Description: A rag-tag band of heroes march on China to try and stop the forces of evil once and for all! Powerful allies have come to the world's aid, but can they overcome man's own terrible creations? An attempt to take out a nuclear warhead-launching railgun goes away, all involved--save for the teleporting Vega himself--weather a blast of nuclear fire firsthand, causing a sudden retreat. BONUS: Mike Bison punches a NUKE. And maybe dies.
Things were going so well. The first strike on the rest of the world went off without a hitch. Russia had no idea the monster that seethed on her southern borders. When the floodgates were opened, she were caught almost completely unawares. That single conquest provided a very important linch pin for Vega's entire plan.
Well, this part of it, anyway.
But lo, people around the world did swarm to lesser men's aid! Nations that should have toppled easily found themselves supported by the fists of amateurs in the art of war, yet powerful enough to stem the tides of battle after battle. It's a situation that has proved infinitely frustrating. Control teetered back and forth across the land: some gained, some lost, but China's forces had steadily been gaining ground.
And then he lost his grip on the nigh-impenetrable frozen North.
It was a bit of a risk, pulling forces to bolster offenses elsewhere. The defense of Russia was left in the hands of one of his most trusted, most capable assassins. If anyone in Shadaloo should be able to defend something, it would be Cammy. Oh, but how terribly she failed! Without her presence, foreign troops with modern gear made light of the harsh Russian winters. Allied troops found a foothold. Resources. Hope. The recovery of the Motherland was enough to finally push U.N. dignitaries to action. A concerted, powerful push against China's northern borders is underway, held off--for the moment--by the elite of the People's Republic defenses.
There is one stretch of land, however, that holds neither troop nor tank. For hundreds of yards in any direction, there is a distinct absence of life save for a single, malignant soul. Whatever division had been in charge of pushing into Chinese lands at this location had the awful luck of running into Vega himself. Trees and grass are broken and pocked with craters. The earth is blemished with scorched and sizzling streaks, spent fires and exploded shells having left their mark on the land. NATO troops litter the ground in a veritable sea of broken and mangled corpses. Those that still have intact faces have died with a look of utter terror on their features.
Vega himself stands among the dead, his cloak tattered and his clothes singed here and there, but generally looking otherwise unharmed. He paces about with a hand to his ear, pressing a simple communication device to it. The thing spews out a constant stream of radio chatter and status updates from the other front lines. So far, it seems that things are holding. Good. "Prepare Lincoln, Teresa, Orpheus." Pause. "Mark."
Not a hundred yards away from where the crimson-threaded figure stands, a circular patch of earth splits and spreads to reveal a gaping pit some fifty feet wide. The whine and grind of turning gears and the hiss of hydraulic pistons lifts a massive platform, completely cylindrical save for a pair of lattice-patterned metal planks. The platform locks into place with loud bangs as steel hooks lock it into place. The planks lift, raising one end toward the ground and the other skyward, the latter of which extends into what is essentially a sixty-foot barrel. The air gains a decidedly static quality while the hum of electricity gathers in coils, slow feeding the railgun with the magnetic power it needs to deliver its payload...
As if things could not get any worse, a door on the railgun platform is hurled open from complete impatience to the blinding sight of something... golden.
Many, many things golden, on a man whose soul is so tarnished in frivolous matters and blood that he somehow makes himself appear even more the wretched simpleton some would accuse the man of being... behind his back. Two states away. When they're sure he's asleep.
"EFFIN' A," screams the familiar voice of Mike Bison - former world heavyweight boxing champ, who is known for his brutality as much as his loyalty to one Vega almost entirely for monetary gain. It seems that in recent times he has taken a liking towards paying /himself/, as he's adorned with gold. Gold everywhere. Gold teeth. Gold shades. Gold boxing gloves studded with gold plate. He might even be wearing gold socks and gold underwear, for all anybody knows, all of which was conveniently looted from Myanmar for the short time China got to hold it before another underworld power decided it wanted to play a game of land grab.
He is visibly agitated by the noise of the railgun, so much that he almost crushes something in his hand (that is decidedly not made of gold).
"YO!" He shouts above the noise of the powering-up railgun. "GOT YOUR GOODS RIGHT HERE, BOSS MAN." He nearly dangles right off the raised platform just to have a clear shot at tossing the syringe to Vega from where he stands (it's still a hell of a toss). Why the hell does he have to be the errand boy for R&D? Balrog got to go beat faces in Japan and let's face it, he's itchin' for some action that's not just the loud static ringin' in his ears.
Actually, he's also kind of pissed most of the NATO guys are already iced. Guess who he might have to take it out on the moment they show their ugly mugs?!
May Lee has seen a lot of things in the war. She's seen one of her idols turned into a deadly monster. She's seen good men die and bad men live. She's been forced to kill to stand up for her ideals (though she's done her very best to keep that to a minimum). If Vega's plan was merely to strip the innocence from youth... well, he has at least tarnished the shine of the Champion of Justice, May Lee.
Although it had been tempting to try and free her countrymen in the North from the yoke of their oppressors, May Lee had found herself ultimately faced with a dilemma. Unable to be everywhere at once, she has entrusted the care of Chun-Li to her friends, and carried on alone into China herself. Well. Kind of.
May's outfit has started to be restored. Her Power Belt is buttoned tight, and the scarf - carried across the world by Howard Rust, scorched and torn, a symbol of her defiance - flutters bright behind her. The blue-haired heroine of Korea can practically *feel* Vega's presence. The sight of what is laid out before her brings her up short.
