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Chapter 8: Fair Warnings
The two warriors' techniques clashed. Ryu's fierce punch connected with Juri's harsh kick. Their strained limbs tingled from the incredible force they just competed against. Quickly dashing away the pupil of Gouken quickly performed his famous hadouken. With ease, the Korean fighter leaped over the beam and dived down at Ryu with a kick.
The World Warrior Champion wasn't quick enough and the kick connected. Followed up was a second impact of kicks from Juri, then a third powerful thrust kick that sent Ryu crashing into one of the solid oak beams that held the dojo up. Ryu's back was in pain, but he didn't have the time to favour his wound and quickly rolled to the side and got back into his fighting stance.
"You're speed is impressive..." He complimented in a surprised tone.
"Nice of you to say," She smiled as she got back into her relaxed flamingo stance. "But haven't seen anything yet."
The pupil of Gouken prepared himself for the next time she went him for an attack. He sensed from her style and attitude that she is an aggressive fighter and wants to get in to do as much damage as possible. Patience was going to be key to winning this fight.
As expected Juri quickly dashed in and we for a low kick for Ryu's legs, hoping of knocking him off balance. The Japanese fighter blocked the attack and managed to protect himself from her pinwheel kick that followed after. The world warrior had never seen such a vicious kick technique before, it even carried the same amount of power as Chun li's kicks if not more-so. His arms started to feel numb from blocking it, but then he saw an opening.
Juri was recovering from her pinwheel kick, but before she could prepare for Ryu's retaliation, the Japanese warrior rocketed from his defensive stance. "Shoryuken!" He roared as his uppercut connected with Juri's jaw. The CEO of S.I.N. was sent flying through the air, a dazed look from the abrupt and fierce move. Catching herself she flipped and landed on the ground in a kneeling position. "Oh...!" She said her head hanging low.
Ryu couldn't see her face, but he sense there was still much fight left in her. Suddenly her head shot up and she gave a menacingly twisted grin to her opponent. "Oh, I like you!" Her left eye began to glow. A high intensity of chi surrounded the woman, far too much spiritual energy for a normal human being could generate.
Bolting from the spot she performed a flurry of lethal kicks at the World Warrior. Barely able of keeping up, he noticed that she finished her flurry of attacks and he saw another opening. In fact, she was laughing at him as she leaned forward and gestured him to bring in, taunting him. Her arrogance will cost her dearly, and Ryu fired off a hadouken.
At first it seemed like his signature move connected, but suddenly Juri disappeared. At least it would seemed that way, but Ryu barely saw her slip past the attack with devilish speed, and even slipped behind Ryu himself. The projectile attack crashed through the dojo wall leaving a giant hole in it.
Before the pupil of Gouken could even turn around, Ryu was struck by a powerful pinwheel attack. The flurry of blows struck him over and over launching him into the air crashing back into the ground.
Juri cackled as she saw Ryu quickly get back to his feet. "Hmmm," She said as her tongue traced her soft lips. "You don't break easy, do you?"
Ryu didn't respond and gathered his thoughts for his next attack. His chin was aching from that last attack, this woman is proving to be a far greater opponent than he had expected. Wiping the bit of blood from his mouth, he quickly corrected his stance.
Juri began to sashes casually towards Ryu once more. "Good to see you're enjoying this as much as I am" She said in an alluring tone.
"What makes you say that?" Ryu said as he circled around her to try and keep a comfortable distance for his next attack.
"Why else are you smiling, huh?"
Ryu stopped for a moment and realized, she was right. He was smiling. His sudden distraction didn't go unnoticed as Juri went in for another attack. She pivoted around and went to hand chop in the head, and struck her opponent in the right temple. Fighting the pain, the vagabond managed to retaliate.
"Tatsumaki!" He called out as he leaped into the air and kicked Juri away with his famous kick attack.
The move connected perfectly and sent his opponent crashing into another beam.
"ugh!" She grunted from the impact, but she caught herself and wiped the spit that barely escaped her mouth.
The smile still stayed on Juri's face. Even with moderate use of her Feng Shui engine, Ryu was holding his own against her. Nobody but Bison was able to do something like that. All the fights before seemed dull in comparison. This was fun! Ryu's successful strikes against her were few, but devastating. His power, speed and technique were more than the video even seemed to show. Juri's eyes analysis were indicating he had incredibly high readings. Breaking him will be fun.
"Wow..." Shes said softly. "I'd say you just about live up to your legend." The Tae Kwan Do practitioner abandoned her stance and simply stood in front of Ryu. "We'll have to do this again sometime."
