Chapter 36

Shadaloo's Heavenly Kings


The audiences attending the tournament were still seated around the fighting ring, waiting for the next fight to began. However, what happened instead were Ken and Poli running out of a door where competitors step out from, followed by the wall being torn down as Chatterbox crashed through it. The sight of this shocked everyone. "Everyone! Get out of here right now!" shouted Poli as she fired her gun against the ceiling. That was enough to get everyone up on his or her feet and fleeing from the place, including Everdred and the referee.

Chatterbox ignored the fleeing audiences and continued to focus his gaze at Poli and Ken, who got onto the fighting room. Beckoning with his finger, Ken said to Chatterbox, "How about you come over here and fight like a man, ugly?"

Responding to what he said, Chatterbox leaped into the air and fell towards the center of the ring and slammed down his fist. Ken and Poli moved back and were both launched into the air when the ring was destroyed by Chatterbox.

Ken landed in a crouching position and said with enthusiasm, "Huh, you look like you're all fired up! Let's hope we can entertain each other!"


BGM: Theme of Balrog (Street Fighter V)

Back in the hallway, Balrog and Little Mac were engaged in a fierce boxing match. Mac attempted to land punches on Balrog, who easily blocked them with his boxing gloves. Out of nowhere, Balrog threw a punch at Mac, but the latter swiftly dodged it before throwing another punch, successfully landing a hit on Balrog's face.

But Balrog was largely unfazed by the punch and immediately punched back, knocking Little Mac away. "Ha! You call that a punch? What I gave you just now is a real punch!" Balrog said to him mockingly.

Little Mac recovered from the punch and rubbed his face. "You haven't seen what I'm capable of yet!" he said.

"Bring it, shorty!" Balrog told him. Little Mac charged at him and ducked underneath a punch Balrog threw at him and socked him hard in the abdomen. Not stopping there, Mac punched nonstop and pushed Balrog back with each step. Eventually, Balrog backed away from him and said, "Don't get so full of yourself!"

He lunged at Mac and threw a right hook that the latter stepped back to avoid. Balrog pressed forward, throwing punches nonstop that Mac was able to dodge or block with his boxing gloves. However, Balrog eventually threw a stronger than usual punch that even though Mac did manage to block, was still sent flying back, and he landed on his back.

Doc Louis stepped out of a room next to Little Mac and was surprised by what he saw. Little Mac got up and charged at Balrog to fight him again. Doc Louis watch in surprise and confusion and said, "What on earth is happening?!"

After avoiding a swing from Balrog, Little Mac performed a jumping uppercut, hitting the latter in the chin, and while Mac was still in the air, he thrust his fist forward and struck him hard in the face. Balrog almost fell back from the last punch and said in anger, "Now you've done it!"

He raised his fists over his head and then brought it down onto Little Mac, who raised his fists over his head to block them. The powerful impact almost forced him onto the floor, but he managed to remain standing. Balrog then performed a surprising move of kicking him in the face, knocking him on his back. Mac sat back up and said, "Kicking isn't allowed in boxing!"

"Who cares? I do whatever I want to win! See it as kickboxing if you have a problem!" Balrog told him.

Little Mac charged at him, and when Balrog tried to kick him again, he blocked it with his boxing gloves and got pushed back. Balrog immediately lunged at him and punched him back several steps. Mac managed to block them all and then ran and jump at Balrog with one fist pulled back, but Balrog punched him from the side and smashed him against the wall.

As Little Mac collapse against the wall, Balrog mercilessly punched him over and over, not giving him in the chance to fight back. Seeing this, Doc Louis rushed over to Balrog and grabbed him by his arms. "Stop it! You'll kill him!"

"That's what I'm planning to do! Beat it!" Balrog yelled at him while shaking him off, and then he tried to punch Doc Louis, only for the latter to block the punch with his arms. "Huh?"

Glaring at Balrog, Doc Louis said, "I may not look like it, but I was a boxing champ years ago, and I still haven't lost my touch! I don't know what beef you have with that kid, but I'm not going to let you have your way with him!"

"You're just a low-level worker here! This is none of your business!" Balrog said to him.

