Description: In which interesting gimmicks are eventually ignored and someone gets slapped with a belt a lot. (Winner: Maki)
Southcorp Supply Warehouse. It's a bad day to be a relatively successful business competitor of Howard Enterprises. It's a supply warehouse. A lot of things can be implied here. You know... boxes. Supplies. In a warehouse. Maybe a few fans for ambience. Maybe poor lighting. But it's a warehouse. Full of supplies. On the docks. Perfect for corporate espionage experts to do whatever it is corporate espionage experts do.
Ryuhaku Todoh had to sign an extensive agreement to not 'do that regular bullshit you do' and as such seethes underneath a cardboard box somewhere marked 'HOT STUFF'. Oh, they want him to conform to quantum physics as their tiny little Kyokugen-polluted brains understand it now, do they, well they will all pay, oh yes they will... starting with showing up that blasted old man Genryuusai (whom he hates about as much as he hates Takuma) about how poorly he raised his daughter!! And then pretty much everyone else in between. All because they insist he needs to be seen on camera somewhere throughout! (But in the interest of fair and interesting competition, one supposes he will have to endure the metaphorical one hand being tied behind his back.)
The box scooches forward every few inches now and then throughout the endless aisles of supplies and spotlights and stuff they use for stacking supplies on shelves, surely shining on sneakers that would sneak by. Scooch scooch.
It wouldn't be a stealth stage if there wasn't guards around, in this case there was just one guard, but that's enough to have stealth. A red witch, a confused red witch, she has a id tag and a flashlight and a light-stick-broom. All of these things more or less just shoved into her hands at one point with no apparent warning. Here she was in a warehouse and trying to find SPIES.
So the witch walks around with her flashlight bouncing all over and focusing here and there before moving around. She doesn't know where the spies are, but sure as there is a round timer ticking down somewhere she knows there are spies. The witch opens up her mini map. It's just drawn on an index card. She tries to tune into where exactly she is. She's totally lost in this place.
"AWww man."
She looks RIGHT at Todoh's box but doesn't seem to realize what it is and continues on
In all her years of training in the Bushin-ryu style of martial arts, Maki wasn't exactly trained 24/7 in the art of being sneaky and moving around softly like ninjas would. But she still knows a bit about being discreet and keeping out of sight. So, she too has also taken on a stealthy approach to this whole thing, although it's not exactly the type of approach she wants to take here.
"Ryuhaku Todoh, you think I was raised poorly?" Maki thinks to herself from her hiding spot inside a box of her own. "That's because you're just jealous that my style is better than yours ever will be." A slight smirk forms on the blonde-haired fighter's face. But unlike Todoh, she's moving very slowly and only when she absolutely needs to. While the moving of the box may give her away, that is the very reason she's not moving as much.
She actually sees Naerose go past her, but the witch doesn't see her. Thanks to Maki remaining very still and breathing very softly and slowly. Looks like Maki's got this stealth thing better than she thought.
Bah! If only Ryuhaku remembered that Genryuusai is a master of reading minds and spouting off such insulting commentary after the fact, he would say that Maki takes after him well. A little... too well. She must be destroyed. But the good news for all involved is that Todoh does not have this amazing ability and as such still moves along slowly, past ULTIMATE SECURITY OFFICER NAEROSE DELPHINE. (No fooling, she's the ultimate security guard, she knows when there's food in the fridge that should not be, right? Keeping the fridge safe from invading food by eating it is an important skill to have, young lady.)
Maki may be raised by ninjas and as such be proficient in their ways. Todoh, however, is bold. A trendsetter! A genius! And also a dirty cheater. But also the best dad ever and most handsomest man you wished you married but oops, too late, sucks to be yooooooouuuuu. And this carries over to the magnificent cardboard box called 'HOT STUFF.'
But because Maki is so very good at hiding so naturally, he is left with no option but to simply reposition himself to the very best place he can to observe where both Maki and AMAZING SECURITY GUARD NAEROSE may be. The box, suddenly, goes perpendicular and seems to start crawling up an aisle slowly like a giant boxy cockroach towards the top, moving with a fair balance between speed and stealthiness.
