Plot of Street Fighter II V

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The plot of the 29-episode anime series, Street Fighter II V, is focused around the activities and adventures of Ryu & Ken on their path to become the best fighters in the world.

[edit] Story

Please note that the first 16 episodes cover most of the stories, while the latter half focuses on the Bison Saga. Due to some overlapping in the events, episodes 15 and 16 together act as a "bridge arc" that cannot be clearly seperated. Because of this, the two halfs of the story are divided on this page according to the point-of-view of the characters rather than the sequence of events.

[edit] Kowloon Palace Saga

Ryu, a seventeen-year-old boy living on a Mikunai Island (a small island near the mainland shores) with his aging sensei, is written to by his old friend Ken Masters to come to USA and visit him. Using the money and plane ticket Ken sent him, Ryu travels to USA on a Jet and eventually meets up with Ken, who is revealed to be the son of the wealthy founder and CEO of the Masters Conglomerate. Upon arriving in America, they stay at Ken's mansion, where they have a sparring match in the shed modelled after their dojo.

Ken and Ryu have dinner with Ken's parents, then later go out to Mount Fuji Club to have a drink in celebration of Ryu's arrival (although, to who had high expectationsenter the establishment, Ken bribes the doorman with a $100 note to let them in as they're both under the legal drinking age). Unfortunately, when Ken invites a beautiful girl to drink with him, the girl's original date and his friends (all members of United States Air Force) start a barroom brawl.

All of the men in the brawl lose to Ryu and Ken. However, their sergeant, Guile, comes to the bar and scolds the "punks" for harming his men. Ryu challenges Guile to a one-on-one fight, but Guile proves to be a lot stronger and more skilled than his men, and beats Ryu more than once because Ryu refused to give up. Ryu persistence fills Guile with grudging admiration, but he is ultimately forced to render him unconscious. Ryu wakes up on riding on back of Ken's motorcycle on their way back home, and spend the rest of the night and the next morning in bed. While waiting for Ryu's recovery, Ken swears that he will avenge his friends defeat.

That day, Ken pays a visit to the local Airforce Base and tracks Guile down to the Gym. Despite a friendly and sexy lady-officer named Dorothy who advised him otherwise, Ken challenges Guile to another one-on-one fight. During the fight, Guile throws sand into Ken's eyes and reminds him that "we don't play by any rules in a street fight". Guile, who still has a hangover from the previous night's drinking and fighting, defeats Ken, leaving him in the same condition as Ryu.

After reflecting on their defeat, Ryu and Ken then decide to travel around the world in order to find strong opponents to learn from and test their skills.

Their first destination is Hong Kong. Here, Ryu and Ken check into the penthouse of a luxury hotel, and order for a tour guide to show them around the city. The tour guide is a fifteen-year-old girl named Chun-Li, who flies around the city with them in a helicopter-taxi piloted by a man named Tyler. However, Ryu and Ken insist on being taken down to the dreaded underground fighting arena known as the Devil's Battle Cave, located in a part of Kowloon Palace that the Hong Kong city officials had already evacuated all residents from due to crime.

Kowloon Palace is ruled by a ruthless gang lord called Don Lean, who host regular fights and bettings in the Devil's Battle Cave. Enraged that the "outsiders", Ken and Ryu, have defeated all of his best fighters, especially Mr. Damned, Lean orders his men to execute Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li on sight and issues a bounty to all of the "inhabitants" of the Kowloon Slums. The trio run for their lives and eventually manage to escape after several grueling battles with the various locals. But before they can reach the exit, Lean and his two bodyguards catch up to them. Even though Ryu and Ken make quick work of the bodyguards, Lean grabs Chun-Li and holds her at gunpoint. But before he can shoot, his gun is shot out of his hand, and he is immediately afterwards knocked out by Chun-Li who takes advantage of the opportunity. The trio turn around to see that it was Tyler who shot Don Lean's gun from his hand, and moreover they see that the Hong Kong police have arrived to rescue them, led by Chun-Li's father, Dorai, who scolds Chun-Li for her recklessness.

