Description: A commando takes on a ninja and a... soccer player? Sure... A soccer player should be harmless but it seems Lady Luck might have something to say about that. (Winners: Nagase and Roberto)
El Nasr Automotive Plant, Africa. Egypt, if you want to narrow things down further.
And in spite of the usual Western thought about those desert sorts of places, it was actually pretty darn cold, around fifty degrees farenheit or so. Blame the lack of clouds in the clear blue sky. You might blame the winds, too. Nagase certainly was. Feeling just a tad ansty, she had arrived at the Automotive Plant a fair time early, expecting to fight inside the thing, like any reasonable person. But ~nooo~. One of the very large, very wide scaffoldings outside is where the fight had been planned. This contributed to her antsiness in two ways.
Way the first: with this cold, and the wind, she didn't feel quite safe with taking her laptop out of her bag. And thus, she was totally missing out on entering her pre-fight entry into her blog. What will her millions of internet fans think?! Way the second: it was a touch on the nippy side, and she brought no ninja scarf. Burrowing as deeply as she can into the upraised collar of her coat, she tucks both of her gloved hands beneath her armpits, cursing the fact that air conditioning and heating didn't really work outside. Pacing back and forth upon the scaffolding, she awaits the arrival of her teammate and foe.
COMBATSYS: Nagase has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Nagase 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Rolento
Roberto had came the arena somewhat prepared for the weather. For two reasons. Since futbal/soccer is usually played in the fall it's not unusual for him to play in this type of weather in shorts and a yellow and blue striped soccer uniform. He's also carrying that usual mesh bag filled with soccer balls as he glances around and catches sight of his team mate which is made obvious by the fact that he's already thrown down against this opponent.
As the soccer star dumps the bag of soccer balls on to the ground he gives Nagase a slight nod and a smile to acknowledge her presence and then goes to one of the soccer balls and begins to juggle it for a moment as he waits for Rolento. As he waits, he breathes a sigh of relief at the wide berth being given especially since Roberto doesn't want a repeat of what was dubbed by the news as the "Valentines Day Massacre 2007." Even if no one was killed in that fight.
COMBATSYS: Roberto has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Nagase 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-------|
The reason they are fighting on the outside is rather simple. Rolento has a tendency of blowing up anything that might get in his way of air access; And after one too many bills to Geese Howard, they skipped the middle man in this endeavor. The sound of an approaching helicopter wafts through the air, thudthudthuding along as the sleek black shape grows larger. It then flows overhead, about fifty feet from the situated fighting area. And then descending from a line is the yellow-enshrouded form, head first. His free fall is stemmed by gripping his line, flipping forward a meter from impact to land in a crouch. "Ready?" is asked towards both those opposite, flowing into his combative stance. He knows one of these fighters; Roberto should be relatively harmless, and easily dealt with. Nagase is an unknown, however, although her achievements in Saturday Night Fight are in his record. Rather then begin the onslaught of his own accord he waits rather patiently, forfeiting a first strike. Whether this is a tactical mistake or not remains to be seen.
COMBATSYS: Rolento focuses on his next action.
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Nagase 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-------|
...soccer balls. Quirking a brow as the obvious soccer player steps up unto the platform, Nagase's expression takes on that of disbelief. ~Especially~ when Roberto begins to juggle one of the things. "You've gotta be kidding me..." she grumbles to herself, nestling herself further into the warm confines of her coat. The distinctive sound of chopper blades cut into her thoughts, her eyes going skyward. Whilst it approaches, Nagase starts as if just remembering something, her left hand digging into her jacket pocket and removing a CD case. Popping it open, and removing the shining disc, she pulls her sleeve back on her right arm, and slips the CD into a little opening on her gauntlet.
Okay, ~now~ she was ready. "Hey, don't leave all the work for me, okay?" Nagase says, flicking her red eyes towards Roberto, before her gaze settles entirely upon Rolento. "Interesting..." she murmurs, the yellow lenses in her glasses fading away to a blood red as she studies the man. Seems she was forfeiting the forfeited (forfat?) first strike.
COMBATSYS: Nagase focuses on her next action.
