Description: After issuing a challenge to current Neo League Leader Rainbow Mika, Hitomi and the explosive wrestler find themselves battling it out on a small island at the base of Victoria Falls. Will Hitomi find her challenge to be too much for her or will she manage to end Mika's streak? Look at the very next thing to find out <Winner: Hitomi>
It was an awe inspiring sight to look up at the falls from their base, nestled safely on a crescent half-moon shaped island close to the base of the waterfall. Hitomi with her head craned back shades both her eyes with her hands to best take in the sights, The falls themselves were amazing but the Rainbows and lights that shimmer and appear only to disappear with the wind and the shifting mist are a subject of fascination. The ever persistent rumble and crash of the falling water throwing up the cool damp mist responsible for the phenomena; it reaches all the way to the safe zone allotted for her Neo League Challenge Match(tm).
Two camera men in orange floatation vests and helmets over their t-shirts and shorts, (bearing the official Neo League emblems) with their cameras resting on their shoulders; similarly protected and covered in clear plastic bags against the water hazard. Circle the island barefoot looking for angles and vantage points to get good shots, occasionally carefully walking through the pool of sedentary looking calm waters that fill the crescent portion of the island with its calf deep pool; That /calm/ pool that empties out again into the mighty river once again.
Manoeuvring around the little foliage and small bushes, getting a good shot of the setting with its single obstinate Musasa tree, hanging on to life at the base of the falls despite a pronounced lean away from the falls, it's branches fuller and sturdier looking on the side opposite the falls. Slightly further downriver the support team and rescue boats drift or power to maintain their positions, radios constantly chattering and ready to take care of any fighters or Neo league staff who plunge into the cold Zambezi River.
Dressed in her heavy denim Hitomi is grateful for the chill the mist brings but just in case it slows her down anyway she removes the jacket and stretched her arms overheard trying to get rid of any remaining tension, sudden inspiration that it might be a good idea she starts stretching, getting ready for the workout as she notes one of the Cameras focusing on her while doing so and she offers a half-wave whilst continuing. One-Two-three.
After enlisting in Neo League, and getting past that first match that had her fighting a wrestler in the CWA Arena, Rainbow Mika's world wide tour taking on all challenges has been an incredible success. For one thing, she's actually been going around the world (although now instead of being focused in Southtown and Metro City, she's had a tour in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa).
Thankfully there's a lot more variety in these locations than there is between two of the biggest cities in the world.
Once more she finds herself in Africa, but this time she's not part of some randomly selected fight she's actually responding to a direct challenge. Neo League was, of course, more than willing to front the bill to get the two fighters out to an incredible location where they can get great shots of Rainbow Mika surrounded by the rainbows produced by the falls.
What they most likely won't be showing is her standing at the front of a small boat that's puttering along as it takes her out to the small, conveniently fighting-ring-sized island in the middle of the river that has been designated the location of this particular brawl.
As for the question of how bad the audio would be on the match given its proximity to the massive waterfall? Someone in the production crew had the forethought to put one of those practically invisible microphones on Mika so that her trademark shouting would be preserved for the match.
It's part of the Rainbow Mika experience, after all, and you don't want to risk upsetting the growing group of Rainbow Maniacs.
Once the small boat is finally into position, Mika steps off looking incredibly confident, walking across the smooth, water worn surface as she approachers her challenger. "Let's have a good match and leave people wanting more!"
COMBATSYS: Hitomi has started a fight here.
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Hitomi 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika has joined the fight here.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Hitomi
Hitomi pause's mid stretch, quickly turning to address her newly arrived and challenged opponent. R.Mika! High scorer in the Neo League and a real honest-to-gosh professional wrestler, someone it would be a privilege to face. If anything the larger-than-life wrestler seems to be larger-than Hitomi, taller *The camera angle widens to compare them*- wider! - *tight angle shot showing off their physiques* and - *More focused fan service shots* ~waaoow. The cameras play over both fighters as they square off. The masked wrestling uniform unique to Rainbow Mika, resplendent in her blue and white and the young challenger in her jeans and belly shift recorded for posterity as they take in their first impressions of one another.
