The Struggles of Aging

In the bowels of a Shadaloo base, an intense battle can be heard echoing throughout the halls. A masked man wielding deadly sharp claws is thrown back by a flurry of kicks into one of the machines, destroying the console. Chun-Li steps closer, ready to lay down another flurry of blows if he tried to escape.

“Vega, give it up. You’ve got no way of escaping this time. Now, tell me, what is Shadaloo up to!”

Vega sits up slowly, laughing, holding his side, “Don’t worry, beautiful, you’ll find out, soon enough.

Chun-Li feels that something is off and gets ready to prevent his escape when Vega plunges his weapon into a metal canister, housed in the machine he fell into, and tore it open, spraying Chun-Li with the mysterious liquid. She steps back, in shock as the brightly colored liquid drenched her, but knew Vega would use this chance to strike back. As she predicted, Vega pounced forward slashing his claws at her. She kicks him away as he got close enough but noticed that it took a lot of effort to even lift her leg that high. Quickly, she brushed it off and looked to see Vega slinking away, laughing to himself.

“Such a shame all that beauty and strength is going to waste soon,” he snickered as he hid in the shadows of a duct. 

“Get back here!”

Chun-Li began to chase after him but suddenly felt drowsy and almost lost her balance as his footsteps began to trail off. 

“Damn, I let him get away,” she managed, under her breath, “Whatever Shadaloo is planning has something to do with that strange liquid, I’m sure of it, thankfully it shouldn’t be too hard to get a sample of-”

She investigated herself, noticing how she was completely dry as if the liquid had evaporated already.

“I’ll have to get a sample to Interpol another time.”

She felt as though she could collapse from exhaustion at any moment and decided it best to rest and start finding out more about Shadaloo’s plan for that liquid tomorrow. Slowly but surely, she makes her way out of the Shadaloo base and toward the motel she rented to try and find this exact base.

“My, you must have had a really busy day at work, ma’am,” the older man from who she rented the room.

“Yeah… Real busy day, I had to work overtime,” by this point, she felt like she would pass out by just sitting down but powered through to reach her room.

When she entered, she pulls out her phone to contact Interpol and update them on the situation.

“This is Chun-Li, I cleared out the Shadaloo base, it was located under the forest. The entrance was disguised as a logging camp. You won’t be able to miss it.”

The Interpol agent on the other end was intrigued, “Good work, did you encounter any noticeable resistance inside the base?”

She sat down on the bed, allowing herself to fall back against it, “Yes, Vega. He was in the base’s main operating room. It almost seemed like he knew I would be coming.”

“Did you find out what their plans were for the base? Any new weapons inside?”

“There were a lot of machines and some strange canisters full of something. I tried to interrogate Vega but he sprayed me with that chemical and ran away before I could get any useful info out of him.”

“Thank you, officer Chun-Li, remain on standby while we dispatch a unit to investigate the base and determine what’s inside those canisters.”

She sighs as she hangs up the phone and stretches out. 

“Ugh, my muscles are so sore! I haven’t felt this exhausted since training with Guile. I need to relax.”

She made her way to the bath and removed her clothes. As she stripped down, she noticed her face in the mirror. She saw dark bags under her eyes and frowned to herself.

“I can’t be that tired, right? I guess I put a lot more into fighting Vega than I thought.”

She brushes it off and proceeds to the bath, slowly stepping in and trying to relax in the hot water. As she washes her body, she feels her muscles tense up more and more as the soreness stayed. She sinks slightly down into the water thinking to herself.

“I guess Vega really did do a number on my nerves today. I should probably use this time to rest up, in case Shadaloo has any other plans in this area.”

Getting up, she dries herself off and falls into bed, quickly falling asleep once her head hit the pillow. In the morning, she was awoken with a new message from Interpol on her phone. Getting up she heard all of her joints cracking, as if she had been laying still for years. She slowly took the phone and read the message.

“Li, looks like you don’t have time to rest. There’s another Shadaloo base in a town not far from you. This base is much more secluded and likely has info about what they’re up to in the region. Your best bet is to hop on the train and head toward the new town to set up a raid on this other base. Be careful out there, Officer Li.”

She sighs and struggles to get out of bed, hearing every joint crack and creak as she gets dressed. She heads toward the bathroom and notices her face in the mirror.

“W-WHAT!?”

Her face had certainly looked several years older, showing signs of wrinkles on her brow and under her eyes. Her hands too, had signs of aging, showing her viens through the top of her skin.

“H-How could this happen!?”

She thought about what happened yesterday with Vega.

“That chemical must be what’s caused this! I have to find out what Shadaloo is planning on doing with this stuff… and see if there’s some sort of antidote for this.”

She packed up everything she would need as quickly as her aching body would let her and hurried toward the door. As she made her way to the train station, she was getting some strange looks on her appearance. It didn’t help that every movement she made had her joints crackling loudly, making those around her stare in the direction that the noise came from. After getting her ticket and, loudly, putting her bag away, she sat down and tried to get comfy as the train started to head out of the station. As the train vibrated from taking off, she struggled to get comfortable, almost squirming in her seat. While trying to get comfortable she could feel a kink developing in the back of her neck and cracked her neck using her fist to push her neck to the sides. As her neck crackled loudly, the other passengers turned to look at her in disgust. She could tell the other passengers could hear all of the popping and crackling of her joints, as evident with the looks they all gave her. Chun-Li looked down, embarrassed and decided to deal with the discomfort while on the ride to the next town. As she sat in discomfort, her stomach began to growl loudly, again getting the attention of the other passengers. Even more embarrassed, she stands up eliciting a loud crack from her back, as she makes her way to the food car of the train.
As she arrived in the food car, her stomach erupted in loud grumbling.

