SNF 2018.04 - SNF: Tag Team Battle!
[Toggle Names]Description: It couldn't be done. There have been team fights, there have been 2 vs 2s. But a Tag Team Battle? How could it work. And yet the challenge has been made. A Tag Team Battle at the Howard Stadium. The Opponents? Four individuals who never teamed up before. ON the Dead Or Alives? Hayate partners up with Rainbow Mania. On the other side, the Bruisers? The World Warrior Abigail finds himself with an extra hand or four with the strange newcomer Taiva. It's never been done before. How could it be done when it is a TAG TEAM BATTLE!?
[TAIVA]
A tag team battle? In SNF? How can this be?
Well, however it was decided on, it's happening. Dead or Alives versus the Bruisers, and while many of those combatants are known - Rainbow Mika has Rainbow Mania on her side, and Abigail has just been very popular in World Warrior - some of them aren't. Like, well...
The actual Shokan on the team. Not that most of the viewers are likely to know very much about Shokan, but you never know.
Taiva is, indeed, just that: a Shokan, incongruously wearing what appears to be a pair of shorts (probably the only ones she could find that fit) and a chest wrap. She has spent the last couple minutes investigating the stage itself and is currently in what is probably her side, since it's where one of the sets of stairs comes up. Her upper two arms are crossed.
"Finally!" she says, loud enough to be heard in the ... well, maybe not the back rows without amplification, but it's sure not quiet. "A real 'street fight'! Though it isn't on a street, I will accept this!"
[ABIGAIL]
What? A giiiiirrrl bruiser? How positively progressive of them! Only big huge guys can be bruisers and Abigail ..completely oblivious to the irony of his name .. is set to investigate just who is breaching these nineties conventions and to set them straight. He's the bruiser around these parts!
His arrival to the arena is preceeded by angry death metal and the blaring of a musical horn from his custom rigged monster truck, itself about the size of a freeway in width.
When he parks it, he squeezes out of it like a mound of beef being forced out of a too small container, and then stands atop it, lifting arms the size of support pillars high and flexing his upper torso as he roars cheerfully and arrogantly. The sound of his roar booms thunderously over the entire locale. The sound of his muscles bulking up and inflating and crushing together like animals fighting for room under his skin also bizarrely audible. "YEAAAAH!!!"
With that he leaps from the truck, crossing yards in the process, and landing with a thunderous impact that shakes his whole side of the arena. The earthquakes acocmpanying his steps do little to cause any sense of gentleness about him as he draws nearer to the 'ring' and his partners presence. "This better be reinforced!" he booms before he catches sight of Taiva,
"OH! .. " a pause as he really takes her in.
"Oh... Oooooooh my..."
[RAINBOW MIKA]
"WHO'S READY FOR RAINBOWMANIA?!"
A now iconic voice bellows over the arena's PA system just before the sound of Rainbow Mika's theme begins to play and the wrestler herself appears at the top of the entrance ramp with the Worldwide Pro Belt around her waist, an explosion of white and blue pyro going off on either side as she raises her hands into the air, accompanied by an eruption of cheers from the entire audience.
She might not be the strongest fighter in the world, but Rainbow Mika is near the tops for popularity on every list after taking the world by storm with the Rainbowmania World Tour.
The fact that she's not defending her title tonight along with the rest of the major bouts is still a bit strange, but who better to place in a tag team match than a Pro Wrestler?
The champ walks down to the ring, making sure to touch hands with fans along the ramp, switching sides halfway down to ensure that all the Rainbowmaniacs feel encouraged. It's the slow, laid back approach you can take when you've already got the fans on your side.
Climbing up the steps into the ring, she jumps up onto the second rope at the turnbuckle, taking her belt off and holding it up high over head as the fans let out a massive cheer.
[TAIVA]
Taiva isn't as big as Abigail, but then again who is? By more normally human standards, however, she's gigantic; at least two feet taller than Rainbow Mika, judging by how she looks down at the wrestler when she actually steps up into the ring.
She looks, thoughtfully, at the belt, then shakes her head. No, that's not for today. They have rules about that, Taiva knows. Tournaments. Challenges. Things she hasn't delivered. She can't take that belt. Now, anyway.
Instead, she is distracted by the arrival of a truck. Taiva seems delighted to have had it driven in, and she seems at least somewhat pleased with the person who comes out of it. "You!" she says. "I have seen pictures. We are fighting together, here! Remember that - even if I don't end up needing your help!"
And then Taiva looks back at Rainbow Mika. "After all, she's pretty small. But I hear she is a good Street Fighter, so I'm going to fight her. You!" That last was yelled at Rainbow Mika, as Taiva steps away from the edge of the ring, uncrossing her upper arms. "Are you ready?"
[ABIGAIL]
"Wuuuh..uuuh.. Yes ma'am!" says Abigail in response to Taiva. He then shakes his head and snaps out of his stupor, "I mean...yeah!" That wasn't very impressive either.
Steam streams from his nostrils as he reddens and finally bellows out, "Just make sure you hit her hard! Like a runaway mack truck! Show me you got enough horsepower to be on my team!!" That's more like it.
He looks to Rainbow Mika as he takes his place in his corner on the arena floor being that he's so gigantic he'd comically loom over the ring ropes themselves and is big enough to be tagged in almost on the level of the ring fighters just from standing there. Some sort of mini over muscled kaiju.
"Alright! Let's rev up!" he roars The thunder of his voice hyping up the fans on his side. He's no Ranibow Mika but he's got a few..uh..Abigail-ites present.
[RAINBOW MIKA]
As she's called out, Rainbow Mika looks back over her shoulder to the four-armed opponent and the other giant standing on the other side of the ring. It's a good thing that professional wrestling cares a hell of a lot less about weight categories than some of the other formal fighting sports like boxing, otherwise this might be a problem.
They're both even bigger than Zangief... not that either one would stand a chance against the greatest wrestler in the world.
"Everyone knows that Rainbow Mika is always ready for a fight! Any time, any place, the Rainbow Mika World Tour is never gonna stop!" she shouts, actually loud enough to be heard over the crowd noise up to the cheap seats.
The roar of the crowd is a good opportunity to slip the belt off to one of the ring-side attendants before turning back to the center of the ring. "Although, I can't say I know where my tag team partner is right now. But he's a ninja, so I guess he'll just show up whenever I need him."
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Taiva has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Taiva
COMBATSYS: Abigail has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Abigail has joined the fight here on the top side.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Taiva
[TAIVA]
Taiva understood about half of what Abigail said, but every part she understood, she liked. She gives him a lazy-looking wave with one arm (upper left) that is mostly acceptance.
More of her attention is on Mika. Taiva's strangely-coloured eyes narrow slightly as she looks the other woman up and down a second time. And then a third.
"Good!" Taiva thumps her chest with her other upper arm. "I am Taiva, and I will fight you. I asked if they could find me a good fighter, and they found you - so make it a good fight and I will be happy!" She's grinning. Fortunately, Taiva does not have especially pointed teeth - that might be a little too much monstrous in one place.
