Description: In the first round of King of Fighters, two of the oddest team entries square off atop the rooftop of the Sunshine 60 Hotel! The secretive Team NESTS is almost a certain win against the ragtag bunch of fighters ninja Ibuki has managed to assemble, but between some amazing reflexes, experimental issues on NESTS' end, and the incredible firefight between Ken Masters and Krizalid at this battle's end, Tanuki upended the odds and came out on top.
Ken arrives from elsewhere.
Momoko arrives from elsewhere.
High atop the Sunshin 60 building as the sun rises, the growing light of dawn bathes the participants of the upcoming King of Fighters match in warm radiance. The view is enligtening in its contrasts lovliness mixed with ugliness under an almost unassailable layer of the truths of the world. The 'ring' is set up as the entirity of the roof though it could be dangerous if the fighters hug the edges as it's a rather long way down and with the dawn bringing a bit greater wind than normal for a tall building's roof already...even a mistep could be leathal...
Ibuki'd had initially planned to not be the first fighter for her team, but the designated choice, Karin, hadn't shown up to join the team and the time for the match to start had arrived, the annoyance clear on her features as she pulls up her mask before she indicates to the pilot of the helicopter Ken'd provided for the team to get close to the roof. Opening the door she winks at her team mates and jumps out and lands with a flourish, they might be a bit tardy but they were going to make a splash darn it! "Ibuki is on the scene!" She roars hoping that that alone would make it clear she was ready for this!
While Ibuki reflects on her teammate's behavior in a Masters Entertainment helicopter, Angel's already on the "scene". She's not exactly easy to miss, either, amidst the scattered, die-hard fans reclining on specially-built seating for this particular locale (window-washer's seats, specially, hi-grip seating that ensures they won't be going anywhere near the rooftop's edge, etc., etc.). In fact, as soon as Ibuki lands on the rooftop across from her opponent, it'll be clear as day who she's supposed to fight--
For one, Angel's dressed in her official NESTS active-infiltration gear, for whatever reason (Falcoon is the reason) styled as a skimpy assortment of fetish undergarments, chaps, and that half-jacket number. There's also the white hair juxtaposed against her dark skin, and really, even though she's facing -away- from Ibuki, chattering on a cellphone, there's no -doubt- the ninja will remember her.
"...No...", thinks Angel, squaring her shoulders. She smiles to a few fans who seem to recognize her, promises autographs to come later.
"Well, sure, but why do you want to shave your hair?? You're already an amazon!! You've got really nice hair, Diana!" Angel hops from one foot to the other, idly tugging at the lower hem of her jacket.
"This outfit doesn't fit anymore. Can you ask Ig to buy me a new one? Work expense, I..."
The KOF official glances between Ibuki and Angel, increasingly irritated with the NESTS agent. Her fans are trying to make eye-contact now, expressions saying 'Angel. ANGEL. THERE'S--'
"FIGHTAHS READY!" Angel stands stock-still, clearly spooked.
"LOUND ONE! FIGHT!"
"A-aw, nuts! DianaIgottago!!! Shit!" She barely manages to clasp her phone shut, tuck it into a pocket, and turn around in time to see--!!
COMBATSYS: Angel has started a fight here.
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Looking across the 'ring', Ibuki notes whom it is that stands up on the other team to engage her and her eyes instantly narrow as she points at the white haired girl, "You!" She roars before taking up a fighting stance, she's so going to use this chance to get back at that girl for dragging her into that unfortunate circumstance one way or another. She grits her teeth while waiting for the start signal from the officials.
But the NESTS agent seems totally unconcerned with the fact that she's in a fight and this enrages her further but due to the extended delay she's able to get control of herself before things start, she takes a few deep breaths to calm herself down and focus on what she's about to do.
As the first command comes out, Ibuki's fighting stance is again restored as she lines up her shot on Angel, muscles tense as eyes lock onto the hispanic girl.
Then with the command to fight she launches forward with her full speed.
"You know when you're fighting you should pay more attention to your surroundings a bit more!" Ibuki sing songs while trying to get unusually close to Angel, Ibuki then reaches out to grab NESTS agent's uniform, slam a hip into the other girl's side and send her slamming into the ground.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki has joined the fight here.
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Angel 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ibuki
COMBATSYS: Angel endures Ibuki's Quick Throw.
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Angel 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ibuki
Angel's turned barely in time to note Ibuki lunging forward, and it's obvious - you can tell by the way that her eyes have widened to the size of dinner plates that she's been taken by surprise. It's not the sort of surprise you'd think, though; her reaction to Ibuki's dashing flash of a lunge is picture-perfect. Timeframes and loss-analyses are taken into account, calculated in the space of an instant, and Angel's already halfway in the air by the time Ibuki's caught her. The NESTS agent turns out to be a -remarkably- easy throw, considering the way she's leaning into it, tucking her knees upwards, pulling those legs back...
And landing in a sort of crab-walk, face pressed into the backs of Ibuki's knees, one hand and both feet supporting her weight after a bone-jarring impact.
"Oh... oh jeez!!" Angel isn't surprised for the sake of the attack -- it's more that she's -remembering Ibuki-.
"You're, uh... wait. Do I know you?" It is honestly an exceptionally lame attempt to cover her ass (ha!). Of -course- she knows Ibuki. Will Ibuki have seen through her clever disguises??!
Angel pauses only for a moment before making a show of frankly otherworldly agility, bending upwards at the waist, *GRABBING* at the back of Ibuki's shirt, and putting the whole of her weight on the ninja's garment while whipping one leg into the back of the high-schooler's knees!
"Bar in Guangzhou? Cripes, I haven't been there in years, but you're definitely Asi- ooh. Not China. Tokyo?"
COMBATSYS: Ibuki parries Angel's Red Sky of Japonesia!
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Angel 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Ibuki
Ibuki's shirt is grabbed and then weight is shifted as a leg sweeps towards the back of her knees and it looks for all the world like that's exactly what's going to happen, Ibuki's eyes however tell the true story as Angel tries to knock her down with vengence. Those warm brown eyes are confident and unconcerned as Angel's leg gets close to her own Ibuki leaps up slightly to land on Angel's leg and then she winks at the other girl.
"Don't try to play dumb with me, I know who you are and you know who I am." Ibuki still sounds cheery but there is an undertone of solid iron in her voice as she speaks.
Flipping up into the air off of the other girl's leg, Ibuki's eyes focus on the other girl with a level of intensity that she rarely shows this early into the match, "Shall I remind you, though?"
Drawing a number of kunai from her person she whips around in mid-air, "You drug me to a bar and then proceeded to rob the place with you little friend..." The blades start glowing a light blue as she swings her arms up and out in a perfect throwing arc to hurl the weapons at Angel, a secondary blade hidden in the shadow of the first one making it harder to see until it is too later.
"Then I tried to stop you and you two tried to kill people with whatever that thing he did was!" She calls back down as she lands and takes up her fighting stance again.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Angel with Kunai EX.
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Angel 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Ibuki
Angel's maybe a little worried by the way Ibuki just kind of vaults off of her leg - it's both bothersome and something SHE has done to OTHER PEOPLE. Privately, she applauds herself on very rarely being outmaneuvered, so, once again - what? The NESTS agent whips about just -baaaarely- in time to catch Ibuki coming out of her backflip and zinging a knife at her, stamping her wheeling leg about to set up for a brace -- and to get both hands up, ideally to, what. Catch the knife?
Well, she catches the blade.
"--/OW/!" Angel glances downwards, past her upraised and clenched together arms and towards her -previously- bare midriff. The tiny hilt jutting from her abdomen trickles a healthy amount of blood, and prompts the NESTS Agent to grit her teeth in a combination of clear pain and irritation.
"The hell's wrong with you??! Don't bring -knives- to a fistfight!" She's running forward surprisingly quick for somebody who's just been KNIFED, but then again, she's also somebody who lives with Krizalid on a daily basis. Ibuki -will- get a fantastic visual on the Latina's slight hop-in, elegant attempt to smash Ibuki in the face with a backwards roundhouse, mid-air, and followup attempt to grab the ninjette -by the ponytail- before PULLING her, back-first, into the rooftop.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki dodges Angel's Combo Grapple.
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Angel 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Ibuki
"The hells wrong with you! You don't bring guns to a bar and try to rob people either when you invite someone to have fun with you!" Ibuki counters smoothly as the hispanic girl tries to act as though Ibuki had done something wrong by using her kunai but the ninja could care less in its own way this was a bit of payback for that whole evening, heck Ibuki'd almost gotten picked up by the police for that!
Then Angel leaps up after Ibuki, the ninja gets a supremely good look at the backwards roundhouse coming straight at her face as she leans back in the air allowing it to pass by her face harmlessly and as the other girl attempts to grab her by her hair but the teen is already whipping her hair the other way as the hand tries to grab hold and in turn she's got another opportunity to strike the other girl solidly.