“I guess I haven’t really eaten since yesterday morning, there’s no wonder I’m so hungry.”

She sat down at one of the tables and was quickly served by a waiter. She had ordered a large helping of food and waited rather patiently, despite the protests from her stomach on the wait. As soon as the food came out, she found herself digging in, uncontrollably into the massive amount of food she had ordered. It took her no time to eat th mountain of food she ordered and she sat back in her chair, feeling much better.

“Aaah, I ate so much! I hardly believe I could eat all that.”

She rubbed her stomach and noticed an definite bulge where her stomach would be.

“Maybe I ate a little too much, after all.”

As she stared down at her stomach, she was shocked by the amount of food she actually managed to eat and looked around to see the waiting staff staring in shock at her before slinking back into her cabin, even more embarrassed than before with her joints cracking and creaking loudly. Sitting down, she was shocked at her lack of control while eating and couldn’t tell if it was do to the transformation or if she had been able to do this before. She decided to wait out the rest of her trip, staring out of the window. As she viewed the landscape, she didn’t notice how heavy her eyes had gotten and promptly fell asleep. 

She was awoken by the train coming to a stop. Shocked, she didn’t remember falling asleep at all. She looked down at her hands, remembering that she had aged a few years the last time she had fallen asleep but she couldn’t immediately tell if she had aged or not and decided to check it out when she got to a room. As she tried to stand, she noticed it took her quite a bit of effort to even get up. As she grabbed struggled to grab her luggage and leave the train, her body crackled and popped the whole way. Making her way into town felt like a nightmare for her as every step, a new joint decided to crack and creak. Upon arriving at a local hostel, the owner decided to give her a room on the first floor as he could hear the creaking of her joints as she hobbled toward the counter. 

Once into the room, she begins to stretch, getting ready to scout for the Shadaloo base in the area but finds it very hard to stretch as far as she was normally able to.

“This is unbearable! If I can’t even touch my toes, how can I scout out the base without being caught by Shadaloo. I have to make sure I’m plenty limber for this, no matter what that chemical is trying to do.”

Slowly but surely, Chun-Li stretched and got herself limber, even able to touch her toes again before getting back into her qipao. As she got dressed, she could feel that her outfit was much tighter than usual. Looking in the mirror, she could tell that her stomach was still quite bloated from her meal earlier but that wasn’t an issue with her sash, covering it. She sighed to herself and held her face.

“This can’t get much worse, can it? Whatever Shadaloo and Vega did to me, they plan on doing it to more people around here. I can’t have that! I have to stop them here and now! I just hope they have some sort of antidote for this condition or else I’ll be in big trouble.”

Determined to find out exactly what Shadaloo was planning, she set off into the nearby forest where Interpol said the base was located. The stretching had helped her become limber, but it did not help with the constant aches and pains that plagued her joints and muscles. When she tried moving even quicker through the forest, she found herself breaking into a decent sweat, despite the colder climate of the region. 

“I can’t stand this, I have to find that base as soon as possible!”

Despite her sweating up a storm, she stormed ahead, dealing with the aches and pains to try and find this base. After some time searching, she found a small metallic building nestled in the woods. Out of breath and drenched in sweat she approached the building and found a single door. Trying the handle, she could tell it was locked and composed herself quickly, in the cold. She let out a sidekick swiftly and violently to the door, shooting it open. At the same time, she felt a sharp, deep pain travel throughout her whole spine and nearly collapsed, composing herself before hitting the ground.

“I can’t… I can’t do that too often, right now. That could deal some serious damage to me if I don’t use it as a last resort.”

She slowly and methodically made her way down through the base, which quickly descended further and further underground. As she traveled deeper and deeper into the base, she found no guards, which was strange to her. Upon getting to the first doorway, she stealthily peeked inside to see several monitors and made her way over to check them out. Booting up any of the computers, she found that they had been wiped clean, leaving them all useless.

“They must have abandoned this place. I don’t think I’ll be getting any info from these computers. Maybe there is still something they left further in.”

As she made her way to the bottom-most floor, she felt a strange rubbing sensation on her thighs and looked down to see what was the cause. To her dismay, she could tell that her thighs had put on a layer of fat during this expedition.

“Hrrrrrgh, damn you Shadaloo! Look at my legs! And my tights! When this is over, I’ll make sure you’ve paid for both of them!”

As she presses forward, she finds a machine that looked quite similar to the machine that Vega had sliced open. She quickly went to investigate the machine but found that the canister it held had already been emptied. Suddenly, a familiar voice came from the shadows of the abandoned base.

“Look at you now… tut tut, you should take better care of yourself, Chun-Li, you’ve lost that beautiful figure you’ve been known for.”

She quickly looked around the room, trying to figure out which direction the voice had come from. She knew it was Vega, again.

“You now see exactly what we had in store. In fact, you were the perfect guinea pig to test that serum out on. Now, you’re just a meddling little pig, poking around where she doesn’t belong.”

