** Bowels of a 757 United airlines airplane, airspace above Barcelona, Spain **

As Ibuki's plane approaches the airport, Ibuki gazes down upon the scenery, her facade cold and almost brooding. Her eyes are tired, and her face reflects weariness which is surprising to be found within the soul of such a young lady as herself.

It had come to be, Ibuki was slowly but surely cracking, her patience thinning and her anger slowly bursting with every day. If she didn't come to peace with herself quietly soon, she would either lose herself, or get herself killed.

Usually a good meditation session managed to keep her rage at bay, yet now, she is unsure. She had acted in a manner alien to herself in the battle against Mai Shiranui, she was ruthless, cold and almost devoid of emotional essence and that scared Ibuki, even more than the prospect of death or loss of honor.

She gulps and shuts her eyes, "What is to become of me...day by day my control slips, the cold reality slaps at my face, topples over my beliefs, forces me to change drastically, but...I'm scared...I don't want to become a soulless killer, a true assassin...god give me strength to go on...please... She thinks, speaking a silent prayer in her heart.

It had been two days after her battle with Mai Shiranui, and not only her soul was in pain, but she had begun to feel the real effects of the older women's blows. Her flames had left painful burn marks across her once flawless skin.

Blue and purple bruises are left scattered across her abdomen and upper torso as well as on her forearms and wrists. Bandages cover all this, stabilizing and holding her ribcage in place, some ribs almost dislocated and one or two near fracture.

Ibuki winces and readjusts one of them with a pained expression, her eyes shutting a little tighter as she exhales in a sharp manner and grits her teeth lightly. "D*mn, I should've been more careful, I thought I was so tough, pressed offensive too hard, d*mn my body hurts like h*ll, I need to rest...if I face Vibora now...she'll pulverize me...actually, more like make me into the world's largest Sushi dish... Ibuki thinks as the plane begins to lower its altitude.

** Meanwhile, Elsewhere in Barcelona, "Arena de Sangre"(Arena of blood) **

In the middle of the Arena of blood, street fighter haven of Spain, two Spaniards are about to collide into a battle bout to the death. One of them is a powerful gangster by the name of Alehandro whereas his foe is the beautiful, yet deadly assassin Alexis Lorenzo or better known as Vibora.

"You are aware that your life ends here my dear..." Vibora whispers to him as she extracts 3 long steel blades from her forearm, the mechanism causing metal to slide against metal in a quite unpleasant sound.

He snarls and holds his blade at his side "In your dreams Alexis..." He all but spits out in contempt as he lunges forward and swings his blade in a inward arc, his blade aiming at her abdomen.

Vibora brings her hand down, the blade colliding against her glove's claws with an audible clang, the momentum behind the blow blocked by Vibora's steady stance. She quickly pushes against his blade.

Her foe steps back lightly and brings his blade into a more defensive pose as Vibora's stance changes lightly, her legs spreading some more, her body slightly crouched low and her hands being lowered to her sides.

She then catapults herself forward like a bullet, her hand swiping at his chest, her blue eyes turning almost like those of a predator as it closes down on it's prey. Alehandro brings his blade upward, blocking the blade and being pushed back by the momentum of her charging move.

He regains his footing and gasps lightly while shifting his body sideways, Vibora's claws slicing through his clothes and a thin layer of his skin, inches from turning him sliced and diced.

Before he can react Vibora's other claw rakes across his face, leaving long lines of crimson on his cheek, and sending his head snapping sideways. He gasps in pain, gritting his teeth hard at the now stinging pain

The crowd chants "Vibora" wildly, hooting, whistling and clapping as they shout when he loses his posture slightly and Vibora kicks upwards, leaping slightly off the ground, her booted foot slamming quite forcefully into his chin, her heel catching it and snapping his face upwards.

He loses balance and reels back, he pants and shakes his head before quickly hitting the ground as Vibora leaps forward while swiping her bladed hands at his throat. Her claws whistle over his head.

** Back on Ibuki's plane, Barcelona's airspace **

Ibuki sighs lightly, sitting straight and opening her eyes. She reaches a key decision, she will put her current mission's more active side on hold for several days, keep a low profile and only make surface layered reconnaissance of the city.

