(Cubed Cinder; idea by Allogagan)
Inside Interpol HQ, Chun-Li sat her desk feeling tired. She had worked nearly
all day on task after task. Among the non-paperwork tasks she was assigned
ranged from searching the world for the last of Bison's cronies, who were
struggling to put Shadaloo back together after the death of M. Bison (at the
hands of Ryu and the Power of Nothingness). She had also been training a new
group of agents who were anxious to get out onto the field for work, and she had
been working with Interpol scientists on a new device that was designed to
change the size of anybody zapped by it.
She had rested her arms and head on
her desk about fifteen minutes ago, before Guile reminded her that it was time
to go home.
"Wake up, kiddo." Guile said. Chun-Li woke up to the sight of
Guile.
"(yawns) What is it, commander?" Chun-Li said.
"You look tired. Why
don't you go home and take a rest? You're off duty anyway." Guile said.
"And
yet you look fit as a fiddle. Don't you feel a little bit homesick?" Chun-Li
asked.
"Pffft… nonsense, believe it or not. My wife and daughter said I
should get out and see more of the world now that Bison is history." Guile said.
"Heh, nonsense. Seems like the perfect word. Speaking of which, Li-Fen…" Chun-Li
said.
"That girl you rescued and adopted from Shadaloo?" Guile asked.
"Yes, her. She's already dreaming of a world full of nonsense. Nothing would be
what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And what it is it wouldn't
be, and what it wouldn't be, it would." Chun-Li said. Guile raised both his
eyebrows.
"Yeah, I haven't heard 5-year-old girl language in… what? Over 20
years? You should get out before you become even more delusional than you
already are." Guile said. Chun-Li couldn't help but snicker, having gotten to
know Guile's humor all the years they've worked together.
"I think that's a
good idea, Guile. All this work and they still don't pay me enough." Chun-Li
said. She got her workbag and placed her card into the slot. It punched a hole
in the OUT column, which would tell her employers that she was done for the day.
Chun-Li walked outside to the beautiful sunny sky that is a sure sign of a
good day to most people. But just as she was about to jump onto her bike and
pedal her way home, she could hear a manly voice screaming in a panicked tone.
"ACK!!! I'm late! I'm so late!!! Oh... the queen is gonna have my head this
time!!!" the man shouted. Chun-Li looked to see who it was, and she simply could
not believe who it was that was running by.
"Vega!? I thought we captured him
and locked him away! But what could he possibly be late for?" Chun-Li said to
herself. But there was no way the sight of him out of bars was going to stop her
from making sure nothing could bring Shadaloo back to life. Chun-Li stepped in
Vega's path and began to shout him.
"Stop right there, Vega! You're under..."
Before Chun-Li could finish, Vega pushed her to the ground.
"No time to talk
now, sweetie! I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! No time to say hola
or adios! I'm late I'm late I'm late!" Vega shouted as he continued to run.
"Get back here, Vega!" Chun-Li shouted before she started to run after him.
Eventually, she watched as Vega, amazingly without fear, jumped into an open
manhole. Chun-Li stopped right at the hole.
"You can't escape from me, Vega!"
Chun-Li said. She gently eased her way into the manhole, trying to search for a
ladder that she could use to climb down with. Unfortunately, there wasn't one,
and it didn't feel like there was a bottom either.
"Geez... what kind of
manhole is thiiiiiiisssssssssss!!!!!!!" Chun-Li finally lost her grip from the
surface and began falling into the hole.
Chun-Li just kept on falling through the shadows of the manhole when she
suddenly felt her rate of descent slowing down dramatically. In fact, her speed
of falling had gone down to a point where landing would be harmless. Chun-Li
gently glided her way down, looking at all the strange surroundings that began
to make up the walls.
"What the...? What the heck is this place?" Chun-Li
said to herself. She finally landed on the ground, which was made up of a vast
array of colors just like the walls on her way down. But there was no time to do
any sightseeing, she could just see the shadow of Vega running into the
background.
"There he is! Vega!!! Get back here!!!" Chun-Li shouted as she
was running. She saw Vega go into one of the doors. Chun-Li opened this door,
only to find another one. She opened this door... but again, another door. Turn
the door, another door. Turn the door, another door. By now, Chun-Li was getting
frustrated.
"You've got to be kidding me… YA!" She said to herself. She turn
thrusted her foot forward and kicked the door open. This time, it had led to
another room. The room looked as colorful as the hallway she traversed, except
for the tiny door on the other side of the room that looked no bigger than her
shoe. Chun-Li walked up to it and kneeled down, looking at it.
"Did Vega
seriously go through this door?" Chun-Li asked herself. She then tried turning a
knob, only to hear another male-sounding voice.
"OUCH!!!" The voice said.
Chun-Li was startled and found herself falling back on her behind.
"What was
that?" Chun-Li asked.
"That was me, bunhead! Geez... the respect you get for
serving as a doorknob these days." The voice said. Chun-Li looked down to see it
actually came from the doorknob, which actually had the face of a human.
"Huh? Who are you?" Chun-Li said.
"Abigail's the name, tootz! And I serve as
a gateway to the New World." the face of Abigail said.
"New World? Is this
some kind of joke!?" Chun-Li said.
"Unnaturally. It's my friends that are
jokes. Those other doors have no personality whatsoever. It almost makes me want
to burst! Hohohoho! Oh… and you did give me quite the turn. Get it? Doorknob?
Turn? One good turn deserves another!" Abigail said. Chun-Li rolled her eyes and
folded her arms.
"(sigh) Nobody on the Mad Gear was never like this, that's
for sure." Chun-Li said to herself. She wasn't taking a liking to the humor
employed by the door.
"Anyway, my lady, is there something I can do for you?"
Abigail said.
"Well, I'm looking for an escaped criminal. He wears a metal
mask over his face and had long claws that..." Chun-Li said.
"Ah, perhaps you
are talking about Vega, if I am not mistaken." Abigail said.
"Yes! Have you
seen him?" Chun-Li said.
"Of course I have, he went right through this door.
See?" Abigail said. He opened his mouth wide as Chun-Li looked inside and saw
Vega sailing away in some water region.
"Ha! Now I've got him right where I
want him!" Chun-Li said.
She tried to open the door, but Abigail simply shifted his face away.
"Not
so fast, dear! You're far too big to fit through me!" Abigail said.
"Then how
am I supposed to fit through that blasted door!?" Chun-Li said.
"I think I
have the perfect solution. See that table behind you?" Abigail said. Chun-Li
naturally turned around to see a table with a blue-colored drink and a cookie.
The drink had a tag that read the words "DRINK ME" on it, while the cookie had
"EAT ME."