Doc Louis raises his fists and said, "It is my business if it's happening in my place!"

In frustration, Balrog threw punches at him, and Doc Louis blocked them a few times before delivering a quick jab that struck Balrog in the face, and then he pressed forward, punching him multiple times until he fell back.

"Why you?!" said Balrog in anger as he stood back up, only to be punched in the back of the head by Little Mac. He fell forward and got punched by Doc Louis. The evil boxer ended up getting knocked back and forth in between the two. Eventually, Doc Louis grabbed him by the arm and slammed him behind himself onto the floor with a judo throw, followed by jumping up and landing onto him with an elbow slam.

"Whoa… This Doc Louis knows wrestling too?!" said Little Mac in surprise.

"I still got it!" said Doc Louis, standing up while stretching his arms.

"Way to go, Doc!" Little Mac said as he walked up to him.

"That was nothing! You should see me fight for real!" boasted Doc Louis. "And why are you too fighting anyway?"

Balrog stood back up while groaning in pain, and then he said, "That's it! You both are dead meat!" He lunged at them and threw both fists at the same time, but they blocked it and slid back.

"He and his allies are kidnapping winners of this tournament for sinister reasons, and now he's trying to kill me for finding out about this!" Little Mac told Doc Louis.

"You serious, kid?!" said the latter in shock.

When Balrog threw another punch at Little Mac, the latter stepped aside in time. He immediately countered with a punch from below to Balrog's chin. Doc Louis then punched him straight in the face, knocking him back several steps. Little Mac pulled back his fist for a few seconds before charging at Balrog, punching him in the abdomen hard and kept on running, pushing him along.

Little Mac then gave him a jumping uppercut to the chin that sent him flying straight up.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

BGM Ends

Balrog shot straight through the ceiling, but fell back down a few seconds later from the same hole created and collapsed on his back, seeing stars.

Little Mac sighed with relief after seeing that Balrog was seemingly out cold for good. Doc Louis patted him on the back and said, "That was great, kid! I haven't seen such stylish and powerful boxing moves in a long time! You must have a great teacher!"

"You have no idea!" Little Mac said to him.


BGM: Theme of Vega (Street Fighter IV)

Bay, with her gun, the Victory Fanfare, in her hand, and Vega, with his clawed gauntlets and a white mask on his face, stared down at each other, each side ready to make a move, while Clay watched from the side, close to Vega, with a nervous look.

Vega made the first move, dashing at Bay at an astounding speed, but Bay herself was no slouch in the speed department, as she reacted in seemingly a millisecond, stepping to the side to avoid his claw thrust and then delivering a high rising kick against him. Vega blocked with his arm and backed away, and looking at Bay, he saw her aiming her gun at him and firing an explosive shell.

Rather than running though, Vega used his claw to knock the shell away into a wall, where it exploded in a large burst of white smoke.

As Nikke were not programmed to kill humans unless given authorities, Bay had no power to use anything lethal against Vega. Also, as they were inside a building, using explosives was not recommended, so she was giving nonlethal shells that simply exploded into smoke. These wouldn't cause damage to interiors nor do they cause serious harm to people, but it still delivers pain when struck.

Vega lunged at Bay again and attacked with both his claws and also his other hand, which was bare, but with swift movements, Bay shifted her body left and right to avoid each blow. After a short while of doing so, she backed away and brought up her gun again and fired. This shot managed to hit Vega in the chest, knocking him back. A large amount of smoke was released as well, and Bay took advantage of this, rushing through the smoke and attacking Vega while he was in the middle of recovering from the hit and muddled by the smoke.

She struck him with blows from her hands as well as delivering fast and strong kicks that ultimately knocked him back onto the floor.

Clay watched from the side in awe. She was surprised that Bay was holding her own against Vega and seemingly having the advantage over him. Little did anyone knew that Bay herself took part in underground fight clubs before, and while not having the most impressive win records nor did she participated in a lot of matches, she still had skills in close range combat and could hold her own against a number of foes.

Vega flipped back on his feet and said, "You're good! I like it when my women put up a fight!"

"You won't like it once I kick your ass!" Bay said to him with a threatening tone.

