Description: Rick teaches Kazue a little bit about fighting, and the two end the training session with a friendly spar.
Having scouted around the outskirts of the city for a good place to practice with little chance of interruption, Rick stumbled upon the forest and the clearing inside of it, deciding that it was just about perfect. He'd trained there alone a few times, but today he's brought Kazue along with him after telling her that she should learn to fight properly. Being able to run away was good, but knowing when to strike back was also required.
"This city has some pretty rough edges. You probably know that better than I do, but I think you're pretty lucky that you haven't gotten hurt by any of the shadier types doing what you have. And for all you know someone caught you stealing from them and is just biding their time until they come and make you pay," he explains as he leads her to the center of the open space. "Besides! Everyone should know how to -properly- defend themselves, especially young women like yourself. There's a lot of sick people out there, and people who will steal from someone just because they look weak too." He stops then and turns towards her, putting his hands on his hips and looking her over from the top down. "First things first; if you thought someone was going to punch you or kick at you, how would you stand?"
Kazue trails after Rick, glancing around this way and that at the trees. She's not exactly used to being out in the wilderness, but it's not a bad place to be. Just wierd. She stops to watch a small bird fly away from the path as they get closer to the clearing, a bit of a smile forming on her face.
She turns towards Rick as he starts to speak, her smile fading, and nods a little at his words. "Do I look weak?" Her question is quiet, and at his question, she blinks. "How would I stand...?" She furrows her eyebrows, thinking this over for a long moment, then suddenly turns and dashes away down the path they came as quickly as possible. Which is pretty quick, even in this unfamiliar terrain. She pauses about thirty feet away, and turns back around, and starts walking back unless she sees Rick running towards her. She raises her hands to her mouth. "...If someone's trying to attack me with their fists, they can't if I'm far away enough, right?"
Rick scratches his chin a little and shakes his head, "No, you don't look weak. But you do look untrained, and to some people that's the same thing as being weak. And anyone with a gun or knife might think someone without one is weak." As she contemplates how to stand he waits, and then looks a bit exasperated when she dashes away, shaking his head. "That's not what I meant. How would you -stand-. Just running away isn't always going to work. After all, I caught up to you didn't I? And you're probably a faster runner to. The way you run- it's pretty obvious where you're running to, and you even ran straight. If someone had a gun, they could have just shot you in the back and taken any money you had."
Trying to understand how to explain it best, he simply shrugs, "I'll show you what I mean- when I'm fighting, this is how I stand." His posture shifts and he starts moving around some, "See how I'm leaning forward and my weight is on my forward foot? It makes it so I can charge my opponent at a moments notice- like this." Immediately he lurches forward, dashing up the rest of the distance to Kazue and then dropping right back into the same stance without missing a beat. "The way you had to turn around before you ran? If I was expecting it, I could have caught you before you were up to speed."
Kazue furrows her eyebrows at this. "You asked about kicking or punching, though...." She stands in a neutral position, and thinks this over for a moment. "If someone had a gun, I'd handle it differently. Although most people with guns are kinda schmucks. It's not exactly a normal thing to have in Japan, though, even Southtown."
She blinks as he dashes forwards, tensing for a moment and then relaxing again. "I guess having your balance shifted in a direction can help with a quick start, but... why stand in a position when you could be running away from someone or attacking them? While you're moving into that position, I'd get up speed to escape or kick you if we began at the same time." She scratches the back of her head. "...Right?"
"Hm, I suppose I did, but you didn't answer the question either." Rick shrugs vaguely, and then stands straight again, stopping his movements. "Running away doesn't always work. What if they took something from you and you need to get it back? What if you're surrounded and there is nowhere to run to? More importantly, if you just keep running around you're going to tire yourself out while they can conserve their energy and attack you once you're slow. And worst of all? What do you do if you have to fight someone faster than you? If you run away they'll just catch up to you. In fact they might even prefer it if you kept running away from them, because it would mean they could attack you while you couldn't attack them back."
