Description: Objective: To catch a kidnapper. Obstacle: A lot of painful PSI and one crazy nurse. Alias: None. Summary: In a collosal example of irony, the ex-kidnapper is off to find a kidnapper at the behest of the most influencial man in Southtown. Her trail leads her to a harrowing encounter in the medical clinic of Howard Arena as the wouldbe Champions wage battle outside where Ayame nearly meets her end. The things she does to get information for people!!
Geese gave her a week to get some answers, and thus the girl set out to investigate everything she could. Staff at the events where the mysterious disappearances took place were interrogated, the girl travelling all around the world on Howard's dime to find out what she can, where she can. A strange reference kept popping up, however. Mention of a face that she was familiar with - a girl she was partnered with in one of her own SNF matches a few weeks prior...
Ayame pulled up the videos of the match, rewinding and rewatching them repeatedly, studying this strange partner of hers. She remembered thinking the girl was definitely off kilter, but... what got her attention the most were mentions of a 'Master' during her exchange of words with Kasumi... The girl had her suspicions. A quick notice was sent out amongst the network of Howard's SNF employees to report back if they heard or saw anything of the fighter known only as Aprile.
The next weekend arrived, and at last Ayame got her break, a text message reaching her phone about someone thinking they might have possibly seen her at Howard Arena. "Cheeky," the girl had pondered, flipping her phone closed and catching the next cab to the famous fighting stage. Walking around in the back areas of the stadium, the girl can earily hear the roar of eager crowds overhead. The match to be shown was one of the biggest gathering ever of the mightiest contenders from around the world. "Hm... maybe this is the perfect bait for the likes of her," the girl ponders.
Visiting the security room, she's been scanning the various cameras for a while, hoping to get a lucky glimpse of her mystery nurse. Only then will she leave the room to go on the prowl and hopefully scout out the suspect.
As the prowl is on, there won't be a sight for Aprile. She doesn't enter any doors. She doesn't sit in the crowd. She isn't currently hiding half way under a table or anything like that. The best place to hide? .. It's in plain sight. And if Ayame keeps that in mind, well....
It doesn't take long for the 'nurse' to be seen. The white clothing of the nurse in the medic room .. and oddly the only one there. Clearly, for such a heavy weight matchup, there would be more! But no. Instead, there's only a single medic .. that nurse.. sitting on a bench as she fixes this and that for some reason .. but she never once touches the supplied tools of the trade nearby her.
Instead, now and again, the girl peeks out at the fight, tapping a few buttons on .. some radio that she has, and making observations to someone. Obviously not paying full attention to the fight, but something on her mind.
"Right! Right.. they'll be some of the strongest.. so I'll only be able to pick one of the three losers.. I don't think I have enough doses to keep them all out, so instead I can keep one of them out really well.." The doll finishes, before closing the radio, and taking a walk out to look down at the terribly scary fight going on.
And then slide back in. The bag on her back sits in the middle, on the bench.. and she carries around the medkit for some reason always.. even if she doesn't need it.
Oh, she doesn't have a darn clue she's being watched!
Ah hah. Ayame gets her break. Her leads have paid off. Not only is the red-orange haired girl present, she looks somewhat suspicious as well. "See if you can get me some information about how she got here, how she gained access, what badges or keys she's using," Ayame remarks to the staff on hand. "She's strangely sneaky, without... being all that sneaky." She grins a little. She can tell she likes this strange nurse's style. But she has a job to do, or else Howard might throw her off a rooftop or something equally horrible.
Navigating the back area halls, the girl slips into the medical bay quietly, closing the door behind her with a gentle click. Leaning against the exit, brown eyes fix on the nurse, Ayame's mouth curled into a friendly if somewhat amused expression. "Why, hello there..." the girl remarks, finally scooting away from the door to approach the nurse while keeping her distance a little, though doing very well at hiding the fact that she's on edge.
"After our spectacular showing together, it occured to me I never got the chance to actually meet you afterward. And, look at this, by some big coincidence, it looks like I'll have that opportunity now. Aprile, wasn't it?" She lifts her right hand and waves it a couple of times, looking all together somewhat friendly, really.
Aprile doesn't need to be sneaky. You tend to not need to when you make sure the others can't make it, and you sign up to be a medic.. and even have the capability to fight. She was, believe it or not .. able to be 'hired' and do this for Master Vega. She doesn't need the money, and she sure as hell doesn't do it for her own good. She doesn't do anything for her own good! Just for Master Vega.. he's so dreamy.
The medical bay door is closed, and meanwhile, Aprile is rummaging through the bag on the small bench, closing it up rather quickly when Ayame comes in. "Oh, hello!" Aprile responds, beaming happily, acting like just any other idiot has come up towards her, thinking she's just some slightly harmless medic. But Ayame knows that's far from true. "Oh! Right you were in my fight." She mentions back, turning to face Ayame. "Oh yes.. my names Aprile. From Italy.. I came here to practice and learn. So far the schools haven't really been giving me much of a chance, but I'm getting alot of practice!" The nurse exclaims.
"You were pretty good too.. but I have a job to do when t-" The crowd roars. ".. Maybe even soon!" She comments, laughing a bit. "They're really amazing!"
"From Italy? Nice," Ayame remarks, "Never been there. Maybe someday one of my matches will send me there and I'll get a chance to check it out," she continues, engaging in easy small talk as the sounds of a facinated crowd continue to roar outside. She grins a little at the compliment, "Thanks, you were impressive yourself. You showed me that you can use your... energy for things besides just hurting people. It was really impressive. I guess you're a healer in more ways than one, ne?" she indicates with a nod toward the medical box of tricks the other girl seems to always have at the ready.
"Say..." Ayame ponders, finger coming up to tap lightly on her chin as she rolls her brown eyes up to glance at the ceiling as if thinking deeply, "I was wondering... about our fight together... when you were talking to that Todoh girl, you mentioned some things that really piqued my interest."
She looks back down, focusing on Aprile, her right hand coming up to casually brush some of her ample, strawberry-blond hair back over her ear, "Something about having been chosen... about a master..." she states calmly, before lowering her eyes to the floor, looking a little sheepish. "It's... kind of awkward to say this, but I really was wondering about that. Whoever it is you were chosen by seems to have filled with you with a lot of drive. You seem very happy with what you do. I... I dunno how to say this, but..."
She lifts her hand and rests it at the back of her neck as another roar erupts in the crowd above, another devestating combination likely delivered by one of the fighting titans, "It seems like it's really given you a strong purpose in life, and that's something I feel like I've never quite had before. I was wondering if you could tell me more about it."
