Description: So, about a hundred years ago, Whip gave Kyo Kusanagi information about various NESTS agents, and asked him to track them down in exchange for hot wings. Finally, Kyo manages to run afoul of one of the nefarious villains, the mysterious (and angry) K9999, in a manner which is not at all entirely coincidental. Can you guess what happens next?!
Late evening, most of the teenagers from Taiyo nearby had already made their way home...those not on the campus itself. The stragglers may have spent time in after school activities, now rushing to make it back before dinnertime, and then a move onto starting their studies-- like the /good/ children that they were. It was an oasis of potential, the minds of the future to lead the world, or strength with which to beat it into shape. It also was where a leather-jacketed youth should have been headed, but he was presently pre-occupied by one of the venders on the side of the road by a confectionary store. Not /that/ store, another one with absolutely no relation to certain newspaper reports about the owner demanding reparation for the blown out windows from fighting ingrate children...
K9999's hair was messier than usual, the helmet left behind with the motorcycle he used to get here. His mission was boring surveillance with possible capture, but with the scent of honey-roasted peanuts filling the air, NESTs could just fuck off for a moment while he grabbed a snack. Already on his third brown papered bag, he had what could have been a look of utter contentment on his typically pissed off face. It was just the right way to start off his 'work' day.
Speaking of Taiyo High, did you know that - /technically/ - Kyo Kusanagi is a student there? Yes, it's a fun and completely unrelated fact to the events currently in progress.
Oh, uh. Maybe not THAT unrelated.
Also technically, Kyo should have finished lessons hours ago if he actually bothered to go and attend them; and the truth is that he tried, he really tried to actually go to class, but he got bored shortly after lunch, which ended up in his taking a nap in his favourite spot, which sort of dragged on to the point where he only just woke up.
Hey, shut up, it could happen to anybody.
Anyway, now Kyo is finally emerging from the grounds, leaving by hopping over the wall, because the gate is sort of locked. But his stomach rumbles, as he's gotten kind of hungry... Which is about when he smells /honey roasted peanuts/.
It's not long before the hungry Kusanagi heir tracks down the source of the smell, because K9999 is just sort of standing there at a vendor, so it probably comes as no surprise that Kyo ends up standing /behind/ him. Looking down at the crazy experiment dude.
Who seems familiar.
"Hey, are you..." Kyo starts to say, drawing attention directly to himself as he addresses K9999. Has the NESTS agent been made?! Is his cover blown?! "...gonna finish those peanuts?"
A cry of alarm sounded from an alarmed and angry vendor, but it was drowned out by the sudden upheaval the heavy gas-powered cart and umbrella slamming with all the delicate ease of an elephant ploughing into a basin of hungry cats. It was without warning, it was crushingly vicious, and the youth who executed such move on the poor unsuspecting Kyo was nothing but pleased with the blood splattered results. The true massacre would not be the cart, the vendors loss of livelyhood, or the possibly dead Kyo...but the uneaten freshly coated peanuts scattered across the dirtied pavement.
That last was the only reason K9999 twitched when he turned around swiftly to confront the audacity of some stranger. For the peanuts. Because he recognised the vagabond instantly, though perhaps lacking the near sixth-sense with which he could stalk K' across the world. Kyo. NESTs 'golden child' from which many experiments had been birthed. Including him. Why, if K9999 ever had a mother...
His lips curled back with disdain and barely restrained fury, the flick of emotions just as quick as he'd rounded on the older boy. "Get your own fucking peanuts you cheap bastard! THESE ARE MINE!" And then promptly stuffed the rest into his mouth as if to deny him even snatching it away.
Fuck. THEY WERE HOT. BURRRN.
His evening was now utterly ruined, though he supposed somewhere out there were orders to bring Kyo in if ever, or just beat the shit out of him. The latter was looking mighty tempting, and as soon as he swallowed the legumes from chock-steamin' heaven, he'll get around to that.
Vagabond? VAGABOND? Kyo is no Terry Bogard, nor Ryu. He has a home. It's nice, it has furniture and everything.
"Wow, you have some anger management issues there, shorty," Kyo remarks, with great sagacity and an utter lack of anything which could be considered to resemble tact under even the most liberal of definitions. Not to mention, the peanuts. He... Those poor peanuts. "Oh, hey. You... You're that Hawaii 5-Oh guy, or whatever," the World Warrior champion declares, snapping his fingers in realisation. "Man, this is the weirdest coincidence, somebody told me to look out for you."
Kyo smiles, a beatific and innocent smile, which can only mean - at least to anyone who knows Kyo at all - that something is terribly awry.
