Description: THE BATTLE OF MONSTERS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN, IN WHICH (mini)TOKYO WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. SEE THE CHILLS, THE SPILLS, THE THRILLS, AND THE GIANT MONSTER MAYHEM. Also, stay for the punch. (Winners : Birdie and Katana)
If there's one thing that fighting spectators love, it's property damage. There's nothing quite like seeing the incredible destruction powerful people can wreak upon a city from the comfort of your own home while debating whether or not it's fake. What better way to boost ratings, then, than to set four of these powerful fighters loose into Tokyo and tell them to have as much fun with tearing up the city as they'd like, even to go so far as to tell them to be more destructive on purpose? The only obvious problem would be that the cost of repairing the city would end up costing more than sales made from the fight. That issue is easily addressed however, as tonight's fight well proves.
At first glance the Tokyo skyline is as beautiful as ever, and nothing seems to be amiss. Upon closer examination the visual breaks down, however. The details aren't all there, and though there are light little windows they don't glow from within. That alongside the fact that as the camera zooms out there's a familiar blonde fighter coming into view that's taller than any buildings present should give it away. A miniaturized Tokyo sprawls out across the land, the real skyline of Southtown with the dominating feature of Geese Tower visible behind.
Everthing is all set to begin, and Ingrid seems to be prepared as well, standing beside a little railway on which a tiny little bullet train zips around. There's not going to be any chatting with the cameramen this time for her, though, as the model of Tokyo is so large that she couldn't get close enough without taking quite a while to get back in position. So she'll simply wait instead, wondering about how strong the materials the city is made out of are, but unwilling to test it for the moment- they want the model torn up during the fight, not before.
The monsters in Japan are far better than the monsters in America, or Europe. THAT'S for sure. And the best monsters are found within Tokyo! Unfortunately, Southtown isn't Tokyo. But today it DOES contain Tokyo. Amazing! It also seems to contain the monsters of the East as well, the land of the rising sun very familiar with such things!
And while Ingrid, while perhaps scary in her own right, exists... SHE IS FAR FROM SCARY COMPARED TO -okay who are we kidding. Yet Katana's masked exterior, full of armor and massive meat muscles, does perhaps provide some backdrop to the giant monster scenery. Perhaps, also, it's the fact that Katana's jitte are going to be used liberally today. It will, certainly, be something that he will cause the others to enjoy!
ENJOYING THE TASTE OF THE SCENERY. Katana has never been known to really leave something done right, so what horrible plans does he have for this SNF!?
Standing within the 'main square', Katana takes his weaponry upwards, standing on one leg in a crane stance, and PREPARES HIMSELF. "This battle shall hurt Tokyo, but in order to save it for the likes of such invaders, I shall fight with all my strength!" He poses.
THEN POSES ONCE MORE, armor clanking as he leans forwards, arms outstretched, on one leg. "HIYAAAAAAAH!"
Birdie, however, is a rather tall figure. Usually he would be wearing the King Kong outfit, but since Katana didn't wear the Godzilla armor, some times you just have to make due. But he's still going to act like King Kong. Monkey king!
Looking about the replica, even just by entering it, he's not in south town anymore. Instead, he's in LITTLE Toyko, BIG problem! Wading through the building, his strength doesn't seem to mind the rather well built scenery. He's not even trying to step around it. In fact, he moves towards the side and picks up a radio tower. He uses this tower to pick his teeth.
The large Gang man moves into position. This'll be damn interesting alright. He and Katana usually fight together all the time. They've done some wonderful things together, but other times, have been sort of foolish. Here? Everything's no hold bared.
"Tauros reportin'." Birdie chuckles. That's going to be his name under Geese's command. Tauros. Man Katana, you're full of it. But what is the question.
...mwahahaha.
When the invitations were sent out for this SNF, detailing the fight premise and location, Frei's cackling could be heard for blocks. It was the fight he's always dreamed of and never had. Like a letter from a long-lost lover, this fight is a dream come true for him. You just know he was the type of kid who loved video games and played the most egregiously absurd ones whatever chance he got. Finding out he was going to be RELIVING Rampage on international television? Oh man. It was too good to be true.
He had to be ready.
