Description: Oh that Kyo Kusanagi. One of the most skilled fighters on the planet, his talents are near legendary -- as are his abrasive and belligerant personality, his penchant for not listening to the rules, and his overall, general laziness. He's on the path to a bad road, and that's why it's up to someone who's been down that road to /scare him straight./ Cody, former hero-turned-convict, has been assigned an important mission: to use his own experiences in jail to scare Kyo out of his own delinquence! Of course, he can't do it alone -- not with how prone to punching people Kusanagi tends to be. And that's why, Saturday Night Fight executives have arranged for a very special guest to assist him. Who could it be? You'll only be able to find out by watching this week's exciting edition of SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHT! (With special cameo by Mayor Mike Haggar!) (Winners: Cody/???!)
The Metro Correctional Institute dining room is the very picture of the stereotypical prison mess hall, with its cement floors and its heavy-duty steel furniture, bolted securely to the floor. A catwalk, twenty feet off the ground, runs the entire length of all four walls, where prison guards keep watch and head off the worrisomely common riots that the facility is famous for.
There won't be any riots today, because the room is almost entirely empty. Instead of guards, TV cameras line the catwalk, angled just so to give coverage of every inch of the lower floor. An inordinate number of them are focused on the center of the room. There, clad in a full-body, blue-and-white striped jumpsuit, sits Cody Travers.
He is as reclined as he can be in an immobile chair, legs propped up on the table. His gaze shifts constantly between two doors on the wall he's facing. Behind one of them is his opponent; behind the other is their 'surprise guest.'
This should be interesting.
Of course, it's completely absurd to think that Kyo Kusanagi would ever end up in a maximum security prison; he's rich and famous! At best, these people go to minimum security prison for like a week after running some dude over in their car, or get probation or something. The theme of this Saturday Night Fight is clearly ludicrous.
So once Cody has been left to stew in his own prison juices for a little while, one of the doors opens and in strides Kyo, looking derisively amused at the entire setup. Of course, since he's not a hardened criminal, the Kusanagi scion is dressed in his usual fighting attire, one last check of his black and gold Kusanagi gloves making sure everything is in place to give some poor sap the beating of their stalled failure of a career.
Speaking of which, there's Cody.
"...Seriously?" Kyo wonders, casting a dubious look Cody's way. Mostly he's referring to the jumpsuit. "Man, you look like something out of an old silent movie. Don't they use those day-glo orange jumpsuits these days, or is Metro City just /that/ broke?"
Yes, how could /anyone/ imagine Kyo might go wrong in life?
A mere moment after Kyo's smartass quip, the second door opens. "H-- Quit fucking shoving!"
Shoved through the doorway despite her protests is the handcuffed and barely covered form of Poison Kiss. The pink-haired minor threat to Haggar's ongoing gentrification plans for downtown Metro City got picked up last week -- not for selling Glow, which is how she's making most of her money these days, but for trying to buy groceries at HowardMart with a counterfeit check. An MCI guard steps in long enough to undo Poison's handcuffs, which he then tries to retrieve -- with a low 'hmph,' she snatches them away to hook them on one of the belt loops of her scandalously short shorts. The guard, not paid enough to deal with this shit, shrugs and exits.
"Hey-y-y, Co-o-ody," says Poison as she struts forward, the click of her heels on the floor echoing throughout the mostly empty mess hall. She walks right past Kyo and all but throws herself into Cody's lap, one arm coming up to snake around his shoulders, the other keeping her Nazi hat in place. "Missed you out there on the corner, big guy~."
Then Poison turns and looks at Kyo. "Who the fuck are you?"
This one's mouthy. "I broke the warden's arm," Cody explains, swinging his legs down off the table and lifting his hands out of his lap to rest them on the table. The heavy clank when he sets his hands down draws attention to the handcuffs on his wrists. Mysteriously, the chain is more than long enough to allow him almost full use of his arms. Whoever picked those out for him isn't a very smart guy.
"So they--" The explanation stops short when Poison makes her entrance; Cody is obviously less than enthused with his assigned partner. He makes no move as she approaches and entangles him, watching her suspisciously. Only after she addresses Kyo does he move, lifting himself out of his chair and dumping the gangbanger unceremoniously onto the table.
"Get the fuck off me," he says, tone long-suffering. "And don't get in my way." He brushes himself off and starts across the mess hall towards Kyo, rolling his shoulders in anticipation. He's obviously eager to get into it.