"Your confidence is as striking as your beauty! I'll be sure to enjoy every part of you once this is over!" he said before leaping at a nearby wall and clinging onto it with the help of his claws. He then kicked off the wall, shooting himself like a missile at Bay at a fast speed.

Bay jumped back in time to avoid it, but Vega "bounced" off the floor in and her direction in a moment's notice, colliding into her before she had the chance to react. He thrust his claws against her abdomen, but Bay flew back without a wound on her body. She held up her gun and fired a shot at him, but he leaped away fast.

Vega landed against the wall again and shot off it at her, but Bay flipped out of the way in an acrobatic manner and fired another round, only to miss a second time when jumped all the way to the ceiling and clung onto it using his claws for a moment before kicking off it and towards her.

He landed onto Bay, pinning her onto the floor. Bay wouldn't let him hold her down for long and used her strength as a Nikke to forcefully flip him away over her before getting back up herself. She fired another round at him, but he swatted it away to his side and right into Clay, engulfing her in a mass of white smoke.

"Clay!" Bay cried out in shock in seeing her "friend" hit. This momentarily distraction gave Vega the chance to get close to her and slash her across the face with his claws. Much like how she was previously hit in the abdomen by the claws, there were no claw marks on her face.

Bay glared at him angrily and charged forward, attacking relentlessly with punches and kicks that the latter was able to block and dodge constantly. When Vega tried to attack with his claws, she swiftly caught his wrist with her hand and then forcefully twisted and bent it, making him cry in pain. She followed up by kneeing him hard in the abdomen and then pushed him down onto the floor on his front, ending things by stomping him hard in the back, making him cry in pain.

After that, Bay ran to the dissipating mass of smoke and saw Clay sitting on the floor, coughing nonstop. "Are you all right?" Bay asked her in concern.

"I'm… I'm all right…" replied Bay, and then she looked in her eyes. "Why… Why are you doing this for me? We only just met, but you said you want to help a complete stranger like me already. Do we know each other?"

Not caring whether or not Clay would believe her, Bay decided to go "screw it" and tell her the truth, "You may find it hard to believe, but I come from another universe where I am friends with another version of you, and that is why I'm helping you!"

Understandably, Clay was confused to hear this, and she tried to make heads and tails of what Bay was trying to say.

Bay then said, "It doesn't matter whether or not you believe me. I'm still going to help someone who is just like my friend! And I want to ask… Why are you allied with that creep and his group?"

"Like I said, she owes me," said Vega as she slowly got back up, despite the beating he received. "She would've been rotting out in the streets if it weren't for us!"

"What do you mean?" Bay asked him angrily.

Clay nodded. "It's true… I was a homeless girl out in the streets, with no future… But then Vega found me and took me in… For a while Shadaloo became my home, but my kind and sweet nature eventually clashed with their ideals and actions… To prove that I am worthy of being with them, they had me perform heinous and unlawful actions that involve hurting people… I am thankful to them for taking me in and providing care for me, but… but… I still can't bring myself to hurt people…

"But I had no choice… I ended up staining my hands with blood and dirt… I did things I'm not proud of and wish to forget… Then Vega told me that if I could win this tournament, he will let me out of the organization and never bother me again… But I lost my first match, so now I will always have to be a part of Shadaloo…"

"No! I won't let that happen! My friends and I will defeat these villains and free you!" Bay assured her. "You can trust me in this!"

"You and will friends will die by us!" Vega warned her. He then leaped at her at a fast speed, going over her to slash her in the face.

Bay bent back her body to the bent of standing upside-down on her hands, and as Vega landed from his jump, she caught him by the head using her legs and lifted him up with all her strength before hurling him over herself, back in the direction he jumped from. Getting back on her feet, Bay ran at her and attacked with a flying jump kick, hitting him in the body hard and pushing him across the place.

However, Vega recovered from the blow almost right away and dashed past her, slashing her across the body, but all he did was partially tear her clothes and left behind no scratch mark. "You have a fine and strong body to remain uninjured, despite all the times I attacked you," he said to her. "What is your secret?"

"The same secret that will result in your downfall!" replied Bay before engaging in close range combat against him.