Cue the training montage! Running up at dawn! Playing that new Rampage on the Wii in the YFCC and getting owned by schoolkids! A couple shots of him sewing something in a dark room under hot incandescent lamps! A couple shots of Mount Fuji 'cause we're in Japan and it's necessary.
Frei is the last to arrive.
Frei is the BEST to arrive.
The studio door flies open, slamming against the wall so hard it cracks off its hinges and then drops to the ground with a metallic clank. Silhouetted against the dark by bright outside lights, there's a shout of "TOH!" as the monk LEAPS forward and then lands next to Ingrid on the model, taking down what appears to be a block with a 7-11 and a little basketball court in the process.
He is dressed like Godzilla, right down to the long tail swaying behind him and the oval gap for his face inside the massive jaws.
"ARE THERE ANY BAD CHILDREN HERE?!" he bellows, throwing both arms up in a roar. The tail swings, taking out a Bank of Japan skyscraper!
Oh god.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Birdie has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
COMBATSYS: Frei has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Katana has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Katana 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Frei
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
Katana Ingrid has met in a park, and Frei she met one fine day in China. Birdie is a complete unknown to her, but it's easy to figure out what his deal is when she sees him plowing through the city like he's wading through water. Everything seems to be going just fine as her opponents show up, but Frei still hasn't arrived. And then, suddenly, he does. Ingrid's hand rises up to her mouth and she lets out a small little laugh at the drama of the entrance, the poor convenience store making an undesirable crunching noise as it gets landed on. She can almost see tiny little people pointing up in horror and running away down the streets.
"It's good to see you again, Frei- and in such high spirits as well." She lifts a hand and taps at her chin a couple of times, I think the bad children," she lifts a hand and idly points towards Birdie and Katana, "are over there." Is Frei going to play the part and rampage his way over to the two and break as much stuff as possible on the way? Maybe. As for Ingrid, if it wasn't clear just by looking at her, she isn't. She may have a powerful load of psychic energy stored within her, but her style isn't as specifically destructive. She has perhaps one attack that can cause the level of carnage required, and it's not one she can let loose at the turn of a hat. That's not to say she isn't going to try, but for now she's going to be entirely predictable and boring, and wait for everyone else to do something before attacking herself.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid focuses on her next action.
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Katana 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Frei
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
It is never a good idea to simply WAIT for the monsters to come to you. Katana, himself, watches as GODZILLA jumps out and ROARS. Albeit, yes, it is Frei. BUT TO KATANA IT IS GODZILLA.
Bad children!? "There are no bad children.. JUST WARRIORS. And I will protect this land from you and your master, Godzilla! I shall destroy her first!" The jitte are brought forwards, pointing towards Frei! ... And as Frei takes out a SKYSCRAPER, Katana looks in horror within his mask.
"YOU HAVE HURT JAPAN FOR THE LAST TIME!"
Nevermind the path of destruction that will undoubtably follow in his wake. "Now then.. your master. I shall remove the sorceress first!" Katana makes it rather obvious about his decision.. and that's all the time that Ingrid will get.
Dashing forth, sandals hit the ground hard, slamming into a car, sending it flying, smashing through a miniature bridge, and continuing to power towards her. "NOW. YOU SHALL MEET THE WRATH OF THE SHOGUN!"
Jitte slide back wards and Katana seems to nearly skid forwards. "JIGOKU!"
His leg plates take out a few street signs. "SCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPE!" Both jitte, one after another, are brought up towards Ingrid, one after another, TO CLEAVE HER.
Birdie looks towards Ingrid. Thyen towards Frei. And then towards Katana. But Katana doesn't jut watch Frei in the godzilla outfit. He goes towards Frei... no wait, his sorceress? It's rather odd. Birdie'll have to admit. But what he does know, is, well, he's going to help Katana. The man's already barelling forwards into their lines.
Flicking away the top of the building way into the grass, Birdie moves after Katana, literally grabbing a hold of a power plant model, ripping it out, and then throwing it right towards Katana. Attempting to make him stronger!
"Make my leader" Hahahaha. "Grow! Bloke." Birdie states as he tosses it. Hopefully giving him MOMENTUM.
Because if a shogun must go up, he comes down and all that rubbish. Birdie ain't too sure.
He's just helping Katana and his crazyness.