And if he can juuuuust get to the top...
COMBATSYS: Todoh has started a fight here.
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Todoh 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Maki has joined the fight here.
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Todoh 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Maki
COMBATSYS: Todoh takes no action.
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Todoh 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Maki
COMBATSYS: Naerose has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-------|
When Naerose has passed by, Maki takes the opportunity to move in the opposite direction. She doesn't know if Naerose will come back to where Maki was, so she figures go the other way to try to keep from being seen.
As she's slowly advancing down one aisle, she senses that she's not alone. She pauses quickly and drops down to the ground completely, sitting cross-legged so she can do so more comfortably. While peering through the eyeholes, she doesn't exactly see anything out of the ordinary, but she does sense movement nearby, and it's definitely not Naerose.
"I think I've found you, Todoh!" Maki thinks to herself as she uncrosses one leg, getting ready to spring into action if necessary. All the while, her senses are now on high alert.
COMBATSYS: Maki focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-------|
The only safe place for food in the firdge, as all security guards will know is someplace you can protect it. Naerose has a fridge of her own, she has a special fridge. Then things start happening, people pop out of boxes and she is totally aware of the existence of people.
!!!!
Yeah, they totally appear over her head.
The witch totally turns and runs away, gets behind a box and pulls out her radio.
"Help help, I'm under attack!" The witch cries to static.
"Ahh, sorry," A voice comes with a bad russian accent, "But all available personnel are in use, please handle the situation to the best of your ability."
Noooo!!!
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-------|
Naerose just has to watch the box crawling up the dangerously high shelf (not the aisle, some people suck at REAL TIME EDITING, ahem). Upon the MYSTERIOUS CRAWLING BOX THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A BUG reaching the top, the box is discarded as Todoh decides to take his perch up at the top somewhere in the shade, just out of the peering eye of an overhead light. The 'HOT STUFF' box hits the ground, a soft 'whump' noise.
It's over, Maki. Todoh has the high ground! He draws a fan triumphantly at this important tactical position, eyes narrowed with the masterful scrutiny of a martial arts master! Which is what Todoh is. Really! But if you doubt that, fine, try saying he's not up on top of a very high shelf, hiding in the shade and looking down for any movement. Because he is. And is that not masterful?!
COMBATSYS: Todoh focuses on his next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-------|
Somehow, Maki now senses that the stakes have been upped greatly. Todoh's blown his cover, and it looks like the sneaking game is over. Realizing her box wouldn't be much use anymore, Maki tosses it off of her and to the side while brandishing her tonfa. She'd despise Todoh even more for blowing their cover, but that's just a risk that they were taking.
"Looks like the show is on!" Maki thinks to herself as she springs off of her foot and leaps upwards, attempting to deliver a swift kick at the box holding Todoh.
But as you all know the AI's in these games have a short memory, and what do you know? So does Naerose. She looks around and then realizes that there are just boxes around and maybe for the moment she is totally clueless as to what she saw. Did boxes move or.... It was just a trick of the light, or her imagination.
After thirty seconds of time clicking down the Witch totally forgets she saw anyhting and returns to her normally scheduled patrol route.
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Maki successfully hits Todoh with Light Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-------|
Damn generic security guard AI, not seeing Maki outright LEAP UP A TALL SHELF. Nonetheless, Todoh's cool, he's got it. Genryuusai taught his daughter well at looking really goofy when bouncing up things, he will hand her that. He blocks the flying kick rather skillfully with his chin. Really! Honest! The elder Todoh recoils backwards in the darkness, saliva faintly reflecting the lighting it flies into as he nearly staggers off of his excellent tactical position!
"Hmph!" Ryuhaku snorts at Maki, waving a finger with his free hand scoldingly. Risk her own stealth just to jump at him, will she?! She may catch a glint of him loosening something around his waist, and moments later it all becomes much too clear as a serpentine shape moves in the darkness. Something shines in the darkness, a small, rectangular piece of metal flashing briefly in what little light is there.
That is right. The first blow between the head of the Todoh household and one of Genryuusai's finest fighters in this day and age is that of a belt, purchased for a perfectly affordable price for the finest quality at one of Howard Enterprise's finest men's clothing outlets!
