Description: NESTS moves once more, but when Igniz attempts to stop Terry he gets more than he bargained for.
-- ~30 minutes ago...
There's a bit of gunfire in the background, along with the sounds of scuffling when the radio crackles to life. "-- to headquarters, we've got a situation! One male, blonde, approximately six feet tall!" There's a loud thump of something landing hard next to the person on the radio. "I thi--" In the background, there's a fairly clear shout of 'Burn Knuckle!' before another loud thump sounds across the speakers. "It's Bogard! Terry Bogard! Approximately one mile north of the mall! Sen--"
The radio crackles to an abrupt stop.
-- Cut to present time.
It's been a long trip from the outskirts of town, just to make it the single mile that Terry has traveled from Point A to Point B. Nevermind the grunt squads that he's had to either dodge or scuffle with to get through to this point. Having been out of Southtown for the time that he has, its current state of being comes as nothing short of utter confusion; entire armies taking over the city? One way or another, he'd be getting to the bottom of this. It was bad enough when Geese took over, but this was goddamn ridiculous.
On the good side, at least the patrols seemed to lighten up over the last two minutes. Maybe he could finally catch a breather.
Reports of a blonde man devastating NESTS troops had circulated rather quickly amongst all involved. So quickly that the order went straight to the top of it all. Igniz was alerted to a man of extraordinary power was quickly dispatching his men, one after another in a turn. There was very little that even the sizable force, or ex-force, could do.
A man in a purple robe sauntered closely through the mall, moving towards the descriptions that he was given, towards one Terry Bogard. He had not seen the man very much, if at all before. This was a new person of power which he could only hope for was tremendous.
"You there... did you disable this force?" The man in the cloak asks, his grin forever held within place, hiding underneath the essense of power that could be felt amongst the area. Manufactured chi came at a price, and that price is what Igniz clung to. He was a god. His presence, his thoughts, his power. All unpredictable and unsettling.
He makes no movements towards Terry as he asks. He waits for an answer.
Well, he had hoped for some sort of a breather, but there was barely enough time to rest before someone, unpleasantly tall, in a... purple robe? Yes, a purple robe came walking straight towards him. And judging from the way that things have been going so far today, there were two possible answers to why he might be here; a) he's in a one-man war against the goon squads as well, or b) he *leads* the goon squads. Through all the tournaments that Terry has been through, the other man still doesn't ring any particular bells in his head, which comes as mildly unsettling.
When Igniz speaks up, one eyebrow arches from underneath the brim of the baseball cap. Slowly, he rises from a crouching position where he was resting before, standing up straight before responding. A grin starts to pull at the corners of his lips as he speaks. "Don't know what you're talking about. Just ran into a few people trying to play Army, had to have a little discussion with them about where not to point your guns." The grin widens a bit more.
"Dangerous games to be playing in a city like Southtown, after all."
Terry was right, had he circled the latter. Igniz had come to see if the man was worth bothering with. He has not yet seen anything that Terry could produce, but it looked appetizing none the less that he had turned out to be a new, unseen aspect in this war that has not yet been tapped of its potential.
"I do not think the city is dangerous," Igniz quips, his grin widening ever so slightly in the light. "That is only deserved for heretics and non believers."
The cloack is sucked in, lost in a vacuum as it disappears over the figure of the god, swirling about before jutting out as cape. Igniz floats off the ground, covered in a jet black armor. His hair, his cape, everything sways with an unseeable wind, the smile upon his face continous.
"And I can see that you have trespassed upon my whims. A foolish prospect for an even more foolish man."
COMBATSYS: Terry has wandered into a fight here on the left meter side.
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Terry 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Igniz has joined the fight here.
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Terry 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Igniz
Ah, and now the intentions are made clear. The casual lean to Terry's posture shifts into that comfortable fighting stance, knees slightly bent, arms up at his chest. He doesn't go so far as to start moving yet, simply preparing himself should anything be coming in his direction. But the cloak disappears without too much incident, and the armor is given a curious look before his shoulders roll in a brief, almost unconcerned sort of a shrug.