COMBATSYS: Birdie assists Katana.
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Katana 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Frei
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
There's a look of confusion on Freizilla's face. Master? He blinks and turns to Ingrid, who is... sort of a dim recollection? After all, the fight he met her at resulted in him being beaten to within an inch of his life. There being some long-term memory holes isn't too big of a surprise, is it? But he wasn't aware that he had a master. "Huh," he says, scratching his head. Well, kinda, the costume hands do end in big scary claws, so he doesn't have the fine act of scratching down. But he does go through the motions.
Regardless.
Katana appears to be into it, while Birdie appears to be disdainful of it, and Ingrid might be asleep standing up. Thus it's the Mad Gear Shogun that gets Frei's attention. Even as Katana comes in for Ingrid, the monk reaches for the first large object handy... and snags that bullet train that was whipping around Ingrid before, twirling it like nunchaku before spinning and looking to smack it right into Katana's skull. Of course, because it's Frei, the trainchaku also burst into flame just as he attacks. "SHE'S NOT THE BOSS OF ME!" he shouts, becuase it's true.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid fails to counter Jigoku Scrape from Katana with Sun Upper.
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Katana 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Frei
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Ingrid
Oho! So they think she's his keeper? She might have played that up a bit, had Frei not denied it so adamantly. "Sorceress? I think you must have me confused with someone else, there are plenty of witches running around, but I'm certainly not one of them." Trying to play it cool, Ingrid simply stands in place as Katana runs her down, seemingly unconcerned about it. He goes down to his knees and starts sliding and Ingrid leans forward- that's when everything suddenly goes wrong.
"Make my leader grow! Bloke."
Thunk! Flying from out of nowhere is a power generator which harmlessly bounces off of Katana's armor. It does seemingly nothing... except speed him up. And that is just enough of a variable to throw Ingrid's timing off completely, and before she can so much as point in the air to form her sneaky little defensive shield the jitte are brought up, and she's skewered. "Aah!" She lets out a short cry of pain, instinctively jumping away as she's hacked on, losing her balance as she trips over the train track and falls to the ground, wiping out a city block in the process. Let this be a lesson: Don't just stand there and let rampaging monsters attack you!
COMBATSYS: Katana counters Fierce Punch from Frei with Shiraha Catch.
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Ingrid
OH MAN. Katana is made STRONGER by HORRIBLE CHEMICALS and thus, Katana grows far faster, stronger, and MEATIER than before, due to CHEMICAL X ( and it's momentum). RADIOACTIVE, CHEMICAL X. HE IS NOW SAMURAI X. Or the Silver Samurai. He charges the Sorceress, and as she creates a defensive shield! And standing, THE SAMURAI IS VICTORIOUS. But all is not well!
Such as a bullet train, and FREIZILLA whipping it around. Towards the base of Katana's skull. Unfortunately, the train is also ON FIRE. And Katana turns in time to see the train slamming towards his skull. One could very well understand, if there is something heading for the ceremonial mask of the Shogun, there are only few responses that can be taken.
Such as what Katana DOES, jitte sliding upwards, aiming to slam both edges about Frei's hands as he brings the train down.
And they clasp upon his flesh. "Monster... now, I shall see you .. AWAY FROM MY CITY!" The jitte are brought upwards, thrusting the hands up and away with the train, before he swings Frei around, slamming him against the ground, once, before thrusting him upwards into the air to crash against .. THE CITY COMPLEX!?
"NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE!?" Katana, behind the mask, gapes in horror, and falls to his knees. "All.. of those innocents....!" Oh man. THIS IS DRAMATIC, ISN'T IT!?
Birdie just watches as Ingrid tries to stop Katana, and her being plowed into by Katana, and it all coming to a conclusion that Katana is one mean mother you don't want to screw around with. Well, Birdie can make a girl cry too you know, and he's going to try that. Moving after Ingrid with his chain, removing it, Birdie begins to hulk.
Coming in close, he grins. "Heheheh." Birdie smiles, "It's too bad he got you. Here. Let me help you up." Birdie states as he whips about the chain, attempting to pick her up from the ground, scooping her up from where she lays where the heavy links may just grab on tight and crush, only to be sent, thrown.
Thrown into the many different buildings and maybe even a train, rolling at high speeds.
