Description: Following the destruction of the water treatment plant, Guile and Akira go on to face Douyoubi and Frida with a little help from Ingrid.
Ah the collapse of buildings. That's always something fun to see, however the collapse is happening on Shadaloo grounds, and that's not exactly a 'very good thing'(tm).
With the other matches having come to a close, it looks like it's time to approach the final lines of Bangkok's defenses, which is a group of troublemakers that started the whole thing.
When Guile and Akira make their exit, they'll know they've leapt out of the frying pan and into the fire. Six individuals stand within the scene in front of a jeep, known by Shadaloo as the Seven days. However only two of them are particularly important, the first being Douyoubi, a dark-haired Sadako-lookalike clad in a maroon-color bodysuit.
"Tch, I was right.. Looks like they made it.." the woman murmurs, tugging at her right glove to tighten them about her fingers. Though she frowns particularly after catching sight of Akira. God, not her again. If Tiistai was right.. There should actually be one more within the group.
"Muh. You can't find good help these days. What were we thinking, hiring those fools?" The woman beside Douyoubi, clad in a standard Shadaloo bodysuit, gorgeous blonde hair, and a seemingly authentic Vega Hat (it's very cute-looking, seriously) speaks in a drawl, the dissatisfaction she's feeling positively dripping from her expression. Baby blue eyes roll over the motley crew exiting the Water Purification Center, and Frida takes the time to lean... backwards.
A male soldier behind her reaches out to grab and support her - she winds up getting nice and cozy against his shoulder. "Well, Dou... we can't let them get past us, can we? Vega wouldn't have it. He's already busy as it is." In a moment, Frida's finished leaning against her subordinate, stands up properly, and indicates Guile with one extended finger.
"Go on," she says to the men assembled behind her. She also takes a moment to tip her cap.
In a moment, the soldiers accompanying Frida and Douyoubi (well, most of them) have scattered to surround the area and prevent any of their targets from escaping.
"If you want to get to Vega," she states, eyes widening in /just/ that right way, "You'll have to get through us!"
COMBATSYS: Frida has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Douyoubi has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Akira has managed to recover her bike, but she's a little leery of actually riding it now that it received a significant portion of damage from the PSYDouken so that it's all charred up along its side, not to mention the dents used by hitting the ground like a CRUNCH.
"It'll be fine," She assures Guile, "If we don't get to him, someone else will." But then before she can continue on... SHADALOO SOLDIERS! And Douyoubi!
Akira's eyes narrow. "That's fine with me." She looks to Frida, but shifts her gaze to predominately focus on Douyobi because she was mean!
COMBATSYS: Akira has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Frida has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Guile's eyes travel over the Shadaloo soldiers working to surround the fight and makes a small waving motion with his right hand. The Vigilantes' are quick to move in and block off the Shadaloo soldiers from coming around to the flank, assault rifles held at the ready, but not raised yet. It's clear to everyone involved that this is down to the fighters here in the ring, and there's no place for foot soldiers in this battle.
He turns toward Frida as his men finish moving into position, his stony face all but expressionless, his eyes cold as ice as he glares at her. "I'm getting tired of everyone saying I have to get through them first. I've gotten through all of you so far and you don't look like you've got what it takes to stop me either." He pulls himself into a fighting stance, hunched slightly forward as he raises a high guard, "But it's not like talking ever solves anything in this goddamn war."
COMBATSYS: Guile has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Guile 0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0 Frida
COMBATSYS: Ingrid has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Ingrid gains composure.
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The perfect place to run when your injured is, of course a water treatment plant where a fight is going on. ...okay, so that doesn't make much sense without context. Suffice to say there are allies there, and not anywhere else that she knows of, so it's about the safest place for Ingrid to go. By the time she's arriving Frida and Douyoubi have arrived already. Ingrid looks to be in pretty haphazard shape, her fight with Tiistai having turned into a beat down slugfest of psychic proportions.
But still she's strong enough to continue fighting for the moment, looking between Akira and Guile and the two Shadaloo elite. She stands up straight and takes in a deep breath and lets it out, readying herself. "If you are who I need to get through to find that psychopath, than I guess I don't have much of a choice, do I?"
Douyoubi glances to Frida, and seems.. Slightly put off. Of course she doesn't go on a tirade about it, the blonde may drive her crazy sometimes but right now they needed to be on the same page. However a glance is given to Guile and she can't help but laugh, "Oh I get it. Well, you know what, I'm willing to negotiate, Guile.." she crosses her arms, smirking devilishly.
"You want Vega? All right fine, go ahead. But your friends have to stay here, then we crush them. That way we both win."
The soldiers behind them? Those would be Miercoles, Khamis, Vendredi and Tiistai. Granted, the current fighters probably wouldn't recognize many of them. The radio within the jeep crackles, a distress signal given, and the engine of the jeep begins to rumble as the four start to pack up into it.
