Description: JAPAN! ENGLAND! COLLISION! MAD GEAR! SHOOTING!
Kerian hasn't been back in the forest in ages.
Yes, he'd been here before. He remembered it well - long ago, when Ginyu had dropped him off in the middle of this nowhere, with nary a ration or shelter, and told him to 'survive'.
His meeting with Zangief had reminded him of it, and he'd felt the urge to come back. He couldn't quite say why - maybe it was how similar the big man had been to Ginyu, maybe it was his desire to pay his respects to his Master, maybe it was all of these and none of them. Who knew?
He's still wearing the Masamune reproduction, slung across his back, from the televised fight. He's back in his school uniform, he's back in his familiar, comfortable clothes, and he had his handgun back - most important of all.
He looks down at the ground under his feet. "Master..." He murmurs, his lilting English accent unheard by all but the ground, the trees, and the animals nearby.
He strides over to a rather large cliff, cutting away to the forest below, and smiles. "I met a rather interesting fellow today, Master. A wrestler. You'd've liked him quite a bit. Just as loud as you were."
His smile flickers a bit. "I haven't made any progress in my training...and I haven't made any progress in finding them. I'm sorry...I'm still a pretty sorry excuse for a pupil, aren't I, Sensei?"
"I wish you were here. You'd know what to do, wouldn't you? You always knew what to do."
Of course the shogun KNOWS NO WORDS for those abound. The forest is not only a peaceful place where people can get away from it all, but also is a place where CRIME and VILLANRY are possible to hide out. It turns out that the words from Kerian are able to cover the distance that is necessary, and a FOUL WIND blows.
Okay, not so much a foul wind but a TERRIBLE SHOGUN moves. In his normal, equally freakish, attire... the Shogun is ANYTHING but normal, and the words that Kerian has to say to the wind .. is interesting.
YET FOOLISH. FOOLISH LIKE ALL THAT THE SHOGUN SEES BEFORE HIM. It is with not a heavy heart but a strong arm that the Shogun begins his traveling. Towards Kerian. Towards these words. TOWARDS THE YOUTH THAT HAS BEEN LEAD ASTRAY BY SOME FOOLISH FOOL OF A MASTER.
And The Shogun, without taking a single step, gets closer to Kerian.
This is because the Shogun is climbing the cliff. With his Jitte. Straight upwards. AND FROM NOWHERE. "You .... CANNOT DEPEND ON SOMEONE WHO ISN'T HERE!" The voice makes itself obvious after a moment, the Shogun climbing up, first two meaty hands, then the mask of the shogun .. FOLLOWED by the Shogun HIMSELF.
"And you ruined .. RAMEN TIME with your constant babbling!" He's still hanging there.
Oh lord.
"You again?" Kerian manages, staring down at the...erm...SHOGUN...with not a bit of regret and possibly pity for the poor nutter. "And I was having such a nice day, too..."
Briefly, he considers just shooting the poor man and putting him out of his madness. But this of course passes, and he shifts his sword to his hip - just in case - and sighs. "I'm sorry for ruining your ramen time with my trip down memory lane. Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" Might as well try and dodge a fight if possible.
As Kerian stares at the Shogun, Katana looks on to his from behind the mask. Eyes that stare, blackness, pools of it, stare towards Kerian. And as the sword shifts about, the Shogun is apologized too. Yes. YES! He does like apologies from those who have wronged him.. but he is not so forgiving.
"HahahhAHAHAHHA! To make it up to .. THE SHOGUN OF MAD GEAR!?" Katana asks, as he fully gets on his feet, moving closer, rather large and massive.. ESPECIALLY those shoulder pads that go up to his ears. "You .. ONLY HAVE ONE OPTION!" He notes, as he moves ever closer. "I .. lack someone who shoots things... SO YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS!" His voice jumps .. wait he just said that ..
It's best not to think of it, as the Shogun raises both hands into the air, flexing with the jitte 'spinning' at the same time. AMAZING.
"You ... SHALL JOIN TH MAD GEAR GANG.. or .. YOU SHALL FACE DOOM!"
Oh what lovely choices. He points, too, with a jitte he stops spinning.