"I hope you like the ground, cause that's where you're going!" Ibuki says confidently as she whips around still in mid-air though rather close to the ground as she tries to first slam her right foot into Angel's head, followed by her left foot, then using it as a springboard launch herself away from Angel while sending her spirialing down into the dirt hard.
COMBATSYS: Angel endures Ibuki's Tobizaru.
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Angel 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Ibuki
It is, again, a situation where Angel's got her head in the game -- even if the game happens to hurt at this particular moment. She takes -both- shots to the head rather solidly, first emitting a startle grunt, and then -- frankly -- a pained one. What Ibuki might not expect is the way Angel is already dropping to a knee; it does two things. First, it's going to cut quite a bit of the ninja's momentum (in the sense that Ibuki will not be going nearly as far up, considering her base has ABANDONED HER), and secondly, it's setting Angel into a properly prepared position; rather than reel into the ground, she's already there.
And then, gone. In what might definitely give her away (despite her ungrounded and frankly desperate alibis), Angel -vanishes- in a blur of leather and white.
She reappears beneath Ibuki, -also airborne-, and hooks one arm around the ninja's own before wrenching the other woman fully DOWN.
"Hmgh!"
COMBATSYS: Angel successfully hits Ibuki with Lost Homeland.
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Angel 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Ibuki
Ibuki doesn't leap nearly as far as she'd hoped and this does seem to cut into her hopes of getting away from the other girl's attacks as she is suddenly grabbed from below, grappled, then used as a body cushion as she is slammed hard into the ground and gets the wind knocked out of her fairly hard. That had hurt quite a bit but she was still really focused and knew she wasn't going to walk out of this fight unscathed when she saw her opponent she'd fought Angel slightly before and knew the other girl was pretty good at laying on the hurt.
Popping back to her feet, she immediately refaces Angel and narrows her eyes at the other girl, "Not talking cause you know I'm right huh?" She taunts slightly figuring that'd get the other girl to say something again.
Then a half second later after having spoken she steps forward tucks one arm in and launches the palm of her hand upward with all the speed she can muster right at Angel's chin, "Hah!" She roars.
COMBATSYS: Angel endures Ibuki's Jab Punch.
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Angel 0/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Ibuki
POP.
That is the sound of Angel being hit in the freaking CHIN.
"--What?! I don't even know who you are!!" She staggers backwards, errantly rubbing at her -entire face-, and shakes her head out to try and rattle whatever Ibuki's loosened back into place. Angel doesn't take the time to pause - instead, she's simply sprinting back into the thick of it, towards the unusually taunty ninja, -with murder in her eyes-.
"So shut up..." Angel begins her statement with a right hook to Ibuki's midsection. If this hits, what follows is a cavalcade of strikes; short kicks to the shins, solid punches to the midsection and face, a battery of strikes to the limbs. Angel sweeps past Ibuki after a final blow, simply -tugging- that aforementioned kunai from her poor, perforated stomach... and STABS it into Ibuki's back.
"You -DORK-."
COMBATSYS: Angel successfully hits Ibuki with Loyalty Test for the Liberalists.
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Angel 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Ibuki
Ibuki sees the attack coming and has her arms going up in a cross block to stop Angel's first attack to her midsection but she doesn't time it right and the blow still lands hard, causing Ibuki to gasp for air as she tries to gather her wits and stop the next attack from coming at her but she fails to do so, thus she is struck again and again with punch after punch in the face and the gut and she's feeling rather rattled at this point....
Then she's stabbed with her own Kunai and she hisses in a great deal of pain as it slices deep into her back. She rocks back on her feet looking like she might fall over but she recovers and her eyes get oddly focused as she growls, "No! You can go fall in a pit of snakes first you idiot!" Her narrowed eyes indicating how much she dislikes Angel at this point.
Drawing the blade stabbed into her back out, she spins it around her finger while leaping backwards from Angel, then she hurls it right at the hispanic girl's face hoping to leave a distinct impression there on as if to say 'let's make the outsides match the insides shall we?'
COMBATSYS: Angel blocks Ibuki's Thrown Object.
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Angel 0/-------/------=|=======\=------\1 Ibuki
It's something Angel had anticipated, and is more than ready to deal with. The teasing, at least. To see the otherwise carefree/innocent kiddo before her -pull a knife out of her- (which, really, Angel already did so it's not a huge thing) is nonetheless surprising to the NESTS agent, who comes to stand on both feet, triumphant, just in time to -see Ibuki whipping the thing at her-.
"...--really? Really?" Angel raises both arms before her, expression... well, she's unimpressed. The kunai SLAMS home into her forearm, but she's both prepared herself for this -- and the training to take a solid hit doesn't hurt, either.
Afterwards, however, Angel doesn't really -do- much of anything; she simply sits there, catches her breath, and relaxes.
"You're a really annoying kid. You know that?"
COMBATSYS: Angel focuses on her next action.
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Angel 0/-------/------=|=======\=------\1 Ibuki
Ibuki hadn't expected the attack to even really land, seeing as she was a bit pain dazed and threw it from her hip so the fact that not only had it hit but that it had caught her somewhat by surprise in a sense was more than worth it despite it getting blocked as though it were a mere annoyance than anything else. The teen ninja raises an eyebrow as the other girl still seems a little confused by the attack.
"That's the best you can do white hair?" Ibuki begins in reply to the hispanic girl, "You know in Chinese myth white haired women are witches right?" She continues without pausing, "I don't think you are a witch though, but you are something that rhymes and starts with a b." Still despite the injuries and the momentum of the match having shifted against her Ibuki's remained postively cheery as she actually sing songs that to Angel.
Meanwhile while using the sass as a cover Ibuki had gotten a dab of salve from her belt on one finger and had been stealthily rubbing it into the wound on her back to staunch the blood loss and take the time to catch her own breath and revaluate the sitatuation. Then with a wide grin hidden by her mask she concludes her taunt.
"Well you are the one that works with that creepy kid, so on this I guess I'll have to believe you I guess due to that and since you know you're pretty old too."
COMBATSYS: Ibuki gains composure.
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Angel 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\1 Ibuki
Angel is by now simply -confused-. "You're... you're serious right now? What kind of playgrounds did you hang out at? Where did you learn to tease people??" Angel's hardly insulted by Ibuki's banter... if anything, her expression suggests she's more amused than anything else. Nonetheless, she's quick to put the offense back on -- in this cause 'offense' involves bull-rushing Ibuki while she's putting that salve on. Specifically, 'bull-rush' involves a fast sprint forward, a quick side-step prior to her attack...
WHICH IS
Angel, reeling back, one slender arm extended fully, winding back... back -- baaaaaaaaaaaaack...!! And -HAULING OFF- in a solid, fist-to-face slug that SHOULD send Ibuki /spiraling/ backwards. It's a move Angel saw on TV once. It's -very cool-.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki parries Angel's Full Moon Evening!
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Angel 0/-------/------=|=======\=------\1 Ibuki
Ibuki shrugs, "Maybe I am? Who knows? It kept you entertained though didn't it?" It seems the fact that it confused and kept Angel's attention focused on her words and not her actions, that's all that mattered to the Ninja teen. "If someone's trying to kill you or beat you up, entertain them...they're more likely to slip up if you do." And then as Angel rushes her it's as though fate itself had planned for this one moment to prove Ibuki's words.
The bull-rush is perfect there is no flaw in Angel's motion it's the side-step that makes it horrible for the other girl, as Ibuki side-steps the other way and allows Angel to wind up for her massive hit at nothing but air.
"Kazekiri!" She roars at the now totally exposed Angel's gut, face, and chest...as she leaps forward winds her leg back and springs fowards and upwards with amazing force right at those lovely target areas that have opened up for her, the dragon kick powerful enough to send her high and up into the air whether it lands or not, though should it connect with Angel it's probably going to hurt rather badly for the hispanic girl and knock her flying too.
COMBATSYS: Angel blocks Ibuki's Kazekiri EX.
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Angel 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Ibuki
Angel isn't entertained at all! She's bruised and bleeding and -- a glance at her watch informs her that she is -also- missing the Jersey Shore rerun she promised herself she'd watch before the TiVo blasted it off of its retention list. It's a sort of spite that gears her towards finishing the current conflict quickly -- Angel deals with Ibuki's diving... kick... thing in much the same way as she's dealt with everything else the ninja's thrown her way - she ducks down, gets her defenses up, and makes it so that the other girl's kick-in impacts more 'shoulder' than 'anything else'.
Ibuki's landing is likely to have her meeting Angel after the NESTS agent's dash-in - and unless the ninja is quick, she'll be on the poorer end of a one-two punch aimed for her kidneys!
LOOK OUT, IBUKI
COMBATSYS: Angel successfully hits Ibuki with Bye Bye Rogue.