"Mmhmm! Oh yes... it's quite nice over there! I can't remember when I've been there last, however." Literately. This isn't a figurative comment in the least, oddly enough. "I should probably visit my family.. they worry so!" They sure do. She doesn't actually remember one, either. The dolls were her sisters, and Master Vega was .. her master. "Oh? That's just a gift... and I'm glad you liked it as well.. it was something that Master has given me! All of it in his gift.. I'm so much happier now with him than I was at home, though. When I met him, I couldn't say no."
the medkit is hung over her shoulder. "Hmmm?" Aprile leans against one of the tables, with a cup of coffee sitting on it.. it ripples a bit as she reaches for it, draining while Ayame talks. Mainly into Aprile's mouth. "Mm?" She does seem .. interested.
And then as she focuses on her, Aprile puts back down the coffee, leaning against the wall, near the table and chair. "Ah?.. Oh right Master!" She's more than happy to speak about him. "Oh yes.. Master. He chose me.. and I couldn't say no. I was so happy.." She says once more, and tilting her head.. "Ah?... Oh yes!" She's smiling bright as she moves over to Ayame, pushing off the wall. She takes her time to walk over, putting down the medkit for a moment, especially as she asks about .. this master.
"Mm? .. Oh you wish for me to tell you of him? .. Well.. Okay! Master gives me strength.. figuratively and literately! This power that I have has been completely modified by him to suit me .. and that's because I wished to serve him as one of his chosen! Like I said.. I was happy to oblige!" And walking even closer.. she doesn't allow for 'space'. "Mmm! Oh.. I can tell you alot more about master..." Aprile responds, before sliding a hand around Ayame. "And how he's completed me .. but .. honestly Master is nice and all.. but while I would never betray him.. there is still room for love." She winks a bit, before sliding away from Ayame. "Ah.. but back to the point. He gives me all sorts of things to keep busy at! And one of them is to help out here! Then I'll master my control over it more!" She nods, smiling to Ayame.
Ayame is quiet as Aprile speaks, leaning her head to the side, paying rapt attention to everything she's saying. She has no recording devices on her but she doesn't really need them. Her memory is sharp enough for this task, she will be able to repeat back word for word what was said when the time comes. But she isn't simply just mentally recording the details but also trying to pick them apart, putting together clues as best she can.
As Aprile draws nearer, Ayame doesn't seem nervous at all, looking up from her sheepish shuffling to regard the combat nurse directly, her expression shifting to one of hopefullness. "Chosen..." she repeats back, a certain reverance for the word, as if just a little awestruck by the thought. Aprile draws nearer and still Ayame doesn't seem to mind, not even flinching as the just slightly taller girl gets extreeeeemely close and goes so far as to wrap a hand around her.
"He sounds amazing," the girl replies with a quiet smile. "Everything he's done for you... I can tell it means a lot to you. But... this master... who is he?" she asks, leaning her head to the side. Aprile mentions helping out around the SNF clinic thanks to the powers augmented by the one who chose her and Ayame simply smiles benignly, nodding her head as if she suspected nothing at all.
"Mhmm!" Aprile says again.. more like making that noise, before Ayame .. well. Ayame seems rather normal to it all. Oh bother. Except to the Master! "Ah .. He is amazing.. I don't think I'd be able to live without him." She comments, again, another literal but technically figurative statement. Go figure. But she wasn't ready for what Ayame goes on to say, Aprile stopping.
"Oh .. No. Master.. I can't let you know that. Master likes his secrets to the unchosen... Especially who he is."
Ayame might have not foreseen this .. or perhaps she did. The fact remains.. Aprile doesn't seem to want to give out that specific piece of information. "Master wouldn't be happy if I tell anyone, as well.." She nods, before walking away farther from Ayame, yoinking up her medkit as the crowd is quiet for a moment, unexpectedly. Maybe Kyo got PUNK'D.
"I'm not sure Master will ever bless any others.. but maybe he will! That's up to his decision, however.. Not mine at all. I dare not even speak against him.. I don't want to anger him." She claims, before she sits down. "Really.. one might fall at any time, and if you're here Ah..."
Drat. Aprile proves to be reluctant to share information and Ayame looks quite clearly disappointed by this. After all, she's SO curious about this man who has made Aprile's life so much better, right? Ayame clasps her hands behind her back as Aprile backs off, leaning her head to the side, mouth curled into a faint pout.
"Awh, I see." she remarks. Still, she's gotten clues, even if Aprile was wonderfully vague in a lot of ways, Ayame will report back all the pieces she gathered just the same. Maybe someone with a bigger picture view of the world will be able to put the tidbits to use. "I understand... someone like him... must have a lot of secrets to keep to himself. After all, /everyone/ might want what you have, the same gifts, the same help he's given you..." She sounds jealous, rubbing the toe of her foot against the floor, squeaking a little, as she clasps her hands behind her back.
"Oh... true, they might have someone here any moment. It's okay though," the girl remarks, taking a step backward, leaning her back against the opposite wall, drawing her arms up from behind her back to fold them over her chest, "I'm friends with some people that work here. They really won't mind if I hang around a little. I won't get in the way." she states with a grin. Though there's a strange edge to her voice now, a knowing look to that grin, as if she's hinting at being aware of just a little bit more than she had at first.
Ayame's interest seems to peak as she is denied. Aprile seems to ( mostly ) not notice. The girl clasps her hands and all, pouting. Oh.. how cute, and she's denying something that could change her life. Clearly for the better as well! But it must be done so that master will not be angry at her later.
"Oh .. no they generally tend to look on him poorly. Master wanted to help them all but they all disagreed... even did worse than that." She says, pouting herself, sitting in the chair, hands on her knees as she holds her head. "I was worried about Master for a while.." She answers. Before looking back to Ayame. "And he chose to give them to us.. he isn't giving them to anyone for a looong while. Mhmm!" She perks up though, at the end, as Ayame seems to .. gasp .. jealous!? But that's how the cookie crumbles.
"Oh, yes, they might! I'm sure one of them is about to fall!" She exclaims, standing up, and shouldering the bag, rifling through it a bit. "So I really must .. ah? .. " Aprile stops, looking up, blinking. Friends with some that work here. The warning bell goes off in her mind. Aprile taking a moment, smiling still. "Ah .. so you're not going to be leaving?... Even if I ask?" Aprile goes on to say, a voice of /understanding/. Not about what's going on .. but that Ayame is on to something.
The smile stays there. "I .. really /must/ have you out.. so would you care to? Otherwise.. I may not be able to concentrate fully."