"Hmmm... what are these?" Chun-Li asked.
"Some of the finest
products that the New World makes. One of them is designed to help you with your
current situation." Abigail said.
"Are you saying one of these things could
help me shrink to the perfect size?" Chun-Li said.
"Precisely." Abigail said.
Chun-Li looked down on the table and observed both the drink and the cookie. She
eventually decided to take the cookie.
"Well, I did skip lunch today..."
Chun-Li said. She took a bite from the cookie and chewed away, thinking of what
might happen. After she gulped the pieces down, she could suddenly feel some
sort of change going through her body. She was startled enough to drop the
cookie.
She looked up to see the ceiling inching ever so closer to her, while
the floor and Abigail were actually fading from view. Chun-Li quickly came to
the conclusion that she wasn't shrinking, she was growing!
"Hey! What's going
on? Why am I growing!?" Chun-Li shouted to herself. She sat down when she felt
her head touching the ceiling, but even then, the ceiling was still closing in
on her. Chun-Li was scared that she was going to outgrow the room as she was
forced to sit down, but thankfully the growth stopped when her head was scraping
the ceiling.
She looked down at Abigail, who appeared to be laughing.
"Well now, I'd
say a little of that went a long way! Hahahaha!" Abigail said, laughing. Chun-Li
wasn't laughing, though. In fact, she looked quite angry.
"Very funny. I
really wish I could kick your sorry face right now!" Chun-Li said.
"Now, now.
Temper, my lady. Why not try the drink?" Abigail said. Chun-Li looked back down
at the table and could just see the drink that she had previously ignored
before. She carefully picked it up using her two fingers and drank every last
bit of the potion. As soon as she gulped it down, Chun-Li started to breathe
easy since she was shrinking. But the potion apparently overdid its job as
Chun-Li continued to shrink past her normal size! Luckily, she stopped when she
was just the right size as the door.
"Hah! Finally! Now I can walk right in
and catch Vega!" Chun-Li said. As she reaches for Abigail, however, he turned
away yet again.
"Huh? Let me open the door!" Chun-Li shouted.
"Oh, sorry,
no can do. You see, I forgot to tell that I am locked!" Abigail said. Chun-Li
smacked herself on her forehead.
"That's just great. Well, we'll just have to
use the key then, won't we?" Chun-Li said.
"But I'm afraid Vega took the key
with him. There's nothing more I can do for you." Abigail said. But Chun-Li
wasn't fazed at all. In fact, she was flashing an evil looking smile.
"Sure
there is." Chun-Li said. She then started charging her hands with energy, like
she was going to blast the door open.
"Uh... what are you going to do with
that?" Abigail asked.
"It'll make you wish Cody or Guy beat you senseless."
Chun-Li said.
"What!? Oh please, my lady, I'm sure we can discuss this in a
more non-violent manner!" Abigail said. Chun-Li then started charging her energy
once more, before it was finally time to unleash it. She raised her voice up
before it could be loud enough for her to shout.
"KIKOUSHOU!!!" Chun-Li
screamed. A bright burst of blue energy emitted from her hands, destroying the
door and its knob, Abigail's face, in the process. Where the door once stood was
now an empty black space, no doubt the gateway to the next region.
"Well,
that was easy." Chun-Li said. Just then, however, after a small trickling sound
could be heard, a major rush of water started to come from the pathway, catching
her off guard.
"Crap crap crap!" Chun-Li said as she got swept up by the
tidal wave and swung her arms wildly, struggling to stay afloat in the currents.
Luckily, the bottle that contained the shrinking potion was floating around, and
was also big enough to support her. Chun-Li climbed on top of the bottle and
hung on tonight as the current was moving towards the open hallway.
Eventually the blackness faded away to reveal a wide open ocean with stormy
looking skies. Chun-Li looked around to try and find anyone that could rescue
her.
"Help!!! Somebody please help me! I'm lost at sea!!! Literally." Chun-Li
shouted. Suddenly, she could hear the sounds of men talking. She looked to the
side to see a ship sailing the seas, with two men onboard. Amazingly enough, the
man at the front of the ship was none other than Chun-Li's comrade, Guile! And
up at the mast, controlling the sail, was his brother, Charlie. Chun-Li could
just make out what they were saying.
"Ah... this is the good life, isn't it,
Charlie? Nothing but the two of us sailing the open sea, with large waves to
keep you busy!" Guile said.
"That's easy for you to say, captain!" Charlie
said.
"Captain Guile? And since when did he become interested in boats?"
Chun-Li said to herself. But there was no time to wonder about that. She needed
his help, and badly.
"Commander Guile! Down here! Please help!!!" Chun-Li
said. But before she could say anymore, she was washed up by another large wave,
knocking her off the bottle. In any case, Guile was looking in another
direction, and he was looking at something that piqued his interest.
"Ah ha!
Land ho, trusty sidekick! Let us take over that island!" Guile shouted.
"Yes
sir!" Charlie shouted, as he moved the sail to allow the wind to carry him to
the small island.
As soon as Guile and Charlie landed there, many native villagers came out to
dance with the two as they began to instruct everyone on what to do. Charlie was
keeping the fire burning while Guile gave orders.
"Keep moving everyone! No
way you can dry yourself off by standing still!" Guile said.
"That's right!
Work that rhythm! Only a rhythm as good as the one you're doing will get the job
done." Charlie said. In the meantime, Chun-Li was able to fight her way through
the waves and make it to the island. She looked up at her partner.
"Commander
Guile! Thank goodness you're here! Where the heck are..." Before Chun-Li could
finish, the native villagers swept her up and pushed her to move along with the
dance.
"Yes, that's right! You must keep moving! You'll never get dry that
way!" Guile said.
"What!?" Chun-Li was lost totally, but of course, she had
no idea she was a part of a completely different universe. She eventually
started to pick up the pace enough where the man behind her didn't have to push
her.
"There, that's better! You'll be dry in no time!" Guile said.
"But
I'll never get dry in this condition!" Chun-Li shouted.
"Nonsense, girl! It's
always worked for me. Especially after you're hit by a large tidal wave!" Guile
shouted. True to his word, a large wave swept up the base of the island. But
everyone, even Chun-Li, was able to still stand (although she still had to cough
out excess water).
"All right everyone! We've been hit again! Look lively,
we'll dry ourselves off much quicker this time!" Guile said. Chun-Li moved with
the beat until she looked to the right to see Vega crawling up the sands of a
nearby beach.
"Vega!!!" Chun-Li said. Vega looked to see her, but then looked
at his watch (dangling off one of his claws) and started to take off again.
"Oh my goodness! I'm late! I'm so late!" Vega said.
