Description: Alvin and the Chipmunks. They ARE Christmas. Their delightfully shrill, ear-bleedingly high-pitched songs are a gift to us all, and it's because of this that SNF sees fit to pay tribute to their greatness. Imitation, after all, is the sincerest form of flattery -- and imitation is what they'll get when Shenwoo, Rolento Schugerg, and intoducing the DYNAMIC DUO of Cody Travers and Ren Kurosaki all face off in a hectic free-for-all at Santa's Workshop (or at least, a reasonable facsimile thereof)... while the entire room is being flooded with special voice-enhancing chemicals (read: helium) to allow them to properly mimic the much beloved chipmunks of yore. In a high-pitched squeal of death threats and bloodlust, who will dominate this chiperrific Saturday Night Fight Main Event?! Or will all parties succumb to the only very slightly asphyxiating properies of the Happy Magic Voice Gas before victory can be determined...?! Find out, only here, on a very special holiday edition of SATURDAY NIGHT FIGHT! (Winner: Rolento)
Christmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
It's been a long time coming for Ren Kurosaki, but /finally/ the season is here. Presents! Good cheer! Decorations! And most importantly--
DELICIOUS FOOD.
But the holiday festivities cannot begin yet for the young little kunoichi. No, the day isn't quite here yet, and she has certain obligations to fulfill before she can head back to Osaka. Her holiday beatings haven't come yet, after all.
So, here in sunny California, somewhere on some random studio lot that's gussied up to look like the North Pole, Ren eagerly awaits, hopping anxiously in place and dressed up like some elf--complete with a cute candy-cane colored cap with an annoying bell dangling off of it.
"Comeoncomeoncomeoncomeoncomeon," she chants like some sugar-induced mantra. Sitting on the ground at her feet is a large steel hoop--presumably a WEAPON--she'd brought along for the ride. "Oh man I am so hungry..."
Have you ever had an uncle who was always really disruptive at holiday gatherings, because he always showed up drunk, or on heroin?
Or both?
Right now, Cody Travers is that uncle.
Clad in his patently ridiculous striped jumpsuit - albeit with a red sweater with a huge yellow 'A' on the front over it - Cody stumbles into the gussied-up studio, looking very much like he could fling the vom at any moment.
He knocks over a fake christmas tree, plows right through a midget-sized fence, and eventually ends up slumped against a red and white barber's pole a few feet from Ren, breathing heavily.
"What're... you lookin' at?" he snarls at the girl in between ragged, gasping breaths, regardless of whether or not she's even actually looking at him.
Shenwoo doesn't dress up as anything, that's just a rule now. He doesn't have any interest in the silly trappings of Saturday Night Fight and its festivities; sure, he appreciates the theatrical aspects of professional combat sports and all, but he draws the line at dressing up line an idiot.
So there the God of Battle is, in a purple silk shirt with a dragon embroidered on it in gold, worn open, and a pair of black leather pants.
Last minute replacement that he is, the Shanghai berserker stands in 'Santa's Workshop' - in California, naturally - looking pretty much wildly out of place, and also totally bored, at the moment, his dark eyes hidden behind a pair of expensive-looking sunglasses. He's just waiting for things to get started, but while his exterior is calm, inside he's a coiled spring of anticipation.
And then Cody shows up.
"Ha ha ha!" laughs Shenwoo, a harsh bark of mirth, looking over towards Cody and Ren. "Wow, that's some team you guys have got there, huh? Maybe I should fight with one hand tied behind my back, too!" He doesn't really mean anything by it, strictly speaking... He's just like that, both because of his harsh upbringing on THE STREETS, and also his commitment to the trappings of being 'a fighter', which calls for a certain level of trash talking.
The sudden CRASH of a fake Christmas tree stirs Ren from her thoughts, wide topaz-yellow eyes widening even more before she turns around and outwardly stares at the approaching Cody. For a long moment the girl remains a bit quiet, even as Shenwoo magically appears on the North Pole set sometime when she's not paying attention. (protip: this is a lot)
When Cody actually glowers and grouses at her, the girl blinks twice before she shakes her head, clearly INTIMIDATED and a little awkward at Travers' seeming drunken rage. "U-uh," the girl begins, before she musters up some ENTHUSIASM and cheer to salute the convict, chiming, "My name is Ren Kurosaki, and we will be fighting together today! Do your very best, and I will do mine! Hooray!" She even throws her arms cheerfully into the air.
She is probably going to die today.
But SOMEONE IS MISSING. SNF crew look around for the ELUSIVE Rolento before they shrug and assume things are going on without the man. Looking between the three, they explain the fight rules, which Ren completely does not pay attention to. Instead, she just seems to oscillate in place, yellow eyes wide and excited. OH MAN CHRISTMAS DINNER SOON. SO SOON.
Then someone says 'GO FIGHT GUYS.'
"YES! Understood!"
Leaping into the air, the girl rips the stupid elf clothing off, revealing her oddly-blue ninja-girl attire, complete with cuffs and the hoodie of the coat done in what appear to be black feathers. Landing, she snatches her ring up and chimes, "Come on, let's do this Cody!"