Taiva waits about five seconds before she apparently decides it is time to attack and does so aggressively. She rushes, taking two long steps toward Mika before leaping, clearing the rest of the distance between them in the air; she slams down, feet-first, trying to stomp on Mika with all her weight behind it!
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika Toughs Out Taiva's Tremor Drop!
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Taiva
[RAINBOW MIKA]
"There isn't anything in the world that would keep RAINBOW MIKA from giving a great fight!" Mika shouts as Taiva comes flying at her. And despite the size disadvantage and the threat of a giant woman coming crashing down on her, Mika doesn't even start to move, staring down the falling threat with a gleam in her eye as she repositions herself...
And just takes the hit at an angle while already rolling back, absorbing most of the hit into knocking her back even further toward the ropes, springing back up at the last moment to launch up to the top rope, the material straining beneath her boots as she builds up steam, facing out toward the crowd and planting a quick slap to her ass in the moment as she throws a wink over her shoulder.
"Now let's see if you've got what it takes to handle this peach!"
As she shouts, she's already in the air, rocketted with all the force granted by the ropes as well as her powerful legs, launching up high into the air as she bends halfway in the middle, her backside a missile aimed to catch Taiva full on in the face.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika successfully hits Taiva with Flying Peach.
~~ Alluring Hit! ~~
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Taiva
[TAIVA]
Taiva has seen a lot of fighting in her time. Admittedly, most of it was either guard training, actual soldiering, or extremely brutal bloodsports rather than the more ... not light-hearted, precisely, but less /vicious/ matches that are popular for television here.
She has never been hit in the face with someone's butt after they jumped at her. Not once.
Well, once now.
Taiva staggers back under Mika's assault. It was a damned good shot, too (and the cameras almost certainly love it); as an added bonus, Mika managed to avoid hitting any of Taiva's short spiky horns, which is probably for the best even if the impact point was padded.
She flails, and when Taiva flails her swings tend to go every which way; in this case she tries to grab Mika off her and simply toss her several yards away, more by raw strength than any trained wrestling maneuver; Taiva is big and strong and apparently perfectly willing to use that to her best advantage.
"You call that a peach?" Taiva rolls her shoulders. "Come on, try again!"
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika interrupts Fling from Taiva with Wingless Airplane EX.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Taiva
[RAINBOW MIKA]
The disadvantage of attempting to use grappling maneuvers against a trained professional wrestler is that professional wrestlers actually know a hell of a lot about holds, throws, and strikes, and how to work around them. And Rainbow Mika, for one, has a lot of experience with having to fight opponents significantly larger than her in a grappling match.
As Taiva goes for the grab, Mika plants her hands on the Shokan's shoulders and launches herself back up into the air, twisting around in mid-air to bring her thighs down on either side of her opponent's head, using the full force of her body to knock the giant off balance as she wrenches her body backwards to provide even more moment, the process yanking Taiva into a forward flip as Rainbow Mika whips around beneath her, ultimately bringing it all around to slam the brute's head into the mat as she bounces away free an clear.
"Did that work any better for you," the wrestler retorts as she pops back up to her feet with a grin on her face, and a hell of a lot of crowd reaction.
COMBATSYS: Hayate has joined the fight here in the center.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Taiva
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
[TAIVA]
Taiva finds herself being launched by someone's legs. On this, she feels like she's on firmer ground.
Metaphorically speaking. Literally speaking, she has just been removed from that.
Taiva is hard to pull off balance because she's as strong as she is, and for a moment it looks like she's actually going to be able to support Mika's weight with her neck - but hard is not impossible, and when someone like Taiva goes down they go down hard.
She slams down heavily on the solid stage. It doesn't seem to daze her for long; she almost immediately rolls to get away from Mika's follow-up, pushing herself to her knee and then her feet with a slightly dark face. She has a feeling that she's embarassing herself, and on her first time as a real Street Fighter!
"Yes," she says. "But this is not just a throwing contest!" Taiva darts in with deceptive speed, sweeping all four fists in arcing loops. It's not complicated - she swings her two left ones together, then her two right ones - but she covers a /lot/ of ground with her forward momentum and the sheer reach of her arms.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika blocks Taiva's Sweeping Strikes.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Taiva
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
[RAINBOW MIKA]
As much as you're not supposed to throw punches in wrestling, plenty of people do. Even more than that, with all that she's accomplished, Rainbow Mika has had to face down people from all styles of fighting, not just the grappling arts. She's absolutely gotten used to people trying to throw a haymaker or two.
She is not, exactly, used to people throwing two punches from the same side at the same time, but that's merely a multiplyer, she just needs to deal with it the same as normal, but putting her arms up around her head and absorbing the blows like that. Thankfully, due to being significantly shorter than Taiva, Mika only actually has to worry about a few angles of attack, since they're all coming in from above anyway.
"It might not be a throwing contest, but it's if you're going to go up against RAINBOW MIKA, you're going to need to learn how to get tossed around!" she bellows loud enough to reach the cheap seats, getting even more cheers.
But shouting aside, she lunges in low for Taiva's legs, trying to make use of whatever size advantage she can find as she tries to pull the giant's legs out from under her and then whip her around in a whirlwind motion before launching her at one of the ring posts.
If this works, this is sure as hell going on the highlight tape.
COMBATSYS: Taiva endures Rainbow Mika's Rainbow Typhoon.
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[TAIVA]
Congratulations on your highlight reel entry, Rainbow Mika.
Taiva bellows as she sees Rainbow Mika come in low... most of her attacks are low, granted, at least by comparison, but that one is particularly low as Mika pulls at her leg. Taiva plants her leg more firmly, trying to dig into the flooring - but as it turns out stone is not a particularly easy thing to grab with your toes and Mika has a lot of experience with trying to lever resisting wrestlers around.
Taiva finds herself flying toward the post, but rather than trying to stop herself, slaps her hands (three of them) painfully against the ground as she tumbles, pushing herself /harder/ toward the edge of the ring and changing her angle slightly. As a result, she doesn't hit the post; she hits ropes. Hard - hard enough to spring her back.
Rebounding off the ropes, Taiva uses the momentum to her advantage as she charges toward Rainbow Mika, shoulder(s) down and accompanied by a roar. She literally tries to run the smaller fighter over by sheer momentum and mass, slamming into her body-first and then delivering a follow-up kick rather than leaving her underfoot. Or that's the goal, at least.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika Toughs Out Taiva's Titan Charge ES!
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[RAINBOW MIKA]
This is more like it! Getting an opponent bouncing off the ropes is exactly the sort of thing that Rainbow Mika has trained for (although she would have a few post-match critiques for the Shokan over the technique employed, it's a definitely sloppier than Yoko would have let her get away with). Sure, she's staring down the barrel of a loaded Shokan, but this is exactly the sort of thing that you live for as a wrestler.
And she's not moving.
With two extra feet of height and two extra arms worth of weight behind her, almost anyone would expect that Taiva would leave this exchange the victor just from the shoulder tackle, but Rainbow Mika plants her feet, a wide grin on her face as the giant plows into her and barely manages to even make her slide backward from the charge, and the follow-up kick?
