Description: Two wrestlers with different styles face off, and Hinako discovers just how important something like Haggar's years of experience can be. The gardners at Seijyun are reported to be unamused by several furrows and impact sites in the flower garden. (Winner: Haggar)
Ah, the flower garden. One of the nicest places on the Seijyun campus, and that's saying something. Hinako often comes here just to relax and enjoy the flowers, or maybe chat with friends. She's never been one for actual gardening, though. She doesn't mind the work, or getting dirty... But all those bugs terrify her.
She's not here to enjoy the sights today, though. It's been a while since Hinako has been in a Neo League fight, and it's time to start trying to work her way back up the rankings so everybody can know the glory of sumo! The main path cutting through the garden has been roped off, and Hinako waits at one end. The audience consists, unsurprisingly, largely of Seijyun students, although a few other people have been allowed on the grounds to observe the event. This will be Hinako's first time fighting a /mayor/ of all people. But neither his position nor his size scare her. She just wants to have fun, and this won't be the first time she's fought somebody with a considerable mass advantage.
The mighty Mike Haggar, ex-professional wrestler and Mayor of Metro City has no time for such foolery as flowers! He's far too busy with paperwork, then more paperwork, then more paperwork, and finally once he's all done with that paperwork he has some paperwork to catch up on. The government is far bloodier than street fighting could ever hope to be.
So it is that after ending his hiatus in one of Duck King's arranged matches back in Metro, Haggar has flown overseas to finally have his Neo League debut. He's stretching (and wearing an uncharacteristic black tanktop) over in one corner of the roped-off or however area, privately marveling at the distinct difference between this school and Gedo. The big man moves away from the corner closer to the center, and his right hand flexes as he instinctively prepares for a handshake. He remembers where he is, however, and makes a somewhat awkward bow toward Hinako.
...Sumo little girl. This should be interesting.
COMBATSYS: Haggar has started a fight here.
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Haggar 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Hinako has joined the fight here.
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Haggar 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako's bow toward Haggar is a fair bit smoother, but she gives no indication of noticing his awkwardness. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Haggar!" Both her words and the bright smile on her face seem perfectly sincere. Apparently she really is just a happy young girl. Just... She happens to be happy about the opportunity to try repeatedly slamming Haggar into the concrete path.
As she stands up from the bow, Hinako takes a brief moment to check the tape on her hands, then slams her fists together before leaning forward into her fighting stance. A league official standing a short distance off raises his hand and calls out, "Begin!"
"Here I come!" And with that, Hinako is off. Although she's used to dealing with large opponents, Haggar is a bit taller than those she usually fights. Aiming for his shoulders or to hook him under the arm is probably not going to work. That doesn't mean Hinako has no options, though. Charging at Haggar, Hinako reaches out with both hands. She attempts to get one on his hip and another up higher on the oppsite side of his torso. She's then going to try to pull forward and down at an angle to send the mayor crashing down on his side.
COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Hinako's Kake Nage.
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Haggar 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Hinako
Haggar drops into his wrestling stance just before the match's start is called, feet and hands set wide apart. He answers Hinako's greeting with a challenging grin, and takes a step forward once the match is called, eager to get things going.
To the big man's surprise, however, Hinako comes right for him and /harder/, and only reflexes born with experience keep him from being yanked right off his feet by the surprising strength and momentum. His left hand and knee drop to the ground, halting his downward progress, and he drives forward and up right back, breaking the hold and regaining his feet. He presses his momentum by locking both hands together and stepping forward, making one quick spin around and swinging his fists at the student like a giant mace.
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Hinako with Double Lariat.
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Haggar 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako is a bit on the short side for an attack like this, but apparently Haggar has taken that into his calculations. Hinako manages to bring her hands up into a defensive position, but it does relatively little good. If he was trying to knock her down, sure, her legs could take it. But being hit straight on, well... Hinako's hands get knocked right back into her face, and she's sent flying off her feet, crashing down on her back a fair distance away.
That's not going to deter the sumo girl, though. If you get knocked back, just charge right back in! And so she does, once she manages to climb to her feet and clear her head. "N-nice one!" Running toward Haggar once more, Hinako once again tries to get her arms around him. Knocking him /down/ didn't work so, if she manages to get a grip, Hinako rears back to yank her huge opponent right up off the ground so that she can hurl him skywards. Of course, it's not the fall that hurts. It's the landing.
COMBATSYS: Haggar dodges Hinako's Strong Throw.
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Haggar 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Hinako
The Mayor has fought short people before, though they tended to be short, bald balls of muscle. Even so, when his hit knocks Hinako flying, he can't help but wince. Still, she came right back at him. Appearances can definitely be deceiving.