Clay watched in awe as the two fought each other. She was still in disbelief that a complete stranger claiming to be from another world was helping her because she knew another version of her. Clay didn't know whether or not Bay was telling the truth, but in her heart, she was glad that there was someone offering to fight for her freedom. She wanted to help, yet she was afraid of the consequences that might happen if she took action. She knew better than anyone that Shadaloo was not to be messed with, and Bay and her friends would be in serious trouble if they could not prevail against them.

Bay and Vega clashed against each other for a while until the latter backed away and said, "I commend you for holding this long against me, but I am sad to tell you that I have been holding back the whole time. Allow me to show you what it is like for me to fight at my full power!"

Vega jumped back onto a wall, planting his feet against it, and then shot forward at an incredible speed, so fast that he left behind an afterimage of himself. He dashed past Bay and actually slashed her with a force strong enough to leave behind a wound on her body. Vega went all the way to the wall on the other side in a moment's notice and then kicked off it towards her again, doing the same thing. In fact, he did the same thing over and over, and Bay couldn't find the opening to counter him or even get out of the way. She was slashed all over the body several times.

After several attempts, Vega stopped, while Bay fell to her knees, crying in pain and panting heavily. She had several bleeding slash marks on her body, and most of her clothes had been cut off. Not that she was wearing a lot to begin with…

"As much as it pains me to cut up someone as beautiful as you, you still look good even with such injuries!" Vega said to him.

"You creep…!" Bay angrily said to him.

Suddenly, Clay launched herself at Vega from the side, throwing a kick at him that he managed to block. "Enough!" she said in anger.

"What's this? You dare defy the person who saved you?" he asked her.

"Yes, because I've decided I want to break free from your stupid organization for real! Someone here is fighting for me, so I will not let her die because of this! I will defeat you and all of Shadaloo!" replied Clay in anger.

"If that is your response, then you may die with her and her friends!" said Vega in anger before he attacked Clay.

As the two fought, Bay struggled to stand up and watched the two fight for a while, and then she joined in, fighting alongside Clay. The two cheerleaders pressed against Vega, their fighting skills overwhelming him and pushing him back. They landed several hits to his body and eventually knocked off his mask. When Bay attacked her face afterwards, he seemed to recoil more than usual.

Holding his hand over his face, he said in anger, "How dare you attack my beautiful face?! You will die for this insolence!" He cried as he attacked more intensely than before, so the two girls had to move around even faster to avoid him.

Bay then fired from her gun another shot at him, hitting him in the body and creating a large amount of smoke. Vega was surrounded by the smoke, and as he tried to find his way around, Bay and Clay leaped at him from both sides and attacked with their butts, pressing his head in between them.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

BGM Ends

Vega fell on his back, and he muttered, "What a beautiful way to go…" And he passed out.

The cheerleaders happily gave each other a high five and said, "We did it!"


Cody was in his office, and standing next to him was a man wearing an orange ninja outfit. The man, Guy, said to him, "I told you before that I found nothing suspicious at Monotoli's place. Why go through the trouble of sending people to investigate there?"

"Just to be safe," replied Cody without looking up from doing his paperwork. "And honestly, I expected more from you than just there's nothing there. You're a very cautious and even skeptical person, so I was expecting you to be able to find something and not give up so easily."

"I did, and there really is nothing. Monotoli is a clean man with no involvement in anything shady. You can trust me in this. This is all a huge waste of time, I'm telling you," insisted Guy.

The phone then rang, so Cody answered it. He heard Captain Strong's voice coming from the other end. "Mister Mayor, I have received a report from one of my policewoman that Shadaloo is involved in the Monotoli Fighting Tournament, and those vigilantes you hired are currently in battle with them," said the police captain. "I am currently mobilizing my men to deal with the situation."

"I see… Very well! I will go there and assess the situation myself," said Cody, standing up from his chair. "Keep things under control, captain. Don't let civilians get hurt or Shadaloo escape!" After ending the call, Cody looked at Guy and said, "Looks like they've managed to find something after all. Maybe you didn't look hard enough or something, but I'm not blaming you. Either way, I'm off to the Monotoli Building now. You want to come along?"

