Match of the Millennium

Description: Maxima returns for another belt challenge, though the fighter has less to worry now than ever before. While the belt brings him fame and face, the protective actions of the fighting circuit staves away both NOL and NESTS. Free from the pressure of staying on the run, and given the promise for a full recovery, he almost seems steady for anything as he arrives in London... until he faces his opponent for the open belt slot: Abigail. The gearhead is ready to pop open Maxima's hood, and start pulling him apart. Will the big lug take Maxima for a ride? Or will Maxima topple the titan right into the Thames?

[ABIGAIL]
Ah, England. So many memories. The time he Azrael punched him so hard he caused a mini nuclear blast. The time Akuma kicked him so hard he sheared a city block in two. The time Baiken cut him with a samurai sword and nearly kicked him from the top of London Bridge into the Thames. The time Rose blasted him into his borrowed monster-truck and broke it in half.

Yes, Pleasant memory.

Really, what's not to love?

Needless to say, when Abigail pulls up into the designated fight area, driving a monster-truck rig so big it takes up all available lanes as it powers down the streets, he's got a frown on his face that would make the Darkstalker Children cry. He's none to pleased about the setting. Belt? What belt? It's damn England again!!"

Still, he has a competitive nature and..fans. There are Abigail fans out there! And the place isn't to far away from one of his favorite Death Metal idols so there is reason for some cheer. Thus when he screeches his truck to a stop and piles his monstrous mass out of it, he lifts a huge arm sky high and belts out a loud roar that sounds not to dissimiliar from a honking semi truck with the bass cranked all the way up. Nearby windows shatter.

He then turns and steps off of his truck, planting a foot onto the roof of a nearby car and crushing the entire front of the car under him, then the next and then the next one as he treads thunderously over the parked, leaving them flattened, twisted and bunched up wrecks of metal from the brute just walking across them.

"Let's rev up!!" he roars upon reaching the surface of the bridge which seems to dare to shudder under the pressure of his brute strength as he rolls his shoulders and then brings his arms together infront of him in a most muscular crab pose that shreds his tank top.

[MAXIMA]
"Whos the jackass who played Iron Man?!"

Abigail got his little entrance while Maxima was doing some last minute adjustments to his cybernetic body, but he didn't see the humor in the song playing him out when he is told it is time to to fight. Being able to have some time without worry of bounty hunters has been nice at least, but couldn't he have at least picked his own entrance music?

It also seems that Maxima has been picked for another belt match after his impressive showing against Armor King which won him quite a few fans apparently. He could care less about some hardware, but the SNF officials are keeping him safe and perhaps having his name out there will help K' find him whenever the little guy decides to come out of hiding. All Maxima can hope is the bounty hunters or NESTS didn't get ahold of his buddy.

The cyborg steps out and find himself in one of the few instances where he is the smaller fighter, but he doesn't seem bothered at all. He has belt with bigger people before and this will probably be no different. "The World Warrior Darkhorse huh? Guess I'll see what all the talk is about." he comments as he cricks his neck.

Then there is the sound of his battle systems coming online and a hiss as both vapour cannons let out a blast of steam as they ready themselves. "Guess they like property damage here in London."

[ABIGAIL]
The superhuman giant's ear twitches and wiggles abit as the sound of Maxima's systems cranking online are heard, not only to the audience, but particular elements down to the engines, make, models and parts that were involved in gearing up elements of the cyborgs systems are deciphered and taken in by the modding savant.

He just blinks a few times, pausing abit and not acknowledging his status as the World Warrior Dark Horse. Instead he leans forward, peering at Maxima, one gigantic mountain looming over another.

"Hey, what you got under that hood there. Sounds like you've some serious horsepower. Literally!"

Abigail's mood immediately lightens up as he leans back again and bursts out a thunderous laugh, "Wow! You're like a living monster truck!"

[MAXIMA]
Maxima just tilts his head. Did he just get called something simple like a truck. "Buddy, a bit more than that. I got some of the best technology most countries would dream about having." He says little more the fact where it came from. If anything he probably said too much to begin with and the less people know about NESTS the safer they are. Abigail obviously can handle himself, but no reason to put a target on his back.

"So I guess we are fighting for some title. Don't really care about it, but I could use a good fight." And he is pretty sure Abigail can provide him with that. It is probably good though that the officials will tend to him afterwards. He is already betting that he will have to do some repairs after this one.

The cyborg slips into a stance as he keeps both feet firmly on the ground and he clenches his fists as he goes a bit silent. He is more looking over Abigail and letting his systems analyze the other fighter. Obviously he is going to hit hard, but there are other nuances to work out. Trajectories his attacks are mostly likely to come from, stamina, and all other sorts of things. "Ready to go?"