"Grrrrrr... I'll have
your head yet, Vega!" Chun-Li shouted. She was able to break out of the pack and
give chase after Vega. Guile wasn't phazed by this, as he continued to get his
villagers dancing and singing.
After much running through the forest, Chun-Li had lost Vega once again. Now
she was left to search for more answers to an ever-growing list of questions.
"Geez... I have not known stranger days. I don't know where Vega is. I don't
know how Vega could escape. And most important of all, I don't know where I am!"
Chun-Li shouted. She stomped her foot on the ground to show her frustration. She
sat down on a nearby log and started to think of things, even though she was
completely unaware that she was being watched.
Behind the bushes were two
people who were carefully watching every ounce of movement from Chun-Li. One
looked exactly like Ryu, while the other resembled Ken right down to the red
karate outfit. Of course, as Chun-Li was about to find out, they weren't exactly
the Ryu and Ken that she knew.
After a few minutes, Chun-Li got up and
started to walk again, hoping to find a normal place for once. Just as she could
exit the forest, however, she looked to the side to see Ryu and Ken standing
there. They were standing as stiff as rocks, however, even as Chun-Li called out
their names.
"Ryu? Ken?" Chun-Li said. She then tapped Ryu on the shoulder,
and he immediately moved afterwards.
"If you think we're wax figures, you
really ought to pay!" Ryu said. He then hit Ken squarely on the shoulder as he
started to talk.
"Ooof! On the contrary if you think we're alive, you ought
to pay as well!" Ken said. Then he hit Ryu back and the two eventually battled
it out like they would in Street Fighter. After about 20-30 seconds of jumping,
punching, kicking, Hadokens, and Shoryukens, they both stopped and faced Chun-Li
once again.
"That's logic!" they both said in unison.
"Uh... right. Well, if you two don't mind, I must get going for now..."
Chun-Li said. But just then, the two ran right in front of her and blocked her
path.
"You're doing it backwards!" They both said.
"The first thing you do
is shake hands." Ryu said. He offered his hand to Chun-Li, only to have it
swatted away by Ken.
"And then you lay the smackdown on him! Oh, and right
afterwards, you state your name and business!" Ken said, and then punched Ryu in
the face.
"That's manners!" both shouted.
"Oh really? Well, I'm Chun-Li
and I'm looking for Vega! So there!" Chun-Li said. Both fighters ran in front of
her again.
"No, no! You can't go just yet!" Ken said.
"And why not?"
Chun-Li said.
"The visit has just started!" Ryu said.
"Yeah, but..."
Chun-Li said.
"If you stay long enough we might have a real battle!" Ken
said. The two then started to battle each other Street Fighter-style once again.
They were so involved this time with their clash, Chun-Li saw this as the
perfect opportunity to make her escape.
"They're like children…" Chun-Li
said, shaking her head and then running away.
Chun-Li walked down the pathway that Ryu and Ken had been blocking this whole
time. After a few minutes, she came across a nice-looking house with a gate
protecting the front lawn. Chun-Li stopped right at the gate.
"Now who could
possibly live here?" Chun-Li asked herself. Just then, she could hear a voice
from inside.
"Mary Ann! Confound that girl... where did she put them? Mary
Ann!" Chun-Li looked up to see the window open, with Vega inside!
"VEGA!" She
shouted. Eventually, the window closed and the front door opened, with Vega
running out.
"Oh, it's no use! I can't wait! I must hurry back!!!" Vega
shouted as he ran by Chun-Li.
"Vega! Wait!!!" Chun-Li shouted. Vega
eventually stopped and walked back to Chun-Li.
"Why, Mary Ann! What are you
doing out here?" Vega said.
"Huh? Mary Ann? Who the hell do you think you're
talking to!?" Chun-Li shouted.
"Don't just stand there, Mary Ann! Grab my
rose at once! I'm late!" Vega shouted.
"Late for what!?" Chun-Li shouted.
"My rose!" Vega shouted. He then pointed his claws at Chun-Li, who backed up
into the house before the door closed, "At once, Mary Ann!"
"Geez... I guess
I'll be taking orders from Cammy next." Chun-Li said as she started to climb the
stairs in front of her.
In the small bedroom upstairs, Chun-Li searched all
the drawers frantically for the rose that Vega was looking for.
"If I were a
mask-wearing deadly assassin from Shadaloo, where would I hide a red rose?"
Chun-Li said. She had decided to play along with Vega for now and hope that
later on he could be captured and interrogated. While searching, however, she
saw a box on top of one of the dressers. She opened it up and saw a bunch of
treats that had "EAT ME" written all over them, much like back at Abigail's
place.
"Well, I suppose I could take one." Chun-Li said to herself. She then
took one of the treats and ate it before resuming her search. Eventually, she
could feel her body expanding, and she once again got the impression that she
had eaten something that makes her grow, especially as the ceiling rapidly
closed in.
"Oh no... not again!" Chun-Li said. She then sat down and
scrunched herself up as much as she could to avoid seriously damaging anything
in the room.
Meanwhile, Vega was getting impatient as he looked at his watch and noticed
he was running as late as usual.
"Ack! Mary Ann!" Vega shouted as he ran back
into the house. He ran upstairs and started to open the door to his room.
"You see here, Mary Ann..." Before he could say anymore, he frantically ran back
downstairs when he could see a great big white boot growing outside of the room.
He had to jump on top of it as he rode back downstairs while the foot starting
knocking things off the walls in every direction. Vega was successfully able to
escape, but now his house was filled up almost entirely by the giant Chun-Li. Of
course, he had no way of predicting such a thing.
"AAAAHHHH!!!! A monster!!!
Help! Help, assistance!!!" Vega shouted as he ran off into the distance.
Chun-Li, meanwhile, was stuck inside the house, with both legs and arms sticking
out and the rest of her body filling up the whole house. She didn't want to make
any sudden movements considering she could easily destroy the house, so she just
sat and began to think of things.
"(sigh) Hoo boy. How do I get out of this
jam!? Next thing I know, Vega will suddenly be calling Commander Guile for
help." Chun-Li said. She then started to hear voices from outside.
"...a
monster! A monster, Guile! In my house!" Vega said. Chun-Li then looked outside
and couldn't believe what she saw.
Sure enough, Vega had Guile with him, yet he wasn't doing anything that she
would do. Chun-Li erased all doubts now.
"This world is whacked." Chun-Li
said to herself. She sat and watched as the two approached the house.
"Now,
now. Steady, my boy. It can't be as bad as you might think!" Guile said.
"My
roof, the rafters, the roses... there it is!" Vega said, pointing up to the
giant Chun-Li stuck inside (with her head visible from the open windows at the
top). Guile jumped at what he saw.
