Description: .... towel! Icelandic winters are cold. Very cold. Howard Enterprises won't let that stop them from sending fighters there ANYHOW! They managed to snag the beautiful Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa for two girls from Seijyun and two Todoh-Ryuu students. Guess who winds up all washed up? (Winners: Kurenai and R.Mika)
Saturday... Night... Fights! And wow did Kurenai get a doozy for her first one. The lagoon is... beatific, angelic, amazing, perfect; a steamy, near-tropical place in an icebound world. The skies above are blue, of course, with a scattering of clouds, but due to the hour, those blue skies are starting to shade purple and orange... the normally full spa is cleared out, Howard Enterprises crewmembers setting up studio lights, a commentator's desk off to one side.
"And here we are at the beautiful Blue Lagoon in Iceland, where we're awaiting the start of the fifth match of this week's Saturday Night Fights... And here comes one of the competitors now!" Truly, there she is--Takayanagi Kurenai. She's walking up to the bridge from one of the walkways--the lagoon's been paved with bricks, to make getting around easier. She is, in deference to the rules and the setting, not wearing her Seijyun outfit, but instead is wearing a two-piece bathing suit--a bikini top hugging her body, a nice wrap skirt--the whole thing has a cute floral pattern in pink and white, to match her hair--done up in the traditional poofballs she wears.
Her feet are shod in bamboo slippers, with a strap over the heel for mobility--and she's carrying her weapon. It looks like... a yardstick, complete with the printed markings. Only, it's much wider and thicker than a typical yardstick, and the end she's carrying is wrapped with grip tape.
Noticing the camera on her, she turns, looks right into it, waves, and smiles, cheerily.
Cleared of visitors, the spa is quite quiet and serene. It could even be called mystical. Magical.
ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT TO CHANGE!!!
High above the lagoon, there is a sound of rumbling. Could it be that there is a storm brewing in the distance? The sound of crashing thunder in the otherwise icy wasteland?
The rumbling draws closer and closer, until another sound can be heard.
"AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee! Ms. Harmageddon, slow down! We're about to go over the..."
From the roof of the building comes a golf cart. A golf cart which splashes into the lagoon and keeps going, after a large bundle of something is shoved off of it.
Sputtering and coughing, a masked woman bursts out from the water and shakes her head, sending a spray of water everywhere; dousing the bridge, the cameras, and anyone that happens to be in her path. Climbing up onto the bridge is Rainbow Mika! She looks extremely odd though, considering she's wearing a simple white bikini, no wrestling boots, no wraps. Her mask is damp, but still in place, as are her pigtails!
The commentator sweatdrops and continues, "And here's another competitor... also from Seijyun High, Rainbow Mika!"
The next fighter goes for something of a happy medium between the low-key entrance of Kurenai and the insane that is Rainbow Mika. The incredibly young-looking man walks into the make-shift arena wearing a snug fitting t-shirt, cargo shorts and dock shoes, showing off a lean frame. A red and white ballcap tops purple hair as the opening chords for "Forward Motion" start to play.
"You folks ringside might want to get back a few feet," the announcer states as the fighter waves to the crowds and cameras. "Because up next is one of the most explosive fighters on Saturday Night Fights! Ladies and Gentlemen... Zach Glen!"
Daniel Jack had a purpose here. Two weeks ago, he decided, in a period of low self-respect and over compensating, decided to put himself up for the contender's belt. While his eligibilty was in question, the fact he did beat Yamazaki, and held his own against Billy. So it was decided that, hey, Todoh-Ryuu was like a retarded art. It would make them seem nice to the community if they let him compete.
But then he won.
Suddenly, Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu was a world-renowned martial art, worthy of praise BY LAW. That's horrible. But Daniel Jack... he just figured everyone was underestimating his true potential. So he vowed that in his next go around, he would have his victory lauded to the heavens. So here he was in Iceland, dressed in what Master Ryuhaku Todoh explained to him... was the proper uniform for celebration by Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu law.
Dressed in the bright red kimono, the African American clomped across the walkways, face painted with white makeup. Upon his back was a massive traditional Japanese flagstaff, bearing a grandoise advertisment of Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu. Upon his waist, though, was the Contender's Belt, for all to see. The detective marched along slowly, trying to get used to the strange wooden sandels. The talking head knew that Daniel Jack was coming, and that he was a champion. But the announcer sounded a bit taken-back by the man's unusual garbs.
"And straight from his... erm... championship victory for the Contender's Belt... the hard-boiled... um... Todoh student... Daniel Jack?"
The detective glanced over at his peers, eyes narrowed. The two girls didn't beg a whole lot of attention from the detective. But Zach... well, that got something. "Hey, Zach. What's the noise on the floor, scuzzy?" He stated coldly, his eyes begging for him to say something, ANYTHING about his appearences.
