Description: This fight is like a vanilla sundae. It starts in the desert. Sergio is the ice cream. The strong base that everyone digs in to. Decapre is the chocolate syrup. All over everything except for the one thing. Aprile. Aprile is the cherry on top. That sweet little thing that is there, keeping seperate of the real action. And Choi. Well. Choi was the spoon, considering how he dug into all the others. (Winner: Choi)
It's the middle of the day, the sun is directly overhead and glaring down on everyone, and all of its heat is being reflected off of the dry desert sands. The Sahara is no place for a fight. And yet, here we are. There's a film crew here, maybe a sparse few fans that were hardcore enough to come out and see this thing live and in person, and at least one of the actual combatants is already present.
Now, it's one thing to be hardcore enough to actually show up to a match under conditions like these, but it's another entirely to show up wearing all black, in a uniform that covers pretty much your entire body. But that's exactly what Decapre has done. Add to that the fact that the mask on her face is also black, and made of some kind of metal, and--- yeah, she must be completely insane.
The December Doll is just standing out there, waiting by herself and staring at the little area they've got ready and waiting for the match's 'chaos agent', who just so happens to be probably her only friend in the world. And she's not quite sure how well she's going to be able to handle that. She's got a really bad temper, after all.
The desert was supposed to be a terrible and uncomfortable place to fight. The chaos agent was to be given as much water as she could handle, up to and including a waterpark if she had so chosen to further incite the envy of the fighters. It was supposed to be hard on them with the heat and beating sun. But for Sergio? This shit is /easy/. Though there's no storm clouds to be found water is constantly raining down upon the man, wetting him down and making life nice and comfortable. Sure that water evaporates almost instantly, but there's always more where it came from! It does take some effort to keep it up... but who cares? So he'll be a bit tired and comfortable rather than worn down and ragged. That's a win for him, in his mind.
And unlike Decapre he's come dressed for the... beach? He seems to be wearing nothing more than a pair of shorts and sandals at the moment, stretching out and enjoying the sunshine, even as the chi rain continually falls down on his head. A wide grin is given to everyone present, "So, when are we going to get this thing going? Though I don't know, I might not mind just standing around and getting a tan for another few minutes. Hahaha!"
Choi loved his hat. It was snazzy, could hold and conceal surprising amounts of pornographic material, and kept the sun out of his eyes. And as such, the last two elements were the most important to the Korean.
Here was the small man, slowly digging himself down in the sand. He was hoping this was like a beach, and there was cool sand underneath. He was wrong. Before this mistake to come to him, he runs his single unclawed hand across his forehead. Yeah, you had to be nuts to come out here. Looking over the small crowd, he could see the two people of note to him. The first was the Interpol agent who was forced to go out here. Because Jiro won a bet about who could throw him the furthest. Oh yes. I made a midget-tossing joke. The other was Todoh. Because seriously. Why was he here?
Finally, Choi looks over the other individuals. The Druggie. Decapre Mode. And like a Sergio. Cutting for the very first time. Bitterly the little man pulled himself out of the sand, shaking himself free of the grainulated evil. He was in a very poor mood, and it wasn't just the heat. Glaring at Druggie, he spits in the sand, and motions a claw at her. "Heroin-Head is right, when do we start this damn thing? I'm dying out here!"
Where is Aprile then, while the others are burning and sweating?
She is sitting back, in a bikini and bikini top, sipping a glass of fruit punch on a folding lawnchair. Did she only want that? .. You bet your ass she didn't. The doll had first taken fighters from SNF. Then she took Ayame's chance at .. beating her face in..
And now she took on the chance of completely obliterating the budget. The lawn chair rests .. on a tube. And that inner tube is floating in the middle of a newly made Oasis, the water glistening as she lays back, looking onto Decapre. Oh, she's sad that she has to include Decapre in it, but for the moment, she can enjoy this.
"Heroin head?" Aprile asks, resting on the chairinnertube.
Leaning forwards and peering over at Sergio, she shakes her head. "Well.. I guess I know who to bother first." She smiles, sweetly. You bet she's going to target the one trying to make things easier. She enjoys watching when they aren't happy.
Standing, Aprile picks up the pack and medkit before standing. "Oh I think we're starting soon.. so get ready!" She exclaims, smiling. She waves to Decapre too, the water glistening as she leaps into it, breaking it, and then popping her head out of it like a crocodile.
