First thing I wanna say is...I'M SORRY! I'M VERY VERY SORRY! I did not forget about this story guys, and I didn't forget about you! I recently had gotten another job, so now I'm juggling college courses and two jobs in my agenda. Ugh, it's stressful but it has to get done. Now, on with the story! I'm not gonna let you guys wait any longer. Enjoy :)
Chapter Fifteen
Jin did not want to do this. He could not. He would not. He refused.
"I refuse to meet up with that bastard." He said, referring to his father.
"You have to." Nina said. "We need for him to tell us what Helena and JCo are getting ready to do. It's pretty huge."
"I think it's weird that he even requested to meet up with me now. Usually he lets Anna deal with the meetings."
"I say just do it, Jin. He's basically telling us what he knows about Helena's plan."
Jin sat back in his limo seat, and Nina scooted closer to him. She began caressing his arm and whispered in his ear.
"You need to loosen up."
"And you need to move back over there." He said softly.
"What?" Nina said, confused.
"I'm not...in the mood for that right now."
He really wasn't in the mood for that, but that wasn't the real reason why he declined Nina's advances. Ever since Jin had spent time with Teal, that was all he could think about. He was finally back in Tokyo also, and had a feeling he would be seeing her again, very soon. The limo driver pulled up in front of the G Corporation building and Jin got out, walking inside. The building was pretty big (not as big as the Zaibatsu's main headquarters, of course), and it did not bring back good memories once he was inside.
"I suppose I should ask somebody where Kazuya is." Nina said.
"No need to, I can feel him." Jin said, walking down the left hallway. "He's in one of these rooms."
Jin had found the room with no problem, and opened the door. Kazuya was sitting at his desk, sporting his signature evil smirk as Jin stood at the door.
"Are you just gonna stand there son, or are you going to come in?" He said.
Jin sighed heavily and walked inside. As he made his way to the other chair that was across Kazuya, he saw two people standing up against the wall. One of them was Anna, and he couldn't believe who the other person was.
"Helena?" He said, surprised.
"Nice to see you again, Kazama." Helena said in her brash, cocky voice.
"What is she doing here?" Jin demanded from his father.
"I ask the questions here, not you. Sit down." Kazuya said.
Jin began to sit down, but stopped. He stood back up and threw the chair to the other side of the room. "You could never boss me around, bastard. Don't even start now." He smirked.
"Whatever you say." Kazuya said. "I'm going to tell you why I asked you to come here. This is your first and only chance to surrender, and tell us where the girl is."
"What? What girl?"
"Don't play stupid Kazama. We're talking about your stupid girlfriend." Helena scolded.
"Ah, Teal.." Jin chuckled. "I don't know where she is."
"He's lying." Anna sneered.
"Shut up." Nina said.
"Don't make me—"
"Enough!" Jin and Kazuya said to their respective assistants.
"I don't know what you plan on doing with her, but it's not going to work." Kazuya continued. "Helena and I have decided to put our petty differences aside to work on this...landscaping project together."
"Give me a fucking break." The Devil said inside of Jin, but Jin said it out loud at the same time. "Landscaping project? Kazuya, even you could have came up with a better front. You mean to tell me you and Helena are working together now?"
"That's exactly what he means." Helena said, walking up to him. "And he doesn't have to explain shit to you, so I'll do it. In order for the rest of the worlds power sources and governments to see that we are not joking around, we have to make sacrifices. Sacrifices that requires certain places to be demolished. Having Teal on our side will definitely make other nations afraid of us, and we'll be the dominating power of the world. It's pretty simple."
"And what makes you think Teal will willingly work with you. She hates you, Helena." Jin said, looking at her.
"Who said she would willingly do anything? You want to save your little girlfriends life? You better hope we don't find that little brat anytime soon. She thinks I forgot about her up and leaving Kobe for no reason. I've been busy for the past two days, but now my sights are set on finding her." Helena sneered.
"So I'm going to tell you this again, Jin." Kazuya said calming. "Just surrender. There's no possible way you, or anyone else of that matter, can stop us."
Jin turned around and walked towards the door, with Nina close behind. Before he exited the room, he turned around and look at Kazuya and Helena.
"You win." Jin said, sporting an evil smile of his own. The Devil was anxious to transform him, and choke the life out of Kazuya. But Jin was able to control it. "For now."
"Lili, how much longer is this gonna take? I don't want it to get too late."
"Almost done Teal."
Lili brushed Teal's face one more time with a foundation brush, and made sure her hair was right.
"Okay, I'm done. Before I turn you around to see yourself in the mirror, I want everyone else to see you. Guys!"
Xiaoyu, Miharu and Asuka walked into the room, the three of them gasping simultaneously.
"Oh. My. Goodness." They all said.
"Lili when did Helena get in here?!" Miharu exclaimed with fear. "And where is Teal?"
"Miharu! That is Teal!" Xiaoyu laughed.
"Oh...wow Lili you did an amazing job." Miharu said.
