Description: Raging Ambulance Fight! Though Blanka and Bison try their hardest, the Warlock Chizuru proves that her Foul Devil Magicks are too potent for our heroes. Aprile does surprisingly well against a couple of opponents she probably shouldn't ever have to face again. (Winners: Chizuru/Aprile)
Welcome to...an ambulance?
TWO ambulances in fact, but each team starts on one, a little separated from the other. Presumably they will get closer together when the match actually begins, but for now they're too far away to easily jump between.
Chizuru is one the northmost of the ambulances. This seemed to be a rather strange event to her, and the ambuances are probably better used elsewhere, but at least they're not tying up the attendant medical crews any more than SNF normally does.
She is currently letting the speedy passage blow her hair back while she gets the last few moments of focus and preparation in. It won't be long now.
Helping the situation, or perhaps not, Aprile is dressed differently yet again. This time, unlike either the blue clothing that she happens to wear when under Shadaloo business, nor the blue dress when she acts as a civilian, today, she was loaned something.
A nurses outfit!
with the little white hat on the top, the white gown/clothing, and down to the pumps which they usually wear, she is the pinnacle of what one would expect of a nurse! Perhaps more than not stereotypically than nothing. But as the winds blow her skirts about, and would have blown her hat off, if not for the hairpins, Aprile seems to be pretty well weighted for a reason, not having too much trouble sticking to one of the ambulances. Perhaps it has something to do with that pack on her back, or the medkit in her hands?
Either way, standing about the middle of the Ambulence, Aprile test swings about the weapon a few times, the medkit going back and forth in time as she waits for the others to get ready as well.
"This'll make great practice!" She announces. "Especially with everything it attains to!" Nothing, right?
Really, who fights on an ambulance!? Okay, so Blanka probably will - the movement built up by it's travel is enough to make the great shock of orange hair on his head wave to and fro, even though he's hunkered down as close as he can get to the roof. He's a little worried about structure, y'see - after all, Blanka is a pretty big guy, and the other man is as well. Their ambulance might see some nasty surprises if say, the other two were to try and get over on the same time.
Still, he's more than willing to be ready for whatever comes his way, giving the opponents a wave of friendliness and cheer. "Aroo! Have fun, ok?!" Blanka's not going to be all serious about this - but he's certainly aware that this is important to comport himself well, so the giant green beast-man shall do his best!
The man known as Michael "Don't use that name" Mike Bison is nowhere to be seen. Maybe he didn't bother to show up? After all, it's not like he's the mot reliable kind of guy around. He could just as easily have skipped out in order to do any number of things that might be more fun than fighting in a cramped, enclosed space. Like shooting up illegal drugs or robbing a bank.
But no... apparently he's inside 'his' ambulance, or rather, his and Blanka's, because suddenly the back door of that ambulance busts open. First one big meaty fist grips the outside edge--and then the other. And then, Bison pulls himself up over the edge, his thick arms straining as he levers his weight onto the ambulances. He glances around, and kneels down, sticking his head back into the ambulance. "You got me?!?" he shouts, into the vehicle. "The ones that f**k you up like Percocet. I -want- those when we done here." Then he straightens up into a slight crouch, glancing around.
"... huh. Beatin' on girls again," he comments, half to himself. Of course he recognizes Blanka, the big green beast is impossible to forget, even for a guy like Bison.
"So what the hell we waitin' for?!?"
COMBATSYS: Blanka has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: M.Bison has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Aprile has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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COMBATSYS: Chizuru has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 M.Bison
Chizuru was waiting for the ambulances to move closer together so they could fight each other, herself.
She looks as intrigued at Blanka's appearance as she can without actually looking /rude/, and gives the man (probably) one of her very slight smiles. "Good luck to you as well," she calls. He may look slightly demonic, but she doesn't feel anything bad about him...although the fact that she is standing on a moving ambulance might interfere with that a bit.
Bison is different. Chizuru knows who he works for and doesn't approve. Her nose wrinkles. She'd have much the same reaction to Aprile if she knew, or had sensed her Psycho Power yet. Before she responds to her, though, the ambulances swerve closer, and:
"FIGHT!"
Chizuru tenses. She does not immediately leap to the attack; she usually prefers to watch and wait first, and that's j ust what she does now, banking on Blanka or Bison jumping across - the two ambulances are now close enough to allow just that - and coming after her, the obvious threat.
COMBATSYS: Chizuru focuses on her next action.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 M.Bison
The sight of Blanka is something alright, and Aprile blinks a bit. "Oh it's a large green person." She notes with some curiosity. "I wonder how you were made." She mentions to Blanka, perhaps thinking the poor man was made through horrible science .. much like herself.
