Description: Fighting through their own unique challenges, the winners of each of the Satuday Night Fights is escorted to the main event - a challenge that will strain all their resources to the breaking point! Will they gel into a formidable team, or fall to the sheer power of their opponent?!?!?
Congratulations, you've all made it to the finals. How good does that feel? After each fight, researchers have taken careful notes, and then offered a chance to gather your breath briefly, before shooing you further into the compound. The 'final challenge' this week still awaits, they say - and they are more than willing to send you off to it without much more ado.
The 'final' room is very bland, though it's certainly large. Antiseptic white walls form a 'box' that seems to be the size of Howard Arena's ring, with entrances for each contestant on each wall which form a 'face-off' situation, the focal point being the middle of the arena. The floor is slighty angled, coming to a point there. Once each fighter has entered, their door will seal behind them - perhaps ominous, or perhaps just another step in the testing. High above, smoked glass windows are inset, just another way to be observed while performing in such an environment.
Zach makes his way into the room, moving slowly. He is, or feels like he is, a walking bruise. Batsu Ichimonji hits like a mack truck on steroids. The door slams shut behind him. Seems like he is the first one here.
He looks around, a bit nervous. He is pretty certain he does not want to think about what kind of permutations will be introduced to this match. Glen frowns. This whole thing sucks.
Having gotten a little bit of a chance to rest, Kiyoko is feeling a lot better. It might only have been a single punch that Stasya managed to land on her, but it was powerful and brilliantly executed. Still she hangs on to the cattle prod that was given to her when she was told to keep behind Cherise and do her best to smack their mutual opponent with it, but she doesn't seem to have much intention on using it solely as a means of attack here. In fact, she's hardly even aware she's still holding onto it.
She steps through a door that leads out of a long, narrow walkway and immediately begins to survey the surroundings. A startled sound comes from her as the door slams shut behind her, actually causing her to turn around and give it a look before shrugging her shoulders and moving onward into the 'arena'. "They sure are being elaborate about all this. ...I hope this doesn't mean they're going to make Saturday Night fight more like one of those lame 'Reality' shows."
Flora actually wasn't sure they were going to let her in at all. She /did/ fall in her own event - but not until Hotaru was on her way down as well, so apparently they were al right with letting her progress. She even got a drink of water (although that may because she smuggled the bottle in in her bow case).
Flora enters, carrying her reinfored bow with her in both hands. She's running low on the blunt arrows she prefers; there's only a dozen or so left in her quiver, but that doesn't mean she's out. Really. She hopes. The door closes behind her with a clang, and she jumps, startled.
Now, Nagare wasn't sure of anything! All he knew that he wanted out of the room, and that was that, and now, here Nagare still wants out of the room! But he's shuffled off from one room to another, caught between the wanting to leave the rather powerfully sealed box that is this room, while the other part of him is curious. Still yet another wants to swim, but that's always there.
Looking about as the man in simply a jacket, a speedo and flippers (along with a headband with the japanese flag on it) Nagare just notices a few people. Other schools and maybe some he can't really place. He hasn't met many people outside Taiyo.
He really should get out more! Either way, as the door closes behind him, he almost jumps forward. He's a fish being tested on all right! And he doesn't really like that at all! Just look at his face! It's more serious then usual.
'They're ready. Send him in.'
'Is anyone really ready for this?'
'Other than our new challenger? Doubtful. Initiate.'
From above, whispered words as scientists start up their analyzers, their devices to track the goings-on in the makeshift arena. A circle cuts out of the featureless white, opening to reveal a lowering platform, with a large figure atop it. Black boots are the first to be seen, metal shin-guards covering a red faux-military outfit. Bulky and muscular, a uniform jacket stretches along shoulders that are overy large, a thick set of pauldrons holding a black cape to the figure's back. A chin.. Not just any chin - one that belongs to only one person, one man, well known from TV reports and his own demented actions.
Vega.
Lord of Shadaloo, the former (brief) conqurer of Thailand, and villain extrodinare. There'd been reports of his demise, but with him standing tall, being lowered down to rest on the peak of the arena, it seems that those were simple lies.
Armsfolded against his chest, the dicator looks on with blank white eyes, fingers flicking the hat from his head briefly, smoothing jet black hair before he replaces it. His voice is dark, thick with anticipation.
