Description: Hinako and Tony duke it out in the Red Arena at Master's Stadium. Includes some impressive aerial acrobatics. Sadly for Hinako, those aren't her strong point. (Winner: Tony)
...and the frequent flier miles accumulated. Japan to Thailand to England to Japan to Seattle to Thailand and back again for another helping.
While Tony wasn't exactly trying to look at his upcoming match against Edge in a negative connotation, he couldn't help but laugh at the coincidence. With all of the expenses-paid trips around the world he was making lately, he could easily take a flight to any destination of his choice without paying a dime on travel. If Edge beat him, maybe it would be time for a nice, lengthy vacation.
If and Maybe. Tony did his best to force the thoughts out of mind, though: The trip back to Seattle's Masters' Arena left him with too much time to think, too much time to let those thoughts mull around and grow in the back of his mind. He was here for business, something a bit more immeadiately meaningful than the sparring he'd done of late.
For the first time in recent memory, he had a winning fight record in a competition. He had to keep it going, as a matter of pride if nothing else.
Walking tall out of the locker-room hallway and into the fighting area proper, Tony was dressed for war--wrappings on hands and feet, black kickboxing trunks, and armband slung high on the bicep. He knew nothing about the person he was fighting, other than the name...so even her appearance would be a surprise to him.
Hinako hasn't been out of Japan all that many times in her life, so this trip to the United States seems like a perfect opportunity for some sightseeing... After she gets her fight out of the way, at any rate. She heard that her opponent knows some kickboxing, although she'd much rather be fighting against King, as far as that goes. Another woman who's managed to work her way up through a male dominated fighting style... Still, every new opponent is a new chance to make friends, practice her abilities, and show people the beauty and grace of sumo!
Hinako still hasn't settled on an outfit for fighting... She'd done so in her school uniform for quite some time, but that really wasn't all that appropriate. For her last league battle she went with her gym clothes, but that's kind of boring. For this match she's decided to go with a karate gi, dyed in her favorite shade of purple. Not the right martial art, of course, but for Hinako to dress in a traditional sumo outfit... would probably not be a good idea.
The blonde girl waves cheerfully to people as she enters, a bounce in her step as she skips over toward the fighting arena. When she spots Tony her eyes widen. Don't see that many black people in Japan, after all... She recovers quickly though, offering him a quick bow. "I hope we both have fun today!"
A purple gi? Obviously, he was facing someone from the Dan school of martial arts. At least it wasn't pink--but then again, it'd be a better fit on her than it would the person who made pink gis a trademark.
"..."
Tony's hand goes to the back of his head, scritching lightly before extending it towards the Hinako. Still a few yards separated from one another, it wasn't like he was any threat to her yet, but the hand is still balled into a fist regardless. Holding that position for a moment, Tony's thumb extends upwards...giving her a thumbs up.
She wanted to have fun. He wanted to get into the kind of shape that would allow him to fight past Edge. Different goals, to say the least, but at least this time around Tony could respect Hinako's wishes for what they were.
"Are you ready?"
Tony's arm retracts as he falls into his fighting stance--arms high, weight shifted forward to the balls of his feet. "I don't know who you are, but we'll get along just fine if you give me everything you have."
COMBATSYS: Tony has started a fight here.
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Tony 0/-------/-------|
Hinako nods to Tony, then starts displaying the first signs that there might be something odd about this little girl. She flexes her fingers for a moment, drawing attention to the tape wrapped around them, then curls her hands into fists. She slams her right fist into her upper left arm, then the left fist into her right arm, before holding both arms out in front of her, pointed up, as she tenses her whole body for a moment. "Hah!"
Hinako then crouches forward into a stance that's definitely not similar to that of Dan or his ilk. Crouched far forward, with both hands held out in front of her, fingers spread. Hinako's eyes flick toward the announcer, seeing that he's getting ready to begin the fight. "I'm gonna give this everything I've got!" The girl then narrows her eyes, an expression that really doesn't seem well suited to her. She's still going to try to watch Tony carefully though, as she waits for the fight to begin.
COMBATSYS: Hinako has joined the fight here.
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Tony 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Hinako
If the gesture was done by a four hundred pound japanese man, Tony might've realized what was going on. He's seen the likes of E. Honda, the Yokozunas who occasionally manage to get onto the fight programs, and their ilk. To see it done by a slip of a girl, however? That just ruins everything.