And while Aprile hasn't let her psycho energy flare yet, as soon as she notice M.Bison, she stands straight up.. and oddly, almost salutes him.. almost, because it's just an SNF. Instead, she gets to scratching her head after the rising. "Well... Based on the closeness and the difference..." She notes..
Well, Aprile just gets running, going straight over the distance between the two ambulances, swinging back that medkit already. "Well if you're just going to wait over there.. I'm going in!"
And launching through the air towards Blanka is the doll, swinging about the medkit, and bringing it forwards as the psycho energy, red in this instance, flares up during one of the swings, another making a red X.. as she brings the medkit straight to the center of that X headed straight for Blanka in a two handed downswing.
Yeah. She's not going near M.Bison yet! .. And for reasons beyond his strength. Perhaps he doesn't recognize the doll yet, but Chizuru might as soon as the energy flares.
COMBATSYS: Blanka endures Aprile's Peleative Care.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 M.Bison
"Blanka ready!" Bison is given a slightly wide berth. He'd fought the man before, and the anger and general crazyness is a little odd. The beastman watches the other two women prepare, and digs his hands into the side of the ambulance, metal crinkling up under his giant green grip. He stares up at the other fighters, and then moves to react as Aprile comes in. He launches to a standing position, his hands coming up and out - opening himself up to her attack and letting the odd chi wash over him. It staggers him briefly, fire lighting up twin marks on his chest, but does not cause him to stumble off the roof.
"Blanka made in jungle - learned things ... like this!" His hands go to grapple the 'Nurse, and he offers her a bird's eye view of his mighty maw, jaw looking to almost unhinge as he tries to get a hold of her and bite bite bite. He's moving faster now, trying to push the limits he's given himself - and it probably shows!
Bison sneers. He can see that condescending, disapproving look in Chizuru's eyes, and he meets it with a hard, flinty gaze of his own. Not dumb enough to let out company secrets, but Chizuru apparently knows about Bison. Well, that's too bad. "Hey, girlie," he shouts, tauntingly, "whatcha doin'? We's supposed t' be havin' a -fight- here, you scared?!?" The ambulances swerve around, and finally close in to fighting distance. Really, it's rather unstrategic of Bison. After all, he has to know that she's going to be ready for this.
But... this is Bison. The only way he knows is forward. So, yes, he -does- in fact leap over, almost at the same time that Blanka is leaping over; those big, thick legs of his tense and he launches himself forward. However, he isn't entirely stupid either; at the top of his leap he whips one arm forward and hurls... a bunch of syringes with needles at Chizuru. Probably they won't hurt much, but the initial impact ought be pretty unpleasant.
"You got a problem with me then let's -settle- it!"
COMBATSYS: Chizuru dodges M.Bison's Thrown Object.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 M.Bison
Part of preparing is being ready to clear out of the way at the slightest provocation. Chizuru practically vanishes from her original location - she didn't actually teleport or summon an illusion, she's just damn fast at sliding to the side when she wants to be.
Chizuru straightens up as the needles clatter against the roof of the ambulance, rolling off to be left behind in the street. She does hope that nobody picks them up later, but it's a little too late to say anything about it, isn't it?
Shooting a glance at Aprile - was that what she /thought/ it was? - she almost offhandedly waves a hand in Bison's direction. In and of itself the wave is useless, but it does signify an image splitting off her and running toward him, swinging its arms horizontally to try to push him back and possibly off the ambulance, although she doubts /that/ will actually happen.
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Aprile with Wild Fang.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 M.Bison
And Blanka stays on his feet!
Which means bad things for Aprile, as it seems, as he explains he was 'made in the jungle'. "Oh! Well that's an odd place for a laboratory!" She mentions, before Blanka SUDDENLY grapples her. "Get off, get off!" And then opens his mighty jaw. "... Oh that's pretty bi-AHHH DON'T!" And then AUGH BITE BITE BITE.
The doll doesn't taste very good! She perhaps taste of normal things.. but slightly more like medical supplies that she should. And he CERTAINLY is moving faster now. Because Aprile didn't have a chance to move at all! Her hands raising sort of was almost a mistake.
And now? She flails about still.. and tries to smash both her hands, and the medkit, STRAIGHT into his snout! "When a girl says no, you listen!" She complains, bloodied already, but not minding it at all.
It just might have been, Chizuru! Just maybe.