She began to sweat as she couldn’t tell what direction he would come from but tried to stand ready to defend from any angle. As all fell quiet in the tense moment, Vega leaped toward Chun-Li from behind her. Despite her current state, Chun-Li managed to just barely block the attack but is put off balance by it, stumbling back trying to regain her balance. On any other day, she knew she could have easily blocked that attack and even countered with her own. As she stumbles back, Vega thrusts his fist forward toward her. She tries to launch an upward kick to counter but her moves were sluggish, weighed down by the new layer of fat surrounding her leg. She continued to raise her leg, knowing that even if it didn’t have the same power as her normal kicks, it would still be enough to counter Vega but as her leg was parallel to her waist, her back let out a thunderous pop and pain followed immediately after, forcing her leg back down to keep her from collapsing entirely. Vega let out a cackling laugh as his fist connected with her midsection. 

Chun-Li fully lost her balance and was sent flying into the wall behind her and crumpled to the ground. Trying to stand, she felt the pain through her whole body and fell completely to the ground. Vega held his head and let out a roaring laugh.

“What a pity. You’re not even worth killing. I’m sure people would look down on me if I killed you in this state.”

Chun-Li felt her consciousness fading as she reached out toward Vega. He scoffs and starts to walk away before stopping before the stairway.

“If you hope to reverse this and become someone worth killing, go to Seoul. You might find some help in returning that beauty you’ve been known for.”

As he walked up the stairwell, Chun-Li’s vision faded and she finally lost consciousness. As soon as her vision faded, she found herself awake, face down on the floor as she had been.

“I… I need to tell Interpol. There must be a cure in Seoul.”

Slowly, she managed to get herself off of the ground and began to make her way toward her room at the hostel. She tried to ignore the pain and cracking noises her body made as she continued forward. She made it to the town as quickly as she could, ignoring all of the looks of any passerby that she knew she was getting. Once in her room, she called Interpol. Another officer answered the phone as Chun-Li began.

“I am Officer Li, I need immediate travel to Seoul.”

“U-Um, hold on.”

Chun-Li could hear some murmuring in the background as Guile got on the phone.

“Chun-Li? What did you find in that base?”

She sighed, “Guile, I didn’t find anything but I could get some info out of Vega this time.”

“Did you manage to catch him?”

“No, he got away again, but told me about a lead in Seoul.”

“You know this could be a trap, are you sure you’re willing to trust his word?”

She thought about it for a moment and looked down to her thighs.

“Yes, I think this is a solid lead, Guile.”

She could hear his sigh from the other side, “Alright, I’ll talk to some people and get you a flight. You sound winded, are you sure you don’t need a bit of rest? I could take over if you need.”

She thought about how the others at Interpol would see her if they knew of her current situation and shook her head, “No, I’m fine. Just a bit winded from the trip back from the base.”

“As it turns out, you’re in luck. There’s a plane leaving in a few hours headed to Seoul. We’ve booked you a flight. Don’t be late, Officer Li.”

She quickly hung up the phone and grabbed her belongings. While packing, she noticed a streak of gray fall in front of her face and looked in the mirror. She gasped as she had aged even more this time, leaving streaks of gray in her hair. She looked closer at her face in the mirror and could see the bags forming under her eyes as well as a bit of sagginess in her cheeks. She blushed furiously as she threw all of her belongings into her bag and rushed toward the airport. After a bit of convincing with the airport staff, they finally allowed her to board her flight and she sat down in her seat, thinking to herself. 

“Interpol couldn’t have sprung for first-class seating?”

She had been placed in coach and was crowded, elbow to elbow with other passengers. As the other passengers gave her disgusted looks, she looked to herself, embarrassed, and noticed that she hadn’t changed out of her sweaty qipao and ripped tights. She looked down in embarrassment as she knew the flight would be quite long. As the flight progressed forward, she could tell the smell of her dirty qipao had started to fill the whole cabin as the other passengers started covering their faces and looking around. To add to the embarrassment, the stiff discomfort of her body was even worse on the plane, causing her to try and stretch it out, causing loud cracking and popping to interrupt the rather quiet flight. Not only did this embarrass her further, but her outfit began to feel quite tight and started riding on her as she struggled to quietly remove the tight garment from her crevices that seemed to multiply as the flight continued.

“Ugh, why did this have to happen to me!?”

Blushing wildly, she tried with all her might to discreetly remove a wedgie caused by her tights to no avail as any movement created loud popping noises from her joints. After finally getting herself, somewhat comfortable in the seat, she tried her best to stay awake on the flight believing sleep to be the cause of the rapid aging. This, however, turned out to be no easy task as she felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier with each passing moment on the flight. Slowly but surely, she felt herself falling asleep before it was beyond her control. Once the plane had landed, Chun-Li was sound asleep and was awoken by a flight attendant. 

“Ma’am, ma’am. I’m sorry to wake you, but the flight has arrived.”

Chun-Li shook herself awake, causing audible popping noises as she looked to the flight attendant. The attendant visibly cringed at the sounds.

“I-it is time to disembark, ma’am.”

She investigates the cabin, seeing that the only other passengers were the elderly, who required help to leave the plane. With her face red from embarrassment, she tried to stand but found that her thighs and waist had, yet again, increased in size, wedging themselves between the armrests of the seat. Sighing, she grabs the armrests and pushes with an astounding might to dislodge herself from the seat. As soon as the armrests had let go of her, the force of the motion sent her flying straight up, making her back pop with a noise heard by even the pilots. She let out an audible yelp as the pain shot through her whole body. An elderly woman in the middle row chuckles to herself and looked to Chun-Li.

“Aaaah, the feeling of getting old is a harsh mistress, don’t you think?”