And that's when Douyoubi takes notice of Ingrid, her eyebrows quirking in mild intruige, "You look like you've seen better days. All right then, I guess time's wasting." She completely ignores Guile then, the woman rushing forward and makes a beeline toward Akira. She doesn't start with anything fancy, the moment she's close enough, she twirls and attempts to roundhouse kick the girl across the head.
"Easy there, Muscles. You can't blame us for wanting to be the ones to get you flat on your back and groaning, can you? I mean... look at that -hair-." Frida's eyes widen while she speaks, and her voice lowers to a purr. "/Everybody's/ talking about you. You give the girls /goosebumps/." She glances at Ingrid and Akira after she speaks, one eyebrow spiked into her hairline. "Right, sweeties? He's a big hunk of man, isn't he? Mmmn... thought so."
Frida glances towards Douyoubi, and then behind her, towards the retreating soldiers. Her carefully laid plans (we'll be honest, not carefully laid at all, more luxuriant posing than anything) fall through as the rest of the Days retreat, but it doesn't keep her from keeping that smile on her face.
Or the resolve she's got to put her mettle to the test. Games and taunts fall to the sidelines once Douyoubi rushes forwards, and Frida's not far behind. The woman falls into a sprint directed at Ingrid, arms extended, hands meant to clamp down on her shoulders, after which Frida will vault into a high handstand, collapse into herself, and VAULT backwards, off of her. It's a flashier move than anything else, but the whiplash Frida's jack-knifing toss-and-dive inflicts SHOULD be enough to send her victim tumbling to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Akira fails to interrupt Light Kick from Douyoubi with Strong Punch.
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Akira brings an arm back, clearly intending to smack Douyobi in the face before she can properly assault her but...
She mistimes it, and Akira is kicked away from her bike and into the ground. "Ugh!" Akira gasps, "Guess you can do other things besides get beat up by prisoners!" She taunts, but doesn't immediately get up, because now her entire side hurts. "Oof."
MATHS!
COMBATSYS: Guile interrupts Quick Throw from Frida with Sonic Boom.
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Guile's quick to notice that his newer new ally doesn't seem like she's in any particular condition to stand up to an assault at the moment, and pushed on by Frida's taunts he's dashing across the battlefield on a direct course for intercept. Even as he makes his way into position, his hands have been pulled off to the side, clenched into tight fists around which blue chi begins to form. "If you want me so bad, you're headed the wrong way!" The soldier's hands fly forward at breakneck speed, drawing out two long slices of blue chi in the air, pulling together into a single disc as his hands cross in front of him flying out at point blank range to strike at Frida right in the mid-section, a bit quicker than he expected, and the force of the whole thing sends Guile flying backward, rolling across the ground.
Ingrid seems grimly prepared to deal with Frida's assault, and seems to visibly relax when Guile suddenly shows up in front of her to intercept the attack and deal some pain of his own. "Thank you." She backs off a bit to give them room, and takes one more moment to prepare herself. Just enough time to give her a bit of confidence. It's true that she's not in the best position, but now that she has some breathing room she should be able to help out and offer some fire-support. Just... give her a moment or two!
COMBATSYS: Ingrid gains composure.
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".. Eh? I guess they fixed you up real good." Ah poor Akira. It breaks Douyoubi's heart, it does, how could Akira forget the times they had togeather! She taught Akira all about using her new power and probably gave her sushi. .. Maybe. Alas.
She smirks to the fallen girl, then the hairs on the back of her neck prickle upward when she can feel the wave of Guiles power from where she stands! ".. Ah, he decided to stay. Unfortunate. "
Sigh. What a pain. The seventh day leaves Akira be for now, leaping back and sprints makes a beeline toward the American hero. She then leaps into the air.. And flickers out of existance in a blur of violet energy. And when she appears? She's dropping down on Guile from above, heels thrust downward with the intent if drilling him back onto the ground and standing on his back with a chuckle.
"Awckmpth!" Frida makes a noise that is not entirely unlike a vaccuum cleaner sucking up a t-shirt. The Sonic Boom of course sends her flying backwards, slapping into the damp soil of the Thai jungles back-first, tumbling head-over heels for a good few dozen feet until she's landed on her stomach, face-down in DIRT. Ordinarily, this would be something that deeply bothers her, and she might well just run off to the base and attempt to get her face cleaned.
But now...
She stumbles to her feet, pearly white teeth biting down on her lower lip, Vega cap barely resting atop a head of mussed-up hair. "You /asshole/..." She's speaking to Guile, naturally, voice restrained beneath bindings of sarcasm and thinly-veiled hatred. While she's talking to the soldier, the Day is getting to her feet - her stomach has been exposed by the sheer force of Guile's attack, and a dark red welt covers the entirety of her abdominal muscles. She's not going to bother gaping, though -- her eyes have settled on Ingrid, for the moment.
They narrow in sinister, happy thoughts.
"I guess I'll take care of this one, then? You seemed so /intent/ on her..." Frida's lips purse into one particularly sensual kiss, and she places them to a palm. Immediately, pink Psycho Power beings to manifest around Ingrid in a tight sphere, and as Frida pulls her hand from her lips... it explodes.
