CHAPTER 5: THE INFILTRATION
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Lars walked into Jin Kazama's office at the end of the basement hall. Walking into the office, he saw his primary body guard, Nina Williams and the other body guard, whom he had seen rarely, Eddy Gordo. He bowed respectably at the Mishima Zaibatsu head.
"Kazama-sama, you asked for me?" He asked, head still bowed.
"Alexandersson, I believe you have some explaining to do." The CEO said, his voice devoid of any emotion. Lars stood up, inquiry evident in his expression. The CEO handed him a document, gesturing him to peruse it. It contained information regarding himself – and his blood relation to Heihachi Mishima. Lars' face registered surprise.
"I have known for a while Alexandersson. But I did not pay heed to it until now. I cannot help but think that with you being a Mishima, underlying motives are unquestionable." Jin Kazama said, gesturing for his two body guards to subdue the Head of the Zaibatsu Defense.
Lars looked at the two guards sparingly, and smirked.
"You seriously think you can just subdue me?" He said, crossing his arms at his chest.
"You seem to be forgetting, it's three against one." Jin said, rising up at from his seat and equally crossing his arms at his chest. Lars knows it is useless to offer resistance in a fight he will surely lose. It would have been a different story if it were a hundred or so soldiers fighting him. But these three are no pushovers, having been in the Rave War for a while.
'Their strengths and expertise are unquestionable.' He thought. "Fine. I know a losing battle when I see one. But I'm telling you this. I have no intention of taking the Zaibatsu from you, Kazama. But I do believe I have every right to be a part of it." He said, all manner of respect gone. Jin motioned for Tekken Force soldiers to tie the Head of Defense and direct him to the same cell the three other men had been taken in.
"Why the same cell, Master Kazama?" Nina asked as she leaned over the wall behind the CEO. Jin grunted and replied, "I have plans for them. You'll see." He said as he dialled a number in his phone, earning confused looks from both his bodyguards.
Anna walked as gruffly as she can. Guards were all over the place and if she careless made even just a slight female gesture, they'd know.
'Damn it! I'm blind here. Where the hell is that cell?' She said. She was itching to look at her GPS device but cannot find a secluded place where she could. Reaching the end of the hallway, she saw more guards roaming the halls on both the right and left directions. Sighing, she chose the path to the right, from what little memory she has of her GPS. However, like lady luck shining on her, she noticed one particularly locked room with six Tekken Force guards positioned hexagonically around it.
'That's a pretty heavily guarded room.' She said as she entered a room, to find one soldier currently eating his midnight snack. She hit his nape, immediately rendering him useless.
Sorry sweetie. Duty calls.' She said as she pulled her GPS out and looked at it. 'Bingo. Wow. You sure made yourself the talk of the town Bruce. Six Force guards. Whew.' She mentally laughed, putting her GPS back and exiting the room. She found a corner along the hallway and positioned herself there.
Looking at the guards' apparels through her binoculars, she knew a normal silencer would not be enough to take them all out. 'Taking them out by fists would be practically speaking, easier. But there are six of them with possibly the hardest of steel protecting their bodies.' She thought, analyzing the situation as she saw another set of guards bring in another captive. This time, she did get quite a surprise.
"Wow. If it isn't Dragonboy." She said softly. "Wonder what he did to make them do this to him?" She said softly as she crouched even lower, getting a better view. 'Maybe they figured out he's connection to Heihachi Mishima... But that's just typical of a company this big. They would know, eventually..' She thought, keeping her binoculars and standing up, stretching her arms and hands.
"It's been a while since I got some action." She said, walking towards the six guards with a menacing look behind the helmet she's wearing.
Shoving him inside the cell, Lars with metal suppressors in his arms kneeled and balanced himself skilfully. The guards who pushed him inside, laughed at his current state.
"The once great Lars Alexandersson, now a prisoner. I knew he was way too young to rule over the entire Tekken Force. What a joke." One of the guards said as the others surrounding him shared a hearty laugh. Lars kept a straight face as the guards locked the automated door. As he stood up, he saw the three occupants in the room. The man called Bruce Irvin in the center, eyeing him with a semi-surprised look, and the other two, the cop he subdued and his boxer companion on the floor, looking at him with equally-surprised looks on their faces too.
"What are you looking at?" He asked the three onlookers gruffly, as he leaned against the wall. Bruce smirked at him, eyeing him from head to toe. "What did you do for them to bring you here?" He asked.
"I don't think that's any of your business." He replied with a nonchalant voice. Bruce held back a chuckle. "Man, people in this cell are such idiots." He remarked, earning a glare from the three men surrounding him.
"That includes you too." Said the cop, standing up and leaned against the wall.
"I didn't say I was an exception right?" He said as a loud crash was heard outside the normally sound-resistant room.