Chun-Li smiles, red-faced, at the woman to affirm the woman that she was heard and quickly tries to pull her bag from the overhead storage. As she was finally able to free the bag from the overhead compartment, her weight shifts causing another wave of pain to spread through her causing her to moan loudly. The female flight attendant from before heard her and quickly headed over to see what was the matter.

“Do you need help, ma’am?”

“A-Ahm, no, I’ve got it.”

The flight attendant shakes her head and grabs Chun-Li’s bag.

“No, I insist ma’am. We can’t have you hurting yourself.”

Chun-Li doesn’t release her grip on the bag, “I assure you, it’s fine, but thank you for the offer.”

The flight attendant lets go of the bag worriedly and bows, checking on the remaining passengers. Chun-Li hobbles off the plane as quickly as she could, holding her bag as comfortably as she could. She quickly made her way toward the closest hotel and checked in, ignoring the looks of the receptionist. Once in her room, she was finally able to set her luggage down and lightly stretched her arms. 

“Uuuugh, I need a shower. I probably smell like a pig who’s been stuck in a sauna! There’s no way I can sneak around a Shadaloo base with a smell like this.”

She looked down at herself and started to pull her, way too tight, tights off of her thighs. As she looked to the mirror, she started to massage her face in dismay.

“I look like a forty-year-old who doesn’t do anything except sit at home all day… but with how much my body aches, I feel as though I could be in my seventies!” 

She started trying her best to undress herself, having to almost peel away the outfit, as it had become far too tight for her to remove normally. Once she had finally removed all of her clothes, she struggled to even get her meaty legs over the lip of the bathtub before finally being able to step into the tub and start a nice hot shower for herself. It felt amazing for her to finally wash herself and try to work out some of her pains in the hot shower as she cleaned all of her new crevices. Once she felt refreshed, she shut off the shower and dried herself off. 

“I suppose I should start my standard stretching routine to get ready for Shadaloo.”

As she starts with a basic stretch, she finds herself even less limber than she had been before. Finishing even a standard stretching routine left her even more winded and sweaty than she had been before. Looking at herself, she considered taking yet another shower but shook her head to herself.

“I already took a shower and another shower would just waste more time I could be using to find Shadaloo.” 

Quickly, she puts on her underwear, noticing how small they felt and how much they stretched while trying to get on. Putting back on the sweaty qipao, she realized that she did not pack enough clothes for this mission and had no time for laundry. Putting on a brand new pair of leggings she heard it split in several spots just putting them on. As she started to head out, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror.

“I can’t believe this is what I have to deal with, I mean, how am I supposed to actually fight like this? Hopefully, Vega wasn’t lying this time or else I’d have wasted a lot of time coming here.”

Once on the streets of Seoul, she looked around, knowing that this city was huge and she would have no chance of finding any info if she had to do this all alone. Thankfully, she knew a contact in Seoul who may have some info and gives him a call.

“Hey, it’s Chun-Li, let’s meet up to discuss the details.”

The man on the phone had a gruff voice, “Chun? You sound a bit different, you sick or something?”

“I… I do feel a bit under the weather, you’ll understand once we meet up.”

“Okay, there’s a small cafe that I’d like to meet at. I’ll send you the address.”

After hanging up, she waited in anticipation for the contact to send the cafe’s address. It only took a few seconds after hanging up for the address to be sent and Chun-Li started to, uncomfortably, make her way toward this cafe. She tried her best to not let the gaze of other pedestrians bother her but no matter how hard she tried, the embarrassment of them staring at her as she walked kept getting to her and she tried her best to hurry along toward the location of the informant. Once she arrived at the cafe, she saw the informant sitting in the corner and started to approach him. The informant continued looking out the window, enjoying their tea until Chun-Li sat down in front of him. 

Chun-Li cleared her throat, “So, how’s the tea here?”

The informant blinked in astonishment, “Do I know you?”

Chun-Li’s face became even redder, “This is… Chun-Li. We were supposed to meet up here.”

The informant squinted at her, “You almost have the voice, but your age and weight are far from correct.”

She sighs and pulls out a small badge from inside her qipao, “Believe me now?”

The informant looked at the badge and back up to her face, “You’re serious? What happened?”

Her face was bright red, “It’s a… long story. I just need any info you have on Shadaloo, at this moment.”

The informant sat back and took a sip of his tea before putting a folded napkin on the table, “Take this, some Shadaloo agents have been seen around that address.”

Chun-Li nods, “Thank you, also, if anyone from Interpol asks, don’t tell them about my looks, right now. I’m taking care of it, as we speak.”

The informant looks away and sips his tea once more, “Sure, be safe out there.”

Chun-Li hurries to the best of her abilities to the location written on the napkin. Shortly after leaving the cafe, she finds herself already out of breath and clamoring for a seat to rest in. Determined, she presses forward without rest, but at a much slower pace than she would have liked, to not stress her body out more than she needed to, in case she runs into any Shadaloo agents. As she drew closer and closer to the location given to her by the informant, she could almost feel as though her clothes had gotten tighter and she felt as though her skin had loosened a bit in some areas, like the back of her hand. She started to wonder if the rapid aging didn’t only occur while she slept, but also while she was awake, destroying her theory that she aged only while she slept. She brushed it off and continued to the location and, upon arriving, noticed that it was a high-scale office building with well-dressed men and women walking in and out. 