"Mwah!"
Akira rolls up to her feet. "They did, and now I'm gonna fix you up!" She stands up, looking more than a little disoriented. She looks for something to throw at her, but only sees her bike... and there's no way she's going to throw HER BIKE at Douyobi! It'll get dirty. She spots Ingrid again and realizes--it's Ingrid. "Oh! You're Kyo's friend!" But she's not delayed long.
Instead, Akira runs after Douyobi, leaping forward and aiming to tackle her into the ground as she decides to focus on Guile.
COMBATSYS: Guile interrupts Friday the 13th from Douyoubi with Sonic Boom EX.
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"You'd be an idiot to think I'd abandon anyone with enough of a sense of morality to stand and fight against Vega to a bunch of his pawns!" He can't even be bothered to care about Frida's curses at the moment, and he certainly hopes Ingrid's gotten enough of herself back to be able to stand up to the assault. Once more his hands begin to glow in that brilliant blue, pulled off to either side as he watches Douyoubi barreling down on him. His eyes narrow as he prepares for whatever she's got up her sleeve, being slightly thrown off as she seems to suddenly disappear from sight, his eyes darting around the battlefield for a moment until his fighter's instinct makes him look up. He still has plenty of time, his hand swinging forward again, pulling out the long lines of chi before they come together in front of him as his hands cross paths. The disc is forming just as Douyabi's kick starts to connect, and an instant later it blasts right into her, managing to knock her back before the full force of the strike can exert itself on the soldier.
COMBATSYS: Frida successfully hits Ingrid with Blonde Bombshell.
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Now that she's feeling a bit better, Ingrid figures that she can make an attempt to fight in a manner that's not all or nothing. As the pink energy forms around her she braces for the impact, preparing to fight it off. Frida, however, seems to have the drop on her, the energy erupting all around her and overwhelming her defense. She's at the center of the momentum, so it doesn't blow her away, and when it's all over she's still standing, but looking even more ragged than she did when she first showed up.
She looks at Frida and considers retaliation, but decides against it, her tactical mind telling her to go after Douyoubi, who would be assaulted on all sides with Akira attacking and having taken a Sonic Boom from Guile. She lifts her hands up to her chin and a bright flash of gold surrounds her, and she blows a small, dull orb of energy towards her. It floats rather slowly, but it'll get there, don't worry!
COMBATSYS: Akira successfully hits Douyoubi with Quick Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Douyoubi parries Ingrid's Sun Burst!
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"All right.." Douyoubi murmurs, her visable eye remaining narrow as she comes down on Guile.. But it looks like he has a nasty plan in return, and.. It could get ugly!! Actually it does. Slammed hard by the Sonic Boom, Douyoubi cringes as she practically goes sailing back, but out of nowhere Akira tackles the living crap out of her! They both go crashing to the ground, Douyoubi rolls backward, and that's when the Sun Shot comes roaring in.
Slipping from Akira's hold she leaps up into the air, boots glowing with violet energy and she leaps onto, then off of the orb to close in on Guile once more, "You're funeral!!" her entire body explodes with violet energy then, and she tries to fall not on, but next to Guile. The energy acts like electricity, so if it touches Guile he's going to get a really nasty shock!
Frida's eyes narrow when Ingrid simply stands through her Bombshell attack. That isn't supposed to happen! She should've like, fallen over. Shocked and amazed. Perhaps blown away by Frida's stunning good looks. It's what everybody ELSE did. Unfortunately... it's not what happened, and Guile just KEEPS ON HITTING PEOPLE with that damn Sonic Boom. Can you really blame Frida for turning, fully resolved, and pointing a hand at the American?
"Oh, you're still DOING that. Stop it! We're tired of your damn fast arms! I like it when my boys take their -time-."
An enormous ball of Psycho Power manifests in her hand, quickly joined by another one floating beside it. With a small 'hmph', Frida's fingers splay more fully, she tilts her head to the side... and both wells of Psycho Power are sent shrieking towards Guile's side, at the same time Douyoubi attempts to shock him!
"JUST DIE!"
Akira is easy to dislodge from. She isn't exactly the master tackler. "If only..." Akira hisses through her teeth, "I listened to Roy more about hore to do that. Watch out Guile!" She shouts out to the All American Hero, pulling back up to her feet, slowly. She breathes out of her mouth and has, it seems, apparently decided to focus on Douyobi. Why? No smart reason, she just hates her more. She doesn't really know Frida!
"Hey, that's enough of that!" Akira yells at Douyoubi before leaping up after Douyobi--attempting to grab her across her waist--and then twist her so that when Akira lands--she's flying face first for the ground. "SUPER EX SMASH INTO THE GROUND!" Akira cries.
COMBATSYS: Guile blocks Frida's Double Psychostar EX.
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COMBATSYS: Guile fails to interrupt Five-Leaf Clover EX from Douyoubi with Flash Kick.