Hitomi bobs her head with the formal bow to the opponent, hands clenched at her side, the bow is traditional and offered only to R. Mika in the absence of the distantly watching crowds and any judges, the audience at home.
"I 'm Hitomi. I'm grateful you accepted my challenge."
The bow complete she rises into guard eager to begin both hands raised and settling into guarded posture open, one leg forward and setting her boot on the sandy, grass speckled shore.
"Let's give it our all."
The girl is smiling, she is eager to get started and with so few people here on the island this feels like a personal match, definitely her first with a celebrity to boot.
Now facing down her opponent, standing face to face as the two begin to look each over, get a feel for their opposition after meeting for the first time. Every fighter tends to do something like that.
For Mika, it's slightly different. On some level she can feel the energy flowing around the fighting stage. She can sense crowds, their absence. She can feel the excitement, the boredom, all of it. And most of all she can feel the way the auras around her fluctuate, hone in on them... she feels energized just being able to focus on Hitomi and all of the spirit she gives off, even in these unusual surroundings where fans are replaced by roaring nature.
"Let's see what you've got," Rainbow Mika announces as she moves into the posture of a professional wrestler, a wide steady stance with arms spread to either side. Waiting for the match to begin. Waiting for all of this stored up energy to be let go.
And then the match official sets off a flare from his boat signalling the start of the match.
Rainbow Mika is more than ready to get into this, surging forward like a lion going in for the kill as she puts every ounce of energy into charging toward Hitomi. She launches herself up into the air, legs spread as she aims to land on the karate fighter's shoulders, thighs on either side of the girl's head as she lets the force of her landing knock the girl backward, slamming her head into the ground beneath her as Mika's legs clamp down around her.
Once locked into position, the wrestler plants her hands on the ground and pulls up, dragging Hitomi into the air above her with her legs before slamming the top of her head into the ground.
COMBATSYS: Hitomi blocks Rainbow Mika's Paradise Hold.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Hitomi
"Osu!"
Eh, Rainbow Mika was fast, getting in at attack before Hitomi could do the very same to her, she hastily raises her defences when the wrestler leaps into the air; pulling her arms in tight and angling her elbows outward she resists the clamping grip of R. Mika's thighs with brute upper body strength, pushing outwards and forwards to try and prevent the hold the force of which still carries both ladies back. With a bit of quick footwork and luck Hitomi manages to remains standing forcing both legs away from her head and off her shoulders before they make solid purchase, it's fortunate she had her guard so and the power and purchase to fight it off. Her feet sink into the very shallowest edge of the pool of water and she can feel her boots fill with water, he jeans cuffs suddenly heavier and sodden but it doesn't slow her much when she feels an opportunity to attack.
She pushes back counter to the movement as it arrests, R. Mika making her recovery is Hitomi's chance! Shoving roughly at the pro-wrestlers collarbone and shoulders; she aims to throw her off balance and open her up for the rising knee strike and follow up step-in and single punch to the midsection.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika endures Hitomi's Tenchi Kaibyaku.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Hitomi
One thing about being someone so willing to go all out as to literally leap into your opening attack is that you either find yourself rather quickly losing every fight you enter, or you end up learning how to recover from your mistakes. Mika has managed to make herself one of the latter through years of training, so a single misstep isn't enough to completely throw off her game.
Which might not seem apparent when she seems to be completely unprepared to withstand Hitomi's retaliation, taking both blows full on without even managing to prepare herself...
At least that's what it would seem like right up until Mika starts to move before Hitomi's fist even fully draws back from its blow. With an incredibly wild smile on her face, Mika whips around with incredible speed, coming in beside Hitomi and hooking her right arm in over the girl's neck to bend her over. Her arm squeezes in tight on her neck, making it more difficult to breath before she starts to wrench over and over again, grinding Hitomi's cheek against the side of her bust, which... as one camera man in the right spot manages to catch, seems to make her breasts bounce around more than usual.
