Chapter 2: Fallout

*Interior Chun Li's apartment bedroom*

Chun Li slowly wakes up in her bed lying face down on the right side of her bed farthest from the door. She looks up to see Ryu still sleeping close next to her. She huddles in close to him and runs her right hand across his well toned abs and stomach. She gives him a light peck on the check. She gently runs the fingers of her right hand through his hair several time and blows in his right ear gently. She can't wait for Ryu to wake up because she has a lot of fun outdoor actives for them planned. She wants to hit the gym with Ryu after breakfast and later she needs to stop by the mall and pick up a couple of things, After lunch she's anxious to play a sparring match with Ryu. As Chun Li watches Ryu sleep she suddenly hears a beeping sound growing louder and louder. Where's that coming from? I didn't set my alarm today". Chun Li wondered to herself mystified.

*Interior Chun Li's apartment bedroom*

*Early Friday morning*

Chun Li stirs hearing her nearby iPhone alarm sitting on the nightstand charger going off. The opening line to "No Rain by Blind Melon" is playing. Chun Li got out her empty bed and walked over to the phone and turned off the alarm. The clock on the phone read 5:55am it was time for her to get up and take her shower and quickly scarf down some breakfast before going off to Interpol for work. Chun Li was exhausted since she stayed up till midnight last night expecting Ryu to come home last night but he never did. Chun Li was worried sick about Ryu. Ryu had promised he would stop by her place last night after he ran some errands. Ryu had never broken a promise. She figured something must have come up and she would call him as soon as possible if he didn't call her first.

*Interior Interpol Headquarters 9:30am*

Chun Li is on her morning coffee break. She goes outside the main entrance to give Ryu a call and make sure everything is ok. She calls his phone hoping he'll answer so she can't promptly put all her worries to rest. She puts her hear up to the phone but it immediately goes to voicemail. "That's weird. Did his phone die? Ryu I really hope you're ok and not passed out in a ditch somewhere or worse?!" she exclaimed to herself.

*Slow Fade to black*

*The following quote appears on the screen against a black background and in white letters it reads*

Miss Scarlet: "Maybe there is life after death."

*Life after death is impossible as sex after marriage". Mrs White

-Clue

*Saturday morning 9am*

*Interior Chun Li's apartment*

*Li-Fen is having a sleepover at a friends house*

*Chun Li serves coffee and tea and everyone pours a bowl of cereal*

*Some of Chun Li's closest and most trusted friends are gathered around the kitchen table*

*They are wearing their trademark SFIV attire*

Seated around the table are Cammy, Guile, Sakura, Ken, Dan and Fei Long. Everyone looks noticeably concerned except for Cammy and Guile (who looks especially stoic) whom seem to be holding it together the best of anyone. Karin called to say she was currently out of town but would meet up with them as quickly as she could. "Well I filed a missing persons report so the police are out there searching for Ryu but we can't rely solely on them. We can't just sit here twiddling our thumbs. We have to go out there and do everything in our power to find Ryu and I hope to God that we find him soon". Chun Li gulped. "I just can't stand waiting around anymore hoping that he calls or someone else calls saying that he's okay". Chun Li cautioned.

"Ken tell me again everything you and Ryu talked about in detail giving exact times and don't leave anything out" Chun Li sniffled with a frown as she poured a quick cup of coffee and cream and took the seat across from Ken at the kitchen table. Ken reiterated everything Ryu and had him had discussed that fateful day in the coffee shop. "….Then he told me he was planning on meeting up with you later after running some errands and I said I was meeting Eliza at the store and then we bid our goodbyes and that's it. That's it that's everything that happened." Ken acknowledged.

"What errands? Did he say where he was going or when he expected to make it over to my place?" Chun Li inspected. "He said something about picking up flowers for you and getting dinner or picking up dinner depending on what time he ended picking up the flowers". Ken disclosed. "What flower shops are closest to my apartment? We need to look all of them up and go to each and every one. We need to talk to all of the owners of the nearby flower shops and ask if anyone purchased flowers that day matching Ryu's description. If anyone saw someone matching Ryu's description we have to ask them if Ryu said anything… and I mean anything at all that can be useful especially where he was going next.

Or if if he asked the owner directions or recommendations to any places nearby. We should also look up all the nearby restaurants and shops nearby and see if anyone saw someone matching Ryu's description and if he said anything that can be of use to them. Okay everyone got it? We're now going to split up into flower team and restaurant time everyone. Ken, Guile Cammy and myself our flower shop team. Dan, Sakura, Fei Long and Karin once she meets up with us will be on restaurant team. All right guys! Let's go hustle let's look for these places and then move out". Chun Li demanded as the group promptly started looking up the information Chun Li requested on their phones. (They each have photos of Ryu to show to any of the owners of the establishments that they meet) The teams left in two different cars. Chun Li left with her group in one car and Karin and her group in the other. Chun Li drove her silver 20008 Subaru Forrester while Karin drove a black 2008 BMW 6 series.