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Having the two attacks coming in at him at the same time is enough to put Guile slightly off his game. He manages to get his arms up in time to ward off the shrieking balls of psycho energy flung at him by Frida, gritting his teeth as he feels the energy coursing through his arms, but he's starting to get used to it when it seems like everyone he fights lately is flinging it at him.
However this throws off the next part of his plan as he lowers himself into a crouch, waiting for Douyoubi's assault, preparing to launch himself into the air and knock her out of her attack with a somersault kick, instead he ends up moving too late, the attack coming in faster than he expected it and he gets caught full in the blast, the psycho power flowing through his body, filling every nerve with pain.
A moment ago everything was looking like it was going well. And now...well, now it's looking to have turned around a bit. Ingrid had quite a bit of hope riding on that ball of energy, and it was shunted aside as if it wasn't there at all. Still, she must go on. Guile just took a pretty bad mauling, so she goes to try and draw the attention of one of the two Days. Douyoubi seems all too able to stop her attacks, so she goes after Frida, getting in close and crouching down to the ground to try and attack from behind to grab her at the knees and then lift her up and drop her right on her head. She seems the type that wouldn't enjoy getting her hair full of dirt.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi blocks Akira's Houbu.
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Zap.
Douyoubi sees Akira coming, and that's fine with her, let the little kitten come to her, not the other way around! Now it seems she has a brush with death as she decides to attack Guile; which is probably a good thing considering her weird gimmick. She slowly licks her lips, takes a quick glance to Ingrid and then looks back to Akira, "Super ex sma-"
Good thing she's a natural grappler. She slams onto the ground onto her palms then squirms free to roll along the ground and get back to her feet, "Not just yet, Akira. I have a special lesson planned for you."
Her attention back on Guile, she leaps at him and tries to bite down on his neck. Should she be successful, she'd jerk back her head and chomp down a second time, but this time her body -again- explodes her her psycho power to go along with it. "No escape!!"
COMBATSYS: Frida dodges Ingrid's Quick Throw.
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Attacked from behind?! Frida won't have it! Ingrid's assault meets nothing but thin air as the Shadaloo Not-Doll gets a... feeling about what's to occur, 'hmphs' at Guile when he blocks her attack, and promptly spins on her heel, pivoting to the side and avoiding Ingrid's attack handily. "Just what were you trying to do, little girl? Get me all mussed up, huh? Just because you want some attention from the boys doesn't mean you have to start playing around with dirty, offensive advertising!"
She doesn't stop her momentum, instead rolling into a twisting, dynamic backflip that sends both of her legs pinwheeling about -- one of which is aimed directly at Ingrid's face. "Let's see how you deal with this one, dear! I'll show you how real women play dirty!"
Akira grits her teeth, "Not gonna be giving you the opportunity!" She shouts as she chases after Douyobi, throwing herself at her as she launches another burst of psycho power at Guile. "Stop picking on the injured like that!" She crouches down briefly, and then summersaults, trying to kick Douyoubi in the chin with both her feet before falling back into a handstand. It's almost as if she tried to mimic the flashkick--and only got a wimpier knockoff of it. But it might still knock Douyoubi for a loop if she's not careful!
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi successfully hits Guile with Seven Days.
- Power hit! -
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By this point, Guile's nearly too exhausted to even move, but none the less he pulls himself together as much as he can, this is it for the Vigilante, either he makes it or it's all over.
But it looks like fate isn't on Guile's side anymore, even as he starts to move out of the way, it's clear his muscles just aren't responding like they would at his best and he finds himself rather easily pulled in by Douyoubi's attack, his head thrown back as he yells out in pain from the pyscho energy being sent surging through his body while some freaky vampire girl starts gnashing on his neck.
When she finally lets him go he drops to his knees, his entire body aching from weariness and all the psycho energy being thrust his body on what seems like a near constant basis lately. He pulls himself together for one last attempt to strike back, managing to launch himself up off the ground, his boot thrust all the way out as he brings himself around in an impressive last ditch somersault, his foot moving so fast that one can see the air moving behind it. Then as he comes back to earth, he collapses onto the ground, face down in the dirt.
COMBATSYS: Guile can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Ingrid fails to counter Rabbits Foot from Frida with Sun Upper EX.
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COMBATSYS: Ingrid can no longer fight.
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Ingrid seems to be completely out of luck, today. The attack that's sent her way is fairly familiar. In fact, it's almost exactly like one of her own, minus some energy flowing out of the feet, so she feels she has a pretty good handle on the situation. She too can tell what's about to happen a moment early, so she leans forward and points after her grab meets nothing but air. A disk of golden energy begins to form, but it's all too late. The kick smashes into her face and sends her flying backwards, hitting the ground and rolling away. She tries to get back up, but as she pushes against the ground her arms give out, and she collapses.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi dodges Guile's Flash Kick.
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COMBATSYS: Akira successfully hits Douyoubi with Heavy Kick.
