Match of the Millennium

Description: In a show of Metro City spirit, the Scrap City Crushers will face off against the Metro City Monsters. When Abigail takes exception to the Monsters' star pitcher, Dennis, he finds a mutiny on his hands - with Raina of the Crushers taking the officer's side when things get heated!

[DENNIS]
This particular baseball field is where the Metro City Monsters plays their games -- a volunteer baseball team that gathers during Spring and Summer to play recreational games against other similar leagues. And when it was said that this particular game was going to be televised, tickets started selling better than they ever have before, and there were thousands of people here, buying peanuts and cracker jacks, enjoying America's favorite Pasttime -- other than fighting, of course, in these modern times.

But some people still loved baseball, and the Metro City Monsters' manager saw an opportunity when he saw a new recreational league player in the game -- the Scrap City Crushers. And with their new pitcher's perfect strike out streak, the manager was sure that whoever these people on the other team might be, they were going to be unable to handle their new Ace in the Hole. After all, how many fighters play recreational baseball? This would get the Metro City Monsters some promo, and more clout. Maybe they wouldn't have to keep playing recreational anymore. Maybe, just maybe they can start a new league, a league of their own.

So when the manager saw that the Scrap City Crushers happened to house none other than Abigail, a renowned celebrity in the professional world of fighting, he was sweating.

He gets a pat on the back from Dennis himself, who's got the Metro City Monsters uniform on, pitcher's glove donning his other hand. "Oh look! It's Abigail! Wow, we might actually lose this one," he says with a cheerful, hearty laugh.

[ABIGAIL]
Indeed. Mad Gear volunteers make up this team! Two-P, J and Axl can be seen hopping out of a car while Roxy languidly emerges from the side of a massive truck. The whole gang isn't here mind you, what with Mad Gear kind of doing five different things at once with some more legit and others being international mercenaries and the like - looking at you Rolento - but Abigail's presence is unmistakable.

The colossus had already stomped clear from his monster truck, shouldering a massive bat that looks more like he uprooted a tree and took it into the interior of his shop to sculpt it down into a makeshift bat. A bat decorated with a drawing of the Mad Gear, gear and skull and his own Heavy Metal tattoo. He spins it overhead dramatically as he hears the whoops and hollars of the crowds. Even he has a few fans after all.

"VROOOOOOOM!! --- Hey waiitasec.."

Abigail squints his eyes upon seeing Dennis off in the distance. "Hey...hey you! What're you doing here?! You just gonna use my yard to train in and then show up here to go against me, eh??"

[RAINA]
The last of the Scrap City Crushers to emerge from the Mad Gear motorcade is a latina who's exceedingly familiar to the opposing team's pitcher. She's dressed in a snug steel grey baseball t-shirt with the Scrap City Crushers logo in red on the chest, midriff exposed, and a pair of tight white baseball trousers with red pinstripes. Her red cap is worn with the bill forward, and her dark hair's tied back in a low ponytail. She rests her own bat, a faded aluminum thing with the words BASEBALL STARS on the business end, across her shoulders, both ends in her gloved hands, as she saunters toward the field.

Raina pauses for a second to close her eyes and take in a deep whiff of the spring air.

"Mmm... cheap nachos and Port-A-Potties. Just like old times," she says loudly with a smirk as she opens her eyes to size up the opposing team. When they come to rest on Dennis, she dips her head in greeting. "Speaking of old times - 'sup, Blue?"

Not nearly as old as their relationship, 'Blue' is a relatively recent nickname for Dennis on Raina's part - something of a jibe at the man's decision to join the Metro City police force.

"You gonna strike me out today, or is it gonna be Home Run City as usual?"

The implication is likely a bit of revisionist history - Raina's known in the Metro rec league for her line drive, but it only helps against Dennis if she can actually hit the ball. The two are typically a pretty even match - though the memories of the strike-outs may be suppressed by the bouts of seeing red on Raina's part afterward. She's not the most graceful of losers.

Or the most graceful of winners, for that matter.

When Abigail seems to take immediate umbrage with her childhood friend, Raina moves to try and put a gloved hand on the meat mountain's arm assuagingly.

"Hey, hey... take it easy, chief! We'll bring it to 'em on the turf! Trust me, it's gonna be a cakewalk!"