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Nagase 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-------|
It's funny that Nagase said to not leave all the work for her especially considering that he was doing most of the work in his first fight with Rolento. Ok dumb luck had a hand in it but the results were Roberto was providing the output for that fight.
As for now, let it not be said that Roberto doesn't learn from his mistakes. And while normally he would open with a kick of a soccer ball, he lets the soccer ball drop to the ground and begins to break into a fast dribble as he goes towards Rolento, going left and right as he moved around the various soccer balls that were already littered on the floor. As he gets close to the soldier he performs a spin move on the soccer ball as he performs a back hand that looks reminiscent of a Capoeira back hand(He travels to Brazil occasionally it's no surprise that he cribbed that off of someone between pick up games of soccer). Ideally that combination spin move/attack will put him behind Rolento allowing for both of them to flank Rolento.
COMBATSYS: Rolento fails to interrupt Quick Punch from Roberto with Grenadier.
- Power fail! -
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Nagase 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-------|
One should never underestimate the terrible force of soccer balls. Rolento had made that mistake before, and it seems he's still going to do such again. Dumb luck or some bizarre polarizing field, it would seem that Roberto is going to keep that trend alive. The laughable display of soccer ball preparations is met by his hand reaching into his vest, stance spreading and yanking out a grenade. But he managed the attack quicker then expected, smacking the commando right across the face. He reels backwards, losing hold of the weapon. It bounces away and detonates with a rather startling amount of force, boils of smoke going into the sky. It doesn't seem to have particularly hurt but Rolento has backflipped, landing in a crouch a fair distance away smoothly while rubbing his chin. "You have achieved the longest string of inexplicable success against me in thirty six years of battle experience." It would seem Roberto has won at least some minor award, but the U.S.P.L. is off to a bad start!
As much as Nagase hated being outdoors, she had to admit that there was something pretty awesome about this particular arena. Girders. A ninja's best friend. Leaping off to the side, she kicks off a wall, and leaps up to the mesh of girders one level above the platform. Clenching her fist tightly, Nagase crouches upon the edge of one girder like a gargoyle, pursing her lips together as she stares down at the two combatants. With any luck, poor Rolento wouldn't be paying attention to her, with soccerball fiend all up in his face. And hopefully, he wouldn't notice the little burst of chi-fire she flings down from the girders towards him.
Speaking of advantages that girders bring to fight, the girders also allow for Roberto to take advantage of the soccer ball in ways that other venues don't allow for him to take advantage of. So instead of kicking the soccer ball directly at Rolento, he boots it hard at a girder causing it to ricochet back and forth, high and low at crazy angles at the soldier until eventually it either hits him, or rolls back to Taiyo's Soccer Genius to be step trapped, or the soldier does something about it. Which ever comes first.
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Rolento with Long Shot.
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Nagase 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Nagase successfully hits Rolento with Unrelenting Fire.
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Nagase 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/------=|
Indeed, Nagase's onslaught of energy managed to catch Rolento off-guard. He's pelted by the assailing energy despite interposing his arms and trying to step back, staggering backwards with a rather overt grunt of pain. Catching sight of the rebounding soccerball, a swift leap upwards fails as he's pegged in the stomach, knocked out of the air to land upon his back. Today appears to not be a good day for the former mercenary, rolling in a tight ball some distance off before slipping back into a crouch. The pair together have proven to be a greater threat then anticipated; Further underestimating is grounds for a rather quick end to the conflict. "..." No response just yet. He knows he's being cornered, and it's going to take some amount of luck and careful preparation to overcome. But giving up is far from in his dictionary...
COMBATSYS: Rolento gains composure.
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Nagase 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/------=|
Perhaps it was time for Nagase to do a little bit of underestimation. Biting her lip as she watches the aftermath of the dual assault, she waits for a moment, and then decides to spring from her perch. Twisting and flipping as she goes, she not only hopes to land ~behind~ the merc, but draw and slash her sword across his back as she falls. That would just be the first. Quickly enough, she would hope to reverse that slash, spinning around to slash from down to up vertically across the man, twisting and spinning to do a third cut as she releases a "YA!".
