Bad Dreams Ch.4
By Morlock and RC

Balance. Balance.

Chun Li had to relearn her lightning kick again. Vega had badly injured her quadracep, so she was just now starting to practice her kicks again.

Her leg snapped out almost too fast to follow for ten seconds, until the pain kicked in. Chun Li grimaced and put her kicking foot down. She flexed her leg a few times, trying to loose the soreness, but her aching muscles were being stuborn.

Chun Li walked over to the bench on the side of her private workout room in the Interpol gym and massaged her healing leg. It felt good to get back to her daily workouts. She would need to get in shape too. Guile had called her last week and told her that he had recruited Ken Masters in the manhunt for Ryu.

Chun Li let out a very unlady-like snort at the thought of the Japanese fighter. Who was this Ryu guy anyway? Sure, Interpol had been trying to find him before Bison had, but Chun Li knew next to nothing about this guy. Evidently an orphan that had been taken in by an martial arts master who taught Shotokan.

Chun Li had been surprised about this man's discipline. Shotokan was a very chi oriented style. Very difficult to learn. And from what Guile had told her, he was the only person to come close to perfecting it. Interpol had been very involved in the survailence of big fighting tournaments, and had been one of the first parties to identify the man who beat the invinsible Sagat.

Then this guy fades away, only seen at a few big tournaments and nothing else. Then BAM!! He kills Bison, and then kills the b*stard again!! Who in the h*ll does he think he is? I should have beat Bison, or at least Guile, but no. The Karate Kid shows up and kills the son of a b*tch not once, but twice! And now they had to worry about Bison coming back again and heading off after this d*mn amateur!

Chun Li sighed and got up off the bench she turned and walked toward the exit. Then suddenly she whirls and a bright bubble of streaking chi explodes from her palms and hurtels across the gym. It blows apart a punching bag and sand sprays everywhere.

Chun Li smiles and skips out the door.

Later at her apartment...

Riiiiiing!

Riiiiiing!

"Yes, hello?" Chun Li answered.

~Miss Li...this is professor Liang at the lab and I have some very facinating news to tell you.~

"Well, go ahead Prof."

~Well, about fifteen minutes ago I was examining the fatal wound to the head of specimen M.B. and I can tell you that whoever this man's killer was, he had one heck of an uppercutt. The whole front half of specimen M.B.'s skull has been shattered beyond repair and...~

"Get on with it Liang, I have seen the wounds."

~Yes, well as I was studying the four grooves left by the knuckles, the grooves started to glow. It was quite facinating, I have never...~

"Whatever, what happened then?!?"

~Well, there was a flash of reddish light and when I could see again specimen M.B. had dissolved into a pile of dust...~

"WHAT?!?!?!?! Never mind, don't tell anyone about this, until I call you back!"

Chun Li slammed the phone down and then picked it up again. She dialed for the operator and said,

"Operator, get me US Airforce Headquarters please."