Chapter 16: Archers of Infamy
At Sky Ranch in Tagaytay City while trying to locate Jang-geum's whereabouts, Hunyo, Rei and Rolento are trying to find Jang-geum using a modified binoculars that can zoom from the bottom. Suddenly, Hunyo's phone had rang much to their surprise and noticing it was an unidentified but anonymous which Hunyo hung up immediately because they are just scammers who want to scam people. Despite this, the phone continues to ring, much to his annoyance as Rolento would tell him.
"Take a breather, Hunyo... or your phone would get smack into pieces if you threw it."
With Rolento's advice, Hunyo finally answers the phone in a discreet manner.
"Hello... who is this?"
"Hunyo, I would expect that my world is really connected to your world and I'm able to reach you." Kazuya smirked while he taunts him evilly after learning that he is able to contact him due to both of their worlds are connected despite the link itself were broken. "Despite I wanted to make things hell in your place because of disruptions over my plans, instead I put the entire globe in hell within my world. Seems like you're gonna beat that dirty farce on your world."
"What do you want, Kazuya?" Hunyo said and finally furrows his brow over his devilish taunts. "You keep on whining and taunting about other things in your place. And when did you contacted me? Don't you know long distance calls can cause expensive!"
"Sorry, I don't even know this would cost you so big." Kazuya formally apologizes since he had known this long distance call can be very expensive and finally speaks about his daughter Rhima. "Since you sent your daughter in my world to reconnect the link between our worlds, I actually put her in confinement."
"What!?"
"Don't feel horrible, Hunyo. I had nothing to do with your daughter. I just want to see how worthy her powers within her. You had said that she can be collapsed if she had used her powers." Kazuya said and he smirks evilly. "Anyway, she can't even escape here because she was under my surveillance and I'm sure my son Jin would try to save her from me."
"Don't try to put arrogance on me, Kazuya. Rhima maybe vulnerable on Vanderkaum's experiments, she might able to outsmart you. Something that you never ever to cross paths with her." Hunyo said and immediately hang up and block the number and deleted quickly.
Kazuya angrily raises his brow after hearing Hunyo's words and Nina had seen him becoming stress.
Rolento was surprised when both of them are speaking in their phones but in anonymous as he asked.
"Who's the person you're calling, Hunyo?"
"I shouldn't decided to make a time machine for our game partners to go back to their world. I never thought my phone is connected to the World of Tekken and why Kazuya had contacted me in the first place." Hunyo said in dismay.
"Say what?"
"In other words, despite the link was broken, they are able to contact here using gadgets like cellphones and pads. I guess a few suitors would even contact my daughter while she was in the World of Tekken." Hunyo said realizing that the link of both worlds were remain intact only for their game partners are unable to get through the real world. "I guess our game partners are unable to get back here because of the broken link. But they're able to connect with their respective gadgets which functions the same."
"Mr. Panganiban and Mr. Valdez... I found Jang-geum." Rei said informing them both as Hunyo gets the binoculars and he zooms that Jang-geum was confirmed in Taal, Batangas where he poses as one of the foreign tourists to get toured on the volcanic island within Taal Volcano.
"He was in Taal, Batangas and he is about to aboard the boat leading to the volcanic island." Hunyo said and decided to put a stop to his deed. "We have to follow him."
Both soon agreed and they eventually leave the Sky Ranch. As they are leaving, Jun's spiritual form was present after learning what Kazuya had done to Rhima and soon disappears in a white light.
At the room where she was confined and was under surveillance by G Corporation within Kazuya's direct orders, Rhima was upset when she was captured by Nina and a group of soldiers and learning that she was the commander of G Corporation. Therefore, a blue sphere glows as she sees Jun's spiritual form as it reveals that Jun uses meditation to utilize her energy ki in a form of astral projection.
"Mrs. Kazama... and Uncle Kei..." Rhima said noticing their appearances as the sphere transforms into Keiya's physical form since he was alive in the World of Tekken.
"Who are you? How did you manifest yourself on that strange artifact?" Jun said curiously over Keiya's appearance and smiles at her.
"As you can see, I was alive at your world but I'm already dead in the real world so the sphere that Rhima keeps it had manifested my spirit." Keiya explained to Jun about him and soon faces Rhima. "You don't have to be here, Rhima... I know it was a risky mission that Hunyo had given to you."
