Description: Leading a less direct attack, Cammy and her team of Shadaloo's Cracker Jack and Eclipse, on loan from NESTS, will be invading by means of the YFCC Infirmary. Entering via a newly made 'door', smashing in through the windows or skylights, or some other means, the trio finds themselves blocked by YFCC handyman Zach, NESTS experiment subject Vanessa, and Doctor Tran. Being a Real Doctor, Tran is at home in an infirmary, but will that be enough to hold back the invaders!?
Southtown -- under siege!
As the city burns, the Young Fighters Community Center has become one of the last bastions of sanity, if only because those present are readily able to actually protect themselves from looters and the like. Those needing refuge have flocked there to the point of overcrowding, gymnasiums and training rooms turned into makeshift dormitories with comfortable hardwood-floor pillows. The problem with being so stable in the midst of absolute chaos, though, is that it gets you /noticed/.
A phys ed teacher for Seijyun High -- burly, strapping, handsome for a woman -- has taken up one of the volunteer guard shifts, as many have in their attempts to keep the YFCC safe. She walks alongside a lateral wall-length mural depicting great fighters -- those depicted carefully chosen to be paragons of good sportsmanship and healthy dieting and the like.
The ice cream truck crashes right through the visage of Mayor Mike Haggar, smashing the poor phys ed teacher into and through the nearest wall before crushing what's left under a tire, to the chiming tune of "Do Your Ears Hang Low." Behind the wheel, Cammy recovers from the crash, lifting from her slumped position over the steering wheel and making sure her little blue hat is still in place. She observes what room the crash has taken them to: "We are in the infirmary," she notes to her passengers, Cracker Jack and Eclipse. "Our entrance will have alerted guards. Move quickly." Swinging her legs up in a display of unnatural limberness, Cammy kicks out the front windshield with both heels and somersaults across the hood to the floor.
Eclipse Umbra, that wonderful vatbaby, has been here before. Last month, he attempted to infiltrate the YFCC with the goal of killing Alma Towazu in mind - didn't go so well. Alma kinda handed him his ass.
Pride he didn't realize that he had so injured, he leapt at the chance to go back, and go back in force.
Gone is any attempt at anonymity. Eclipse is clad in a NESTS battlesuit of black leather and armored metal, tight and sssssssssexy, with his arms bare, revealing four metal bands implanted right into his skin, wrist-to-shoulder, connected by circuits. Mysterious NESTS cybernetics. A small sheath on his hip prominently contains his Gerber Mark II knife.
He hasn't ogled Cammy once this entire time. Eclipse has not yet discovered women.
He is also no longer in the truck - as it was about to slam into the wall, Eclipse nonchalantly threw himself out of the window, hitting the sidewalk with a roll, not trusting anyone but himself to this nonsense. Knife out, held loosely in his left hand, Eclipse stalks in through the dust, face serious. He favors Cammy and his other ally with a suspicious squint. "Warn me next time."
In the back of the icecream truck, leg up and laying back like nothing was even happening, C.Jack awaits with his hat over his head, glaring down towards Cammy's posterior in mock sleep. Its a nice view at the time.
"Hey, do they call you the queen bee because you sting in b-" This is about the time the truck flies into the air and comes crashing down into the infirmary sending him flying towards the front of the van, his baseball bat standing between him and the windshield.
"Yeah... yeah." He grunts, "You look really nice today Cammy. Whats your secret?" C.Jack announces as he stands up, looking towards Eclipse in the bondage black leather armor. Pointing his hard, wooden bat towards Eclipse with a sneer, he spits whatever blood he accumulated for the crash out.
"You best not be keeping us down, son. If you fuck up once I'm going to shove this up your ass." With that, the bat comes down as he begins to look around for some YFCC kids to beat on. "Olley olley oxen free! Time to get out of hiding and get to fighting you spoiled punk ass brats!"
Not everybody here at the YFCC is a refugee or a volunteer. For that matter, not everybody here is actually inside the building. There is one man who dares defy the conventions.
One man who stands tall and unwavering against the chaos.
One man who hates Alma enough that he couldn't /actually/ stand to enter the building, preferring instead to take a grappling hook and sneak onto the roof, gathering courage for the inevitable confrontation.
DR. TRAN, internationally acclaimed badass secret agent with a heart of gold and five-time Oregon State chili-cookoff honorable mention, is just waiting for his chance to strike when the entire building shakes because someone just drove a god damn van into it. Tran rushes to the edge and looks down at the obscuring cloud of dust, and makes a decision.
Twenty seconds later, in the actual lobby of the infirmary, Dr. Tran comes hurtling through the window at a speed physicists have described as 'Mach Tran'.
He was not expecting it to be open.
Tumbling across the ground to an undignified halt, Tran woozily tries to regain his feet, with mixed success. Barely sure what's even going on, but certain that the commotion has to have drawn his long-time frenemy, the tiny Asian man gasps out, "A...alma...you dirty son of a bitch! Where are you!"
Things have been insane since this war in SouthTown kicked off. People have been staying around the clock, the building packed well past safe capacity. "Oh well," Zach thinks as he wheels a mop bucket to the janitor's closest. "Plenty of hours this way."
Then the truck comes through the wall. A nice, loud impact. No stealth element whatsoever. Perhaps predictably, one of the first people to arrive after this is one of the employees. Zach skids to a halt in the lobby, staring wide-eyed at the wreckage. He is not expecting Tran to come crashing in through a window moments later. He glances back and forth between the sudden arrivals, and speaks pure wisdom:
"Gonna need a bigger broom," he says breathily.
Vanessa isn't quite associated with the YFCC - not directly. She spends too much time out and about. But Rose works here, and Alma's an old friend, and if there's one thing Vanessa hates it is evil people abusing the young. So she's been sitting in the lobby trying her very best not to nurse the bottle of bourbon she has hidden in the fridge while she waits for something awful to happen.
She slams down her second glass and turns when the sound of a van flying into the wall reaches her. "Jesus," she spits, standing up and shooting across the room in two long strides. "Did they use a bomb!?"
She appears in the infirmary in a blur, hands already in fists. Her eyes widen as she sees what's coming, and she drops straight into her boxing stance. A van. They used a /van/. "I'll give you creativity if nothing else," she mutters.