COMBATSYS: Kurenai has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Daniel has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: R.Mika has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Daniel
That's a revelation--that the mysterious masked Rainbow Mika is also a Seijyun student. Something that Kurenai obviously didn't know, as she wheels around to blink at Mika--and not just for the flashy entrance! Briefly, Kurenai's eyes fall to Mika's, ah... endowments, and then she faces front. Someday, maybe. Someday. Insert a mental image of a chibi (well, more chibi) Kurenai shaking her fist with determination!
Of course, the opponents are here as well--Kurenai turns to look at Zach, as he strolls up, her ears perking as Zach is referred to as 'explosive'. Hm, -really-... And Daniel, well... Kurenai purses her lips, trying not to laugh outright. It is a -ridiculous- getup, after all. Okay, so, she kind of fails at that--snickers and little guffaws escape from Kurenai's lips. But she's across the pond, so to speak, maybe he won't hear. (And Mika's getup--her normal one--is just as ridiculous, but Kurenai can't comment on that...) She does, however, note the coldness of Daniel's tone towards his 'teammate'. Hmm. If there's something there maybe she can make use of it. Kurenai glances over at Mika again, then just steps up.
"Alright folks!! LET'S GET READY TO... RUUUUUUUU--" Suddenly the announcer's voice cuts off, and there's some furious whispering...
"Ahem. Sorry 'bout that folks. Turns out that phrase is actually copyrighted! FIGHTERS! START THE FIGHT!" At that... Kurenai moves forward. But she doesn't attack yet--she just watches her opponents...
COMBATSYS: Kurenai calculates her next move.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Daniel
"Don't laugh! It's not nice!," she hisses at Kurenai. Rainbow Mika has a thing about rudeness. She dislikes it, especially in fighters. "It's not THAT bad, it's... uh... ORIGINAL!"
Even when you can't say something nice, you can make it seem like it's nice. Damp blonde pigtails clunk forward as she nods her head. "Pink hair? That's pretty neat! I have an outfit that color," she says, still trying to be friendly. "I..."
OOOPS! Time to get things started!
Dropping forward, the up-and-coming wrestler runs across the bridge to perform a forward handstand. Her handstand doesn't have her stopping and showing off her acrobatic skill as her momentum carries her toward the silly-dressed man, her legs flying out at him to knock him to the ground, then grab him and flip him again using her powerful legs.
"INCOMING!"
Zach raises a single eyebrow at Daniel's look. He looks like he is trying not to laugh at the... flamboyantly-clad fighter. "Definitely not your color," is all Zach says in a slightly teasing tone. Then we have FLYING MIKA!?! Zach dives to one side, tucking into a roll before coming to his feet. He eyes the wrestler for a moment, before making a fast decision.
He brings himself upright, and leaps into a high, forward somersault. The psycho powered fighter whips one leg around as he aims for Mika's exposed back, a ripple of psychic energy following in the wake of the strike!
COMBATSYS: Daniel endures R.Mika's Paradise Hold!
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R.Mika 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Daniel
Yeah. Daniel Jack figured he looked funny. But he had a reason for it. Free lessons from Todoh. Still, as Zach responds, he just tightens his entire face into a fierce grimace. Oh wait. That was a smile. "Yeah. I figured. Just let me roll with it." Turning back over to the giggling Kurenai, he just sticks a finger right at her. "And kid, you better keep both sockets square on your own ass. You got a pair of Jacks aiming right for you. Choice one is real choice, the solid player being that I'm a CHAMPION." The detective sticks a thumb right at his belt. "And the second? Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu, you cheeky dame. The talent of champions, you dig? And another thing-
Suddenly, RAINBOW MIKA'D!
The champion found himself caught up with a charging bouncing... blond. Daniel hated fighting scanty panty'd females. It made him feel weird... grappling. Suddenly, he just realized what the hell the girl was doing. No. No. Why? This was- just no. Daniel Jack was literally left flat-footed as the bikini-clad school-girl trapped his head between her thighs. Upon the first slam, he began to form together a PROPER way to counter attack. Not wanted to get into a grapple longer than he has to, he suddenly began shouting.
"MMMMMPH MMM MMMPH!!!"
Suddenly, his right hand snapped out wide, his entire body growing tense. His hand flattened out for a knife strike, preparing for the powerful follow-up. As he flipped around again, he found himself free of the young thighs of confusion. And from there, he could get a good look. As Zach crossed over with his attack, Daniel Jack released the tension from his body. Still bouncing through the air, the detective unleashed the hand, trying to bring about a powerful knife hand strike RIGHT for the poor girl's neck.
Classy.
Looks like Mika's garnering all the boys' attention! Too bad for Kurenai. Even in a social setting that might be the same--might? Would be. But that's no real worry for the young girl. What she -is- worried about, right now, is her teammate getting doubled on! So Kurenai starts up, running. Her 'blade' (yardstick) is up at a high guard, shoulder level--and she moves quickly, and fluidly, her legs pumping as she charges... at Daniel! He's already been hit once, and so, she reasons, he'll be the easiest to 'take down'.