"Is that the best you can do, sweetie?" Anna asked as she smashed an elbow into the guard's helmet, glass piercing his eyes and face and sending him flying. Turning around, she kicked another guard on the neck, a vulnerable spot she found just about now, killing him immediately. "Two down. Four more to go. Who wants to go first?" She said as she gestured for them to come and attack her.
The four remaining guards brought out a pair of Capoeira sticks, with powerful stuns.
"Whew. I knew it would come to this. I didn't know it would be sooner." She said as she withdrew a pair of golden spiked wires* – made of the hardest steel and pointed at the sides.
"You know, these seemingly thin wires can slice through even a 5-inch thick vault of steel." She said as she twirled the wires alternately and lunging at them. The four guards scattered as Anna attacked the one in front of her. Wrapping the wire into the guard's wrist, she gained momentum by pulling him to her and giving a hard roundhouse to his neck, breaking it without a doubt and killing him. Turning around, she swung the two wires in front of her to keep the remaining three guards from closing in on her. She decided to take the two guards in front of her. Smashing the wire into the guard to her left, she managed to crack one of his capoeira sticks but to her surprise, leaving her back open for a nice kick from the guard to her right, sending her tumbling towards the soldier she just attacked.
With a second to recover, she landed on her hands, twirled and kicked both guards on her left and right with a wheel kick*, staggering them a bit and giving her a slight advantage. Using the wall as momentum, she hopped and performed a hook kick on the soldier nearest her, smashing the soldier's helmet into the wall, breaking his head in consequence. But as Anna landed, the remaining two soldiers lunged at her again, this time, both guards were coordinated.
'Oh dear. Two more imbeciles.' She said as she ducked and rolled away from the attacking duo, twisted and readied her weapon, swinging the wires as both her and the two guards performed a dance of attack and evade. With the guards' movements increasing and Anna's desperation to finish this as soon as possible, she left an opening for one of the guards to hit her with the stunned capoeira sticks, sending her flying a few feet back. Shaking to rid herself of the shock, she lunged at the guards again, this time her speed tripled, her attacks became even more varied.
Finally seeing an opening, she whipped the paired wires into one of the guards' necks, cutting through them like a knife would to a piece of steak. Using the fallen guard's body for momentum, she flipped back and twirled in the air. Grabbing the other guard's shoulders, she landed and threw him to the wall with a well-placed grunt.
"Ha! That wasn't easy." She said as she picked up the oddly-shaped key one of the guards dropped. 'This should fit perfectly.' She thought as she placed the key in the whole and twisted it, earning her a squeak from the door, automatically opening. Seeing her comrade tied to the chair with a gazillion bruises and three other guys behind him she smiled as she entered the room further, removing her helmet and flipping her hair.
"Hello Bruce." She said, raising a perfect brow at him. The addressed man smirked and replied, "Took you long enough. Now untie me. I'm dying to get some action." He said as Anna crouched and used a gun to destroy the locks on Bruce's arms, freeing him.
"What about them?" She said, looking particularly at the man she met a week ago.
"Up to you. But I suggest you free the blonde one." He said, rubbing his wrists. Anna raised a brow.
"Which blonde?" She asked, looking at both Lars and Steve. Bruce looked at her and sighed.
"That one." He said, pointing at Steve, who had his eyes focused the entire time at the woman. Anna scowled.
"You're being mysterious again. Why him?" She asked as she strode nearer Steve and looking at him from under her lids. "Aside from being cute, I don't see any reason why you'd choose him." She said as she released his constraints.
"He's family – your family." He said as he went towards the cop and began freeing him. Anna wore an expression of disbelief, looking alternately between Bruce and the blonde boxer.
"Fa-family? How so?" She asked, helping the blonde stand up. Steve took the opportunity to speak up.
"I'm Steve Fox. I am Nina Williams' son." He said as he scratched the back of his head, looking at her bashfully. Anna, with eyes wide in confusion, turned to Bruce to get confirmation. Bruce shrugged, helping the cop on his toes.
Looking back at the blonde, she asked again, "You're Nina's son?" She earned a nod from the young man. "Ho-how..?"
"From the time you both were cryogenically frozen." Lars answered, all heads looking at him. "The Mishima Zaibatsu opted to test if they can integrate the Devil genome into any human born of a Mishima blood." He said. Anna's eyes widened in realization, looking at Steve.
"Then you're-"
"-Kazuya Mishima's son, artificially cultured with Nina's egg and Kazuya's seed." He finished, closing his eyes as he leaned against the wall. Both Anna and Steve looked incredulously at him.
"What?! I am related to the Mishima's?! That's bloody bollocks!" He shouted at Lars, not believing a word he said. Anna looked in deep thought until she held Steve's arm and said, "We'll discuss this when we get out of here." She said, walking near the former Tekken force Head. She grabbed the collar of his jacket, dragging him with her. "You're coming with us." She said as she led the men out of the cell.
*So sorry. I am really really busy with school and i can't seem to find time to update. I can't promise to update soon, but I will as soon as I find time to edit the chapters. :')