As Cammy's motley crew make their comments, the Killer Bee casts them a cold look -- establishing, she hopes clearly enough, that she's here on business, and that Vega does not value a sense of humor in his toys. "Less talking," she quips glibly, her posh English accent toneless and dull. And then, the little Doll moves.
As the heroes of the scene converge, the Killer Bee's easiest beeline is toward Tran, and so she moves that-a-way. Dashing with surprising silence, padded boots barely making a sound as they pound the debris-strewn floor, Cammy lunges toward the woozy, freshly-landed Tran, attempting to surge up from behind and begin choking the poor doctor out. "Shh," she whispers if the headlock makes it through, ramping up the pressure with every passing second. "Shhh, shhh."
COMBATSYS: Cammy has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Eclipse has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Tran has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: C.Jack has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Vanessa has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Vanessa
Eclipse wasn't joking. Eclipse was serious... DEAD SERIOUS.
He passes his knife from hand to hand, considering... and pitches it up. This isn't the time to test the strength of his own two hands. He's failed Igniz, his family once, and he won't fail again. The knife spins through the air, nearly reaching the ceiling, and Eclipse lifts up his left hand, right hand clasping something at the inside of his wrist.
"Limiter off."
He pushes in and twists something, and repeats the movement with his other hand, smoothly catching the knife. His lips tighten as his unstable powers come to the fore - black shadows start to play along his arms and shoulders, each band letting off one gout of steam. Light runs up the circuits, and the bands loosen. His skin swiftly changes, darkening from his ruddy tones to a dark brown, the color leaching out of his ragged hair and goatee until it stands a stark white.
Eclipse draws one ragged breath, pushing the pain to a little corner of his mind and kicking the door closed, manning up and surveying his opponents. The girl has the doctor (looks like a doctor), and the oncoming boxer's apparent speed is not something to deal with until he has more momentum. But the janitor... Eclipse doesn't trust janitors. Janitors hear your secrets and know your weaknesses. Nobody notices the janitor, and so the janitor can move as he wishes.
Janitors... nature's SPIES.
Eclipse thrusts his left hand out, thumb pinning the knife to his palm, all four fingers out. Energy gathers at the tips of his fingers, needle-sharp lines darting out, trying to thread themselves through Zach's body.
C.Jack snorts a little as Cammy turns down all his civil talk. Cammy can be really cold under the control of Vega, but you still gotta give him credit for being how she is. C.Jack likes a girl with her priorities in straight, and her no nonsense is right up his alley. He still can't act really like a thug to women, but this is a step in the right direction.
Now, all the defenders just sort of walk out really quickly. Coming out to meet them with broom and zest and everything else. C.Jack just smiles at this, "Aw what do we got here. I was looking for some punks for me and my bat, but the service in this place is definitely the best. Eclipse and Cammy take their men, and here C.Jack is left with his own. Looking right towards Vanessa. Well, at least its a woman. A feisty looking one at that.
Pointing the bat towards Vanessa, he once more makes it clear that he's gonna knock her outa the park. At least thats the whole point of this little excursion.
"You there, yes you. Don't know your name or title, but we're going to have a little fun, alright? I'm sure that's okay with you." C.Jack states in his most homely fun as he explodes across the gap towards Vanessa, a single right punch aimed to deliver a nastly blow towards Vanessa's welt. What welt? The welt he's gonna make.
COMBATSYS: Tran dodges Cammy's Random Grapple.
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Vanessa
It is a little known fact that Dr. Tran is actually completely aware of all women in his immediate vicinity at all times. The top scientists at Washington DC, working around the clock to plumb the depths of the mystery that is Dr. Tran, have come to refer to it as 'COOTIE-DAR'. Its true purpose remains unknown to this day.
So when Cammy comes up from behind Tran, intent to strangle him straight to death, he is able to desperately fling himself forward, keeping his sexy man-body safely out of her reach.
He comes up facing her, about to say something, but it seems that Cammy has succeeded in choking Tran after all. Sort of. "Y...you're not!" He looks around briefly, scanning the many people in the room. "None of you are!"
With one last look at Cammy (a mixture of disgust and fear), Dr. Tran runs away from her, straight toward Eclipse, leading with an outstretched fist. This guy's only wearing bondage gear. He's /safe/. Relatively speaking.
Tran's battle-cry rings throughout the infirmary. "WHERE THE FUCK IS ALMAAAAAAAAAA?!"
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Eclipse's Black Needles.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Zach
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Vanessa
Zach winces as those strange black needles come lancing in. Swiftly bringing his arms up, Zach cues up his own energies, having no limiters past his own willpower. Purple energy, unmistakable to those familiar with it as psycho power, surges to the fore as Eclipse's attack strikes with muted force.
"Huh," Zach says with a touch of amazement. "Can't believe that worked!" Glen shakes his head. Enough banter; the last guy hey saw dressed like Eclipse was bad news. Zach feels he can safely assume more of the same from this strangely photo-negative guy.
"Try this on for size," Zach growls as he charges in, crashing towards Eclipse with a flying knee strike that ripples with that violet violence...
COMBATSYS: Vanessa fails to counter Dash Straight from C.Jack with Parrying Puncher.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Zach
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
This is getting ugly. Vanessa growls in the back of her throat as she sees what she's got to work with. Eclipse, she vaguely recognizes from that SNF a while back...so, he was with a group like this, huh? Cammy, Vanessa knows from her...'job'. So she's here too. And C. Jack...is a total mystery, but he's coming at her with a bat so this isn't going to be good.
"Fun, huh," the redhead grunts. "I don't like it in groups, sugar, sorry!" she snaps, and then charges at him in the same instant he comes at her - but she mistimes it, blurring forward and running right into Jack's punch rather than her fist into his face. She staggers back, grunting and grinning. OK, maybe not as simple as she'd hoped. Damn.
Cammy comes up short in attempting to crush Tran's windpipe -- the agile assassin stops herself on a dime, throwing her arms up and back and backflipping to give herself some space to think. She scans the brewing brawl -- watching Tran run around like a maniac and insert himself into Zach and Eclipse's conflict. The young blonde's blue eyes come to rest on Zach, gaze cold and hard as steel.