Whether that's true or not, he is who she chooses to attack--coming in quick, and lowering her blade... as she passes by him she seeks to stab the weapon right into Daniel's side. If she strikes there, she'll spin around Daniel, and then thrust her shoulder into his back for a takedown.
Of course, things -could- go horribly wrong, but they could also go horribly wrong -for Daniel-, and that is what Kurenai wants to see happen!
COMBATSYS: Daniel successfully hits R.Mika with World's Greatest Hand Chop.
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R.Mika 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
COMBATSYS: R.Mika fails to interrupt Strong Kick from Zach with Shooting Peach.
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R.Mika 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
All the boys' attention? Kurenai can have it if she wants! Rainbow Mika only has eyes for one boy. Only, he's not a boy. HE IS A MAN! HE IS THE MOST WONDERFUL WRESTLER IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE!
Zangief. *.*
Double teamed as she is, the up-and-comer first tries to stop the knife-hand strike. Her hand comes up as she rolls, but the silly-dressed man BREAKS RIGHT THROUGH HER DEFENSES and chops her on the neck, eliciting the small grrrkkk of a choking sound. This doesn't do at all! Zach's kick is noticed from the corner of her eye. Leaping to her feet, she jerks around so that she can fly at him buttocks first. This works about as well as her guard did seconds ago, leaving her knocked forward into the warm waters with another splash.
"AUUUUUGH," she yells, spitting as she comes up out of the water. "THIS ISN'T OVER YET!"
Zach whirls as he lands lightly on his feet. He grins a bit at Mika as she goes into the drink. "Of course it's not," Zach quips as he sees Kurenai charge in. He turns to face the young girl and smiles wider.
It's a good thing he got over the whole 'fighting schoolgirls' thing pretty quickly as he raises both hands. Sheets of purple energy ripple into existance as Zach focuses for a moment on, if not stopping her charge, then at least making her pay for it. "KASANE ATE!" Zach yells as he sweeps his arms downward.
The sheets, predicatably, come crashing down!
COMBATSYS: Daniel blocks Kurenai's Piercing Sparrow.
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R.Mika 1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|======-\-------\0 Daniel
Daniel Jack, free from the pale loins of the scanty panty'd school girl, takes a deep breath as he forces himself up. Oh, well, that was GREAT. In her flipping, Rainbow Mika managed to ruin his flag pole. Just PEACHY. Holding up the broken half of it, the detective just shakes his head. "Like HELL it isn't, Milk Maid, you just jacked my shin-dig, you hear me? Seething with rage, he catches someone diving for his flank. Oh right. Ruler Girl. Trying to bring himself into proper defensive form, he gets rewarded with a sharp jab at his side, only partially blocked by the broken flagstaff. But the shoulder thrust? Responded with a solid shove from Daniel's hands, knocking the girl away from him before she can cause more trouble.
Dropping the broken staff, he suddenly hears that beautiful phrase from a certain thief. 'Kasane Ate.' The detective just glares at Zach with that pale face, paint running slightly thanks to Mika's grapple. "Decent motive, -Zach-" The man spit, before raising his own hands up. "Let me follow suit, you dig?" Now focusing his attention on Kurenai, he manifested those same sheets of energy that Zach sought to copy, only orange instead of purple. "KASANE... ATE!" The detective shouted, swinging his hands down as he guided the sheets right into the boards-
Tearing them up as they ran along the walkway, attempting to catch poor Kurenai.
Whoops.
COMBATSYS: Kurenai blocks Daniel's Kasane Ate.
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R.Mika 1/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
COMBATSYS: Kurenai dodges Zach's Ka-Psi-Ne Ate.
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R.Mika 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
The boys suddenly turn to Kurenai--probably a good thing for Mika. "Mika-saaaaan!" calls Kurenai, as she spins away from Daniel during the completion of her attack, only to find him thrusting a blocky chi blast at her, tearing up the flooring. She crouches away from it, the blast bouncing her about three feet away from Daniel--and causing Zach's own version of the attack to miss its mark completely. Phew! Kurenai shakes herself out a little, frowning at the sting left behind by Daniel's chi.
"Mika-san!" she shouts, again, "Are you alright??" She doesn't make comment about the fact that she's facing both boys, now--that's the way the fight goes, and so she just turns towards Zach. As she does, her stance changes, visibly, the blade suddenly swung along her back... and then she -leaps- at Zach, literally, twisting in midair to bring the yardstick slicing down for his shoulder. As she slashes, suddenly the blade lights up with pink energies, flaring down the weapon.
"HIYAAAAAH!"
Bobbing her head right and left to shake the water from her ears, Rainbow Mika nods in agreement. "I'M FINE! BE RIGHT THERE!"
