Description: Zach goes traveling. First stop: Thailand to face some personal fears. Cammy shows up to help realize one or two of them, but Adelheid provides an 11th hour save!
Zach has, of late, taken to walking the earth. He has the money for it, and the fame (or notoriety) to be able to write his own ticket for the most part. The reason for the travelling is still hard to nail down, but Zach felt the need to go out and see places after Taizhou.
This leg has brought him to the place that had him hiding in a hole for a few months, several years ago. Shadoloo's coup attempt awakened a subconscious terror in the back of Zach's mind for a while. Today, he is attempting to face the fear that the situation had caused him.
Walking the earth, just like Ryu. But while Ryu can probably get away with walking around Shadaloo Central, Zach, maybe, cannot.
Especially in a place like a Bangkok slum, where Shadaloo's eyes are everywhere. And especially not when the Killer Bee is out doing Lord Vega's bidding - scouring the world for fighters as reconnaissance for the current tournament. And besides, Zach is on her list. Though fairly low down on her list, admittedly, but given he's had the grace to actually show up practically on her doorstep, he just got jumped up a few notches.
And so the red cloaked Cammy steps around the edge of a building in a darkened alleyway, pretty much right in front of him. Hands in pockets, she scrutinises him silently for a few moments, while blocking his way.
Zach stops short as he sees the woman in the red cloak. His eyes narrow warily as he looks around the alleyway. That, he reflects, was a mistake. He curses himself out silently; he /knows/ better than to use these routes. Nothing but trouble.
He twitches his right hand, covered in an exotic-looking gauntlet. No need to get jumpy just yet. The lady /could/ just want to talk to him. "Can I... help you with something, Miss?" he asks cautiously.
Talk? Oh, that would be just too easy. But there is time for a little talk. "Yes. You are Zach, no?" she asks him in a toneless voice. "A fighter, though my records suggest one who is far below his potential. Maybe that's changed though, records do get out of date, and need to be updated.".
Cammy throws off the red cloak, casting it to one side, revealing the blue uniform, yellow tie, cute hat and combat boots of one of Lord Vega's Dolls. In fact, the uniform of the Zero Doll, only one below the Shadaloo Elites - lucky Zach! She raises arms protected by red gauntlets, and beckons him to her. "Come on!".
"So sue me if I haven't been trained since childhood," Zach mutters. He's about to raise his volume when Cammy shows off the uniform. He swallows as he eyes her, and then rips the gauntlet off. A second later, he is pulling a wakazashi out of the bundle that he was carrying over his shoulder. He does not know how to properly wield the blade yet, but he wasn't about to leave it unsheathed in the face of something like this.
"So it's like that," he says flatly before lunging for the Doll and sweeping the blade in a wide arc over his right shoulder, aiming for Cammy's collarbone!
COMBATSYS: Zach has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Cammy has joined the fight here.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
Shadaloo aren't the only ones who've had their eyes on Thailand. Or at least, happen to have eyes on Thailand right this moment. Truth be told, he's just passing through. It's fortuitous - or ominous, depending on one's perspective. Adelheid sits on the currently darkened bridge of a very unconventional ship, cutting a path through the Thai sky. "We're sure?" He confirms with the helmsman manning the craft.
"Identity confirmed with a 92% probability. Odds of other operatives in the area high, sir. We're flying at speed, only operating at about 21% coverage within the maximum possible radius."
"Confirmed. Good enough. Take us in hot, leave me at the outskirts. Execute Fortress pattern and be prepared for extraction - emergency or otherwise." The sleek, dark airship's reactor powers up, a thrum of fusion and... raw energy, a tingle in the back of most astute fighter's minds as it veers in towards the brewing storm, to leave behind a very unexpected package.
One really, /really/ AWOL Bernstein, cruising straight for Zach and Cammy's confrontation on a speedbike. Promises to keep. Miles to go before he sleeps. But he's moving pretty damned fast.