The Killer Bee has made her decision, and strikes swiftly. With a bit of a running start, she leaps into the air, toward the upper edge of the ice cream truck she sent crashing through the wall -- and kicking off of it with remarkable grace, spinning about in mid-air. As Zach tries to connect with his knee strike, Cammy attempts to land right on his shoulders, giving him a view Cracker Jack would (and maybe will) kill for as she tries to clamp her thighs 'round his head and twist backward into a hurricanrana.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse dodges Zach's Strong Kick.
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
COMBATSYS: Tran successfully hits Eclipse with Strong Punch.
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Eclipse 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
Chi? Psycho power? Eclipse doesn't know enough to tell the difference on sight, he only generally knows that he hates being hit in the face. He melts away from the flying knee, dropping with his free hand on the ground and springing away like a cat.
Right into Tran's fist, as it turns out.
The young man's jaw snaps to the side, and he briefly loses his footing, forced to recover with a roll. He backs away from Tran, knife forward, but he's already chosen his target. Eclipse has that real stick-to-it-iveness that is very valued in an organization like NESTS. He sees Cammy clamping down, doesn't think anything untoward about the whole thing because he was grown in a jar, and drops onto his back. Both boots lock together, and he snaps out at the front of Zach's knees while Cammy twists for the throw.
This is getting great. Something that C.Jack was hoping for, to get completely into the fight and never get out. This is what he was damn hoping for. And sure enough it came, leaving the man with a big grin and a hardon for violence. Even Vanessa's defense doesn't stop C.Jack from plunging his assault forward and crasuhing forward.
"Hey, that doesn't matter. As long as I'm kicking someones ass, I'll be fine. Sorry bout this hun, I really don't enjoy beating up a woman but sometimes it comes with the job." C.Jack moves, even as she staggers back, pushing the offensive as he brings up another hand, aimed to drive it right into the chest of Vanessa.
There isn't another peep initially, if only because he's taking a little look see over towards Cammy and Zach. Aw hell some things in life just ain't fair.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse successfully hits Zach with Medium Kick.
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Eclipse 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
COMBATSYS: Zach fails to interrupt Frankensteiner from Cammy with Third Stance EX.
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Cammy 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\1 Zach
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Eclipse 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
Zach lands hard after the attempted knee strike, fumbling the landing slightly as he does so. He turns just in time to see Cammy and Eclipse coming in at him. He's seen some of Cammy's fights. He knows she's fast but... to see it in person is a very different thing. As if to tell Zach to get his head in the game, Eclipse's kick connects solidly with his flank.
He is still mentally gummed up, however, when Cammy lands on his shoulders. Glen sweeps an arm upward, attempting... something, but the power doesn't seem to leap forth like he was perhaps expecting. The pycho-powered youth slams into the ice cream truck hard, and crashes to the ground. He doesn't seem to be moving much...
Even after his fist impacts Eclipse's face with that satisfying crunching noise, Tran doesn't stop. That is to say, he doesn't stop /running/. He can still see Cammy out of the corner of his eye, and she is coming in this general direction oh god why.
And then, a lucky break. As it turns out, she's going after that poor, unfortunate janitor. No tears will be shed for him; it's well known that every janitor is a bastard and a sadist. Giving his own life for Tran's may well be the greatest and best thing such a woeful creature could ever accomplish.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tran keeps moving on, heart and mind torn between finding and beating Alma and making sure that he doesn't have to deal with a legally underage assassin who is no doubt out for his blood. Unfortunately, the only person he finds is Cracker Jack.
Leaping high in the air with a cry of "JOOOORDAN", Dr. Tran attempts to channel the power of the renowned basketball superstar and leap over the violent thug. He only gets up about far enough to put his chest on a level with Jack's head.
It is very possible that hijinx of some form ensue. Violent, painful hijinx.
COMBATSYS: Vanessa blocks C.Jack's Medium Punch.
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Cammy 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\0 Zach
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Eclipse 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Vanessa
Vanessa isn't really used to multi-person fights - she prefers to handle a single opponent and just drill them into the ground, personally. But she doesn't have that luxury today. She has to prioritize, and since in her own not even slightly biased assessment she is the only one here who has been trained at length to deal with deadly assassins, she figures that maybe she should go punch the deadly assassin who has been mutilating her buddies here.
C. Jack throws a punch. Vanessa's ready this time; her arms rise up and she catches it on a forearm, throwing the worst of the blow aside. But rather than surge forward and punish him in every vital organ, she grins at him, a little wild-eyed, and says, "Sorry, sugar, but can I take a raincheck? I promise we'll have some real fun later!"
And then she's just gone. Vanessa's absurdly quick on her feet, the Boxing Queen darting to one side, away from C.Jack, and then forward, and then forward again - right toward Cammy, her body blurring from the speed of her motion, and her cocked-back fist streaking toward the Killer Bee even as she's busydoing awful things to Zach's innocent, nubile body. "HEY, BLONDIE!" she cries out, hopefully throwing her off her groove. "EYES UP!"
The irony you see is that Vanessa is trying to punch her in the nose.
COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Vanessa's Dash Puncher.
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Cammy kip-ups to her feet just as Vanessa charges. The taunt is heard, the motion processed -- and Zero Doll simply just /isn't there/ all of a sudden, Vanessa's punch swishing through empty air. Can Cammy TELEPORT? Well, maybe, you can do anything if you believe in yourself. But for the moment, no, she is merely hanging from the ceiling by her bent knees, ankles crossed like a trapeze artist, having kicked out one of the panels in the ceiling's framework. How she jumped up there so fast is a mystery known only to Shadaloo and perhaps the Queen.
Cammy swings downward, flipping to grab the rim of the square hole in the ceiling with her hands, before swinging down to a crouched landing behind Vanessa. The redheaded, pretty MILFy boxer may yet have time to turn around to see Cammy coming -- but just in case, Cammy calls her move proudly anyway. The Killer Bee defies physics (sort of) as she hurtles feet-first toward Vanessa: "SPIRAH ALLOOOUUU!"