Then, perhaps a poor choice on Ren's behalf, she gives the "drunk" a helpful, encouraging shove.
COMBATSYS: Ren has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Shenwoo has joined the fight here on the top side.
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COMBATSYS: Cody has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Shenwoo 0|-------|------=
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COMBATSYS: Ren assists Cody.
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Shenwoo 0|-------|------=
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|-------\-------\0 Ren
COMBATSYS: Rolento has joined the fight here.
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Rolento 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Cody
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Cody's gaze swings unsteadily over to Shenwoo, and the mere act of 'looking over there' almost makes him slip off the pole he's holding himself up with. It turns out not to even be worth it; before he can offer a retort to Mr. Sassypants over there, Ren starts talking, which is more than enough to ruin Cody's already sub-par day.
The blonde swivels his head back around and just stares at Ren in sullen silence, right up until she gives him her little helpful shove. He slips off the pole and collapses onto all fours, and his already labored breathing begins to speed up. The man's down for only a second, however, before he hauls himself to his feet and whirls back upon Ren.
Thankfully, it is not to start choking her. Rather, Cody grips the spinny barber pole he was using to support himself, wrenches it off the ground, spins, and flings it horizontally at Shenwoo, sending it spinning through the air. Unfortunately, he keeps spinning even after he's thrown the pole (heh heh, pole), and he half-collapses towards Ren, grabbing at her in an attempt to hold himself upright.
"Get away from me," the man growls, even as he slumps into Ren, moving his behavior officially into 'bizarre'. Even more bizarre, his breathing only seems to be getting faster.
COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Shenwoo with Large Thrown Object.
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Rolento 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Cody
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|-------\-------\0 Ren
Is there even supposed to be someone else involved in the fight? Nobody told Shenwoo. He just got bundled onto a plane and told he was supposed to be covering for someone else in an SNF match, and to be honest he's not even sure how they got into his apartment to 'invite' him to go in the first place.
It's weird man, weird.
The half-Chinese brawler slowly starts to grin at Ren's enthusiasm and Cody's drunkenness, a wide, wolfish expression that shows too many teeth. Oh yeah, this is bound to be interesting; the question is will it be interesting /enough/ to entertain the God of Battle? After all, if he has to fight a drunk and a little girl, he might not face too much of a challenge... Not even with Cody throwing that... Barber pole thing at him.
Shen ducks a bit to the side, but the thrown scenery clips him on the shoulder enough to drive him off-balance, a stinging pain running through him. Neither fact slows him down, especially. Instead, he takes off his sunglasses, pockets them, and flashes a frankly crazy look at the other two present. "Heh, fine then! Let's see if you two can KEEP ME ENTERTAINED!!" Shenwoo bellows, completely lacking in holiday spirit as he lunges across Santa's Workshop at Cody 'Alvin' Travers, lacing his fingers together as he brings both fists down in a brutal axe-handle aimed at the drunk's head, subsequently swinging his hands back /up/ for a second strike. "HA HA HA HA HA!!"
Rolento Schugerg? Missing an appointment? Nobody here seems to know the man very well. Oh yes, the guerilla fighter has been present upon the battlefield since the very onset, although he has completely hidden himself away. Watching, and waiting, with the infinite patience of a mantis poised to strike. His very breath kept in check, although the insanity below was a bit more then he expected. As he expected, the ferocious Shenwoo is the most dangerous person here. This is something he already knew first hand, of course. With a slither and mild leap, he suddenly lands behind Ren, not long after she would of had the pleasure of disentangling from the drunken groping of Cody and bore witness to the chipmunk being assaulted.
"There remains a third party in this engagement..." Rolento offers matter of factly, attempting to sweep an arm about Ren from behind, and then yank sharply upwards, to catch beneath her chin and haul her clear off the ground. It's questionable how well she might work as a shield against these two even if he did catch hold however, given they'd both punch through her to get at the madman. The true danger is in this shifting from a free-for-all into another kick-the-Rolento battle. "I believe you are the most sane person here..." Wait, did Rolento just exclude himself? Hard to tell.
Although perhaps most shocking, he's dressed up like Dave from the Chipmunks. God can only wonder what inspired him to do such. Harsh sanctions by SNF? Geese shaking a fist? Regardless, he has a black wig beneath his red beret, a voluminous sweater, and simple jeans. His baton is in a free hand, but where are the rest of his significant armnaments?!
COMBATSYS: Rolento successfully hits Ren with Quick Throw.
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Rolento 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 Cody
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Letting out a quiet, impressed "ooooooooooooh," Ren watches as Cody spins wildly with the barber's pole in hand before he throws the thing right at Shenwoo. Though he tries to avoid it, Shenwoo is pelted by the thing with enough force that it probably would have made HER explode on contact. For a brief moment the girl is glad she's on Cody's side.
But really, that's like the lesser of two evils.
