Chapter 4: An Assassin's Encounter
Roderick was surprised after seeing Lars who is actually one of the characters in the game and was taken away from interrogation.
"Sir... this man is from the Philippines."
"What!?" Lars was surprised upon learning that Roderick is from the Philippines and he actually knows people including Hunyo and the others as he thought.
I guess Rick was okay in that place. But this guy seems to know what is happening on their world.
"Can I go now? I need to find Rhima, we got separated since we travelled here in this world."
"Before I let you go, I want to know what happened in your world? And you seem to know about someone that I knew the most." Lars said wanted to ask Roderick about the events in the real world which he tells him.
"There was a bombing incident happened in Silveria Corporation and the linkage between our world and yours are broken. Hunyo has to stop that dangerous adversary for this. Me and Rhima just came here to reconnect between both worlds or something."
"You mean Rhima was here too... Oh my God, Jin will be thrilled if she's here." Lars said shockingly after learning that Rhima is also present and soon asking him about her whereabouts. "So where is she now?"
"She and I got separated when we travelled here in your world. I ended up in your base. I think she might be ended up on a deserted city."
It zooms where Rhima begins her investigation on a deserted New York City and knowing that Kazuya was behind everything.
"My dad was right about him... I know how dangerous Jin's father was when he fought him at the recreation center. And now, how can he handle him when he wrecks havoc all over place." Rhima mumbled upon seeing the deserted surroundings.
She soon gunpointed by one of the G Corporation soldiers who led a patrol to kill the remaining survivors. Rhima sees the soldiers are inhumane to kill innocent people, she easily takes him down. She then used the down soldier as a shield when they open fire with their heavy firearms. She quickly took them down with a relative ease by disarming their weapons.
Kinda reminds me when these soldiers are fighting the rebels in my place.
Just as one of them attempts to kill her by shooting in the head, he was struck first by a gunshot. Rhima sees the soldier's down and to her surprise. Nina appears to rescue her.
"Get away from them, they are armed and dangerous." Nina warns Rhima to get away as she wields dual handguns as she demonstrates her lethal assassination moves.
Rhima watches and noticed their moves is the same as how they moved in the game while also showing the Heat System. Since she was on their world, she might also have that kind of a move like they do. Nina eventually demonstrates her Rage Art where she smacks her opponent as she jumps and shoots her opponent with her dual handguns. Then she makes a heavy blow shoots a single shot with her handgun in one hand, killing it. She noticed that this new game is similarly to that from Soul Calibur or a game of Fighting EX Layer as she thought.
Looks like the rest actually wielding weapons in a fight. And I've never seen Nina can execute them with dual handguns. Maybe Jin or any others might have that kind of an execution. When I played as him, his black feathered wings are showed at the back whenever he executes his new moves especially his devil self. Could Jin can control of his Devil Gene now?
"How disappointing." Nina comments about the chopper is about to shoot them causing her to drag Rhima with her and soon throws a grenade then shoots it with dual handguns to destroy the chopper.
In the deserted establishment, Rhima was nontheless surprised when Nina had dragged her to safety despite being a contract assassin to assassinate people.
"Thanks for saving me. I would be killed by them if I-." Rhima said thankfully as Nina removes her pink sunglasses with a black tinted lenses and she recognizes Rhima because she also had changed her look as well.
"You haven't changed a single bit. This is why Jin was very special to you."
"Nina... Since you helped Rei and the others on the sidelines. You also got changed." Rhima said and she noted about her helping Rei's group. "I guess that you're back for being a contract assassin."
"When Jin had disappeared because of his supposed sacrifice, I was the one leading the Tekken Force in his absence as an acting leader until Heihachi had defeated me to follow his whims. Since I failed to recapture him if it wasn't for Lars, Lee and Alisa, this is how I decided to part ways with the Mishima Zaibatsu and continuing on with my duties as an assassin." Nina said as she reveals it to Rhima about her incident six months ago. "I had no other choice but to do my job whenever I assassinate my victims even I let my little sister Anna to go after me. But gladly I told Steve the whole truth of how he was created the Mishima Zaibatsu and I couldn't accept him as my son because I couldn't care less about him."
"..."
"I guess you came all this way for a purpose." Nina pointed out about Rhima's purpose of restoring the connection between their world and the real world.
"I had no clue... my dad just handpicked me to do this very difficult task just by travelling through here with the use of Time Machine. I feel broken when Jin and I were separated apart for six months. I wanted to move on without him but it irks me when he often bothers me to call my name. I don't know if he needs me or maybe he wants me because he's already felt left out and dealing this chaotic mess they made." Rhima said sadly.
"You have a smart mouth, Rhima. Jin is currently dealing against his own father who is mainly responsible for causing this chaos. But you need to protect yourself from danger." Nina said as she gets her handgun which she had previously used in her assassination missions where she assassinates Anna's fiance six months ago. "Take it, Rhima..."
"This is your gun, but?"
"Don't worry, I have new guns..." Nina said as she wields dual handguns and looks at her slightly. "You have to protect yourself from getting endangered. I'm glad that I rescued you from those soldiers."
Nina then leaves while finally put her sunglasses back on and Rhima watches her leave as she gets the hookshot and shoots it as it activates to make her jump so high and leave.
At the coffee shop within SM City Pampanga after leaving his late best friend's secret base at Arayat, Hunyo has a USB being given to Rei and tries to find the background evidence regarding about the main culprit behind the bombing of Silveria Corporation which is Lee Jang-geum. He discovers that he was a chairman and owner of a rival business company and soon found a video left within the USB.