When Hinako goes for the next throw, Haggar defeats it by deftly dropping and rolling back, hands slapping out as he rises and steps to the left. He then steps back into close range, bracing his right hand on his left wrist and crouching low to drive his elbow at the young girl without actually hitting her in the face.
COMBATSYS: Hinako endures Haggar's Quick Punch.
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Haggar 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Hinako
Haggar's got a considerable reach advantage over her, so Hinako wants to try to stay in as close to him as possible. This means, unfortunately, that dodging attacks is pretty much out of the question. So when Haggar's elbow comes driving in at her, Hinako lets it slam into her chest, driving the air from her lungs.
But even as she takes a gasping breath, the sumo girl is already pushing in toward Haggar, attempting to slip underneath his arms and drive into him with a shoulder charge. Normally she goes for the chest with this, but in Haggar's case she'll have to settle for a bit lower.
COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Haggar with Oo-ichiban.
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Haggar 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako's shoulder slams into Haggar with satisfying force, and then the little sumo unleashes her true strength. Her arms become a blur as she launches a furious flurry of palm strikes across Haggar's torso, trying to drive the mayor backwards step by step. Finally she stops, but not before a dual handed strike to the very center of Haggar's stomach. And while he's dealing with /that/, she reaches out to wrap her arms around his torso. (As best she can, anyway.) Hinako then heaves back, yanking Haggar up off the ground and hurling him up and away from her with rather surprising force.
Mike Haggar sees Hinako coming with a shoulder charge - an easily defeated move that desperate gang members usually employed. Against one of his size, it's pure foolishness! Haggar begins to push back to his feet, slamming his shoulder forward to defeat Hinako's moment-
What is this nonsense with the palm striking and the speed and the pain oh god. Once again Haggar is taught the problems of fighting someone without studying their techniques first, having made a serious mistake in treating this attack like a standard brawling move. Bruises blossom on the wrestler's chest in the same manner as they do in the garden, and the dual-handed strike causes him to double over with a wheeze. The final throw sends him up(?!?) and away, where he plows a furrow into the grasses before dragging his elbows and heels into the ground to halt himself. The cheers for Hinako only add to the brief confusion before he reminds himself that he's very far from home indeed.
With a grunt, Haggar shoves back to his feet, hooking a thumb under his strap and pulling it away from his chest before releasing it with a satisfying slap, despite the bruises. Then he's off again, long legs eating up the ground until he gets to Hinako, at which point he'll try to lift her up and trap her arms. If that works, well, it should be obvious what comes next...
COMBATSYS: Hinako fails to interrupt Repeated Headbutts from Haggar with Tasuki Nage.
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Haggar 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hinako
Oh, so Haggar wants to grapple with Hinako, does he? Well, she'll show him! When the wrestling mayor reaches out to grab her, Hinako reaches out to grab him right back, intending to send him flying before he can finish with his technique. There is, however, one serious flaw in her plan. Namely, when she attempts to throw Haggar, she realizes that she is currently several feet off the ground. Uh-oh.
A severe headache later, Hinako finds herself once more on the ground and staggering back from Haggar, vision swimming as she tries to remember how to focus her eyes again.
Haggar welcomes the break in action after his stone-like forehead impacts Hinako's presumably soft girl-like forehead several times, and he takes a few steps back as well, slowly circling to the right. He probably got lucky just then - charge again and she's probably going to manage to turn his great momentum against him. So, thumbing his moustache contemplatively, Haggar keeps a short distance, willing to let Hinako come to him.
COMBATSYS: Haggar focuses on his next action.
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Haggar 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako still needs a moment to come to her senses. Her head isn't exactly soft, but Haggar's is still considerably harder, and she's a bit scrambled at the moment. Shaking herself a few times does eventually manage to clear things up, though. "You're pretty impressive, sir." Hinako slaps her cheeks a few times, then takes a deep breath. Okay. It's time to get back in this fight. Just as soon as she's sure her head isn't going to fall off her shoulders.
COMBATSYS: Hinako gains composure.
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Haggar 1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Hinako
The big man offers a half-grin back. "You're not so bad yourself, girl!" On 'girl,' he explodes forward again, fists drawing back as though he's about to deliver a heavy blow--
But then, a few short feet away, he drops down to skid across the grass, ankles seeking to lock up one of Hinako's as he slides past. If he manages this, he'll come back up behind Hinako and try to seize her opposite arm, clamping it over his shoulder as he falls prone with her in tow, a hold that mostly puts pressure across the back and abdomen. It also looks very awkward, due to the size difference, but who cares about those semantics!
COMBATSYS: Hinako dodges Haggar's Strong Throw.
