Chapter 2
5:30 a.m. and Chun-Li wakes up to the sound of battle outside, but she relaxes when the voices she hears are only from Ryu and Mega Man.
"Rematch…I hate being right."
Even as she brushes her teeth, takes a shower, and changes into shirt and khaki shorts, her light cotton hooded sweater, and flip-flops they're still fighting, yelling, and screaming. The noise never stops. She's thankful that Interpol already informed elected officials of their presence and blocked off the area using local police.
She walks outside and crosses her arms as the morning cool wind blows against her. She walks towards the beach, following the holes and burns in the sand. She sits on a large boulder after she spots and watches Ryu and Mega Man exchange energy blasts.
"I can't help but feel they're having fun."
There is no powerful emotion on their faces from what she is seeing, just an intense need to show off; known as male bonding. But she's enjoying the show as Mega Man's training has advanced his armor to be lighter and stronger to handle Ryu's improved powerful and versatile technique. Looking at them fight against the slow rising sunrise is visually inspiring. Unfortunately for them she's starting to get too hungry to care. She stands up fires a Kikoken that lands between them, immediately gaining their attention.
"I'm hungry! Who's making breakfast?"
Ryu yells, "We're still fighting! We need to have a victor! And the answer lies in the heart of battle!"
"Mega Man, come on honey!" Chun-Li yells kindly, unable to stop treating him like a child as she beckons him with her hands. Watching him run to her like a loving and loyal child isn't helping anything, although she thinks it is endearing.
"I will cook for you Miss Li."
She smiles at him, then at Ryu before they walk back to the beach house, finding his frustrated face priceless.
Later, she watches Ryu walk in the kitchen after the smell of eggs and bacon lingered in the air for the past ten minutes. He sits down at the table near her and eats as soon as Mega Man serves him. She briefly watches Mega Man plug himself into the wall and recharges, all the while watching Ryu.
"Well…this is nice…the three of us together at the kitchen table…or at least around it." She laughs lightly, but sees that they are only staring at each other, sizing each other up. "Ryu, try the orange juice, I ordered it from…"
She watches Ryu swallow his glass of juice in one long gulp. "It's good."
"O…k," she replies as Ryu finishes eating and runs outside.
"Goodbye Miss Li." Mega Man unplugs himself and runs outside as well with the enthusiasm of a child, leaving her alone with the sound of the clinking of her fork against her plate.
"Oh hell…" She puts her fork down, pushes away her plate of half-eaten fruit crepes, puts her fighting gloves and shoes on, runs outside, and joins in the fight.
"Fight parameters updated."
Ryu yells, "Stay out of this Li!"
She slowly yells, "I'm the strongest woman in the world…make me!"
Chun-Li yells as she does the Kikosho energy attack. She's not surprised to see Ryu's Shinkuu-Hadoken attack in response. But when Mega Man does his Mega Buster Charge attack at the same time, all their attack energy merges into each other and then dissipates. She felt as if their chi was briefly joined. She looks at their faces and she read the same thing on their faces. They were ready.