Match of the Millennium

Description: Abigail and Robert Garcia bond over their shared love for high-performance engines and beating each other up.

[ABIGAIL]
And so, Abigail's World Tour has brought the titan full circle back to Strolheim where this madcap adventure began. A desire to prove himself to the greater fighting community and get his name and the name of his business out there has led to ..well..this! He didn't exactly -plan- on being in the top sixteen. It seemingly just sort of happened and along the way he forgot all about pimping Abigail's Scrap Metal, what with facing monsters like Azreal and Akuma and meeting pop idols like Athena occupying him instead. But now that he's here? He's here to win!

No audiences but knowing it's being televised is good enough for him to bring out the showboater within him. Abigail enters the arena rumbling loudly, "Vrooom, Vroooom, Vroooooom!" while pantomiming wheeling around a gigantic car, taking little steps here as he spins an imaginary wheel and then slams on the brakes with a loud "Rrrrrt!!!" to come to a stop. He then laughs and slaps his massive hands together, producing a thunderous *BOOM* that rattles the walls within the courtyard. "Hahahaha!!"

[ROBERT]
Robert Garcia is honestly a little surprised he hasn't been shuffled out of the tournament by now. His first qualifying match against Zach went about as well as he had expected. His match against Urien went over about as well as a lead balloon. In the end, he considers that the nail-biting finish with Duke was probably what sealed the deal -- a brutal fight where both adrenaline-filled fighters left nothing on the table.

And in many ways, Robert is still sore from that fight. A steady dosage of Advil has been necessary to stave away the migraines. And it was only the day prior that he was able to unravel the bandages around his ribcage. Suffice to say, there are many reasons the well-dressed Italian should be sitting this next battle out.

To the competitive Kyokugen Tiger, none of those reasons are gonna fly.

He's been leaning against a boundary wall, thumbs flying across the touchscreen of his cellphone, scrolling through images of a spicy red Italian car. He closes his eyes for a moment, imagining the throaty turbocharged engine as it revs up.

It's almost like he can hear it now.
And Robert opens his eyes.
He -can- hear it now.
The goateed Italian turns towards the massive Abigail with a broad grin.

"Another car-lover, I take it?" he ventures to ask, taking long and casual strides towards Abigail. He stows his cellphone on a belt loop for later -- knowing full well that it might get destroyed in the process of a fight, but seeming to care little about that.

"Italdesign's about to show off their new Zerouno Targa in Geneva. V-10, 413 foot-pounds of torque. They say she can hit zero to a hundred in three point two."

He pulls a coin out of his pocket, and flicks it into the air. Catching it with a snap, he slaps it onto the back of his hand, and grins faintly at the result. "Or are you more of a truck guy?"

[ABIGAIL]
"Oh yeah??" Abigail responds, cheerfully, as he hears the news and is actually impressed by the engine stats being given out. He laces his fingers together and cracks his knuckles, producing a sound not unlike tree trunks being splintered or boulders cracking. "Now I like those numbers! But you're right. Big cars and monster trucks are my favorite but I love all things that show the horsepower!"

He loosens his massive arms, rolling shoulders the size of shields and letting his immense arms hang to his sides, propped up by his prodigious lats in that sort of bodybuilders meat-head stance where it looks like they can't lower their arms from a near forty five degree angle.

"Abigail's Scrap Metal!" he declares, "I mod any and everything back in Metro City." The Mad Gear Head lifts his hands up and beckons for Robert, "Show me some horsepower worth noticing and I'lll give you a special deal when you stop by!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail has started a fight here.

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COMBATSYS: Robert has joined the fight here.

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Robert           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0          Abigail

[ROBERT]
As the Abigail's booming reply is delivered, Garcia is able to take in the features of the towering titan. Urien had muscles of forged iron, and Duke was nigh indestructable, but neither of them could even stand eye-to-eye with Abigail. Heck, he wagers that even -combining- both fighters would still not come close to the scrapper's sheer size.

It's probably pretty ridiculous, he realizes, to even -ask- if the man likes cars. There's no way he could even fit in a Targa, let alone any of the cars he'd be more likely to acquire.

"Ah... yeah, that engine would make a great powerplant for a monster truck, too!"