SHE WILL PREY.
COMBATSYS: Sergio has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Aprile has joined the fight here.
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Sergio 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aprile
COMBATSYS: Decapre has joined the fight here.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sergio
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Decapre 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Choi has joined the fight here.
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Sergio 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Decapre
Well, there is that. Decapre knows Aprile isn't doing it to annoy her personally. With her opponents, there's no such guarantee. That's why she soon turns her attention away from the other Doll and focuses instead on the new guy. Which... everybody else seems to be doing too. Yay bandwagon.
Seriously though, the Italian obviously wants the attention with the way he's showing off, and he's basically doing the same thing she's trying not to be mad at Aprile for. If that doesn't deserve a stabbing, what does?
After having two of the three fighters ask what the hold up is, the announcer pulls at his collar a bit and decides not to wait for strike three. He waves a flag and then gets the hell out of there like this is some kind of race.
At that point, the Shadaloo elite extends her claws with a loud *snikt* and starts to rush Sergio without a moment's hesitation. When she comes in trying to slash his throat right out of the gate, it might seem a bit overkill to some, but as long as he doesn't flinch in the wrong direction he'll only be getting raked by the illusory psychic extensions rather than actual blades. "Shyaaa!!"
COMBATSYS: Sergio endures Decapre's Rippling Razor.
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Sergio 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Decapre
Why is it that throatslashes have become so damn popular lately? There Sergio is, standing there and minding his own business when along comes a woman wearing all black and a mask to try and cut him up. Or at least that's what it looks like to him. And he doesn't even seem to notice! Just standing there and enjoying his rain. The weapon lashes out and... misses! But it wasn't the /real/ weapon, that instead being a bit of psychic power. Slash! The psychic power blasts through his neck.
"Gyah!" And despite the scream, he doesn't seem to flinch at all! No, that's because he /had/ seen the attack coming, and just played it off as if he hadn't. "So that's how it's gonna be, eh!" he asks with a grin on his face, immediately launching sideways and jamming his left elbow out to try and catch the Shadaloo agent beneath the ribs, "Hnn," twisting around to follow up with a fast uppercut to the jaw should it connect, a trail of watery chi flowing out from his hand as the punch comes, "YAH!"
Seriously. The Korean was in dire straits here. And with all that delicious water. Already he was hallucinating. He thought Sergio was Miss Needles there, and that Decapre was his personal jesus. Decapre. A scheme comes into the little man's mind.
Scuffling across the not-grassy sandscape, he keeps low, huffering and puffering like a small fish. The girl with claws and not-fanservice getup was going for a piece of Italy. It was some sort of flashy blast of energy. The Korean wasn't picky. Though, memories return. The midget remembers something like this before. Fire. Hot Coals. Dr. Tran Old Fashion Dickables. This was the dame that helped give him the shaft before! Well. She needed a lesson in messing with the dwarf in a non-sexual way.
Choi grins, staring at the watery chi blast following up the attack. As it closes in, the little man suddenly charges along the sand at the Not-Inflated Doll. With a hoot, he leaps into a Houkou Tenkan. Spinning like a drill through the air, he keeps low. But... he doesn't aim for Decapre. Instead, he was whirling up a sandstorm, sending up clouds of dust as he narrowly blasts past Vega's little angel... Hopefully interfering with her ability to respond?
COMBATSYS: Choi assists Sergio.
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Sergio 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Decapre
Eyeing from the water, Aprile looks on, poking her head out only to notice just WHO shall be the one to become BEATEN DOWN. But it becomes rather obvious as Decapre is the target, oddly enough. Guess who she won't be going for?
But as she decides who to assault, she slides down under the water before she pulls herself up.. up.. and out! Flipping out of it, the scantily glad doll(druggie?) pushes off with her hands and then begins flipping into the air, hefting the large bag like weapon as she spins and then SLAM the weight ladened bag into the ground. She leaves droplits all over, and the bag has water weight too ..
But then, the doll isn't actually interested in hurting her 'sister'. But she will, it seems. It's a bit sad, but she will have to learn to deal with conditions! How she suffers, outside of the water for all of a few seconds!
And of course, there might be a bag into Sergio's back soon!
COMBATSYS: Decapre dodges Sergio's Storm Surge.