"She also asked me to kick your ass if I did, and since she bought me food I figure I ought to oblige," Kyo explains further, proving that the fastest way to obtain his loyalty, fickle and upheld when and where he chooses to, is indeed to feed him.
This would be the part where he tries to punch K9999 in the head.
COMBATSYS: Kyo has joined the fight here.
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Kyo 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Shika
COMBATSYS: K9999 has joined the fight here.
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K9999 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kyo
COMBATSYS: K9999 endures Kyo's Quick Punch.
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K9999 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Kyo
Kyo had absolutely no idea just how much of an understatement that was there. Anger management issues? Why, the amount of money alone spent to cater to controlling that particular problem so that in the longrun NESTs wouldn't have a medical, structural, and lawsuit handy packaged bill every week. The only reason why they didn't fire him was that he was too dangerous to have loose, too valuable, and on occasion, the teenaged looking clone actually did a fine job at beating the snot out of people they designated. Sure there'd been some troubled times where he'd come back more wear than success, but NESTs was a hoarder. What was theirs, remained...theirs. No wonder K9999 had such attachements!
Speaking of which, he'd been trying to rediculously chew and swallow the mass of peanuts while listening to Kyo. And not making any sense of what he was saying since well, lets face it. The clone tended to aggravate a lot of people. Including women. Thinking of Kula, ESPECIALLY women?! He was in the process of trying to figure this out when a fist was trying to figure his /head/ out. Needless to say he got punched full on, making him stagger, but it niftily shot his already effervescent personality skyward faster than Pas could get freebies at an icecream store served by college kids. And gave him space to respond with a sudden flare of chi and force-- flame burst into existence as he snapped his hand infront of him, throwing the crumpled brown bag at Kyo as he threw himself foward. "I'll oblige /you/!!" Somehow that made more sense in his head.
COMBATSYS: Kyo just-defends K9999's Split!!
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K9999 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Kyo
See, that worked out pretty well. Kyo gets to feel the satisfaction of hitting K9999 right in the face, and he provokes the admittedly easily provoked genetic experiment. Still, he feels a sense of accomplishment, and nobody can take that away from him. Not even Igniz.
And then the peanuts come at his head, along with K9999's own expression of his bloodline flames. That's... Interesting.
"Man, /another/ copycat?" Kyo says, in a long-suffering tone, easily putting up his hands and summoning forth the sacred Kusanagi flames, allowing him to knock K9999's aside, and unfortunately destroying the peanuts utterly.
It's the real tragedy, here.
"You sure did," Kyo agrees, cheerfully, before suddenly lashing out with his right fist in a hooking punch aimed at the side of K9999's head, flames trailing behind his fist, and erupting at the probable point of impact. If, perchance, that first punch lands, Kyo will step in, striking a second time with his left fist and more flames, and then a third and final time, this a powerful exposive uppercut, with more of the Ever Burning Flames of the Kusanagi. "HOW'S THIS?!"
COMBATSYS: Kyo successfully hits K9999 with Aragami.
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K9999 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Kyo
Look, it wasn't K9999's idea! He'd had no say in anything major that occured in his life, and everyone had to suffer for it. Here was the source of everything really, yet somehow K' got the top spot mostly because the need to hunt him down had triggered all of this. In retrospect were he thinking reflectively with a much calmer temperament, he might have acknowledged with a nod of his head and stern frown that Kyo really was a perfect specimen to have used for an enhanced soldier. Ignoring the personality ofcourse. The manner with which he just swatted aside his assault, and utterly immolate the hapless paperbag was almost flippant. And anyone who knew anything of K9999, never treated him...with such lassitude.
And that was only ACT One. ACT Two was a swift follow-up that even he didn't have a chance to set himself to defend. Ofcourse rushing right on in without any manner of care might have had something to do with it, he virtually ran right into the first punch. And the rest was history-- as was the poor vender cart. Why? Because see, that last explosive uppercut with flagrant flames shooting up from everywhere saw fit to let the clone crash in a flaming heap into the thing. Metal twisted, umbrella broke, peanuts and supplies went flying everywhere as he tumbled and crashed the cart onto the floor. No peanuts for you Kyo.
K9999 groaned briefly, instantly melding into a growl as he struggled back up to his feet. The rage, it was being fed quite nicely, and the furor behind those crimson eyes begged nothing mroe than pure hatred for Kyo. Enough, that he clutched his head as if in pain, a veritable swirl of energies eddying in the air invisibly about him.