Approaching the building, those same well-dressed men and women scowled and looked judgingly at Chun-li, furthering her embarrassment. Despite feeling far and beyond out of place, Chun-Li starts looking for Shadaloo activity, her breath shaky and ragged from the walk here. Just as Chun-Li started to walk around a statue in front of the building, Juri slowly walked out from the opposite side. Seeing Juri, Chun-Li grit her teeth, remembering how tough Juri was to fight before she was transformed. Juri laughed once she saw the state of Chun-Li.

“You’ve let yourself go, Chun-Li. You mind letting me beat you to a pulp real quick,” Juri smirked as she readied for a fight.

Chun-Li knew that she couldn’t run and assumed her own fighting pose, getting ready to try and counter Juri’s first move as it was her only hope of winning. Juri darted toward Chun-Li and struck her with lightning quick strikes, easily breaking through Chun-Li’s defenses. Chun-Li could feel every strike as she did her best to deflect even just a few blows, noticing that Juri’s strikes were nowhere near the full power that she normally uses. Using her new found size against her, Juri begins toying with Chun-Li by striking at her legs, forcing Chun-Li lower and lower to the ground.

“HAHAHAHA, that’s right Chun-Li, get on your knees and beg for me to let you live!”

Once Chun-Li’s knees hit the ground, Juri jumps back laughing as a crowd starts to form around the pair. Chun-Li manages to get back up on her feet and readies herself as Juri begins to sprint toward her. With one swift kick from Juri, Chun-Li was sent back to the ground, landing on her behind. Juri pounces onto Chun-Li who starts to block her head instinctively, before she feels Juri’s grip on her sash.

“Let’s see just how much fat you’ve got under here!”

Before Chun-Li could react, Juri ripped the sash off of her and laughed as she started to grope at Chun-Li’s flabby abdomen in front of the crowd.

“Oh wow, you really did let yourself go, Chun-Li, you’re not even able to properly defend yourself anymore, hahaha!”

Chun-Li looked to the crowd and saw that they too were smirking and snickering to themselves and blushed profusely as she attempted to remove Juri, in vain. 

“S-Stop this already! Are we going to fight or not!?”

Juri leaned down, close to Chun-Li’s ear and began to whisper to her. 

“As fun as it is to toy with you like this, if you ever want to get your old body back, come to this address before sunrise, tomorrow”

Chun-Li felt Juri slip a piece of paper into the front of her qipao before Juri jumped up and began to sprint away, giggling to herself. Slowly, Chun-Li rolled over and managed to push herself up off the ground. As sirens of police cars began to ring in the distance, Chun-Li hobbled away, holding her aching back and pushing away members of the crowd who offered to help her. The last thing she needed was the Korean police questioning who she was and what she was doing there or even worse, having to explain to her superiors what was going on and what had happened to her. As she slowly hobbled back to her hotel, she noticed that her thighs stung with each step forward and, upon closer inspection, she saw her pantyhose had been completely torn at these parts. Now, with her sash gone, her flabby stomach hit the tops of her thighs with each step as well, and every part of her was sore. No matter how much she wanted to attribute these aches and pains to her ‘fight’ with Juri, she knew full well that she had been sore well before that confrontation and even normal day to day activities wore her out quickly. 

Before she knew it, she was back in her hotel room and fully stripped down, falling onto her bed and almost immediately falling asleep from the exhaustion of the day. Waking up early, Chun-Li struggled to pull herself out of bed and hobbled toward the mirror. Much to her dismay, her condition had worsened. She had crow’s feet around her eyes and obvious wrinkles around her mouth and on her forehead, as well as prominent streaks of gray running through her normally silk black hair. Her weight hadn’t fared much better as her once toned and muscular body had turned soft with fat with her stomach fully descending over the tops of her thighs. Her arms and legs had become even more flabby than before and have no definition, having reverted to flabby soft fat. 

“Damn this stupid body! How can I ever get any work done like this!? I swear, as soon as I get a hold of Vega, I’ll beat him till he feels like I do now!”

After removing herself from in front of the mirror, she tried getting dressed but noticed a big problem. Her clothes didn’t fit her at all. Her panties could barely clear her knees and her bra was nowhere near the right size anymore. Her qipao was almost bursting at the seams as she tried to put it on herself. She gave up on her qipao after nearly tearing the seams open and went to her luggage, rummaging through for something that could even possibly fit. The only thing she could find was her loose, black and gold evening gown, which, luckily for her, she had forgotten to unpack at some point. This loose fitting dress would fit her, after a quick test, but it left almost nothing to the imagination and was hardly appropriate or flattering with her current age and body size. She sighed and decided to don the outfit, not having time to go clothes shopping with the clock ticking in her current state, not knowing how far the aging or weight will go.

After leaving the hotel, she regretted the decision to don this outfit as, despite the small number of people out at this hour, everyone she had passed stared at her. As she came to the address that Juri had given her, despite her exhaustion and aching body, she attempted to be a bit more stealthy, as she knew she wouldn’t be able to fight in this state. Unlucky for her, it was quite hard to keep a low profile in such an extravagant evening dress and with all her added weight. Shortly after arriving at the location, as she began to stake out the address, she felt a hand grope her flabby stomach and turned around in shock. There, she found Juri, smirking. Quickly, Chun-Li assumed a fighting pose to which Juri began to laugh. 

“Fighting you in such that state wouldn’t be any fun, don’t worry. Although, I do wanna play with you a bit.”

Chun-Li hesitantly let her guard down.

“Well, what do you want then?”

