[ S t r e e t F i g h t e r A l p h a (2) ( P a r t 2 ) ]

[Shadaloo Base, Italy]

A girl with purple hair and a long, red cloak, walked across a dark room with a floor so shiny you could see your reflection in it. She looked around, and finally after hearing something fall as she was waiting for something to happen, she quickly hurled a blast of energy in the air, lighting the whole area. Looking around more, she couldn't see anything until she finally noticed a man who was barely visible with the red oil tanks placed behind him. His clothes were all red, and almost camouflaged his body. The man just stood there. After a long moment of staring at each other, the girl finally spoke:

"Who are you?"

The man looked at for a little while, and then made a fighting stance. "My name's not important to a useless pile of trash."

"Excuse me, sir, but do you even know me?" she asked.

"You don't look evil," the man said, breaking his stance after looking at her more. "You seem too harmless to even deal with. So tell me—" he walked towards her—"Where is the rest of your party?"

"Party?" she replied. "What party?"

"Shadaloo. You're not going to fool me. I know this is their base in Italy."

"I, too, knew that," she said. "You must be after Shadaloo as well."

The man smiled and reached out his hand towards her. "Hi, I'm Guy."

"Well, nice to meet you," she said, shaking it. "You may call me Rose."

They finally let each other's hands go, and then looked around more. The area didn't have much. It was very large, and the floor was too slippery with its incredible cleanliness. Regarding this, everything had been perfectly placed—as if no one had came to this place and touched these items a bit to make them slide across the floor. But that was soon proven wrong by Rose. She looked back at the oil tanks that hid Guy, and noticed there was something inside them instead of oil.

"So," Guy said, "…I knew of this base a long time ago, but didn't plan to come until Shadaloo finally arrived. I spotted their plane on the sky last night, and knew obviously they were heading for their base."

"They must be clever," Rose said, floating and making a sitting-down pose in the air, as if an imaginary chair was beneath her. "They must have made another base, just in case."

Guy was too surprised at Rose's floating ability to respond, and after a while, asked, "How'd you do that?"

Rose laughed. "I was…well…born this way."

"Can't one learn it?" Guy asked.

"No," she replied. "Supernatural abilities come from the heart."

"…I have seen warriors producing energy just like you did, except that one didn't light rooms up," Guy said thoughtfully. "It was used in battles. It was unlike my hand of flames, though."

"Hand of flames?"

Instead of describing it, Guy decided to perform it out. He faced the oil tanks and held his hand back behind his shoulder. Then quickly he thrust his hand forward, making it emit flames from the tip. Rose quickly faded to the flames' path and stopped it with her energy.

"Not fair!" Guy said. "You ruined the Bushin style's reputation…"

"Those were not ordinary tanks," Rose said. "They're explosive."

"Oh…."

"Well, anyway," Rose said. "Those fireballs come from the internal body. They have nothing to do with strength. You release the energy from your body, it just comes from meditation. The source of your meditation travels through your arms and out from your fingertips, thus causing it to collect between the imaginary sphere made by forming your hands in such a way."

"Wow…." Guy said after Rose stopped. "You're such a mind killer."

"…"

"We should get serious," Guy said quickly, "Do you want to find Vega together?"

"No," Rose said firmly.

"Come on," Guy said. "It'll be the work of one person in double the speed."

"No," she said once again. "My path of reaching Shadaloo is different than yours. Much different."

"Well, if it was that different then we would not have reached this place at the same time," Guy said in a sarcastic manner. "And besides, you know nothing about my way of reaching Shadaloo anyway."

"Okay," Rose said. "I am not interested either. I have no time for this. I must find and destroy Vega as soon as possible."

"But…hey!...Wait—"

But Guy had no time to wait for a response. She had faded away. Guy turned angry.

"You psycho powered teleporting freak!" he yelled in the now empty room. And then, thinking over his quote, it finally ticked him. Psycho powered freak…

[Hospital, Thailand]

It was another new man in another new world. Coming out from a hospital, Adon looked around and up into the sun's rays of light shining down at him. He was a strange man wearing a red, flat over his head, and the rest of his body was barely clothed. And the sun was facing the same direction Adon was going to head first—to anywhere where he could become stronger.

"Sagat..I thought you were my master," Adon said. "The Emperor of Muay Thai, lost to an outsider. We could not have received more shame."

Adon looked at his destination once again. He began walking without a single look back at the hospital that treated him, and was currently treating Sagat. "Perhaps my fists weren't good enough to knock Ryu, but now that I know he has defeated you too, I know you are at the same level as me. I will defeat you, Sagat. I shall, after you are healed and back on your shameful feet."