Fortunately for Cody, Ren is RIGHT THERE to catch the guy, a loud "OOF" escaping her as Cody all but collapses onto her. Struggling under the weight of a guy twice her size and jailhouse RIPPED, she frowns a bit--and more so as Shenwoo comes blazing in. "HEY LOOK OUT," she cries to Cody as she breaks away from him, trying to split up for the moment.
Then before she's even aware there's a mercenary behind her ripping her off the ground by the chin. With a loud GRRRK the girl squirms a bit, really unable to reply to his comment before she struggles desperately to wrench herself free before she goes unconscious. Fortunately, she manages, letting out a loud, labored series of gasps.
"J-jeez," Ren lightly grouses before she takes her hoop in hand once more. "It's like you're out to kill me for no discernable reason! ENNETSU!!"
Sweeping the steel ring wide, it ripples with crimson chi energy before it all roars outwards, intent on consuming Rolento-Dave in a wash of fiery chi!
COMBATSYS: Cody endures Shenwoo's Kouryuu-Geki.
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Rolento 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Cody
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|===----\-------\0 Ren
Cast off by his teammate, Cody wheels clumsily to face the incoming Shenwoo; he barely has time to recognize the fact that he's being attacked before Shenwoo's fists hammer into his skull. They connect with a sickening crack as the impact does terrible, terrible things to Cody's spine... but the man doesn't collapse. In fact, he barely even sways... at least not any more than he was already swaying, thanks to his, uh, 'prior condition'.
The second double axe handle fixes that, though, catching the swaying Cody right in the forehead with another terrible crack, and driving him down onto his knees. He slumps forwards, apparently already defeated, and his alreaedy rapid breathing rises to a crescendo of sorts. Blood begins to trickle onto the floor from the brand new gash on his forehead, which is, of course, perfectly normal.
At least until the blood stops being red, and starts being luminescent green.
Cody suddenly erupts back to his feet, curving his right fist upwards towards Shenwoo's chin. As the blonde extends his arm, he twists it sharply to the right, and a split second after the blow reaches full extension an eight-foot tall whirlwind erupts into existence in front of him, laced with thin lines of chi energy, the same green as the blood pouring in a stream from a gash on Cody's forehead.
No sooner does the whirlwind erupt than does Cody begin stumbling backwards, simultaneously writhing in agony and... laughing much like Shenwoo. His jumpsuit - and his Alvin sweater - bulge in odd ways as the blonde's muscles swell grotesquely underneath them, and his psychotic laughter slowly rises in pitch as helium begins to flood the studio, until he sounds like an honest-to-god chipmunk serial killer.
That's a serial killer who is a chipmunk, not a serial killer who kills chipmunks. Just FYI.
Well I guess actually it might be both.
COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Shenwoo with Criminal Upper.
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Rolento 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Cody
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|===----\-------\0 Ren
Wait... Green blood? Shenwoo is pretty surprised to find himself fighting /a Vulcan/, but at least now he knows he should be wary of any sort of nerve pinches.
Still, that wide wild grin remains on Shen's face, despite any weirdness about Cody that even the brawler is keen enough to notice; he's just glad to be fighting somebody tough enough to stand there and take a hit from him. Naturally, the only thing he can do is to return the favour. Unfortunately for Shenwoo, he underestimates the might of Cody on Glow, and while he stands there and lets himself get uppercutted like, as they say, whoa, the increased strength and mysterious green energy add an oomph the berserker isn't ready to compensate for. Rather than being able to exploit any openings from the recovery time of Cody's attack, then, Shenwoo instead crashes into one of the work tables.
The table just about explodes, legs collapsing and partially made toys going /everywhere/. It's like somebody blew up a Toys'R'Us.
For a moment, Shenwoo looks frankly stunned, his grin gone and his eyes wide with surprise. But that only lasts a moment, before his grin returns, a look of possibly mad mirth in his eyes. Oh yes, this is the best possible situation!
"I don't know what's going on with you," Shen says, his voice slowly moving to a higher register from the flow of /helium/. "But... At least this won't be boring!!"
Quick as a wink, Shenwoo explodes out of his reclining position, blasting the destroyed table further back with the momentum of his movement, hurling himself at Cody in a rushing punch, his left fist thrown forward. "GRAAAAAAAH!!"
COMBATSYS: Rolento overcomes Ennetsu from Ren with Stinger.
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Rolento 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Cody
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Well, it would seem the two berserkers are too focused on butting heads to give any meaningful notice to Rolento. This really suits him fine. The key to any surgical engaging is to remove the weakest link, which just happens to be the poor, once-elfed Ren. "Negative. If I wished to kill you, I'd of snapped your neck instead." With that delightful affirmation of how well-suited he is to being homocidal, he suddenly releases and kicks into the air when the ring whirls around. Digging under his sweater, he yanks out a steel knife, before snarling and twisting, throwing both bodyweight and precise technique behind the weapon in tandem. The wave of chi is penetrated, the spiraling weapon heading on undeterred to try and impact her right thigh -- it would be rather hard to see it in the midst of her wafting chi, after all. Landing well clear, he twirls his baton around before smacking it into a palm, assuming a relaxed, neutral stance while facing Ren. "Your associates appear to be in a deathmatch. But you have respectable odds to draw this out long enough for the winner to engage me afterwards..."
