- by maco² 03251999

Threee hours has past but no man can match the endurance of girls ahold of dozens of credit cards going shopping. Eliza and Sakura are having fun choosing the lingerie set Sakura would like to try out.

"Eep. That's too skimpy.", Sakura shrieked.

"No no. It fits you well.", Eliza convinced.

"Ehehehe."

"Come on. Try it out."

"Ok.", so said Sakura and she hurriedly trodded towards the dressing room. She hesitantly took off her clothes. Lazily, she fitted the lingerie set Eliza gave her. "Hmmmm...", she scrutinzed her reflection. Neat! she thought. Thrilled with the undies, she posed fashionably in front of the mirror. After a series of poses, she was already making faces. "Ha ha ha.", she laughed. But as she turned, she saw an eye peeking at a hole from the other side of the dressing room.

"HUH!", she shrieked, "Eeek! Pervert!" She punched right through the wall sending the peeping tom blasting the wall behind and stumbling across the dress racks. Eliza shrieked with surprise dropping a dress. She looked at the overturned man. But then a bunch of masked men appeared from the front and behind. "Eeek!", she screeched. The men pushed aside the salesladies and the other female customers with force. A second later, she was already surrounded by a group of terrorists. She feels like she is going to faint.

"HAAAAAA!!!", a war cry broke. The dressing room exploded. The masked men were surprised and before they could gather their senses, they were being beaten into a pulp one by one.

"YAH!", Sakura screamed as she pivoted and kicked on of the men, crashing him in a mirror. The fellow beside him charged only to get his face pushed in with a jab and his chin smashed upwards by Sakura's clamped fists. The men were in total disarray. Sakura jumped in mid-air and executed he own version of Ryu's cyclone kick. Three men spinned arround 360 degrees by getting knocked across their faces. The remaining one was petrified. A single punch put him to sleep. Sakura then sensed another man behind her. She pivoted around, her hand joined to perform the 'Hadou-ken' technique.

"A-a-a!", the man disagreed cockingly. His left arm is wrapped around Eliza's neck while the other points a gun on her head.

The crackling energy dissipated between Sakura's palms. She cannot risk Eliza's life. She could only grit her teeth in stalemate. Suddenly she felt a presence behind her. But she hesitated to move because the other man might harm Eliza. Then the last thing she heard was a loud thud behind her ear and the whole world turned black. * * *

This is paradise, she thought. Flowers where blooming everywhere. The sky is painted with rainbows. It is so beautiful. Ryu. She saw the handsome young man. The warrior in the white karate gi. He was holding a white sack bag behind him too. Ryu, she called out. He grinned gorgeously back at her. Ryu, she laughed. Ryu ran away slowly. His bare feet seemingly floating above the blossoms. Sakura playfully chased him. "Ryu, ha ha ha.", she chuckled. Every time she called out, Ryu would look back and gave her a gorgeous smile. She is so happy to be in paradise alone with Ryu that she could she is floating on air.

She closed her eyes enjoying what seems to be the most happiest moment in her life. But as she opened her eyes, she was blinded by a bright red light. The light came from a red karate gi, whose wearer is a blond american. To her awe, she saw Ryu clasping the man's waist. Her breathe was caught as Ryu kissed the man passionately. Her whole paradise collapsed upon her. She cried but the couple just smiled at her. Through her tears she saw Ryu fade and the red light from the other man's clothing shine brighter, blinding her until it was the only thing she could see. Then the light dimmed as the silhouette of a giant thickened to sight.

"What? Where am I? Who are you?", she spoke looking blindly at the darkness around her. She noticed Eliza tied up too beside her. "What is going on?"

The giant spoke to her, his mechanical right eye gleaming eerily. "You are a skilled fighter, girl. Did Ryu teach you well?"

"Ne?", Sakura was confused, "What are you blabbering about? Where is this place. Eeew, it stinks in here."

An electric shock wriggled her.

"Silence. You are in the presence of the Emperor of Shadaloo.", Agent 14 shouted.

"Shadaloo? Emperor? Where's this? Oz? Wonderland?", she replied, "Oh yeah I remember. You're that smelly bald guy Ryu defeated a year ago."

The name Ryu ignitde Sagat's anger. "SHUT UP! You shall lead Ryu to me.", he thundered.

"Eliza?", Sakura ignored him.

"Yes, Sakura."

"What's this loser talking about?"

"I don't know."

"What's the problem with him? Did we forget to pay that other store where we bought those skirts?"

"No. They charge it directly to my account."

"Why is it so dark in here? And it smells bad. Puwey!"

"Yes, it reeks of rotten horse dump."

"YAA YAA YAA YAA YAA!!!"

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHH!!!"

"The two ladies screamed so loud as the electric bolts run through them.

Sagat and Agent 14 was even more hurt to hear them shout so high-pitched. "SHUT UP!!", Sagat growled, losing his patience.

Eliza and Sakura glared sharply back at him angrily. This irritated him even more.

"Grrr... YOU!", he roared at Eliza.

The brave damsel turned from a fierce lioness to a scared alley cat. "Yes?", she replied politely.

"Would you call your husband? Tell him how scared you are.", Sagat grinned.

"Ok.", she said speedily.

Agent 14 walked near her and placed her cellphone near her ear. Eliza almost started to speak but Sakura butted in.

"Nah. He'll just ignore her probably. He doesn't care that much about her really.", she spoke.

"What?", Agent 14 was surprised.

"Anyway, he didn't really love her in the first place. He was using her as a cover. What makes you think he'll rescue her himself? He'll probably just send over the cops.", Sakura spoke so surely.

"What are you trying to tell us?", Agent 14 interrogated.

"Sakura...", Eliza uttered.

