Description: A humble janitor with a burgeoning spark of energy; a haughty girl with a relentless will to power; a mysterious Templar on a spiritual quest. In the oily and dusty interior of a well-used workshop, their reactions to their environment as the charitable challenge -- funding an expansion to the popular workshop itself -- commences will likely be thoroughly different. They are united in their charge: to utilize the useless and broken scattered tools and objects in the workshop that have been left behind for this purpose. All three fighters have their own reasons for refining their styles; can their techniques accommodate for such heavy-handed improvisation? (Draw Match)
"What a load of junk..."
The youngest of the Knights Templar mutters to nobody in particular as she runs her finger along the blunted, rusty edge of an old rotary saw. The workshop is cluttered, not just with large machine tools but an array of instruments of every possible size and function; from stacks of metal rods and girders to bins stuffed to the brim with discarded circuit boards and tangles of wire. It's a obsessive-compulsive technician's nightmare, and MacGuyver's wet dream.
Amy has arrived early for the match to scope out the surroundings, and has been busy trying to wrap her head around the unusual stipulation for this match; attempting to consolidate the use of such peculiar weaponry both with her unorthodox fighting style, and her moral code. As her stormy blue eyes scan over to the edge of the battered warehouse, she arrives at a rather devil-may-care conclusion. A few steps carry her over the rough floor to a rack hung with lengths of copper pipe.
A moment later she is stepping into the centre, where the YFCC's locally-hired camera crew is just about ready to start filming. As she waits for her opponents, the raven-haired young woman swings a slender drainpipe experimentally through the air, treating the blunt instrument much like a sword. It's not how she would prefer to fight, but...
She smiles, shifting her footing and resting the pipe up across her shoulders.
"I suppose it /is/ for charity."
COMBATSYS: Amy has started a fight here.
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"Yeah, it'll be fun, assuming there aren't any rampaging turtles or exploding statues," Zach says as he makes his way in. He remembers the /last/ time the YFCC ran a tournament. At least there isn't a 'seven deadly sins' motiff to the matches this time around. It looks like Zach had the same ideas as Amy; he has a two foot section of lead pipe slung over one shoulder, perhaps in a nod to his teammate Rust. Or maybe as a training object instead of his wakazashi.
He looks around, recalling the 'rules' for the match. Environmental improvisation is not one of his strong suits. He nods once to Amy, then looks around some more. "Waiting for one more, I think," he says.
COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here.
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Zach 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Amy
Karin's eyes twitch at the sight of the messy workshop as she steps in, and she mutters, "I should have this workshop restored with all of my own money BEFORE we fight. What a mess." She shakes her head, before sighing a little as she says, "Well, it doesn't matter, Karin Kanzuki gets victory in everything, and some junk match like this will not keep me from winning."
With that she glances over at Amy and Zach, and hmphs, "I think it's clear who the winner is going to be already. How about we just forego the fight and I'll reimburse you for your time wasted here. OHOHOHOHOHO!" She lets out a laugh, her hand covering her mouth as she does so.
COMBATSYS: Karin has joined the fight here.
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Zach's opening comment garners a raised eyebrow from the Templar.
"Do I want to know?" She asks, grinning as she idly reaches up with her free hand to brush a strand of dark hair back beneath her beret. She does not remove this, nor the heavy jacket that she is wearing - the latter possibly a conscious decision based on the hardware they have been asked to employ. Fighters are sturdy, but bleeding is still an inconvenience best avoided.
As the rich and powerful daughter of the Kanzuki zaibatsu makes her entrance, the older woman greets her with a nod of the head. She considers making some more friendly gesture, until the girl opens her mouth. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me..." It's uttered beneath her breath, eyes rolling faintly before she draws the length of pipe from her shoulders, bringing it vertically across her body and executing a fencer's bow to her opponents. A fencer's bow.
