CHAPTER 4: A WAR IS BREWING
"I already told you. A war is brewing, and each side will lose people, no matter how valuable they are." Kazuya Mishima said, thumbs crossed under his chin and looking at the woman clad in black leather suit and red protectors.
"You already treat Bruce as if he's dead. He is still alive. They need information from him!" Anna said as she tried her best not to raise her voice to the G-Corporation CEO. It was frustrating how Kazuya Mishima disregards life as easily as he does trash. While it may be impossible, Anna tried to find something remotely human in the cold CEO, but it seems hopeless no matter how hard she put her efforts to. Perhaps the adage 'there is some good in people' do not apply to Kazuya.
'But then again, a lot of things do not apply to him, or to the Mishimas at all.' She thought, looking at the CEO and not bothering to mask her annoyance at his dismissive ploy to crush the Zaibatsu at its weakest and not minding the men he sacrificed for that to happen.
"I am asking you to permit me to infiltrate the Zaibatsu and rescue Bruce before-"
"Before what, Williams? Before he dies in the hands of that filthy excuse of a son?" He said, sipping onto his glass of wine. Anna's hands clenched tightly at her sides, her anger becoming harder and harder to control. "I don't care at all, if he dies or if thousands die. So long as I get the Zaibatsu and G-Corporation. With these two combined, I will be the most powerful man in the world." He said nonchalantly, lifting his glasses and examining the velvety red color, looking the woman standing rigidly in front of him through it.
Anna gripped the edge of her knife hoisted at her left thigh and attempted to throw it at the heartless man in front of her but thought against it. She relaxed her hands around the knife and placed them neatly at her sides. She looked at him with a blank expression.
"Since you do not care about your 'subordinates', I'd go there myself, see if I could at least make myself useful for saving one of my friends." She said as she turned her back to him and started to leave the room. Kazuya momentarily stopped his ministrations and looked at the back of the retreating woman.
"If you walk out of that door, I will consider you a fugitive, and you will forever run for cover, Williams. That I promise you." He said, his voice the coldest it had ever been. Anna stopped walking momentarily and tilted her head to the side and said, "You can try all you want Mishima, but I won't yield." She said as she proceeded to walk out of the CEO's office.
"You will regret this, Williams. You do know me and what I'm capable of doing." He said, his voice was tinged with a menacingly evil tone. Sensing the Tekken Force heading towards the doors she was intending to open, Anna laughed haughtily in response.
"You don't know me either, Kazzy." She said as she hoisted her grapple gun and pointed it at the west wall of his large office, with a large bullet-proof window with the view of the Tokyo skyline. With lightning speed, she ran through the walls as the Tekken Force burst in the office and began firing rounds of machine guns at her. As she reached the end of her run, she flipped and twisted in the air, smirking at the armed guards as she revealed a button.
Kazuya Mishima's eyes widened in realization and his eyes glowed a menacing red, a dark aura enveloping him.
"Hasta luego, bitches."
The brunette said as she pressed the button. She flipped back twice, smashed her heels into the bulletproof window and dived outside as the entire G Corporation's tower gave a huge explosion. Latching onto her grapple gun, she traversed the Tokyo skyscrapers and used its walls like tracks in a marathon.
'Wow. Now if only I had a nice camera to catch that beautiful display of lights.' She thought as she jumped from one building to the other. Just as she landed onto the rooftop of one building about a hundred meters away, a beep from her communicator sounded. She flipped it open.
'Miss Anna, this is Boskonovitch. I need to speak to you about a couple of things regarding the man you had me research.' Anna nodded, her ragged breathing returning to normal.
"So what did you find?" She said walking to the edge of the rooftop, surveying the scene, thinking of the easiest way she could reach her 'supplies'.
'His name is Lars Alexanderson. He is the Head of Defense of the Mishima Zaibatsu. He currently heads the Tekken Force.' The doctor continued. Anna had to smile at the information.
'Why does the Mishima Zaibatsu always happen to hire the hot ones?' She mentally giggled.
"Wait a moment." She said to the doctor. She jumped down the rooftop, her grapple gun in tow and landed in front of a mother and her daughter eating ice cream, the two, shocked at her rather eccentric entrance... and outfit. Looking at her shiny leather suit, she sighed.
"Oh, sorry. Cosplay." She said as she winked at the child whose eyes were sparkling at her. Latching on her phone, she briskly walked the empty sidewalk towards her parked car.
'Good thing I always park my car half a mile from where I'd go.' She thought.
"So is that all for Mr. Lars, doctor?" She said as she hopped onto her car, revving up the engine and speeding through the empty street.
'Oh no Miss Anna. There is still one more information you might find extremely interesting. The first time you sent me that photo, I had a big suspicion about this man. And I needed to confirm it ASAP!' The doctor said with his voice laced with amusement. Anna chuckled.
'The doctor can be a little cute sometimes.' She thought as she readied herself for whatever information the doctor had in store for her.
'He is Heihachi Mishima's son.' Was the reply on the other end of the line. Anna pressed the break suddenly, not entirely trusting what her ears heard.
"What?!" She earned a chuckle from the doctor.
Steve panted as the blonde woman began attacking him with a series of kicks and punches, all in rapid succession that his vision of the woman's movements began to blur.
'I remember Koppo, and one hit is all it takes to break a bone.' He mentally remembered as the thought made him shudder a bit. 'Her attacks are fast, but somehow, they have a pattern.' He thought as he focused on her punches and her kicks. When he saw her about to kick, he pulled his right arm up and blocked it, then parried it and hit her on the midriff, sending her flying a few feet away from him, but recovering smoothly.