COMBATSYS: Zach equips Violet Miraitou.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 [E] Zach
COMBATSYS: Zach takes no action.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 [E] Zach
COMBATSYS: Cammy blocks Zach's Aggressive Strike.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 [E] Zach
Cammy didn't have a childhood - so very sad. However, she gets brainwashed so often she can barely remember what happened six months ago, and whatever is left is filled with faith in Master Vega, so she's the last person to be bothered about her upbringing.
"Ooh. Weapons." she says, and something has been filed away already. The sword cracks into a raised gauntlet, and she grabs his wrist firmly, trying to heave downwards and then, with the aid of a boot on the ass, send him flying towards one of the alley walls.
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Cammy's Strong Throw.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 [E] Zach
Zach rolls with the pull, dulling the impact of Cammy's boot. Glen then rolls through the impact, getting his feet under him as he hits the wall. He glowers. This chick is /out there/, apparently.
The psychic springs off of the wall, letting out a yell as he twists at the hips and fires a roundhouse kick at Cammy's head. In order to add some more spin to it, Zach calls up his psycho power, forming a plate-mail boot around it!
COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Zach's Fierce Kick.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 [E] Zach
Cammy promptly goes low, real low, practically becoming one with the ground, and Zach's kick flies right over her head - batting into a stray pigtail, as her hair streams out above her briefly.
The kick has just swept over her when she bounces back up, and her own leg lifts up. "Missed." she tells him, and then the leg snaps out straight and lashes out towards his midriff. Maybe she can show him how it's done?
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Light Kick from Cammy with Third Stance EX.
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Cammy 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 [E] Zach
Zach twists, catching the kick on his sword arm. However, that is not the arm Cammy should be watching. Zach sweeps his left hand towards the young lady with another yell.
A wide arc of psychic energy erupts in the wake of the gesture, slamming into Cammy with surprising force!
Cammy lifts up into the air, spins - and then, just when it looks like maybe that was intended by the acrobatic Doll, falls heavily to the floor in a heap, with a sickening thud. "Ouch!" she gasps, and then rolls back away from him before getting to her feet.
"I see why you are on my list now." she observes, rubbing at her side where she took most of the energy in the ribs. And then - she suddenly runs towards him, leaping into the air at the last second to come at him boots first, corkscrewing around in the air as she goes.
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Cammy's Spiral Arrow.
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Cammy 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 [E] Zach
Zach scowls. "I'm on someone /else's/ list?" he says with a groan as he dives out of the way of the Spiral Arrow. "The last list I was on got me a free one-way ticket to a creepy lab in Metro." Zach pulls himself upright and levels the sword at Cammy.
"Any way I can get myself removed from yours?" he asks as he slams psycho power through the blade (the one trick he knows with the weapon at this point) and fires a wrist-thick beam out of the sword!
COMBATSYS: Cammy blocks Zach's Warning Shot.
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Cammy 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 [E] Zach
Cammy steps up into him again, and a gauntleted hand lashes up to catch his forearm, preventing the sword from slicing her open like Freeman managed quite competently the other day. Face mere inches from his - lucky he's short - she glares at him, before backflipping away.
"Hmm." she says, and tilts her head, apparently considering, now the two have clashed and each experienced a bit of pain.
COMBATSYS: Cammy calculates her next move.
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Cammy 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 [E] Zach
Zach hops back almost in time with Cammy's backflip. He eyes the lady, watching for her next move.
Zach doesn't do a lot of consideration; he fights mostly on instinct. He decides that having some more power at the ready can hardly be a bad thing. Purple energy seeps forth from Zach's body, starting at his feet and working its way up his frame...
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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Cammy 0/-------/------=|=======\=------\1 [E] Zach
Cammy apparently has decided what to do, as she starts coming in again, this time more slowly than the earlier rush. More deliberate. When she's a few paces away, she bounces up into the air, and comes in low and spinning.
She doesn't actually hit him while in the air though, instead thumping down right next to him, one fist lashing out at his guts.
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Cammy's Axle Spin Knuckle.
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Cammy 0/-------/-----==|=======\=====--\1 [E] Zach
Zach braces up, twisting the balde to catch Cammy's fist on it without trying to slice it off at the wrist. The force of it shoves him back several feet, drawing a grunt from the short man.
