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Jun 10, 2018 21:36:07 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Jun 10, 2018 21:36:07 GMT -5
Zakk was relieved when he got the extra help. It was none other than Steve Fox and Paul Phoenix. Zakk was already somewhat acquainted with Steve, and of course, he knew Paul from the Third tournament who left after the monster that killed his master was defeated. After combining all of their strength, they managed to move the metal piece.
"Phew! Thanks... What next?" Zakk asks. "Also... I take it Xianlong is somewhere safe, yes?" He said.
"She is. She can handle herself."
"I know. She's almost done with school... she's practically an adult now." Zakk smiled fondly. It seemed like yesterday when Lei made a trip to China and returned with a small girl. Now she's all grown up.
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Jun 14, 2018 17:17:02 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Jun 14, 2018 17:17:02 GMT -5
Paul didn't know very much Lei's family so he didn't know Zakk or remember him from the tournament or even if Xianlong mentionned him, so he asked Zakk:
"You know Xianlong?"
Meanwhile, having somehow taken all the biggest rubble out of the way, Julia noticed the entrance to the basement. It was still mostly covered but it was at least showing. She got excited to find it and also apprehensive of who or even what they would find there...
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Jun 18, 2018 7:46:03 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Jun 18, 2018 7:46:03 GMT -5
Zakk nodded when Paul had asked that question. Just as Steve was going to answer, Zakk replied with, "Yeah. She's my cousin once removed."
Which was true. She's the daughter of his cousin. Steve personally hasn't met Zakk or Xianlong until recently, as it surprised him that Lei had relatives, considering that he never mentions them. Mostly due to security reasons, as he fears that someone could easily track them down and kill them/use them as leverage.
"But I'm glad she's somewhere safe."
Once the big rubble is out of the way, the entrance to the basement was showing. Now it was time to go down there and look for survivors.
"Well, this is it."
"I wonder if we will find any scientific experiments down there."
Zakk shrugged. "But whatever we find, we should find some survivors."
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Jul 6, 2018 20:39:33 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Jul 6, 2018 20:39:33 GMT -5
Julia really feared what they could find down there. She knew G-Corp were doing so many experiments that she didn't know about, that she haven't been able to learn of in her spying attempts... She feared to meet some dangerous monster that would have escaped from the place with the destruction. But then she remembered, those 'monsters' would probably be captives, involuntary experiments, born there or abducted and forced to submit to anything G-Corp was doing to them... They deserved to be freed... If there was any creatures at all... Maybe there was not. She didn't find anything on that... Maybe it would also be the toxic products of some experiment that would somehow kill her and her friends... But again, they needed to find if any survivors were there, there was also a lot of people that were not involved in the more secret experiments, working here, most of them in fact, so she began to climb down the half blocked stairs to the basement.
Paul followed her, he didn't know the way and he didn't even know what was that basement so he was only there to follow and help.
Luckily once in the corridor, some lights were still working, even if constantly flickering, so they could see ahead of them...
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Jul 21, 2018 5:08:53 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Jul 21, 2018 5:08:53 GMT -5
Zakk and Steve both followed Julia down the dark corridor, the flickering lights sending off a somewhat creepy vibe. Zakk later got a text that Lei had already left for Hong-Kong since his work in Japan is done and he already found the answers that he was looking for.
"It's really creepy down here. Looks like something out of the Pultergeist. Are there going to be any monsters that will lunge out at us?" Steve asked Julia.
"Luckily for us, if that's the case, I have my weapon."
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Aug 11, 2018 20:16:53 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Aug 11, 2018 20:16:53 GMT -5
Julia turned her head toward Steve and told him: "Honestly, I don't know..."
Suddenly some wall not far, fell down. Thinking about monsters, Julia got startled but no monster came out of it. Yet it showed that the place wasn't very safe, what remained of the building could still fall apart...
As they kept walking, the group suddenly heard someone calling for help from the dark of the corridor...
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Aug 11, 2018 20:27:14 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Aug 11, 2018 20:27:14 GMT -5
The wall fell down as Zakk and Steve both tensed up, but were relieved when the wall crumbled and it wasn't just a monster. However, when someone called for help, Zakk immediately ran toward the voice calling for help.
"Hey! Over here!" He shouted trying to get the person's attention. "We'll get you guys out of here!"
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Aug 12, 2018 18:36:44 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Aug 12, 2018 18:36:44 GMT -5
"I'm stuck, please come help me!" shouted the person in response to Zakk's call. Julia began to walk toward the place yet the voice didn't remind her of anyone she knew but they still had to save them.
When the group arrived to the place where the man who kept yelling for help was, they noticed he was wearing a scientist coat and was stuck under a large and heavy operating table. He was also seemingly wounded. Many vials, bottles and syringes were spilled on the floor with other medical stuff. Two other scientists, a man and a woman, were lying down, unconscious or probably dead.
"Help me!" asked the stuck scientist once more as he noticed the group. Julia recognized the man as someone working at the corporation since she saw him sometimes at the cafeteria with the other two scientists but didn’t know their name or on what they were working here.