[edit] Ashura Saga

Recovering from their experience inside Kowloon Palace, Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li spot a magazine advertisement for a new film starring Fei-Long. But before heading out to the set, they eat lunch at the fancy Kin Ko Kai Restraurant to sample a Swallow's Nest, which Ryu at first thinks includes the chicks--Ryu quickly devours the nest after discovering that the preparation does not include the chicks. Afterwards, they go to the filming location at Tiger Balm Garden to meet up with Fei-Long, who has been accidentally injuring all of the director's stuntmen. Fei-Long argues with the director about needed a challenging fighter, just as Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li arrive.

Fei-Long offers to Ken and Ryu an opportunity to fight him for the film, but chooses Ken, who then takes the role of the film's antagonist, a stereotypical slumlord. At first the director is delighted, exclaiming "this film is definitely gonna make me a millionaire!", but soon begins to have second thoughts when the fighting goes too far and destroys most of the set decorations, as well as damaging several monuments in the city park. To make matters more complicated, Ken's bald wig came off during the fight, thus forcing a rewrite of the script. Eventually, the destruction becomes great enough where the director was forced to call "cut" in order to prevent further damage to public property, which would be too difficult to compensate for regardless of the film's profits.

That same day, Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li go to a local department store, where Ken treats Chun-Li to shopping spree of expensive clothes and jewellery. Meanwhile, Ryu asks to sit somewhere alone, and soon he encounters a sick elderly man. Ryu offers him help, but he insists only on being taken to a place where he can have privacy. After Ryu helps him outside, the old man's body becomes engulfed in a blue flame and he creates a small blue ball of light in his hands which he swallows, then suddenly appears to be in perfect health. Startled, Ryu asks the old man what he did, and in return for his help, the old man tells Ryu to follow him to his teashop in order to explain.

At the teashop, the old man explains to Ryu that what he used was a martial arts-based ability called "Kiko" or "Ki of the Riding Wave", a manifestation of one's inner most strength to temporarily restore his health. Demonstrating, the old man instructs Ryu in the required posture, and uses his bare hands to control a wave of energy to put a candleflame out. Ryu is unable to do the same, but before departing for Dorai's dojo to rejoin with Kan and Chun-Li, the old man introduces him as "Yo of the Teashop" and gives a small tapestry depicting Bodhidharma.

Ryu arrives at the dojo during a sparring round between Chun-Li and Lo-Yang, another one of Dorai's students. Chun-Li wins the fight, but by accidentally kicking Lo-Yang in the groin. That evening, Dorai, Chun-Li, Ryu and Ken sit in the lounge and talk for a while, during which Ryu tells them of his encounter with Yo of the Teashop. Impressed that Yo showed Ryu a technique of that nature, Dorai then tells him and the others that Yo of the Teashop formerly was known as Yo Sen Kai. Dorai then proceeds to tell about his history as a government bodyguard and resistance fighter who was never defeated, and how even that his own techniques were directly tracable from Yo Sen Kai's teachings.

Later that same night, Dorai leads the Hong Kong police into arresting a group of drug-smugglers working in the name of Ashura, and seize a large quantity of illegal narcotics in the process. This angers Rose, the underboss of the Ashura, so he sends his men to ambush Chun-Li to hold her as bait, but she uses her skills to fight them off. Ryu and Ken come to her aid, but in arriving late are only able to interrogate one of the defeated thugs, who reveal boss's intent to retaliate for the drug bust the previous night. Upon Rose's discovery of his men's failure, his associate, Donu, suggests to him that the only recourse is to kill Dorai, and personally leads the his men under Rose's orders in a direct assault on Dorai's dojo. Realizing the dojo was already under attack, Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li hurry to the dojo as fast as they can to fight alongside Dorai and his three students, as well as Fei-Long who was visiting his master. Ryu and Ken observe that the martial arts used by the attackers was Muay Thai, the traditional martial arts style of Thailand. Dorai students are unprepared for the style of the attackers and are quickly injured, but Ken, Ryu and Fei Long succeed in defeating most of the attackers after discover a weakness in the technique. Dorai himself easily handles the remaining attackers who managed to enter the house itself in looking for him. Despite the victory, the assault leader, Donu, escapes from the premises.

