Description: Four Rising Stars compete in this battle at Howard Arena. (Unfortunately the auto-logger was not turned on for this fight...) (Draw Match)
It's Saturday night, Howard Arena is packed, and people are ready for some violence. That's right, it's once again time for SNF! The hometown event this week is a chance for some of the younger fighters out there to show their stuff, and demonstrate just why they're starting to earn fanbases of their own.
Hinako Shijou stands at one side of the arena floor, rocking back and forth lightly despite her weighted shoes, lacing her fingers together before briefly popping the joints in her hands. In all honesty, she doesn't really care /who/ she fights... As long as they aren't mean about it. She's also still not at her best in team fights, although she's got enough experience with them by now that she's getting the hang of it.
And it looks like this will be an opportunity for Hinako to experience some new fighting styles. She has a little familiarity with one of her opponents, but that's it thus far. And she's at least heard Ingrid's name before. Lupin, though... Him she's not really familiar with. So it looks like tonight will be full of surprises! ...Hopefully pleasant ones.
Ingrid walks down the stairs at Hinako's end of the arena, smiling and waving to the crowd that's amassed. Even if it isn't Geese Howard himself fighting there seems to be quite a few of them who've showed up to watch. Rising stars... Is that what Ingrid is? She smiles to herself at the thought. Certainly she's not a falling star, though at this point she isn't so sure whether she's a star or not at all.
The young Norwegian strides up beside Hinako confidently, a smile set upon her face. "Good evening, Hinako. I'm glad to finally find myself fighting at your side rather than against you. I must thank you with all my heart for helping me against that man when he showed up at the fight set up by Mr. Duck King. Please accept my deepest gratitude."
Another Saturday Night Fight. Word from the Home Office in Schenectady has been rare lately, yet Aislinn knows that her support at NESTS is not gone--else she would have been eliminated. However, Aislinn is left to fill her own time nowadays, for the most part, and she's been taking part in Neo League and Saturday Night Fight matches to do so. Such matches are always good for training in 'real combat'... Hinako is known to her, as is Ingrid. Lupin is the only variable--but he's on her side which means she won't have to deal with him. That's all well and good.
Now that it's time for the fight, with Hinako and Ingrid having shown up on their side, it's down to Aislinn to do the same--which she does with a no-nonsense march up to the platform.
Stepping up onto the stone flooring she merely eyes Ingrid and Hinako--no greeting for her partner. That'll wait 'til he proves himself. However, as she waits, she's studying her opponents... reviewing information and correlating to current known statistics. Preparing.
COMBATSYS: Aislinn focuses on her next action.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Lupin
Lupin strides along the walkway to the arena floor as the announcers warm the crowd up, spinning a tonfa in each hand, his expression one of utmost confidence. He steps onto the floor and takes up position on his team's side. Turning to Ingrid and Hinako, he bows low, including Aislin in that as well as she arrives. "You are fortunate today. You have a chance to see Lupin Sazama, the ORANGE LIGHTNING of Justice High, make his debut return!" His voice is simply overflowing with self-assurance, and as he speaks orange energy begins to flow from his hands, wrapping around the wooden tonfa he holds. "Three years have I been absent from Southtown. But now I'm back." He settles into a fighting pose, keeping his seething tonfa flush along his arms. "And I'm ready. Let's do this."
COMBATSYS: Lupin focuses on his next action.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Lupin
While not /every/ moment of a sumo match is necessarily an epic clash between powerhouses, there generally isn't much standing around. Hinako does occasionally slow things down a bit to look for a good opening from which to approach her opponent, but that's certainly not how you /start/ a fight! First, though... She nods deeply to Ingrid. "It's my pleasure, really. And... I'm not really sure what was up with that man, but it's clear that he was up to no good. But he's not here now, and we've got a new battle to fight!"
And then, it seems, it's time for the fight to start. Hinako wastes no time in charging across the stone floor, rapidly closing the distance between herself and Lupin. And she doesn't plan on stopping until she's full on crashed into him, wrapped her arms around his torso, and hurled him up into the air. That's the plan, anyway.
CSYS: Hinako has targeted Lupin with an attack.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Lupin
Ingrid would have to disagree with that assessment. Studying an opponent for holes in their defenses is certainly a perfect way to begin a fight. She nods to the sumo as the reply is given, "I wish to speak with you about it later, if you wouldn't mind, but for now let us focus upon this newest challenge, hmm?"
