Street Fighter Movie Narration: Part 12

Vega, Natalie, their many friends, Sagat and his thugs and a number of Bison's evil forces are all gathered in the main tent, sharing the second-finest food and drink in the world (the finest, obviously, being whatever Vega has on offer!) as they wait for Bison to enter. Several other evil folks enter and take their places among the other guests, and Bison's computer voice can be heard saying "Welcome, warlords of Shadaloo! General Bison invites you to share his food, drink and entertainment..."

"...And then I put my hand to your cheek, asked if you were okay and said I would comfort you, I wouldn't let even Bison hurt you... and before I could say I love you, you took your mask off and we shared a kiss!" Natalie tells Vega. "Right in front of everybody, even Bison!"

Vega smiles. "I know it was just a dream..." he comments, "...But I bet Bison was jealous!"

"Oh he was! But you and I were too much in love and sharing our kiss to even barely notice..."

"I bet! But what a beautiful dream, I'm not surprised about it being a result of your increased worry for I over these past few months... but I definitely am surprised, very pleasantly so, to hear you had it just hours before... you and the others were called out here! A premonition, perchance?"

Natalie brushes a few strands of hair back with her fingers. "Hmmm, sounds likely!" and she calls to Raven and adds, "Hey Raven! Pass us one of those plates of squid rings!"

"Sure thing!" replies Raven, and she approaches the lovers and places a huge plate of squid rings on the table before them.

"Gracias, Raven!" Vega then smiles, and Raven bows to him and Natalie before returning to her place. She and Sara play rock-paper-scissors, and on their first round Raven wins by performing a scissors on Sara's paper.

Still trying to keep to their own plan to not reveal the truth to Bison and co. until the time is right, Sagat and his thugs wrinkle their noses as they see Vega, Natalie and their fans and friends all together.

"What a royal pain in the ass cheeks!" scoffs Slasher.

"Yeah!" adds Lex. "Stupid Vega fans ruin everything! Didn't I ever tell you about when Mel over there gave us all a flaming Shoryuken when White Wolf posted those photos, and..."

"...Yes..." laughs Justin. "You may have mentioned it once or twice, Lex! And apart from the ending, I never tire of the story!"

"And we never tire of hearing about when you picked on her, right down to your attempts to quite literally pull her leg!" adds Bruno.

Sagat then puts his glass down. "Guys, guys, please!" he tells them. "Calm down! Save it for the final battle!"

"However it may go..." adds Jenny. "I wouldn't be surprised if zat £$^&$-"£$*"^% Dhalsim tries to... repair zat "(£$%)£ Blanka!"

"I assume you'll suggest we place bets on that?" Ryu asks Jenny.

"Maybe on ze way to Bison's fort..." Jenny replies. "If at least we don't share any transport with any of zem..."

Sagat smiles at Jenny's idea. "We'll certainly consider it, madame!" he tells her, and he turns to the rest of his thugs and adds, "...As stated, keep it down until I give the word. Although I won't deny..."

But before Sagat can say another word... everybody cheers as Bison enters, and waves to them all as he approaches and then sits upon his raised throne, spreading out his magnificent cape as he sits himself down. He raises his hands, and Sagat, Ryu and Jenny approach him and take lower seats all at his side.

"Welcome!" Bison greets everybody. "I trust you are all enjoying yourselves thus far. Now enjoy some light entertainment, if you would..." and he turns to his guards standing at the stage entrance and orders, "Send in the first act!"

The guards salute, and they open the curtain... and in enter Balrog, Honda and Chun Li. Chun Li dances gracefully while Balrog beautifully wields a scimitar -indeed far more beautifully than Ryu's butt-ugly swordplay at Vega's cage fight- and Honda gets into position, lying down on the floor and placing upon his stomach the orange barrel he is carrying with the word 'Capcom' written upon it.

"Good company..." Tigggra tells Phoenix. "Didn't I tell you I completed Bionic Commando last week?"