"Yeah," he says, "I didn't think so." Zach throws open the mental gates he normally keeps under lock and key. The glow around Glen intensifies shifting from purple to white as Zach lets out a primal yell, hopping towards Cammy before loosing his power in a vertical column around him and hopefully her!
COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Zach's Storm Flare.
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Cammy 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 [E] Zach
Cammy likes backflipping away, she's the cautious sort. So by the time he parries her spinning knuckle, she's already pulling back away from him naturally, which gives her the edge when he suddenly creates a blast of psycho power around himself.
She waits for the dangerous glow to fade, and just as it looks like he's on the verge of recovering, she leaps towards him, going down into a handstand. Legs lash out to attempt to wrap about his neck, and then, assuming she gets a good hold on him, she'll bring him to the floor with a whiplike snap of her body.
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Frankensteiner from Cammy with Mirai Blade.
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Cammy 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 [E] Zach
Zach sees Cammy leap in as the lightshow fades, and drops into a low crouch. He brings the Miraitou to a ready position, aiming it upward diagonally before leaping towards Cammy with a lunging thrust!
He crashes into the young lady on his upward movement, rebounding badly off of her and falling to the ground, gasping for air and clutching his ribcage with his empty hand...
He may be clutching his ribcage, but the sword goes right through Cammy's shoulder, causing blood to spurt and impeccable uniforms to be stained! Fortunately just missing any vital bits of plumbing, but still. She squeals a high pitched shriek, but rolls towards him, leaving behind a long trickle of red on the concrete below.
And when she gets near him, she tries to slip around behind him, wrap her arms about his middle, and pull him over her head in a suplex. Preferably into a wall, at least he's aimed that way.
COMBATSYS: Cammy successfully hits Zach with Strong Throw.
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Cammy 0/-------/-======|=======\==-----\1 [E] Zach
Zach does not recover quickly enough, and goes for a ride on Air Cammy, letting out a yell of pain as the young man hits the ground. Surprisingly, he still has his hand on his weapon as he rolls away from the lady.
He gasps for air as he eyes Cammy. This... this is not good, he thinks as he slides the wakazashi back into its sheath and sets into a ready stance, twisting into a classically familiar pose. He cups his hands by his right hip, psycho-power leaping to his call as he summons a seemingly impossible amount of the stuff.
Zach lets out a hoarse yell as he thrusts his hands forward with that massive globe of energy forward, forcing it to become a beam of energy as wide as he is tall at Cammy, swallowing much of the empty space in the alleyway!
With a roar, the suped-up motorcycle barrels out of a side street, bearing down intently on the point where Zach and Cammy do battle. Veering around to one side, Adelheid darts the vehicle around Zach... and releases it straight in at Cammy. It's more or less in tandem with the outmatched psion's own courageous blast, with the young Bernstein all but stepping off the cycle at the last moment, and leaving it to careen into the tumult.
Adel, on the other hand, skids in in a crouch, eyes snapping up to Cammy, "Watch yourself with this one. Been looking for her, but it doesn't look like this is a good time for a quiet chat."
COMBATSYS: Adelheid has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Zach [E] 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
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COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Zach's Burst Stream.
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Zach [E] 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
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COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Adelheid's Large Thrown Object.
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Zach [E] 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
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Well, Adelheid isn't exactly subtle on that motor of his. And Zach isn't exactly subtle, as he powers up, psycho energy building around him to the point the alley is full of it, a flare of power about to strike the unfortunate Doll.
Time to MOVE!
Cammy runs straight at a wall, hitting it at full tilt - and running /up/ it. A motorcycle crashes through the alleyway beneath her, along with a burst of psionic energy, but Cammy is too far above it to be harmed. She then pushes off the wall, spinning through the air like a pinwheel, to land with a thud right behind Zach. A huge frown is on her face now, looking both determined, and pissed off. "Friends? This will ruin my data collection!". Unless Zach is taken out of the picture fast, Adelheid has yet to really get up here after all. "CANNON SPIKE!".