"You have all proven yourself quite adept within your own battles. However, a true warrior can surpass the limits of a broken, beaten body, to challenge their fate and overcome it. Your fate today is to be broken, beaten by my hands, here and now. Please.." he states, then his eyes flare purple, that same psychic aura wrapping around his hands and looming large over him. "... prove to the world how strong you are."
COMBATSYS: Vega has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|===----\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega takes no action.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|===----\-------\0 Zach
Zach's eyes go wide, and his breathing speeds up as Vega makes his entrance. He staggers back a pace and a half, fear clearly showing on his face before he turns to face the door/wall. He tries to get his hands into the doorjamb, as if to try and pry it open with his bare hands. They scramble across the slick surface. Zach falls on his rear end, turning to face Vega as he tries to crawl back and away from the Psycho Tyrant.
It is not every day you face your own personal boogey man, after all.
COMBATSYS: Zach takes no action.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|==-----\-------\0 Zach
For Kiyoko, Vega's grand entrance is somewhat ruined. She doesn't recognize the man immediately upon seeing him, instead getting a nagging feeling that she recognizes him from somewhere but isn't quite sure. She's never had any kind of experience with him herself, so to this girl he's just a face on TV, and not very often at that.
Zach, however, gets her attention pretty immediately. The way he flips out and tries to escape like his life depends on it has her looking at him with a confused look on her face, a hand going up to rub the back of her head, embarrassed for him. When the powerful man speaks her attention is grabbed once more, and she listens intently. "All of us against just one person? ...you must be pretty powerful." SNF might make some uneven match ups, but she doesn't think even a strong fighter would be up against these kinds of numbers. That makes him a /really/ strong fighter.
"I don't like the idea of being broken and beaten," she states, "But if this is a challenge, then I'm up for it!" Rather than rushing in at him full bore she instead starts watching him, watching every little detail she can get about how he moves. It doesn't take a genius to see he's got something going on with that aura of his, but she's sure there's more to him than that. One trick ponies don't get put up against the winners of competitions all at once.
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko focuses on her next action.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|==-----\-------\0 Zach
Flora also does not recognize the man. She hasn't been paying enough attention, apparently - or maybe she's just too new at this.
That doesn't stop her from being moderately startled and - well, spooked. Flora is not the bravest person in the world, after all. She keeps her distance - well, why wouldn't she? She /does/ have a bow - and looks up at him. Is nobody else going to strike him? This is a match, isn't it? They said to go, didn't they?
Flora rather nervously draws an arrow, pulls it back as she takes aim. She goes after one of Vega's shoulders, trying to knock it and jerk it out of place with the impact of the blunted arrow and, probably unfortunately, drawing attention to herself.
Oh well, she's trying.
Now, there are a few people on earth that everyone would know. And even the Taiyo Swim Coach would know this one. His face and chin probably plastered all over the place as his bids for Thailand went on. Especially on news papers and other such. Nagare wasn't up for work of marines or other fighters, but he sure knew about it!
And that's especially important now, seeing that all four of them are set to the man, led into the area through another thick metal door. It's a terrible feeling to be trapped in a room with no where to actually go. Even worse when one person in the room is Vega. "Ah... I wasn't really expecting something as..." Nagare thinks. "Well, as elaborate as this! I thought it was going to be a smaller, less scale battle."
Not really put in any real leading position save for the coach position in Taiyo High, Nagare knows about homework and swimming and not very much more, but he has expanded his knowledge just a little. "Well, gang." Nagare mentions, noting to his own spontaneous allies in the event, "It looks like we're fighting Vega. Well... just try your hardest! He's pretty powerful. Be careful. He's a scary guy, but some times you have to find if your a swimmer or a sinker, and this is the right time to find out." Nagare announces, before he actually makes his own move. Perhaps a rather daring move of his own, Nagare approaches Vega with a weird, wobbling walk, aiming only to try to get towards Vega and strike out with a rather ominous and unexpected kick with his own flippery foot!
COMBATSYS: Vega blocks Flora's Pressure Point Shot.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\0 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|==-----\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Nagare's Light Kick.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\0 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|==-----\-------\0 Zach
Interesting. Ultimately futile, but interesting. Vega approaches this fight for what it is, an attempt by him to prepare and practice his skills in a way that sets a warning for those around his life, those who thought he had been destroyed. That some do not tremble in fear at his name - well, those are the breaks when dealing with fighters. Far too many of them are too bold or too stupid to attempt retreat, and the others have probably realized that there is no real way to escape this fight - at least, not until the researches have what they came for.