Having hopefully pacified Hitomi through lack of oxygen, she raises her free hand up, pointing up toward the sky as she shouts. "HERE WERE GO! ORAAAAAA!" Her scream accompanies her leaping forward and dragging her opponent behind her, pulling into a position to drop on her back and to slam Hitomi's chin right into the ground.
COMBATSYS: Hitomi interrupts Daydream Headlock from Rainbow Mika with Moka.
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Rainbow Mika 1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0 Hitomi
The python crushing her heck and the pillow her head rests against conspire to try and squeeze consciousness out of young fighter Hitomi, bowed backwards and neck snared even as she strains against Mika grip, boots scrabbling is the sand, cutting furrows and trenches before she can draw it back far enough to find some purchase; something to lever herself against in response to the hold that's sapping her air and her strength. She struggles all the harder rather than weakening in this panicked state. Stopping her tugging at the bicep closing off her windpipe to reach around and take firm hold on the defined shoulder blade behind the arm choking her, persevering she starts swinging, right up into Mika's midsection with her free arm. Its two quick hits but enough pressure for her to leverage herself in a half turn and bring one of her knees to bear right into an exposed and undefended side trying desperately to break the hold.
"E~h! Ei! TOH!!"
Hitomi staggers back a couple of steps when the hold breaks, coughing away the effects of the constriction at the same time she struggles to get her breath back. That had been close. Rainbow Mika was all over her and clinging to her any chance she got close, was this -pro wrestling?
Finding her offense once again rebuffed by Hitomi, this time Mika is wholey unprepared as she finds her side suddenly plowed into by the karate girl's expert blows, knocking her back and sending her down to her knee, her teeth gritting as she winces.
Clearly that didn't quite got the way that Mika planned for it to go, leaving her to stumble slightly as she looks for a better opportunity. It certainly doesn't help that there isn't a crowd around here; she tends to do a lot better when she's got people to work up into a frenzy, to feel the roar of a crowd all around.
Well... obviously, why doesn't she just do her best to get the feel of the crowd even if they can't actually be here?
They're out there, watching at home, aren't they?
A grin starts to spread on Mika's face as she considers this quite thoughtfully, pulling herself back up to her feet. She doesn't need to look out for a camera, she already knows where it is, and turns to face away from it as she starts to roll her shoulders, flexing muscles that, with her naturally curvy frame, are all to easy to forget about. She's trained to throw men over seven feet in height around, you don't do that by being scrawny.
"That's pretty good. I guess I need to work my game up," Mika finally says as she turns back toward the camera to offer the audience at home a wink, somehow choosing a spot so perfect that from the camera's perspective a rainbow is cast in the falls right over her head.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika excites the crowd!
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Rainbow Mika 1/=======/=======|======-\-------\0 Hitomi
From Mika's opponent however there is stillness rather than the explosion of excitement and energy surrounding Rainbow Mika. The charged atmosphere surrounding a pro wrestler was something it would be easy to get caught up in all that high octane movement and big moves. That appealing to the crowd! But that wasn't how Hitomi was trained to fight, she remains where she was.
A clear deep inhale through her nose, slowly and controlling her exhaled breath from gently parted lips, The act is soothing; helping with the urge to cough and a body still hungry for oxygen.
Hitomi likewise makes use of the time the Pro Wrestler uses to make to play to the cameras, as Mika flexes and appeals to the audiences at home Hitomi almost gets no screen time because she is holding exactly the same pose. The German girl so focused and unmoving that the water lapping around her legs laps quietly, despite her sloshing about in it moments before. For now, she tries to create her own rhythm.
As Mika voices her intention to try even harder , that spurs Hitomi to move and the teen finally does so, stirring the water with her feet as she half steps back, switching arms with a pump; enthusiastically grinning in response while presenting a formidable looking guard. Her reply is in the spirit of the match. Short and places a period on the time of their inaction, preparing themselves and appealing to the crowd was over.