[ABIGAIL]
"Bit more than that? Maybe.." Abigail is forced to acknowledge this. After all, the average truck isn't driving around out fitted with military grade parts.

The average truck that is. When you're a modding genius like Abigail, adding in a super weapon alongside a sandwich slot to a Sherman Tank is part of his daily requests..fortunately for Rolento at least.

"I'll just have to crack you open and take a look myself."

He slams his gigantic fists together, the impact producing a loud meaty *THWAM* that physically rocks the area.

"Yeah, yeah. Let's do this, Terminator. It's all on you! Make it a good race, okay?!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail has started a fight here.

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Abigail          0/-------/-------|

COMBATSYS: Maxima brings his battle systems online.

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Maxima           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0          Abigail

No sooner has Abigail spoken then he's suddenly blitzing forward with each footstep causing a heavy booming impact that rocks the bridge with its onslaught.

"Vroooom!!" he roars out, twisting at the last second to send a monster sized fist blazing forth towards Maxima upper body.

COMBATSYS: Maxima blocks Abigail's Dynamite Punch.

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Maxima           0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0          Abigail

[MAXIMA]
Maxima is also perhaps too proud to admit among the military grade parts are some things he has had to use since leaving NESTS as repair parts which aren't so much up to snuff. The important parts like the vapour cannons as well as most of the analytical computer systems are still there, but some bits of metal helping stablize his limbs and such are from scrap he has had to gather here and there.

"Crack me open eh? Still a person here buddy. I didn't see you as someone that would like to commit murder. Guess I was wrong."

When Abigail surges forward most people would probably do their best to get the hell out of his way. In the case of Maxima he does no such thing. He raises his arms and grabs at the arm as it comes forward to slam into his chest. The is the sound of fist meeting metal and the grip of the cybord was enough to soften the blow to where not too much of an impact was made. Maxima just smirks at his fellow Canadian and lets go of the arm only to surge forward himself.

He brings a big fist forward into Abigail's chest as he looks to just charge and drive the bigger man back. A powerful push that ends with the vapour cannon attached to that arm powering up and giving a point blank blast to further push Abigail back.

COMBATSYS: Abigail auto-guards Maxima's Maxima Press.

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Maxima           0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
@emit "I don't mean -kill- you, you idiot. What you can't handle someone taking a look at what makes you tick?" retorts Abigail angrily, apparently incensed at being accused of being willing to commit murder.

Not over this at least.

Still, he manages to look somewhat impressed at the fact that Maxima managed to sustain his punch without much by way of visible damage just yet and as Maxima counters his eyes widen and a big grin creases his features.

Maxima's punch lands, the cannon goes off, and Abigail doesn't even move. Instead, behind him, the bridge shakes and cars rock and forth as the shockwave ripples through the mountain of meat. He grins, no-selling the blow as if he were some invulnerable wall. "What was that?!? Not enough horse power! You need to put the pedal to the metal if you want to make me even blink!"

As if to demonstrate he suddenly surges forward, using the arm that Maxima had grabbed to try and crush into the cyborg and lift him up into the air with it via a huge swat. He twists around, spinning in place to bring his other arm up in a gigantic upper cut meant to end the two-pronged combo assault.

COMBATSYS: Maxima interrupts Abi Twist from Abigail with M19 Model Blitz Cannon EX.

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

[MAXIMA]
Idiot? Well this man has a way with words. "You could take me out to dinner first." The cyborg quips and then seems only a slight bit surprised when his attempt to knock back the bigger man does very little if anything at all. Hmm, this may be more troublesome than he expected.

Abigail soon has Maxima in his grip too and is looking to manhandle the cyborg and make short work of him. Maxima has other plans and while Abigail does get a good grip it is when he is swinging Maxima about when he gets the surprise of another punch into the chest. This one with more 'oomph' too it along with a more powerful blast that allows Maxima to get free and not deal with the intended upperct. "Don't get too overconfident yet. The fight just started."

He keeps his ground and readies himself once more. The blow is enough to stun Abigail for a short second, but he knows it will take far more than that to put the big man down.

[ABIGAIL]
That would seem to count as more horsepower. The more powerful blast dislodges Abigail and actually sends the giant Mad Gear boss falling backwards a distance of some yards, to crash powerfully into a another car, flattening it under his immensity and sending wheels spiraling and bouncing out over the bridge. He blinks a few times and then slowly sits up, rolling forward to his feet and then gradually rising.