"So you're the kid, huh?" he asks. "The 'World Warrior?'" He sidles to a halt only a few feet from Kyo, looking him up and down in casual appraisal. "Good for you. You can prance around like a ballerina and throw fire. I'm real impressed."
"They want me to give you a big speech, but how about I just show you, eh, Champ? Today's lesson is about 'consequences,'" Cody explains. He lifts his hands and pounds a fist on his chest a few times before puffing it out invitingly. "I want you to hit me."
COMBATSYS: Cody has started a fight here.
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Oh, good. And here Kyo was worried that Cody's prison girlfriend would be a dude.
Ignorance is quite possibly bliss.
Ignoring Poison's question outright, Kyo scrubs a hand through his hair as he regards the duo he's supposed to be 'scared straight' by, tilting his head and casually working his shoulders. "Yeah, that's me. King of Fighters one time, too. What was the last tournament you won, the 'Drop the Soap Invitational'? The whole 'I'm a rough street fighter, behold my disdain of people who actually have some technique or the ability to do something beyond run into a fist repeatedly' routine might play really well to the cheap seats and Street Corner Sally there, but c'mon, man. I've fought guys who'd make you wet your state-issue suicide-proof underroos, and /won/."
Still, Cody makes quite the invitation. Is Kyo douche enough to not oblige?
"But hey, fine. I'm a helpful kinda guy, consider this a lesson to the underprivileged." And then, Kyo takes off like a shot, closing the distance between himself and Cody in about half a heartbeat. The younger fighter's right fist swings in a hooking motion, flames trailing behind his hand and, of course, erupting at the point of impact in a small explosion; if that first strike lands, then Kyo steps /in/, repeating the attack with his left fist, and then, just to make Cody feel at home, he rears back long enough to bring his forehead to bear in a thunderous headbutt.
It's not exactly Kusanagi-ryuu standard, but he's the World Warrior. He gets to improvise.
COMBATSYS: Kyo has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Cody 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Kyo
COMBATSYS: Kyo successfully hits Cody with Aragami.
- Power hit! -
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Cody 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Kyo
With a scornful expression, Poison sits up on the table, letting out a frustrated 'hff' over the fact that when you frame Cody to basically ensure he will get locked up if he so much as attempts to touch another human being in any way ever again, he won't put out for you.
Poison swings her long legs off of the table and struts toward Cody and Kyo's face-off, coming up behind Cody to slide one arm up under Cody's and rather brazenly stroke his chest with an open palm. "Mm," she says as she sizes up Kyo, going up on her tip-toes to lean over Cody's shoulder. "Giving the baby a free shot, Cody? I wish you were that generous with /me/," she says, before leaning over to bite Cody's earlobe gently.
Of course, seeing the punch coming, Poison is careful to move out of the way before it can actually connect. Once she's not obscured behind the hulking body of her one-sided OTP, though, it suddenly becomes obvious that Poison is holding a switchblade -- who knows where it came from.
"Sorry if Co-o-ody gave you the wrong impression, junior, but not every jailbird gives it up /that/ easy." Then, suddenly, Poison hurls the knife, sending the blade spinning toward Kyo!
COMBATSYS: Poison has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Kyo's first blow sends Cody reeling. He doesn't actually move, but the force of the punch and the ensuing explosion sends him sliding backwards across the ground. The second blow DOES force him a step backwards, and the headbutt sends him staggering, to collapse backwards across one of the many tables that dot the room.
After less than a second, Cody's back on his feet, blood streaming from his forehead. He takes one careful step forwards... and then throws his head back and starts to laugh. "Not bad, Champ!" he cheers, grinning broadly. "Maybe you'll be some fun after all!"
Still laughing, Cody lunges forwards, leaping into the air. Rather than do something sensible - like just kick him in the face - Cody attempts to land squarely on the World Warrior's shoulders, plant one foot on his face, and force him backwards into the ground, sandwiching the young man's head between the cement floor and Cody's right foot.
COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Kyo with Guilty Stamp.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo fails to slow Knife Throw from Poison with Yami Barai.
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Though he'd never admit to the fact personally, it doesn't make it any less true that even Kyo Kusanagi isn't /perfect/. He makes mistakes. And right now, it seems he makes two of them.