Robert feels almost -disgusted- at the idea of taking the engine out of a prototype car and bolting it to a monster truck frame. But he found a point of kinship with Abigail, and dammit, he's gonna work that angle. He laces his fingers together, cracking his knuckles and stretching his arms out.

"I've got some friends out that way, next time I'm in town I'll drop in for a visit..."

The coin is slipped back into his pocket.
He looks one way and another -- no audience in sight.
And no -ladies-, at that.
Garcia sighs heavily as he eases into a combat stance -- his hands hanging down by his .

"Man, they -say- this is gonna be televised, but it ain't the same if I can't hear the audience cheer... " His fingers wiggle as he bobs back and forth from one foot to another in anticipation. "Anyway, yeah -- you're gonna get max horsepower from me, just like I gave the last three -- so you'd better bring it too! Let's get this started!"

With only a moment spared to give Abigail the chance to retort, Robert begins to break into a run. One might not expect him to actually -fight- in a classy vest, a high-thread-count shirt and custom tailored slacks -- but it's never stopped him before. The boy's got money, that's for sure!

He leaps high into the air -- whipping around into a somersault! And when he reaches the apex of his leap, he streaks out of the sky, crashing down with a flying kick into Abigail's chest! "TEYAAAA!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail auto-guards Robert's Medium Kick.

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Robert           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
"Bring it on, rich boy!" rumbles Abigail with amusement in his rolling deep voice. He grins, as he snaps a finger gun salute with both of his fingers at Robert, "Cause I'm going for the redline!"

He's a touch slow though. Just a tad bit sluggish. Robert gets the jump on him and Abigail canes his head up to watch the arc of Robert's flight and then sees the kick snap out towards him with force that would certainly put an end to any most fights and probably do damage to the beloved cars the two are semi-bonding over.

Abigail widens his chest, his pectorals particularly massive and stretching gigantically as he spread his arms out and thrusts his torso forward to meet the kick dead on. A loud muffled *WHAM* resounding as the impact is absorbed into his superhuman body with all the effectiveness of a toy truck being rolled into a vault door.

The giant spends no time gloating and instead twists right away into rapid fire movement that belies his incredible size.

"Vroom, vroom!" he roars while dashing forward a few earth shaking steps, looking to follow after Robert as the man rebounds and recovers from his kick. He twists at the waist, massive back widening like an unfurling billboard, and then he spins bringing a massive swing around with so much force that the air buckles and blasts past both fighters, rippling across the training yard and upturning dirt and dust. "BOOM!"

COMBATSYS: Robert blocks Abigail's Dynamite Punch.

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Robert           0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0          Abigail

[ROBERT]
Robert is emboldened by the name-calling -- if anything, he -lives- for it. Not every fighter can wear the threads like he does, so it's become something of the Kyokugen Tiger's trademark. "Just the way I like it!"

When his foot collides with Abigail's massive pecs, though -- Robert is considerably -less- happy, mouth parting in surprise. It's one thing to -reach- the big man's chest -- and he frowns with dismay as even the rapid kick seems to glance off him like it was nothing. Robert rebounds away into a somersault, landing feet-first a few feet away.

And just as soon as he lands, Abigail is right there, vroom-vrooming it up with a super-sized swing! Robert raises a defense, but even his forearms will not be enough to fully mitigate the onslaught of Abigail's knuckles! Wind flaps Robert's ponytail about as he's knocked backwards a good three meters -- forced to leave the ground yet again due to the considerable disparities in size and mass between the two fighters.

The Italian's smile reappears as his shoes land back on terra firma a short distance away, shaking the numbness out of his arms! "Boom, indeed! A strong start -- but the race ain't over yet!"

Robert surges forward again into a second leaping attack. But as he thunders ahead this time, his feet erupt in brilliant orange flame!

"HIEN -- SENPUU KYAKU!"

He whirls about to deliver a thrust kick with his left foot, aiming to brand Abigail's abdomen with a considerable outpouring of chi! But he'll also seek to follow that up by reversing direction afterwards, wheeling about with a high spin kick from the right foot, scything down for a second trip to the burly brawler's pecs!

COMBATSYS: Robert successfully hits Abigail with Hien Senpuu Kyaku EX.

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Robert           0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
The bruiser is already marching after Robert in the wake of the mans flight. Each foot step seems to shake the ground from a combo of the mans weight and the immense pressure his strength exerts on the earth beneath the fighters. He grins, but the grin soon turns into pursed lips of mild annoyance as he sees the tell tale glow of chi and energy beginning to make its way into the match. He's had enough experience with this by this point to guess at what's going to happen.