In response, Guy dashed at Cody and threw a punch at him, but the mayor reacted at an astounding speed and caught his fist. Pushing back Guy, Cody said, "I'm used to this sort of thing if you didn't know. Still, you're going to have to explain your behavior, though I may have a good idea already."

Guy simply glared at Cody and remained silent, and then he attacked the latter again. Both sides traded violent blows against each other for a while until Cody landed a punch against Guy's head. Not only did Guy's head became distorted like it was made of a soft substance, his entire body also became white.

Not looking too surprised, Cody said, "Huh, and I was thinking that you were being mind controlled ever since you came back from that place. So… mind if you tell me where's the real Guy, or do I have to beat the answer out of you instead?"


"What is this?" asked Rosanna. Standing before her was a white humanoid with a v-shaped head that, under F.A.N.G's command, was released from a containment chamber by scientists.

"This is a shapeshifting humanoid weapon, Eleven," explained F.A.N.G. "We have been kidnapping strong people in order to use them as basis for creating Elevens that can transform into them and adopt their fighting styles. This tournament is our way of gathering strong fighters in order to create an army of Elevens that will help us achieve world domination. We have a number of Elevens out there right now, masquerading as people we kidnapped!"

Rosanna and Pepper looked around at the glass containers that had unconscious people inside. Zangief was inside one of them, as said before, and there was another one that contained Guy. Several other containers had people they were not familiar with.

"Quite a collection you have here, huh," commented Rosanna.

"How can you do this?! You're evil!" Pepper angrily said to F.A.N.G. "You won't get away with this! We're going to stop you and free all these poor people!"

"You are free to try, but I doubt you will succeed! You probably won't last two seconds against us!" F.A.N.G said with confidence. He then told Eleven to take out the two girls.

BGM: Theme of F.A.N.G (Street Fighter V)

Eleven transformed into Zangief, sporting accurate colors and all. The fake Zangief spread its arms at it approached Rosanna, who responded by firing from her gun, the Golden Thompson. The bullets tore several holes on Eleven, turning its body back white, but in just a few seconds, the damage was fixed when the skin fused together like clay. Regaining Zangief's colors, Eleven lunge at Rosanna and wrapped its arms around her body tightly.

"Let go of me, you freak!" she said in anger. Using her strength as a Nikke, she forcefully pried open its arms and then kicked it in the crotch before firing at it again. However, Eleven recovered from the gunfire like before and lunge at her again, and this time, Rosanna stepped out of the way before kicking it away in the side.

As Eleven turned to face her, she charged at it, ramming it with her shoulders against a wall, and as it was sitting against the wall, she kicked its head and stomped it body over and over before firing at it. As it was receiving bullets to its body, Eleven turned into a pile of white goo that slipped out of the way and then spiraled up Rosanna's legs and eventually her body at a fast speed, binding her. Rosanna grunted in frustration as she struggled to remove the humanoid weapon from her. "Get of me!"

Pepper watched in shock and thought about shooting Eleven at first, but stopped, knowing there was no way she could pull the trigger without hitting Rosanna. Looking at the side, she saw Mary and Dr. Andonut standing there, so she rushed over to them. "How do you stop that thing? We have to do something before it kills my friend!" she asked them.

"Why are you asking us this? We're not on the same side!" Dr. Andonut told her.

"Because I can tell you're not happy about this! I'm a doctor, and though I study physical health, I do have some knowledge in psychology, and I can tell from your expressions and body movements that you don't enjoy this! You're doing this against your will, right?" replied Pepper, and then she looked at Mary. "And Mary! You would never definitely do something like this! You're being forced! I know it!"

"How… How do you know my name?" Mary asked her in confusion.

"That doesn't matter! You have to tell me how to stop that thing! You don't have to worry about your bosses threatening you, because my friends and I will kick their butts!" said Pepper.

"You have confidence, young lady, and that will be the death of you!" said F.A.N.G. Standing behind her, he thrust his fingers at her back, but Pepper turned around and caught it with her hand. Purple liquid oozed out from his hands and got onto Pepper's hand, but the Nikke was unfazed as she used her strength to twist F.A.N.G hand and then shoved him to the side.