In order to learn more about Muay Thai, Ryu and Ken journey to Thailand, but while they are in the airport queue, Donu (who had followed them from Hong Kong) plants a packet of heroin into Ryu's bag, which leads to Ryu being arrested and taken to prison. As Ken tries to track down the culprit from a distinctive scar on his face, Ryu meanwhile, is tortured and brutalized by Warden Nucci. Ryu soon learns from the other prisoners that Nucci doesn't really control the prison, but rather another inmate named Mr. Sagat, a former Muay Thai champion.

The next day, the prisoners bully Ryu on the patio, and force him to fight back. To end the brawl and put Ryu "in his place", Sagat engages Ryu in combat, but Ryu attempts to use Muay Thai, however, the tables soon turn in Ryu's favor when he uses his own skills and defeats Sagat. Impresses by all of this, Sagat then reveals to Ryu that he is not who he seems, but rather a gentle person who was also once framed by Ashura for not throwing a fight. Out of respect for Ryu, Sagat calls the fight off and demands that all bets by the other prisoners be returned, but Nucci protests and threatens to kill them both, but he is defeated by Ryu and Sagat when they see that not even the armed prison guards on the ramparts are supporting him.

Meanwhile, Ken is determined to find the man who frame Ryu, As part of search, he contacts his father in the United States, who in turn uses his influence in the government to have Ryu temporarily released from prison. While searching on his own, Ken had brief encounter and chase with Donu, and althoughh unsuccessful in capturing him, did acquired a clue in the form of black hoodcap that Donu and his men had used in their attack on Dorai's house. Ken then contacted Dorai who in return faxed to him some information about the Ashura's Thai operations. Now temporarily freed from prison through diplomatic channels, Ryu and Ken begin to track down Donu, who after a short fight is brought to the police along with ten of his thugs (all of whom were taken down in their hideout by Ken and Ryu). Upon leaving the police station, Ryu spots a sniper in a window across the street. He takes a slightly injury in the arm from a bullet grazing by, but otherwise they unharmed. Ken and Ryu attempt to find and follow the sniper, and are able to hitch a ride back to the Ashura's main hideout on the top of the sniper's truck.

Shortly after Donu's capture, Dorai arrives in Thailand with information about the Ashura's activities. He is greeted by Chief of the Bangkok Police, Raja, who apologizes for Ryu's treatment (since he had personally ordered Ryu's imprisonment). During a conversation between them, Dorai reveals to Raja that Detective Soong, who had been put in charge of interrogating Donu, was an operative of the Ashura who had been identified by the men who were arrested in the large drug bust a few days earlier in Hong Kong. At about this time, Zochi begins communicating through a video-link with an unnamed, shadowy man who refuses to speak with words, but rather with pulsing electronic-"beeps". Zochi explains to him that his man-on-the-inside will soon take care of the problem of Donu's capture. Meanwhile, after Raja and Dorai leave Soong and Donu alone together with a hidden listening device, the truth of Soongs intentions become known to Raja. However, Soong kills Donu before anyone is able to stop him, attempting to feign the appearance of a failed escape. He then leaves back for the Ashura hideout deep into the Racha Buri Forest to collect the reward Zochi promised him, unaware that Dorai, Raja and a large number of Thai police are tailing him. Ryu and Ken arrive first, still on top of the snipers' truck, but soon find themselves captured and taken directly to the Ashura boss himself, Mr. Zochi, for a personal interrogation. Thanks to the timely intervention of Dorai and the police, Zochi is arrested and Ryu is proven innocent and is now free to leave the country. In addition, Sagat is also released from prison. Ryu and Ken visit him in the prison to tell him in person, where he thanks them for their help. Seeing Ryu's poster of Bodhidharma, Sagat tells Ryu and Ken that if they want to learn about Hadou, they should travel to a village called Ahichattra in Northern India and seek out a monk known as Dhalsim.