She turns her attention to Lupin when he gives his dramatic entrance, eyes focusing on the energy that surrounds his tonfa. Interesting. "Well I'm pleased to meet you, Lupin Orange Lightning Sazamaya." She gives him a curtsy in response to his bow, "My name is Ingrid Holmann, but if you wish you may call me Eternal Goddess." A humorous smile hints onto her face when she says this. She follows Hinako as she dashes in towards the unknown fighter, but doesn't move to attack, her eyes scanning both him and Aislinn and making careful note of their moves. Both of the opponents are being tactically careful, and if neither she nor her partner do it could land them in trouble. She doesn't intend to let Hinako get double teamed.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid focuses on her next action.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Lupin
As expected, Hinako looks to start things off with a bang--who could fault Aislinn for doing any less? Other than that she started her fight early... but who's to know? With Hinako going for Lupin, she supposes that Ingrid is left to her, in this match of 'Rising Stars'... and so it is with a smirk that she goes, crossing the distance between Ingrid and herself in a few long steps that turns out to be a leap--Aislinn rising into the air then redirecting herself downwards with a sharply-angled flying kick, leading with her right foot.
The moment her foot is extended an aura of red-white snaps into being around it, flaring bright and carving a fading streak through the as she flies.
COMBATSYS: Lupin counters Tasuki Nage from Hinako with Body Slam.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Lupin
Lupin is the perfect picture of calm as Hinako drives at him, though the roiling energy on his tonfa intensifies. His eyes narrow as she begins to commit to her attack, and at just the right moment his hands whirl, whipping the tonfa around until he's holding them like hooks. He snaps one tonfa against the girl's shoulder and the other against the inside of her knee, ducking low to avoid the grasping arms and drawing his tonfa in a precise circular motion to push her upper body backward and pull her leg out from underneath, yanking her off-balance and sending her to the ground. He straightens up smoothly, twirling a tonfa casually. "Pleased to meet you," he offers with a smirk.
"Likewise." Hinako doesn't bother to get herself back up before she starts speaking, because she doesn't want to waste the element of surprise. Getting up is, for obvious reasons, not something that's taught as part of the sumo fighting style. But it's another thing that Hinako has picked up as she's gone along. Shifting her weight back and then rocking forward, the little sumo quickly rights herself into a crouching position, then springs up with a palm strike aimed for the dead center of Lupin's chest.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid counters Medium Kick from Aislinn with Sun Upper.
- Power hit! -
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Ingrid 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Lupin
Ingrid lets out a light hum as Hinako's attack is reversed on her and she's sent to the ground, but luckily that's the sort of thing the young woman specializes in, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem for her. And she already seems to have recovered and gone back on the attack. That leaves her to deal with Aislinn. Even if she was watching her teammate, Ingrid was carefully aware of Aislinn's approach, helped in no small part by the psychic empathy she possesses. At one moment she seems completely oblivious to the attack, and the next she's twisting her feet, turning on her heels and leaning forward towards her as she flies in heel first. And then she points. A swirling disk of golden energy springs to life in front of herself with amazing speed, catching the foot and the whole of Aislinn within it and stopping her momentum, the pointed finger quickly sweeping upwards with a flourish that causes the energy to fling the NESTS agent right up into the air, the height of the jump only making it worse for her to fall back do the ground below. Everything seems to be in perfect order.
That was... to put it mildly... -unpleasant-. Aislinn knew that Ingrid had counterattacking techniques--she didn't expect them to be that powerful. She doesn't just land--she lands flat on her back and bounces up about three feet then lands again, a thick gout of blood inadvertently spat from her mouth as she crashes back down to the stone flooring. She doesn't even move for a moment; she just lays there, her systems scrambled like eggs at an IHOP. She isn't sure she can move... but then she can, shakily, biting back a scream as her tortured back protests her sitting up... and then pushing to her feet.
All that preparation...a nd it was for nothing at all. She has no more plans, no more tactics... just a deep, overriding pain that is the center of her universe for a moment. And then she growls--a low sound, not easily audible--lunging for Ingrid despite that pain--having already shunted it to the back of her mind--dropping her fists low to the ground... as she approaches blazing, red-white blades of pure electrical chi form around her hands, along the line of them, the tips scraping up lines of sparks as she charges Ingrid--and as she closes she'll sweep those energy blades across Ingrid's position twice--once crossing inwards and then again crossing outwards.
COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Lupin with Quick Punch.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 Lupin
Lupin's head whips around as Ingrid launches her attack, staring hard at the girl. Hard enough that he's nearly heedless of his teammate's plight...and his own. The punch comes in too fast for him to react to, and it strikes him square in the chest. He reels backward, a scowl of pain on his face. It clears after a moment, but he still seems uncertain as to his next course of action. He glances back at Aislinn and Ingrid once more, then turns his attention back to Hinako, and shrugs wordlessly before raising his arms above his head, the tonfa held tight to his arms. "Good night" accompanies the double-hammer, the tonfa coming down in a powerful arc to crash onto Hinako's head. Certainly no compunctions here about attacking girls.
COMBATSYS: Hinako interrupts Fierce Punch from Lupin with Kake Nage.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Lupin
The tonfa come down, but it's not Hinako's head that they crash into. The sumo girl firmly plants her feet on the ground, watching Lupin launch into his assault. And as the tonfa lash out at her, she responds by swiftly raising her left arm. The weapons meet her slim forearm... and are stopped dead in their tracks. Hinako smiles sweetly as she reaches out with her free hand, slipping it underneath one of Lupin's raised arms before using that position as leverage to hurl him down to the arena floor.
Settling back down into her normal stance, Hinako takes a moment to rub at the spot where the tonfa hit her. It stings a little bit, but nothing she can't handle.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Lupin
Retaliation. Powerful retaliation. Ingrid does her best to keep her eyes on Aislinn as well as Lupin, in case Hinako needs help or the young man decides to charge her instead. But that isn't the case, and Hinako appears to have everything under control. And Aislinn is getting back up, just as Ingrid was sure she would. It seems that it's with a vengeance as well, the cyborg seemingly ill content to let Ingrid get away with such a powerful move unscathed, coming at her with blades of electricity.
But as soon as she jumps forward, so does Ingrid, throwing herself to the side powerfully and avoiding the blades altogether, landing back on her feet once she's out of the way. And she doesn't intend to let the matter drop, quickly throwing her arm out in an underhand motion and flinging a large shining ball of energy forward towards her, sparkles of her psycho power trailing after her limb, her movements especially smooth and graceful in order to put on a good show for the audience.
COMBATSYS: Aislinn slows Sun Shot from Ingrid with Large Thrown Object.
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Ingrid 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Lupin
Ingrid isn't willing to press the matter? That's fine with Aislinn; she is working under a rising tide of 'find Ingrid and close her hands around that throat and -squeeze-'. But first she'll have to get close--a matter which Ingrid doesn't seem to want to have happen. Aislinn frowns briefly when the blast of energy comes in--then whips off her jacket, thrusting the leather at the psi energy--energy which eats up the jacket then slams into Aislinn... but at, at least, a slightly reduced power level. The impacted area steams with residual energy... and Aislinn's eyes are starting to burn with emotion. She may be the Silent Assassin, but she's not a cold one right now.
Lupin has little time to protest with more than a "What-?!" before Hinako yanks him down to the ground, slamming onto his back with far more pain than he might have expected. It knocks the wind out of him, but he rolls away as fast as he's able, coming up to his knees a few feet away from Hinako and panting heavily.
Once more Lupin's attention is torn from his own fight back to Aislinn's. He frowns, his expression quite bewildered. With a shake of his head, he glances back to Hinako before standing up, facing the white-haired girl. He spins his tonfa around like a gunslinger, and indeed holds them like guns pointed toward Ingrid. "Far be it for me to intrude, but this IS a team fight," he calls, and the orange energy around his tonfa intensifies suddenly into searing brightness, exploding from the 'muzzles'. The violent energy stretches out like two brilliant shafts of light, converging right as they hit Ingrid, or at least where she was last seen.
Indeed, it is a team fight. And Hinako's not just going to hang back and let the other team beat up on her partner. Still, there's no reason she can't mix things up a bit. She has confidence that Ingrid can handle herself when it comes to Lupin, so she'll take this opportunity to see if she can't find an opening for attacking Aislinn.