F.A.N.G groaned in pain as he shook his hand. "What was that strength?!"

Pepper looked at the purple poison that got onto her hand. She was wearing gloves, so it had no effect on her, but even if the poison got onto her skin, it wouldn't have done anything anyway due to her being a Nikke, so her body was synthetic and therefore unaffected by poison.

Meanwhile, Rosanna was still struggling against Eleven. Even after she pried him off, he kept on coming for her and stayed connected to her body, wrapped around her and refusing to get far from her. As she was fighting against him, gunshots were fired at Eleven's head, weakening its hold on Rosanna, who then grabbed the remnants of its body and flung them in F.A.N.G's direction, hitting him.

Miranda was the one who fired at Eleven, and she said to Rosanna, "I've contacted Captain Strong just now. The rest of the police will be here any minute, so hold on until then!"

"They'll be here just in time to collect dead bodies!" said Rosanna in frustration as she look at F.A.N.G, who was getting back up. Without saying anything else, she open fired from her gun at F.A.N.G, who leaped out of the way. When she fired at him again, he swung his hands and fired a purple glob of poison that corroded and plowed through the bullets like they were nothing and kept on heading for Rosanna, who stepped aside to avoid getting hit.

F.A.N.G then rushed to her and attacked with hand jabs that were covered in poison, and Rosanna swiftly dodged them. Ducking underneath another hand jab, Rosanna swung her arm at F.A.N.G's body and then rammed against him with her shoulder onto the floor. She fired at him, but he rolled out of the way fast and flipped back on his feet. He launched himself at a fast speed and landed a flying kick against her, knocking her back against a wall.

As Pepper watched them fight, Eleven, who had recovered from the gunshot and regenerated, attacked her. Pepper hurriedly brought up her shotgun as defense and was pushed back against a wall. She took aim with her VitaMax shotgun and fired, blasting several holes on Eleven's body at once, but the wound instantly regenerated. Eleven transformed into Zangief, but without the accurate colors, and grabbed her waist. "Wait! Wait!" she cried as the transformed Eleven performed a suplex, slamming her headfirst against the floor. She hit the floor so hard that it cracked, and her body sank into it slightly past the shoulders.

Pepper was stuck in the floor and shook her body and kicked her legs to try to get out. Eleven grabbed her legs, lifted her out, and then swung her around in circles before throwing her across the room and against some large computers, resulting in them being destroyed and sparks flying everywhere. The scientists present screamed in shock and ran to safety.

"Ow…" cried Pepper as she removed her upper body from the computer she crashed into. She saw Eleven, still in the form of Zangief, running at her, she got away fast, letting him crash onto the computer instead. Turning to him, she fired multiple times from her shotgun and blasted several holes on Eleven, but the wounds meant nothing to it, as they instantly healed.

As the other scientists watched the two fights going on, Dr. Andonut said, "I can't watch it anymore! We have to do something to help those people!"

"You're not going to do that, are you?" Mary asked him.

Dr. Andonut went to a computer and began typing away. "Bison wanted a self-destruct button for neutralizing all the Elevens at once in case they go rogue, and never would he have thought it could backfire on him! Yes, I'm going to self-destruct all the Elevens at once! Something like this should never have been made in the first place! It's not like I wanted to make them anyway!"

"Hey! Are you trying to betray Lord Bison?!" another scientist angrily said to him.

Miranda got in between Dr. Andonut and the other scientists, with her gun pointing at them. She looked back at Dr. Andonut and said to him, "You do what you have to do! I'll keep them from bothering you!"

"Thanks! You people made me realize that I am a scientist who wants to help people, not hurt them, so I'm going to right my wrongs by doing this!" said Dr. Andonut.

F.A.N.G was still fighting Rosanna when he overhead what Dr. Andonut was saying, and he said to him, "Don't you dare! You will die for your betrayal!" But before he could go after the scientist, Rosanna grabbed his arm from behind and then forcefully lifted and slammed him onto the floor.