Still, Tony has seen stranger displays. He couldn't allow his guard to drop by the unorthodox display--Hinako knew what she was doing. If she didn't, she wouldn't be in the Masters' League.
"Good. I won't waste your time with anything less."
Sliding forward as the fight bell sounded, Tony was quick to go into an offensive display. Bringing his foot up to about chest level, Tony thrusts it out at Hinako's midsection with a grunt. It's a basic front kick, hardly damning...but still enough to test Hinako's ability to react.
COMBATSYS: Tony successfully hits Hinako with Light Kick.
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Tony 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako tries to tense herself up to take the blow, but her timing is off, allowing it to strike her full in the stomach, and sadly she doesn't have a few hundred pounds of muscle to soak up the impact. "Oof!" She doubles over slightly, although it's somewhat hard to tell, given her already crouched position.
She doesn't allow it to stop her for long, though. Tony is right up next to her, and that's precisely where Hinako shines in combat. Reaching out, she tries to get one hand on his shoulder, and one hand underneath his arm on the opposite side. If she manages to get that hold, she yanks him off his feet as if he weighs nothing at all, then proceeds to slam him face first into the ground with more force than she has any right to have.
COMBATSYS: Tony blocks Hinako's Kake Nage.
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Tony 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Hinako
...but...Tony does weigh something. Over 200 pounds of resisting mass.
Getting her hands on Tony isn't much of a problem--Tony has no interest in looping back out of range, little interest in dancing around Hinako's efforts. He was supremely confident in his own close quarters abilities, the bailiwick of the Muay Thai discipline. Getting him up and over, though...that's where the difficulty came in. Realizing that he was about half a second away from being thrown, Tony slid his lower body backwards, legs spreading in order to earn a better base.
Essentually clinched as they were, Tony did his best to discourage the girl from continuing down that path--trying to free up an arm enough to put a couple of blows into her midsection. Individually, they were little more than shocks, but with two or three quickly accumulating they could become something more.
COMBATSYS: Tony successfully hits Hinako with Medium Punch.
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Tony 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Hinako
Resisting a large mass bearing down on her, that Hinako can do quite well. She's not, however, quite so adept at dealing with small, quickly moving masses. Like fists, or feet. Not to mention that her hands are rather busy attempting to introduce Tony to the floor. The punches slam into her stomach, making Hinako grunt in pain, but she still manages to keep one hand hanging onto Tony's shoulder.
That's not enough by itself to throw him, but keeping him in close will play to Hinako's plan, if she can stop getting smacked around. With her free hand she launches an open-palmed strike to Tony's stomach; the kind of blow meant to send 600 pound men staggering backwards. And hopefully that will work, because /then/ she reaches for Tony's arm again, trying to yank him off his feet and send him sprawling down to the floor on his side.
COMBATSYS: Tony fails to counter Combo Throw from Hinako with Chokehold.
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Tony 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Hinako
As luck would have it, Hinako's strategy functions admirably--Whatever her specific art was, it was heavily grounded in throws. While Tony wanted to stay close to Hinako, it was readily obvious that he would pay a price for such a luxury. As she goes for her strike, Tony goes for his--bringing a hand high to close around Hinako's windpipe. Hers is the faster of the two, however, ending Tony's hopes of snaring a choke by suddenly putting it out of range. Offbalance and rumbling backwards, Tony's movement is changed in sudden fashion by the second grappling attempt: Gloriously successful.
Deposited on the ground, Tony kicks up a plume of dust and dirt around him, disturbing the faux-natural surroundings of the Red Arena.
Now, that's more like it. Successfully knocking her opponent to the ground is enough to lift Hinako's spirits. Not that she wasn't quite happy before... The girl is in an almost perpetual good mood, even while getting punched and kicked. Not that she wouldn't prefer for Tony to be the one taking damage.
To that end, she's not going to leave Tony alone to roll around in the dirt. Sumo may not deal a lot with fighters on the ground, since in a real sumo match they'd have already lost, but Hinako has made some concessions to practicality when fighting practitioners of other fighting styles. She quickly moves over toward Tony, attempting to wrap her arms around his torso and scoop him up off the ground...
COMBATSYS: Tony dodges Hinako's Yorigiri.