[DENNIS]
"Whoa! No way! It's just I -- well..." Dennis looks bashful, but then remembers that he's about to be playing the behemoth, so he points his glove in the giant's direction. "I bet you're as skilled at baseball as you are fighting and fixing stuff, Abigail!"

And then Raina comes out, and Dennis gawks after her for a moment, taking off his hat and watchig as she moves towards the field. "Raina?" He's already looking just a little anxious, despite being more or less her equal when it comes to this game they play, and he gives himself a fanning with his cap to make sure he isn't sweating over it.

Still, this is the most serious game in the world for Dennis now, with both Abigail and Raina on the other team. Some sugarless gum is fished out of his trousers pocket, his own uniform a pristine white compared to the Scrap City Crusher grey. "Home Run City's being shut down this afternoon!" He shouts out.

And for once he was right. Fortune was on Dennis' side today. They had to change umpires halfway through because the player's hand was hurting. He'd chew on the gum, kick the dirt a few times, and then launch the ball with incredible speed right. Swing after swing would miss, though at one point Raina manages to hit the ball right back at Dennis -- who catches it once more, though it had caused him to stagger back. Still, the scoreboard was leaning a little too heavily in the Metro City Monsters, and with Abigail at bat and Dennis watching him, there was a tension that was palpable in the air, a tension that had at least the pitcher ignoring cheers of the crowd around them.

[ABIGAIL]
"Whatddya mean I can't use this??"

Turns out a baseball bat the size of a tree isn't exactly legal or fair. A frustrated Abigail lifts said bat up and then brings it back down again, flexing his monstrous arms as he does so and with a loud *CRAAAACK* the entire thing sunders in twain dramatically in a display of his monstrous, freakish and inexplicable brute strength. He drops the remains roughly to the ground and stalks off for another more 'normal' bat as the cowering officials watch.

"Are you sure he's not a Darkstalker?" "I think he's a Darkstalker." "He's from Metro City. Is there a difference?"

Fortunantely, Abigail didn't hear that. The cheers from the other Crushers does fill the air as Abigail fumbles with a normal sized bat with his massive hands.

"You got this chief!" yells Roxy, who then asides to Two-P, "..This is about to be a disaster."

A few moments later and Abigail is staring dumbfounded as the umpire shouts, "Yeeeeer out!!"

"What the...waittasecond! How?? Who??? Guh???" Well that didn't take long. The baseball bat snaps between Abigails fingers like some toothpick. His skin begins reddening and visible steam puffs otu of his nostrils. He begins stalking, thunderously, towards the pitchers mound.

[RAINA]
Raina is working a wad of bubblegum fiercely with her jaw as she cuts the air with her bat while she waits on deck. It's been a bad game - a real bad game, for her team - and it's not like her to go nine innings without a single run. Still, she knows - she just /knows/ - that this at-bat coming up will be the one. It's much more of a superstitious instinct than cerebral supposition, but for her, that's what matters. Guts supercede brains, every time.

'Yeeeeer out!!'

The umpire's whistle blows - the inning's over.

"What?!"

The Rodfield girl was never the best at math - and she'd been too wrapped up in picturing her forthcoming home run to notice that her shot had been depending on Abigail getting on base. Her plans to be the star of the show shatter before her very eyes, her one big chance stolen by the big chief's buffoonery.

Never mind all those other big chances she'd had already - this one was gonna be the one!

"Raaaaughh!"

She tries to make a show of breaking her own bat over her knee, which proves a poor plan as she's painfully reminded that her bat is made out of solid aluminum. Grimacing, she shifts the bat into her left hand and shakes it at Abigail as she follows him onto the field.

"ABI! How could you blow my - our big shot?! What are you, blind??"

What's this - a Mad Gear mutiny?!

Well, one particular Mad Gear member, anyway.

[DENNIS]
Dennis' hand withdraws from the throw he just did to strike Abigail out -- though in the giant's defense there was just no way he was going to hit the ball with that large a strike zone and that tiny a bat. Still, Dennis can't help it; he plucks his cap off his head and throws it in the air, then leaps and pumps his fist, whooping loudly while the Metro City Monsters manager stops chewing on his fingernails so anxiously to join in.