COMBATSYS: Blanka blocks Aprile's Power Strike.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 M.Bison
Blanka is probably not going to do that again. He's pretty sure he just swallowed some mentholated patches or the like, if the look on his face is any indication. Ugh! He rears back after a bite or two, and then paws at his tongue, trying to clean it off. As the Doll draws the medkit back and in, Blanka's giant hand gets in the way, though the reaction of it hitting his hand, his hand hitting his nose is quite comical. He staggers back, his feet digging deeply into the ambulance's top to stay rooted. He howls once, and then lashes forwards again, his hands clasping on the edge of the truck as well. "Saying no means quitting! Fighter not quitter, right?!" With that, he bounds in close, and just stops right in front of Aprile. His body tinges white, and then blue and white sparks /explode/ around him, attempting to channel all that lovely electricity up and into the girl.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison interrupts Shinsoku no Norito from Chizuru with Dash Straight.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 M.Bison
Yeah, that ain't happening. See, Bison has fought speedfreaks before. Plenty of 'em. And he can set up for 'em just as well as the next guy... if not better, sometimes. They just don't expect it outta him. Their loss. The big, bruising boxer lands where Chizuru was, crushing one syringe underfoot; already he's turning, his brow furrowed, letting his animalistic, brutal instincts take over. He's not quite seeing red yet, but maybe soon...
That image coming towards him... he sees it. "RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!" His response is to suddenly bullcharge forward, dropping his left shoulder and putting it right through that image--and then he's at Chizuru, and his right hand's been pulled back, to his shoulder. And then it's plunging into her face, a perfectly executed straight punch pistoning right into her nose.
Good thing there're medics around, hmm?
Chizuru is probably going to need one later on.
The fist smashes into Chizuru's face and sends her reeling, bleeding from the nose; she isn't sure if it's broken or not but assumes it is from the way it feels. At least, unlike some female fighters, she doesn't have a tendency to squeal or yelp when hit; she just takes it with a muffled grunt.
She would love to help Aprile with Blanka - if only to get closer to the fighter to see if she was right about the Psycho Power - but she's a little occupied right now. One illusion rushes toward Bison, only to twirl around him and completely ignore him; the real threat is Chizuru herself, rushing to the other side to trip Bison with a tangling swing of her sleeves, putting her near the back of the ambulance. She has a plan.
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Aprile with Electric Thunder.
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Aprile 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 M.Bison
And then as Blanka comes straight towards her, the doll again tries to prevent the assault to her, hands being torn away from the electrical shock, zapping her over and over as the girl is shocked horribly, jolting to the ground of the ambulance, being only barely able to hang on.
"I DON'T quit because it wouldn't be what he wants.. I would just not rather be touched by something big and green like you!" She exclaims, dragging herself on the side when a sign rips into her shoulder.
Mmm bloodspray.
But forcing herself back up, the medic looks horrible.. should she probably take a breather, or work on herself? Yeah. But she doesn't, running towards Blanka and kicking towards his middle, spinning. "CANNON DRILL!"
And then aiming to launch him upwards and away with the strike, a kick at the end. Red Psycho energy sheathes her feet as she launches herself over as well, across the Ambulance.
GUESS WHAT THE MEDIC NEEDS TOO.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Blanka with Cannon Spike.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 M.Bison
For what it's worth - Blanka's only met two fighters that use something other than 'Chi'. Or to him, 'natural energy'. He doesn't particularly like the feel of psychic power, the way it sets his teeth on edge like the time he tried to chew aluminum foil because it was holding a tasty roast. Ugh! He sees the kick coming and tries to get out of the way, but with the small surface area, he's unable to do more than take a half-step to the side and takes the kick into his stomach. He falls back, and hits the edge of the ambulance, falling off of it!
For a second, it may look as though he were out of the fight, but instead, there is a series of 'CRUNCH' noises. That is actually Blanka punching holes in the metal frame, so he can move araound to the side. He attempts to come up from behind Aprile, his feet swinging over the edge first, in a mighty, mighty KICK! Surprise feets!
COMBATSYS: Chizuru successfully hits M.Bison with Reigetsu.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 M.Bison
"F**kin' warlock magic s**t," mutters Bison, as the image rushes him again. He makes a choice, intending to defend against the image--only to find that is it just that. Chizuru trips him up and he -shakes- the ambulance with his impact, landing on the back of his head for what is something akin to a deadly rabbit punch. The kind of blow that can cause concussion, permanent brain damage, even death.
Unfortunately for Chizuru, it just makes Bison _EVEN MADDER_. He's on his feet a moment later, almost looking woozy.. and then he points one fist at the elegant woman. "BITCH!!" he shouts, looking angrier and angrier by the moment, "You may have some fancy special trick-sh*t goin' on but I promise you you're gonna hurt like you ain't EVER hurt before by the time I'm done with you!!"