One month later…

[Shadaloo Base, Thailand]

"Who disturbs me?"

"S-Sir…."

"You must have something important enough for me to spare your life."

"I…I apologize. But I do believe it is important."

"…"

"Someone wants to talk to you."

It was another very dark room. Almost pitch black, not even the spectacled scientist could see his master sitting on the throne-like chair, facing the other direction. The man didn't need to hide himself anymore, though. He swung around in his chair, facing the scientist. His mad blue eyes showed the scientist exactly where he was. And suddenly the lights went on, revealing the man's entire look. He was a very large, muscular man, wearing a red suit, along with a red cap. As he stood up, he revealed a long cloak behind him. And on the front-center of his back there was a very disturbing sign that showed an evil-looking skull with two wings on each side of its head. It was the Shadaloo sign.

"Someone wants to talk to me…." The man walked over to the frightened man. "That doesn't sound very important."

"B-but sir!" the scientist gasped for his life. "He's an enormous man with a chain who demands to see you."

"Demands to see me," the man said. "We shall see who this disrespectful bastard is."

The man moved his hand in front of the scientist and released a powerful energy, sending the man flying into a pile of liquor bottles. He laughed with his overpowered energy, watching the now dead scientist with pieces of glasses stuck inside every spot of his body. He now faded into thin air—just like Rose had. This was Vega, the psycho-powered leader of Shadaloo.

Now Vega was in a different area, inside a very long, circular and dark tunnel. Outside the tunnel stood an enormous, black man, just like the scientist had described. The man had a golden, pointy wing on his head that stood up. There were chains wrapped around him.

"Who are you, now?" Vega asked.

The man smiled slowly and stood tall, as if opposing Vega. His chains remained tightened, however. "Name's Birdie. Wish to join your so-called global organization."

Vega smirked at Birdie as if he was a pile of trash. "What makes you special enough to join? What do you possess?"

"…I can prove I am worthy enough."

"How?" Vega asked. "And…what may be your reason?"

Birdie paused. "I don't care if I have to work for free. I have no other thing to do with this strength."

"So you plan to use that strength to do evil deeds?" Vega asked. "Well, well. If there is something I love it is a man who uses all his sweat on something wrong—that tortures the society and the weak world around us."

Birdie nodded.

"We shall test you and find out just how much sweat you dropped," Vega declared. Just then, a henchman walked over to Vega and whispered something in his ears. Vega nodded and waited until the henchman left. "Duty calls," he said. "Wait here and make yourself at hell…"

Smirking once again, Vega faded and then appeared in another new sight. It was more like another tunnel, except a different one from the one before. He looked at the man standing at the end of the tunnel. It was Adon.

"Well, Mr. Adon," Vega said with an evil smirk, "We have been searching for you for quite a while now."

"Do not consider me weak just because I let your weak henchmen carry me here," Adon said.

"No, not at all," Vega responded. "If you were weak, we would not have searched for you in the first place."

Vega smirked once again, took out a long pipe and began to smoke it. Adon realized it as an illegal drug. Then he looked at Vega as he floated in the air and smoke deeply the pipe and stared at him for quite a while.

"…"

"Well, anyway," Vega said, "the deal is, you join Shadaloo and serve us as one of our top henchmen."

"…"

"I could say no to that question before you even asked," Adon said after a few seconds.

"Hmph," Vega formed an even bigger smirk this time. "Pity is, you did consider it judging by how long it took you."

"Shut up," Adon hissed. "I don't need power that controls me rather than me controlling it. Psycho power is for fools."

"Oh, but you miss the point… I actually do control Psycho Power. I can use it whenever I will."

"Pathetic," Adon said. "You would take control of a power that cheats through the value of this world. Those muscles you have formed are not yours. They were all given to you as a gift of stupidity from Psycho Power. You are weak for not relying on your own strength."

Vega paused for a while, finished off his pipe, and threw it away. He let his feet drop on the ground and stand there while he considered of what to do with Adon. He finally came up with something to say.

"Don't you want to be the Emperor of Muay Thai?" he asked. "Yes, your rival Sagat is part of us now. I know all about it."

Adon's eyes blazed in anger. He shook uncontrollably and let out a piercing scream. While he did that, Vega snapped his finger, and one of his henchmen walked up to him and he whispered something in his ears. The henchman nodded and walked into the tunnel and down the long passage until he took a turn and disappeared.

"Sagat…SAGAT!" … "You stooped down so much to their level… you really have thrown fire on the crystal known as Muay Thai. You asshole..!"