"Tth! More light shows! You folk rely on your magic mumbo jumbo a whole lot!"

As Robert launches, Abigail attempts to raise a massive limb upwards to shield his body from the incoming strike - but alas he's to slow and the force of the kick slams home into his torso, sending the energy lancing its way into and through him in addition to the power of the kick itself. His body flexes, toughening and hardening up and distributing the power of the impact but he grits his teeth in pain and then once more gets to grinning. As the spin kick lands, he jumps, actually letting his body be forced backwards by the power of the blow, trailing chi after him and landing with a violent rumble of the earth.

He then rebounds forward, leaping into the air, trailing grass, dirt and stone behind him from the force of his lift off and actually managing a full on flip before descending down at Robert with both of his fists upraised. Once he lands, both arms continue hurtling downward in a hammer blow that's so powerful it will literally crater the ground, kicking up a mushroom cloud of debris if it lands on Robert or no.

COMBATSYS: Abigail successfully hits Robert with Giant Flip.

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Robert           1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0          Abigail

[ROBERT]
Rich boy -- and now, light shows?
Robert basks in the dismissive comments, his smile not faltering in the slightest. Those 'light shows' are one thing that sets Kyokugen martial arts apart from the rest -- the perfect merger of physical prowess with the disciplined arts of chi. Fighters who practice the Kyokugen way will inextricably intertwine the two -- techniques that enhance mastery of one will bring about enlightenment with the other.

But that is a lecture for another time -- and Robert might just palm the job off onto Ryo while he goes and test-drives cars.

His feet do the work of knocking Abigail backwards -- and that 'light show' seems to have been enough to chip at his opponent's formidable defenses.

But as he lands -- he sees that he's only placed himself in Abigail's reach. The big man just should -not- be able to leap that high into the air -- he had -definitely- not counted on that. As Abigail's shadow blots out the sun, Robert backpedals away -- but maybe he should have run -forward- instead!

Abigail's fists crash down into the Kyokugen Tiger's shoulders, slamming him into the ground as if he were a lawn dart! He howls with pain as he's plowed downward into the earth. Dirt and grass explode upwards in a cloud of debris -- doing double-duty of hiding the Italian from view for a moment...

But as the dust cloud begins to clear, it will show that Robert is nearly doubled over, with his fists clenched at his sides, wheezing air through tightly-clenched teeth. That... that hurt quite a bit. But the pain-numbing effects of adrenaline are an intoxicating addiction for Robert Garcia -- not an opportunity he's going to let pass by him!

Another torrent of debris is blasted into the air -- courtesy of a tornado of orange flames erupting from around Robert's feet. Soon, he will be unable to stop himself from howling out -- not in rage, but in -defiance-.

"HAAAAA...!"

And then suddenly, Robert leaps out of the crater. He lands a foot in front of Abigail -- and slams out his foot in a series of ratcheting rapid-fire kicks, aiming to slam his fancy Italian-leather shoes into Abigail not once, not twice, but a -dozen- times, each blow aided by an upswell of fiery orange chi...!

COMBATSYS: Abigail blocks Robert's Ryuuko Ranbu.

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Robert           0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1          Abigail

But that dozen will not be the end of it -- as he switches legs, swapping the duty of slamming kicks into Abigail's body with the other leg. High kicks, low kicks, medium kicks -- every single one of them will hit with bone-crushing impact -- enough to end the career of a lesser fighter! And then he will finish by spinning around to deliver an even more powerful kick from the leg he attacked with first -- boosted by a roaring gout of flame that sends him thundering forward!

[ABIGAIL]
Now things are heating up - quite literally. Abigail weathers the blinding blistering assault against his body like some sort of immovable object. His body quakes and shakes and his exposed torso is welted, blistered, bruised and burnt by the raging fury of the attack. His dreads whip about his face as his teeth grit and his eyes squint.. and then he roars out,

"Let's kick it into a new gear!" and he lunges forward, actually leaning into the attack and through the bonfire of flames just as Robert finishes his assault.

His hand arcs high up and then slams down, looking to crush into Roberts shoulders and back and then force him back down into the widening crater caused by the two fighters exploits. In Abigail's case, again no chi, no techniques. Just pure power that seems to well up from some unending supply, getting greater and greater by the second..