[edit] Hadou Saga

In India, Ryu and Ken search for Dhalsim. On their way, they discover a Dr. Hanna, an American doctor who been has volunteering to heal the sick and injured of the village they were passing through. When Ryu and Ken approach, they witness a group of thugs threatening the doctor and her patients to leave. They rush in to rescue her and her patients, and send the thugs off with a few bruises. The doctor thanks them, but tells them that she can handle them on her own, and has been doing so for the past few months. She also explains that the thugs were sent by the landlord who hopes to attract more profitable developers, but also that she refused to give up because of the patients who needed her service, especially so long as she still held a lease on the land. Hearing this, Ken promised to her that he would make certain that she would have no further harassment from the landlord's thugs. Afterwards they left by riverboat with more detailed directions to their destination, but later that day as she returned to her hospital, the doctor was again being visited upon, this time by men in suits. She believed at first that they were sent by the landlord until they introduced themselves as representatives of the Masters Corporation looking to subsidize her work and establish a fully equipped hospital to serve the entire area. Before leaving the village earlier, Ken had contacted his father through his cellular phone and asked him to intervene in the matter.

When they reached Ahichattra, Ken and Ryu find Dhalsim. He says that their coming was foretold by the Scrolls of Foreknowledge from the Pages of the Monk Aghastia. They ask him to teach them Hadou, but he refuses, stating that "beasts" should not be taught the art of Hadou, then bids them to depart. They refuse to leave, and instead follow Dhalsim around the village, occasionally befriending the locals.

The Goddess Statue in the Cave of Ancients...
...seen here reflecting the nature of the thieves who attempted to steal it.

Later on, after a gang of four thieves invade the village at night, seeking a treasure rumored to be hidden in the Cave of Ancients. Two of the thieves enter the cave, but the only one who came out was fatally injured, claiming to have seen a monster before he died. The commotion awoke everyone in the village, and the two surviving thieves (both armed with automatic weapons) demanded that one of the locals go into the cave to bring to the treature out to them. Ryu and Ken volunteer on the condition that they leave the villagers unharmed, but Dhalsim warns them and the thieves that no man may enter the cave, because it was like "a mirror which reflects the spirit of whoever enters into it".

Ken and Ryu entered the cave, and after reaching the main chamber they locate the treasure (a small gold goddess statue vaguely resembling Kali). But after staring at it for a moment they have an out-of-body experience in which they seem to be taken away to a distant place. Ken and Ryu both are now standing on a dark and misty ground, and soon realize that the other has disappeared. Soon they are confronted by demon statue warriors who they immediately attack. Eventually, Ryu and Ken are beaten into submission, initially fearing that the demons would soon come to finish them but soon realizing that the demons' lack of movement meant they they too were unable to continue fighting. Kan and Ryu each thought to themselves that their opponents fought like each other and then remembered what Dhalsim had said about the cave being like a mirror. The two demon disappeared and in their places were each other--just as they begun to suspect, they had been fighting each other, and like "beast" had engage battle with each other on instinct rather than pauses to think about their actions. After taking the treasure from the main chamber, the two severely injured fighters emerged from the Cave of Ancients. They gave the statue to the thieves and told them leave in peace, but the thieves try to kill them anyway so that there would be no witnesses who could identify them. But just as one thief was about to fire his weapon, he found that Dhalsim had removed the ammunition clip without his notice. He then called to his surviving comrade, be he was unable to move because of Dhalsim use of presssure points to immobilize him. Dhalsim then uses the same technique upon the first thief to leave them both immobile, he then sends one of the small children back into the cave to return the statue to it proper place. Ken and Ryu ask Dhalsim if it safe in there for a child, to which he replies that a child's innocence means that a child will see nothing in the cave, and also because they were able to see through the illusions of the cave he would now teach the two fighters the art of Hadou. He then leads them both back to his hut for healing.