*About an hour or so later*

*Near Chun Li's apartment*

The flower shop team meets up with the flower store owner who saw Ryu but unfortunately he doesn't have much information to give. The owner disclosed that Ryu didn't say much at all other than asking a few questions about some blue flowers that were in stock before buying a bouquet of blue flowers and exiting the shop.

*Meanwhile* the restaurant team (which now includes Karin) finally locates the ramen shop Ryu visited. As the group opens the door to the shop and walk inside Dan began a monologue ….. "I'll handle this. I the great Dan Hibiki will inquire about our dear friend Ryu. I will do it upon myself to obtain all the necessary information from the owner of this establishment regarding the whereabouts of the Wandering Warrior we all know and love as a friend. After I get any relevant information from the owner I will do everything in my power to do my due diligence to make sure that we use said information to locate our friend. Furthermore I will make sure we do everything we can humanly possible to locate him and return him to his loved ones and..." Dan imparted as Fei Long stepped on Dan's right foot (with his own right foot) ending his soliloquy prematurely much to Dan's chagrin.

"Ow man that hurt" Dan sneered back as Sakura let out a small sigh. "We don't have time for this. Ryu could be in big trouble. He's already been missing for two days. So we have to hurry before his trail goes completely cold if it hasn't already" Fei Long surveyed. Karin nodded her head in agreement. "Despite his bluntness Fei Long has a point. Dan we have to hurry if we have any chance of finding Ryu. This situations call for action not discussion" Karin insisted. "I'll take care of this" Sakura advised as she walked up to the restaurant owner located at the counter.

She took out her phone and opened it up to a picture of Ryu "We're looking for a friend of ours. He's been missing for two days and we're really worried about him do you have any idea if you've seen him or where he could be?" Sakura pleaded hoping that the ramen shop owner could tell them something useful to help them find Ryu. The middle aged man nodded his head in agreement as he looked at the photo of Ryu that Sakura showed him. "I don't remember too many customers but I sure as hell fire remember him. He was wearing that same martial arts uniform. (the group smiles as the man says he saw Ryu and they eagerly await to hear what he says next) Yes he came in by himself and he ate a ton of ramen. He must have been famished I think he had six…no no… it was seven yes seven bowls of ramen and he ate up every damn drop of food I gave him. I mean he licked bowls completely clean" The middle aged man disclosed.

"Did he say anything? Anything at all? Like who he was meeting or where he was going or ask for any directions somewhere?" Sakura probed. "Nope…nope he just said; Thanks for the food and left that was it. There is one other thing actually he left here around 7:30pm or so. After he left I saw him walk out the shop to the right towards the benches down there. They'e not far from here if you make a right out of here and go straight you can't miss them hell you'll trip right over them. That's all I know. I really hope you find your friend. He seemed like a nice guy I hope he's ok". the shop owner imparted. "Thanks for the help" Karin affirmed as they gave a small wave goodbye. Fei Long called up Chun Li immediately after they exited the shop and Fei Long told her everything the shop owner had told them. Chun Li was slightly encouraged they had gotten some news and agreed to meet them by the benches where Ryu was least seen*

*15 minutes later*

*Both groups are sitting on the benches discussing what their next plan of action is. The two teams are sitting on the first set of benches directly next to each other. "So this is where he was last seen". Guile evaluated. "Where does this take us? We know he was last seen her around 7:30pm or so but we don't know what happened after that. This seems like a dead end". Cammy figured. "Emphasis on dead" Dan spilled as everyone but Chun Li gasped in shock. "Don't you dare say that! Don't you dare! Dan we don't know that. Unless God forbid I'm holding Ryu's lifeless body in my arms or somehow…or some way they find his….remains" Chun Li shuddered.

"I'm just saying what everyone else is thinking Chun. But I'm the only one with the guts to say it! The guy was last seen in a back alley and is never seen or heard from again. Northing good happens in back alleys. People are killed in back alleys there's no way you're ever seeing him alive again" Dan alleged as Chun Li slapped Dan right across the right side of his face with her right hand. The right side of Dan's face now had a huge red slap mark across marking the exact spot where Chun Li had slapped him. Everyone gulped in amazement. Dan rubbed his cheek and moaned in pain. "Damn it Li" he groused. "No Dan. Damn you! Damn you for being so heartless!" Chun Li roared off as she stormed down the street and back into her parked car.

*A few minutes later Chun Li calls Sakura from her phone*

*Chun Li's car is about 20 or so yards away and is facing the other way so the group couldn't see her face even if she was close enough*

*Sakura takes her phone out and answers it immediately after she hears it.*

"Sakura it's me. It's Chun Li" Chun Li choked through tears" into her phone. "Hey hey. Listen to me. Don't worry about what Hibiki San said. This isn't over I'm not giving up and neither should you. There has to be something we're missing. Something else happened that someone saw that we don't know about yet you know. There's another piece of the puzzle we just have to find it first" Sakura advised. "I really hope you're right. God I really do. I want to keep the faith but every moment that he's not here it get's harder and harder. I dreamt that he came back. I dreamt that everything worked out after our fight. I dreamt that he held me in his arms again. If only I could hold him again just one more time and tell him how much I l love him and how much he means to me. He's a loaner sometimes and sure he's thick headed.