Because some people deserve to be slapped with a belt in a fighting world dominated by hype over belts these days.
COMBATSYS: Todoh successfully hits Maki with Jab Punch.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/------=|
Slapping Maki with a belt? Just what kind of a person do you think you are? Or, for that matter, who do you think she is? She's not into that kind of stuff, but unfortunately, her guarding attempt doesn't quite help her out. She's too slow getting it up, and she finds herself receiving a stinging blow that leaves her on the floor, reeling in pain. She pauses, trying to catch her breath as she reels from the shock of the impact.
Once that's done with, Maki looks up at Todoh and says, "All right, is that the way you wanna play? Well, then I can play like that as well." And with that, Maki does another jump, this time rebounding off of another shelf, while bringing her tonfa up to attempt to strike Todoh in the face.
Now the witch totally notices that the fact that there are TWO NINJAS IN HER WAREHOUSE. Now she's totally gonna go splinter cell style.. bang bang bang, except she has no cool grenades, no heat visiion, no guns, no proxy mines, she has nothing. Except.
*WHISSSTLE* she blows a whistle.
"Come out with your hands up!' Cries the witch as she scrambles after the ninja who are now attacking each other, box or no, she tottally knows where they are.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Maki successfully hits Todoh with Medium Strike.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/------=|
Todoh chortles in a way that is not befitting of fully grown men! Taking down Maki with just a snap of a belt he bought recently and decided was pretty neat to wear. And there Maki goes, falling all over herself back to the ground far below, surely attracting attention to herself while he is free to gloat from the shade!
Except, well, Maki knows where he is and shows absolutely no restraint in attacking him. She issues her challenge. He waits. She jumps up shelves! She readies her tonfa! And he expertly heads off danger by misinterpreting how high she's willing to leap, crouching into a solid blow to the forehead that turns that snickering into pained grunting and causing him to fall neatly off of the shelf!
...But, there is no sound of someone hitting the floor. Why? He's grabbed onto the edge, just in time for Naerose to cry for them to come out with their hands up. So soon?! Well, time to disappear in the confusion by some crazy means. Like, oh, say, trying to rock the shelf far taller than he is.
Metal squeals as the shelf starts to tilt in Todoh's direction. Now, to any normal human being, this is a brush with death by boxes as it tumbles to the ground. But no, he is far above any normal human being. the shelf collapses, its contents spilling downwards to simultaneously attempt to crush and obscure Todoh alike. Several fly into the air in Maki's vague direction. The crashing sound is deafening! But, most importantly, this should give him that little edge to break away and hide anew if all goes well. (For /him/, anyway. Not for the corporate owner of this warehouse, though! Heh heh.)
COMBATSYS: Maki blocks Todoh's Large Thrown Object.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-----==|
Oh-oh! Incoming avalanche of goods and boxes! Fortunately, Maki's ready for what Todoh's got for her. She's assumed a careful defensive stance, meaning that what comes down barely fazes her, and the other stuff just passes by harmlessly. When all is said and done, she finds that there's a large pile of boxes on the floor, and she knows that Todoh is definitely underneath them.
"Come out when you're ready, I can wait," Maki says as she stands back and watches the pile carefully, waiting for Todoh to make his next move.
COMBATSYS: Maki focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-----==|
This is ridiculous. The security guard is overwhelmed by the sudden explosion of things going on around her. She blows her whistle till her face is red and then, just pulls out her can off mace, which is actually silly string and sprays and sprays and sprays. In effective. She picks up the can of silly string then and just chucks the entire can at Todoh, whom was just unlucky enough to be the first one to garner enough of her attention.
She should of attacked the one who is not attacking, the one who is just standing there. She'll get Maki next. The witch then creeeeeps along to try and grab and knock Maki to the ground.. First though.. Yeah Can chucked at Todoh.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Todoh with Thrown Object.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Todoh
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Maki 0/-------/-----==|
Todoh is underneath a pile of boxes and stuff. It would be an effort in itself to figure out if he got killed under it without digging through first. There is practically no movement to detect. None at all! Maybe the old fool finally met his match against gravity and boxes full of heavy objects.