COMBATSYS: Rolento successfully hits Ren with Stinger.
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Cody
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Poor Ren. POOR, POOR REN.
"Why would you want to go through that effort!?" the young woman wonders with wide eyes, her mouth agape in what is likely some sort of horror. "How grim!" Shaking her head a bit, the girl just furrows her brows a bit and sends lots of chi hurling Rolento's way. Unfortunately, it doesn't really go as planned for the young kunoichi. Somewhere in the mess there's a blade thrown.
And it digs itself into the girl's leg. Cue shrill, ear-piercing girly screaming here.
"Owowowowowowowowowowowowowowowwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!"
Wide-eyed and horrified, the girl stares at her bleeding leg with tears welling in her big yellow eyes. Pursing her lips, she puffs up a bit and looks right at Rolento, on the verge of crying. "Why'd you DO that!?" she wonders, her voice cracking as she struggles desperately not to cry. "JEEZ!! I didn't deserve that!"
Gingerly the girl attempts to pull the knife from her leg, which more or less consumes a bit of her time. She pulls, only to stop and bite her lip, only to resume again in some sloppy effort to get the weapon out of her leg. Eventually, she manages the task, tossing the thing aside with a wet, gruesome clatter of steel on concrete (beneath the fake snow).
Gripping onto her hoop, the girl casts green-blooded Cody a quick glance. "I'll do what I can!!" she calls, like he's actually /listening/ to her. "Please hurry!!"
Then, with a swing of her arm, she sends the steel hoop buzzing toward Rolento's ribs.
COMBATSYS: Shenwoo successfully hits Cody with Gekiken.
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Cody
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Still recovering from his ~*~transformation~*~, Cody doesn't have time to brace himself for Shenwoo's return to the fray. The blow crashes into his chest with tremendous force and takes him right off his feet, sending him flying through the air to crash into a lineup of plastic reindeer assembled in front of a large, red and white sleigh.
After only a moment, Cody emerges from the pile of shattered, broken reindeer props, green blood now also trickling from his mouth and nose. He pauses, however, to simply stare at Shenwoo. It'd be more than a little unnerving for your average joe, what with how Cody's eyes have turned a solid, glowing green, the same as his blood. For Shenwoo, of course... well, I mean, Shenwoo.
/Shenwoo./
His moment of staring complete, Cody lets loose a strangely bestial roar and breaks into a sudden run, charging back towards Shenwoo. While still a pair of short steps away, the drugged-out blonde twists sharply to the side and simply slides the last few feet towards his opponent, lashing out towards Shenwoo's head with a booted foot.
As Cody lifts his leg, however, green light flashes around him, and his assault is suddenly reinforced by the arrival of /action lines./ All of a sudden, he's moving much, much faster, and trailing hazy, translucent, green-tinted afterimages.
Cody follows the first kick up with a second, and then a third, and then a fourth, mixing roundhouses in with straight, piston-like kicks and simple kicks to the shin, all delivered with blinding speed. There's little rhyme or reason to the flurry of blows; Cody just goes nuts on Shenwoo's nuts.
He goes so nuts, in fact, that eventually the flurry of kicks begins to lift him (and Shenwoo, ideally) into the air. Which is pretty sweet... unless Shenwoo proves adept at getting out of the way, in which case it's mostly just sort of ridiculous looking.
COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Shenwoo with Dead End Irony.
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Cody
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The tremendous speed evidenced by Cody Travers in his new state gets a moment of surprise from Shenwoo, but it's not like the brawler is disheartened about it, or anything. He's just going to keep doing what he always does, which is of course to go completely crazy. The helium being pumped into the air probably doesn't help any either; oxygen is important to proper brain functions!
Shen tries to slip back away from that initial kick, but he can't quite match Cody's speed in this, and instead he gets good and kicked, the blow rocking his head to the side... Which naturally leaves the tall man wide open for the rest of Cody's barrage, eventually getting kicked into the air along with Cody, which is indeed pretty sweet. Almost supernaturally sweet, in fact... So by the time it ends, Shenwoo lands in a heap, and honestly a normal person would probably want to take a breather right about there.
Shenwoo? Not normal.
"Heh heh heh," the berserker chuckles, shoulders shaking and voice heightened from the helium in the air; it sounds kind of comical, really. "Ha ha ha ha..." he continues, picking himself up off the ground. "Snrk... Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Suddenly, a wave of pure force erupts out from Shenwoo, pressure /pushing/ on everything around him, throwing back presents and debris and other Santa's Workshop things. Maybe even a midget flies away, who knows?
"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!" the God of Battle continues laughing, now a berserker in truth as he grabs at the Glow-addled Cody, aiming to unload a succession of brutal punches into his face and headmeats, peppering the strikes with an occasional headbutt or two, all the while laughing like the Chipmunks' Norse berserker ancestor.
