Description: The A-Team meets Haggar and his running mate! Deathmatch in a Metro City arcade! Moral of the story: never underestimate a politician who can punch your face in. (Winners: Haggar and Fei Long)
The k-Rad Arcade is easily the largest arcade in Metro City - even rivalling the largest in Japan. Normally, all five floors and the roof are packed, especially the top floor, where every machine is a fighting game. However, today, the arcade is seeing a dip in the general sales, but the manager is unconcerned. He's getting a cut of the tickets to see the big fight on the fifth floor.
The fifth floor has been somewhat renovated, all the machines pushed against the wall to create a nice open space for the four to fight. Ringing the roped-off section are fans, largely teenagers who frequent the arcade, but also plenty of general fight fans. Mike Haggar arrived rather early, getting to know His People, firing off awesome mayoral soundbytes, and in the height of the pre-fight festivities, losing all his lives in the first stage of the game made after the exploits of himself, Cody, and Guy. But now the appointed hour is come, and Haggar steps into the roped section, pulling off his shirt and tossing it to the corner. Someone probably grabs it.
The Arcade is the place for all the festivities today. A section of the massive arcade has been sectioned off for a scheduled fighting event for the Second Victory Tournament. Fei Long is here, the famous action movie star and one half of Haggar's team. The small Chinese man is dressed in his usual combat attire, a pair of relaxed baggy pants, a sash and no shirt on. The outfit shows off Fei Long's incredibly toned upper torso and arms. He stands just outside the sectioned off area, pumping his fists and making some knee thrusts in an effort to stretch out his muscles a bit.
Acacia closes her eyes, as she walks. Too much light, too much sound. The electronic chatter of the game machines, their sounds and music. The noise of the crowd, the spectators gathered to watch the fight...Too many distractions, far too many. But she ignores them, blocks them out. They're not important, and she refuses to let them get to her.
The girl steps into the roped area, entering from a waiting area cleared by security, into the audience. She's back to basics for this match, wearing an oversized jungle-camo jacket in mottled green and brown, over a t-shirt, jeans, and boots. She stands on one side of the makeshift arena, tugging on a pair of fingerless motorcycle gloves, adjusting the fit. The studded knuckles gleam as she runs a hand through her hair, then drops into a fighting stance.
Finally, the fight. She's been looking forward to this since her first meeting with her teammate. The guy standing in her corner. Andy. They're ready. And Acacia's determined not to let down her end of the plan.
COMBATSYS: Acacia has started a fight here on the left meter side.
COMBATSYS: Haggar has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
COMBATSYS: Feilong has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Acacia 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Acacia focuses on her next action.
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Acacia 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Haggar, meanwhile, is lovin' it. All this noise, this action, the beat of the crowd... as a former professional wrestler, each surge of noise just feeds him more and more adrenaline. He steps back, though, motioning to Feilong. It's his show, first. Haggar crouches down in the corner and thumbs his moustache.
The noise and lights do not both Fei Long, he's a movie star! He's used to commotion and flashing lights! As everyone has arrived, Fei Long flicks a wrist towards Haggar in a wave. He starts to walk towards the sectioned off area and looks towards Acacia. He winks towards her and bows slightly in greeting towards her. As she prepares herself for combat, he starts to move forward. The match has begun! The Action Star leaps into the air after a few steps forward. He performs a forward flip and attempts to land a dropkick against Acacia's chest. He hopes to collide with both soles of his feet!
COMBATSYS: Acacia fails to counter Medium Kick from Feilong with Icon of Stone.
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Acacia 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Acacia's fought Fei Long before. And that's why she gives him a small nod, returning his greeting with a subtle one of her own. She also knows he's quick. And so, when he flips towards her, she's ready. Not attempting to evade, but sweeping a forearm up to deflect...
...but not, it seems, fast enough. Acacia winces, as the kick slams into her sternum, knocking her back, forcing a hiss from her lungs. Stumbling, she narrows her eyes, her dark irises forming a slitted gaze beneath her silver bangs.
"Faster than the movies," she quips, sardonically.
"Have to be!" Fei Long responds upon landing on his feet, "All my opponents probably study my movies before they fight me! I want to surprise them!" He chuckles a bit before rushing forward towards Acacia again. This time he leaps forward into the air and comes down, performing a perfect axe-kick. Again, speed is the name of the game with this manuever.
COMBATSYS: Acacia endures Feilong's Chokka Rakutei.
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Acacia 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
"Yeah," Acacia admits. True. It's what -she- did. Kind of, anyway. Of course, she'd already seen most of Fei Long's films - not that she -liked- them, but being raised by a crazy old fighter with a movie collection the size of Tokyo meant some pretty odd things for her upbringing.