Smirking broadly as she straightens up, Amy casts a glance to Karin and begins to step forward at a measured pace. "Miss Kanzuki, how about a wager? If you /don't/ win this, you donate that reimbursement to the cause. And if you do? Well." Stormy blue eyes flash as she suddenly darts to one side, swinging her athletic frame into a pirouette and lashing out with the copper pipe. Its arc is wide, but the end of that journey will bring a blunt slash clean across the chest of... Zach?!
"I'm sure we can work something out. What do you think, Mr. Glen?"
, it should've broken the paragraph up."
like this?
Karin smirks a little, before saying, "I'll take that into consideration!" As she leaps at Amy and swings a hard right punch at her.
COMBATSYS: Amy successfully hits Zach with Random Weapon.
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Amy 0/-------/-------|
"Why would you spend monety fixing it up /before/ we trash the place? Wouldn't be smarter to w-" *WHACK!* Pipe across the ribcage! Zach is not wearing any padding or armor, and takes the full brunt of the swing across his chest with a loud whoofing sound. He wasn't really ready for that one. He staggers back a half step before eyeing Karin. She is laughing... that laugh.
The Laugh of the Bitch Queen. Zach frowns deeply as he considers his options. Purple energy licks across Zach's body as he steps in towards Amy, raising the pipe in a not-quite-textbook kendo strike that he may have picked up from a book. The pipe is brought down heavily at Amy's shoulder!
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Amy with Strong Punch.
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Zach 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Karin
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Amy 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: Amy dodges Zach's Random Weapon.
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Zach 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Karin
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Amy 0/-------/----===|
The problem with cajoling one opponent, and attacking another, is that it tends to draw rather more wrath than the more well-advised singular focus. Amy's strike lands true, buying her the space she needs to react to the psion, only for the ringleted blonde to charge in with a violent blow of her own. There is little the Templar can do, taking the strike full on her cheek as she tries to twist, feeling the fragile bone bruise as lights flash before her vision.
"Note to self," she gasps out, spinning around to prevent herself toppling entirely, and coming face to shoulder with a chunky length of lead. "Don't get hit by the rich girl!" Her sentence is finished in a rush as she drops and rolls, launching herself beneath Zach's strike and springing back into a solid, rooted stance a few feet from the other two combatants.
Shaking her head, Amy keeps her improvised armament raised to guard as she focuses her mind on something else entirely; namely, summoning her actual weapon of choice. The sunlight flooding into the warehouse suddenly dims as the atmosphere visibly thickens. A soft fog creeps into the building, and would possibly go unnoticed if not for the ghostly tendril that suddenly whips out toward the Kanzuki-ryuu heiress, seizing her around by the upper arm and pulling her toward the hard concrete floor.
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Amy's Quagmire.
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Karin goes wide eyed as her arm is wrapped up in the ghostly tendril, and gets yanked down, watching as the floor is fast approaching. In reflex she brings her free hand down to catch herself on the ground, landing on one hand and a knee, which kinda hurts. "Getting hit by the rich girl is all you've got coming for you!" With that, she launches herself up from the ground, and swings and overhead smashing kick towards Amy.
Zach notices the now present fog, and has no idea where it came from or how to deal with it that doesn't involve knocking out a wall. Property damage is bad. He hears Karin smack into the floor. He grins a bit as he focuses his energies for a moment.
That purple flicker that traces across Zach slows down and starts to take on a more discreet form, resembling a suit of armor for a moment. The flare of psionic energies pushes against the fog slightly, but Zach doesn't notice it right away; he's picking his next target...
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Amy with Elegant Kick.
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Zach 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Karin
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It's a testament to Karin's skill that she defends that deceptive assault so handily; in Amy's admittedly short experience, not many people have managed it. There is no denying that at least one of her opponents is incredibly dangerous.