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Angel 0/-------/----===|=======\==-----\1 Ibuki
Ibuki tries to whirl around and block that attack as it comes at her knowing that her kick hadn't been hard enough to daze the other girl much at all, thus her arms come up to hard block Angel's punches but again she's not fast enough to stop the attack and her kidneys scream in protest at the pain racing through her body. She squints her eyes closed to keep from crying out...she's not doing much better than Angel...a number of scratches bruises all over her body but oddly she's not bleeding from that kunai wound for some reason...
Flipping up into the air Ibuki whips around and in a oddly familiar move tries to drive her feet into Angel's head again, should she manage this she'll spring away and be in a very good position to follow up with something nasty...while leaving Angel off balance.
COMBATSYS: Angel counters Hien from Ibuki with Full Moon Evening.
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Angel 0/-------/--=====|=======\=====--\1 Ibuki
It is pretty darn oddly familiar. So too should be the way Angel's reeling back, -prepping- for Ibuki's attack. The Latina may be equally as bruised and abraided as her opponent, but that alone speaks to the skill the ninja's brought to the fray; she's representing Team Tanuki in a marvelous fashion, -especially- against one of NESTS' very best field members. Unfortunately, whenever one is dealing with NESTS, there's the very real risk that they're going to run into the NESTS data-collection paradigm.
Angel's seen this approach. It's why she's -already- winding up for the haymaker.
"Hnnnn...! If you weren't so damn fussy..." Angel steps to the side, anticipating Ibuki's trajectory and knocking her -away- from it with one upraised forearm.
"I'd teach you something about how ta make a guy REALLY upset with some choice words! You've gotta step offa these kiddo digs!"
Angel -SLAMS- her fist into Ibuki's side, and hops back... she's clearly a little out of breath, but one thing is certain; like it or not, the ninja's constant stream of vitriol -has- gotten to her.
Her plans to leap off Angel's head don't wind up working all that well, Ibuki sees the wind up coming but there is nothing she can do not this time, so she is hit and hit hard....her mouth fills with blood as the hit slams into her kidney, but she swallows it all back down looking as though nothing had happened, this is the self control that she has been taught, inspite of the sever pain and trama...she's still standing and looks oddly hale and whole...Her eyes narrow at Angel.
She doesn't even wobble as takes her fighting stance again, "That was good! You got me really really good with that one, maybe someday you'll be good enough to do that when you want." She sing song...is she that unhurt? No there's no way she couldn't possibly be that uninjured but her tone is sooo clear? "I don't have anything to learn from you...but you do from me! Let's begin shall we?" She says cheerily....
Leaping high into the air a number of kunai suddenly appear in her hands, "First lesson, how to make your point effectively!" with that she launches tons and tons and tons of the sharp bladed oddly glowing little weapons in what strangely looks like a waterfall of bladed death, Angel gets to fight in the shade now though!!
COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Angel with Kasumi Suzaku.
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Angel 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Ibuki
HOLY SHIT
HOLY SHIT
There is a -typhoon of knives- coming Angel's way. Her response is arguably understandable - she attempts to get the fuck out of the way - but unfortunately a little too late for any effect. The dive to the side winds up showing her entire right leg a host of tiny blades, and she SLAMS into the ground with a tiny groan, expression pained. No matter what happens in the next few moments, the results are clear - Ibuki's really whittled Angel down to a sad state, and done her team a service in eroding the NESTS defense.
Nonetheless, Angel is adamant about not-quite stopping. She finds her feet, expression grim, and limps forward, fully aware that Ibuki's -specific- sort of attack HAS to lend itself towards full-immersion... she's willing to take that risk in closing the distance once more. Even though her approach is the slightest bit slowed, Angel's hardly willing to stop herself; she stumbles towards Ibuki's presumed landing-point, and...
Jab-uppercuts at the ninja on her way down. It's no freshmaker of a punch, but it might just be enough.
"-FEH-," spits the NESTS agent. "Too sassy for your own damn good."
COMBATSYS: Ibuki effortlessly blocks Angel's Jab Punch.
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Angel 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Ibuki
The kunai impale Angel like crazy as she takes blow after blow from them but the girl stands...and Ibuki has to be a little impressed I mean that was a lot of hits to the leg and to stumble charge her like that...it's kinda gotta be admired but the ninja girl sees the punch coming so she catches it with an open palm before using the momentum to spring backwards from Angel and there she stands tall and with a smile under her mask...
"Sassy? Me?" She asks innocently as she blinks at Angel with bright chocolate doe eyes. Then she raises her hand to her mask and coughs, "But we were in the middle of a lesson weren't we!" She sing songs still not giving on to how injured she really is, "You must make your audience really stick to every word you say their entire focus must be on you!"
A kunai appears in one of her hands suddenly and she smirks as she hurls three of them, all easy to evade or block, but should one of them hit her shadow...well Angel will be in a world of pain from what happens next to her...
COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Angel with Yami Shigure.
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"Yes. You."
Angel's about done, really. She takes the kunai full-on, on account of she's just -too tired- to really do much other than kind of... lurch to the side... and briefly spends a moment distressing over the fact that this is the second, third, and fourth puncture wounds she's received throughout the course of the event. Her thoughts are, for at least a moment, concerned with such events as "everything in her life that's brought her to this point", and other quandaries... but then the blood's diverting to the wounds, and she's not quite so hot when it comes to thinking.
One thought remains, persistent, pervasive. Angel frowns, mightily.
"Truth be told, I haven't been listening to a word you've been saying.." She lurches forward, slow, but also -devious-. "You -really-, -really need to talk to -somebody- about fight-talk." Angel throws one hand up, an attempt to grab Ibuki by the face and introduce it, painfully, to her opposite fist. Afterwards, she'll lurch to the ground, unconscious.
There was a clever stinger in there somewhere, but the unconsciousness lost it.
COMBATSYS: Angel can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Ibuki dodges Angel's Red Sky of Japonesia.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-------|
Krizalid arrives from elsewhere.
Ibuki shrugs still obviously amused at Angel's annoyance.
The kunai flies past Angel and slams into her shadow, burying itself deep there-in as the poor hispanic girl is bound by the the glowing blade holding her shadow and therefore herself completely still as Ibuki draws two more kunai and races back and forth around Angel, slashing her again and again with her faintly glowing blades and making a rather bloody mess of the 'ring'.
Ibuki then stops and turns as the final pass is made and Angel staggers towards her while trying to taunt her, "If you'd not been listening, you couldn't have made some of the comments you did." The ninja points out helpfully to Angel, "Nice try though." She sing songs again as she takes a step back as the grab comes for her face letting the girl fall heavily to the ground, "You really need to try harder at getting under people's skin miss, /you're/ not very good at it." She chirps before falling on her butt and taking deep breaths and quickly applying as much anesthetic salve to her wounds as she can.
Thankfully she wasn't super tired mainly just hurt, Angel had taken her toll on Ibuki as she hurt /everywhere/ and it was hard keeping herself conscious until the salve had been applied and some smelling salts sniffed to wake her punch/impact drunk head back to clarity, "Okay!! Let's do this!!!" She roars surging back to her feet.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki drops her guard to recover.
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COMBATSYS: Ibuki takes no action.
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Naerose arrives from elsewhere.
Eclipse arrives from elsewhere.
Wang arrives from elsewhere.
Cammy arrives from elsewhere.
Like another shadow from the past, Eclipse simply climbs onto the roof from just below the line of sight. This time, he isn't in clothes he pulled from a dumpster.
It's strange to him, acting so openly, but his face isn't distinctive. It won't compromise his future activities. Hair still ragged, chin still scruffy, his face looks just like it did before in an entirely different suit - Eclipse's sleeveless NESTS bodysuit looks like it would fit right in at an extremely ~disreputable club~, all black leather and vinyl with flexible metal strips thrown almost randomly along it. Three giant metal bands are set right into his arms, occasionally giving off a puff of dark purple mist. A green light glows on each of them, the limiters engaged.
He is completely silent, crouching at the edge of the roof, knife clutched tightly in his left hand as he waits for the announcer's signal to begin. He stares at Ibuki with his dark eyes, a stare with no emotion, good or ill, despite what happened the last time they crossed paths.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse has joined the fight here.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Eclipse
Yep, Ibuki recognizes this guy too! She actually points at him and it's obvious from the way her mask looks at the moment that it has dropped open, "The other one!!" She yells in exasperation before catching her cool again, it seems things have gone 'right' in the sense that she now has a chance to completely clean the slate with both these people...well after giving them both a beating!
The KoF official looks between the two fighters and nods once, raising a hand he indicates the fight is about to begin. The ninja looks up and retakes her fighting stance as she looks her new opponent over before she grins beneath her mask, "Well you at least have a bit more style this time!" She chirps.