He ends it, of course, with an uppercut of his own. "THIS IS /GREAT/!!" Shenwoo exults, voice high pitched and barely coherent.
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Ren's Medium Fling.
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Cody
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Rolento appears entirely unapologetic as he observes Ren wrestle with the blade, and on top of such, completely uncaring. Yet such does not seem to be callous, or even some sadism. It's an almost mechanical observation, detached and not particularly interested. "...Did you expect to battle without being wounded?" he wonders, twirling his baton as he glances towards the savage waltz of Cody and Shenwoo. They truly are going to beat each other nearly to death. That makes this a rather empty victory... Rolento is not after palmares after all, but televised displays of his competency. Such a shame. "You yourself use a weapon, girl. That you choose to not utilize an edge does not mean you can judge me for it."
Suddenly, Rolento erupts into motion. The ring is only barely in transit when he backflips away from it, bracing himself momentarily upon a wall. Kicking off it and balling up tightly, coming in at a slow and ponderous arc. One that Ren could react to easily... that is, until he kicks off something overhead, and launches straight at her from a relatively close range. His baton is poised, but the initial movement is a feint. Kicking twice off the ground, circling around her as his weapon twirls. And then savagely brings it down, trying to crack it upon her wounded thigh, sweeping his free hand to catch her neck and bend her back. If this maneuver works, he'll savagely knee her spine a couple times before flinging her head over heels away. ...well, he might not be an INTENTIONAL sadist.
COMBATSYS: Ren parries Rolento's Armed Combo!
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Cody
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Okay, so it's entirely likely that Ren is ON HER LITTLE OWN here, what with Cody lost in his Glow-induced berserker rage, and Shenwoo being all too terribly willing to oblige him a fight. Fists fly, blood sprays EVERYWHERE but really, Ren doesn't have time to pay attention, beyond a passing glance or two.
"I didn't expect there to be KNIVES in a fight that's regulated by Saturday Night Fight!" Ren bickers back at Rolento, tossing the knife aside carelessly. "Gosh, at least I have the courtesy to, you know, make my weapon BLUNT. I can make it lethal if I want, you know!" Just don't ask her to; she forgot the parts at home. Woe.
"I'm not judging anyone!" Ren continues to argue, brows furrowing as she hurls the ring toward Rolento. "Gosh!"
The ring, however, misses, and Rolento ninjas the hell out and bounds off walls and kicks off something, blazing at her with frightening precision. About then the ring comes back into her possession; backflipping as he initially launches at her, she avoids the first strike while taking her weapon in hand. The baton is twirled, but she doesn't react; only when he tries to crack it on her poor WOUNDED thigh she snaps the ring down, deflecting the blow before she ducks and avoids his grasp. BARELY.
Whipping aside, the girl then bounds back and lands several feet away, the hoop igniting in...pink fiery energy. Reeling her arm back, she summarily hurls it forward, sending the pink-chi coated ring buzzsawing right for Rolento with all its pink fury.
And, oh yeah, the flames seem less like fire as they burn off and more like cherry blossoms.
Yeah. Take /that/.
COMBATSYS: Cody endures Shenwoo's Bakuma Assault.
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Shenwoo powers up so hard he knocks shit over, SSJ style, and sets upon Cody... and the drug-crazed man simply plants his feet and bares his chest.
This may turn out not to be such a good idea.
Blow after blow rains upon Cody's chest, head, and face, and although Shenwoo's knuckles (and forehead) tear gashes in Cody's skin, bruise his flesh, and on more than one occasion - judging from the cracking noises - /sunder his bones./ But Cody never staggers, he never backs down, and only on a few particularly solid hits does he even flinch.
It's like beating on a brick wall... except Shenwoo could probably tear a brick wall apart, so it's actually like an entirely different analogy!
Shenwoo's final blow, at least, causes Cody's head to whip around to the side in /SLOW MOTION/, a mixture of spittle and green blood spewing from his mouth. It's awful. Before he gets around to turning back to Shenwoo, however, the blonde spots something skittering across the floor; Rolento's knife, discarded only a moment before by Ran. His eyes light up like it's fucking Christmas - appropriately enough - and he just straight up dives for the knife.
Cody comes down on his front, bounces, snatches the knife off of the ground, and twists into a roll. Within half a second, he's back up on his feet, and he promptly reverses direction and hauls ass right back towards Shenwoo, leaping into the air with a ferocious scream. His plan, in its entirety, is to pounce totally artlessly onto the 'God of Battle' and stab him in the face like eight God damn times.
COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Shenwoo with Tokushu Koudou.
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Cody
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Not even Shenwoo, no matter how battle-crazed and berserk he might be, is a big fan of getting stabbed in the face; nevertheless, the tall man simply ducks a bit to the side, turning the stabs into shallow slashes, that nevertheless draw blood and also /hurt like a bitch/, but they're better than actually getting stabbed repeatedly in the head. He doesn't even try to avoid them outright, or even really mitigate the harm that much from a practical level... Instead, he's trying to find an opening, again.