Dhalsim begins his lesson with Kundharin breathing exercises, the Sahathrala Chaktra (which is used for healing and purification), then makes a demonstration of Hadou, but his proximity to Ryu causes a reaction that culminates into a powerful blast of fiery light which Ryu expels from his hands into the sky. Dhalsim explains that the Hadouken is release from the energy of all of the living things surrounding him, and flows from the sixth Chaktra called "Swadithtanaa" (or "Tanda of the Abdomen"). Ryu realizes that he is unable to control the energy of Hadou, and asks Dhalsim to teach him how to master it, but Dhalsim regretfully informs him that he is unable to because there is no one else since Bodhidharma himself who has ever known how to use Hadou as a weapon. That next morning, Ryu journeys alone into the Cave of Ancients and comes face to face with a phantom of his old opponent: Guile. At first, he unable to defeat the phantom, but soon he notices streaks of light that identifies as the "intentions" of the phantom's strikes, like precursors to his next moves. After a brief fight, Ryu ceases battling and realizes that had it not been for Guile, he and Ken would still be arrogant delinquents with no knowledge of fighting. Ryu thanks the phantom-Guile, who then vanishes. Before returning to the village, Ryu if forced to make one more attempt with the Hadouken, an attempt where he must focus his thoughts. When his thought are collected and focus with a target visualized in his mind, he releases his Hadou energy, which both Ken and Dhalsim watch fly out from the cave's entrance and disappear over the horizon.

[edit] Vega Saga

While leaving the village of Ahichattra, Ken reads a letter from Chun-Li (from their hotel room in Calcutta) to Ryu telling them to meet her and her father, Dorai, in Barcelona, Spain for the Interpol awards, where he, Ryu and Ken are rewarded for their takedown of the Ashura. To celebrate, Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li go to see a bullfight, where they meet with the handsome but blackhearted matador, Vega Fabio La Serda. Upon merely seeing her in the bleachers, Vega immediately takes a liking to Chun-Li, and presents her with a rose. Chun-Li blushes at first, but her feelings toward Vega change when later the matador presents her with the ear of the bull he killed (a common practice at bullfights). Vega also takes a disliking to Ryu and Ken, whom he sees as competition for Chun-Li's affections. His hatred intensifies when after the fight, he watches Ken defeat a runaway bull by using only his hands, albeit with Vega's advice concerning where on the bull's body to strike.

That night, at the hotel where Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li were staying, Vega sneaks into the room where Chun-Li was sleeping, and after a moment of admiring her beauty he then drugs her with a love potion. Ken notices the opened window from the next room and attempts to inspect, but Vega leaves before he can be caught. Ken wakes Chun-Li (and Ryu as well) to warn her--she thought is was just a dream, however, the window to the veranda was left open. The next morning, they receive an anonymous letter inviting all three of them to a "grand ball" that night at the Castle de Maria Isabel. Ken and Chun-Li decide to attend, but Ryu declines, preferring to spend the evening meditating and practicing his newfound Hadou technique, the Hadouken.

Later that evening, while Ryu is practicing on the beach near their hotel, and while Ken and Chun-Li are cheauffered to the Castle, a modified F-117 carrying the shadowy man who had before communicated with Zochi, the Boss of the Ashura, lands in Barcelona on a private runway. He transfers into a a black limousine to be taken to the same castle for the grand ball. While passing through the back roads of the city near the beach, the limousine comes to a stop. When the window rolls down, the shadowy man peers out to watch Ryu perform the Hadouken. However, Ryu sees him and his energy quickly disipates, and the limousine drives off.

Elsewhere in Barcelona, Interpol has convened secretly to discuss new information about the Ashura. In attendance, were Dorai, and several high officers of Interpol. Chief Barrac of Interpol begins the meeting by elaborating on the Ashura's last known activities, then goes on to discuss the activities of a related group called "Caeser", an environmentalism organisation that recently purchased an extremely large section of Brazilian jungle at an outrageously large price, using money traced back to Ashura. From here, Chief Barrac adds that only within the last few hours he became aware of another organization that controlled both the Ashura and Ceaser (and possibly others as well)... Shadowlaw. He was even able to provide the name of its Supreme Commander: Bison--beyond this, however, nothing was known about him.

At the party, Ken and Chun-Li are greeted at the front gate, where they (and all other attendees) are given masks to wear inside. They are surprised to see a large steel cage in the center of the room, and Ken becomes more concerned when he noticed Chun-Li's blank stare as the love potion began to take effect. Soon, Vega appears to challenge Ken in the cage for Chun-Li (and for the audience's viewing pleasure), to which Ken unhesitatingly accepts. While in the cage together, Vega then reveals that he drugged Chun-Li in order to seal their destiny together, but that Ken will claim Chun-Li as his own if he is able to defeat the bullfighter. Vega offers Ken his choice of weapons, but Ken prefers to fight barehanded against his challenger's advice. Before they begin fighting, Vega slices the inside of his own arms with his guantlets, then offers to seal the following battle in their blood--his too Ken accepts, and without flinching receives a cut from Vega's guantlets upon which they presses their cuts together to mix blood (see Blood brother).