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And Douyoubi has some more troubles headed her way! Well, no guts no glory, right? First comes Akira, and her very vengeful kick, making the woman smile, "What? But it's getting fun.." She tries to guard against the kick but it hits dead on making her teeth clatter and sends her flying back a bit; which is just the momentum she needs to keep from gettnig caught up in Guiles flash kick as well! Because yeah, that would have hurt. She hits the ground with a heavy thud, then sits up, wiping at her mouth, "Stop picking on the weak? I can't say it's very fun, no.. But look on the bright side.. You've got me to deal with now."
She darts then at Akira, leaping into the air and tries to wrap her legs about Akira's neck. Should she get that, she then leans backward to flip her opponent over and slam her to the ground, and rolls away. This is a frankensteiner, of course.
The result of her kick has Frida dusting off her hips, patting her hands together a few times, and casually, sloooowly adjusting the Vega hat on her head. It's a nice look, she figures. "Mmn. I'm kind of tired of this," she says, and while Douyoubi runs forward to put Akira into that CRAZY FRANKENSTEINER, the Fifth Day extends a hand again. She makes a point of looking at a tactical watch on her wrist while her hand comes up, and while she's doing THIS, yet another set of pinkish balls manifest in the air beyond her fingers.
"Well, we'd better finish it up!" Frida's head snaps up, and she glances at Akira, eyes narrowed, a smile on her lips. "Get 'er, Dou! Watch out for the reinforcements, though~"
It's here that the attack is released, and yet again, two massive spheres of Psycho Power streak towards Akira's downed or perhaps still standing form. Who knows?!
COMBATSYS: Frida successfully hits Akira with Double Psychostar EX.
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COMBATSYS: Akira fails to interrupt Medium Throw from Douyoubi with Skull Slice.
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Akira is slammed by two psycho spheres and she lets out a pained gasp before she collapses to the ground. "Ha... I've been waiting for you to come close!!" BUT OH GOD IT HURTS. She flips up to her feet and chants, "SKUUUUULLL!! SLICE!" And she is grabbed?! "Wha...?!" And she fires the whole projectile off into the air before she's slammed into the ground in agony... AND INFAMY.
"...Crap."
Infamy.. Or INFANCY? What?
Oh right, it's 3 am in the morning.
But being more serious for a moment, Akira is unfortunatly denied a moment of sheer awesome. This pleases Douyoubi of course, because she wants Akira to suffer. To pay for not coming back to Shadaloo, all that work they had put into her went to waste! She turns to face Akira once more, "Crap is right, little kitten. If you were smart, you would have just rejoined Shadaloo and become one of the most powerful soldiers in our organization! Instead you accepted your fate of failure." She takes a quick glance to her partner, and nods her head, "Well I suppose it's time to finish this.. Do you have any final words, Kazama?" she takes a small step back and then growls lightly as she slumps forward, letting her arms hang limp. And preparing for what she believes will be the death blow.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi focuses on her next action.
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Akira 1/---====/=======|====---\-------\0 Douyoubi
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Frida doesn't bother adding her two cents to what's going on right now. Akira attempted to flee the Shadaloo. She came back to get her 'revenge' on them, and... well, now she's facing the consequences for her actions. Namely, Douyoubi is about to flip out on the girl, and Frida is -well- aware that Douyoubi's /fear/ factor is higher than hers. She's more... a sweet, sarcastic type.
So while this is going down, the blonde saunters off into the nearby forest's fringe, one hand on her hips, a sway to her step. She hums as she goes, head bobbing to either side to help her keep the beat of a song that is, really, entirely too sunny for the situation.
Eventually, Frida happens upon a rotted log. She locates one particularly LARGE stick at the log's very end, bends down, and reaches forward, places a boot on the thing. One tug later, and a loud, intense *CR-CR-CRAAAAACK* later, Frida's holding a decayed, muggy piece of wood approximately the size she is. She approaches Akira and Douyoubi, slapping the dead stuff against the palm of her open hand, and poses:
"Just in case~"
COMBATSYS: Frida focuses on her next action.
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Akira 1/---====/=======|====---\-------\0 Douyoubi
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Akira looks around for the soldiers she thought was presence and doesn't find them. She isn't being exploded for the time being. Which surprises Akira because she was expecting to be smashed to hell and back. Instead, she stands up, and watches Douyoubi for a moment. "Okay, one second." She turns and walks away advancing to the nearest tree of suitable size. Suitable size being a tree that's about one Haggar thick and Two Haggars tall. Perhaps a little less thick than Haggar. For a Tree it is only moderately impressive, but it's a distinctly Haggaresque tree. We'll call it Haggar the tree.
Akira wraps her arms around the tree and TUGS as hard as she can. The ground shakes as the roots resist the pull but not even a tree can resist Kazama might! She hefts it up, bent over backwards as she swings it about.
"That's not a tree!" She yells at Frida. "THIS IS A TREE!" and she flings it for the two members of Seven Days, panting due to being exceptionally tired from ripping a tree from the ground and using it as a projectile. She wouldn't throw her motorcycle, which may have been more practical. You have to tree motorbikes with respect.