"No you didn't!" smiles Phoenix. "Congratulations!"

Mel watches as Ken admires the trio. "You know, Mel..." Ken tells his friend, "...Those three look somewhat familiar! You'd think I'd recognise the babe, she's cute..."

"Weren't they those performers you and Ryu saw in Singapore?" Mel asks.

"No... somehow I know them from more... recent events..." and Ken blushes as Chun Li then approaches the table at which he is sat, and she blows him a kiss!

"Well perhaps we can get their autographs later, and ask then!"

Back at Bison's fort, Dhalsim sighs in relief as most of the guards watching him leave... and the chief guard assigned to watching him is preoccupied in reading a dirty magazine. Finally... he can begin to... repair poor Blanka! He approaches the control panel, and presses a few buttons to change the evil images being projected into Blanka's mind... into good ones. How beautiful!

Among the images shown are ones of Guile and his forces, and Vega and his many friends and fans... including Wizzard, who just happens to be Blanka's other best friend besides Guile. "I just hope they get here soon..." Dhalsim whispers under his breath, and he sighs...

Everybody enjoys as Honda, Balrog and Chun Li continue to entertain them with their act. They all watch as Balrog lifts the lid off of the barrel, and Chun Li enters. Balrog then places the lid back on the barrel, and Honda kicks the barrel into the air and this time it lands flat on his stomach, rather than its previous upright position. Balrog again beautifully wields the scimitar... this time right over the barrel!

"Oh no no no no no..." Honda groans to Balrog, all as part of the act... thus prompting several folks in the audience to shout "Yes! Yes!"

Balrog then stabs the barrel with his scimitar and slices the barrel in half... but Chun Li is not inside! But then a rope lowers - and Chun Li is hanging off of it, alive and well and all in one piece. Everybody applauds her, and she once again approaches Ken and lightly bows to him.

"She likes me..." Ken tells Mel, and Mel gives him a friendly nudge.

Chun Li returns to Honda and Balrog, and they lift her up and carry her. "How about our explosive finale?" Honda asks Chun Li.

"Not yet..." she whispers. "We have a problem..." and she head-gestures to Ken and Mel.

Honda and Balrog carry Chun Li out... and the harem girls all enter, and they begin to dance a beautiful and exotic dance. Dee Jay sighs in awe.

Bison then turns to Sagat. "And now..." he tells Sagat, and he claps his hands once. "To business!"

"Very well..." Sagat replies, and he head-gestures to Vega and Natalie. The lovers pick up one of the many crates of guns Sagat has delivered to Bison, and admire the guns one by one before carefully placing them back in the crate. They then pick up the crate and carry it to Bison, carefully placing it on the table before him, and bow to he. Bison reaches for a black rose to hand to Natalie... but he holds back and simply smiles as he sees her and Vega holding hands, as they go to pick up the next crate.

"I'm happy to take part in Guile's plan..." Ken tells Mel. "...But you can't deny, this place makes Detroit look like Disneyland! The only question is, whose lowlifes are gonna kill us first: Sagat's, or Bison's?"

Zangief wrinkles his nose as he overhears Ken's words, and he approaches the duo. "Did you say His Excellency is lowlife??" he asks them.

"No no no..." Mel replies. "We said great life! What a great life it is to serve His Supreme Excellency General M Bison!"

Zangief then gives them a curious look. "You serve General Bison? Then why Zangief not know you?"

"You may not remember Mel here..." Ken replies. "But you may remember me with Ryu over there. Remember the night in Shadaloo a few months ago? The two women you had weren't enough - oh no, you had to steal mine and Ryu's as well!"

"Zangief have... four women?"

"You'd better believe it!" Mel laughs. "Ken told me all about it on the way here!"

Zangief hugs Mel and Ken tight. "Little buddies! I'd love to stay and talk, but His Excellency expect me to get case of money to pay Sagat..." and he gives them another hug before he walks away.