Still, Dennis spots Abigail approaching the pitcher's mound, and thinking that congratulations might be in order, he starts walking towards the behemoth, only grinning wider when he sees Raina following after him, his hand lifting in a wave as he slowly closes the distance. "Hey, guys! What a game, am I right?"

[ABIGAIL]
Roxy looks like she's about to die laughing. Axl simply puts a hand over his head and groans. "She doesn't learn, does she?"

Abigail simply stops and fumes as Raina approaches. For many, walking into his glare would be like trying to push past a wall of adamant but not Raina and that just infuriates him even more. "Whaddya talking about?! You so concerned about winning baseball games."

His massive hand suddenly snatches out as she gets into range, looking to literally King Kong her into his grasp by coiling his massive grip around her torso and then send her hurtling at Dennis, "Go join 'em then!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail has started a fight here.

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Abigail          0/-------/-------|

COMBATSYS: Dennis has joined the fight here.

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Abigail          0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Dennis

COMBATSYS: Raina has joined the fight here.

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Raina            0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/-------|

[RAINA]
One thing that Raina failed to develop in her time growing up on the streets of Metro City is a healthy sense of self-preservation. It's actually somewhat common amongst Mad Gear members, but in her case, it's a bit extreme - whether it's dealing with darkstalkers or dealing with people who can easily be mistaken for darkstalkers.

"I mean, the least your giant ass could do is score a hit by pitch so - hey - whoOAAAUGH!!"

The bat winds up on the turf as Raina goes flying - sailing right toward Dennis with her arms akimbo...

...leaving Dennis with a bit of a Sophie's choice between getting out of the way and letting the Metro latina hit the ground or taking his chances with trying to catch the brunette and risk getting taken out himself!

COMBATSYS: Dennis endures Abigail's Large Thrown Object!

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Raina            0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/------=|

[DENNIS]
Unfortunately for poor Dennis, his morals and his affection for Raina both work hand in hand that when he sees her go flying towards him, he reaches out to catch her -- but the force of the throw is enough that it launches him off his feet with her in his arms, and the two go careening into the field, leaving a little dirt trail behind them while the star pitcher for the Metro City Monsters groans and then his hands are off Raina as quickly as possible, even while his eyes slide over her to check on her well-being.

"Ow. Sorry about that," he tells her, but then he's making a face, and he rises to his feet once she's off him, turning a look towards Abigail. "Hey! You can't just do that to her!" His glove is taken off his hand, and he launches it towards the big guy's head angrily -- it's pretty light, but now everyone here knows the strength of his pitching arm.

[RAINA]
"Oof!"

Raina lets out a grunt as she winds up splayed on top of Dennis, pulling a face. Her eyelashes flutter a couple of times as she regains her senses - and her face flushes when she realises the situation that she's in.

"H-hey! Hands!" she says reflexively, even as Dennis has already proven himself gentlemanly enough to get said hands off of her. Flustered, she whips herself up to her feet, stumbling a couple of steps and straightening her cap, then dusting herself off.

She whirls around, scowling ferociously at the Mad Gears chief.

"Yeah, that's right! If I'm gonna tackle D, it's gonna be on my own terms!!"

And with that, she's running back toward the mighty Canuck, cleats kicking up turf as she tugs at her gloves. The dust-covered pitcher's mound is scooped up and brandished as she charges, then whirls around, leaping to try and smack Abigail across the face with it!

She really -doesn't- learn...

COMBATSYS: Abigail just-defends Dennis' Thrown Object!

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Raina            0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/------=|

COMBATSYS: Abigail barely endures Raina's Light Random Weapon.

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Raina            0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/-----==|

[ABIGAIL]
In truth, Abigail is partially acting here. Partially. He's always perpetually annoyed if he's not driving his truck or doing some sort of wild feat of engineering and car modding. But this is also SNF and it's a fighting match and it's what the people want. So..he's going to be the Kaiju for the evening picture.

And really, any excuse to beat up Raina and Dennis is a good thing.

"Why you..disloyal.."

Dennis attack doesn't even register against the giant. In truth he seems hurt..truly hurt by Raina not just letting him throw her around like a weapon and coming back to his side. "When are you gonna learn, girl. -I'm- the chief. That means -I- get to use you as a random weapon when I feel like it!"

He stalks forward towards them both, ground shaking under his steps and huge fists balling up.

He then lunges for her, again!