After all, the Silent Assassin hasn't had to deal with the sumo yet this fight, so she might not be ready with a defense. Hinako charges in, going right past Lupin and continuing on to try to slam herself into Aislinn. She leads with her hand, though, attempting to hit the cyborg in the stomach with a palm strike. She's still got momentum to burn, though, so the next step is to use both hands to hopefully send Aislinn sprawling out on the floor.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid slows Hellstorm Lance from Lupin with Sun Shot.
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Ingrid 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Lupin
So it looks like Hinako is going to try and take on Aislinn, and certainly Lupin is gunning for Ingrid, so the young Norwegian decides to deal with him and his energy. Hmm... He's relatively new to the fighting circuit, and while she's unsure of the potency of his energy, she sure doesn't want to take the brunt of it head on. She's had some... painful experiences that way. So instead of that, she swings her arm in the very same motion as she did before, lobbing a golden ball of energy out towards Lupin and putting it in the path of his energy blasts. One of them strikes it and is absorbed completely, but the second one hits and obliterates the golden ball, much to Ingrid's dismay, the remnants flying forward and striking her in the center of her chest. She lets out a little gasp, of surprise as much as anything, and stumbles backwards. Energy control is her strong point, so she's taken aback a little that he managed to overpower her. She gives him a small smile, "Well this should be interesting."
COMBATSYS: Aislinn blocks Hinako's Combo Throw.
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Ingrid 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Lupin
Both palm strikes are met with Aislinn's forearms; she had heard the sumo coming (hard not to) and was barely able to prepare that defense. She bounces backwards from the power of those strikes, and if her target's changed, the barely-restrained fury and pain don't seem to have, in any measure; Aislinn skids to a halt on her feet and focuses her wildened lavender eyes on Hinako. She's not quite to the point of Iori-style roaring--but that kind of force is evident in her actions anyways, lunging forward as she snaps an energy-laced kick at Hinako's leading knee--the better, perhaps, to injure it, should she connect properly.
Lupin, for his part, narrows his eyes at the loss of power. That didn't hit nearly as strongly as it should have. "Yes..interesting," he murmurs, then shouts, "Prepare yourself!" Breaking into a run, he charges straight for Ingrid, flipping his tonfa to grip them more firmly. He leaps forward, raising the tonfa above his head in an X, then sweeps them down sharply to his sides as he lands in front of the girl. The wooden tonfa trace two bright orange streaks of energy in the air just in front of where they cross. With luck, he judged the distance right, and those streaks will cut right into her.
COMBATSYS: Hinako endures Aislinn's Light Kick.
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Ingrid 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Lupin
Hinako winces as Aislinn's foot slams into her knee, but her leg doesn't buckle. She doesn't even slow down, in fact, pushing right through the kick and shoving the cyborg's leg back as she barrels right through the attack. Tiny little blonde freight train, she is. "Hyah!"
Reaching out toward Aislinn, Hinako attempts to hook a hand under both of her opponent's arms. Should she succeed, she proceeds to spin around, yanking Aislinn up and off her feet before launching her away at a downward angle.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid dodges Lupin's Blaze Cross.
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Ingrid 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Lupin
Attempting to stop Lupins last attack with one of her own proved useless to Ingrid, having got her nothing more than a chestful of energy. So this time she tries a standard approach, leaping high up into the air and arcing forward, managing to vault right over the streaks of energy that are sent her way. The young woman gives the fighter a slight wink after her acrobatic feat, and then raises her arms up above her head before sweeping them down forward, a large stream of energy releasing from her and threatening to completely immerse him. It's quickly becoming one of her trademark attacks.
COMBATSYS: Aislinn interrupts Medium Throw from Hinako with Shining Edge.
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Ingrid 0/-------/----===|=======\===----\1 Aislinn
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Hinako 1/------=/=======|-------\-------\0 Lupin
Aislinn is caught, and spun... and even thrown. In fact, it hardly looked like she even tried to defend herself. And she didn't, really; her explanation would have been, "I'm busy." Busy with what? Well--busy with creating and sending a ripping, human-sized blade of electrical energy stabbing up from the stone flooring right into Hinako--even as Aislinn is tossed away. She manages to tuck and roll a little with the resultant impact... but she's definitely not long for this world, as when she stands, she's favoring one leg, that leg bent in towards her...
COMBATSYS: Lupin reflects Sunbeam from Ingrid with Brilliant Shield.