Birdie's not sure if it's really going to get there, but hell, he might as well try. "Eyaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Upsie-daisy. There goes Town Hall. Way to go, Katana.
Getting up and dusting himself off, Frei actually doesn't look all the worse for wear, all things considered. He does give a thumbs up to Katana, though, weirdly enough. "That's a good costume. I don't recognize it... is that Mighty Steel Shogun X? Or maybe Super Samurai Force Delta Neo Z? I forget, there's so many of those anime to keep track of. Still, I like the look."
What the hell is he talking about?
However, no amount of admiration is going to stop Frei's assault on Katana. Pulling his hands up toward the 'jaw' of his Godzilla costume, he gathers two spheres of blue-white energy. Normally, for this technique he hurls the spheres at the opponent... but it looks like the monk has something else in mind. Smashing his hands together, the two icy orbs turn into a mass of ice crystals seemingly hovering in the air in front of the costumed monk, who shouts "FEAR MY ABSOLUTE ZERO SPACE LIZARD BREATH!" and then... well, breathes on the ice, adding some high chi manipulation to the mix.
The result is basically Vs. series Iceman's Ice Beam, headed right for Katana. A stray burst of frost hits a real spinning ferris wheel at a nearby amusement park and sends it rolling off into the rides, coated in ice. Oh man. So much for Tokyo Disneyland.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid dodges Birdie's Bad Scrap.
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Ingrid
Down but not out, Ingrid is left in a poor position when Birdie comes after her. If it wasn't for the that whips forward to try and slam her around she might have accepted his offer, but as it is? "No thank you, I help myself up." Quickly tucking her knees up to her chest the blonde rolls forward, chain whipping over her and striking the ground where she just was. After she rolls all the way past Birdie she pops back up to her feet and quickly looks over towards Frei to see how he's doing.
He's standing near a thrashed building, but otherwise seems to be doing fine. Good, that means she can try to deal with Birdie. She turns back to face him and smiles, having to look rather a long way up to see his face, "I don't believe we've met. I'm Ingrid." If he's going to be a gentleman about helping her up, there's no reason she shouldn't be a lady as well. Like him, she's European. And Europeans don't bow, they shake hands. Ingrid reaches out to take his hand with both of hers to give it a vigorous shake- a vigorous shake while she twists around and tries to use leverage to fling him over her and slam him into the ground, that is. It's... a pretty silly looking thing, considering the size difference, but people that big usually don't like being knocked down, and especially when they're going to land on skyscrapers!
COMBATSYS: Frei successfully hits Katana with Hyoushou Rengeki.
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Birdie 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Ingrid
The breath of ice slams into Katana, and the Shogun Samurai .. IS DEFEATED. Well, maybe he is, maybe he's .. NOT. But at the same time, the Shogun looks on to the mass of ice crystals as he rises, and as he leaps out of the way .. well he doesn't. It's quite obvious he tries, and what happens leaves Katana as mostly a Katanasicle, the ice coating to his muscles! "H-HA-HA!" He cries out through the horrible freezing ice, jitte ice cold, but his grasp never leaving it.
This is because Katana IS A FREAK.
"You ... SHALL PAY, LIZARD." Forcing forwards, Katana does his best to pull from the freezing lizard blast, and he does, body part by body part, his body roaring in protest as he forces himself forwards. "You ... I SHALL KILL YOU, BEAST!" The jitte and Katana force themselves towards Godzilla Frei.. and perhaps in a stupid move, attempt to take care of him THE HARD WAY. It's hard because of how slow Katana is. Frei could almost walk out of the way.
"DEEP STRIKE OF THE SHOGUN! KAMIKAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIIIII!" He rushes towards Frei with ALL HIS MIGHT, both jitte slamming forth towards his body, the man slowly charging through whatever happens to be in his way! "I SHALL NOT REST!"
HORRAAAAA!
COMBATSYS: Birdie endures Ingrid's Strong Throw.
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Katana 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Frei
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Birdie 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Ingrid
Birdie's not going just anywhere! As Ingrid gets out of the way, he's rather surprised! Huh? Well, he knew she was fast, but not that fast. So as she begins to move towards him to throw him, well, Birdie just goes with the flow. Why? He's insane! Hahaha. "Birdie, chick-a-dee." Birdie states as he looks towards her. Well now. He begins to move himself. And Birdie allows himself to be flung into the ground. He doesn't care.
