Description: In Transylvania, Mad Gear has a terrible new plan, and it results in a lot of people getting hurt.
Geese Howard is gone. Long live the king indeed.
In the meantime, Poison exploited some momentary border confusion during Southtown's reconstruction to get Mad Gear the hell out of town -- as far from Japan as they could, to rebuild, refocus, retrain, and maybe even get some new blood. To find the lowest of the low and the baddest of the bad, Poison had to bring her charges (since who knows where the fuck Katana is) to the place where life is cheapest in the entire world:
Eastern Europe.
Now, though, squatting in a dusty, creepy old castle in Transylvania, Poison has to bring in some capital. So she's hit upon the new scheme: forging Neo League fight notices and telling random fighters to come to this out of the way castle, so Mad Gear can beat them up and throw them in the dungeon, thus causing them to forfeit their legitimate fights when they mysteriously no-show -- and making a killing in betting on these fixed matches.
It's almost /too perfect/ a plan, except that Poison just sent invites to whoever, really, rather than using the actual Neo League roster index, even though it's right on the League's website.
Still. She coils her whip around her fist -- Poison can't wait to see who comes through the huge doors of the castle first.
POW! Open go the doors and in steps... a middle school girl?
No, it's Hinata Wakaba of Taiyo High! That's right, this girl's in high school even if she doesn't look like it at all. Heck, she's pretty much the heart and soul of her school at that!
How the heck did she manage to get to transylvania if Poison isn't sending out actual tickets? And isn't it a school night?
"Hello? Is this the right place for that fight that I don't remember signing up for? The people in the village said that there was a Trampire living in this castle." She suddenly perks up a bit as she looks around the spooky place, "Oooh, is this where the zombies start to come out and start chasing me and I have to fight for my life?!"
...Wow, apparently a swarm of the living dead is an exciting thought for the Sunshine Girl.
SOME TIME AGO, THE FARTHEST PLACE YOU CAN GET FROM MUMBAI
Major William F. Guile sits in a folding lawnchair, drinking a lukewarm cup of coffee and reading a copy of Cat Fancy. The mailman smiles as he passes, throwing two letters into the Air Force Pilot slash World Warrior's lap.
"This is obviously a forged invitation," Guile says to himself, "the real ones always call me 'Charlie Nash, Jr.'" Tearing both letters neatly in two, Guile walks over to the trashcan, deposits them, and climbs into the F-16 parked by the sidewalk.
SOME TIME AGO, CLOSER TO NOW
Guile stands outside of the SNACK SAC GENTLEMEN'S CLUB (ALL NUDE ALL BEEFCAKE REVUE) and frowns thoughtfully, watching the minute hand on his watch overtake the hour hand once more.
Finally, a Thai Ladyboy runs out of the club. S/he's being chased by two huge stripper goons with torches and pitchforks. After yawning and stretching, Guile places a bullet between each stripper-goon's eyes by virtue of a rented .45.
"That wasn't so hard, was it Tai-Ping?"
The ladyboy shivers and shakes his/her head at Guile.
"Where is Mad Gear, Tai-Ping?" he asks calmly.
"Tr-tr-tlansyrvania! Spooky Cassre!"
"That's why I always come to you, Tai-Ping," Guile states, handing the beautiful ladyboy a can of Coca Cola Classic and a twenty dollar bill.
"I play you neval come back, Guire!"
"Me too, kid."
SO CLOSE TO NOW IT MIGHT AS WELL BE NOW
Looking over the head of a high school girl and completely ingoring her, Guile steps into the castle. As she's talking, he shouts over her. "MAD GEAR-- COME AND GET ME YOU COWARDS! YOU BUNCH OF LEMOONHEADED TERRORIST PUSSIES!"
Forged Neo League invitations? How SASSY.
Fortunately, Ren's ambitious enough a young fighter to buy into false invites to a League fight. So a trip later, the young ninja girl finds herself standing outside of a massive Transylvanian castle. She stares up at the sprawling European castle with a deep frown, eyes wide and vaguely horrified. It looks awfully creepy. She wonders if she has the right place.