- Power hit! -
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Ingrid 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Aislinn
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Hinako 1/------=/=======|=------\-------\0 Lupin
Lupin doesn't go in for much of that bouncing around stuff, it seems. He follows Ingrid's path, turning to face her as she lands with an indolent gaze. Of course, just because he chooses not to dodge around doesn't mean he's slow. The telegraphed arm-raising prompts his own reaction, and he holds his arms up, tonfa acting as a barrier between him and the onrush of energy. Orange light flares into existence again, creating a circular shield that blocks Ingrid's attack, reflecting some of it back into her. He backs up a step or two, even so, lowering his arms as the stream of energy fades. "Got anything else?" he asks, affecting a yawn.
Hinako's body jerks back as the electrical wave lashes over her, muscles briefly spasming in unpleasant ways. It passes quickly, though, and it's not enough to take Hinako out of the fight for long. But now there's been some distance opened up between the two of them, and it looks like Ingrid might be able to use some assistance.
"As a matter of fact..." Hinako's voice proceeds her as she charges toward Lupin, but she actually /wants/ him to turn toward her. She's ducking low as she runs, intending to slam into him with her right shoulder. "...we do!"
Now that was a surprise. Earlier he was able to turn Hinako's attack around on her, and now Lupin turns Ingrid's power against her. The energy flows over her, and she winces slightly... but truth be told, she's very, very used to her own power. She'd been struck by it constantly when she was a child, and has built up a horribly powerful resistance to it. "I must congratulate you on that... but I don't take kindly to my power being turned against me." Of course there's a smile on her face as she talks; what he did isn't the worst kind of turning her power on her, ask Vega about what is. She raises her arms again in exactly the same manner, and energy begins to flow out... but then she quickly aborts the maneuver and reaches out, trying to grab him by the arm and swing him, stepping forward towards Hinako and then attempting to hurl him straight at her and increase the impact. Teamwork!
While in pain, Aislinn is still seeing clearly... or at least as clearly as she can. The pain is quickly being blunted by her cybernetic systems; they can't shut down nerves totally but the intensity of the pain impulse can be moderated. And Aislinn has been toughening herself up anwyays... having finally dealt damage to one of her opponents, Aislinn looks (in her own subdued fashion) displeased that they would team-up on Lupin...
... he isn't her teammate. Precious few can claim that. And he isn't a friend. Even -fewer- can claim that. But Aislinn won't stand by and let them team-up on Lupin, without consequences, any more than these other two would let her and Lupin do the same. So, tired as she is, and in pain... she practically flies forward, her aim to grab Ingrid by the shoulder...
COMBATSYS: Ingrid successfully hits Lupin with Quick Throw.
- Power hit! -
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Ingrid 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Lupin
COMBATSYS: Lupin counters Oo-ichiban from Hinako with Brick Wall.
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Ingrid 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Lupin
The distraction works, to a certain extent. As Hinako calls out and makes it clear she's coming for him, Lupin glances over his shoulder to check on her position. It's just enough time for Ingrid to grab his arm and fling him toward Hinako. Good thing his attention was already on her, yeah? Ingrid threw him off just enough that he collides with Hinako's shoulder, but his tonfa are already moving. One comes up high to push Hinako off-balance by the shoulder just enough that she can't follow up, while the other comes in low to catch her at the side of her waist with the side of the weapon. It's not flashy, but there's solid muscle behind that equally solid wood.
That second baton slips in and up under Hinako's ribs, momentarily driving the wind out of her. But she's not going to just fall down without a fight, even if Lupin /did/ manage to knock her out of the technique she was /trying/ to use. She may be falling, but her hands are still free. She tries to yank down on one of Lupin's arms as she falls, while her other hand goes for the back of his head. No effort is spared for breaking her own fall; she's focused entirely on bringing him with her.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid fails to counter Momentum Overdrive from Aislinn with Sun Lower.
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Ingrid 1/----===/=======|=------\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Lupin
... contact. Normally, Aislinn would drive Ingrid to a wall and pummel her. That option isn't available to her and so she grabs Ingrid's shoulder, hauls her down, and starts -pummeling-. It's like Ralf's Umanori Vulcan Punch, basically; Aislinn straddles Ingrid's midsection then begins firing her fists into Ingrid's upper body and face. The rain of punches is a fierce one, the sound like a hail of drumbeats or a typhoon battering a tin shack, and it lasts for nearly ten seconds, before Aislinn rears back, clasps her hands together, and smashes her doubled-up fists onto Ingrid's chest, the momentum bouncing Aislinn back and into the process of regaining her feet.