With the sudden fact that Cody is a) laughing like a lunatic and b) trying to jump on his head, Kyo does the natural thing and tries to deflect the impact... But there's an added complication, by which we of course mean the knife that Poison is throwing at him. The Kusanagi heir's free arm sweeps out, setting to light a seed of fire, but it's at this point that the timing goes nine kinds of wrong all at once.
The fiery projectile goes wide, missing Poison's knife and passing by the, uh, well whatever the hell Poison is by a few inches, close enough to feel the heat of the flames; the switchblade continues on to graze Kyo's arm, leaving a gash and, perhaps worse than that, /cutting open his leather jacket/. Kyo himself, meanwhile gets knocked down, the rattling impact less than pleasant, particularly since Cody is standing on his head.
"I can't imagine why you got thrown in here in the first place," Kyo notes, though his voice is somewhat muffled due to Cody's shoe.
"Ah--!" Poison says, recoiling in a suggestively limber fashion from the gust of flame. Still, she doesn't seem too unnerved by having fire shot at her; she's no doubt experienced worse, because she's from /the streets/. As Kyo eats boot, she steps forward, one hand on her hip, one in the air, wagging a finger. "Naughty, naughty," she coos.
Poison gives Cody a shove on the arm, knowing that if she doesn't get in his way, he'll probably just add another manslaughter sentence to his record. "Save a piece for me, lover. He's kind of cute." Poison lifts one foot in the air. "But, mmm, no /muscle/." She then brings her foot down, attempting to stomp Kyo in the face with her spike heel.
"See?" Cody asks, looking down at Kyo. He's done laughing, but he's still smiling broadly. It's not even a creepy, psychotic smile; he's just having _fun._ "That was the consequence." As Poison shoos him, Cody lifts his foot off of Kyo's face and backs away, as much to get away from her as to show mercy. He's doing his best to ignore her, but it's hard when she's so... Poison.
As Cody departs, his foot lashes out at Kyo's ribs. It's just a love tap, honest. "Get up, Champ," he urges, cracking his knuckles loudly. "This ain't the King of Fighters, she ain't gonna wait for you to get ready."
COMBATSYS: Kyo blocks Cody's Light Kick.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo counters Heavy Kick from Poison with Nue Tsumi.
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*KNOCKED AWAY*
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On some level, even Kyo can appreciate the 'not a raging psychopath, just enjoying a fight' thing, but he's not one to demonstrate it outwardly. That's just not his bag. "Man, it's like somebody sent Bogard to the big house," Kyo mutters irritably at Cody's cheerfulness, getting an arm in the way of that incoming 'love tap', dispersing the brunt of the possibly painful impact. He likes those ribs, after all. He's had them his entire life.
Poison, however, is in a less positive situation.
The spiked heel is caught harmlessly by the Kusanagi heir's other hand, and Kyo glares balefully up at Poison. "C'mere, you," the World Warrior grits, using the entrapped limb to throw Poison off-balance, bringing her into range for him to roll up, and swing the arm that was previously stopping Cody's kick... Though in this case he applies to to slam his fist right into the pink-haired fighter's gut, the air torn apart by the sudden explosion of sacred Kusanagi fire that erupts from his fist... /Into/ the gang member.
And /then/, Kyo gets to his feet. "Hey, sorry about your girlfriend," Kyo tells Cody. Of course, he's lying; he's not sorry /at all/.
"What the f--" POOM
Poison sails through the air, landing on a metal table with an unholy KLANG and the wet CRACK of what is, presumably, some piece or another of her spine. She writhes on the tabletop for a moment, clutching her lower back. "Aah-- you fucking punk--!" Poison bites her lower lip, squeezes her eyes shut, and thrusts herself upward, cracking her back audibly in the process. "Okay, pretty-boy, time for lesson /two/."
Poison's dark eyes dart to where some cables are running up from a nearby wall, up to some of the cameras watching the fight's progress. Poison reaches over and YANKS one of the cables, causing camera and cameraman to fall and a momentary commotion. The cameraman breaks his legs; the camera explodes in a miniature ball of fire; and Poison is already running forward, clutching the severed cable like a drunken stepdad's belt. "Lesson /two/ -- make sure you know who you're /fucking/ with before you make a move, you floppy-haired little faggot!"
Poison's tone is as venomous as her moves -- she swings the cable not to lash Kyo, but to try and loop the cord around his neck, squeeze, and if successful, follow it up with a kick to the midsection.
