Description: Hotaru takes on the recently institutionalized Roberto Miura in the SlamMasters Arena. In her corner is Doctor Tran, who is full of great coaching advice and a bag of golf clubs that he tells her to put to use. The fight ends up spinning rapidly out of control as the soccer fighter suffers a sudden relapse. Will Hotaru and Tran be able to subdue him before something majorly bad happens? (Winner: Hotaru)
Ah... another trip to Metro City. The SNF officials sure have enjoyed sending her all around the globe lately. This at least beats the NORTH POLE anyway. In fact, it's actually a pretty big deal to her. To fight at the newly opened, famouse SlamMasters arena is quite the honor and she's been looking forward to this since she found out about her matchup just a couple days ago.
Standing down in the ring now, the girl spins in a circle, taking in the packed stadium with wide eyes, feeling awfully small - and not because of her stature! She's fought before crowds before, but she hasn't really quite gotten over the feeling of being stared at by multiple tens of thousands of people at the same time. It's a lot more pressure than just simply fighting in front of a camera like she had to last week.
Speaking of her match up, she knows her opponent to be Roberto Miura. She's faced the young man before and found him to be quite an impressive opponent to deal with. At first she hadn't taken his style seriously, but she's been given plenty of reasons to think otherwise now. It will be good to get a straight matchup against him, since that is something that has never happened before.
But what happens to have her the most excited is the note in the fight description about having a guest coach on hand to guide her through this challenging fight! There's a number of people she looks up to in the fighting circuits and having /any/ one of them stand on the sidelines and give her pointers is an incredible opportunity.
Lifting her hands to her cheeks and getting a distant, daydreamy look in her eyes, the pig-tailed girl begins to wonder who this mystery coach is. Maybe the legendary Ryu himself will be here to impart some of his stoic wisdom upon her. Or maybe one of the Kyokugeners will be in her corner, telling her what amazingly unflashy but effective Kyokugen Karate attack she should try to emulate next. She'd certainly do her best to make Master Ryo proud! Or, or, what if it's Hayato-sensei of Taiyo High? The mighty instructor has been an inspiration to her since the day she met him after all and she would hang on every word he said to the letter. Sighing, she shakes her head, lowering her hands, glancing around with eager anticipation.
The crowd is loud, the cheering reaching obnoxious levels. These people came to see a fight and Hotaru Futaba is going do her best to give them one! There's announcements going over the speaker system, but she can't even distinguish them at this point. It's probably giving out Roberto's name or maybe even mentioning who the guest coach will be, but she can't really tell.
Roberto on the hand is in the locker rooms speaking with someone as he searches frantically for something. He searches through his duffel bags then his backpack and then through lockers. Roberto pauses in his search to turn to a mysterious figure watching him, "What do you mean my medicine is missing?"
"Exactly that. We don't have your medicine."
"We have to cancel the fight."
"You can't do that. You've signed up and you're already here."
"But that would be recklessly endangering my opponent."
"She knew what she was getting into when she signed waiver. Besides she trains with those Kyokugen nut jobs. Dealing with lunatics isn't something new to her."
Roberto could only respond to that with a deep frown. It was as if the world was conspiring against him this week. And it was going to culminate in a SNF which would serve as an embarrassment captured for eternity.
It's that conversation that brings us to this point. Roberto comes down the ramp to Pat Benatar's 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot.' His lips turn downward in a slight frown. It's somewhat obvious Roberto had no say over song selection. Over his shoulders his mesh bag of soccer balls. Dumping them out he tosses the mesh bag out of the ring and stretches.
Now is probably the best time to warn her as any. "I might not act like myself during this fight. If that should happen please forgive me." With the warning given all that remains is to wait for her coach.
The lights dim. Smoke billows up around the backstage entrance, and, amazingly, an entire limo comes slowly rolling out, pure white reflecting a thousand flashbulbs going off. The windows are dark, unseeable. It's immaculate. It sparkles. It's helping stretch out the suspense, just like it's supposed to.