This time, however, his massive hand stops just short of striking her..and instead a single finger flicks out, lunging up and at her like some sort of unleashed trebuchet in a castle siege.

[DENNIS]
Some small part of Dennis understands that a fight was going to happen here as well, but he's a little lost in the drama of it all, and when he sees the behemoth go after Raina first he begins sprinting in his direction, his features contorting into intense focus as he moves right into Abigail's personal space just as his finger starts moving for Raina.

He's trying to just throw his body into the man in an effort to knock him off-balance, his body SMACKING into him if successful, though whether or not that success bears fruit is also in question. "The only person who gets to throw Raina around as a weapon is /me/!!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail successfully hits Raina with Red Leaf.
- Power hit! -

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Raina            0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/---====|

[RAINA]
The blow from the pitcher's mound doesn't seem to have had much more effect on the giant than to kick up a cloud of powder. Raina looks down at it skeptically, then tosses it away over her shoulder, levelling her scowl up - and up, and up - at the Mad Gear chief.

'Why you... disloyal...'

The heat in Raina's veins and on her face only rises at the giant's words. She brings her own fists up, balling them as well, like a mirror in miniature - it's almost comical to look at, though the expression on her face makes clear that she doesn't find anything funny about the situation.

"Disloyal?! I'm not a damn garbage can!"

She whips her head around at Dennis' words, ponytail swinging.

"And that goes for you, t-"

*THWACK*

The scrapper chick is sent airborne by the finger-flick as it catches her off-guard, landing her along the baseline halfway to first and sending dirt and chalk billowing up into the air, then spilling off of her top and trousers as she staggers back to her feet.

"You son of a bitch!"

The latina hastily slaps dust from her clothes before rushing forward again, leaping up into the air as she gets near to swing her leg up and over - her top and ponytail fluttering as she brings the heel of her cleat crashing down on Abigail's mighty head with the aerial attack.

COMBATSYS: Abigail guards against Dennis' Improvised Smack.

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Raina            0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/--=====|

COMBATSYS: Abigail just-defends Raina's Straight-Edge Slash!

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Raina            0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/--=====|

[ABIGAIL]
"Yeah, she's a slow learner." confirms Roxy. "Either way, this is how the big gorilla says if he likes you or not so..congratulations to them both, I guess?"

"Might be better to be on his bad side then." remarks Two-P

"You're pushing my engine to redline!" thunders Abigail with a wild grin on his face. He turns away from Raina just in time to have Dennis slam shoulder first into his midsection with force to flip a car over. Abigail barely blinks.

Raina's attack comes in but the goliath is already on the move, acting with relative quickness even if his movement speed is something of a sluggish trundle.

"KABOOM!!"

His massive arm goes hurtling around, spinning into a gigantic back fist that looks to slam into Dennis and, if it lands, send him careening into Raina just as she lands her kick. The confusion and collision enough to blunt that attack such the behemoth barely registers her assault.

"I'll crush you both like a can!"

COMBATSYS: Dennis just-defends Abigail's Abi Lift!

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Raina            0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/---====|

[DENNIS]
Oh, snap. Dennis sees that huge arm go hurtling towards him, and his muscles, while not nearly as powerful or large as Abigail's, strain against his Metro City Monsters uniform in a way that has some audience members fanning themselves as his hands come up to catch that huge arm.

He doesn't arrest its motion, not having that level of strength, but when it launches him he does an impossibly perfect backwards somersault, landing on the ground in a three point landing that causes the dust around him to rise slightly as he looks back up towards the behemoth.

"Raina! Let's... let's throw him!" Dennis' voice echoes throughout the stadium as he calls out to her then, his head turning towards the latina woman.

Yes. He just suggested they throw the Chief.

[RAINA]
"Right!"

There's a glint in Raina's eye as she calls back to Dennis, her gaze locked on the Mad Gear Chief as her brows lower and her expression sharpens as a fire burns behind her brown irises.

When a unit trains together, a seemingly simple phrase can convey a plan. From there, execution is instinctual.

"Go!"