Rick then backs up, taking several steps away from Kazue, "Lets see what would happen, though, if you tried to kick me. I'll move into my fighting stance, and you kick me when I do." He then waits several moments and then shifts postures bringing his hands up and shifting his weight forward again.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Kazue has joined the fight here.
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Kazue lowers her hand back to her side, and tilts her head. "I just always move in a dangerous situation, unless I need to stop moving, I guess?" She listens to him talk. "Then it's time to negotiate or take soemone down who's blocking an exit. If someone took something from me, it's not really a big deal. If I can't disable them and reclaim it quickly, there's no real point in risking further conflict and damage over most material possessions. If someone's faster, attack their leg, then run."
At Rick's invitation to attack him, Kazue furrows her brow, then rushes forwards, aims a quick punch at his shoulder, and keeps on running. She doesn't exactly hold back, but she's not pushing herself to do maximum damage like usual.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight blocks Kazue's Quick Punch.
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Kazue 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 RickKnight
"That's a good example," Rick comments with an approving nod. "If someone is blocking your only exit you'd be forced to deal with them. In that case attacking them right away might not be your best choice. And again, if you just keep running around you'll wear yourself out." He then frowns a little and shakes his head, "And I don't like that. You shouldn't just let someone take things from you. I can understand if you are clearly outmatched, but if you let people take from you they'll take more and more, and soon everyone will know you offer no resistance when stolen from. And that's just it- in order to attack their leg you have to deal with them and their fighting style. You're no longer running away, so would you just run straight at them? That doesn't always work."
To prove his point as she punches at him he reaches his hand up and literally catches it in his palm, immediately trying to clamp his hand around it to keep her from getting away, stepping into her path and then reaching out with his other arm to try and wrap it around her waist and then literally lift her right up off the ground before wrapping both arms around her and holding her against him so she's completely caught and unable to escape if he does manage to grab her. "Sometimes this happens!"
COMBATSYS: RickKnight successfully hits Kazue with Weakened Quick Throw EX.
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Kazue 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 RickKnight
Kazue frowns at his words. She blinks as her hand is grabbed, and an arm is wrapped around her waist, and she's lifted up into the air. She doesn't stay still, though, swinging her leg backwards and behind her, trying to kick off of Rick repeatedly to escape his hold, then kick off of his shoulder to lanch herself off him and upwards into the branches of a tree overhead. "People without anywhere to live usually need it at least as much as I do, if not more. People with a place to live, I can break into their house and steal back whatever they took and more anytime I want. Material possessions aren't that important, as long as you have enough to get by."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight endures Kazue's Vault Kick.
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Kazue 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 RickKnight
Getting repeatedly kicked hurts quite a bit, especially since Kazue doesn't seem to be pulling her punches, but for some reason it doesn't seem to affect Rick that much- he's used to getting hurt, and this is no exception. As she kicks at him he simply tries to maintain his hold, this time using all of his strength rather than just a portion of it so that maybe she'll get the picture. "Not if they sell it, or spend it if it's money. And besides, I thought you were supposed to stop stealing now? If you want to change your ways you're going to have to stop thinking like that. You don't have to stop crime that doesn't involve you like I do, but you should stop your own crime, or crimes done to you!"
COMBATSYS: RickKnight successfully hits Kazue with Megaton Press.
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Kazue 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 RickKnight
Kazue does her best to struggle free, but that just makes Rick's hold hurt her more. "I'm not allowed to steal back from those who have stolen from me? I guess that's true. I've agreed to stop doing crime, but I didn't say I'd stop criminals. If someone is stealing bread from me, and it won't make me starve to lose it..." She swings her head backwards, trying to knock the back of her head into Rick's face, then repeatedly tries to elbow his arm so she can break free. "...They're welcome to it!"
COMBATSYS: RickKnight interrupts Combo Attack from Kazue with Quick Throw EX.