"Shobu!"
COMBATSYS: Hitomi focuses on her next action.
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Rainbow Mika 1/=======/=======|======-\-------\0 Hitomi
Two rather opposing positions in combat are about to come clashing together again: one calm and focused on technique over flashiness, the other designed with the highest priority being to entertain an audience.
The motivation for Rainbow Mika in a fight is not to achieve victory, but to some degree a form of immortality: to make each fight so incredible that all those who stood in attendence will remember it forever. All those who watch from home will record it, share it, spread the moment that was simply too impressive.
A single victory means nothing if that's all it is.
A loss is only truly a loss if it's not worth remembering.
This most likely explains part of why, despite finding herself repeatedly shut down by Hitomi's defenses, she shows no sign of frustration. She's not necessarily seeking an opening to defeat, she's seeking an opening to greatness, even if that greatness is at her expense.
And so the moment she seems to have settled into her current thoughts, she's off, charging across the island kicking up small bits of grass and pebbles behind her as she seeks to make the distance between her and Hitomi simply vanish. She puts all of this into her body as she plants her heel in front of Hitomi and begins to spin, swinging the back of her fist around into the side of the karate fighter's head as hard as she can manage... and then kicking off with her free foot to spin again for a second blow, aiming to leave Hitomi so dazed that she's unable to respond as she plants her feet facing away from her opponent.
Mika's legs tense up, surge with power as she suddenly rockets backward to slam her ass into Hitomi's gut. Then plant her feet one more time to follow it up with another serious blow from her backside.
Hopefully she doesn't knock Hitomi into the river.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika successfully hit Hitomi with Rainbow Hip Rush.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/=======|=======\===----\1 Hitomi
The blow batters Hitomi's guarding arm aside and impacts against one of those youthful cheeks, even bushing back against it had done little to stop or bleed away its power. Grimacing due to the impact distorting her features Hitomi starts falling back trying to move her feet to recover that necessary balance; only for her head to be snapped around by a following SECOND back fist, her ears are ringing now and her eyes forced shut by the teeth rattling impact, when she can forces them open again the entirety or Rainbow Mika is flung at and into her, end first.
Now teetering back and still trying to recover, her arms are beginning a slow pinwheel thrown wide with nothing but the pool of water and the dozen or so feet into the Zambizi itself, now starting to worry as R. Mika shows no signs of stopping. there's -- still more?
"Yahh-!"
With a girlish squeal she is smashed off her feet she sails straight backwards cutting through the water with her trailing legs throwing up veils of water on both sides of her as she glides backwards before the tumble that fountains water all around her. The splash concealed the tumbling roll backwards and rough attempt at a break fall. Having come to a waterlogged stop the now completely drenched girl rests on her lands and knees in the pond, vigorously shaking her head to clear the ringing (and perhaps water) from her ears in a moves that scatters droplets of sparkling water about. Quickly raises a knee, setting a sand covered hand against the now sodden and almost black appearing jeans she stands once again. Water rolls off her back and shoulders, dripping from hair and bangs in rivulets and big heady droplets; she raises a gloved hand to swipe a drip from the end of her nose by brushing it with her thumb. Flashing Rainbow Mika a grin, there's still a ton of fight left!.
"Huuaaaaaaaaaa!"
Arms start pumping as Hitomi starts rushing out of the water right back toward the shore and the Masked Wrestler, sand and water kicked up in her wake as she comes running in, and leaps; a jumping back heel kick with squelching water filled boots surrounded by an aura of scattering droplets.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika endures Hitomi's Medium Kick.
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Rainbow Mika 1/------=/=======|=======\===----\1 Hitomi
As Hitomi goes tumbling back into the water, Mika is left to stand back, waiting carefully, trying to determine just what to expect when her opponent gets back up. If she gets back up.