Or the nerve to actually go in and see what this nonsense is all about.
Conveniently this is all after Guile and Hinata have made their way in. So once Guile bellows his cheery welcome to the castle's occupants, Ren Kurosaki enters looking around rather skittishly. "Uhhh, so is this where some Neo League is supposed to be?" Pausing, she looks from Hinata--who is pretty clueless about the situation like herself--to the RESPONSIBLE ADULT PRESENT...who seems kind of pissed off for whatever reason. She begins to rethink, well, everything.
"What the heck is going on?" she quietly wonders. "Oh god I hope Dracula isn't here."
"Dracula?" Poison chuckles, walking toward her new friends, heels clicking in the echoing chamber of the castle's main hall. "I beat that old fuck's ass until he turned from Gary Oldman into Bela Lugosi. You queers here for the fight?"
Poison cracks her whip at Hinata's feet. "Groovy. So let's fight. You, midriff," she says, pointing at Ren. "You're on my team." She does, after all, seem to be the newest face amongst the group -- and thus, most easily manipulated, math that is /always/ true. "So fuckin' get 'em already."
Poison cracks her whip again, and lets out a cold, cruel, and thoroughly overconfident laugh.
COMBATSYS: Poison has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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Whips? Inappropriate language?! This is not at all something that Hinata's parents would have signed off on for her (it's hard to tell just what her parents would have signed off on for themselves. Poison does look kinda like the sort of lady that Hinata has seen on a few magazines that he hides under his bed)! It was bad enough in that last fight where that girly man was blowing kisses that made her head explode, but this isn't appropriate at all.
And in a moment it becomes completely obvious what's going on here. Neo League fights are only between two people, none of this crazy team stuff. You don't go around changing things just like that and giving weird invitations to things unless...
"OH WOW! Neo League is setting up a new team bracket, isn't it?!" Wow, isn't she cheerful. "I didn't know I was popular enough that I'd get a special invitation to be part of the premiere event, this is so cool!" She reaches into her backpack and pulls out a cellphone, "Is this being shown live? I haven't seen any ads for something this important on the TV before. If it's on live, I have to tell everyone at school!"
COMBATSYS: Hinata has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Guile is also looking at a cellular telephone. He narrows his eyes at the grainy 2 megapixel picture and dossier of Poison on his usaPhone. "Alright, Poison. I'll play this your way. But when you're on the ground clutching at your adam's apple, begging me to take my combat boot off of your balls and take you to jail, you're sure as /Hell/ going to tell me what I want to know."
He sets his phone to 'silent',, bats some cobwebs away from his face and begins doing leg stretches. "Kid? You speak English, right?" he says to Hinata, "You take out that other kid. And stay out of my way."
COMBATSYS: Guile has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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"You did? Oh geez, that kind of sucks, I kind of wanted to do it myself," the young Taiyo student replies, eyeing Poison with a little suspicion. Part of her thinks maybe she's the woman (?) in charge here, so she feels a little less apprehensive about her present confusion. A smile crawls its way across her face. Maybe she's not so bad!
Then she's singled out, to which the girl replies by blinking her yellow eyes and pointing absently toward herself. A team fight? She's never done that before! This is all so new and exciting and--
"Okay then! Ren Kurosaki, ready to fight!" Reaching around behind her back she magically seems to withdraw what looks like a chunk of folded steel. With a snap of her arm it unfolds from four segments into a large four foot diameter hoop of heavy steel.
"I guess I'm on the Neo League president's team!" Ren cheerfully chirps. Fortunately she doesn't quite hear that Poison's name is Poison, so she makes assumptions. "I'm on Ken Masters' team! Yes! Ken's kind of a terrible name for a woman though."
So, doing precisely what KEN MASTERS tells her to do, she reels her arm back and lets loose the steel hoop in hand right for Hinata, the heavy steel ring intent on slamming into the girl's chest before it comes back into her grasp.
COMBATSYS: Ren has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Ren 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Guile
Poison just laughs -- both at Ren, and at Guile. "Is that how you want to do things, military man?" she asks, her voice insinuating something between threat and flirtation. "Because /I/ thought the first rule of your little, let's say, lifestyle choice was... 'Don't ask, don't tell.'"