"Only way I could consider myself foolish is if I didn't come out here and help take care of my city. Already got one power-mad asshole running things; Southtown really doesn't need any more than we've already got. So, pack up your army and head out."
It's already fairly obvious, though, that Igniz isn't going to be willing to listen to the elder Bogard brother. You don't go showing off fancy battle armor when you intend to listen to rational debate. Rather than continuing on that line of thought, though, the conversation swings sharply in another direction when he shifts in his stance, turning his right shoulder away. That arm lifts up, fist towards the ground, elbow lifted high. He drives his knuckles into the concrete at his feet, and right at the point of impact, chi focuses itself into a rushing wave of angry blue energy that tears across the ground like a shark swimming through the water, aiming to barrel into Igniz and send him flying.
"POWAH WAVE!"
COMBATSYS: Terry successfully hits Igniz with Power Wave.
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Terry 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Igniz
Igniz finds Terry's powerwave delicious.
Slamming into the man, the energy rips across the ground bashing into Igniz as it drives him backwards. The shield aim to come up, but fail completely, instead leaving Igniz to be shoved backwards harshly by the chi erupting forth.
It bites into Igniz's figure, cutting as he stands still even after the strike. His grin has not left his face. There is no doubt to Igniz that the man is powerful, even as his mechanations move into place to see just how powerful this man is.
He is shown a great deal in a moment.
There, Igniz continues to decipher even further, looking onto the man with an increased interest in an attempt to gain access to the even greater ammounts of knowledge that is no doubt locked beneath that shell.
"If it were so simple. You cannot tell a god how he is supposed to take things into account."
COMBATSYS: Igniz calculates his next move.
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Terry 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Igniz
It only takes a moment for him to straighten back up after the energy leaves his fist, though his face remains even when it makes contact with Igniz. Even until he speaks two words in particular, at least.
"A god?"
The smirk that's crossing Terry's lips now is impossible to hide. This sounds all too familiar in the ears of the Lone Wolf. "Well, that answers question number one." His fists uncurl for a moment, then coil once again, popping his knuckles this time.
That motion is accompanied by slowly rolling his head, popping his neck just before the wind starts to whip up around his feet, swirling low at first and quickly working its way up above his waist. This is accompanied by a bright, violent flare-up of energy gathering at the ground, quickly encompassing Terry almost fully in an angry blue glow that persists for several seconds. "Let's answer question number two, then. Are you any stronger than the troops I had to go through to get here?" The wind and glow snuff out simultaneously, leaving a grinning Bogard standing alone across from the God of NESTS.
"I hope so. I'd hate to feel let down."
COMBATSYS: Terry gathers his will.
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Terry 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Igniz
Once standing straight, Igniz finds out that Terry is not a man that is easily detered. Not easily pushed away as he stands up straight and faces Igniz even without knowing his name. That is particularly fine with him. He will instil it into Terry so that he will never forget.
"The men you faced before were shock troops, nothing more." Igniz says, "They came to either take the mall in force, or die right after. Perhaps both. I do not care. Whatever you are attempting to gain by standing against me, I am unsure, but I am sure it is not worth the trouble."
Igniz's features do not swim as he seems intent upon destroying Terry utterly. Grasping hold of a power rather dense, Igniz traps a ball of white chi in his clutches, lowering them upon Terry Bogard. Upon a simple swing, the strike is delivered towards Terry, racing across the ground quickly as it challenges his defenses and resolve.
COMBATSYS: Terry just-defends Igniz's Divine Arrow - Ground!
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Terry 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Igniz
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"Hey, I can't just let people go running crazy in my hometown. When a guy can't even walk into town without ending up waist-deep in shock troops.."
Terry lets the end of that statement trail off when he watches the energy form and end up captured in Igniz' grasp. He settles onto the balls of his feet while he watches, waiting to see whether it's the type of energy to go through the air, or along the ground, like his. When the chi hits the concrete and takes off, some of his own energy starts to form at his fingertips, leftover from his earlier charging of his own internal batteries. Right as it's about to come crashing into him, he drops down into a crouch, and that same blue glow encompasses his right hand and most of his forearm. For a brief moment, it almost looks like he scoops Igniz's attack from the ground, though it disappates upon contact before Terry straightens back up again.