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Sergio 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Decapre
Decapre has no idea what's going through Choi's head at that moment. All she knows is that he's an enemy and she needs to stay away from him when she's not on the attack, same as Sergio. And while at first, she was only going to sway back out of the reach of the one's uppercut, she ends up having to throw herself a little wider than she first anticipated in order to avoid the mini sandstorm the Korean just kicked up. In the end, it seems that may have helped her rather than not, since she wasn't expecting the extra burst of water chi that was trailing behind. Looking at it from a distance, it seems to the blond Doll that leaning out of the way wouldn't have quite been enough.
When the sand has settled back down in the immediate area, though, Decapre is dashing right back in and trying to draw Sergio up into a suplex. It's not quite the standard German kind, as the brainwashed girl is trying to cross his arms in front of his body and choke him with them *while* she's trying to arch back and slam him into the sand, but the result ought to ultimately be the same if it happens at all. And she's of course trying to keep an eye on Choi while doing all this, but he's likely to be all over the place anyway from what she remembers.
COMBATSYS: Sergio endures Aprile's Random Strike.
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Sergio 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Sergio fails to interrupt Medium Throw from Decapre with Whitewater.
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Sergio 1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Decapre
This is when things start going wrong for Sergio. Not only does his elbow rush and uppercut get evaded by Decapre, but now he's got Aprile coming in and rushing him down as well. The water sodden bag smashes into the man's back as Choi kicks up a sandstorm, sending him sprawling forward and right into Decapre's suplex. What isn't obvious by looking at him is that he's using the stumbling to cover up a summoning of power, building up his energy in preparation for a powerful assault.
He's choked, bent backwards, and then smashed into the sandy ground, and unfortunately for him that buildup of energy ends up going away the moment he hits. Normally a blow like this wouldn't deter him... but he suddenly finds his head /submerged/ in sand, the shifting granules unable to cope with the force of the impact.
"MMMFFF!" he cries out, his voice muffled by the very thing entombing him, the man falling over backwards and doing his dandiest to get out of the impromptu trap he's found himself in. "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!" He sounds angry!
"Wow." Thinks Choi. "Sucks to be him."
In reality, Choi was the one who sucked, as he has lost against Naerose AND is partnered with Jiro. Also, he lost his glove to a Kyo clone who threatened to rape him. PLUS Jiro looted his porn collection and burned it in a chemical fire. Which then became a normal fire. Which then became a housefire. It was a very bad day for both of them.
In any case, the Korean lands, staring at the horrible wreck of a fight that he just caused. He flinches when Sergio continues to get pounded. Seriously, how could a man like him just take it from girls like that? Choi shakes his head. It looked like Choi was going to have to teach him how to treat a lady.
The little man scurries along the ground, trailing to sneak up behind Decapre. Staring at her tiny brainwashed buttocks, he grins. Yes, she had claws. No, Choi didn't care. He approached closer... closer... and his unclawed hand opened wide, preparing to test the fat content of these slabs of sweet bacon... but then, something came over him.
Sun bearing down on him, he looks out over the horizon. Something was forming, rippling in the desert heat. Could it be? No, it couldn't. He was hundreds of miles away, probably eating a delicious cheeseburger. But there it was. Jiro's angry face formed far away, the mirage of holding a massive Rodeo Cheeseburger. Scowling at Choi, it's seething voice echoing through his head, filling it with hot-headed ethereal thoughts.
"If you sexually harass another girl in a fight, I'll keeeeeeel yooooooou. I mean. I'll send you to jail where you will receive human booooooooster shotssssssssss"
Choi sighed, whipping himself around the sand. Deep down, a bit of booty wasn't worth getting a medical check up from Doctor Bubba. Kicking up another cloud, he roll roll rolls. Then unrolls. Moving back a bit, he explodes upwards in a flipping kick at the Master of Claws, properly trying to put her in the position of servant.
As Sergio takes the back into the back, Aprile kicks off of the ground.. before she Decapre once more under the assault. But she suddenly wonders for a moment, sweating already from exertion.. that perhaps she should take care of Choi as well now, before moving onto Decapre.
For a moment, Aprile stands there, feet wiggling in the sand. It feels rather nice, and she wants to just lay back and enjoy it, yet she cannot. Oh, but what can she possibly do then? Aprile trudges through the sand for a moment before looking at Choi launching upwards..