Eclipse has a moment. Everyone is bouncing all over the place and attacking each other, but he is an objective-oriented man. Literally, he has a little display on the inside of his left wrist scrolling through mission objectives, which reminds him that he has to keep in touch with his handlers. He murmers to himself, "Mission objective: Enter YFCC successful. New objective, eliminating janitor."
He braces his feet on the ground, holding his knife out in his left hand toward Zach, waiting for him to get back up. As he continues to murmer, describing the situation to five bored people in lab coats, his muscles tense, and more shadowy energy ripples along his arms, collecting at his feet, whipping his unkempt hair around.
Meanwhile, back at the lab, one of Eclipse's handlers has a hilarious idea.
Confusion passes over the young man's face for an instant, replaced by his usual frown. "Acknowledging side objective: ...Get Some."
COMBATSYS: Eclipse gathers his will.
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COMBATSYS: Tran successfully hits C.Jack with Heavy Kick.
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Tran comes down right on top of C.Jack, even as he throws his arms up in defense. It just ain't enough. Tran's strength in his leg just send C.Jack flying backwards as he lets out a heavy huff and buff, eyes up towards the man as he's thrown way backwards. Well that stung a little, even for the thug known as C.Jack.
But he ain't dead yet. He ain't anywhere close to dead. Hefting himself up, he looks towards Tran with a rather smug grin and a shake of his head. "What the fuck you babbling about. I'm about to rip you a new hole for that one." C.Jack spits as he throws himself right back towards Tran without even a thought of self preservation.
Rearing a hand back, C.Jack rips forward towards Tran, his fist sending shockwaves through the air by not how fast it is, but by how strong the assault is, delivering it right towards Tran's noggin.
"If you ain't gonna make any fucking sense, then I'm gonna beat some out!" C.Jack roars.
COMBATSYS: C.Jack successfully hits Tran with Final Punch.
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If you were to ask Tran, he would indignantly respond that he is not babbling at all. In fact, he is barely talking! Screaming a little, sure, but certainly not anything even coming close to babbling.
However, he doesn't so much get the chance to explain himself, because Cracker Jack decides that if anyone needs a punchin', it's Dr. Tran. The fist smashes him cleanly in the chest, and the doctor goes /flying./ He literally takes to the air, spiralling lazily in a gentle barrel roll, which eventually takes him into and through a door. There is a shower of splinters, muffled cursing, and moments later a marginally more concave Dr. Tran bursts back through, ruining what remains of the poor aggreived doorway.
"I'M GOING TO BEAT YOUR SENSE OUT, RIGHT OUT YOUR EARHOLE!" Stomping on a last little bit of food, Tran fumes; rather literally, as tiny wisps of steam rise off of him, only to quickly get sucked back in. The doctor adds, rather pointlessly, "And your stupid hat, too!"
COMBATSYS: Tran gathers his will.
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Zach slowly drags himself to his feet, wobbling a moment as he gets his legs back under him. He regards the situation somewhat carefully through the swimming vision, and decides that he needs to bring more energy to this fight.
While Eclipse is talking to the Voices In His Head, Zach aims an open palm at the science project and mentally opens a door. Purple light spins and sweeps around his feet, before swallowing the hapless janitor whole in that bright violet glow. Once so covered, Zach brings both hands back to one hip, as if holding a basket ball.
Some of the rampant psycho power rushes into these waiting hands. Those folks that are at all psychically sensitive are likely to get a bit of a headache right about now...
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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COMBATSYS: Vanessa just-defends Cammy's Spiral Arrow!
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"What--" Vanessa gasps. She's fast, but Cammy's /known/ for her speed. She looks around, quickly, and spies that hole in the ceiling. SHe grins. "Feisty, huh," she laughs, and braces herself for the coming storm. "Fast, though...this is gonna be tricky."
And then she's there - swinging out of the ceiling, landing behind Vanessa, and the Boxing Queen spins around and -- grins. "Nimble little minx!" she laughs, hands coming up. She waits for just that moment of pressure that tells her Cammy has connected, and then she shoots back, skidding across the ground too fast to really see. She shoots around, dodging left and right to keep Cammy from getting a good bead on her location --
And then she's /right there/, driving one fist down toward the top of Cammy's head, and another up toward her chin, both fists trailing golden chi while Vanessa yells, "HELLION!"
COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Vanessa's Forbidden Eagle.
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"Tch--!" Cammy scolds as she suddenly drops into a split and falling backward to avoid the scissoring attack. "Cracker Jack," she says, as her legs snap together and she rolls over one shoulder back to her feet, "please handle this woman and her ridiculous tie." Cammy tugs her own little stewardess tie, as if for emphasis.
Cammy could feel the heat off those punches, even if they didn't connect. She quickly cartwheels away from Vanessa, formulating a plan for her next move. As slow as the bruiser apparently is, she still knows that she wouldn't be much use to Shadaloo with a cracked skull -- at least, not with two other opponents still on the battlefield. "Hmph," she says, observing the focus-off between Eclipse and Zach. It's not complex arithmetic for her to figure out what to do next -- she leaps into a flip and lands in a scamper, attempting to come up behind the janitor and wrap her thin arms around his waistline. "Move faster, Eclipse," she says as she attempts to bridge backward and slam Zach's skull into the ground -- "Else I'll end up sniping your kills."
Eclipse's right arm starts to shake as the shadows swell up around him. He drops down to one knee, jams his knife in its sheath, and braces his right hand at the shoulder. A cylinder of energy forms around the hand, a construct snapping into focus - a bizarre H.R. Giger-like monstrosity of tubes and and machinery that at least is clearly meant to be a cannon of some sort - also, it has a noted lack of baby skulls in its design. "All that matters is that the kill gets made. Spring away!"
The NESTS clone follows up Cammy's suplex with an attack of his own. "You gave me too much time. You can't survive that way, janitor." His body rocks back, and a massive blast of black chi erupts from the cannon, small spirals of excess trailing behind it. The cannon dissolves after, sweat sheening on Eclipse's forehead. Then, he remembers his other mission. What was the first step?
"You look like you could survive on your own in harsh conditions for a very long time, Cammy." Complimenting, that's what Dr. Horberd said to start it off.
