All the members of Scandal’s team, the Secret Six, were given targets in the World Warrior Tournament by the nefarious organization, Shadoloo. It was good money for a mercenary group that really needed it. Scandal was impressed as she perused through Cammy’s file. She had reached great heights at such a young age and was obviously quite skilled. Scandal even felt a bit of sympathy for Cammy when she read about Cammy’s brain washing at the hand of Scandal’s current employer, M. Bison. But, as always the job came first.
After awhile, Scandal traded her picture of Cammy White for a picture of her lover and fellow Secret Six member, Knockout. She thought of calling Knockout, but decided against it. Knockout was in Japan at the moment and Scandal wasn’t even sure what time it was over there.
Suddenly the door knob to her hotel room jingled and the door was kicked in. Four men in all black filed into the room. Scandal jumped from her bed and elbowed the first man in the jaw as he approached. She side kicked a second man. The biggest man of the four grabbed her from behind and placed her in a bear hug. Scandal swung her head back and hit him in the face to free herself. A shove knocked Scandal over the hotel room mattress. She grabbed her Lamentation Blades that she had placed to the right of her bed and mounted them on her wrists. She thrusted upward at the first man who made it over the mattress and stabbed him through his chin. Scandal quickly spun around the room and stabbed the remaining three men.
After the excitement was over, Scandal looked over the dead bodies in her room. None of them had any form of identification. She wondered if her team was under attack and decided to call Bane whose target was down in Mexico.
“Hello.”
“Hey Bane, it’s Scandal, is everything going okay with you?” she asked.
“Yes. The fight isn’t until tomorrow morning. Why?”
“Good. I just wanted to check,” said Scandal.
“Is everything okay with you? Did something happen?”
“I was just attacked by a group of men in my hotel room. It’s nothing I could not handle. I wanted to find out if they were targeting all of us, but I guess it might just be me,” said Scandal.
“Do I need to travel there? I can protect you.”
“Bane, don’t be ridiculous. We can’t afford to screw up this job. Like I said it’s nothing I can’t handle. Perhaps they worked for Cammy White. Maybe she is not as clean cut as we thought. Maybe she is scared to fight me. She should be.”
“Are you sure you don’t need me to fly up there?” Bane asked again.
“I’m positive," Scandal reassured. “Just concentrate on T. Hawk. I’ll check with the others and I will call you if anything changes.”
“Ok. Talk to you soon.”
Scandal hung up and prepared to call Knockout, Lawton, and Blake, but a figure standing in the doorway stopped her. A man with a snake tattoo across his chest and a mask adorned on his face stood staring at her.
“I can tell by the look on your face darling,” said Vega. “You know who I am.”
“Why would Shadoloo send one of its Grand Masters? The situation is under control,” said Scandal.
Vega laughed. “My darling you are the situation.”
“What are you talking about? You hired us to take out your enemies in the World Warrior Tournament.”
“Actually we hired your team so we could separate them from you. If they take out some of our enemies, that is a definite bonus, but you are the main prize,” Vega explained.
“Why me?”
“Leverage against your father,” answered Vega. “Bison wants the body of the immortal Vandal Savage as a host for his essence.”
Scandal chuckled. “Hate to break it to you precious, but if you think kidnaping me will deliver you my father, you are sadly mistaken. I’m not exactly his favorite person right now on account of not producing him an heir since I’m a lesbian.”
“We’ll take our chances.” Vega placed his claw on his left hand. “And the fun for me is that I have heard you are quite hard to kill yourself. Even surviving several simultaneous gun shots. So I don’t have to hold back.”
“Try and and do your worst,” spit Scandal.
“I intend to.”
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