Juri smirked again, “There’s a small shop that sells flags that way.”

Chun-Li looks in the direction Juri pointed in.

“I think I’ve seen it, what about it?”

Juri gave a wide grin, “If you can beat me in a race there, I’ll give you a hint at how to fix yourself.”

Chun-Li looked at herself, then back to Juri, “Fine, I’ll play your game.”

Juri smiled excitedly, crouching down in a cat-like stance, ready to dart toward her goal. Chun-Li took a deep breath and got in the most comfortable running stance she could before Juri darted forward, bounding and leaping off the walls toward the small shop. Chun-Li struggled to even keep pace with her, despite Juri constantly stopping on out of reach places to snicker at Chun-Li as she struggled. As fast as she could force her body to move, Chun-Li made her way, closer and closer to the small shop, paying no mind to Juri’s taunting and laughing. Nearly falling over as she reaches the shop, Chun-Li rested herself against the flag shop's counter, as the shop owner seemed to not be there yet. Juri approached, holding her stomach, nearly falling over, herself, from laughing.

“Congratulations, Chunk-Li, that was an amazing show!”

Chun-Li could barely catch her breath to respond from the exertion of running like that. Juri cleared her throat, obviously stifling her laughter.

“For how fun it is to play with you like this, you’re even more fun when you can fight back. Here.”

Juri slides a piece of paper into one of the folds of Chun-Li’s stomach.

“That’s the location of the Shadaloo base where they’re researching that liquid that’s affecting you, right now. Maybe you could find a way to get back to being young again, bye for now, Chunk-Li, and good luck!”

Juri blew a kiss toward Chun-Li before bounding away, snickering to herself. Chun-Li removed the piece of paper from her gut, and sat down on a nearby bench, trying to recover a little bit of her energy. As she sat there, she could almost feel her body becoming fatter and weaker and noticed that even this dress could barely contain her chest anymore. Struggling to remove herself from the bench, she began to make her way to the location written on the note. The journey there was excruciating as her body had already been sore, but the heavy running Juri put her through had made that aching much worse and made the trek that much harder for her. As she got close to the base, she thought of how she should tackle this venture. 

“I surely can’t be kicking down any doors in this state, I’m likely to break my hip before breaking any doors. I’d have to be subtle.”

She looked down at herself and knew how hard that would be to accomplish with how she was dressed as many people were already staring at her as she made her way closer to the base. Arriving at the location, she saw that it wasn’t like many of the other bases, hidden in mountains or forests, this one was an unassuming building in a bustling area of the city. In an effort of subtlety, she grabs a newspaper from a stand nearby and sits down on a bench to watch for any weird happenings around the building. As she sat there, she found herself fighting to keep her eyes open, as no one unusual had entered or exited the building. 

“I hope Juri didn’t trick me into wasting time… If she did, she’s likely watching me from the shadows nearby, laughing…”

As time passed and she watched who came in and out, she found it harder and harder to make out faces or people in the distance, having to squint quite hard to make out the people. Her patience wearing thin, Chun-Li struggles to get up and lets down her grayed hair, trying to disguise herself somewhat and hobbles toward the entrance to the building. Inside, she was greeted with a normal looking lobby with a receptionist desk and young receptionist in between 2 elevators. From her observations before, she knew the elevators required a badge to operate and hobbled confidently toward the receptionist. The receptionist was, oddly, not put off by her appearance and greeted her kindly.

“Hello there ma’am, is there something I can do for you?”

Chun-Li cleared her throat and put on a very commanding voice, “Yes, actually, you see, I’m one of the higher-ups sent from another facility. I’m here to inspect how far along you are with the research here.”

The young man at the reception desk occasionally snuck glances down at her chest while she spoke.

“O-Oh! Is that so? Coming from another facility, you’ll have to be issued a keycard for this facility.”

Chun-Li looked down, menacingly at the man at the reception desk, maintaining her commanding aura. The young man gulped and reached under the desk.

“I-I can give you a temporary keycard for now, ma’am. We can issue you one after your inspection.”

Chun-Li lightly grabbed the keycard from him and started to walk toward the elevators, “Thank you but that’s unnecessary, I’ll only be here for a quick inspection.”

The young man let out a deep breath as she swiped the keycard against the elevator door and made her way toward the lab area. In the lab area, Chun-Li waddles her way around, with no one batting an eye. 

Chun-Li thought to herself, “I guess I look like an actual higher-up with Shadaloo. This might be a little bit of a blessing for me.”

As she makes her way through the lab, she notices an empty office with a plaque on the wall, stating that this person was one of the head researchers. Inside, she quickly noticed a small vial of the same liquid she had been splashed with and tucked it away in her sash. The computer hadn’t been logged out and began to dig around the files, seeing what she could find. One of the files was labeled ‘Serum antidote Formula’ and inside was how to create an antidote, in case any of the researchers unintentionally exposed themself to the serum. As she reads the document, she finds herself leaning closer and closer, having to be within inches of the screen to make out the words and jots down all the important steps to create an antidote on a small notepad as well as locations of bases that held the materials to create said antidote before her vision could get any worse. After finishing her note and tucking it away in her sash, she tries to stand and realizes that she has gotten herself stuck in the chair, similar to how she had gotten stuck in the airplane seat.