"Well now! You are right. This is quite
the predicament!" Guile said.
"Well, aren't you going to do something about
it!?" Vega shouted.
"Oh, just relax, Vega. I have the perfect solution!"
Guile said.
"Thank goodness for that." Chun-Li commented from inside.
"We
simply pull it out from the chimney!" Guile shouted.
"Yes! Now go on, don't
just stand there! Do it to it!" Vega said.
"What? Who? Me? Oh, don't be
ridiculous. What we really need is..." Guile said. Before he could continue,
both he and Vega looked back to see a brown-haired man wearing a pink karate
outfit, carrying a ladder while he was whistling.
"Of course! A karate
fighter with a ladder!" Guile said. Of course, you and I both knew this fighter
as the 'almighty powerful' Dan Hibiki.
"Him? Oh! Dan! Could you help us out?"
Vega said. Dan looked to the side and entered the front lawn as soon as he heard
the call.
"At your service, Mr. Guile!" Dan said.
"Excellent, my boy. Have you ever
been down a chimney?" Guile asked.
"Why I've been down more chimneys..." Dan
said.
"Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant. You just pop down the chimney and
haul that monster out of there!" Guile said. Dan then started to climb the
ladder upwards for the chimney, but as soon as he could see Chun-Li's huge eyes
peeking through the windows, that's when he switched to full on panic mode.
"Monster? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" He screamed as he swung himself down the ladder,
but Guile and Vega simply pushed him back in the other direction. He was
fighting not to go up, until Guile was right behind him.
"There, that's
better, my boy. You're passing up a golden opportunity!" Guile shouted as the
two climbed up.
"I am?" Dan asked.
"You can be famous!" Guile said.
"I
can?" Dan asked. As soon as they were up top, Guile as doing all he could to
stuff a shaky Dan down the chimney.
"Of course! There’s a brave boy! In you
go now. There's nothing to it. Simply use that brute strength of yours and show
that monster who's boss!" Guile said.
"But, but, but, but Mr. Guile..." Dan
tried to speak, but Guile simply took his hand and shook it.
"Good luck,
Dan!" Guile said, before he finally shoved Dan's entire body into the chimney.
Upon landing inside, however, Dan created a huge cloud of dust that floated
up towards Chun-Li's face. Chun-Li couldn't fight off the itching sensation in
both her eyes and nose as she braced herself to sneeze.
"Ah, ah, ah, ah..."
Vega and Guile could sense it coming too, so they took cover with Guile going
behind one of the bushes and Vega ducking behind one of Chun-Li's giant boots.
"Aaaaaahhh... CHOOOOOO!!!" Chun-Li sneezed out the big one. Dan, who could not
find cover at all, ended up flying back out the chimney and towards the open sky
above. Guile, Vega, and even the giant Chun-Li all watched as Dan went flying
into the distance.
"Well... there goes Dan." Guile said.
"Poor Dan."
Chun-Li said.
"Perhaps we should try a more… energetic remedy." Guile said.
He lit up a match so that he could think better, like his brother Charlie would.
"Yes! Yes! Go ahead, anything to get that blasted thing out of my house!!!" Vega
shouted.
"Hmmm... let's see..." Guile said.
"WHAT!?" Vega shouted, getting
impatient over Guile's extended thinking time.
"I propose that we..." Before
Guile could say anything, he forgot about the match he was holding as it burned
to his finger.
"OW!" But suddenly, that gave him an idea, "Ah ha! That’s it! We’ll burn the
house down!"
"Ah, very good. We'll burn the house... WHAT!?!?" Vega shouted.
Chun-Li heard this idea and began to grow restless.
"No! You wouldn't dare,
Commander!" Chun-Li shouted.
Guile then proceeded to gather a whole bunch of
items, ranging from wood to bushes to even Vega's furniture. Vega was constantly
pleading his case with the commander, but he wouldn't listen as he was
determined to solve Vega's problem of sorts. In the meantime, Chun-Li was just
trying to think of a way to escape, even if it meant both ruining Vega's house
and stomping through the crazy land as a giant woman. Suddenly, however, as she
looked out at the gardens, an idea came to her head as she looked out at the
patch of vegetables.
"I got it! Perhaps if I will eat something from this
healthy garden, I'll revert back to my normal size." Chun-Li said to herself.
She started to pick one of the vegetables, but Vega stood in the way and ended
up getting picked up instead. Good news for Chun-Li, though, as he had the
vegetable in hand.
"AHHHH! Let go! HELP!" Vega shouted.
"As much as I want
to eat you, Vega..." Chun-Li said.
"You won't take me alive you, you, you,
you, you barbarian!" Vega said. But Chun-Li was able to bite the vegetable off
Vega's hand with pinpoint accuracy. And in an instant, she could feel herself
shrinking again. Vega was able to escape from her grip and dive back outside.
Chun-Li continued to shrink until she was back to her normal size.
Back outside, however, as Vega got up from his fall, he looked at his watch
and started to panic like mad again.
"ACK!!! I'm late, I'm late!" Vega
shouted. He ran by Guile who was trying with little success to get the fire
started.
"Ah, pardon me, Vega, but do you have a match?" Guile said.
"No,
sorry! I must be going! I'm so very very late!!!" Vega shouted. Chun-Li could
hear him escaping, so she quickly got up and ran down the stairs.
"Wait,
Vega! You come back here this instant!" Chun-Li shouted. As she got outside,
however, she was stopped by Guile.
"Say, young lady, do you have a match?"
Guile asked. He was then, however, punched directly in the mouth by Chun-Li.
"No, Commander! But I do have your thanks for letting Vega escape! VEGA! Come
back here!" Chun-Li shouted as she ran towards the flower gardens. Guile rubbed
his chin after the hit.
"Well, well. No cooperation at all. But we can't have
monsters running about in this land. I shall do whatever it takes on my own to
get the job done!" Guile said to himself as he continued to try and start the
fire that was to defeat the so-called monster that was now gone.
Chun-Li walked through the flower gardens, not really focusing her attention
on the poor flowers that were being crushed underneath her boots. The only two
things that were on her mind were where Vega could have gone, and more
importantly, where the heck she actually was. Before she could ponder any
further, she looked out into the distance to see smoke rising from behind the
trees, along with the sound of a man humming. Even curiouser was the fact that
some of the smoke clouds resembled letters of the alphabet, in particular the
vowels.
"Don't tell me this is the vaporic version of Marshmallow Alpha-Bits.
Sigh…with Vega nowhere in sight, I might as well dig into this rabbit hole."
Chun-Li said.