"Hmm…" Vega looked at Adon deeply into the eyes. The man showed much anger, and seriously meant what he said. Vega could tell it. He did not, however, show strength, as Vega noted. Anger was what made a man weaker.

"Where is he?!" Adon shouted. "I want to crush his bones right NOW!"

Vega laughed inside his mouth without opening it. "Your friend is not here right now. He is currently training in a glade around the forest. I did give him the opportunity to become stronger like us, unlike a fool who would lose to any warrior that came up to him. He can slice your bones in one swing even now when he has just joined us. You are the fool, you inappropriate moron. The hard work you put up everyday to become stronger…all that effort can be erased easily by joining Shadaloo. That is your weakness and many warriors alike you."

Vega's henchman returned, along with Birdie at his side. Birdie's large feet and loudness of thumping through the long tunnel made this easily notable. Vega, however, faced Adon and smiled a bit more.

"Birdie, this is your chance to prove you are worthy," Vega said loudly so that Adon could hear. "Fight and show this moron what the ambition of doing evil is like."

"Peh…and I thought you had something hard whipped up for me," Birdie said comfortably. "All right then..show me your moves, shrimp."

Birdie stepped forward. Adon didn't bother to, and stood in place looking up at the giant Birdie. Vega observed closely. He shows no sign of fear. If only he was not idiotic enough to reject my offer. He could become better than even Sagat.

"Oh then, so should I take the first move?" Birdie said as he waited for Adon to attack. "All right, have it your way."

Birdie grabbed his chain and thrust it at Adon. Adon waited until the chain came close to his body, and flashed his hand in incredible speed, through the chain, making It break. Birdie gasped. Vega, however, took this as a note and smirked even more.

"Asshole! You broke my chain!" Birdie dashed at Adon in very loud thumps, but Adon waited for him once again. Birdie grabbed the rest of his chain and this time tied Adon with it around the arm. Having the advantage, Birdie thrust the chain around, sending Adon into the ground wherever he pleased. The dust surrounded the area, but not for long, for Adon began spinning in a circle, having the chain tied around him. The force was too much for Birdie to handle, so he went along with the chain as Adon spun more and more. And by the time Birdie had reached near Adon, the dust cleared up and before Birdie could blink and see what was going on, Adon smacked him up the chin hard enough to make him fall back and the chain to break in half.

Adon turned around and walked away. "I don't have time for this."

Birdie got up and looked at Vega. "You did quite well," Vega said. "You took him on for more than a minute."

Birdie didn't know how Vega felt about him. Did he think he was weak? Did he think that because he lost to Adon? He had to ask to find out. "Am I still in Shadaloo?"

Vega floated in the air once again. "You never were. But, now you are, as a mere guard for now. Be proud that your life was spared. Shadaloo doesn't value loss much. However, remember. You are to wander the external tunnels only."

"What do you mean by that?" Birdie asked.

"Stay out of the rooms unless I say to go in one. Although you may ask for my permission before coming to my chamber."

"…Why?"

"…you are a beginner. You don't have the authority to."

Vega faded in the air, leaving Birdie by himself. Birdie didn't care about being low. He just wanted to be part of Shadaloo, no matter what rank. Getting up, he went back inside the long tunnel and wandered around. He then spotted a room that was different from all. The room was closed by a gate that seemed to have been protected by lasers. Birdie noticed this by laser guns on each wall on the side of the door. But he also noticed that the lasers were off.

They must have forgot to turn on the security.., Birdie thought.

He looked around. There was no one. Not any guard, no scientists. He didn't know what was beyond the large door that was being guarded so heavily compared to the other rooms. And he remembered how Vega had warned him not to go inside any rooms. But this opportunity was once in a lifetime.

Birdie looked around once again. He stepped to the door one by one, until he finally reached the line where the laser was to be shot by the laser guns. There was no laser, but then why was he afraid? It could be a trick. Birdie lifted an arm to the invisible laser area. Nothing happened. No security alarms, or mad guards running at him, or the picture of Vega in front of him finding out what he was trying to do… It seemed safe to go inside. And so, being comfortable as he was, Birdie opened the door, slipped inside, and shut it behind him.

It was an empty, small room. It seemed active, though, instead of abandoned. There were no spider webs, or sign of antique items. In fact, there were no items at all, except a chair, a desk with important papers and map plots, and—a huge, glowing device. It was two blue solid objects on the top of the device, and the bottom of the device. Between the device was beams being shot from the devices of the opposite direction. The beam was green. Birdie could sense intense energy flowing through the device, especially the beams.

"This is not my place," Birdie said, scratching his head. "I better get out of here."