Why? Because using the speed when he's shook and flung, he gets sent back, only for him to explode forward again. "Now let me shake your hand the right way!" Birdie answers as he vaults back towards her, hurling through the air before landing directly infront of her. From there, he's going to immidiately begin to bang his head forward. Once, twice, three times before attempting to take her.
It's disgustingly brutal, but this guy is a brute after all. "And you damn know something, you're not too good look yourself. Heheh." Birdie states as he attempts to stab his HAIR into her chest and buck her over like a rhino.
Alley oop!
COMBATSYS: Frei endures Katana's Deep Strike.
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Birdie 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Ingrid
Clash of the titans, folks.
The samurai's jitte are coming for him! What is Freizilla to do?! It's not as if the Shogun is running very FAST and there's all that stuff in the way, so why shouldn't he just get out of the path of the attack?
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN GODZILLA DODGE?!
Didn't think so.
Frei holds his ground. He throws up both hands. He ROARS. And while the two blows landing home hurt like a bitch, he also DOESN'T MOVE, which might be the first sign that something isn't 100% right in the land right now. Godzilla swats planes from the sky! He laughs at puny mortal attempts to destroy him! And since Frei is Godzilla right now, SO DOES HE. "NOBODY CAN DEFEAT A FORCE OF NATURE!" the monk bellows, reaching for Katana's collar. If he gets ahold? With surprising knowledge of leverage, he ducks forward and quite simply faceplants the Mad Gear leader into the ground one-handed, using a burst of earth chi to really drive the impact home (and add some pretty green sparklies at the point of impact).
COMBATSYS: Birdie successfully hits Ingrid with Bull Spike.
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Birdie 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Ingrid
Ingrid is fairly fast, but from the looks of it Birdie is faster. If Ingrid was expecting anything from her grab it would have been Birdie using his superior weight to lift -her- off the ground and slam her down immediately, not springing up almost as soon as he's down and coming after her. When the first head butt comes she tries to jump backwards, only to have a much thicker skull into hers before she's far enough away. Two more of them come after that, and by the time they're over Ingrid looks to be barely able to keep her footing, so dizzy has she been made. It makes the hair stabbing all too easy, and she's picked up and tossed away just like the miniature buildings he plowed through before.
Landing on more innocent buildings, the young woman reaches a hand up to one of them to drag herself to her feet, still without any sense of orientation. Rushing to the attack in the condition she's in is a definite no-no, but as she learned earlier so is waiting around. Her response, then is to look around for the huge dark moving thing and lob energy at it, swinging her arm in an underhand motion and sending a brightly shining ball of golden psi towards Birdie. Now if the world would just stop spinning...
COMBATSYS: Katana blocks Frei's Daichi Kudaki.
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And then as Frei throws up both his hands, Katana, jitte's slamming into Frei, does not move out of the way. And as the monk bellows, Katana bellows back. "NO ONE BUT THE SHOGUN!" He cries out, as he reaches for Katana's collar. He gets it. However, Katana is ready. Ready for alot.
Body is pulled into a tuck, and his arms are brought upwards to the ground, the heavy metal plates of his armor preventing him from touching the ground. Katana, simply, takes the bows through he armor.. and the earth chi erupts, slamming into the metal, denting it .. but far, far, from breaking it. "You are strong.." Katana says, doing an arm stand, metal against the ground.
"BUT I SHALL NOT GIVE IN TO YOU, BEAST!" His arms hurt like hell, which will probably prevent the blows from hurting as much as they should.. YET AT THE SAME TIME, KATANA IS NO WEAKLING! "I ... SHALL DEFEAT YOU!" The jitte sai come up, and as he flips back to his feet, attempt to slam agaisnt Frei as he flips..
FLIPS WITH SPEED.
And crushes a mother and her carriage.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I .. I have harmed more of the populace!" HOW WILL HE BE ABLE TO SLEEP TONIGHT!?
COMBATSYS: Ingrid successfully hits Birdie with Sun Shot.