It couldn't hurt to let her body heal for once, she remembered well what happened last year when she pushed herself too hard, it almost cost her with her own life, also she knows she must battle her inner demons now, and come to peace with herself or all will be lose before it even begins.

Yet it is not her own well being or emotional state which worries her, if she had to die or be left a bleeding broken shell of a person, she would fight it, but if it came to pass, die nevertheless, that is the way of life, she feared death not, it was a phase of life and fate and there was no use in fearing or denying it.

It was her mom, Kumiko. She was the one Ibuki was worried about now, she was in the custody of the psychic Tyrant, lord of Shadowlaw, Xavier. The mere thought, made rage boil inside her, made bloodlust linger in her soul.

She could not make herself say his name without a thick layer of venom spewed upon each letter and syllable. Her eyes flicker with hatred for a split second, but as quickly as it is unleashed it is suppressed and Ibuki's eyes become calm once more.

She sighs and unbuckles herself, getting up as the passengers begin pouring out of the plane. She traverses the bustling airport and casually scans the people she sees roaming about and her eyes narrow slightly.

She approaches the luggage terminal, standing quietly and waiting for her suitcase. Her posture is calm and unmoving but her inside is slowly flickering with flames of anger and weariness.

She feels the cold and lifeless eyes of the machines...there were several, all gazing at her with their covered faces and eyes, scanning, reading, reporting. She hated them, she hated him, he would not leave her alone till one or both of them were dead, in this she was certain.

She picks up her suitcase and snarls lightly under her breath. "One of these days Xavier...one of these days...I'll get your just where I want you...then...I'll end this, either with my death or yours...this cycle will end...sometime...hopefully soon...once we meet... Ibuki vows to herself as she begins to walk toward the gates.

She stops at an money exchange booth and buys some of the local Spanish currency and the in the crowd, brushing across people, mouthing apologies for pushing through at times and seemingly giving up trying to avoid her cybernetic pursuers until she reaches the exit.

She quickly looks for a way to avoid them and smiles lightly as she sees a bus nearby and rushes toward it, grimacing at the pain in her abdomen and ribs she pushes onward anyway as she very quickly gets on in the nick of time as she sees the cyborgs try to follow her in vain.

The bus drives off and Ibuki is safe, for now, For how long, time would tell. Ibuki sighs tiredly and pays the driver the fare, luckily one of the once pains, but now gains of her training as Geki's protégée was multi lingual studies and her Spanish is rather good, far from perfect but would due for tourist needs.

"I will meet with my contact...then I'll have time...time to plan my choice of action and strategy...for once, I will not be hasty, if Xavier wants his bloody chipset...he'll have to wait...wait till I'M ready...I know what I must do" Ibuki thinks and grabs her backpack and steps into the terminal bus, on her way to meet with her contact.

** Back in the arena ** "Crap…she'd faster than the tales tell..." Alehandro thinks and turns toward her and licks his lip, the iron taste of blood filling his mouth from the gashes across his face. "Ok, little puta...let's get serious..." He whispers to himself and reaches for his belt.

He takes out a long dagger, the blade 15 inches long, smooth and chrome in color the long steel blade shines in the lighting of the arena. He cross blade and pants lightly.

Vibora rolls to her feet and quickly spins and resumes her stance, in an almost totally fluent motion, the blades from her left glove being extracted as well as she crossed them and grins under her mask "My, My, so he wills to play...interesting... Vibora thinks and circles him slowly.

Vibora then grins and gets an idea and approaches him, swiping at his chest while thrusting her blade at his dagger with her other clawed hand. Alehandro grunts in effort forcing his rapier and dagger against Vibora's daggers.

His sheer physical strength is superior to hers, but that is Vibora's will as she lifts her foot as he pushes her back, Alehandro's head snaps back as her foot rams into his nose with crushing force sending him reeling, leaving himself exposed.

That is all Vibora wanted as her graceful face twisting into a feral grin as an evil grin rises to her full and moist lips. Her Azure eyes glint with satisfaction from the eyeholes of her mask as her left-handed blades come lashing out.

her arm extends and sending the three blades sinking into his abdomen, piercing the body in the center of the upper torso, under the heart and through the lungs with the precision which is no doubt masterful.