Rainbow Mika certainly hopes she gets back into things.
The fight hasn't gone far enough, yet. This isn't enough for the fight to be truly satisfying for the fans. She hasn't managed to draw enough out of Hitomi... not yet.
And so when Hitomi comes charging back out of the water at her, Mika's face merely spreads into an excited grin, thrilled by the prospect of what is about to come... only to find herself disappointed when she can feel that Hitomi isn't putting herself fully into it. There's potential unspent, just left waiting. And so Mika stiffens herself up, tenses the muscles in her body, simply letting the force of the kick hit her... and barely move her.
"DON'T EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT! I CAN FEEL IT!" Rainbow Mika bellows out as her hands lunge forward to plant on Hitomi's shoulders, locking her in place. "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO CHALLENGED ME, AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO THE FIGHT, THEN YOU'RE NOT WORTH THE TIME!"
Following up that bellowed accusation, Mika launches her head forward to slam into Hitomi's forehead. It's not just one headbutt, it's followed up by a flurry of aggressive strikes colliding her surprisingly hard head into Hitomi's. Drawing back for one big blow as she aims to dizzy Hitomi again.
This time, once she's managed to get Hitomi right where she wants her, the wrestler whips her arm in over Hitomi's neck, drawing her down into a bent posture that she'd hoped to complete earlier, leaping forward in an effort to make Hitomi's chin make friends with the sandy ground beneath them. "ORAAAAAAAA!"
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika issues a challenge!!
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Rainbow Mika 1/------=/=======|=======\===----\1 Hitomi
COMBATSYS: Hitomi counters Heavenly Dynamite from Rainbow Mika with Yamase.
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Rainbow Mika 1/--=====/=======|=====--\-------\0 Hitomi
Her kick not even feeling like it fazed R. Mika she had not been prepared for, if Mika was on a whole other level like- like -- Naoko-chan! Hitomi flicks the striking leg back in preparation for landing and perhaps launching into a most unlikely seeming following move with R. Mika right there, unmoved. The hands seizing her by the shoulders as unwelcoming as the bellow to her face that leaves her looking startled and bedraggled like a puppy rather than a fellow fighter. All wide eyes and stricken in response to such over the top enthusiasm and yelling right in her face.
In truth the girl is both shocked and shamed by the outburst, it raised questions in her mind, about herself and how she was fighting, starting a tailspin of doubt that might just paralyze her instead of spurring her to action. But, she couldn't sit still and stay here, at this level, and R.Mika preparing to head butt her has an intended effect of driving her to /DO/ something.
Slapping both hands at her shoulders she aims at the inside of the elbow with the crossing palms, palms striking up suddenly in front of her in a X form, it's unorthodox but at the moment with a bellowing R. Mika in her face it's the best she can thing to try. She bites her lip even as she explodes into action, brows drawing down as she meets the wrestlers gaze, even as she steps in and under the head-butt aimed at her face. Hitomi sinks low, dropping with bended knees in response to the lunge, fitting herself into the contour of the body of the taller wrestler with her smaller frame, her back to Mika front; eyes turned up and looking at the woman leaning over her with a fist at her side drawn back tightly to her side; arm cocked with muscles straining and ready to fire straight up!
Pushed forward by a sudden gentle yet firming pressure building against the back of her head she hastily launches her attack; worried that Rainbow Mika has an effective counter.
"Haah-AH"
Fist punishing as she lashes out at the underside of Mika's jaw, launching her opponent into the air as she strikes while straightening her legs and pushing un through the target; she isn't finished yet either! With a quick hop into the air beginning the spin and crescent kick that she delivers to the side of the falling wrestler driving her toward the ground and even further away from Hitomi.
"Ei!"
Rather than apologise she simply raises her stance again, fierce eyes peeking out from under her fringe still dripping with water from her dunk moments ago.