As she makes her final comment the official throws his hand down, "Fight!" Then backs off to a safer distance so that the two fighters can go at it. Ibuki has her guard up but doesn't make an initial rush at all to face off with Eclipse, she's still pained from her last fight and taking it a bit easy on herself as this match begins it seems, he'll come to her eventually she's pretty sure.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki takes no action.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Eclipse
Eclipse holds his position for a while, elbows on his knees, flipping his knife to a backhanded grip. He takes a deep breath as Ibuki starts talking, as he figured she would. He stands, flicking his wrists, rolling his neck, and stretching his jaw with an audible pop. "Distance means nothing," he murmurs as Ibuki starts backing off, crouching low, placing the fingers of his right hand on the rooftop. He waits for a moment.
A strong breeze whips in from behind Eclipse, and he takes that moment to sprint forward. Does he control the weather? (nope: one of his handlers is on weather.com) He weaves to the left and right, suddenly hopping onto a slowly rotating ventilation... thing. They all have names, God knows what they are. The weird little dome bits? Well, he jumped on one of those.
Only for a second, though - he springs off immediately after, diving at Ibuki with a burst of speed. His right arm snakes out, trying to seize her by the neck and shoulders and drag her down, apparently trapping his left hand between the two of them - along with his knife. If the grab works, the moment Ibuki hits the rooftop, he pulls away with a flourish, the Gerber Mark II slicing a wide line, potentially describing an arc of blood in the air.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse successfully hits Ibuki with Agonizer.
Glancing Blow
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Ibuki 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Eclipse
Maybe it's due to the injuries piling up on her but Ibuki's very sluggish as Eclipse leaps off the dome thing and comes flying at her with the knife. She is however quick enough to get mostly out of the way though the trace of blood on the knife and the thin line of a cut that opened on her bicep show that she didn't come away from that entirely without injury. Letting out a slight hiss of pain she focuses on the boy, "Nice shot but still not good enough!"
Ibuki doesn't have handlers or anything remotely like that, she relies on her senses and training to do some very impressive things and thus she grins beneath her mask as her still airborn attacker is right before her, there was a lovely counter she could use against him now that he was so close to her and not in contact with the ground!
She instantly springs upwards and attempts to leap onto Eclipse's head slamming it downwards into the ground with the fullness of her weight and moment, while she springs away hopefully uninjured and ready for her next move afterwards...
COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Eclipse with Tobizaru.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Eclipse
Eclipse's face slams into the roof, opening a cut on his cheekbone. He does not, however, stop and hold his face like a poor vain bastard, he just rolls forward, toward Ibuki, muscles of his left hand already tensing. The hit on his face should hurt like hell, but it doesn't compare to the pain he feels with his limiters off. It's a pinprick to him.
"First strike is data," he calmly comments, left arm ratcheting back as he takes a bold step forward. He grits his teeth, forehead pinching as he demands his chi work for him, black mist swirling from his shoulder to hand. "Completing the mission."
Eclipse's hand whips forward in a wide slice, energy the exact matte color of his knife spraying out in a wide upward arc. He steps forward after, slicing straight down, and finishes with one last quick cut to the side as he fades back, flowing seamlessly into his low stance. With a steamy hiss, the limiters of Eclipse's left arm vent three plumes of purple mist, purging the inefficient excess chi.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki dodges Eclipse's Black Knife.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Eclipse
Ibuki is already in motion as she lands after driving Eclipse's face into the ground, "Getting ahead of yourself there aren't you?" She sing songs as he rockects towards her back with that blade held out to stab her in the back with the black shrouded arm and blade! She shifts her weight to one foot and at the last moment pivots on it to allow Eclipse to pass by her from the momentum of his first slice as she steps back.
She carefully watches the chi mis vent from his left arm as she grins, kid seems to have problems, she muses as she readies herself for his next attack, she's trying to plan out her strategy in advance but it's kinda hard with how injured she is to think that far into the future, she needs to do something about that first before anything else!
Ibuki focuses her energy and adernaline into her body, she forces her pain down, and actually wills her bleeding to stop...ninja training was fairly useful in these fights! She takes a deep steading breath as she finishes and then her warm brown eyes fall on Eclipse, "I'm over here!" She says cheerfully to her Opponent.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki gains composure.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Eclipse
Eclipse remains completely unflappable in the face of missing and Ibuki's mouth continuing to run. The knife flips in his hand, and he takes a single step back, bringing both legs together. Blood continues to run freely down his face. He inclines his head, eyes watching Ibuki carefully.
He springs into the sky, arms crossed, knife forward, and twists his body so that he's pointed right at Ibuki. Supernatural powers? NESTS technology? A pocket of solid air? Whatever the explanation, Eclipse rockets forward at dangerous speeds, forearms tensing, ready to cut--
"Cancel."
Whatever is propelling him suddenly stops, and he flips forward, hitting the roof directly behind Ibuki. With one step back, he slams the knife at Ibuki's back, spinning on one foot to drive a heel at her head before flowing back once more, eyes narrowed.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki parries Eclipse's Fierce Strike!
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Ibuki 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Eclipse
Ayame arrives from elsewhere.
Ibuki's eyes are locked on Eclipse as he flips the knife in his hand and takes the step back, "Not coming for me?" She ponders outloud then he launches at her almost like a human bullet and it seems as though he's going to hit her when suddenly his momentum simply disappears and he flips over her head to launch a back attack on her.
Ibuki grins as she steps backwards into her attacker allowing the knife to pass through where she was a moment ago, then as the heel comes at her head she's already crouching low so the powerful kick whiffs past where it was a momenet ago, and Ibuki turns as she pops back up, "That was a really good! Had I been a little slower you'd have gotten me! Keep it up!"
"But I've not forgotten our last meeting either, so I need to rough you up a bit before we're even." She winks as her body goes into a spin and her leg launches out in a powerful spin kick that trails bluish white energy and seems to hit afterwards with an extra kick of wind in its wake, then she spins again for another kick, another, yet another, and finally a last powerful kick that seems to have built on the speed of the ones that came before it.
Krizalid arrives from elsewhere.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse endures Ibuki's Tsumuji EX.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Eclipse
The first kick hammers into his chest, air rushing out of his lungs, but aside from that he doesn't even flinch. The next series each drive him back further and further, one tearing a metal strip away from his bodysuit, and the very last... it hits Eclipse, but he grabs her ankle with his right hand, ignoring the cracked ribs, the blood dripping through there the bodysuit was torn away. His face remains fixed, implacable.
"Holding a grudge is foolish. It was nothing personal." His left arm flashes through the air. "Neither is this." His arm flashes again, cutting several times at Ibuki, quick controlled slashes. Flesh wounds, but several of them.
"You are a baffling person. Disconnected from reality. You speak to me as though we are friends, when the world has set us against each other in every possible arena. If given the opportunity, I would kill you, merely to remove you as a potential obstacle." He tilts his head, still swinging. "Come out of the fantasy."
Ken arrives from elsewhere.
Guile arrives from elsewhere.
Rose arrives from elsewhere.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki dodges Eclipse's Random Strike.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Eclipse
Abel arrives from elsewhere.
Ibuki feels there is some strong satisfaction as her kicks slam into the kid and when his rib gives way slightly she grins slightly more, she knew how bad those hurt to have as she'd had her fair share of them in the Neo League not that long ago. The hand on her andkle though is a bit more troublesome especially once he launches an attack on her.
Her legs are strong though and her balance excellent, thus as the blade comes at her she hops backward and forwards on one leg while jerking his arm hard with her other creating openings in his swing that she can slip into to avoid the blade completely, "Sometimes grudges are what bind us to one another, when things are said and done you might even make a new friend or rival." She winks, "And it was rather personal since you injured a heck of a lot people that night!"
With that she kicks off and out of his grasp, kunai appearing in her hands, "Ninja don't exist, we are the mad imaginings of fiction, or at least that's what we want the world to generally think. So I'm more than happy to live in my 'fantasy' world." She says playfully, "You would try, but you're way to serious maybe if you dreamed a bit more you'd actually be able to touch me." With that her arm whips back, the slightly bluish glowing blade is hurled after her arm completes a smooth arc she seems to have aimed it right at the kid's shoulder, if it hits it's probably going to hurt a lot!
COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Eclipse with Kunai.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|=======\===----\1 Eclipse
Eclipse tries to dive forward, but the knife sinks fully into his right shoulder, just above a limiter. Blood spurts out, and Eclipse drops to one knee. Calmly, impossibly calmly, he hooks his knife in the kunai's circular handle and flicks it out. He still hasn't winced. Blood is dripping from his face, his shoulder, and his chest, and the only time he showed pain was when using that black knife technique. Is he just hard, or is he /scientific?/
"With that attitude, you'll die someday." Eclipse takes to his feet again, crouching low, knife ahead in a forward grip. "It will be painful, and you will let people relying on you down." He's gone completely stock-still.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse focuses on his next action.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|=======\==-----\1 Eclipse
Pantsless Ken
Ibuki's eyes scan over him as the blood soaks his body and he calmly removes the blade from his body, she neither seems upset nor pleased by this. Her face what is visible is focused by still playful looking then he delivers his sermon to her and she shakes her head, "Maybe I will and maybe I won't, the future is hard to know." She shakes her head, "Pain isn't important. I'll do my very best to not let anyone down, if I fail...I hope my fighting for them inspires them to grow stronger and fight harder against whatever it is."