"If you were hitting my girlfriend, this would end a lot worse for you than it's gonna," Cody assures Kyo. His cheer hasn't faltered, and has in fact only been bolstered watching Kyo deal with Poison. "You know, you're actually pretty good. All that fire ain't just for show, huh?"
Cody shifts his eyes to Poison a split second before she lashes out with her cable whip. "'course," he adds, looking back to Kyo, "You ain't the only one with fancy tricks." Once Poison is sufficiently out of the way, he lunges again, coming in low at the World Warrior.
With a wordless roar, Cody lashes his fist up at Kyo's chin, twisting it violently. No sooner has his arm reached full extension than does the aforementioned 'fancy trick' come into play, a seven-foot-tall whirlwind laced with tiny lines of raw, sky blue chi erupting into existence in front of him, ideally entirely engulfing the young man.
COMBATSYS: Kyo blocks Poison's Trip 'n Whip.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo effortlessly dodges Cody's Criminal Upper.
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Sadly for Poison, her impromptu whip doesn't so much catch Kyo by the 'neck' as it does 'wrap around his forearm'. The perpetual highschooler lets out a quiet, exasperated click of the tongue, tugging back against the force of the gangster's own pull... And then he remembers Cody is there, too.
"Aw, geez, my bad. I'll be sure to remember that before I slug anybody named 'Bubba' on my way out," Kyo says to Cody, with his characteristic tact and gentle nature. Still fighting Poison's pull, Kyo watches the Metro jailbird coming his way, considers the older fighter's motions, and...
Lets out a faint chuckle?
Suddenly, Kyo stops fighting the tug from the pink-haired fighter's direction, letting the momentum tug him out of the way of Cody's uppercut and outpouring of violent chi. "Sorry, did you say something?" Kyo wonders of Cody, before refocusing his attention on Poison, and heading straight for her.
"Hey, remember what you said a second ago, about knowing who you're fucking with before you make a move?" Kyo asks, aiming to slam into Poison's sternum elbow-first. If that connects, then Kyo's other hand snaps out, grabbing her by the throat and lifting her off the ground, as the World Warrior smirks up at her... For about half a second, before Poison would theoretically be consumed in a massive explosion of Kusanagi flames.
"I WAS JUST THINKING THE SAME THING!!"
COMBATSYS: Kyo successfully hits Poison with Koto Moon Positive.
- Power hit! -
>> Decisive Hit!! <<
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Somewhere, someone implies that Cody is cheating on his darling Jessica. Haggar wakes up from his nap, going from full sleep to battle awareness in an instant, heavy brows drawing together as he stares piercingly into the dark of his bedroom. Slowly, his head turns, drawn impeccably into the direction of one of Metro City's prisons, focusing directly onto the back of Kyo's neck for a full minute.
The Mayor rolls out of bed to fix a glass of bourbon and watch whatever's on HBO.
When Haggar rolls out of bed and stares toward the prison, Poison's finely attuned 'avoiding being beaten to death with a barrel' sixth sense triggers, causing her to turn and look in the exact direction of Mayor Mike Haggar's bedroom. Her gaze returns to Kyo when he starts choking her.
Poison is lit on fire, burned to her very soul or whatever by the burning chi flames of Kyo's birthright. She doesn't actually hear what Kyo says, because her ears are filled with the FWWWWOOOOOSH of her ears catching fire. When she's dumped to the ground, Poison coughs, and lets out a raspy groan. "Cody -- hh -- fuckin' crack his skull open -- ngh."
Poison launches upward, though dazed and battered, clearly woozy from either Kyo's attack or bad mushrooms. She attempts to come up on the World Warrior from behind, and lock him into a full nelson to let Cody get some shots in.
It's a good thing she tucked, too, because this is an extra-grindy full nelson.
"I said not to get in my way, you dumb bitch!" Cody barks, as his conjured whirlwind fades away and Kyo unleashes the beast all over Poison's face. He's certainly not the first to do so. "God damn!" Perturbed by Poison's 'helping,' Cody turns and stomps away, across the mess hall floor to Poison's knife. He bends down and snaps up the knife, giving it a few tosses. "Yeah... okay."
When Cody straightens up, he's grinning again. This one is not the fun grin. He shifts the knife into a backhanded grip, strides back across the dining room to where Poison and Kyo are grappling, and nonchalantly stabs the World Warrior right in the god damn chest. Front, side, it doesn't matter. As long as somebody gets stabbed. "Heads up, Champ."