And as he dives towards Choi, Aprile decides to try and even things out! Which involves crashing towards Choi, spinning almost like a top.. and aiming to stay right under him, a spinning whirl of metal and psycho energy..
Perhaps it even creates a minor sandstorm as well! But she's enjoying it!
Or is she? She's not sure if she likes having this advantage and only existing to just throw things. Her job is to help AND hurt.. but she's denied half.
So sad.
COMBATSYS: Choi successfully hits Decapre with Hien Zan.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Decapre
Aw, it's not so bad, little dude. Decapre lost to Naerose too, and nobody ever picks on her about it. Not even the witch herself! So far anyway. But the point is, everyone makes mistakes. And in fact, the Masked Doll seems to make several right here.
For one, she's not even looking when Choi is preparing to grope her. That could've ended badly, but it didn't thanks to Jiro. The next couple mistakes actually hurt her a little, though. First, she tries to block a little too low and gets kicked in the face by the flipping midget, and then she slips on sand as she's tumbling back and falls on the same rear he was planning to squeeze moments earlier.
"Ugh. Get away you little pest!" the pigtailed teen is soon shouting, trying to roll herself back up into a crouch and slash at the Korean the way most people have to in order to reach him.
For some reason the other fighters are merciful to Sergio- either that or they just don't consider him a threat at this point, and he has enough time to get his head out of the sand. There's no sound, other than him falling backwards and flopping down. "Fuck." He gets up and shakes his head, lifting his hand towards his face and literally spraying himself with water to clean the sand off of it. "Ahh, that's better." He gets to his feet slowly and surveys the area, watching the other fighters go about their business. He's feeling rather detached right now, and come to think of it he actually likes it that way.
That's when he sees it. An oasis of water and fun times right there in the middle of the desert, with no one to defend it. "Hell yeah, fuck those losers." He grins to himself and then makes a break for the oasis, leaping into the air and tucking his arms under his legs and doing a cannonball into the water, "Yahoo!"
COMBATSYS: Sergio takes no action.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Choi dodges Aprile's Peleative Care.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Choi dodges Decapre's Medium Strike.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Decapre
Wait. Aprile is whirling? Decapre is slashing? The combination of both equals a Choi! And Choi + Choi equals some very terrible fanfiction!
The Korean continues his flip, landing on the sand very lightly. But when Decapre moves in for the kill, he leaps again. This time, he makes a note to get quite a bit of air. After all, a nurse goes flying below him. Scowling, he looks down. Stupid fashion senses of Dolls. Why can't Vega do them all a favor and learn to utilize cleavage?
While Sergio goes and takes a well-deserved swim, the little man rolls around in the air. He lost distance, but he could compensate. As he drops back down, he slowly spins downward. His single clawed glove made it very predictable for any wary fighter. And thus, he had to make sure he could get the element of surprise. He sinks down at Decapre, still twirling as he approaches th-
SUDDENLY HE SNAPS THE CLAW OUT FROM HIS SPIN! SUPRISING STRIKE WHOA!
And then Choi .. is out of the way!?
But unfortunately, spinning Aprile cannot stop. Making a nice sandstorm as she keeps spinning, she continues to .. but this doesn't mean she'll stop spinning, that's for sure! She doesn't want to .. but she does continue forwards, arms spiralling around.
And why? Because she's growing way too close to her sister in arms! But she cannot stop it.. and that's unfortunately, according to the rules, what will happen next. And that's crash towards Decapre.
She'll have to make it up to her sometime later.. and Choi, she's wearing a bikini and top.
Although with the spiraling sand, she's getting a biiiit too warm. It's tooo hot!
COMBATSYS: Decapre dodges Aprile's Power Strike.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Decapre interrupts Quick Strike from Choi with Quick Throw.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Decapre
Oh, Decapre wouldn't forget the guy just because she planted him in the sand far enough that it looked like it'd take him a while to get out. No way. She just got distracted, and the sun is making her all irritable and stuff. Normally a kick to the mask wouldn't be that big of a deal, since the thing's not made of porcelain, but in this heat she's got the patience of a two year old and it made her want to get payback on Choi ASAP.
After that, the plan *would* have been to turn her focus back to Sergio, who would no doubt have freed himself by then. But it doesn't look like there's a need to anymore after she watches the Italian sneak off and jump into Aprile's personal swimmin' hole over there in her peripheral vision. That's gotta be a disqualification, right? If so, great, because she apparently failed to lay a claw on Choi and she still wants her payback. This leaves her free to do that.