With a simple but hearfelt shout, Raina lunges forward, arms outstretched to try and latch onto Abigail's left arm -

[DENNIS]
- while Dennis sprints forward in perfect synchronicity, his own arms trying to wrap around the Behemoth's right, bellowing out before he -

[RAINA]
- and Raina both would try and hold the respective trunk-like arms down, before simultaneously twisting around to aim reverse heel kicks at the Mad Gear Chief's mug in unison, aiming to try and daze him before Raina -

[DENNIS]
- and Dennis both strain muscles born from lifetimes of brawling on the streets to heave with all their might, intent on sending the scrap boss into the batting cage. The pair chase after him, with Dennis's leg rearing back before he -

[RAINA]
- and the Latina lass would unload kicks like a pair of Uzis firing on full-automatic at the big boss's mountainous chest and abdomen, each kick mirror perfect to the other partner's.

There's no question about it - their dojo may have been the streets of Metro City, but these two have definitely trained under the same sensei.

COMBATSYS: Dennis blitzes into action and acts again!

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Raina            0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/---====|

COMBATSYS: Raina blitzes into action and acts again!

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Raina            0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/---====|

COMBATSYS: Abigail just-defends Dennis' Toss the Trash!

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Raina            0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/---====|

COMBATSYS: Abigail endures Dennis' Bootshine Flash.

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Raina            0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/--=====|

COMBATSYS: Abigail barely endures Raina's Toss The Trash.

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Raina            0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/=======|

COMBATSYS: Raina successfully hits Abigail with Bootshine Flash.
- Power hit! -

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Raina            1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          1/------=/=======|

[ABIGAIL]
Yup, you saw it live folk.

There is an impact not unlike a meteor slamming into the middle of the stadium. The entire batting cage seems to vanish under the impossible bulk of the Bay Area chief and the plume of dust that kicks up violently.

Roxy, Axl, Two-P and J are all knocked from their seats as are other bystanders and seated people. Car alarms go off. The ground chasms and somewhere an earthquake monitoring station blips at an odd event in Metro City.

It seems the day is won as silence persists after all of this and members of both teams look on slack jawed.

But then Abigail sits up and slowly rises to his feet. His body a burning deep red, muscles visible enlarging and expanding outwards with a sudden violent piling on of sinew that sunders and splinters the seams of his tee shirt into rags and threatens to do the same to his jeans.

"So you wanna play 'rough'...do ya..?"

COMBATSYS: Abigail VROOOOOMS!!!

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Raina            1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          1/--=====/=======|

[DENNIS]
"Oh."

Dennis had made a similar 'oh' when it looked like he and Raina had succeeded in toppling the giant, but as he rises and his body begins to burn that deep red color, he takes a step backwards and swallows a little thickly.

But, undeterred -- or just deciding to throw it to the wind -- Dennis sprints backwards, skids to a halt, and then starts sprinting back, leaping into the air and flipping forward, doing a similar technique to the aerial attack Raina attempted on the giant earlier.

No, not just similar -- it's the exact same move.

[RAINA]
Raina's panting heavily as the dust starts to settle after her tag-team barrage against Abigail. She turns her head toward Dennis, offering a single finger-gun and wink while clicking her tongue and smirking- the kind of look she'd pull if she'd hit a home run fly off of the pitcher before sauntering her way around the bases. She steps back, rummaging in her back pocket before pulling out a fresh (well, to be honest, probably actually a bit warm) pack of bubblegum, then stuffing a fresh wad in her mouth.

(Where did her old one go? Well, it probably got swallowed when she got flicked halfway across the infield.)

'So you wanna play 'rough'... do ya..?'

"Aw, gawrdarmit!"

Raina turns back to face the reddening Mad Gear chief and scowls.

"Hey, I thought meat was supposed to get less red when it cooks!" Raina yells in lieu of joining in with Dennis' renewed reckless charge. She is, after all, still getting her chew going - though she at least dusts herself off and starts to move after her pal with a renewed look of focus.

COMBATSYS: Dennis successfully hits Abigail with Straight-Edge Slash.

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Raina            1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0           Dennis
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Abigail          1/-======/=======|

[ABIGAIL]
Even as Dennis brings his foot down towards Abigail.. Abigail's boulder sized fist is incoming like a freight train that's jumped its tracks. The impact seeks to slam right into Dennis and bear him first back down towards the ground and a resulting impact crater..and then to scope him up again while Abigail's other fist comes lunging upwards.