Poison sets her whip aside for the moment and rushes Guile, hoping to nail him before he can finish stretching his hamstring. Her fist is definitely petite compared to his -- her everything is petite compared to his, save maybe chest measurement -- but Poison nonetheless sends a punch soaring toward Guile's mouth. "By the way, honey, using that much hairspray went out with Stryper." Poison, no stranger to hairspray herself, would possibly know.
COMBATSYS: Ren successfully hits Hinata with Medium Fling.
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Poison 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Guile
What the heck?
Suddenly Hinata's phone is whacked right out of her hand by that big hoop. And it hurts. It really hurts to be hit in the hand like that.
"Hey, Ren, watch it! You nearly broke my phone by throwing that at me!" It's pretty clear that Hinata knows the other girl, but... there's probably not a single person who has attended or taught at Taiyo High for even a day while Hinata was a student there whose name she didn't know. You don't get to be the Spirit of Taiyo by just showing up, it takes a lot more than that!
Hinata then offers a quick glance toward Poison before looking back at Ren, "And that's not Ken Masters. Unless... he decided to get a sex change and dye his hair and dress like a prostitute." Hmmm... maybe it is Ken Masters and those rumors on the internet about his nightlife were true... Although he didn't use a whip the last time she saw him and he horribly, horribly beat her.
Well enough of that! Hinata decides to get into things and starts blazing across the open space between her and Ren, charging in closer and closer until... she skids down toward the floor at the last moment so that's she's practically on her knees as she gets to the other girl, then rockets herself up into the air in that overused flaming uppercut style attack.
Seriously, does anyone not have one of those?
COMBATSYS: Ren dodges Hinata's Shouyouken.
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Poison 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Guile
COMBATSYS: Guile endures Poison's Quick Strike.
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Poison 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Guile
Poison's fist hits Guile right in the lip, a hearty bone-on-bone smack fortelling the damage. Guile wipes a thin line of blood from his mouth with the back of a hand, and then looks down at Poison with a smile on his face. "Stryper just put out a new record, sleazebag... they're better than ever."
Quickly and without ceremony, Guile brings his right knee up to hit Poison in her left estrogen-bag, hoping to needlessly waste tens of dollars worth of Korean hormone suppliments. His lower lip is now swelling just a little bit, but he looks unphased. "Everybody gets one, tramp. You wasted yours." He puts his fists up, the epitome of every military man who's snapped the spinal column of every member of a Gook platoon before eating Ham and Lima Bean c-rations for breakfast.
The hoop strikes its fleshy target and comes back to its young owner's grip, causing the girl to smile big. Yeah, she's pretty proud of herself! Even when Hinata complains about the phone nearly breaking the young ninja girl doesn't really seem to care. She only looks confused when the other girl somehow knows her name. "Uhh, I don't think I know you," she states. "Who are you..? And don't lie, that's totally Masters."
Not that any of it matters when Hinata comes in and attempts to punch her head the hell off. Leaping back and dragging her ring with, the girl lets out a 'whoa' before she peers up at the ascending Hinata. "That was pretty scary. HEY KEN DO YOUR BEST!" she calls after Poison. Then? She attempts to deliver a turning kick into Hinata's ribs!
COMBATSYS: Guile successfully hits Poison with Knee Spike.
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Poison 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Guile
Guile literally hits Poison in the tit with his kneelift so hard that it pops out of her half-a-tank-top and smacks her in the chin, causing her to flip over backward from the force -- her hat flies off, as well, spinning independently through the air. Grumbling, spitting out some blood, and pulling her top back up over her nipple, she grimaces at Ren. "Yeah, yeah, just be sure to tell all your... little friends about what fighting alongside Ken Masters was like, eh, kid?"
Poison reaches over for her hat when it hits the ground, and as she gets up, she puts it back on her pink head. No, no, the other one. "Sorry, baby. Just one? You're actin' like you know me -- but you apparently didn't know I get /greedy/." The Mad Gear vixen has her whip out, and she lashes it toward Guile's ankle, hoping to take him down a few pegs -- and maybe get a few heels in to his ribs if she can.