"Attempting to gain? Can't say that I have anything. Maybe I just want to see if you've got the backbone to be at the head of this little army of yours." Once again, the grin touches at the blonde's lips before he pushes off his back foot, rushing headlong straight at the armor-clad God. He leads in with his left arm, bringing his elbow across horizontally in an attempt to smash it alongside Igniz's face. Should that connect, the second strike comes in as a sharp hook with his right hand, followed up by a short-ranged shoulder charge, ducking down to try and slam his shoulder right about where his opponent's sternum should be underneath the armor.
COMBATSYS: Igniz fails to counter Power Charge from Terry with Void Genocide.
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Terry 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Igniz
Terry charges in, undoubtably moving at such a speed that anything in his way would possibly hurt terribly. Igniz finds himself in that same vein, and is caught immidiately by the headlong straight rush. He's thrown backwards by the blow, coming down upon the god of NESTS with a fury of many. Igniz attempts to haphazardly stop Terry in a moment, but fails to entirely. His hand does not move fast enough.
There is no explosion of chi.
Igniz falters instead, driven back and crushed towards the ground, pained by the continous failure and inibility to stop Terry's assaults.
Every passing moment is a terrible agony, but one Igniz takes with a smile. Righting himself, he's ready for more.
Hmm. He's still smiling. Well, can't fault him for that, at least. The smile is still spread across Terry's lips as Igniz is sent to the concrete, typical of many of the fights that he's been in in the past. It's not the sort of grin that would come from Yamazaki or Geese when they start to take control of a fight; just the simple smile of someone that's enjoying themself.
When the other man starts to right himself from the floor, however, it's just too much to keep himself from persisting further. There's a brief crouch of his legs before springing upward, launching himself high into the air, slowly twisting a circle, reaching just beyond 180 degrees at the apex of the jump. Once again, the right hand of Terry starts to flare with that same blue glow as before, and this time, his energy asserts itself at the descent of the jump, finishing his spin right at the same time as his fist launching forward, using his downward momentum to try and drive his fist right into the body of Igniz as he tries to regain his footing.
"POWAH DUNK!"
COMBATSYS: Igniz reflects Power Dunk from Terry with Nega Genesis.
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Terry 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\0 Igniz
Whist it took him a small portion of time to get to where he is, Igniz is not a man to be easily put down forever. Terry comes with another assault towards Igniz, plain and simple, jumping in strike another devistating blow upon the god of NESTS. Everything he puts into it Igniz must attempt to manipulate lest he be crushed into the ground once more.
Terry leaps into the air, his hand covering in a thick swatch of chi. The god of NESTS does little to attempt to escape it. He has tired of running from assaults, finding himself still upon the defensive. Igniz stands his ground waiting for the time to strike like a cobra.
Terry comes down, his fist finding only a powerful field of chi connecting, to where his own chi would find no purchase. Instead, it strikes cleaning, but fails to do anything terrible, thrusting it back directly upon Terry in an attempt to find him fault.
Igniz is silent. He must concentrate to do anything that he hopes to do.
Both eyes go wide, briefly, as his fist strikes... nothing. He feels the impact of his knuckles, but the pain that jolts right back up his arm again is enough to send him staggering backwards in a hurry. The grin fades for a split-second, and his feet slide across the concrete while he regains his footing. It numbs his arm for a moment as he shakes the pain out of it, but Terry has to concentrate if he's going to keep himself out of trouble.
Rather than press onward with another strike with his fists, it's another angle that his next strike comes from. While the tingles run their way from shoulder to fingertips, he charges forward once again, pushing off his back foot once again. Rather than moving directly forward, though, he goes into a short hop as he moves, with his upper body angling down as that foot goes high, circling high overhead. As he completes that circuit, the end of his spin will result in him attempting to use all that momentum in what was his back foot to slam it right alongside Igniz's head.
