Description: Scene change! While the Dojo was to be the fightin' arena, the silly Producers managed to score FULL ACCESS PASSES to Dan's inner sanctum! See the fight from Dan's sleepyplace, and smell the phenomenal amount of pink gi's left around and about. SEE SAIKYO PRIDE! (Winner: Blanka)
THE HIBIKI DOJO
SOUTHTOWN
NOW
The messages from the SNF producers informed each fighter that tonight was meant to be a fight of /tribute/. Of /reverence/. Of /honor/. Of /DAN/. The two greatest non-Dan practitioners of Saiko-ryu -- Sakura and Blanka, apparently -- have been summoned to the Hibiki Dojo to stage a SAIKOSTRAVAGANZA to prove, once and for all, who is most worthy to have their picture hung on Dan's wall, next to the list of phone numbers and the menu for Chee-Z-Pete's Gourmet Turkish Pizza.
And so the fighters, wearing their finest DANABILIA -- Sakura has a 'DAN SAYS RELAX' shirt on over her midriff-baring fuku top -- have been congregated... into Dan's bedroom. Sakura feels mildly uncomfortable, and not just because of the posters of bikini models on the wall. "Um... are you guys sure that this is... legal?" she asks one of the producers, scratching her head with a bit of a frown.
"Don't worry about a thing. Dan said we had the run of the place. And this room has the most props for bashing each other during the fight." The producer gives an oblivious thumbs up.
Sakura picks up a mini-basketball, looking around for a hoop and seeing none. "Oh... kay..." she says, more than a bit uncomfortably, before turning to face Blanka.
Legal or not, it will certainly be good drama. That much, the producers have probably decided well in advance - of course, telling the combatants would have been nice, so Blanka could have convinced Mister Hibiki to at least sweep up the cheeto crumbs off the floor and the bedsheets!
"Blanka never fought in bedroom before. Dan have much nicer bed than Blanka." The green giant pokes at the mattress experimentally, making a mental note to ask Dan for a room of his own, someday, instead of sleeping on top of the Dojo every night. He's also decked out in SAIKYOWEAR, having gone a bit overboard. He's traded his normal jeans for tattered and ragged pink gi bottoms, and has pink wristbands and a headband valiantly trying to hold back the amazingly poofy shock of orange hair. "But Blanka ready... Time to show Sakura the SECRET POWER OF SAKIYO-AROO!!" With that, he claps his hands together, body blazing with blue lightning for a brief second!
COMBATSYS: Blanka has started a fight here.
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Blanka 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Sakura has joined the fight here.
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Sakura 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Blanka
Sakura assumes a fighting stance, still holding the mini-basketball. When Blanka flashes so brightly that she swears she can see his skeleton for a second there, she rethinks her plan. She looks at her official Ryu signature fighting gloves -- no, she thinks, these will definitely not insulate me if I try to punch him.
Sakura glances around, taking careful stock of her surroundings and wishing she didn't as she sees that Dan somehow manages to make Ryu look like less of a wandering hobo in terms of lifestyle. "Gross," she murmurs, but not indicating specifically what at. There are numerous contenders.
Finally, though, Sakura's mind returns to the plan. No insulation against the electric monster that is a Saikyo'd-out Blanka -- except maybe the soles of her sneakers. Sakura then looks down -- and realizes that in honor of Dan, she went barefoot today. 'Crap,' Sakura thinks, and panicking for a moment, just throws the mini-basketball at Blanka's forehead. This is followed up by a surely intimidating "Um."
COMBATSYS: Sakura successfully hits Blanka with Small Thrown Object.
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Sakura 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Blanka
Insulation will avail not from the power that is Blanka!! Mini-basketballs, however, just might. Blanka's electric boogaloo is abruptly interrupted when Sakura chucks the mini-basketball at him, the impact probably looking amazingly awesome in 1000x slowdown on the replays. The ball thumps him right in the nose, skooshes then *BOING* back off the Blankanator, making him take a half-step back and clutch his nose in surprise, and a bit of.. shock.
"By dobe!" Blanka protests, then looks all ashock at Sakura, dropping his hands down and then lumbering in. Not a direct route, no Blanka bounds forwards, takes an experimental bounce atop the mattress, then leaps at Sakura with arms outstretched, a body splash of epic, /epic/ proportions. "Blanka SMASH!!"
COMBATSYS: Sakura dodges Blanka's Medium Punch.