Despite her evasiveness so far in the fight, Ibuki's still feeling sluggish and as the boy goes stock still the ninja decides to take advantage of it, she closes her eyes and uses the deep breathing exercises to clear her mind of the pain and then quickly tensing each of her muscles as quickly and hard as possible she regathers her strength and limbers herself up for the attack she thinks is about to come her way.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki gains composure.
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Ibuki 0/-------/-----==|=======\==-----\1 Eclipse
Eclipse takes a single step forward, holding his knife poised to swing despite the distance between them. He's done talking, he's said what he felt the urge to say. He takes a deep breath. "Do not release the limiter," he subvocalizes, barely audible.
Then, he roars in pain, his entire left arm going black, chi pouring into his knife like a hole in space itself. He swipes the knife across, exactly once, all the chi streaking out, extending the weapon's reach manifold. The limiters tighten on his arm, the muscles in his neck standing out in cords as he grits his teeth through the agonizing effort, right hand clutching his shoulder. An antenna behind Ibuki slowly topples over, denying pornography to literally tens of hotel tenants.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki blocks Eclipse's Wave Knife.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Eclipse
Ibuki continues grinning at him beneath her mask, she wasn't getting into his head like she'd gotten into Angel's but that was alright as well so as she's thinking of her next comment that is when he launches hi attack upon her. It's fast, very fast and she wasn't expecting the chi enhanced blade to have its reached increased like that, not at all as it makes it nearly impossible to dodge it she grits her teeth and prepares for the pain...
Her right arm launches up and blocks the attack with her gauntlet, the blade cutting through it and into the flesh below as blood erupts from the deeping wound it sprays out and looks to be boiling slightly from the effects of the chi attak. Hey eyes get very intense but she doesn't cry out merely a grunt from the impact and the intense look on her face before she lets out a sigh as the blade is removed and she steps back from him....
Flexing her right hand the blood flow slowing slightly from where the gauntlet was sliced through, "Still usuable..." She grins, "Almost got my hand with that one...I guess I've been underestimating you a bit." She admits before she springs forward with her full speed drops to ground to attempt to slide between his legs, before standing up to try to wrap her arms around his neck, "So I'll be a bit more serious too." She enthuses gently as she tries to snap his neck!
COMBATSYS: Eclipse fails to interrupt Kubiori from Ibuki with Intercepting Strike.
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Ibuki 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Eclipse
The black knife strikes sparks from the ground as Eclipse tries to catch the sliding Ibuki by stabbing straight down. He turns immediately after, with speed that would have ruined a normal man, stabbing again - but not fast enough. He goes spinning away from the throw, arms and legs flailing hilariously until he hits the ground... and pushes back up, slowed only due to fatigue. His jaw sits unnaturally - he pops it back into place like most mortals would put on a shirt. "Requesting delivery of this recording to my bunk after it's compiled."
He crouches low again. "The pivot was too inefficient..."
Ibuki had a good scare twice in a row as the knife was brought down to stab her not once but twice, once as she passed in front and then he'd whirled to get at her again once she'd slipped through his legs. Thankfully she managed to move right again to not be stabbed, thus for once she gave a forward facing next snap...but he'd just rolled with it instead of letting her actually break his neck, granted that's what most fighters did if they could.
As he's back into a crouch she rolls from her prone position over to him taking a crouched position right in front of him she winks, "Like I said, dream a little!" She chirps with a wink at the overly serious NESTs agent.
"Kazekiri!" with that said her muscles tense as she springs upwards with all her might, launching her left leg outward hopefully catching Eclipse under the chin and lifting him up with her as clears the ground as well and then lands with a soft thump after her dragon kick, at the very least she hopes she hit him hard somewhere with that kick!
COMBATSYS: Eclipse dodges Ibuki's Kazekiri.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Eclipse
Eclipse finally manages to get his reflexes on track, scattering blood on the ground as he takes a quick step back, swaying away and letting the kick flick just in front of his face. "You keep winking at me." He briefly frowns, puzzled. "If you're trying to... flirt, I'll decline. My current mission is to attempt to date Chun-Li Xiang."
Back in a NESTS HQ, Eclipse's handlers laugh uproariously as the vatbaby reminds them of their awesome prank.
Before Ibuki comes down from his kick, Eclipse starts preparing for his next move. Eclipse's limbs leave inky black trails that have nothing to do with chi as he pulls his hands together, knife out, bracing his closed grip with his right hand. He pulls back until the moment Ibuki's feet hit the ground, the moment her hitbox gives way to nothing but blessed hittable area.
He surges forward, putting his all into the stab, with a dramatic forceful exhalation.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki dodges Eclipse's Deep Strike.
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Ibuki 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Eclipse
Ibuki actually barks out one loud and hard laugh, "HA!" Before she covers her mouth and stops herself from just breaking down into fits of laughter. Finally after a moment she calms herself and just shakes her head, "Oh darn! I see, we'll I guess I'll just have to find another guy then...one who is more my type." Ibuki's voice is cheerful and slightly sarcastic but she somehow doubts he'll catch that part....
As she touches down the knife wielding NESTs agent races towards her and she has enough time to slip to the right allowing his charge to pass by her without anything remotely getting close to touching her, then she puts weight on the balls of her feet, sets herself for her own charge and springs towards him now that he's the off balance one.
As she closes in she stops dead, raises her left leg, pivoting on her right foot to transfer the momentum of her run into her attack, and attempts to drive her left knee deep into Eclipse's chest.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Eclipse with Medium Kick.
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Ibuki 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Eclipse
Doesn't appear affronted. "I'm glad that we agree that I'm too good for you."
The Earth ceases its rotation for half a second, struck dumb that Eclipse attempted to crack a joke. His delivery is flawlessly deadpan.
As Ibuki approaches, the bleeding clone sees the opportunity for the dodge, and moves to take it, already positioning his knife for the counter-attack.
Pain is the body's way of alerting the brain as to when there are /problems./ As has been hinted, the chi abilities he has been planted with that Ibuki saw in use the last time they met causes Eclipse a tremendous amount of pain due to their instability, so much that his pain receptors have been nearly burnt out. Bleeding in several places, he has no idea how bad the beating he's taken is until he tries to take a step to the side, and his leg becomes leaden. Ibuki slams into his chest, and he feels cracked ribs come free. Problematic. His face doesn't even twitch as blood drips from either side of his mouth. "...hmm. I'm compromised."
As Eclipe's leaden legs begin to fail him, his left arm is still in motion. He spins the knife in his hand as he drops, striking it against the roof with enough force to fling himself back up, spinning wildly before falling the other way, landing hard on his side.
COMBATSYS: Eclipse can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Ibuki dodges Eclipse's Killer Swipes.
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Ibuki 0/-------/---====|
As the flurry of blows come her way she steps out of the way of each one watching the blood flow out of him and his apparent disregard for the damage to his body, "You know if you try to kill me so hard you're just going to hurt yourself." She muses outloud. As the last attack whizzes by her body she waits as he stumbles and then passes out. Then she nods to herself.
Shaking her head at him she chuckles, "Too bad I've got no interest in you...hope the nap helps you loosen up though!" With that she turns away to take up her position for the next match but stops and looks over her shoulder, "Oh yeah! We're even now too! Hope you get well." She then starts stretching to relax her muscles and keep them limber for her fight to come.
Taking a deep breath she waits patiently for the next fighter from the opposing team to show up, taking the time to apply more anesthetic stingent to keep herself going for the next fight. Her body feeling better despite the beating Angel had started and Eclipse had continued, once she finishes up that she binds her cut forearm with a brown cloth, and tying it off she looks up, "Ready to roll on the next one!" She enthuses energetically!
COMBATSYS: Ibuki drops her guard to recover.
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COMBATSYS: Ibuki takes no action.
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That's it.
As Eclipse's legs turn to jelly underneath him, the quiet dark-clad form sitting on the parapet finally looks up, his claws deinterlacing. He's listened absently to the kunoichi take down three quarters of his team, absently watching their vitals drop slowly on the heads-up display that is wired directly into his brain. That's the glory of wetware for you. Who needs to look when you have senses that good?
He fought well. As Eclipse hits the ground, Krizalid sighs slowly.
"I hate it when people think they're hot."
His pupils contract to points.
All of a sudden, the air stirs.