It is the Law that Cammy must try and kick someone in the jaw and backflip away in every fight. And the Law must be obeyed.
COMBATSYS: Cammy successfully hits Zach with Cannon Spike.
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Zach [E] 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
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Zach takes the kick right on the kisser, and is sent flying down the alleyway before he can even respond to Adelheid's sound advice. He slams to the ground and is distrubingly slow in regaining his feet. He looks at Cammy, his heart still willing to continue the fight.
His body, however, is battered to an extreme. He slumps forward, dropping to his knees before falling on his face. He doesn't move.
COMBATSYS: Zach takes no action.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
"Killer Bee. It's been awhile. I won't take it personally if you don't remember me. Adelheid. Bernstein. The things that man must do to your head..." Adelheid shakes his head, as if genuinely sympathetic. Which, maybe, he is. Son of Rugal, after all. "/What/ could you possibly be getting out of your service, Cammy? What makes this good for /you/, for anyone but him?" Blonde brows arch, and while the words are friendly... and kind of dismissive of the beating Zach just took, for that matter...
.... Adel has no illusion of Cammy taking it peacefully, particularly from the renegade son of one of Vega's competitors. Still, the question is asked. As Adelheid prepares, focusing his own energy, chi rising like a cold hurricane within him as almost unnatural, crimson eyes focus on the Zero Doll.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid calculates his next move.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Adelheid
Cammy looks over at Zach, who has apparently been defeated, and looks down at herself for a moment - before closing her eyes for a full second, considering, as she slowly turns to face Adelheid. She smiles a thin smile - Zach is worth about half a Cammy, she thinks! Better than anticipated. Somewhere, an accountant at Shadaloo will be happy.
And then, Zach is forgotten, for now, as she turns to focus, singleminded once again, upon Adelheid. "I do not think we have ever met." she tells him. "I certainly have no idea who you are. No doubt there is a file on you which I will have to read later.". Tilting her head to one side, she shakes her head slightly, adding "And I am not sure what you are talking about. Master Vega... I exist to serve him.".
COMBATSYS: Cammy calculates her next move.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Adelheid
"Don't tell me you haven't thought about it." Adelheid counters, moving slowly counter-clockwise around Cammy, eyes remaining fixed on the Zero Doll, "What Vega actually wants, what he cares about... what he'll do to everyone else, including you, to get there. What makes him worth so much, so much more entitled than any of the rest of us, Killer Bee? You claim not to know me... but I know you. How you fight, what you kill for. Don't tell me you never wonder what it's all for. Stand down, I can give you answers. Fight... well. Shadaloo has to be stopped, whether you see it today, or .. later."
For the moment, Adel continues to hold his ground, to zero in on Cammy. Not taking aggressive action, but not exactly looking keen on letting Cammy leave here, possibly with or without Zach.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid calculates his next move.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Adelheid
Cammy arches a brow at him, and circles with him, ready for anything. "You want to just talk?" she asks, a little bemused by all of this. "We can talk - for a little while. Lord Vega looks after me, I know it. He listens to me. He even let me wear his hat once.". That happened a month ago and she's still thinking about it! Easily bought.
"Maybe you do know me. Maybe we met before, maybe you just read about me, but either way, I do not care. If it was important to me or my tasks, Lord Vega would tell me. So it is not important.".
In truth, she aches, a lot. She's happy to have a breather, before this next unknown is... quantified.
COMBATSYS: Cammy gains composure.
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Cammy 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Adelheid
"You think I can't tell when I'm being stalked?" Adel inquires once Cammy finishes, "Heh. You need to meet Vice, I think. Or maybe Mature is more your speed. Hard to say, I did spend a fair bit of time the last time we met... well, indisposed. Your training certainly doesn't lack. Think about it, though. All the inconsistencies. All the pain. For what?" For the moment, though, Adelheid isn't about to let the deadly Shadaloo agent simply recover her resolve to kill them both... or worse.
