Lost Memories Ch.11

By Chunli

 The Shadow of an old friend:

…Bison's men opened fire at the occupants inside the elevator, only to find out that it was empty. Surveying inside, they found it completely empty and turned to leave. All of a sudden, Ryu dropped from the escape hatch of the elevator with is hands cupped to his side. An intense blue light burned in his hands as he hurled forth a tremendous projectile.

"SHINKUU HADOKEN"

The projectile slammed into the group of soldiers and sent them crashing to a nearby wall. Dashing in, Guile, Ken and Ryu looked around. One of the soldiers was still conscious. Ryu picked up the wobbling man.

"Lead us were you are holding ChunLi and Eliza!" Ryu demanded with looks that could kill.

At first, the man refused, but after threw him around a few more times, the man complied. Going through a series of twists and turns all the while taking down Bison's guards until they eventually came up to ChunLi and Eliza's holding cell. Ryu rammed the door down. Inside Eliza was there waiting, sitting on a bed. Seeing Ken enter into the door, she ran up and hugged Ken.

"Oh I knew you would come." Eliza said hugging Ken fiercely.

"Where is ChunLi?" Ryu asked?

"I don't know, a man named Sagat came in a while ago and took her away to Bison. Be careful Ryu, Sagat has some sort of vendetta against you. He said that he only wanted you and told us to rest assured that ChunLi and I wouldn't be harmed as we are not part of his conflict. Why does he hate you, Ryu?" Eliza explained.

"Have you seen that scar on his chest? I gave that to him in our last fight." Ryu explained.

Picking the soldier up, Ryu ordered, "Take us to where Bison is."

After a few more twists and turns, they eventually came up a huge gate. Throwing the soldier aside, they entered through the huge gate. They entered into a large laboratory, where many grotesque experiments had taken place. They surveyed the place and looked around.

"I remember this place, this is where they put that chip on the back of my head." Guile said, the familiar laboratory triggered his memories.

All of a sudden a man appeared before them. He was wearing green army pants and he wore a dog tag, but what was strange about this man was that his skin didn't reflect light, it absorbed it, making his features unidentifiable. Focusing closely on the dog tag that hung on the man's neck, Guile could make out the name Charlie.

"Charlie?" Guile asked.

"There is no Charlie." The man replied in a voice that resembled Charlie, but lacking the life that had always filled his voice.

Suddenly, the man swung his right arm back and whipped it forward.

"Sonic Boom"

A single blade of spinning energy flew towards the group with unbelievable speed. Ryu countered by hurling his own blue projectile.

"Hadoken"

There was a tremendous explosion when the projectiles made contact. Ryu was thrown backwards by the shear force of the energy release when the projectiles collided. Ken quickly motioned for Eliza to find a hiding place as he dashed forward rolled under the dark man's legs and executed a rising uppercut as his fists burst into flame.

"Shoryuken."

Just before his fist made contact, the man flipped head over heels, causing Ken to miss him completely as he kicked Ken in the ribs.

"Somersault Shell"

All of a sudden a burst of energy slammed into Ken and sent him crashing towards a nearby wall.

"Charlie, don't you recognize me? Its me Guile." Guile said as he rushed forward and had the man in a headlock from behind.

"There is no Charlie, only Shadow." The man replied coldly as he quickly bowed and threw Guile off his shoulders. He then lifted his right foot stomp on Guile's skull, but Guile makes a twist and sweeps his other foot from under him and trips him. Rolling backwards, Guile gets into a defensive stance.

"Charlie, what have they done to you?" Guile asked.

Not responding, Shadow gets up and whips his right arm behind him. Seeing Shadow's arm move, Guile swings both arms behind himself and whips them forward, sending a pair of twin spinning blades of energy.
"Sonic Boom"

All of a sudden Shadow's eye flashed. Then he swings right arm around his, followed by his left arm, then his right foot and finally ending with his right arm whipped forward again.

"SONIC BREAK"

A barrage of spinning blades was thrown forward. Guile was hit multiple times as the blades engulfed his own sonic boom and proceeded to slam into him, sending him crashing to the nearest wall. Meanwhile Ken recovered and dashed forward again. All of a sudden Shadow vanished. Not knowing where Shadow disappeared to Ken stopped his attack. All of a sudden, Shadow appeared behind Ken and flipped head over heels, and hit Ken is the back twice. Shadow repeated the attack again scoring another 2 hits before making a final flip that hit Ken 3 times.

"SOMMERSAUT JUSTICE"

Ryu had recovered from being slammed into the wall. He dashed forward at Shadow. Once again, Shadow vanished, but Ryu, being able sense his opponent's chi, felt Shadow behind him. Quickly turning around, Ryu executed his attack.

Dashing Right Elbow.

"SHIN"

Left Hook.

The dragon sleeps...

Left Uppercut.

The dragon awakens...

Left Rising Dragon Punch.

"SHORYUKEN"

Shadow was elevated over 30 feet into the air as Ryu's attack sent him crashing to the ground. However, before Ryu landed, Shadow rose quickly, dashed forward launched his own uppercut that knocked Ryu up into the air. Shadow jumped up and followed Ryu, and pummeled him relentlessly in the air. Ryu hit the ground with a loud thud. Shadow then approached Guile, who was still recovering from Shadow's technique, and picked him up by the neck. Guile started to choke in Shadow's grip. But then Shadow's eyes fixed onto something on Guile's chest, his dog tag.

"G…Gu...Guile?" Shadow read out.

With Shadow distracted, Ken saw his advantage. He jumped forwards and kicked Shadow in the back of the head. Shadow dropped Guile as he fell forward. Ken continued his attack by exploding into a vertical pillar of flame.

"SHINRYUKEN"

Shadow was hit several times and he came crashing to ground with a loud thud. All of a sudden there a loud spark coming from the back of Shadow's head.

"Who am I?" Shadow asked.

Suddenly, Shadow stood up and grabbed his head and screamed in pain before running out of the laboratory.

"Charlie." Guile called after him.

"There is nothing you can do for him Guile, he has to find out for himself what he is." Ken said, holding him back.

"BISON YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!!!!" Guile screamed.

The group continued on their search for ChunLi. Eventually they found another exit. Entering they found themselves in an arena. At the podium, they saw a muscular man in a red military uniform seated on a throne. Behind him was a large supercomputer. Beside him, a scared Chinese girl in a blue wu shu uniform sat on the throne beside him. A soldier standing beside her, pointed a gun to her head. The girl trembled in fear. Ryu recognized the girl. It was ChunLi...

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