Still no definite leads, but a number of small clues all the same to pass back those who hired her to do this job in the first place. Hands folded over her chest still, Ayame continues to watch Aprile, her expression gradually becoming less benign, less friendly, and more predatory. She thinks she has the other girl feeling trapped by her stubbornness now - in control, where Ayame likes to be.
"Ah, Master isn't so popular with the masses, huh? Maybe it has to do with his methods... he should probably consider just asking more than forcing... or capturing..." she continues, mouth curled into that faint knowing smile. "Might just need better PR or fewer obsessed fanatics..."
Aprile tries to get her to leave again but Ayame doesn't budge, staying where she is leaning against the wall. "I've seen you work miracles in the midst of battle, I'm sure you can cope with little me being a so very minor and unimportant distraction, right?" She gives Aprile a wink then, shifting her posture just slightly, right arm left over her chest, her left hand slipping down, thumb hooking into one of her multiple belts.
This woman is less friendly, she notices. The expression changes, and Aprile keeps on smiling.. but behind the smile, she's starting to understand. "Oh .. no maybe Master could be said not to be..." The exclaims, shaking her head. "Hmm? .. Oh his methods.. that's...." And then Aprile realizes something is a bit .. off. Perhaps it's because Ayame has stated her mission objectives.. and perhaps the second line is directed at someone else, and not her.
Rising to her feet, Aprile smiling, walking over to Ayame where she leans against the wall.. and as she mentions her work in miracles, Aprile takes it in more than stride, swinging her hips especially well as she moves closer to Ayame.. taking the wink, and winking back, an arm sliding against the wall near Ayame.
"Well.. I could show you a few .. other miracles I can do.." She comments, the smile one that's usually saved for more intimate encounters.. her other hand brushing gently against Ayame's face... perhaps down her shoulder once..
Before being brought straight towards her throat, to grasp it.. and press her against the wall, holding her in place. "You .. shouldn't have gotten involved." The doll exclaims. "Master won't be pleased."
But she's plenty fast.
As Aprile gets closer, Ayame tenses up just a little. Though her posture remains relaxed in a sense, she's more alert now, expecting this situation to come to a impasse any moment now. The nurse's voice fades out as Ayame starts hinting at what she /really/ knows. Good, so there's no confusion on the matter, the strawberry-blonde teen muses to herself.
Aprile draws near and Ayame holds still, even as her face is touched, though her left hand down near her belt tightens, fingers closing down over the tip of a folded butterfly knife. The touch extends to her bared shoulder, but still the girl remains passive. "Other miracles, hm...? Really, should save your strength to help the-"
And then she finds herself grabbed, pushed back harder against the wall, her breath cut off by the grip at her throat. Pinned, her right hand comes up, trying to tighten down on Aprile's grasping arm in an attempt to hold her still, all so that her left hand, still free, can slip her left knife out of its sheath with her other hand.
The small, sharp blade is flicked open in the process of being drawn, the sound of metal handles clacking into place. But by the time the sound is heard, it might be too late to avoid the swift, forward stab of the weapon toward the side of the Shadaloo doll. Time to enforce her mission with a little show of force, perhaps!
COMBATSYS: Ayame has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Aprile has joined the fight here.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aprile
COMBATSYS: Ayame successfully hits Aprile with Quick Strike.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Aprile
Smiling wide, Aprile isn't unhappy at this at all.. especially as Ayame's being pressed against the wall. "Don't fight it dear. It's only going to hurt more in the end..." She exclaims, winking once to the girl.. and then finding herself under a bit of trouble. Her arm is wrestled with. But Ayame will find it's far from weak. However.. it's fightable against. That's all that matters to a fighter, isn't it?
"You .. could have done so much better. And you'd have probably lived far longer too .. but oh well." The Shadaloo doll exclaims, holding on still.. before the sharp blade is flicked open. Eyeing it, Aprile finds herself jabbed into the side with the forwards stab of the weapon.. and is forced to let go, giving Ayame some breathing room.. she had hoped to use it to her advantage, but it didn't quite work out... the strike was too well planned.
Staggering back a bit, the small room .. does at least offer to her fighting style. "I'd say I'd make it a painless procedure.. but where's the fun in that?" Aprile goes on to say .. but doesn't go for the medkit, or the backpack yet. She doesn't really need them.
Sliding forwards, the doll's arm erupts in a blaze of red psycho energy, both of them raising up and out.. two lines made within the air, before she flips, sending her foot, encased in the same energy, barreling down towards Ayame in the smaller room.. there's alot to hit in here.
COMBATSYS: Ayame dodges Aprile's Peleative Care.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Aprile
The quick jab connects, giving Aprile something to think about as she lets go of the squirrelly girl. Sliding back down to her feet as she's no longer pinned to the wall by the surprisingly string combat medic, Ayame of course takes the first available opportunity to speak again to mouth off. "I'm not afraid of getting hurt," she prattles, flipping the knife up into the air before catching it on its way back down, holding it backward now.
"You seem pretty talented. I can't help but wonder just how you got in this line of business anyway. From Italy, you said? Did you just go to the most wrong job fair ever? There's gotta be better career paths for someone as smart as you, Aprile," the girl continues, rubbing her neck with her right hand.
And then comes the red, psycho powered death her way. The power blazing off of Aprile's arms forces Ayame to duck down, weaving under one and coming up on the other side as they blast into the position she was just a moment ago, singing the ends of her long hair that trailed just a bit too far behind. Aprile flips in and Ayame gives herself one last burst of speed, darting forward and low, /underneath/ the kick, sliding out on the other side of the close hit in a partial crouch. "Watch where you're shooting that stuff, someone's going to get hurt!" comes the obviously indifferent warning as the girl plants her right hand on the floor and sweeps out with her foot, attempting to knock Aprile over with a quick strike for her ankles.
COMBATSYS: Aprile fails to interrupt Light Kick from Ayame with 10th Floor Transfer.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
As Ayame exclaims she's not.. Aprile immediately watches as Ayame gets out of the way ... and with the kick sweeping out with her foot to knock her over.. Aprile tries to bring the red psycho energy around once more.. and ends up, out of all things, on the ground wounded, being flipped from the strike and laying back. She hits hard, smashing into one of the walls, crashing into the lockers and sending some materials flying.
But pulling herself up, Aprile doesn't really have much to respond to Ayame with .. "I have told you already everything necessary. Anything more would be against the mission." She seems to, perhaps, have devolved into some slightly mechanical state within the combat.. even if she's no robot, the dolls do have their .. limits at times for emotions.
She's not smiling, it might be why.
Raising back up, the medic simply shakes her arms off, before looking at Ayame.. this isn't working well, is all her internal thoughts are leading her believe.. well.. yeah, she understands that.