Each fighter is watched in turn, Vega taking a slow circle around as he studies them, dead white gaze flicking from person to person. He focuses in on the two attacking him, and bursts into motion.
One giant hand comes up and allows the blunted arrow to shatter against his open palm, the impact pushing his hand back just a bit - the force still impressive. He listens to Nagare's diatribe, then adds, as he edges to the side to avoid more than a brief brush of the man's foot 'And which are you? Flotsam, jetsam - or just a dinghy?'. It's a joke, though certainly not a very good one, as Vega's leg chambers, and then lashes out in a quick series of kicks, aimed at Nagare's knee and temple. It's enough that the kick has power - but Vega is also adding the impact of his psychic aura to his efforts, the raging power that once consumed a country now focused on crushing his erstwhile opponents.
Zach presses himself against the wall. The wall does not budge, gives no sign of yielding in the face of his intended retreat. He frowns as two people go after Vega, trying to take the fight to the tyrant. His knees shake as he tries to get back on his feet.
Nagare's words do not go unheeded. Zach decides that he will need to reach down, and dig deep. Zach figures that while Nadare may have some experience on him, he more than likely out-classes Kiyoko and Flora, if only in terms of sheer power output.
Purple energy flares to life around the young man. Kiyoko has had personal experience with the power that Zach yields. To Flora, it may appear to be nothing more than radiant, sparkling chi raging around Zach. Vega, however, knows it for what it is. Psycho Power. Not as much as the Lord of Shadaloo can bring to bear, but certainly a surprising amount all the same.
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\-------\0 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
Kiyoko took her time while two of her new team mates rushed in early. Not a bad way to go, or so she thinks. Sure, Vega was able to defend himself... but at a cost. "Hmm. He's smart," is all she comments out loud as she watches him deal with the two fighters heading his way. The girl then shoots forward towards him, running in at high speed as the tyrant retaliates against Nagare. Her brows furrow as she tries to figure out a viable plan against him the way he's going about this.
Once in close she attacks swiftly, moving in beside him and twisting her body around, adding that to a quick swing of her arm as she tries to land a chop to the side of his neck before trying to move back away from him a step and a half before lowering down into her normal fighting stance. "Don't wear yourselves out early," she warns, "He's ready for us!"
He caught the arrow. He just /caught/ the arrow.
Flora stares for a moment, then draws another. Although she draws it, she doesn't seem about to fire it; instead she stares at the tip of it, trying to get her focus back. This is what they tried to teach her in kyudo training: focus the mind, focus the spirit. There's nothing but you and the target. Just... act.
COMBATSYS: Flora gathers her will.
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Vega 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\===----\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega successfully hits Nagare with Medium Kick.
- Power hit! -
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Vega 0/-------/------=|=======\====---\1 Nagare
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|=======\===----\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
Wuh-oh! That's all Nagare can think as Vega leaps right over his strike, and comes down towards him. He's not ready, he just threw himself at him, and still it proves to be terribly futile as the swimmer just finds out how powerful Vega is. A powerful strike comes down towards him, slapping the swimmer away with a powerful kick, sending him away in a spin towards the wall.
Nagare goes flying, and unnatural force pushing him there! He was certain his could have at least slowed the kick, but to no avail, it just comes towards him! Still, the swimmer from Taiyo isn't going to go down easy. He gets right up, slowly but surely. Perhaps it's fool hardy, but he's still going to try. And try he does, going right for Vega, actually running back into a slip and slide like pattern across the ground until he's right infront of Vega.
And then he kicks. Kicks and kicks and kicks and kicks and kicks, attempting to give up a fight and keep Vega busy for the other fighters to prepare. That's all he's going to try! Otherwise they'll all be taken out!
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Nagare's Super Splash Kick.
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Vega 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\===----\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko successfully hits Vega with Quick Punch.
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Vega 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\===----\1 Flora
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|====---\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
'Keep him busy'. Vega certainly is busy, what with the attempt to nimbly slip and slide between each new kick that's lashed out at him. Left, right and center, the Lord of Shadaloo never seems to be in the same place that those feet are. It's a display on par with a triple axle by Brian Boitano, while fighting grizzly bears. Vega has no magical fire breath, though - so the reprisal for being so bold will have to wait. He smirks, eyes narrowing as he tries to meet Nagare's look, to show just how innefective the man thinks Nagare's attack is. "You're weak, buoy. I think that in this case, you've met your ma*HUGHK*!"
