Kim Kap Hwan's Thread of Justice

I actually confused Tizoc's username with Blacknoah... My bad. It would be nice to have all those guys back. I just wish I had been more cordial back then.

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Kou Leifoh has been caught and he’s spilled the beans! It’s time to settle the score IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE!

Chun Li: (cuffs Kou) If anything you’ve told us is false then you’ll have to answer to it in court.

Kou: (mumbles) And what about my Miranda Rights?

Chun Li: (presents badge) INTERPOL, Kou, you can cry me a river. You’re guilty for crimes in Germany, Japan, and The United Kingdom. I’m taking you back to Edge City and finding out who’s been funding your little excursions.

Blue Mary: So I guess this one’s yours then, Chun Li? (motions to Kim and Seo Yong) We’ll roll up the culprit and drag him back to the station.
Chun Li: (raises eyebrow) Is it wise to bring them along. I’d consider them a possible obstruction of justice.

Kim: (walking away) Don’t talk to me about justice, Chun Li. (looks back over shoulder) I WROTE THE BOOK ON IT! Let’s go, Seo Yong!

Seo Yong: (jogs after Kim) Yes, Master!

Hon Fu: (wipes brow) Phew, busy night. Be safe out there, Mary. Have fun with the crazies.

Blue Mary: (waves) Byyyeeee! Have fun processing Sir Bleed-a-Lot!

Kou: (groans) Let’s just go before I pass out again…

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At Kim’s behest, Jhun and Chae Lim arrive at the doorstep of the impersonator that attacked Richard! It’s the beginning of the end!

Jhun: (to Chae Lim) Apparently the guy inside here is the one who attacked Richard. According to Kim, this same guy hired Kou to help cover for him in the event there’d be an investigation.

Chae: (smirks) I guess he didn’t think that one all the way through, huh?

Jhun: (chuckles) No, I suppose not. (looks over at hideout) Let’s go ask him how he feels about all this.

Chae: Sure, but how do you want to breach?

Jhun: We’re Patrons of Justice, not mobsters. We’ll just—(knocks at the door and callsout) Hello? Anyone there? I’m about to—(violently cuts down door with sweeping kicks)—kick your door down.

Chae: (leaps into building) Evil is unforgivable! Reveal yourself, swine!

(Jhun and Chae now stand in a wide living room with a single chair in the middle the windows are covered and the fireplace is roaring behind the lone chair; a mysterious figure sits in the chair seemingly unaware of the duo’s presence even though he’s staring at the former location of the door)

Shin: (hands folded) Hello, friends.

Chae: (clenches fists) Shin… You’re a long way from Street Fighter Online aren’t you?

Shin: (exhales sorrowfully) Yes, but that wasn’t so much a real tournament now was it? No one even remembers who I am or what I stood for. It’s a real shame…

Jhun: Whine to someone else, punk. (points at Shin) Kim will be here shortly so you’d better explain your actions right now or face deadly consequences.

Shin: So he sent you here in his stead? (clasps hands together) It seems the Justice Alley is coming together as a team. The last time that happened Rugal almost destroyed all of Southtown.

Chae: (furious) Don’t pussyfoot around, Shin! You marred our noble teacher’s reputation!

Jhun: (coughs) Not his student! (coughs)

Chae: (annoyed) Master Jhun!

Jhun: What!? I’m not!

Shin: (laughs) Nothing has changed after all! That’s even better! This should work out nicely!

Chae: Answer our questions! What should work out nicely? Why did you pull Kou Leifoh into this? Why did you hire him to attack King!?

Shin: (aloof, mind wandering) You know, I’m glad that Kou was captured. I never liked him. Either King was going to beat him up or Kim was. (smiles) Or the cops I suppose. He’s far too incompetent to do anything alone. (grows angry) He had the opportunity to pursue music and the arts and he threw it away for martial arts? He’s a cretin at best and philistine at worst. I can’t believe that THAT man has taken him as—

Jhun: (loudly) What does music and the arts have to do with you attacking an innocent man trying to run his business?