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Kazue 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 RickKnight
Rick gets smacked in the face with the back of Kazue's head, grunting a bit from the pain. But as she starts trying to elbow his arm he shifts his hold, slipping his arm under he elbow when she goes for the second jab and then pulling her other arm behind her back as well, locking them in place and keeping her lifted off the ground by them. "Bread is one thing, but if things go well you should have much more things to get stolen than bread. Remember, you don't have to struggle to survive anymore! Won't you want a cell phone, nicer clothes, or maybe even some jewelry?" As he keeps her held off the ground he gives a bit of a sigh, "Are you done struggling? I should have proven my point by now- your attacks need to be more focused, and so does your evasion. If you accept the truth and decide to improve I can show you how."
"I don't have to struggle to survive, but that doesn't mean I forget what it's like to. I didn't become your fiance because I wanted nice clothes and a cell phone." Kazue keeps on struggling, squirming this way and that. "Also, I'm not done struggling. I'm going to figure out how to get how to get out of this hold." No matter how much damage she does to her body in the process. She swings her feet up in front of her, swinging her body forwards, then swings it back, sending her leg back towards Rick's stomach as strong as she can and tries to kick off him.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight fails to interrupt Heavy Kick from Kazue with Jet Kick.
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Kazue 1/------=/=======|=====--\-------\0 RickKnight
"Kazue, that doesn't make sense. You won't forget what it's like to struggle... so you'll simply let people take things from you? If anything you should hold on to the good things you have even more because you know what it's like to have to go without them! I was never truly homeless, but I worked my way out of slums."
As she swings away and goes to kick him he tries to do his best to prove his point, trying to slam his foot into her back right after she swings forward, only to end up missing and getting walloped, finally dropping her as he stumbles backwards. He growls a little, and then sighs. "Perhaps I shouldn't have started by going easy on you. But I suppose I should admire your tenacity. Do you at least understand now that it might be worth your time to learn how not to get caught like that in the first place?"
Kazue's kicking-off-Rick manuever really didn't have a plan for /success/, and thus she nearly face plants into the ground, pushing her hands against it and flipping over to one side, and rolling up to her feet in the same motion. She rubs her wrist with her other hand, and tilts her head a bit to one side. "Being willing to severely hurt people over retaining a few luxuries is a good thing?"
She blinks at the question, then nods. "Also, I would like to learn a better way of escaping that - sometimes people are going to be quicker than you or do a technique you don't expect."
COMBATSYS: Kazue gains composure.
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Kazue 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 RickKnight
"No, you should be prepared to defend yourself if someone decides to severely hurt you in order to take things from you, or if they decide to severely hurt you just for the sake of hurting you. There are a lot of people in this world that do things like that, and it's people like that that I try to stop the most." As she pauses he relaxes a bit himself, though doesn't completely drop his guard, feeling at his stomach a bit where he got kicked, "There is a reason I didn't simply turn you in to the police, and you know what it is. But there are people who do bad things simply because it's easier, or because it gives them a thrill. People like that you have to be weary of."
To her next comment he grins a little, "Smart decision. But before I teach you that, why don't you let me teach you a proper fighting stance first? It's better to not get caught in the first place than to have to escape."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight gains composure.
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Kazue nods a little bit. "Naturally, if someone's trying to severely hurt you, for whatever, reason, that's different from theft. But running away is usually a good strategy there, all things being equal." She blinks at the 'reason he didn't turn her over to the police' line, and looks away. At the suggestion he teaches her a fighting stance, she looks back, and nods, watching him carefully.
COMBATSYS: Kazue focuses on her next action.
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Rick nods back to her with some emphasis, "Exactly! And that's what I've been trying to get you to realize this entire time. Sometimes people just want to hurt you, and sometimes running away immediately isn't an option, or isn't the best option." As she starts studying him he stands up straight, but keeps his fists held in front of himself, his left forward and his right further back, his weight on his heels as he moves about.