The blonde's approach is watched with a wary eye, the Templar beginning to draw back, raising the length of pipe before her in an attempt to catch the speedy incoming kick. But she misjudges - and there is not enough time to recalculate as the blow comes swinging over the old metal, catching Amy in the skull and threatening to topple her as she stumbles. The pipes falls from her fingers, hitting the concrete with a resounding clatter.
But the raven-haired women is not concerned with this, drawing a rapid breath as she pushes herself up with powerful legs and lunges toward her opponent as she lands. Zach's psychic display only dimly registers against the senses, as Amy concentrates on shoulder-tackling the smaller girl, using this to throw her off-balance before stepping around and hauling her across the warehouse floor toward a cluttered worktop. "You strike true and hard, but how well do you land?"
COMBATSYS: Karin fails to counter Strong Throw from Amy with Yasha Gaeshi.
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Zach 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Karin
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Karin tries to grapple with the woman to counter-throw Amy, but she finds herself swept off her legs and slammed into the ground with and off, as she groans, left wide open by.
Zach lets the two ladies duke it out for a moment longer before deciding to... intervene. He takes two steps to his left and finds a large manual lathe between him and the ladies. Amy's back is to him, and Karin seems to be having troubles of her own. He grins a bit. Perfect.
He raises his right foot high before slamming it down on the floor with force, landing the stomp right next to the lathe. A blast of psychic force erupts from the floor, and launches the large machine directly at Amy! "Heads up!" he calls by way of warning.
COMBATSYS: Amy overcomes Huge Thrown Object EX from Zach with Raven's Wing.
- Power hit! -
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Amy retains solid footing after her dynamic tossing of the Kanzuki heiress, only pausing briefly to watch the wealthy schoolgirl fall - ensuring an immediate counter-attack is not coming her way. This is not the kind of foe you underestimate, even in a charitable bout like this one. But then she hears the explosive impact of Zach's foot, spinning to face the bizarro-Bogard just in time to see his swathe of energy collide with that hefty machine.
The power reminds her of another, just a few days before, but she does not let it distract her. The odd haze in the air suddenly thickens further, knotted ropes of gray-white mist fading into view around the Templar as she leaps in place, entering the air with a graceful twist of her body and lashing out with a tight roundhouse kick. "Thanks for the warning!"
The passage of her foot tears a turbulent swathe through the mist - searing with a light of its own as it seems to suck the curious energy into a broad, powerful wave. At the apex of the kick the Dragon's Breath explodes into life, the phantom image of a giant bird's wing screaming through the air to intercept the lathe. It is torn asunder by the blast, screws and chunks of twisted metal flying in every direction as the woman's projectile continues on toward Zach Glenn, only gaining in speed as it goes...
Karin groans and shakes her head as she gets back to her feet, spotting that the two have now occupied themselves, and grumbles before grabbing a nearby plastic bucket, and FLINGS it at the fighting duo! Inadvertently it flies toward's Zach!
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Karin's Thrown Object.
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COMBATSYS: Zach fails to slow Raven's Wing from Amy with Pile Smash.
- Power fail! -
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A flicker of motion out of the corner of Zach's eye gives him a moment's warning, allowing him to shoulder into the five gallon bucket. The impact is loud, and the psychic winces. The hell was /in/ that thing? Cement? This also, unfortunately, distracts him enough that his plans for the energy wave coming in are stalled.
Not that such a thing would stop him from trying. Zach brings his right hand up, and wills a trio of 'sheets' composed of soul power which fall at his command. Karin's bucket, however, completely ruined his timing, allowing Amy's blast to catch him cleanly. Glen is sent flying back, and he smashes into a wall with a loud impact. The 'psychic armor' starts to fade a bit, and some of the bruises that would have been visible without the mist are already starting to fade a bit...
Amy lands on solid footing as she comes around from her scything kick, the mists billowing around her as they begin to spread out slowly, sleepily across the warehouse. Stormy eyes scan past the falling Zach - noting the flare of energy he attempts to bring to play - to alight on Karin. The blonde's attention was directed as hers, and there may be a moment to capitalise...