That said, she already -knew- Fei's moves weren't...quite the same as what they are, on-screen. She learnt that in their last fight. That kick he opened with...that hurt. And the axe kick now slamming into her shoulder, pounding her groundward - that hurts like hell, too.
But she's not going to let that slow her down. Besides...if Fei's got tricks up his sleeve? So does she.
The axe kick drives her to the floor, but she -refuses- to fall. Her legs bend at the knees, her spine curves. But then she straightens, exploding upward, delivering a powerful uppercut before Fei can land, before he drops earthward. An uppercut laced with chi, a shockwave around Acacia's fist, producing an atonal -roar- as it cuts the air.
COMBATSYS: Feilong blocks Acacia's Bonecrusher.
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Acacia 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Fei Long is a quick little Movie Star, and as he's going down from his last kick, his arms rise up to cover his upper-troso and face. Acacia did not crumple under the force of the axe-kick like he intended. Instincts kick in and he prepares to block as he comes down. The chi-laced uppercut slams into Fei Long's powerful arms. He's sent upwards a bit, before he comes crashing onto the ground on his back. Once on his back, he rolls backwards with a kick of his feet, "WAH!" He shouts as he springs forward with a dashing forearm strike. If this strike connects, Fei Long will twist at the waist and attempt to hiptoss Acacia to the ground!
COMBATSYS: Feilong successfully hits Acacia with Quick Throw.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Acacia bites back another hiss of pain, turning it into a snarl. She hits the ground, tossed by Fei Long, crashing into the polished Arcade floor. It's an uncontrolled fall, too, brutal and inelegant, leaving her sliding across the fighting arena in a disorderly tangle of limbs.
She forces herself back to her feet, flushing, cheeks burning. No, this -hasn't- been going according to plan. The snarl from her throat turns into a low, soft growl.
"Hn," Acacia murmurs, "touche."
She lunges at Fei Long, cocking a fist and snapping it forward. She had damn well start getting some hits in...and -soon-.
COMBATSYS: Acacia successfully hits Feilong with Quick Punch.
- Power hit! -
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
And Soon it will be! Fei Long's clobbered by the swift punch from Acacia. The Movie Star staggers backwards, his head flinging around to the side under the force of the blow. As he staggers back, Fei Long raises a hand to hold his jaw. He recovers quickly and turns his head to look at Acacia. He puts a pained smile upon his face as he starts to run towards her again. A couple of steps are taken before he hops and performs a swift hopping roundhouse kick towards the defenses at her side. A flashy and quick move, but will it be effective?
COMBATSYS: Acacia blocks Feilong's Light Kick.
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Acacia 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
The flashy stuff...that's Fei Long's province. That's Fei Long's thing. That's why he's a movie star. That's why he pleases the crowds, that's why they yell a roar of approval at the move.
Acacia? She doesn't give a damn.
She doesn't. All she cares about is the -fight-. Her style, her moves, they're not flashy. The most she's done was that chi punch. And that didn't work...
...well. Back to basics.
Acacia stands her ground, remaining where she is. She doesn't move from the spot - just twists her body, and blocks with one rigid arm. Deflecting the kick with a resounding impact of tense limbs. She whips her other arm up, powering her fist through a short distance...right towards Fei Long's kicking leg, the one still entangled with her block.
The basics.
COMBATSYS: Feilong endures Acacia's Quick Punch.
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Acacia 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Fei Long's leg meets Acacia's rather formidable defenses! He tries to pull the leg back quickly, but it meets up with a rather offensive punch from his opponent. Fei Long grits his teeth as he absorbs the punishment and the pain, utilizing his momentum to spin around the other way. The punches leg goes down and the other leg rises as it performs a quick and sudden roundhouse kick of its own. However this leg erupts into fire. As the leg gets into the vacinity of Acacia's body, Fei Long will ascend and spin with that flaming kick. He wants to catch her quare in the jaw with the flashy and flaming roundhouse, "WAAAAHAAAAI!" he shouts while performing the move.
COMBATSYS: Acacia endures Feilong's Shien Kyaku.
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Acacia 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
And catch her he does. Acacia's head snaps back, along with the rest of her body. She rises, in an arc of her own, flying high towards the ceiling...but she flips, in midair. She lands on her feet. Perhaps not with full feline grace...but good enough. Her boots slam against the Arcade floor, body twisting, skidding back a few steps before equilibrium's regained.
Acacia looks up at Fei Long, reopening her eyes. She works her jaw, then sets her mouth into a thin line, lips pinched pale with resolve.
"Fine," she says simply.
Fei Long's chi...is another example of the difference between the two. It's fire. It's light. Acacia's...as we've seen...is a barely visible shimmer in the air. Just a distortion, where the colourless vibrating aura meets atmosphere. She generates that again. Force rippling through space, a whine building to a bass rumble as she does. Simple. A workman's chi.