She struggles loudly to pry the chair from herself, alerting a nearby guard to inspect what was happening. In the struggle, her breasts manage to free themselves from her top before the guard steps in. The guard was fairly shocked to see an elderly topless woman fighting to remove herself from a chair but approached to try and detain her. In desperation, Chun-Li swings the chair, with her behind still lodged quite tightly therein, at the guard, hitting him with enough force to send him toppling to the ground and freeing herself from the chair's grip on her thighs. Stumbling toward the elevator, she manages to go back down to the lobby and makes her way out of the building. She continues to run until she feels as though no one could be chasing her. At this point, she was in the middle of the city and, never having fixed herself from the struggle earlier, was showing all the pedestrians her sagging breasts. Some pedestrians were shocked while others jeered and laughed as Chun-Li’s face became beet red and she had to stuff her chest back into her top. Embarrassed, she hobbled back toward her hotel, having to make frequent stops and using nearby buildings for support as she found it increasingly difficult to support her own balance. 

Once at her hotel, she makes her way into the room, exhausted and humiliated. 

“I can’t stop now. If I rest, I may be far too weak to do anything, at this rate.”

She quickly dialed Interpol to update them about the current situation. This time, Guile answers, as if knowing that she would have an update.

“Interpol, what’s going on?”

“Guile, it’s me, Chun-Li. I’ve got some new findings about that lead I had.”

Guile had clearly been worried about her as she hadn’t updated them in a few days.

“Chun-Li, what happened? You went silent on us.”

“I got a bit caught up in some business here. Juri gave me a bit of a hard time over here but eventually gave me some useful info.”

“What’d she tell you?”

“She gave me the location of a lab that was researching that strange liquid from the lab with Vega.”

“Let me guess, you went to check out that lab?”

“I did. And I found a sample of the serum used as well as some extra info about another base.”

“Where is the base located? We’ll send some backup right away to the location.”

“I’ll send you the location of the base for clean-up duty but I don’t need any backup.”

Guile could tell in how she spoke that Chun-Li was tired, “Li, wait for backup. You sound like you’ve just competed in 3 consecutive olympics. You’ve done enough. You should rest for now.”

She knew she didn’t have the time to wait for backup, “I can handle it, Guile”

He raised his voice, “Chun-Li, you are tired. Rest and wait for backup to arrive, that’s an order!”

She hung up the phone, knowing what she had to do. She packed her things and sent the info about the labs to Interpol before heading out. 

“I know what I have to do but… I need a change of clothes, first…”

After shopping, she grabs a taxi to head toward the town where the other base was located. In the clothing shop, she managed to find a track suit that could fit her, but just barely, as well as some glasses to help with her deteriorating eyesight, and a cane to help her keep balance while walking. In the taxi, she finds it hard to keep herself awake, despite the taxi driver’s constant questioning. Finally in the town, she notices that the surroundings are much more rural except for some unusual warehouses located on the outskirts of the town, likely where the base is located. Managing to get to a hill, overlooking the warehouses, she begins to stake the place out before she loses consciousness due to her lack of sleep, as of late. Shortly after, she feels a large foot pushing her behind and rolls over to see what was going on. To her surprise, there were two guards aiming rifles at her.

“Hey, don’t you know, this is a no napping zone old hag.”

The guard bursts out laughing as they apprehend her, despite her constant thrashing and occasional yelps of pain from thrashing around. Inside the base, they tie her down to a chair and return to their posts. This part of the facility seemed to be for storage and no guards were patrolling around here. She struggles to try and free herself somehow but finds that she doesn’t have the strength to break through the rope. Shortly after giving up that strategy, she heard laughing as Vega walked out from behind one of the storage containers.

“Hahaha! That is not a good look for you, Chun. Being caught, sleeping within eyeshot of the guards at the front? Embarrassing how low you’ve fallen.”

Chun-Li tries again to break the rope but to no avail.

“Ha! And you’re still trying to escape? Are you that scared as an old woman?”

“Oh yeah, Vega? Even like this, I could still beat you in a fight!”

Vega laughed even louder, holding his stomach, “Oh, please, if you think you can beat me, I’d love to see you try, old hag.”

He slowly walked past her and cut the ropes and pulled the chair out from under her, making her fall flat on her behind. She yelps in pain and uses her cane to hold herself up to face him. He continued to laugh as he readied his claws.

“I’m gonna enjoy toying with you, old hag. You can barely even stand without that cane.”

Chun-Li took a deep breath and got ready to fight, trying to find some type of stance to take. Vega laughed as he charged toward her and hit her with weak kicks, knocking her back and forth, following each kick with a slash aimed at her clothes, easily tearing them to shreds. Vega just laughed to himself at how easy it was to thrash Chun-Li about until he felt a sharp jab at his side. Looking down, he steps back, seeing a vial of the same serum he had splashed onto her running down his abdomen before Chun-Li smacks his head as hard as she could with her cane, causing him to fall to the ground unconscious. Having used her only means to stand as a weapon, she fell onto the ground with a loud thud.

“I told you… I’d win Vega,” she managed to huff out while pushing herself off the ground.

After regaining her footing and cane, she used the same ropes that had tied her up to do the same to Vega and continued on her way to find the components for this antidote. Thankfully for her, the complex was quite lightly guarded on the inside so, despite needing to rely on a cane and being mostly nude at this point, sneaking through the facility was much easier. As she made her way through the storage building, she saw very large quantities of this serum.

“Shadaloo must be getting ready for some high scale assault using this serum, I have to get this antidote and stop them as soon as possible,” Chun-Li thought to herself, using it as motivation to push past the aching body and dwindling strength.