"Ken just left her this morning admitting he was in love with someone else."

"Are you trying to fool us?", the agent snarled at her.

"Me? Fooling who? Hah! They fooled me. They fooled Eliza. They even fooled you and the rest of the world.", Sakura is now uncontrollable.

"Sakura...", Eliza pleaded.

"Where is he now?", Sagat impatiently demanded.

"I don't know? Why do you ask me? Ken and Ryu probably went frolicking expressing their love towards each... Ooops!", she suddenly went conscious with her words ans shut her mouth.

"What?!", Sagat became startled with what he heard.

"Nothing.", Sakura whimpered.

"Repeat what you've just said!!!", he howled.

"I forgot."

He was so pissed he pressed the button which delivered the electric shocks set to high.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!", Sakura screamed so loud it was hurting everyone's eardrums in the whole room. Sagat withdrew his hand fast.

"Hah hah hah", the schoolgirl panted from the pain.

"TELL ME WHAT YOU SAID!", he demanded again. The anger more furious from him.

"GET LOST!", she screamed back with rage.

Sagat was about to push the button again but Eliza quickly cut in.

"Ryu and Ken are GAY and they left to God knows where. Okay?!", Eliza screamed. Then she sniffed. A second then she started to cry, "Boo hoo hoo."

Sagat was astonished. Agent 14 even dropped the phone. Ryu? Gay? I was defeated not by a little man but by a little gay man. A sissy defeated me? He... He... Words could not define the fury of the thought of being so humiliated.

"GRAAAAAHH!", he growled to the sky. He slammed his arm back at his throne so violently he wrecked it beyond repair. He went berserk. Eliza and Sakura looked at him with puzzlement. "What's with him?", Sakura muttered to her friend. "I don't know, Sakura. Probably insane." Agent 14 shivered to see his master in a frenzy. But suddenly Sagat stopped.

If Ryu is gay and the whole world doesn't know that their hero is one..., he thought, then the whole world will mock him. Yes, before I kill him I will make his life misereable... Yes... Yes... Sagat started to chuckle, and the chuckle turned to laughter and the laughter turned to boisterous hilary.

"Tsk tsk tsk.", Sakura muttered.

"He lost it.", Eliza nodded.

"Yes. He turned into a comple nutcase.", Sakura said.

Agent 14 was bewildered. "Master?", he spoke with confusion. "Master?"

Slowly, Sagat calmed from his laughter. Then he looked at Agent 14 with mischief in his eyes. It scared the agent. "Servant. Turn the Psycho Drive on."

"Right away, Your Emminence.", he bowed and ran towards a corner and pushed the switch up. The system turned on and the whole room brightened. Various devices operated as series of currents flowed through visible circuits. Computers and interconnecting devices generated. In the center of the room a sparking light connected two polar beds. It is the Psycho Drive.

Sagat walked down from his throne and went to Eliza. He unbind her but grabbed her arm and dragged her to the Psycho Drive. "Wait. Sakura?", Eliza pleaded, "Where is he taking me?"

"Eliza!", Sakura cried out.

Sagat let out a smirk. "Don't worry. This will not hurt. In fact, it will be pleasant to both your mind and body."

"No thanks. The chair is fine.", Eliza refused corteously.

But no matter how she desperately pleaded, Sagat shoved her into the Psycho Drive heedlessly. "Proceed with the Psycho Corruption.", he ordered Agent 14. The servant nodded and pressed the necessary buttons. Laser lights flooded through Eliza's body.

"Ayi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!", she wriggled afloat the light beams. Sakura's eyes widened seeing her new friend writhe inside. After a few seconds, the process ended and Agent 14 dragged her out of the device.

"Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la.", Eliza sang notes staring blankly at the air. She completely lost her senses.

Sagat grinned with content. Then he gazed back at Sakura. "Now it's your turn."

"No thanks. Over my dead body.", she vehemently refused. But Sagat came near her and punched her stomach solidly. "Ooof!", Sakura went limp. Freed from her binds, Sagat effortlessly picked her up and tossed her into the machine. Agent 14 quickly operated the Psycho Drive.

"Ah ya ya ya ya.", she was electrified, "YAAAAAAAA!!!"

The tremendous volume of her scream could shatter every crystal in the entire neighborhood. Sagat and Agent 14 covered their ears from the extreme sound blast. Eliza just kept her monotonous singing, "Tra-la-la-la."

And the grand finale -- a screech of a strangled cat magnified ten thousand times. There were shattering noises all around. Finally, it was done. Sakura drooped down on the floor and fell silent.

"Whew. Thank goodness. I thought I was going to die.", Agent 14 kissed the ground.

"Very well.", Sagat spoke, "From now on, you shall call me Master."

Eliza and Sakura chorused, "Yes mother."

"What?!", Sagat was infuriated, "Call me Master, not mother."

"As you wish, mother.", they answered.

"Servant!", Sagat growled at the nervous-wrecked agent, "What's wrong with them. Why are they not following me?"

"Oh Master, I'm s-s-sorry but the Psycho Drive was damaged and I made a few repairs but only Master Bison could properly attune the effects of the Psycho Drive perfectly."

"WHAT?! Put them back there and make them stop calling me their mother!", he became furious.

"I can't. We have no more power. It will take us days to recharge the Psycho Drive. And please, don't put Sakura back there."

"Insolent wretch!", Sagat growled at him. But he changed his mind suddenly. Who is sane enough to put Sakura back into the Psycho Drive again.

"Very well. You two girls shall follow everything I tell you to do.", he faced at the stirred ladies again.

"Anything you say, mother.", they answered back.

"STOP CALLING ME MOTHER!"

"Right away, mother."

"GRAAAHH!!!!"

- end of part 3 -