The shadowy man now arrives at the party, and takes his box seat just as the battle begins. At first in Ken's favor but only until Vega climbs to the top of the cage-interior from where he launches a drop attack. During the fight, Vega breaks both of Ken's feet, but Ken still stands and fights, refusing to give up. Amid numerous taunts and crushing blows, Ken eventually defeats Vega, rendering the bullfighter unconscious through a special upward-punch, known as Shouryuken, against one of his drop attacks. The counterattack sends Vega back upwards where he hangs from the in-cage chandelier, about which time Chun-Li begins to emerge from her stupor. She rushes to the cage, demanding to be let in to see Ken. As she is let in, she clings to Ken, but Vega begins to fall back downwards as if to make a final attack. Ken pushes Chun-Li out of Vega's path and catches him on his back, with the unconscious bullfighter defeated.

[edit] Bison Saga

At the beginning of the fight between Ken and Vega, the shadowy man now idetified as Bison, arrived at the party to watch the cage-battle--he is accompanied by his assistant Zoltar. While watching the battle, Zoltar informs his master that Ken is actually the heir to the Masters' family fortune, and that the girl watching the fight by herself from her table is Chun-Li, the daughter of Detective Dorai. so Bison decides then to hold him for ransom in order to recover financially from the lost of the Ashura syndicate. However, upon witnessing Ken's victory a short while later, he is greatly impressed and orders Ken's injuries to be attended to by his personal medical staff in the hopes that he might possibly recruit Ken into his organization.

At the Interpol briefing earlier, Chief Barrac, Dorai and several other high-ranking officials shared their information with each other about the organization known as Shadowlaw. After the meeting, one of the agents named Balrog contacted Shadowlaw (of which he was secretly an agent) about the new intelligence. Zoltar (who may be assumed to have been the person in direct contact with Balrog) informs Bison of this newest development while the audience is still in applause for Ken's victory.

Willing to take no risks, Balrog had already made arrangements for Dorai to be executed immediately, and sends for the British assassin, Cammy White. He went to the airport to personally make contact with her, using her dossier to verify her identity. While en route to the Hotel San Juan, where Dorai was staying (where Cammy was also registered to stay in a room next to his), Balrog explained in excess with a fictitious story about Dorai's corrupt practices and how his position jeopardized the Interpol's operations and the secrecy of its agents--thus the supposed reason for Interpol requiring a assassin to remove him quickly and without suspicion. Upon arriving at the hotel, she warns Balrog to ensure that she will not be hunted by Interpol afterwards, which he balks at promising her.

Back at the castle, Ken and Vega are then taken to the treatment rooms, but Ken is taken to one in which he is drugged by a doctor and the now-cured Chun-Li is personally confronted by Bison after the doctors leave alone. At first Bison was impressed by Chun-Li's fearlessness and fighting spirit, but eventually she causes him to lose his temper, at which point he goes into mad delirium from his Psycho Power and nearly strangles her to death. After Bison recovers, he momentarily expresses some concern that he had lost control of himself, and then leaves Zoltar with orders to transport them. Chun-Li and Ken (both unconscious) are then taken to Bison's secret hideout, where after some meditation, Bison contacts Ken's father by telephone to demand a large ransom of about one fifth of the Masters Family fortune. After receiving further details, Ken's father calls an old friend from college, Ortega, who is now the Director of the CIA to arrange for military help in the matter. Ortega contacts General Chandler (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in the Pentagon who sends two Air Force Sergeants, Guile and Nash, to their aid. After explaining the situation, Guile and Nash fly to Spain to attempt rescue of Ken and Ryu before the end of the 48 hours specified by Bison's demands. When given a photograph of Ken and Ryu to identify them by, Guile recalls to himself the brawl he had with them before. They then depart in secret by super-sonic jets and land in Barcelona a few hours later.