Maki is content to just stand there in plain sight and otherwise act in ways unbefitting of sneakiness. Man, if only Todoh were still alive, his hands would inch out very carefully from the pile somewhere close to Maki and perhaps reach out and-- oh wait, there are hands sticking out! The can then bounces off his left wrist, causing his hands to flinch and for them to sink quickly back under the pile o' boxes. Way to not fail at finding the fighting equivalent of a needle in a haystack with a thrown can o' silly string, Naerose!
Several more moments pass. Then, suddenly, three boxes are thrown up into the air, closely aligned together with only the faintest hints of yellowish-orangeish light through what would have made perfect eye-holes as they descend on top of Maki. These are far more noticeable than any other hands that may have poked out of the pile. In fact, pay no mind to them. Please enjoy the heroic descend of three boxes with something shiny and colorful underneath them descending fast on Maki all stealthy-like.
Yes. Please do.
COMBATSYS: Todoh successfully hits Maki with Kasane Ate.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|======-\-------\0 Todoh
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With the way that attack is coming at Maki, she'd be wise to get out of the way, and fast. Unfortunately, she finds herself wondering where she can go, and ends up being hit, flying backwards and landing against a stack of boxes. They shake, but don't fall. As for Maki, though, she's having a bit of a tough time getting her senses back. It takes her a minute or two to shake the dizziness off of her, and when she does get back up, it's using her tonfa for assistance.
Staggering a little, Maki advances on Todoh, getting closer and closer, and then abruptly drops onto the tip of her tonfa and spins around like a whirlwind, almost out of nowhere!
Well don't think Maki is safe, the witch is totally on a war path. She trise to come up to her from behind when she is going from Todoh, likely she will fail miserably but you never know. The witch goes for the grab and tries to pull Maki down into a tackle. Not to protect Todoh, but because the witch-curity guard, is job it is to do just that.
COMBATSYS: Todoh blocks Maki's Bushin Senpuu Kyaku.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\0 Todoh
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Almost out of nowhere indeed, nowhere but outside of the pile of boxes Todoh is still in, does she expect to dig him out by using her most beloved technique of spinning on a tonfa so fast that it might suck him out? Well, it doesn't. But she does end up kicking a box so hard it collides into the pile with such force that the whole part of the stack Todoh has undoubtedly resided in (given how close a proximity of 'three boxes' is) that he can't help but have absorbed /some/ of it just by being in that pile. Undoubtedly.
Rather than sit there and leave anything to uncertainty, he finds the cover of being in a box to be of utmost urgency to keep the heat on Maki and not on himself because HE HAS A REPUTATION TO THINK ABOUT (of being the best fighter in the world, not because he is so very good at disappearing, so seriously, really, why are you looking at me funny) and, all of a sudden, some of the stack falls over. A box labeled 'NINJA-B-GONE' seems to slide out of the mess towards Maki. Why is this?!
Spoilers: Because Todoh is inside doing that slide kick thing he does, but you know, you can't tell unless you have a special hidden camera inside that box. Which SNF does. They picked the right one to bug! Lucky buggers.
COMBATSYS: Todoh successfully hits Maki with Sweeping Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\1 Todoh
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COMBATSYS: Maki interrupts Quick Throw from Naerose with Weapon Jab.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Todoh
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Well let's get to the chase, shall we? Maki tries to block Todoh's kick, but is unsuccessful in doing so. She's sent right towards Naerose pretty much, but the witch isn't going to get her that easily. Her tonfa strikes the witch as she's grabbed, and Maki drops to the ground. It hurts, but not as much as it could have. Nonetheless, it's not looking good for Maki.
The security guard is totally knocked back by the Tonfa and she's like woah, that hurt. For a moment she's stunned and just sort of rotates in the air like a mortal combat character ,but then. Then she's undizzy and she's .. Woah, is Todoh doing that slide kick wait in a box? The witch is onto this now and she charges toward the box and decides to give it a lift and then to boot the person out from under it.