Ingrid had dropped to one knee and pointed, trying to form a solid barrier between Aislinn and herself, only to find it the NESTS agent coming at her far too fast for the attempt to be accomplished, getting pounded to the ground by the force of the tackle and then being beaten horribly about the face and chest. It's... not pretty. Whereas Ingrid was doing her best to remain graceful, now she has no choice but to get savagely beaten. Horribly enough that some blood is actually coughed up from both getting hit in the face and in the stomach, and the final blow to the chest causes her to let out a sharp cry of pain. It takes her way, way too long to try and get back up, and though she doesn't look /too/ bad, that certainly had a profound effect on her.
Perhaps that will be payback enough for that terrible thrashing she took at the opening of the fight. Aislinn rises to her feet--then realizes how vulnerable she is right now, how tired... the damage is more than she can hope to mend at this point in time, but Ais certainly intends to go down fighting. But she can't fight forever; so she concentrates, and calls forth power, power that runs through her body, replenishing and revitalizing to a small amount, giving her what she will need to see this fight through. She and Lupin may not win--but she wants her opponents to remember this fight.
COMBATSYS: Aislinn gathers her will.
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Ingrid 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Aislinn
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COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Lupin with Kake Nage.
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Ingrid 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Lupin
Lupin would try to step back from Hinako, but Aislinn and Ingrid are kind of in the way. He just can't move fast enough to pull away from Hinako, and she brings him straight to the ground, colliding face-first with it. He hisses between his teeth with the pain, the metallic taste of blood quite evident in his mouth. Not knocked out yet, but not far from it either...
Close-in groundfighting isn't really his thing, and he pushes himself to a kneeling position as quickly as he can. As he does so, he whips a tonfa around to provide him with a nice stabbing tip. Eyes flicking over Hinako's prone body, he locates a joint that hurts quite nicely when pressure is applied to it /just so/...he snaps his arm back, then drives the tonfa tip like a dagger against said pressure point, orange flames shooting down along the wood as well. It's not entirely chivalrous, attacking a girl while she's down, but chivalry doesn't win one many fights.
COMBATSYS: Hinako interrupts Break Point from Lupin with Gasshou Hineri.
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Ingrid 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1 Lupin
Having a stick jabbed into your pressure points is really, really unpleasant. But if Hinako wanted only pleasant things, she wouldn't be a fighter. As Lupin is stabbing down, Hinako is already leaping up with one arm outstretched. The tonfa jabs into her, and her own momentum makes it an even harder impact, but there's also enough force that after a moment the weapon is deflected to the side, sliding along Hinako's body.
The sumo, however, is /not/ deflected. She manages to get an arm around Lupin's throat, yanking him back off his feet even as her shoes touch the ground. She spins around in two quick circles, dragging him along for the ride, then releases her opponent like a shot put, sending him sailing away from her.
Ingrid got worn down fast from that attack of Aislinns, stumbling a little even now that she's on her feet. Lupin goes for Hinako, and she takes the jab and ends up hurling him off away from her, seemingly able to handle herself nicely. But Aislinn still needs to be dealt with, doesn't she? And it looks like Ingrid's in the best position to do so, even if she's going to try and power herself up. The young blonde may be asking for some serious pain to attack her when she's ready, but she has few choices left. She moves in cautiously, and then pulls her arm back and sends a hard right handed slap towards Aislinn's cheek. It's not meant as an insult; it has serious force behind it. And likely not much sting either, considering her gloves.
COMBATSYS: Aislinn blocks Ingrid's Strong Punch.
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Ingrid 1/---====/=======|======-\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1 Lupin
Aislinn is -just- as tired... and at least twice as pained. Still she raises her forearm, catching that slap on the interposed limb. Lupin--well, she's been Gasshou Hineri'ed the hell out before, she knows what it's like. The guy did well, though, all things considered, and he probably helped stem the tide. But anyways. Back to the matter at hand--that being Ingrid--Aislinn takes her upraised forearm and returns the slap with one of her own. This one isn't meant to insult either, but it's certainly faster than it is strong, even with the crackle of electricity running along her palm.