Krizalid doesn't so much 'arrive' as he 'happens' to Ibuki, appearing in a sudden flash of black leather and feathers, his leg stretching out to full length over his head as he tries to just catch Ibuki in the center of a whirlwind powerful enough to flay the concrete beneath it smooth as cement. Krizalid isn't even beginning to play around, here. He intends on blowing Ibuki clear off the roof, if she isn't careful!
While she's keeping her footing, Krizalid will greet her. His voice is dark and filled with venom, as if he spoke in acid, rather than English. "Don't talk. Word one--I rip your face off and feed it to your teammates. Just listen. From this point on, the real fight starts. You're pretty unlucky to have beaten my subordinates. Because now, I'm just going to have to tear you in two."
He seems pretty dead serious.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Krizalid successfully hits Ibuki with Typhon's Rage "R".
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Krizalid 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Ibuki
As her challenger just appears out of nowhere in front of her she grits her teeth as the instant attack is launched at her and she has zero time to react to the attack, she clinches her toes and grips the top of the roof whipping out a kunai to stab into a AC unit to add even more leverage as the energy slams into her. She takes a deep breath as the remenants of the attack pass by her.
Shake her head and swallowing the pool of blood the rises up in her mouth from the last hit slamming into her body and organs pretty hard. She blinks a few times as her vision is a tad blurry but she finally speaks up as she takes up her fighting stance, "Ha! Sorry can't do that captain spiky hair!" Apparently threats don't do much to her even when backed up with force.
She then dashes forward with her full speed with a rather determined look on her face. Leaping over his head and she starts to fall back the the ground, she rears back and attempts to kangaroo kick Krizalid in the back of the skull which if it manages to hit is going to send him face first into the ground /hard/.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid blocks Ibuki's Tobizaru.
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Krizalid 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Ibuki
Krizalid glares, his eyes deadly over the collar of his coat.
He stands there quietly, without really saying much of anything in response to her quip. Somewhat disappointingly, Ibuki isn't blown off of the building right then and there, but he expected that much. He can't use his full power just yet. Even against someone who was supposed to be wielding the much vaunted blade.
Ibuki leaps over him and kicks with all of her strength. Unfortunately, it only hits the pauldron of his coat, and the force she transmits seems to do approximately jack-all against him.
And then his hand flashes out, to catch her out of the air by the face.
"Reminds me. Are you missing something...?"
COMBATSYS: Ibuki blocks Krizalid's Dead Fall.
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Krizalid 0/-------/----===|=======\===----\1 Ibuki
The first thing Ibuki will notice is that his hands are not quite 'hands' by human standards, but claws formed of mated tungsten fiber wire, ending in wicked points. The second thing is that while his hand is clasped over her face, he is fully strong enough to dangle her in the air like a rag doll. And that he seems to be trying to exert escalating amounts of pressure on the soft part underneath her jaw, as if trying to force her own tongue down her throat. He will draw blood, and for a very real second, it will seem like he really does intend to tear her face right off of her head right there.
"Can't hear you. I think you were trying to say something ignorant again..."
He has no problem if Ibuki has an issue with a busy mouth.
He has uses for people like that.
Ibuki finds her attack totally blocked by the guy's armor, which was frustrating in of itself for the ninja but then he reaches out to grab and throw her, so as his hand comes for her face she bats it aside with her injured arm and grits her teeth as the pain is definitely reminding her that she's been through the ringer already. Those weird clawed metal hands of his then seek her out and try to grab her again as he speaks to her, "Nothing you need to worry about ugly." She says spunkily even in this situation.
Then he tries to make it look like he's going to use the clawed hand he's managed to grip onto her face, to rip it off but the ninja isn't worried, first she's tougher than he thinks she is and secondly perhaps more importantly she has team mates waiting to back her up, he won't have enough time to do anything serious to her..not that the medics can't fix.
She snorts and her eyes lock with his she takes a deep breath as she smirks beneath her mask, "You know Angel's a lot better at trash talk than you are...even though she's kinda suck at it too." She chuckles, "Maybe the both of you should take lessons, but someone like you probably wouldn't be very good at them." Wait she's taunting him while he's got her face in his grip? "Now then...are you going to stop playing around and show me something serious or do I have to smack you around a bit first?" Yep defiant taunting no less...despite most of her wounds opening up and leaking blood...
COMBATSYS: Ibuki focuses on her next action.
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Krizalid 0/-------/----===|=======\===----\1 Ibuki
There's a difference, here.
Ibuki is pretty sure of herself, right now. Even though she's pretty much all bravado and verve against Krizalid, Krizalid stalks the periphery of her threat range slowly. His steps are leisurely, and without much haste. As Ibuki continues to sass him, the clone watches her quietly, studying her with eyes that see a lot more than he lets on. As she finishes off what she must have thought to be a devastating little line of banter, he shifts slightly, giving her a sidelong glance. His shoulders lift, shaking slightly. Heh heh heh. Hahaha----hahaha....
"HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!"
"What. praytell. Makes you even think you're ready. For one round. of me being serious?!"
Oh, this is rich.
"What is it you disgusting bottomfeeders don't get? I'm the ULTIMATE CLONE!"
He settles down into a low combat stance, his knees bending slightly as he stretches one arm behind him. He licks a single drop of her blood off of his talons. Maybe he'll have to gather samples later. Igniz would be pleased, and he could use a new pet... hm. "The difference between us, is this."
If Krizalid wants you, you'd need a lot more than a couple of determined teammates to keep him off you.
"See.. I don't need to beat you in ignorant drivel. Not when I can just beat you."
Suddenly, Krizalid bends, his body twisting as he kicks wide into the air in a broad scything kick. As he does so, his coat spreads open, the debris around him twirling and kicking long plumes of dust into the air. That cyclone churns the ground again beneath him, creating that onerous grinding sound as it liquefies stone. But this time, it's different. This time, Krizalid--in a matter reminescent of another Kyo clone long ago--whips around with his other leg and throws it into the rending cyclone, modifying its properties, sending it twirling off and effectively booting it dead at Ibuki. This time, the attack is different. He's not trying to blow her off the building.
This time, he's going to rip her open where she stands.
COMBATSYS: Ibuki effortlessly dodges Krizalid's Typhon's Rage "S".
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Now free of Krizalid's grasp Ibuki has re-estabilished her fighting stance as Krizalid mocks her and laughs at her comments, she'd been amused but obviously this guy took it to a whole new level of being 'amused' So she just weathers the laughs without comment and lets him berate her and go off on his little ego trip while she stands the calm, cool and collected just waiting for the attack she knows is coming and then when it does come at her she is ready for it.
She tenses her legs putting all her strength into them as she launches skyward up...up...up....over the attack as though it were not even there as she leaps higher than even an additional story of the building in height, it's a lovely view and then she's coming back down in a graceful arc as she falls towards Krizalid. She grins beneath her mask, "Hmm? Sorry the wind picked up a little bit didn't quite catch what you were saying something about...can't beat me right? And that bit about being the ultimate clown?"
Flipping back over as she lands and her body is going into a spin already, "I can't disagree with you being a clown, especially with that get up." She continues as her body whirls around trailing a stream of bluish energy in its wake as her leg cuts through the air right towards Krizalid's gut the air being pulled along behind her as it also slams into his body, then her body whirls and she does the same thing, and then one final last rotation drawing on all her momentum with the final push.
It's obvious in her eyes as she practically smiles with them, she's not afraid of Krizalid despite how much stronger he obviously is than her, fear leads to mistakes and she could afford none of those at the moment.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid interrupts Tsumuji from Ibuki with Quick Punch.
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Krizalid skids as he completes his rotation, his whirlwind twisting into the parapet and blowing it clear off of the side of the building, churning the rock into pebbles long before they ever hit the ground.
It's an impressive jump. That's about all he can say about it. Frowning, he looks up quickly, as his HUD flashes a quick warning about resolved targets no longer occupying their hitbox boundaries. One eye spots her as she skirts the entire area of his energy cyclone, a red outline tracing around her as she lands in front of him, just enough time for her to quip in a clever manner, and then jump agai-
By the time she even gets a foot off of the ground, she'll notice Krizalid is already in the air on top of her, tracing her every movement years before she even executes them. That's sort of the thing. When fighting against a battlesuit user, it's not the same thing as fighting against any normal operative.
"Like I said. You're second-rate. Maybe if you shut your mouth and opened your eyes, you might have been a challenge for me.."
The first mistake you learn about in NESTS.
Is not being afraid of Krizalid.
The last thing Ibuki will see is the back of the commander's hand.
Ibuki finds her kick stopped cold by a quick shot to her leg, shattering the momentum and fracturing the bone in the process, the ninja's initial response to this is to start blacking out from the strain on her already wrecked body. She hurt all over at this point and was dripping blood from a number of her reopened wounds. In all reality she looked like something out of a bad zombie movie but she still had her leg slammed into his fist and he was so so so close.