Ridiculous as she feels in the bikini Ms. Harmageddon suggested in order to follow the rules, she's happy she's got it on. She knows her wrestling gear wouldn't have shrunk since she's fought sharks in it before, yet it wouldn't be half as comfortable when she keeps splashing into the water. Waterlogged boots aren't fun!
Rushing through the water she comes up behind Kurenai, nodding. "THAT'S THE WAY! GET HIM!" Swoooooshing to the side she twists around to yank Zach upward, angle him over her hip and release him to the heated water below.
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks R.Mika's Fast Throw.
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Kurenai 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Medium Strike from Kurenai with Third Stance EX.
- Power hit! -
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R.Mika 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
Zach rolls with the throw, landing more or less on his feet between Mika and the lagoon. He grins at Daniel madly. "Lemme show you how it's done, my man," Zach says as he pulls an arm back. Kurenai is still on that death drop as Zach carefully lines up his shot.
Zach whips an open hand upward towards Kurenai just as her yardstick connects with his shoulder. He grunts a bit from the pain even as the wide, jagged swath of psycho power erupts from the ground and tosses younger girl away like a ragdoll!
Daniel Jack does watch, at Zach's invitation. Stepping back away from the damaged walkway, he let the Todoh-Ryuu Wah-Nah-Bay take it from both of the Seijyun Dames. And the detective himself? Content that his partner his handling it solid, he suddenly cracks his neck, and faces right at the camera.
"Hello all you cool cats and hot kittens out there. I'm Daniel Jack, private eye and student of Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu. You might know me from my stunning victory in the Saturday Night Fight title fight for the Contender's Belt. That's real smooth now. I just wanted to take a moment to remind y'all that there is a reason I jammed in Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu. Let me tell you. Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu is a brilliant martial art for any beginner to jam in to. Before I took it up, I had the skills of a inbred dingo at a sausage factory. Not good at all. With the Way of Todoh, I managed to square out a real solid style that jacks everyone up solid. Master Ryuhaku and Mistress Kasumi will teach you a wide range of technique that will serve you the groundwork for simple, straight forward self defense. And if you already take a martial art? The grappling techniques of Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu act as a real sharp tie in to your whole style, and let me tell you. Zach here? Not part of the official school, but he even found use for the intuitive Kasane Ate. Hear it from a champion."
Daniel Jack gives a big thumbs up before entering into his Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu defensive stance, preparing for his demonstrations of the fantastic techniques.
"Go Todoh."
COMBATSYS: Daniel focuses on his next action.
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R.Mika 1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
"OooooFF!" That last is the breath leaving Kurenai's lungs as she's psi-blasted into the air. That... that hurt quite a bit; she's sent mostly vertical, so it gives her the time she needs to flip over, landing in a picturesque three-point stance, her blade held in a reversed grip as the gust of air that kicks up when she lands ruffles her skirt. Phew. She... that hurt quite a bit, really--Kurenai glances from Zach to Daniel, as if trying to figure out which one is going to be the worst to take out. She figures it's probably Zach, really...
Which is why she charges forward, blade still in hand, still reversed... and she takes something of a camble, as she slices forward, low, for the legs... then twists upwards, bringing the weapon around through a vertical slice. A sort of reversed cross, really, the blade still humming with power when she swings it...
Things aren't looking too good for her and Mika, but... fight's not over 'til the last attack's dealt, right? She's confident that the girls can make something good happen here.
There are time when things look good right from the start, and times when they look grim. Grim times just mean you have to get tougher, and show people who's boss! Kurenai seems to have this down very well. She keeps going even when she's in pain. Rainbow Mika can respect that a whole lot, so her partner gets a smile. "Take it easy, breathe. Even if you're in a lot of pain, don't give up! We can do it!"
Fist pumping into the air, she may look like a big goof. Correction. She usually looks like a big goof. At least part of this is a ruse though since she's merely waiting for Kurenai to get out of her way before she moves forward.
Finding herself standing face to face with Zach, she grins. "HEY!" Both hands come up to hook about his head as she leaps up off of both feet to slam her knees on an angle to meet with his face.
COMBATSYS: R.Mika successfully hits Zach with Combo Throw.
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Kurenai 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Kurenai's Random Strike.
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Kurenai 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
Without releasing him, the up-and-comer drops backward. This forces Zach's face against her knees again in a painful strike as she twists her body to the side, flinging him away to the water. A MODIFIED DOUBLE KNEE FACEBREAKER! HUZZAH!
Zach puts his arms up in front of him, catching Kurenai's strikes on the forearms. He winces as he fully expects Daniel to take advantage of this moment. Which the detective does. Sort of.
"HEY!" Zach yells. "Ain't the time for an advert! Or..." Zach looks thoughtfull. "Maybe it-WAUGH!"
