Chapter 2: The Former Enemy's Plot

Both Hunyo and Rolento finally arrive to see the Interpol as well as his old friend Roderick and one of the bombing squad informs them that this explosion caused by an IED being implanted. Hunyo remembers the time before he goes to the remaining Silveria Corporation.

Flashback:

Hunyo finally shaves his beard despite he'd wanted to keep it to himself. Sensing that Rei might be alive during the explosion.

"Hunyo, I knew you're going to Silveria Corporation are you?"

"Look, Marissa. I may be involved in their crossfire, I need to see for myself if Rei is alive. It is impossible for the news media to had him killed in the explosion like that."

"..."

"Don't be worry... I'll get home soon." Hunyo said telling his wife not to worry and leave.

Flashback over:

Hunyo then walk pasts through the thick rubble as he sensed that they must had been hiding in underground. Rolento then noticed Hunyo is trying to make a powerful punch the debris with his own barefists as both bomb squads and from the Interpol are trying to stop him.

"Hey man... chill out! You're not allowed to get involved in our investigation."

"Wait!" Roderick stops his colleagues from stopping Hunyo as Hunyo delivers a powerful downward punch with the hit effects of both reddish orange and yellow colored lightning. They noticed a hole and realizing that the underground within this destroyed building was not touched during its destruction. Everyone are surprised from Hunyo's powerful feats.

"That guy is unreal..."

"It looks like the survivors including Rei are in underground. I think we've might go there and see." Hunyo said while showing his serious side and knowing of Rei's survival as he raises his brow. "You authorities need to prepare something or they would ended up like the past earthquake victims. Now hurry up and get some gear!"

With the rope and pulley similar to a rapel gear, it was Hunyo, Roderick and Rolento are the ones to be pull them down deeper in underground.

"If King was here, he can easily pull us down." Rolento complained as they landed on the surface and it resembles an underground complex and they learned that Silveria Corporation has a hidden underground base.

"I can't believe Kei would built this in underground. He had never told me all kinds of things when he was working as the head of the company. Rei might be inside." Hunyo said surprisingly over the surroundings of its underground complex.

"Yo, big guy... I would expect you're coming with us and had a flashlight to guide us." Rolento said while looking at Roderick which he tells him.

"My contacts with my colleagues were encrypted so that I can give them a signal once Hunyo had found the victims."

Suddenly, Hunyo heard their voices since they heard their footsteps and soon runs off.

"Wait for us, Hunyo!" Rolento said as he and Roderick followed him. Hunyo then heard Rei's voice who is calling for help.

"Rei! Is that you!? Can you hear me?"

"Mr. Panganiban! I'm glad you were here! We manage to get safety in underground but the power went down following that explosion and we can't get out!"

"I'm gonna bust this wall open! Stand back!" Hunyo informs Rei to keep away as he alerted the survivors to keep away. He immediately breaks the wall with a powerful punch.

Both Roderick and Rolento had seen Rei and the other employees after they got trapped within this underground and they had tried to survive with no food and water for three months while others are getting weaker due to dehydration. While both men are tending towards the weak, Hunyo wants to know who's responsible and was glad they are okay.

"Your mother thinks you were dead, Rei. But I never thought you tried to survive with the other employees within this complex."

"We already ran out of food supplies and water following that explosion in three months. But how did you three get in here?"

"An old friend of mine has connections with the Interpol and luckily they had some equipment used for cleaning man holes." Hunyo said and soon asking who's responsible for this. "Who could have done this?"

"Mr. Panganiban... we tried to stop this new adversary and I can't believe my father has his own enemies in the business to destroy this company." Rei answered sadly as he warns them about their new adversary. "But be careful... our new enemy is the one who's responsible for destroying the machine room we used to test new inventions. Therefore, the link between our world and the World of Tekken is broken from the explosions."

Hunyo was horribly shocked after learning of this and more troubles are about to happen again in their livelihood once again. Since Rhima is no longer playing the Tekken game after being plagued by a certain "voice" when she had once participated a gaming competition with E-Gamers to get the prize money. With a newfound resolve and decision to battle injustice and tells Roderick and Rolento about this.

"Looks like we had to stop a new threat again. I'm just like my daughter who had decided to live a normal life for good and now this."

"I might able to convince her, Hunyo. I'm sure she can help us. Besides, I'm not a gamer like all of you do." Roderick said wanted to help Hunyo to convince his daughter to help them.

"In other words, the machine room itself got exploded and that includes the main building within this corporation. It is just like they had bombed the World Trade Center in the United States." Hunyo said and noticing the connection between this hidden underground complex and its main building and Rei finally tells him who's responsible for the explosion.

"This man is a Korean who wanted to claim every companies in Asia including my dad's company. His name is Lee Jang-geum. I haven't met him before and he knows my father. I sensed that he can kill anybody if whoever wants to get in his way."

Hunyo was surprised after learning that one Korean can even destroy this company with the use of IEDs as well as detonating device as he thought.

He's like Kazuya in some way. But Kazuya is far more dangerous because he can turn to his devil self to cause carnage. Looks like Kei hasn't been telling me for fourteen years when he finally solved the problems in how the game characters would return back to their world. But wait... I think this may be the reason why Rhima got her heartbreak when she had waited for Jin for far too long.