"I have you now Solid Snake! You will sign an autograph!" She cries.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Todoh with Light Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Todoh
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And inside that bugged box is Todoh, leaning against the ground with both arms and pressing one leg up against the uppermost corner, sliding to a stop, giggling that creepy way he likes to when he knows for a fact he hit someone (or something). He bets that old coot Genryuusai at home is having a heart attack. Good for him! Todoh hates that old bastard! Now, all he has to do is just wait for the two girls to kill one another or something, yes. He could be in any one of those boxes that tumbled, there's no way they can pick him out on the first pa--
Wham! Box is lifted, boot is applied with sufficient force to send him skidding a good yard or two across the warehouse floor in the mess he made. His face goes from 'gleeful gloating' to 'angry teeth grinding' in a flash. At which point he rises with a raised fist (what else is there to raise? His blood pressure?) and that rising aura of righteous indignation!
"AAAAAAARGH!! How dare you people constantly see through my cleverly designed on the spot ruses! Do you think I just sit in front of a computer all day and describe these ideas in one sentence and leave the rest completely up to imagination and possibly confusion?! NO! Am I going to sit here and take it when you kids are so clever as to casually find me out in mere seconds! NO! Kids these days!!"
He absent-mindedly whips at Maki with the belt again for no reason in mid-pause.
"They at least had the common courtesy to at least wait a sitcom episode's length before actually overcoming my latest masterpiece to make their lives hell and profitable on network television!! GAAAAAAAH!!!"
COMBATSYS: Todoh successfully hits Maki with Jab Punch.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Todoh
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Still in that mood to use your belt, Todoh? Maki's not in the mood for it, and she's not going to let it come at her. Or, let's say she'll try to keep it from coming at her. But her attempt is unsuccessful.
As she raises her tonfa, she finds her stance is a little off, and the belt cracks against her forearm. The stinging pain causes her to reel backwards, muttering curses under her breath. She finds herself leaning against another stack of crates, which she somehow manages, after regaining her breath, to climb up on. She keeps her fighting stance, but focuses more on catching her breath.
COMBATSYS: Maki gains composure.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Todoh
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Actually Todoh has a very good point. Why should the witch be seeing through his incredibly clever disguises. She's struck. He's got a really really good point. She stares for a moment and then looks over at Maki.
"Yeah, how dare we see through his clever disguises!" She marches over to Maki then and declares,
"Knock off all your spniess." IS that even a word? Yes it must be.
With this VALID COMMENTARY raised, Ryuhaku breathes heavily with rage and old man indignation! Damn right he has a point! Kids these days cheat. Never mind he's never paid ticket prices for his entire life and has rarely ever done a good deed meriting any sort of thanks or adoration by the world at large, for he believes his very existence on these circuits is what gives the world of fighting sustenance! (Or something to laugh about. Sob!)
His displeasure quickly turns to nervousness, looking left and right as eyes don't fall upon him for once. Oh, they're not looking at him now. What manner of trickery should befall upon the hated Maki and his (ex?) student Naerose? Hmm.
He starts sneaking on his tiptopes into the shade and towards the water cooler, a camera following him through the dark, shadowy path towards soulless purified spring water. Angry old man ranting makes him thirsty.
COMBATSYS: Todoh takes no action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Todoh
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COMBATSYS: Maki interrupts Strong Kick from Naerose with Tesshin Hou.
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Looks like Naerose's the one who's gonna be knocked off. For Maki's not going to take this sitting down, or standing up either. In fact, she jumps backwards a little, then jumps into the air and literally flies at Naerose with an immensely fast kick. It's not all perfect, though, as Naerose's kick does connect with Maki.
But in the end, Maki's certain she's made her point that you don't do stuff like that to her.
Wow. Naerose is totally launched and she sent air mail packing with some nasty kicks from Maki. Where is she sent? Well.. Straight on to Todoh until morning. The witch-curity guard is flailing madly but fails to make any good legway on not hitting anything. She reaches out and .. Is that.. TODOH!?
"SAVE ME!" She cries, tears STREAMING out from behind her shades and her face suddenly becomes Chibi, but don't let that fool you, the witch is totally just as heavy and full of the fridge food as she was a second ago, except now she is aided by the power of Maki's kicks.