"Really?" Teal said, touching her face, but Lili slapped her hand. "Ouch!"
"Don't mess up the make-up." Lili pointed at her face.
"Let me see, let me see!" Teal said, jumping up and down in the chair.
" Alright, alright." Lili said, turning her around to the mirror.
Teal's eyes opened wide and looked at herself in astonishment. "Holy shit Lili, you did a good job. I can barely recognize myself."
"I told you." Lili smiled. "Respect the artist."
"Thanks." Teal got up out of the chair and looked at her clothes. "This is not something Helena would wear, though. I need to change my clothes."
"Taken care of." Asuka said, holding up a business outfit in hangers. "I always see Helena wearing things like this."
"Are you sure?" Teal took the hangers out of Asuka's hands and looked at the outfit.
"Positive. Go change."
Teal changed into the business attire and was finally, completely transformed into Helena. Besides the obvious age difference between the two women, you would actually think Teal was Helena if you took a glance. Only difference was their hair color (Teal's hair is light brown, and Helena's is black. But Lili took care of it by giving Teal a black wig), and that Teal's skin tone was a little darker than Helena's. The process took hours, and before they turned around, it was almost 6 in evening.
"So, what's the plan?" Xiaoyu asked.
"First things first. Miharu, you have to see if you can hack into Jubilee's computer system without being noticed." Teal said.
"Got it."Miharu said, sitting on the bed and taking out her laptop.
"You brought your laptop? Are you sure it's a good idea to hack using your personal computer?" Asuka asked.
"Personal?" Miharu asked, and laughed. "Please. My personal computer is in my bedroom. I use this laptop just for this type of stuff. Watch and learn, Kazama."
Teal stopped messing with the sleeves on her blazer and looked at Asuka and Miharu in surprise. Kazama? So that must mean...
"Your last name is Kazama too?" Teal asked.
"Yeah. You didn't know that this whole time?" Asuka asked.
"I wasn't paying attention before...it makes since. I remember seeing your name on one of the tournament papers, but I forgot about it. You're related to Jin, aren't you?"
Asuka rolled her eyes angrily. "That power hungry bastard is my cousin. Jun-chan and my dad are brother and sister."
Teal winced when Asuka said 'power hungry bastard', but of course, Asuka didn't really know the truth. Teal was calling Jin the same thing just weeks ago, so she couldn't blame her for feeling that way. Now that Teal thought about it, Asuka did look like a younger version on Jun. And their fighting styles are the same, Teal figured it was a family tradition.
"I'm in." Miharu said minutes later. "What am I looking for?"
"Helena's schedule. I overhead her telling when of her workers to change it up in the system." Teal said.
"Okay..." Miharu was intent in her work, and it amazed Teal that she was really into technology like that. "I think this is it."
"Great." Teal said, looking at the screen. "It says she goes out for a smoke everyday at 7."
"Yeah but look, the agenda is changed for today. Helena's been out since noon." Asuka said.
"Since noon? That was around the time we came here." Lili said, sitting next to Asuka on the bed. "Where has she been all day?"
"G Corp." Teal said suddenly.
"What?" Everyone else said simultaneously. "Why?"
"I have no idea, but that's what it says here. Look, something's happening."
The five girls looked at the screen as it changed to a JCo instant messaging page, and it looked like someone was chatting with someone else.
How long will she be gone?
I don't know, probably until closing. Boss said it was real important. I don't even know where she went.
She's at G Corp, bro. You think she's hooking up with Mishima?
Doubt it. But hey, you never know.
"Ew. Helena and Kazuya?" Asuka snorted. "That's disgusting."
"Like the person said, you never know." Xiaoyu smirked.
"So she's going to be out until JCo closes for the night?" Miharu asked.
"JCo's a 24 hour corporation though. They must mean until they clock out and go home for the night." Teal said.
Everyone looked at Teal as she scrunched her eyebrows and looked down. She was obviously in deep thought, trying to see what the next step should be. She knew what she wanted to do; which was go to JCo, find out the remaining truth, and approach Helena. The Helena disguise was to get through the front door without being stopped or noticed. She finally settled on an idea and looked at the other four girls.
"Okay guys, I have a plan. But you have to promise to do exactly what I say. Got it?"
"Got it." They all responded.
"Good. We need to leave like, now, before Helena returns. Help me get inside of JCo, and I'll take it from there."
"How many do you think are there?"
"There's gotta be like 20 guards there, minimum."
The girls were hiding in the bushes, a couple of yards away from the JCo main building. They knew it would be guards in the front, but none of them imagined it would be this many.
"Why are there so many guards out here?" Asuka whispered.
"Who knows, something big must be going on." Miharu said.
"Teal, are you sure this is going to work?" Xiaoyu asked.
"Positive. I'll let you know when I'm inside, okay? All of you have your ear pieces?"
"Yes."
"Okay."