"Y-you can do this, May." She murmurs to herself. No longer wearing her frog shirt, but a flak jacket, her heart beats faster. She has no idea what that cannon is. But it doesn't look good. And, there's Vega. It had all sounded so simple she'd almost believed she'd be able to convince herself to do it. But even just looking at him is terrifying.
Weirdly enough, Mike Bison, despite being a terrifying man in his own right, doesn't do much to scare May Lee more. One weapon of mass destruction, and a giant freaking cannon, seem to have done a pretty good job of that.
"One foot... in front of the other."
And, finally having convinced herself she can remember how to walk, she begins to do just that. Vega. She... she has to fight Vega. Bring him down and all this madness stops... right?
Cammy is having a little bit of employment difficulties at the moment, to understate her situation somewhat. It's not like Shadaloo is known for it's gentle disciplinaries. So she is not actually with Bison in the railgun dugout. But she is here! As a free, though perhaps not in mind, agent of sorts.
Skulking amidst the corpses, she slowly approaches the Vega and his device - until she spies other people drawing near, at which point she suddenly pops up out of the corpses, her blue uniform all dusty and bedraggled. "Master! I am so sorry, master! But I am still here for you!". Even if some of his soldiers tried to kill her, it seems that Cammy has doggedly made her way here despite the obvious 'not welcome' hints Vega has sent, with singleminded persistence.
Thailand is safe. Or at least for now. For weeks it has been a hotbed for battles that cost many Thai people their lives. People like Hunter were created by this war. A war that thankfully seems to be swinging in favor of those that oppose Vega. At first Sagat was unsure if Vega could be stopped. The surprise attack on Russia followed by victories in places like India and Thailand soon afterwards showed he is making a strong push to capture all of Asia switfly before anyone else could retaliate.
Then people started to fight back. People like Sagat who knew all too well that they could not let Shadaloo continue to gain power. People like May Lee and Kim Kaphwan who showed their defiance while saving Korea. People like Quon and Rust who came to Sagat's aide on request and even later defeated Cammy to liberate Russia and greatly change the tide of this war to where Shadaloo is reeling from several defeats at the hands of various fighters helping out the militaries of the various nations under attack.
Now it is time for people to step up and try to put an end to this once and for all. Not even a year ago could people fathom one of these 'saviours' be a man that stalks through China now. A man that can feel the evil energy that Vega gives off due to the fact he has been around it for so many years and can easily track it. Sagat very well knows he is walking into a trap, but this might be his last change to get to Vega. And much like he can feel Vega's presence, the evil dictator can easily sense that his once most loyal of followers is approaching to not help, but to stop him.
It isn't -so- far from India to China. By normal peoples' reckoning, it's a distance requiring a commercial flight. For the Legendary Wolf? It's a couple days' ride on his trusty motorcycle, and some tricky border work. He'd left India just after beating the -tar- out of the S.I.N. operative known as Juri. He's been told--by the Indians, by the news--that China is it, where everything is happening... getting in wasn't easy. It required the dispatch of several Shadaloo patrols. But he's not trying to be stealthy.
Some time ago he abandoned the cycle--and so when he comes up onto the battlefield, -this- battlefield, he is alone... for the moment. It's hard to miss the carnage, the scent of death, of the dead... Vega's bastion, his stronghold. Terry hasn't, overall, concerned himself with would-be world-conquering dictators. But as he walks amongst the dead...
He's working up to it. His steps are deliberate, not hurried. He can sense the danger that awaits. There's no reason to run towards it. He doesn't know if other people are coming... and in truth, he doesn't care. The Legendary Wolf is known for having strong allies--but he didn't earn the sobriquet by being unwilling to face death alone. But he feels that there -will- be others. It's inevitable. This situation practically calls out to those who are touched by the call of Justice.
Slowly, one by one, fighters are coming to the battlefield. They started in differing corners of the world, in some cases, to Russia, to Asia, to the Middle East, and now finally to China, the cancerous heart of all the death, corruption, and evil plaguing the world as of late. Yet one more has arrived, though few know it.
Hidden in the trees, violet eyes watch as reinforcements arrive. After the events just recently near India, she has been working her way here as stealthily as possible, and has finally arrived. No plan was in place for when she got here, maybe scope out what was going on to report back, but now that she sees other fighters showing up, the smart idea is obvious: join up with them.
As Terry walks past her hiding place, she drops from her perch into the shadow of the tree, landing as silently as she can. She then walks out of the darkness to fall in step behind him for now. She remembers well the near deathblow Vega hit her with the last time she encountered him. This time, she hopes, will end much less painfully....
A hand rises to catch the thrown syringe, thick fingers carefully wrapping around it. His pale eyes turn to look it over, turning the object about again and again. The glass tube inside positively festers with a terrible concoction, the latest in Senoh's twisted experimentations.
"Finally, someone that can do what I ask." How awful is it that the underling with the lowest intellect is the only one doing something right? ...Even if it IS just delivering something. As of late, Vega is convinced that getting anyone to do even that will take a miracle. "Now get OVER here, those infurating maggots are well on their way."
He needs no video to sense the sickening sense of Justice overflowing from the north. A team of vagabonds this way come. As they rise over the horizon, the Dark Lord turns and folds his arms across his chest. He had expected them, of course. "Look at them," he says, not even looking toward his excessively-gilded brute. "A traitor. A false hero. A pair of inconsequential weaklings." And then Cammy pipes up. His eyes narrow like an embarassed father suffering through a child's floundering in a simple school play. A sigh leaves his lips, the weight of his previously-trusted doll's failure forcing the very air from his lungs. "And a FAILURE."