Meanwhile, Ryu has fallen nearly-unconscious on the beach due to his overuse of Hadou, and Bison has sent his men to fetch him. The Shadowlaw-employed wrestler, Zangief, is sent to capture Ryu, but as he drags Ryu along the sand, Ryu wakes up and kicks Zangief's hand aside. The friendly behemoth then tries to ask Ryu to come quietly, but he refuses, and a brief fight ensues in which Zangief easily knocks the weakened Ryu out. Ryu is then taken to Bison's lair, but just before their departure, Guile and Nash catch a glimpse from overhead in their helicopter of Ryu being taken away in the truck, but they are too late to intervene and are force to continue the search by other means.

Dorai continues working while on the balcony of his room, while Cammy prepares herself in her room. After changing her clothes and gathers her tools, she plans her method: to jump across from her balcony to land her heel onto his vertebrae from above. Just before she begins, Dorai receives a phone call from Fei-Long, who says that he will be coming to Europe to film a movie and that he will arrive early to meet his master in Barcelona the next day. After the conversation ends, Dorai returns to his work, but just then Cammy makes her attack. Dorai sees her reflection behind him in his laptop's screen, and he was able to avoid her. After a short fight, Cammy wraps the wire hidden inside of her crucifix-necklace around Dorai's neck and kicks him off the balcony of his hotel. While dangling, Dorai presses two of his fingers against specific points of his own neck, causing him to go limp and unconscious. Seeing this, Cammy cuts the wire leaving him to drop several floors down and onto the back of passing truck carrying empty plastic containers--she then returns to her room to take a shower, and generally "act normal" for the remainder of the night. After the medics come to the scene, Balrog telephones Cammy in her room for a report; she fires back that her "repution wasn't built on advertising" and that she is the "best in the business", to which he finishes by advising her to stay in her room and out of sight.

When Chief Barrac visits Dorai at the hospital, and learns from the doctor that Dorai is actually still alive, but severly injured--his pulse and respiration ceased at the site but had resumed after being found, this in addition to a multitude of fractured bones and a esophegus-puncture from the wire. Realizing that the attack had no motive without an insider's knowledge of Dorai's missions, Barrac immediately requested that the doctor move him to a private room in the hospital for his safety. Chief Barrac also instructed the hospital receptionist to alert him immediately should anyone come there asking about Dorai, even if that person claimed to be an agent of Interpol.

By morning, Guile and Nash had begun to investigate the Castle de Maria Isabel, but determined that it was empty. While scouting the roads along the shore, they contact Ken's father to appraise him of the situation. Just after terminating the call, Guile spots on the roadside the same truck he saw the night before on the beach, which he noted as being near the hotel where Ken and Ryu were staying. Looking for more information, they drive further to a nearby dock, and ask the dock's caretaker if he knew anything. The dock's caretaker described two men (one "as big as a mountain") carrying a third who he thought was drunk, but couldn't be certain because of the distance he was from when they boarded a small boat to go to a nearby island. He also mentioned that the island was owned by a rich individual who occasionally sent men back and forth for supplies. The caretaker was not able to solidly identify either Ken or Ryu from the photo Guile showed him, but thought that Ryu resembled the "drunken third man". With this, Guile and Nash were convinced they had found the right lead, so they then go by raft towards the island.

When Ryu wakes up in Bison's fortress, he is confronted by Bison who offers to let Ryu go free if he can defeat him using Hadou. All the while, Zoltar and a Shadowlaw technician observe and monitor the energy released by Ryu. But Ryu is unable to defeat Bison because he the Psycho Power interferes with the normal flow of Hadou. When the energies were released, most of the equipment being used to monitor them was destroyed along with the room Bison and Ryu stood in. Ryu collapses, and Bison decides that Ryu may be useful to him because of his power, however unmastered it may be.

Later in the Shadowlaw laboratories, Zoltar arranges a demonstration of a new "cyber-chip" designed for mind control, which when placed on a person's forehead allows that person's brain to be directly influenced according to remote instructions sent via microwave signals. With functions ranging from controlling emotions to implanting commands, Bison is greatly impressed with the technology, even though he is momentarily shocked to watch Zoltar's "test subject" smashes his own head on a brick wall upon command. Bison then orders a working model ready for use on Ryu by the next day, which Zoltar is delighted to supply.