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Sakura 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Blanka
The mini-basketball, once it boings off of Blanka, spangs off of a wall and lands right in the wastebasket. Nothin' but net.
Sakura, meanwhile, dives to one side to avoid Blanka's splash. This dive takes her onto the worst possible territory if one is fighting a particularly sharp electro-mammal -- Dan's waterbed. It sloshes and wiggles under Sakura as she tries to get her footing, making things difficult and more than a little unnerving. Finally, though, the girl stands, pointing toward Blanka -- "...and there's more Saikyo-ryu where /THAT/ came from!" she assures him.
Then, having forgotten all of Saikyo-ryu's basic tenets because she honestly found them kind of boring, Sakura ends up borrowing a technique she learned from Zangief -- and leaping toward Blanka with a double axehandle, hoping to catch him in the head before he can recover enough to fry her.
COMBATSYS: Blanka interrupts Medium Punch from Sakura with Electric Thunder.
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Sakura 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Blanka
More Saikyo-Ryu!? Blanka is prepared for this thing, even as he hits the ground and tumbles forwards, missing Sakura as she dives for cover. He spins once, twice, and rolls through the unwashed dirty pink gi's strewn on the floor, sending them up here and there as he gathers up speed. As the other fighter begins to gather herself for a leap onto the Green Giant, Blanka literally /explodes/ into action!!
"SAIKYO-AWROO!!" With a leap, he surfaces, like a laundry shark, his arms outstretched. Catching Sakura mid-leap, he lands with his and her full weight atop the waterbed, which was not made for such bouncy-bouncy pouncy fun! It bursts, water flying everywhere - which makes the brilliant blue electric arcs all the more pretty as he lights up like a Christmas Tree, taking Sakura with him!! *ZZT ZZT ZZT*!
Sakura leaps -- and is caught, pinned, doused, and electrocuted, in that order. Her body writhes in angular spasms, her hair poofs out, and the long ribbon of her headband momentarily goes completely rigid. The noise she makes is essentially gibberish: "Ggbbgbgbbgbgbgbgbggbgbgbgbbbbggbbg--" and so on.
When the electric assault ends, Sakura is left sprawled on the bed, a few joints twitching of their own volition. She exhales deeply, like many women in this position on this waterbed in days past, and takes in a breath -- when she realizes she smells smoke. "Eh-- wha?" Sakura looks down -- and sees that her DAN SAYS RELAX t-shirt is /on fire/. "AAAH! CRAP!"
Sakura pulls the burning shirt off, swinging it as she does -- and inadvertently swinging it at Blanka in the process!
COMBATSYS: Blanka interrupts Random Weapon from Sakura with Vertical Rolling.
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Sakura 1/---====/=======|=======\===----\1 Blanka
Blanka backs off pretty quickly, once the lightning ends. He wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea about him, waterbeds and Sakura - whatever the 'wrong idea' is! Instead, he steps back, taking a soggy set of feet to the magazines and gi lying around , water dripping down his hair and making it lay almost flat against his head, looking like a soaked cat, though far less angry about it.
Sakura being on fire draws a little consternation, her handling of it catching him off-guard, the chucked smokey shirt wrapping around his face and blinding him! He holds the burning DanMemorabelia and tries to pull it away, but fails, thanks to a combination of static cling and him pulling at it. Instead, he gets it off by barrelling into a roll from ground to ceiling, with Sakura, poor Sakura somewhere in the middle..!
It's kind of funny -- Blanka's the one who tucks himself into a rolling assault, but it's Sakura who ends up a human pinball. Smashed by the blinded and rampaging creature-man as she struggles to recover from her earlier electrocution, Sakura is knocked this way and that, ultimately caroming off of the ceiling so hard that her butt leaves an indentation. On the way down, Sakura tries to grab at Dan's overhead light fixture to hang rather than plummet.
What ends up happening is that Sakura plummets anyway, except now she's ripping the light fixture down -- and half the ceiling with it. Dust and drywall spill everywhere, and Sakura whomps onto the ground in a pile, looking like she's just gotten into a flour fight. "UNGH!"
Sakura sits up, looking at the light fixture in her hand, and then casually throwing it aside. She moves to rip the shirt off of Blanka's face, obviously feeling bad for the poor lug, but is sure to try and kick him away from her in the process so he doesn't spaz on her -- the old 'pull a burning t-shirt off of someone's face while jamming a bare heel into their solar plexus' one-two. Just like Dan used to teach.