COMBATSYS: K9999 gathers his will.
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K9999 1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Kyo
Why, what's wrong with Kyo's personality? He's a perfect angel.
Still, being flippant and dismissive is pretty much one of Kyo's big things, so K9999 shouldn't feel like it's anything special... Though no doubt the rather messed-up engineered fighter cares little for fine distinctions like that one. As K9999 gets to his feet, glaring and growling with possibly murderous rage in Kyo's direction, gathering his power together...
Kyo frowns at the vendor cart.
"Maaaan... I was /really hungry/," the Kusanagi heir complains, heaving a sigh and shrugging his shoulders. He'll just have to get something on the way home. Maybe he'll even find someplace that has both food /and/ a lack of anyone who might want to kill him.
It could happen, you never know.
Turning to glance sidelong at K9999, Kyo can simply /feel/ the power swelling in the other man, but he seems largely unaffected. "So... You actually gonna do anything, or is this one of those 'all hat, no cattle' things?" Attitude aside, Kyo is actually watching K9999 very carefully. Yes, come on, attack him.
What could go wrong?
COMBATSYS: Kyo focuses on his next action.
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K9999 1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Kyo
K9999 sure felt real special. And that lead to only one thing! Vengence. It was quite childlike, but then the clone hadn't exactly had the time to grow normally, so there were a lot of throwbacks in many ways. Kyo was there, waiting and watching, the pressure to act weighing on his shoulders as was the taunting lick of power just lapping at the barely controllable barriers. He was already panting, his breaths shallow and quick, more with rage than with the pain. The latter had already dulled as the teenager took on his own kind of focus. But wait, he smiled, no, grinned with an animalistic baring of his teeth. What was it that Kyo was? Right, hungry. The vendor had backed away to give the pair of fighters some space, but he was looking on with some hope that the damage hadn't been too bad, the propane tank hadn't exploded, why just dust it off...bang out some kinks...
"The bitch who fed you...I'm going to find her again." Taking a step foward, a rush of force swept up about him and streaked right on across the ground in a wave, picking up the cart and tossing it into the air to either crash /into/ Kyo along with the invisible wall-- or. "And I'm going to make her wish SHE WAS DEAD!!!" Or just fall to the ground, tank breaking and sparking into a neat combustable bomb to the side harmlessly. If you ignored the stores that...got their display windows shattered. What a trend.
COMBATSYS: Kyo blocks K9999's Get out of my sight!.
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K9999 1/----===/=======|==-----\-------\0 Kyo
Not so much.
As the 'wall' of force comes his way, Kyo notices its presence both from the pressure of K9999's chi, and the general disturbances it causes, enough to brace himself and get his arms up in the way of the onrushing energy. Of course, Kyo being Kyo, he lets out a faint, derisive chuckle as he does so. "Heh, that was pretty slow," the World Warrior chides.
The explosion in the background is just that - in the background - though it serves to highlight what's going on here pretty nicely. "Seriously, though, you should probably go see a shrink or something..." Kyo pauses, looking K9999 over. "Uh, well, be careful about the 'shrink' part, 'cause it looks like you already did, Tiny." Yeah, it's a cheap shot, but what do you expect from a Kusanagi?
Rushing in, Kyo seeks to close the distance between himself and K9999 quickly, which probably doesn't bode well for the genetically engineered fighter; Kyo throws one elbow forward, trying to catch K9999 with a stunning strike, before thrusting out with his other hand, aiming to catch the smaller young man by the neck and lift him /off/ the ground. And if he does that? "Burn," Kyo instructs, almost negligently, before unleashing a sudden explosion of Kusanagi fire, which will probably hurt, to say nothing of hopefully sending K9999 flying away.
COMBATSYS: Kyo successfully hits K9999 with Koto Moon Positive.
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K9999 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0 Kyo
The poor vender was off crying next to his destroyed living, no doubt he'll be forced to eke out a living that was rife with avoiding the local mafia to pay off some gambling debts. Not that either of them cared, especially K9999 who was furiously trying to figure out which woman he'd pissed off enough to have Kyo Kusanagi come and ruin his evening. He had a lot more time to think about it /after/ the brown-haired youth had vice-choke held him, then neatly exploded him out of the grip. Into the air. And into some shop windows that had quite nicely been shattered earlier. His leather jacket was ruined, nothing but ash and cinder, his more durable NESTs garb was showing signs of wanting to give up the ghost equally. Rips and tears, blood staining it. K9999 lay unmoving in a display case that had once held precious crystal figurines and what nots, part of the shelves crashed down on him.