Apparently the others have had time to prepare, and Vega was so busy laughing at Nagare that he's left himself open to the crushing chop of Kiyoko's to the back of his neck. Briefly affected, stunned, he lurches forwards. His recovery is almost instant, though - as is his retaliation. He seems to fade, vanish as he places a burst of speed into his body, suddenly reappearring directly behind Kiyoko as she tries to backpedal away. His hand grabs out at her head - and if he can grab her by the noggin, he'll be offering her a blast of psychic power, then slamming her towards the angled floor. "This is /my/ mountain. You are not worthy of standing on the same plane as I." It's a hiss, tinged with true anger. After all, she did just coldcock him...
Zach growls as Vega goes after Kiyoko. He steps forward, not too boldy, but it's that first step that is hardest. He brings his hands above his head, and on cue, three... rectangular blocks form above Vega's head. Glen keeps his eyes on the opponent, before sweeping his raised arms down.
Gravity seems to take a hold at this point, as the plates crash down toward Vega's hat, and hopefully his skull. Zach may be in for a painful lesson afterwards...
COMBATSYS: Vega successfully hits Kiyoko with Psycho Fall.
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Vega 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\===----\1 Flora
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|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
If there's one thing about Nagares, it's just they never give up. Even as Vega moves about the many feet and the chi washing off the many kicks, Nagare isn't able to touch him once. It's a terrible procession which is even more horrible than Nagare could believe! He hasn't been able to slow Vega down. At least not yet. He will though, even as Vega speaks to him.
"I'm probably not even close to a match to you," Nagare states, aiming to get up once more, the psycho energy. Whatever energy that is leaving a terrible aching pain as he forces himself to stand. "W-wow... you hit hard." Nagare exclaims, but then continues on forward. He leaps into the air. Swimming higher and higher and higher, climing up above Vega as he makes a move that isn't seen much, water chi dropping about everywhere.
And then he comes down, head first towards Vega's figure. Because that's what Nagare do best!
This is not good.
Flora doesn't move her eyes from where they were focusing as she reaches back and pulls out two additional arrows to go with the first one, holding them all between her fingers as she keeps as focused as she can manage given she expects to be pounded into the ground in the next two or three seconds.
But Vega teleports, or almost so, and Flora spins around, looking for him. She finds him menacing Kiyoko and immediately fires all three arrows, which spread out just slightly as they fly towards him.
Each arrow, however, splits into two in midair, and then the duplicate splits again, each of the 'fakes' surrounded by a dull green glow. The spread is a lot more impressive when you take the fakes into account - but they hit as hard as the original blunt arrow, detonating into bright flashes of green-blue energy.
Kiyoko can only watch on as Nagare is kicked hard enough to send him rocketing away from Vega. The look in her face is one of shock- how can they stand a chance against someone who can produce that kind of force at the drop of a hat? ...of course that's the entire point of this little exercise. It doesn't stop her from completing her strike, however, smacking the huge man in the neck. Unfortunately Nagare's amazing retaliation is evaded, leaving her the sole person to harm the man, and that seems to draw his ire.
Her attempt to move away after the strike is all but futile, actually moving her /into/ Vega's grasp as she backs up. She has no chance to get away from his grip, eyes still adjusting from him popping out of existence in front of her as he grabs her by the head and explodes her mind with an energy she's had precious little experience with. She attempts to roll into a recovery, but her limbs simply refuse to listen to her commands.
The end result is her smashing into the floor full force, essentially drunk with pain. And yet, she gets up. She /is/ a trained fighter, so once the pain begins to lessen her she's once again able to control herself, standing up and turning to face the huge man. A quick glance tells her what's happening around her. It seems everyone is coming in on Vega now, so she'll do her best to support them. The arrows, she realizes, are actually a threat to her at this range, so she does the only thing she can think of: Move behind Vega- he'll make a nice shield. Once in that position she isn't going to just stand there but instead attack, holding out her middle and index fingers and launching at the man. With a sharp cry she begins stabbing at pressure points, first a disabling one to an especially sensitive nerve cluster along the spine and then focusing on his legs, her arms whipping back and forth in alternating strikes to try and jab those sensitive areas that allow him to move away from the attacks coming at him. Teamwork, she realizes, is the only way they have a chance at winning.
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Vega with Concrete Dive.