She's also failing her Master.
Having escaped grevious injury not once but twice, Ayame comes out of her sweep and rises up to full standing quickly, shaking her head once at the two close scraps with the power Aprile wields. She's never been struck by the nurse's brand of energy except to be healed by it. And given how potent the heal was, she had to imagine the damage it can rend to be very dangerous as well.
Having slowed the girl down a little bit though is a good sign in Ayame's mind. "Oh, you don't really need to tell me anything else, nursie," she replies, "Once I catch you, I'm sure there's plenty of others that will be very interested in handling the chats you're going to have..."
Her right hand goes to her belt, drawing out a second knife to match the first that she's already used on the Shadaloo doll thus far. "Just tell me when you want the cutting to stop and then maybe I'll settle with just taking you in!" And with that she darts forward, hopping up into a low spin within the confines of the room, aiming to slash with one knife, then the other, aiming for Aprile's shoulder and torso.
Only upon landing does she complete the spin, coming out of it into a forward knee strike for the girl's gut, trying to crumple her at the same time Ayame simply releases her right knife, letting it drop to the floor and slams her hand out, aiming to get a grip on Aprile's hair in an attempt to hold her still.
COMBATSYS: Aprile blocks Ayame's Assault and Battery.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
"You would do well not to mess with Master..." Is all the girl responds, before Ayame is on her again, the right hand drawing out another knife, Aprile pulling back as the two knives are used to slash into her, trying to dig deep into her arms.. and that's just what Ayame gets. Her arms are cut up, the clothing as well.. and certain parts of her arms are bleeding far worse due to trickery by Ayame, of course. It's expected..
But as Ayame goes to try and crumple her, Aprile instead leaps backwards, the strike causing a minor indentation in the wall.. and she's going to take that instead of the full blow anyday. Slumping forwards a bit.. the nurse shakes her head. "I would never do .. such a thing to Master.. "
And sliding forwards, she grasps for her necessities. That medkit, for example, before ripping something out.. it's a .. needle?
Testing it, flicking the edge.. Aprile pushes it into her arm without a second thought.. and injects whatever is inside to her.
"For Master.. anything." She smiles again.. either it being the drug that's going into effect, to keep her fighting.. or the fact that she's going to go until the end.
Her knee impacts the wall, leaving Ayame drawing back without having gotten her grip on Aprile as intended. Having planned on getting a grip on the other girl's hair, she's left empty handed, catching herself with her right palm against the wall lest she just end up stumbling face first into it. Twirling around to face Aprile as the doll slips after her kit, Ayame crouches down, retrieving her dropped knife before flicking it closed and sliding it back into its respective sheath.
"What are you-" she starts to ask, sounding annoyed as Aprile goes for her arm with the needle. Everything about the doll seems to have shifted a little. No longer smiling, speaking even more about Master than before, and now pumping something into her arm? "Interesting..." the girl murmurs.
"Guess I'll have to whip something up special for you too!" Her hands tighten, closed into fists, her left one still gripping one of those pesky knives of hers. Her jaw clenches as she begins to focus, drawing energy in from the world around her like a little conduit of chi. Blue energy whisps up around her feet before coiling up and around her, turning red as it rises higher. It's clear that whatever she's doing requires all of her focus and concentration, however, as she builds up the strength to power more draining attacks. "What do you think your Master will do once I've caught you, hm? Should be interesting, I imagine... he seems like the sort to not take failure... lightly."
COMBATSYS: Ayame gathers her will.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Aprile with Cut And Paste.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
With Ayame asking, looking on, the doll simply smiles. The drugs circulates now.. she can feel somewhat of a second wind coming on. That.. or the drugs are fooling her into it. You can imagine what it is.. but the doll doesn't care about her wellbeing. It's something that makes them as effective as they are.
"What is .. interesting?" Pulling back the needle, the object empty, Aprile immediately drops it into the case, shutting it, and looking onto Ayame. "Perhaps you really don't understand." She says, shifting the medkit into her other hand. "I'll make it clear for you in a little bit .. okaaaay? Because you're a slow learner.. Master probably has done all he needed anyways.. but I only wish he is safe.. I haven't seen him in so long." She claims.
And then .. oh that. "I .. really don't think that's necessary!" The medic goes on to mention, before energy begins to be drawn into Ayame.. she can do it as well, but the medic's white and red psycho energy .. isn't. She doesn't plan on hanging back. Perhaps she should? It doesn't seem to bother her that she's throwing herself almost at the mercy of the girl.
"He understands somethings do not always go according to plan.. I have already served him faithfully!" Kicking forwards, she leaps onto the bench, before grabbing the bag on it, and flipping once more, swinging the large and heavy object around for Ayame with her might.
"I .. won't be caught... and even then .. Master always knows.. where I am."
HEFT.
COMBATSYS: Ayame blocks Aprile's Power Strike.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
A deep breath is taken as Ayame allows the energy to flow into her, invigorating her, strengthening her even perhaps. The visible manifestations of chi fade away slowly, the girl just starting to come out of her focus as Aprile comes in at her with the hefty bag. Up goes the bag... and then down it comes, looking to crush the girl before she can shift out of the way!
Her left knife gets dropped to the floor as her right hand goes to her blouse, drawing from the top of it a folded iron fan that she uses to intersect the incoming bag with, using her left hand to brace against it as she's driven backward by the force but otherwise all around less harmed than she would have been with a clean smack to the head. "You think he cares about you?" the girl asks back as she corrects her footing to keep from falling over.
Verbal assaults are just much a weapon with the viper tongued teen as her weapons tend to be. "People like him... they just use people like you, then ignore them when it's convenient. You're a tool, to be cast aside in the end. That's all. You should really question your loyalty to the likes of this Master of yours..."
Keeping the fan in hand, the girl spins in forward, trying to slip around the hefty bag Aprile now has that she could use for offense or defense perhaps... Ayame doesn't want to find out. As she spins, she slashes out with the bladed edge of the black iron fan, aiming to cut the girl hard on her side. Coming out of her spin, she'll follow up with a second slash, lunging forward to take a risky chance at landing a more fierce gash on Aprile's back!
"Just give up!" comes the exclaimation, as she tries to wear down the nurse's resolve with incessant strikes, but physical and otherwise.
COMBATSYS: Aprile just-defends Ayame's Random Strike!
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
The fan braces against the strike, Aprile trying to push forwards.. but being forced to pull back for a moment as the fan prevents the brunt of the assault. She smiles as Ayame chides her, the words seeping through her head, sliding in and around .. "You .. .. O.. Of course he does.." Aprile plays the fool this time, falling back a bit. "Why.. wouldn't he?" She smiles, bright on the inside.