COMBATSYS: Blanka endures Sakura's Medium Kick.
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Sakura 1/--=====/=======|=======\=====--\1 Blanka
Blanka, a spaz?! That's completely un... well, okay, Blanka does tend to spaz out here and there, especially in the midst of a fight so important to him, to carry on the important techniques of Spazzy Dan Hibiki. Flailing about as he lands, he feels the shirt ripped off his face, and Sakura's bare foot slapping into his sternum and pushing. Very strong, it sends him back into the wall of the room, sending the broken drywall and such above shaking madly.
"Uh-oh.. Look arooout!"
Blanka's warning is hopefully in time - because his slam into the wall, combined with Sakura's bringing down the fixture and ceiling, exposes the roof, and Blanka's jungle bed! Which is, er... a whole slew of melons. Green, watermelon, casaba melon, musk melon - they tumble like a rain of, well.. melons. Blanka pushes to his feet and bull-rushes through them, trying to knock Sakura out of the way - though really, this may be just as hazardous as the impact of melon upon melon!!
COMBATSYS: Sakura fails to interrupt Tropical Hazard from Blanka with Shinkuu Hadouken.
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Sakura 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Blanka
Melons. Everywhere. Surging toward her. Like a tidal wave.
SOME TIME AGO
Sakura wakes up, screaming, in a cold sweat.
The door to her bedroom opens, and the light flicks on. Her mother sighs. "The melon dream again?"
Sakura doesn't reply -- she just flops backward onto her bed, knowing she won't get back to sleep tonight.
NOW
Sakura screams and flips the hell out. "SHIIINKUUUUU -- HAAADOKEN!" she cries, attempting to obliterate as many of the melons as possible with a focused and wildly destructive stream of pure chi. On this level, it works -- she bursts a great many melons, and does thousands of dollars of damage to Dan's wall, unless he happens to like his new door. Meanwhile, though, she completely fails to address the /Blanka/ problem, which results in the huge green-furred ginger smashing into her, all claws and unusually thick skull smashing into unusually thick skull. Sakura is knocked clear through another wall, laying in a broken heap for a moment as she sputters, "No... more... melons..."
Blanka has those dreams too. Sometimes. Don't feel bad, Sakura.
Blanka, however, does breathe a quick sigh of relief that he /also/ does not get obliterated in the midst of the giant waves of blue and white chi. The hole in the dojo is proof enough that it would have been very very bad for Blankas as well!
"Blanka thinkin' Dan gonna be real mad about the mess.." he says, chewing on his lower lip. Still, however, he can't help but continue - he's got to finish what he started! Giving Sakura little to no quarter, he bounds forwards and tries to toss her out of the pile of melon bits and wall bits that she is tussled up in...!
COMBATSYS: Sakura interrupts Strong Throw from Blanka with Shou'ou Ken.
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Sakura 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Blanka
COMBATSYS: Sakura can no longer fight.
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Blanka 1/-------/=======|
Sakura is up on her feet -- barely -- when Blanka strikes. The huge green mitts close around her... but in that same instant, as they're twisting her to fling her off toward the melons, she manages to twirl herself within his grasp. "SHOU'OU KEN!" Sakura cries, ramming her fist upward to bring the knuckles right up under Blanka's chin.
By the time the spinning uppercut completes itself, though, she is still imbued with the momentum of Blanka's throw -- and so, she sails through the air, just with a bit more spinning than might normall occur. Landing in a pile of melon chunks and slop, Sakura lets out a woozy groan for a moment, and then passes out, laying in a graceless sprawl.
Nearby, another chunk of drywall falls to the ground.
Chin music, you have never sounded sweeter. Blanka's big jaw is a perfect target for giant punchin's, and he takes it like a champ. Up into the air, into what's left of the ceiling. Blanka takes down more with it as he comes back towards the earth, landing face-first in what's left of the waterbed of Dan Hibiki - more like the puddle of water surrounded by plastic, by this point. For a moment he does not move, save for a blurble of air here or there.
And slowly, he gets to his feet. Oh so slowly. Gold eyes look over towards Sakura, and he gives the sleeping Kasugano a bleary thumbs-up, before falling back into the water, tuckered out something fierce.
Ten seconds later, the back wall just falls over. Don't ask.
COMBATSYS: Blanka takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Blanka has ended the fight here.
Log created on 15:24:58 11/15/2009 by Blanka, and last modified on 22:46:36 11/28/2009.