Her eyes focus somewhat as she fights back the haze of unconsciousness for a moment more to wink at Krizalid, "Who...said...I'm....done?!" The smile is readable in her tone and in her eyes as she goes into her next move...wait she had more?!!!
While he's smacking her face she's thrusting her fist into his chest, a small bluish ball of energy in her hand, should it hit...well even powerarmor isn't going to help the NESTs clone all that much!! As the ball will pass right through it, turn into a rotating blade of energy inside Krizalid's body ripping and tearing at everything it can, before the energy explodes outwards from the pores of his body, surrounds them both in a huge globe of bluish energy before compacting back inside him searingly before blowing him away and possibly off the roof.
That is if Kriz doesn't block or get out of the way of the attack before it's too late, perhaps he shouldn't underestimate not totally unconscioous foes?
COMBATSYS: Ibuki can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Ibuki successfully hits Krizalid with Yoroi Doushi.
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COMBATSYS: Ken has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Krizalid 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Ken
COMBATSYS: Ken has left the fight here.
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Krizalid 1/-------/=======|
Lesson. Learned.
Krizalid takes the enervating blow full on in the chest. There are certain options he has to handle this sort of thing, but none seem immediately palatable when he has more important things to attend to. So in the end, he seems to just--absorb the damage into his suit? Let's not get things twisted here, Ibuki's big ball energy slams into him, and rips through steel struts and plates like so much butter. Hitting Krizalid is really something most people only get one chance in a lifetime to do--and when Krizalid bleeds energy, it seems to crackle all throughout his limbs, knocking him out of the air with a big *URGH!*
When he lands, it cracks the roof, his knee going just an inch from hitting the ground, power tracing from his frame to the concrete beneath him. He breathes slowly, and steam vents from either of the power coils surrounding his forearms.
It starts to get a little hotter.
"I'm going to enjoy it when we meet again, when I don't have to hold back.." he hisses, his eyes wide. It's pretty clear that Krizalid is having a little trouble keeping himself in check after that sort of hit. It's hard.. hard not to let his fire take control. The sacred Kusanagi fire... that only demanded new sacrifices. Crouched over, he looks up, flashing the white of his canines. One talon sets into the ground.
That twisted flame of consecration curls at the edge of his leg, slowly crawling up his body, engulfing him slowly in vicious, unrelenting heat, eating his ripped-up coat away to nothingness, consuming everything frivolous on his body. Krizalid burns white-hot before the process is done, and when those flames abate themselves, nothing is left on Krizalid that can't survive that heat, nothing that wasn't intended to kill. The lean boy is all dark skin, proofed polyalloys, and metal exoskeletal structure, hunched over in pure predatory malice. He breathes slowly, lifting the whip-lean curve of his back with the agonizingly movement..
He exhales, and the air seems to warp with the heat.
"If you want _any more_... get up. Otherwise, bring me the next corpse..."
COMBATSYS: Krizalid drops his guard to recover.
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COMBATSYS: Krizalid takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Ken has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Krizalid 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Ken
Ibuki has fallen, so it is now up to the next runner to grab the baton and head for the finish line.
A low humming noise falls over the rooftops as it seems that the buildings air conditioning units starts to kick into high gear. This would be all fine and well except for the fact that one of them suddenly explodes, causing a thick cloud of smoke to cover the building's roof. While the onlookers are coughing and trying to clear the smoke from infront of their faces, something becomes clear to them. Ibuki is no longer there. This of course has the Tournament medics quite litterly freaking out as they start to rush towards the edge of the building. Did she somehow manage to fall off the side of the building in the midst of the confusion from the faulty a/c unit?
A lone figure comes into view as the smoke finally starts to clear. Most will etch this day into their memories, some even telling tales of knowing that something was amiss from the moment they laid their eyes upon Krizalid's next adversary, leaving those on the receiving end of the tale to be left wondering if that was really true or not. However, everyone can agree on one thing: Ken Masters wasn't there to play.
The medical staff is left staring in amazement that their next patient has already been laid over in the makeshift treatment center, only to turn once more and wonder just how bad things are going to get.
An almost visable aura of chi surrounds the US Champion, as a slow step is taken towards his target, only to be followed by another in a repeating fashion, gaining speed with each successive step until he's finally rushing towards the Kusanagi Clone, his right foot arcing through the air as he performs a half cartwheel, slamming the foot down towards the NESTS commander's collarbone.
"RYUSEN KYAKU!"
COMBATSYS: Ken has left the fight here.
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Ken arrives from elsewhere.
Ken arrives from elsewhere.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid has ended the fight here.
Ayame arrives from elsewhere.
COMBATSYS: Ken successfully hits Krizalid with Ryusen Kyaku.
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Krizalid 1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Ken
"ngh-- NGH!!!"
Krizalid sights Ken cresting through the AC, the deadly aura of chi noted in his Conflict Resolution algorithms. This is completely new data to Krizalid, not something he can extrapolate from his prior reviews of the champion's fighting. But he can use the tone data from the prior two battles, and his own vitals and performance data, to optimize. This is what he wants. This is what Krizalid will have.
One claw opens, his hands tensing up..
There's no trade of witty remarks, no interest in banter, or anything like that. Krizalid sees Ken come forward, and his own detail has been absent. "Come on.. come and hit me," Krizalid hisses, low. Yeah... get closer. Approaching Krizalid is like holding your hand over an open flame. "HIT ME!" he snaps, as Ken obliges him with a deadly smashing attack into Krizalid's shoulderblade, knocking the NESTS commander to his knees, throwing him back and away from Ken--
An unnervingly flexible and quick motion, Krizalid slides back to his feet again, assuming a wide and powerful stance, opening his arms wide and clenching his claws into fists--the most honest expression of the brutality that's going to commence. "AGAIN!!!" Krizalid snaps, long snapping arcs of energy trailing off of his gauntlets and discharging into the ground, fire beginning to boil the concrete beneath his boots. Data energy traces through every patheway of his exoskeleton, feeding his muscle memory directly from his battlesuit.
"Don't make me destroy you, MASTERS!!"
COMBATSYS: Krizalid gains composure.
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Krizalid 1/----===/=======|==-----\-------\0 Ken
"Destroy.." The single word is uttered from the US Champion's mouth, causing his face to tighten into a dark scowl. If the NESTS commander truly wants destruction, then this tool that stands before him is quite capable of delivering it.
Almost everyone in the world at one point or another has seen Ken Masters fight, either through a televised match, or through one of his many street fights, and each one of them can agree on one thing. That spectacular fireball he flings so well is a nice blue, yet today, like everything else regarding the blonde man in red, it is very wrong.
A low growl rises forth from somewhere deep inside Ken as he brings his hands to his side, blue chi with black and gold spiderwebs distorting it gathering between his palms, eyes focused solely upon the target before him that is screaming for destruction. The twisted fireball is thrust forward, "HADOUKEN!"
COMBATSYS: Krizalid blocks Ken's Hadouken.
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Krizalid 1/---====/=======|=------\-------\0 Ken
/!\ Alert! Power has reached untenable levels!
The warning flickers in his wetware's augmented vision system. The bizarre, alien power collides with Krizalid's arm parts, dark black and gold energy crackling and snapping across his power coils, crawling up the man's biceps, before he snorts. "What energy..." This dark force is something completely unlike anything the NESTS researchers have included in Ken's file. It feels cold, almost. As if Ken suddenly and starkly understood everything that has been in Krizalid's heart since inception.
"What power.."
His claws flex, and dark violet and black power, seeming inverted and unreal, smashes through the power coils surrounding his forearms, shattering the staccato majesty of that dark gold force. "This is the fight that we've been _WAITING FOR_!" Krizalid shrieks, his pupils narrowing to points in his eyes, a vein in his forehead twisting as his energy spikes even further.
/!\ Power cascade protocols--commencing.
His claws raise, dual trails of dark lightning following them.
"Let's go, diehead.."
The resultant discharge would have ripped off half of his coat, if he hadn't already burned it off. As Ken blasted him, so will Krizalid respond in kind, thrusting his open claws forward and discharging pulsating force in a violent lightning web across the ground and towards Ken Masters. The wild power cracks the roof, twisting even behind Krizalid. It causes stray bits of concrete to spin in the air and bake from the crackling power Krizalid discharges towards Ken.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid successfully hits Ken with Negative Anguish.
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Krizalid 1/-======/=======|====---\-------\0 Ken
It's one thing to have power that one doesn't even understand coursing through their body, and its another to wield it properly. Ken seems to be suffering from the later as he feels his body start to move against his own will, as if it were trying to react faster then his brain can possibly keep up.
The energy that Krizalid sends forth strikes the blonde man, only causing him to stare in disbelief at it, almost as if it doesn't register immediatly with what just happened. Yet, with a display of genuine strength, Ken is once more tapping into that power he doesn't understand, moving rather fast towards the clawed man, his right fist quickly darting forward with a jab towards his nose.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid dodges Ken's Jab Punch.