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Birdie is struck by the huge ball of psi that comes at her. Well, Birdie tries to do it like everything else. Just jump out of the way. But that doesn't work, oh no. Instead, Birdie's struck head on by the ball of psi that comes towards him. It strikes him head on, sending him flying backwards, psi burns all over his figure as he grits his teeth.
Birdie can take a punch like you wouldn't believe. Guess what none of these damn attacks were? Yeah, the guessed it. They definitely weren't punches. Being hurled backwards, Birdie just gets up, breathing heavily as he looks towards Ingrid. Oh, he doesn't look too damn happy. Bleeding and bruised, Birdie just unravels his chains, and begins to lick them. Oh yes, lick them.
"Here here chick-a-dee." Birdie grins, a smile across his face despite his injuries.
COMBATSYS: Birdie focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Frei fails to interrupt Fierce Strike from Katana with Hizashi Ronde.
- Power fail! -
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Birdie 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Ingrid
The Shogun might be right on that front, at least: Frei had been *planning* on using the man's tendency for slow and powerful attacks to his own advantage, blasting through one with those shiny shiny chi strikes he is so well known for. Never mind that the costume dictates he has to do them in weird ways. He LIKES weird ways. So even as Katana comes flipping at him jitte-first, Frei's got his 'claws' out, gathering a massive burst of orange-red energy. Oh yes. This is going to be epi--
*CRACK*
Two things go flying. One is Frei, who goes tumbling end over end with an appropriately-bestial "ARGH!". He topples Southtown-not-Tokyo Tower (which is obligatory in this situation). The semi-coherent energy ball, however, is another thing entirely. IT goes rolling off to the side toward 1/144 Scale Southtown Village, where it 'rolls' to a stop, safely away from the other fighters.
Then it explodes in a towering inferno of compressed yang chi, obliterating Taiyo High. Well, 'hizashi' does mean 'sunlight'...
The quickly fired off ball of energy makes it's way to Birdie, and has an incredibly significant effect. Far moreso than Ingrid was anticipating. It causes her to reconsider her previous assessment, that staying back and waiting for the big strong men to come to her is a bad idea. If he's so weak to her energy, she'd be foolish not to let him play right into her hands. Or that's how she sees it, anyway. The fact that he's pulling out the chain he tried to grab her with earlier and /licks/ it causes further reluctance to reenter the fray.
Of course she still has Katana to worry about, who currently is gaining the upper hand over her partner, but hopefully- hopefully he'll keep away for the moment. Not that she expects that to happen, so she'll keep an eye on him too. Her head still throbbing, she does exactly what got her into trouble before and just hangs back. Birdie has a bead on her and rather than walking into a trap, she'll let him charge into her own- and be completely blatant about it as well.
"I'm actually rather fond of where I'm standing, this skyscraper is lovely and I think I'll stay here and admire it some more. You're welcome to come join me, if you like."
COMBATSYS: Ingrid focuses on her next action.
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Birdie 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Ingrid
THE SHOGUN'S MIGHT IS ... is ... woah that's some might! Katana watches as Frei charges that orange-red energy, and Katana pushes himself into the assault ever harder. And then it seems that as Frei is connected, things go .. well. He's launches, toppling backwards as the energy ball rolls of the side, rolling to a stop, before obliterating part of Tokyo. And he stares as he lands, a compressed inferno of yang chi.
"... That was close." The Shogun admits, as Frei goes tumbling over. And now, there is Birdie.. BIRDIE. -No. TAUROS. His hero against the witch! What shall he do!?
Well, for one, Katana rushes towards Tauros. "TAUROS. You have fought well, and I have for the moment kept the monster at bay... But I need of your services. SMITE THE MASTER OF THIS MONSTER! Without her, I am sure he shall fall!"
And HOW does Katana wish to increase Birdie's chances of success?
By one, preaching, two, charging towards Ingrid and going RIGHT past her, jitte out forwards, running towards her .. and then dashing out of the way at the last second. But the jitte slams towards the skyscraper, as Katana passes. The skyscraper! How he loves it. Yet it will not be, today. "I AM SORRY, MY LAND. I do this for a better cause!"
SHOGUN WARRIORS ASSEMBLE.
COMBATSYS: Katana assists Birdie.