The blow manages to strike her in the stomach and meet abs of steel, the wrestler planting her hands on her hips and thrusting out her chest with pride. "Not bad, but if I've learned only one thing from studying the great Zangief's work it's...
"MUSCLE SPIRIT!!"
With her words bellowed out to the rafters, Rainbow Mika quickly twists about before Taiva can recover, suddenly launching a spinning backfist aimed to catch the giant Shokan in the flank, then twisting about for a repeat aimed at the exact same spot, trying to use enough force to leave Taiva fully open as Mika follows another turn only half-way, locking her legs to launch her back into a repeat of her flying hipcheck right in Taiva's gut, landing clean off the first to follow-up with a second blow that should send the brute flying into the corner.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika successfully hits Taiva with Rainbow Hip Rush.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/-======|=======\===----\1 Taiva
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[TAIVA]
Taiva was originally trained in a different style than the one she's using now, but neither of them is exactly heavy on the pro wrestling.
Which is a shame. She probably would have liked pro wrestling, had she been exposed to it as a youngster.
Taiva was expecting Mika to get a little steamrolled. Maybe not entirely down for the count, but at least a little run over. She was not expecting an immediate response, and she is in fact more open than she probably wants to be. The hip-check drives her back one step, the second blow pushes her back another couple; while she doesn't slam directly into the corner, she's not far from it.
"You want muscle spirit and I will give it to you, girl," she says, tensing her entire body as if she was going to charge again. She's breathing hard, battered, and -
Wait, wasn't this a tag match?
Taiva hasn't been in one of those before, not under these rules. "Or," she says, "I will let you try against someone else!" She whistles, sharp and shrill, as she ducks back toward the edge Mika had propelled her to, vaulting off the stone platform and planting her lower hands on her knees for a moment to catch her breath.
COMBATSYS: Taiva has joined the fight here on the top side.
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Taiva gains composure.
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COMBATSYS: Abigail has joined the fight here in the center.
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COMBATSYS: Abigail has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Taiva 1|-----==|=======
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Abigail
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[ABIGAIL]
All eyes were locked on that match and...with participants like Taiva and Rainbow Mika..can you blame them?? As such when Abigail appears, to the perception of the crowd it seems to be out of nowhere! He plummets in from above like some sor4t of meteor, landing with a thunderous *TWHOOOM* that shakes the ring, groaning the hyudralic reinforcements to their limits and quaking Howard Arena itself as his dreadlocks fly about wildly and the shockwave from his entrance whips, rattles and rolls through the tarp.
A hand holding a bag of popcorn thrusts out, pointing a huge finger at Mika and splaying popcorn everwhere from the sudden movement. "-I'll- show you muscle--" he pauses, realizing he has a bag of popcorn in his hands and he quickly tosses it over his shoulders back towards the crowds.
"I mean..uh.. oh...NEVERMIND!"
With that he dashes forward, kicking off the tarp and thundering forward at Mika in..well..it's more of a fast jog but the ground shakes again and again with each footfall as he roars, "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, boom, BOOM!!!" with increasing volume as he gets near. At the last second he twists, sending a massive fist out and hurtling down towards the girl like a wrecking ball.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika blocks Abigail's Dynamite Punch.
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Rainbow Mika 1/------=/=======|=------\-------\0 Abigail
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[RAINBOW MIKA]
Okay, Taiva was already in the super-heavyweight category, and of an absurd height that put her above Zangief in terms of verticality (although probably not total mass). Abigail is a different story altogether...
...But he definitely isn't anywhere near as good as Zangief is, don't get that wrong.
Still, the fresh giant coming in charging with a with a dynamite straight. It's all that Rainbow Mika can do in the moment to throw up her arms between her and the head-sized fist before it splatters her across the ring. The force of it is still enough to send her skidding back into the corner, slumping with her arms falling over the ropes.
"Okay, I could really use a break," she groans, looking between the empty corner and the giant. Then holding up a hand in front of her. "Uhh, hold on for a second!" she calls out, immediately miming the act of slapping the hand of an invisible tag team partner in the ring and then slipping out between the ropes.
Then she stands there for a moment and says, "I'm pretty sure my tag partner is invisible."
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika has joined the fight here in the center.
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika gains composure.
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Rainbow Mika 1|-------|=======
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Hayate has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Abigail
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[HAYATE]
A gentle breeze kicks up in the arena, blowing first around Mika as she proclaims she needs a break. It's cooling and refreshing. But, it soon shifts, moving out and forming the hazy, mistlike outline of a spiraling whirlwind that wobbles and spins, rising up into the darkness of the rafters overhead. There, at the apex of the miniature tornado, the figure of the Mugen Tenshin shinobi appears, flickering from a specter into material reality. Locked in freefall, the youthful ninja master is clad in a form fitting black leather bodysuit, with traditional shozoku pants, and overlaid black metal armor, in the form of a cuirass, gauntlets and greaves.
Descending like a rocket towards the floor, he falls face first, one hand held before his face with his fist loosely closed, fore and middle digits raised up in a classic ninja pose. His hair whips back, and his mocha colored eyes gleam with intensity, while his boyishly handsome face is stern with a look of steely determination.
Just as he is about to land, his body tucks into a ball, completing a single somersault, before he reaches out with one hand, clasping ahold of Mika's own as she mock tags in the middle of nowhere for her "invisible partner". Using her hand, the deft ninja actually redirects his fall, using her as a pole around which to spin in a move that would have one Rey Mysterio Jr. green with envy. Winding around the blue clad wrestling diva, Hayate ends up planting his feet on her shoulders, though she would feel next to no weight from him.
And he launches off of her like a springboard. Soaring into the air once again, the skybound ninja hurtles at the behemoth of meat and muscle known as Abigail in a gracefully arcing trajectory that leaves him seeming to be bombing the giant face first. Just before he makes contact, though, he reaches out, his leather clad hands attempting to grasp hold of the sides of Abigail's head by the ears.
If he succeeds, Hayate spins a half rotation, wrenching Abigail's head and neck to the side and back. As he descends, he pulls the monster man back with him, using all of his weight and force, and lands on one knee, while attempting to slam Abigail's head against the upturned, bent one.
COMBATSYS: Abigail blocks Hayate's Kagero Mawari.
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Abigail
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[ABIGAIL]
Down, down, down, Abigail falls with all the grace of a sequoia being yanked over and a loud rumbling, "Gwaaaah!" at the sheer surprise of it all. His head slams into the knee and the rest of the body tumbles down into the tarp itself with its earthquake causing force as his head rebounds off Hayate and crashes fully to the tarp in the aftermath of the initial impact.
He mutters something unintelligible and then suddenly pushes up, using steel girder dwarfing arms to launch his body to a crouched position which still somehow manages to loom over and dwarf Hayate with its immensity. A red welt creases across the middle of his face but he just grins, full toothed as he shakes his head back and forth to dust out the cobwebs,
"Not bad! Took some skill to do that but I dont' need skill like that if you're going to just hit like an itsy bitsy baby bee.."