C.Jack is all ready to deal with Dr. Tran. Even when he threatens to beat the sense out of his earhole. Now that doesn't make any sense. C.Jack just laughs it off from what he can see, but the laugh is bittersweet as Tran fumes, wisps and steam rising right off of the man's head. "Holy shit son cool down and fucking sit down. If I wasn't bein' asked to deal with that lady over there I'd cool you down for you." C.Jack turns, his attention moving towards Vanessa once more.
C.Jack hears his name. Its not hard, as it sounds like that one tasty treat you can usually eat.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm coming Cammy." The man doesn't even move far as he sling the bat up around his back, holding it there as he searches the ground for debris. "Right, right. here we go." Bending down and grasping a solid, metal box with a red cross on it, C.Jack hurls it up.
"I don't know, I sort of like your tie. Your outfit isn't too bad for your age either." C.Jack states with a sly smile as the medkit pops back down, where C.Jack pops it right out towards Vanessa with a baseball swing.
Tran blinks as C.Jack basically blows him off in favor of Vanessa. It is /enraging./ "You...gkk!" Tran cuts off, as his rage actually manifests briefly in his throat, choking him and keeping him from saying anything even more stupid.
Hand balling and unballing into a fist repeatedly as a futile way of coping with the intense rage that's quickly building up inside him, Tran does the only thing that really makes sense. "Well you know what? Fine! I don't care!" Sour grapes. "I can run off to a woman and ignore you, too!" So that's exactly what Tran does.
Except, uh, the only woman he could really attack is Cammy. That gives the doctor a moment of pause, which slowly stretches out until it's not really even a moment anymore. "If...if I wanted to. Which I don't?"
His own confusion is enough to push Tran over the edge. "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCK!" Steam erupts outward, a blistering explosion of force that clears the miscellaneous bits of the YFCC that are just lying there away from him. The steam clears a bit, but it's still coming off Tran in a hazy fog of power. "That's it! I DON'T EVEN GIVE A FUCK ANYMORE! COME ON, I'LL DOG THE FIRST MAN I SEE!"
COMBATSYS: Tran switches his Mindset.
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COMBATSYS: Cammy successfully hits Zach with Hooligan Suplex.
-*- DEVASTATING HIT! -*-
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COMBATSYS: Zach overcomes Shadow Cannon from Eclipse with Ka-Psi-Ne Ate EX.
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COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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Zach is promptly flung as Cammy gets somewhat suggestive with her fighting style. He crashes into a wall, and slides to the floor with a loud thud, wincing as Eclipse's cannon still tracks him. He grins, blood dribbling out of the corner of his mouth.
"That's... my line," Zach says as he wobbles back to his feet. "KASANE ATE!" Zach sweeps his hands downward in a rapid slashing motion. Out of nowhere, three sheets of crackling psychic power slash into existence, ripping clean through the mass of shadowy chi. The sheets seem unfazed by the beam cannon as they scream towards Eclipse!
COMBATSYS: Vanessa dodges C.Jack's Large Thrown Object.
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"DAMN!" Vanessa spits out as her punches go wide. It's easy to say 'fast', but Cammy's a whole other level. She spins around, looking to try and close the gap instantly - Cammy can move, but Vanessa can too. But first he has C. Jack throwing something at her. She barely takes the time to notice, calling, "Not here for a fashion show, sugar!" as she slides forward, ducking under the incoming thrown object. Cammy's unloading on Zach...she needs to thin this herd a little. And only one of the people here has recently shot a death ray. Priorities!
Which is why Vanessa veers sharply off to one side and comes at Eclipse at full tilt, aiming a vicious punch at the back of his head.
Having finished off Zach, Cammy scans for her next target -- but when Eclipse speaks, she gives him a slightly askew glance. "This is true," she replies to his compliment, squinting slightly as if trying to suss out some sort of motive behind the statement. "I would advise against testing it."
The dull-voiced English assassin then locks her eyes on Tran. He's rambling, incoherent, quite possibly completely insane. To Cammy, this just screams 'target.' "I am not a man," she says, before leaping into a flip and coming out of it lashing one heel toward Tran's jaw. "Therefore I should have nothing to worry about."
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Eclipse with Ka-Psi-Ne Ate EX.
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COMBATSYS: Eclipse dodges Vanessa's Hook Punch.
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The goddamn Todoh thing bites into the Shadow Cannon blast, handily slicing it right in half. Nobody likes it when that happens. The psi continues on to crash into Eclipse's outstretched hand, sending burning all the way up his arm, the black chi reacting crazily.
As he slides back, he sees out of the corner of his eye Vanessa charging in at him. He throws himself back, sliding under the punch and rolling back to his feet. This is the fast one, and by his own evaluation, probably the toughest one here. He saw her fighting before, anyway. He doesn't want to play around here. "Sorry," he mumbles, a little hard to hear, "that was my life, and this is the mission."
He extends his right arm again, and the cannon springs into existence. This time, however, all the shadows around him draw into its barrel, and instead of bracing on his shoulder, he plunges his left hand into a port that wasn't there last time. He is motionless.
Then, the cannon fires, and it's not like last time. With a deafening rumble of the very air, a solid beam of chi, quickly diffusing out to be larger than Eclipse himself, comes powering out, seeking to engulf Vanessa entirely. He slowly slides back, hair thrown straight back.
The wall behind Vanessa gets totally owned.
"The hell you keep ignoring me sweety." C.Jack announces as he turns towards her, only to find out she moves right towards Eclipse, anyone except for him. C.Jack has no idea but he's looking for something now. And that is Tran who starts to scream. That's what C.Jack is talking about.
"Hahaha! Alright son. Are you fucking ready to come at me? Come on and try it you god damn loser. Come on man, come on and throw it at me you son of a bitch." C.Jack calls as he points his bat right at Tran. "If you think can get over here, haha. Lets see it."
Holding the bat right up before tapping it twice on the ground and then leveling it back towards Tran, C.Jack just grins.
"C'mon. I'll hit it right out of the park."
COMBATSYS: C.Jack focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Tran interrupts Strong Kick from Cammy with Oh Shit It's Dr. Tran.