As Nagase moves in from behind, Roberto continues the frontal assault with a full on charge at the soldier grabbing at him as he rises into the air. While he doesn't expect for it to land, he expects for it to either draw Rolento's attention away from what Nagase is doing assisting from that front. Though if he lands it, he'll be attempting to force Rolento up into Nagase's falling slash before using a burst of chi to send him back down into Nagase's second and third slashes. In either situation, Roberto's luck just has to continue to hold.
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Rolento with Shining Save.
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Nagase 0/-------/------=|======-\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
COMBATSYS: Rolento parries Nagase's Tricky Rounder!
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Nagase 0/-------/------=|======-\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
Ah! Teamwork. That was unexpected to some degree, and although Roberto manages to heavily check into the commando, he flows immediately into a roll. Nagase would find her weapon striking nothing but air, and her time spent in the endeavor would be punished as Rolento suddenly vaults himself high into the air. And with liquid speed hurls out a knife, which shoots towards Nagase's shoulder and attempts to lodge itself down to the hilt. It's enough force to stall the descent, which is used for a swift backflip -- Rolento catches one of the adjacent girders and pulls himself to it, giving himself some amount of range from the other pair now. If it strikes, things might not be irrevocably ruined thus far...
COMBATSYS: Rolento successfully hits Nagase with Stinger EX.
- Power hit! -
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Nagase 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
As deadly a fighter Nagase was, there was a little thing holding her back called inexperience. Something she was kinda hoping to remedy with fights like this, and for the most part, it wasn't glaringly obvious.
Until right now.
Landing on the ground, a moment of confusion wavers through Nagase's mind, and she performs two strokes of the move anyways. The third was interrupted not by a knife in the shoulder, but on the second spin... well... the weapon thuds into her chest, twisted just right to cut through rib and bone... nearly to the hilt. Eyes going wide with shock, Nagase's spin carries her flying with a messy somersault to one side, landing on the ground with a thud. Did Rolento kill her? Not quite. Probably just about. She was moving, still, however slowly, drawing herself up to a kneel, wide eyes looking down with shock down at the weapon buried within her.
COMBATSYS: Nagase gains composure.
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Nagase 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
Rolento didn't expect teamwork? Perhaps Rolento wasn't paying enough attention to Roberto's SNFs when he had team mates. Or learned that much from the previous fight Roberto was in with him for that matter. Roberto usually /attempts/ to work his partner's moves into his own plan.
While Roberto doesn't have the battle experience of Rolento, he's seen enough fighting to know when a potential turn around is upon him and so he breaks into a run and attempts to put himself between his partner and his opponent in a stance that seems to look like he's waiting for a penalty shot to come his way. Enter Roberto, the wiry meat wall.
COMBATSYS: Roberto assists Nagase.
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Nagase 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
Well, they are given Rolento plenty of time to prepare himself, aren't they? Whatever. That weakness is irrelevant in his eyes, and he happens to be not only as dextrous and agile as Nagase, but has battle experience as long as both have probably been alive. The commando leaps suddenly, rebounding cleanly from another girder. And indeed homing in on the injured girl below from /behind/, whirling around his heel and attempting to impact her across the face with a loud snarl to punctuate it. That Roberto is standing doesn't matter; He underestimated Rolento's ability to move around, and unless he wants to tackle the ninja herself she might have little evasionary recourse.
COMBATSYS: Nagase blocks Rolento's Mekong Delta.
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Nagase 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
As she was still reeling from the knife impact, thoughts of high flying dodgey stuff was frankly, out of the question. And as sweet as Roberto's move was, it ultimately proved futile. At least, in the way that one might expect. Rolento was very much able to leap around the soccer player. But. What he perhaps did not get a good glance of was the way she was preparing herself. Roberto's body was likely in the way, after all. And thus, when Rolento performs his little manuever, Nagase was not quite kneeling anymore, but laying upon the side of her legs and hip.
So that when Rolento's heel lashes out, the ninja girl throws herself far more easily to the ground... a second too late. Rolento's boot scrapes across the side of her head, and hastens her fall downwards quite a fair bit quicker than she expected, Nagase's face and side slamming into the ground below, in a manner that makes the whole canopy shake. With the knife still buried in her chest, the hilt striking the ground certainly doesn't help matters any.