No, instead, Adelheid rushes Cammy, apparently preferring conflict to lingering too long in hostile territory. If she's not coming with him, and she's not leaving... well. He's kicking her, or trying to. It's a snapping jab with a gloved left that comes from the tanktop and black military fatigue clad Bernstein, but the real threat is the sudden rising kick, cleaving the air in a ravaging arc of silver-grey energy.
COMBATSYS: Cammy blocks Adelheid's Grosse Stob.
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Adelheid
Adelheid is certainly fast, but Cammy is even faster, as she crouches low and raises her gauntlets, causing energy to splash off of them with a loud crunch. Speaking of pain, that did a fair bit.
She gets back to her feet, and smiles a thin smile at him. "Maybe you do know me." she tells him, in reply to all this talk about stalking. And then she leaps forward, right over him, to land behind him. She spins and one arm lashes out, trying to wrap it about his throat. "And it's for Lord Vega!" she shouts out into his ear. Really, she told him that already!
COMBATSYS: Adelheid blocks Cammy's Choke Hold.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Adelheid
As his head comes back in Cammy's grip, he's already released the tension from his legs, dropping forcefully down as hands strike forcefully upwards. With a combination of strength and speed, the renegade Bernstein wrenches, albeit painfully, from the Killer Bee's grasp. Turning suddenly, Adelheid utilizes his existing momentum to twist into a sweeping low kick, aiming to plow Cammy's ankles right out from under her. "Yes, yes, I got /that/ part..."
Coming about, Adelheid's food arcs high, the Prince of War seeking to add insult to injury and stomp the Zero Doll into the ground. "Don't you think that's a little /convenient/?"
COMBATSYS: Adelheid successfully hits Cammy with Medium Kick.
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Cammy 1/-----==/=======|=======\=------\1 Adelheid
Cammy tries to roll to one side, but isn't quite fast enough, and gets upended onto the floor easy enough. She's just about to flip up and then a boot comes down on her midriff, hard enough to shatter bones - but apparently not Doll bones.
She heaves herself off to the right, and gets up, with great difficulty. "Without Lord Vega, I would be nothing..." she mutters, voice cracking with pain. As she watches him balefully.
COMBATSYS: Cammy gains composure.
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Cammy 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Adelheid
"You'd be surprised what's possible with a little bit of freedom and will." Adel retorts smoothly, deep tones a little bit cool.. but also focused, intensely so. "It's this insanity that's going to kill you - or reduce you to nothingness." The renegade Bernstein points out rather obstinantly, eyes narrowing as Cammy recovers herself. "It's up to each of us - not someone /else/ - to decide our purpose. Not maniacs like Vega, in particular!"
For the moment, the young Bernstein does not attack, though he does not relinquish the energy around him, the fire that shines in crimson eyes, either. No, this is hardly 'out of danger', Adelheid. For one thing, they're still in the heart of Thailand.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid gains composure.
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Cammy 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Adelheid
Oh, they are back to circling again. This is going to take a while! Cammy may be messed up, but she's nothing if not determined. "Nobody truly has that choice. Everybody is born with certain predispositions. I have more than most, is all. But they are gifts, as well.".
She wrinkles her nose, and frowns at him. "You like the sound of your voice, I think. Why do you talk so much? I don't care!" she declares. "I am Lord Vega's first Doll! His most valued Doll!".
COMBATSYS: Cammy gains composure.
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Adelheid
"Zero times zero is still /zero/." Adelheid points out, unintentionally ironically. Still, it seems for the moment... perhaps.. he's said his peace. Charging in at the Zero Doll, Adelheid feints at the last moment and lunges in, all but propelled by an invisible wave of wind that gusts in behind him. Gloved hand leads, fingers splayed wide. That grip seeks to apply itself to the front of Cammy's face, like some kind of creature from classic science fiction.
The painful grip would only be the start, however, should he find it. Fingers clenching in, one alarmingly honed arm seeks to lift the Killer Bee right off the ground, and fire her skull as if from a cannon, a torrent of ragged-edged windshear released in a luminescent column directly into her features.
COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Adelheid's Scorpion Deathlock.