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Tony 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Hinako
Mais non, it was not meant to be.
While Tony was indeed caught offguard by the girl's brand of offense, he wasn't completely out of the running yet--not by a longshot. Rolling away from the point of impact, Tony brings himself back up to his feet away from Hinako's grasping hands.
"That was good."
Not that she needed the concept reinforced or anything, but Tony couldn't help but acknowledge the fact. She caught him, and capitalized. While her offensive push might've been stunted from here, he couldn't deny her that fact.
Whipping his leg up an around, Tony aimed to bring his shin into contact with the softer portions of the knee, limiting her movement and making the job of wearing her down that much easier.
COMBATSYS: Tony successfully hits Hinako with Light Kick.
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Tony 0/-------/--=====|=======\=------\1 Hinako
Well, a blow to the knee certainly hurts. A lot. But attempting to take out Hinako's legs is a rather difficult task. Her limbs have been trained to be able to lift men who way hundreds and hundreds of pounds, and for somebody as small as Hinako, that just means that all that strength has to be very compact. And if Hinako's knees don't buckle when she's hit by someone charging with the force of a small car, they're not going to buckle now. There are, however, several moments where the girl can't actually /feel/ anything in her leg except for a dull throbbing.
She doesn't really need fancy movements at the moment, though. Hurling herself at Tony, Hinako attempts to slam into him with her shoulder, opening him up for the rest of her attack. She obviously doesn't have a lot of mass behind it but, as mentioned previously, the strength in her legs can make up for that.
COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Tony with Oo-ichiban.
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Tony 1/-----==/=======|=------\-------\0 Hinako
...And once Hinako throws Tony off balance, then she really opens up on him. It's not quite E.Honda's patented Hundred Hand Slap, but Hinako's hands are still blurring as she nails Tony with a long string of palm strikes to the torso and head, trying to drive him further and further back with each blow.
After a final double-handed blow to the stomach, the petite girl wraps her arms around the much larger kickboxer, then arches her back as she yanks him up off the ground, hurling him far enough into the air that he can briefly look down on the tops of some of the trees.
...thudthudthudthudthud...
Well, it wasn't exactly a sensation that Tony was unfamiliar with, that's for certain. Beaten like nobody's business, Tony grit his teeth as his defensive measures simply weren't up to snuff in comparison to the unrelenting beatdown he was soaking up. What made things -really- awkward was the followup hoist into the air, something he simply didn't see coming no matter how you slice it.
Someodd seconds later, Tony hit the ground in a pile of meat and bone and gristle, more or less in the same shape that he was in a moment ago...more or less.
Rolling over and getting back onto his feet, Tony's upperbody looked like a tic-tac-toe board of palm sized discolorations, something that would swell beautifully into full on bruises in no time at all.
"That was good."
Again, the notification. However, this time it's got a followup. "Let's see if you can keep it up."
With that said, Tony hunches over, sliding almost completely into the girl before attempting to forcefeed her elbows. One, Two, Three, each one is meant to impact with the side of her face, close to her jaw.
COMBATSYS: Hinako dodges Tony's Fierce Punch.
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Tony 1/-----==/=======|=------\-------\0 Hinako
Well... Getting hit in the face with an elbow isn't really on Hinako's agenda today. She's not actually all that good at hopping around and avoiding people's blows, because that doesn't really work in sumo. There is, however, one easy way to deal with this. She ducks, letting Tony's elbow whiff through the air where her head used to be.
And while Tony is recovering from that, Hinako surges forward and up, trying to shove Tony hard, so that he'll end up sprawling on his back again. Not the most damaging of attacks, but anything to keep her opponent off balance is a good thing.
COMBATSYS: Tony blocks Hinako's Fast Throw.
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Tony 1/-----==/=======|=------\-------\0 Hinako
Tony is shoved, though it isn't nearly as far as the girl might've hoped--with Hinako weaving, Tony knew enough to expect a counterattack of some kind. Body tensed, his arms are a bit slow to draw back into guarded position...but it's still enough to stop what amounts to one half of a schoolboy shove.
Denied his heavier shots, Tony's lips curl into a frown--closer to a snarl than anything else--before moving to follow up. Weaving around a lateral attack is fine, but what would happen when he mixed it up? Shifting forward, Tony drove his knee upwards, looking to impact against Hinako's chin. Short and sweet.