Mel then turns to Ken once more. "Ken..." Mel tells his friend, "...Look at it this way: you've forgotten what your Sensei Gouken -great guy, by the way- talked about: trust, honour, whatever you think... we're in this until we get the homing device up to Bison's fort!"

But Ken isn't listening. Outside the tent he sees Chun Li -still in costume- exiting a truck, and she smiles at him and beckons him toward her. He stands up, and follows her.

"Ken??" asks Mel, and he follows his friend out.

Chun Li giggles as Ken follows her to her tent. "You got another one of those masks for me, darling?" he asks her as he approaches the tent... but then he groans as he enters the tent...

"I am pleased with your goods, Sagat..." Bison tells Sagat. "Now as for payment, why settle for me money? After I defeat the AN... what if I were to share the country with you?"

Sagat then looks at Jenny and Ryu, and they nod to him. He returns his attentions to Bison and replies, "When the war is over, we'll see how much of the country is left. In the meantime, let's see the colour of your money..."

Mel soon comes to Chun Li's tent, and is about to enter when Balrog and Honda approach him from behind and shove him in. Mel and Ken are about to fight Honda and Balrog... when Chun Li emerges and aims a knife at them both. "Enough!!" she snaps, and Honda and Balrog then tie Mel and Ken back-to-back to the pole in the center of the tent.

"We know you're working for Colonel Guile..." Chun Li then adds to Ken and Mel. "You may not believe me... but we're your friends..."

Mel then glances at Honda and instantly recognises him. "I know you!" he exclaims. "You're Edmund Honda, the sumo from Hawaii - you almost made Yokozuna!"

Honda sighs. "Until the Shadaloo Tong destroyed my reputation..." he replies.

"They did the same thing to me, and my boxing career..." adds Balrog.

Chun Li is about to say something, but then Ken interrupts. "Don't tell me..." he comments. "Figureskating..."

Slightly offended by Ken's ignorance, Chun Li swiftly grabs him by his chin. "All you need to know..." she tells Mel and Ken, "...Is that the weapons and ammunitions Bison and Sagat deal in... are gonna blow them straight to Hell!"

Balrog and Honda then untie Mel and Ken as Chun Li adds, "You've got ten minutes..." and she hurriedly shoos them out of her tent. "It's showtime..." she then tells Balrog and Honda.

Chun Li also smiles as she overhears Mel tell Ken, "You daft bugger! She's no figureskater - she's Chun Li Zang, the GNT newscaster assigned to Shadaloo!"

"How sweet of Mel to think of you, and correct Ken..." Balrog tells Chun Li.

Zangief carries an elaborate crate with Bison's insignia on it to the warlord, and places it on the table in front of he. Sagat opens the crate... and he is dissatisfied. Every note has Bison's face on it!

"Is this a joke?!?" Sagat snaps, and he takes a wad of cash and flicks it. "This money isn't worth the paper it's printed on!!"

"Oh, but on the contrary..." replies Bison, "...Every Bison dollar is worth five British pounds! That is the exchange rate the Bank of England will set once I kidnap their Queen!"

Sagat is, however, still displeased. "I must have been insane to think I could do business with you, Bison! You raving lunatic!!" and he tosses the wad of cash into one of the torches either side of Bison's throne. The cash burns instantly.

Bison is instantly offended, and he rallies up his troops on one side of the tent while Sagat rallies up his thugs and also Vega, Natalie and co. -yes, Sagat's rallying up the lovers and their followers and friends again all according to his plan- on the other side. Natalie and Vega put their claws on, and Vega puts his mask back on again. The rest of the Vega fans and their friends all rally around their beloved master and mistress, too. The harem girls also stop dancing, and they swiftly exit the tent.

"This conclave is over!" Sagat snaps at Bison, and he takes off his tie and tosses it into another torch.