Kerian stops. Mad Gear? He'd heard of them. Wait. Yes...he'd heard of them -multiple- times, in fact. Prominent gang...underworld connections...
The wheels start turning in his head. Criminals were the best way to find criminals. And maybe, just maybe, this, too, was being set up by Ginyu-sensei.
The bishonen just sort of smiles. "I accept your offer. I'll join Mad Gear."
To emphasize the point, he sat down on his haunches and bows in traditional Japanese style. Oh, how he hated that moment.
Bowing to this lunatic.
But he had no choice. The door was open - he'd stepped through it. Now time to see what he could find. He'd make use of this turn, oh yes. He was, after all, the son of an entrepreneur.
OHOHOHOHOHO. The Shogun watches as Kerian accepts it.
No one every accepts it. NO ONE. "That ... was easy." The Shogun goes on to note, tapping his chin slightly. "Yes.. quite easy. CLEARLY THE WILL OF THE SHOGUN IS STRONG." But then, gears turn. Kerian continued to bow, and accept, but the Shogun looks towards Kerian one .. last time. At least for this 3 minute interval that he is looking at him. Then he looks at him again.
"... Then you .. WILL KNOW OUR GREATEST ENEMY!" He exclaims, loudly, like usual.
"Who .. IS THE ONE WE FEAR THE MOST!? AND WHAT DO WE WORK FOR!?" The Shogun has heard many different answers. Many of them right! In a round a bout way.
BUT WILL KERIAN KNOW!?
"ANSWER!"
Kerian stops. He sits up, thinking about it for a moment. He remembered, vaguely, something from a speech...and something Zangief had said...
Really, he had no idea. It wasn't apparent, of course, in his pretty face and pursed lips, but he stands after a moment.
"Mayor Haggar." It was a guess, a guess brought on simply because he remembered how much Zangief hated the man for stealing his moves. It was like Ginyu was guiding him towards revenge from beyond the grave, and all the pieces had fallen together in his favor. And honestly, if it wasn't right, maybe Katana would find it funny enough not to instantly attack him.
He was ready to draw his gun, if necessary. He just hoped it wasn't. "And of course, Mad Gear works...to control Metro City." That, he knew, for sure. He'd heard it on a T.V. report the other night, while watching the Saturday Night Fight. In fact, he'd heard quite a bit about just how heroic Mayor Haggar was, and just how villainous the evil Mad Gear was.
It was too perfect. Opportunity was screaming at him from the other side of the threshold...he'd opened the door...now he just had to get past the lunatic standing in the way.
Ah yes. Mayor Haggar. "And his little friends too.. Yes.. ONE DAY HE SHALL RUE THE DAY! For Metro City WILL be ours!" The Shogun continues on.
But it's simple that as Kerian continues on, the Shogun .. quite happy.
Wait. Back up. Ultimate work for is ... Control Metro City!? The Shogun agrees. Except.. that is half. "You ... have failed." The Shogun says grimly. "Indeed.. Mayor Mike Haggar is our foe .. but you see..." His body, unmoving, his mask, staring blankly down towards Kerian.
"While I work for that.. it helps to have a side project.. THAT EVERY TRUE MAD GEAR MEMBER WOULD KNOW!" The Shogun takes a lumbering movement towards Kerian, body moving forwards.. step by step. ".... My. Truck. The MAD GEAR SEMI. It is the culmination of our efforts, and shall be, until that is finished... SO FOR NOW!"
The Shogun raises his jitte. "YOU HAVE BEEN JUDGED! Come back later... BUT ONLY IF YOU SURVIVE! SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
His battle cry rings outwards. "DESSUUU KAWAIIIIII NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKO!"
This .. IS CLEARLY BAD.
Kerian frowns as his gun falls into his hand, his left hand closing around the sword, preparing to use it as a shield-weapon if necessary. Dammit. Maybe things weren't going his way.
Perhaps he'd just have to kick the shogun around a bit. Maybe that'd get the lunatic to take him.
He needed these contacts, dammit. This was important - whether the Mad Gear leader knew it or not.
"Alright then..." He hisses, "I have no choice, then."
As well, Kerian finds out the Shogun is insane.