Mika pummels the hapless youth worker, before flinging him into the drink. Zach breaks the surface of the water, sputtering for breath. He growls as the air around him ripples, moments before more of that purple energy screams into existance. "That's it..." He don't look too happy...
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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R.Mika 1/------=/=======|=======\=====--\1 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
Daniel Jack stares at the girls, waiting for them to charge in. Yep. Aaaaaaaany minute now. The detective just sort of stands there as both of the girls... avoid him.
He just sighs, letting his guard down. Reaching in his Kimono, the student of Todoh draws out a small, snub-nosed revolver. Rubbing his temple, he brings up the gun to get a bead on... oh, how about Rainbow Mika. As she is grappling poor Zach, he waits until they both are free. Suddenly, Zach ends up in the drink. The detective squeezes the trigger, firing off a single rubber-tipped bullet right for the girl's back.
Because that's what heroes do!
Her attack blocked, Kurenai tsks a little--but she wasn't shot at, so that's good at least. Zach's 'powering up'... Kurenai glances between the two of them again, then sort of shakes her head. She doesn't know what to do! No, wait, maybe she does... She stops for a moment, to dig around in a pocket. Ah... -there- it is...
And she pulls out... a piece of chalk. Yes, just a piece of chalk, maybe about three inches long. She turns and she flings it at Daniel.
It's almost like how one sees ninjas throwing their shuriken, only... it's chalk. Really. Just chalk. But maybe it'll throw him off his game--lord knows the girls could use a break like that, right?
"Mika-san, watch out! He's--" Well, it's too late now, either she heard the damn gun go off or she didn't, nothing's gonna change that now.
COMBATSYS: R.Mika blocks Daniel's Wobbly Wobbly.
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Kurenai 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Daniel
The warning is just what Rainbow Mika needed! Due to it, she's not shot in the back with a single rubber-tipped bullet. Instead, she whirls around and it grazes her arm, bounces off her elbow and crashes into her chest.
"ARRRRRGH! I'VE BEEN SHOT!" A hand goes to where the wound would be if it were anything but a rubber bullet as she overdramatizes it. "OoOoOooo.... OW! HE GOT ME! HE GOT ME!" Down she falls onto the bridge, body twitching as she drops.
IS THIS THE END OF RAINBOW MIKA?!?!
Hardly. Maneuvering her body into a crouch, she hops up and forward, slamming her head toward Daniel's. SHOOTING DETECTIVE, CROUCHING HEADBUTT!
Zach is ignored. That may have been a mistake on the part of the ladies. He raises a single fist to the sky, and all of that loose energy collected in the elevated hand. The fist trembles with built up energy. "Who's it gonna be..." Zach mutters. Mika is headbutting Daniel low. Glen approves, and passes on the wrestler for now.
Kurenai, however, is flinging chalk, and Zach knows from experience just how much a piece of chalk can sting when thrown. Zach shifts, then charges at the pink haired ruler-fighter. As he closes, Zach slams that fist towards Kurenai's midsection. "DYNAMITE!" As the fist reaches its stopping point, Zach releases all of that pent-up energy is a massive burst of psychic force! "KNUCKLE!"
It'd be a debate as to which hurts more, but the smart money is on the psycho power.
COMBATSYS: Kurenai successfully hits Daniel with Thrown Object.
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COMBATSYS: Daniel counters Fierce Punch from R.Mika with Mad Jack Crack.
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"What the h- MY EYE!"
As Daniel fires off a shot, he notices... chalk being through at him. Well, shoot. That wasn't a problem. Moving his head a bit to the side to avoid, he instead gets the dustiness RIGHT in his EYE SOCKET. Howling in pain, he staggers a bit with his clopping shoes, plucking it out with another shout of pain. As Rainbow Mika does her own drama, this is probably high comedy at home. But then, Mika comes shooting in with one of her surprise headbutts. She rushes right towards the spasming Daniel, when all of a sudden-
Daniel grabs her by the pigtails.
With a smooth motion, he flips her first on his shoulder, and then over. Releasing her hair as he slams her to the ground, he snaps his sandal-clad shoe up and over, pinning her to the ground... by stomping a foot on her neck. Strangling her with the pressure, he slowly tucks his gun back into his the hidden holster underneath his kimono. "Better watch it, Milkie. Watch it real solid." The detective seethed, releasing his foot. "And YOU. Stickie. I got something to jack with you." Daniel began, stomping towards the other girl as Zach piled towards her...
COMBATSYS: Kurenai blocks Zach's Burst Strike.
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Kurenai 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Daniel
"HNNNFH!" Kurenai has little time to do much else than just throw her arms up and intercept Zach--he plows into her with a great deal of force, but she manages to weather the worst of the damage. Still, it smarts like crazy--more than that, the energy is doing a big number on her--and Mika's not looking so hot. It's time to stage a comeback... it's time to do some awesome stuff! Or is it? In any case, it's certainly time to act. She doesn't inquire as to Mika's general health and well-being, as she knows it's not well.