He lunges his huge hand forward, practically filling up Hayate's full field of vision with a hand that could palm a wrecking ball and use it like a basketball. "Not when I'M HIGH OCTANE!"
A single finger suddenly whips up, the finger flick carrying with it enough force to send even giants flying from the force of the impact.
COMBATSYS: Hayate just-defends Abigail's Red Leaf!
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Abigail
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[HAYATE]
"Skill will overcome brute force, in the end," Hayate replies, giving a faint smirk, and flipping his bangs back, away from the steel headband that covers his brow. Folding his arms, he stands there, proud and defiant, as Abigail rises back up. Those warm, honey golden eyes simply appraise his opponent, in all of his massive glory. This is truly a David and Goliath scenario, isn't it?
Abi's massive meathook casts a dark shadow over Hayate, and still, the ninja warrior stands resolute, with just the faint hint of a smile flirting at the edges of his lips. As the finger flick comes, he suddenly breaks his arm-folded stance and moves like a shadow flitting across the ground. He whips his hands up, palms open and out, almost as if he were throwing a fireball, but instead, he catches the finger. Rather than trying to halt the momentous force of Abigail's attack itself, he uses his hands to simply slip it to the side, as he, himself shifts to the other, so that ultimately Hayate is left completely unperturbed by it.
"See what I mean?!"
With his newly oriented position, sort of flanking Abigail's treetrunk of an arm, the svelte ninja suddenly wraps his own arms around it, and hoists it up with surprising strength for his own size. If he proves to be nimble enough, he'll duck under Abigail's lifted appendage, bypassing his defenses to plant a solid elbow smash against Abi's side.
Next, Hayate pivots on the balls of his feet, spinning back with his other elbow. Just before he connects, the ninja of the wind lives up to his namesake. A burst of wind, leaving trailing waves of mist behind him, and Hayate seems to dash /right through/ Abigail, hammering home the elbow into the lower gut of the giant automotive nut. Still trailing with ribbons of hazy wind, he'll come to a sliding stop, legs spread wide, knees bent steeply, with one arm out to his side, and the other bringing up that familiar ninja handsign before his face.
COMBATSYS: Abigail endures Hayate's Shippu Oboro.
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Hayate 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Abigail
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[ABIGAIL]
"What the--!!"
That seems to be a common phrase for Abigail when he's surprised by the strength and perserverance of more nimble opponents. Really - he should know better considering his World Warrior experiences but old habits die hard and Hayate is proving to be -quite- the force here. The impact of his attack sends a shockwave reeling up through the colossus as he doubles over and staggers violently from the assault. He wobbles for a moment before blinking a few times and then sneering. This is a tag team match and if there's one thing he's got no time for..it's being embaressed infront of his partner.
No words, he simply reddens - his vast body piling on muscle after muscle, inflating the obsurd monster even -bigger- as steam gouts out from his ears and nose and then rises from his red, over heating and over pumped body.
"YEAH!!" He bellows before launching into a sudden leap and then thrusting his colossal legs out at Hayate in the mother of all drop kicks. It's like two story building suddenly deciding to fall onto the ninja.
COMBATSYS: Hayate fails to counter Ontario Drop from Abigail with Kaimon Sen EX.
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Hayate 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 1|-------|=======
[HAYATE]
Hayate's head tilts to one side as he sees Abigail go... red? Is that seriously steam? The size alone made Hayate wonder if Abigail is man or monster, and now he only has more questions. Metro City must have irradiated water creating mutants or something!
As Abigail leaps, Hayate seems ready for him. He assumes a defensive posture, dropping down into a loose, unorthodox stance with his knees slightly bent, and his arms protecting his vitals, with his hands open and ready to grasp hold of the meat mountain and punish him for his recklessness with his Kaimon Sen. He's got the speed advantage. He can read Abigail's broadcasted movements like a book. This should be easy.
Unfortunately, Hayate is not quite used to tackling men who weigh more than small cars. He's even less used to dealing with men who weigh more than small cars when all of that weight is thrown at him in a leaping drop kick. So, when Abigail's foot nears him, Hayate grabs hold of it, and gives a small smirk of triumph.
And finds that it's not entirely possible for him to simply redirect a freight train in motion.
Abigail's attack is just too strong, and despite Hayate's nimbleness and preparedness, it crashes through, with Hayate's grasp being completely ineffectual as the giant feet of his opponent crush in his chest. The Mugen Tenshin Jonin is sent like a missile, rocketing back and crashing into the ropes, only for them to spring him forward and deposit him on the mat face down.
"Shimatta!" he mutters, as he picks himself up off the ground, and readies himself for what he knows is coming. Abigail would be foolish to let such an advantage go to waste.
[ABIGAIL]
"If you're gonna act like a little puff of breeze you're gonna just get blown away!" chides Abigail who stands and claps his hands together, once more shaking the area from the force of his meaty mitts slamming together. His eyes narrow slightly as he locks in on Hayate. Despite his words he's quickly picked up on the ninja being hard to get a hold of. No sense in falling prey to these annoying speedy types in front of so many potential new fans. He's got a business to continue to build!
"C'mon!" he rumbles while gesturing at Hayate to get up and approach. He then starts trundling nearer as well - his huge footfalls quaking the ring and his massive arms lifted to his flanks, and slightly infront of him in his trademark Frankenstein-esque lumber, "You gonna just lie there all day or you gonna do something! You better run fast, then, or get out of my way!"
COMBATSYS: Abigail focuses on his next action.
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Hayate 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 1|-------|=======
[HAYATE]
Hayate, of course, stands ready and on the defensive as Abigail taunts and boasts, but the shinobi doesn't seem at all perturbed by the words of his opponent. He doesn't even seem to be stunned by the thunderous crash of Abigail's approximation of a Hulk Clap. He just remains in place, locked in his stance and on the alert.
But, it seems like he may have given Abigail reason to pause. Hayate had made a gamble, and paid dearly for it. Still, his ribcage throbs with dull aching pain, and he's certain that there are a few fractures that he'll have to mend with ninpo after the match is finished. There is no reason on earth for Abigail not to have pursued that advantage directly, pushing the attack and keeping the heat on Hayate until he succumbed under the pressure. So why is he now holding back?
Well, it will afford Hayate himself a moment to regain his footing. As Abigail attempts to goad him into making the first move, Hayate spins, and for a moment, it appears that the ebon clad warrior becomes a two-dimensional sheet twirling inside a misty vortex of wind, which slides him back just a few feet, and leaves the young man standing upright complately, his hands coming together to perform a series of kujikiri hand gestures that is almost hypnotic to watch. He's centering himself. Quelling the pain in his body, and the burning in his lungs. Rebalancing his ki.
COMBATSYS: Hayate gains composure.
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Hayate 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 1|-------|=======
[ABIGAIL]
"Oh no you don't!"