"This is a standard brawling stance. You can see how my weight isn't as far forward- I keep my weight forward because I'm aggressive. But like this you can block incoming attacks with your arms and hands-" he lifts his arms in time with imagined punches, and then quickly lifts his knee up in front of his lower body. "And it's a bit easier to weave." He demonstrates, quickly swinging from side to side, ducking around, "See this? It isn't running away, but it makes it a hell of a lot harder to hit you if they're aiming for the face. But for you? I'd suggest something more like this.
He turns his body away from Kazue so that he's side on towards her, his forward leg straight with his toe pointed towards Kazue, while his back one is bent slightly and pointed perpendicular to the first, "See how much smaller of a target I am like this? And if I need to run..." He quickly turns on his back foot and dashes a few steps before turning back to face Kazue. "It's almost as easy as if you were already facing away from them. A quick distraction with that stance and you'll be able to pull much more distance than you would if you just turned and ran when you realized they posed a threat."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight takes no action.
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Kazue sort of copies the first stance, her weight still evenly on her feet, but her fists held up in front of herself, her left forward and her right further back. She moves her arms as he does, and tries to swing from side to side, then furrows her eyebrows. "It's not particularly easier...."
Seeing him shift position, she attempts to move into the second stance, which is a little more successful, although her back leg isn't bent. "And then you just... stand there like this until you want to move? It doesn't feel right."
COMBATSYS: Kazue takes no action.
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Rick watches her as she tries the different stances, shaking his head a little each time, "Your weight should be on your heels." When she takes the more evasive stance he nods, "Like that, but make sure your back leg is bent. Your weight is closer to center as it is, and you are a lot higher than you need to be. You're trying to make yourself a small target and improve your mobility. Try to bend your leg until most of your weight is on it, that way you can move any direction you need at a moments notice."
He stretches some and shakes his head, "You should move a little, either up and down or forward and back, so that it's harder to anticipate what you're going to do. That's one of the other problems with running away- it makes it very clear exactly what you intend to do. Even if you're going to just defend yourself you don't want them to know that. If they think you're a threat and could hurt them most people won't be as aggressive- they'll have to hold something back in case you attack them." He gives a little laugh then, and if they don't attacking them might be the better choice anyway."
After this little lecture he considers for a few moments, and then nods. "Why don't we test it, like before? I'll come at you and you try to get away. You should be able to feel the difference in mobility for yourself." That said he moves back into his own aggressive stance, waiting several moments before quickly dashing towards Kazue and sending a quick jab for her shoulder.
COMBATSYS: Kazue dodges RickKnight's Quick Punch.
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Kazue shifts her weight forwards onto her front leg, and bends her back leg a little bit, furrowing her eyebrows a little. "...I feel silly doing this." She starts to sway from side to side a little bit at his suggestion, keeping her gaze focused on him. "If someone can and does chase me, I usually attack them with everything I have, which they often don't see coming, since I started running first thing."
She nods at his suggestion that they test it. When he rushes in, she jumps to one side, and stumbles a bit at the unfamiliar footing. She doesn't attack yet, having not been told to attack, and merely resumes the stance facing Rick from her new position, and keeps on swaying back and forth a little.
COMBATSYS: Kazue takes no action.
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Rick nods a little as she manages to slip away from the punch, "Not bad. A little clumsy, but I you'd get over that if you practiced. And don't feel silly, that position is a lot more intimidating than what you were doing before. Even if you haven't studied martial arts you look like you do. I suppose there's something to looking vulnerable and then attacking with everything you have, but that will only work against the same person once. And if it doesn't work the first time you'll really be in trouble."
Now that he's shown her the few fighting stances he knows he considers for a moment on what he should do next, "Okay, I want you to come at me now. Don't worry, I'm not going to try and hit you back, but I want to see how you move and if your form is good."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight takes no action.