It matters not that heroic sorts are closing in on him. He stomps through the swath of corpses between him and his ex-Doll. His boots stomp carelessly on the fallen, snapping ribs and spines as his pace grows ever faster, the steps increasingly fueled by fury. By the time he would reach her, he's already rushing, eager to lift a foot and stomp it down on her pretty little neck. Hit or miss, though, he gives her but a single warning:
"You had better live through this, you miserable WASTE. I swear that after I've killed every last one of these would-be saviors, I'll make you live through the experience of having your body disassembled bit by WORTHLESS BIT upon Senoh's slab!" He spits while he speaks, so utterly incensed! His outline glows with a pale shell of fiery violet energy, an effect that seems to suck all the light from his face. Cammy has seen him angry, of course...but what is it now like to have it turned on HER? He turns toward Bison, whipping an arm out in a sweeping motion. "YOU! Slow them! Leave not a man alive or it'll be YOUR head!"
COMBATSYS: Vega has started a fight here as a boss!
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M.Bison probably would've brought himself over there without invitation. He might've hesitated and eventually relented if he was told explicitly not to, but god damn he's all pimped out and he hasn't had a chance to strut his stuff since. Even though he'd be pissed to get it dirty. But he wants to wear it. He will be very mad if it gets dirty but he wants to wear it. This simple conundrum can really only be solved once the bridge is crossed, probably with punching. So many things in life are solved with his two fists (and his head, well, more than you would think but not in the way one would think).
Even when Bison comes down to Vega's side, he suddenly finds himself giving Vega a wide berth as the great purple energy even gives /him/ the heebie-jeebies.
"Yeah, you got it," Bison growls. His ears are still ringing from that railgun cannon, he's still pissed as he rolls his neck back and forth to work out all the kinks, tapping his awesome gold-gilded gloves together once, and punching at the air in front of him several times over just to warm up because it feels like he hasn't just punched anyone or anything forever.
"COME GET IT!" He yells out. For being the pivotal battle for the fate of the world, he has not prepared any real special keepers among his highly limited vocabulary of challenging one-liners as he starts just pounding his fists together and together. He doesn't care how many faces he's looking at, or of those who might have overcome him in the past. Vega says take 'em all down, he'll take 'em all down!!
COMBATSYS: M.Bison gathers his will.
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Once upon a time - long before anything that Cammy actually currently remembers, in fact when she was almost fresh out of the test tube - Vega decided to test her loyalty Personally. The result of that being the long scar across an otherwise flawless cheek. Back when Cammy was new, she didn't move an inch even as the fearsome Lord of Shadaloo bore down on her.
But this time, it's apparently different. The ex Killer Bee watches him charge her down, and for a while it does look like she's just going to stand there - but like in a failed game of chicken, this time she blinks, and leaps away from Vega's heavy booted foot. "Master..." she cries out, tears filling her eyes. "You can't mean that!".
But maybe it's not politick to fight at Vega's side after all. Clearly, she will be a distraction. He's hitting /her/ when he should be hitting /them/, and the Doll is sure this is bad strategy. When she's backed away sufficiently she gives Mike Bison a Look, and points to him. "He will fail you far worse than me, Lord Vega! He is so dumb, he can barely tie up his own bootlaces. I am not that bad. Truly. ". Yeah, some rivalry there perhaps. With that, she scampers away and leaves them to it. Maybe she will be forgiven later, after the good guys have trashed Vega and Mike along with him. Then, Vega will need all the help he can get, and his loyal Doll will be there for him. ...Or so she hopes.
COMBATSYS: Cammy has left the fight here.
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May Lee breaks into a run as she sees Vega pick up speed himself. There's someone down there! And, whilst it is difficult to see exactly what is going on, stopping Vega from killing someone is... well, it is what she's here to *do*!
It is as she is running forward that she hears Bison's challenge. She can't help it. Such a brazen declaration speaks to something in her soul. Vega, with underling, with giant freakin' cannon ... in the Tokusatsu shows, you *never* go right for the big boss, you have to beat up his minions first and disable his dastardly plot. May Lee knows, logically, that the world is not a Tokusatsu TV show... but at the same time, wouldn't it be great if it was? It'd mean that the good guys have already won.
"In the name of JUSTICE!"
And May seems to have found her smile again! It is almost dazzling, enough to make Kim proud.
"I will PUNISH YOU!"
Leaping into the fray, even if she *is* inconsequential in the larger picture, May does her best to make Mike Bison feel her presence.
Descending from above, May aims to crash both feet into Mike's broad chest. The dude towers over her, but despite all /conventional logic/, she's going to do her best to grab the towering former World Heavyweight Champion by the shoulders, and, if she can do that, transfer boots from chest to meaty jaw. *POW!*
*JUSTICE!*
*ROUND ONE, FIGHT!*
COMBATSYS: MayLee has joined the fight here.
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In all honesty Sagat isn't sure who he may run into if anyone at all. This could be a suicide mission and a final battle for the God of Muay Thai. He can't let that that happen. He still must fight Ryu before he can find a peaceful death. Of course Vega isn't going to care what Sagat wants and certainly won't give him a peaceful death if he has anything to say about it. Death is the last thing on his mind right now. With the shout of Justice echoing through the battlefield he is coming upon he knows at least one ally has arrived. Odd how it is the young student of Kim that fought at his side when he last met Vega. He hopes they both do better this time around.
Given that he now sees Bison he doesn't think this fight will go better. In fact it might just be more brutal than dealing with an army of tanks and the like such as last time. Then he starts to see other familiar faces. The presence of Terry brings a bit of a grin to the large fighter's face. If someone like him shows up perhaps Ryu will too? Maybe he can get his fight he so desires after Vega is defeated? He can feel the adrenaline already building just thinking about that possibility even there is no sign that Ryu is anywhere near here.