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Raising a finger to point at Cracker Jack, Dr. Tran really starts to get going. "HEY, LISTEN, YOU LOW-DOWN CAMEXICINADIAN SON OF A BITCH!" Tran takes a step forward, steam building and billowing around him. "IF YOU DON'T SHUT YOUR MOUTH, I'M GOING TO hey what do you think you're doing?!"
This, of course, is as Cammy interrupts him, trying to kick him possibly into orbit. He jukes to the side just a little, so when her foot impacts his jaw it only skims by and hurts like hell, instead of maybe breaking his entire face.
Power gathering and swelling in his hand, Dr. Tran sweeps it across in a chop aimed at Cammy before she can recover, chi flowing and building in its wake to slam into the doll. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
He follows it with the other hand, more quickly, creating a smaller sweep of energy to fire at her. "PULLING THIS ARWEN BS? GET AWAY FROM ME!"
Then Tran really goes to town, his arms blurring as he sends blast after blast of steam-chi, compressed into tiny razor-thin blades, hurtling into Cammy.
COMBATSYS: Vanessa effortlessly blocks Eclipse's Giant Shadow Cannon Burst.
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Eclipse slips aside. "What?" the Boxer mutters. She is having trouble hitting people today. Maybe it's that second tequila catching up to her.
She grunts, stepping back a step to see what Eclipse is going to do. And it's not pretty, that energy discharge...a frown, and she throws up her arms. THe blow hammers into her, driving her back a step, blackness parting around her and blowing out the wall behind her, hideously, a powerful blow that a woman of her size and age shouldn't be able to scrape past...but all she does is grin. "Scary!" she laughs. "But do you think you're gonna slow me down with something like that!?"
And then she's just /gone/, not even /in/ the range anymore, skating across the room in an instant, picking her target, sliding up and simply materializing before Cracker Jack, grinning and with fists at the ready. "Sorry I kept you waiting!" she jeers, and then one fist falls down and the second rises up, the air burning with golden chi.
Eclipse is visibly taken aback, and given that up until now he's been rocking the stoic expressions, that means something. Smoke rises from his right hand, and he is wide open - but Vanessa goes past him. That was his strongest--
He shuts his eyes, clamping down. No use wondering if you're too weak or she's simply strong. Change it up - test yourself. He reaches for his wrists again, toggling some kind of control there. The bands tighten, and the dark brown skin and white hair begin to slowly fade away as his more 'natural' colors come in. It's a slower process, giving him a marbled look for a while.
He also adds, hesitantly, to Cammy: "Perhaps we could meet somewhere, for... a cup of coffee and... ...discuss foraging techniques." Back in the lab, one man holds his wallet in one hand, grinding the heel of his palm into his forehead with the other.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse switches his Mindset.
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Oh --
Shit.
It's Dr. Tran.
Cammy wakes up after momentarily blacking out on the other end of the ice cream truck -- having smashed completely /through/ the vehicle, leaving a pile of Ninja Turtle ice cream pops with gumball eyes in her wake. The first thing she hears, upon waking up, is Eclipse's offer. "What?" she murmrs, weakly. "No."
Then, the Killer Bee is up, dashing back to her feet and leaping back through the van. She land on one foot, spinning into a righteous backhand. "KIYAAAH!" she cries, fist glowing electric blue with /PSYCHO POWER/.
COMBATSYS: C.Jack reflects Forbidden Eagle from Vanessa with Batting Hero.
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Oh, so Dr. Tran thinks he's too good for C.Jack, huh? The mexicana man cracks his neck, continuing to hold his bat towards Tran even if he goes utterly insane on cammy, screaming and all that shit right towards him.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing! I issued you a fucking challenge and you just piss it away like some sorta snot nosed little brat. Shit, you aren't worth my time!" C.Jack cries, saliva flying out even as his attention wains as his anger grows. This place sucks, and so do the people that defend it. Cammy just got hit a good deal. Vanessa makes herself known as well as C.Jack quickly has to turn his attention towards her.
She even apologizes about keeping him waiting. What a gal.
But that doesn't matter in the end, as her fist, burning with golden chi right towards C.Jack finds out something even worse. As it comes, C.Jack rears back with the bat, keeps his eye on the boxing glove, and just swings as hard as he can, the energy meeting in turn as he whacks it really hard. So hard that Vanessa's hand might not be punching any longer today. So hard that it stops it and sends it right back. The loud CRACK that echos through out the infirmary means a lot.
"Fuck yes, another home run."
COMBATSYS: Tran reflects Axle Spin Knuckle from Cammy with Dr. Tran Doles Out the Harshness.
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"Look. LOOK." Dr. Tran starts, since he has a little bit of breathing room from blowing Cammy across the room. His finger is pointing at Jack again, accusing with its tiny, hateful soul.
"It's not my fault if your little teenage girlfriend over there won't let me have a moment's peace and quiet. I am, I was TRYING to do something, but then she has to come along and--see? SEE!?"
This, of course, is when Cammy comes flying back to drive her freaky mind-fist directly into Tran's Tran. He is not having any of that, no sir. Turning to the side, Tran slams one palm flat against the ground, power surging down through his arm and into the flooring. There's a beat, and then, just moments before the Killer Bee's fist would strike home, the ground erupts.
A geyser of steam roars upward, twisting and writhing as Tran focuses it, condenses it into the form of a wall that's as solid as anything made out of bricks. It doesn't like Cammy, and more importantly it doesn't like the brilliant blue power that she's throwing around, causing immediate feedback on contact.
"And another thing!" Tran continues as if he were never interrupted at all. "This has been bugging me! Who leaves the window open in an infirmary in February? I mean, it's cold! There are sick people here! Do the god damn math!"
Vanessa's all het up now. She thinks she can do this. She's pretty sure if she just keeps the heat on, she can--
She didn't expect that trick. "Wha!?" she manages to stammer out, before C. Jack nails her in the hand so hard there's an awful, shattering CRACK of bone, and her chi bounces back and slams her in the chest, and she has to take a few seconds, slipping away again, breathing and in pain. "Oh, you little shit," she says, but she still has that manic grin on her face. "So that's how you like it, huh? You like to beat your women, that it? That the only way you can get it on? Well, I got bad news for you, slugger--"
"IT'S STILL THE FIRST INNING!"
