsu try to take Jae-Hong to Club Bailar to relax, and Jin has a deep discussion with Jae-Hong for the first time. Meanwhile, in room 303 things get more hectic between the members as another roommate enters the fray.
Next Chapter: One of those days...