COMBATSYS: Poison successfully hits Kyo with Full Nelson.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo blocks Cody's Tokushu Koudou.
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For Kyo, though, recognition of the distant pressure of Haggar's eyes is somewhat delayed, since he's busy blowing Poison right the hell /up/. The Kusanagi heir is, however, just as effectively distracted, because he gets himself caught in Poison's, ugh, full nelson, arms forced uncomfortably above his head. Ugh, ugh, ugh. "Get the hell off of me, you freak!" Kyo demands, but of course... He's wide open for whatever Cody's going to try to do, right?
Wrong.
After all, Kyo has four limbs. When Cody 'nonchalantly' tries to stab him in the chest, Kyo's foot comes right up in the way, and he's dealt a grazing slash along his leg as he twists to avoid the full blow. "By the way, since this thing with you and Cody clearly isn't working out, have you ever met a guy named Benimaru Nikaido?" Kyo wonders of the back-clinging Poison... Right before he aims to flip her /off/ of his back, and onto one of the mess hall's tables. Goddamn.
COMBATSYS: Poison blocks Kyo's Quick Throw.
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"Hu-wa!" Kyo throws Poison, but doesn't quite disentangle himself from the pink-haired vixen of dubious sensuality. "The guy with the hair? Sorry, sugar, I'm not interested in sissies," she says as her feet touch down on the tabletop in a crouch, with surprising balance considering how whorish her heels are. "I only like /real/ men." Poison has kept her grip on Kyo, pink press-on nails digging into his forearm as the career criminal and male-gender dropout jumps off the table.
Poison's intent is pretty simple -- to use her grip on Kyo's arm to launch herself into a pounce, firm legs trying to lock around Kyo in what is either a hugglepounce or a body scissors. Either way, it's woefully erotic as she tries to topple the Kusanagi scion to the ground and, once there, straddle him and punch him in the face roughly four billion times, although this may be an exaggeration. "Know any of /those/?"
Cody grunts as Kyo fends off his oh-so-simple attack with a leg, Poison having failed him yet again. "God, you worthless whore!" he shouts, backing away again. He tosses the knife off to the side again, shaking his head, and for several seconds he stares at Poison's continued assault. "No, you know what, fuck it," he announces eventually.
With a huff, Cody unclasps the handcuff from his left wrist and shakes his hand out. The things aren't even locked! "Hey, Champ, when you're done impressing preteen girls by beating this skank silly, come get me. Jesus Christ," he sighs exasperatedly one last time, before turning, trudging over to a nearby table, and dropping heavily into one of the chairs, his back to the ongoing brawl.
COMBATSYS: Cody drops his guard to recover.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo dodges Poison's Absolute Beatdown EX.
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"Really? Huh... Well, what about that Drake Vyril guy? I hear he's really manly," Kyo suggests instead, emoting a bit of rueful disappointment on behalf of his best friend and onetime archrival. No, he doesn't know about Poison's, uh, predilictions, but c'mon, setting Benimaru up with a scary-ass Metro City gang chick would be a barrel of laughs. Any unforseen consequences would be pure gravy.
With Poison trying to maintain her grip on him, Kyo is... Not having any of what's coming next, so he just wrenches himself free. Luckily between his poor jacket, and the elbow-length Kusanagi gloves he wears to help control his flames, he avoids getting clawed to crap by those fake nails. "'scuse me a second," he tells Poison.
Kyo ambles, yes, ambles his way over to Cody, who seems to be ignoring him. It's entirely possible that this is some manner of fiendishly clever trap on the part of Travers, but Kyo might be overthinking things there. "C'mon, man," Kyo says, shrugging in exasperation. "I thought you would've learned not to turn your back on people around here."
Incidentally, at this point an orange-crimson circle appears on the floor under Cody's chair. He might have a second to notice that before a column of sacred flames shoots up out of said circle, smashing into the ceiling.
Kyo, of course, throws himself INTO the column of flames, setting himself on fire and aiming to lash out at Cody with a series of vicious, fiery punches, driving him out of the fire and continuing halfway across the mess hall, finishing with a thunderous, explosive fiery uppercut. "THIS IS NO TIME FOR A NAP!!" bellows Kyo, his voice strangely modulated from the power being poured out.
COMBATSYS: Kyo knocks away Cody with Mu Shiki!