COMBATSYS: Robert dodges Abigail's Hit and Run.

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Robert           0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0          Abigail

[ROBERT]
Garcia is okay with his kicks slamming into Abigail -- he's a bit less okay that his formidable opponent is not showing any obvious signs of buckling under this pressure! Sure, there's probably going to be welts, bruises, and burns, but he was hoping that his school's best series of attacks would have been able to knock over his redwood-sized opponent!

Once his final kick lands, he's already on edge, prepared for Abigail's return volley. When Abigail leaps through the flames, Robert flips backward, touching the ground with his open hand -- and then pushing back so that he flips away from Abigail! As the massive scrapper thunders downwards towards the ground, Robert can feel the air displacement shove him even further offcourse -- further reassurance that if he hadn't made that crucial last-moment adjustment, he'd have been slammed right back into that crater.

"Whew...!" he calls out, flipping back to his feet as Abigail rushes past. "Just about knocked me off the road, there!"

But as Abigail recovers, Robert is already chambering for a follow-up attack. His hands curl by his side, and he draws his breath in. The energy of the earth crawls up his legs, as the energy of the air around him draws through his arms. The energies swirl about before his open palms, twisting about into a maelstrom of fiery chi...

And once the growing storm reaches critical mass, he thrusts his palms forward. Another light show -- but considerably more concentrated!

"HAOH SHO KO KEN!"

One hand crosses over the other, imparting a wild spin on the enormous ball of chi! The shearing force causes the conflagration to flare outward into a massive, pancake-like disc some three meters across -- all the better to share with his massive opponent!

COMBATSYS: Abigail Toughs Out Robert's Haohshokoken!

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Robert           0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
"Rarrgh! Just stay in your lane!" complains Abigail as his palm slams into the ground, missing Robert, but hitting so hard a massive sinkhole forms that spreads out rapidly away from the goliath in a perfect expanding circle. The earthquake ripples through the yard, and up the walls. Dislodging dust, Tipping over training equipment and just otherwise causing a big mess. Krauser -miiight- regret staging matches here in the castle with the likes of Abigail, Azreal, Akuma and others around known to bring property damage with them.

As for him, Abigail turns, straightening back to his full height just in time to see the wall of chi blazing its way across the yard towards him, casting his body in deep light and shadow with his eyes widening bigger and bigger as it draws nearer to him. He does the only thing he can do.. He squares his chest, widens his stance and flexes big. Real big.

The explosion rips into him and around him, obscuring him from sight in a whirl of dust and chi summoned flames and for an instant one might think he was vaporized or even hurtled out of the yard. But then he explodes out of the bonfire, up into the air once again with his legs curling up towards his torso as he clears meters of distance and begins to descend like an asteroid towards Robert. "BIG SMASH!!" he roars, grinning wildly despite the scorch marks and bruises on his frame.

Both legs then slam out, trying to send Abigail's car flattening feet hurtling at Robert in the mother of all drop kicks.

COMBATSYS: Robert blocks Abigail's Ontario Drop.

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Robert           0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0          Abigail

[ROBERT]
Abigail is -super- powerful. Duke didn't hit lightly, but almost every punch was backed by an oppressive outpouring of chi. Urien didn't hit lightly either -- but the executive was able to change the properties of his flesh somehow. Abigail is neither of these people -- blessed with a gigantic frame, and refined through what Robert can only assume are -decades- of continual refinement. He's a veritable wall of meat.

And he seems to speak exclusively in extended motor vehicle metaphors.
Robert's finding it hard to keep a straight face.

He's definitely shaken when the earthquake ripples all throughout the yard. He's still a bit shaken when Abigail absorbs his tremendous outpouring of chi -- that's -two- of the signature techniques of the Kyokugen Dojo that he's been able to effectively shrug off.

"Aww, c'mon, now!" he exclaims, eyes widening incredulously. "You're taking up -three- lanes, I just need one..!"
Yeah, it's hard for Robert to keep quiet for this guy.

But even with the bonfire that swells, threatening to swallow him whole, Robert sees Abigail lumber out of it. And that big ol' grin would be a welcome sight if it weren't further hammering home the point that this big boy is gonna attack again!

"Uh-oh..."