A few minutes after Chun-Li crossed through the trees and
entered another forest, she could hear the humming even more. So she knew she
was getting closer to her target. Eventually, she stopped to see a large rock in
the middle of a field, with fire burning around the sides, a rather large
mushroom, and a bowl of spicy curry to go along with it. On top of all that, a
recognizable fighter sitting on top. Dhalsim was sitting and chanting a few
words like he was speaking to his mind. Chun-Li could only hope and pray that
Dhalsim didn't have an alternate personality like everyone else she has
encountered in this world thus far.
"Um.... excuse me, uh... Dhalsim?"
Chun-Li said. Dhalsim opened his eyes and looked down at Chun-Li from the rock.
"Hmmm... who are you?" Dhalsim said.
"Well... don't you remember? I'm
Chun-Li! From the Street Fighter tournament." Chun-Li said.
"I don't believe
that rings a bell. Explain yourself." Dhalsim said. Chun-Li sighed heavily.
Another fighter changed dramatically in this new world. But she did her best to
keep her cool and try to speak in a way he could understand.
"Well, it's like
this. I've already been through a lot since this afternoon. Everyone is
different. I'm apparently no longer at Interpol. You know..." Chun-Li said.
"I don't know. Please elaborate." Dhalsim said.
"But that's as clear as I can
get it for someone like you. That is if you really are Dhalsim. Sometimes I
don't even know if I'm me anymore." Chun-Li said.
"You? Who are you?" Dhalsim
said.
"Well, why don't you tell me who you are first!?" Chun-Li shouted.
"Why?" Dhalsim said, quietly.
"(sigh) Everything is so confusing." Chun-Li said.
"It is not." Dhalsim
said.
"Well, it is to me." Chun-Li said.
"You'll get better with time."
Dhalsim said.
"I suppose..." Chun-Li said, "Well, I might as well be on my
way, seeing that you won't help me out any."
She then started to walk past
the rock, but Dhalsim was calling her back.
"Wait, my girl!" Dhalsim said.
Chun-Li wanted so badly to move on so she could get this wretched adventure out
of her mind, whether or not she captured Vega. But she decided to walk back to
Dhalsim anyway.
"Yes? What now?" Chun-Li said.
"Keep your temper." Dhalsim
said.
"Is that all?" Chun-Li asked.
"No. Tell me exactly what your problem
is." Dhalsim said.
"Well? What does it look like to you!? I'm lost in the
middle of nowhere and I can't even find one escaped criminal that I've been
chasing all day! And everyone I've met looks just like someone I've met before,
except they have a different personality!" Chun-Li said. Dhalsim just nodded,
and then strangely enough, started to walk away from the rock.
"Wait!? Where
the hell are you going?" Chun-Li shouted.
"One side will make you grow
taller, and the other side will make you grow smaller." Dhalsim said
"The
other side of what!?" Chun-Li said, and suddenly Dhalsim looked very angry with
his skin turning red instead of brown.
"THE MUSHROOM, YOU DUMB BROAD!!!"
Dhalsim screamed, before he vanished completely in a cloud of smoke. Soon
enough, the rock seemed to disappear like magic too.
"Heh… a temper tantrum
by Dhalsim. Never in a billion years I would've predicted that." Chun-Li said.
All that was left was the large mushroom. Chun-Li looked at it with
curiousity.
"Hmmm... perhaps this was what he was referring to." Chun-Li
said. She then picked off two pieces of the mushroom, one from its left side,
and another from the right.
"But which side is which?" Chun-Li said as she
traded looks back and forth between the mushroom pieces.
"Bleh. I don't
care." Chun-Li said as she bit half of one piece. It didn't take long for its
effect to kick in, as Chun-Li watched the world around her get bigger.
"What!? Oh no!" Chun-Li shouted, panicking a bit as she shrunk smaller and
smaller. Eventually she whittled down to 3 inches tall.
"Well, I guess I
found the side that makes me shrink. So I guess this half will make me grow."
Chun-Li said as she stared at the other piece she was holding. Chun-Li took just
as much of a bite as the shrinking piece. Immediately she grew.
"Whew… that's
better! What the…!?" Chun-Li said, thinking she was back to her normal size, but
she kept growing… and growing… and growing! She enlarged until she was all the
way to 100 feet tall.
"Goddamnit, now I'm too big!!" Chun-Li shouted towards
the clear blue sky, then kicking a few nearby trees off their roots out of
frustration. She then looked back down at her mushroom pieces.
"Ugh… this is
all your fault!" Chun-Li said. She gently tried to place the entire shrinking
piece into her mouth, but as soon as her tongue touched the piece, she suddenly
found herself shrinking again.
Finally she was back to her normal size. Chun-Li stared at the pieces for a
few seconds and was tempted to get them off her hands, but instead…
"Nah... I
better save these. I have a feeling they'll come in handy later." Chun-Li said.
With no immediate place to store the mushroom pieces, she had no choice but to
stuff them inside her bra, where her firm breasts would hold them securely.
Chun-Li then proceeded into the shadows. This new forest that Chun-Li had
entered was understandably different from the previous ones she has walked
through. The trees looked bare and lifeless, with signs pointing in every
direction. Naturally, this threw Chun-Li in a loop concerning which way was the
right way.
Before she could decide, however, she started to hear noises in
the background. They started out as faint chants, but could eventually be heard
as a female singing something.
"Now where in the world do you suppose that
came from?" Chun-Li asked to herself.
"Lose something?" the female voice
said. Chun-Li jumped at the sound. She looked up at the tree branches to see a
shadowy figure, whose eyes and mouth were the only things showing.
"Oh...
well, I was just wondering around." Chun-Li said softly.
"That's quite
alright, my dear." the female said. She then started to sing again, and this
time more of her figure could be seen. Chun-Li immediately recognized this woman
to be Ibuki, the not-so-silent ninja who played a helping hand in defeating M.
Bison.
"Oh! Aren't you Ibuki the Ninja Girl?" Chun-Li asked.
"Cheshire Ibuki is
my full name." Ibuki said. She then started to leap from tree to tree, like the
real Ibuki could've done had her ninja skills been perfected some more.
"Wait! Can't you at least tell me which way I should go?" Chun-Li asked. Ibuki
stopped and looked at Chun-Li once again.
"Well, that depends, my dear. You
see, there are no ways around here. Only the queen's ways." Ibuki said.
"I've
never met any queen." Chun-Li said.
"Oh! But you must! She'll be mad about
you! Simply mad!!" Ibuki said, before she started to jump through the shadows
again.
"Wait! Tell me where I can find her!" Chun-Li said. Ibuki then came
back into view.