Juri's eye sensed someone else was approaching. It would complicate to draw too much attention to herself. And while she hated to leave fights unfinished, she seemed to have some thoughts stewing in the back of her mind.
The fight was over? Ryu wondered as he noticed she turned away. He too lowered his arms as he stood upright. A feeling of disappointment came over him, he too was feeling the adrenaline that the fight was bringing him.
"Sorry to cut this short, handsome, but there's somewhere I have to be." She said as she peeked over her shoulder back at Ryu. "Just a little advice though. Bison's goons already tried to get you and your friend. Hope you didn't mind my handy work on the highway"
It took the Japanese warrior only a moment to make sense with what she was talking about. Those cars were belonged to Shadaloo and Juri stopped them from trying to get at him and Ken. Once again Ryu was finding himself in her debt.
After a brief silent thought he looked up at Juri, because even though she seemed to be aiding him, something still didn't feel right. "Why are you doing this?" He asked in a calm tone.
Juri's smiled shrugged her shoulder "Dunno, maybe I'm just bored, maybe because it's fun, ha ha!" She turned away. "Bison won't stop, he'll kill anyone, destroy everything until he gets what he wants. But you can stop him-"
"No." Ryu defied, cutting Juri off in mid-sentence. "I am not getting involved in some war between Shadaloo and S.I.N."
He stared at the back of Juri's head and they both stayed silent for a moment. "Whatever..." She said as he leaped out the open window of the dojo. Not even two seconds later Ken burst through the dojo entrance.
"Ryu!" He called out. The American martial arts champion looked as if he's seen a ghost. His attention was focused on Ryu at first, then it turned to the hole in the dojo wall. "What happened?!"
The Japanese warrior turned to see the hole in the dojo wall and realized that it was when he missed Juri in the fight. The vagabond paused and thought for a moment before he spoke. It would probably be wise not to concern Ken with Juri. At the same time the C.E.O. of S.I.N. raised a valid point; Ken and his family are not safe. Shadaloo could easily resort to hurting his friends to lure Ryu out.
"Ken..." Ryu finally spoke. "I think you and Eliza are in danger."
Ken understood the look on his best friends face. "I think I have an idea." He retorted. "Guile is on his way here. He asked me to keep you here so he can get to you. He said he'd be in a couple hours."
Ryu nodded at Ken, then he turned to face the hole in the wall that he created.
Back in Mexico in the middle of a barren wasteland, a facility was under siege. S.I.N. soldiers continued to raid the Shadaloo structure and killed all of their operatives as they were ordered to do. The casualties on both sides continued to escalate, but Shadaloo was losing more and more ground to the enemy forces.
In the sky, a large aircraft could be seen descending, on its side bore the Shadaloo symbol. The door opened to reveal the master of Shadaloo himself, M. Bison. He silently gazed on as he watched one of his bases get raided. The sound of gunfire was better heard as the aircraft continued to descend.
The S.I.N. soldiers on the ground took notice of the aerial vehicle, and whom was at standing at the opened door. "Is that who I think it is?!" One of the commanding officers pointed out to his fellow soldiers. "Fire all the RPGs we got at it! Bring it down!"
All the soldiers did as commanded and readied their rockets. If they take out Bison here, then Shadaloo would surely crumble. With this thought in mind they opened fire and let loose the missiles.
Bison frowned at their feeble attempts to pit themselves against something they can't even begin to understand. Diving out off the aircraft, he held his hands in front of him and spun in a drilling motion. "Psycho Crusher!" The psycho power energy and the explosion from all the projectiles lit up the entire area, but the Bison's attack kept following through until he crashed into the earth. The massive impact shook the very ground and covered the entire area in dust.
The soldiers who once attempted to take Bison's life were now dead. All the remaining S.I.N. soldier who weren't raiding the interior of the facility turned their heads at the huge dust cloud the were blowing past them all. They couldn't see what caused the explosion and waited for the dust to settle. A sense of dread befell them all.
"You are all mere insects, waiting to be stepped on by my boot!" A powerful voice stated. "I shall make an example out of you all for your leader, so that she will know that her destruction approaches by my hand!"
As the voice continued to taunt the S.I.N. operatives, a figure shrouded in purple flames could be seen through the dust. Taking advantage at this chance, all the soldiers began to open fire at the target. The echoes of gunfire rang through the air.
