Description: Neo League! Down by the Beach, the Brazillian Beast meets the amazing Kunouichi, Mai Shirunai! What will happen? Who will win? WHO STILL WATCHES 'BAYWATCH'?! ( Winner: Blanka )
When Mai found out her next Neo League opponent was to be Blanka, she let a single bead of sweat roll down her forehead. A lot of fighters would be scared of his hulking size, electric chi powers, and bestial nature. No, Mai's read articles on the mysteriously green fighter -- she's more scared of his mind. For who better to face off in a battle of wits against a crafty, meticulous ninja than a being of feral cunning? Ninja assassin versus jungle hunter -- Mai decided she would need to pull out all the stops.
This is why the sandcastle has eyes -- big, dark ones, obscured slightly by swimming goggles, further noted by the snorkel pipe's tip sticking out of the top of the turret. It's a suspiciously Mai-sized sand castle. Mai would laugh in celebration of her own cleverness, but it'd make her full-figured body jiggle, and that would break the castle.
'Be here, at this time to fight Mai Shiranui.'
Blanka is nothing if not punctual, big green feet treading through the sand. There's nothing better than a jungle - but a beach is a good second place. His toes curl, digging up a bit of sand, and he idly bats a beachball for a few kids that have seen him about before. His unawareness of Mai's current location is quite obvious, as he trundles past the castle.
And then he trundles past again, big beast rubbing at his jaw, back to the castle. He looks down at the ground, scuffs his feet against the sand, then looks back towards the school. Shading his eyes a bit, he furrows his giant red brow. Such wonderment! Perhaps she has not shown up?
COMBATSYS: Blanka has started a fight here.
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Blanka 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Mai has joined the fight here.
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Blanka 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Mai
"HAAAA-AH! Hckpth, pth, pthck, ugh." Mai lets out a triumphant victory cry as she bursts out of the sand castle, but this gets sand in her mouth, causing her moment to be ruined. She's dressed for the beach -- not in any kind of swimsuit, but in a tropical variant of her usual 'kuniochis are whores' attire, with a cool sky-sand-and-palms Hawaiian-shirt print in place of the typical red. She wipes more sticky sand away from her face, turning a little red -- she's covered with sand, actually, and it's clearly uncomfortable. "Okay, you've outsmarted me /this/ time, Blanka," the ninjette says, pointing a steel fan at the emerald warrior. "But you'll find me far harder to take down than /that/!"
With a sudden, leaping spin that shakes a good deal of sand from her body, Mai takes to the air, coming at Blanka with a sharp kick!
COMBATSYS: Mai successfully hits Blanka with Light Kick.
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Blanka 0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0 Mai
Caught off guard!! Blanka is unaware of sneaky kunouichi tricks, and instead surprised by a flying kick to the back of the head! He starts to spin as Mai comes in towards him, managing to take a foot to the side of his head. It causes the giant green beast to stumble, stepping back with a thud. He lands on the sand with a bump and crash, and digs up a bit of sand as he does so. Ow-roo!
"Blanka.. take down Mai!" He starts simple, though - knowing the kunouichi is supposedly speedy, he turns his back to her, crouches down, and starts shoveling an obscene amount of dirt and rocks at the woman, sending it flying between his legs at her! This should make it hard to escape!!
COMBATSYS: Mai parries Blanka's Thrown Object!
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Blanka 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Mai
Mai is trying to mentally stay one step ahead of Blanka, but his strategy confounds her -- it's so obvious and simple, Mai would never have thought of it herself. As the big rocks and sandy dirt start to fly, Mai leaps backward, grabbing two essential tools -- a beach umbrella in full bloom, and a small child's sand-shovel. Using the sand-shovel to slap dirt away out of mid-air and the umbrella as a shield -- and sometimes a staff -- to block larger rocks, Mai endures the bombing, slinking closer and closer, until...
...Mai jukes to Blanka's side and then cartwheels around to his front, before suddenly spinning, umbrella still in hand. Rather than using one of her costume's little tails, Mai instead charges the /umbrella/ with a dose of chi, swinging it like a burning baseball bat toward Blanka!
COMBATSYS: Mai successfully hits Blanka with Ryuu Enbu EX.
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Blanka 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Mai
This is not working! Blanka should have had his plan in mind before reacting like a beast. He's playing into stereotype, and easily caught up in what Mai expects of him. As he feels her close by, he tries to catch her by sliding to address her directly, but his spin puts her on his other side, which catches him with his side wide open. Hit roughly, he flops over and down again, hitting the ground and bouncing a few feet away.