This is certainly more of what Mika was expecting from her opponent. Despite the fact that Mika hasn't shown the most impressive command of this fight, she's kept things interesting, even, and above all interesting... with this furious reversal, Hitomi is definitely bringing things to a more exciting level than before.
Each hit knocks Rainbow Mika around like a rag doll... no great defense against this assault as she's battered and sent flying, hitting the the ground hard enough that as she rolls a small ridge is built in the dirt in front of Mika, growing to greater heights as she continues to skid to a stop.
This sort of furious assault looks painful enough to keep many people down... or make them reconsider their position.
Rainbow Mika simply pushes herself back up to her feet with an incredible grin on her face, slightly misshapen from her already swelling cheek. It's quite clear that she might have some nasty bruises for a few days.
"That's more like it..."
The words are incredibly clear, despite her facial injuries. Rainbow Mika has trained to be able to fight through any number of injuries... and part of the way Rainbow Mika fights is through her words. Whipping crowds up into a frenzy, inspiring opponents to their peak.
"Seems like if I want to win this, I'll need to step up my efforts even further!" she bellows, words easily surpassing even the furious roar of the massive waterfall in front of which their battle rages.
There's not an ounce of hesitation as she surges forward, barrelling down on Hitomi with no hestiation, every ounce of speed and power her body can manage flowing through her as she suddenly drops low with a sliding kick designed to put all of her not insubstantial momentum into the karate fighter's shins and knock her down flat. With a practiced ease, Mika bounces back up to her feet and swings an arm up to hook into the falling Hitomi's stomach at the same time, more than likely a highly unpleasant feeling that's soon accompanied by another arm whipping in to clench the younger fighter to Mika's chest as her legs rocket the pair up to one of the highest, sturdy branches of the tree.
"HERE... WE... GO!" She cries out as she leaps backwards with Hitomi still in arm, whipping around in a midair flip that puts Hitomi on the bottom as the body slam down into the ground, sandwiching the girl between earth and wrestler.
COMBATSYS: Hitomi blocks Rainbow Mika's Sardine's Beach Special.
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The Camera-men circling the pair for shots as the battle resumes, They're absolutely no distraction to Hitomi who must keep her complete focus on her opponent. That Mika could move so fast, and hit so hard was a very, VERY! good reason not to lose sight of her and what she is doing. Despite that the sudden tumble in the air as Mika drops low and goes for her legs, knocked out from under her with a squeak that turns into a =whumph= on her part as she is upended but caught, arms now flattened in and pressed tightly against her abdomen even as she is scooped and carried high into the air, probably a move which would have winded her if not for her now trapped arms.
High above the area and with a clear view of both cameramen turning their sights up trying to track the sudden move. In the air she marvels at the power capable of lifting both herself and R. Mika this high before she realizes the danger of dropping back down, at this height? Scissoring her legs she locks her ankles around one of the trees smaller braches which creaks ominously with Mikas shout and pushing back off the tree; Her branch does in fact break but it IS still study enough for her to shake Mikas grip and send the Masked Wrestler to to power down herself to the ground alone; having failed to retain hold of the wet and slippery (and also tree clinging) Karateka.
There is a girly scream as the branch finally does give way and Hitomi does drop but she manages to stick the landing with a quick roll, throwing up sand and sweeping her one arm wide to cast off some of the momentum, she is still close! still has a chance to come after Mika and she does by rushing in headlong, A head height - high spinning kick, trailing sand and detritus kicked up with the sudden move; still keeping one leg grounded as the pivot and dialling in her trajectory as the kicking legs foot the lands behind her and pushes her forward with powers into a the charge, stepping in and punching time and time again, alternating legs and fists like she intends to punch a path right through R.Mika to the other side.
"Ha! Hah-hup yah! ! Seeeeei-yah!"
With the final blow she draws back into stance and pumps one arm across the other with an emphatic cry punctuating the end of her attack.
"Osu!"
COMBATSYS: Hitomi successfully hits Rainbow Mika with Hangetsu Kamikaze.
