Note: From here on, It is strongly suggested you scan every little sentence, for the plots of Street Fighter Alpha 3 are connected to each other in some way. Good luck reading!

[ S t r e e t F i g h t e r A l p h a 3 ( P a r t 3) ]

[Italy]

"Madam? Rose?"

"Yes, Ugo?"

Rose was resting after her long fight with Vega. But something seemed to be troubling her.

"Do you feel it too, Ugo?" Rose asked her little soldier.

"Yes, I do," Ugo said. "Psycho power is so restrict less."

"That is why, my friend, Vega must be stopped," Rose said warmly.

"So it's true!" Ugo confirmed. "He's still alive, isn't he?"

"Yes, I can feel his dark ki," Rose said. "It is a pity I did not get rid of him."

"Your powers are beyond humanity, Madam," said Ugo. "You cannot lose to Vega. Your powers are celestial."

"That is not true, Ugo," Rose corrected him, "My powers are just the weak side of Vega. I am weak. But I have one thing Vega does not have: to sacrifice my life to kill him. Vega fears death. And that is his weakness."

"You are right, Madam."

[Shadaloo Base, Japan]

"Arrghh…"

"Please be calm, my lord. I cannot cure you if you struggle."

"I don't need you!"

A blue spark waved around the room, and sent the medic breaking through the ceiling and flying to the sky as he burned to crisp like a meteor. Then, the door opened, and a lady walked in.

"What do you want?" Vega said.

"Nothing, I was just wondering about the noise," the lady responded calmly. Vega seemed to be angry, but he easily overcame it.

"Never mind that," he said, "I have a mission for you, Juni. You—" Vega pointed at one of his henchmen "—go call Balrog and Mike."

"Yes, master," the henchman walked out of the chamber.

"You were saying, sir?" Juni said.

"Ah, yes," Vega rested his eyes on Juni. "I am interested in a man."

"A man, sir?"

"Yes, a young warrior…"

After Rose had injured Vega terribly, his soldiers, including Bison and Sagat, brought him to their safe base in Japan on a jet. On the way, Vega spotted a strong ki, and pointed out to his soldiers to look beneath. As he watched, Vega saw a humongous amount of blue energy. Soon enough, the blue energy turned orange, and then red.

"What is this… this energy… this ki?" Vega asked.

"I do not know sir," one of his soldiers said. "Should we land?"

"… No. Just drop altitude."

"Yes, Master."

As the jet descended a distance away from the surface, the energy grew larger. What Vega saw was a warrior dressed in a standard karate gi, creating a red fireball that was powering up madly between his hands.

What a guy, Vega thought. His hands are burning from the energy, and yet he won't release it. He's powering it up intensely.

"Who is he?" Vega asked.

"That… is…," Sagat hesitated.

"Yes, Sagat?" Vega asked calmly.

"Ryu. The man who defeated me in the Street Fighter World Tournament."

"I see, so that's the guy who kicked your ass," Bison said. "He looks pretty strong but I could easily deal with him."

"Shut the hell up, Bison!!!!" Sagat shouted. "He is not a normal fighter… he is… the master… he is…"

"Ryu, eh?" Vega said. "We'll have to put our sight on him now. If he defeated Sagat, he is definitely not normal."

….

"I see, sir," Juni said. "So you are interested in this man Ryu?"

"Yes, keep track of him," Vega said. "He is a traveling street fighter, but he should be easy to track based on the data of the world tournament. Also, wherever you feel an immense amount of ki, follow it."

"Understood, sir," Juni said. "I will follow the Street Fighter champion Ryu and take notes of him."

Juni walked out, and after a minute the door opened once again. Balrog and Bison stepped in.

"Good to see you men," Vega said hastily, "proceed. I have missions for both of you."

"My claws thirst for blood, Vega… give me a good one...," Balrog said, sitting down. "Give me a beautiful girl…!"

"Patience, Balrog, and your desires won't be in vain," Vega said. "Now…."