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Kazue nods a bit, eyebrows furrowed. "It still feels like I'm doing it wrong, though." She stares at Rick for a long moment. She doesn't really want to hurt him, but she doesn't want him to think she's weak, either. She slowly lets out her breath, then rushes towards him, completely losing the stance on her first step out of it, her hands beginning to glow with energy as she aims a barrage of punches at his chest.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight blocks Kazue's Lock Breaker.
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Kazue 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 RickKnight
Rick nods his head some, "Then we should work more on that as well. First though, I want to see if there are any flaws in your attacks." When she comes at him he's surprised by the glow of energy, but it doesn't stop him from lifting his arms and meeting her punches with a solid guard, his eyes studying how she holds her body and how she throws her punches. "Hm, not too bad," he declares. "But you need just a bit of work. When you throw a punch put more of your body into it. You're doing that some already, but to deliver a truly decisive blow a punch should start in your leg and flow through your entire body. You're more advanced than I thought if you've learned how to turn your passion into a weapon, though!"
He takes a few steps back away from her and then nods, "Okay, try a few more punches, but drop the energy force. It was impressive, but you'll wear yourself out quickly if you keep it up." As he readies himself for another attack he adds, "And one more thing- once you're finished attacking you should move back into that stance. At the very least it'd make me have to stretch more to hit you."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight takes no action.
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Kazue blinks, returning to no stance as she finishes the attacks. She tilts her head a bit to one side, and conjures a bit of energy around her left hand, looking down at it. "That's the power of my passion? I always assumed it was chi or something...." She looks back to Rick. "Passion... does that mean I have 'Psycho Power'?"
She's about to start punching again, but then he tells her to return to the stance, so she does, then immediately steps back out of it, leaning forwards to let another barrage of fists at him. It's not as strong without the energy, though.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight dodges Kazue's Combo Attack.
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Rick looks a bit confused for a moment, "Ahh, right. I think chi is the technical term for it, but I've always considered it a manifestation of a persons fighting spirit. Now that I'm getting serious about fighting the best I should probably use the proper term. Psycho Power though... I don't think so. It felt the same as most other chi attacks I've had to deal with, though I don't know for sure."
This time when she comes at him rather than stopping her fists with his arms he takes steps backwards, twisting from side to side and quickly moving about, anticipating the direction of each punch and keeping out of their paths. "A bit better. It's harder to put weight into your punches when they don't land, isn't it? You didn't seem to fall off balance though, so that's a good sign- you've got a pretty good amount of natural talent, if you've never focused on fighting so much as surviving and escaping."
He scratches his chin then before giving her a slight grin, "How would you feel about a spar? That's the best way I can gauge how much talent you have. You might not have interest in fighting for money, but judging by what I've seen you could probably do it, if you wanted."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight takes no action.
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"Oh. Well, maybe it's just chi then." Kazue doesn't fall over, instead she uses the forwards momentum to rush past him when he's to the side, then spins around when she's about ten feet away - assuming he hasn't quickly caught on and followed. She furrows her eyebrows a little at the word 'spar'. "All right." She falls back into that stance, forgetting to bend her back leg for a moment, but she quickly remembers and adjusts. "You're pretty good at defending yourself. I'm less worried about you being a professional fighter, now."
COMBATSYS: Kazue takes no action.
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Kazue 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 RickKnight
Rick's grin broadens, and he lifts his hand and pounds himself on the chest a few times, "Like I said, this body isn't easy to break. I may fight aggressively, but that doesn't mean I'm easy to hurt." He shakes his arms out a bit and hops from one foot to the next before dropping back into his usual fighting stance, "Okay. Tell me if you're getting winded or too hurt and we'll stop. Don't hold back though, I want to see what you're capable of if I push you."
Having spoken he begins to move, running towards Kazue. Anticipating her trying to escape he suddenly leaps, gaining quite a bit of speed in the air before swinging his left fist down hard towards the top of her head.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight successfully hits Kazue with Strong Punch.
