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| The two women sat in the big office, the same office that had belonged to Kazuya. Though he wasn't in sight, nor was anyone else for that matter. Just Anna and Nina. Nothing had changed. The bookshelves were neatly placed on the left wall, the carpet was still the same patterned carpet, and the brown, hardwood desk in front of them still had the carved words 'Obey, Obey, Obey', each time bigger in size as it was repeated. The two women had changed into more comfortable clothing, though it stood out more. Anna was back in her red ball gown and Nina was back in her purple cat suit. The long silence was deafening, with only the clock on the wall breaking the silence.
'Tick..tick...tick...' it went to its regular rhythm
'Tick...tick...tick...', getting louder
'TICK...TICK...TICK..', were getting louder
Then
'Tick....tick...click!'
The door at the end of the room opened and the old man from before entered the room, his maroon, fur-lined jacket swaying behind him along with the two limbering spikes of hair at the side of his head, emphasising the bald patch in the middle. He pulled the black, leather swivel chair from under the hardwood desk and sat it in, facing Nina and Anna. His face shown how time is merciless, as with his forehead showing permanent brow lines, more evident when he frowned, along with various other wrinkles. He leaned back in his chair and spoke.
"How did you infiltrate the Cold Sleep Complex?" he asked in his thick Japanese accent
"We didn't infiltrate anywhere!" Nina spoke up, "What's this 'Cold Sleep Complex' anyway?"
"The building you and your sister were reported leaving from" the man replied
"We didn't get inside it on our own accord," Anna spoke calmly, "We were in it."
The man thought for a moment.
"That seems truthful" he replied unexpectedly, "After all, how else did you keep your youthful looks? I'll have to get my secretary to check up on the old records."
"Lee Chaolan still works here?" Anna spoke, absentmindedly putting her thoughts into words, with Nina raising a quizzical eyebrow.
"Lee Chaolan? Oh no no no," he replied, "He 'retired' ages ago"
Anna's hopes of someone she could trust went down the drain. Nina was unsure of what was going on; just then, she lashed out. She got up from her chair and banged her fists down on the hardwood desk.
"Just who the hell are you anyway?!?" she burst out, "What happened to us and why the hell are we here?"
The old man frowned. He picked up something on his desk, an identity bar which said 'Chief Executive Officer and Owner' on it and turned it around, so it said
"'Heihachi Mishima'?" Anna said in shock, much to Nina's surprise, "You took back control?"
"Of course," he replied, "It is said that a teacher's happiest moment is when his student surpasses him. I haven't reached that happy moment yet"
"What happened to the previous owner?"
"That is private and confidential, Ms Williams"
"Excuse me," Nina butted in, "But what the hell is going on?"
Just then, a voice on the intercom spoke up.
"Mr Mishima? Hello?" it spoke
It was a brand new type of intercom, projecting a holographic image of the person calling up to it. The image projected a man in his late thirties in a long white coat, wild unruly hair, which looked uncombed from the previous morning, and a Western face. Western people were hard to find around the Mishima Zaibatsu. Nothing to do with racial issues, but it was accounted that there were only 20 westerners out of the main total of 700 employees (100 employees per site building, 200 in the laboratories).
"Yes?" Heihachi replied to the voice
"I have the records of who went into the Cold Sleep Experiment" the man stated, "Do you want them now or should I wait?"
"No, bring them up," Heihachi replied, "And try not to drop them this time!"
He pressed a button on the intercom and the image disappeared. With both of the sisters still looking at it in awe.
"Technology has come a long way since 1996," Heihachi spoke, "That is, if you were-"
The door opened and revealed the man shown on the intercom. Though with a neatly buttoned-up white shirt, you could still read the words on the T-Shirt he was wearing underneath, with black trousers stained yellowish-white in some places due to experiments with bleach, his hair dark brown, long and wild and his face, though not ugly, wasn't good looking either, with such facial qualities improved by a neat moustache. He bowed to Heihachi and the two sisters, as is the custom to in Japan, and then presented Heihachi with a single sheet of paper.
"This tells us the names of who went into the capsules of the Cold Sleep Experiment." the man said, his voice deep and yet, nearly incomprehensible, but vocal enough to be heard and understood.
Heihachi read through the various paragraphs and terms and then came across the names:
Cap 1: N. Williams
Cap 2: A. Williams
Cap 3: S. Boskonovitch
"It appears that the two women arrested by our guards were part of the experiment," the man continued, "Not trying to get confidential information, wouldn't you agree?"
Heihachi growled at the man's insolence and impertinence.
"Yes, you're correct Mr-" he spoke, then stopped and did an about-turn, "Mr-X. But let me remind you that if you continue your impertinent ways, you'll never work again!"
The two sisters looked on, unsure of what was going on. First they thought they were going to be 'eliminated', so to speak, but then they're brought up into an office, now discovered to belong to the CEO and Owner, Heihachi Mishima, or whoever he was, and were accused of trespassing, now some weird guy walks into and things get more confusing then how they started.
"Would someone mind telling me what the fuck is going on here?" exclaimed Nina, frustrated and angry, "What the fuck does that piece of crap say?"
"This 'piece of crap' as you call it, proves your innocence of trespassing," Heihachi replied.
"Oh, thank God!" Nina sighed with relief. Anna hid her brief moment of happiness, was her sister back to normal? Did she regain her memories?
"Mr-X will take you two to the airport to fly back home," Heihachi stated, passing two aeroplane tickets across the hardwood desk to them, along with 2,000 Euros, 1,000 each, "That money should be enough to get you two back on your feet"
The sisters looked at each other, shrugged off other questions and took Heihachi's offer. Mr-X then led them out of the office, letting them both out the door first in the gentlemanly manner. As the two sisters left, Heihachi couldn't help but smirk slyly.
'Something tells me,' he thought, 'That it's not going to be long before I see them again'
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