Description: Zach and Himeko duke it out on some crazy Canadian bridge. Amazingly, the thing is still whole at the end of the fight! (Winner: Zach)
A fight on a bridge? Who's crazy, nutty, wacky idea was that??
Hopefully both fighters aren't afraid of heights, it's indeed a high up area, and the camera crew, psh, they have it all nice and safe recording from their fancy helicopters!
Hurricane Hime is.. Crazy enough to do it. Sure, it's actually pretty freaky when one looks down, but when one looks ahead, all one can see is VICTORY. There is one thing that does bother her though. She knows who her opponent is. It'd be some sort of -miracle- if he didn't destroy this rickety thing. ".. Rrgh, I have a feeling this will be a pain.." the pink-clad wonder murmurs under her breath.
And that's it. There's no fancy introduction or cry of 'Mortals!' in her match today, not with all that's been going on in her mind lately. In fact if anything, she looks kind of mad! Will this bode well for a practitioner of Saikyo? Oh, she still plays for the crowd of course; when her name is introduced, both hands wave in the air, she grinning a bit as she makes her way to the center of the bridge, the rough winds making her very VERY cool black scarf flap behind her!
Zach is neither as flamboyant or as crazy as Himeko is.
He slowly makes his way onto the bridge, frowning as he casts a spare glance over the side. He pales a little, then goes back to looking at Himeko with a weak grin.
"Yo," the purple haired fighter says as he waves the Pink Hurrican.
With her hands on her hips, Hime gives a little salute to Zach and grins a little wider. It's not that Zach's nervousness makes her feel better; it just.. It just helps her remember that fighters are most certainly human! "Greetings, Citizen Zachary! We meet again, this time on the field of battle!" .. "Again!"
She cuts to the chase, dropping into an ansatsuken-ish fighting stance, though the bounce of her feet is very.. Very light. "Be sure to take is easy, ok? It's no rocket science what will happen if things get too extreme, yeah?"
COMBATSYS: Himeko has started a fight here.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Himeko takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
Zach nods slowly as he settles into a loose stance. "No genius needed," Zach agrees.
Zach eyes the girl carefully as he considers his first move. Himeko, the last time the two fought, was a pretty crafty opponent...
COMBATSYS: Zach focuses on his next action.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
Crafty indeed? Hime somewhat distractedly glances upward, rubbing her chin as she's suddenly going into thought. Sure, the match has been declared to go but what about LIFE? What is it's purpose? That's not something that can be so easily pondered on just any ol' day!
What if the answer is 'fighting'? Well then, that causes her to look to Zach again, withdraw her textbook from her map, and then flip through it briefly.. Maybe it's some sort of cheat sheet?
COMBATSYS: Himeko focuses on her next action.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
Zach considers things for a moment, before dashing towards Himeko. Purple psychic fire sweeps across his left arm as he drives in at the Justice Librarian. Or is it Librarian of Justice?
No matter! She is getting punched in the stomach with a vicious left straight! "Might want to pay more attention to me, and less to that book," Zach warns.
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Himeko with Jab Punch.
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Himeko 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Zach
The pages flip as Zach gets closer to the opponent, and it isn't until he's REAL close that her eyes raise from it, "-Eh?" Well she'd -like- to say she knew what she was doing, but before she can the fist hits.. And hits quite hard! The heroine doubles over, with a bit of a 'hrrk!' and stumbles back a few steps, grasping he rope of the bridge.
"Eh heh heh, guess you got me!" she pipes, grinning as if she had noticed something. Back into her stance, she races right back at Zach, looking to return the favor with a leap and a spin, she's aiming to deliver her patented back-kick toward Zachs chin, "Immortal Kick!!"
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Himeko's Light Kick.
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Himeko 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Zach
Zach brings both forearms under his chin quickly, stopping the kick before it performs some ringside dentistry. He is lifted slightly by the force of the assault, barely managing to keep his footing before settling back down.
"Phew!" Zach sighs as he reaches for the front of Himeko's outfit, tossing her to the bridge. If he makes the grab, he turns with it in order to blast her further down the way with a sudden pulse of psycho power from his palms!
COMBATSYS: Himeko fails to interrupt Quick Throw from Zach with Magic School Bus.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Zach
Himeko was suprised that Zach was able to get his defense up in time! She stumbles just slightly when she recovers from her kick; and seems to have something in mind as she reaches for her thigh holster while the young fighter's managed to grab hold of her. "Erk!"