In response Bison laughed as none of the bullets even reached him. The force of energy from his Psycho power stopped the bullets a foot away from him. All the S.I.N. operatives who emptied their magazines on the evil mastermind stood in awe as the dust dispersed and M. Bison stood there unharmed, his psycho aura radiating fiercely.
The master of Shadaloo began to approach. With each step he took the dread sunk in deeper and deeper into his enemies. "You are all fortunate to bare witness to my heightened Psycho Power." He grinned menacingly. "It is with this power the entire world shall be mine."
He ceased his advanced and he shifted into his fighting stance. The psycho energy began to pulse and the air around him grew heavy. "Prepare to die! Nightmare Booster!"
The master of Shadaloo launched himself towards his targets. All the enemy soldiers stared in horror as their impending doom surged forward.
Back in Chicago, Guile sped his way from the airport in a military class vehicle. He got his buddies from a nearby base to prepare him with a vehicle when he got into town. He was less than an hour away from city limits, but to the soldier, that was enough time for Shadaloo to try something.
His thoughts were still a little divided between the mission on hand and Chun li who still hasn't regained consciousness. She was also one to bull-rush ahead without calling for backup, and more times than not it got her into trouble.
At the same time the military captain wasn't sure what to make of the goings on at this point. There were a lot of variables that still didn't give the entire picture. Shadaloo and S.I.N were against one another, and now Shadaloo is trying to get a hold of Ryu.
Suddenly Guile's phone went off. Taking a quick glance at the phone he pushed the speaker button. "This is Guile," He greeted.
"Are you with Ryu yet?" Cammy asked.
"Negative, I am short of an hour away from Chicago now. It shouldn't be long now. Have you been able to use your satellites to keep an eye on the Master's estate?"
"No, I've been given a temporary leave. Apparently I've been rattling the cages too hard in my jurisdiction. There was a lot of activity happening around Mexico, but that was when I was pulled from active duty."
"Well it was only a matter of time. S.I.N. and Shadaloo are master manipulators of authority."
"Yes, which means now we're traveling blind. Because of this, I will see what I can do on my end. But you must get to Ryu, if he leaves America and gets out of your reach, who knows where he'll go to next."
Guile then noticed a bunch of wrecked vehicles from the side of the road being hauled away. Looked like the remnants of an accident, but they didn't look like civilians to the military officers' trained eyes. An unsettling feeling came over him suddenly.
"Something the matter?" Cammy asked.
"It's nothing." He responded. "I just have a bad feeling about this."
Unfortunately for the Captain, he didn't get far before he saw a roadblock of other vehicles. These vehicles were different, but they had the S.I.N. symbol on the side. It was clear to Guile now that Shadaloo was definitely not the only ones involved in this, and that Cammy's suspicions were correct.
"S.I.N..." Guile muttered. He saw the men stepping out of their vehicles and cocking their handguns. "Cammy, I'll have to call you back."
Guile wasted no time and immediately hit the accelerator. The agents didn't suspect such rash action coming from the military officer. Opening a few rounds on the speeding vehicle, they realized they didn't have enough time to line up a proper shot. They barely dodged out of the way when Guile crashed through the blockade of cars, and continued to speed down the highway.
Looking up at his rear view mirror he could see the agents scrambling to their feet. Guile was almost at the city limits. What worried Guile was if S.I.N. was already here trying to stop him, then Ken and Ryu must be in even more danger.
It was then he saw a figure in the distance, walking down the middle of the road. The captain squinted to see what it was as he continued to speed closer and closer to it. It didn't take long before he could make out the identity of the person. It was Juri.
Guile felt a cold chill down his spine, he recalled his last encounter with her. But he had to keep the mission in mind. None of this will mean anything if S.I.N. or Shadaloo get a hold of Ryu for whatever nefarious schemes. With no interested in attempting to fight her, he decided to speed through her like he did with the agents moments before.
He drew closer quickly, and he saw her left eye begin to glow, the her whole body began to emanate a pink chi energy. Having a bad sense of deja-vu, he gritted his teeth as he tried to ram through her. But in an instant, the lethal fighter crashed her leg down on the front of the car with such force the vehicle flipped right over Juri and crashed on the road behind her, upside down. The vehicle screeched a fair ways down the road before it came to a stop.
"Looks like I made it just in time!" She smiled casually.
She could see the cars of her agents driving towards her in the distance from the same direction Guile came from. Pulling out her cell phone she spoke into it. "I got it boys." She said. "Beat it!"
With just that, all the agents did a U-turn and drove away. She looked back over at the crashed vehicle and could hear stirring inside. Juri smiled in anticipation for the fun to come.