As she crawled between each warehouse to avoid detection, she found that, even when using all the strength she could muster, she couldn’t push herself off of the ground without the use of her cane. She could tell that her body was failing her, at this point yet pressed on, hoping to find the components for this antidote soon, or else she may no longer be able to push herself forward. Thankfully for her, the next warehouse she entered was clearly a lab area, of sorts, and found some machines that match the descriptions found in the file about the antidote, but the whole building was filled with busy researchers. She looked around for some sort of way to distract them or force them to leave and noticed a button labeled ‘Biohazard Emergency.’ She took a deep breath and pulled her shoe off, looking to a rack of chemicals.

“Here goes nothing.”

She threw her shoe with all the might she could muster, smashing into one of the beakers, causing it to topple over, crashing to the floor. The researchers all looked toward the sound, alarmed as Chun-Li clung to the wall to not be noticed and shambled her way over to the button, pressing it. A loud alarm sounds as sprinklers begin to spray the area. The researchers quickly grabbed their own clipboards to cover their heads and rushed out of the facility. When reaching to press the button, Chun-Li had fallen to the ground and, despite even using her cane, she could not push herself off the ground and pulled herself along the floor toward a nearby desk, forcing her way off the ground. 

“I have to be quick, they’ll quickly turn off that alarm and be back in here to investigate.”

As she tried to follow the steps in creating the antidote, quickly, she continued to hit setbacks like her glasses getting covered in water from the sprinklers and the constant tremors in her hands, making it hard to handle the materials and machine to create the antidote. It took her many tries to actually create the cure, but after some time the machine told her that she had successfully synthesized the antidote. Ecstatic, she grabs a nearby syringe and quickly fills it with the antidote and injects it into her flabby arm, hoping she had gotten a vein. Despite her excitement, she knew the antidote would likely take time to travel through her system, the same as the serum that had aged her to this point. 

As she removed the syringe from her arm, several scientists had returned and saw her sitting at a desk, partially nude and called for the guards. Chun-Li, in a panic, reached for her cane but knocked it to the ground. She collapses to the ground and tries to crawl over to her cane but is no longer able to pull herself forward and lies there, defeated as she could hear the hurried footsteps of the guards rushing toward her. Just as she had started to give up hope, she could feel a warmth traveling through her body and managed to pull herself to her cane. She could feel it, the antidote was already doing its job and she had regained some of her strength. As the first of the guards rushed in, Chun-Li had reached her cane and used it to assist herself up. The guard had aimed his rifle at her before she threw her cane at him. As the cane made contact with his face, he fell back, firing rounds into the ceiling. Chun-Li hurriedly waddled over to the guard who was now holding his face, in pain, and grabbed her cane fleeing out of the building. She pushed past any scientist who stood there, dumbfounded that a single cane had brought down a guard. Despite still being fat and far being far from her usual fitness level, she had gained back a good bit of her strength and could move freely. 

Nearing the exit of the complex, Chun-Li could make out a figure standing in the doorway. Vega stood there donning his claw and mask, she could see the wrinkles already forming on his hands and knew he must already be feeling the effects of the aging serum. Without even a quip, Vega rushes Chun-Li, but she could tell he was obviously much slower than usual. Despite the rapid effects of the aging serum, she still barely managed to dodge a lot of his attacks which managed to shred off the few remaining bits of clothing, covering her still aged body. As his attacks pressed her against the wall, a distant explosion could be heard and the rumbling of that same explosion put Vega off balance. Chun-Li saw this one opening as her chance to fight back and rared her fist back before plunging it as hard as she could into Vega’s face. The hit managed to send Vega to the ground, shattering his mask and revealing his aged face.

Chun-Li was ready for him to get back up, but he stayed down, obviously unconscious and she made her way out of the complex. As she left, she saw several Interpol helicopters and soldiers, attacking the storage building. Exhausted, she notices Cammy, barking orders at the Interpol agents who followed them gladly. Chun-Li tried her best to cover her body but it was in vain as she approached Cammy. Cammy notices Chun-Li approaching and covers her mouth in shock.

“Ch-Chun-Li!? What happened to you!?”

Chun-Li looked away, her face red in embarrassment, “It’s a long story.”

Cammy noticed how uncomfortable Chun-Li was and whistled to one of the Interpol agents, “Hey, you there, get Officer Li back to headquarters at once! And find her something warm to cover herself with!”

Cammy looked to Chun-Li and smiled, “Well, it doesn’t matter what happened, you seem to be doing alright, which is all we could hope for.”

Chun-Li managed a small smile as the Interpol agent ran toward her with a very large blanket. Exhausted and humiliated that her fellow agents had to see her in such a state, Chun-Li gets on a helicopter to be shuttled back to base. She let out a sigh of relief and shut her eyes, knowing that she was now finally on her way to being back to normal. 

After a full week of recovery, the effects of the aging serum had been reversed aside from one. As Chun-Li was in the changing room, she struggled to put on her sports bra due to the weight she had gained while under the effects of the aging serum. As it would seem, the serum, itself, only ages you forward forcing your metabolism to compensate, making the weight gain not an actual effect of the serum itself. With the help of her fellow Interpol operatives, she has lost a few pounds so far, but is determined to get back into fighting shape and regularly trains with anyone willing to let her spar with them. It is embarrassing for her to have so many of her colleagues see her try and fight in this state but she has decided to stick with this training, no matter how embarrassing in order to get back into fighting shape.