".. N.. No! You're lying!" She exclaims, slightly angry .. as she'd probably expect to be the response.. and as the fan spins forwards, trying to slip around the hefty bag.. that's about where it starts to be a problem.. and the risky attempt pays little to nothing for Ayame in this time.
The heavy bag slows it, and suddenly, the medkit spins around, bringing with it a glowing burst of psycho energy, the weapon being fought against. "I .. guess... my only choice is to ....."
She's tired of the game. The psycho energy on the medkit glows brighter, red and white causing a pulse to simply push Ayame away from the force, before the doll spins around.. and the red and white mark on the front peels off. There's a skull, and bluish wings on the medkit.
"Hahahhaah!" She starts laughing. "You must be a common thief.. skilled but common..... because this Master I serve... you've probably heard of him." She claims.. before running at Ayame. "And you'll probably recognize better in a moment.. CANNON SPIKE!" Flipping forwards, the doll begins to spin, legs aiming to drill against Ayame's, before launching her upwards after catching her .. and then literately spiking her away. But as she drills forwards, the nurse clothing slide off, the hat.. not however.
Red guards, blue jumpsuits with a second blue layer.. and of course.. a yellow tie. That's what she wears.
COMBATSYS: Ayame endures Aprile's Cannon Spike.
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Ayame 1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Aprile
Her whirlwind of attempted slashes and strikes is met with no success, Ayame being driven aside by a perfectly timed defense on the part of Aprile. The sudden pulse of energy drives her back, the girl hopping a short ways to put a bit of distance between the two of them. The fan smoking a little from its brief contact with the energy coursing over the medkit. Yikes. Waving the fan a little to cool it off, Ayame settles for just putting it down on the counter at her side. No way she's sliding a smoldering iron fan back down her shirt!
But all the while, she's watching Aprile, watching the change come over her. She's been trying to push the other girl's buttons, trying to get her to slip up. And in the end, it seems she may have gotten the information she was looking for, even if it puts her in a very dangerous situation as the charade is dropped. The insignia on the kit is recognized immediately. She remembers it, plastered all over the walls of a Shadaloo lab she descended into as part of a mission months ago...
"So that's who... but..." The girl grits her teeth as Aprile comes in at her again. It's time to try and secure some more meaningful strikes on the resilliant and stubborn doll. And if that means letting her smash into her with that psycho powered drilling kick, then so be it. It's a gamble, but Ayame has always been a risk taker... Aprile's feet drive into her, taking her off her feet, before knocking her clean up into the air... but when it comes time to strike her back, Ayame has another trick in mind, her left hand undoing the clasp of one of her belts, slipping it off while in mid-air... "I've got bad news for you..."
The impact comes, but Ayame is lashing out with the whip at the same time, going for Aprile's neck, trying to sieze the other girl with a coil or two around her throat, keeping /herself/ from getting knocked away in the end. If she manages to, the agile street rogue will pull herself back in on Aprile, colliding with the revealed doll in mid-air feet-first, before flipping forward a second time and attempting to slam her down toward the ground with a flip kick while keeping the whip taut around her neck. "Your Master is dead!!"
COMBATSYS: Aprile endures Ayame's Manslaughter.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Aprile
As Ayame lashing around with the whip, going for her neck, Aprile moves with the coil on her throat. The rouge brings herself back, colliding with the doll in air.. the second strike doing the same, the whip taught.. but the doll doesn't breathe. Instead, she pushes forwards, moving with all her might as the drugs still take their toll.. fighting against the pull, and using it to her advantage.. this is especially important as Ayame tries to come around again.. and landing with Ayame near by .. things might happen in a split second.
"Master Vega.. knows about you .. and your group ... Master Vega .. isn't happy you .. touched his property...." She chokes out. She should save the air, you would think. But this is a doll. Aprile doesn't care about such a thing.. her own safekeeping is unimportant in the scheme of things.
"you .. however... are going to see .. why Master Vega keeps me around... "
And being dragged towards Ayame.. things go from bad for her, perhaps.. to worse. She's really being pulled fast.. and suddenly, she's spinning, red psycho energy pooling around the tips of her legs, as she attempts to come from under Ayame, faster and faster, spiralling under the girl's legs and aiming to knock her over.. before pulling her upwards into the red and white psycho energy, travelling farther upwards to drive her against the ceiling.
And then, of course, to strike both feet into the girl.. to send her crashing against the beds they keep in the room. But at the grill like posts.. not the beds themselves. "Spin drive .. Smasher!"
It might be a bit painful.. but everything for her lovely Ayame~!
"Master... will never die.. I'll make sure of it!"
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Ayame with Spin Drive Smasher.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Aprile
It seems Ayame isn't the only one with revelations to offer, as she declares the proud warlord of Shadaloo to be deceased. She saw his body, saw it crumble to dust right before her eyes. Dead, gone, no coming back from that. No way. But... if that was the case, then how does Aprile know of her incursion into the lab where she and her partners found the lost girl, Elfa? "How could you possib-" she begins to snap back, irritation in her voice.
But she doesn't really have much chance to say anything else as she's smashed into a second time, this impact far with far more power than the last. Blasted by the psycho power, crushed by the powerful strikes, the girl's back smacks against the ceiling, and just about up through it, before she's crushed again and driven back down, her stomach folding over the post, provoking a pained gasp as Ayame crumples to the floor at it's side, coughing violently as she tries to get her breath back, right hand resting at her throat as she rolls into a seated position. The whip has long since been released, the girl looking rather pained.
With seemingly nothing left to say, her mind more occupied with avoiding getting another painful dosage of the pain that continues to fray her nerves, the strawberry-blonde pulls herself up using the bed to get back to standing, her left hand slipping into the pouch affixed to one of her remaining belts, pulling out a half-foot long metal tube. Aprile would likely recognize the glinting titanium object from the SNF battle.
Leaving it collapsed, however, the girl staggers over toward the door. Maybe she's had enough and is trying to run for it. Or maybe she wants to make sure that Aprile doens't get to do that very thing!
COMBATSYS: Ayame focuses on her next action.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Aprile
As Ayame finally lets go, the doll flips from the laugh strike, watching as Ayame crumples to the floor. "Really.. to be defeated like that .. Master... you should realize we are willing to give whatever we wish for Master Vega! .. Even through death.. if it has come to that.." She exclaims. Perhaps she's just crazy.