So she just concentrates on... someone. Zach. He's the one who's done the most to her--so she turns back after him, her blade raised. And then she -lunges-. She lunges forward, her feet literally not touching the ground until she's right at Zach--and stabbing outwards with her blade aglow. Once high, once mid, once low, then once mid again, a quick four strikes for Zach's torso.
She isn't -angry-, per se... but she's determined... and she wants to make Zach feel that determination. In the form of a stick. Mika... well, she doesn't want Mika to be hurt either, but it's too late for that, so all she can hope for is the best with this.
"WHU--!?!!"
Irked by the fact she's grabbed by her hair, Rainbow Mika grumbles. There's no time to react before there is a sandal pressing against her neck, cutting off her air supply. Coughing in a choked manner, she refrains from struggling overly much until his foot is removed. The very second it is...
Feet are hopped up to, one hand rests on her hip as she points at him with the other. "MIKA! THE NAME IS RAINBOW MIKA! NOT MILKIE!"
Instantly, she's running toward Daniel at an alarming speed, shadows of similarly running Rainbow Mika's trailing behind her. A single-footed hop has her leaving the wet ground so that she can get her leg around his neck. The leg lariat isn't completely finished, since she's choosing to turn it into a modification on her Wingless Airplane attack! Flipping over, she drops downward hoping to bring Daniel with her to smash his head against the lockstone under the water.
"GET IT RIGHT!"
Maybe that will knock some sense into him.
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Kurenai's Demon Flurry.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Daniel
Zach sees the attacks incoming. He twists and weaves with very careful timing allowing the ruler, and more importantly, the chi to pass him by. He lets out a low whistle at the end of it. "Nice," he comments as he sets into something that resembles a horse stance.
"Try this on for size," he says as he brings back one hand. Psychic energies spin into the withdrawn hand, spiraling until they form a perfect sphere. "IMPULSE FLARE!" Zach yells out as he lunges forward, driving the mass of pure pain directly at Kurenai. It appears that Zach is going more for speed than hit location...
COMBATSYS: Daniel fails to counter Sardine's Beach Special from R.Mika with You Got Jacked!.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 1/------=/=======|=======\======-\1 Daniel
COMBATSYS: Daniel can no longer fight.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 1/------=/=======|
Daniel continues his slow, clopping advance towards Kurenai, eyes burning, face frigid. As she and Zach dance the dance of kings, something came up. Some mixed up. From behind him, Rainbow Mika unleashed her fury straight at his back. Well, that wasn't a problem. Bracing himself for the on rushing charge, the detective seems to notice two major problems. The first was that she was coming at him with alarming speeds. The second was that while he was expecting a hand-based grab, Mika wasn't.
What WAS a problem, now, was the sudden snatching of her leg at his neck. Grabbing her offending body, he seems to be at odds on how to approach a seventeen year old girl in a skimpy outfit latching on to his face. During this careful consideration, the detective suddenly finds himself in the water now, sinking faster, and faster, and faster, when suddenly-
*crack*
A sharp stream of bubbles shoot up as the light gets snuff out of the student of Todoh. Knocked out cold, he simply begins to enter the floating stage of unconsciousness as he sort of... pretends to be a pet goldfish, so to speak.
COMBATSYS: Kurenai reflects Impulse Flare from Zach with Hades Return.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\1 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/------=|
Here he comes again! But this time, Kurenai will have NONE OF IT. She's pretty damn close to him--he's moving pretty fast--and yet she moves smoothly, calmly almost, her stance switching back to the sweeping one, the blade held against her back. But it's only there for a moment, as she then suddenly sweeps the glowing blade around, creating an arc of her pink power, as she shouts, "RETURN!!"
The first arc--it literally stops Zach in his tracks, for that brief brief moment that he stops... and then she's sweeping around, cutting upwards, sending another, cutting surge of chi through Zach's frame--the physical strike combining nicely with the explosion of chi off her blade.
The counterattack throws the young man back away from Kurenai, hopefully giving her some breathing room and perhaps allowing Mika to come back to the world and attack him again... after so handily taking Daniel out.
"ACK!" Rainbow Mika didn't intend to drown the man! She just wanted him out of the picture so that she and her partner could stop worrying about him potentially shooting them with something other than rubber bullets! Upon realizing that Daniel has passed out in the water, she decides to go fishing.
Her hand dips into the water. Swirling it around until it catches the kimono, she takes the semi-floating man and rolls him up onto the bridge.
AT LEAST NOW SHE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH!
One down, one to go. Task completed, she can now focus her attention upon Zach. Kurenai seems to be distracting him with energy, which allows her to slip in behind the other man. Quietly as she can be beyond the steady drip-dripping of water from her pigtails, Rainbow Mika brings her arms about Zach to crush him in a bearhug.