A third of each blade invades his body, rivers of crimson beginning to flow down the sides of the new holes in Alehandro's body, spilling and soaking his shirt with the crimson liquid of life, the flesh being easily shredded inwardly at the wake of the blades, enough to pain him, not kill him.

Alehandro's eyes widen and he coughs, his body shivering as he drops his sword and dagger, barely being able to stand. He pants through grit teeth as Vibora watches him gurgling blood. "I told you this was a mistake my dear...did I not? Heh, goodbye my sweet, forever..." Vibora whispers in Spanish.

Alehandro grits his teeth, his legs beginning to buckle, his eyes half shutting and fluttering as he feels the life ooze out of him slowly as Vibora presses more weight behind her hand, the blades sinking some more, causing Alehandro to moan in pain and cough.

Vibora then steps forward, sending the blades all the way through the body all the way to her knuckles, 10 inches of steel slicing through Alehandro's body. Vibora then lifts her right hand and retracts the blades before shouting ""Victoria le poderoso!"(Victory for the powerful).

The crowd chants her name wildly and claps and whistles, so audible is the collection of sounds one would think it was a game in the Spanish soccer league championship. Vibora then removes her blades in one fluid motion, letting Alehandro's body sink lifelessly to the floor as she lifts her blood stained glove and brings it to her side before bowing before the crowd.

"Heh, he was weak...soon...the real hunt will begin...come to me Ibuki...Shinobi mistress. Let the predator become the prey..." Vibora thinks as she relishes on the cheers before exiting the metallic cage and heading for her changing room.

** Side streets, Tel Aviv, Israel, Middle East **

Chunli and a group of five Special Ops troops head for a side alley, they hug the wall with their back and slowly pass through. "This is Alpha leader, Team Beta, Are you in position?" Chunli asks through the mic connected to her Kevlar anti-bullet suit.

She hears a fuzzy reply on her ear piece and nods "Good, Target should be coming into view soon...over and out" Chunli says and turns to the troop at her right. "When the target comes into view I want you to try and capture him, fire the tear gas and aim at the legs and only open critical fire if subject returns fire...am I clear?" Chunli continues in a no nonsense voice.

The trooper on the other side replies, his voice slightly heard on the other side of the Comm. unit. Chunli nods and arms his barrel-cut M-16 rifle once more, feeling pumped and ready to finally nail the enigmatic and elusive Shadowlaw lieutenant aka known as Jason.

The denizens of the neighborhood had been instructed by the Israeli Shabbach to remain at home and had been promised confiscation in case of property damage. Thus as long as the kept to the side streets all would be well, when and if they entered the main streets, that's when trouble would begin.

Chunli freezes suddenly as she hears something on the Comm. unit and motions her subordinates to stop by raising her hand "Are you sure? Hmm...Ok HQ...processing new data..." Chunli muses in a slightly irate tone.

"Ok Boys and Girls, looks like we got an objective update, the target is on it's way right now... and not due in 10 minutes as previously planned, So...prepare for engagement everyone...prep firearms and maintain radio contact...we're going in..." Chunli says to her own team.

"Wallace, pass on data to Beta team's leader...I think I see our target now..." Chunli says and prepares her rifle, motioning for a man beside her to move out with her fingers, he nods and proceeds to aim the barrel of his rifle it at a silhouette that is before clicking the night vision aiming scope on his rifle scanning his target.

** Meanwhile, in the Alleyway Chunli is gazing upon **

Jason walks, walks in the midst of darkness, treads through shadows and hunts within the shroud of the night. He had fulfilled his mission in Israel, he had achieved his objective here, but to his disdain his lord had ordered him to remain in position nevertheless.

Why would X bother to leave him there where he is much more useful elsewhere was a puzzle to Jason. Yet, over his time under the psychic lord's regime he learned 2 things: One, Never question Xavier's judgment and two, never ever question Xavier's judgment.

Jason sighs and looks up at the moon before blinking under his sunglasses. the black visors hide the reddish glow of Jason's cybernetically enhanced eye implants. He keeps his motions normal, sensing something is wrong, but if that is true, he would not want to let his foe know he senses the trap.

He attunes his sensors, attuning them to radio waves and picking up some messages in English which catch his attention. He curses under his breath before turning to walk forward normally. Under his sunglasses his eyes shift color from red to green, turning to night vision.