"But Master never will go unavenged if he is." Whether this means he is dead, or if he is unable to .. or something else.. the doll merely doesn't say. With her pulling out the tube, the doll can realize what might be coming .. and prepares thusly. She's not striking out. She actually thinks it's better to do as she does for the moment.. and that happens to be holds back, taking the time to allow herself to focus .. she she can actually leave this place.
"Why are you barring me from leaving? .. And taking so much time to yourself.. so many have done this before you girl... and I've made sure to crush them, each and every one~!" She adds, before standing at attention, and thrusting a salute upwards, boots, tie, hat and head all in perfect position.. you know, just to prove it.
What's bothersome, perhaps, is that this time that one salute is beginning to gather psycho energy, red and white seeping towards the doll, either from her salute to someone .. dead .. or from her asking of this one to spare her some of his soul.
"Master Vega's soul is with me .. and so let me share it with you~! I'm sure .. he has something to thank you for!"
Oh by golly.
COMBATSYS: Aprile gathers her will.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Aprile
So this is one of those famous Shadaloo dolls. She's heard rumors of them before. Highly combat capable, deadly, and above all else, programmed with absolute loyalty for Lord Vega. It makes her a little sick to contemplate it, the concept of one's will being stripped away, replaced with orders and codes that define who they are and what they will do. Worse than death, in her mind.
"So why the capturing, anyway. What's in it for you... or your Master? Hayato Nekketsu, Vanessa, that girl with the whip... I don't get the pattern. All of them have been seen since..." She lifts her right hand, rubbing along her mouth, brushing away a bit of blood, her lip split from the violent combination she had suffered. "Oh well, it's not me you have to worry about explaining all this too!"
And then she's back on the offense again, her staff telescoping out to its full six foot length as she charges, spinning into an aggressive swing for the side of Aprile's neck, hopping up into an overhead slam, then landing with one final jab, attempting to shove one end of it into Aprile's stomach and drive her backward.
COMBATSYS: Aprile just-defends Ayame's Random Strike!
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Aprile
Oh .. don't think of it like that. Aprile is happy. She's never been happier! Why .. she hasn't ever been happier. She can't remember a time!
And that's probably what Ayame finds sickening. But she is wrong in a way.. Aprile is .. somewhat herself. But she exists all for Master Vega. It's a complex story, but it's more or less.. agreeing with what she thinks. "What.. don't you want to be part of us now .. with Master?" She asks, grinning broadly, rather happy. "Ah .. Master found it necessary for me to deliver them.. that's all." She exclaims, nodding, holding the box as she lowers her salute. "I don't question why .. he just wanted them. Why would I question him, anyways? .. He's given me this power, and everything I could ever want.. huh?" The medic asks, before the staff telescopes out, charged, spinning into an aggressive swing for her neck.. and the medkit comes up once more again, the staff rebounding against it.. the red and white glowing, the force transformed for something else.. and it's clear what, the medic shuddering slightly. "AH .. you're so strong.. it's such a nice energy...but I really don't think.." The pulse comes once more, the medkit sliding away. ".. Why would I tell anyone else when you're right here now? .. Ooooh I see! You think you still have a chance!" That's all that Aprile can think of, and laughing slightly, she begins to move once more, about Ayame. "How could you ever believe that? .. I'm .. almost sorry for you. Almost.. I really don't care what happens to you when you fail! Unlike you seemed to be..So.. die okay? It'll make it easier!" And rushing towards Ayame.. the medkit begins to swing rapidly around her, before a red light burns into existence, the doll spinning right at Ayame.
It's a risk, the red and white sparkling psycho energy about her.. knowing Ayame's abilities and all.. But the doll can take a few risks.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Ayame with 10th Floor Transfer.
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Ayame 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Aprile
"No, not particularly," Ayame snaps at the offer to be a part of them. No reason is given for the captures, leaving her guessing as much as before. That's no help! Her staff strikes rebound off the medkit as Aprile's defenses prove solid once again, leaving the weapons user skidding a little out of control as her aggression fails to connect. Bracing up defensively, she grips her staff tightly, bunkering down for a moment as the doll begins to move around her, turning just fast enough to keep her in front of her.
She can tell when she's in way over her head though, her attempts to injure the Shadaloo creation ending with mostly futility. Just as well. Her mission wasn't to take the culprit in, anyway, and now she has all the information she needs to report back to Geese Howard with, and maybe hopefully he won't throw her off his nice high tower now, assuming she ever gets this report back to him at this rate.
Aprile comes spinning in again though, and Ayame prepares to retaliate with counter force, brown eyes narrowing as she looks for an opening to redirect the other girl's momentum and leave her open for retaliation. But try as she might, she can't find her chance in the midst of the bluring pyscho power, which leaves her changing her mind when it's already catastrophically too late. Smashed into again, the girl goes flying clean off her feet, only barely managing to keep a hold on her staff as she lands hard on the floor and slides to a stop against the wall. Still for a moment, it's only after great effort that her hand presses down against the floor, the girl shoving herself up a little ways, a sudden gasp for breath as she struggles to keep it together.
It doesn't take a prodigy to figure out that she doesn't really have much of a chance here, brown eyes skimming the room, her vision a wavy blur that refuses to settle. "You should know," she murmurs, pushing herself up into a low crouch, using the staff and her back against the wall for support. "This room is being filmed. Not much..." Her right hand releases her staff, slipping beneath her left wristguard, "...time left before you're going to have to fight your way out of here..." She squints her eyes, trying to fight back the racking pain of the psycho powered attack.
In the moment she thinks she finally has a fix on Aprile's position, she flings it - a small throwing knife, aiming to stick the other girl in the leg or something. At this point it's clearly just desperate stalling on her part.
COMBATSYS: Aprile fails to interrupt Thrown Object from Ayame with Pathology Consult.
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Ayame 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Aprile
As Ayame skims the room, grasping the small throwing knife, Aprile finds it enough of a problem, the doll rushing straight towards Ayame.. but instead of being able to burst through with a solid wall of chi, the doll finds herself meeting the knife in her leg.. causing her to stumble back. It doesn't take a genius to realize it will only stall her .. but that's what Ayame had wanted.
It's problematic honestly.. she was attempting to just burst through the girl.. but it seems this time it might take a bit more time than she had planned for that. Not that she honestly is worried much about Ayame.. at this point. The cornered rat may still prove to be a bit of a trouble in the end.. but the doll is more interested in finishing her and getting her out of her way.
"Oh .. that's .. too bad .. because unless you move .. I'll be sure to make sure you visit him head on ... Master .. Master would be pleased to meet someone so troublesome! .. And I .. I'm sure he has ways of repaying you." Her smile is lined with the thoughts of what he would do. What tortures, what horrible punishments.. the psycho power wracking the girls body.. It all brings her bright smiles.