Robert doesn't have much time. He throws his arms up -- still shuddering from the first attack, and still shaky from the earlier assault on his shoulders. But he also -leaps backwards- at the same time, allowing himself to get catapulted backwards by the drop kick. It's enough to crack a car in half -- and if it weren't for Takuma's harsh discipline, it might be enough to split bone. But instead, it sends Robert flying backwards a few meters -- ensuring that his landing digs its own crater, to the eventual dismay of the Strolheim groundskeepers!

"You don't -always- have to floor it, you know!"

Never one to back down, Robert throws himself back into the fray -- leaping in close, and swinging his knee high!

"RYUUREN..."

He'll unhinge his leg into a rapid kick, and then whip around a half rotation, firing off three high-speed followup kicks!

"... GEN'EI KYAKU!"

The technique will conclude with Robert jumping high into the air, hoping to crack a leaping roundhouse kick across the side of Abigail's jaw!

COMBATSYS: Abigail blocks Robert's Ryuuren Gen'ei Kyaku.

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Robert           0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
The kicks scythe towards the behemoth, sending wind and visible air displacement shockwaving itself across the courtyard and into the giant an instant before the kicks themselves find purchase raking across Abigail's up raise forearms as he turtles up and slides back in a defensive stance. The brute isn't invulnerable, though it may seem that way - or at least take much time to weather him down. He seems keenly aware of this as well, by no means some flailing berserker despite his lack of visible style or technique. He clearly knows how to fight.

"Hey, maybe you oughta tone it down yourself a notch! Just sayin'!" he retorts in response to Robert's quip about his continued use of car puns and overall behavior.

But in truth, keeping up with his own potential for exhausting himself is important and so he .. shifts gears slightly - har har - and comes lunging out of the defensive stance with a simple enough strike. A single boulder sized fist hurtling around and up towards Robert like a missile shot from a trebuchet.

So perhaps..not so simple when you're so strong even a flick of your fingers can send a man hurtling away into the far distance, a simple punch is still a thing of destruction.

COMBATSYS: Abigail successfully hits Robert with Quick Smash.
- Power hit! -

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Robert           1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0          Abigail

[ROBERT]
Robert grimaces as Abigail's defenses hold out through his series of kicks -- the saying "it hurts me more than it does you" comes to mind even though he'd rather it not! Not only is the massive brawler using his size to advantage, but also an inordinate amount of combat skill. It would be a mistake to judge against him due to his preferred vocabulary!

Fortunately for Robert -- he hadn't. And as Abigail calls him out for continuing the car puns, Garcia holds up both hands as he hops back and away -- "Hey, easy, just tryin' to keep pace with ya here, man..." No -- if anything, he -likes- a fighter who picks a style and sticks with it!

... Which is why it's even more surprising to Robert that such a fighter would choose such a -quick- attack to deck him with. The fist swings up and -slams- into Robert's stomach, both doubling him over like a jackknife -and- sending him flying into the air! In the midst of the fighting ring there's no chance of him slamming into a wall or anything like that...

But as a groaning Robert flies upwards, he has the time to realize one thing...
He's still alive.
And he's got one advantage Abigail doesn't.

Orange chi bursts from Robert, sprouting out like a phoenix's wings. The gout of flame is sudden, hot enough, to light up even the midafternoon sky. And what's more -- it's powerful enough to halt Robert's flight away -- and send him hurtling right back towards Abigail!

Through grit teeth he shouts back -- "HIEN SHIPPUU RYUUJIN KYAKU!"

And the Kyokugen Tiger's diving kick will ignite into a riotous explosion if it contacts Abigail -- a powerful explosion that ought to be enough to knock the titanic bruiser backwards and onto his duff -- and even drive him back a few feet through the dirt! If it does -- Robert would backflip away from the gargantuan gearhead, his flip kick tracing a half-circular arc of chi-borne flame through the air!

COMBATSYS: Abigail endures Robert's Hien Shippuu Ryuujin Kyaku.

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Robert           0/-------/----===|=======\===----\1          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
"OH...." Abigail begins, and then the rest of his words are lost against the cacophony of noise caused by the unfurling eruption of phoenix born chi and the force of the blow that rips through him, sending his hair whirling wildly, snapping the chain links on his leggings and shattering the lenses on his goggles, ripping them from him as his body is sent tumbling into the ground by the power of the blast.