And getting distracted, again.
"What?!" Shen demands, in a high-pitched bellow. "Is that all you've got?!" At this point, the brawler goes back to the well, to a certain extent. Which is to say that he reaches out and tries to snag Cody by his Alvin shirt.
And then headbutt the crazy right out of him.
COMBATSYS: Rolento blocks Ren's Hanagumori EX.
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Rolento 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Cody
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Ahhh, Rolento and Ren get to bear witness to a union of soul mates this day. They seem to be more even at it then Rolento would of wagered with his ruthless statistics, but that excluded some kind of green Glow-y rage. He just keeps his attention on the fight between the pair indirectly. Just because Ren is a lesser fighter does not mean he insults her by not giving his full attention. Oh, yes. Being eyed with those inhuman white eyes, that seem to peer into your SOUL, must be quite comforting. "You must not have ever seen one of my fights, or dozens of others. You are merely not allowed to kill or cripple. And I have no intention to." And he just chuckles, deep and sardonic. "And unlike you, my weapons are not a child's game. They are tools to kill. Trust me... I blunt them plenty. Otherwise, you would not end this duel breathing."
Although it would seem Ren is not completely helpless to him. That dextrous assault might not be the most beautiful thing in the world, but it was certainly sufficient to gain an advantage. But he just casually skips back, and snaps down his baton, deflecting the ring rather sharply. Sliding forward, leading with the side of a foot, he then unleashes a deft knee right towards Ren's chest. Yes, her boobs. He just tried to nail her in the BOOBS. Assuming the pain and horror of such distracts her enough, he'd then totally kick her in the face right after. Take THAT.
COMBATSYS: Rolento successfully hits Ren with Light Kick.
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"I don't even know who you are!" Ren argues at the USPL commander. "I mean, you look kind of familiar but, really, I have no clue who you are or where you even come from." Tilting her head slightly, the girl hoods her yellow eyes, all but squinting at his creepy, white-eyed face. Is he blind, she wonders? Does he fight on HEARLING alone??
This is a big possibility. Briefly, Ren finds herself fascinated.
Then she remembers he's going to KILL HER. (not really)
Also, about this time, the helium begins to make her voice EVEN MORE SHRILL AND PAINFUL.
"My weapon is legitimate! I just have no need for my lethal attachments in things like SNF and Leagues and in the middle of a city!" Ren insists. "My tools are meant for killing /demons/, not hurting human beings! That doesn't mean they are childish!!" she even stomps a foot even as Rolento avoids the worst of her attack. If it was even BAD to begin with!
Then he's kicking her in the chest. Well, kneeing her. Right in the (lack of) boobs. Hit hard, the girl exhales loudly, stumbling back and losing grasp of her ring. It clatters loudly at her side as she grips her chest, wincing. It hurts to breathe, but...
"That is it!" Pulling her body from the ground, Ren finds her resolve. Biting tightly on her jaw, the young kunoichi picks her heavy ring up. Then, swiftly, she shuts her eyes, chanting something...before she's awash in white chi. Seconds later she splits into eight doppelgangers that perfectly mimic her movements.
"Kurosaki Technique Number 99!!" the girl cries, her voice distorted by the fact there are NINE of her.
Then, bursting forward, the girl and her clones attempt to lash out twelve times with their rings, smacking Rolento from seemingly every angle before each raises their ring high and drops it harshly downward, resulting in a massive pillar of icy white chi to freeze him, as all eight clones vanish.
"HAAAAAH!"
COMBATSYS: Cody endures Shenwoo's Strong Punch.
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Cody's Alvin sweatshirt proves terribly easy to grab ahold of - especially considering Cody's penchance for not trying to get out of the way at all - and Shenwoo's forehead crashes into Cody's already bloodied face with a resounding crack.
The blonde does not so much as recoil, even when his nose explodes into approximately a billion pieces. What he /does/ do is reach up to wrap his hands around Shenwoo's neck, and then haul back and slam his own, blood-smeared forehead into the other man's nose. Without so much as pausing, he then swivels and tries to fling the God of Battle through the air by his neck, straight into a huge pile of comically large giftwrapped presents.
Whether Shenwoo ends up in the present pile or not, when Cody's oppponent is either flung or somehow twists out of his grip, the blonde begins advancing on him again like a God damn Terminator... and then, after only a single step, suddenly collapses to his knees, hunching forwards again, swaying dangerously. Slowly, he begins to topple forwards onto his face...
COMBATSYS: Cody can no longer fight.
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... *thud*
Cody plows face-first into the ground and stops moving. Surprisingly rapidly, a pool of green blood begins to form underneath him; it seems as if his Alvin sweater disguised the worst effects of Shenwoo's devastating (so, so devastating) blows to the man's torso.
Eventually, red blood begins to join the green, and Cody practically seems to physically shrink. All of a sudden, he doesn't look so good... even disregarding the whole 'beaten to a pulp' thing.