COMBATSYS: Todoh dodges Naerose's Glomp.
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The elder Todoh continues his sneaky little stride towards the water cooler. Yes. He must quench his thirst... most stealthily. But wait! He would have to crouch down to retrieve one of those paper cups! But this obstacle hardly daunts him, even as a spotlight shines directly in front of the one thing in sight to quench his thirst.
Kneeling down, a handguarded hand swipes a cup out from underneath. This is the point where Naerose would have made contact, passing just barely above his head. Maybe into a wall, or something. Seconds later, both hands appear in view, pushing down the white tab for a little stream of water. Yoink! They disappear again.
With surprisingly little fuss given who this is, the UTMOST MASTER OF THE FIST AND CHI takes a number of steps back towards where Maki was busy kicking the crap out of someone who isn't who she is supposed to be fighting and has a sip of the water.
His eyes widen, so red around the edges that they might almost be visible in the dark. This has the faintest hints of lead! He can taste it! He can taste it so readily that he's just ready to spew!!
Rather than throw it out, he works out his frustrations largely by pitching the belt he has been molesting Maki with all fight back at her. The finely crafted leather belt flies like an angered viper somewhere in the vicinity of Maki from the darkness.
Maki will pay for the sins of the responsible purified water manufacturer thusly!!
COMBATSYS: Maki dodges Todoh's Thrown Object.
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Naerose 1/-----==/=======|=======\=------\1 Todoh
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So the belt is coming at Maki again. If it hits in a situation like this, it's definitely bound to sting quite a bit. And Maki's had enough of the stinging quite frankly. She narrows her eyes as it comes at her, and when the time is right, she moves out of the way by jumping aside into a nearby aisle.
"I don't know what's gotten into you," Maki says, now a bit out of breath, "But it's not gonna help you much." The Bushin-ryu fighter turns back to face Todoh, watching him carefully to see what else he might have up his sleeve.
COMBATSYS: Maki focuses on her next action.
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Damnit, it's her turn? Well the witch has totally been face planted so hard that she forgot that it was her turn to do something. She slowly picks herself up, the witch-curity guard is like, Why didn't you save me?!
"Why didn't you save me?!" Then she gets up and she's all like.. She raises her broom and aims the DEEP STRIKE FTW. SWiNG! She tries to hit Todoh so hard...
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Todoh with Deep Strike.
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Naerose 1/----===/=======|=======\====---\1 Todoh
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"Hmph! Of course you wouldn't," Todoh whispers to the point that really only he can hear himself, "for the beauty of the Todoh way is wasted on you!" He takes a nice, long sip of the LEAD POISONED water. Mmm, condescending remarks to those clearly lesser than you make just about anything taste better. Especially in the dark. Where he hopefully will not be assaulted by Naerose out of nowhere again when he is clearly trying to adhere to the point of hiding in dark places.
Naerose shouts. He coughs from nearly choking on the water, turning around just in time to find a broom rising above his head. His mouth is agape, one part surprise, one part 'DIDN'T I JUST HAVE A TALK WITH YOU ABOUT THIS?!'
Whammo!
Todoh flies back into one hundred percent plain view, sliding across the ground and deep into another stack of boxes that rain all over the place from the pure level of ownage inherent in Naerose managing to successfully broom a dude in the back. Now the world can say, on this very day, that the sneaky Todoh was somehow defeated by the mighty security guard Naerose Delphine! Even if he was just playing nice with everyone's perception of reality. But that excuse didn't work for Sagat when he lost to Adon so many years ago, did it? Nooooo, not at all.
Many boxes land in something of a straight line around Maki. All of them miss her, no need to worry there! Nope, none at all. Already auto-dodged, just for your pleasure. At least, until two hands very slowly rise from the stack, trembling with any number of synonyms for 'angry' because that's not something to really sweat over. Instead...
How about them sweeping downward with such a loud kiai that it easily points out where he is to NAerose if she wants to pursue a career in Todoh detection?! Of course, there's the other matter of boxes suddenly flying up, little blue blades of chi stabbing through some of the heavier boxes and ones with no weight simply flying into the air in the confusion. It's madness!