She's not fast enough on the draw though, she can't get her move to go before he unleashes the blast and the smaller fighter indeed goes flying back from the blow! She crashes along the wood, cracking a few boards from the impact and pulls up into a crouch looking seriously dizzy, "A- Are you... Kidding me?" she sputters. She'd never felt chi do that before!
There's... a reason for that, Himeko. It goes to that whole PSI =/= CHI thing.
Zach pumps a fist shortly as he grins a bit. "Very," he chirps as he slides into a jujitsu stance before raising his arms above his head. Three purple blocks form in the air, forged from Zach's very soul. He holds them there with the simplest of efforts as the blocks define themselves clearly. A moment later, Zach drops his hands, allowing gravity the supreme honor of guiding those blocks down on Himeko's very head!
"KASANE ATE!"
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Himeko with Ka-Psi-Ne Ate.
Glancing Blow
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Himeko 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Zach
".. Eh-heh.." Hime grins a bit weaker as she rubs the back of her head, and.. She's fairly sure she's back under control then. She taps her fists togeather and becons Zach forth.. Which he does with some serious energy action! Her eyebrow twitches slightly, and she spots.. Something! Jiujitsu! She's familiar with that but the energy doesn't make sense to her at all! She's just barely, then, able to leap out of the way, to be clipped by the last block that again knocks her onto her back.
Feeling rather.. Overwhelmed here, Hime slides back to try and catch her breath and get back into the game! "Wow, you've really changed since our first fight, huh? This doesn't feel like our last match at all."
COMBATSYS: Himeko gains composure.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Zach
Zach nods his head shortly, keeping his eyes on Himeko. "Thank you," he concedes as he focuses for a moment. "I've been training."
With that, Zach dashes in again, psycho power flaring to life around him as he barrels in on the Saikyo Girl. Some of that energy wrap around his shoulders as he closes a moment before Zach lowers one shoulder as if to simply bull-charge the girl further down the bridge. Maybe... maybe he is aiming for something?
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Zach's Blast Bash.
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Himeko 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Zach
Hime, with a quick slap of her cheeks, feels a little better now and she's back up by the time Zach is on her again. So what's the plan? She has no idea but she's fallen very behind in the match and is going to have to push it to the next level! She withdraws her book, and the shoulder slam smashes right into it, causing her to slide back a little from the impact that she can't entirely brush off.
"Me too!" she shoots back, bursting forward and curls into a ball; rocketing at Zach to close the distance and hopefully knock -him- back this time!
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Medium Punch from Himeko with Third Stance.
- Power hit! -
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Himeko 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Zach
Zach staggers back slightly as the Rolling Himeko rolls into him, even as Glen roars and sweeps his hand upward. The hand missed the Saikyo Girl completely.
The lance of psychic energy that erupts from the ground does not, however, blasting the girl back the way she came. "It shows," Zach says as he gasps for air...
"YEOW!!" The pink-clad heroine goes ROCKETING backward, the blast of psychic energy just completely doing a number on the heroine! One moment she's going forward, the next she's in the opposite direction and not under her own will! She crashes and rolls along the bridge, by some miracle not sliding off of it and collapses onto her stomach, "... o- oh man.. I cannot find a word to describe the pain.." she groans to herself.
Again, somehow she manages to get back up, looking worse for wear as she just sucks it up and dashes at Zach yet again, "Ok! Try this!!" she cries, springing off the ground again and snaps her left foot outward to try and hit his shoulder. The spinning kick continues as she kicks with her right foot, and then twirls into a sobat kick to the gut! "And this!"
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Himeko's Xou da Xuxa.
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Himeko 1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0 Zach
Zach turtles up, deciding that the best defense is actually defense! The kicks sting, but Zach manages to get a hand or arm between the foot and something vital. He slides back a few feet, grinning a bit a Himeko. He chuckles for a moment.
Then he roars as the air around him seems to burst into violet flames raging around him. Seems like he may be preparing for something...
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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Himeko 1/----===/=======|=======\==-----\1 Zach
Ok! Zach seems to be settling back a moment, giving her the opportunity to come up with a last-minute strategy... But what! Well, she decides it's probably a good idea to keep on him, so she withdraws her book again and grins back, even if she is feeling pretty messed up. "Hey, check out -this- move!"