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Haggar 1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Hinako
Hinako blinks in surprise as Haggar comes sliding across the grass toward her. That was unexpected. And while her legs are quite sturdy, she doesn't think she's quite up to taking an entire Huge to the ankles. This really leaves her with only one option. Jumping straight up into the air, and letting Haggar slide past underneath her.
At least, start to slide past. Hinako isn't some sort of crazy ninja who can leap a billion feet up into the air. And Haggar's body is long enough that it takes some time for it to slide past, so it looks unlikely that Hinako is going to be able to avoid landing on his back. This does, however, present her with the option of stomping down on top of him as she lands. Yet another use for wearing shoes with heavy weights in them!
COMBATSYS: Haggar counters Strong Kick from Hinako with Power Swing.
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Haggar 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Hinako
Luckily for Haggar, he was in fact sliding on his back, able to see every moment of his horrible failure as Hinako just jumps over his seeking ankles. He also sees every moment of the fantastic opportunity as Hinako comes down for a stomp, surging upwards as he lashes out toward his ankle.
At the moment of contact there is one of those mysterious blue flares that fighters tend to exhibit, and everything slows down as Haggar finishes surging to his feet, beginning to twist his body with the sumo little girl in tow. His feet hardly seem to move as he spins two complete circles before releasing Hinako toward a particularly large bunch of flowers. "Hooyeah!"
And once more, everything is a blur for Hinako. A much faster moving one, this time. At least until she's launched, and everything snaps into focus just in time for her to see the bunch of flowers she plows into a moment later. Oof. But a few moments later she surges to her feet, flower petals scattering everywhere. "I'm not done yet!"
Once more Hinako charges toward Haggar, this time attempting to slip by on his side, while slamming one outstretched arm into his stomach. If she can do that, she'll give Haggar a little spin of his own. There are no nearby walls to drive him into, so she'll twirl around twice before slamming the mayor heavily into the concrete path. She'll happily pay the school for the damages if this works.
COMBATSYS: Haggar endures Hinako's Yorigiri.
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Haggar 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Hinako
Mike Haggar sets himself as Hinako comes at him, rolling his neck with a series of cracks. Hinako may notice as she impacts Haggar and starts twisting him around that he's moving with her throw, adjusting so that when she pulls him up and into the concrete path, it's at least partially on his own terms. "Hahaha... good!" At this point, Haggar tries to keep a hold on Hinako as she (assumedly) pulls away from the grapple, hoping to both let her partially bring him back to his feet, and keep her off-balance so that he can pull her roughly towards him. (More if.)
COMBATSYS: Hinako fails to interrupt Screw Piledriver from Haggar with Gasshou Hineri.
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COMBATSYS: Hinako can no longer fight.
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And so, Haggar keeps his hold, dragging Hinako back to him as he levers back to his feet. The crowd at this point can see blood running down his back from his trip to the concrete, but nothing in the wrestler's face, grinning with the VIGOR OF THE FIGHT, indicates that he's feeling any pain between that and the network of bruises on his chest and abdomen. Once Haggar has Hinako locked close to him, he takes off, leaping far higher than any man has a right to, body whirling in midair.
While soaring, Haggar turns Hinako upside down, bringing both his legs up. Normally he'd shove his opponent down until the top of their head meets the ground an instant before his own landing, but due to Hinako being a TINY GIRL it's not all that feasible. Regardless, the shock of Haggar's forceful landing back on the grass - grass which gives way to a small crater of soft earth - should more than do for something. On impact, the mayor releases the student, springing backwards in a crouch for any return fire.
As the explosion of dirt and grass clears away, Hinako is revealed to be flat on her back in the center of the crater. She tries to get up for a moment, but barely manages to lift herself at all before collapsing back to the ground. She smiles weakly, staring up at the sky since she can't see Haggar from her position. "You win, sir. There's no way I can keep going like this."
And once that submission has been accepted, the verdict is officially announced, and the audience begins with their cheering. Given the location it's not quite as much cheering as there might have been if Hinako were to win, but the schoolgirls aren't going to hold a grudge just because one of their own lost. Most of them, anyway.
Haggar gives a more subdued version of his usual victory pose - facing the (cheering) fans and lifting one finger on his right hand. It's still done, but more to get it out of the way before walking over to where Hinako is, crouching down, and offering a hand up, complete with a warm, almost fatherly smile. "Hey. Good fight."
Hinako accepts the proferred hand, managing to climb a bit unsteadily back to her feet. Luckily it's not that far to the nurse's office, and they know her rather well there. "You too. Looks like I still have a ways to go." She doesn't appear disappointed by that fact, though. She's still smiling brightly, even if she's a bit more banged up now than she was at the start of the match. "Time for more training!" After a little bit of rest. She's not /that/ crazy.
COMBATSYS: Haggar has ended the fight here.
Log created by Hinako, and last modified on 08:25:49 02/25/2007.