That single eye sweeps over the field as he sees May Lee already springing into action and then towards Vega as he looks to shoo Cammy away from his side. The gaze finally falls upon the large rail gun and it narrows a bit. "Hit him where it really hurts...." he murmurs to himself and he breaks into a run. While he is not the speediest of individuals his long strides easily carry him towards that rail gun as he looks to build momentum before leaping upwards and swinging a powerful kick upwards to actually try to tear into the metal of the large weapon. "I will break your toy!"
COMBATSYS: Sagat has joined the fight here.
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That's right. Justice is here. Normally, Terry might link up with May Lee, with Sagat--the true Emperor of Muay Thai no matter -what- Adon says--and go from there. But May Lee is, understandably, a little torqued and who can blame her? Terry comes up as May Lee is charging Vega, and Sagat looks to break the railgun with his powerful legs. Heh. He hadn't heard that Sagat had broken free of Vega's control, but the evidence is there before him. Can't ignore that.
Terry's long legs propel him from a walk, to a trot, to a full on run--and his goal is not Vega -or- the railgun. Because there are three major elements in this fight and they'll all have to be taken down, or at least, engaged, or any two elements could overwhelm any one of the attackers. Terry's run turns into a leap and, as he flies through the air in his long arc, he balls up his right fist. Bison's a boxer, right? Well, Boxer Meet Fist.
COMBATSYS: Terry has wandered into the fight here.
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Since Munin is right behind Terry, she sees everything as he and May Lee both go after Bison, and Sagat goes at the rail gun. Her mind runs through plans, and she quickly comes to the idea that it's better to focus fire per target. Her mind is also rather boring at times, clearly.
She pulls out a pair of handles from behind her back, and with a quick flick of the wrist and a *SNIKT* sound from each, a pair of shortswords are ready to go into battle, dark violet chi drifting off their edges like a fine mist. With a smirk, she swings them in an arc before herself, sending a large wave of shadowy chi whizzing through the air towards Bison, as well.
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here.
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Late to the fiesta!? DON'T THINK SO!
A cloud of snow and dirt is seen closing in on the fight from the horizon? Is it a tornado? A cyclone? A typhoon perhaps!? No! It is none other than the Mexican Hurricane approaching a the speed of sound, running as fast as his speedy luchador legs can take him.
"Wait! Wait up!" The masked hero flails his arms wildly running as he makes a bee line to the only fighter in the hero part he recognizes; Munin.
"Seņorita Munin! Sorry I could not arrive sooner! I took a wrong turn in Afghanistan! Apparently someone changed it's name to something else! It started with an R!" Speaking in his usual machine gun thick Spanish accent dialect, the Strong One doesn't make much sense and probably breaks the dramatic sense of the scene by jabbering about nonsense. All he knows is that he finally managed to tracked down the one that convinced him to take part of this conflict and he can get down to business!
Which was....?
"Whoa! Who are those guys? I think I recognize the boxer." Muses he before the temperatures of the land sting his bare torso self "Ay caramba! It's cold here!"
The transition from running from the Middle East to the Mother Land feels down right awful.
COMBATSYS: ElFuerte has joined the fight here in the center.
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Cammy. That damned, slippery insect! The soil itself gives beneath Vega's boot in her stead, leaving him to seethe further. In the meantime, everyone seems to have found new targets. The hope resting in the newcomers' collective bosom is almost enough to make him gag. 'Heroes', seriously... No matter how many years, no matter how many decades pass, there's always someone that thinks that they know what's good for the world.
Truly, only one with vision and ambition--someone like Vega himself--could possibly know something like that.
Standing upright once again, he swells his lungs with the fetid air of the battlefield. He's afforded time to look around, which in reality surprises the hell out of him. Ah, but who could blame them? Vega is an island among men, surrounded by jagged rocks and dangerous waters. To approach him is to invite one's demise, is it not? Bison, the idiotic fool that he is, is quickly set upon by the insects quickest to swarm. Off in the distance, Sagat seems to have selected the more appropriate target. He was always the smartest one.
The man takes one last glance in the direction that his ex-minion went. Oh, he will find her. In the meantime, he has more important matters to attend to.
The syringe in his hand is pressed to the side of his neck in an instant. It hisses as it delivers its caustic payload, bringing a clenching of teeth and burning in his eyes. Psychosomatic venom runs through his veins, bloating vessels and overloading each and every neuron in its wake. Even the great Lord Vega doubles down in agony, but soon, the searing dulls to a muted pain. The thin ring of "flame" around him swells like a raging fire, leaving grass blackened beneath his feet. When his eyes open, he looks rejuvenated!
And then, he smiles.
In less then the blink of an eye, his body disappears, then returns to view just beside Sagat himself. Just as he seeks to maul the mounted weapon with strength of shin, so too does Vega bring a boot up to try and crush the man's neck against the metallic wall. The place that the Emperor had kicked has buckled terrible, but even now it's begun to bubble back outward, little by little. It would seem that this device is a bit tougher than the tanks and trucks he'd been dealing with...
COMBATSYS: Vega jabs himself with a syringe. Veins and muscle bulge around the injection point.
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COMBATSYS: Aithon takes no action.
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MayLee 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Munin
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: M.Bison blocks Munin's Shadow Wave.
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: Terry successfully hits M.Bison with Strong Punch.
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: MayLee successfully hits M.Bison with Crow's Wing.