"HURK?" Lupin is caught -completely- off guard. Slight as Hinako may be, she's vastly tougher than she looks, and the Justice High student pays the price of underestimation. She carries him around like a helpless rag doll, and his best efforts to break his fall amount to nothing, sending him skidding along the arena floor to the far side. He tumbles and spins, and when he finally comes to a stop he's looking /very/ beat up.
Lupin staggers to ne knee, breathing hard. "No!" There's a crack in his voice; the calm he displayed during the fight is replaced by a ragged fury. "I will not end it there!" The glow around his tonfa pulses brighter and brighter, and he points them straight at Hinako. Just as he did to Ingrid, the fire streaks out in two white-hot lances, both aimed at the sumo girl. It visibly drains him at this point, and the blasts shut off quickly, leaving him to fall backward, conscious but simply unable to keep fighting.
COMBATSYS: Lupin can no longer fight.
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Ingrid 1/---====/=======|======-\-------\0 Aislinn
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Hinako 0/-------/-----==|
COMBATSYS: Lupin successfully hits Hinako with Hellstorm Lance.
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Ingrid 1/---====/=======|======-\-------\0 Aislinn
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And once again Hinako falls victim to the fact that she's just not very good at dealing with people who can toss fireballs and the like about with casual ease. She tries to leap to the side as the energy lances shoot out, but one of them slams into her stomach and stops her from getting far enough even to avoid the second, which hits her in the side at the base of the ribs.
She isn't /quite/ sent sprawling out, but it's pretty close to it. She's stumbling, arms windmilling in a frantic attempt to regain her balance. At least it happens to have knocked her in Aislinn's direction. Giving up on the idea of trying to keep her balance, she simply uses her arms to lash out with a quick series of palm strikes, finishing with an overhead blow with both palms before she collapses in a heap on the floor.
COMBATSYS: Hinako can no longer fight.
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Ingrid 1/---====/=======|======-\-------\0 Aislinn
COMBATSYS: Ingrid dodges Aislinn's Jab Punch.
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Ingrid 1/---====/=======|======-\-------\0 Aislinn
Ingrid looks over just in time to see Hinako getting blasted by a pair of energy blasts from Lupin. She winces a little as they seem to strike perfectly, but at least she seems to be getting a few shots off at Aislinn in the meantime. But at the moment she has to deal with the cyborg herself, quickly ducking down and causing the slap to go above her head, missing her completely. Well, she'd better try /something/, and if Hinako is going to attack Aislinn with her last breath, Ingrid can't afford to stand around and do nothing. She takes in a deep breath and decides to try something that failed against Lupin, raising her arms and then pushing them down towards her and sending out a large stream of energy. Hopefully between the pair of them they'll manage to take Aislinn down!
COMBATSYS: Hinako successfully hits Aislinn with Tsukidashi.
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Ingrid 1/---====/=======|=======\=------\1 Aislinn
COMBATSYS: Ingrid successfully hits Aislinn with Sunbeam.
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Ingrid 0/-------/=======|=======\====---\1 Aislinn
Aislinn is in no condition, apparently, to be avoiding attacks; despite Hinako's relative slowness, she is plowed into, which just sends her into Ingrid's psycho power. But she is not downed by either attack--not yet, anyways--she still has one last bid for Ingrid's face, lunging almost blindly for her.
COMBATSYS: Aislinn can no longer fight.
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Ingrid 0/-------/=======|
COMBATSYS: Aislinn successfully hits Ingrid with Momentum Overdrive.
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And despite her stumble... she apparently finds Ingrid and drags her down again; working on autopilot, she once again smashes her fists into Ingrid's face and shoulders and chest, though the technique is less polished than it was before; the final strike is another hammerblow with both fists, but rather than get back up, Aislinn simply rebounds off of Ingrid and sprawls out on the arena floor.
Ingrid attempts to fend off the attack, trying to keep it from connecting solidly rather than trying to evade it completely, but unfortunately it's just not going to happen. Again Ingrid is savagely beaten down after being pulled to the ground, more blood being coughed up onto her face. Once it's all over she tries to get back up... and then just falls back down in a heap. Nope, she can't get back, and it's a tie!
COMBATSYS: Ingrid takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid can no longer fight.
Log created by Ingrid, and last modified on 22:34:58 03/13/2007.