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Birdie puts the chain away. She's not coming to him eh? Well obvious he has to go to her. There is still the ugly mug on his face as he laughs to himself. Oh this is great. So she's waiting for him huh? Well that's not a smart idea. Katana shows her why too. He doesn't want to be on the damn end of that one, so what he's going to do is work off of this.
And with Katana's help, he just might be able to. "I think I will, chick-a-dee!" Birdie calls with a shit eating grin as he hurls himself towards the building with an unholy speed, a glint in his eye. It almost looks like there isn't a chance in the world to escape it. It's truely a terrifying experience. With his foot holds, Birdie doesn't even have to climb that much.
With his terrible speed, Birdie grabs a Jitte and on the other he leaps upon, hurling himself up the sky scraper and right into Ingrid's clutches faster than the man should be traveling, head first, pushing himself straight towards her chest Bull horn first.
If he catches her, he jumps right off with her, hurling himself and her into the ground, and even as they slide, he fires punch after punch after punch into her chest as he slides on her.
That's of course, if he hits at all.
"Eyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Slowly but surely, Freizilla arises from the debris. That... didn't feel good at all. In fact he's taken quite a beating this fight and has done... a lot of nothing in return. But he has caused plenty of simulated property damage while wearing a kick-ass costume, so presumably that counts for something. He gets up just in time to see Birdie run past him toward Ingrid, and his green eyes track the big Brit for a moment. Yeah, that looks like trouble.
A pause.
Suddenly, Frei leans forward and squints at something on the ground. Blinking, he reaches down and snags a simulated city bus... which he then proceeds to break in half and then shake while holding it over his open mouth.
Unpredictably, people fall out into his waiting maw.
Seriously.
Munching thoughtfully and getting some of his strength back, the monk doesn't... appear to be bothered by the symbolism of this at all. "Huh. Little taffy people. They thought of everything."
COMBATSYS: Frei gains composure.
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Birdie 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Ingrid
COMBATSYS: Ingrid fails to counter The Birdie MAX from Birdie with Sun Delta.
- Power fail! -
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COMBATSYS: Ingrid can no longer fight.
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A man once said 'if at first you don't succeed, try, try again'. That man was a fool, if we're to take Ingrid's actions today as the sole example. She was expecting this very thing to happen- Birdie coming forward and attacking her with the most powerful thing he was capable of coming up with. She simply intended to use her own most powerful technique and put a quick end to his participation in the fight.
Katana towards her and she takes a few steps forward, preparing to jump if need be- but instead he runs right past her, proving as nothing more than a distraction that she really doesn't need. And then, finally, Birdie comes. He rushes her down, leaping up into the air and then crashing down towards her. At that point a large flash of energy surrounds her and she looks upward and points towards him, a triangle of golden energy forming in front of her, and then a huge disk to try and catch him with. And then a short moment later, it all disappears- she moved too soon.
That's when he crashes into her, her defenses completely lowered and gone as she's left helpless due to her improper timing, the 'horn' of his hair stabbing into her chest before smashing her into the ground and then beating the daylights out of her with his fists. When he finally decides to stop and get up, she wont.
Stopping after he rushes, the Shogun of Metro City stops, sliding his jitte back upwards, looking back as Birdie BEATS UP A LITTLE KID. All is well in the world.
"And so it ends." With the poor girl being rather badly beaten, as well! But when Katana turns around, he certainly doesn't expect to see the Frei-Zilla UP. ESPECIALLY not to see him breaking open a bus.. AND EATING PEOPLE. "For ... My city..." Katana yells out, bellowing. "I SHALL NOT LET THIS STAND!" Rushing through, Katana seems to be a FREAKING BULLET, and his jitte are up, aiming for Frei's body. "This ... Ends... NOW!" He attempts to hook those jitte about his shoulders as he leaps towards Frei, over a building, and attempting to SLAM HIM INTO THE GROUND. Yes. Onto everyone. What follows, of course, is something far worse. Which is to say. The buildings and the area are going to be much less perfect. "FOR EVERYONE. DAIKYOU!" IS HE THAT CRAZY!?
Well, Katana begins to charge Frei, if he strikes, STRAIGHT INTO THE OTHER BUILDINGS. Why yes. Katana IS that crazy. He charges, pushing forth Frei, slamming him into buses, buildings, high rises, restaurants. ALL ARE PLOWED THROUGH AS KATANA CHARGES. "BURNING!" He cries out, before launching Frei towards a miniature scale of ... CITY HALL.