He looked at both of his men with pride, and continued. "Balrog, I shall begin with you. Your mission is to find Cammy, alive."

"Cammy?" Balrog asked. "That girl….?"

"Yes, that same girl," Vega confirmed. "She is to be my next host. I will need her for my use. If, however, I find a stronger person… there will be no reason for Cammy and you can terminate her."

Vega's eyes shimmered as he wondered about Ryu. If that man is mine… no reason for Cammy… no reason for Rose… terminate them at once… yes, that will make things a lot easier! Killing is easier than knocking them down so that you can use them.

"Beautiful women… yes!" Balrog said after much thinking. "I shall take the job, Vega."

"Excellent," Vega said. "You may begin."

"Affirmative," Balrog faded away. Only Bison was left now.

"As for you, Mike, your job is simple and quick," Vega said.

"Yes?" Bison said.

"Annihilate Birdie."

"Birdie? Our new member?" Bison asked.

"Indeed," Vega said.

"Shall I be informed of the reason?" Bison questioned.

"Simple," Vega said, "he is a traitor."

"May I ask how?"

"Heh, you sure ask a lot of questions you little bastard."

Bison's eyes glowed with anger, but he ignored it.

"Okay, fine, I'll tell you," Vega said, "he was not interested in joining Shadaloo. He is interested in the Psycho Drive."

"Enough said," Bison stood up. "He shall be annihilated."

"Perfect."

[Several days later, England]

Balrog rested onto the stairs of a deserted alley. He took off his mask and stared into his mirror, cleaned up, polished and sharpened his claws, and took a break for a while.

Cammy, that girl… sometimes I think Vega is just too harsh. Is he using me also?

Balrog gazed down the long alley, and saw a sparkling red light. It seemed to be coming his way. Balrog put on his mask, and looked away. Slowly, however, his concerns were growing for the light. When he looked at it once more, the light was there no longer, but a woman dressed in an odd fashion. He tried to show no interest in her. As she walked past his area, she looked at him without turning her face to him. Their eyes met, although Balrog was wearing his mask. A few steps later, the woman stopped.

Without looking back, she spoke, "You seem to be familiar."

Balrog gazed down and wondered who she was. "You are…?"

"Rose, of Italy," the woman said. "Are you not the Spanish bullfighter… Balrog?"

"That is correct."

"I have seen you," Rose, the woman, continued. "Vega's…. "

"I am one of Vega's top henchmen," Balrog completed. "You are definitely Rose… yes… I have heard of you from Vega quite a few times. But that ignorant bastard never tells me anything."

"I have no personal grudge against you," Rose said, "but this may be true between you and me. You dislike Vega. No, you hate him. But according to our positions, we should be enemies. However, I have nothing to do with you, and fighting you will earn me nothing. I do not even have to ask you where Vega is. I will find him my way. My powers."

"Why are you after Vega?" Balrog asked.

"I am sorry, but it is a very long story, it is best if you do not know," Rose said.

It was a very mysterious talk.. Balrog sitting on the leaking stairs, Rose standing there facing him with her back, and a feeling of black clouds in the sky that was barely visible through the narrow, deserted alley. Both Balrog and Rose seemed to be thinking about something, but they kept it hidden.

"You are here for a mission, perhaps?" Rose asked, after a quiet minute.

"Affirmative," Balrog said. "I am seeking for a beautiful woman that Vega desires to use."

"Why a woman?" Rose asked.

"It is not any woman, it is a certain woman that I am searching for, who may prove dangerous for Shadaloo if her memory returns," Balrog said. "Although I should not be telling you, it does me no harm to do so."

"Does she have a name?" Rose asked again.

Balrog stood up. "Her name is of no concern for you…. Dark hours are being looked forward to. The dark wind reveals it all. I must proceed. Farewell."