He looks forward and sees the shapes of a few SWAT members peering at him from afar and runs a hand through his long hair, his face catches a cold and calculating facade as he calculates his odds.

"I'm Cornered, outnumbered and outgunned. But...I have the element of surprise...my new psy power boosters and skill and hmm...If I manage to obtain a M-16 from those troopers...I'd be fixed...excellent...I love the smell of battle and the taste of anticipation before a kill... Jason thinks and heads for a pair of large green garbage bins and grins before stopping and reaching for his coat.

"Let the battle begin... he thinks and grips onto the hilt of his semi-automatic firearm as he procures it and aims it at the head of one of his peering foes, his finger ready on the trigger.

** Meanwhile in an Alley way nearby **

Team Beta was in position they had reported Jason's suspicious actions and have received the order to engage. Lieutenant Josh Wallace was in command over the unit. He motions his troops to get ready just as he lifts his hand to motions the attack he hears a rattling of automatic fire.

"What the?" he says and suddenly sees Jason huddling behind a Green Garbage bin while firing off from a one handed firearm. "Crap! Wilson, Thomas, Open fire!" he says and points at him while opening fire himself.

"Alpha Leader! Target has become hostile! Engaging! I repeat Engaging!" Wallace then shouts into his comm. unit as he begins opening fire at the garbage bin. He would fire a grenade but due to Alpha teams close location he is forbid to fire by regulations.

Sergeant Laura Wilson was on her first field mission. She grins and pulls the trigger letting out a round of bullets from Jason's blind side. Her target ducks and hides behind the bin, the bullet rebounding off the metallic surface of one of the garbage bins.

Captain Larry Thomas had seen fire fight before, he was practically a field veteran, but never had he surmised to see what he saw next. "Is he bloody crazy...that's..." he thinks as he suddenly the alley is bathed in purple energy and he sees one Garbage bin being lifted rather quickly off the ground and hurtled at them.

"FIRE! FI...UGH!" His commander as he blinks as he sees the huge bin flying toward him and tries to avoid the huge object unsuccessfully, sent flying backwards, the massive weight burying him under the bin, cracking sounds mentioning his now dead state.

Thomas and Wilson fire are luckier, hitting the deck in time, only seeing their commanding officer die at the hands of the impossible feat of strength.

"Lar...that's what the hell is that thing! That's...Im..." Wilson shouts before Jason reaches him, Larry tries to aim his rifle and fire, but his attempts are futile as Jason kicks his rifle aside, his fire being diverted off course.

"KILL HIM LAR! FIRE!" He shouts as Jason hefts him up by his neck. Laura turns her rifle at Jason, but she hesitates as he holds Larry before her, her face worried. Larry chokes and battles Jason's grip in vain "What you...d*mnit..FIRE! That's an...*choke...Ord..." he says before Jason snaps his windpipe between his fingers.

Laura's eyes water and rage boils inside "NOOOOOOO! LARRY!" she shouts and opens fire at Jason, her vision blurred with tears of rage. Jason turns to her, jumping aside while firing off with his own gun, hitting her in the head, but several bullets still manage to hit home and rebounding off his metallic body, yet leaving dents in it.

** Back to Chunli and team Alpha **

Chunli blinks as she sees him lift that bin and even more when she senses the dark and twisted energy that allows him such. "PSYCHO POWER!?! NO! He can't be?!" Chunli thinks, the sudden distraction cutting off her line of thought as her counterparts continue firing yet she does not.

"Chief! Chief! We're suffering casualties and he's moving from range, what are your orders?" a nearby female trooper shouts out as she moves to the other wall, avoiding a spray of bullets as she does.

Chunli snaps into focus and her eyes narrow "Pursue and eliminate bogey! Beta team, come in! Wallace! Wallace! Come in! D*mnit! Come in Wallace! you can't be...dead..." Chunli says, her voice rising before lowering and trailing off.

She then grabs her firearm and bursts out into the open, turning toward the Alley and firing off her firearm at Jason the minute he comes into view. He has just lifted a M-16 off a now dead Laura Wilson, a large bullet hole left in the center of her forehead and oozing blood.

Jason turns to her, while leaping aside brushing across the wall as Chunli Strafes to safety. Jason then hugs the wall with his back himself and coughs, blackish liquid oozing from his lower back from some deep dents. Electricity flickers lightly from the circuitry unveiled and Jason grits his teeth as he begins edging back.