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges R.Mika's Medium Throw.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\1 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/------=|
Zach screams as Kurenai's attack tears through him. His shirt tatters as the chi blade carves a bloody trench across his chest. He staggers back several feet, his somewhat precarious balance wrecked by the sudden reversal. He doesn't see Daniel go down. He doesn't see Mika go in after him. That all happens before his sight returns, and he is able to throw a glance over his shoulder. It's then he sees the wrestler coming for him. He wheezes out a word that will get bleeped out. Gotta love that five second delay, folks!
Instead of recovering his momentum, Zach rolls back with it, slapping both hands down on the stone beneath him into a powerful handspring that carries him in a high arc that carries him over the blonde. A growl rises in his throat as he cups both hands together. Bright purple light, almost with in the center, gathers between the palms as they come to a rest by one hip. The roar grows in volume as Zach thrusts both hands forward. The sphere of energy expands briefly before snapping, turning into a five foot wide beam that Zach sweeps towards Mika. It seems as if he will try to get Kurenai in the bargain, but the beam tapers off and vanishes into the ether before he can hit the math whiz with it...
Something she is -entirely- grateful for--as the effort of repelling Zach's crushing attack was quite taxing on the young girl, who is panting in place. "Phew..." She shades her eyes, as the bright beam flares out--straight for Mika. Oh no! Well, there's not much Kurenai can do about that... except to pray. Well, she's not really the praying type. She does, however, stop to catch a breath, literally... leaning on her weapon for a moment.
"Mika-san! Be careful! I'll be with you in... in just a moment, I swear...!" God, she never thought a fight like this could be so -hard-... But it's only the short breather that she really needs, before she brings her weapon back up. She thinks, briefly, about what to do when Zach's uber-beam is done... but that, by and large, depends on what Mika does. She hopes the girl can survive, at least...
COMBATSYS: Kurenai gains composure.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: R.Mika blocks Zach's Burst Stream.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|
"WHA--"
Rainbow Mika has learned something very important about the younger girl that's fighting with her. She likes to give warning when the up-and-coming wrestler is about to be hit! A bit distracting that! In a good way though, since she manages to look back at Zach in time to see his hands turning purple. Bright purple. Thrusting toward her and...
OH CRAP!
Both hands shoot out in front of her, her head ducking between them as she tries to just STOP the beam altogether.
Stopping the beam doesn't happen, but she does manage to deter the stream of energy from hitting her with the full force. She's pushed back a great deal, further away from Zach and her partner than she wishes to be, that's for sure!
Rainbow Mika rubs her eyes, fixing the mask she wears as she does so. Pain and fatigue have hit her now, and she starts lumbering forward more slowly than she was even just minutes before. "AUUUUGH! BE CAREFUL WITH THAT, YOU COULD HAVE BLINDED ME!"
She's probably not aware that Kurenai nearly blinded Zach as well. She was busy. Fishing.
Zach is not her target just yet though. Her target is one of those white chairs on the deck on the other side of the bridge. Clenching her hands down onto it, she hikes it up into the air, swinging it a few times. Her intent? To trudge back through the water and crash it down upon Zach's head.
COMBATSYS: R.Mika successfully hits Zach with Random Weapon.
- Power hit! -
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R.Mika 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|
Zach winces as he lands. There's a bit of a wobble on the landing as Zach's injuries catch up to him. He stays on one knee, gasping for air. He looks up just in time to see Mika charging in with the chair. It's no good, he thinks. He can't move in time...
And so Mika demonstrates why the chair is pro wrestling's deadliest weapon, catching Zach under the chin and sending him in another high arc. The young man crashes to the ground, and barely gets himself to one knee. He tries to keep his opponents in his sight, but that is hard to do when seeing is a sometimes thing...
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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R.Mika 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|
Blinded? Naw. She doesn't go for the eyes, she's not Boo! Kurenai does, however, wince slightly when Zach gets chaired. That had to hurt bad. But he should be on his last legs now--one more push and they should have him! Or so the theory goes. Kurenai starts rushing in again, her brief breather just what the doctor ordered. That doesn't mean Zach gets the same prescription. No, the doctor's ordered up some PAIN for Zach. Courtsey of two young women, a blonde-haired wrestler and a pink-haired math whiz.
"Right... if I move in at -this- angle..." She smiles to herself, her blade held at the shoulder-high, point-forward stance again... and then she dashes in to get close to Zach... and then she drops to a crouch. She does that so that she can thrust the yardstick up, seeking to plant it firmly, and briefly, in Zach's guts. Hopefully to end this fight... if she can strike properly.
Deadliest and most used! Zach should be thankful that she's not opening and closing the chair while slamming his head in the middle! That hurts a lot worse than it crashing down on a head. This is something that Ms. Harmageddon repeatedly beat into Rainbow Mika, so she'll never forget it!
Flinging the chair into the water, the wrestler slams both fists to her hips. Surveying the damage she's done to the man, she considers catching a breather herself.