COMBATSYS: Hinata dodges Ren's Light Kick.
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Poison 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Guile
Huh, maybe it is Ken Masters. After all, if this is a set up for a new expansion of the Neo League, then clearly Ken would want to take part in the premiere match himself. Maybe he invited her because of that fight they were in together back when him and the wandering karate hobo were taking on all comers.
...Wait, did she just see Ken Master's boob?
That's enough to leave Hinata a little distracted, but in a flash she's back in her mind in time to roll out of the way over Ren's attack, "Wait... you don't know who I am? I'm Hinata! We go to the same school!" The girl was even wearing the Taiyo uniform, could someone really not know what their own school uniform looked like unless they went to Gedo?
Well maybe the other girl just needs a quick chance to job her memory, and Hinata's here to offer one as she darts in closer, drawing back her hand behind her head and then letting it fly forward with as much strength as she can put behind it, right for Ren's face.
That's how you help people remember stuff, right? Brain damage?
COMBATSYS: Guile blocks Poison's Trip 'n Whip.
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Poison 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Guile
Quickly assuming a crouch, Guile blocks Poison's whip with his left forearm. Unfortunately, the whip cuts into his meaty limb, producing a smiling triangle of a bloody gash. Back on his feet quickly, Guile aims a kick at Poison's stomach before evenly coming back down into a fighting stance.
"I'm not even listening to a word coming out of your whore mouth, Poison. I'm too busy concentrating on not contracting herpes by just /looking/ at you."
Nervously, Guile looks over at Ren and Hinata. "Girls, pardon my language. It comes with being the best of the God Damn best... but seriously, get tested, use protection or just /don't do it/."
COMBATSYS: Hinata successfully hits Ren with Strong Punch.
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Poison 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Guile
"Uhm, sorry I really don't know who you are," the other girl explains, tilting her head a bit as the hyper hypo of Taiyo High rolls aside. Hinata? "Can't say the name rings any bells..." It probably doesn't help that Ren wasn't in Southtown during the entirety of its fall and was pulled out of school to train in some remote location in the forests of Osaka like a good ninja girl.
"I mean don't take any offense 'cause there are like, a lot of people at Taiyo, you know?" Looking elsewhere, the young fighter gets distracted when she looks toward Guile and Poison. "Use protection? What do you mean, like Kevlar or som--"
Then her face is caved in.
Flying back, the girl lands with a heavy thud, her hoop clanging REALLY LOUDLY on the ground before she rolls onto her back and hops into a crouch. "Oh my GOD really the face??" she squeals at Hinata, staring wide-eyed. "The /FACE/? Are you a monster? Well if you want to play that way--"
Taking her ring into hand, the steel shimmers with red energy. Gritting her teeth, the girl cuts a wide swath through the air, sending a roaring wave of fiery chi at the other girl. "BONZAAAI!"
COMBATSYS: Guile successfully hits Poison with Light Kick.
> Determined Hit! <
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Ren 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Guile
Poison is lifted off of the ground by the kick, and flips forward from the force, landing on her back. "UNGH!" she cries out when she hits the ground, which is made of stone, fabulously uneven, and dusty and gross. "Fuck you," Poison spits back, "I test clean every time." She then attempts to wrap an arm around Guile's ankle -- and use it as a means of launching herself upward, to overtake America's Proudest Arms.
That's right -- Poison Kiss goes for the feared wrestling hold men call the Full Nelson. "And I think these girls have much better role models to choose from than Mr. Abu Ghraib -- or, I'm sorry, are you Navy? Should it be 'Mr. Tailhook?'"
COMBATSYS: Hinata overcomes Ennetsu from Ren with Kikou Shoutei EX.
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Poison 1/-----==/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hinata
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Ren 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Guile
Well... Hinata isn't just anyone. She's pretty much one of those people EVERYONE in school knows. How can somebody not know here? It's baffling and upsetting! That's not allowed at all, okay?!