Coming to a halt right in front of the stage, the announcer calls out, and the crowd shushes. "AND NOW, FOR HOTARU'S SPECIAL GUEST COACH...THE ONE, THE ONLY..." He stretches a hand out toward the limo, and a door opens. A single cleat lowers, khakis visible above it. "DOCTOR! RICHARD! TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
The man himself fully steps out, one arm raised, soaking in the renewed cheering. He's wearing a classic golfing outfit, complete with plaid shirt and funny hat with a pom pom on top. A golf bag is slung over his shoulder.
Moving up toward the ring, Tran slings his bag over a turnbuckle and hops on behind it, staying out of the ring. Cupping his mouth with one hand, the world's best #1 coach shouts out, "Alright, kid! Hit him hard and fast, but mostly hard! C'mon, don't let me down!"
COMBATSYS: Roberto has started a fight here.
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Roberto 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has joined the fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Roberto
She'll probably never know of the frantic conversation that took place in the locker room between Roberto and the officials. She doesn't know of what he's been through since he got home - how the horrors of war left a the young man changed in ways he has yet to be able to cope with. But she does hear his apology in advance - though the questioning look on her face suggests Hotaru isn't really sure what he's getting at. "Just treat me like a serious opponent," is all she asks, looking a little sheepish as she rests a hand behind her head. Maybe he was talking about putting on a show? Taking on a persona for the purposes of the fight?
"Shoma has been looking for you. Says you haven't been around school lately. He's back... he's looking a lot better. You should get in touch," she encourages with a friendly smile as she lowers her hand to join her other, clasped behind her back.
As a /limo/ pulls up to the ring, the Kenpo artist's eyes widen. Wow, they must have pulled in quite the legend for this fight. She'll have to make whoever it is proud of her, that's for-
Doctor Richard Tran? THE Doctor Tran? Her hand reaches out to rest against the top rop of the ring as she stares at the man getting out of the vehicle, eyes studying the clothing he's chosen to show up in. What kind of get up is that? And where is her real coach, anyway?
It takes precious seconds to sink in that he /is/ the guest coach and Hotaru blanches just a little, forgetting for a moment the giant crowd and thinking only about how she's gotten trapped into a situation where she's supposed to listen to /him/? Well... he did give her a lot to think about the last time they fought. But that was different. As he hops up on the side of the ring, Hotaru nods slowly, brow furrowed slightly, "Okay," she replies quietly at first, exhaling a little. "What kind of joke is this? You're going to tell me how to fight?" she replies dubiously. But she should get into this. It's part of the fight, after all, and Hotaru has always been mindful of the rules. "Okay! Fine!" she says again, this time with a lot more enthusiasm, albeit probably forced. Hard. Fast. Mostly hard. Hotaru turns to face Roberto as the start of the match is called and engages operation Hit Hard and Fast.
Leaning back against the rope, she springs forward, charging Roberto, trying to snag a hold of his arm. If she gets a tight grip, she'll continue right on with her momentum into a rapid sequence of stomps right up the front of him before leaping from his shoulders to land daintily on the top of a turnbuckle.
COMBATSYS: Roberto blocks Hotaru's Shin-Jou Tai.
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Hotaru 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Roberto
She manages to get a hold his arm. But that's where the ideal situation ends there. As she runs up he manages to free his hand enough that he's able to put his hands up in front of him to meet her feet each time as she rises up and then she kicks off of him to land daintily on the turnbuckle.
The soccer star takes a deep breath. So far so good. No flash backs yet. So he'll continue to fight her seriously but more cautiously than usual. The thing about being on the top turnbuckle is that it puts her up high and ideal position for him take a leap upwards with glowing hands to grab her and then slam her down to outside mat with a burst of chi. If all goes according to planned, Roberto will also land outside of the ring but he'll be on the metal steps in the corner.