This time, when he gets back up, he looks a little more peeved, his fingers tensing up into giant fists. He crik-craks his neck, and then narrows gold eyes as he leaps forwards towards Mai. His hands come in to try and grab her, and if he can get a good grip on her, he'll bring his awm nomming in to play, to slobber her like a 7th grader at their first date's slow dance. "AWH-ROO!"
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Mai with Wild Fang.
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Blanka 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Mai
Mai tosses the umbrella away once it's outlived its usefulness, and tries to outfox Blanka again by letting him charge and then jumping /over/ him. That's the plan, anyway. What actually happens is that Blanka moves faster than Mai thought and his reach comes up higher than she expected. As such, she is pulled down into the worst case of blatant sexual harassment the Neo League has yet encountered.
"Ugh! I'm getting /Blanka drool/ on me!" Mai whines, as if being bitten wasn't bad enough. She squirms, trying desperately to break free, taking little consolation in the fact that she still has enough sand on her to make it a bit like licking sandpaper. Finally, Mai thrashes out and tries to flip over Blanka, taking hold of his wild red mane to try and flip him in turn.
COMBATSYS: Blanka interrupts Shiranui Gourin from Mai with Electric Thunder.
- Power hit! -
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Blanka 0/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Mai
Awm nom nommy nom nom. Boy, that's a lot of Blanka slobber. He's not trying to hurt with this Wild Fang - instead, it's the crushing bearhug that comes with it. The dirt on his tongue will get spit out eventually - for now, it's just something he has to deal with.
Eventually, though - she tries to escape. This plays into Blanka's plan - or what little there is of it. As he's grabbed by the hair, Blanka lets Mai's body go - but his gold eyes go white, and a crackling sound escapes his chest. Blue-white arcs of electricity burst along his body, giving Mai a lovely sillouette for a moment or two, and helping her escape the attack - at the cost of being shocked away. Oops! He turns to face her, and his mouth hangs open, wide grin on his face. "Blanka.. now even. Mai ready again?"
"AAAIIIIIIII!" Mai shrieks, ponytail going stiff and straight as her skeleton flashes through her skin from the voltage. A little bit burnt and smoking, she lands on the hot sand, which doesn't help, and takes a long, hacking moment to get back to her feet. "Even? You're lucky I didn't use the suit with the cattle prod hidden in it," Mai says. "But yeah, I'm ready -- are /you/? Because you might /think/ you are, but /no one/ is ready -- for /Shiranui Ninjitsu/!"
Out of nowhere, Mai pulls out three steel fans, and throws them all. They flip open in mid-air as they spin, their sharp edges headed for the green hulk.
Where Mai was hiding three fans and how she had them just ready to be pulled out and thrown at a moment's notice... well, one of the mysteries of her style.
COMBATSYS: Blanka blocks Mai's Mizudori no Mai.
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Blanka 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Mai
Flying fans?! Whatever will the Brazillian Beast do? Blanka eyes this new level of 'Shiranui Ninjitsu' that he has to face, and tries to figure out where the things come from. He almost thinks about it too long, ending up throwing himself down towards the ground and grabbing his head with his hands, letting the fans bounce off his forearms and shoulders. He skids back a few steps from the impact, and then tries to regroup himself.
"Is... good. Mai.. strong, fast. Blanka strong, fast, too. Show you - in just a minute." With that, he starts to circle the ninja girl, hunkered down almost into a ball, preparing himself for a burst of motion, when the time is right. He's gotten an idea into his head - and he's quite ready to take it!
COMBATSYS: Blanka focuses on his next action.
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Blanka 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Mai
As Blanka circles Mai, the ninja's stance changes several times, almost to the rhythm of his movement. "You're trying to psyche me out, eh?" Mai asks, her hair a bit frizzy and puffed-out from the electric attack. "Well, ninjas /invented/ psyching people out, before there was even a word for it -- people just had to call it 'being as good at psyching someone out as a ninja!' In, uh, old-school Japanese, though, I mean." Mai feints a kick, but it's only a check-swing, squinting at Blanka as he draws himself in more and more.
For a moment, though, Mai closes her eyes. She brings her hands together, as if in prayer -- no, more like meditation, actually. Some unintelligible chant serves as the countdown -- to a bubble of chi-fire exploding outward from Mai!
COMBATSYS: Blanka interrupts Kagero no Mai from Mai with Vertical Rolling.