Lying there a moment, Roberto or Rolento both may hear the whirring sound emanating from her... before she seemingly vanishes from the spot. The very next moment, she reappears behind Rolento, hands lashing out to try to grip the man around the middle, and leap with him up into the air. It would be a suplex of sorts, as once they reach the peak, Nagase would spin them both upside down, the motion required to do so adding a bit of a horizontal spin to the whole manuever. The difference is, she hoped to smash Rolento into the ground, beret first, breaking her own fall for her.
Nagase vanishing makes Roberto raise an eyebrow but he can't stop the fight quite yet either. Roberto runs to another soccer ball, scooping it up in a goalie glove-clad hand as he as looks towards the soldier. It is at this point, Rolento will see a familiar motion though not quite the context that it had before. Roberto goes into a run into a front soccer ball-spring, the acrobatic maneuver giving this move more momentum than a normal throw let alone a soccer ball kick would normally have, instead of smashing the ball over his head from close up like he did before.
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Roberto's Large Thrown Object.
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Nagase 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
COMBATSYS: Rolento fails to interrupt Nagase Spiral from Nagase with Steel Rain.
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Nagase 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/-----==|
There's no surprise that Nagase managed to defend against the strike; Had she managed to evade it, that would of warranted a higher assessment of her capabilities. Observing her with a sort of lazy expression. Although teleportation of any sort is rather surprising, ducking Roberto's little desperation assault while reaching into his vest. He has a split second preparation... but that split second was given to him purposefully, and was nothing but an illusion. Knives do indeed rain down, but on open ground; Rolento strikes hard, rolling away in a light slide, gritting his teeth in pain. "...Hrrm. You are a masterful combatant for your level." is offered towards Nagase. That maneuver at least was good; The inexperience she has can be noticed easily, and is doubtlessly more easily rectified then Roberto's seemingly endless streak of luck.
Backflipping away after the completion of her move, she lifts a hand to the hilt of the knife jabbed within her, yanking it out and tossing it aside. Needless to say, she begins to bleed. Ignoring that fact for the moment, Nagase whirls back around towards Rolento, hissing out through teeth gritted against the pain, "Thanks. Nice arm on you. Better than the limp-wristed kind of throws most fighters have nowadays."
Whipping her arm to the side, she begins to chew on her lip, as if contemplating something. The purpose of the sideways whip would become obivous, as a kunai slides into her open and waiting palm, the weapon tipped with a plastic panda bear head. "Hey, Rolento, right? Do you have email?" she asks, flinging the weapon in Rolento's general direction. The throw was a bit lazy, and just a bit wavering... not quite the expert throw she is used to doing.
In Roberto's defense that was an experimental move, rather than a 'desparate assault' which is actually going back to the drawing board after the fight. Anyway, Roberto moves back into close range following behind the path of the knife before moving off to the side to ideally kick the back of Rolento's leg hard as Rolento goes to deal with the knife. Hopefully allowing him to buckle his knees a bit and set him up for whatever Nagase has in mind...
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Rolento with Heavy Kick.
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Nagase 1/-----==/=======|======-\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: Nagase successfully hits Rolento with Thrown Object.
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Nagase 1/-----==/=======|=======\-------\0 Rolento
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Roberto 0/-------/----===|
Coming back to his feet, Rolento at least doesn't seem to be too perturbed by his performance this time around. Nagase retains the attention of those white eyes, before the team effort once more pays off. Roberto alone is nothing to write home about, but Rolento had intended to roll backwards. Instead he's kicked in the leg, and stumbling; This allows her own weapon to strike soundly into his shoulder, just as he slams on his back. Kipping up to a stand, Rolento rubs his lips before smirking slightly. "I would believe what you lack is combative experience, Nagase. Would this be a correct assessment?" He then rushes forward towards Roberto, almost as an afterthought. One hand shoots to try and catch him by the shoulder, before brutally kicking towards his knee and attempting to floor him with a snarl. He may be technically down, but he's not quite out, ladies and gentlemen!