COMBATSYS: Shenwoo dodges Cody's Savage Combo.
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Rolento 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Ren
By this point, the truth os obvious; the God of Battle is having absolutely none of this shit.
When Cody tries to grab him by the neck, Shen puts a foot between himself and Alviiiiiiiiiin, shoving the Glow-addled fighter away rather than let him do whatever he was planning on doing; the brawler waits basically long enough for Cody to stalk towards him and then fall on his face, bleeding all over the floor, before dismissing that opponent entirely. The berserker turns to look back at the rest of Santa's Workshop, his dark eyes falling not on Ren, but on the mysterious interloper who has more right to be here than Shenwoo himself does.
But he recognises Rolento... Sort of.
"HEY!!" bellows Shenwoo in his helium-heighened voice, who turns around and straight up lifts one of the remaining worktables, presents and all, with a grunt and a tremendous effort of raw power, trying to ignore the fact that it's getting harder to breathe. "I'M STILL HERE!!!" the Shanghai born brawler adds. And then he tries to bludgeon Rolento. With a huge-ass wooden table.
Like a /boss/.
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Ren's Jyoya No Kane.
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Rolento 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Ren
COMBATSYS: Rolento interrupts Huge Random Weapon from Shenwoo with Deadly Package.
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Rolento 1/------=/=======|=------\-------\0 Ren
Well, Cody's relentless intensity finally burns out. That's a bit surprising, but likely a mere testament to Shenwoo's incredible ability in fisting. He just keeps an eye upon them sidelong, knowing that Shenwoo is going to be interfering in short order. But he blinks, before sniffing the air. Immediately, he can tell there's helium. That's just cold hearted, Geese. Cold hearted. He does this for an image!! "A demon slayer?" he states, deep and rough baritone quickly beginning to thin out. "There are many who call me worse then a demon. Let us see if it works on me." The 'me' was a genuine squeak. He's not going to be talking anymore.
The gathering chi is observed carefully. She is not truly creating copies of herself... it must be a basic visual technique used to fire asasults from all directions. Acceptable. If he were not, that is, unrestricted in moving. She had no dopplegangers above him, did she? He leaps straight up, the freezing chi coalescing on empty air.
And here comes the God of war. "SHENWOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" he squeaks out, descending towards him. His foot /slams/ out, shattering the table as it impacts him. Not blown away thusly, he grasps the man and twists him over a shoulder, slapping on a string of grenades and then hucking Shenwoo, trying to get him to land on Cody before exploding. Yeah, take that, Haggar dog.
So, in short.
Cody passes out. Shenwoo goes screaming at Rolento. Ren is left kind of confused.
What's WORSE, Rolento cuts THROUGH her ULTIMATE ASSAULT by...jumping high. There's an obvious look of 'what the hell' on her face as he does so, before all the images of Ren flicker out, leaving her puffy checked and frustrated. This is too much!!
And with Cody, her ONLY PARTNER, gone, she's teammate less! What's EVEN WORSE, Shenwoo goes and gets himself strapped with lots of damn grenades and left to blow up. Ren furrows her brows fiercely as she assesses this situation. Well.
Damned if you do!
"HYAAAAAAH!!" With a shrill squeal the young woman tears off after Rolento, leaping at him with a flying kick aimed for his head.
You know what, Shenwoo saw that one going differently in his head. There's an impact, though not the one Shenwoo was hoping for, and then the USPL commander is throwing the berserker like a bag full of rocks, but with grenades stuck to him, at Cody; the impact is painful, the explosion hurts too, and frankly Shenwoo is just about done. He's got enough in him to push himself up, blood dripping down his face, eyes dull and unfocused. He's got enough in him for just one shot.
His shirt in tatters, his body bruised and burned and cut, the berserker doesn't even feel the pain anymore. Instead, he just barks a weirdly high-pitched laugh, and then throws himself at Rolento again.
So fast that he blurs.
"SHYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!" cries the God of Battle, his voice dopplering a bit in addition to the helium's influence, as he throws his left fist forward at the terrorist dude, a shockwave of pure force riding on that same fist.
He's a bit unsteady even as he strikes, though, and hit or miss, once he's done he drops like a rock.
And starts... Snoring?
COMBATSYS: Shenwoo can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento blocks Shenwoo's Zetsu! Gekiken.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Ren's Light Kick.
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Well, if Shenwoo hadn't gotten up to fire off a last titanic attack, Rolento would of wondered if that was truly Shenwoo. He's one of the most significant physical threats that the commando can think of, and on a very short list of people he would not opt to face with full confidence in victory. Yet, that is at full strength. The broken man rushing at him certainly has the force, but a twirl of his baton rather easily interposes the wooden weapon before it. The slam sends Rolento skidding a good few meters away, but almost the entirety of the force was dissipated harmlessly. Still, his arm is aching /something fierce/. He swaps his baton to the other hand to flex his fingers a few times. "A shame." he squeaks in a high pitch. "You cannot win this battle now. I will give you a chance to surrender. If you opt not to, I will not be held responsible for your injuries." He then pulls out a literal handful of knives from under his Dave-sweater, fanning them out in his fingers with ominous glints.