"Did somebody hit you in the head or something? Everyone in school knows who I am! I'm the SUNSHINE GIRL!" comes her bright response that... seems to ignore the fact that just a moment ago SHE hit the other girl right in the face. Not that there's anything wrong with that. A real fighter is always willing to risk a blow to the face! A real fighter isn't afraid of being hit between the legs or something like that. Clearly this girl doesn't have enough of the SPIRIT to be a fighter yet.
Well, maybe it's time for her to show the other girl just what spirit looks like?! As that burst of chi comes straight for her, Hinata draws her hands back to quickly form a spark of her own, letting it grow between her palms for a few moments before she sends it blasting forward, growing larger and larger until it pushes through the other burst of energy and keeps heading on its way toward the other Taiyo girl, blossoming out into a beautiful sunflower... with painful, explosive force.
COMBATSYS: Poison successfully hits Guile with Full Nelson EX.
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Ren 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Guile
As Guile is put into a Full Nelson, he grits his teeth, brain aflutter with thoughts of escape. As his neck is pushed on, he starts to lose consciousness, eyes drifting closed...
SOME TIME AGO, AIR FORCE INTERNMENT CAMP #113
"What did that one do?" Guile asks, drinking a sip of sun tea in a flowery dixie cup.
"Him? He refused to serve the McRib at his McDonalds Franchise," says Old General Gregor. "We /told/ them their little ditrhole nation was already on thin ice."
"Hmmm. Is my F-16 prepped and ready yet?"
"Leaving so soon, Guile? We've got everything we need here. We've got Bailey's and we've got... everything that's good!"
NOW
Snapping back to life and spitting on the ground (the phantom taste of Bailey's out of his mouth), Guile springs into action. With Poison still on his back, he launches into the air, hoping to dislodge her, toss her over his shoulder and hit her with a devstating FLASH KICK on the way down. "Be... thankful... those are the only camps you know about, whore."
COMBATSYS: Ren blocks Hinata's Kikou Shoutei EX.
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Ren 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Guile
"No, I just don't know who you are," the ninja girl manages through a bloody nose and a hand pressed to it to staunch the bleeding. "What kind of name is that, anyway? You don't really look very tan to me. Or sunshine-y. Or..." Well, she doesn't really bother continuing on that train of thought. Instead, the girl just kind of readies herself for an attack, cutting flames through the air.
...to which Hinata kind of just blows through with an attack of her own. Furrowing her black brows, the girl watches as that blast of energy just sails forward. Then, with her ring, she sweeps an arm upwards, cleaving the majority of that blast in half, stray and erroneous energy singeing her arms and causing her to flinch.
"Hmph, well, nope, I still dunno who you are," the girl remarks, leaving Poison to handle Mister America single-handedly. "But that doesn't really help me figure it out. Sorry!" Darting forward, she attempts to close in on Hinata and thrust her steel ring forward, jamming it toward her sternum to knock the wind out of her lungs.
COMBATSYS: Guile successfully hits Poison with Flash Kick.
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Ren 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Guile
Takuma arrives from elsewhere.
Poison is kicked so hard she smashes into a priceless antique table, shattering it. She lays in the pile of ancient wood, little canaries floating around her head metaphorically. A suit of armor then creaks and tips over onto her, clattering and making a huge mess.
"Wh... uhggh..." Poison groans, slowly trying to climb to her feet, and slipping a few times. "You... you son of a bitch..." she gasps, spitting up some more blood. "I'll... g... ughh..." Poison then throws up.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, vomiting seems to give Poison power, as well as make her seem more attractive. She growls, and charges Guile -- even if it's a terrible idea, she can't resist her urge to kill, to hoist the American brawler up with strength that she doesn't look like she has -- and drop him, spine first, onto her knee.
COMBATSYS: Ren successfully hits Hinata with Quick Strike.
- Power hit! -
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Ren 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Guile
COMBATSYS: Guile endures Poison's Backbreaker.
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Ren 0/-------/--=====|=======\====---\1 Guile
If being told that someone who goes to Taiyo didn't know who she was wasn't bad enough... the fact that she's suddenly got some crazy ring weapon being slammed right into her chest, knocking her right off her feet and making her skid across the floor on her butt for a good while just made things even worse.