"Hey Hunyo, did you find anything? This culprit is like the same Korean guy on TV and he looks very ruthless over things." Rolento states and Hunyo watches the scene where both his late best friend Keiya and Jang-geum had confronted each other personally.
Hunyo noticed that Keiya didn't like the latter's uprising and its take over to his company. When he attempted detonate the entire building, it was foiled when Keiya was utilizing his Omniyoji magics that can levitate most of his detonators that was implanted on the building as it immediately scattered away and was exploded. Jang-geum had angrily cursed him in his Korean language while Keiya response in Japanese language who told him that his company is his and never to be taken away. He was soon taken away by the authorities and also wanted to sue him for this.
"That guy was indeed look like from the TV show and always cursing when he felt his plans are getting foiled." Rolento said while pointing out about the main culprit's actions and Hunyo then rewinds the scene and it sees the symbol of the defunct Black Devil mercenary group which was associated over the main culprit behind the bombing.
"My best friend is already long time dead. And this guy is nothing more but to get revenge and taking over the company by cold blood." Hunyo stated with the serious look on his face. "Since Silveria Corporation is now in Rei's hands and was ruined at this megalomaniacal asshole, I'll protect my best friend's legacy. He was the one who consulted me personally in how our game partners had accidentally released to our world and now this guy ruins it."
"Don't tell me that you're going to see Merkova, the guy's already spending time in Bilibid for the crimes he did for you and your family." Rolento reacted in dismay which Hunyo smirks.
"Domon and I were victims caused by the corrupted Thai military and police who forces us to fight each other to the death. Much like how Fahkumram had a similar fate as ours."
"..."
"I'm sure he's already had his redemption after I told him the whole truth. He wanted to get revenge over me because of the injury I inflicted on him in our bloody fight in the past." Hunyo said and finally decided to go to Muntinlupa tomorrow. "I'll go to the Bilibid prison tomorrow... cause taking road trips back and forth to the North Luzon Expressway was a tired one."
Rolento also agreed on Hunyo's word because going to the North Luzon Expressway from Manila to Pampanga was too tired to go there.
Back on the deserted estabilishment, Rhima looked at the handgun given to her by Nina with a grinned look on her face. She remembers the time, she was trained by her rival Benzon when they have a target practice by shooting a handgun.
Flashback:
Rhima tries to shoot the handgun by target practice as Benzon instructs her how to use it.
"You have to aim from the bull's eye not from the other way around. I know your father doesn't like stray bullets if our enemies are wielding firearms or its heavy one."
Rhima then concentrates to aim from its bull's eye as she successfully do it, much to Benzon's surprise.
"Wow, Rhima... you really aimed it. No wonder why they called you a genius prodigy."
Flashback over:
Rhima soon stands up and goes out of the estabilishment and to find one of the corpses from a G Corporation soldier and sees a vision where Jin rode a motorcycle in order to face his father Kazuya who is responsible for the destruction of New York City using his devil powers. Rhima realizes the whole chaos in the World of Tekken and why her father had thought about going to their world is a way to reconnect between the real world and their world as she thought.
So this is what Nina was saying is true... Jin did fought his father after all and he knew he couldn't save everyone else from their own bloody carnage.
Rhima then gets the knife and knowing that Nina was telling the truth about what they did in their world. She then put both the handgun and knife and gets the black nylon utility belt as she wears it along with a black gun holster on her right thigh where she can keep the handgun. She then found a large dark blue towel which was on the ground and knowing that a lot of innocent people had also caused a stampede when they are running away from Kazuya's demonic rampage as she thought this again as she finally put the dark blue towel on her head to form a bandanna with a large ribbon hangging loose.
I won't be recognized by a lot of Tekken characters like Nina did earlier. I must follow my dad's orders so that I won't be recognized by anyone else. I can use both knife and gun to battle soldiers except the people with Devil Gene like both Jin and his father who are able to survive from their mortal injuries and death. From now on, I'll pose myself as a man named Miro Cristobal and never to reveal about me as Rhima Panganiban.
Rhima continues to investigate the deserted city of New York City as she walks away. Unaware to Rhima, Jun was present in her spiritual form who is watching behind her back and observing her movements.
"She may be smart enough to disguise herself so that all of us will not recognize her, I must inform my son about this, she does not know how dangerous our own world that is."
Trivia:
*Both Nina and Lars are the only characters to know Rhima's true identity when she arrived at their world.
*Nina made her appearance when she rescues her from the G Corporation soldiers.
*Nina finally demonstrates her new moves which was seen in her reveal trailer involves her to use dual handguns.
*The way Nina drags Rhima to safety and shooting her dual handguns is her new win animation in Tekken 8.
*The personal confrontation between Keiya and Jang-geum is the scene from the infamous 2020 Korean drama, Penthouse where Logan Lee takes the original Joo Dan-te known as Baek Joon-ki back to the psychiatric ward for his traitorous deeds however Jang-geum's violent actions are taken from the original Baek Joon-ki known as Joo Dan-te.
*Rhima resembles Kim Ryeowook's appearance during the episodes of SJ Returns: Season 4 where he and his group got washed up during the segment where they made a mistake of singing and rapping the lyrical parts of Lee Hyukjae (Eunhyuk)'s rap song, "Say My Name".