Only, it looks like he's taking another shot at her first, and so is Aprile. Crap. She's only got enough time to dodge one of them, so she chooses to avoid Aprile first, since she knows more about how the other Doll fights than this Tae-Kwon-Do+Claw stuff the Korean uses, and as she's diving out of the way she decides to try and catch Choi's wrist with her ankles and slam him down onto the searing-hot sand as she falls. If she'd failed, this might have been messy and she'd be stabbed in the leg, but somehow she was quicker than he was. Go figure.
Meanwhile, over in the Oasis, no one seems to care that Sergio is just hanging out and enjoying himself. It's nice to take a refreshing dip after having his head plowed under the sand, after all. Still, he does feel a bit bad about not really doing anything in the fight... So he reaches down into his shirt and pulls out a rope. He walks out of the water for just a moment and flings it towards the grouping, a whirlwind of water whipping up around it and speeding it on towards... Decapre! By luck of the draw it seems that it's heading towards the doll in order to choke her and splash her at the same time. And Sergio? He jumps back into the water without a care in the world.
Not to hurt your self esteem or anything, Aprile.
But Choi didn't notice.
Meanwhile, the little midget unleashes a surprise strike against Decapre. Which doesn't surprise her. Oh poo. The masked doll seizes Choi, and with a delicate touch, hurls him into the sand. There is a puff of dust. And then a snarl. Rolling right up from the impact, he leaps straight up into Decapre, slashing his claw up along the way.
And spinning! .. She stops! And with no one injured! Both a blessing and a curse... and Aprile is busily burning! It's a very painful thing, honestly, the heavy sun billowing down upon her. And she then presses a button, SIGNALLING.. a chopper. A chopper takes off, and then back there, Aprile nods. There! Operation Aqua is launched!
Where was the button? In the kit of course.
But she notices Sergio, whipping a whirlpool of water.. and that's about when the doll charges towards him, covered in sand! .. And not noticed by Choi? It's a thing that doesn't even bother her. It doesn't come to her mind!
That doesn't stop the nurse from sliding in the sand, and when going down the dune, grasping Sergio's leg to twist it.. psycho energy following her motions! Bend, twist.. and WRENCH to the ground!
COMBATSYS: Decapre dodges Sergio's Whirlpool.
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Choi 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Decapre interrupts Power Strike from Choi with Crimson Cascade.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Decapre
Son of a-- It's starting to seem like a bad idea to be anywhere near that stupid oasis right now. This sort of logic might sound completely backwards when one is sweating their ass off in a desert and running and jumping and doing all kinds of exhausting stuff that's making it feel twice as hot, but if Decapre goes near it she gets attacked by her friend, and then Sergio throws ropes and chi at her and it all makes her want to run the other way!
So she does, right after ducking out of the way of Sergio's rope and proceeding to cut herself. One wrist is held out and pointed at Choi, and a claw from the other hand is drawn across it. An unexpectedly large amount of blood seems to explode out of it to blast the midget back, interrupting his uppercut and leaving him with a nice bit of searing headpain for his trouble.
Miss December doesn't look to be leaving a trail of blood when she hightails it out of there, though. So either that was never blood to begin with, or she just heals stupidly fast.
COMBATSYS: Sergio fails to interrupt Code Azure from Aprile with Strong Kick.
-* CRITICAL FAIL! *-
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Choi 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Decapre
A word to the wise, do not mess with Aprile's oasis. She will /fuck you up/. Case in point: Sergio sees her sliding down the dune towards him and realizes that a roundhouse kick to the head would really ruin her day. So that's exactly what he tries. He leaps up into the air and swings his foot up and around in some kind of weird hybrid axe/roundhouse kick. There's even water flowing from his heel! So how does this go wrong, you ask? Just before his foot comes down she gets his other leg, ripping him to the ground and assaulting him with pychic powers and /wrenching the living crap out of it/. "Aaaaaaaaagh!" He tries to get away, away as she twists it, but only manages to make it worse, falling to the ground and screaming like a bitch.