Chunli opens fire again, her body half peering from the corner of the wall, her rifle rattling as bullet fly from the barrel. Jason manages to reach a turn and hides inside, reaching a well needed cover.

Chunli motions her troops to keep under cover as Jason mimics her actions, his bullets hitting the wall as she hugs it, shutting her eyes halfway to guard them from dust and miniature chunks of wall which are sent flying askew from the bullets.

** Meanwhile, Behind Fire Alley **

Jason was in pain, his back was sending jolts of pain all over his body, his night vision was fuzzy and his sensors were malfunctioning, losing the tune over the radio waves. "That bitch...I didn't know Xiang herself was here...I need to split...crap... Jason thinks as he averts his gaze as Chunli's bullets send dust and cement shards toward his face.

He coughs and pants, his emergency gauges flashing various warning messages before his eyes, his self-preserving systems could slowly repair the damage with his nano-tech X had used to create his repairing systems, but such a procedure was slow, very slow, it could take weeks and was only a last resort system as the technology was still in it's diapers.

Jason couldn't think about that now, his own fate would be far worse if he didn't find a way out of this mess. He checks his rifle and grins "Well, well, I guess we'll part in an explosive way my dears...mm...yes..." Jason says and grins as he hears his foe's rifles silence and be armed.

He then turns half way and pulls back the grenade launcher piece of the gun, a audible clicking sound before a boom is heard and then clanging of the metallic grenade rolling and hitting the ground.

Jason doesn't wait to hear what happens, he drops the rifle, breaking into a mad dash soon after as he hears the roaring explosion behind, gasps and shouts and then rumbling as stone collapses or is torn apart. regardless, if his foes were alive he was safe, if not, same outcome.

"GET BACK HERE BASTARD!" He hears Chunli's voice bellow in Chinese as soon as the rumbling and roaring of the grenade dies down. But her tone is faint as he is far away. He also hears faint shouts of commands over what's probably a Comm. link, but he is too far for her to be able to catch up.

Jason reaches a semi-main street and pants, "I bet...she posted snipers on the main routes...Gotta find a way out..." he thinks as he suddenly hits a side street and reaches a parking lot of a house complex.

He finds a black Toyota Corolla and slams his fist into the window. the Alarm erupts audibly but Jason doesn't care. He rips the door off it's hinges with a grit of his teeth, leaning his foot on the hull to get some leverage.

He quickly sits in the driver's seat and rams his hand through the plastic cover under the steering wheel. He runs through the wires before ripping two different wires in the middle and then bring their edges together.

Chunli comes up from behind his car and opens fire. the bullets raining down on the back of the car, Jason quickly hits the gas pedal and darts off into the main street. The car's engine roars as Jason quickly shifts gears, and takes off, heading for the main street.

He drives like a madman, people hiding and dodging his reckless driving, quite a few being hit and thrown aside as he hits them, unable to abide laws as he tries to escape.

Chunli pants and curses audibly in Chinese, dropping to her knees tiredly, not paying attention to the people gawking at her. Especially someone who's crouching by the torn door and crying and shouting in Hebrew angrily.

"This isn't over Jason...this isn't over..." She thinks and growls as she gets up, heading off to report and check the damage and casualties of this fire fight .

** Snowy Tundra, Siberia, Russia **

Cammy sneaks across the walls of the building, her back hugging the cold metallic surface, she keeps her eyes pealed and ears open. She clicks on a button on a bracelet on her left wrist and her special helmet's lenses turn to a red, turning into heat vision mode.

She scans the area approaches the door. She peers on it, seeing a pair of Russians looking a magazine. They're looking quite interested and Cammy shrugs lightly, strapping her M-16 to her back and taking out her silenced pistol.

She slips in a clip and screws the silencer, securing her stealth as she suddenly takes a sidestep, coming into view, the two men don't even see her in time as her speed and skill are so great that "one, two, what" and one is dead. "three, four, gasp" and down goes the second too.

Cammy looks around and is satisfied that she finds nobody around, she approaches the door of the complex and sees the need of a code card and eye scan, she curses under her breath as she picks one of the men up, being careful not to stain her suit with blood.