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Rainbow Mika 1/-----==/=======|-------\-------\0 Hitomi
One problem with completely throwing yourself into the fight is that when things don't go your way, they can go spectacularly wrong.
For example: suddenly finding your opponent managing to yank herself out of your attempt to crush them into the ground under your own body weight. Mika at least manages to keep from hurting herself once Hitomi is no longer present by taking a quick roll to knock as much force off as she can manage.
That isn't to say that it doesn't require an absurd amount of time to recovery from the botched maneuver, and she's certainly not moving as fast as she had been during the rest of the fight as she tries to push herself back up to her feet.
Downside of going all out? When you're struggling to push back up off the dirt and your opponent is charging in, it's a lot harder to do anything to get out of the way of having a foot slamming into the side of your head.
Rainbow Mika goes flying. One of the camera men is actually in the perfection position to catch a shot where Mika's body perfectly follows the arc of a rainbow in the falls. That's enough to sell this fight later (even if it being the end of Rainbow Mika's surprising winning streak wasn't enough to get people to pay up).
And she hits the ground again quite hard. Yeah, she's not looking great, despite the fact that she manages to push herself back up to her feet. Panting, battered, bruised, but no less determined despite it all.
"...Not bad... let's see if I have what it takes..."
Rainbow Mika suddenly goes surging forward with an energy that impossible moments ago. Feet pounding the ground as she gives everything she's got to get to Hitomi, her hands clamp down on the karate fighter's shoudlers and then...
There's no hit.
Mika instead launches herself up, using Hitomi's shoulders as a pivot point to get in behind her. Without an ounce of hesitation, her arms whip in around Hitomi's waist, cinching her tight just as Mika starts to whip backwards at the waist, feet still firmly planted on the ground as she slams Hitomi's head into the ground...
...and then doesn't move. Held in a perfect neckbridge with Hitomi over her. An incredible double rainbow.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Hitomi blocks Rainbow Mika's Rainbow Suplex.
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Legs tremble from the impact, chin tucked in tightly against her breast Hitomi opens one eye and lets her head tip backwards, the view of her own sturdy boots half buried and sliding on the bank either side of her head, it's a curious sensation to be looking at your own legs this closely, water shaken loose from her own belt falling to splash against her upturned face as she looks up trying to make sense of the situation, now staring up at her own crotch and the sky beyond; Strange. But, strangeness worth the effort to avoid a monstrous rap to the back of her head and shoulders.
The toes of her feet ache like the dickens with the effort and from the impact of holding both women up, it's crazy how easily Mika had lifted both of them with just a jump. The slumping gentle crash of the double rainbow formation as both women topple to the ground; tension leaving their bodies is marked by the fall, Did either of them fare well enough to continue fighting? Both cameras come rushing in as the fight may very well have reached its final moments.
Hitomi glances back over her shoulder at Rainbow Mika as she lifts her shoulder up off the ground and rolls sideways, still expecting the other to rise like a relentless terminator once again. But no --was it over? Had she somehow endured fighting a Professional Wrestler.
It's an almost surreal experience to be standing within a few feet of the masked woman and not being lunged after or grabbed; Hurled through the air or blown away outright. In any number of ways this could have ended prematurely and very differently. Suddenly pitching forward and standing hunched over she props herself up with hands on against her legs and letting the moment sink in, she won? c She won!
Relieved she lets herself totter back just a couple of steps, straightening and looking up at the blue sky of a foreign country, with her first real victory under her belt; from the depths of her soul her exhilaration erupts.
"YOU-SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
One of the camera men glides in to get a close up , the German girl still standing shakily only responds to his presence when he clears his throat. But does so by raising one hand with a V-sign and smiling for the camera, dishevelled, soaked to the skin, rolled in sand but smiling like a cherub she pumps the arm forward towards the camera, full of returning energy.
"It's a V for victory!"
Log created on 21:15:05 12/10/2014 by Rainbow Mika, and last modified on 22:53:26 12/11/2014.