Visibly bristling, Nagase says sharply, "Of course not!", her brow furrowing in irritation. Although the bleeding seems to have already slowed way down, (hooray for being a fighter), she has lost a bit of her color. That makes her red eyes seem far more vibrant, particularly with the annoyed expression that she is taking up now. "I'll show you!" Perhaps covered by her words, a whirring noise was growing louder and louder... but suddenly, the sound vanishes. Along with Nagase. It wasn't quite the teleportation of before, and perhaps if Rolento is expecting that, all the better.
She was simply camoflaged where she once stood, light bending around her body, and leaving a bizarrish cloak sort of effect. Could Rolento spot her before she sneaks up on him, after whatever Roberto is doing? Can Rolento stop her as she pops "back" into focus behind him after he seemingly no longer expects it, can he stop her pouring every ounce of fiery chi she can into him through a light touch on the neck?
COMBATSYS: Roberto endures Rolento's Medium Strike!
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Rolento will find that Roberto went with down with his attack easily. A bit too easily. But while Roberto is going down he's attempt pulling Rolento down with him in a modified version of his Mundane Save and should Roberto get the soldier down to the ground, he's quickly rising to his feet to slam a foot into Rolento's gut.
COMBATSYS: Rolento blocks Roberto's Mundane Save.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento overcomes Stealth from Nagase with Mine Sweeper.
- Power hit! -
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"So you are." Rolento repeats towards Nagase, although there's no nuance of insult to it. A flat fact, analyzed by someone who has seen more aspiring fresh meat on the battlefield then many might fathom; Almost all of which fell to the horrors of Vietnam. "You have exceptional skill, as I previously stated." Although Roberto's writhing around on the ground in some manner, Rolento manages to broaden his stance and catch the kick with a baton, leaping free thereafter. Eyes are closed, twirling his weapon in a lazy manner. "...But tactical experience is truly what defines battles." He never spotted Nagase, and she would find as her poke meets air, he never had to. A grenade is dropped on the ground as he rushes forward, detonating instantly thereafter. He continues forward, leaving a veritable trail of these behind to hopefully juggle her, with the intent of catching her in the chain eruption and send her smoldering body far across the ramparts. "...I could hear you sufficiently to counter that assault, for instance. In a life or death struggle, you only get a single mistake, or a single chance to underestimate the opponent."
COMBATSYS: Rolento successfully hits Nagase with Mine Sweeper.
Glancing Blow
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Coming into focus as she jabs her finger towards his neck, Nagase's red eyes are wide behind her glasses as Rolento easily evades her touch. "Oh... sh-..." Having only an instant to react, Nagase flings herself backwards as Rolento leaps away, throwing herself away in a backflip. Still, the frag grenade was far too close, and far too explosive for her to truely dodge... yet, she manages to avoid most of it, a few shreds of canopy or grenade fragments cutting past her coat into her body proper. Nonetheless, she manages to complete her backflip, ignoring all the wonderful new wounds her body was making sure she was aware of.
Breath catching in her throat, Nagase listens to Rolento's speech, eyes remaining wide. "Do you have IM? Any IM? MySpace? Anything?" she says, rising slowly to a stand. Giving her head a shake as if to clear it, a wobble enters her legs. A moment further for composture, and Nagase leaps forward, lashing out one of her eccentricly-designed boots in a kick towards Rolento's head.
Roberto was entirely too close to that explosion but he did have the fortune to get partially dragged away from it while Rolento was making his run away from the grenades. As Roberto gets back to his feet, he begins to smile as there's something familiar about the way Nagase is asking for contact information from Rolento.
After there's a pause something finally clicks and he smiles as he makes his way over to one of the numerous soccer balls in the area and he begins to juggle it. Suddenly his smile takes on a bit of devious curl as he speaks, "Hey Rolento! Looks like you have your own Gabriel."
Hopefully his team mate will recognize this as the psychological tactic that it is but it probably won't win any friendships with his team mate. On the other hand, if it puts him further in the dog house with his 'fiance,' he's all for it.