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Aug 12, 2018 19:44:22 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Aug 12, 2018 19:44:22 GMT -5
Zakk and Steve both immediately freed the poor man from the operating table as Steve looked around.
"What happened here?" Zakk asked.
"Are you okay?"
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Aug 12, 2018 23:12:52 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Aug 12, 2018 23:12:52 GMT -5
"Unghh… I think I broke some bones..." said the man as he painfully got up, looking around in fear. He then added as he began to limp toward the exit despite his pain:
"We should go..."
Meanwhile Julia went to see the two dead person to see if they really were dead. They were. But one of them was scratched in the face and chest...
"How come...?" asked Julia.
At that moment, some loud bang echoed through the walls as if something quite heavy was violently thrown on it, somehow making the others walls tremble and the place even more unsafe.
"We have to go!" added the man in a sudden panic, trying to limp faster.
Some loud bang echoed once more and this time, it was even closer. What remained on the shelves fell down.
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Aug 12, 2018 23:21:58 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Aug 12, 2018 23:21:58 GMT -5
"Want me to help you up, mate?". Steve asked the injured scientist.
Zakk checked the bodies with Julia. His eyes widened as he saw the wounds.
What's this? More monsters?
Just as the shelf was knocked over and Steve helped the scientist escape, Zakk readies himself into Tiger Stance, his strongest Five-Form style. He embodied the strength of the tiger. Hence why this was his best. He was prepared for what was going to happen next.
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Aug 12, 2018 23:41:15 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Aug 12, 2018 23:41:15 GMT -5
Julia and Paul went near Zakk to wait for what was coming. After a moment, some large creature appeared in the back door. The creature looked like a white bear but like a very muscular bear. Abnormally muscular. Its face was covered by a mask and its muzzle was probably cut since the mask wouldn't allow for one. Holding some filing cabinet, the animal was standing on its back legs. Many pieces of armor were covering the bear, its hair being shaved in many places and many loose cables were connected to the beast. Despite having its muzzle shortened, the bear growled a very threatening sound and threw the filing cabinet toward Steve and the scientist before it threw itself at Zakk and the others, trying to rip Zakk with its claws.
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Aug 12, 2018 23:47:58 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Aug 12, 2018 23:47:58 GMT -5
Zakk watched as the bear approached him. Steve turned to shout at Zakk. "Hey! Get out of the way! That bear is going to kill you!"
Just as the bear lunged at him, Zakk spun around and used the momentum to send in a double-palmed strike. It was then followed by Zakk kneeing the bear and elbowing it at the same time.
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Aug 13, 2018 0:29:26 GMT -5
Post by White Tiger on Aug 13, 2018 0:29:26 GMT -5
The beast growled as it was doubly hit by Zakk's strikes and fell down but quickly got back on its paws while some metal part fell down, opening a bleeding wound.
Julia was horrified by the sight of the poor transformed creature and just couldn't join the fight as she said:
"That poor bear is in pain..."
Having been frozen by the sight at first, Paul then joined Zakk in the fight.
"I'm the expert with bears! Leave it to me!" said the blond guy as he came into the fight with a kick quickly followed by another, making the giant creature slam into the wall.
Yet the sight of the poor beast having been experimented on, also made Paul feel sad for the bear. But the bear didn't look really cute or nice right now as it growled and quickly clawed into Paul's leg, trying to bring him toward it. Paul quickly disengaged his leg from the attempted hold and backed away, holding his bleeding leg.
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Aug 13, 2018 7:07:15 GMT -5
Post by Lei Wulong on Aug 13, 2018 7:07:15 GMT -5
Zakk felt bad for the poor bear, too. He was only aggressive because he was hurting and injured. It really wasn't the best idea to fight the thing.
He had to put that poor bear out of its misery. After the bear lunged at Paul, Zakk draws out his weapon that was hidden in his gun holster that was under his arms, underneath his jacket. He kicks the bear away from Paul and shoots the bear right in the middle of it's head. Zakk then put his gun away as he looked away, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"I really didn't want to do that. But that poor creature was suffering. I hope you guys all forgive me."
Zakk wasn't one to fire his weapon so readily, but it was out of self-defense.
Steve came back in after getting the scientist out from safety. He looked at the bear and then Paul.
"Paul are you alright? Hey!"
He went searching for first aid supplies as Zakk grabbed a lab coat from a corpse and covered the bear so that Julia wouldn't have to see its guts.
"I wonder if they were trying to create Kuma." Zak muttered.
"Or were they working with the Devil Gene?"
"Nobody knows for sure." Zakk closed the eyes of the dead scientists as well. "But whatever it is. Pops needs to get back to work and investigate this with me.
Zakk then grabs his phone and takes pictures. Eventually, he was finally done doing some detective work for the area.
"I finally have something against Kazuya. We got even more proof that he is a demon."
"Yeah... The Devil Gene."
Zakk nodded.
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