Really, who needs Lou Ferrigno? It should have been Bill Bixby and Mike Bison starring in "The Incredible Bulk". Er, Hulk.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison gathers his will.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|=====--\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
"I look forward to seeing you try," Chizuru says, which is a blatant lie; she doesn't. It will make him angrier, though, she thinks, and the very angry lose their sense of proportion and make mistakes they otherwise wouldn't. She waits at the back of the ambulance for one, two, three seconds -
- and then she jumps straight up, grabbing onto a stoplight as they pass. She uses the momentum to swing all the way over it once, picking up speed, and then throws herself at the other ambulance, feet-first. She may accidentally step on Blanka's feet as she lands - or, more accurately, jump-kick him - but there's really nothing that can be done about that, is there?
COMBATSYS: Aprile interrupts Medium Kick from Blanka with 10th Floor Transfer.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
It looks like Blanka nearly falls off, and the doll, stuck to what she's doing, looks onto Blanka.. whom has fallen off!? .. Before Blanka punches /HOLES IN THE METAL FRAME/ as he tries to come up from behind her, feet swinging up and over!
But in the end, it's just not what happens. The doll is operating on blood loss.. perhaps to a point.. and with the damage done, is focusing more on how things are going than usual.. and when the legs swing out, she swings as well, able to start the spin much faster than usual due to her misfacing.. getting the backstrike on her doesn't really help any! "Good thing you didn't fall off!" She comments. "But you're going to want to hold on! Or else I'll need to operate!" And suddenly, that swinging medkit begins to leave another trail of red, but this time, it's spinning around her, faster and faster, as the feet come up .. before Blanka is dragged up by them as well, the spinning catching Blanka and dragging him upwards as she angles with the Ambulance, slamming him down into it!..
And her landing on the top of a building nearby.
"... ..RIGHT they keep moving." The doll reminds herself, sprinting to the edge and then leaping back onto the Ambulance, landing with a THUMP on the edge, and pulling herself onto it, breathing heavily.. maybe a slight bit fatigued.. "Hah..." Getting back to her feet on the other Ambulance, she shakes herself off.
Hey, it worked!
COMBATSYS: Chizuru successfully hits Blanka with Heavy Kick.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|=======\===----\1 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
Where did it all go wrong?! Where did Blanka lose control of ths fight!? Possibly when he allowed himself to get smacked in the back by Chizuru, who was moving between ambulances. This only led to a worse problem, as it put him right in the path of Aprile's giant hit. Tossed upwards, and then back down, he lands on the ambulance as it crumples in, and then falls down as one side of the thing caves in. Blanka hits the ground in a tumble, and bounces once - into the truck behind the ambulances.
A melon truck.
Growling in something akin to pain, Blanka reaches behind himself, grabbing melon after melon. He begins to hurl them left, right and center, towards Chizuru and Aprile's ambulance, or what's left of it. As he hurls the last one, he leaps forwards off the truck he's on, and comes in feet first at Chizuru, using all the pain of the two attacks to focus him, an attempt to knock the woman off and out! "AHW-ROOOO!"
Well, crap. Bison turns towards Chizuru, but then they're doubleteaming Blanka... and Bison actually has a shred of respect for the big beastman. Besides, he wants to actually win one of these things--someday. He'd say sorry, but... really, he... he really isn't. It's just the nature of a fight. Besides, Doll or not, she signed up and Vega can't complain if they're scheduled against each other, right?
Bison turns towards Aprile and then just roars again, speed-stomping across the distance between himself and the Doll. As he stomps, he's brandishing both fists--and then aiming a swift left jab at Aprile's face. That, however, is a feint, a cover for the real attack--a rib-crushing hook punch aimed to, uh... crush... ribs. Hey, shut up.
The impact is carefully angled to ... okay, who're we kidding? Bison's just punching, and if he slams Aprile off the building then that's just too bad.
COMBATSYS: Chizuru dodges Blanka's Tropical Hazard.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
Chizuru did not expect her boot and Aprile's Psycho Power to be quite that effective - and she has at the last decided that it /is/ Psycho Power. Good detective work there, Chizuru. Still, she's not really going to /complain/ about it. This is, after all, a fight. Blanka knew the rules when he signed up (she assumes).
And now...there are melons? Well, it could be worse, Chizuru thinks, it could be rocks. She darts between two of them, stops so a third doesn't quite touch her, and then swings down into the back of her ambulance, kicking the doors open as she does. This gets her valuable, valuable cover.
She doesn't come out, at least not right away. She's quite visible in there, though; is she trapped? Is she an EASY TARGET?
COMBATSYS: Chizuru focuses on her next action.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
COMBATSYS: Aprile just-defends M.Bison's Hook Punch!
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
As she finally lands, Blanka's assault of delicious fruit causes Aprile to second guess herself, especially as it flies through the air towards the Ambulance, more than likely causing some of the vehicles to go a bit off than they should, and Aprile moves with it, staggering, heavy bag and medkit causing her to be able to stay on a bit easier than usual.. and this time, she notices Blanka coming towards her.. roaring.. wait where did Chizuru go? "Ma'am?" She calls out.