Little by little, he stirred, then hauled himself up on an arm. He was shaking, not from the strain of his injuries-- this much would have already killed lesser folk. But not an experiment from NESTs, no. He dragged himself to the edge, ignoring the shards having embedded in his clothing or body, his attentions fixed on Kyo with a murderous kind of intensity. An obsessive kind. One foot, then the other, he stood as if to say...more please! Little to no damage had been done to the other, and if he wanted to keep it that way he would do well to pay attention to the sudden surge of energy, it spiked to a high level...and then, simply /erupted/.
Reddish-white swirling chi exploded outwards at a pace, smashing and crushing whatever it encountered . It had no precise direction, just wild and unhindered, with K9999 the eye to the storm.
COMBATSYS: Kyo blocks K9999's Moon....
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K9999 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Kyo
Oh please, like anyone operates in Southtown without Fighter Insurance? There's tons of people running around - many of them schoolkids! - with enough power to beat up, like, Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris combined /while blindfolded/. This kind of crap happens /every damn day/.
The eruption of power from K9999, though, that's a bit more unexpected, even from Kyo; there's little he can do, trapped in that storm of energy that stretches out from the engineered fighter, than try to keep himself as unharmed as possible. He shifts a little, he gets his arms up over his head, and he generally tries to mitigate the furious power of K9999 as best he can...
And frankly, he does pretty okay.
Even as the eruption fades, Kyo is already rushing forward, off-balance from the remaining power radiating out of K9999; as he gets close, Kyo ducks down, getting as close as he can to K9999 before leaping /up/, stretching his arms out in a whirling, rising attack, seeking to lift the genetic experiment /with/ him. And flames, of course, trail behind Kyo as he rises, streaming from either first in a double helix, searing at K9999 if all goes according to plan. "Raaagh!!"
COMBATSYS: Kyo successfully hits K9999 with Oniyaki.
>> Decisive Hit!! <<
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K9999 1/--=====/=======|=====--\-------\0 Kyo
Usually, that turned out far more satisfyingly for the kyo-clone. This was like biting into one of those delicate pastries, only to find them empty inside with barely any filling. Kyo hadn't been flattened, infact he seemed quite hail, incomparison to the sorely hurting K9999. It was far from his best showing, that was for certain, and it would remain so till the end. His reflexes, his everything was slowed, the sudden bout of chi-avalanche had left him momentarily drained. Enough to leave him wide open for a retaliating Kusanagi. K9999 yet again found himself (un)gracefully sailing through the air, his head snapped back and the sky arcing overhead in its colourful myriad of canvus paintery hues. One might almost consider it beautiful to look at, if it weren't that his body was being wracked by pain and fire. Good times.
When he hit the ground, it was a testament to his lineage that he didn't remain down. He was back on his feet, albiet leaning over as if unable to straighten fully, his skin splashed with scarlet. Did he have words? No. He only had a promise. And as he raised his hand, perhaps the 'woman' had described these too to him, his hand morphed for a better word, melding and re-wrapping into what was most assuredly a gun-like weapon. And it discharged in a hail of chi-based bullets, tearing up the pavement, and anything caught in its path. It sent up scatterings of debris and firey mini-explosions where they struck. It also set up a nice curtain for retreat, and for K9999 to lick his wounds whilst dwelling fanatically about how he would exact his revenge.
COMBATSYS: K9999 can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Kyo effortlessly blocks K9999's You get lost too!.
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Man, Kyo really needs to talk to NESTS about what they're doing with the genetic material they stole from him. He has quality standards to enforce.
But honestly, Whip gave Kyo only what intelligence she could about various NESTS agents, since who knows which ones Kyo would actually run into? The fact that he was finally able to cross paths with K9999 is... Entirely accidental. Maybe even providential, depending on your perspective.
Probably not from K9999's, though.
When the clone's arm turns into a goddamn GUN, Kyo looks a little bewildered, but what comes next settles neatly into the realm of AWESOME. The chi-based bullets lance through the air towards Kyo, and the Kusanagi heir stands his ground, getthing his arms up to knock aside each with dismissive ease. He can't completely shut them down, but he can keep them from doing any significant harm, but by the time he's done, K9999 is... Gone?
"Huh," Kyo says, sounding more befuddled than particularly upset. "Well, okay then. Man, I hope Wendy's is still open."
He really wants a Baconator, all of a sudden.
COMBATSYS: Kyo has ended the fight here.
Log created on 19:09:11 01/29/2009 by Kyo, and last modified on 20:31:11 01/30/2009.