COMBATSYS: Rolento narrows his eyes, burning with the adrenaline of battle.
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Now Ren has a moral dilemma of sorts here.
On one hand, she does not want to come off as some big huge coward by running away from the battle. If she sticks it out and fights HER BEST, she'd be giving 110% and working hard to improve.
On the OTHER hand, he has knives. He wants to USE them. He promises pain.
Clenching her hand around her ring, the girl struggles to find an acceptable answer in the middle of her conflicting thoughts. Shenwoo's down, Cody's been rendered useless. What is she going to do!?
"Well," the girl replies, despite how god-awfully high pitched her voice has become. "If I just give up now, I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror. So...I don't really have a choice. I've gotta fight, else I put my family's name to shame."
Her facade of seriousness breaks, however, the girl pitching back as she points a finger at Rolento
"Hahahahahahahaha your voice is HILARIOUS!! Can you hear it? Ahahahahaha!!"
Then she is serious-face again. "But seriously, I can't. Sorry."
With a cry the girl rushes in at Rolento, giving a last-ditch effort to close in. With her hoop shimmering with white, icy chi, she swings thrice; low, mid, and high before she swings her ring up high, then drops it swiftly in a sharp downward strike, the impact of the steel hoop on the ground erupting with a pillar of icy chi.
COMBATSYS: Rolento dodges Ren's Shimobashira.
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Oh yes. Ren managed to get Rolento to narrow his eyes in anger. If he had any compunctions about penetrating Ren multiple times, she just erased them. Each fierce swipe misses by a couple inches, but to someone of Ren's long-honed ability, the gulf would seem far beyond that. It would seem even that relatively close distance is his comfortable preference, a complete dodge with no risk. "A PITY." he squeaks, before kicking backwards and completely disengaging. Before he extends his baton, and places all of the knives upon it. "This will hurt." he assures, stance spreading and body tensing. Eyes glaze in utter focus. "Ready...?" Then he snaps them straight up with a snarlsqueak. "GOOOO!!" All of the metal knives impact the ceiling and violently ricochet, spiraling down in a hail of STEEL METAL DEATH right for Ren.
COMBATSYS: Rolento successfully hits Ren with Steel Rain.
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Bad answer. Bad end!
Missing the man again, Ren furrows her brows a bit, idly biting at her bottom lip before she hops back. Leveling her gaze, the girl just glares at the mercenary, even as he warns her about the pain that's to come. "I don't care anymore!" the girl cries, her voice still high pitched and squeaking. "Yeah, sure, maybe I should have run because it is A BIT SCARY but I'll feel better about myself in the end!!"
Sure enough, it is pretty scary to see a bunch of knives come raining down. And it sucks when most of them LODGE THEMSELVES into her backside with a wet, nasty thud. She buckles beneath the pain, hitting the ground face-first with her ring clattering at the ground by her side. It hurts so much, she thinks. Everything is foggy and hazy, and all she wants to do is sleep, she mulls.
But...
Struggling to pull herself up off the floor, Ren supports the bulk of her weight on her ring. "Ha ha, l-look," she weakly comments, pointing a shaky finger at her eye. "N-not gonna cry." ALMOST, but she won't.
Running on pure adrenaline, the girl suddenly PUSHES off the ground and swings the hoop wide, the entirety of the thing engulfed in deep crimson, fiery chi. It flies repeatedly, at a variety of angles before Ren catches it and leaps up high, taking the ring in between the palms of both hands. "YAAAAAAAH!!!"
With one last, mighty swing she sends the thing buzzing down, right at Rolento, where--if it impacts with the ground at his feet (or him), a wide burst of fiery chi will explode.
Hit or miss, though, Ren hits the ground and immediately goes unconscious from the HELIUM and all the blood she's losing fast.
COMBATSYS: Ren can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento interrupts Gokusho from Ren with Fierce Strike.
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COMBATSYS: Rolento has ended the fight here.
"Your tenacity is admirable... so I will treat you thusly." Rolento squeaks out with finality, when Ren's knife-butted form decides to still poise a threat to him. He then pushes off the ground, surging towards her as she launches the ring towards him. He defects it brutally with a clash of metal and chi. The explosion erupts behind, singing his own rump and back. And just before Ren would black out, his baton descends and /cracks/ between her eyes, sending her flying backwards to bounce off the ground and roll away, likely spraying many of the embedded knives to and fro. Twirling his baton, he then goes over to the pile of Cody and Shenwoo, hauling the God of War off. And starts to kick Cody in the ribs. Over and over. SNF personelle hurry inside and manage to pull him off, with one last kick to the face. He's hauled off the fightstage with a last fistshake. ...Cody might have a slight headache.
Furlento comes back and rapes Ren. THE END.
Log created on 18:36:32 12/27/2009 by Ren, and last modified on 02:38:55 01/03/2010.