Sweeping one hand up as she falls back into a defensive stance, the Templar makes a flicking motion from the wrist. As she does so, a deceptively gentle roll of the nearby mists scoops up a pile of nuts and bolts left by the exploded lathe, sending them toward Karin with the wide spread of buckshot.
COMBATSYS: Amy successfully hits Karin with Small Thrown Object.
- Power hit! -
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Zach 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Karin
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Karin shrieks as she gets lobbed at with 'buckshot' of stuff, getting smacked all over even if her face is protected, before growling and glances around to find something big to swing, and settles on nearby floor buffer, and takes a step back, hoping Zach would focus on Amy long enough for her to get her own bearings again.
COMBATSYS: Karin focuses on her next action.
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Zach growls as he pulls himself off of the floor. He glares around for a moment, and then bursts out of the fog alight in psychic energy. He lets out a roar as he sails across the gap between himself and the multi-bajillionaire schoolgirl with an upraised fist.
A globe of violet energies snaps into sharp focus, right before it is brought down directly on Karin's head!
As Zach runs in to intercept the lurking Karin, Amy is not far away, taking off at a sprint across the concrete to reach her fellow fighters just as the dimunitive janitor snaps out his searing, shrouded fist for a vicious impact with the heiress. Adding insult to injury, the Templar drops into the space immediately after his assault, dropping to a crouch and then lunging in to catch Karin on the rebound.
Wordless, the raven-haired woman appears to be slamming into Karin until an instant before the apparent impact - where she suddenly twists her body and leaps /around/ the girl, coming to a skidding halt on the other side as a swathe of mist follows in her wake. It is this mass of tendrilled energy that forms the true attack, prepared to hammer the ringleted blonde from head to toe with perhaps two dozen light, stinging lashes of hardened chi.
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Amy's Stormwitch.
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COMBATSYS: Karin just-defends Zach's Impulse Flare!
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Karin goes wide eyed as the both of them come after her now, and growls as she turtles up, her arms getting lashed at by Amy's lashing attack, but she has enough that when she spies Zach's energy ball coming, she throws her palm up to SLAM it into his arm, blocking it's approach, before dashing and thrusting her palm at Zack's torso, then another to his gut, before swinging up a double elbow to his face, "GUREN KEN!"
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Zach with Guren Ken.
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Zach takes the palm cleanly on his chest with a loud exhaling sound as the air is knocked out of him. He lands loosely on the ground, trying to get air back in his lungs. Stupid, he thinks to himself. He let himself get mad, and it cost him.
He opts to bear in on Karin, snapping a quick left jab at the blonde's head. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is cloaked in a mail gauntlet composed of psycho power!
Amy remains crouched upon the other side of Karin long enough to see that incredible deflection, dark blue eyes drinking in the motions inherent in both this and the very solid counter-attack that she mounts. Zach clearly possesses some power and ability to improvise, but she has seen little more from him... the blonde, however, is a threat.
"Forgive me, Miss Kanzuki," Amy murmurs as she straightens up, waiting for Zach's powered fist to hammer in before she slides forward and rolls around behind Karin, using the momentum from that blow - or at least from the evasion, if it misses - to haul the girl up and over her back, using a twist of her athletic frame to turn this into a Judo-style burden throw, coming down heavily upon her opponent's upper body to expel the air from her lungs and make the attack that much more punishing.
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Amy's Power Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Karin counters Jab Punch from Zach with Yasha Gaeshi.
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Karin grits her teeth as she watches the incoming punch, and shifts her weight so that she quickly catches the fist incoming at her, and flips Zach over, throwing him to the ground, before moving towards Amy and shifting her weight again to roll with the throw, before tumbling back to her feet, once again in ready stance.