And then she charges in again, simply appearing there - and unloads, barely even registering that her hands should be mush, hammering into C. Jack with all of her strength, a punch, a second, a third, a slow, methodical dismantling of his physique by means of thorough punching.
"ARGH!" Cammy squeals, repulsed by Tran's energy output as much as she's attracted to his rugged, non-linear masculinity (deep down, anyway -- as all females are).
Landing on one shoulder in a whumpf of debris dust that sticks to her sky-blue thong onesie, Cammy clutches at her head, reeling from psycho power reflected back into her own mindspace. "Nnngh," she groans, leaping up and landing in a crouch. Clearly, Dr. Tran is a fighter on the order of kings and great philosophers -- why does Shadaloo not have extensive files on him, then?!
SOME TIME AGO
Cammy opens the manila folder labeled 'TRAN (DOCTOR)' in Marz' impeccable handwriting, preparing for the invasion. She is wearing the Dolls' workout uniform, which is a thong unitard with brightly colored tights beneath it and thick leg warmers over high-top sneakers. "Hmm," she says, chewing on the cap of her pen as she sees that the file is empty save for a signed 8x10 glossy headshot made out to 'MARK,' whoever 'MARK' is.
NOW
Deciding to keep her distance, Cammy instead picks up a piece of broken glass from the debris, and whizzes it toward Tran's neck, like she were trying to skip a stone across a pond, or throw a frisbee to a beloved pet.
Eclipse nods once as Cammy turns him down, and mutters, "Reporting failure in secondary objective: Get Some." Two of Eclipse's handlers divvy up money to the other three.
Now, Eclipse's chi dampened once again, he drops into a low crouch and prowls the perimeter of the room, looking for an opening. His eyes lock onto the doctor - if he's in the employ of Towazu, eliminating him will go far in their mission to destabilize the YFCC. He may have things a little wrong. However, if Vanessa can just eat his Shadow Cannon at full power...
Eclipse slips his knife into his hand, crouches low, and springs like a predator at his back. Silently, he lands behind him and tries to slice the black Gerber Mark II in a long, backhanded slice right up Tran's spine. "Janitor eliminated. New mission: Eliminate the doctor. ...people who let themselves get hurt should deal with it on their own, or they're not fit for this hard life."
COMBATSYS: Tran endures Cammy's Thrown Object.
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COMBATSYS: Tran interrupts Fierce Strike from Eclipse with Random Weapon.
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COMBATSYS: C.Jack blocks Vanessa's Champion Puncher EX.
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Vanessa is sent flying back. Just enough that C.Jack can actually take his bat out and rest on it, his eyes rather hidden beneath his hat as his gaze heads right on over towards Vanessa's mad cow look. She's pissed off. Really pissed off to throw out crazy ass claims about C.Jack beating women. This warrents a sneer from the man, his upper lip curling.
"Now hey now, I don't beat my women. Shit, I'm as cordial as I can possibly be for a man of my lifestyle. I can't just not be my job though. Same sex different sex doesn't matter in the fight. Busting heads sound the same for any sex so why you try to bring this into that?" C.Jack asks as he swings his back up about his back, standing there as he tips his hat with a jerk ass grin on his face only for Vanessa to blaze a trail forward.
Both arms come down to intercept Vanessa's punch which sends him driven backwards, right up against the van with a hardy crack. C.Jack spits as he pushes himself off, his arms on fire due to the three solid strikes. "Woah. Hooo-ly shit. Hold it right there. You got fire in your blood or something?" C.Jack says, shaking his heads as he aims forward towards Vanessa lickety split, the bat coming down for leverage as he brings himself up, a kick aimed right towards the woman's chest.
It's a little known fact, but Dr. Tran is one of the most coldest, hardest, real-ass fighters alive today. 'But wait,' you may being to cry, 'how can we possibly know this for sure? Where is your real-ass proof?'
The answer, of course, is that it is right here. As Cammy's shard of glass comes whizzing through the air at Tran, his only response is to raise a hand. He grabs it without even flinching a little, despite the sharp edges biting deeply into his hand.
Hardly skipping a beat, he then immediately whirls about and drives the shard downward into Eclipse's soft, waiting flesh, mindless of the long red streak that was just carved into his backside and part of his side-side.
Kicking at Eclipse afterward to force him away, Dr. Tran pants, "Deal with that, then, you motherless bean curd."
COMBATSYS: Vanessa fails to counter Medium Kick from C.Jack with Puncher Vision EX.
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Vanessa can't really talk right now, she is busy punching.
Her barrage of power-punches is met by C. Jack's arms. She keeps moving, she has to keep moving. She sees him get ready --
She slips away, quickly, suddenly, looking around for just a second. This is bad, but Tran doesn't seem half bad...but it's still three on two, and none of the three is doing as badly as the two are. Some distant part of her knows perfectly well - this battle is lost.
But not yet. She won't stop fighting. She can't /let/ herself stop here. Even if she's not deeply involved in it...
She charges back in, zipping in at full tilt, ready to deliver a punishing blow -- which is cut short because Cracker Jack nails her in the ribs, sending her sprawling with a "WHOOF!"
Cammy squints, watching as Tran so casually catches the thrown glass and hurls it back at her teammate. "You're very resourceful, Doctor Tran," she notes, sounding as enthused with this as she might the prospect of a particularly invasive root canal. "I will have to tell my master of your cunning mind when I am done pummeling you."
Cammy bounds forward, leaping into a handspring -- and then ricocheting upward, one leg bent, the other stuck out straight, heel jutting diagonally toward her medically-minded nemesis. "KIYA!"
Eclipse is rocked back, because he has a giant shard of glass embedded in the side of his temple. Blood spurts out onto Tran's own face, and he's kicked away. The good doctor definitely feels glass scraping up against Eclipse's skull. He holds his hand up there for a moment, glances down at the blood, and screws his right eye shut so the blood can't get in.