"Crack Shoot!"
COMBATSYS: Terry successfully hits Igniz with Crack Shoot.
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Terry 1/----===/=======|=======\=------\1 Igniz
Terry forces himself into Igniz once more. There is a simple, effective manuever to ward Terry away, but it is not taken. Instead, Terry barreles on through once more, his kick striking forward and down into Igniz's guard, directly over and through the multiple chi shields that aim to stop Terry from reaching Igniz.
Driven backwards once more, and certainly now looking worse for ware, the god of NESTS has little options, but he decides relatively quickly what he will do. There is no other way to do such a thing. Even as he is slammed, the god of NESTS comes back, floating forward with terrible dents across his armor.
There is no emotion, no change in tone or features as the god of NESTS continues to come as he had before. The smile does not change at all.
The cape does however, snaking across the ground towards Terry in an attempt to snake about the mans leg, grasp him and pull him into the air. From there, he would be tossed backwards in an attempt to hurl Terry away.
COMBATSYS: Igniz successfully hits Terry with Blue Noah.
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Terry 1/-======/=======|=======\=------\1 Igniz
It takes a moment for Terry to regain his footing, the leading foot sliding across the ground while the rest of his body regains steadiness. Once he's settled again, he resumes his typical stance, settling onto the balls of his feet while he waits to see just what it is that the other grinning man is going to do. And what he does catches him completely off-guard. The cape was the last thing that would have been expected with regards to aiding in an attack, and his focus on the man wearing it gives an easy opening for it to grasp his leg. With that, the blonde goes skyward, hurtling through the air until he meets the ground again with a heavy thud, back and shoulders landing first against the concrete.
It's there that he lays for a moment before rolling back and kipping up to his feet once again. His head tilts sharply off to one side, popping his neck before a chuckle rolls in his throat. "Quite an outfit you've got there. Never would have expected that." Slowly, he clenches and unclenches his fists. He looks down to his feet for a moment as he continues talking. "But, I don't have the time to stay around and see any more tricks. Seeing Southtown like this, means I've got a lot to take care of, and every minute counts." He looks back up again, and the grin is smile is back on his lips. In an instant, everything goes from normal to flaring an explosive blue, energy and wind whipping around him for the single moment that it takes for Terry to rocket forward from his current spot. As he pushes forward, he seems to just glide across the ground with his left foot trailing, right fist shooting forward with a blinding blue energy surrounding it as he aims to plant that hand square into Igniz' face.
"AH YUU OUKEI!?"
COMBATSYS: Igniz fails to counter Buster Wolf+ from Terry with Brutal God Project+.
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Terry 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Igniz
COMBATSYS: Igniz can no longer fight. Is this the end of lovable Igniz?
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Terry 0/-------/----===|
... and when he feels the knuckles of that extended fist make contact, his legs shift, the right one sliding forward while planting the left foot firmly, bracing himself against it as the right arm remains extended, left hand braced against that elbow. All at once, all the accumulated energy focuses itself forward, exerting itself in one sudden, brutal explosion with all the force of a speeding mack truck, blasting forward from both his feet and his fist, meeting in the middle to send Igniz backwards in a hurry.
Igniz finds Terry's fist perfectly in his vision. He had made all the neccesarry requirements, he had prepaired for the assault, knowing full well that it was coming.
So why was he unable to stop it?
Flaring violently towards Terry to meet him even without his words, Igniz attempts to grasp Terry's face directly in his hand. If he would be able to do that, then Igniz could do exactly what he had aimed to do.
This did not happen at all.
Right before his hand would strike his face, Igniz's body feels the blunt of the terrible fist in his head. The attack continues, flaring Igniz's figure away as if he had never came.
Gone was Igniz, even before he bounced the second time, his body disappearing as if he had never been here at all.
He had got data on the man. Next time, if there was one, it would be different. For now, Igniz is simply gone, dispelled from the area completely.
Log created on 14:28:15 04/19/2009 by Igniz, and last modified on 18:26:07 04/19/2009.