Abigal isn't quite sure what's happening but he knows the potential for ninja mumbo-jumbo when he sees it and he'd rather not give Hayate any longer then his taunts already granted him.
The thing about his lumbering gait is that it's deceptive. He's not exactly -fast- but at the same time when he decides its tiem to move..he can cover a great distance quickly and then there's that reach.. that crazy reach.
In an instant he's on Hayate, thundering in while roaring, "KABOOOM!!!" as he twists around and sends a colossal back fist spinning towards the ninja. Should this hit or no, the momentum of Abigails swing keeps him turning and following up with a full rotation that leads a colossal upper cut towards the ninja - both blows capable of lifting the man skywards should they connect with the full force of their attack.
COMBATSYS: Abigail knocks away Hayate with Abi Twist.
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Hayate 1/-----==/=======|=======\=------\1 Abigail
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[HAYATE]
There it is. Abigail is on the move again, closing the distance between himself and the jonin. It isn't the speed, so much, or even really Abigail's reach that does Hayate in. As the agile fighter shifts, moving out of the way of that spinning backfist, what it really comes down to is just the sheer SIZE of it. Hayate has a hard time judging how far he has to move to avoid the blow, and as such, he's clipped by, essentially, the pinky knuckle of the behemoth's backswing. This knocks him off balance just enough to get a gut full of uppercut and sent soaring up into the air.
Hayate descends on the other side of the ring, but he lands on the tips of his fingers, and flips backwards, onto his feet where he slides to a stop, half crouched, in a three point posture.
His eyes narrow, and he calls out, "Mika! You're up! I'll set him up for you!"
Hayate makes a mad dash at Abigail, then, his booted feet thudding on the mat loudly and with a machinegun rapid tempo. At the last moment, the ninja of the wind ducks down, almost as he's sliding into home base, only to spring back up, just under Abigail's chin. His gauntleted fist clenches tightly, and he torques his body to the side, throwing all of his upper body strength into a steel-reinforced, rising uppercut, that, should it connect, will rocket Abigail skyward.
And as he reaches the crest of his own leap, Hayate tucks in on himself, knees to his armored chest, and his arms wrapping around them as he flips end over end like a cannonball at his tag partner, only to reach out to slap her a high five in the way of tagging her in, hopefully, while Abigail is still airborne and defenseless.
[RAINBOW MIKA]
This next part is going to be tricky.
No, not because Abigail has been launched up into the air or anything like that. The real issue here is that his Abigail's head is incredibly small.
Still, you don't get into pro wrestling just to make things easy.
"ALRIGHT! Let's give it out best shot!" Rainbow Mika shouts as she launches up into the air after the giant, lunging out to grab hold of him by the massive shoulders and slamming her forehead against his own with a surprising amount of power. Everyone might say that Abigail's got one thick head, but it's like Mika's skull is made of steel, or some other cool made-up material.
It's a rapid, unrelenting assault all the way back down to the ground, with Mika drawing back her head just before Abigail hits the mat to turn his skull into the meat for a Mika/Mat sandwich, bouncing back up off him to land on her feet, catch his rebounding head under her arm, and pause.
"THIS IS WHERE RAINBOWMANIA REALLY SHOW'S IT TO YOU, SO LET'S SEE WHAT YOU'VE GOT!"
And then she throws her legs out from under her, dropping back to slam Abigail again with an inverted DDT.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika issues a challenge!!
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 1|------=|=======
COMBATSYS: Hayate and Rainbow Mika successfully hit Abigail with Tenchu no Dainamaito!!! (Dynamite of Heaven's Wrath).
- Power hit! -
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: Hayate has joined the fight here in the center.
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Taiva 1|-----==|=======
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|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 0|-------|------=
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
[ABIGAIL]
A minor seismic event is detected, centered around Howard Arena...
Within the arena, spectators are busy picking themselves up off the floor from the rolling shockwave that rippled out from the force of Abigail crashing to the mat under the not inconsiderable force hurtled by Hayate and Mika at his tremendous body.
He lay sin the center of the mat, a hulking mountain of beet red flesh that billows steam from its overheated form His monstroous hands twitch and then he starts to slowly push himself up to his knees and then to his full height. Rising up and up and up like some sort of kaiju from the depths of the nearest bay. The immensity of his shadow seeming to have a weight all its own as it swamps over Rainbow Mika and Hayate both all at once.
He then lifts a support pillar sized arm skywards and pumps it while forming his lips into an 'o' shape and hooting loudly like a monster trucks car horn going off.
"It's time for the final lap!!" he roars before suddenly lunging at Rainbow Mika, looming high overhead and then slamming his massive palm down towards her and the ground.
If he hits-- The earth shakes -again- as he seek sto flatten her to the mat and then lift her skywards above his head height.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!" he roars as his arms swing around like demolition equipment and he begins attempting to rain body blow after body blow above her suspended form as if she was little more then a speed punching bag. Each blow sending out a shockwave of pressure that threatens to burst the reinforcements barely sustaining the ring.
At the end of all this, his hand whips around, a huge palm smash, looking to send her hurtling for the furthest ring corner.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika Toughs Out Abigail's Abigail Special but gets knocked away!
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Taiva 1|-----==|=======
> ///////// ]
|>>>>>>-\-------\0 Abigail
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Rainbow Mika 2|<<<<<<<|<<<<<<<
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Rainbow Mika 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>-\-------\0 Abigail
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
[RAINBOW MIKA]
Holy crap, that's really not good.
With a furious giant who can essentially reach across the ring gunning for her, there is only one thing in the world that can help Rainbow Mika survive this onslaught and that's MUSCLE POWER!
No hope of escape, she's forced to withstand blow after blow, slamming into her with intent to brutalize, knocking her joints loose and sending her flying out deadset into the ring corner. Bloody scraps and bruises are covering her body all over, she looks half-a-step from death.
And then she steps forward, her eyes gleaming intently, a smile on her face. Her chest is heaving with each and every desperate breath, but that glimmer never goes away, even as she wipes away blood dripping from her lip on the back of her hand.
"Not bad, but it takes a whole lot to put RAINBOW MIKA down for the pin!" she bellows, to the roar of the crowd, turning and giving a quick slap to her ass as she blows a kiss toward her opponent. It might look a bit more appropriate if she wasn't bleeding from so many places.
"SO, let's give this... ONE... MORE... SHOT!" she shouts as she flips up toward the turnbuckle, but missing, planting both feet on the ropes as using the force to ricochet right back at Abigail, flipping around in mid-air to launch a double boot-heel drop at his gut.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika successfully hits Abigail with Sardine's Beach Special.
~~ Alluring Hit! ~~
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/---<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>----\1 Abigail
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
With the hit landing hard enough to at least temporarily bend Abigail in half, Rainbow Mika actually kickss off her opponent to launch up high enough to catch an arm over the back of his neck and haul him over as she starts to drop to the ground. With one hand on his chest, she grunts, struggling to try to lift the giant up.
No success.
She tries again with the same result.
"GRRRRR... MUSCLE... POWER!"