No, it's...
COMBATSYS: Todoh successfully hits Maki with Cho Kasane Ate.
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In all the confusion, Maki was unsure of what to do and, on the spur of the moment, tried to dodge. But her attempt backfired, and she found herself getting hit by the projectile and several boxes. She's sent flying across the aisle, and slamming into yet another crate. She drops to the ground, slumping over in a semi-seated position. It looks like Todoh is victorious.
COMBATSYS: Maki takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Maki has reached second wind!
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But just as she finishes slumping over, she looks up again, with a look of vigor in her eyes. Despite being injured and all that, she stands up back swiftly, with a rush of adrenaline keeping her going.
Well.. What is a witch to do. She is to..
"Stop right there Criminal!"
The witch cries and moves in toward Todoh, she doesn't notice what is what with Maki, she sees the ninja go down and she gives a cry of success, all she needs to do is subdue the other one and she wins! She will be have protected the place from invadas~ Yeah! So the witch -curity guard, with a tummy so full of fridge food and er.. what was that stuff they were talking about not eating.. light bulbs? Rotten food? The racks in the fridge? Oh well. She also heard once iron was good for you.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Todoh with Medium Throw.
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Todoh's force of power is such that there are no boxes for him to try and hide behind, no matter how fruitless a gesture this may have been given that, historically, these girls seem to see through the ruse instantly and know /which/ one to pick out from many, lucky guesses all around! Conspiracy abounds in his mind. No wonder they wanted him to scale it down! They fixed it on him!
Well, that's no excuse because he's out there, in the plain open, sweeping his arms back upward to dash off into the darkness and gloat over apparent victory. Yes, Genryuusai, SUCK IT! He'd gloat through the night! But that cry of stopping right there...
"BAH! You got nothing on me--" but wait! She grabs his arm and starts to struggle with him, yanking his arm hard enough that his upper body twists as such that it goes all the way down his leg, ah, ah, ah! Is Ryuhaku Todoh finished?! Cry of frustration and anguish aisde, he seems to somehow be on the losing side of a tug o' war for FREEDOM (and victory) as Naerose makes her arrest...
But through the corner of his eye, what's this?! Maki standing up! But how?! As he is pushed towards the ground, his hand reaches forward, driven by the sheer will to not come in second to someone like... like this!
Oh, hey, his belt. He casually grabs it and snaps at her again without any promise of dramatic victory from the jaws of defeat. Yep. You probably read all this expecting tons of paragraphs justifying another tactically unsound maneuver.
But no, he just snaps his belt.
...okay, fine, it's wet from the cup of water knocked out of his hand when he got broom-owned and that makes it special, happy now?! See, belt, Maki, is this that hard to understand?!
COMBATSYS: Todoh successfully hits Maki with Jab Punch EX.
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Feeling that rush of adrenaline, Maki thinks she can avoid the incoming strike, but she's wrong. Apparently being faster doesn't mean being better. She's caught again by the belt, and dealt another stinging blow. She staggers backwards, and now the adrenaline seems to be wearing off, as she's breathing heavily again, trying to keep herself from falling over.
"I don't hate you yet Todoh, but you're making me come mighty damn close," Maki mutters to herself as she finds a box which contains some kind of sports drink being ready for shipping out, which is now obviously ruined due to Maki hitting it. Fortunately, it won't go to waste, since Maki takes a bottle, albeit a small one, and drinks it down. It may be room temperature, but at least it hasn't been used before!
COMBATSYS: Maki gains composure.
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Oh yeah the witch. Well.. She doesn't do anything. She literally sits back and does nothing. She fodls her arms Does nothing. She isn't attacking, she does nothing. There is this whole doing nothing thing still going on. But nothing is going on, with her. Why ? She has nthing to do. These two are doing well enough on each other.
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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Naerose 1/---====/=======|=====--\-------\0 Todoh
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Eventually Todoh somehow breaks free of Naerose's arresting grasp, throwing his arm up and down to get some circulation back, limping a bit along one arm but, otherwise, truckin' along... truckin' along, yeah, limping along to the darkness while Maki professes some kind of acceptance she doesn't hate him.