"I .. know .. but it won't be long .. before I get you out of the way then!" She exclaims, already starting to come back from the knife.. it wasn't going to last long, after all, the doll ripping it out without a care and walking again towards Ayame.
"Just sitting there.. you're just going to accept your fate, aren't you? .. Perhaps you're smarter than you seem!"
Nothing like a sharp little knife to drive someone back from their charge, albeit just for a moment. It gives the girl time to clear her vision, fighting back the power still coursing through her nerves, the pain giving her a splitting headache that leaves her wincing a little even as some of the agony dulls. Given time, she slowly starts to push herself up to her feet and off of the wall, standing, if a bit wobbly, her hands gripped on her staff.
"I can't meet him," she spits back, blood speckles flying. "He's dead. I saw his dead body. It turned to ash before my eyes!!" The smile from Aprile creeps her out. She wonders, for a fleeting moment, if it isn't unlike the feeling others get as she maliciously beats them into the ground with laughter on her tongue. That fright, that fear of being defeated by someone clearly unhinged...
"Not so fast," she coughs as she begins to spin her titanium staff slowly in front of her, energy welling up around the girl not unlike before. Red near her feet, but rather than coursing into her, it seems to be collecting along her staff instead. But rather than red, it takes on an earthly green hue then, some of the energy particles flying off of the sides as if a small flurry of drifting leaves as the room begins to be illuminated in green.
"Not so fast..." the desperate girl hisses, taking one step forward into a spin of her staff, unleashing all of the built up energy as a giant wave of swirling green drills through the air toward Aprile, attempting to drive her back further. It seems Ayame isn't quite finished yet!
COMBATSYS: Aprile blocks Ayame's Final Sunset.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Aprile
Ayame refuses to go down.. but the nurse was made by Vega to have all the 'right traits' for someone who had to take more than a few blows and stay up, in order to help those who might need her assistance. Especially as she begins to state that Master Vega .. is dead, blood covering Aprile's face from Ayame's words. "Oh? .. When did you see him die.... his .. body turned to ash .. .. before ..." Aprile stares for a moment.
And then Ayame speaks, drawing her attention to the girl. Energy collects along the staff, the room illuminated in green. Aprile is also, the light hue over her.. before Ayame steps forwards, the giant wave of swirling green comes at her..
But Aprile is far, far too angry to care about such a thing at this time. She channels her energy, psyche power flowing about her .. a white hue, red on the edges.. as some of the energy burns up before it even touches her.. and worse, the rest of it pushes the nurse back only so far.. before being thrust away finally, dispersed around her. "You said... You .. said you saw his body turn to ash..." The doll continues on.. repeating this. Again. And again. "You saw .. Master Vega's body ... I'LL .... I'll .. kill you. Yes.. That's it .. they can find me here all they want.. but .. with you dead.. " She's
The doll doesn't seem well anymore, but she smiles yet, growing closer. Before she takes off, running straight at Ayame, bringing back a a hand, a quick strike to grow closer, to throw her off guard so she can keep rushing into her. "I guess they'll .. find .. at least .. me here!"
COMBATSYS: Ayame counters Quick Strike from Aprile with Bright Renewal.
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Ayame 0/-------/------=|======-\-------\0 Aprile
Her storm of chi splashes around Aprile mostly harmlessly but Ayame barely has time to see it, coming out of her spin a little bit dizzy, barely catching herself from stumbling to the side after pouring so much of her energy into that assault. Recovering just before she would have spilled to the floor, the girl glares back at Aprile. She really picked a juggernaught to fight with this time. Note to self - bring backup next time. If there is a next time.
She's gotten beneath the other girl's skin. She can tell that much with the way Aprile reacts. That might not be good for herself, though, and of that she's quite aware. Making her angry may make her less efficient but no less powerful, that's for sure. Gasping for breath, the wounded girl watches as the unsettling smile that settles in on the doll's face.
But the direct assault /does/ leave Ayame able to react with one last renewal of hope, the girl slamming her staff out, poking one end of it into Aprile's stomach, allowing it to slide back through her fingers as the other girl advances... Before she leaps up and over the other girl, barely cresting the limited space beneath the cieling. Coming down with a flip, she manages to smack Aprile on the back of the head with her staff as she comes down into her landing.
The landing is rough though, the girl's knees giving out as she stumbles forward, letting go of her polearm in order to catch herself with her hands with another gasp. It's becoming increasingly clear that she's running out of strength, even without taking direct hits. Just staying conscious is a fight in and of itself. "There's footage," she murmurs, propping herself up. "We filmed the mission... Of when I saw Vega's body... against a wall... before it turned to dust."
She crawls across the floor, heading back for her staff that has rolled away, desperate to get back to it. "I could prove it to you!"
Her rather telltale assault is simply unable to go through. As Ayame pokes one end into her stomach, sliding as she advances and leaps over her.. the doll feels her head is smacked with the staff.. stumbling forwards, however, Aprile pulls herself up, turning with a mission. It's bad enough to deal with a doll on a normal day .. but to have one angry at you .. it's far other.
"You tread on his sacred ground..you caused him to die .. but worst of all .. you slowed his revival.. " The doll walks forwards with a purpose, looking down at Ayame. She's weak, it seems.. the doll knows this. She doesn't have to even put any effort into the rest.. perhaps. She just goes to end this, plain and simple. "You don't need to prove it to me." The doll exclaims, smiling.
Her foot presses against the staff, and her hand begins a red glow.. a light red glow, a slight bit of white on the edges, as she takes step after step closer. ".. Let me let you in on a little secret .... " The doll puts forwards, sliding the staff away as she kneels down infront of Ayame, body glowing slightly red, the psycho energy beginning to manifest.
"I was graced by Master Vega.. and when he graced me .. he gave me part of his soul ... and without him, I am nothing .. I cannot exist." She only seems happy as she explains this. "So if I'm here before you ... do you think he is really dead? .. But for you .. this really won't matter.. because you .. will be."
She leans in ... almost to give Ayame a kiss as she stumbles about..
Before the psycho energy abruptly erupts from her in a white and red aura, threatening to wash Ayame's last energy away with it .. and as an added effect.. courtesy of Master Vega, she would be treated to a nice nightmare.. the psycho energy having her revisit things she .. hopefully had forgotten.
It's not nice psycho energy at all.
COMBATSYS: Ayame reflects Pathology Consult from Aprile with Midsummer Fantasy.