NO WAIT he probably already KNEW THAT. "No choice.. BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT LEARNED OF THE TRUE MAD GEAR WAY. Maybe in the future.. shall you be worthy to call yourself one of Mad Gear!" With the Japanophiles and the female?s and the fat guys and the angry ones.
A STELLAR BUNCH OF WINNERS OF PURE EXCELLENCE.
Changing positions, the Shogun points a jitte towards Kerian once more, smiling. "YOU have no choice!?" His smile is of course hidden. The mask tells nothing. "I .. have no choice! AND NOW!.. BEAR WITNESS!" Because the Shogun is about to do something HE LOVES.
Dashing towards Kerian, he attempts to .. GRASP HIM!?
"BUTSUMETSU!" If the grasp connects, the Shogun leaps high into the air with Kerian, before spinning and bringing Kerian down in a head first powerbomb. "BUSTER!"
It's not Zangief, and it never will be.. but it is unwelcome all the same.
COMBATSYS: Katana has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Kerian has joined the fight here.
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Katana 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kerian
COMBATSYS: Kerian dodges Katana's Butsumetsu Buster.
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Katana 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kerian
Kerian slides out of the way nimbly. It was like watching a movie in slow motion, and he simply dances around Katana's attack, gracefully raising his gun at the back of Katana's head.
"I think you're the one who should bear witness," he says idly, sounding almost...bored.
He squeezes the trigger.
The chi-bullet ripples out of the gun, rocketing towards Katana with an eerie quiet. It's only once it would reach, hit, or pass Katana that the sound of the gunshot itself - the thunderclap - would catch up with the silvery chi-bullet's path.
Kerian was already ready to block again, hand still on the reproduction Masamune.
COMBATSYS: Katana blocks Kerian's Magnum Blast.
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Katana 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Kerian
As Kerian slides out of the way, the Shogun is not happy for such a nimble assault to fail! Yet the problem is how Kerian easily slides away, and then equally as easily seems to fire something at him.. a chi-bullet gun, which rockets towards the Shogun, the thunderclap crashing into the Shogun as he raises his guard, absorbing the blow.
"HaHAHAHAH! You think .. I CARE ABOUT WHAT STRENGTH ANOTHER HAS!?" The Shogun bellows, the eruption of chi crashing against him, but holding steady. "No ... THE ONLY STRENGTH I CARE OF IS MY OWN! I ... HAVE NO EQUAL!" And indeed, that is what he believes.
It's as Kerian stands still that the Shogun LEAPS to respond, blades moving with him. The jitte are brought backwards, and swung forwards, as he closes the gap so quickly. "HIYAAAAAAA FLYING DEATH GROUND SPIN KASUU MO DAI!"
And then .. he spins, blades and all! OH NO TOP ATTACK.
COMBATSYS: Kerian dodges Katana's Fierce Strike.
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Katana 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Kerian
Kerian leaps, a huge, high leap over Katana, high into the air. The ground where he'd been standing, indeed, has blown apart, a pair of craters sitting where his feet had discharged energy. He spins, falling towards the man with his gun held high, a hammer of judgement charged with chi and ready to discharge in a painful, painful blow. His long, beautiful hair spreads outwards, gossamer-thin angel-wings shimmering in the sun, and the hammer falls, the hanging Damocles locking in for the strike.
COMBATSYS: Katana fails to counter Random Strike from Kerian with Shiraha Catch.
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Katana 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Kerian
The Shogun is incapable of catching Kerian as he falls, and it seems that there is little he can do to respond to it easily. The sword, or perhaps the gun, is not caught in time, and the Shogun staggers backwards from the assault. He has truly finally been done with it.
There is no more time for simple games!
The Shogun holds his mask, before raising the jitte once more. "This ... is .. already over."
He clearly plans on something.. but what?!
Kerian clearly doesn't care what the man wants. He backsprings off the man from the sheer force of the gun blow, rising back into the air, and his gun swings up to bring the SHOGUN's leg into his sights. Another shot, and he flies backwards from the force of the silvery chi-bullet's discharge, landing on one of the tree-branches and looking quite calm as he perches, one hand on the sword, one on the gun, crouched down like a medieval ninja fighting a samurai.
Of course, medieval ninja never used guns, and samurai probably weren't quite this crazy, but one could overlook that, perhaps.