And then Bison is just ROARING AND STOMPING. "Sir! Sir it's ..." And then she has no time to explain! The fist comes towards her face, but the doll doesn't flinch, created for battle.. which allows her to fix something that would have been much more troubling. The fist crashing towards her ribs, and she knows the effect M.Bison would inflict on her.. less than most other dolls, yet still more than she'd appreciate.
And so, the sound of a CLANG rings through the air as M.Bison's fist rings against that weapon she has, hands on the edges, the fist pushing against it in it's force as Aprile holds on, distributing the force, sliding back only a little due to the weight spaced about the bag and the medkit.. before she hops backwards a few steps,".. AH. Looks like all that training paid off!" She commented. "And I'll be sure to inform of your help to Master!" She adds in quickly, smiling.
Before opening the medkit that Bison so helpfully smashed the lock to.. and dragging out a bit of gauze, medical tape, and a small blade, a quick swipe to cut it, and a bit of padding, that small moment she has allows her to patch up the bite from Blanka earlier! ... Well. More like SOME of the bite.
That was a chunk he ripped from her!
What's a Blanka to do?! He's supposed to be very big and very strong, and his kick is good - but inacccurate, his feet crunching further into the metal frame of the ambulance. He peels himself free as Chizuru escapes, and angrily stuffs one of the melons into his maw, chewing on it as he tries to regain his jungle groove back. He's showing irritiation in much the same way that Bison does, but trying to rein it in.
A reconsideration of tactics is in order - and Blanka moves swiftly to try something new. Bounding away from the hole he'd left in the ambulance, Blanka bounces to the other ambulance top, landing on it and grabbing the side mirror. Holding it up, he hucks it swiftly at Aprile's noggin - trying to distract her from healing herself, patching herself up. That's what the docs in the ambulances are for anyways!
Oh, HELL no. If there's anything Bison hates it's little girls who don't submit to being shitbeaten and dying. Doll or not, Aprile just earned a bit of wrath from the big man. And she just... oh man. Bison would facepalm--instead, he's going to try to palm Aprile's face. That is... with a fist. It's a tacit message--you'd better _SHUT UP_, because Bison's affiliation isn't necessarily known and he likes to keep it that way... at least, for now.
Even though she defends the first strike, he just keeps coming, putting Chizuru on ignore for now. She'll probably be a threat later, but Bison's pretty focused right now. It's sort of the curse of being like that raging bull...
... so yes, Aprile, be prepared for another fist in your face, courtesy M. Bison.
Later? More like...RIGHT NOW.
Chizuru's ambulance has moved, just a little, toward the others. She is giving the driver directions (and possibly a tip) to line her attack up just so, guiding her ambulance to just in front of the other one with the back doors open.
She leaps out - twice at once, the two figures mirroring each others' actions. At first it's hard to tell who the two of them are going after, as they swing their arms in wide, arcing strikes, but they begin to focus on Bison after a few moments of opening patterns.
And then the left one vanishes, leaving only the right, real Chizuru behind, holding the last pose for several seconds.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Aprile with Cut And Paste.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/------=|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Aprile with Thrown Object.
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Aprile 1/--=====/=======|=------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/------=|=======\===----\1 M.Bison
COMBATSYS: Aprile fails to interrupt Medium Punch from M.Bison with Cross Of Red.
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Aprile 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/------=|=======\====---\1 M.Bison
At the start, what happens is that Aprile eats a side mirror. The doll was a bit busy patching herself up. And now? She's staggering backwards from the assault that's flung her way. And then it gets worse. The staggering allows M.Bison to slam a fist straight into her, but she doesn't stay motionless.
She swings the medkit around, but the fist comes forwards, and slams straight into her, tossing her backwards and having her slide a bit to a stop, crashing on the very edge of the Ambulance. "AH...."
She's seeing stars, so she doesn't get back up immediately. As made to kill or to serve, she's still just another person, at times.
And that time is when she gets the living shit beaten out of her.
From his perch on the other ambulance, Blanka has a moment to reflect on what he's seeing. The fact that she's taking time in the fight to patch herself up puts her on the list of 'high priority' to Blanka - after all, if she can patch herself up, she can patch up someone else. Maybe even Chizuru. it's far too much to hope that she might patch up Blanka, even though he's feeling woozy, dizzy, and very close to out of it. He's focused on what he has to do - and he's not going to give Aprile any more chances.
Bracing, he leaps from the ambulance he's on, straight towards the girl. His hands hit the roof first, and he swings his feet in front of himself, then up and over in a looping kick, attempting to knock her up and off the safety of the ambulance, to the road below. He's pretty confident about this - and refuses to look over at Chizuru and Bison - after all, he's doing what he can to help his partner, but there's only so much a beast-man can do!!