With his other eye, he locks onto Tran, mouth pulling down into a scowl. "My mother..." is all he says. He doesn't ACTUALLY have a mother, but NESTS made him think that he once did. It's a bad subject. The knuckles of Eclipse's hand go white.
He lunges for Tran on the opposite side of Cammy, and goes to town. His arm is a blur as he starts swiping and stabbing, ducking from side to side to slip around any guard, scowling deeper and deeper. At the end, he pulls his hand back, more of that black chi rippling around his arm... but when he strikes, it isn't there. Must be an incomplete technique.
C.Jack throws himself right into it full tilt. So much that when Vanessa decides that, hey, she's gonna stop him there, he just plows on right through, his large boots making a nice imprint on the front of Vanessa's chest, C.Jack leaping off right after, a rather satisfied grin on his face.
"You know... why they call me C. Jack?" The man answers as he lands, playing around with the end of the baseball bat, snuffing it into the ground even as she stands her ground, getting up once more at he continues to beat some sense into the girl.
Raising the bat up high and turning towards Vannesa, C. Jack's smile grows a little bit wider. His attention falls only towards Vanessa as he has a happy glee to his movement, slowly manuevering himself towards Vanessa even as she gets up. Bringing up the bat while she's on the ground, he attempts to crack her in the side of her chest.
"It's because I like hurting people. It's just who I am. I'm out of my fucking ghourd!" C.Jack cries, bringing down the back again and again and again, towards her sides, her chests her body, beading welts into it and then beating those welts with a sadistic smile on his face.
"I'm fucking crazy!" He brings it up before coming down with one, monsterous blow, attempting to beat the wind and fight out of her.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse successfully hits Tran with The Shredder.
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COMBATSYS: Tran fails to reflect Cannon Spike from Cammy with -Q- is for Dr. Tran.
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C.Jack 0/-------/------=|=======\=======\1 Tran
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Tran can no longer fight.
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C.Jack 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Vanessa
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|
"What, that egomaniac? Listen, I don't give a damn whether or not whoa whoa hold up hold up back off a sec wait your moth-" With his badass points completely spent, and his mind on his mouth more than his enemies, Dr. Tran basically fails everything forever.
Summoning up his willpower to bring his massive barrel of chi to bear, Tran finds himself interrupted by Eclipse, going at him with a knife. It's not too bad; the doctor's taken worse from bigger weapons, but it is highly distracting.
Cammy will find that Tran basically puts up no resistance whatsoever when she kicks him in the head, and his simple response to this forcefully applied stimuli is to drop like a fucking rock. He just goes down and is down and stays down like he's been asleep this entire time, completely out cold.
COMBATSYS: Vanessa endures C.Jack's Crazy Jack.
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C.Jack 0/-------/------=|======-\-------\0 Vanessa
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|
Vanessa can tell this is going south.
And frankly, Cracker Jack is pissing her off. She can't stop them - not all of them, not like this, and Tran is going down, and...
So she's got to do everything in her power to make him hurt. If she can just get him pegged down a little, she can at least make it easier for whoever deeper in gets a whack at him.
A crazy little grin comes across her face, as Cracker Jack slams into her - the chest, the sides, her head. Her head is swimming. She can barely think. She sees him.
"You're crazy, huh," she seethes, like a snake, her eyes not even focused anymore. He hits her again, and she's swaying, dizzily, blindly, back and forth.
"SO AM I!!!" she shrieks, and suddenly her hand moves out from nowhere and screams toward Cracker Jack's skull.
COMBATSYS: Vanessa can no longer fight.
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C.Jack 0/-------/------=|
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|
Upon murdering Tran forever, Cammy backflips into a fighting stance, watching to see whether or not Vanessa takes out one of her team on her way out -- she doesn't advance, knowing that the woman is on her last legs. "You fought well," she asides to Eclipse, in a completely businesslike tone. "But our mission is not yet complete. Do something with -- these." She gestures at the unconscious forms of Zach and Tran. "There's rope in the truck."
COMBATSYS: C.Jack endures Vanessa's Puncher Weaving EX.
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Eclipse 0/-------/-------|
Eclipse doesn't appear to be paying attention to Cammy right off. His skin has finally returned to its normal ruddy tones, and he's taken a small, wrapped up kit from the back of his belt, gone into a cross-legged sitting position, and opened it on the floor - despite the fact that the last vestiges of the fight were still going on behind him - must have been confident he could move if anyone stepped up.
Everyone gets to watch as, with just a twitching of his mouth, Eclipse uses a pair of small pliers to slide the glass out of his forehead - jesus that went in deep - put some kind of ointment over it, and then pull out some kind of suture gun and STAPLE HIS HEAD CLOSED. NEEEEEEESSSSSTS.
A fresh bandage with healing chemicals (and a little bit of his home vat) slapped over his face, Eclipse wads up his kit, restows it, and nods once to Cammy. It's good to have someone around that won't bitch about being ordered around by someone not technically in your rank structure.
A surprisingly short amount of time later, Zach and Tran are tied up with US Navy-level knots. Silently and completely unaware of the sexual connotations (very sexual), he glances from Vanessa, to the rope, to Cammy.
Even as vanessa lets hit wail on him, moves all the way into the assault, and even then Vanessa doesn't shy away from it. She moves right in without fear or doubt, even as the wooden bat comes down, wailing upon the milf like woman.
Vanessa keeps on pushing, even as the bat comes down and everything, like a snake or a feral woman, Vanessa lurches up with a single punch that collides powerfully with C.Jack's face, sending him wheeling towards the ground and onto his ass, rubbing his face where the blow was all at once. "Jeesus women, you sure got a good right." C.Jack announces as he slowly gets to his feet again, breathing heavily as he looks for the others.
"Alright, we done here?" C.Jack asks, looking over towards Cammy and Eclipse... okay less eclipse. As Zach and Tran are tied up, he's rather happy with the work he's done here. "Well... shit that hurt. What now?"
"Now we wait for reinforcements," Cammy replies curtly, climbing back into the van to get out the telecommunications equipment and put out word:
The YFCC has been breached. Nowhere in Southtown is safe.
Log created on 11:42:38 02/22/2009 by Cammy, and last modified on 12:32:13 02/23/2009.