Shin: EVERYTHING! (stands up and startles the others) I WAS FORCED TO TAKE UP TAE KWON DO! All I wanted to do was music! Kou wanted everything, he had talent, and he threw his opportunity away! AN OPPORTUNITY I NEVER GOT! I wanted to be a musician, not fight in some stupid tournament!

Jhun: (wary, assuming Hawk stance) So you decided to take this out on Kim?

Shin: (shaking with rage) Kim thinks he can just up and RETIRE FROM ALL THIS!? He’s wrong! DEAD WRONG! I had to keep fighting, because my family would disown me! Kim thinks that he can just walk away from what he felt he had to do AND YOU ALL ACCEPT THAT!?

Chae: (assuming Eagle stance) Master Kim never stopped rehabilitating evil, he’s just not roving the streets attacking passersby. You, on the other hand, attacked an innocent man because you want to prove a point! There is no justice in that!

Shin: Justice?

(Kim, Seo Yong, and Blue Mary dash into the room)

Kim: AKU WA YURUSAN! You are about to go offline, Shin! HAAA!!! (clicks tape recorder off) I’ll have to save this for later…

Seo Yong: (exuberant) Declaring him evil and figuring out his motives on the way over here is truly amazing, Master Kim!

Kim: (smug) Well, with my JUSTICE SENSE ability and Blue Mary’s detective skills it was easy.

Blue Mary: (rubbing forehead) Please don’t ever scream in my car again like that…

Kim: (strikes pose) SHIN! It’s time for you to pay for your crimes while you listen to this prerecorded Declaration of Evil!

Shin: (mind gone, growling) … What do any of you …? ANY OF YOU KNOW ABOUT JUSTICE!? (points at Kim) You think this is just me behind this? I know that INTERPOL whore is here! Doesn’t that make you wonder? (laughing maniacally) This is far beyond Southtown! THIS IS ALL OVER THE WORLD! (grins) You may have retired, Kim Kaphwan, but there are others who’ve taken up your mantle and we’re going to right the wrongs you feel that you can simply ignore!

Blue Mary: (aiming sights at Shin) You better calm down, kiddo. You’re starting to scare me and I don’t like being scared.

Shin: The plan, codename “Kim Kaphwan Conglomerate,” has already gone into effect… (sits down again) The only way you can stop more “innocent people” from getting hurt—or killed—is to get off of your lazy tail and do something, Kim. (sighs) I had my purpose forced upon me; I’m not going to let you walk away from yours!

Blue Mary: (produces handcuffs and reads Shin his rights) I’m not INTERPOL and I’m not Chun Li. I think you’re going to like me a lot less than here in the next few hours. (cuffs Shin) You and Kou have a lot of explaining to do.

Shin: (mumbling) Maybe so, but I’m expendable. You’ll never get anything out of me or Kou…

Kim: If you will not cooperate… (kicks Shin in the chest knocking him out over the chair) then you can simply shut up, lie down, and think about it for later.

Blue Mary: (shakes head) Well, Kim, you were never the subtle one…

***

Hon Fu: (driving) So, Chun Li, you say Kou is connected to other crimes? Are they related to this?

Chun li: (absentmindedly looking out window) I’m not at liberty to give you all the details, but I can say that events like what happened to Richard are popping up all over the place. The only thing that kept us from jumping on Kim before was because we’ve been tracking him and he’s never left Southtown…

Hon Fu: So you knew it wasn’t Kim the whole time?