And in an instant, Balrog faded away. He was pretty fast for a man who could not just teleport by using psycho powers. Rose stood there for a while, and looked up at the black clouds. A blue lightning sparked. Then a yellow one..

"The black clouds, hmm?" Rose said. "Intriguing. You are up to no good, Vega."

[Destroyed Base, Thailand]

Bison walked to the debris, and spotted a number of cops and cars and sirens around it. They were definitely investigating what had happened. And it seemed, by listening to them and news reports, that they found out this was a former Shadaloo Base.

But I wonder where Birdie is…

Behind him, Bison heard someone speaking Thailand obviously to him. Bison looked and spotted a policeman standing behind him. He seemed to have realized that he was English.

"Do you have an identity? What are you doing here? You are beyond the police boundaries."

"I… uh… am from the FBI!" Bison said quickly. "I came here to investigate."

"Oh, shut the hell up you thug," the cop said, "there is no FBI in Thailand. We'll have to check you out, man."

"Hell no you won't!" Bison jabbed him hard enough to make him crash into a column of debris. The other cops drew their guns and pointed it at him. "Oh, bother… now this junk."

As the bullets gattled at him, he began to make a run for it. But the cops chased him. It was no use: the cars were chasing him as well. After a long run of twists and turns and buzzing confusion into the city dwellers, Bison seemed to have lost them, and bumped into a very heavy person that knocked him down instead of him being knocked down. He looked up, and saw just the man he was looking for—Birdie.

"You?"

"Bison, what the hell happened to the base?" Birdie asked.

"What are you doing here? I was looking for you," Bison said.

"I was asking what happened to the base," Birdie repeated.

Bison looked around. He was in a street just to the right of where the abandoned base was. Most of the cops seemed to have gone to look for him, and the remaining cops didn't see him since he was so far away from them. It was obvious that Birdie was trying to find a way to get to the base as well to see what happened.

"Well?" Birdie said.

"Heh, you're such a selfish ass," Bison said, smirking. "I don't even have to answer you! My mission is to kill you."

"Kill me?" Birdie said. He was confused, but then his confusion changed to a giant laugh that might have supposedly reached the cops. But they were too far away. "You are an idiot, Bison. You don't even come in handy before you die."

Birdie tightened his hand and wrapped a chain around his knuckles and front fist.

"So you were sent by Vega, eh?" Birdie said. "I knew Vega wasn't interested in me anyway, despite him being amazed at my huge size."

"He would have made you an elite if you didn't go screwing at his psycho drive, you dumb idiot!" Bison shouted.

Birdie paused, and thought back for a minute. Wait, He thought. I remember now! Those glowing eyes… it was Vega who was looking at me while I was analyzing the drive. So he knew… what a sneaky bastard.

"I see," Birdie said. "Well… might as well get you over with. Come on."

Bison ran straight for him and jabbed at his ribs, but he felt nothing, and grasped him by the neck, and threw him a distance away. "Little shrimp!"

Bison stood up, and once again jabbed at his ribs with his left arm, but Birdie caught it this time. Bison kneed at him with his left leg, and he caught it with his other hand. "Heh!" Bison smirked, and leaped up as high as he could, vibrating as much strength as he could straight into Birdie's face. Birdie withdrew a distance away, but didn't fall.

"You fool, never disable both your arms at the same time," Bison said.

"You asshole!" Birdie grabbed a street light, and began swinging it at Bison. Bison ducked and dodged, but Birdie seemed to be much quicker than he was. It was even too difficult to catch and break it. In the end, Bison got hit in the knee, and then straight in the chest, which pushed him into the air.

"That's not all!" Birdie yelled, as he thrust a long chain at Bison and expertly wrapped him as he fell to the ground. Now that Bison was captured, Birdie began swinging the chain around, and crashed him into buildings and cars, and back to the ground. When he suspected this was enough for him, he walked towards him and grabbed him by the collar, forcefully punching him in the face once, and then once more up the chin, which made him fly up ten feet in the air. Before Bison fell back to the ground, Birdie leaped and grabbed him in mid-air, striking him to the ground.

