The woman put down her rocket launcher and satisfyingly blew the smoke from the weapon. Helicopters where approaching towards her from above so she quickly climbed down the building. When she made it to the ground in a dark alley between another building she removed her cloak. When she dropped her cloak she stepped into the light.

The woman wore a red Chinese dress slit on the left from her waist down to her ankles, revealing her brown rose laced tights and red high heels. As well as sporting matching fingerless red gloves. The woman then flipped her short chin length brown hair with an evil giggle and proceeded to walk out the alley and into the crowd of people who had witnessed the scenes.

Outside Nina's office, Alisa sat quietly on a chair. Like a little girl, she kicked her legs back and forth waiting patiently for the arrival of Lars.

Suddenly the door opened and out came Nina. Nina closed the door then found her gaze on Alisa.

"He hasn't arrived yet?" Nina asked.

Alisa lifted her head to meet Nina's gaze. "No."

Hmph, I contacted him hours ago. It's almost evening and he still hasn't shown up. I would have expected him to be here by now. Nina thought.

"I'm going to step out for a bit, let me know when he gets here." Nina said walking away from the door.

Alisa gave a silent nod and returned her eyes to her kicking feet.

Am I...dead?

Xiaoyu wiggled her fingers and felt a soft fabric.

W-Where am I?

Xiaoyu slowly opened her eyes to a bright light. She squinted from the light blinding her vision and applied her hand over her face to shield it from the light. She then realized she was no longer wearing hand cuffs. Confused by this, she lifted her upper body to sit up and scanned her surroundings.

She was in a hospital.

How...how did I get here? Xiaoyu mentally questioned herself. She then brought her hand to her forehead and felt a cloth.

Xiaoyu tried to recall the last things she remembered. And the last thing she remembered was being held in Devil Jin's arms as they fell in the sky then falling into the water.

Xiaoyu gasped.

But where is Jin?! Xiaoyu quickly hopped off the bed. She realized she wasn't wearing her normal clothes either so she began scanning the room for any other clothing. I have to find him before...

She looked all around room but could not find any clothing except the hospital gown she currently wore.

..He finds me.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Xiaoyu did not know whether to question who it was or just stand there.

When the door opened a woman walked in.

"Ma'am, what are you doing out of bed?" The nurse quietly walked towards Xiaoyu and applied her hand on Xiaoyu's back to lead her back to the bed but Xiaoyu moved away from the nurse's uncomfortable touch.

"Ma'am I need you to lay back down."

"I need to get out of here." Xiaoyu began to walk to the door until the nurse blocked the entrance.

"I cannot allow you to leave."

"You don't understand! I need to leave. I can't stay here, especially in an area like this! If I stay here he'll hurt everyone just to reach me. Including you!"

"Now calm down ma'am, I think you just need more rest."

Xiaoyu's right eye twitched.

She...she thinks I'm making this up?!

"Now, please go back to bed."

Xiaoyu had zero patience at this point. All she wanted was to get to Jin before more problems would erupt again. And this nurse was only hindering her from doing so.

Then Xiaoyu blanked out.

She blinked then realized the nurse was laying on the floor in agony covering her face.

She had punched the nurse in the face.

Xiaoyu had never sucker punched a person like that in the face. It was not long ago when she had kicked Jin in the crotch.

Xiaoyu decided to take advantage of the nurse's state and jumped over her to exit the room. Xiaoyu walked in the hall and looked around in search of an exit.

I wonder if I'm still in Australia? How long have I been here?

"Hey what are you doing out of your room?"

Xiaoyu looked behind her and saw a doctor trying to follow her. She quickened her pace and felt herself slide on the smooth hospital floor as she was running with only socks on.

"Stop!"

Xiaoyu continued to sprint in the hall, ignoring the doctor's order until she stopped when two nurses appeared right in her vision. She then looked behind her and saw that same doctor with another person next to him.

She was surrounded.

Uh oh..

"Calm down, just come with us and everything will be all right." One of the doctors said slowly approaching Xiaoyu.

This was not the first time she was surrounded like this. The last time she was surrounded she was with Jin but this time she was alone.

Why am I just standing here? My grandfather trained me to defend myself dammit! And that's what I'm going to do!

After that last thought Xiaoyu delivered her signature backwards kick to the doctors behind her, causing their bodies to fly away a few feet farther behind her. When the two women in front of Xiaoyu saw this they gasped and took a step back away from her.

Xiaoyu then proceeded into her phoenix stance in front of the nurses. "I suggest you guys let me through or-" Xiaoyu cut herself off when the hall lights flickered on and off.

Her eyes widened.

She began to have deja vu of when the power went off back at her school during the night of her prom.

No! Not now!

He is here for her and she knows it. She looked at the window beside her. It was indeed dark and rainy out, but she wouldn't expect a power outage like that to occur at a hospital. Xiaoyu felt it in her gut it was indeed the arrival of Jin. But the fact that it's here out of all places, where there's many innocent lives at risk of danger. If she does not move out this area fast there will be a bloody massacre.

Xiaoyu stood up from her stance. She did not notice until now that the two women were no longer there. They probably had done so when the lights flickered. Xiaoyu began to run again in search for an exit.

"I have to hurry!"

That's when the lights completely went out.

Xiaoyu paused in place with wide eyes.

"NO!" she screamed.

Alisa had not moved at all from her chair. The only thing she had done the entire time was kick her feet. It was noon when Nina contacted Lars, it was now night and he still didn't arrive.