Then she hears what she will later SWEAR was the sound of a golf carts revving engine in the distance.
GULP!
Better not let her mind stray to rest until she sees this through! Hopping toward Zach, she grins. Pivoting around, she backward-hops to leap high above Kurenai's crouch to take Zach down with her Flying Peach!!!
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Kurenai's Medium Strike.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges R.Mika's Flying Peach.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Zach
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Kurenai 0/-------/-------|
Zach winces as he sees the girls coming back for another round. He simply pitches himself to one side as Kurenai comes in with the stick, dodging the attack by mere centimeters. This happily allows him to avoid Rainbow's rather... unorthodox attack. Were he in better condition, and of a dirtier mind, he'd say something about a girl who attacks a guy by throwing here hindquarters at them...
But Zach is neither at the moment. He uses his crouching stance, and slightly off to the side positioning, to fire a quick kick at Kurenai's knee. Oddly, there is none of that energy he has been flinging around almost non-stop...
COMBATSYS: Kurenai interrupts Medium Kick from Zach with Demon's Charge.
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R.Mika 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Zach
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She's prepared, now--the kick is taken not on the knee, but in the thigh. That hurts, quite a bit in fact, but it isn't the disabling, destabilizing hit it could have been. And it leaves Zach open--very open. Because her blade meets the attack as well, the wooden weapon shifting Zach's leg out of the way, slightly... and then Kurenai is rising herself, into a hard shoulder charge, pushing off with her legs to throw Zach upwards and away from her--with just enough room for her to bring that weapon to bear.
And the attack she chooses is a simple straight thrust, right into Zach's gut, to put the young man -down-. It'll be a painful hit, but as she's not using live steel, hardly killer... and hopefully that'll just do it. That'll just finish the fight, she hopes. But Zach... well, maybe he's got a surprise or two up his sleeve; Kurenai remains wary.
"AIIIIEEEEeeeeeeeee!" Rainbow Mika was NOT expecting to go flying PAST Zach to hit the water again, skipping across the top of it like a stone. Finally coming to a stop, she falls into the water onto the lockstones on her behind. A FWOOSH of water droplets fly upward, showering back down upon her to leave her looking like a drowned rat.
Getting to her feet, she fistpumps in the air. "That's the way to do it! YEAH! GOOD JOB!"
She doesn't believe for a second that the man is down for the count though. He might come back at them with more of that bright, blinding purple energy. UNNNGGGH! Better not let that happen!
Rainbow Mika run-run-run-run-runs back through the water, not being at all delicate about it. She actually sounds like a large, lumbering bear. This is expanded upon as she tosses out a quick, head-level swipe to the back of Zach's head.
COMBATSYS: Zach fails to interrupt Quick Punch from R.Mika with Impulse Flare EX.
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COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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Zach gasps as Kurenai's thrust hits. The young girl may recall, looking back, that the blow crashed directly into a scar, slightly larger than a young girl's fist. The young man rocks back, and Mika seems to be making a pile-on of things. Glen whirls, and summons up one last sphere of psychic power. He drives it forward...
...and it goes wide, missing the wrestler completely. Zach slumps forward a bit, before falling on his face. He's not getting back up tonight.
Kurenai wobbles, hard, after she completes her technique; she's on the closer end of fatigued now, and that leg's starting to show the pain of that kick. But she manages to stay upright, even as Zach goes down for good; there's a satisfied smile on her face, joy at a fight well-fought. The pink-haired girl trots over to her temporary partner, offering a tired smile, even as the medics come racing over to check on all the fighters.
"Thanks," she offers, her tone tired and sincere. "You really saved my bacon back there..." She isn't sure how, exactly, but she's sure it happened. The little girl considers, for a moment, then seems to nod to herself. She could use some friends.
"Look me up some time at Seijyun High, if you want to hang out," she offers--and then one of the medics takes he by the shoulder. "Miss, we have to check you out, please come this way." Kurenai smiles again, then waves as she's led off by the medics.
A smile is offered to Kurenai as the medic appears. "Oka---"
The distant rumbling that Rainbow Mika could swear she heard just seconds ago is suddenly RIGHT THERE! Yoko Harmageddon thrusts a hand out, yanking her protege up by the pigtails. "YOU DID GOOD," the woman yells, barrelling the golf cart through the water to the rocky ridge on the other side. "BUT DON'T LET IT GET TO YOUR HEAD. YOU NEED MORE TRAINING!"
"Yes, yes, Ms. Harmageddon! More training!" She can be heard as the golf cart makes over the ridge, "Can I change first?"
"NO! TRAINING NOW! DON'T MAKE ME MAKE YOU RUN!"
COMBATSYS: R.Mika has ended the fight here.
Log created on 17:30:04 01/11/2009 by R.Mika, and last modified on 20:19:44 01/12/2009.