COMBATSYS: Roberto focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento interrupts Heavy Kick from Nagase with Fatality Package.
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"Why do you care to know?" Rolento states with a snort, twirling his weapon around. Roberto leaves Nagase alone in these moments, which might turn out to be a dangerous mistake. But as she comes towards him, it's... Well, the most laughable assault Rolento has ever seen. Not only did she forecast her intention, but the actual maneuver is stalled, and the space taken to begin the kick too wide. He has time to shake his head, before leaping forward to catch her. She nicks his hip, but not enough to end the fight. Gripping Nagase by the face, a string of grenades is slapped upon her chest before Rolento twists and hurls her away. A second later she explodes in a huge wash of flames, just an inch beyond dangerous range for the commando himself. He lands in a crouch, wiping his lips with the back of his hand. "Affirmative. Battle experience is negligible at best. ... But I could help you overcome that weakness."
Releasing a squeak, Nagase doesn't quite respond to Rolento's questions as her move is very easily taken advantage of. Not that she'd have much of an opprotunity to. Grabbed by the face, Nagase's hands scramble to try to clear her body of grenades, something she rather fails to do before they all detonate. Needless to say, it hurts. A lot. But still... Nagase manages to pull herself to her feet, running her tongue over parched-feeling lips, before she tilts her head to the side.
She was sending a mental command to the gear installed within her body. Drawing a deep breath, she draws her sword and charges low and forward towards Rolento, doing her level best not to collapse upon the way... before she blinks out, appearing before Rolento, and behind him, seemingly all at once. A myriad of kicks, slices and even the occasional punch would be thrown at the man as she "blinks" back and forth from in front of him, to behind him rapidly, Nagase hissing with determination. The very final blink would take her a short distance away from both fighters, Nagase curling up into a ball before lying still.
COMBATSYS: Nagase can no longer fight.
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Well, Rolento didn't bite the bait when he made the remark about Gabriel which means he's got hell to pay now that he's all by himself. So he attempts to make that time as short as possible, following Nagase's furious combo with a quick soccer ball deflection punch of his own to hopefully further keep the Soldier off balanced. "Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good... The most ideal situation is to be both. I'm working on that."
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Roberto's Quick Punch.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Rolento
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Nagase's Mirage Assault.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Rolento
Blinking around might affect most fighters, but not Rolento. He has no options but to evade, and he can instantly tell the relevant threat of her manifestations. Each is shifted away from, a few slicing skin and cutting his uniform, but the latter is a clean miss as the man backflips high into the air and lands in a crouch. The latter clears him of Roberto as well, remaining crouched thereafter upon the ground. "Ah. I've met an interesting combatant, so this fight is not a complete waste." He takes a breather now; There's still the matter of the soccer genius. Who is the better tactical mind will dictate this final outcome.
COMBATSYS: Rolento gains composure.
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"Well now." Roberto goes to yet another of his many soccer balls and begins to juggle as he contemplates his next move. After that he goes into a dribble moving straight for Rolento and just before he gets to him then he makes a small hop right in front of the soccer ball to quickly bring one foot behind it to roll it up just high enough on his leg to allow him to flip the ball from behind to right between them which hopefully draws Rolento's eyes up into the air. As the ball comes down Roberto's knee is flying towards Rolento's stomach.
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Rolento with Heavy Kick.
Glancing Blow
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The enshrouding ball does manage to disorient Rolento a fair amount, but he merely weaves away, grazed heavily in the stomach. It incites a hiss of pain, but he doesn't fall from it, merely hopping up to land upon one of the girders above. Where hopefully nobody but those able to perform such ninja-jumps will be able to reach him. "Insufficient." is all that he chides, still regaining his strength. Does he plan to regain as much of his lost breath and suppress the wounds to finish off the comparably weaker fighter...? That would seem to be the case!
COMBATSYS: Rolento gains composure.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Rolento
Roberto has a pretty good vertical even by most fighters standards but damn it he's not gonna jump that high... Atleast not yet. Goalies don't stand on top of goal posts. Instead Roberto's going to be participating in target practice. He still has plenty of soccer balls and so he takes the soccer ball that he has now, flip it high up into the air and with a quick turn of his body back flip slamming his foot into the ball sending it at Rolento. "Umph!!"