Choi gets a facefull of blood. And naturally, like most men, he becomes very confused. Unlike many men, he also becomes in loads of pain in the process. With Sergio screaming like a scared little girl at a male strip club, the panic only fills Choi more. What was going ON with these girls? Choi suspected that they were different, but with one shooting up drugs and the other menstruating as an attack, this was overwhelming for the little man.
The Korean could have taken this moment to calm down. To refocus his energies. However, Decapre was bleeding a lot. Or was. The Korean was still disoriented. Letting the Adrenaline take control, the Korean throws himself up and over. Staggering in a drunken manner, he explodes forward, spinning through the air much like he did before. A single claw out ahead of him, he was using another drilling strike. Unlike before, however, he was doing so to aim squarely at Miss December. Actually. Choi won't use that term to describe her. It sounds too dirty.
As the foot is grabbed, she apparently is able to really mess with Sergio. Dusting off her hands as she lets go of his leg, Aprile nods, grinning. "There you go.. ALLL better." She explains, before she dives towards the water.
When in the water, Aprile grabs the innertube/lawnchair before she climbs to the side. Why, look at Choi over there!
Grasping the tube, she swings it faster and faster.. and then FLING.
"You look kind of hot! HERE!" There might be some water.. OR DOES IT!?
COMBATSYS: Choi successfully hits Decapre with Houkou Tenkan.
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Choi 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Decapre
Well, Decapre is running, but she's apparently not running enough to stay ahead of the human blender. Even if said blender is minus a claw. She gets sliced up inside of that convenient little window in the back of her uniform where there's exposed skin and then there's even *more* blood. It's definitely real this time though.
"Guh!" she grunts out, falling to one knee in the sand for a second. Rather than take a breather, though, the fallen Doll plants both hands down and lashes out with a mule kick, aiming to plant both of her reinforced boots in Choi's midsection and shove him as far away as she can.
Well now Sergio really is in dire straights. He's pretty hurt, and even if he doesn't so much /care/ if he wins, it's really not going to be very good for his name as a fighter if people see him getting beat down so hard and not giving a shit about the fight itself. So what can he do to get back into the game? Well, he does at least have something to do that with.
Picking himself up after rubbing his injured leg he moves on up to that dune that Aprile was standing on top of only moments ago. He then summons up a crazy amount of power... and releases it all at once! An explosion of water releases from him, rushing out in every direction in a geysering fashion, the attack in no way intending to be technical, but instead aiming to simply wash everything away in a near unavoidable release. What once was a desert quickly becomes a massive lake of out rushing water, large enough to catch anyone anywhere close within it's rushing grasp. Luckily for the local ecosystem it's all going to dry up as quickly as it appeared... but for the moment the desert experiences a flash flood!
COMBATSYS: Choi dodges Aprile's Large Thrown Object.
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Sergio 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Choi dodges Decapre's Strong Kick.
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Sergio 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Choi full-parries Sergio's Forty Days and Forty Nights!
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Sergio 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Decapre
Choi drills into Decapre, causing many Freudian Psychologists to pop a monocle. However, that isn't the scary part. As Decapre pulls back for a mule kick, Choi shoves off her body, flipping through the air. As he spins through the air, he sees an innertube'd chair being hurled at him. And then, the sound of rushing water. At that moment, he knew what he had to do.
He snatches the rubber device in midair, and flips around it awkwardly. As the flash flood kicks in, the Korean lands on top of the rushing river, body leaning on top of the tube. Choi digs his claw into the now-rushing river, guiding his floatation device in the direction of a certain girl. A girl named Depeche. I mean Decapre. As the onslaught of water pushes him forward, the Korean releases the claw from the water and begins hacking and slashing like a madman. With the water helping him with the charge, it isn't a simple matter of pushing the little man off. It is a matter of pushing back a tsunami of water combined with a frenzied midget dancing on an inner tube.
And that's hardcore.
COMBATSYS: Aprile interrupts Forty Days and Forty Nights from Sergio with 10th Floor Transfer.
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Sergio 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\0 Decapre
As Decapre is struck, Aprile is forced to simply watch for now. But that wasn't enough ... she'll help when done, right! But it doesn't happen as she planned, because Sergio suddenly summons up a crazy amount of power, releasing it all over! .. But the lake of rushing water gets Aprile's attention very well.. and while Choi may have gotten a way out by her, she's going to make her OWN way out.