Watching on impassively, Dr. Tran frowns when he sees Robert deal with Hotaru's attack. "Alright, kid, c'mon, now. I said hard, not soft like a pillow stuffed with marshmallows." Clinically reaching down into his golf bag, Tran produces a club, and gives it a quick swing or two to test its weight.
"Consider this a warning! No more slacking off, full-throttle only!" Whipping the club downward, Tran points it at Hotaru. "Waste his face with this, or I'll have to step in!" He'll do it, too. Don't push him, he's crazy.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Roberto's Shining Save.
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Hotaru 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Roberto
When Roberto comes at her, Hotaru leaps forward off of the turnbuckle back into the center of the ring. Dutifully, she darts from there over to Tran's corner, sliding to a stop as he wildly gesticulates with the golf club. "W-what?" the girl blanches. "You want me to go hit him with /that/?"
She grimaces a little but reaches out and snags the club from him the same. Hey, now she and Roberto can be Sports Styles buddies! Only, she has no idea how to play golf. Breathing in deeply, she swings the golf club once in front of her kind of like a baseball bat. It's what Shoma does, after all.
"Sorry, Roberto..." she mutters before charging over toward the soccer fighter. Swinging the makeshift weapon out at him, she doesn't really seem to committed to it. The swing is so very transparent and easy to see coming, to say the least. In fact, she's clearly holding back on the momentum, intending to back pedal away from him the moment she's doing swinging.
COMBATSYS: Roberto interrupts Random Weapon from Hotaru with Random Weapon.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Roberto
After missing the attack, Roberto has to quickly scramble back into the ring. Slightly disappointed but kinda expected it. He knew from experience that Hotaru was a fast fighter. Of course in the time it took for Roberto to get back in. Hotaru is already brandishing the golf club Tran had given her.
He doesn't have much time to react. Ok actually he does. As a matter of fact he could easily dodge but he decides on taking a risk that has the potential of yielding the biggest rewards. He drops down to scoop up one of the soccer balls strewn about the ring and then charges at Hotaru, going to inside of the attack lowering the amount of damage to him but in the process he slammed the soccer ball that he reached down to grab right in her chin. After the strike is delivered, he back tracks grateful it hadn't been triggered yet. The fight is still young though.
Oh, hell no. That won't do it all. The reason Hotaru just got owned? It is because she is lacking in gung-ho fighting spirit! It may be the Tran is throwing her off her game, but if so then it's all the more reason for her to tell her what to do!
"Damn it, girl, swing it like you mean it! It's no wonder the boy wonder over there just whipped your ass like cream!" Reaching into the bag again, Tran yanks out another golf club, whips it around over his head once or twice, and then hucks it at Hotaru. "Catch it and hit him with both of them!"
COMBATSYS: Tran has joined the fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Tran
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Roberto 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Tran's Thrown Object.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Tran
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Roberto 0/-------/----===|
Ouch! The girl is seeing stars when that soccerball strikes her on the chin. The golf club is held onto, though just barely, as she goes fumbling backwards until she ends up leaning back against the ropes, one arm reaching out at her side to keep her standing. She looks a little pale, as if that hit rattled her something fierce. "What does he put in those things," she growls softly, sounding a bit bewildered. A soccor ball shouldn't feel like a lead weight!
Wincing, she turns to look toward her 'trusted' coach with an expression that is not /quite/ a glare. She's finally untangling her arm from the rope when he sends another golf club sailing her way. It's not really too much trouble to snatch it out of the air - which she does deftly, now finding herself standing there with two golf clubs instead of one. *blink*
"This is ridiculous," she snaps before she leans forward to charge Roberto again, this time with the unweildy double-golf-club combo instead. But she is committed this time, it seems, as she gets close enough to swing the first club at about chest level with a vicious backhanded motion. The second club trails behind it, whipping through the air closer to his stomach in level. "HA!"
COMBATSYS: Roberto endures Hotaru's Random Weapon.