COMBATSYS: Kerian successfully hits Katana with Crippling Shot.
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Katana 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Kerian
No matter what the Shogun seems to do, nothing seems to work..
BUT THAT SHALL CHANGE.
"Ha .. HAHAH!" The Shogun bellows, laughter after everything. "Do you not see.. THAT I HAVE ALREADY WON!?" The Shogun intends to make it an important note of it all.. and crashing through the forest, the Shogun moves rather .. quickly. The jitte are raised as he moves closer, before aiming to crash them down onto Kerian.
"DAIKYOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
If he connects, the Shogun will crush Kerian against the ground, grasping him and running him into the earth, before tossing him upwards and grasping him, and bombing him ... again straight into the ground! "BURNIIIIING!"
Oh yeaaaaah!
COMBATSYS: Kerian interrupts Daikyou Burning from Katana with Sideways Shot.
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Katana 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Kerian
"Talk is cheap."
His hand slides the blade out of its sheath effortlessly, the enormous sword charged to block the block with the fullest extent of his strength. At the same time, his gun tilts to the side, as he locates Katana's weak point...
There. The leg. He rolls out of the way of the attack, his arm sore from blocking the blow, and fires into Katana's knee, sliding up behind the tree for cover.
Heh. Already over? He had no idea who he was dealing with.
It doesn't matter any longer. THE SHOGUN SHALL HAVE HIS HEAD NO MATTER WHAT.
Running towards Kerian, after being shot, the Shogun simply intends to crash INTO the gun wielding warrior. "The Shogun ... SHALL DESTROY YOU RIGHT THIS SECOND!" Even if the Shogun is blasted, he continues to charge. Towards the tree? HAH. THE SHOGUN CRASHES INTO THE TREE.
The jitte slide around, and perhaps through as well, as he intends to make Kerian simply A SHISH-KE-BAB!
"Cheap.. !? AND YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WORTHLESS RUNT!"
"YOU WILL NEVER GET INTO MAD GEAR!"
COMBATSYS: Katana successfully hits Kerian with Deep Strike.
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Kerian is hit. The chi armor soaks the brunt of the hit, but it still hurts.
And that's when he rounds the tree to meet Katana in the face, blood pouring down his arm from the blows and the force of blocking Katana's earlier strike.
"Runt?" He says, a grin on his face.
The gun falls into his hand, and he disappears.
If Katana wasn't as insane as he seemed, he might remember the moment, the horrible moment of waiting, when the young man vanished from the fight and started circling Choi at the godlike speed he was so capable of. The telltale explosion of chi on the ground, the enormous crater, the tree falling...
Wait, the tree falling?
It didn't matter. Before the tree could even reach Katana, the Godlike Bullet Rave had begun.
One, two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four...too many afterimages of the young man to count, running around the SHOGUN too fast to match, too fast to see. He was speed incarnate, he was the wind, quicksilver, light, all rolled into one. The innumerable Kerian images raise their guns towards Katana, not even looking at him.
The circle of death pierces forward, shredding the falling tree like a buzz-saw even as the incredible chi-blasts streak into the SHOGUN's center. It was incredible to behold - were there bystanders, they'd be jaw-dropping, freaking out, shrieking, and cheering. But there were no bystanders - only the trees and the forest.
They were bearing witness to power unleashed.
He was eating a trench in the ground as he ran, ran, ran so fast, too fast, the acrid stink of burning rubber filling the air and brushed away by the gust of wind from his backlash.
Finally, he skids to a halt, leaping onto a nearby tree for cover, just in case Katana managed to survive the rave. He wasn't even exhausted this time.
Maybe he was making progress on his training after all.
COMBATSYS: Kerian successfully hits Katana with Godlike Bullet Rave.
- Power hit! -
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Katana 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Kerian
The Shogun is assaulted by multiple forms of this child. THIS CHILD. But he endures. He lives through it. The assault slams into the SHogun, blasts weakening him in the end, but in the end, the Shogun seems to refuse to fall, armor and all coming .. somewhat unscathed through the assault.
The Shogun however is in terrible condition, which involves struggling to stand at all.
But that's not important right now.