Except there's a damn -lot- of it, a shockwave larger than Acacia's tall, -cracking- the floor tiles of the arcade as it races out from her aura, at the other fighter.
"Fine," Acacia repeats.
COMBATSYS: Acacia successfully hits Feilong with Ground Breaker.
- Power hit! -
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Acacia 0/-------/-------|=======\====---\1 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Fei Long lands and hops into his fighting stance once again. His hands are in front of him as he hops from one foot to the other, preparing himself mentally for what is about to come. Oh and it comes. Fei Long attempts to raise his defenses... as that's all he can think to do.
But it's not enough.
Fei Long goes flying backwards, due to the force of the blow. He rolls against the floor and comes to a screeching halt... not too far from the edge of the fighting area. He sits up after a moment and flashes a thumbs up. Any of his fans in the audience may start cheering after seeing their hero get up after such a hit. He's slow to stand and when he does, he puts his hands upon his hips. He's taking a moment to recover from that strike. He grins and winks towards Acacia, "Nice one..."
COMBATSYS: Feilong gains composure.
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Acacia 0/-------/-------|=======\===----\1 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
"Thanks," Acacia says, her lips quirking into a tiny ghost of a smile. Her tone's flat, though, nearly expressionless. She -does- accept Fei Long's statement at face value, and the sentiment of her reply is genuine. It's just...she's too intent to allow herself anything other than focus. Not now.
In another fight, in other circumstances, she might be inclined to let an opponent have a free moment to breathe. Here? In a tournament? No...
So Acacia presses the attack. She blasts off from her standing crouch, running across the ruined and shattered floor. Boots pounding against the debris as she throws herself at Fei Long. Whipping a fist forward, once more...the lights of the arcade gleaming off the silver studs over her gloved knuckles.
COMBATSYS: Feilong endures Acacia's Quick Punch.
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Acacia 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Fei Long stands there with his hands upon his hips as Acacia comes at him! The Movie Star watches her closely as she approaches. When she's within a few feet of him he starts to step backwards. When the strike comes, Fei Long takes it while twisting to the side to help his body absorb the blow better. As he twists, his arm erupts into flames and Fei Long continues twisting with the momentum from the quick strike. Fei Long will continue to twist around until he swings a flaming backhanded strike at Acacia. If it connects, Fei Long will follow up quickly with an uppercut from the opposite arm that should send his opponent ascending into the air. He will then quickly hop, perform a front flip and then dropkick Acacia across the room. You know... assuming the flaming backhand strikes!
COMBATSYS: Acacia fails to counter Ryu Hassai from Feilong with Unyielding Stance.
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Acacia 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Which it does. Acacia crashes back to earth at the -opposite- side of the roped-off fighting area. She smashes into the tiles, crumbling more to debris, her body bouncing and sliding to a halt...actually -past- the ropes, and nearly knocking over spectators in the front row. Acacia hauls herself back up, though, stumbling back in, gasping a breath. Letting the chi drain from her muscles.
"Tooth for tooth," Acacia shoots back, wiping away blood from the corner of her mouth. "Not bad."
The Action Star lands from his jumping kick. He appears to be a bit winded but apparently still ready to exchange blows with his opponent. He flashes a winning smile at Acacia, "Thanks." Then he's off again. Apparently he wants to stay on the offensive... even if being defensive right now would be a better option for the Star. He takes several quick strides towards Acacia, attempting to close the distance. When he's within a yard of Acacia, he leaps into the air! He does a forward flip which will send him over his opponent. As he comes down, he attempts to grasp Acacia's head and neck and when he lands, hopes to use his momentum to lift and hurl Acacia over him by her head! How does he do it?! He's Fei Long.
COMBATSYS: Acacia blocks Feilong's Aerial Flip.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
One of Acacia's best techniques is her iron body stance. Even if she didn't quite get it manifested in time, even if she was beginning to relax her guard when she got up...
...it's still potent. And there's enough residual chi flowing through Acacia's body from the Unyielding Stance, as Fei Long grabs and flips her to the ground. She pounds into the arcade floor, again, shattering tiles anew. But as she rolls away, coming up in a crouch, it's hard to tell whether the move did any damage to her...a couple new cuts, a fresh tear in her army jacket. Granted...she's already beat up to begin with.
That's why she remains on one knee, drawing a breath.
COMBATSYS: Acacia gains composure.
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Acacia 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
The Movie Star grins a bit as he manages to pull off that stunt... but the grin fades slightly as he realises it's not enough to finish off his opponent. It's no surprise though. These two have fought before. Fei Long is aware of his opponent's defensive abilities. Fei Long offers a thumbs up to Acacia before he dashes in her direction once again, "YAI!" He shouts as he swings a hooking strike towards her as she tries to catch her breath to bring her back up to her feet, "WAI!" After that first strike is completed he will swing another one, this time hooking low along her midsection, "WAAAHAAAI!" he concludes with a third strike meant to be a backhanded fist towards the side of her head.