His fighting style of 'Brute Force' becomes rather clear now as gigantic fists begin a series of rolling punches, each stronger then the last, in an attempt to treat Dennis like a punching bag with two from the right, two from the left, two back to the right. The impacts sending shockwaves out in visible waves as the behemoth roars, "ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA!!!"

Then a final blow, the giant arcing back and swinging around with a full swing intending on landing a blow to send Dennis sailing for the bleachers.

COMBATSYS: Abigail knocks away Dennis with Abigail Special.

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Raina            1/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/-----==|

[DENNIS]
**CRASH!**

Dennis goes splat on the ground when Abigail hits him to the ground, that hit alone looking like Metro City needs to call a 11-99 -- officer down. And then he's thrown in the air -

"Get your donuts here! Get your donuts! Two for the price of one! Get a whole dozen for the price of a half dozen! Get your donuts!"

Dukin' Donuts was running a promotion with the Metro City Monsters, something that Dennis was excited for, because, of course, donuts were his favorite thing to get his blood sugar back up. Mid-air, the cop turns his head towards the vendor as he moves through the stadium's rows peddling his wares, and through the pain Dennis manages to open one of his bruised-shut eyes to bear witness to the sale. But then -

- he's suddenly barreled into by fists that are nearly the size of his body, and he's sent careening into one of the bleacher benches, sending audience members fleeing as his back collides with it and he leaves a dent in the row he strikes.

He looks dead.

Hiding behind one row, ducking for cover, is the Dukin' Donuts vendor, and he sees a shaky, bloody hand hold up a note with Abraham Linkin's face on it, Dennis' eyes blearily focused on the field below. "I'll take a cream-filled one," he weakly murmurs.

COMBATSYS: Raina successfully aids herself with Secret Stash.

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Raina            1/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2           Dennis
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Abigail          0/-------/-----==|

[RAINA]
Raina's eyes go wide, her gait slowing and jaw going still as Dennis is blasted across the park before she can get back into reach. She winces sympathetically as he crashes down - but there's a donut on offer, and Raina knows that as far as Dennis goes, that's nearly as good as an ambulance en route.

She turns back toward Abigail, glowering and balling fists.

"You killed Denny, you bastard!"

She turns her head and spits her gum out into the grass before zeroing back on the murderous mountain of meat and mayhem. She snorts once with anger before bursting into an all-out run, the same speed that would steal a run off of home plate put into charging toward the Chief. Then, hurling herself forward, she rears back her right arm with her fist clenched before swinging all-out to try and drive her gloved knuckles into Abigail's solar plexus!

COMBATSYS: Abigail interrupts Strong Punch from Raina with Ontario Drop.
*KNOCKED AWAY*

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Raina            2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2           Dennis
[              \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\  <
Abigail          0/-------/--=====|

[ABIGAIL]
"KABOOM!"

Abigail sometimes speaks in explosions and car noises after all. But if his verbiage is unclear, his actions take care of the lack of clarity.

He's already in the air as Raian comes leaping towards him, his body coiling up and looking briefly like a falling asteroid before he juts both of his massive legs out into a monster-drop kick, sending it thundering into Raina before she can clear the distance for the swing. He continues falling even as he sends her on her way, landing and forming an Abigail shaped crater as he thunder down onto his sides.

"You two need more horsepower!"

COMBATSYS: Dennis successfully aids himself with Donut Stash.

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Raina            2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2           Dennis
[              \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\  <
Abigail          0/-------/--=====|

[DENNIS]
The donut's in hand and Dennis is slowly rising to his feet after inhaling half of it, his eyes closing and some uncomfortable noises escaping his throat as he swallows it down. Eventually he slams his hand into his mouth to shove the rest down, and then he's running off the bleachers, skipping a few of them and hopping clean over the fence that protects them from stray balls, landing back on the field. He rolls, never breaking momentum.

"Hey, Chief! We're not done yet!" His battlecry is pumped full of hope and optimism, but there's an intensity to him that isn't usually there, and when he moves forward he tries to ram his entire body into the stomach of the behemoth, and if successful, he'd leap up to try and grab hold of Abigail's head with both hands and drive both knees into his face.

And if he manages to pull all that off? He'll throw his body off Abigail and then come back down with an atomic elbow drop onto the brute's head, hopefully bringing him to the ground so he can just stomp on him.