Teal stood up and crept from behind the bushes, confidently making her way towards the guards. On the outside, she looked normal. But inside, her heart was beating rapidly, nervously. She assured everyone that it was going to work, but she wasn't so sure now. One of the guards noticed her and turned around quick, saluting her.
"Helena! Ma'am!" He stuttered quickly. "We were just on the look out for any unwanted guests, like you said."
"Yes ma'am, we were!" Another guard said. "We didn't know you would be back so early, ma'am."
"Yeah." Teal started in her normal voice, but quickly cleared her voice and did her best Helena imitation. "Well, plans have changed. Keep up the good work guys."
Teal quickened her pace as she made her way into the building, breathing out with relief when she was finally inside.
"Keep up the good work?" Lili's voice said into her ear. "Nice one, Teal."
"Helena's never spat those words out of her mouth to those dumb guards." Asuka joked.
"Might as well make ourselves comfortable, since we'll be here for a while." Xiaoyu said.
Teal didn't say anything, as she continued walking down the hall, until she found an empty utility closet. She opened the door slowly and looked around, making sure no one was near here before she walked inside. After closing the door behind her, she quickly stripped out of the business outfit, and was back to wearing her normal clothes. She took the wig off of her head and let her brown hair flow freely.
"Remember Teal, no powers. They'll still be able to spot you." Miharu said.
"Right." Teal said into the ear piece. "Guess I gotta use the power of stealth and darkness."
She opened the closet door again slowly, and slipped her way out, making her way down the hall again.
"What am I looking for?"
"Helena's office, or somewhere you know she'd usually go to." Miharu said.
"Maybe start with the place you went to when you first came to JCo." Xiaoyu said.
"The lab? What would be in there?"
"I don't know, but it's a place to start."
"Okay."
Teal heard voices coming from behind her and quickly hid in the shadow of the window curtains. After the two guards walked by, she crept up behind one of them and put him in a chokehold, knocking him unconscious. The other guards turned around and she punched him, knocking him out as well.
"Ah, fuck." She murmured as she shook out the pain in her hand, walking down the hall again.
She eventually found the lab she had visited weeks ago, but that's when the problem came.
"Teal, where are you?!" Lili said in her ear frantically.
"The lab. Why?"
"Helena's back." Asuka said. "One of the guards told her that they just saw her go inside the building, and she sent them in there looking for you. You need to get out of there."
"No. I'm going to wait for her to come to me." Teal said.
"Well it looks like your wish has been granted, baby girl." Another voice said from behind her.
Teal turned around and saw Helena, feet away from her.
"And to think I was coming to look for you. This is wonderful, you were actually trying to approach me?" Helena giggled. "Humor me, Teal. What do you want?"
"I know everything, Helena."Teal said.
"Oh, do you?"
"I do. I know you were using me from the beginning. There were no bombs in my house...not real ones, at least. But you were spying on me and my mom. And I know about this mission you plan on using my powers for."
Helena clapped slowly and smiled, "Wow Teal, I didn't think you were that smart to find out everything. But why are you here?"
"Why are you doing all of this? You have no idea how much damage you are causing, and how much more you're going to cause if you don't end this."
"I don't plan on ending this, though. This is getting more interesting each day."
"Well I'm ending this. I'm not working for you anymore, I'm not on your side, and I think the best thing for me to do is to kick your teeth in."
Helena laughed again. "One thing I liked about you was your spunk, Yakima. You're a fiesty spitfire. But your spunkiness will not help you this time, because you're working with me whether you like it or not."
"And what makes you think that?"
"You're in no position to question me."
"That's sounds really familiar, Helena. You know your little friend, Kunimitsu told me the same thing two days ago, before I almost choked the life out of her."
"Really? You mean this little friend, Kunimitsu?"
The door opened again and Kunimitsu walked in the room, stopping when she got next to Helena.
"I knew about you girls' altercation, and little miss Kunimitsu is hungry for revenge. Isn't that right Kunimitsu?" Helena said.
Kunimitsu was silent, but took out her knives and began flipping them around her hands. Teal could see the anger and vengeance in her eyes, and prepared herself.
"Bring it, bitch." Teal said.
Kunimitsu smiled and began to lunge at Teal, but Helena said.
"Wait, just to make sure there aren't any mistakes, I've bought someone else here to help you out, Kuni."
As if on cue, Teal felt a presence come towards her from behind her and turned around quick, dodging Yoshimitsu's attack. She stood up straight again and shook her head, looking back and forth at her two opponents.
"I don't need back-up, Helena." Kunimitsu snorted.
"Well considering how you spilled the beans and let Teal know about everything before, I think you do." Helena shot back at her. She walked towards the door and waved the rest of them off. "Finish her. Don't kill her, but make her vulnerable enough and bring her back to me."
Once Helena was gone, Yoshimitsu and Kunitmsu were on opposite sides of Teal and began coming closer to her.
"Well, this is going to be harder than I thought..." Teal said, getting into her stance and beckoning them with her hands. "Come on."