Haggar has been carefully watching the fight and thumbing that manly moustache of his this entire time.
COMBATSYS: Acacia counters Rekkaken from Feilong with Icon of Stone.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Feilong
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Andy is here...somewhere. Watching the fight sneakily. His player hasn't just woken up damn it! >.>
Acacia narrows her eyes, as she watches Fei Long speed towards her. Once again, her defensive resilience against the movie star's superior swiftness and agility. The girl takes a breath, centres herself...and once again, lets her own subtle flow of chi soak through her body. Strengthening bone and sinew, hardening muscle.
She watches Fei Long's attack. Too fast to dodge. Too strong to simply stand here and take.
Her eyes glint.
Then she moves. The first strike simply slams into her immobile body. It jars her, shakes her, but it doesn't knock her over. It doesn't even break her stance. The second strike to her midsection is intercepted by a blocking arm. And the third, final punch...is met by a rigid forearm. But not simply a block, no. Acacia raises her arm...and -drives- it to meet the incoming backhand, with the gunshot CRACK of bone against bone.
"Wai," Acacia says, flatly, in a monotone imitation of Fei Long's tone.
COMBATSYS: Andy has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Feilong
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Andy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Haggar
No final pose for Feilong. usually when he connects with that final backhand, he shakes and shouts for his fans who are observing the fight. But as bone slams into bone, Feilong only winces in pain. That quick stop of his offensive has drained Fei Long of most of the fight that he had left. He smirks a bit, that smirk faltering slightly as he comes to realise he doesn't have much left to throw against Acacia's unyielding defensive might. He staggers backwards a couple of steps, "Have to give a show to my fans!" He says with determination. He leaps into the air and comes crashing down with his patented axe-kick again. But instead of landing from the jump on both feet, Fei Long will end up stumbling and falling, and taking himself from the fight.
COMBATSYS: Feilong can no longer fight.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Feilong successfully hits Acacia with Chokka Rakutei.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
And now the Mayor stands, rolling his shoulders and tilting his head from the side with an audible adjustment of spine. There was a cheer when Feilong went down, and another cheer, louder, rises up as the city's hero steps forward. Haggar walks to the side of the roped-off zone most opposite from where Acacia is, crushing tile shards to dust as he passes. Once he finds his spot, he locks his eyes on Acacia's, and drops into a fighting stance. The big man gives a nod to Acacia.
The blow slams home, succeeding where the earlier strikes did not. The hit drives Acacia to her knees, forcing a faint cry of pain. She blots it out, though, forces the sensation to the back of her mind. Ignoring the ache in her body, she rises back to her feet. She pauses, for a moment, studying Fei Long...and then frowns, when she realises he isn't getting up. That he's out of the match. She takes a breath.
Acacia looks up, making eye contact with Haggar as he enters the ring. She takes a step back, then falls into her fighting stance. Feet apart, hands raised, curled lightly into fists. She takes advantage of the reprieve between rounds, such as it is, to catch her breath.
Then, before the announcer can yell the start of the next round, Acacia speaks. She's a person of few words, but this is something she's been wanting to say for a bit.
To Haggar, she says simply, "Dad voted for you."
COMBATSYS: Acacia drops her guard to recover.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Acacia takes no action.
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Acacia 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
Andy just watches from his side of the ring. He hasn't said anything for the entire match and so far their plan of letting Acacia fight first had payed off. But it was completely up to Acacia wether she wanted to tag out or not. The Youngest Bogard was definitely not going to make her do anything. He too, if she ever faces him, gives her a nod to say 'good work'
Haggar nods as Acacia says that. "And he has my thanks." That, however, certainly doesn't mean Haggar's going to go easy on Acacia at all - he suddenly advances, covering more ground in less time than a man his size should be able to, making a hop forward and falling back to try and lock his legs into Acacia's, twist, and try to bring her down and apply pressure on all kinds of little spots. He puts his palms on the floor and pushes his upper body upward a bit, adding leverage and further pressure.
COMBATSYS: Acacia blocks Haggar's Quick Throw.
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Acacia 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
Acacia's small, light - hell, Haggar outmasses her by a factor of three. -More- than that. No surprise, then, that she's hit, locked, and slammed to the ground. But she appears...distinctly -resilient- to the leverage, resisting the force, her own muscles tensing, fighting back with a considerable amount of strength. She even manages to -break- the hold, in short order...the effort takes a great deal out of her, leaves her hissing for breath...but free.
And, scrabbling to her feet, she swipes out with a brief backhand as she squirms away. No witty comment from her...she's said her piece.
