Jump 159: Street Fighter

Jump 159: Street Fighter

Location: Africa, 1986
Age: 20
Identity: The Fighter
Drawbacks: [+500] Extended Stay (2023 - 36 Years), The Demon, Strongest In The World

[Free]      Combat Method: Rindo-kan Karate
[500/1500]  The Street Fighter
[600/1500]  Mysterious
[800/1500]  Counter Hit
[900/1500]  Reputation Building
[Free]      Showmanship
[Free]      Professional
[1100/1500] With Fame Comes Influence
[1400/1500] World Tournament
[Free]      Championship Belt
[1500/1500] Action Movie Star

Welcome to Africa! It's a great place to film a movie or six, and I have such sights to show the globe when it comes to filming. Specifically, using all of my talents to kickstart the Bushido series decades early and in the completely wrong world. Hey, the themes of this film transcend time and space, no criticizing. I'm sure there will be other things that I'm going to be filming as well - see also the Space Opera series even if it will only be a trilogy, and don't forget the cult classic Remember The River (even if it is a chick flick) - but the driving force is and will always be the Bushido series.

Of course, Africa is only the very start of where filming takes place and we've got several locations around the world to go to for best reuslts. It's weird that the extras that we rope in to help with the fighting scenes all seem like they want to spar with me, to say nothing of a bunch of fighters somehow roping me into a tournament as we wrap up the final shots in Thailand, but it at least makes for an interesting pasttime and an unexpected way to stretch my legs against actual professional fighters.

Bit of a shame about that skull fracture that Mr. Sagat got in the end, but it was a clean fight if nothing else.

Now, I remain at a loss as to how I keep getting roped into these fighting tournaments, but everyone insists that I must be the strongest and all that rot. Which is fine - I'm no Johnny Cage, I don't just do my own stunts, I also write, direct, and own my own publishing house. It does, however, mean that the second (and all subsequent) Street Fighter tournaments are immortalized through film. Though it probably perplexes the fighters themselves that I somehow manage to get seemingly spontaneous fights recorded in high definition. It's good to be a precog, after all.

Of course this also means that a large number of one General Bison's crimes are ALSO immortalized on film, but that's fine, that guy is a jerk after all.

It also means that, after a couple decades, I have the weight of years of experience and reputation in the public eye and in the professional circles, and my challenge of Mortal Kombat is not laughed at but treated with the gravity that it deserves. Akuma won - but only because I gave him the position of champion, promising him that if he won without killing anyone, I would give him a no holds barred fight.

He was a nice guy, that Akuma, but he got the reward that he wanted, and he got it in view of everyone in the tournament as well. Of course he had expected that he would have a FAIR fight. No, I said no holds barred and I meant it. He was reduced to a smear on the floor in a fraction of a second.

This coincided with the release of Bushido XIII, which was the most successful of them all.