- Power hit! -
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Ayame 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Aprile
Scrambling for her staff, but cut off as Aprile seems not sufficiently phased by the impact of the metal weapon, Ayame is forced to come to a stop, staying on her hands and knees as brown eyes stare as the doll's foot comes down atop her metal polearm. Her primary weapon denied her, the girl simply holds still, struggling for breath, eyes widened as she begins to be panicked for one of the first times ever in her life.
Aprile's hand begins to glow again with that red, deadly power, the white hints of her own personal touches around the edges of it, and then she advances again, sliding the staff away, leaving the girl bereft of it for now. Kneeling down in front of the frightened girl, she begins to realize just how deep the programming goes. Vega's power over the girls that serve him. It is... absolute. Of that she is now certain. "N-no..." she gasps as the agent of the warlord explains how he must very clearly still be alive. But even worse is the clearly described outcome in store for her, the combat medic confirming that her ultimate fate from this encounter is to simply be no more.
Ayame had told Marisol to go ahead and kill her, that she had nothign to live for. But trapped here, with this crazy girl, she begins to realize that for all her bluster about it, she's so very much afraid to die. "No..." she gasps again, arms trembling as Aprile leans in a little closer. "NO!" she exclaims, rising up on her knees, both of her hands lifting, a sudden surge of light pink hued energy exploding up over her hands and into the space between her and Aprile.
With a surge driven by desperation and a deeply rooted desire to live even another day with her wretched life rather than give it all away, Ayame's chi blasts over the pulse sent her way, consuming it and exploding into the nurse at point blank range. Falling on her back afterward, Ayame begins to scramble backward, pushing herself with her hands and feet, the terrified girl having lost all composure now.
The pink energy that splashes against Aprile will cascade around her before splashing into light pink particles that begin to drive down toward the floor almost like feathers before vanishing all together.
She can't stop that.
It's hard to fight a rat who's been trapped to long, they do anything to survive... and that's when a sudden surge of pink energy does the same, Aprile taking it .. face on. The sudden surge causes the psi to be re-directed, and to coat her in the end with extra chi, blasting the nurse backwards, sending her sprawling back, a bit of a stagger to stay to her feet before she falls on her back, staring upwards, almost blank, at the falling pink energy.. She smiles.. some of it touching her bleeding face, the wounds not quite terrible .. but to the face.. it certainly stung.. and then some. The nurse can feel pain .. but the desire to stop being hurt .. is a false one.
The other girl scrambling, Aprile pulls herself from the ground and the fallen scenery, the area about her a mess.. she had hit a bucket in the corner, and what was inside was a few tools.. but she pulls herself from them, staggering to her feet.. why doesn't she just go down? It's .. probably not hard to believe.
"You ... really .. should just give up." She states.. the medic taking another step towards the girl. It's a slower one. "At least you would have had a sweet dream... something to remember your life by... now .. you'll have nothing."
The medic grabs for Ayame's blouse.. trying to pull the blood red tie up, and pull the girl to her. If she can get it .. she aims to pull the tie as tight as she can get it .. but that's just the beginning. She begins to try and throw Ayame against the wall, clenching a hand against her neck, slowly.. slowly.. more and more.
"I guess .. at least.. you'll have my touch.. isn't it nice? Stay .. PLEASE.. Stay still.. the doctor.. will make sure it won't hurt ... too much."
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Ayame with Quick Throw.
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Ayame 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Aprile
Her frantic scrambling doesn't get her particularly far as Aprile proves to have a seemingly endless well of strength to keep her going. The last surge of energy the street rogue had unleashed was everything she had left. No more bursts of chi, no more adrenaline driven surges of physical feats of evasion. No, right now she's a mostly trembling, perspiring, gasping mess. And that doesn't really get helped in the slightest as Aprile reaches out and siezes hold of her tie, drawing the featherweight up by it and drawing it tightly around her neck.
Wide brown eyes stare back into Aprile's green irises. It's like being killed by a robot, beaten by a automaton programmed to do what her master bids and nothing else. There's nothing to plead, no hope for reconsideration. Her fingers claw desperately at Aprile's arm as she slams Ayame's back against the wall, just like when they had first started to fight.
But she was fresh then, and now she's barely conscious. She gags for breath, face shifting colors, the girl's strength waning in Aprile's vicelike hold. Only one thing left she can do, her right hand slipping down to the hem of her skirt, barely managing to slip out a small needle in spite the trembling in her fingers.
It's the last action she takes, attempting to bring the needle in her right hand and stab it into Aprile's clenching arm. A mild nerve agent in the needle might numb her limb for a little bit, but it's really not doing Ayame much good as her oxygen deprived brain shuts down, the girl going limp in Aprile's grip as her head bows, her eyes close.
COMBATSYS: Ayame can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Aprile interrupts Quick Strike from Ayame with Quick Strike.
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As Ayame stares back, Aprile holds the smile.. as if it was normal. Another life lost. Another one taken for Master Vega. It doesn't matter to Aprile that someone could have lived a long life. They cannot if Master Vega says they cannot.. this is second nature to her.
Ayame will, of course.. have delicious information... and it's added by what she says, before Ayame fully vanishes under the curtain of unconsciousness. "Master Vega .. is well and alive .... you should be happy .. that your death was in relation to his glory."
Her smile doesn't break at all, and Ayame would see that smile.. those eyes.. how happy she is doing this for her master. The blood of both about, on the room.. on each other.. sweat as well.. it was a mess. But she revels in this combat. And she's the nurse.. perhaps her time around blood, and such.. was a bit off.
"Gooodniiiiiiiiight... sleep .. TIGHT." Her grasp tightens like a vice. It would be all over for Ayame..
But the door erupts, and in her current state.. those guards are actually a match to Aprile.. "..Ah?!" She wasn't lying.. She forgot all about it .. dammit.
And the roar of the crowd can be heard.. Kain emerging victorious, as behind, Aprile breaks through the guards, the doll using her speed and reactions.. even at such a state.. to keep going. To push herself farther.. and out of the building, leaving her outfit behind.. as well as Ayame.
"Oh damn.. Someone call 911! Get a doctor or something, PRONTO!" "Shit.. this place looks horrible.." The med room .. well, it's anything but ready to take in the others, freshly wounded in the fight.
At least, however, Ayame gets medical care immediately.. and of course, she'll recover.. fully, more than likely.
And Aprile? She goes home with good news. Master Vega .... will be pleased. He will understand.. but most of all, she will tell him who infiltrated such a place.
COMBATSYS: Aprile has ended the fight here.
Log created on 23:01:41 04/23/2008 by Ayame, and last modified on 00:18:36 04/26/2008.