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Blanka 1/-----==/=======|=======\-------\1 Mai
Blanka shall have to ask Mai about this old-school japanese. He's woefully out of practice on his, managing gutteral 'aroo' and that's about it. Seriously, his attempt to write a formal challenge to Ryu for the league has been slow going, because he's unable to write Ryu's name without putting an aroo in it somewhere! However, the idea of psycheing her out appeals, and Blanka tries to figure out the best thing to do in that way! The best way to psyche her out when she's expecting psyching out is to.. do what he would have done without trying to psyche her out!
"AWH-ROO!!" Blanka howls out a challenge as the bubble of chi-fire forms, and rushes forwards in a green and red blur. He slams through the explosion of energy, a smoking, burning Blanka bounding in and up, right against Mai and slamming into her and then going straight up. He'll land dizzily, rocking back and forth - but he's still smiling. Mostly.
Mai, meanwhile, will land in a heap, a pair of shapely legs sticking out of a hillock of sand, loincloth and tails draped down to reveal how little she wears underneath. Mai kicks and kicks -- and within a few moments lurches free, wrenching herself from the deep sand and sputtering again. "Damn you," Mai says, sullenly.
The ninja stares Blanka down, trying to fighure out what his deal is, watching every little twitch, every ripple of green muscle. Her look is one of determined focus.
Then, suddenly, she leaps into the air after a short dash forward, surging into a handspring that vaults into a flying elbow! Mai seems ready to go for broke -- if she does down aganst Blanka, she does down fighting!
COMBATSYS: Mai successfully hits Blanka with Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi.
- Power hit! -
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Blanka 1/--=====/=======|=======\==-----\1 Mai
Going down fighting is never a bad thing! Blanka has done so against many an opponent, and the fighting spirit that Mai shows is quite impressive! He's willing to give her all he can, to show that he appreciates the spirit that she offers up. He steps towards the blow, to try and catch the elbow on his chest, somewhere he can get an advantageous position on the kunouichi. He misjudges however, and catches the elbow beneath his chin, right in the throat. He hacks, coughs and stumbles back, landing in a heap on the ground. Howling out a challenge, he raises himself up...
And charges. Fingers dig into the ground and he barrels in on Mai, seemingly tripping up just short. It's a fake, however, and when he comes close, he bursts into a ball of speed, kicking up dirt and dust everywhere, trying to knock Mai off her feet again as a bounding Blanka ball!
COMBATSYS: Mai dodges Blanka's Vertical Rolling.
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Blanka 1/=======/=======|=======\==-----\1 Mai
Mai hits the deck at the last possible instant, Blanka's bounce brushing the brown locks of her ponytail as she falls. Then, as she starts to get back to her feet, at the last second she suddenly drops /again/, dodging Blanka's second pass by the skin of her teeth. "Jesus!" she yipes, looking all around to make sure it's safe to get back up before she does.
Mai snaps open a fan and starts to waft cool ocean air toward her face. "You almost gave me a heart attack!" she says. "And I almost didn't get out of the way because the /sun/ was right in my /eyes/! --! Unless..." Mai reaches into her belt -- and pulls out a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. She did not accept a large check for doing so on a Neo League broadcast, but later she will wish she'd tried. As it is, she puts on the retro-chic shades and strikes a fighting pose. "Ahh," she says. "/Much/ better."
COMBATSYS: Mai gains composure.
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Blanka 1/=======/=======|=======\=------\1 Mai
Blanka ZOOM! There's a flying Blanka just over the woman's hair, and as he skids and turns to face her again, looking surprised at the sudden product placement!! "Blanka .. never get money for product placements. Just melons." He says this with a hint of wistfulness in his voice, perhaps there is a time where he will need to move to a better marketer for his skills!
No sun this time, Mai! With his and her positions reversed, Blanka has the sun in his eyes! He bounds in and comes out swinging, fingers flying left and right as he tries to simply box Mai about the head and shoulders. Punches and such, over and over, in an effort to throw off her abililty to dodge and block! "See how strong you are now!!"
COMBATSYS: Mai dodges Blanka's Medium Punch.
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Blanka 1/=======/=======|=======\=------\1 Mai
"Wait, money for product placements?" This is when Mai, as predicted previously, wishes she had tried to get some money out of this. "Oh, dammit-- aah!" Mai backflips as Blanka charges, ducking and weaving as his heavy arms swing again and again. "Come on! Quit it!" she whines, as if that was an effective fighting tactic.
Mai backflips again, putting even more distance between herself and the green machine -- but in mid-air, she's got her fan out and she /hurls/ it, the open blades spinning toward Blanka!
COMBATSYS: Blanka endures Mai's Kachou Sen.