Spinning rapidly, the psycho energy is unable to keep everything at bay .. but water bitch Aprile is powering through it all the same, breaking through the barriers of water within a seconds notice, and finnaly catching Sergio, hooking him out of the water like a fish.. before the red and silver psycho energy launches him away!
Meanwhile, Aprile lands in her biniki and matching top, as the helicopter arrives.
She presses the button again!
And suddenly what she wanted arrives! .. Which is, a suddenly downpour of rain. Immediately. It's not like Sergio's water chi. It's just a waterfall of water.. and boy is she exhausted.. she really needs it! The nurse, plus water, is being swept back to the oasis for now!
Although she's treading water alright. She's more of an alligator than a shark anyways. "Have fun you two!" She calls over.
COMBATSYS: Decapre endures Sergio's Forty Days and Forty Nights.
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Sergio 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=======\==-----\1 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Decapre fails to interrupt Hou'ou Kyaku EX from Choi with Reverse Demon Shaft.
- Power fail! -
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Sergio 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Aprile
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Choi 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Decapre
"Shut up, Aprile! Nothing about this fight has been fun! I want to go home, not melt in this oppressive heat wasting all my energy fighting off a dwarf with only one claw!" So why did she bother showing up to begin with!? And why doesn't she just forfeit right now, or at least jump in the water like Sergio did?!
The answer to the first question would have to be that she thought taking this little endurance test might make her just a little bit stronger. And maybe it has, but such a thing doesn't seem to matter to the brainwashed teen anymore. The only reason she doesn't throw in the towel right the hell now is that she's still got that nagging in the back of her head telling her to *hurt things*. It's an even stronger urge when she's frustrated and angry like this, and no amount of water the crazy Italian on top of that mountain of sand can dump on her is going to extinguish the fire of her rage!
At least, that's what she thinks. She lets herself get hit with all that forceful flood of wet energy and manages to stay afloat through enough of it to flip up and try to give Choi the shaft before he's able to cut her again, but it turns out that rage does not translate into stamina so Decapre's muscles give out on her and she's left helplessly falling, right into Choi's path so she can get totally harshed by his single clawed-glove. "Shitshitshit!"
It's over for Sergio, his last desperate attempt at evening things back up having failed. Failed so hard that Aprile is even able to shoot up through the rushing water and blasting him away with her powerful red psycho power. He's launched some distance, making a splashdown in the huge amounts of water, which evaporates away into nothingness now, taking away that cooling wetness that for a brief moment covered the landscape. "Augh. I think I'd better keep my head in the game a bit more next time." Going off and taking a break in the oasis was certainly not the right thing to do! A quick survey of the situation tells him that the person who actually got hit with his water, even if it was in a controlled manner, was the person who needed help!
"Hmph, well, I guess I do have one thing to finish up." He may be hurt... but he hasn't so much as laid a single finger on Choi the whole fight! He just can't allow that, now can he? And so while the man is busy slashing up Decapre he appears, leaping at the small man and trying to stealthily jump kick him, follow it up with three punches to the back, and then fire off a hard blast of water directly into him while he's stunned from being beaten around. Maybe he can accomplish /something/!
COMBATSYS: Sergio can no longer fight.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Decapre
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COMBATSYS: Choi dodges Sergio's Breaker.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Decapre
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Choi 0/-------/-------|
The water sinks. The tube scratches the wet sand to a halt. And Choi finally slows his one-handed hacking down. While being hit with the flood would have been soothing, he was actually doing well. The Korean was very efficient when it came to using his energy. Being small and fit had some very helpful advantages. His eyes scan the crowd again, looking for something to drink. His eyes land on Sergio instead. Rather than let him get jump kicked, the Korean spreads his legs out on the inner tube, and leaps high in the air.
Sergio accomplishes /nothing/
As he falls back down, a serious problem comes over his mind. Aprile was a druggie. She had all sorts of painkillers, amphetamines, and psychedelics on her. Judging that Decapre and her seemed to be friends, sisters, and/or lovers, the clawed one would be pumped full of chemicals very soon. The Korean passes a gaze towards Nurse Joy, and suddenly realizes something. She is wearing a swimsuit! He turns back over to the horizon. Mirage Jiro munches on his cheeseburger, and gives Choi the finger. Temptation averted.
Instead, Choi sticks his legs straight out as he falls to the earth, trying to strike the poor girl with his little booties. Sergio was already forgotten, though Choi had no ill feelings. Technically, all he did was help the little man up to this point.