"Well, I usually prefer the shortcut, if you know what I
mean." Ibuki said. Suddenly, one of the more larger trees opened up, revealing a
large field with grassy walls a big castle sitting out in the distance. Chun-Li
proceeded to walk through this maze-like field towards the castle, anxious to
see this queen which can hopefully solve all her problems.
Chun-Li was now very close to the castle, but she stopped when she noticed a
most peculiar sight. A group of soldiers wearing nothing but black were painting
a group of roses on a nearby tree. Chun-Li had a sneaking suspicion that she had
seen these soldiers somewhere before. Curiosity got the best of her as she
approached the group.
"Um... excuse me, but what are you doing?" Chun-Li
asked one of the guys.
"Well, you see, we planted the white roses by mistake.
And, the queen likes them red. If she saw what we said, she’d raise her voice
and each of us would lose his head." the guy said. But as Chun-Li listened to
the story, she then looked down and shivered at the familiar symbol pinned on
his chest. It was a skull with two wings on the sides.
"Shadaloo... It can't
be!" Chun-Li shouted.
"What was that?" the guy said.
"N...Never mind. Just
bad memories. Maybe I can help with the roses?" Chun-Li asked.
"Why, of
course! Just pick up a can of paint and be on your way!" the guy said. As
Chun-Li walked over to pick up a can of paint, she couldn't help but wonder how
Shadaloo could still exist even after Bison's death. But then again, she had
seen many strange things throughout her journey, so maybe this whole thing about
Shadaloo was purely an illusion, though it crept her out they were whistling
Bison's theme song from Street Fighter 2.
With one rose left on the tree, the horns suddenly trumpeted in the
background. Immediately, the three black-clad Shadaloo soldiers stopped.
"Hark! The queen is arriving!" the guy said.
"The queen? Hmmmm.... hopefully
she can solve my problems." Chun-Li said. She was forced to drop her paintbrush
when one of the soldiers dragged her to the ground. As they were laying flat on
the ground, face first, they each watched as more Shadaloo soldiers starting to
march in from the distance, only they were wearing red this time. Chun-Li
couldn't help but notice this.
"Hmmm... seems like this is the queen's royal
guard. But how come they're all dressed up like Shadaloo soldiers?" Chun-Li
asked to herself.
"Soldiers... HALT!!!" a male voice shouted in the
background. They stopped their marching and formed two long lines, leaving
plenty of room in the middle. Just then, another trumpet sound could be heard,
and it was coming from behind. Chun-Li looked to see it was none other than
Vega.
"Vega!" Chun-Li shouted. She was tempted to get up and tackle him on
the spot so he could be arrested, but she decided to wait and see what all this
was about. Vega took several bursts of breath, like he had been totally
exhausted, before pulling out a long piece of paper that was actually hidden
inside the trumpet.
"*Ahem* Announcing... He...he... her imperial highness,
he... her grace, her excellency, her royal majesty..." As Vega was reading out
the paper, Chun-Li watched as this Queen of Hearts started to emerge into the
distance. But when she saw who the queen and later the king actually were, her
eyes lit up like fire.
"Queen Juri of Hearts!" Vega finished. Juri emerged to a roaring cheer from
the 'Shadaloo' soldiers. From behind Juri emerged a man.
"And, of course,
King Bison..." Vega added. Bison bowed down to his subjects, yet only one person
let out a cheer for him.
"Queen Juri and King Bison!? Okay, now I've
officially lost it. Maybe I should've known..." Chun-Li said to herself. Again,
the temptation was there to get up and take Bison down, but she decided to wait
considering this may not be the Bison she fought against for so many years
before.
Juri, meanwhile, marched towards Chun-Li and the three black-clad
Shadaloo soldiers. Curiously, each of her bare foot stomps seemed to very
lightly shake the ground. She walked right past them and instead stopped in
front of the rose tree.
"Arrrrgh... who's been been painting my roses red?
Who's been painting my roses red!?" Juri shouted as she shook the rose tree.
"Who dares to taint, with vulgar paint, the royal flower bed? For painting my
roses redddddddd, someone will lose his head!" she finished. Her anger was
definitely showing as the black-clad Shadaloo soldiers shook nervously.
"Oh, no! Your highness! Please, it’s all his fault!" One guy said.
"Not
me, your grace! Him, him!" Another said, pointing to the guy on his left.
"You?" Juri asked.
"No, him!" Another said, pointing to the guy on his right.
"Him you say?" Juri asked.
"Not me, him!" Another said, pointing to... well,
you know.
"That’s enough! Off with their HEADS!!!" Juri shouted, putting the
emphasis on heads. The red-clad Shadaloo soldiers then took the three black-clad
soldiers away, to wherever it was that heads were lost. Juri then turned around
and saw Chun-Li.
"Hmmm... and who might you be?" Juri asked to Chun-Li.
"Well, let's see. It certainly isn’t a heart... do you suppose it’s a club?"
Bison asked to Juri.
"Well now... it looks like a young woman." Juri said.
"Ahem… Chun-Li is the name. And I'm assuming that you're..." Chun-Li stood up.
Before she could finish, Juri interrupted her.
"Look up! Speak nicely! Don’t
twiddle your fingers! Turn out your toes. Curtsey. Open your mouth a little
wider, and always say 'YES! Your majesty!" Juri said.
"YES! Your majesty!"
Chun-Li repeated.
"Splendid. Now, where do you come from? And where are you
going?" Juri said.
"With all due respect, that's really none of your
business. I've been looking for escaped criminials such as... as... well, never
mind. I was going to ask..." Chun-Li was once again cut off by Juri's shouting
(and one of her eyes glowing).
"I'll ask the questions here, damn it! Do you
by chance play any croquet?" Juri asked.
"Well..." Before Chun-Li could say
anything, she was interrupted yet again.
"Then let the games begin!!!" Juri
shouted.
Shadaloo soldiers scrambled to set up the playing field for the game, with
Bison making sure everyone was at work. After a short while, the field was
covered with wickets and stakes, and soon enough, the mallets were delivered to
both Juri and Chun-Li. Juri would take control of the yellow ball while Chun-Li
assumed command over the red ball.
Juri struck his ball first, and Chun-Li
noticed something very peculiar as the ball traveled the field. Even if this
wasn't the same Juri that she had encountered in very recent times, this one
still played dirty tricks as the wickets actually moved throughout the ground
and allowed the ball to pass through. Chun-Li sighed knowing that she wasn't
likely to get that same luxury that Juri was having.
As Chun-Li patiently
waited for Juri's cheering to end, her ears were tuned to the sound of someone
humming. She looked around before she saw Ibuki walking towards her. Apparently
she was the one humming.
"I say, how are you getting along?" Ibuki asked.