Birdie loosened the chains, spat on him, and walked away. But behind him, he heard Bison getting up once again.

"Is that enough?" Bison said. "You beat me up quite badly. But you fool, you don't know what's going on around you."

"What?" Birdie said exhaustedly. And then he realized it: the chain he used to tie up Bison was not retrieved at all. Instead, Bison was now holding it in his hand. Birdie grasped his side of the chain and pushed for it. Bison didn't budge. He pushed with all his might, and then Bison was beginning to lose to his weight, slowly coming at him closely. When Bison was within reach, Birdie smirked.

"Hehe, thought you were a smartass, didn't you?" he said.

"You are a real dumbass, you idiot!" Bison cackled, smirking back. Suddenly, Birdie lost control of his chain, and realized fast wind surrounding him all 360 degrees. It took him a while to understand what was going on, but when he did, he saw that Bison was standing a distance from him, and he was tied up all around his arms and body. He was spinning around me to tie me up?, Birdie thought. Damn! This chain is too powerful for even my strength… I can't break it!

"Die, fool!" Bison said, dashing at him. He busted a combo of three jabs into the face, two in each of the ribs, once in the stomach, twice in the chest, and a single blow up the chin. It was too much for Birdie to handle.

"But why is it…?" Birdie asked, as he collapsed to the ground after spinning in the air several times. "Why does it hurt me….?"

Bison walked over to him and put his foot on his chest. "You idiot, you use chains as an add-on to your fist. But my strength is pure bones that I perfected during my boxing years. I am a professional puncher. My punches are like a comet. And I use much less energy than you do with your weight."

"Yes, but you will not win this easily!" Birdie exclaimed with anger, as he used all his energy to knock his foot away and push him away with a few hits.

"So, you still have some energy left in you, huh?" Bison said angrily. "Looks like this'll be going much longer."

"I will not—" Birdie was stopped by a gunfire behind Bison. They both looked and saw some cops.

"You, and you, the other dude who was running away before, you are both under arrest, you foreigners!" the leading cop said.

"This is troublesome!" Bison said. "And in the middle of such a good fight…"

The cops seemed to be scared by both of them… perhaps since they looked so big and powerful. They closed in on them slowly. "Put your hands up and no tricks!"

"Like hell I will!" Birdie said, as he held his fist up high in the air. "With my final strength, I shall emit my technique to get he hell out of here!"

Birdie punched the ground using all his weight to add to it, and the ground shook as if there was an earthquake. Most of the cops fell or lost balance or accidentally fired their guns at wrong targets. Bison took advantage of this and quickly knocked out most of the cops after the shaking stopped. Some of them were still conscious, so they both still had to make a run for it to avoid gunfire.

[1 Hour Later, Birdie's Secret Hiding Place, Thailand]

"This would have made a good base for Shadaloo… why didn't we spot this before? It's even more hidden than our former base here."

Bison was shocked at looking at the place. It was a secret chamber behind an abandoned bathroom that was no longer used.

"But it's too small for a Shadaloo Base," Birdie said.

"For Vega it would have been a good hiding place," Bison said. "So…"

Birdie lifted his eyebrows. "It seems that our fight still continues. But you are the one that followed me here. Don't tell anyone this is my base."

"I have no interest in killing you anymore," Bison explained. "It seems Vega is a bad leader. However, we can take his place if we take control of the Psycho Drive."

"What?" Birdie said. "So you are now interested in the Psycho Drive also?"

"Yes, and if we work together we can definitely bust into the place and steal it," Bison said. "You will have a much better chance with me. I know all of Vega's bases."

"Hehe…," Birdie wondered about what other advantages he would have. Bison could turn out to be a traitor. Nevertheless, he had no other choice. "Okay. You're in."

"It seems we have made an agreement," Bison smirked. "Shadaloo is now our enemy."