"How am I supposed to get out of here if I was completely guarded by lots of CCTV cameras?" Rhima said since she had seen lots of cameras so that she will be caught easily and Jun sighs because of Kazuya's actions and makes a plan for this.
"Kazuya-san was very dishonest to Hunyo-san and tries to show his arrogance to him that you were caught from him. Don't worry, Rhima-san... my son can locate you anywhere because of your ki. Since your ki was uncontrollable, I might do the honors."
"You mean that you can enable to possess someone. But you're in spiritual form using astral projection." Keiya said noticing what Jun was planning to do.
"My energy can utilize it. Because I can purify evil souls and nullifying the Devil Gene. Just like how I touched my son when he was in that state, his devil attributes on him disappears."
"Are you sure about this, Mrs. Kazama?" Rhima asked knowing she was cautious over her powers which Jun encourages her.
"It's going to be all right... I'll use my energy to become influence within your uncontrollable ki. Something you had never displayed any abilities within it."
"I'll use my Onmiyoji magics to protect and serve Rhima as her guide. I just hoped your plan works, for Hunyo's sake..." Keiya said decided to use his Onmiyoji magics as he displays one Japanese charm to make Jun curious of his magic charms.
As soon as the soldiers are about to serve food for Rhima while she was in a meditated state, Rhima opens her eyes, finally changed to glowing blue and immediately knocks the soldier with telekinesis which most people with Devil Gene are able to utilize this ability as she saw this.
Mrs. Kazama is able to put hold on me with her own ki. If I used my power, I would lose consciousness... I don't have much time, I need to get out of here.
Due to Jun's hold on Rhima to use her powers within her uncontrollable ki on Vanderkaum's experiments, Rhima is able to destroy all the CCTV cameras with telekinesis and can levitate the soldiers with any sorts of psychic ability. At Kazuya's office, Nina became immobile due to Rhima's abilities and Kazuya smirks and seeing that she is able to escape the company with her own power and amuses over the turn of the events.
"Kazuya. Are you sure you wanna let her go? I can't move." Nina complained angrily from getting immobilize which Kazuya responds.
"Let her be, Nina. We have to wait until she went back to normal after using her powers. Then, we'll recapture her right away."
After defeating all of the soldiers when they are shooting her with gunfire, it was protected by a barrier which comes from an Onmiyoji magic coming from the sphere she had carried. Once she gets out of the company and found a car key on the ground and encounters a blue 2016 Corolla Altis since the driver had already flee due to Kazuya's bloody carnage. She enters inside the car, remembering the times she was taught how to drive by Hunyo by riding his black 2015 Land Cruiser. Since both of their cars are automatic, Rhima noticed the car she's gonna drive is also automatic as she starts the engine. With the initial background song of "Around the World" was played, Rhima noticed all G Corporation soldiers are coming to get her and soon drives away before they can fire with their heavy firearms. Outside the rebel base, Jin remains depressed and upset after Rhima was captured because of Xiaoyu as both Lars and Roderick watch him.
"Thank God, I scolded his girl friend for her love and obsession over the Japanese mestizo. She was the reason to let Rhima got captured."
"So that's why Jin was clearly upset about what his friend had done." Lars replied until Jin sensed someone's presence.
Jin looked around and he had briefly saw a glimpse of Rhima who is now driving a blue 2016 Corolla Altis, being chased by an armed car manned by the G Corporation soldiers.
"Rhima-san... she..."
"Did you saw her?" Roderick asked and Jin was relieved to see her escaping from his father's clutches.
"I never seen her driving a car and she was after by the G Corp soldiers."
"Perhaps, we can go after her." Lars said decided to follow the car that Rhima had rode as he joked. "Since her father Hunyo can drive an SUV like me, She and Lee are the ones who can drive cars."
"...now I'm a little envious of her because me and Hwoarang can ride a big motorcycle." Jin retorts about his half-uncle's jokes and becoming envious over Rhima who is now driving cars and soon follow them both.
The song changes to "Radical Faith" where the car chase continued. Rhima noticed a GPS in which she had noticed from her cellphone as one of her phone rings which she had put on a speaker phone.
"Hello..."