"You will die for this insult, Sagat!" Bison hisses. "...But at least be grateful I wish to keep your women alive! I have no use for any of them -yes, one in particular- dead..." -to which Natalie and Vega delicately respond, by holding hands- "...Though yes... I still give my blessing for Jenny de Cerna to marry Albert Wesker, and I will provide her wedding dress..."

Right outside the tent Ken tells Mel, "She said this place is gonna blow in ten minutes, things can't get worse..." and they enter the tent and see Bison, Sagat and their sides about to fight, and so Ken adds, "...Uhhh I was wrong - it just got worse..."

"Ken, back me up..." Mel tells his friend, and Mel approaches Bison and Ken approaches Sagat, trying to tell the warlord and the gunrunner to loosen up because it's a party... but Bison grabs Mel and Sagat grabs Ken, both by their throats!

"Are you with me, or against me?!?" Sagat asks Ken.

"Uhhh... is that multiple choice?" Ken asks in reply.

"You dare to interfere?" Bison then asks Mel.

Mel briefly hesitates, then... "...Uhhh yeah, because... because there are enemy spies everywhere among us, Your Excellency!"

"Show me these spies!!" snaps Bison... but before he can even think to crush Mel, Chun Li's voice can be heard from right outside!

"There!" Mel tells Bison. "There they are!"

Bison smiles evilly as he recognises Chun Li's voice, and he gestures for everyone to follow him. They find a TV screen displaying Chun Li, Balrog and Honda -the men still in their costumes... but Chun Li now all dressed in black, though still wearing her mask- as they stand outside their Benbelli Bros. van. Chun Li takes off her mask and finishes the broadcast with, "Bison, Sagat... all your weapons of death are going to be blown sky-high!"

Balrog then starts up the truck, then jumps out of it again as it starts moving. "Happy landings!" he adds with a wave, as Chun Li leads he and Honda away.

Everybody is shocked as the screen then shows the explosives visible in the van, as it moves into the Black Market. "Quick! Change the channel!" gasps Zangief, and everybody stares at him.

But they have no time to comment on Zangief's reaction as Bison then orders them all, "Evacuate at once!!" and he leads them all out of the Black Market. Nobody dares run ahead of he, though.

They all escape in time, just seconds before the Black Market explodes in a fiery blaze - a mushroom cloud, no less!

"Ooh it's a mushroom cloud!" Natalie squeals in delight. "I am appalled at Miss Zang for destroying the Black Market, but I love mushroom clouds!"

Bison laughs. "You and your mushroom clouds..." he tells her.

The mushroom cloud then disperses, revealing the entire Black Market on fire. Some tents, vans et cetera are completely destroyed, but others still remain - and are still on fire. Bison's limo and several other vehicles are unscathed, though.

Bison then turns to Sagat, and gestures to Ken and Mel. "Sagat, are these two men with you?" he asks.

"Yes..." replies Sagat, and he points to Ken and adds, "...And he killed Guile..."

Bison takes a deep breath, then puts his hand out to Sagat. "Forgive my earlier rudeness..." he tells Sagat. "Most of all as... remember another reason for me inviting you, is to thank you for your latest weapon shipment..." And he then turns to everybody and adds, "Search the camp! Find Chun Li!"

Everybody bows to Bison, and they scatter into the camp. Slasher finds Chun Li, Honda and Balrog hiding behind one burning market stall, and all three of them burned and bruised but still alive, thankfully the burns are not critical or high-risk. He personally handcuffs the trio and hands them to some of Bison's troopers, who then load them into a prison truck.

"Thank you very much, Slasher! Remind me to reward you upon return to base..." Bison tells the twisted young man, and he enters his limo while everybody else scatters to the other vehicles. A good number of his troopers board the prison truck carrying Chun Li, Honda and Balrog.

Once all vehicles are full, Bison's limo leads all vehicles out of the destroyed Black Market... and now all on the way to his base...