Street Fighter:THE LOST SAGA
CH.36:Face to face with Shadaloo!
By CNash
 
 
 
As the massive Shadaloo airship drifted through the air,Ryu and the others were brought once before his majesty of evil,M.Bison himself!

"You may have won the tournament,Ryu Hoshi!"said Bison. "But you lost the battle against me!"
"What do you plan on doing with us?"said Li.

"You'll soon see."said Bison grinning. "Come with me."

The two troopers nudged Ryu and the others with their guns to follow him to a certain room within the ship.

"Shadaloo is the greatest world-spanning organization there ever was."said Bison. "We have connections here in Thailand,China,Japan,the US..you name it.

And as you can see--my greatest interest as of late has been--street fighters!
They have the potential to strive and become stronger and more skilled. I have formulated a plan take some of the greatest martial artists ever known,and create unique shadaloo soldiers out of them."

"Out of us?"said Ken.
"Yes."said Bison.
He then snapped his fingers and a trio of lab coated scientists came upon them,rolling a trio fo cryogenic capsules.

They each opened them and revealled a startling sight from within.

There were exact duplicates of Ryu,Ken,and Chun-Li within them,all placed in a state of suspended animation.

"These..."began Bison.
"...are my genetically created fighter clones of yourselves. Taken from drops of blood samples and dna from your past battles with other fighters.

They are nearly complete,that's where the three of you actually come in."
"I knew he was gonna say that."said Ken.
"I chose you three for various reason."said Bison. "You,Ken Masters,the greatest fighter in all of North America,and you Ryu Hoshi winner of the last tournament,the world's greatest warrior ever,and the one to defeat Sagat--twice.

And you Chun-Li Xiang,I have taken a special interest in you,after seeing you in action and of course,another grand reason."

"And what pray tell is that?"said Li.
"To replace the one other great fighter that I tried to extract fighter's ki and data from,but he got himself trying to escape.
Namely...your very father,Dorai Xiang!"

Li gasped and her eyes went wide.
At long last,she found the killer of her beloved father--and Bison himself was that killer.

"YOU---MONSTER!"said Li as she attempted to lunge at him.
But Ryu and Ken grabbed her arms and pulled her back.

"NO CHUN-LI!"said Ryu struggling with her.
"This is not the time or place to do this!"
"Ryu's right!"said Ken. "He's got heavilly armed goons on our backs,we can't risk anything!"

Li slightly settled down,but her eyes,now filled with intense hatred focused right at Bison.
"I'll..get you for this!"she said.
"Sure you will."said Bison. "You should be honored in spite of your father. You will carry on his legacy in his place.
And in case you're wondering hoe this process shall be done..I have a specially desinged machine that wille xtract your fighter's ki and essence and place them within these programed shells...making them my obedient and willing soliders.

You see..there were somewhat useful at first...but I figured they would not be as good as the real thing unless I got the real figthers and siphoned their power into these.

This one of you Ryu...I just happened to use him for a test run on a group of policeman on an operation in the phillipines.
Pity what happened to their chief,I heard he had a loving wife and daughter."

"Phillipines..?"thought Ryu as he remembered something about the woman he fought named Nadji.
"Could...this be the one Nadji thought was--me?"

Speaking of Nadji,the vengeful warrior woman was searching through the bowels and rooms throughout the ship she was on.

"I should've known this would happen."she thought. "That coward Ryu has fled to his boss no doubt..and that freaky man in red must be the one who orders him to do nasty things to people. Well..when this is over with i'll show them all!

Maybe I didn't win the tournament,but in the end..i'll win the war and no one shall ever be hurt or killed by these terrorists ever again."

Just then,Nadji came upon a secret room that was marked FILES AND AFFAIRS on the door.
"Hmmm..."she replied. "..maybe i'll find some info on these guys in there."

She carefully opened the door and snuck inside.

Once inside,she found several computers and file cabinets.
She noticed one up front that was marked SHADALOO MAIN OPERATIONS AND RECENT AFFAIRS.

Nadji opened it and found a large manila folder and it also contained the name RYU on it.

"Shadaloo..?"she said. "Could these be the ones Ryu is working for?"

She opened the file and found several bits and pieces on recent affairs on Bison's past escapades and found some photos of certain fighters.

"Hey,I recognize some of these fighters.."she said. "..they were in the tournament earlier."
She even saw a photo of the same man she saw at the contest.

"Who is this man?"she thought. "Could he really be the one behind my father's murder as well as Ryu?"

She then ran across a file containing info on Ryu himself,but then read something else that was in there as well...about an operation of criminal affairs in her home town in the Phillipines.

"No---it can't--can't be!"she said.

While back in the computer lab room.

"Now then."said Bison. "You three shall be just the beginning. Once I have finished the cloning of your ki powers,I shall kidnap and construct other great fightetrs into a growing army of super Street Fighters..and the world shall know the true power--of SHADALOO--HAHAHA!"

"Man,do they always gotta laugh when they're on a roll?"said Ken. "How Saturday morning cartoon villian can ya get?"

"Enough talk for now."said Bison. "You three shall be taken to that cybernetic holding rack and there your ki and life force shall be extracted.

Men.."

The trio of troppers rammed the butts of their rifles against Ryu and the other's heads and they were knocked out.
"I didn't think you'd cooperate anyways."said Bison. "Nice meeting you all by the way,heh-heh..."

The trio of heroes were taken to the holding rack and placed there in shackles.

Once held,Bison activated the controls and the siphoning process was about to begin as a set of hoses and wires were attached from the rack to the three pods containing the clones.

"Soon...the power of Ryu Hoshi shall be mine!"said Bison.

While back in the files room,Nadji was still frantically reading the folders on Bison's affairs and was about to come to a terrible realization.

"This can't be!"she said. "If it is true,then..i've been wasting my time and life pursuing the wrong enemy..and I almost killed him as well. But..what if it's all a trick? What if---"

Suddenly,a hand lay upon her shoulder and swung her around.

"GASP!"she replied.