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
Bison almost doesn't feel like dignifying that bit of... whatever it was that taps him as he turns his elbow into it, whatever it is. The sudden surge of Vega's power with that syringe is, immediately, almost overwhelming to his simple mind. This hesitation-inducing headache and sudden tinge of out-and-out fear is hesitation enough for Terry to leap in on the guy and smash his face (and a gold tooth or two) as he staggers back. May Lee, in her bravery, risks jumping into the man with a promise to punish him, with both feet crashing solidly into his chest and grabs upon him. He looks to her face-to-face, gaudy-gold-shades thug to the burnt-scarf-bearing heroine before she boots him in the jaw hard enough he falls to a crouch.
He wipes his mouth out of habit, and pauses to see he's got /his/ blood on /his/ gold fists.
"YOU GOT BLOOD ON MY BLING!" He shouts, anger allowing him the will to at least overcome that overbearing aura of dread that Vega produces as he pulls himself back up to fighting form.
The greatest evidence against this world being a mere live action hero show is in how M.Bison does not stop to regard who it is he's looking to. He does not recognize the concept of a hero - he has severed any ties from any sort of cartoon narrative as a hardened (if dim) man who cares only that he can use the one thing he's good at in life for all the decadence he can grab with his own two fists.
"I'LL BREAK YOUR FACE!" Is all the regard he gives May Lee as he does not fall back, he does not relent - or even really distinguish, at all, between those who have jumped on him - as he strikes out with his fist raised upwards, an uppercut so strong it carries him forward towards her very face.
May Lee, who has let her spirit triumph over the rigors and sadness of war, is now tasked with now truly earning her happy ending as he bowls just past the Legendary Wolf and the girl of shadow who has not earned her right to be smug in any sense of the world - they might feel an extremely nasty draft just by being close to his swinging arm.
M.Bison's nasty uppercut is just the first of many obstacles towards saving the world.
COMBATSYS: M.Bison successfully hits MayLee with Dash Upper.
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
May Lee is flying.
The girl has found herself in this position far too many times recently. Drifting through the air after taking a blow so fast she barely saw it coming. On some level, she's actually trying to gauge just how much that hurt; less than when Vega hit her, less than when Chun-Li hit her. Those times, she can't remember anything other than that she came back to herself after a moment of darkness, splitting apart from the pain.
Which is not to say that the uppercut does not hurt; in this moment, it is agonizing. Her lip is split and bleeding, but, where others might cry out, May Lee ... smiles?!
A gust of wind of her own answers the raging blast generated by Bison's uppercut, and as she lands, skidding across the ground, her booted feet kick up the blood-stained dirt. "Go take out Vega!" She shouts to her erstwhile allies, straightening up to cockily wipe her bloodied lips with the back of one gloved hand. The girl is still standing, and her eyes meet Bison's, challenging, as she straightens herself up.
"I'll take care of this /bonehead/."
And her scarf ~flutters~ dramatically.
COMBATSYS: MayLee prepares herself for a dramatic comeback!
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: Vega successfully hits Sagat with Dead Rise.
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
Given the sheer size of the gun Sagat knew it would take more than just a kick to tear through it. That can't stop him from trying to do so, though. Who knows how soon this thing might be ready to fire and if something goes off? Well that isn't going to be pretty at all. He takes a deep breath and gets ready to strike when something happens that even makes the large fighter to be caught by surprise. Whatever Vega did to himself makes Sagat look quickly over in his direction to find Vega nowhere to be seen. That sudden surge of energy on top of the already frightening power he normally has even has Sagat of all people worried. What the hell did he just do?
He looks about he finally catches sight of where Vega is. It is much too late to put up a proper defense and that foot catches him by the neck and he slams back against the giant railgun. He really can't say much as he reaches to try to pull that foot from his throat. The impact has left another small dent in the metal that is slowly bubbling itself outwards along with where he striked. His hands ignite with energy as he looks ready to just up and blast Vega in the face only to turn himself around and thrust both fists forward to try and blast a hole in the damn thing. "I don't know the fuck you did, but I will destroy this even if it kills me." The whole dieing part may come quickly.
Terry didn't figure the Korean to go for Bison as well--but it makes sense. He acknowledges her with a brief nod. "Keep on him. I've got a date with a dictator," he says, with a smirk. That smirk fades as Vega... injects himself. Not... good. But Terry shores up his courage. He's beaten Krauser. He's beaten Geese. He can beat Vega.
"Resorting to drugs, huh?" he asks, as he springs past Bison with another push of his long legs, aiming to land right in front of Vega--and immediately slamming into an attack. His momentum transfers, from his feet up into his arms, and it's that impetus he uses to hurl himself into a driving punch, his right fist flaring with that well-known golden-white chi.
"Frankly I'm surprised. You didn't seem the type to shoot up." Clearly Terry doesn't know Vega all that well--or at all, really--but the patter helps him concentrate... and forget just how scary this dude really is. _Before_ he went all Bane.
At least her attack served as a nice potential distraction for the muscle-headed bulldog of a boxer. Too bad it didn't seem to phase him much. The others hit him nicely, however, and Munin nods as May Lee tells them to move on and leave him to her.
She sees Terry make a beeline for Vega. Between her fear from last time, and seeing that injection, she decides to help Sagat first. The sooner the device of who-knows-what is destroyed, the faster he can focus on the other two! She makes a beeline, attacking the strange device with both weapons with all her might as she runs in! Fuerte is here, she thinks, and he can assist with Bison or Vega as is needed for the moment, at his choice.
Once El Fuerte's eyes adjust to the fact he's not running at mach speeds anymore. He is greeted by the horrendous sight of the bloody battle unfolding before him. Terry, Sagat, Maylee and Munin all doing their very best to stand against the forces of Shadaloo, some of them already paying the price for their efforts as some of them are viciously smashed when locked in the gory melee. What's worse, there's a look of pure disgust when he spots the tyrant of Shadaloo injecting himself.
