Chapter Seventeen

Jin shot up out of his bed and looked around his bedroom. Darkness. The only light came from his cell phone on the dresser next to him. His heart was pounding, and his breaths were short and heavy. That scream...it was so sharp, so...close. Like someone was laying right next to me, screaming in my ear. His cell phone began ringing again, and he picked it up.

"Talk." He answered.

"They got her." Nina's voice said on the other line, lowly.

Jin felt his throat beginning to close, and his heart sank. Please don't let it be who I think it is...he thought. He stood up and quickly threw his clothes back on.

"How did this happen?"

"She just...waltzed up in JCo. She was trying to confront Helena, and it went horribly wrong. She's being held at G Corp as we speak. I don't know what they're planning to do to her Jin, but it can't be good."

"Yeah well, I think I do." Jin said, putting his shoes on. "I'm going."

"By yourself? You can't!" Nina said, surprised.

"Yes, I can. And I will. Provide support, and I'll take care of the rest." Jin said, hanging up.

He grabbed his coat, the keys to his motorcycle, and left out of his room. When he opened the front door, he jumped back quickly at the sight of who was in front of him.

"What the?! Xiao?!" He said.

"Jin! You have to help us!" Xiaoyu cried out. "Teal, she's been-"

"Taken, I know. I'm going to get her now."

"Oh well, we're going with you." Miharu said.

"No."

"But Jin-"

"I said NO Xiao. It's bad enough Teal is taken, I can't afford any of you guys getting captured as well." Jin said sternly.

He walked past the four girls, and felt someone grab his arm violently. It was his cousin.

"Listen, big head. I may not particularly like you at this moment, but Teal means as much to us, as she does to you. We're going to get her out whether you like it or not." Asuka said, glaring at him.

Jin glared back for a couple of seconds, but his stare softened and he laughed. "You remind me so much of my mother."

"Yeah well, she is my aunt isn't she?" Asuka rolled her eyes and smiled also. "We're coming with you, Jin. We're gonna get Teal out of there."

"Alright alright, let's go. I guess I gotta take a car now." Jin said.

"No, you can still take your motorcycle. How do you think we got here?" Lili said, and whistled.

A SUV-type car pulled up in front of Jin's estate and stopped, and the four girls hopped inside of it.

"Let's go Kazama! Are you leading the way or not?" Xiaoyu called out to him.

Jin closed his mouth and sighed heavily. Xiao was still the same, goofy carefree girl he knew, and he liked the fact that she didn't change that. He got on his motorcycle and revved it up, driving off pretty quickly, with Lili's SUV not too far behind.

"It's finally finished sir."

"Good. How is she?"

"Shut down right now, but we programmed her brain to listen to your commands."

Helena smiled, and Kazuya smirked in approval.

"Great." Was all he said to the guard.

"What do we do now?" Helena asked him.

"Now, we wait."

"For?"

Kazuya held his head in frustration, but laughed instead. "My son is here."

"How do you-"

"I can feel his aura. We wait for him, then we take him out."

"Why should we?" Helena said, and pointed to one of the doors in the back of the room. "Our little surprise can do it for us."

As if it was right on cue, the front door to the lab was kicked open, and Jin walked inside angrily. He made no hesitation to grab Kazuya and pin him against the wall.

"Where is she?" He said.

"Where's who?" Kazuya joked.

"Don't fucking play with me, old man! Where. Is. Teal." Jin said.

Jin could feel the Devil aching transform him, but he tried his best to suppress it. Kazuya's laughter made it even harder for him. It's like this bastard thinks it's a joke! Jin thought angrily.

"I will choke the life out of you if you don't tell me where she is." Jin threatened his father.

"Relax son, Relax." Kazuya chuckled. "She's here. Helena, don't you think it's time for Jin and his lovely friends to see our little surprise?"

Helena smirked and nodded, "I think it is. Teal?" She sang out.

The door at the back of the room opened slowly, and Jin let go of his father to see what was going on. Teal walked inside of the room slowly, and made her way next to Kazuya and Helena. Jin's heart lifted with relief when he saw her, but sank again when he realized what was going on.

"Teal!" Xiaoyu yelled happily, and began to run over to her.

"Xiao, don't!" Jin said.

Xiaoyu stopped and looked at Jin, who shook his head slowly. She gasped when she realized what had happened as well. Teal was there in body, but she definitely wasn't there in mind. Her skin tone was visibly darker, I'd say about a shade or two. Unknown markings covered her entire body, except for her face. She had a blank, frosty stare in her eyes, and it looked like she was staring right through everybody.

"Oh my goodness...what did they do to you?" Lili cried out to her.

"It's simple, we combined some of M Cells that we had locked away with her original powers. You remember that, don't you?" Kazuya said, directing his last question to Jin and Xiaoyu.

"M Cell...that's what Shin had inside of him.." Xiaoyu realized, and Jin nodded as well.

"Teal's the ultimate threat now!" Helena exclaimed happily. " This is really a beautiful sight. I didn't think it would work."

"Xiao, we have to get Teal back to her normal self." Miharu whispered to her.

"And how the hell are we gonna do that?" Asuka whispered as well.

"Guys...we might have to fight her." Xiaoyu said.

The four girls sighed, and Lili finally spoke up. "If it has to be done, it has to be done."

Xiaoyu nodded and got into her stance. "Teal! Please don't hate us for this. It's for your own good."

Teal didn't speak a word, she just continued to stare at Xiaoyu with that terrifying, frosty glare. Kazuya laughed loudly and shook his head.

"I'm gonna let you girls humor me into actually thinking you can fight her. Teal." Teal immediately looked at him when he called her name. "Kill them. All of them."

Without hesitation, Teal silently got into her fighting stance as well.

"Uh guys...you sure this is a good idea?" Asuka said.

"Well there's no turning back now." Miharu said.

The four girls ran towards Teal and began trying to fight her off, but it wasn't going too well. Jin used this time to get back at his father, and the two of them began fighting as well. You would think 4 against 1 would be an super easy fight, but Teal was wayyy too powerful for the four of them. She threw them around and beat them up easily. Asuka had to remind herself that Teal was her friend, and she didn't know what she was doing, otherwise she would've gotten more upset and tried to fight her like she was a stranger. There was a point where all of the girls laid on the floor in pain; Miharu was coughing up blood and Lili had to continuously wipe her bloody mouth. Asuka and Xiaoyu were breathing heavily, holding there back and sides. Teal had just looked down on them, still silent, and still with that blank expression on her face.

Kazuya punched Jin twice, and kicked him back. "Teal, finish them!"

Teal's eyes went from it's normal brown color, to fire engine red, as she began gathering up as much power as she could. The girls looked up at her with terrified expression on their faces.

"Aw great, she's gonna kill us!" Lili complained.

"This is such a bad way to end my life!" Miharu cried.

"Teal, STOP!" Xiaoyu cried out also.

Jin was able to hit his father with a serious gut punch, and throw him back into the glass cabinets. He quickly looked at Teal as she was getting ready to blast her friends into oblivion, ran over to her, and tackled her just as the blast went off. It had missed the girls by inches, and hit the wall behind them instead, causing half of the lab to collapse. Jin and Teal fell through the floor, and went about two stories below, making a sickening thud sound when they hit the floor in the basement. Xiaoyu, Miharu, Lili and Asuka quickly stood up and ran over to the hole Jin and Teal fell through.

"Teal! Jin!" Xiaoyu called out, but no one answered.

"Oh no! I hope they're okay." Lili said.

"We gotta go down to the basement and make sure. Come on!" Asuka said as she led the girls out of the lab.