COMBATSYS: Haggar counters Quick Punch from Acacia with Hammer Thru.
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Acacia 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
The Mayor comes surging back to his feet after he feels Acacia breaking the hold, pushing up hard with his hands and pulling his feet right in under him. "Impressive!" And it is - from watching Acacia, he figured that the weak hold wouldn't do so much to her, given the sturdiness that isn't really hinted to by her physique. He didn't expect her to actually be able to break the leverage, however.
As the backhand comes for him, Haggar leans back just enough to be able to dodge it, but that isn't enough for him. He then brings his right arm around, hooking the swinging hand and giving a sharp jerk to bring Acacia both off-balance and closer to him. He then brings his left hand in, balling both fists together, then steps forward and drives the whole meaty affair into the general location of Acacia's body, with your typical big man grunt.
The doubled fists crash soundly into Acacia's side and midsection, a powerful rib-cracking blow that knocks Acacia clean into low Earth orbit. Or across the arena, at least, flung like a rag doll. She lands, sprawled in a heap, fighting for breath through laboured lungs.
Ow.
That hurt like hell.
Acacia's fingers scrabble against the broken tiles, as she forces herself to stand. Swaying on legs that refuse to properly support her weight. She winces, shuddering, then clutches her side. That strike of Haggar's damn near broke a rib.
She opens her eyes, vision blurred, a mass of colour and indistinct light. It's enough for her to find her bearings, though. She can tell which mass of flesh and green is Haggar. And which figure in white and red...is her teammate.
Acacia stumbles a few steps -away- from Haggar, waving her other hand in the air. "Tag," she calls, as she flops over the ropes, "Bogard, you're it."
COMBATSYS: Acacia drops her guard to recover.
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Acacia 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Acacia takes no action.
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Acacia 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-------|
And then a hush goes over the crowd when it's time for the main event. Haggar vs Andy. MAYOR VS NINJA! (Fire vs Elec)
The Youngest Bogard leaps into the busted up 'arena' he glares at the Mayor of Metro City for a few moments with his arms crossed clearly sizing the mountain of muscle known as Haggar up.
"I am Andy Bogard, of the Shiranui-ryuu school of Ninjitsu," Andy clenches his fists causing tendons to creak and bones to crackle. "Let us fight fair and square to our hearts content!"
Andy takes up a loose fighting stance bouncing off the balls of both feet as if ready to pounce upon the Wrestler.
ZOMG IT'S OOOOON!!!
This is the first time Haggar's fought Andy, but not the first time he's fought a Bogard. A large eyebrow which may have muscles of its own twitches upward briefly. "Bogard, hm? This should be interesting." And hopefully no wolves will be busting up in here. He notes Andy's light-footed fighting stance, which is a personal favorite of Haggar's to fight against, at least when the opponent isn't particularly used to throws - all that hopping means he can come in at a proper time and fling his opponent before he has a chance to land from a bounce. He starts it easy, though, stepping toward Andy with a basic, if ungraceful, front kick at his side.
COMBATSYS: Andy fails to interrupt Light Kick from Haggar with Gen'ei Shiranui.
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Acacia 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-----==|
Andy, however, isn't one to just sit around and take this from a guy like Haggar like any old munchkin however. As, Haggar came forward at him with his kick the Youngest Bogard also dashed forward at Haggar and leapt upward. He hovered in the air for a few moments and then suddenly came shooting down in an attempt to elbow Haggar in the face.
It was not to be however as Haggar through some clever evil manages to kick Andy anyway.
The Mayor pushes his momentum, rolling right through with his landed attack, bringing both arms together. Grimacing, he swings his combined arms down just behind Andy's shoulder, which would be a very sensitive place to have two massive arms slam into. It's somewhat like a rolling boulder of beef. A beefder, if you will.
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Andy with Double Lariat.
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Acacia 1/------=/=======|===----\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 0/-------/-======|
Andy is indeed in a lot of pain when Haggar's fists, despite Andy's best efforts to avoid such a fate, SLAM into Andy's back causing the Youngest Bogard tenderising the shinobi into so much mince meat. OW. Smacked away into a sprawling mess of Andy-flesh, the Shinobi comes to a stop five feet away from the Mayor his head bowed for a few moments. Andy's breath comes in shuddering gasps. Then Andy's head snaps up. And what Haggar see's is no longer the nice guy Andy Bogard. It's not the friendly and quiet guy that everybody knows Andy Bogard is.
It's a wolf. A Hungry Wolf who has an insatiable thirst for the fight!
Flipping back onto his feet, Andy gathers his chi and takes up what looks like a defensive stance but suddenly snaps his fist forward in a lightning fast motion and sends a bright blue fireball heading straight for Haggar's chest.
"Hishou Ken!"
COMBATSYS: Andy successfully hits Haggar with Hishou Ken.