She takes the magnetic card out of his pocket and runs it through the slot, then she lets the laser scan the dead man's eyes, a beep is heard and the door slides open. Cammy quickly tosses him aside as she hears voices.

She looks around and sees some crates, she quickly rushes toward them and hides behind them. She sees a pair of Troopers speaking one with another in Russian and holds her gun close to her body, hoping they won't approach the door.

To her fortune they continue walking down the hall. Cammy exhales in relief lightly. "Blond Fox the great covert agent or not, no sweet talk is taking me to this god awful country again... Cammy thinks as she slowly slips through a corridor, hugging the wall with her back and from time to time hiding when she needs to. Cammy had studies the maps very thoroughly before the mission and according to her calculations she should be arriving to the chipset room soon. She sighs lightly "It should be...right about...here" she thinks and comes up to a large set of double doors. "A straight entrance would be suicide...hmmm...Ahh...bingo" Cammy thinks and looks up, grinning and grabbing the air conditioning grate. She holds it still with one hand and leaps and grabs the edge of the opening with the other.

She grits her teeth and strains to bend her body enough to bring her leg into the entrance. She thanks the fact she's a woman, her flexibility allowing her to make a full leg spread and make this feat possible, she then pants lightly and bring her other foot inside too before slowly pulling her body through. She then crawls inside with effort.

Sweat beads on her forehead lightly, making her freeze even more as she puts the grate back and beginning to crawl through the tunnel toward the grate which will allow her to enter the chip room.

** Room in abandoned house, somewhere in Tel Aviv, Israel **

"Ugh...where am I?" Joseph muses, his voice weak and pained. His eyes flutter open slowly and he opens them widely, as he sees his surroundings are dark and alien to him.

"What...Where am I?!" Joseph says and tries to move. He blinks and grits his teeth, trying harder but heavy chains bind soon finding out his body. He shakes his head and tries to remember how he got there.

"I was...at Dana's...then...weird guy, I knew...it was X...I should be dead....I mean, what is this? is this hell? He thinks, his thoughts sluggish and disorientation hits him, most definitely he presumes he's either drunk or drugged, option two more likely being his current status.

"Ahh, so you're awake little fool" X's voice speaks a single pillar of light appears. X standing cross handed within it. "I was beginning to believe I'd have to leech what I want from your mind...but now I get to have fun...good" X adds and chuckles lowly.

"YOU! What have you done with Dana B*stard!" Joseph says angrily, fighting his binding chains with no avail.

X smirks and looks quite smug "Oh, the little psychic girlfriend of yours, She's dead, she resisted, that's what you get when you oppose me...nothing personal, strictly business..." X muses.

"Why are you...doing this...Is it Rose?" Joseph asks, confused at X's determination.

"Well, your atrocious actions toward my mother didn't help you, but no, It is not Rose alone, Though mother was poorly treated by you, It is not my place to take her revenge, but I am obliged to protect her, which I did, and now I have my own goals in bringing you here..." X muses and grins evilly.

"But when you...you looked ang...I don't get you!" Joseph says and growls in frustration.

X chuckles "My goals are not to be revealed at this time little psychic, but in all due time. I'll let you in on one secret, I was furious at your wronging of Rose, but I also needed to convince her I care for her, and gain her trust" X muses.

"But...she's your mother...isn't that..." Joseph begins.

"No! Now tell me...where can I find Roberto Magano?" X says.

Joseph coughs "Never...I won't sell out the council..." Joseph all but spits out, his anger and hatred reflected in his dark eyes.

X shakes his head "I believe...some time with my dear "nursemaid" will change your mind" X says and snaps his fingers. A female figure clad in black comes into view and bows before Xavier.

"This is Mei, She was one of the best interrogators of the "Black dragon" Ninja clan before I recruited her to my cause. She will help you loosen your tongue..." X muses with a dark chuckle.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS! THE COUNCIL WILL STOP YOU!" Joseph shouts as X's body begins to fade away.

"We shall see...We shall see... X's voice speaks in his mind, and then only an evil laughter remains as X vanishes from Jason's sight and premasis.

** Back in Russia **

Cammy sees two people talking below. She looks at them and decides their information might be important, so she turns a dial on her ear and points her bracelet at the opening, a small receptor recording the conversation and transmitting it via satellite connection to Mi6 base in London.