"Haha.. that is it ... !? The Shogun ... is NOT AMUSED...... not .. impressed at all! .. I HAVE FACED FAR WORSE THAN THESE SIMPLE BLASTS!" And the Shogun makes sure to point this out, as well. He has to. HE'S THE SHOGUN.
"It's over.. now .. truly... THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR YOU TO SURVIVE!" He bellows once again, looking towards the tree that Kerian hided behind. "Not .. that.. nor anything .. will allow you .. TO ESCAPE THE SHOGUN'S WRATH!" The blood seeping in the mask is a good indication of how serious this is not to the Shogun.
AND HOW SERIOUSLY HURT THAT BOY WILL BE OOOOOOOH.
COMBATSYS: Katana focuses on his next action.
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Katana 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Kerian
Kerian rounds the tree close to the ground, practically loping on all fours. For a moment, it seems like he truly is the white wolf, his hair a mane of fur, his brilliant blue eyes shining with predatory brilliance. He wasn't distracted by the man's threats, his chirping, his talking. He was ready to strike, dodging left, right, left, right, unpredictable in his patterns, quick and animalistic in his movements.
And then he strikes, from just under Katana's chin, both hands on his gun, forcing it upwards into a hellacious uppercut.
COMBATSYS: Katana interrupts Random Strike from Kerian with Run Your Ass Over.
*KNOCKED AWAY*
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Katana 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Kerian
It's perhaps not obvious why Katana is just sitting there.
It should be made clear. The Shogun has been fighting Kerian on a cliff. And those below could hear him. And he has been bellowing. And now he stands there, waiting, looking towards Kerian. Clearly, the Shogun is doomed. Clearly, there is nothing more that the Shogun is capable of. He has been driven to a corner.
And Kerian comes forwards, not distracted.
It was not a distraction. The Shogun was willing to throw everything away to claim a victory. As Kerian strikes from under the Shogun's chin, forcing it upwards in an uppercut motion.
The Shogun's hand shoots out, grasping the gun.
"... NO. This .. is where .. you endure .. MY WRATH!" He thrusts the gun-laden warrior outwards.
And then.. it comes.
Barreling through the forest is a semi, snapping smaller trees like toothpicks and the larger ones bend in it's might. It is so heavily armored that such a thing is unimportant. And the Shogun is holding Kerian infront of it's path, when it hits on the breaks, and then slams straight into Kerian.
"HAHAHAH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! This .. boy .. IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOT LISTEN!"
Oh, he's very happy now.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!" Kerian may end up spiralling away, but probably not too far.
Kerian cracks a grin. He'd survived this fall before - Ginyu himself had pitched the poor man over the same cliff nearly half a lifetime ago. His gun flies up to target the SHOGUN's head.
"Thanks for the escape," he says cheerily, the wounds of his body already starting to catch up to him...but not before a final attack.
One shot, two shots, three shots, four, five, six, spinning in precise order, heading straight for Katana's head. Another six, and another...a small wall of bullets, each spinning behind the one before it, increasing their power exponentially. It was a hellish attack.
He fell, plummetting down the cliff, and whips out the sword. Jamming it into the wall, he slows his descent, until he leaps off and disappears into the forest, not waiting to see whether or not Katana survived the blow.
COMBATSYS: Kerian can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Katana dodges Kerian's Headshot Rave.
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Hahahahah! The Shogun still laughs in all his glory, and the gun flies up to target the Shogun's head. If there was anything there to begin with, it would be a good target.
But alas.
As the bullets, spreading out, come towards the Shogun, the mighty warrior .. ducks. He then runs towards the bullets, leaping towards the wall of bullets. "Shogun ... LEAP! MIGHTY LEAP!" And grasping onto the truck, the Shogun is pulled free of the bullet rave. There is nothing really in finesse that allows him to escape.
"I SHALL SEE YOU AGAIN BOY. AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, KNOW.. THAT YOU WILL SEE MAD GEAR AS A JOB OPPORTUNITY... IF YOU'RE NOT POLICE OKAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-" And the honk honk honk causes the Shogun to VANISH into the moonlight.
And forest.
ONE CAN STILL HEAR HIS CALL! "SHIIIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Log created on 22:25:49 11/05/2008 by Kerian, and last modified on 00:55:29 11/06/2008.