The words seem to work almost as a mantra, or inspirational koan, filling Mika with an unreasonable strength as she suddenly hauls Abigail up vertical on her shoulder, legs shaking.
"MUSCLE... POWER!"
Again she shouts, this time somehow finding the strength to launch herself and Abigail up to the top rope at the turnbuckle before she instantly leaps backwards, going horizontal while keeping Abigail vertical as she tries to bury his head in the mat.
...Also some people find strong women incredibly attractive, and that's who found this attack Alluring.
[ABIGAIL]
Certainly Abigail had something to do with that being 'alluring' right?
Well no, probably not aside from being a limp sack of meat the size of a semi truck cab being hauled around by a woman he dwarfs to the point that it looks like a pre-teen wrestling with an adult. And yet up he goes and then down again with so much thunderous force that once again the arena is treated to a seismic event..this time one carried by the sheer sexiness of the muscle power of Rainbow Mika!!
Abigali goes flopping to the tarp like a beahed whale. It seems his strategy to still attempt that assault on Mika vs tagging out was in error.
But wait? No! He is a World Warrior now! And that means..well - nothing really in and of itself. But he's still not down!
"I didn't think you had that in you.." he rumbles while pushing up to his feet slowly once more. "But I got a woman on my side with MUSCLE POWER as well!" He pumps both of his monsterous arms sky high, heaving his massive torso up and once more reddening as he piles on the muscle size titanically. Behind him, spotlights flare on, as if on cue, to bathe Taiva in silohutte as she readies herself.
"Let's do it!!" Abigail roars, "FULL THROTTLE!!!!" With that he lunges in for Mika, reaching a massive hand out to grab for her waist and if he gets her, to toss her sky high overhead, "KABOOOM!" he thunders as he swings his massive arm back and around again, to try adn literally volleyball her entire body across the ring towards Taiva's direction!!
[TAIVA]
Taiva has been watching the match with interest. She's seen several Earthrealm fights before, but rarely so close up, and never as a participant (well, never as a participant in anything official). She seems a little starstruck, honestly, but in a good way - it's the excitement of the match, the spirit of the fighters (and to a much lesser extent, the crowd), the thrill of competition.
But one thing is clear as Abigail revs up one last time:
Taiva is ready for this.
Having leaped into the ring before Abigail even called her, Taiva is silhouetted perfectly by the lights - her higher two arms raised, her lower ones held forward and ready. She doesn't even think about it.
Is she learning about the wonders of 'show business' from watching Mika for a while? Maybe...
"Ha ha ha!" Taiva roars joyfully as Abigail attempts to slam Mika at her. She's waiting for it like a baseball player waiting for a good pitch, crouching slightly. And as soon as Mika gets to her, she rises up in a quadruple uppercut, not so much aiming to punch her straight up but launch her. With fists.
"I AM ON A ROLL!" That was right, wasn't it? Right? Right.
COMBATSYS: Taiva has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/---<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Taiva
> // ]
|=======\===----\1 Abigail
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Abigail has joined the fight here on the top side.
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Rainbow Mika 0/-------/---<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Taiva
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Abigail and Taiva successfully hit Rainbow Mika with Mountain Shaking Megaton Gigante Slam.
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Rainbow Mika 1/--<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Taiva
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
[RAINBOW MIKA]
Being on the other side of an aggressive assault like this isn't exactly a positive for Rainbow Mika.
Having thrown so much effort into picking up and slamming the giant brute, there's not nearly as much steam in her engine as there was before, and she's still not exactly in good condition after the previous beating she'd taken from Abigail.
All she can hope for is finding some sort of direction to roll out of this, find some sort of way to maybe not get trashed by two opponents at the same time.
It doesn't work.
On the other end of the brutal beatdown, Mika is sent rocketing up into the air, flying nearly high enough to take out the titantron above the ring before she comes falling down, hitting the mat hard, small droplets of blood splattering all around her in a way that looks quite brutal.
But then there's the sound of the cheering fans. Voices calling out for Rainbow Mika.
All those Rainbowmaniacs!
One hand finds the mat, slowly pushing Mika back to her feet as Taiva fails her sports trivia session. Every last bit of strength in her body demanding that she keep fighting!
In one final, last ditch effort, Mika launches herself forward, both arms wrapping around Taiva's waist as she tries to leap up onto the turnbuckle with her opponent and then leap off it in a beautiful, Free Willy style arc, aiming to slam Taiva's head into the mat. One last ditch effort with all of her heart.
And then that's it. The spirit is still ready to fight, but the body won't listen.
COMBATSYS: Rainbow Mika can no longer fight.
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|=======\==-----\1 Taiva
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Hayate 0|-------|-------
COMBATSYS: Hayate has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Abigail 1|----===|=======
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|=======\==-----\1 Taiva
COMBATSYS: Taiva blocks Rainbow Mika's Rainbow Suplex EX.
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Hayate 0/-------/-------|=======\===----\1 Taiva
[HAYATE]
As soon as Mika falls to the mat, spent after putting on such a show of strength and determination, Hayate grabs hold of one of the ropes, using his weight to pull it back, and then, with a nearly inhuman agility, leaps onto it, as it springs back into place, helping to launch him through the air. Twisting and flipping, the armor clad ninja soars in a graceful arc, and lands just over the fallen wrestler's form, interposing himself between his partner and the Shokan warrioress.
[TAIVA]
Taiva does not need to pass her Knowledge (Sports) check as long as she keeps punching like that.
Mika comes in toward Taiva, and Taiva is... well, not precisely ready, she's a little off center from her wild assault, which makes it easier for Rainbow Mika to get her arms around Taiva's waist. But Taiva's reactions are - in this case - just good enough to keep up, breaking the hold via brute strength, pushing Mika away from her with her inconveniently-located (or conveniently, for Taiva) lower arms.
Taiva does not continue her assault against Mika once she's shoved her back defensively, partially because there is now someone between her and Rainbow Mika but mostly because she'd rather fight someone who can still fight back than injure the fallen. She grins broadly, adopting a lower stance, arms spread wide and feet planted firmly.
Her advance is slower than before, but just as unstoppable. Her two lower arms snap forward to grab Hayate around his midsection and launch him into the air, accompanied by a punch to keep him rising. Taiva waits for him to fall and doesn't catch him so much as smash him straight down with a pair of axe-handle punches, keeping him almost right underfoot and in position for a follow-up. "Come on, then! You can fight me too!"
COMBATSYS: Hayate blocks Taiva's Meteor Buster.
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Hayate 0/-------/------<|==-----\-------\0 Taiva
[HAYATE]
Hayate, perhaps still off-put by the sheer monstrosity of having fought Abigail and his ridiculous size and power, or perhaps thrown off by the feminine charms of his new opponent, doesn't manage to slip free, out of the way of Taiva's grapple. Her lower arms encircle about his waist, pulling him in and sending him hurtling into the air.
There, however, Hayate is in his element. He is, after all, the Shinobi of the Wind. As Taiva throws that punch to launch him higher, the black clad fighter manages to actually deflect it by swatting it aside with one arm. He flips, tumbling gracefully and landing, just a few feet out of reach of the four armed babe's grasp.