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Roberto's Large Thrown Object.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Rolento
Rolento merely rolls along the narrow girder, missed by a fair margin. And then he lands, letting out a final deep breath before slipping off and landing in a crouch opposite Roberto, rubbing blood from his lips. "I am sufficiently rested to attempt an engagement now. Let us see how well you manage." Raising up, the green baton smacks into an open palm. It looks like round two is now going to officially begin; Whether Roberto will be able to fend off even a quarter-strength Rolento or not will be the question of the day!
COMBATSYS: Rolento gains composure.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Rolento
Roberto slowly walks towards the next soccer ball and begins to juggle the soccer ball as he stares into the eyes of his opponent after a few moments he step traps the soccer ball and waits for Rolento to make his move. "Jokes and taunts aside, I'd like see how this plays out." With that he beckons Rolento and takes his stance.
COMBATSYS: Roberto takes no action.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Rolento
"You are forfeiting the initiative to me? That is a mistake. There is no such thing as rules in a true fight, and I consider this a battlefield. It is a conflict where one takes the most prudent path towards absolute victory." Rolento, in other words, just admitted to being about as cheap as they come. As if dancing just out of reach for a good twelve seconds didn't prove that already. "Do not regret your mercy." And then he maneuvers into a more offensive position, beginning to twirl his baton already in preparation.
COMBATSYS: Rolento focuses on his next action.
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Rolento
"It was curiosity that brought it about, not a sense of mercy. But if you insist." And with that Roberto is off dribbling in a fast break towards the former Mercenary, before dropping down to the ground and catapulting himself into a diving header at Rolento.
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Rolento with Strong Punch.
Glancing Blow
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Roberto 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Rolento
The fist manages to glance across Rolento, inciting a grunt of pain; But he's still in better health then he might see, and he suddenly yanks off one of his grenades. Sliding a booted foot backwards, he hurtles it towards the other fighter, as if a baseball pitch. "HRRRRRAUGH!" If it connects, there'd be a terrifying explosion, preferably ravaging the younger boy in no small fashion. Underestimating this weapon tends to be a fatal mistake.
COMBATSYS: Roberto blocks Rolento's Grenadier.
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Roberto 1/-----==/=======|=------\-------\0 Rolento
When that Grenade comes flying in at Roberto, his hands do what come natural to goalies. They move in front to catch it and upon realizing what it was, he drives it down towards the ground before his body is washed with the heat of explosives. The shrapnel on the other hand is still well contained, held down by the now shredded goalie gloves.
For the moment his soccer ball is ignored as he goes for a swipe at Rolento's face with one of his bloodied hands. "The grenades aren't as much of a surprise to me as they were last time!"
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Rolento with Quick Punch.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Roberto 1/-----==/=======|===----\-------\0 Rolento
For whichever reason, Roberto manages to hit Rolento. And he manages it INCREDIBLY FEEBLY. Yet it's sufficient to offset the mild second wind garnered, and the commando stumbles awkwardly to the side. "Hrrmph..." is all he states, before rushing forward and attempting to impact Roberto in the stomach, before hurtling him into the air. At the apex he'd be gripped again and hurled away, to detonate upon impact with the ground. It's not going to win the fight, but it should be sufficient to be mildly annoying. As he descends, one hand snaps out and catches the line of his helicopter, having swooshed overhead. "Your luck remains inordinate. I hope you will not depend on it extensively in the future..." And thusly he is carted off; A humiliating defeat by all margins, but... ... Well, he got hit in the face with a soccer ball. That has to be good for something.
COMBATSYS: Rolento can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Roberto dodges Rolento's Fatality Package.
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As Rolento charges forward to cause impact, Roberto dives aside and so the grenade ends up dropping to the ground where the Soccer genius was formerly. As he rolls to his feet, he watches as Rolento heads up on a helicopter line, he calls out to him, "Like I said, the ideal is to be lucky AND good."
COMBATSYS: Roberto has ended the fight here.
Log created by Roberto, and last modified on 21:36:00 03/19/2007.