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Krizalid 1/-======/=======|====---\-------\0 Ken
The NEST Commander's vision flickers as the heat corona around him grows, his vision splitting off into seperate iterations in brief flashes. If his eyes were fast enough, he might note that it almost feels like he's seeing into the space between seconds, with one iteration representing one snapshot in time, and another representing another entirely. Like.. he was seeing the past in one eye, and the future in the other..
But it's just an illusion.
Krizalid's movements /flicker/ as he moves, causing the commander to simply vanish into a dust cloud, bisected by Ken's brutal punch. "That's it..." Show him your skill.
Krizalid appears to Ken's left, his boots skidding as he hits the ground--and disappears again--
--appears to Ken's right, skidding. The parapet behind Ken cracks, as if Krizalid were there as well. How fast does the commander even move at this level? Krizalid sets his boots into the ground.
--and then tries to rip Ken open with the crack of his own body as it breaks the air barrier, Krizalid trying to rip past his defenses with red-hot tungsten claws, over 16 times in the space between seconds that Krizalid thought he saw only a moment ago--he'll have the champion's blood!!
COMBATSYS: Ken blocks Krizalid's Lightning Disaster.
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Krizalid 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Ken
There's that feeling again, and this is not a sensation that Ken is use to feeling, nor does it seem to make him happy. And an unhappy Ken generally spells out bad things for those fighting him. Krizalid gets his wish, managing to strike Ken, but it's not what the NESTS commander would expect. Somehow, with each strike, Masters manages to keep his guard up, his eyes focused on his opponent as he teleports around the rooftop, little gashes appearing upon his forearms in response.
Fast and tough. Krizalid may seem like he has the upper hand, but as if he were hoping to put a bit of space between the two, Ken's left leg suddenly lurches forward, aiming for the man's chest, trying to knock him away with a decently powered kick.
COMBATSYS: Ken successfully hits Krizalid with Medium Kick.
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Krizalid 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Ken
Quon arrives from elsewhere.
Successfully managing a power cascade while this far gone was difficult to say the least.
Krizalid is fast, but his technique bleeds off a lot of the excess power threatening to trigger a meltdown in the self-styled ultimate clone. Unfortunately for the both of them, Krizalid still has plenty left.
The blades affixed to his hands defended not with expert but more inexorable aplomb, the hound is briefly confused. Why--how? His defense shouldn't be fast enough to keep up with his! Enough to aggravate the clone, he's distracted just long enough for a stiff shot from Ken's leg to collide with Krizalid's chest, checking his assault and sneding the clone skidding back, buckling his charge and sending the clone into a three points stance.
Normal people would have collapsed wheezing by then.
Krizalid only wants the breath in Ken's chest.
"IIIYYAAH!" the commander positively roars, churning a massive whirlwind carved of grinding air and even the electricity from Krizalid's power arrays into it as it rips off into the air, broadly towards Ken Masters. However, ni this state, Krizalid has little mind if a random referee or commentator is standing too close and dies at parto f the exchange.
He'd like that.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid successfully hits Ken with Typhon's Rage "S".
? Strange Hit! ?
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Someone probably did just, in fact, die as part of the exchange.
The death of the cameraman dulled Krizalid's razor wind a little.
This sensation is now starting to truly make Ken angry, and it's visible fully upon his face. He generally doesn't mind recieving a powerful attack, even one that could quite possibly do some serious damage, yet right now, this is something that truly starts to force him into a rage.
The whirlwind manages to catch the Crimson clad man, sending deep gouges into his arms, legs, chest, and even some upon his face. The only response to this that Ken seems to have is a loud gutteral roar, as he seemingly vanishes, only to reappear infront of Krizalid. The tainted power within him has awakened, and now its time for the NESTS commander to witness something new.
Ken's body slowly starts to arch away from Krizalid as his right foot explodes violently with tainted chi, only for the foot to be launched towards him over and over, flames trailing after the US Champion, moving to force his opponent backwards either towards the edge of the rooftop, or to be caught up within the flurry of kicks that now find themselves being thrown over and over at Krizalid. It seemingly comes to an end as Ken ducks down, only to continue the onslaught, moving to drag Krizalid high into the air with a chi-flaming Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku.
"GUREN SENPUUKYAKU!"
COMBATSYS: Ken successfully hits Krizalid with Guren Senpuukyaku.
- Power hit! -
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Krizalid is caught up in a whirlwind of Ken's own.
As if seemingly charged with the wind's speed from Krizalid's own assault, Ken rips into the man twice as soundly as he'd been ripped into, sending the clone high into the air following the attack with another chasing whirlwind slamming his body and breaking his exoskeletal superstructures all on Ken's own power, the fires lancing into Krizalid's body and ripping through his battlesuit, causing a myriad variety of tracking problems as Krizalid's HUD flickers noticeably, bleeding off his explosive energies though the meltdown--
"no.."
Suddenly, Krizalid halts in the air, violet energy trailing off of what's left of his ragged boots, his talons going forward to channel force and fire between them, as massive curtains of fire sprout from him, rippling from Ken's own until the sacred flame of the Kusanagi itself shines brighter than the sun. All of Krizalid's body glows with the massive conflagration esconcing him, dark lightning flying from the bizarre display in all directions. He hangs in the air for a sick moment, as if truly suspended there with some kind of pure force.
He /yanks/ the power forcefully from the cacade, causing a litany of overheating warning for his body, reflected in flashing red static in his vision as the dark lightning crawls over his arms. The curtains of flame at his back grow razor edges as they form slowly into wings conflagrate.
"I. AM. THE _ULTIMATE!_"
His wings curl in, and suddenly the clone -dives- towards Ken, as if an arrow shot from some unholy heaven, his outstretched arm forming some spear of steel, lightning, and consecrating fire as he dives to impale Ken on his arm up to his shoulder with deadly force, the power shockwave of force enough to pretty much cave in the roof entirely, and send him and Ken into the apartment below, filling the bathtub with boiling blood that is not entirely his.
COMBATSYS: Krizalid can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Krizalid successfully hits Ken with End of Eden.
?!? Weird Hit! ?!?
-+- CALCULATED HIT -+-
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As the roof caves in, and Ken is drug down into the apartment below, the raging sensation seems to come to a halt. Of course, this is a bit too late, as he's finding himself slowly fading from the realm of consciousness.
Now the man named Masters finds himself in a flooded bathroom, resting in what was once a beautiful bathtub, only for it to be broken beyond repair, overflowing with water, his blood, and apparently the blood of Krizalid, who managed to place him there. The pain from this is something that is a bit much to take, and already there is clamoring from outside of the bathroom as the Tournament Staff are trying to force their way through the debris to make sure that both Ken and Krizalid can live to fight another day.
So thus Ken allows himself to finally succumb to his own wounds, knowing that he has succeeded in something far more important then destroying the NESTS commander.
Team Tanuki has won their first round battle.
COMBATSYS: Ken takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Ken can no longer fight.
Enmity.
Spite.
The entire roof is caved in, the aftereffect of Krizalid's dire charge on and through Ken. In the end, the steam and smoke in the air bales out of the building in thick, syrupy clouds. Energy and the scent of burning ichor waft through the relatively still air, on occaision particles of dust meeting and discharging massive arcs of power into the air, still enervated by Krizalid's power cascade.
Ken lays there, his will too weak to continue on.
Just like the other loathsome bottomfeeders.
A claw sets hard into the porcelain of the sink, the cool surface evaporating steam and eventually crackling from the tension of the superhot tungsten talons that set into it. "Urgh.. gkheh--"
Krizalid drags himself to his feet, moving towards Ken slowly.
"I .. I won't let you .. beat me..."
Right now, they're alone. He could snap the martial arts champion's neck right now and no one would be the wiser. Blood flows freely from his lip, a long crimson line of saliva dripping onto the watery tile beneath his steel exoskeletal boots. Each step crushes shattered mirror beneath it. Howard and Asamiya beat him. The little stuffed toy won't do so as well. This bastard's smug face... it drives him absolutely _insane_...
"I'll.. destroy you... I _am_ the ultimate.."
He goes to his knees in front of the broken tub in which he put Ken, struggling for every enraged breath he takes, powered on by nothing more than sheer anger at this point. His claws flex open. He reaches out for Ken's throat.
"...This is .. our time .."
--suddenly, Krizalid's talons become weak.
His vision blurs. A flashing red icon appears in his view.
He can no longer read it.
"U..urgh...damnit.."
Krizalid collapses there, slung over the bathtub, his talons landing roughly into the pool of blood that Ken is so peacefully resting in. "I'm.. supposed to be the ultimate...."
Log created on 23:21:18 02/23/2011 by Angel, and last modified on 18:19:48 03/12/2011.