She darts in close again and she holds her book open by the spine. A burst of light shines from it as the pages flip on their own and when she's close.. The papers tear out, and the brightly glowing pages circle her furiously like a globe! If Zach isn't careful, he's definatly going to get dragged in and pummeled!
COMBATSYS: Himeko successfully hits Zach with Schoolhouse Rock!.
- Power hit! -
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Himeko 0/-------/------=|=======\=======\1 Zach
Zach is shredded by the paper storm, his outer shirt being reduced to nothing and the longsleeve shirt reduced to rags. The beating does not help either as Zach starts to bleed a lot, mostly from the chest.
When the dust clears, however, he is still standing. He skids back, looking at Himeko for a moment. He mumbles something about focus as he cups his hands by his side. Purple energy collects between his waiting palms, growing brighter. Zach straightens up, pointing a finger at the girl, thumb pointing in the air. It might remind her of a gun. The hand holding the ball moves, smacking up against the bottom of the "handle" of Zach's "pistol," the ball swallowed by the hand.
"Bang," Zach says as the thumb falls forward.
A beam, about a foot across, blasts down the bridge towards Himeko at alarming speed!
COMBATSYS: Himeko dodges Zach's Burst Stream.
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Himeko 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\0 Zach
Oops. Looks like Hime went a little out of control there, but in the end Zach isn't defeated yet! The spunky little heroine grins as she folds her hands behind her back, "Hehe, that was a close one huh? You've got good bala-" and then Zach holds her up. The girl blinks and then quickly raises her hands in the air as if she were really being held at gunpoint. D:
However when the beam soars at her, she squeaks and steps to the side, pressing her back against the rope as the beam zooms by her harmlessly.... And then reaches the end of the bridge with a look BOOM.
The bridge rattles and creaks.
".. Zach! What did I say!" Hime yells, as she dashes at the young fighter again. Her paper fan is unsheathed and then she swipes upward like a baseball bat torward Zach's chin. Moments before impact the white energy suddenly explodes from the tip to knock him up into the air. If that works, she casts the fan like a fishing rod, it extending to wrap around his ankle, so she can pull him back down and slam him back onto the bridge! It doesn't occur to her that was a bad idea.
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Mulligan Stew from Himeko with Third Stance.
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Himeko 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Zach
Zach is slammed up into the air. However, Hime's follow-up does not seem to be in the cards, as Zach does a short flip, and sweeps his hand upward again.
Once more, the lance slashes upward, slamming into Himeko and launching the Pink Princess back towards the moorings of the bridge.
This has the added bonus of allowing Zach to control his fall, which has the tertiary bonus of not wrecking the bridge.
OUCH! Well, Hime's going to feel that one in the morning! She thought the combo was set to be done, and Zach has other plans! Lanced and slammed, the pink-clad heroine goes down with a slightly jaw-jarring thud, "Ooof!!" and manages to roll with it so she can get up quickly again.
As soon as she's up, she realizes she's in trouble, probably with enough energy for one more attack, she has to make it count! Her fan still in hand she pants, and runs forward, dragging the makeshift weapon along the wood, "Not.. Quite yet!"
And she goes for another swing; only this time she corkscrews upward, the first swing missing, but the trail of super white energy that follows the swing does not! It would definatly have enough impact to knock him upward as well if she doesn't miss! Otherwise she's spent; giving at mid-rise and crashes down onto the bridge one more time, wheezing for breath.
COMBATSYS: Himeko can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Himeko's Ghost Writer.
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Zach knows Himeko's Not Done Yet. He expects nothing less than one last effort from this girl.
However, Zach is pretty nimble, sliding clear of the streaking uppercut. He rubs an arm under his chin, his breathing hard as his lungs burn for need of air.
"Heh... Not... not bad, Himeko," Zach says as he drops to one knee. The bridge wobbles precariously. "We better let the repair crews handle the bridge before something bad happens."
Yep, nimble, Hime just isn't quite fast enough! The girl sweatdrops when she feels the bridge wobble again and.. Well if that's not enough to get her to her feet again nothing is, "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!!!" she cries as she jumps to her feet, "IT'S ALL OVER! WE HAVEN'T A PRAYER!!"
Hime BOLTS like lightning, flailing her arms and screaming like a maniac right past Zach, off of the bridge and.. Well.. She'll stop at some point in Canada.
Uh... Won't she?
Log created on 20:25:47 03/10/2008 by Zach, and last modified on 19:08:43 03/12/2008.