"Looks like you've got some punch after all.." he admits begrudgingly.

His body then turns beet red as team billows out from his mouth, nostrils and ears. His torso inflats, bulking up even larger as his muscles pile on more mass, turning an already outragaeously gigantic body into a caricature of its former self. Cracks form in the bridge under his feet.

COMBATSYS: Abigail VROOOOOMS!!!

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Maxima           1/-----==/=======|=======\==-----\1          Abigail

[MAXIMA]
"I did tell you it is far from.....over?"

Maxima actually watches and raises a brow when Maxima starts to turn red from whatever sort of thing he is doing. Is he just trying to grow larger? Overall it is probably not a good thing to let him keeping doing that and Maxima's analytical systems are screaming at him to do something about it.

Well okay if you are going to stand there...." he trails off and he straightens up as the keen mechanical loving ears of Abigail can hear something powering up within the cyborg.

Then Maxima's chest just opens up and a cannon emerges from it A rather stubby one at that, but there is a big blue light forming inside of it and before long it blasts right out of Maxima's chest and right towards Maxima. The big laser beam looks to blow away the big man again and hopefully knock him out of whatever sort of mojo inducing state Abigail was in.

COMBATSYS: Abigail barely endures Maxima's M24 Atomic Laser.

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

[ABIGAIL]
It doesn't take long. By the time the attack comes, Abigail has indeed grown larger. It's not really an issue of height but it looks like he's packed on several hundred more pounds of muscle in the space of a few seconds, which brings his practically half ton body of muscle treading forward towards Maxima with a mad grin on his face as if he were some sort of variation on the Frankenstein monster.

When the laser beam impacts, the brute just keeps coming forward. It burns away his tee-shirt, leaving his billboard wide of an upper body exposed, and it traces a burning scorch mark across it, but he just keeps drawing nearer until, at the last, he swings, bringing his massive palm up and then down to try and flatten Maxima into the ground to stun him for a followup--

COMBATSYS: Maxima barely endures Abigail's Abigail Special but gets knocked away!

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

In a blur of action, Maxima finds himself lifted up into the air by the giant and then hoisted aloft at which point Abigail's massive fists begin a rolling barrage of blows as if Maxima's body was little more then a speed punching bag.

"ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA!!!!" roars the grinning giant before ending the assault with a final blow in the form of a massive palm slap that sends the other big man tumbling through the air away from the hot-rodder.

[MAXIMA]
That was not in his calculations at all. He knew Abigail was a tough man, but the fact the laser doesn't even seem to stop the big man from coming straight at him is a bit of a humbling moment. This guy is no joke and Maxima knew it to begin with, but this just solidifies his thought on it right as he gets crushed under that meaty hand.

And for being a quarter ton of metal Maxima gets rag-dolled about by Abigail soon after. His metallic body being wrecked by the powerful strikes that is ended with the slap that knocks him away as if he was just a child.

Maxima skids across the ground and sparks kick up as he tries to stop himself from being knocked right off the bridge and he gets to his feet looking much worse for wear. There is also flames igniting about his body, but from the looks of it that is intentional and not from the damage.

"Fine, lets do it your way!" He calls out and charges forward. His body aflame as he looks to lower his shoulder and just spear tackle Abigail up off the ground and into the air before twisting to send them both sailing right back into the ground.

COMBATSYS: Abigail blocks Maxima's Bunker Buster.

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Maxima           0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
"It's a dead heat!" thunders Abigail, arms akimbo and stance wide as Maxima fires up his engines and then fireballs straight at the Metro City titan like an incoming ICBM. Upon impact, car windows shatter and the bridge sways. Abigail is forced backwards but his muscles thicken and harden with an explosive flex weathering the impact and again nearly no selling it as if the brute is an immovable object.

Nearly.no selling it. There is a cost and ultimately Abigail's feet are lifted and he drags backwards, heels in the ground and then finally he's lifted up and the two go tumbling back towards the surface of the bridge.

Mid fall, Abigail twists, trying to his greater size and weight to swamp over Maxima's body with a crushing bearhug and then, just before they strike, to turn his body about so that the full weight of the bruiser come crashing down ontop of the cyborg with enough force to leave an imprint shaped like their bodies into the bridge.

COMBATSYS: Maxima auto-guards Abigail's Grasp And Pound.

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Maxima           0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0          Abigail

[MAXIMA]
There is the impact of the spear and then the subsequent tumbling where it is hard to tell what is even going on. Both men are struggling to get control and while Abigail thinks he has things in check and is ready to leave a nice big double Canadian imprint he finds things happening quite differently.