Hayate shifts forward, though, seeming to flicker from one side to the other as he advances in, trying to mix her up as he closes the distance and charges in with a flying, steel braced knee attack, easily clearing the height he needs to actually reach her face. Should he succeed, Taiva will be battered into the air, where the lightning fast movements of the Shadow of Mugen Tenshin come with a punishing deftness. First, an aerial sidekick, as the two ascend in tandem with one another. The movement and turning of this attack gives Hayate the momentum to do a full rotation, and his other foot lashing out with the strength of a mule to bury itself in the center of her chest and rocket her away, across the ring.
COMBATSYS: Taiva blocks Hayate's Shinryu Rensei.
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Hayate 0/-------/------<|====---\-------\0 Taiva
[TAIVA]
Taiva's upper arms grasp nothing as Hayate swats himself higher and further away, and she stumbles forward, off-balance by her failed attempt to grab him out of the sky.
That's a problem. (For her, not for him.)
She reverses quickly, pulling her weight backwards so that she's braced against her rear leg, and that's what saves her from getting launched into the air; Taiva doesn't precisely deflect the blow, but she absorbs it with a pained grunt, staggering back rather than rising up. He can kick her, but she's not going anywhere. Rather the reverse, actually, as Taiva hunkers down to better absorb the blows against her durable frame.
Taiva finally breaks her defensive posture to suddenly strike out. She sweeps with her left arms to try to convince Hayate to clear some distance before punching with her two lower ones, one after another and piston-like; there's no actual shockwave, but if she manages to hit there is a rather meaty thump and they come out deceptively fast given some of her ponderous, unstoppable but slow strikes from before.
She's not grinning now. Taiva, instead, looks intently focused. She's taking this seriously.
COMBATSYS: Taiva successfully hits Hayate with Shockwave Fist ES.
Glancing Blow
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Hayate 0/-------/-----<<|=====--\-------\0 Taiva
[HAYATE]
Hayate aborts his attack when she simply braces herself and takes that flying knee attack like a champ. For a flicker of a second, it seems like he might even be sporting a lopsided grin, just barely flirting with the corners of his lips. "You're tough! Good!"
The problem is that they're both tough, and he has to put them both down now. This isn't going to be easy. But, it just might, actually, be fun.
Her sweep does give Hayate the impetus to shift back, ducking down and seeming to flicker from just in front of her to a few feet back with a puff of white haze that brings with it a breeze. As her lower arms lash out, the agile ninja weaves from side to side, each time slipping just out of the path of her fist, until the last one collides with a heavy crash against the armored cuirass he sports on his chest, but even that is a glancing blow, with the angles of the armor serving to deflect it off to the side.
He immediately slides in a semi-circle towards her flank, reaching out to grasp the two arms on her left side, and jerk them up, out of the way before she can respond. If he's successful and able to break her defense, then, he spins on the balls of his feet, building momentum, which he adds to as his entire upper body lunges forward, his legs pistoning him as if he were trying to spear her. However, both fists are what strike out, harnessing enough power that she should get sent flying.
COMBATSYS: Taiva endures Hayate's Rasetsu Sho.
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Hayate 0/-------/----<<<|=======\-------\1 Taiva
[TAIVA]
"Of course I'm tough! But you... you're /fast/."
Taiva is having trouble keeping up with Hayate, because for all her strong points... she isn't. That's not a size thing; there are some fast Shokan, too. It's just that she's always relied on being stronger than the average and she favours a brute force approach, just like a whole lot of forceful Earthrealm fighters through the ages.
She's increasingly frustrated with her ability to hit him, and she protects herself less and less as Hayate weaves, trying to get a lucky blow in. She almost manages it, but armour protects him; she just needs to follow up -
But Hayate is, as mentioned, faster than she is. On defense, and on offense too. He knocks her arms out of position while she's turning, and the leverage is enough to give him the moment he needs to punch her dead on.
Taiva is indeed launched, though - like last time she was launched along the arena - she tries to turn it to her advantage. One of her arms snaps out as she is thrown, and she attempts to yank him along with her, rotating so that she - and all of her weight - land on top of him, knees-first before collapsing the rest of the way down like a falling tree.
If she manages it, he might be a little slow getting up, because Taiva isn't doing so very well under her own power and he may be pinned under her for a moment, until he slides out. It's not like she's stopping him in any way but passively.
COMBATSYS: Taiva can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Hayate instinctively dodges Taiva's Rock Buster.
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[ABIGAIL]
"BAH!" roars Abigail, who pounds the rings with his huge fists several times, looking all the world like a furious Donkey Kong for a few seconds there. Steam billows from his ears as he thunders, "It's time for one last lap! Get ready, ninja!!"
With that he leaps, lunging into the air fro mthe arena floor, over the highest ropes and then down towards the tarp once again,
But for all that roaring and taunting..he's still Abigail..which means sloooooow. his leap is practically in slow motion in comparison to how fast Hayate has proven himself capable of moving. By the time the brute touches down in center ring, the man has undoubtly recovered from Taiva's last attempt.
[HAYATE]
"I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks," comes Hayate's sincere reply to the comment about his speed. He's... not the swiftest of ninjas, truth be told, but he has more strength than most, too. It's good to be noted for his speed, every now and again. The exchange, however, doesn't hold up the fight.
He launches her away with his double fist strike, and she tries to grasp at him, but where his wrist should be, she finds only air. He had been assessing her, breaking down her strategies, and had come to the conclusion that she's prone to accepting a hit in order to gain a greater advantage. This meant that she was sure to try counter attack him, even as he attacked her. So, with another of his flickers of wind and light, Hayate seemed to vanish only to appear a few feet behind where he had stood only moments before.
He doesn't pursue her. It's clear that she's done with this fight. That only leaves his first opponent now...
Even as Abigail comes boisterously (if slowly) into the ring, Hayate is running at him. He leaps, almost diving forward at the mountain of meat and madness. Flipping, one might expect Hayate to try a kick, but no. No, he uses the flipping momentum to give him a bit of extra force behind a steel backed punch that's aimed at the top of Abigail's tiny, grape sized head.
Provided that he manages to land that first blow and knock Abigail off guard, he lands and immediately goes into a spin, in order to follow through with a rising backhand. Drawing on some of his traditional karate training, thanks to Hitomi and her father, he steps forward, delivering a straight, powerful punch from his hip. Aimed directly at Abigail's solar plexus, he hopes to knock the wind right out of the fighter, ending this fight now.
He's not sure he can withstand another attack from Abigail, after all.
COMBATSYS: Abigail blocks Hayate's Tenbu Byakko.
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[ABIGAIL]
Abigail staggers!
Abigail teeters!
Abigail..DOESN'T FALL. His 'grape sized head' (his head is normal human sized dang it! He's just..big boned!) recoils, his body slips to the side..but then at the last second..rights itself and the raising of one of those monsterous tree trunk freakish limbs of his, casting the whole of Hayate in shadow beneath its immensity, seems poised to remove all hope from this equation.
