Chapter 53 - Meet-up with a Familiar Face!

**"You leave me with no choice but...OH MY GOSH! DO I SEE STRIDER HIRYU STANDING ON THAT ROOFTOP?!"** - Peach

**Meet-up with a Familiar Face!**is the fifty-third chapter of Darkness Rising. In this chapter, Peach tries to find a way to get her friends and home back and she runs into a bit of mishap.

## Summary

Peach had another dream where she meets her Shooting Star Striker teammates before their transformation into Team Phantom Grunts. The Strikers tells Peach that she can stop Lucifer and Bowser, but Peach tells them that's impossible. The Strikers reassured her by saying nothing is impossible before the break into particles and Peach wakes up from her dream.

Despite her defeat at the hands of Akuma, Peach decided to continue on her journey and find a way to save her world and her friends. She walks into a forest and noticed a tanuki. She began chasing after it and then found herself in a field of trees and flowers.

Delighted that she has found life in the world, Peach began looking for someone who is willing to help her. She comes across a small town and asked a little boy if he may help her save her world. The boy calls her an old lady and insulted, Peach calls the kid a twit. The kid calls his mother who then warns Peach that if she insults her kid again, she'll call the cops. Peach agrees before storming off to a Chinese restaurant. However, she gets kicked out because she doesn't have any money.

Angered, Peach calls everyone in town douchebags. A large Russian man overhears her and Peach explains she was just making a joke. The Russian man knocks her to the ground, causing her to lose her necklace. The necklace was found by a little boy and Peach asked for it back. But the boy ran off with it so Peach chased after him until she bumped into a blonde pirate.

Although she lost him, Peach still manages to find the boy showing her necklace to his friends. Peach approaches the children and the boy lied that she gives out free jewelry. To get her necklace back, Peach distracted the kids and took her necklace away from them. This causes the kids to cry but Peach doesn't care. Even when the boy's parents arrive and calls the police.

A bunch of policemen arrived including Interpol agent Chun-Li. Peach tried to explain to her that the necklace belonged to her and the boy stole it, but the boy claims that Peach gave her the necklace. Angered, Peach screamed at the boy, causing him and his friends to cry harder. Chun-Li proceeds to arrest Peach, but the Shooting Star Striker ran off. Chun-Li and the cops chased after her in their cars, but after running into a blockade of boxes, Chun-Li decided to go look for Peach by herself on foot.

Chun-Li came across an old man who tells her that Peach ran off inside an alleyway. Inside the alleyway, Peach decided to get some food but Chun-Li stops her. Peach then asks the Interpol agent why she's not dressed in cop clothes and Chun-Li explains it's for disguise purposes and how she's an Interpol agent that brings evil to justice. Peach says that she's a Shooting Star Strikers who's also fighting for justice, too. Chun-Li believes she's only saying that to defend her criminal behind so the two girls began fighting.

Eventually, Chun-Li wins the fight and proceeds to take Peach to detention. However, Peach starts crying and explains how Lucifer and Bowser destroyed her home and killed all of her friends. She asks Chun-Li if she even had an experience where she lost someone dear to her to evil and Chun-Li replies by saying her father Dorai lost his life at the hands of Shadaloo. Peach feels sorry for Dorai but Chun-Li says it won't save her from being arrested.

Peach continues to cry until the wandering World Warrior Ryu shows up. Chun-Li approaches him and explains about the situation, but Peach, who knows Ryu before, butts into their conversation. After some explaination, Ryu remembers Peach and Peach explains that she's in trouble and if Ryu's willing to help. Ryu agrees and the two agrees to see Ken, believe he would help Peach, too.

## Character Appearances

### Heroes

* Peach
* Mario
* Ash
* Serena
* Ike
* Elincia
* Luigi
* Toad
* Daisy
* Toadette
* Rosalina
* Luma
* Yoshi
* DK
* Diddy
* Dixie
* Haru
* Cherry
* Misty
* Brock
* Tracey
* May
* Max
* Dawn
* Iris
* Cilan
* Clemont
* Bonnie
* Korrina
* Lana
* Kiawe
* Lillie
* Sophocles
* Mallow
* Gary
* Ellis
* Mist
* Soren
* Rolf
* Mia
* Zangief (debut)
* Chun-Li (formal debut)
* M. Bison (debut, fantasy)
* Ryu (formal debut)
* Akuma (mentioned)
* Lucifer (mentioned)
* Bowser (mentioned)
* Ken (mentioned)

## Trivia

* The blonde-haired pirate that Peach bumped into has an uncanny resemblance to Ruby Heart, a character from Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
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