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"/We're/ teaching the lessons here, you nelly," Poison says, rebuffed in her attempt to unleash an /absolute beatdown/ and thus instead gunning to simply catch Kyo off guard while he is busy catching Cody off guard. "For a kid with such a big mouth, you sure don't follow your own advice!"
To wit, Poison says this as she brings her leg up in an axe kick, doing a vertical split for a second -- before the hammer falls, as it were, swinging to try and crack her heel into Kyo's lower spine region. "If you were in here for real, little boy, that kinda mouth would get you far -- some bigger and blacker motherfucker than you've ever seen far, /far/ inside you!"
Simply put, Kyo Kusanagi makes Cody his bitch. The initial pillar of flame turns the chair into slag almost instantly, and it lifts the blonde into the air, making him an easy target for the barrage of blows that follow. The final uppercut sends him flying up and away; he crashes right through the catwalk that lines the room. The cameramen there abandon their equipment and flee at the last second, diving away as a good ten feet of pathway collapses to the ground, taking Cody with it.
Astoundingly, he's back on his feet almost immediately, staggering out of the wreckage. Several large holes are burnt through the chest of his jumpsuit, revealing bare flesh underneath, but Cody doesn't seem to mind. He doesn't even mind the blood trickling out of his mouth, nor the aggravated bloodflow from his forehead.
At least not for about ten steps. Halfway back to Kyo, Cody falters and almost collapses, catching himself on a nearby table. He hunches over it, blood pouring from his face, his breathing slowly increasing in speed. In a matter of seconds, the blood he sheds changes from being 'red' to 'fluorescent green.' That's almost certainly not healthy.
Suddenly, he starts laughing again. He throws his head back, spattering green blood across the ground nearby, and God damn _guffaws._ Still laughing, Cody reaches down and grips the edge of the table, ripping it - floor-attached bolts and all - out of the ground with little effort and tossing it aside.
This leaves a clear path between him and Kyo, and Cody beckons the World Warrior inwards, pounding his fists against his chest again. "Come and see!" he roars. His voice modulates, as well. It is much less 'awesome' and much more 'freaky.'
COMBATSYS: Cody focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo blocks Poison's Light Kick.
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See, Kyo Kusanagi didn't become the World Warrior - and for a while, the /unchallenged/ SNF Champion, not to mention the King of Fighters once - by collecting bottle caps. He did it by punching people with fire, or while on fire, or some variation on the combination of 'punching people' and 'fire'.
As Cody gets back up, Kyo is frankly not displeased. No, this is a much better turn of events than he could've hoped for; the Kusanagi heir would be all sorts of bored if Cody had dropped after only one 'serious' hit like that.
Oh right, Poison is trying to kick him.
"Are you still here?" Kyo wonders of the pink-haired terror, half-turning to catch her descending leg again. "I mean, you can yap and yap and yap like a little dog all day, but that doesn't prove anything. You're just a mangy little mutt cowering in an alleyway." He smirks, glancing once back over at Cody. "You related to Yagami or something? 'cause seriously, that's fucked up." Green blood? Gross. The table destruction is pretty cool, though. Kyo would give him props for that, were he anyone but Kyo Kusanagi. "Anyway, gimme a second, I need to tie up a loose end."
Twisting around with frightening speed, Kyo simply aims to strike Poison right in the face with his free hand, still holding her by the leg, flames erupting as he finishes his hooking punch. Simple, fast. Hopefully, effective, because he's pretty sure Cody is about to bring the noise.
/Finally/.
COMBATSYS: Kyo successfully hits Poison with Aragami.
> Determined Hit! <
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The punch shatters Poison's jaw -- it's that simple. Pink hair is scorched to its natural black color via unnatural means in a few spots, and Poison spits up a thick torrent of dark blood all over Kyo's glove, spattering up his forearm. As Poison falls to the ground, she clutches at her face, feeling that her mandible now has more moving parts than god intended, and sees one of her teeth on the floor -- but then, after messing with Haggar for years, all of Poison's teeth are fake by this point anyway, and the one on the floor doesn't compare to the two or three that she swallows
With rage in her eyes and blood /pouring/ out of her mangled mouth, Poison can only make a gurgling noise that can be subtitled on TV as '(ANGRY)' and reaches for her knife, which Cody failed to use properly earlier. Blood is everywhere -- all over her hands, all over her bare skin, in a series of small pools on the ground, and all down the front of her top, making it cling even more unnervingly tightly to her breasts. Poison pushes herself up onto one knee and gurgles again, looking over at Kyo's confrontation with Cody--
--and with what feels like the last of her strength, Poison launches, trying to grab Kyo by the knee from behind, get one arm between his legs, and stab upward at what is medically known as 'the nutsack.'