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Hotaru 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Tran
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Roberto 0/-------/=======|
Weapons flying back and forth. It's unfortunate that Roberto was so close to Tran when she decided to go for him. In a Three Stooges move, Hotaru goes to whack Tran. He evades it and then Roberto gets whacked HARD. It's at this point that he's no longer in Slam Masters Arena mentally. He's back in Thailand engaging in hand to hand combat with the soldiers there.
Roberto feels as though he's surrounded and so he wildly lashes swinging the soccer ball trying to clear out a bit more room for himself. As he does this he starts screaming, "DIE!!! ALL OF YOU DIE!!!!" Yes, it's official. He has lost it.
COMBATSYS: Tran endures Roberto's Random Weapon.
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Hotaru 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Tran
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Roberto 1/-------/=======|
It does the doctor's heart good to see Hotaru actually get into it like that. Still, she's coming dangerously close to sassing him, and he can't have that. "Ridiculous? You don't know what ridiculous is, it's not even funny."
Surely, Tran would go on, but it's about then that Roberto decides to freak the hell out, his mad flailing smacking the doctor repeatedly about the head, the only part of his body unprotected by the turnbuckle. He's not even expecting it, but at the very least his grip on the post keeps him from flying off into the crowd. Certainly, he looks kind of pissed afterward.
Vaulting up into the ring, Tran grabs his entire golf bag, and calmly states, "Alright, Hotaru, this match is over. Help me put him down before this guy does something even more retarded." WHOMP. Down comes the golf bag toward Roberto's head.
COMBATSYS: Roberto successfully hits Hotaru with Random Weapon.
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Hotaru 1/--=====/=======|====---\-------\0 Tran
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Roberto 1/------=/=======|
When Roberto takes the golf-club swings without getting out of the way, Hotaru already knows something's wrong. The kid is tough, but he's not 'Haha, golf clubs bend around my head and I don't even feel it' tough. That territory is left to men of meat or just complete whack jobs, like Joe Higashi.
Which is why she kind of stops after striking him solidly with both of the clubs, blinking in place for a moment. The fit that comes over him leaves her even more flabbergasted, "R-Roberto?" So caught off guard by the unprecidented outpouring of rage from the young man who has always been so well composed, she doesn't have the presence of mind to avoid his soccer-ball laden fist as he smashes into her face with his wild flailing.
This time the girl is knocked clean off her feet to the ring's mat, the golf clubs flying out of her hands in random directions. Rolling over to push herself back up, Hotaru shakes her head, her vision going blury as her eyes begin to water. Which makes things all the more confusing to her. Managing to get back to her feet with the help of the ropes, she wipes her eyes with her forarms.
Squinting, she can make out Tran engaging the young man as well. "I don't know what's wrong with him," she calls out, trying to make sense of how a normal (Well, abnormal) SNF could go so insane all of the sudden. "This is nothing like Roberto normally!" Having already been nearly knocked out, the girl ends up just propping herself up with the rope for a moment to get her senses back.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru gains composure.
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Hotaru 1/---====/=======|====---\-------\0 Tran
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Roberto 1/------=/=======|
COMBATSYS: Roberto interrupts Random Weapon from Tran with Bicycle Kick.
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Hotaru 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Tran
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Roberto 1/-----==/=======|
Roberto has a wild eyed stare as he looks back and forth. He's not seeing Tran and Hotaru right now. Instead there are a pair of soldiers attempting to flank him. One of them hanging back and away from him. The other he sees trying whack him in the head with a club. The person who isn't attacking ceases to be a problem for him, for now so he deals with the one trying to whack him.
With a battle cry of, "Die, Shadaloser," he quickly spins around and flips backwards driving his foot into Tran's head and then slowly turns to face Hotaru with eyes that speak of seeing terrors he wasn't prepared to see.
Well, technically speaking, Tran WAS fighting on Shadaloo's behalf for a while, although he wasn't terribly active, and he wasn't central at all. Still, he never joined ended up brainwashed or in a jumpsuit, so clearly he did something right in that regard.