"It's a DEAD HEAT!" he bellows, his eyes seeming to flash red as his teeth bare in a full toothed pit bul of a grin.
"But I'm going to cross..tha finish line!!"
With that his monsterous palm comes thundering down, intending on slamming right into hayate's back and pressing the Ninja to the ground with force one might assume he uses to crush engine blocks.
Hayate then would feel the full force of Abigail's weight come crushing down ontop fo him as the behemoth literally steps over him and thunderous his physique like a falling meteor onto the prone ninja. A tank treading over a car. A steamroller crushing down the street. A monster truck at a rally. These images and more likely flash through the minds of onlookers. Any lesser fighter or human would be utterly crushed but Hayate is Ninja and a Street Fighter. This is 'normal' right?
Well yes. It's also Abigail. The huge man then turns, trying to land one final boot in the aftermath of the strike .. sending a massive foot hurtling out to try and catch the ninja and send him spinning across the tarp floor to the opposite end of the ring.
COMBATSYS: Hayate fails to counter Hit and Run from Abigail with Ho O Sen.
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COMBATSYS: Hayate keeps on fighting!
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[HAYATE]
Hayate is sure that's it. It's over. Abigail, the goliath, is teetering, and he'll fall, like an avalanche of muscle. The Shinobi turns his back on the fallen opponent, folding his arms across his chest and lowering his face in a display of smug satisfaction at securing the victory for he and Mika.
And then that shadow falls over him.
Hayate freezes in place as the blood in his veins turns to ice. His eyes become as wide as saucers, and his lips move in silence as he mouths the words "What... the... fuck..."
Hayate turns, already anticipating the blow that is to come, having seen himself squashed like a bug under that mighty hand. He reaches out, seeking to intercept it, but again, his strength proves to be no match to Abigail's weight. He's pushed down, and trampled. Kicked aside like a red rubber ball on the school playground.
And yet, he gets back up. Hayate is a true survivor. Turning his head, the battered ninja spits, his saliva stained red from blood. With a smirk, he lifts his chin and closes his eyes as he mutters the word, "Pathetic."
[ABIGAIL]
"Are you -trying- to make me mad?? I was just about to give you a compliment for staying in the race!" booms Abigail, seething at that remark.
IF there's one thing he can't abide, the roaring rage of the former Mad Gear enforcer and penultimate obstacle for the heroes of Metro City, can't abide is not being taken as a serious threat.
"But you had to go and get all brave on me, eh?" His knuckles tighten, cracking with the sound of boulders splintering as he lumbers in on Hayate, "I'l crush you.." HIs movements are sluggish though. Bruises, welts, blood, all are telling on the canvas of his mountainous frame and yet still he comes.
With that he lunges his huge fist down as if intending on hammering it right into the ninja..but at the last second changes strategy and instead uses two of his fingers to attempt to hook into the ninja's garments. Just two.
An almost casual flick occurs as he lifts his arm up and attempts to send Hayate flying high up and up and up over the arena. Higher then any have gone yet in this match and with a mere twitch of the behemoths muscles at that.
"Fly away little bird. AHAHAHA....Man I'm funny. Ow."
COMBATSYS: Hayate counters Bay Area Sunrise from Abigail with Raijin Kyaku.
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[HAYATE]
Hayate cannot ignore the ringing in his ears. The world is fading in and out of focus, and swaying back and forth like it's on a see saw. He has blood in his eye, running down his forehead from under the steel band around his head. But he still persists, even as Abigail growls out his words. Yes. Yes he's trying to make this monster of a man mad. He needs him mad. He needs him to be sloppy.
"Come on!" He shouts as Abigail delivers his threat to crush him, and he comes like a lumbering train, slow to start and hesitant to pick up velocity and momentum.
The fist comes, and Hayate brings forth all of his will, in that singular moment, to FORCE the world to stand still. To FORCE the ringing out of his ears, and to see through the blood in his eyes, and ignore the pain that sears and shrieks in every single nerve ending in his entire body.
He reaches out, catching that fist. Managing to halt it before he can do that flick that might have ended Hayate.
Hayate grunts with exertion, as he pulls with all of his might on that limb, jerking Abigail forward and off balance. And he moves like the wind, suddenly alive as if he weren't on death's very doorstep. Hayate leaps, twisting in the air with a thunderously powerful spin kick, like a mule kicking Abigail straight between the eyes. Landing, the Mugen Tenshin master ninja spins once again, delivering yet another, more rooted and grounded kick that manages to pack enough punch to knock the giant away from him.
"Yes. I was trying to make you mad..."
[ABIGAIL]
"WHAT THE--"
***KRAACK***
"Oh what the HEEEEEELLLl!"
Abigail staggers backwards, his head rocked from the force of that final, powerful, desperation attack and finally, finally, he's sent over the edge.
The world spins for him and he rumbles, "The light at green no more. It's all red!!!"
he wobbles and wavers once again and for an instant it looks like he's about to recover yet one more time.
In this last instance he lunges, falling forward instead of backwards, and his massive arm comes swinging around, almost flailing with all the force of a tree tumbling violently in a tornado. Dangerous. A force of nature. Hardly a fully calculated manuever.
Should that land or not, down he goes, toppling like a collapsing skyscraper to the arena floor.
COMBATSYS: Abigail can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Hayate dodges Abigail's Random Swat.
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[HAYATE]
Hayate stands back, after he delivers those crushing kicks onto Abigail. He's not about to turn his back again. That was certainly a lesson learned. He stands, ready, fighting through the pain, but unwilling to be anything short of the last man standing.
Abigail rocks back, and then forth, and he comes down in the direction of the shinobi like a giant, perfectly round boulder rolling after a plucky archaeologist who just stole a relic. Hayate doesn't turn and run, though. He simply ducks, sliding to the side and under the swatting arm of the collapsing tower that is Abigail.
And then.... Then it is over.
It's really over.
Hayate stands stock still for a few long, tense moments, waiting to see if his opponent will get up again. He breathes a sigh of relief when it doesn't happen. And then? Then, Hayate walks over to the unconscious Rainbow Mika, and reaches down, taking her by one arm and sweeping her up, supporting her and reaching around behind her so that he can lift her other arm in victory.
"The real champion of this match! Rainbow Mika! Without her, I wouldn't have been able to take either one of these two on alone, much less together!!"
He nods his head towards Taiva and Abigail, and shouts out, loud enough to be heard over the wild fanfare that still persists after the nail-biting match. "And give it up for Bruisers! They were great fighters! I can't wait until I see them again!!"
With that, Hayate stops even trying to be a showman. It kind of runs antithetical to everything that he is, after all. So, he just props Mika up against the turnbuckle. After a dramatic display of kujikiri hand gestures, he spins, and vanishes with a thin, spiraling whirlwind left in his place, that dies out within moments.
COMBATSYS: Hayate has ended the fight here.
Log created on 21:24:12 04/12/2018 by Taiva, and last modified on 22:11:22 04/14/2018.