COMBATSYS: M.Bison blocks Chizuru's Sanrai no Fujin.
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Aprile 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/------=|=======\======-\1 M.Bison
When M. Bison is 75 years old, assuming he makes it that far, and he's infirm and has to be wheeled around, he'll carry a cane with him. Not to walk. But to hit people with. Because even then, he will not find any greater pleasure than the pleasure he finds in a solid strike. The facepunch delivered, Bison turns around because, well, Boxer Senses Tingling(tm). He turns around to see -two- of her. Again. "Goddamn," he grunts, "it's like I'm already goddamn punch drunk." He doesn't try anything fancy this time; he just weathers the attack, taking that weird combination of physical strike and energy strike as best as he can. Still stings, though.
"Aight, girlie," the man declares, as he grins, his muscles flexing, "... let's have some _fun_." That said, he suddenly lunges closer to Chizuru, even as she's posing, cocking his left fist back and firing it high--and then, a moment later, also targeting her belly with his right fist in a swift one-two combination that looks nothing like a traditional one-two setup.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison successfully hits Chizuru with Medium Punch.
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Aprile 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/----===|=======\======-\1 M.Bison
It's the delay at the end that really catches Chizuru. She starts to rise up but stays low when she sees the high strike coming in, and that is apparently Mike's cue to slug her in the stomach. Hard.
She aborts going to help Aprile in favour of being knocked down; Chizuru /almost/ rolls off the ambulance entirely but catches herself at the last moment, rolling hastily the other way to stay on and not drift off the side.
Chizuru gets to her feet a moment later, flipping herself up on her hands. This includes an almost incidental kick at Bison; it won't hurt very much even if it does hit, but if she gets lucky and clips him in the face it might give her enough time to get up unhindered. "Aprile," she directs, while on her hands, "watch the boxer." He is, after all, the bigger threat. She doesn't realize they work together.
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Aprile with Backstep Rolling.
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|==-----\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/----===|=======\======-\1 M.Bison
As Blanka leaps up from the ambulance, spinning straight towards Aprile, the doll attempts to prevent the assault from striking her on. It's just too fast, however. As such.. she's knocked again from the ambulance, sent flying over and away. And that's when she hits a street sign, staggering her forwards from Blanka's assault, and keeping her up.. as much as you can call this 'up'.
But when Blanka strikes her.. she stays on her feet, despite all the damage she's been through. "Hah.. you... were made well.. but it's too bad they didn't make you as good." She notes, smiling. "I'm still sure how things are going to turn out." Which is obvious to what she means.. as she rushes towards Blanka, the small space they have enough.
Slicing the medkit through the air, her tattered nurse garb in the breeze, two intersecting parallel lines form before her and Blanka, before she drives the medkit forwards. Rushing from one end of the Ambulance to the other, just driving everything she has left towards Blanka.
It's not what she might've wanted done best.. but it
Works!
COMBATSYS: Blanka endures Aprile's Cross Of Red.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Blanka
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Chizuru 0/-------/----===|=======\======-\1 M.Bison
"Blanka good.. enough!" See, challenge the beastman's ego, and he gets a little crazy. Insinuate that he's not good enough, and he'll go the extra mile in an attempt to do something that others might consider insane. As she swings back towards Blanka, he steps up into the attack, hands spread wide. He takes the medkit to the chest, and this time, it /does/ take him down, flattening him against the ceiling of the ambulance. He crumples at Aprile's feet, and lets out a grunt of pain.
"Cl... Cl.." He starts to speak, fighting past the pain of the fight, the blissful closeness of unconciousess closing in on him He won't let it happen /just/ yet, no - he attempts to get one hand around Aprile's feet - his maw hanging open and blue-white lightning showing deep with. He croaks out a word, and then explodes into lightning again. "Cl...ear!!" Someone got a neat demonstration in the ambulance on the way in!
COMBATSYS: Blanka can no longer fight.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|=======\======-\1 M.Bison
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Chizuru 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: M.Bison interrupts Light Kick from Chizuru with Turn Punch.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|=======\=======\1 M.Bison
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|
Heh. So she wants to get away, huh? Might as well buy a ticket for Southwest, because Bison isn't gonna let the mirror chick off that easy. Even as she's kicking, Bison is moving. He leans back, just a bit; Chizuru's foot grazes his face, drawing a nice little scrape.
But he's in position now; when Chizuru is mid-flip--
--Bison is in mid-punch, firing a slamming right fist into her body--front or back, whichever is facing him. Possibly, probably, dumping her on her ass again. But he isn't aiming to knock her off the ambulances--no, he wants to -keep- hitting her...