Of course, Tran's still going to have to lay the hurt on Roberto. It's the principal of the thing, understand. Even though he's gone nuts and his insults suck (one might say the two aren't as closely related as one might think, but then one might also be accused of being needlessly cruel), Dr. Tran doesn't retort. At least, not to the soccer star. It's only mostly because he just got kicked in the face.
Landing roughly in a three-point position after fully flipping around backwards, Tran looks to Hotaru pointedly. "I said help me out, damn it! He's freaking out! He's gonna hurt himself or someone else unless you do something about it, so stop standing around and DO SOMETHING!" Not one to lead by words alone, Dr. Tran takes a bold step forward...toward Hotaru. Hopping over the ropes, he crouches down, puts his arms around her midsection, and pulls back. Legs straining, the doctor grunts, "Go!" Then he lets go. Have fun, Hotaru!
COMBATSYS: Tran assists Hotaru.
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Hotaru 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Tran
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Roberto 1/-----==/=======|
Poor Hotaru is having a hard time getting her bearings as it is. Squinting at Roberto as he strikes out at Tran she begins to wonder if Roberto is trying to wreck vengeance against the doctor for something he did on Shadaloo's behest while in Thailand.
But it's that look Roberto gives her after belting her coach one across the face that makes it obvious to her that he's snapped or something. That dead, terrified look. He never had that look while in Thailand itself - He made it all the way through a war without breaking down. But maybe he was just holding it all back, suppressing it long enough to finish what he had gone there for... only to have his control break in the end.
"Roberto..." she whispers. The kid did a brave thing going to Thailand. A dumb thing, if one were to ask Tran probably, but Futaba already got that lecture. When the Fighting Legend that is Tran starts barking out orders at her again, Hotaru looks a bit startled, having lost herself in a reverie. "I- I don't know what to- WHAT are you doing??" She doesn't get anything else off before he literally pulls her back into the ropes then sends her flying back at Roberto.
Whelp, the time for indecision has certainly passed, that's for sure. This is the second time in so many weeks she's been thrown around in her SNFs. Turning herself to fly feet-first is easy enough though. There is a crushing amount of chi accompanying what will end up being a very powerful kick if she hits him.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Roberto with Ten-shou Ranki EX.
- Power hit! -
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The force of the kick is more than enough to send the boy back into the ropes. And now he's got a Hotaru attached to him too, the girl wrapping her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck as the two rebound off of the ropes. The momentum is enough to send them both to the ground, though, as Roberto is unable to stay standing after having to contend with not just a very powerful Tran-launched teenaged projectile but also the pig-tailed girl that is now clinging tightly to him like a monkey!
When he falls to the ground though, Hotaru shifts her position to pin him instead, sitting over his waist, her knees pressing into his stomach while her hands firmly gripping his upper arms, trying to hold him down for a moment. The initial chi-burst when she was mid-air was only the beginning though as a veritable small storm of blue energy begins to whirl up around the two teens. "Roberto," she murmurs, leaning forward to put more of her light weight into keeping him in place.
"Wake up, Roberto. It's me, Hotaru Futaba. We were on the same side there. We fought together and won." The build up of energy is intense with the poor kid right at the center of the impending chibomb.
"We were together when we fought our way to the shore. And later, we worked together to save many prisoners. You and me. I don't know what you're going through now. But we helped each other then, and I will help you now, if you let me."
Drawing energy not just from herself but from Roberto as well to power the impending attack, Hotaru begins to grit her teeth, unable to utter another word due to the concentratrion it's taking to control the power she's allowed to build up. And it is in that moment, when she draws some of his own strength into the attack that she senses it - just a hint, a small taste of what he is going through. The terror he finds himself locked in, the anger, the pain, the horrors he saw and how he suppressed it all the way to the end so that he could do everything he could to help.