The earth yields, giving way to him as he slides backwards and into a tree, splintering it like a matchstick and sending debris flying every which way along with the sparks of the remaining arcing fire of chi that only now begins to dim as Robert finishes his leap and arcs over the giants body to the ground beyond.

Abigail lays there for a second. Seemingly defeated....or not! He suddenly opens his eyes, his mouth shuts into gritted teeth and he rolls backwards, smashing through the trees like some avalanche down a mountain side to burst through it just as Robert finishes his landing.

"I'm HIGH OCTANE AND FULL TANKED!!" he roars. This thunderous car puns meant less for humor and more to psyche himself up as he swings for Robert again.

COMBATSYS: Robert can't buy an interrupt against Abigail Punch from Abigail with Ryuuga.

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COMBATSYS: Robert can no longer fight.

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Once more speed is in contrast to just how immense this goliath is. His arm is a blur of movement, intending on slamming into Robert and then to lift him aloft with it, followed by another and then another and then another in a rapid fire series of punches that are not to dissimiliar to what Robert did earlier with his kicks. Except this time it's Abigail's method. An: "ABIGAAAIIIIIIIL PUNCH!!!"

The number of blurring swings are almost uncountable, rippling through the air violently only to end with a final double fisted hammer blow that swings upwards to once more knock Robert sky high and back towards the ground of the training area.

[ROBERT]
Tongues of flame lick at Robert's shoes even after they land upon the hard-packed dirt of the ring. Both hands lift slightly as he slips back into the loose Kyokugen Dragon stance, drawing a long intake of breath. Knocking Abigail down took a lot out of him -- but, of course, not as much as getting -hit- by the gearhead goliath's massive meathooks. His ribcage heaves with each belabored breath -- thankfully the dustclouds kicked up by his landing are not so large as to interfere with his breathing.

For a moment -- he looks down at Abigail. And for that one moment -- it looks like he might have won.

But then Abigail roars back to his feet -- earning a grin from Garcia. "Hell yeah! Let's finish this!" No attempt to make any driving puns -- just good, honest fighter talk!

The Kyokugen Tiger draws his right fist back. All throughout the fight he'd been leaning heavily upon his feet for offense, using his arms for defense. But there's a pitfall in being -too- predictable, using the same attacks in the same ways. He grins, bobbing lightly on his feet as Abigail plows towards him, the fighters' ring reverberating with each thunderous step.

All it would take -- is one punch, right to the jaw.
Robert coils up, ready to leap...
And Robert surges into action.

But Robert Garcia underestimates the speed of the goliath.
He will not be the David in this story.
All it would take is one punch -- to short-circuit Robert's uppercut before it can meet its mark. The fist slams into Robert's head, dazing him -- and juggling him backwards into the air.

The relentless series of punches that follows is more than enough to finish the job -- wind whistling with of each riotous blow, punctuated by the meaty crack of knuckles slamming into flesh and bone.

Robert Garcia sails high, high into the air, with only a fleeting sense of consciousness.

He has only enough presence of mind so that, seconds later as he's hurtling back towards the ground, he can steer himself so that he hits the ground in a shoulder-led roll instead of head-first.

As soon as he rolls to a stop -- he's completely unconscious.

[ABIGAIL]
"..Yeah..?" questions Abigail as he comes down from the rushing adrenaline that powered his last attack. He eyes as Robert tumbles back to the ground and half expects the guy to get back up again in another blaze of chi. Ready for this, the giant begins thundering forward again but...when Robert doesn't rise the brute lets out a roaring, "YEAH!"

He slams his fist against his scorched and bruised chest. Sending a thunderous BOOM rippling through the courtyard, and then straightens up to his full height with both hands on his waist. "That was a DEAD HEAT!"

He then looks around and the strangeness of their being no crowds...no cheers, no jeers, settles in on him as well. A growing sense of being uncomfortably alone begins to chill his victorious mood and he stalks closer to Robert while reaching into his pocket and then tosses something next to Roberts head as he passes him by, heading for the nearest exit.

When Robert awakes - a business card sporting Abigail's Scrap Metal is laying on the ground next to him. 30% for your next modding needs!

It's all about the business after all.

Log created on 19:46:25 02/27/2018 by Robert, and last modified on 19:27:45 03/01/2018.