She just lays there for a few moments, coughing as she tries to collect herself, wondering... how it could have come to this. How could she not be as well known in Taiyo as she KNEW that she was?! It's just not right!
Well... maybe it was time to get a proper introduction in.
The sunshine girl whips right back up to her feet as if nothing more had happened than her slipping on a wet leaf or something as she sets her eyes in at Ren, "I am Hinata Wakaba, Senior Class at Taiyo High! Age 17! Not a member of any clubs, but a frequent contributor at games!" And with that... she blasts forward, launching herself right up into the air and letting her leg EXPLODE in fiery chi as she goes flying through the air in a series of whirlwind kicks aiming to land straigt at the side of Ren's head!
Brain damage helps people remember!
*CRUNCH*
That's the sound of Major William F. Guile biding his time.
Poison is able to heft him and drop him onto her knee. He doesn't struggle until after the devastating blow is dealt to his perfectly straight American spine. He simply rolls off of Poison's knee and gets to his feet, staggering only for a moment, blurry eyes becoming lucid within seconds. "I'll give you that one-- it hurt. It hurt real bad. If I wasn't going to break both of your wrists I'd tell you to write about it in your terrorist memoirs... 'Chapter 5: The Worst Mistake I Ever Made.'"
Guile takes four clean steps to his rear and runs at Poison full speed. His first stop is a jumpkick aimed at her throat. The second stop is a strong punch, the third step is a series of elbows, and the fourth is another strong punch... a betting man (or a surfing man) might call this a TOTAL WIPEOUT.
COMBATSYS: Ren fails to reflect Enbukyaku from Hinata with Oborozuki.
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While Guile and Poison DUKE IT OUT as painfully as possible, Ren stands with her hoop outstretched, kind of giving Hinata a strange look as she hops back up and starts shouting. Furrowing her brows a bit, the girl squints at her, trying to place her face to the name. Senior class..?
"Uhhh, seriously I don't know who you are--!" she begins.
When the girl comes kicking with FIRE and energy Ren attempts to slam her hoop forward and intercept, its surface shimmering with pink chi. Unfortunately she's far too slow and, as result, is kicked upwards before she's sent soaring. She hits the ground with a heavy thud, her ring cracking into the castle floor.
"S-seriously, I don't know the name, so stop trying to kick it into me," the girl manages, pulling herself onto her feet and half-supporting her weight on the hoop. "Are you mental??"
COMBATSYS: Guile successfully hits Poison with Total Wipeout.
- Power hit! -
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Poison is wiped, as they say, the fuck out. "GUGHHHGN!" is about as coherent a noise as she's willing to make while Guile's multi-tiered attack essentially rapes her. She falls to the ground, sputtering, her face swollen, purple and bleeding, and it looks hideous with her blood-streaked hair. She convulses, but not so much that she can't pull a girl's best friend out of the back of her shorts -- her mangled face may or may not be smiling, as Poison flicks open her switchblade.
"Fuhg huu," she wheezes -- and then Poison hurls the knife, unsteadily, waiting to see if the fuzziness at the edges of her vision overtakes her.
COMBATSYS: Poison can no longer fight.
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It does, and her head hits the ground.
Well... it looks like Ken Masters is down. He doesn't seem nearly as strong as he did when she fought him before.
Maybe those boobs were weighing him down or something. Or it could be the fact that he wasn't using the fighting style from before.
Well, whatever, that doesn't really matter at this exact moment, because she is still fighting against Ren! And with Ren not doing a very good job of trying to stop her super awesome memory enhancing kicks to the head, Hinata is free to blast forward as fast as she can. So fast! And then she swings her arm forward in a quick punch aimed straight for the other Taiyo girl's chest... that explodes right on the end into a massive burst of chi shaped like a sunflower.
COMBATSYS: Guile overcomes Knife Throw from Poison with Sonic Boom.