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Acacia 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Haggar
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Andy 1/-------/=======|
A fireball.
Why is it always a fireball.
Haggar isn't particularly surprised to see Andy enter the Pumped Zone - he's far too experienced for such things. He's not REALLY surprised to see him throw a fireball, either, just very, very aggravated. Haggar moves to block it, but the timing is always weird on these fireball things, and it catches him and explodes LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO. Haggar is picked up off the ground with the force, twisting around and bending in order to land very heavily back on his feet with a cloud of dust and more shattered tiles. What he wouldn't give to have whatever it is that lets these people - even Guy's doing it now - hurl great big balls of irritating chi around. Best Haggar can do is throw things, which he briefly considers before taking off toward Andy, seeking to cover the lost distance between them. He leaps up off the ground as he comes close in, both feet sticking out toward his chest like posts. Angry posts.
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Andy with Drop Kick.
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Andy see's the running wall of muscle coming at him, yes he's seen this several times after having been beaten to a pulp by Geese Howard and his own brother Terry, so he does the most sensible thing he can think of. He channels his ki throughout his entire body and braces for impact. BUT the posts of ANGER would not be denied and Andy is thrown backwards and off his feet by the force of Haggar's kicks.
But Andy is prepared this time. Balancing on one hand, Andy kicks his legs upward channeling his ki into his shins and legs they erupt in scarlet flames. Yeah - Andy's gotten on that boat too...damn that wily Hanzo Shiranui for teaching Andy and Mai how to do that.
COMBATSYS: Haggar fails to counter Yami Abise Geri from Andy with Power Swing.
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The point here is that Haggar is kicked with a foot that is on fire. This was the end result of Haggar's losing momentum due to the previous fireball, which had started a minor cascade. Let's review.
Firstly, Haggar failed to recover as fast as he normally does from his drop kick, as he was starting off with it. He didn't get one hand quite down in time, slowing his fall down soon enough to get his feet flat on the ground in short order. He missed his usual timing by a quarter of a second.
Aware that his timing is off, this led Haggar to fall back into his neutral stance hastily. However, his right foot came right down on a small pile of owned tiles from Acacia's antics, and he slipped just the tiniest bit, ruining his hasty efforts. Haggar is now off by half a second.
Then Haggar sneezed. One second.
All of this together means that Haggar went to grab Andy's flaming foot for his trademark Power Swing a full second later than he should've. Andy's attack impacts him directly in the face, and Haggar is sent crashing down onto his back, blood running down his nose as he cuts a neat channel in the tiles of the floor. He manages to roll backwards with his slide, finally getting his feet under him. Dust covers Haggar's back, and most of the arena is now plain grey floor instead of awesome red tile. This room will probably be carpeted next week.
Andy watches as Haggar gets kicked in the face by the OLD flaming foot routine, but he doesn't grin, gloat or anything like that - that's NOT what a Hungry Wolf is about. But being a mad berserker is also not what being a Hungry Wolf was about so Andy's feet widen, slowly sliding across the ground and Andy's left fist whaps into his right palm. Then...he just simply parts his hands palms open outwards as if splitting the air around him. Andy expels the air in his lungs loudly...and then the floodgates of Andy's chi open as he gathers his massive power, the awesome talent of the Bogard Bloodline - Chi Manipulation.
COMBATSYS: Andy gathers his will.
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Haggar rubs at his fresh blood with the back of his hand, frowning. "You kids today and your chi powers." He approaches Andy as he's busy gathering up all that juice. "Throwing fireballs around and lighting yourself on various elements. But I don't need that stuff." He suddenly slams forward, trying to grab Andy and take him to the wall. He gestures to the crowd, and they obediently part. "But I don't need any of that! I took this whole city away from Mad Gear with my own two fists!" Assuming he still has Andy, he hops over the rope, turning to bring him in line with the only pinball machine in the arcade (To be fair, it's competitive pinball, and actually features Terry and Andy prominently). "And a little help from scenery." On that note, he tries to put Andy into the pinball machine. No arcade fight is good enough without /someone/ in a pinball machine.
COMBATSYS: Andy dodges Haggar's Random Weapon.
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Andy rolls to the side gritting his teeth as Haggar forced him to become distracted and let a lot of chi fade away, and this makes him slightly annoyed to be honest. So, Andy does the only sane thing he can do right now - he runs up and tries to punch Haggar in the face really, really fast.
COMBATSYS: Andy successfully hits Haggar with Quick Punch.
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All that with the running into Andy, and the scenery bit? It never happened. His sprint is interrupted right after the initial part of his quip by Andy just kinda nicking up and popping Haggar in the fae, which causes him to reel away. "Hmp!" He wheels back around, grabbing at Andy and trying to lift him up off the ground. More will come if Andy doesn't lame out.