On the plus side, Chizuru is off the roof when electricity courses through it. Unzapped! Not even a static shock.
On the minus side this is because she was halfway through a flip that was interrupted via Bison punching; all things considered she probably would have preferred the electricity. She stays on the ambulance this time, but getting up again requires forcing her way through Bison's punching.
She tries it anyway, an illusion shimmering off her and rising with its arms out, an arcing strike designed to strike Bison as it rises and push him back. All she wants is a moment to stand up and check on Aprile! Is that so wrong?
COMBATSYS: Aprile dodges Blanka's Electric Thunder.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|=======\=======\1 M.Bison
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Chizuru 0/-------/--=====|
As Blanka proves he is, indeed, good enough.. the doll is riding this one out very carefully. She stands, weighed down on the Ambulance. Her feet refuse to give in. She can't quit. Her vision only pushes her forwards. To do better things. To get stronger to help Master Vega better. And to show him, and perhaps the others, what his dolls are made of.
As Blanka crumples at the dolls feet, she looks down. "Maybe you really are." She comments. "Far better than what I've dealt with before... AH!?" CLEAR?! Medic reactions kick in, and as soon as the tattered nurse hears CLEAR, the nurse just bolts off of the ground, lightning exploding everywhere.. but she's already leaping out, over, flipping... the powerful guts catching her hat and ripping it off painfully from her hair.. but she needs some time to rest. Landing, she does just that.. and has a little plan for something, letting her body take care of the wounds.
Regulating her body, the doll readies herself, smiling to M.Bison and Chizuru.. "Good luck Miss Chizuru! I'm rooting for you!'
COMBATSYS: Aprile drops her guard to recover.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|=======\=======\1 M.Bison
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COMBATSYS: M.Bison blocks Chizuru's Tenjin no Kotowari.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 M.Bison
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|
Finally, Chizuru gets her moment of respite; that upper-spinning image slams into Bison's arms and he is forced back a few steps. Just enough space for her to get up. Unfortunately, see, that also puts Aprile back into Bison's sights. And he -turns-. Consider this training, Aprile. A lesson in the nature of pain, and the importance of strategy, and knowing your opponents.
That is to say, he turns towards Aprile and grimaces. "Girlie, just 'cuz you took the beastman down, it don't mean you get a free pass!" And he lunges again for her, aiming to close the distance in a flash and then just thrust his fist into her stomach. A gutshot, terribly painful and probably enough to take her down... he thinks.
Oh, an opening. Chizuru does like openings!
She likes them less when it's given because Bison decided to beat the crap out of someone else, but APrile knew the risks when she signed up, just like Blanka did! Still, she's not going to let Bison do that without interfering, at least a little.
Chizuru lunges at Bison from the back. She does not use an illusion this time, or anything fancy; she brings her hand up and delivers a palm strike right at his back, trying to simultaneously damage him and knock him off-balance. Maybe Aprile will get off easily!
Probably not, though.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison successfully hits Aprile with Light Punch.
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Aprile 1/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 M.Bison
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|
Oh. Aprile knew her opponents. She knew that M.Bison was a monster. A monster like no other! .. But at the same time. There are ways to use such. With M.Bison thrusting his fist towards Bison, Aprile bows towards Chizuru, a moment before. "It was fun to fight with you!" Before M.Bison thrusts his fist so hard into her stomach.. she's taken down hard. Staggering backwards, she coughs, hacking, bending over and onto her knees.. but it's with agony that she gets back up, a pained step forwards, as she raises her medkit upwards once again.
"Let me help you once miss!"
And with all her energy, a red glow of psycho energy surrounds her.. before doing the same to Chizuru. Some of M.Bison's rather painful shots .. just might be relived.
Just maybe.
Afterwards, however, the doll collapses onto the Ambulance, held in place by the heavy pack on her back, and the medkit that slams, crunching into the top of the Ambulance when she falls. Thud.
COMBATSYS: Aprile can no longer fight.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 M.Bison
COMBATSYS: M.Bison fails to interrupt Strong Punch from Chizuru with Gigaton Blow.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 M.Bison
Bison is apparently going to be struck. He turns, big fist at the ready, intending to just DRILL through Chizuru. But despite the strength of her attack, it's also speedy enough to hit Bison before he can complete his punch. He goes sprawling... but he's far from done, skidding to a halt against one corner of the ambulances.
And then getting up, again. Oh, he definitely looks pissed off now--angry as hell, in fact, not that he doesn't always look angry--but somehow it's more condensed, more urgent. Aprile's forgotten already, Bison has just attained pure missile lock on Chizuru.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Chizuru with Coffin Dodger.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 M.Bison
The energy washes over Chizuru, and - her eyes widen. She /felt/ that, very nearly the same something she felt when she sealed Vega's power away, however temporary it ended up being; she looks back at Aprile, half concerned and half uncomfortable and all wanting to study her more.
