Conspiracy Ch. 3
By Ryu Dragon

Somewhere in Mississippi…

Its really a huge office, the floor is covered with dark red carpet, the wall is half wood and half cement, painted in gray color, a huge glass window facing to east, toward the rising sun, allowing the yellow sunshine gets into the room. The office is artistic too, with several artistic paintings hanging on the wall, two lion statues on each corner and a big artistic lamp on the center of the ceiling. There are two bookshelves in the room, each contains different kind of books, on the left shelf are bio-science books, on the right shelf are law, arts and military books. Near the huge window, there are a big executive desk, three executive chairs, one near the window, and the other two on the opposite side. In the room, there are two men, one is standing facing the sun, and the other one is sitting on one of the guest chairs.

“So, how’s our plan going, Bison ?” – the man standing near the window. He wears an executive shirt, black pants, black executive jacket, a red and gray tie and a pair of expensive black executive shoes.

“No problem at all, Jackson. But I’m expecting some trouble coming soon.” – Bison. He is the man who is sitting on the guest chair.

“Ah yes, the Interpol… and those pesky S.T.A.R.S.” – Jackson.

“Pesky, but persistent, like the Interpol, and those street fighters.” – Bison.

Jackson turns and sits on the chair opposite to Bison. “Yes, but don’t worry, once we finish developing the super bio-soldier, they wouldn’t be able to bother us anymore.”

“And the world will be ours.” – Bison. He chuckles maniacally.

“Yes, the world will be ours.” – Jackson.

“Tell me something Jackson, I’m still curious about your motive for creating this bio weapons. Why do you do it ?” – Bison.

“Simple, because I’m bored.” – Jackson. He smiles, and leans back.

Hearing the answer, Bison raises one eyebrow in surprise. “Bored ?”

“Yes. You see Bison, the world is getting too soft, and people live in this world without truly fight for their life. They only care as long as they got basic needs, and that’s it. I want to create a world where people really fight for their life, so only the real strong and smart people can live, weaklings simply must die. I never like weak people, Bison, they’re disgusting. No weak people should live in this world.” – Jackson.

Bison ponders for a moment then grins. “You’re right. I like your idea. We’ll make this world only for the strong ones. Strong survives, weak dies, a simple rule of living.”

They both smile and then laugh psychotically.

***

Seattle international airport at noon…

The airport is crowded with people, most of them are tourists coming for holiday season. A beautiful woman wearing a light green T-shirt, blue jeans, a thick jacket covers her from neck to her hip, a pair of wool gloves and a pair of running shoes. Her hair is black and straight, covering her neck from the cold winter air. On her side is a big muscular man, about 175 cm. He wears a white T-shirt, black jeans, a thick dark green jacket and a pair of white running shoes. The man is holding a wooden board to signal a passenger that they’re waiting for.

“Lots of people coming these days.” – The man. He scans around to look for the person they're waiting for.

“Yeah, mostly come for holidays, Christmas holiday.” – The woman.

“When is it gonna be ? I mean the Christmas day.” – The man.

“Geez, you don’t know ? You’re joking, right ?” – The woman.

The man blushed and shakes his head. “I never knew those things. I know there is Christmas, I just never remember when.”

“Its in another two weeks, 25 December. Now you better remember that.” – The woman smiles.

The man heart beat races seeing the woman’s beautiful smile. “Okay, I will. Hey, when will the agent come, Chun Li ?”

“Should be around this time. I wonder what took her so long. Do you think we should check inside ?” – The woman. She is Xiang Chun Li, one of Interpol best agents.

“I don’t know, I just afraid that if we go inside, we’ll miss her and Ryu Dragon.” – The man.

“How ‘bout if I go check inside, and you wait here ?” – Chun Li.

“Okay, I’ll wait here.” – The man.

Chun Li goes pass through the check in and start looking for Jill, the S.T.A.R.S. agent that supposed to come an hour ago.

***

Inside the airport at the security office…

Jill is interrogated by two security officers for illegally carrying lots of weapons; three nine-millimeter Berettas, one Benelli M1 shotgun, one Colt Python plus lots of ammo for all the weapons. Somehow in the flight, she lost her S.T.A.R.S. I.D, so she can’t prove to the custom that she’s allowed to carries all those weapons.

“This is ridiculous !!! Why don’t you guys just call the S.T.A.R.S. office, and they’ll prove you that I’m a S.T.A.R.S. agent, and allowed to carry all those weapons.” – Jill. She felt tired, angry and stressed. She has been interrogated for at least half-hour and all because this dumb security wouldn’t believes her or at least makes a phone call to the S.T.A.R.S. head office to check.

“Look cutie, I never heard about this S.T.A.R.S. thingy. And about the phone call, you can just make it up to cover your lame story. So why don’t you just tell the real story, eh ?” – One of the officers. A fat and lazy security officer called Tyrone. He leans on the table and grinning at Jill.

Jill is about to raises her power, breaks the handcuff and gives a punch or two to Tyrone for calling her cutie, when suddenly the door is opened. Chun Li comes in with the head of security.

“Sir.” – The two security officers salutes as their superior comes in.

“Release the agent.” – The head of the security.

“But sir, she is…” – Tyrone.

“She is an agent from S.T.A.R.S. My name is Chun Li, and I’m from Interpol.” – Chun Li cuts in and shows her I.D.

“Oh, yes ma’am.” – Tyrone. He takes the handcuff off.

Jill gets up and rubs her wrists. She smiles and extends her hand to Chun Li. “I’m Jill Valentine, thanks for the help.”

Chun Li shakes Jill’s hand and smiles back. “No problem. Let’s go now. We’ve been waiting too long.”

“Okay.” – Jill. She walks along with Chun Li and the head of security to picks up her things while Tyrone and his partner cursing silently to themselves.

***

Ryu Dragon walks out from the custom at Seattle international airport, he only brings one backpack and a travel bag. He scans around to look for his friends. He sees Ryu holding a wooden board, then walks toward him.

“Ryu !” – RD.

Ryu heard RD calls and turns to him, he smiles seeing his friend again and walks toward him. They shake hands and smile.

“Dragon, how are you ? We’ve been waiting for you.” – Ryu.

“Hahaha, sorry, got a bit held in the immigration. And I’m fine. How are you ? And how ‘bout Chun Li ? Have you two hooked up ?” – RD grins at Ryu.

Ryu blushed, scratches his back head and laughs nervously. “Ha, no, I’m not thinking about that yet. Probably later on, I’m still focused on fight.”

“Always the same Ryu. I’m telling you, Ryu, she is a beautiful woman, you’ll be sorry if you lose her.” – RD smiles.

“Hahah… But I don’t think she’ll like me anyway. I mean what can a fine woman like her find something worthwhile in a guy like me.” – Ryu.

“Want me to make the list ? It’s gonna be too long. Hehehe, Don’t worry, Ryu. Just go for her. I’m sure you can get her.” – RD.

“Ha, let’s talk about it some other time. Here’s Chun Li and the S.T.A.R.S. agent coming.” – Ryu tries to change the subject.

Chun Li and Jill walk toward Ryu and RD. Chun Li then greets RD and introduces Jill to Ryu and RD. After the introduction, they go to Ken’s house.