Team Zach is taking off agaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnn! However, instead of starbursting, another wall is more than happy to catch him and deposit him on the floor. His breathing is getting ragged, and his copius energy is starting to be unable to keep up with the damage. Glen pulls himself to his feet, and wipes a trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth. He turns his head, and spits out some more blood before changing his tactics a slight bit.
Zach blasts across the floor once more, shoving aside the fog and dust as he closes in not on the heiress, but the Templar! His right fist is chambered, and covered in a larger version of the armor he tried to slug Karin with. Instead of a head shot, Zach's aim is perfectly center mass when he hurls the mailed fist at his target in an attempt to simply power past any defense the taller woman may put up!
COMBATSYS: Amy fails to interrupt Burst Strike from Zach with Huge Random Weapon.
*KNOCKED AWAY*
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Karin's recovery from that attempted grapple is almost flawless, as - Amy notes - was the way she so neatly intercepted Zach's strike. This has turned into a battle that only one person is liable to win, and under any other circumstance this would galvanize the Templar into stepping up her game, reasoning out the best tactical approach to try and turn this around. However; this is for charity. This is not for personal gain, this is for the hopes and dreams of Sunshine City's beleaguered youth!
Amy steps back in measured paces, gaining distance from Karin even as the short psion makes his way toward her. Zach is hurt, she can tell that much, but he is moving with reasonable speed and summoning what feels like an incredible amount of force. Her curiosity about the nature of his power is burning, but she needs to defend... and as she steps back, the raven-haired knight suddenly gives an 'oof' as she backs into a dilapidated old motorbike.
Flashing an uncharacteristic grin, she spins around as Zach leaps, clamping two calloused hands to the handlebars of the vehicle and starting to turn to meet him, straining with all her deceptive might. But it is not to be - the strike plows through her, sending her toppling over the bike in a puff of parting mist. Tendrils of the stuff quiver in the air as she goes down, breathing hard. She is gone from view from several moments, and in those seconds the mist seems to grow thicker. Deeper.
Karin hmphs a little and takes a moment to grab another bucket, and this time flings it at Amy. Just because.
Zach lets out a triumphant gasp as his strike connects. He slides a foot or two forward before skidding to a halt as he gasps for air. That fog is seriously creepy. If he knew the truth about it, he'd be creeped out even more.
As it stands he tries to take a moment to cool down a bit before making his next move.
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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COMBATSYS: Amy dodges Karin's Thrown Object.
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Amy may be concealed to the eye - but her location is not hard to judge. That bucket flies true, though as it comes in to land there is a scuffing sound, soft but distinct, that seems to echo through the gathered mist.
And then the pitter-patter of booted feet fills the air.
"Don't count me out yet!" The voice rings out pure and clear, clipped British tones sounding from just behind the Kanzuki heiress. Suddenly Amy is /right there/, the surrounding fog parting as she lunges out of it in a dark blur, whipping one hand around in a backhanded blow, seizing a wisp from the air and wielding it like a dagger as she aims to stagger the younger woman with a broad slash. "You've still got a donation to make!"
With that opening attack made, she spins through three hundred and sixty degrees, the gray-white mists rippling and then flowing around her as she lunges herself forward into a second strike - this one led by the bold thrust of an open palm. Aimed for the very centre of Karin's being, it will grind through the midsection as the Templar drills her striking hand deep. But the true force lies in the eerie energy that pours from the air to whip around her wrist and flood up into the abdomen, culminating in an internal explosion of chi that should hurl the haughty girl backwards.
COMBATSYS: Karin endures Amy's Hound of Avalon.
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Karin goes wide eyed, and shifts her stance and takes the hit, grunting painfully from the strike, breathing out quickly just as she's struck, so the air isn't forced out, before catching a breath and glaring up at Amy, and shifts her stance to slam a palm at her chest, then another palm at her gut, then another, and another, before swinging up her leg to kick high at Amy's face, "Shinpikaibyaku!"