"Rhima, you're alright..."
"Uncle Roddy..."
"Don't worry about us, Rhima... The Swedish guy is driving an armored military car to come and fetch you." Roderick smiled over her safety as Jin gets the phone.
"How did you escape from G Corporation? You made me so worried."
"By the time I was caught and under surveillance, Mrs. Kazama and Uncle Kei are assisting me to escape and..."
"Mother did this...?" Jin said surprisingly when his mother was the one who assisted her and soon tells her. "Just continue driving, Rhima-san. And we'll find you."
"All right..." Rhima said and finally hang up. Jin was surprised to see his mother Jun is able to let Rhima escape because she was disappointed over his father's actions and soon wonders about what she said about her uncle Kei which happens to be Keiya.
"Who is the other uncle Rhima was saying?"
"She says about Kei...? I don't know who he is..."
As cars are screeching during the chase, Rhima manages to get away until the G Corporation soldiers begins to shoot her with their heavy firearms while riding their truck. Rhima eventually uses her power as her eyes are glowing blue to utilize any forms of psychic which all of the bullets were blocked and transforms into energy blasters which makes a counter strike over the truck in explosion. Rhima continues to drive as she makes a stop on the highway. She soon gets out of the car in relief and noticing that she was no longer under Jun's influence.
Thanks, Uncle Kei... for guiding me.
Suddenly, other military trucks arrive to recapture her which she was forced to use her powers. However, a group of maskmen appear to protect her and Rhima knows who they were.
These maskmen are they from Archers of Sirius? Wait, is Claudio with them?
With this, the maskmen begins to attack the soldiers who were agile enough to dodge all of their rapid fire from their heavy firearms and kills them by shooting blue energy arrows as well as firing them with dual handguns. As soon as they finish subdoing all of the G Corporation soldiers. The last soldier attempts to snipe on Rhima using a sleeping dart and was immediately killed by shooting on its head with a full powered energy arrow. Rhima sees the maskmen and noticed they are the Archers of Sirius and soon hears a familiar voice she had easily recognized in Italian language.
"You'll be safe, milady."
Rhima noticed it was Claudio Serafino who is the last person who shoots a powerful energy arrow on the last soldier. She also noticed that Claudio had slightly changed his look.
"Claudio..." Rhima said calling Claudio's name and soon faintly collapses due to the usage of her powers and Claudio eventually carries her and tells his group of maskmen.
"We have to take milady back to our headquarters in Duomo di Sirio. She'll be safe here..."
As the armored car arrived in the scene, Lars, Jin and Roderick got down the car and had seen soldiers are killed from getting arrow shots filled with powerful energy and Jin sees the car that Rhima had parked and was found a note where she was faintly collapsed and was well written by Claudio due to the fact that he was one of his main targets as it was said on the note.
Milady is safe in my hands, Jin Kazama. If you want to find her, come to my main headquarters at Duomo di Sirio. I'll be waiting...
Believing that Rhima was captured by the Archers of Sirius since Xiaoyu had been informing him about Claudio about her becoming a bait to him during her search for him, he angrily crumbles the note and wants to rescue her from their headquarters.
"I can't believe this... why they keep on hunting at Rhima? She never done anything so wrong..." Roderick said getting angry over letting Rhima get captured and Jin mumbles who is now determined to find her.
"I will find you wherever you go... Just you wait, Rhima..."
Trivia:
*Aside from the broken connection like between the two worlds, the gadgets like cellphones or pads are able to connect from the World of Tekken which it was not seen within the previous stories.
*When Rhima was under Jun's influence to control her powers as a Psychic-Assassin is based on the climax scene in the 2014 movie, Lucy where the main heroine Lucy Miller utilizes telekinesis and other forms of Psychic where she can levitate her enemies as well as their weapons before her brain capacity reaches 100% and turning herself into a supercomputer.
*The title of the chapter is the based on Damian Priest's moniker as the Archer of Infamy due to Claudio and his group's appearances as the Archers of Sirius.
*Claudio Serafino also made his appearance in this chapter as he and his group had rescued Rhima from getting pursued by the G Corporation and his soldiers.
*The armored car vehicle that Lars had drove is the same armored car he had used to rescue Jin from the UN soldiers during Tekken 7 Story Mode.