Following this, most of the authorities and the Interpol are now helping the survivors to climb back up as the invention that Rei had been kept was also being carried as well using the police chopper. The Interpol also discovered about Jang-geum who is actually the most wanted bomber in Korea and also a businessman to his own construction company.

That night, Hunyo looked into the sky after seeing Jun again and knowing that most people from the World of Tekken had wanted to stay and live in the real world. Rhima arrives and seeing his troubles.

"You did save Rei, dad."

"Yeah... what brings you here, Rhima." Hunyo said and asking why she was here.

"I tried to listen to your warnings about a lot of people in arcades, they really goad me into playing the new game. After I play that game, I saw red sparkles all over the arcade machines and I heard that "voice" again." Rhima answered confirming she was plagued and Hunyo also tells her as well.

"Despite you hear Jin's voice, but his mother had showed up in front of me in a spiritual presence."

Rhima was surprised when Hunyo reveals about Jun and her reasons of her appearance.

"..."

"I know how crazy it is, Rhima. Jin wanted to see you again but unfortunately, the linkage between our world and theirs are broken which is why he couldn't transported here. So his mother's apparition came by to inform me."

"It has been three months since he didn't show up like this. I'd wanted to move on with my life without him but he started to mess up with me when he constantly calling me. You mean to tell me that he couldn't get through our world because of the broken link." Rhima said who remains sad and upset upon remembering about Jin as Hunyo reveals it to her.

"I went to the remains of Silveria Corporation and luckily Rei and his employees managed to survive by getting through the hidden underground complex. But that's not all, they got trapped and they can't get out because of power outage. There was a new adversary who wanted to claim Silveria Corporation as his own. I'm sure that bastard would continue to target the Cashimiros." Hunyo said and soon tells her about the link's restoration. "Rhima, I want you to go to the World of Tekken to restore the linkage between our world and theirs."

"Are you crazy, dad? You want me to go through the game itself!" Rhima reacted which he looked at her seriously and continues to tell her everything.

"I know how crazy it is to go to the World of Tekken. You're just like me, I initially refused to go there because it was crazy. But I realized that our game partners would know what were they up to in the game. I know their world is very chaotic and the reason why Jin had decided to stay here permanently in the real world. I know he and Kazuya had continued this dumb war that he had started."

"..."

"You must disguise yourself as someone else so that a lot of people including Jin in the World of Tekken would never recognize you. But beware of Kazuya, you already seen me fighting him in a dangerous game when I chose the recreation center as a battle ground. His mother Kazumi had his reasons she had chosen Akuma to kill her husband and her beloved son if he follows to a demon path and so he did. I think right now, he already makes a bloody carnage towards innocent people living in their world to make things into a living hell. That's why Jin wants to stop him."

"What are you trying to tell me about this, dad?" Rhima said questioning about Hunyo's warnings as he tells her.

"Because I chose you to go there and to restore the linkage between both worlds. You're the only genius prodigy can even deal with this problem and Rei had managed to put the invention that I ask for in safety before the bombing. That invention is similar to a time machine."

"I will think about this, dad. I feel so troubled after you told me this mess they had made." Rhima said and soon leaves dismissively. Hunyo watches her leaving back inside of their home and he thought of this.

I'm sure she would refuse to go there. She has been troubling in her mind since Jin had been calling her.

The following day, Kyun-bin takes Rhima to the main building of the Christian Church where he meets up with Krelian and he recognizes her from her stories during the refuge at the recreation center.

"It's good to see you again, Rhima. And thanks for bringing her, Kyun-bin."

"It's okay..."

"So why did he brought me in to this room where a lot of hair and make-up artists to be here." Rhima wondered why they took her in the first place.

"I think he wants you to be given a make over. Some of them are Koreans who knows to style someone's look and others are professionally good on make-up. We usually do all this before we perform our Christian songs to many audience."

"The thing is, I already encountered Kyu when he had visited at the Alberto Magnus Building in UST and now in Robinson's Place Manila. It's complicated for me to see him." Rhima said knowing of Kyun-bin's presence as he came to see her with his senior hairstylist.

"Rhima... I want you to meet my senior hairstylist. She's the one who usually cut and style our hair while others are giving us make up."

"Oh wow... she's naturally beautiful in person."

"It's all right, Rhima... If you want to change your look then go for it." Krelian smiled which Rhima accepts.

"All right... if that's what these two want."

With this Rhima removes her bun to let her hair loose and Kyun-bin was amused over her appearance, as she sits down while the hairstylist begin to ask her what style she had want as she thought.

I do this because if I go Jin's world, I need to cut my hair so that if I disguise myself, no else knew that I'm from the real world. I'm sure that someone would accompany me once I did with this ridiculous task. It maybe crazy, but it would be dangerous and thrilling.


Trivia:

*Hunyo's hit effect is first seen which will be use by the characters in Tekken 8 using the Heat system.

*The way Hunyo punches the debris is similar to Nuriko in the manga/anime Fushigi Yuugi.

*The bombing incident to Silveria Corporation is a scene similar to the Korean drama, The Penthouse.

*Hunyo's conversation with Rhima is taken from the scene in the manga/anime YuYu Hakusho where Raizen tells Yusuke about his current relationship with his human lover and the his inheritance in dealing with both Yomi and Mukuro before dying in starvation.

*The hairstylist that Kyun-bin shows it to both Rhima and Krelian resembles the hairstylist and make-up artists of both Lee Donghae and Eunhyuk (Lee Hyukjae) of Super Junior.