Chun Li: No, Kim has a team. It was possible that he was running the show from here, but I couldn’t get a warrant until he went active in Southtown. Not enough evidence, even still. (shakes head) Haggar was attacked, but Guy said it couldn’t have been Kim. Cody vouched for him as well. (sighs) It’s so weird… Strider and Guy both came to speak in favor of Kim and neither of them owes him anything. Something bigger is—

(a violent wind strikes Hon Fu’s patrol car flipping it twice and smashing it into the front of a convenience store before it settles back on its wheels)

Hon Fu: (groaning, slumped over the wheel) Hoooooly craaaaaaap… (passes out)

Chun Li: (barely conscious) Wh-what just—

Kou: (kicks his door open and slumps out of the vehicle) #&*@, man. That’s a bit much isn’t it.

(a man wearing a modified, hooded, black and red Tae Kwon Do dobak walks across the street from the totaled car)

???: Weeeeell, I couldn’t just let you get captured and I wasn’t about to get in a fight with a champion Street Fighter and a buddy cop. I’m not about that life, yo. (pauses) You know, I guess you’re not really the champ if you didn’t win, huh, thunder thighs?

Chun Li: (pushes door open and draws sidearm) St-stop ri-ight there whoever… you…

???: (kicks and produces a wind blast that throws Chun Li into the storefront) How about you shut the eff up, go buy some bread, buy some meat, and buy me some mustard and MAKE ME A DAMN SANDWICH, WOMAN! (removes hood)

Kou: (lying on the ground, breathing heavily) Thanks for almost killing me, Kang, but can we PLEASE get the #&$^ out of here?

Kang Baedal: For you, brotha man? (helps up Kou) The world!

Kou: (grimacing) So, you think this will pull Kim out of retirement?

Kang: Shoot, if it doesn’t I don’t know what the hell would. Shooooot! I bet he’s getting back in his studio RIGHT now to handle that biz!

Kou: And why are we doing this again… #&* this hurts…

Kang: Daaaawg, that kid SET YOU UP! I mean he put you on BLAST. King effed you up BAD, SON! (laughs) Anyways, yeah, Kim is like… He’s like that guy that I gotta be the opposite of. Like yin and yang or some crap, ya know. I know what’s best for the Justice Alley and him sitting around isn’t gonna work for me. That’s not fun at all.

Kou: He’s gonna… (winces as they walk away) He’s gonna find out it’s you and come after you.

Kang: Newsflash! He tried to beat me before during KOF 99 and I beat him AND Jhunny-poo. He knows that I’m a tough cookie. He’s not just gonna challenge me to a fight. (smiles) Besides, Shizuka thought it was a bad idea so I just… (chuckles) Sent her away.

Kou: You’ve gotta be the biggest troll on planet Earth right now…

Kang: Yeah, well, it’s better for everyone. With the Kim Kaphwan Konglomerate—with a ‘K’—comes along he’ll too busy to implicate me for this crime. (shrugs) The world gets ridded of all the evil I drummed up and all Kim’s fans get to hear him talk some more. Best of all, my dojang doesn’t close and I’m allowed to go out and attack legitimate “evildoers” again. Everyone wins. (nods head) You’d be surprised how EFFED UP some of these guys are. As soon as you tell them the right stuff and hint that Kim is retired they go BUCK EFFING WILD!

Kou: Who woulda thought you actually cared about dispensing vigilante justice…

Kang: Shoot, mayne. I’m just trying to beat people up for free.

Kou: Well, I’m down for whatever as long as I get paid.

Kang: All that money Kim sent me to run the dojang in Italy is more than enough to fund this little adventure. I BEEN STACKING PAPER FOR YEARS, SON!

Kou: And Shin?

Kang: *#&@ ‘im.

Kou: (shakes head, chuckling) Man oh man… “Kim Kaphwan Konglomerate”? “Triple K”? You’re way too much, man…

The end of the beginning…

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WATAA!!!

I guess now I gotta write up Shin's Declaration of Evil after Maxi's birthday. I also suppose that I'll take requests again. I'm not going to be here all that often, but when I have time I'll follow-up when I can. There's a lot of villains/heroes disguised as Kim out there that need to be STOMPED.