Scorned and livid, there's no telling what Ryuhaku will do! Maybe he'll fly out of nowhere in a jump kick! Maybe he'll summon a mysterious chi technique the world has not yet seen, a perfect marriage of form and function and efficiency! Maybe he'll do some hilarious odd gesture in the background.
But then he just steps back into the light next to Maki and just uppercuts her so he can have some of that thing she's drinking. Bloated as she looks she can't possibly be thirsty enough to have it /first/.
COMBATSYS: Maki blocks Todoh's Hakuzan Tou.
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Want some? Go right ahead, help yourself. Maki only took a small sip, and just put the cap back on when Todoh came at her, In one smooth motion, she raises her tonfa up to deflect Todoh's attack while feeling only a little of the impact, and put the bottle back up on the box with her other hand. It all happens in less than three seconds, but it happens.
"You want some? Come get it!" Maki says, feeling a little more refreshed now, and retaliating against Todoh's uppercut with an upward strike of her tonfa, aimed at Todoh's chin!
The witch is still not doing anything though, she's basically decided not to affect this part. She's hit them both .. well hit one more than the other but then that one bounced back hard and now she just wants to let happen happen, that or.. She wants to take a nap. The witch security guard does the next thing security guards do VERY WELL.
Z Z Z Z Z Z Z . . . . .
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Maki successfully hits Todoh with Genkou.
- Power hit! -
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Todoh grabs the delicious bottle of REHYDRATION and DELICIOUSNESS straight out of Maki's grasp/the air/some other interactive background element and waves it mockingly. "But I already got iiiiiit!" He teases.
The tonfas come in! The first strike's nothing at all, it hits the bottle so hard the cap pops right off and Todoh is all ready to have a nice sip of it just to spite her to her face, but then she strikes again! And this time hits it at such an angle that the bottle gets shoved right into his mouth so deeply that while the room temperature sports drink goodness slides down his throat, he starts to choke.
His hands grip around his neck for the effort, making muffled 'gaaah I'm dying you stupid bitch help me out here,' but in a move that perhaps confirms that the elder Todoh may in fact be bipolar, suddenly tries to reach for /her/ and slam her down into the crates around her in a maneuver that some would say,kind of be... premature, given what's to follow if fate goes down such a track in history for the many times it has not!
COMBATSYS: Todoh can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Maki blocks Todoh's Kuzu Otoshi.
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And then, the belt comes out... again! Which he smacks Maki with several more times for ill measure before he gags, spits out the bottle, and comes out of it collapsing a choking, coughing mess.
His belt-bearing fist rises up once more menacingly, a promise of one last strike of disciplining might until it goes limp. Maki will have survived the complete and utter wrath of a scorned Ryuhaku Todoh.
...Tonight.
Good try, but Maki's on the defensive this time, meaning that Todoh's attempt to throw her is barely usable. She goes down, but only lightly. Meaning that she doesn't get hurt as badly as she could've. After that, she gets back on her feet, still a bit heavy on the breathing, but otherwise looking pretty good.
"You lost this time, Todoh, but don't take it personally. I don't really hate you, I was just saying that to increase the intensity of the fight," Maki says with a slight smirk, before turning to look at Naerose. She hopes the witch isn't going to continue the assault, since Maki's no longer in the mood for a fight honestly. "Well, looks like your days as a security guard are numbered, but it was fun while it lasted." She says, still smirking.
And that is exactly why he hates you and your daddy, Maki, aaaaalways tugging at him like he's a wooden duck on a string, aaaaalways gonna give him up, aaaaalways gonna let him down, aaaaaalways gonna... yeah, let's not go there.
TRUE TO FORM he slinks away the moment eyes aren't turned on him, grumbling incoherently at which point a camera somehow catches a flash of him. He throws the bottle at it. No more Mr. Nice Todoh about his hiding habits! Next time he's just not going to pay for concessions either! HOW'S THAT?!
Log created on 19:00:21 04/20/2008 by Todoh, and last modified on 15:05:30 04/23/2008.