COMBATSYS: Andy dodges Haggar's Screw Piledriver.
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Andy shifts to a defensive stance and backflips out of Haggar's reach landing safely on his feet rather than his face, which is probably what the Wrestler had planned. Sucks to be him. The Hungry Wolf continues to glare at Haggar desperately wanting to get back on the offensive instead of all this defensive crap Andy channels his chi into his body - it's time to make the Mayor feel the pain!
Andy rushes forward, leading with a painful elbow strike and follows it up with a series of vicious bone crunching blows reminiscent of the Burning Rave (Which is a copy of Ryo's move) and is then finally finished off with violent blast of Chi which should really make Haggar upset with the Hungry Wolf if it all hits.
COMBATSYS: Haggar counters Hishou Ryuusei Ken from Andy with Power Swing.
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Haggar disapproves of Andy escaping his throw, but the good thing about grabbing at someone is that it's not difficult to rebalance yourself if they dodged far enough away. As such, Haggar is completely prepared for Andy coming at him this time, and grits his teeth. This one looks like a big one.
As Andy nears him, the wrestler's arm comes flying out for his elbow, catching the incoming elbow strike and stopping it cold. There's a flare of blue light around the point of contact, and without further ado Haggar turns hard, roaring. He pulls Andy right off his feet, spinning a complete circle and lifting at least Andy's arm right above his arm. Still roaring with the effort, he hurls the Bogard down to the ground, very glad that he never got to see what his attack was going to do.
Andy gets piledrived into the ground and coughs blood up when he lands. Ouch. That hurt. That hurt a lot. Luckily Andy Bogard was a trooper...otherwise he never would have been able to stand back up and tag out.
COMBATSYS: Andy drops his guard to recover.
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COMBATSYS: Andy takes no action.
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Haggar takes a few steps back as Andy tags out, currently breathing a bit hard. He's going to have a hard time dealing with these two still, and as such takes a moment to order his thoughts and get ready for big battle. At least his nose stopped bleeding. Haggar flicks dried blood from his magnificent moustache.
COMBATSYS: Haggar gains composure.
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Acacia frowns, as Andy tags her in. She's been standing by the sidelines all this while, catching her -own- breath. Tending to her own injuries. She steps in now, ducking under the rope, nodding to Bogard as he passes.
The girl walks into the ring, bits of broken flooring crunching under her boots. The fighting ground's a total ruin now...but then, the fighters aren't doing much better, are they? Acacia certainly isn't. She's still bleeding, thin lines of blood down her face. Least she doesn't have a moustache for it to gunk up, like Haggar's...but it's still annoying. Then there's the tears and rents on her jacket. Some scorching, too, from Fei Long's flames. All obvious signs that she's not exactly in perfect health. The way she moves, it's clear she's still favouring one injured side. But she falls into a combat stance, regardless of that. She faces the mayor, narrowing her eyes.
COMBATSYS: Acacia focuses on her next action.
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Haggar watches Acacia closely, taking a few steps to the side, circling. He has to approach this differently than he did against Andy. He briefly debates picking up some tile shards and throwing them before he charges, but discards that - it just wouldn't get the crowd pumped. He decides to go for a basic hold, feinting another step in his circling but instead rushing for the girl, reaching for her arm and trying to bring it above his head as he passes, then bringing it behind her own head with a wrench.
COMBATSYS: Acacia fails to counter Quick Throw from Haggar with Icon of Stone.
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Acacia watches Haggar's movements...but apparently, isn't fast enough. She hisses a breath, as he wrenches an arm round - damn near dislocating it, given her exhausted state. Her face hardens into an unexpressive mask. She doesn't make a sound...
...if she did, though. It'd be even more evident she's pissed.
Haggar rolls right with his hold, leaning his weight into Acacia in what is most likely going to put her on the ground. Hoping to keep her pinned, he finally releases her beleagured arm, moving to her legs and lifting them. He kind of does a thing, wrapping them both around one leg, then steps around so that he's no longer directly on top of her, but more kind of to her side. Then he squats. The arrangement of legs is such that this puts quite a lot of pressure on Acacia's.
Some call this the Sharpshooter.
COMBATSYS: Acacia blocks Haggar's Strong Throw.
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Acacia steels herself, ready, -expecting- the grapple manuever. She's resisted such holds before...and she figures she can do so again.
She also figured wrong. A fact that becomes apparent when she ends up - again - on the ground. Sure, she -fights- the move, but the effort's too much for her weakened state. Far too much. She can almost -feel- her consciousness slipping away, vision fading to black.
Acacia hisses.
Fine. Maybe she's going down. But not quietly.
Never quietly.
She goes limp in Haggar's hold. The last of her energy...going...elsewhere.