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Kazue immediately hurls herself to one side as he rushes in, but it's just as Rick predicted, and he smacks her in the head, and she's driven halfway to the ground. She stumbles, aims a jab at his chest with her fist, then hurls herself backwards a couple of steps, keeping on backing up a little as she tries to keep her distance, shaking her head a little, her eyes furrowed as she watches him.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight dodges Kazue's Quick Punch.
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Kazue 1/----===/=======|===----\-------\0 RickKnight
Rick feels a bit bad for pounding her so hard on the head, but the fact that she's able to take such a blow and keep going is heartening. As the fist is jabbed at him he twists sideways, putting a hand on hers and pushing it away while rushing past her as she did to him several times, stopping about fifteen feet away. He has another important lesson for her now, though she may know it already. His fist clenches tightly and he holds it just in front of his chest, "Cannon..." A glowing aura of yellow surrounds his hand, quickly growing and intensifying before his hand suddenly jerks back and then shoots forward, punching the chiball and sending it flying towards Kazue, "FIST!" Just because he's far away doesn't mean he can't attack.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight successfully hits Kazue with Cannon Fist.
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Kazue blinks as he actually increases the distance, then her eyes widen as he punches a chiball at her. She didn't know he could do that. She tries to throws herself onto the ground, but the fireball is coming to fast, and hits her in the chest, keeping her upright. She furrows her eyebrows, and rushes straight towards him, building up speed at an alarming rate, aiming her fist squarely at his chest to knock him back, then keeps running, hoping to find some cover in the trees.
COMBATSYS: Kazue successfully hits RickKnight with Escape.
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Once more Rick tries to shift aside and avoid the attack, but the speed Kazue built up is too much, and she ends up kicking him just as he's turning away, spinning him fully around and knocking him off his feet as she heads towards cover. "Not bad... not bad at all. But like I told you, running away doesn't always work!" He picks himself up and grins a little to himself, leaning forward and sprinting towards her as fast as he can, completely throwing caution to the wind and chasing her through the forest itself, weaving expertly between the trees and carefully avoiding shrubs and roots that will slow him down. "Here I come, Kazue!" he shouts, finally catching up behind her before quickly throwing punches at her back, one jab coming after another in numerous rapid succession before he wheels his arm back and aims a stronger punch at the back of her thigh.
COMBATSYS: RickKnight successfully hits Kazue with Quick Punch EX.
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Kazue is hit repeatedly, and starts to crumple to the ground at that stronger punch in the thigh. But, it's not like pain is unfamiliar for her. She struggles back to her feet, taking a large step back, then hurls herself forwards, swinging her injured leg up high, and aiming her foot squarely at Rick's neck. She's not really worried that such a thing would seriously hurt him, besides, she's rather preoccupied by the whole intense pain thing. In fact, after she swings the kick out, she begins to stumble to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Kazue can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: RickKnight endures Kazue's Break The Door.
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Rick stands firm and simply takes the hit as Kazue kicks towards his neck, twisting to the side from the force of the blow but not falling down. In fact he's even able to reach forward and catch Kazue as she starts to stumble and collapse, easing her down so she can rest. "There you go. I think I was right, you definitely had a lot of potential. It wasn't easy at all when you were really trying. And now that you have a better idea of what I'm capable of I'm sure you'd have an easier time. There's also a few things that would help you significantly that I noticed, but we'll talk about that later. For now you should rest up a bit, and after that we'll go home. You did good today, Kazue."
COMBATSYS: RickKnight has ended the fight here.
Kazue blinks as Rick just takes that blow head on. As she falls, she struggles to right herself, trying to marshal her aching body to hold out for a little longer. But with no success. She relaxes as she feels Rick catch her, and looks up at him as he eases her onto the ground, listening to him talk. She closes her eyes. "...okay."
Log created on 18:47:01 06/13/2011 by RickKnight, and last modified on 23:10:08 06/13/2011.