"How's that for final words! ... Maybe I should've said 'Why don't you make lke a tree and leaf' instead, though, but... Damn it, this is why I don't talk a lot in a fight!"
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi endures Akira's Large Thrown Object.
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Akira 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Douyoubi
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A tree? Adorable. Part of Douyoubi tells her to rip through the tree and take Akira down about six or seven notches.. However she decides it might be more fun to freak Akira out. The tree slams into Douyoubi and she collapses flat onto her back. However she then sits up and then then blazes toward Akira with her arms extended. Should she grab hold of Akira, she'd fling the woman up into the air, and then leap up after her.
Then she'd grip the woman by her waist from behind and drop down with a massive suplex, her body once again exploding with a massive wave of psycho power as she does so.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi can no longer fight.
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Akira 1/---====/=======|====---\-------\0 Frida
COMBATSYS: Akira successfully hits Frida with Large Thrown Object.
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Akira 1/--=====/=======|======-\-------\0 Frida
"I..."
Frida's reaction to seeing Akira RIP A TREE out from the ground is nothing short of amazed. A single strand of hair falls before her eyes and does a fantastic job of highlighting the apropos jawdrop she's currently beset by, but it doesn't help with what NEEDS to be done --- namely, Frida's attempted dodge comes a few seconds far too late, and the quick backwards hand-spring she tries to flip into simply has wood exploding against her back, sending her sprawling and her own weapon - that stick from earlier - send spiraling out of her grasp. She hits the ground hard, and seems to have landed in a particularly muddy morass... the stuff's got an inch on her, and the way she's laying in it, she's covered in a sheet of mud along her entire back.
But now's not the time for Frida to get upset over cosmetics. She hurts too much.
"Unghfm... you little -bitch. Did you think we were going to let you get away from us so easily?" Frida doffs her hat (it is, by this point, pretty much ruined anyway) and gets to her feet, eyeing Kazama with that sardonic smile she's perpetually wearing. "Let's not play pretend anymore."
Frida's face falls.
"You're weak. There's no way you're going to be able to resist the mind-control again, once we've got you back in the labs. And /this/ time, I'm not going to let you get away. I might even teach you to do my makeup for me. Would you like to be my pretty little handmaiden, Akira? This vigilante look doesn't suit you -at- -all-." Pouty lips on the last words, and as Frida speaks... she runs her tongue over her upper lip.
Whorls of Psycho Energy again fill the air around Akira, and quickly coalesce into a fiery explosion.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi successfully hits Akira with Shattered Mirror.
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Akira 1/=======/=======|====---\-------\0 Frida
COMBATSYS: Akira interrupts Blonde Bombshell from Frida with Destructive Barrage.
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Akira 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Frida
"You know," Akira hisses from behind her mask, "I never really cared about all the politics, the warring factions of Fighters. I just wanted to be strong for my brother, to be like him, and to watch out for my friends and family. Big deal if some random countries got taken over, not my problem, doesn't affect me. Then I get kidnapped by some random CLOAKED guy with magical clothe-fu and I don't even know what's what as they hold me in a jar running tests, then return me home as if it was no big thing. S'no big deal, I figured, dangerous world. Then you guys sent some punk after me, I get owned and dumped in another jar to try and capture my own BROTHER by USING me? Well he was too smart for you, he didn't show up to save me because he had the faith of his friends and mine! Ha!" She advances forward, perhaps having faith. Or a case of the stupid. Right into Douyoubi's technique.
For those wondering if it was faith or the stupid and really want to know, it is in fact a case of the stupid. She is not expecting a throw, she's expecting psycho power. She is chucked up, and she spins dizzily in the air before nabbed across her waist like she liked to do and is bashed into the ground--her helmet cracking at the point of impact, but not shattering. The psycho power comes next and shears into her body again, but this time--it's not her master. Though it burns and scars her body and hurts like the dickens, she stands up again by pure force of will.
"You've got it wrong anyway. It's not DAIGO who rescues ME. It's the other way around! I saved him! When I say I want to be like my brother, it's not his fighting spirit--I've got that! It's his kindness, his ability to care for the greater world than what immediately surrounds him. He runs Gedo because of his heart, it's that I'm envious of!"
Douyoubi doesn't seem to be getting up after that onslaught. Akira glowers at her briefly before kicking some dust on her. It takes restraint to not do something more cruel to her. Don't lower yourself to the level of Shadaloo, Akira, you already did that. "I play Video Games all the time, a real fight is nothing like it. It's not pretty and covered up in makeup, Shadaloo!" She dashes THROUGH the Psycho Energy, her body glowing with Chi which is good enough to pierce through the fire and psychic energies--it resists for a moment before she bursts through, "I'll do your makeup now! I've got a better look for your face!" She has a little more rage from this after Balrog roughed her up and stole her helmet because of his vanity. "My kit will be my fists! HA!" Her hands become a blur of motion. She lied a little, though, she doesn't only punch Frida's face with her chi empowered fists--she also goes for the stomache a few times until she's too tired to keep up the full frontal assault.