"Perhaps he will not be here..." Alisa spoke to herself with disappointment.

"Perhaps he is here."

Alisa gasped then lifted her face.

There before her stood a tall muscular figure with spiky sandy brown hair. His attire consisted of red and black armor along with a black cape.

"Lars!" Alisa hopped off of her chair in joy and ran to him to give him a hug.

Lars flinched from Alisa's sudden action, he had not made physical contact like that with someone in a long time. However, he happily wrapped his arms around her and returned the hug.

"Alisa..."

"Oh!" Alisa ripped herself away from Lars. "My apologies, it is just when my friends saw each other they would get excited and hug that person."

"That's okay, Alisa." Lars smiled warmly at the pink haired android. He quickly analyzed her and of course she did not change one bit physically. However, there was some aspect about her that did seem different to him.

She was sad.

Although Alisa is not human, the minute they made physical contact he immediately felt the human like emotion from her cold steel touch. It was strange to think he can understand the feelings of a machine, however, to Lars, Alisa is beyond a machine.

"Shall I contact Nina?" Alisa asked.

"Don't worry, I called her the moment I was outside the building. She should be here soon." Lars replied.

This is bad! Xiaoyu looked around for a light source but the only thing that gave her the slightest light was the thunder outside the window.

"Jin! Please! I know you're here. Just come out and we can leave peacefully!"

Suddenly screams emerged from a different hallway. As soon as Xiaoyu heard those screams she used her hearing to lead the way. The hallways were uncomfortably quiet, the last thing she heard were those screams. She was surprised no one was running in the hallway going mad. That's when she questioned whether she were dreaming or not.

"Is someone here!?" Xiaoyu shouted in frustration. Suddenly she bumped into a pair of feet.

A pair of feet?

The thunder went off again allowing Xiaoyu to see what she really bumped into. And to her horror there were actually two bodies hanging from the lights of the ceiling in front of her. The bodies happened to be the two nurses she saw moments ago. Disgusted, Xiaoyu quickly ducked and walked below the hanging bodies, feeling a few drops of blood fall on her shoulder. By now she had become immune to such gruesome sceneries.

"JIN!" Xiaoyu grew tired of his toying of human lives. He is close to her yet he hasn't made a move.

"Jin! Come out now!" No one would ever dare call out the devil but Xiaoyu herself.

That's when she heard his laugh.

"Come on Jin! Enough is enough! I'm right here, come get me!"

Then Xiaoyu heard foot steps.

Xiaoyu prepared herself, hoping that would be Jin approaching her.

Suddenly Xiaoyu felt herself being grabbed by her arms and waist. Her mouth was also covered when she felt a sharp pain on her back. When the thunder went off again Xiaoyu managed to turn her head and see that several doctors were behind her still trying to bring her back to the room. Xiaoyu felt her energy drain rapidly, she had no strength to move and defend herself. She did not know what was happening, her eyes were heavy and her hearing began to fade.

The last thing she heard were faded screams and the last thing she saw were glowing white eyes in the dark staring down on her as she fainted into the arms of the devil.

"Jin..." Xiaoyu last said before drifting into unconsciousness.

"Now that you're both here I can discuss the full details of your mission." Nina said while sitting on her desk with her right leg over the other and her arms folded. Where as Lars and Alisa sat a few inches from her on chairs.

"Although one of you are quite late..." Nina raised a brow.

Lars made no response and continued to sit in silence as he knew the comment was directed at him.

"Anyways, as you both know you'll be going on a rescue mission. And the person you'll be bringing back is a girl named Ling Xiaoyu, I have a direct location of where she is now. Alisa is very well familiar with her and I wanted you, Lars, to assist her on this mission so she does not go alone. Plus I know you two have worked together in the past so I thought that would be more appropriate."

"Question." Lars said.

"Hm?"

"What about Jin Kazama? What are the details regarding him?"

There were a few seconds of silence until Nina finally replied. "Kazama is..indeed alive. If you heard the news, it is true. As of now we are trying to hunt him down before bigger problems emerge."

"I just don't understand..." Lars lowered his gaze. "I was there when he sacrificed himself to defeat Azazel. How can that man be alive?"

"We can only imagine." Nina said.

"So, what if we do happen to find Jin along with the girl... What do you want us to do?" Lars asked.

"I don't doubt you'll find him where Xiaoyu is... My issue is-"

"You doubt I will be able to bring him back too?" Lars cut off Nina.

"Just stick with what I have originally assigned you to. If you find Jin, just quickly notify me and I will send soldiers in to catch him. I will take care of it." Nina replied without answering Lars's question.

Lars refrained from asking more questions while Alisa merely sat in silence the whole time.

"I hope I made myself very clear of this mission for you two. If you do anything that goes against the mission, there will be consequences. Is that understood?"

Alisa and Lars nodded.

"All right, you both may leave now. Begin your mission and bring back Ling Xiaoyu."

Both nodded once again and in a split second the two had both disappeared from Nina's office. As soon as they left Nina hopped off her desk and walked to the window with her arms still folded.

Nina knew she was taking a risk with bringing Lars into this mission due to his past rebellion. But she can only hope he will follow through considering the situation and with Alisa by his side. Again, she doesn't doubt Lars will find Jin with Xiaoyu. The problem is that she knows it won't be as easy to bring him back as well. Nina already has groups of soldiers searching solely for Jin after gathering the details from Raven regarding the incident in Australia. The least she can do is have Lars and Alisa rescue Xiaoyu before things get truly ugly.