She doesn't have the time, because Bison has achieved pure rage. She considers her options for a moment - and then leaps, first at Bison to literally jump on his back, and from there to kick off and over to the other ambulance, which has started to slow down again so that she /can/ do that trick. It's as if the drivers knew exactly where to go.
...nah.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison blocks Chizuru's Light Kick.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 M.Bison
It might be swift, but unlike that last strike, there doesn't seem to be anything behind it. Bison literally just stands there, letting the kicks hit; he barely seems moved by them. "Hunh. That what you got for me now?" he grunts, sounding almost disappointed. That, of course, changes in just a moment, as Bison isn't really the type for out and out sadness or anything like that.
He starts pumping himself up, his muscles bulging, as he fixes his eyes on Chizuru again, slamming his fists together. "C'mon c'mon c'mon!!" he bellows, at the elegant woman. He may lose, but he's going to do his damndest to make sure Chizuru goes out as hurt as possible...
COMBATSYS: M.Bison gathers his will.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 M.Bison
Chizuru stands on the far ambulance, watching Bison get himself pumped up now. This is getting worrisome. If she lets him keep preparing, he'll jump over and pound her into dust; if she goes /back/ over there to hit him, she is both displaying weakness and giving him an excellent opportunity to do the pounding.
She does neither. Chizuru bends down and picks something up that was wedged behind the flashy lights found on any ambulance; it is a hard-skinned melon, undamaged from its previous landing (at least on the outside).
Chizuru serves it like it was a basketball at Bison. Apparently she really did take sports that were not various ways of learning how to beat people up.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison blocks Chizuru's Thrown Object.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 M.Bison
A melon. Bison doesn't even look, he just punches it out of the air, the melon juices and rind and pulp and everything spraying on him. He looks... displeased. "Bitch," he says, in something approaching a normal tone of voice, "You gon' pay for my drycleanin' now." Suddenly, he pushes off, thrusting himself forward despite the melon, uttering a low growl as he charges the distance from him to Chizuru.
It is probably pretty obvious what's going on but, just because...
... yes. He's punching at her again, his big right fist pistoning out for her temple, intending to deliver a ringing blow that may or may not feel so bad as to feel good.
COMBATSYS: Chizuru dodges M.Bison's Medium Punch.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 M.Bison
Chizuru has no real interest in getting punched that hard. Or any other hardness, for that matter; she has limits.
She leaps up; she lacks the height to entirely clear Bison and so lands slightly to the side, close enough that she can feel the wind from the passing of the fist next to her.
"I don't really believe that /that/ outfit requires dry cleaning," Chizuru says with mild distaste and a bit of tiredness in her voice. Not enough tiredness that she's out of it, though - oh no. Rather the opposite. She tenses, summoning her chi for one last burst of energy, and glimmers.
The image rushes off her, delivering a dizzying series of hand- and arm-strikes at Bison, even following him if necessary. Chizuru herself, the real one, stands back, hand cupped around an invisible point in space that is rapidly shimmering orange, pulsing with energy as Chizuru mutters mantras to herself under her breath.
She acts, darting forward, hand held in front of her. When the orb passes through her illusion of herself, the image vanishes as if it had never been, and if she contacts Bison with it - well, he does not /use/ chi to hit people, but everything alive has traces of it. That's what makes them alive. When some of it becomes temporarily sealed away... That's a bad thing.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison fails to interrupt San Shingi Kore Mittsu from Chizuru with Gigaton Blow.
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Chizuru 0/-------/-------|======-\-------\0 M.Bison
COMBATSYS: M.Bison can no longer fight.
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Really, it's inevitable. Chizuru has powers beyond Bison's ken; and while he's strong, and skilled, there are many who are more skilled than he is. Chizuru is one of them. Bison gets a sudden lesson in why this is so. He's not sure what just happened--he was already moving, as he almost always is, lunging for Chizuru--
--and suddenly he's off the bus. Er, ambulance. He just goes flying, finally thrown off by Chizuru's technique. Sure, the SNF officials will probably be able to find him--there's a furrow that marks his path through the concrete and the grass and whatnot... but they won't have to, really, as Bison comes stomping back, bruised and swelling and even uglier than before.
"Goddamn you warlock bitch! You just wait, I'm gonna <BLEEP> and <BLEEP> and you gon' cry!!" Then he stomps off again.
Sore loser? YOU BET.
Log created on 14:57:47 03/22/2008 by M.Bison, and last modified on 17:31:38 03/26/2008.