"And I'm not weak! If I was weak, I'd have let what you did to me keep me down forever, but I'm not going to and you can blow me up with all the pretty PSYCHO POWER you want, enslave me a thousand times with your tortures and magic, construct a false identity to run my body. But you'll never control ME by playing on my fears!"
It's not pretty. There are few times in her life that Frida's been subjected to the level of absolute depravity and violence that Akira puts her through, but... who's to say the girl hasn't been put through a lot? Frida pushed those buttons purposely. She made her move, she said what she said... and now she pays the price. We'll start with the beginning.
"Still standing? Stubborn or no, there's only so much of this you can take, sweetie, stop try-" Frida, one hand on her hip, the other dangling by her thigh, is totally unprepared for this attack. She was actually about to go into her Victory Pose. Naturally, the result is that Akira's attack takes her -entirely- off guard... the punches to her exposed stomach, her shoulders, her FACE... oh, but they leave the gambler/seductress bruised up and genuinely unhappy!
A series of barely recognizable noises leave Frida's lips while she's attacked, while the blows to her face have pretty, porcelain cheeks turning a sickening shade of yellow-purple. The fires of Akira's chi, temporary things at best, leave an insubstantial but nonetheless INDICATIVE mark of exactly where the Shadaloo's been hit, and by the time Akira finishes with her, by the time that final punch sends Frida flying back into a tree once more, the blonde is literally covered in Akira's outrage.
Eventually, the flames fade, and Frida's able to cough. Pale lips turn a ruby shade of blood-red, and the dark color slowly begins to trickle down her chin, along her jawline. Frida's eyes lose their sparkle -- but she pulls herself up, slowly, off-balance.
"Ugh.... so you think you're done with this, huh? Found some sort of faith in the brother who never even showed up for you?" Bloody lips part in a smile. Frida's teeth, stained red, couldn't be brighter. "I'm so -proud- of you. Here... let me show you." A fingersnap cues the manifestation of three spiraling planes of Psycho Power, right before Akira's eyes. They're roughly the size of her, and all of them strongly resemble spinning slot machine wheels.
The first one ticks into place. 7.
"Say what you will, sweetheart..."
7.
"But /something/ inside of you wanted the power we gave. Nobody succumbs to the Psycho Power without their own, secret little sins to hide. Can you really say yours are gone?"
7.
The explosion is horrific.
COMBATSYS: Akira just-defends Frida's 7-7-7!
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Akira 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Frida
After the pure abuse Akira puts Frida through, the second matchoff may seem a little anticlimatic. But most fights don't end with magical energy blasts, they usually end with two people on their last legs managing to put forth a little bit more of that last effort in to outlast their opponent. Sometimes they do end with magical energy blasts, and that's when it's really awesome.
"I kind of do want power." Akira admits, "But you didn't give me any. You took it away and let another power control me! I've met some really big weirdos," Kyokugen Team of course. And Shingo. And Kensou. And well a lot of people really. "They were goofballs but their power didn't control 'em. They followed their hearts rather than 'power level charts'. They took dumb risks, sure, might not have been the best move--but it paid off for them because they put themselves right into the thick of it."
But the slot machine appears. Akira is frightened as the 7's appear. One seven. Two sevens. She has played enough video games to know what happens when a Slot Machine gets three 7's. She brings up her arms defensively--peering through her guard to see...
Another 7. OH NO! There is a moment before the explosion however, and Akira is not sure what to do. So she does not fight, exactly, or launch a counter attack. Instead, she prays.
And thinks the following: .oO(Chinese Boy: YOU CAN DO IT, FRIDA!)
There is no explosion. Akira looks up and back to the last slot which moves a little more... into the face of some clown with a goofy hat?! What the?!
Akira is a little lost, but she shakes her head quickly and gets over it. The opportunity is hers! "DANCING..." She shouts as she twists into it...
--And throws herself through the slot machines, sending the little windows scattering as wind chi erupts around her legs--chi that desires to rip Frida apart. "CYCLONE KICK!"
COMBATSYS: Frida dodges Akira's Dancing Cyclone Kick.
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Akira 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Frida
Frida watches the third slot, obstinately, slide just -onnnnnnnnnne- more space. Her eyes roll upwards, pupils disappearing behind her eyelids, and murmurs something beneath her lips. It's very likely far too vulgar to be reproduced here, so we're just going to glide on past it, right? What's important is that Akira's still standing, and Frida, despite her burning desire to see the Kazama child on the ground, unconscious, is starting to re-think her situation. The odds are, after all, against her.
And her eyes are opening just in time to see Akira's Cyclone Kick headed straight for her.
"God DAMN, you never quit!" Frida's mumbling, half-shouting as she falls into a hastily executed roll, which sends her quite neatly beneath and beyond Akira's rage, well out of the way of any life-ending collisions with feet. She comes up into a wobbly kneel on the other side of the girl, and promptly places a hand on the fallen Douyoubi's shoulder.