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Amy with Kanzuki-ryu Shinpikaibyaku.
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Karin unloads pain and possibly death is unleashed upon Amy. However, this presents Zach with one of those most excellent of things: an opening! He launches forward, sprinting towards Karin at a rather reckless manner. He drops into a roll before getting to her, tumbling to his feet and rising as he drives a shoulder into Karin's back. The shoulder is accompanied by a palm placed near the small of her back, aimed to fire a short pulse of psycho power!
The Templar is introduced to a realm of pain before she can even process that her vigorously damaging assault has not even succeeded in throwing the Kanzuki heiress away. Battered by palm strikes, and lifted high into the air by the resounding crack of that kick, she seems to be out for the count before she is even halfway up. She's absorbed the lion's share of the punishment, and yet as she descends, her eyes snap open, flaring like the crack of thunder over an ocean storm.
"HAA!" Her cry is desperate, but none the less fierce, as she twists her athletic frame to deliver one last strike toward the ringleted blonde, bearing forth once more with that hardened palm. The mist rises to her call, albeit to less dramatic effect, as she aims to forcefully drill the strike toward the heart. It will pierce deep if it pierces at all, unleashing another vortex of grinding chi, before the raven-haired knight hits the floor on one knee...
Before collapsing onto her side, clutching at her wrist and gasping for air as she struggles to remain conscious. It is not a battle she will fight for long.
COMBATSYS: Amy can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Zach's Strong Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Karin just-defends Amy's Trembling Palm!
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Zach 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Karin
Karin narrows her eyes and blocks off Zach's strong punch, soaking some pain from the blow, but from Amy she just blocks easy and gracefully, before pushing Amy away and turning to focus on Zach. The Zaibatsu heiress smiles, and says, "As you can see, It's useless to try to win. My motto is to achieve victory in everything, and I'm going to. OHOHOHOHOHOHO!"
She takes her time to laugh again, before she dashes to thrust her palm once, twice, and then suddenly dives to slide and kick at Zach! "Guren Ken - Daisoku Barai!"
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Zach with Guren Ken.
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Once... twice Karin's palms slam into Zach's body, eliciting grunts of pain from the psychic even as the sliding kick takes out his ankles and upsets his balance. He decides to roll with it a bit, planting a palm on the ground to catch himself before rising into a shoulder tackle aimed to knock Kanzuki into the air.
His plan, after that, is to follow the younger girl's flight and drive a psycho powered fist into her midsection to throw her back to the ground in a Power Dunk-esque fashion!
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Karin with Second Stance.
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Karin tries to roll out of the way, but only manages to get a punch to the gut for her efforts, as she lets out a cough before growling and rolling back up to her feet, and launching herself into the air, arms whirling as she goes for a pair of overhead palms, "RESSEN HA!"
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Zach with Ressen Ha.
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Zach crumples under the daul palm strikes. Cripes. She hits like /Rust/ does. Maybe, Zach thinks blearily, she has similar weaknesses? Something to try before he falls over. He wobbles in close, and grins at her a bit. "Win through this," he growls as his whole body starts to take on a bright violet glow. Zach stokes his power for one last ditch effort.
And then a column of psychic energy erupts around the janitor, bearing witness to that violent storm of energy that burns within him. It lasts for a good three seconds before stopping, leaving an exhausted Zach to collapse under the strain of abuse and depletion.
COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Karin with Storm Flare.
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Karin goes wide eyed as she tries to move out of the path as the energy erupts, and only gets struck for her efforts, and goes wide eyed, as she staggers backwards, and groans painfully, as she takes a breath, "Victory in everything... I'm the last one standing... The last one..." As she slumps against a table, and breaths heavily, slowly losing consciousness.
COMBATSYS: Karin focuses on her next action.
COMBATSYS: Karin can no longer fight.
Log created on 16:27:25 01/05/2011 by Zach, and last modified on 18:32:10 01/14/2011.