At the airport in Barcelona, Fei Long arrives but soon hears from a news report about Dorai's death, which was reported as having been caused by a fall while intoxicated--Fei Long is torn, unable to believe that his master could have died in a such a manner. Balrog heres of the same report, and telephones Cammy to congradulate her for making the hit look like an accident. However, Cammy informs him that the news report is wrong, and they both then realize that a third party has covered up the details of Dorai's "death". Bison suspects that this means Dorai may still be alive and tells Cammy to wait for further instructions. When Fei Long arrives at the hospital where Dorai was brought, he demands to know what has taken places. He's soon met with Chief Barrac, who when realizing of the young man's relation to Dorai, decides to take him outside to explain the situation to him in confidence.

Elsewhere in Bison's lair, Ken has been chained to a bed, where he has recollected visions of Bison strangling Chun-Li. His anger at this sight ultimately causes his own inner potential to come to the surface and unlock his own Hadou abilities. After freeing himself in the explosion of his own Hadou, Ken calls his new technique: Hadou-Shoryu. Ken sneaks into the labs below, where he sees Chun-Li fighting against a Shadaloo soldier in a training room. Ryu then enters the room, but he and Chun-Li don't seem to recognize each other. It is later revealed that Ryu and Chun-Li are under the control of Bison's mind microchips. Eventually, Ken breaks into the training room and engages Ryu in combat, but Ryu no longer has any recollection of Ken and attacks him relentlessly.

Infuriated, Balrog, when alone again, calls for Cammy to come and finish the job. But fortunately for Dorai, Cammy arrives in the room to finish Dorai off just after Fei-Long stops by to visit his master. Expressing his rage and lust for revenge, Fei-Long engages Cammy in combat, all the while stopping her from harming Dorai. During the fight, Cammy tells Fei-Long that Dorai is a drug dealer, and Fei-Long corrects her. It is here that Cammy realizes that she has been tricked, and apologizing to Fei-Long, they call Dorai's superior and pay a surprise visit to Balrog. But just before the superior can arrest Balrog, Cammy attacks him and knocks him out before thanking Fei-Long one last time and fleeing into the night. With their traitor caught, Fei-Long and the superior take the battered Balrog into custody.

Guile and Nash make it into Bison's lair, and plant a few explosive devises before going their separate ways to find Ryu and Ken. To his shock, Guile is ambushed by Zangief, who claims that Guile has become too risky to keep alive, and attempts to kill him. After a long and brutal fight, Guile finally manaes to knock Zangief unconscious.

Nash then finds his way to the labs, where he confronts Bison with a gun, but Bison merely mocks him and begins to strangle him to death. But just before dying, Nash manages to call for help from Guile, who hurries to the lab and confronts Bison with nothing but revenge on his mind. Bison merely sets the controlled Chun-Li on Guile, and they engage in battle.

Meanwhile, Ken finally manages to knock the microchip off Ryu's forehead when their Hadou abilities clash fiercely. Ryu and Ken then track Bison to another room, where they find Chun-Li and Guile. But using a crystal eagle, Bison teleports Guile and Chun-Li out of the lair, and alters the room into an endless one.

As Guile and Chun-Li resume the battle, Bison engages Ryu and Ken in combat in their own arena, where Bison demonstrates his psycho power abilities, such as the Psycho Crusher and the Knee-Press Nightmare. Eventually, Ryu and Ken manage to use their Hadou skills to their advantage, and catch Bison off guard as he prepares for a Psycho Crusher. Seeing his chance, Ryu wastes no time, and fires a Hadoken straight at the defenceless Bison, which hits him and ultimately obliterates him. This victory also causes the chip on Chun-Li's forehead to come off and return her to her normal state.

Ryu and Ken then emerge from the arena and reunite with Chun-Li and Guile, just as the reinforcements arrive.

In the series' last scene, Ryu and Ken share a warm talk on a wharf, and the series ends with Ken speeding off on his motorbike and Ryu sailing out to sea, presumbaly back to his island in Japan.