"So maybe you're a little more stubborn than I thought, Kazama. But it doesn't mean I'm not going to come back for you another time! Any day, rain or shine, I'm going to be thinking about you, honey... you and that burly big brother of yours. And when I feel like the cards are stacked in /my/ favor??"
Frida touches her lip, and licks the blood left on her finger.
"I'm going to pay you back for this. Now. Are we done here? I've got a massage and spa waiting for me at home, and Douyoubi could probably use the same thing, too -- and I'm not going to hit you if /you/ don't hit me."
COMBATSYS: Frida takes no action.
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Akira 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Frida
Akira considers her own fallen allies. And the fact that by now, they can't get to Vega anyway. Akira wonders if Frida wants her to hit her again as part as some villain gimmick or for her to just leave with her fallen friends. They might, uh, need medical attention. She would like to do the opposite of what Frida wants her to do but what if the opposite of what Frida wants her to do is in fact what Frida wants her to do but maybe what she wants her to do is really what she wants her to do and not the opposite of what Frida wants her to do at all!
"Then run away and we can all go home." Akira tells Frida. "Or come at me if you aren't afraid to gamble." She turns around and walks to Ingrid first (since she seemed to be in poor shape before she even got here). She hefts the girl up and carries her back to her bike. She probably doesn't intend to use Ingrid as a weapon anyway. IS THIS AN OPENING?!
COMBATSYS: Akira takes no action.
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Akira 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Frida
"Mmn, yes, that's what I figured...." With the hand closest to Douyoubi, Frida reaches down and hefts her fallen comrade up with a moderate deal of effort, and is able to bring the woman to a standing position after a moment, slinging one arm over her shoulders to assist the carry. Frida looks up from the ground after all this, bringing a pair of lazy, interminably smug eyes to rest on the back of Akira's helmet.
"Oh, we're leaving all right. I've gambled enough for the evening, wouldn't you say? It's like a drug, risking it all... but..." Frida's voice gets high, flighty... she trails off with a dreamy sigh. "Certain boys might not be interested in me if I come home with bruises all over. I have a figure to keep, you know...? In any case.."
Frida turns to limp out of the clearing, but not before turning back to face Akira, and leveling one hand at her, finger extended, thumb held skywards. It is, very much, a fake gun. "Don't die before I get to see you again. We've got a score to settle, and I'm gonna win it all back, you little brat. Tell Daigo we all said hi, hm? Make sure you get lots of time with him, too... who knows? He could be next. Not like it hasn't happened BEFORE or anything."
Frida winks, and suddenly, a burst of pink Psycho Power leaves the end of her finger to sizzle through the air, straight towards Akira! It zooms past her shoulder to slam into a tree some ten feet away from Kazama, rendering the ancient plant an absolute wreck. The tree collapses inwards, but, like everything else, misses Akira by a good distance. It all seems... like Frida intended for that to happen.
Maybe she just got lucky.
"Just kidding~", comes the Shadaloo agent's musical reply. Before Akira's able to do much but turn and stare, Frida's making a POINT of hobbling towards the forest itself, and makes her exit in an effective, albeit non-classy way.
"Not gonna play your messenger. You know where he is and can get his phone number." Akira frowns thoughtfully. She only has one backup helmet not two. Well, not much can be done about it. She takes her helmet off and--
FWOOSH! Her head is nearly exploded.
Akira is still for a moment, in shock, but then after a few breathes of air puts the helmet onto Ingrid's head before turning to recover Guile. She doesn't say anything to Frida as she makes her escaped, the adrenaline is wearing off with that break and her ability to talk smack is impaired, but Frida and Douyoubi can make thir escape. Easy.
Akira hopes Guile isn't too upset about not making it to Vega. Perhaps by occupying these forces they helped the others get a chance to topple the Shadaloo leader.
It was a long and difficult fight, indeed. The balance of arguably the largest battle within Thailand rested in the hands of the Thailand Heroes and the might of Shadaloo.
While Akira can't see it, nor pretty much anyone else, deeper within Thailand the two forces continue to clash and fight, trying to overcome one another. For a good while the Shadaloo forces were pushing them back, but rather coincidentally timed, when it looks bleak, there's a sudden explosion. At the same time that Akira displays her fire, Shadaloo soldiers go flying everywhere as tanks and waves of soldiers tear into Bangkok led by the powerful General Sonthi Boonyaratglin.
The teamwork, the tactics, it completely overwhelms the Shadaloo forces, but the soldiers know that if they retreat at this point, they're dead anyway.
As a result they're to be completely wiped out as time continues.
Another group of soldiers rush into the scene now, Akira suddenly is not on her own, there's plenty of assistance for her, "They're hurt and need medical attention immedietly!" a higher ranked soldier yells.
Approached by another general, Akira finds her shoulder patted by him, "Thank you. We'll take things from this point."
He gives a sharp salute, there wasn't time for any other thanks. There was a capital to get back under their control.
Log created on 23:26:10 07/01/2007 by Guile, and last modified on 23:53:05 07/07/2007.