And there's a faint shimmer in the air, around Acacia. A distortion, like a heat haze, a mirage. A whine, running up and down the audio scale. Turning into a dull roar...
It might be enough of a warning for Haggar to get clear. Certainly, it's extremely -obvious- when waves of concussive force BLAST out from the girl, the last of her waking strength converted into kinetic chi, -cratering- the ground, raising chips of concrete and flying dust.
COMBATSYS: Acacia can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar dodges Acacia's Ground Breaker.
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Haggar's first warning is when Acacia just goes limp, and he leans back a little further suddenly. That couldn't possibly have thrown her into unconciousness that quickly-- shimmer in the air means run. Haggar lets go, the hold breaking fast, and just turns and dives away from Acacia. Having been fighting chi users more frequently than he used to, he's made it a note to try and get out of the way whenever something weird starts happening, and heat signatures where there is no heat is one of those things. The cratered ground is in fact cratered, and if it weren't for being built to hold so many arcade machines, it could've been in danger of completely giving way. Haggar practically falls on his rump in the corner of the arena, taking a moment to just breathe while she's moved out of the way, and Andy comes in.
COMBATSYS: Mike Haggar drops his guard to recover.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar takes no action.
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Andy still beaten up and bleeding, curse you Moustache Man *fistshake*, jumps back into the Arena as Acacia goes down and eyes the Mayor of Metro City warily. This is definitely not how this fight was supposed to go but cest la vie. Deciding not to mess around in this tight situation, Andy decides to give this fight every single bit that he's got and there's no time to screw around here he's got to hit the ground running!
Andy rushes forward summoning a large amount of chi into his hand and blasts it at close range at Haggar in a large pulsating blue orb.
"Geki Hishou Ken!"
COMBATSYS: Andy successfully hits Haggar with Geki Hishou Ken.
- Power hit! -
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Haggar growls and springs forward as the fireball comes, determined to push right through it this time and into Andy.
No.
The fireball catches him and explodes, again, hurling Haggar up into the air. However, it can't account for the big man's momentum, and he keeps moving forward, which is really good enough. He grimaces, positioning himself in an attempt to hook his legs around Andy's head and bring him down as he falls.
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Andy with Spinning Leg Takedown.
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Andy feels Haggars legs rap around his head and SLAM him down into the ground for much, much, much pain. This was definately a bad way to end a match, but Andy wasn't done yet. Rolling away from the imprint of his face in the tiles into a crouch the Youngest Bogard pants. This is the last roll of the dice for Andy. This was when he had to roll the Hard 6.
"Mister Haggar, sir," Andy says panting heavily, his white uniform a mess of blood. "I just...want to say...that it's been an honour fighting you."
The Youngest Bogard places his hands on the broken tiles beneath him and summons all of his power and channels it through his body. After a few seconds, Andy LEAPS off the ground with both feet facing the Living Wall of muscle that is Haggar.
"CHOU!" Andy screams as his body erupts in flames. "REPPA DAN!"
COMBATSYS: Haggar counters Chou Reppa Dan from Andy with Hammer Thru.
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Haggar rolls away after bringing him down, standing up somewhat unsteadily. "Same for you, kid... great fight. Just don't talk like it's already over!" He grits his teeth and leans back as Andy starts powering up superhard, and realizes that he's probably not going to be able to take this one if he wants to stay standing. He doesn't feel like he has another one of those throws left in him, so he just has the one chance. As Andy flies at him, he roars in defiance, sweeping his right arm across his body at Andy's feet, fully expecting him to blast through. He's almost surprised when he manages to shove his feet out of the way, but not quite surprised enough to bring his hands together and slam down hard on Andy's chest before he blazes right past him.
Andy owwws. He's clearly surprised too.
Andy completely broken and beaten up in so many places, though he's been beaten much harder than this, Andy Bogard somehow manages to roll backwards and push himself and his feet up and make a repeat of his flaming kick attack. Either way, Andy's not going to actually be able to move let alone fight when he collapses to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Andy can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Andy's Yami Abise Geri.
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Haggar doesn't bother trying to throw Andy, this time. It didn't work last time and it doesn't look like he even needs to. He leans back, sliding back a bit as the kick impacts his crossed arms. He takes a few more steps back to regain his balance, and waits for the requisite Dramatic Fight End pause. Then, when Andy isn't getting up again (as the Haggarfriends tend to), the wrestling mayor turns to the crowd, which has hushed. He stabs one finger up into the air, and the crowd's cheer almost drowns out his loud "YEAH!!"
Feilong has been waiting off at the side of the sectioned off area of the Arcade. He's seated and cheering his tag-partner. Feilong stands and gives a thumbs up towards Haggar, "What a show!" He exclaims towards his partner, "You are awesome."
Log created by Acacia, and last modified on 15:35:03 03/06/2006.