As Decapre blows up at Aprile, the doll looks on, looks at Choi assaulting Decapre.. that is, after launching off and landing. She's happy to a point! But although hurt and now floating, Aprile looks at Decapre, getting lashed verbally.. and for a moment, she hangs onto the edge of the pool.
But hearing Decapre, Aprile's ears perk, and she says to herself. "So that means .. I didn't help? I failed to help Master's desires..." She comments, before slowly sinking under the water.
She just lets herself sink, holding a long breath of air as she lets the weighted backpack do the job for her. Soon, she's sitting on the bottom of the Oasis, looking up and just staring at the sun through the water.
She failed Master. She's, of all things, sad. Especially because Decapre is angry with her.
oddly enough .. her first instinct is to slide away with her tail between her legs.. metaphorically speaking.
COMBATSYS: Aprile takes no action.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Decapre
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COMBATSYS: Decapre blocks Choi's Light Kick.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Decapre
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Choi 0/-------/-------|
Decapre is pretty sure she didn't say anything like that before getting hacked up. And she's quick to point this out. "What are you talking about? Is the sun getting to you or something? Nobody said you had to help me, and whether you did or not would hardly affect how I feel about fighting a pointless battle in a barren wasteland while you get to--- And what the hell has this got to do with Master Vega? Honestly! I signed up for Satuday Night Fight because I was BORED! Do you mean to tell me you were given orders to come out here and splash about? A- and where are you going!?"
The depressed medic probably can't hear her any longer, and she can't really run over there with Choi still in her face, so she blocks him and then calls time out. "I quit! Call the match!"
COMBATSYS: Aprile has left the fight here.
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Choi 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Decapre takes no action.
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Choi 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Decapre
Choi blinks as he flips over on his feet. He looks at the camera, confused. He look to the director, and mouths the words. "Can she do that? I mean, can she?" The director grins, and suddenly looks away.
The Korean takes the hint.
As Decapre turns away, the Korean suddenly dives at her legs. If he clears the pair, he would turn up and around. And there, Decapre would be introduced to a full back raking. Yes, she technically surrendered. But Choi was not supposed to be a good buy, now was he?
COMBATSYS: Decapre interrupts Quick Strike from Choi with Crimson Cascade.
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Choi 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Decapre
Oh, that's not cool. Choi had already made up his mind that the girl was probably PMSing, hadn't he? So he should know better than to poke a bear with a stick. Or poke pissed-off Russian chick with a claw when she's trying to have a domestic dispute with a girl she lives with? She all but explodes with womanly fury and soaks him with yet more sparkly psion blood, then starts screaming obscenities at him in her native language, pointing at him with one of her claws and waving her hand around making all kinds of threatening gestures!
And then she turns on the crew who allowed the fight to continue. The director who looked away gets grabbed and chokeslammed, then she grabs the camera right out of the cameraman's hands and throws it in Aprile's pool before stomping after it, kicking up sand as she goes. "I HATE THIS SHOW SO MUCH!!!"
Well, things were getting out of control. Choi was Menstruated again- holy crap, the sun is rising here- and black leather'd cut-maniac was getting less cutting and more maniac. She was going nuts on the director, and Choi, well. Choi was keeping his distance. He was staring... analyzing for a weak point...
With little startup, the Korean begins twirling around like a top (or Aprile). Shooting straight for the crazy Russian, he whirls around. Strands of Chi are visible as he twists and turns, and with a last minute burst, he tries to tackle the girl down before she gets more dangerous.
Where was that Interpol agent?
COMBATSYS: Decapre dodges Choi's Tatsumaki Shippuu Zan.
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Choi 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Decapre
Yeah, Choi goes in for the tackle, and Decapre's just not there. Her image flickers out. Maybe she teleported the way Vega is known to do, or used her freaky psi magic to make herself invisible, or maybe... what Choi was seeing was a mirage!?
Whatever the case may be, she's nowhere to be seen and the announcer finally stops being a jerk enough to declare the Korean the winner of today's match. FADE TO BLACK.
COMBATSYS: Decapre takes no action.
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Choi 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Decapre
COMBATSYS: Decapre has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Choi has ended the fight here.
Log created on 22:42:28 05/31/2008 by Choi, and last modified on 10:28:18 06/06/2008.