- Power hit! -
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Vega 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|=======\-------\1 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega blocks Flora's Thousand Flight.
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Vega 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|=======\-------\1 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko successfully hits Vega with Summer Solstice.
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Vega 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|=======\-------\1 Kiyoko
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|======-\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega fails to interrupt Ka-Psi-Ne Ate from Zach with Psycho Wave.
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Vega 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|=======\-------\1 Kiyoko
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|=======\-------\1 Zach
Somewhere along the line, Vega bit off more than he could chew. The researchers above are noticing this, the piling on of the various attacks catalogued, coordinated and filed away - after all, they're researching Vega's opponents just as much as the Lord of Shadaloo himself. Dials and gauges show the seperate impacts as the fighters up their tempo, attacking all at once instead of simply shooting one-offs, and the intense flurry of energies that washed through the room. Vega's only 'real' defense is an attempt to bring his own energies up and around to bear on the youth weilding the same energy that Vega does, but the impact and crushing effort of all four at once pound through his guard and batter and bruise the warlord.
He laughs, then - amused, blood flecking his lips as he gathers his energy up. Eyes look between all four, and then he stamps his feet down into the raised floor, planting himself firmly in place. His hands flare with energy, and he hunkers down, every muscle tensed with pressure, as he prepares to strike out again. "That... was that all that you have to work with? It's impressive - but ultimately futile." That's right - goad them into rash movements - all he needs is one turn of fortune, and he'll crush them all like a bug.
"Nah," Zach says, bravado starting to creep into his voice. "We got plenty more where that came from." Zach pulls back a fist, and charges it with psychic energy before bringing it around in what would be a bruising right hook.
The punch falls far short of the warlord, however. The lance of psychic energy that lances out of nowhere on a direct collision course for Vega may have a different result.
Somewhere along the line the team up did something right, even if it was probably teaming up in the first place. Kiyoko does her part, and even if it's not really the case gets it in her head that her pressure point assault had a lot to do with the success. Still sore from that shockingly powerful blow, she backpedals quickly away from Vega to get out of her range. Time to switch tactics, it seems.
"I think... I think we can win if we keep going!" It's so much more than she thought was possible only moments ago when she was laying helpless with pain. Trying to continue and contribute her part to the fight she coats her hands with her green chi, swinging them around quickly and forming three crescents that intersect in the middle. The now single blob of energy shoots forward at Vega, a move that will hopefully keep the Tai Chi artist safe out of his grasp. And to Vega's comments, she finally responds. "It might not be anything like you control, but we have to make due with what we have! Just because you're better doesn't mean we can just let ourselves give up."
Flora is going to run out of arrows if she keeps this up. She counts them with her fingers, then shifts the grip on her bow.
Yes, Flora, she thinks to herself, you /are/ going to have to go towards him. He's big and scary and he's taken some seriously powerful techniques. But Flora herself is bigger than Vega is (physically, at least); surely she shouldn't be intimidated by him quite this much?
Flora edges forward, slowly at first, before lashing out with a quick straight strike at his upper body. It's not /really/ rash, she tells herself, as she weaves around the energy blasts coming in so she doesn't get in the way of anyone else.
She's still too nervous to say anything. It's a constant thing.
Wow, even after that all, Nagare is entirely surprised as he bounces head first off of Vega as he falls towars the side, the man entirely ammused at the situation. This is entirely impossible. What kind of man could continously do this, show up again and again and cheat death?
Even if they seem to have the upper hand right now, Nagare isn't going to let up. Men like Vega are entirely hard to put down fully. He knows it. And he's not going to let his ego get in the way of giving it all he has.
"Don't get too over your head," Nagare explains, "this man is entirely dangerous. If you give him any room he'll take over the block." Nagare explains, like a river to an ocean.
Still, Nagare comes towards Vega once more, rushing in towards Vega's chet, only to flip about backwards, waterchi following his flippered strikes as he simply attempts to swim in the air in a circle. Easier said then done! But Nagare does it.
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko successfully hits Vega with Vernal Equinox.
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Vega 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|=======\-------\1 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Nagare's Flipper Roundhouse EX.
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Vega 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|=======\-------\1 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega blocks Zach's Zero Stance.
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Vega 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=------\-------\0 Flora
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|=======\-------\1 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega interrupts Quick Strike from Flora with Psycho Wave.