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Guile is adjusting his hair and dogtags as the knife is thrown... instinct tells him that mystical karate energy solves all problems, especially problems that can be purchased in Little Cuba by a 14 year old white boy from the Suburbs for $15. "Sonic BOOM!" he shouts, crossing one arm over the other. A crescent moon of destructo-energy escapes his body and knocks the knife off track.
Kneeling down, Guile picks up Poison's hat and uses it to wipe the sweat from his face... but something flutters out of it?!
COMBATSYS: Ren endures Hinata's Rengekiken.
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Ren 1/--=====/=======|=======\-------\0 Hinata
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Again Hinata attempts to beat her half to death, but THIS TIME Ren isn't about to let her get away with it. She stands her ground, weathering the punch that explodes into a blast of chi energy that sends her skidding back briefly. A heavy cough escapes her. Sadly, "Ken Masters" is down for the count. Nooo.
But that doesn't seem to be on her mind. Instead, the girl closes her eyes briefly, taking advantage of the close proximity. Shimmering white, she splits into not one but NINE Rens, eight of which are hazy chi clones with their own hazy steel hoops. They mimic her every move--
Which seems to result in a sudden onslaught of strikes aimed for Hinata from every conceivable direction, twelve total before they all lift their arms up and then harshly drop the hoop. The result? Each clone seems to vanish as instead a sudden roaring gout of icy white chi erupts from the ground underneath Hinata.
COMBATSYS: Ren successfully hits Hinata with Jyoya No Kane.
Grazing Hit
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A few documents bound together by a rubber band fall out of Poison's Nazi officer's cap. They are a small map of what appears to be the Black Forest in Germany, along with some crudely drawn... plans, apparently. Their crude artwork, through stick figures, seems to depict Poison (a stick figure with huge breasts rendered as 'o's and pink crayon hair) ripping off Shadaloo in some kind of arms deal. The strip ends with her laying back on a pile of money and keeping Cody on a leash (you can tell it's Cody because of the stripey pajamas).
Does... Poison know how to read?
That... that's pretty awesome.
Of course, even as awesome as that show of stuff might be to see, it's NOT the sort of thing that would be even remotely kinda cool to suddenly find happening to yourself and causing you massive amounts of bodily harm, so Hinata starts to move. She's moving with an incredible amount of speed, dodging and weaving through the clones, but it's not quite enough, with so many surrounding her, she's trapped on occasion, a few getting quick half strikes on her, but she stays out of the midst of it, and there's not a single clean hit. Even that sudden explosion beneath her is largely absorbed by the fact that she jumps at the last minute, rocketing right up into the air
This position really doesn't give her too many options, so in a slightly awkward motion, she does everything she can to reorient herself and put a bit of force toward sending her flying down in Ren's direction, drawing back her foot until the very last moment when... she sends it flying out as fast and powerful as she possibly can in a rather simple kick designed to build a ditch in the floor with Ren's body. Maybe there's a basement. Will we find out?
COMBATSYS: Hinata successfully hits Ren with Rival Launcher.
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Ren 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Hinata
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By the time Ren can really make heads or tails of what's going on, she looks up to see that there's a foot flying RIGHT INTO HER BODY. Glancing aside, the girl attempts to move--
But is hit. Fortunately, European castles are made of tougher stuff, and the floor just spiderwebs deeply around her. For a minute the girl doesn't move, her head just kind of rolling around before she sits upright with a bloody nose. "Ha ha...ugh, what the hell happened." Her eyes move around the room, falling on the passed out Poison before she frowns. Then she looks toward Guile. Then Hinata.
"This isn't worth it!"
A puff of smoke erupts, pink clouds wafting about in the dry castle air before Ren reappears in an open window. "I don't want to get ganged up on by some student AND an army guy. SORRY KEN YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!"
And with that she leaps out the window and runs the hell away. Why? Because Americans are scary. This is a true fact.
COMBATSYS: Ren takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Ren can no longer fight.
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"Air Force guy," Guile corrects, fixing his hair using Poison's compact.
His makeup is also a bit askew, he should fix that, too.
COMBATSYS: Hinata has left the fight here.
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Log created on 20:31:09 06/28/2009 by Poison, and last modified on 18:15:52 06/30/2009.