But he has a huge heart. And if…if (Chun Li struggles to hold her back tears) I never see him again this world well it's going to be lonely as hell without him. I can't imagine never embracing him again…never kissing him and making love to him again. Never having kids! Our babies would have been so beautiful...and now they're never going to be born and he's never coming back!" Chun Li bawled as her tears fell uncontrollably. Chun Li was barely holding it together before Dan's comments. She had put on a strong front but she was obviously having a tremendously difficult time with Ryu's disappearance. "Li I'm coming over to you hold on. I'm here for you." Sakura walked over to Chun Li and knocked on the front passenger door and disconnected the phone and then put the phone into the front of her skirt.. Chun Li opened the passenger door to let Sakura in the car (As the remaining members of the teams watch Sakura enter Chun Li's car from their benches) and Sakura sat down in the passenger seat as Sakura closed the door.

The two street fighters shared a big hug and Chun Li cried. "Chun Li, Li. Please don't give up. You're the strongest woman I know. You can't give up. He doesn't want you to give up" Sakura judged as Chun Li nodded her head in agreement. Chun Li then called Guile and told them they were all going to head back to her place and have lunch and then continue their search later. She also wanted Sakura to come back with her and asked Ken to go back in the restaurant team car instead to which everyone agreed and in about 20 minutes or so they all met at Chun Li's apartment to have lunch. Chun refused to even look at Dan as they all sat down to eat some pizza they had picked up on the way back. Chun Li sat directly across the table from Sakura as Dan sat on the opposite end of the table that Chun Li did.

*One week later*

*Monday Afternoon*

*Interior of a secret base inside a temple in Thailand*

*The base fills with knockout gas as alarms go off. Most of the large number of guards quickly pass out from the gas. About two dozen guards happen to be near the two gas mask depositories put their gas masks on*

A woman standing about 5'5 is wearing a Purple dudou on her chest supported with eight straps meeting on her back forming a spider pattern. She had on long baggy off -white sweatpants and purple tights. On her hands she wore long fingerless gloves. She had dark hair which she had styled into two horns on her head which were fastened with pink ribbons. She had only Taekwondo foot wraps on her feet. She has a gas mask firmly on her face. The woman throws several smoke grenades on the ground near the guards. The smoke screen blinds the guards who frantically try to catch her but they can't see sh** from their elbows. "This is the end for all of you idiots!" she decreed with a laugh. The sounds of screams and neck breaking filling the air mixed in with equipment exploding from missed panic fire from the guards guns. After a while the smoke settles and the femme fatale emerges unscathed.

Later the Korean woman comes to a restricted area requiring a palm scan. Juri carries one of the dead guards over to the scanner. She puts the deceased guards hand up to the scanner to open the doors to the restricted area. Juri chuckles as the doors open.

*Some time later in the restricted area*

After an epic fight M Bison lies dead on the ground with his neck broken along with numerous other injuries. "Bison your security is wretched! Where did you get your guards rent a henchman?" Juri teased as she struck Bison in the teeth with her right foot breaking several of his teeth in the process. The woman escapes with some minor cuts and a few broken bones. Vega and Balrog lie on the ground knocked out with some minor cuts and head inures. Juri was careful to just incapacitate them as quickly as possible. "I'm not big fans of either of yours. But your skills are going to be necessary for what I have mind" Juri foreshadowed as she looked over the unconscious boxer and Spanish ninja.

"Yes I have big plans in store for you both and I know since your boss just died you're both in need of work. Yes good opportunities for you guys If you two play your cards right and don't f**** things up. If things go right you're going to have a piece of the pie in this world that I'm taking over. You guys sleep for now and get your rest because you're going to need it. When you guys wake up we're going to have a little chat!" Juri cackled.

*One week later*

*Thursday morning 8am*

*Interior Juri Hans apartment*

Juri Han emerges from the bathroom with her pregnancy test in her right hand. She looks down at it closely as she eagerly awaits to see her results. As Juri looked at the test a wide smile quickly spread across her face. "Yes! Perfect yes!" Juri cheered as she pumped her right fist in the air. "We've done it Ryu I'm going to do what that your China Doll girlfriend only dreamed of doing. "I'm going to have your child Ryu. I'm going teach them everything I know and together we will rule S.I.N. as mother and child. I know a lot of people think I'm not the motherly type but with Ryu's and my genes this child is going to be a prodigy. My child is going to be a legend and nothing is going to stand in his or her way after I'm done training them.

The sky is the limit with them by my side. I'll train my child in combat with the help of the boxer and the ninja . They're under my power now and the more techniques my baby can learn stronger they will be" Juri mused to herself with a grin. Juri touched her belly with her right hand gently and grinned "Just you wait little one you're going to accomplish tremendous things. I originally wanted your father to help me raise you but how should I say this…..(Juri pauses for a moment) that's no longer possible at this point." Juri whined as she bit her lip. "I've got some help though and you're going to grow up to be real big and strong. I can't wait for you to come into the world." Juri bubbled as she rubbed her belly gently.

End of Chapter 2

Chapter 3 is in development