"Sheesh! Now he looks like if he had just eaten one of my chalupas!"
But let us concentrate. With Terry Bogard tagging out to take on the warlord himself, El Fuerte takes this as his cue to charge in and take his place against the mad boxer.
"Allow me!" El Luchador jumps in with a flip, dashing towards Bison with blurring speed and jumps high up aiming for Bison. Just as the thug is recoiling from his uppercut, he finds a willy luchador strapping himself on his extended arm, hands grasping his wrist whilst legs hold on to his shoulder and YANKS backwards, threatening to pop the elbow right out of the socket.
"FAJITAS!!"
COMBATSYS: Vega blocks Terry's Burn Knuckle.
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: Sagat successfully hits Aithon with Tiger Shot.
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: Aithon dodges Munin's Deep Strike.
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
Ah, the feel of Sagat's neck beneath Vega's boot is exhilirating! As he crushes the man's throat, he twists his foot, grinding against it. "You of ALL people should know what I have done." There's a brief pause as, despite having his legs split like that, he leans a little closer. "No...no, you wouldn't, would you? You've done nothing but languish since you fled."
He's pushed away, but even still, the one-eyed monster seems intent on destroying the new toy! He may indeed get the chance as Terry comes screaming in to try and stop him...and Munin as well? He spits on the ground, yelling across the battlefield even as he lifts an arm and absorbs the brunt of Terry's assault through a buffer of Psycho Power.
"Worthless peon! What part of "slow them" did you not understand?!" His voice booms out, a barking that would bring a chill to even the most steely-nerved soldiers under his command. "KILL THEM!"
The poor railgun is starting to suffer already. Sagat's might is a terrible thing to withstand; even the reinforced, self-repairing hull is threatening to buckle under his assaults. Munin learns firsthand that she's not dealing with any mundane material: when she kicks it, it gives only an inch and immediately bubbles that dent out until the surface looks pristine and new. The hum of magnetic energy collecting is getting REALLY loud now and there's so much electricity in the air that it surely starts to lift people's hair.
"My plans are beyond your feeble intellects!" He boasts as lifts a hand and swings an arm down, apparently hell-bent on ruining his twice-time lieutenant. "You have no power, so you FEAR it!" A massive gout of violet flame is left in his arm's wake, a cloak of hatred that threatens to cover Sagat in his entirety. Its mere touch is so potent that it threatens the mind directly, bringing the perceived sensation of icy fingers ripping through skin and wriggling under the flesh, seeking to strangle the brain itself in a torturous death grip. The flare of power is not without effect for the others, either. So strong are Vega's feelings of hatred that it sends off a clear, powerful warning, an inkling of the insane mind that would seek to set the world aflame for those without the willpower to resist it.
COMBATSYS: Aithon takes no action.
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ElFuerte 0|-------|------=
COMBATSYS: ElFuerte successfully hits M.Bison with Fajitas Buster.
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|----===
"WHO'S THE BONEHEAD?!" M.Bison shouts. "AIN'T ME! IT'S THE FOOL WHO SCRATCHED MY GOLD." For being called an idiot, being dismissed as one, and actually /being/ one, the brazen boxer may actually have something of a point. Her allies all break away to handle whatever they will.
"YEAH!" Bison accidentally takes the scolding as a repeated request to get to killing people, he's all for that. Someone is foolishly staying somewhere within arm's reach (or arm's + dashing reach) as his eyes narrow behind now ajar and poorly-set gold shades.
"Think this is gonna be some kinda kiddy-go-round, ain't ya," M.Bison sneers as he goes from 'actual indoor voice' to 'not intended to be indoor voice but too angry to be shouting.'
"Gonna smash that SMILE AND WEAR IT ON MY HEAD!" He declares above all as---
As El Fuerte grabs an arm and yanks it about, painfully to the sound of something crackling loudly (no, that guy with the, uh, bad hair is not here) as Bison writhes and scowls.
"MAN, NO MAN... TOUCHES... BISON," he shouts as he rears back the other, less molested arm, "gonna take all yo' money put my face on it, you gonna be worth a million Bison dollar pancakes!!" What?
Less nonsensical is that rage of his that is stymied, very very briefly, by the shot of Vega's incredible hatred before he whirls around to draw his fist back.
"ONE!" He shouts as he turns inward in a dangerously inside hook to just try and give El Fuerte a one-glove ticket to the lower atmosphere.
May Lee is surprised by the arrival of El Fuerte! Preeeetty much did not see that coming. The scarf-wearing girl blinks a couple of times as the dynamic wrestler makes his appearance and takes some of the heat off her back. Well! That's a relief!
At least it is until Bison turns around and aims to wail on poor Fuerte. May is once again faced with a dilemma. Well, several dilemmas, really! She doesn't like Vega shouting about his plan, that doesn't sound good! Maybe she should punch the cannon, that's obviously part of it!
But then there's Vega himself, and she can *feel* how scary he is. She didn't see the drugs, but it sure looks like he's going to rip into her allies over there, should she try and help them?! But, if she does, Bison will murder poor Fuerte!
And Bison's back is turned to her! You should NEVER punch someone in the back!
Running up behind the blinged-out boxer, May Lee taps the huge man on the shoulder (and, if that doesn't work, will swing him around to her).