HELL YEAH.
Upon seeing the golden light beginning to grow, and the triangle, Birdie just put more umph into it. Hurling himself forward, Birdie ain't stopping. Taking her across the 'city', through streets and buildings before beating the little girl unconscious into the ground is exactly what Geese is paying him to do.
Once punching her a couple more times to see she's really down, he gets back up, looking across the battle field for the other. For GODZILLA. Birdie watches as Frei eats the little taffy people. Birdie is unsurprised at this terrible business. Cracking his own neck, Birdie moves aster Frei as Katana moves after Frei. If you you will, they're playing Frei ball.
So once Frei is being sent towards City hall, Birdie makes his way there, attempting to catch Frei from Katana's attack. If he gets out of the way, well, Birdie'll have to think quick, but it'll be the same.
Birdie tries to grab Frei with his bare hands, pick him up and suffocate him with his chains before hurling him towards the ground.
COMBATSYS: Katana successfully hits Frei with Daikyou Burning.
- Power hit! -
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COMBATSYS: Birdie successfully hits Frei with Medium Throw.
- Power hit! -
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Let's just make this brief, shall we?
Frei turns around, ready to do battle.
There's one of those dust clouds you see in old cartoons (or Persona 3 if you're nasty) that signify a great brawl taking place. Use your imagination to include some visual sound effects if you like. There's probably someone at the Howard Enterprises post-production facility who's going to be putting in old Batman-style cutaways to fight noises like "POW!" and "BIFF!" and "PWNED!"
When the dust clears Frei is thoroughly unconscious, and probably lucky to be alive.
Hopefully the two people who just completely destroyed him will notice that second rolling ball of gold chi on the ground before it explodes in a massive fireball.
But really, who can say.
COMBATSYS: Frei can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Katana fails to interrupt Hizashi Ronde from Frei with Run Your Ass Over.
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Laughing, Katana leaps out of the dust cloud, and then there's a ROLLING BALL OF CHI on the ground, rolling towards Katana. Katana looks towards the ball. HE MUST SAVE TOKYO.
Perhaps this is perhaps not the best way. "COME TO ME, TRUCK FAMILIAR, AND PROTECT TOKYO!" And suddenly, OUT OF NOWHERE, THE TRUCK, FROM TWO WEEKS AGO, IS REBORN. The Shogun truck that Katana keeps, painted, fully refurbished and everything! AND KATANA POINTS TOWARDS THE BALL AS IT ROLLS TOWARDS HIM. "ONWARDS, TRUCK!"
And then the ball touches Katana. And then Katana looks at the truck, heading towards him. And then there is a giant explosion, a truck, who has run over half of Tokyo, hits on the breaks, slides, and then turns on it's side as it slams into Katana, the giant chi fireball launching him towards his 'headquarters' and laying out over it. "Hah... hah.... g-GOOD TRUCK.. You have .. s-saved... T-Tokyo... FOR THE SHOGUUUUUUUUUUN." THUD.
Katana lays back.
THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? A TRUCK, LORRY.
COMBATSYS: Birdie Toughs Out Frei's Hizashi Ronde!
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As the large ball of gold chi cutting across the ground comes right towards Birdie, Birdie knows only one thing after hurling Frei away.
It's coming straight for him. Looking right to Frei, and then towards Katana which... the truck actually turns over and rams him into the ball. Well. You can't all be successful at everything. But then Birdie sees his own ball coming at him.
Running right into it, Birdie fears nothing. Nothing! And then he throws himself straight into the ball of chi. It burns, it pains him, but he throws himself through it, even as it explodes about him, he forces himself through it, looking towards Katana he himself falls to his knees, breathing heavily.
"Hahh... dammit bloke, nice run Katana." Tauros states. Wow, this has been absoutely crazy. He falls on a buildings, crushing them instantly, a bunch of other buildings comically floating into the air before falling down once more.
COMBATSYS: Katana has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Birdie has ended the fight here.
Log created on 19:47:54 12/01/2007 by Katana, and last modified on 15:06:38 12/03/2007.