That's a whole lot to accomplish, though.

[RAINA]
Luckily, Dennis won't be doing it without help.

"And neither are we, you diesel-stinking Canuck!"

Raina may be in a bit of a glass house-stone throwing situation - after all, that dropkick from Abigail put her straight through one of the Port-A-Potties - but now she's thundering back onto the diamond with ferocious intent.

"Let me show you how it's done, Blue!"

The synchronicity isn't there this time - it's a more chaotic combination from the duo, but instead of twinned strikes, Abigail is instead faced with a barrage of them. A second after Dennis endeavours to slam his full body into Abigail, Raina is driving her fist at the Canadian motorhead's ribs. Moments after Dennis would release the giant's head, Raina would attempt to pull him down by the shoulders so she could pound her left knee, then her right into his face. Then, as Dennis would drop down with his elbow toward the Mad Gear Chief's head, Raina would aim to crack her own elbow down onto it simultaneously with a standing elbow spike -

- and then join in on the brutal stomping using her own baseball cleats.

Right side of the Law or wrong side of the Law, Metro City is a no-holds-barred kind of place.

Especially when it comes to baseball.

COMBATSYS: Dennis and Raina successfully hit Abigail with House of Suffering.

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Raina            0/-------/--<<<<<|>>>>---\-------\0           Dennis
[                      \\\\\\\\  <
Abigail          1/------=/=======|

[ABIGAIL]
"OOooh.."

"Guuuuh.."

"Yikes.."

The various wincing reactions from Roxy, Axl and the others are pretty telling for just how bad that's looking and they're veterans to street beat downs.

"Oh man. He's not gonna like that.." muses Two-P while busy filming everything on his smart phone for safekeeping.

For his part, Abigail lets loose with a string of curses but is otherwise taken completely off guard and hammered by the duo until he finally fins leverage and brings both of his immense arms up in a wide sweeping arc to shove them away and to rebound back to his feet. He towers back up, battered, bruised, beaten up with numerous cleat print marks all up and down his torso to match the tire print marks on his pants.

"So you wanna -stomp- on someone..do ya...!" he snarls and rumbles before suddenly swatting his massive hand down for Raina to try and literally flatten her to the ground from the sheer force of his palm. He then steps forward, huge foot looming over hear like some sort of Kaiju and then brutally literally attempts to step on her and walk across her with a massive foot.

And that's not all! He turns, massive leg sweeping up and foot kicking out to try and slam into her while still prone and send her flying in a most brutal assault. Not his worst, though, Dennis got that. But still.

[DENNIS]
Leaping backwards in an effort to try to get away from that sweeping arm, Dennis staggers backwards some more when Abigail rises to his feet, looking up and up and up at the behemoth with a bit of a dropped jaw. When he goes for Raina, those toxic masculine overprotective instincts come in and he dashes towards the pair of Mad Gears, leaping up once more -- his frame still bruised and bloody -- to this time try to launch a single kick to the giant's head in an attempt to knock him off-balance again.

Really, it's all Dennis can do, but even if it connects, it likely doesn't slow the giant down any.

COMBATSYS: Raina blocks Abigail's Hit and Run.

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Raina            1/-------/<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0           Dennis
[                      \\\\\\\\  <
Abigail          0/-------/------=|

[RAINA]
"Urrggh...!"

Raina rocks backward as the kaiju rises once again from the sea of dirt and grass. That towering hand descends, and in that split second, Raina grits her teeth and throws her arms up -

*SMACK*

- and even as she guards against the attack, she's thrown to the dirt, her ass sliding painfully along the red soil. Before she can get up, Abigail is stepping his foot down on her, and she lets out a cry of pain as her arms tremble beneath the behemoth's weight. Then, that foot swings at her - and again, barely, she manages to take the blow to her crossed arms. The kick still sends her rolling along the diamond, giving her a thorough coating of red dust and grit, and as she sits up, she rubs her hands over her bruising arms and grimaces.

"You can't just walk all over me, Chief!" she calls out with a hoarse cough. "I'll bring you... down to size!!"

As Dennis comes flying in with his kick, Raina coils her legs beneath her, then springs, attempting to throw herself across the big man's massive shoulder, locking her arm around his head, then kicking her legs as she swings herself backward, using her full body weight and strength to bring him down to her level.