COMBATSYS: Poison can no longer fight.
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Cody 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=------\-------\0 Kyo
Cody does, in fact, bring the noise.
As Poison, with her last breath, attempts to unceremoniously castrate Kyo, Cody charges. He closes the distance between himself and the World Warrior in two great bounds, fist rocketing forward for the man's face. Halfway through the arm extension, Cody erupts in brilliant green light in a split second that seems to linger for several. And then, suddenly, he's moving a whole lot faster.
Cody's fist lashes out three times in less than a second, trailing faint afterimages, all tinged the same color as his blood.
And then he stops and turns around.
What? It's only momentary, as instantly he turns back to Kyo and unleashes another three punches. And then turns around again. Once again, it's only for a heartbeat, but it happens. He turns back once again, and unleashes three more punches...
And he turns around AGAIN. Really? He turns back to Kyo for the fourth time and unleashes YET MORE blows. This time, thankfully, he keeps going, following the three jabs with a more powerful blow from each hand before grabbing at the World Warrior's shirt and attempting to hurl him unceremoniously at the nearest wall.
COMBATSYS: Kyo auto-guards Poison's No Time for Love Dr. Jones!
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Cody 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Kyo
COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Kyo with Final Destruction.
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Cody 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Kyo
Sure, Poison can /try/. But Kyo meets the incoming pink-haired freak's attempt to catch him by the leg by... Lifting his leg, and catching her face with his foot. "Go try it on your street corner, trash," is all the arrogant Kusanagi has to say to her, as he turns to meet the incoming Cody, and...
Ho ho holy shit.
Cody's speed at the moment is quite simply incredible, and there's little Kyo can do about it. He tries to deflect the first blow, but Cody's fist powers through Kyo's guard, leaving him wide open for the rest of the speedy green-glowing power combination. Ultimately, Kyo is tossed away, battered and bloodied from the impressive assault, smashing into a wall and sliding down...
But he doesn't stay down, oh no.
"Ffft... Ha ha ha," Kyo laughs, wiping his own blood off of his face as he regards Cody. "Man, it took you /that/ long to use a real attack? You're hurting my feelings, over here. Hey, I know what'll make me feel better!" he declares, snapping his fingers. Which sets off a spark.
Kyo's right hand is swept forward, unleashing that spark in a seed of flam, which trails to the ground before blossoming into a flower of Kusanagi fire, burning a streak along the mess hall floor towards Cody. "Why don't you... Burn!!"
Meanwhile, Poison passes out in a pool of her own blood, sprawled out on the floor.
By the time she wakes up, her jaw will be wired shut, a fat lawyer with a Jewish name and an expensive suit will be getting her off the hook through allegations of cruel and unusual punishment by forcing her, as a prisoner, to fight for entertainment, and before long she'll get a personal chewing-out from Geese Howard with the warning that next time she takes profits out of /his/ pocket by getting locked up for check fraud when she could be out selling more Glown, he'll let her stew for a lot longer than a week. During this, Poison will be mildly turned on by his imperious attitude.
COMBATSYS: Cody endures Kyo's Yami Barai.
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Cody 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Kyo
If there is one thing Cody hates more than anything else in the world, it's fireballs. As the growing blast of flame sweeps towards him, Cody roars and charges right through it. The attack bursts into a cloud of embers as Cody bursts through it, but it takes its toll, his skin scorching and blistering and the entirety of the upper half of his jumpsuit burning into ash.
But he doesn't stop. Still roaring, Cody leaps into the air again. He crashes down in front of Kyo, cement floor cracking underneath him, and draws his leg back, jamming it out at the World Warrior's stomach. Once again, this time inches before impact, the American flares up with blinding green light, and his speed spikes once again.
This time rather than a ridiculous series of punches, however, Cody unleashes a flurry of kicks at his opponent. There are a lot of them, and they are too numerous to list. In fact, he kicks so much that, eventually, he lifts into the air, taking Kyo with him. He finishes the combo with an enormous, brutal axe kick, to knock the man straight down into the floor.
Even should Kyo put forth some sort of perfect defense, Cody lifts into the air by himself. It is kind of ridiculous-looking, in this case.