COMBATSYS: Hinako fails to interrupt Medium Kick from Tony with Kote Nage.
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Tony 1/----===/=======|====---\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako tries to push in close as Tony's knee snaps up, trying to get to where she can deny him the chance to follow through completely on his strike, as well as getting her in close enough to grab him again. It doesn't quite work that way, though, and the blow to the chin causes Hinako's head to snap up, sending her staggering back in pain. She shakes her head for a moment, trying to recenter herself, but it seems she's lost control of the fight's momentum...
..Which is where the Muay Thai Panther was meant to shine. Bringing his knee back down for only a moment, Tony slides backwards a half pace: Counterintuitive, given the heavy emphasis on close-quarters combat. However, the reason for it become clear soon enough as Tony puts himself in ideal range for his overhead kicks. Whipping his leg around in a roundhouse motion, the impact isn't exactly the greatest thing in the world--but then, it's not much like he needs to put his full force into it at this point.
COMBATSYS: Hinako blocks Tony's Light Kick.
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Tony 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Hinako
The impact is still felt, but this time Hinako manages to get an arm up to take the brunt of the blow, and her limbs are capable of absorbing much greater impacts than this. Her arm doesn't even shake, although there might be a bit of a bruise there later. Nothing to worry about though, not when there's still more fighting left to do.
Dropping her hands, Hinako quickly steps in toward Tony, attempting to place her hands at his armpits. If she manages to do that she pushes upwards, straining up as far as her legs will go in order to do so, attempting to lift him up and off his feet, so that she can then switch her hands over to his torso in order to slam him back down to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Tony counters Medium Throw from Hinako with Panther Ambush.
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Tony 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Hinako
"PANTHURRR..."
Hinako is allowed to come close to getting her setup, hands into his armpits without much in the way of a fight. However, once she's in too close to do anything else, and has committed to the maneuver? Tony crouches low...pinching his arms against his body so that Hinako doesn't have much option but to follow her arms. Holding his position for only a fraction of a moment, the Muay Thai Panther explodes upwards, bringing his knee to bear against her yet again. The force of the maneuver is more than enough to ensure that Tony's body leaves the ground by a considerable amount--though at least Hinako could look forward to the idea that her arms were once again free.
"...AMMBUUUSHHH!"
Whoomph. That's the sound of all the air in Hinako's lungs rushing out at once, as her body gets launched into the air by the force of Tony's blow. Her vision is starting to blur around the edges, and things aren't looking good... But at least Tony is in the air with her. And her arms are free.
Hinako grabs for Tony's arms, her fingers digging in as she tries to get as good a grip as possible. Should she manage to firmly grasp the Muay Thai fighter, Hinako twists around in the air, spinning so that she can launch Tony face-first back toward the ground below. Whether or not that should work... Hinako herself hits the ground a few moments later, landing in a somewhat undignified heap. Owie.
COMBATSYS: Hinako can no longer fight.
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Tony 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: Tony counters Gasshou Hineri from Hinako with Panther Ambush.
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Tony 0/-------/-------|
..But wait, that's not all!
Being in the air like he was made thing especially difficult, at least insofar as responding to aerial counterattacks went. He couldn't root himself, couldn't do much to resist being tossed about or anything like that. How did folks like Chun-li airdodge anyways?
...But...Wait! Is that Hinako's -FOOT?!-
Thrusting his feet down towards the extremity which protruded from the purple gi, Tony did...the unbelievable. The incredible. The...magfreakingnaminous. Also, it was totally awesome.
Bracing himself on her foot whilst in midair, Tony exploded upwards oncemore--powering through Hinako's grappling hands one final time. Bringing his knee to bear against the girl's face again, Tony rocketed past for a second glimpse at the treeline before gravity reclaimed it's errant son.
"PANTHURR AMMMBUSSSH!"
The Legendary Air Panther Ambush. Nothing beats that.
And so Hinako ends up adding a few more mid-air flips before actually crashing to the ground, now /definitely/ out cold after that last blow to the head. It doesn't take long before the referee is able to tell that it's time to send out the medics, and the announcement of Tony's victory comes not long after, while Hinako is being loaded up on a stretcher and carted out of the arena.
Log created by Hinako, and last modified on 20:02:52 12/10/2005.