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Cammy 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Adelheid
Cammy isn't taken in by feints, instead falling backwards onto the mucky floor of the alleyway, rolling up onto her shoulders as Adelheid charges by overhead.
"Noooooo!" she shouts, letting the psycho power within her release finally as she powers straight up into him, stretched out like an arrow flying straight up into the sky. Spinning rapidly as she goes, those boots of hers aimed at his exposed chin.
COMBATSYS: Cammy successfully hits Adelheid with Reverse Shaft Breaker.
- Power hit! -
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|=======\===----\1 Adelheid
The swift recovery catches Adelheid hard under his jaw, cracking him skyward with an alarming force. Still, if there's one thing a Bernstein knows, it's taking a crack to the head. Really, this could explain a lot about Adel's chosen life path. Crashing hard out of his unplanned flight, Adelheid careens into a crudely constructed wooden stand, the simple storefront crashing in around him.
A moment later, however, splinters of wood fly hither and yon as he leaps out of the debris, kicking outward in a forward flip that brings his foot down in for Cammy's skull, seeking to land in front of her and follow it with a chokeslam to the ground, and a loud warcry.
COMBATSYS: Cammy dodges Adelheid's Combo Grapple.
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Cammy 0/-------/-------|=======\===----\1 Adelheid
Cammy lands gracefully back in the alleyway just as Adelheid powers his way out of the innocent property he has just trashed. Or she has just trashed, depending on your point of view. Kicks come in her way, but Cammy is just too fast, cartwheeling off to one side as she flows around his onrushing strike.
She doesn't attack just yet though, the Killer Bee is biding her time for now. Fists raised, she prowls around Adelheid once more, stepping over Zach's fallen body at one point as if he isn't there. A look of fixed determination on her face, blue eyes as blank and shining as dead sapphires.
COMBATSYS: Cammy calculates her next move.
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Cammy 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 Adelheid
"Still as impressive as ever." Adel sincerely compliments, even if the words' warmth is somewhat dulled by the... less than friendly circumstances of the moment. Again, he knows when he's being stalked, and it becomes more about holding that at bay... or recovering the edge he began with. The Prince of War smiles, a little darkly. Being captured by Shadaloo is always a fairly morbid thought, for either of them.
Ducking low, Adel's eyes track Cammy's movements as he prepares, one hand dropping to a sheath at his hip, a combat knife drawn free and hurled, at deadly velocity, for the Zero Doll's central mass.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid successfully hits Cammy with Thrown Object.
- Power hit! -
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|=======\====---\1 Adelheid
Cammy falls backwards, a knife jutting from her midriff, until the wall stops her, propping her up. That'll leave a scar, the handle of the blade sticking out of her blue uniform. There is a slight delay as she grips the handle of the knife, and tugs it free in a rush of blood.
Ugh. "I don't know who you are... but you remind me of this man I found, Freeman..." she says, voice indistinct, as the blade clatters to the asphalt, dropped by numb fingers.
But the Doll somehow finds a reserve of strength in her somewhere, and she hops forward again, spinning around, this time leaving a spiral blood spray in her wake, before her fist rams into him, hopefully anyway.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid effortlessly dodges Cammy's Axle Spin Knuckle.
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Cammy 0/-------/=======|=======\====---\1 Adelheid
"Freeman?" There's some familiarity to that name, though Adelheid can't immediately place it. It's pretty clear he's not sure how to take that - but it's quickly filed away, in the moments that Cammy renews her assault. Adelheid gracefully turns, facing the Zero Doll sidelong, and steps backwards on one foot, as if his boots momentarily lost traction. Sliding clear of the impact zone, Adel again raises a ready stance, honed from the adaptable Bernstein tradition.
He steps back in clear of the stroke, seeking to catch Cammy overextended, one hand sweeping up and in for her throat, seeking to lift her up, choke her... and abruptly drive a fist into her ribcage, with enough force to launch her clear.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid successfully hits Cammy with Scorpion Blow.