"Your opponent is me!" Rosanna said to him as she pointed her gun at him and readied to fire. Acting fast, F.A.N.G grabbed the gun barrel and secreted poison from his hand that corroded and melted it off. Rosanna pulled up her gun and looked at it in shock, giving F.A.N.G the chance to stand up and knock her away.

He fired poisonous projectiles at Rosanna, hitting her in different parts of the body. However, Rosanna was largely unfazed by them and did not seem to suffer any ill effects as well. She tried to shoot him after that, but as the gun barrel was partially destroyed, she could not aim properly, and the recoil became stronger, resulting in her having a hard time holding her gun in place.

And it wasn't like F.A.N.G couldn't defend herself against the incoming bullets either. He created a wall of smoke that actually caused the bullets to corrode and disintegrate before they touched him.

"I'm almost done! Just a few more clicks away and they're all dead!" said Dr. Andonut, looking at the screen and messing with the keyboard and the mouse.

In response, F.A.N.G fired globs of poison in his direction. Everything seems to entered into slow motion as the poison soared through the air and closer and closer towards Dr. Andonut, who was about to press the "enter" button on the keyboard. It looked like the poison was going to get to him first before he had the chance to push down the button, but this never happened, as Eleven, still in its Zangief form, was shoved in between the approaching projectile and Andonut by Pepper, albeit unintentionally, and took the hit for him instead.

Pepper pressed her shotgun against Eleven's body and pulled the trigger, firing at close range and blowing a hole on it. As Eleven backed away from her, she aimed and fired at its head, blowing it away. It keep on moving back until it fell towards F.A.N.G, who stepped out of the way. "Useless! Get back up and keep on fighting!" he yelled at it.

However, Eleven suddenly trembled and then swelled up, and a couple of seconds later, it exploded. F.A.N.G was caught in the blast and sent flying back, crying and pain.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

BGM Ends

"I did it!" said Dr. Andonut happily.


Cody was in the middle of fighting the Eleven in his office that took the form of Guy when the latter suddenly exploded as well.

"Huh? Strange… Didn't know I had it in me…" said a surprised Cody.

His secretary appeared in the room and asked, "Mister Mayor, what happened here?"

"Don't worry; I solved it myself already," Cody told her.


Sitting on the floor, F.A.N.G glared at Andonut and said, "How dare you?! Lord Bison will never let you get away with this betrayal!"

"I should've done this a long ago! And that's on him for being paranoid and wanting a self-destruct mechanism on the Elevens!" Andonut said to him.

F.A.N.G was going to stand up, but Rosanna fired at him, or rather, his limbs. He cried in pain as he fell back on the floor, in great pain from the gunshot wounds he received. Rosanna walked up to him and stepped on his body while pointing her gun at his head. "Make anything silly and I'll blow your head off! They're going to yell at me if I kill anyone, so don't make me do it!" she sternly said to him.

Miranda went up to them with handcuffs in her hand and said, "All right, that's far enough! Wait for the police to handle things when they arrive!"

Pepper went up to Andonut and said, "You did the right thing! You're the real hero here today!"

"I'm glad you knocked some senses into me. If you hadn't given me a wake up call, I would be serving Bison forever," said Andonut. "You're right in saying that Mary and I were not willing workers for him. He kidnapped us and demanded that we work for him. He even threatened my family, so I had no choice…"

"But… won't your family be in danger now that you betrayed him?" Mary said to him.

"Don't worry about that! My friends and I will put a stop to Bison! You can be sure of that!" Pepper assured them.

"By the way, you took quite a beating. Are you all right? I'm surprised you can still stand!" Mary said to her.

"Don't worry; I've made full recovery because I healed myself with my special skills!" Pepper told her, which confused her.

"And your friend got hit by F.A.N.G's poison, did she not? She should get treatment fast!" said Mary.

Pepper looked at Rosanna and said, "I think she'll be fine. People like us can't be poison so easily after all." This statement confused Mary as well.


TO BE CONTINUED

I had a hard time with this chapter, but I'm glad I managed to pull off all three fights, though some of them could probably be better. Hope it's good enough for you all! Let me know what you think.

I know Eleven cannot change colors, but I took creative liberty for the sake of the replacement thing F.A.N.G said.