"Progress on the new Attack satellite is commencing on schedule General" a soldier says to a man in a high ranking military uniform.

"This is good, very good, soon I will not need that stupid president's funding...hehe, like he knows where his money is going, Mafia pays me more...." The general says and smirks as he looks around and pats a glass container in the middle of a pillar, a chipset hooked up in the middle.

"Such calculation powers...amazing what International technology can create, da?" The General says "Soon we shall have all we need to become the strongest nation on Earth and be able to crush that pathetic little terror organization which has been raiding our borders..." He says.

"Da, comrade General..." says the soldier humbly. "We shall rule in the way envisioned by the Great Lenin and fear not the Americans and be enforced into this Democracy" He says.

The General nods before another soldier comes running inside "General! All the guards of the southern walls and entrance have been killed! We have an intruder in the complex!" he says.

The General growls and turns to them "Lock down the room and call in the Elite in here and guard the chipset, and tell Zangief to get his butt here now!" He shouts.

"Now! Gather all Patrols, find this intruder and kill him or her, nobody must know of my plans!" The General says and heads out to coordinate the searching party. Cammy gulps, knowing trouble is on the way as she waits till they're out, but then sees many troopers enter the room and spread out.

Cammy looks down and sees a railing story above the room below, the railing also having large supply boxes on it. "Here we go...it'll be tight...but a mission is a mission, and HQ did say come back with the chip, or don't come back at all...bloody wankers all of them if ya ask me, let them try and do this crap for a while... Cammy thinks and sighs, slowly pushing the grate open and then dropping behind a large box.

** Xavier's Inner Sanctum, Shadowlaw underground main complex, Mountains of Thailand **

"Pain...insufferable pain, weakness, nausea, dizziness...what's wrong with me? My powers are off tune, my mind is unclear, my body severed and shattered...how can this be?" X thinks as he sits on his throne.

He had just finished creating a mirror image of his through his psycho drive, using it to talk to Joseph all the way in Israel, the effort had left him even more drained than he had been before. His body aches for rest.

His eyes are puffy and red, and his skin inhumanly pale. He had locked himself in his chambers, he willed not any subordinates to see him this weak, moreover his mother. He cradles his face in his hand, sighing tiredly.

"So much at stake...so much to lose, so much at hand yet eludes me yet..." he mutters and looks forward, gazing at his monitors, his eyes slightly unfocuses and his vision a tad blurry.

He shakes his head and growls, giving up at his attempts, sinking back tiredly into his throne, shutting his eyes for a second. "At least she is out of my way, the meddlesome pest..." He muses and grunts.

His mother had been a problem, her power was great, and her heart even after her torture is left pure and humble, honorable and just. He had to banish her from his base of operations as his father did before him, to prevent her from ruining his plans.

The fake explanation of retrieving her house as a gift was bought, though probably not fully, he had seen the disbelief, the comprehension in her eyes, indeed his father was right about his mother being sharp and wise, but it was not his affair, he would play the charade, until she became a problem.

"Mother or not, I know nothing of her, care not of her, and if she is a threat, she will be removed, I will not let my plans sink into oblivion because of a long lost parent I didn't need or miss, I will complete my conquering and let father's dream come true, and my regime to rule over man and finally put humanity in it's place...oh yes" he thinks and sighs lightly.

But not now, I must retire for days, the psychic reverbs and side effects of the immense draining he had committed bit hard. He had pushes his body over 300 percent over the normal levels of power usage to be able to conquer Geese so easily.

He runs a hand over his abdomen immediately wincing and gritting his teeth. Geese's blows were quite painful, though he hid this from the now dead warrior, he had wounded him greatly, the psychic drain and Ki usage leaving his corporeal shell more vulnerable without it's fueling powers.

Xavier feels his consciousness slipping and sighs tiredly, he had left Commander Richards in charge, a tactical genius, an Ex. Navy Seal and quite loyal, well loyal since his mind has been warped beyond repair by Xavier's influence.

Xavier was content and calm, he could afford to take a day or two to rest, let his battered body and essence mend themselves. He then lies back, letting his exhausted body slip into a sweet much needed slumber, for the first time in months letting his mind roam freely, away from battle plans and tactics and just rest in a nice dreamless sleep.