The blonde woman stood up, wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and smirked at the young man in front of her. "Not bad." She said, as she charged at him again, this time lunging at him with a flurry of extremely fast punches. Steve, having trouble keeping up with blocking the woman's attacks, missed one knee – and it connected powerfully to his abdomen, sending him curling down and coughing up blood.
"You're good. But you're not good enough." She said as she pointed a gun at the boxer's head.
Placing the last of her clips into the small backpack she intended to bring to the infiltration, she proceeded to change into something a little less constricting. Garbed in a fitting black turtle neck and nylon pants, she went outside of her rented rundown apartment and proceeded to drop her supplies into her car.
'Sometimes I wish I were in an agency. At least there, I wouldn't be doing all of the dirty jobs.' She thought as she removed the coat from her Porsche. Her once red car is now black.
'Not bad. Not bad at all.' She whistled as she admired her handiwork.
As Anna placed all her arsenal into the back seat of her car, she adjusted the time of her watch to 45 minutes. It was the allotted time she gave herself to finding Bruce and rescuing him before Kazuya would barge into the Zaibatsu and destroy its main headquarters. Revving up the engine, she sped into the night, with the intent to infiltrate the fallen Zaibatsu in the shortest time possible.
Lei woke up and found himself in a dimly lit room, with his hands tied behind his back. Scanning the room, he noticed a chair with a man seated on it in the middle of the room. He couldn't make out what the man looked like but he can tell he was bruised, badly.
"So, finally you're awake." Said the man tied on the chair. Lei tried to maneuver himself towards the man, but found that aside from being tied, he was also chained on the wall.
'Damn!' he thought.
"They know how to tie people up. No matter how much you struggle, it would be impossible" He said, looking at the cop trying his best to free himself.
"Don't worry. I have a companion. I'm sure he would get some-" the cop began but was interrupted by the opening of the door, a soldier bringing in the blonde boxer, bruised but conscious. "-help." He finished, all hope leaving his system.
"So much for a companion." Bruce said with every bit of sarcasm in his body. Lei glared at the man and proceeded to crawl towards his fallen comrade.
"Hey Steve, you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." He said dismissively. It wasn't much on the physical that hurt. He didn't expect the woman he had come to know as his biological mother to attack him without hesitation. He expected that she would at least listen to what he has to say, since she was the primary reason why he came here in the first place. Steve felt disappointed at what transpired earlier on.
"You sure?" The cop said in concern. The boxer sat up, easily. Bruises can be seen in his body, but he doesn't seem to be as badly beaten as the man on the chair.
"She didn't even listen to me." He began as he wore a blank expression. "I mean, mate, she was the reason we came here in the first place. I expected her to listen to me. I am her biological son right?" He continued, now with his head down, showing every bit of his disappointment. "I don't want to fight her, but she kept on rushing in, and she wore this unnerving expression, like she was really intent on killing me."
"If that's the blonde woman in a pony you're talking about, then it's useless trying to convince her." Bruce said to the disappointed boxer. "Wait, your mother? Isn't she too young to be
a-, ok nevermind." He continued, thinking about the cryogenic sleep both Nina and Anna had undergone 21 years ago.
"You know her? Nina Williams?" Steve said turning his head a bit to the man on the chair.
"Yeah, pretty much." Bruce said. "Aside from giving me these bruises, I know her quite well from Anna's rather disturbing stories." He continued, remembering the time they ruined a whole district in Greece with bazookas and grenades.
"Anna?" Steve inquired. Bruce's eyes widened at the realization. 'He still doesn't know he has an aunt? Surprising.'
"Anna Williams is that blonde chick's younger sister." Steve's eyes widened. So he had another family member he didn't know of?
"Really, well, what's she like?" Steve asked, curiosity getting the better of him. Bruce let out a sigh. This was going to be a long night. 'But, what the hell, might as well give the kid the information he deserves. For this, you owe me big time Williams.'
"She's pretty much the same as your mother..." He said, a smirk forming across his lips seeing Steve's expression grow from curious to disappointed. "...only a lot kinder." He finished. Steve's head whipped up. "And I'm pretty sure she's here, trying to find me." He said as he heard the door click open.
Anna crept up behind one guard, and hit him on the nape rendering him unconscious. As she surveyed the scene, she can tell the immediate work the Force was doing to rebuild the damage Bruce had inflicted. 'Way to go old man' She thought, giggling to herself. She removed the man's helmet and upper apparel and disguised herself as one guard.
Looking at her GPS device, she knew the exact coordinates where Bruce was, but upon reaching the point, it was all blank space. 'This is impossible. The GPS says he's in this exact place.' She thought, thinking of the possible reasons her 2D GPS system is giving a faulty reading.
She walked around the hall until she heard footsteps. Rapidly hiding behind a pillar, she adjusted her sight and saw the man she had fought in Shibuya about a week ago.
'Oh, so he's here.' She said. Stopping from his walk momentarily, he surveyed the scene, as if looking for someone. 'Shit. Does he know I am here?' She thought, closing her eyes and calming her heart a bit. Then she heard the footsteps resume their walk and headed straight towards the door and typing a code. Anna drew her binoculars and looked at the code.
'642783' She repeated in her mind as she kept her binoculars in her backpack and looked on, revealing an elevator to the basement.
'A basement! Of course!' she said ecstatically. She drew a breath she didn't know she was holding. And proceeded towards the elevator, not knowing what to expect.
Note: I promise i will update as fast as i could. there are only three or so chapters left so bear with me, ok? :) i am very sorry. Haha.