If she can manage to double the Chief over and get her feet back under her, she'll wrap one arm around the one she's closest to and grab his shirt with the other hand, then start to smash her knee into the big man's skull over and over before doing her best attempt at throwing him into the dirt with all of her might.

They'll probably laugh this off later.

COMBATSYS: Dennis successfully hits Abigail with Light Kick.
COMBATSYS: Abigail refuses to stay down!

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Raina            0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0           Dennis
[                       \\\\\\\  <
Abigail          0/-------/-----==|

COMBATSYS: Abigail fails to interrupt Gangland Clash from Raina with Hungabee.

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Dennis           0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0            Raina

COMBATSYS: Abigail can no longer fight.

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Dennis           0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0            Raina

[ABIGAIL]
Even Abigail doesn't have limitless stamina and durability. Just -mostly- limitless stamina and durability. The truth is that Raina and Dennis have both done -very- well and their double team efforts have served their purpose and worn through to the behemoth such that he's tired and sluggish..and that just won't do.

Dennis slams home and Abigail rocks backwards, staggering and seeing stars. He grimaces, teetering like a sequoia that's been uprooted and when he manages to almost get his balance in..Raina is racing in. She really shouldn't have gotten back up from that last attack but she did, to the cheers of the crowd.

An instant later and he's on the ground, slamming upside down and then his huge back and then legs falling back earthwards with appropriate ground shaking impacts and a whirling shockwave of dust and turf.

He's down!

The fight organizers observe this nervously, waiting to see if the giant gets back up again and when he doesn't - the fight is called!

COMBATSYS: Dennis has left the fight here.

[                        \\\\\\  <
Raina            0/-------/------=|

[DENNIS]
"Did... did we just win?" Dennis doesn't really believe it, staring at Abigail's prone form like it'll spring up and enter a new state, glowing a potentially new and even more dangerous color. All sorts of things go through Dennis' battered skull in that moment, an image of a skyscraper sized Abigail stomping through the city and knocking buildings a-tumble.

Those images are coming because whether or not they've won the bout, Dennis' injuries begin to catch up to him, and he staggers and falls onto one knee, letting out a weak chuckle. "Hey, Raina -- that was great," he tells her, giving her a thumbs up before collapsing sleepily onto the ground. He's one of those fighters, naturally, so he probably just needs a little rest, but Abigail isn't alone on the field floor, not after an attack like that.

[RAINA]
Raina is doubled over herself after taking down the Mad Gear monster - or Crusher, rather - and breathing hard, battered limbs hovering inches from her injured ribs. She's covered in sweat and dirt and chalk, partly from the day of baseball, but mostly from the minute or two of violence that has ensued since.

She may have lost the ballgame alongside her team captain, but at least her act of mutiny has earned her one victory on the day. She turns around to face Dennis, smirking faintly.

"Looks like it, Brownie. Now, quick - let's split before he -"

It would probably be best to let the Chief sleep it off, then give it a day or three for him to hopefully forget about her treasonous turn. Getting away with Dennis seems like a good exit strategy.

Before she can finish the thought, though, her exit strategy drops on the ground.

"Son of a... wake up, you...!"

Raina staggers over to Dennis, ready to give him a not-so-gentle prodding awake with her foot, but as she gets up to where he's lying, her own eyelids flutter, the flick to the back of her head finally catching up with her as she topples forward, collapsing across the opposing pitcher.

Within seconds, she's snoring into the grass.

VICTORY: DENNIS & RAINA

The words flash across screens at home as an overlay against sweeping shots of the three fighters sleeping peacefully around the diamond.

COMBATSYS: Raina has ended the fight here.


[ABIGAIL]
"Hey!"

"Abigail's deep voice suddenly booms out from behind them both."

"....Nice job!! Congrats on your first Saturday Night Fight! You're both still losers!"

Abigail is back up with both Axl and Two-P's help though he's recovering...rapidly. That's just Abigail for you.

"Nice going guys! You knocked the big gorilla out!" says Roxy, cheerfully.

Oh wait. They're out to.

"Eh..throw 'em a party back at the garage." grumbles Abigail as he limps out, "I got books to balance..."

Log created on 15:39:18 04/09/2021 by Abigail, and last modified on 22:35:36 04/12/2021.