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Vega 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\=======\1 Flora
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|=======\-------\1 Zach
"What you have.. " Vega murmurs, a grudging acceptance of the skill of the fighters he faces - winners, all, in their own right - "Is adequate. What you choose to do with it.. is exceptional. I may have.." He continues to speak, but is buried beneath the energy of Kiyoko's attack, Zach's own impact making the dictator reel under the combined power and effort. "... but this fight is not over yet..!"
His body moves out of the way of Nagare's attempted kick, the man moving towards the woman who finally chooses to engage in close combat - and the effect is rather striking indeed. He steps into her strike, the aura around his body exploding in a wave of energy - he's content to knock about /one/ of his opponents at least - an effort to show them that he's not really to be trifled with, either. "You, however - should not have been here!" he lashes out at her with his voice - and the power of his mind. Let the others have their victory - he'll accept what he's been given.
Zach gives out a short yell as Vega blasts the jeebus out of Flora. Growling, Zach does a little shuffle-step to the side, as if trying to line up something. He sets his feet wide, left leading as he twists his upper body to the right. His hands, open and loose, appear to be holding a ball by his trailing right hip.
"Adequate, he says." Purple light flares into existance as Zach summons his energies into yet another strike. The sphere collects, and grows until it appears that Zach is holding a purple-white basketball that throws shadows across everyone in the room.
A moment later, Glen throws those palms forward, the ball erupting into a horizontal column that is easily as wide as Zach is tall. The beam screams towards Vega before splashing against the wall with barely contained fury for a few seconds before evaporating.
Kiyoko is happy that her attack finds it's mark, there's no doubt about it. So why is she frowning? The answer to that would be Vega's negativity. He'll accept that they are doing well, and yet he talks down to Flora like she's nothing. So he's able to turn her move aside and brutally punish her with a burst of that potent power of his- that doesn't mean she's worse than the others.
So rather than going and lobbing another shot of Chi at Vega like would probably be the best possible thing in this situation, she instead walks over to Flora, to wherever she ends up, and holds down an arm to help her up. "Don't listen to him. If it wasn't for your attack I never would have moved to where he couldn't protect himself." Kiyoko looks over to Vega, "Power like yours is completely wasted when the person controlling it can only use it to feed their egos and crush those of others."
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko assists Flora.
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Vega 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|=======\=======\1 Flora
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|-------\-------\0 Zach
It's like running into a brick wall, where the wall is made of spikes and mental power, and also it is actively trying to make you run into it. With the spikes.
Flora is launched away from Vega, all right, by the force of the blow. She hits the ground and rolls, ending several yards away in a pile. It doesn't look like she's going to get up; she stays down for a few moments, a lumpy and rather large pile.
She very slowly reaches up and accepts Kiyoko's hand, though, yanking herself up by it. Flora is pretty heavy, and she weaves once she is up. "..." She doesn't say anything, but Flora looks grateful for the assistance, looking over at Vega one last time.
Almost instantaneously, as if she didn't need to cover the ground, Flora is over at Vega, using every iota of her acceleration to drive her staff at his torso, just once. Whatever force picked her up and made her almost teleport over there, however, is short-lived, as Flora slumps back down afterwards, making an identical pile to her first one - just closer. Even Kiyoko helping her up won't last forever.
COMBATSYS: Flora can no longer fight.
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Vega 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
> ///////////// ]
|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|-------\-------\0 Zach
Wow! Nagare just can't seem to get a beat on Vega. Whatever he does, the man just seems toget out of the way. Entirely hard to imagine, but still, Nagare sees it with his own eyes. The man's terribly powerful, and terribly impressive. But Nagare still isn't going to give up, even if it looks bleak. He has to keep pushing!
And yet, at such a close proximity, Nagare should escape, but Nagare doesn't, continually pushing towards the man, even as Flora falls. "Hey, look at me!" Nagare states as the throws himself to the ground once more, kicking towards Vega with furious strikes, attempting to send powerful chi laced kicks towards Vega!
"I might be only a coach, but I can still give it all I have. That's what's important, right?"
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Vega with Burst Stream.
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Vega 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
> //////////////// ]
|-------\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Flora's Phantom Step.
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Vega 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
> //////////////// ]
|-------\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Nagare's Splash Kick.