"Not at all." Chun-Li
said in a low-mannered tone.
"I beg your pardon?" Ibuki asked.
"I said not
at all!!!" Chun-Li shouted. Juri turned around.
"Who in blazes are you
talking to!?" Juri shouted.
"Oh... well... there was a ninja right behind
me." Chun-Li said.
"Ninja? Where?" Juri said, looking around. Ibuki suddenly
appeared behind Juri.
"There!" Chun-Li shouted. Juri turned, only to find
nothing. Then she saw Ibuki waving to Juri's side.
"Now he's over there!"
Chun-Li said. But instead of looking to her side, Juri looked straight at
Chun-Li.
"I'm warning you, young lady... If I lose my temper, you lose your
head! Understand!?!?" Juri shouted. She then walked back to the croquet field.
Ibuki appeared right beside Chun-Li and grabbed her mallet.
"Y'know, we could
try to make her really angry. Don't you think?" Ibuki said.
"Uh... I don't
think you want to do that." Chun-Li said.
"Oh, believe me, you haven't seen
anything yet." Ibuki said. She reared the mallet back and aimed for Juri's head.
"No! Wait!!!" Chun-Li did her best to stop her, but it was too late. Juri was
whacked upside the head, leaving her unconscious on the ground. The young
Interpol agent covered her eyes from the sight. Everyone was panicking wildly.
"Oh my maskly heavens!" Vega shouted.
"Oh dear! Save the queen!" Bison
shouted. Shadaloo troops, along with Bison and Vega themselves, surrounded the
fainted Juri. But little did they realize that she was able to get up, and she
was hot...
"Someone's head is going to roll for this!" Juri roared. She
knocked over the wall of people surrounding her and stared right at Chun-Li.
"YOURS!!!" Juri shouted again. Chun-Li, instead of hiding, got into her fighting
stance in preparation of defending herself.
"Off with her..." Before Juri
could finish, Bison tapped her on the shoulder.
"Wait, my queen! You should
consider a trial for the lady." Bison said.
"A trial?" Juri asked.
"Yeah... just a little trial?" Bison said. Juri sighed.
"Very well. Let the
trial begin!!!" Juri shouted. Immediately afterwards, the Shadaloo troops got to
work setting up the croquet field into the trial house.
Minutes after the trial house was put together, Vega stepped up to the podium
beside Queen Juri and King Bison. He cleared his throat before picking up a long
sheet of paper from the ground. At the side, the jury (made up of many other
Street Fighters) sat patiently.
"Your majesty. Members of the jury. Loyal
subjects..." Vega said. Bison tapped him on the shoulder afterwards.
"And
King Bison..." Vega finished. He then looked at the paper. Chun-Li was not
looking too interested for the time being.
"The prisoner at the bar is
charged with enticing her majesty into a game of croquet, and thereby willfully
causing the queen to loose her temper." Vega said.
"Splendid. Now, my dear,
are you ready for sentence?" Juri asked as he looked down upon Chun-Li.
"Sentence? But won't you state the verdict first!?" Chun-Li shouted.
"Sentence first! Verdict afterwards." Juri said with a smile.
"But that's not
the right way!" Chun-Li shouted.
"ALL WAYS ARE MY WAYS!!!" Juri shouted with
her hands on the edge of the table. Chun-Li backed away as if she were gonna
jump off the stand and kick her in the face with those bare feet.
"We shall call the witnesses now!" Bison said.
"How many are there?" Juri
asked.
"Maybe one or two..." Bison said.
"Very well... but get on with
it!!!" Juri shouted. Bison also backed away in fear, but soon stepped back up to
the table.
"First witness! First witness! Calling the first witness!" Bison
said. Soon, behind Chun-Li, two Shadaloo soldiers led the first witness into the
door. Ironically enough, this witness looked just like Zangief, another of the
Street Fighter contestants. But Chun-Li never took into consideration that this
Zangief was the same one she met in Russia.
"So, Marching Zangief, what do
you have to say about this most unfortunate matter?" Bison asked.
"Nothing."
Zangief said.
"Nothing whatsoever!?" Juri shouted. Zangief dove right into
her face.
"Nothing whatsoever!!!" Zangief shouted.
"That's very important!
Jury, write that down please!" Juri said. Soon, the fighters... er, jury got to
work writing down the notes left by Zangief's brief speech.
"Y'know, your
majesty, that evidence doesn't seem so important." Chun-Li said.
"SILENCE,
GIRL!!! Next witness, please!" Juri shouted. Zangief left and was soon replaced
at the witness table by a mere coffee pot, being carried by two female soldiers
that looked like Juni and Juli. They had asked Juri to be very quiet and calm to
this witness.
"What have you to say about this?" Juri asked as she whispered
into the pot. Soon it opened to reveal a tiny-sized Sagat.
"Twinkle, twinkle,
little bat..." Sagat said, sounding a bit drunken. Juri then closed the pot
again and leaned towards King Bison.
"That's the most important piece of
evidence we've heard of yet. WRITE THAT DOWN!!!" Juri said, being sure to raise
her voice tenfold on 'write that down.'
As the jury got to work taking notes, Chun-Li's frustration with the system
was becoming more evident.
"Twinkle, twinkle. What the hell kind of evidence
is that!?" Chun-Li said to herself.
"Mad E. Honda!" Vega shouted. The Honda
lookalike stepped to the witness stand.
"So where were you when this horrible
crime was committed?" Bison asked.
"Why I was home taking a bath! You see,
today is my unbirthday!" Honda said.
"Your majesty! Today is your unbirthday
too!" Bison shouted.
"It is?" Bison asked. All the Shadaloo troops, including
Honda and Zangief, realized the importance of an unbirthday party and began to
throw one for their queen. The Shadaloo troops sung the unbirthday song while
Honda and Zangief prepared all the treats and presents at the table. Chun-Li
simply turned around and didn't bother to watch any of this nonsense.
"Good
freaking grief." Chun-Li said.
By the time the activity had quited down, and
Juri was admiring her new hat, Chun-Li turned around to see Ibuki sitting at the
witness stand (and waving and smiling at Chun-Li).
"Oh! Jur... uh, your
majesty!" Chun-Li said.
"Yes, my dear?" Juri said, looking down at her.
"Look! There she is!" Chun-Li said.
"Huh? Who? Where?" Juri asked.
"The
ninja I was talking about!" Chun-Li said, pointing to the witness stand. But
just as Juri looked over there, Ibuki had vanished from sight.
"Ninja!?" Juri
shouted. Just then, the coffee pot opened up again. This time to a more panicked
tiny Sagat.
