SF4 - Alt. Perspective 2

Episode 2: A Chance To Earn A New Life


It was only a couple of minutes before the explosion. The young fighters were ready to duke it out, not thinking about the pressure of time. She needed the optical disc the boy had; it was the only info of the existence of this facility. There wasn't time to debate.

"Well then, here goes!!!" she said, dashing forward to the boy. She jumped towards him, executing her Cannon Strike. The boy, raised his hand and stopped the attack with his palm. She wasn't expecting such simple movement that it could block her CS. Afterwards, he applied pressure and through the girl away. She managed to stand on her feet easily.

"It looks like you knew about this attack..." she said to him

"Well, I actually did.... Ms. Cammy!"

".........How did you know my name?" she inquired

"It's secret, I can't really tell you!" he said, with a cunning smile.

That drove Cammy to the edge and kept attacking him with more pressure. The boy managed to escape her, dashing towards the exit of the facility.

"There isn't much time left! You need to catch me if you want this disc!" he yelled back at Cammy while he was making his way out.

"He isn't taking me seriously, is he?" Cammy said and with a blink of an eye, she rushed behind him really fast, like the speed of sound.

The boy thought that she lost him, but he was mistaken. In front of him was the exit, but before he could reach it, a red coat covered his vision.

"What the hell...?" he said and in surprise, Cammy appeared behind him. The young man turned to face her and she landed a kick in his face.

It was a hard hit. He lost his steps and he felled down the huge staircase on the base.

"Sir, I can see someone falling down the staircase!" yelled a soldier at Colonel Wolfman.

"Well, as far as I know, Cammy is having some fun there!" he said back to the soldiers. "... But, stay sharp, we don't know what will happen now".

The boy standed at his feet when he landed down on the ground, in front of the staircase; he didn't expect such a sneaky approach from her.

"Damn, that was avoidable..." he said.

Suddenly, Cammy made a huge leap from above, hoping that she could strike the boy down.

"He must be a spy of some sort, I mustn't let him flee!" she said to herself.

When she was ready for another CS, the boy said to himself:

"That again? Third time's a charm, just keep on doing this...!!", said to himself with a cunning smile and he managed to side step, avoiding the CS. When he got on his feet, they continued their fight.

In front of the surprised eyes of many Delta Red members, Cammy and him were fighting like there was no tomorrow. Wolfman was watching the boy really closely; he was pretty good, considering the fact that someone could actually go hand-to-hand against Cammy.

Suddenly, the boy remembered the self-destruct sequence and he warned Cammy.

"Wait! It's gonna blow! We should stop this for now!"

"Agreed... But, you're coming with us, I can't let you go!"

"But....!"

Cammy grabbed firmly his hand and she yelled back at Colonel Wolfman:

"Sir, we have to evacuate, the base is set to self-destruct in a couple of minutes!"

Wolfman listened to Cammy and he shouted really loud at his comrades:

"EVACUATE AT ONCE! DON'T LEAVE ANY POW BEHIND!"

"YES SIR!" the soldiers replied.

With haste, all of the Delta Red members plus the mysterious lad (now in Cammy's custody) made their way onto the choppers. As they made their way away from the island, the base exploded, leaving no trace of its existence. The only thing that made it alive from the base was that disc the boy had.

Wolfman boarded the same chopper with Cammy and the boy. He was really curious and he started asking the boy some questions:

"Impressive work. Cammy told me that you were the one who put the base to self-destruct. Not to mention your fighting abilities."

"Hmmph... You're welcome...."

"So, what are you planning to do now?"

"I dunno. Maybe can you ride me somewhere?"

"Where to?"

"Anywhere. Just.... Anywhere... Oh yeah, you where looking for this..." And he gave the disc to Cammy.

"Well, you need it more than I do. I just made a copy of whatever i've found in the mainframe, put it into good use." he said.

Cammy was speechless.

"Why is he giving it so easily, he was holding on it so much...." she said to herself.

"Let's make a deal, then" he said back to the Colonel. "You got the disc and you're going to drop me somewhere, is that OK?"

Colonel gave it some thought and he said:

"I've got something better in my mind: Why don't you join us since you don't have anywhere to go? Your performance was excellent." he said back with a smile.

Everyone inside the chopper stared at the Colonel, especially Cammy. How can he trust a mysterious individual like him?

It was all up to him...