Either way, Cody's landing is far from graceful; he loses it in midair and lands directly in the middle of yet another table, punching right through it as it collapses and folds around him like a metal taco shell. After a few seconds of lying still, he begins to slowly climb to his feet, lifting his head to face Kyo. His eyes, until now still their usual blue, suddenly fleck with specks of green...
COMBATSYS: Cody has reached second wind!
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Cody 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Kyo
And then, in the blink (appropriately enough) of an eye, they ARE green, white and all. Cody grabs ahold of the edges of his table taco shell and tears himself to his feet, stepping forward out of it and kicking it away casually. It takes some concrete with it. "Come and see," he repeats. He throws his head back and laughs again. It is both fell and terrible.
COMBATSYS: Kyo fails to counter Dead End Irony from Cody with Nue Tsumi.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo can no longer fight.
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Perfect defense... Not quite. Seeing Cody come at him with reckless abandon despite getting set on fire, Kyo grits his teeth, eyes narrowing. What's up with that green light...?
Of course, wondering about that makes it difficult for Kyo to mount an effective defense; he tries to catch Cody's leg, but his grip slips at the last moment, the surprising speed and power the American's started demonstrating too much for the World Warrior to match right at this moment. So, Kyo gets kicked, quite a lot; knocked up into the air, driven back into the floor, smashing down painfully and coughing as he tries to get some air back into his lungs.
"Dammit..." mutters the Kusanagi heir, as he tries to push himself back up... But his arm gives out, and he flops back onto the floor of the mess hall, with little else to do but stare at Cody as he glows and freaks the hell out.
Seriously, where do they find these guys?
Kyo doesn't get back up, but this is no great deterrent to Cody. He stomps across the floor and bends double, grabbing the World Warrior by the scruff of the neck and hauling him upright. "Consequence," he says, grinning broadly. He's not completely out of his mind, then. Yet.
"This isn't Madison Square Garden, motherfucker," Cody snarls, carrying Kyo a few feet to the nearest intact table, a currency rapidly dwindling in supply. "In real life, people don't stop because the bell rings." The blonde shifts his grip to the back of Kyo's head, grabs a handful of hair, and slams the World Warrior facefirst into the edge of the table.
Up on the catwalks, a member of Camera Crew 3 comes to his senses before the rest of his stunned coworkers and flees out the nearest door, rushing to get the prison guards.
It's a sad fact of the professional fighting circuit that some people are just gonnna be That Guy. Not even Kyo, for all his strength and ability, is immune to having to face That Guy from time to time, particularly when you consider that there's a really violent guy who totally hates his ass and would flip out like this at the drop of a hat.
And yet, life is never boring when Iori Yagami is around.
So there's little Kyo can really do about it when Cody gets a yen to hurt him, his strength already played out by the fight previous. "Wow, good thing you're here to teach me things I already knew," the World Warrior groans, around a faceful of the edge of a table.
Okay, nothing he can really do except be a smartass like always. It's a wonder he doesn't get beat up like this more often.
Cody laughs. Even in the midst of a drug-assisted, adrenaline-fueled rage, he can still appreciate wit! "You're a real joker, Champ," he chuckles, hauling Kyo upright once more and turning the World Warrior so he can look him in the eye. "I like you, kid. So I tell you what... here's some real advice. You can do whatever the hell you want, and nobody can stop you. But if you ever fuck with me, or my family, or my girl, I'll tear your fucking heart out with my bare hands."
"Now," he continues, drawing back his free hand. "You and I are gonna have some--" One of the few doors into and out of the mess hall bursts open, and there's a loud *fwoomp*. Cody's back erupts in a brilliant flash of life as a grenade explodes against him. It does little more than force him a step forward... but at least it loosens his grip, and he drops Kyo into a pile at his feet.
Grinning, Cody turns to face this new source of enjoyment. At least six prison guards, decked out in riot kit, finish rushing into the room, rifles leveled at Cody. "Even better," he says.
One of the guards, a longtime employee who is more than familiar with Cody Travers, is struck by a sudden phantom pain in his 'all of his body.' He breaks, and flees back through the door. The other guards waver, and within seconds follow suit. Still grinning, Cody rushes after them, disappearing through the doorway. It slams shut behind him.
Log created on 18:00:11 01/13/2009 by Poison, and last modified on 11:57:29 01/31/2009.