Bringing Up Cammy

Note: Violence (mild sexualized ryona)

"Three."

Chun-li lay completely still, trying to must what strength she had. She thought about trying to force herself to her feet, but she was afraid unnecessary action would cost her too much time.

"Two."

She heard Helga moving closer, no doubt preparing some sort of grisly coup de grace. Through her tears, she saw the gleam of the kunai. In Helga's massive hand, it looked like a toothpick. That's ok, she thought, it's only a knife. These days, Chun-li wasn't scared of knives.

"One."

Chun-li's crying intensified, turning into great sobs. Poison looked at Helga and shook her head.

"Can you believe this? What a wimpy woman!" Poison exclaimed. "Hopefully your next opponent will be stronger. Ah well, finish her off Helga darling."

Helga moved to stand over Chun-li. Raising one massive foot, she prepared to bring it down across the woman's neck. Like striking snakes, two massive legs suddenly shot up, wrapping themselves around Helga's neck. She felt the hard plastic heels of Chun-li's shoes digging into the back of her head. Glancing wildly around for a means of escape, Helga saw Chun-li staring up at her, her body propped up on her good shoulder, her large brown eyes shining with an inner flame.

"Boo-hoo, bitch," Chun-li whispered, and twisting her body, brought Helga up and over, driving her down headfirst into the ground. Using her own momentum, Chun-li rode the move into a standing position, her feet on either side of Helga's head. The prone bodybuilder was looking up at her, a horrified expression on her face. Raising her good arm in the air, Chun-li gathered the absolute last iota of her inner strength, and blasted another kikoken into Helga's face at point-blank range.

She turned, and saw Poison slinging Cammy over her shoulder in a fireman's carry and heading for the door. She tried to run, but this was asking too much, too soon. She stumbled and fell to her knees, reaching out as if she could drag her daughter back by force of will.

Closing her eyes, she tried to calm her racing mind and think. Obviously she was in no condition to go after Poison and Cammy right now; even if she caught them, she'd be no match for Poison in her current state. But, from the way Poison spoke, she didn't intend to kill Cammy right away. So Chun-li had time, but not much. She had time, what she needed was some help.

She slowly crawled over to her gym bag, where she had dropped it before her spar with Cammy. She noticed Helga was breathing; still alive, but out for a while. Withdrawing her mobile phone, she punched a few numbers. When prompted, she gave her name and access code, and the name of her boss. A few moments later she spoke softly into the receiver.

"Yeah I'm requesting an ambulance at the Marshall Gym on Church Road. I also need you to put me in contact with CIA. I'm gonna have to speak with Viper."