"Ninja? I HATE NINJAS!!!!!!" Sagat then jumped out and started
running all over the place. He had first run into Chun-Li's face, who fell over
through all the excitement. As Honda, Zangief, and Bison all ran around
frantically trying to catch the shrunken Sagat, Chun-Li was picking herself up
from the ground. As she looked down on the floor, she noticed that the two
mushroom pieces she had picked earlier in her adventure had fallen out from
between her breasts. She held those in her hand as she stood up again.
"Get
the jam! Get the jam! It's the only way!" Honda shouted.
"The jam! The jam!
By order of the king!" Bison shouted. Zangief got it in his hand and threw it,
but it missed the king entirely and was heading straight for Juri.
"Let me
have it!" Juri shouted. Unfortunately, she got her wish with a face full of jam.
And to add insult to injury, Sagat was resting on top of Juri's head. Bison
tried to clobber Sagat with a nearby mallet, but ended up striking Juri instead.
Juri's heavy breathing, usually a sign of anger, was clearly being heard by
everyone around her.
"Somebody's head is going to roll for this!!!" Juri shouted. Bison, Honda,
Zangief, and Vega had all hurriedly passed the mallet and jar of jam between
each other before giving it to Chun-Li. Chun-Li tried to throw it away, but it
was too late.
"Ah ha!!!" Juri shouted. Chun-Li then suddenly remembered the
mushroom pieces.
"It's now or never..." she said as she tossed both pieces
whole entirely into her mouth.
"Off with her..." Before Juri could finish her
sentence, however, she watched as Chun-Li began to grow in size. Chun-Li grew
all the way to the roof of the house. She looked down to see a group of Shadaloo
soldiers trying to spear her, all while Juri stood shaking at her table.
"Hmmph... I'm not afraid of you!" Chun-Li said. She then reached down to pick up
the now small Shadaloo soldiers, who were trying their hardest to escape from
the giantess. She managed to grab a few of them as she held them to her face.
"Why, you’re nothing but a group of toy soldiers!" Chun-Li said, before she
dropped them and let them fall to their unhappy landings below. Bison remained
unphased and was instead reading something from a book.
"Rule 42. All persons
more than a mile high must leave the court immediately!" Bison said.
"I am
not a mile high! And I'm not leaving." Chun-Li shouted.
"But, but, but... you
must. It is Rule 42, after all, I mean..." Juri said. She then ducked down
behind Bison as Chun-Li leaned her face very close to the two.
"And as for
you, your majesty!" Chun-Li said, doing a mock curtsey, "Your majesty indeed!
Why, you’re not a queen,. You're just a fat, pompous, bad tempered old ty..."
Before she could finish, she looked around to unfortunately find herself back to
normal size. Juri let out a soft, evil laugh.
"So, my dear, what were you
saying?" Juri asked. Ibuki then suddenly appeared at the witness stand once
again.
"Well, she said that you’re a fat, pompous, bad tempered old tyrant!
Hahahaha!!!" Ibuki said, before she disappeared again. Chun-Li braced herself
for what was about to come.
"OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!!!!!" Juri screamed with
utmost authority. Soon enough, every last Shadaloo soldier, including King Bison
and Vega, started to give chase after Chun-Li. There were far too many for her
to fight, so she simply chose to run away.
Chun-Li ran through a quick barrage of many environments as Juri, Bison,
Vega, and the Shadaloo soldiers continued to run her down. She had run through
the beaches that had Guile instructing the many fighters how to properly dry
themselves off. She had run through the same forest that she met alternate
versions of fighters like Ryu, Ken, and Dhalsim. Strangely enough, even they
began to run her down, along with Honda and Zangief that she had met in the
trial house. Dan was even part of the chase, likely to get revenge for being
sneezed into the sky.
Eventually, after a few minutes of running, the
environment was covered in dense fog. All that remained in Chun-Li's eyesight
was herself and a floating door with Abigail once again as the doorknob. She
desperately tried to open him up.
"Ack!!! OUCH!!! I'm still locked, you
know!" Abigail shouted.
"Open up now!!! I have to get out of here!" Chun-Li
said. But before long, Abigail didn't say anything. As a matter of fact, he had
vanished completely from sight, leaving nothing but the door that was still
locked.
"NO!!! Please open up!" Chun-Li shouted. She continued to bang on the
door to no avail. Juri and her cronies were coming full circle. It was a matter
of yards now.
"Stay back!!! I'll fight every last one of you! You don't want
to touch me!!! GET BACK!!!" Chun-Li said. Despite those threats, as the pack
neared, she had to duck down and prepare for quite the beating. All she could
hear was Juri and Bison continually shouting 'off with her head' and everyone
else calling her name.
Eventually, there was nothing but a singular call for Chun-Li's name. Chun-Li
was almost afraid to do it, but she opened her eyes and... noticed the scenery
was totally different.
She wasn't in a fog-laden background. She was sitting
at her desk that had become so familiar to her throughout her days at Interpol.
Interpol... Could all this have been a dream?
Finally, she stopped thinking
to address the person that was calling her name. Amazingly, it was Guile.
"Guile? Is that you?" Chun-Li asked as she rubbed her eyes.
"In the flesh.
You seem tired. You've been napping for almost an hour now." Guile said.
"Sleeping? You mean it was only a dream?" Chun-Li asked.
"What was a dream?"
Guile asked.
"About Bison, Juri, Dhalsim, Vega, the world, the mushroom
pieces..." Chun-Li was then interrupted as Guile placed his hand on her
shoulder.
"Whoa, whoa... slow down, Chun-Li. It sounds like you've had one
exciting dream. Maybe it's just over Bison finally being dead and Vega
disappearing." Guile said.
That's when it hit her. Her journey to capture Vega had all been a dream. She
shook herself for not realizing it any sooner. She was simply too determined to
capture Vega and bring him to justice, and didn't even stop to realize the kind
of world she was actually in. Heck, the dream could've been over a lot sooner
had she realized the error of her ways.
Nevertheless, since it was only a
dream, it was nothing to go crazy over. She took another look at Guile.
"You're right. I must've been dreaming, Guile. I'm sorry." Chun-Li said.
"Look, you should go home and get some rest. Even your boss said to me that
you've been working too hard this week when there's no immediate danger to worry
about." Guile said. Chun-Li nodded.
"Hmmm... for once, I think I agree with
you, Commander. I'll be punching out now." Chun-Li said.
"Good girl. Have a
good weekend!" Guile said.
"You too." Chun-Li said. Guile then walked out of
the room as Chun-Li gathered all her things and headed out of the room, relieved
that the wildest dream of her entire life had come to an end. Although she did
think one more thing related to it…
"This'll make a GREAT bedtime story for
Li-Fen." Chun-Li said to herself.
END