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Cammy 1/------=/=======|=======\====---\1 Adelheid
Cammy is caught, by the throat no less! And easily picked up, as light as a feather - all bone and sinew and vat grown muscles. She struggles, but more feebly than normal and not quick enough to avoid a terrific punch in the gut that sends her flying back against the wall that already has a pretty big bloodstain on it.
But she's still going! Amazingly. Spitting blood, and maybe with a cracked rib or three, but still going. "LOCK ON!". And she hurls herself at him with the last of her strength, foot out, to spin around him in a blur, all speed and kicks and hard combat boots, with maybe the odd throw thrown in for variation.
COMBATSYS: Cammy successfully hits Adelheid with Killer Bee Assault.
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Cammy 0/-------/----===|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Adelheid
Oh, that is a lot of kicks. Adelheid remembers it, seeks to mount a defense against it... but his arms are quickly forces past by science-perfected legs. Kicked up, down, and all around, bruises and blood rise from the Bernstein heir's mouth, nose, and forehead by the time it's over. He lands in a profound heap, rolling to the side with a low grown. Eyes snap back up to where Cammy lands, blood trickles freely down one side of his face. That one hand pushes to the ground, and the other too-young veteran rises to his feet. Lock on, indeed.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid calculates his next move.
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Cammy 0/-------/----===|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Adelheid
Cammy knows what he's doing, as she does it all the time! The bleeding and battered Doll staggers towards him, on her last legs. Even a little slap would probably finish her off. But for now, she's still fighting, and she still has fists.
She leaps up into the air and curls up into a tiny foetal ball, attempting to land right about on his chest - and if she connects, to grab him, and bowl him over in an elegant, but difficult to pull off, suplex.
COMBATSYS: Adelheid interrupts Hooligan Suplex from Cammy with Crown Prince+.
+ Epic Hit! +
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Cammy 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Adelheid
As Cammy renews her relentless, dangerous assault, Adelheid focuses in on her... stands his ground. He knows she's coming, knows she still has an edge... perhaps /the/ edge... despite coming into the conflict weakened. Eyes narrow, muscles tense. His hands each reach out to the sides, fingers clenching inwards towards his palms. Cammy closes unabated, but as she does, the charge of brilliant silver-white energy in the grip of each hand intensifies, fluctuates larger, amplifies outwards.
She crashes into his chest, drives him down towards the ground, and then hands clap together all but atop the Zero Doll. The wave is taller than she is. It's broad enough to fill the air all around her. Ragged edges round out a crescent-distorted sphere that rips through the Killer Bee and propels her abruptly /away/ from the young Bernstein. Apparently... what he came to say, has been said. And answered, for the moment.
Cammy flies into the wall yet again - but this time right through the wall, leaving a hole. There's the sound of crashing and smashing from inside the building next door, bricks and dust pouring out of the hole, before the entire building shakes, one quarter of it suddenly dropping a few feet with cracks and bulges spreading like the spiderwebs on a broken glass pane all over the alley wall.
For a while it looks like the whole building might fall down, but the sounds of things breaking from within eventually subsides. Along with the building, another couple of feet off it's height...
And all goes quiet.
The Killer Bee apparently isn't planning on coming out. Assuming she's capable of planning anything right now.
COMBATSYS: Cammy takes no action.
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Adelheid 0/-------/---====|
COMBATSYS: Cammy can no longer fight.
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Adelheid 0/-------/---====|
As Cammy disappears into the rapidly disappearing shanty, Adelheid takes a step back, frowns, and looks to Zach. Hell. Moving over to the other youth, Adel nonetheless acts a bit irritably gruff-old-manish to his elder. "What the hell are you doing out here, anyway? Sightseeing?" The Prince of War stoops next to the psion, offering an arm, "Can you stand? We need to get out of here, before... someone else responds to this situation."
A radio trigger in his belt is hit, "Two for extraction, ten minutes. Home in on my signal and calculate an intercept vector." Then, he's back to rushing Zach, "Come on, the faster we move, the better off we are. Walk it off, so it doesn't get a hell of a lot worse."
Log created on 20:22:18 10/30/2010 by Zach, and last modified on 21:34:27 10/31/2010.