Maxima actually seems to get ahold of what is going on and realizes he has to break free and before he imacts into the ground he does just that by the skin of his teeth. He staggers back as he tries to regain is footing and he can only hope in doing so he left Abigail confused and open to a counter attack.

A counter attack that comes in the form of Maxima coming right at him and then looking to deliver a giant dropkick with both is big feetsies planting into the chest of the oversized mechanic.

COMBATSYS: Abigail auto-guards Maxima's Dynamite Drop.

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Maxima           0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
Abigail is already up on his feet via a rolling kip up that makes it look like a boulder decided to bounce around the bridge a few times. By the time he's up he's facing Maxima again and those feet slam right into his vast pectorals with enough force to sunder the ground around both giants.

Again, Abigail doesn't even move. His vast chest suffers the impact and then the plates of muscle bunch up titanically in a monster flex, pectoral sections dividing and sub dividing into vast mesa's of muscle formations which push back violently against Maxima with enough force to send a truck spiraling backwards.

"Come on, T-1000! This fight aint over yet!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail successfully hits Maxima with Hungabee.

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Maxima           0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0          Abigail

[MAXIMA]
Maxima is feeling the toll despite the rather short fight. The powerful blows have done some good damage to the point he has warnings going out through his cybernetic body even if no one else can hear. He isn't really one that gets out of breath, but someone like Abigail can tell Maxima is starting to fade.

And where he wasn't worrying about getting out of the way earlier it seems he was trying to do so this time around only he is much too slow. There is a solid hit and Maxima is knocked away by the power of Abigail and goes skipping across the ground a few times again before he manages to catches himself and stop. Slowly getting to his feet he cricks his neck again. "More a T-800 really. I don't change into stuff." At least he has something of a sense of humor even after the beating he has given out and taken.

He stomps foward and doesn't seem to have so much energy behind him as he did earlier. Even so he looks to come forward with one big punch aimed at the big man. A punch looking to land on the jaw right as a vapour cannon is spinning up to let out an additional blast right to the big man's face.

COMBATSYS: Abigail Toughs Out Maxima's M4 Model Vapour Cannon!

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Maxima           0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
"yeah, I suppose T-800 would have been a better joke, and you know you do kinda look like you could pass for an Arnold." Abigail's response is surprisingly lucid in consideration of how wild he's been roaring and just how insane this fight has been.

Lucid and yet not without menace as he's again approaching Maxima, huge arms splayed to his sides and form leaning forward slightly in that hunched over iconic earth shaking walk.

In a flash, Maxima is upon him and the fist lands with an echoing *BOOOM* just before the cannon blast goes off, sending a searing blast of energy rippling up Abigail's form.

When the blast ends, Abigail's face looks well and cooked though Maxima's fist is planted in his jaw, having, again, barely dislodged the brute.

The giant just grins and then reaches forward with one hand and a few fingers at that. There's barely a flick of his wrists a he hooks it onto one of Maxima's belt lines and then attempts to send the other giant man hurtling high into the air over the battle zone "I'm high octane!!" he roars while reading a palm smash to slam into Maxima full bore should the assault work. "Full tanked!!!"

COMBATSYS: Maxima fails to interrupt Abigail Smash from Abigail with M4 Remodel Missile Cannon EX.

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Abigail          1/------=/=======|

COMBATSYS: Maxima has suffered catastrophic damage and fallen offline.

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Abigail          1/------=/=======|

[MAXIMA]
"Tch...."

Another powerful strike and it seems little done to Abigail. It would make some think that the bigger man was the one made of metal and not Maxima.

And then he gets hefted up and while he looks to put a stop to being thrown it seems he is a bit too slow in the action and he just gets tossed upwards and then a palm slams into the Canadian cyborg once more. Off he goes flying again and this time his attempt to stop himself fails as he bounces right off a car and goes up and over off the bridge.

Officials seem to go a bit into panic mode at that, but it also seems safe to say Maxima won't be getting out of the rive at this point and back onto the bridge to put up a fight. While they decide how to fish Maxima out the announcer quickly declares Abigail the winner and new champion.

[ABIGAIL]
"I'll get 'im out." offers Abigail who shrugs off the victory announcement with a single upraised arm.

The T-800 guy was a good fight. No sense in letting him go under or that good equipment on him go to waste. Not when they have spare parts to negotiate and top secret military technology to look into. Imagine one of those cannons on a Monster Truck? Oh yeah...

Log created on 20:36:19 05/21/2018 by Maxima, and last modified on 18:25:36 05/22/2018.