Whether or not he happens to answer by trying to punch her smile off and wear it, the Champion of Justice will aim to do just the same to him, smashing upwards in a kick so strong she actually has to swivel and half-jump upwards. Going for the jaw again, with a declaration which, given it was entirely spur of the moment, is about as good as May Lee's wit gets:
"Your bling might be good, but your taste in allies is bad! Who is going to sell you anything when the world's all blown up by Vega's cannon?!"
COMBATSYS: Vega successfully hits Sagat with Psycho Vanish.
- Power hit! -
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ElFuerte 0|-------|----===
So much constant fighting for weeks on end he has to wonder how close it truely is to being over. His body has been riddled with bullets, torn apart by tank shells, lacerated with various sharp objects and run down by various vehicles. All because in the end this is the least he could do to find redemption. A path he started much when he was plotting his exit from Shadaloo and when he was doing his part to try and save the world from Orochi. This is just another small step to atone for what violence he has unleashed through the years working under the madman known as Vega. It is a very painful process indeed.
Not one part of his body isn't in pain from being overwhelmed by Vega's attack. He can't even think straight as the giant fighter roars loudly and claws and his head and tears at his hair that has grown out the past several weeks. The mighty warrior is brought to his knees and can barely will his body to move at all. His senses are overloaded and he is on his hands and knees with eye shut tight as he tries to fight off the pain. He can't let it end so soon. He has to stop this damn gun and he has to help the others. "Bogard.....try to keep him off me just a moment..." he says through clenched teeth.
He fights though the pain and his body ignites with the orange energy he wields. While he still has strength in his giant body he will see this damn gun destroyed. Too many lives are in stake and even if Vega wins today Sagat can at least make sure he gets a nice black eye out of it. It is time for the God of Muay Thai to show his full power and remind Vega that he is not some weakling.
He gets to his feet and with a loud bellow that echos through the battlefield he just starts to wail away on the railgun with all his might. His aura grows stronger with each kick and punch. He wants Vega watch this thing get wrecked. He wants Vega to burn with rage at seeing his toy broken and torn apart. He looks to take this thing down if it is the last thing he does and he intends to try to go right through the damn thing as he brings back a fist and soars upwards with a mighty uppercut looking to slice through the strong metal.
"Drunk on power... oh, sorry. What you think of as power..." Terry's seen the type before. The way he crushes Sagat--that's worth taking note of, though. Because Terry knows how strong Sagat is... and this is proof that whatever Vega's smoking... it's some good (or bad) juju. Terry crouches, and leaps, intent on pursuing Vega, no matter what. Maybe if he aims for that -silly- hat.
Terry twists away from Vega, while he's in mid-flight, and brings his right leg up and around. It is very much like the famous Neri Chagi in Tae Kwon Do--the 'axe kick'--but it isn't quite the same, as Terry's rotation of the body alters it a little. There's no shout from Terry--he would, normally, call out the attack, but this is a little too serious for that.
He has the sense that he's going to need some help with Vega, and by help he means maybe that railgun will misfire and throw a nuke into Vega's back. He knows that even in their primes, Krauser and Geese couldn't have crushed Sagat like that. Fear? Yeah, he's got it. But for now, his courage outmatches it.
Munin frowns as the material bubbles, but it is no deterrant. The evil they know and all. She has no idea what it does, but if Vega wants it protected, best to destroy it! She speaks not a word as she takes another giant swing at the machine with both weapons once again, trying hard not to jump in fright as Sagat bellows his warcry!
COMBATSYS: ElFuerte blocks M.Bison's Turn Punch.
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In the end, El Fuerte may have successfully injured the mad boxer's arm /juuuuust/ enough for him to not send on a one way ticket to the moon. The willy luchador does a graceful flip to get out of the way, putting his arms up to protect his face from the right hook just in time to not get his skull flattened into a tortilla. "HRGGG!!" The masked luchador takes the blow on his forearms causing him to sliiiiide backwards leaving skid marks on the way back, but he's still standing! He's still in this lucha!
In fact, he's running directly towards Bison again.
"That all you got pendejo!? Shenwoo hits harder than you!" Which is to say, getting hit by car is not quite as painful as getting hit by a truck. But the meaning stands.
"'Ey hermano, if ya really want pancakes!" Calls the luchador as he takes to the skies again and falls upon Bison's face with a double knee smash to his nose! "LET ME COOK YA SOME!"
COMBATSYS: Sagat knocks away Aithon with Tiger Destruction+.
! VENGEANCE !
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MayLee 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|---====
COMBATSYS: Aithon dodges Munin's Deep Strike.
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COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Terry's Crack Shoot.
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The railgun is indeed a pinnacle of engineering technology. Its pseudo-metal shell is a wonder. It's thin, it's sturdy, it repairs itself...but Sagat's fury is a force that not even the most stubborn of Immovable Objects can withstand for long. Blow after blow rains upon its gleaming surface, but its malleable nature can't keep up. Tears form in the thing's base, ragged edges separating the gun from its moorings like so much ripped paper. The uppercut proves to be too much, though, and its own weight sends it toppling. Munin finds herself too slow to help its fate as the whole damned thing is simply blown past, flipped end over end over end while the rails twist themselves into a crumpled heap.
For an instant, the very air is still. The sound of the bouncing, primed warhead clattering on its once-housing is clear. By now, it should have launched. It SHOULD be careening through the air.
It should not be here, waiting to decimate the surrounding countryside.
Even Vega himself bears a momentary look of alarm. Terry, Sagat, the others, they simply don't matter. Electing to save his own skin instead of STOPPING it, he once again fades in a wisp of purple ether that's immediately sent roiling from Terry's leg. Where does he reappear? Oh, rest assured that he is not ANYWHERE near.