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Blanka 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\==-----\1 Mai
No, no, throwing things at Blanka is not going to stop him today! Blanka barrels forwards, and starts to rush the kunouichi as he sees her start to throw fans. He bats the fan aside as it hits his hands, carving a gash out of his palm. The blood doesn't seem to throw him at all, and he uses the burst to speed to put him /all/ the closer. Up close and personal.
"Only way Blanka quit is if unconcious!" he throws it back, then slides down in front of Mai. As he reaches the ground before her, he hurls himself upwards into the air, trying not to hit her on the way up - but to instead throw her off and hit her as he falls back down towards the ground, giant feets aimed right at the Kunouichi's noggin!! When and if he hit's the ground, his own surprising effect will happen - watermelons planted on the beach under the sand will pop up, such is the stomping power of Blanka's tosies!
COMBATSYS: Mai dodges Blanka's Tropical Hazard.
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Blanka 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Mai
Mai gets popped up -- but knocking her down is the trick, and one that doesn't quite get pulled off. "Yeah, well, same here, buster!" Mai says, suddenly curling into a ball and using her legs to /kick/ free against Blanka's chest!
As the behemoth falls, so does Mai, but she tucks into a ball, allowing herself to start to spin and gain speed -- so as Blanka plummets to the ground, so too does Mai in full cannonball mode -- and only at the last second do her chi-flames manifest, rendering her burning death from above!
COMBATSYS: Blanka interrupts Hou'ou no Mai from Mai with Vertical Rolling.
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Blanka 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Mai
So fast!! Blanka is unsure about how he'll best handle this warrior, and really - he's at his wits end. Each move he makes, she seems to effortless and.. rather unwittingly dodge. He's kicked away from, and then sees Mai burst into flames and come right at him.
Hunkered down, he channels all the energy he can find in his tired and battered body, then lashes out and leaps upwards. He barrels into Mai, full bore, another blast of bounding Blanka bouncing. He's knocked down and away, landing in a heap on the sand - and for a few seconds, he doesn't move. Then, with a groan, he manages to start to stagger up to his feet. It's slow - but he's still in the fight!
Have you ever put a little bouncy ball on top of a big bouncy ball, dropped both, and watched the impact of the bottom ball be transferred to the top one so it goes flying?
Mai does a pretty good impression of that, sailing across the gorgeous sky to land all the way out in the water with a 'sploosh.' "Arrgghlgh! Ggaaah!" Mai thrashes to the surface, and splashes around a bit, throwing a tantrum because she's all wet. "No! No, Mai, remember... a ninja... can adapt to anything," she says to herself, closing her eyes for a moment and continuing to focus on reining herself in as she swims back to shore.
COMBATSYS: Mai gains composure.
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Blanka 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Mai
Bouncy balls indeed! Blanka is the best bouncy ball the neo league has to offer, but Mai seems to be a close second. As Blanka recovers his strength, he looks out to the splooshed, soaked ninja. Nothing worse than a poor ninja in the water, looking like a drowned rat.. er, kunouichi. His heart goes out to her, and in that moment, he makes a decision that may be bad for her!!
"Hold still!!" Blanka bounds towards the shore, Baywatch-style, scooping up a rescue buoy at the same time with one giant hand. With careful aim, he chucks it at Mai. No, not 'near' like you're supposed to. 'At'. He's a beastman, and doesn't get the idea. Sorry, Mai!! He'll have to rewatch that episode with the Hoff later!!
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Mai with Thrown Object.
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Blanka 1/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Mai
"Wha?" Mai says as Blanka starts yelling. She stops swimming long enough for the buoy to strike her directly in the head.
Mai sinks, and does not resurface.
This prompts the /real/ Neo League Baywatch team to shove Blanka out of the way, their theme music playing over the actual broadcast fight as they make their daring rescue.
COMBATSYS: Mai takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Mai can no longer fight.
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Blanka :O!!! This is not good! Blanka is left running from side to side on the beach, waiting for the refs to actuall find Mai. He's looking instantly contrite, and very nervous and scared. It's hard enough to be thought a monster, but to actually possibly /really/ hurt someone?! That's almost too much to bear!!
COMBATSYS: Blanka has ended the fight here.
The crew drags out a waterlogged and sputtering Mai, loading her onto a stretcher. "She swallowed a starfish!" one of them can be heard saying to another. "I didn't think that was even /possible/!"
Mai, however, does have enough presence of mind to give a weak thumbs-up before the doors of the ambulance are slammed shut.
Log created on 22:33:52 10/20/2008 by Blanka, and last modified on 11:42:53 10/22/2008.