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Vega 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Nagare
> ///////////// ]
|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|-------\-------\0 Zach
Words of consoling, of advice? Vega needs not these things. In fact, he'd laugh at them, were they offered his way. No, no, he's been given more than enough of an 'answer' today, in the sheer battle-tested strength of the fighters he faces. Strong, all of them - smart, speedy, adroit and skilled. Their attacks rain down on him, allowing the Shadaloo Master to show what /his/ mettle comprises as well. He eels left and right, seemingly vanishing before attacks and reappearring later. Each moment he seems to be caught and taken down, he dissapears again. It's only the last moment, the attack from the pther psychic, that is what penetrates his defenses, though he'd been led to it by the others in a skillful, sophisticated trap.
"Hah! You show promise after all. Let this be a reminder - we /shall/ meet again. You've given me.. /us/, such valuable, useful data.." With that, he motions towards the ceiling, blood-flecked lips turning into a rictus grin as he rises up. He gathers his energy, his aura, pulls it from the evil miasma that it normally is and cradles it close to his form, surrounding him like a bright purple halo. And then he leaps upwards, arms outstretched and aiming for the barrier that the scientists hide behind. Breaching it and escaping to the outer world is easy enough for /him/. For the others, they're going to be left with the backwash of his final attack - his launched Psycho Crusher, that gives him enough of a leap to leave the 'mountain', cedeing it to his superiors...
Whatever is left of them.
COMBATSYS: Vega can no longer fight.
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|===----\-------\0 Nagare
> ///////////// ]
|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|-------\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Vega's Final Psycho Crusher'.
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|===----\-------\0 Nagare
> ///////////// ]
|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
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|=======\-------\0 Zach
Zach has some intuition, some /instinct/ that tells him that Vega is going to go down swinging. The moment that his blast dies off, he is already pulling his arms up. Already getting into a defensive posture.
It's Frei's advice, about using his own potent energy to nullify incoming energies, that keeps him alive when the Psycho Crusher comes barrelling in.
Zach still slams into the wall behind him, falling to the ground in a fit of coughing. A moment later, he is finally able to get his legs under. It takes a little longer for Zach to find it in him to be able to stand. Luckily, doors start to open at this point. Zach looks around. Medics are attending to Flora. He's not needed here. He makes for the exit and takes off as fast as he can manage. Zach heal up on his own; he's in no mood to celebrate.
COMBATSYS: Zach has left the fight here.
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|===----\-------\0 Nagare
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|-------\-------\0 Kiyoko
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko interrupts Final Psycho Crusher' from Vega with Winter's End.
> ///////// ]
|===----\-------\0 Nagare
COMBATSYS: Kiyoko can no longer fight.
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|===----\-------\0 Nagare
Sometimes people just don't know when they're better off letting things go. Take Kiyoko for example. When she sees that Flora's last attempt fails to connect it annoys her. SHE doesn't think the tall teenager 'shouldn't have been here', so it makes her feel bad that she couldn't be the one to smack Vega like he deserved.
So when the man rockets off into the air and blasts the area with energy in the same process she does something incredibly reckless. Rather than trying to duck and cover she /leaps/ into the air, letting out a loud cry. Somehow she manages to move through all that energy and kick him, twisting around midair to wrap her legs around her neck and /throw/ her weight downward with all her might.
But this is Vega, the Lord of Shadaloo and things like that don't work so easily. Instead the man is simply thrown off his course by a few degrees and slammed into the ceiling a bit harder than he would have liked. This is far more than enough to knock Kiyoko clean off and send her falling to the ground. She hits and bounces at a weird angle- mainly because she has no control over herself, succumbing to the power she absorbed in the attack.
COMBATSYS: Vega successfully hits Nagare with Final Psycho Crusher'.
- Power hit! -
> ]
|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Nagare
It seems today that no matter what Nagare may try, it's entirely unexpected that it's a painful choice. But not always is the right choice the smartest. It's more from what the heart tells you than what the mind sometimes thinks.
Even as Vega comes, he explains about the data taken. Well, if they wants data on swimming, they could have looked elsewhere! Still, Nagare's going to try to get out of the w-
Whoops! Nagare trips on his own water chi from earlier, actually flipping up and into the Final Psycho Crusher! It's a painful one. One where Nagare doesn't really get up. It seems that it's entirely unexpected how pained his is, but like a fish frying, Nagare doesn't try to move as much.
He'll just be over on the grond hurting a lot.
Yeah, that's a good idea. This fish is fried.
COMBATSYS: Nagare takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Nagare can no longer fight.
Log created on 22:10:31 06/19/2008 by Vega, and last modified on 21:05:36 06/23/2008.