Before leaving the room, Birdie caught sight of one of the papers on the desk. It read Psycho Drive.. He also caught sight of something else in the dark behind the device. It was two strange red figures. As he saw, the figures grew in size. Birdie left the room and scrolled down the tunnel as if he had never gone in the room.

Back in the room, the two red glowing figures finally grew to their largest size. They appeared to look like eyes with their oval shape, and a black core in the middle of them.

[Forest Glade, Thailand]

Adon, after leaving the Shadaloo base, finally found what he thought was an exit through the endless forest. But he was wrong. It was an opening, a large, circular one. It was a glade. Adon remembered Vega saying that Sagat was training in a glade around the forest.

This must be it, Adon thought. He looked around, and easily spotted his victim, Sagat, who was crushing a tree down.

"SAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT!" Adon flashed over to Sagat and shot a kick without warning. Sagat, distracted, couldn't lift his fist quickly enough to block, and was knocked back with the impact. He looked up with his one open eye, the other covered with a black patch. Adon knew at once that Sagat had been looking for more trouble after Ryu by seeing he had lost an eye. He didn't bother to ask, however. Adon even noticed a long scar on Sagat's chest.

So that's the scar that Ryu gave to him with that uppercut…

"You," Sagat said, breathing really fast since he was caught by surprise with Adon attacking him so suddenly.

"Yes, me," Adon growled. "You have spat only blood on the glorious name of Muay Thai, Sagat. You are no longer my master. You are a loser."

"Shut up, whining ass," Sagat said with his teeth grit, standing up as he faced Adon. "You lost to Ryu too. But mark my word, next time I meet him, I will torture him so cruelly he will kill himself instead of me doing it."

"No, Ryu would not even bother to face you again," Adon responded. "He knows you're weak. He has left the likes of you behind, moving forward to the path of a warrior."

They were both silent for a long, thought-out minute. And then, breaking the silence, Adon yelled, with his finger pointing at Sagat, "I challenge you, Emperor of Muay Thai. That name will soon belong to me."

Sagat didn't know what to do. Could he laugh at Adon for challenging him? Or could he be angry to be challenged by his former student, who is now against his master? He had no time to think, for he was thinking only about Ryu. He rewinded his mind back to the time. Ryu had been officially defeated in Sagat's eye. The young warrior was on the floor, no longer being able to push his body to fight anymore. His muscles were not strong enough to make him stand up anymore. But how could he suddenly not even stand, and blow an uppercut so severe?

Sagat felt pain in his ribs, and collided against the tree he had knocked down before. He shook his head and saw Adon standing above him.

"Daydreaming, Sagat?" Adon asked angrily. "Let me wake you up."

Adon grabbed Sagat by the throat, but Sagat, being too large, smacked him away. "You dare to challenge ME?!" Sagat erupted. He didn't wait for an answer, and ran for Adon. They both flashed their legs at each other, making them collide as if they were bolts of lightning, together. Their powers were equal. They both jumped back, but Adon made it so that he could dash back at Sagat, again by surprise. Sagat, however, knew that was coming, and fisted in when Adon reached him. Adon easily dodged and leaped in the air.

The face of Ryu once again blinded Sagat. Sagat for a minute could have sworn, that Ryu was being controlled by evil power. Power that is evil itself. There was no other way for Ryu to have collected so much strength at the condition he was in, and hurling it at him. And then the name of Muay Thai wouldn't have been so shameful. Sagat couldn't blame Adon for being angry at him neither, when he was angry at himself as well. And Sagat for another short amount of time began to soften his opinions about Ryu, and admitted that he was blinding his eye for Ryu with anger. But he couldn't. If he didn't have anger for Ryu, he may never again glorify the name of Muay Thai.

Shaking his way out of another day dream, Sagat looked back to what was going on. He didn't have the time, however to think. He looked at Adon, who was in the air with his legs up and face down, allowing all the weight of his body to flow into his right fist, and shooting down at Sagat with speed.

What should I do?

Sagat choosed quickly a Tiger Uppercut, but was too late. Adon's fist dug into Sagat's body, crashing him down and planting him in the dusty ground. It was so powerful that Sagat was placed three feet below the actual ground level. The fist hit him straight in the scar in his chest. Adon kept his fist there for a long, thoughtless minute.

I have done it, I have defeated the Emperor of Muay Thai.

Adon walked away, but before departing the glade he spotted a man next to the tree which Sagat had crushed down. He was dead. Adon didn't care who it was, or if Sagat had killed him. He left.

"Now I am the new Emperor," Adon said strongly. "Thailand shall look forward to me."