"The war is over, Roberto... leave it behind." comes the quiet plea before everything she had built up collapses back into the girl. Moving her hands from holding his arms down to being placed squarely on his chest, she allows the small chi storm to collapse back in on herself, funneling the power through her arms directly into the boy's chest, striking not just physically but deeper even - combating his will to fight, the strength to continue. A little shock therapy, to try and put him to sleep or snap him out of it, perhaps.
When the power spike is gone and Hotaru has no strength left to push into him, she leans forward with a sigh, propping herself up against his chest with her hands.
It is at that point that she finally gets through to him. He's no longer seeing the jungles of Thailand, no longer seeing random Thailand soldiers attacking him. He finally see things as truly are. The ring, replacing the jungle. The bag of clubs replacing the massive braining club he saw in his flash back. Hotaru and Tran are no longer the soldiers.
He stays down on the ground shaking his head in disbelief. He is capable of fighting some more but his desire to fight is gone. Now that he's lucid he finally has to speak. "I knew this would happen but yet they signed me up anyway. I'm sorry."
The soccer star averts his eyes incapable of meeting either Tran's or Hotaru's. Instead, he keeps his gaze on the lights which makes the job of avoiding looking at either one so much easier.
COMBATSYS: Roberto has left the fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\1 Tran
That went pretty well, all things considered. Roberto's calmed down, the Hyper-Speed Humping attack worked perfectly, and Dr. Tran's own view on why well-meaning but ultimately retarded kids should stay the hell out of warzones is further validated. There's pity in his eyes for Roberto's sorry state of mind, but no sympathy.
"Huhn." The doctor leaps back up onto the outside of the ring, and then hangs over the top rope, to give one final bit of coachery. His finger's pointed at the both of them, of course. "Look. It's not hard. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the fire. You knew it would happen, but they couldn't force you to fight." He pauses, thoughtful. "At least, not these jokers. Anyway, my point is, don't just brush this off, chuckleheads. Either act like kids or act like adults, but don't go fuckin' around with shit if you're not ready to take responsibility." With a short, irate sigh, Tran steps forward and then hops up, letting the ropes give him a quick start toward the exit. His limo's long-gone, after all. He raises a hand in farewall as he goes. "That's it. I'm gone. I don't really wanna watch you two make out anymore."
COMBATSYS: Tran has left the fight here.
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Spared a retaliatory attack, Hotaru takes in a deep breath before finally pushing herself up to her feet, getting off of Roberto so that the boy wants. But she doesn't stay standing if he doesn't get to his feet, crouching by him instead. "I-It's okay... I'm sorry I didn't know what you're going through." comes her reply. She's quiet then for a long, awkward moment. A moment broken up by the tirade from Doctor Tran. Glancing over her shoulder at the man, the girl is silent. Already having heard his take on the involvement of kids in an adult's war first hand, she certainly isn't surprised what he has to say about it now.
Wincing a little as if some of his message is striking a nerve, she gasps a little at the accusation of making out with the soccer fighter. She doesn't retort though, closing her eyes and shaking her head as he walks off in a bit of a huff. "I really don't understand that man..." That isn't entirely true though. While what actually drives Tran remains a complete mystery to her, he /does/ have a way of making way too much sense in ways she really wishes he wouldn't. It was easier when she was able to write him off as a total crackpot.
The audience is kind of in a really mixed state right now. They came expecting a typical, crazy SNF battle, but instead got treated to a kid going out of his mind before relenting to Hotaru's, erm, attack without fighting back even though he's clearly conscious. The officials are kind of stumped too. But since the Kenpo artist and Kyokugen student landed the last blow, and there doesn't appear to be any fight left in the young man she had pinned, they decide to declare her the winner of the match.
Offering a hand to Roberto, Hotaru offers to support him back out of the ring. "Um, let's get out of here. I didn't know what you've been going through. I think we should talk about it."
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has ended the fight here.
Log created on 23:19:51 07/21/2007 by Hotaru, and last modified on 20:12:27 07/22/2007.