The downed warhead begins to beep. It's slow at first, but it speeds up until, with a blinding flash of light, it explodes in a wave of radioactive, concussive force. The mushroom cloud (not to mention the shockwave) can be sean (and felt) for miles around, to say nothing of the ensuing fallout.
COMBATSYS: Aithon crackles and creaks. Some of the protective shielding on its railgun comes crashing down.
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Aithon [E] 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=======\1 M.Bison
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MayLee 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|---====
COMBATSYS: Vega takes no action.
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Aithon [E] 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 M.Bison
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MayLee 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|---====
COMBATSYS: M.Bison blocks ElFuerte's Chili Mexicano.
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Aithon [E] 0/-------/-------|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 M.Bison
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MayLee 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: M.Bison endures MayLee's May Lee- Break!.
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Aithon [E] 0/-------/-------|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 M.Bison
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: M.Bison interrupts #Localized Holocaust# from Aithon with Gigaton Blow+.
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Aithon [E] 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 M.Bison
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: M.Bison can no longer fight.
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MayLee 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
Bison is still full of... whatever makes Bison, Bison. For all we know he probably ate some of the Myanmar gold too, so now his stomach is all gold. Maybe. It's almost casual as to how he just nudges El Fuerte's falling knee with just a jabbing elbow, a sneer that peeks out from off-kilter golden eyeglasses (actually, can he even see through those?).
May Lee steps up to strike her blow, punctuated by all the strength she gained from the trials and tribulations of really standing up for what she believes in, managing to get around his arm as he was busy deflecting El Fuerte.
"Who gives a crap 'bout that?! I got paid!" Bison growls out as she manages to pop him in the jaw so solidly that those glasses finally fall off and break apart. "Don't matter... Bison. Gets. /Paid./," he spits out those words as he lumbers to May Lee, hardly slowed. No, in fact, the offense and mantra seems to guide him further...
The shadow grows over the battlefield, and there's that bright light. Bison stops, fearful for his life. He knows what this is - a nuke? He's being nuked? HE'S BEING PAID WITH A NUKE?!
He has only one thing that can truly save him now - his own two fists, that were all he could ever count on, as he draws back a fist with tears in his eyes as he feels immense amounts of heat wash over him. Before long, he disappears into the light with a monstrous punch - a punch so powerful that even the light warps around his fist in absolutely stunning and beautiful colors, as all the gold on him melts to an unrecognizable slurry. The light clears around him under the will of his punch, but it may not be enough to guarantee his survival. Bison may have been able to punch through a nuclear blast, but yet...
Above his mission, above those who provoked him, above his own well being, his words fade away as he seems to disappear into the blast.
"M-MY WAR MONEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!" He laments out loud, as the nuclear blast evaporates all his material gains and - quite possibly, it's hard to tell when everyone's currently being nuked - himself.
COMBATSYS: Aithon successfully hits MayLee with #Localized Holocaust#.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
In South Korea, all schoolchildren have been briefed on what to do in case of nuclear attack. For much of the world, the looming threat of nuclear destruction is a distant memory, but May Lee, when she looks up and sees what can only be atomic death coming at her, shrieks out the advice of her teacher; all pretense to the fight gone. She can't listen to Mike! THERE'S AN ATOMIC BOMB COMING RIGHT AT THEM AIEEEEEEEE!
"STOP DROP AND ROLL! STOP DROP AND ROLL!"
Heeding the advice of the South Korean education system, May Lee stops, she drops, and she is detonated.
Alas, there is no desk for her to hide underneath to protect her from the deadly radiation. For a few horrible moments she thinks this is how it might just end, blown up on a battlefield whilst crazy people try to punch nuclear explosions.
Against all conventional logic, though, May Lee does not die. Instead, when the blast has finally passed, May stumbles back up to her feet. She's charred and blackened (and The Scarf may well glow in the dark from this day forward) but she's still alive... and, well, that means she has to try and pull anyone *else* who might still be alive, but incapable of moving, from the battlefield and to somewhere not full of radiation.
That even includes Mike Bison, even if she can barely move the man. Being a hero is hard work.
COMBATSYS: MayLee takes no action.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: Aithon successfully hits Sagat with #Localized Holocaust#.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
The weapon of mass destruction has finally been destroyed. Or more the weapon that was holding the weapon of mass destruction has been destroyed. In all his fury it is probably safe to say he had considered this might happen and it could pose a great danger to all around, but at the same time a sacrafice of a few lives outweighs the many lives this may have cost if the nuke hit a busy metropolitan area suck as Metro or Southtown. The fighters gathered here are tough. They can find a way to survive.
For Sagat he is unsure if he will. He is close to where the warhead itself is when it lands and goes off. He begins to run and the explosion's force flings him upwards and away. His skin burns and bubbles from the heat of the explosion, but the force he is being carried away possibly helps him in the long run. It is hard to tell where he is due to the brightness of it all, but he can feel the hard ground when he lands and it almost knocks the aira out of him.
Still even beaten and perhaps looking near death the mighty God of Muay Thai finds something left in him. The energy to get to his feet and force himself to keep walking. He isn't sure of the fate of his fellow fighters, but he has to worry about his own survival now. He has to keep going find a place to collapse and hope if he closes his eyes it won't be for the last time.
COMBATSYS: Sagat takes no action.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Munin
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Sagat 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: Sagat has left the fight here.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: Aithon successfully hits Munin with #Localized Holocaust#.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Terry
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
Unfortunately for Munin, she's not only close, she's one of the 3 at ground zero. She has just enough time to turn to try to run when the darn thing detonates, sending her flying. She impacts a tree head on with the top of her shoulder, causing a nice loud *CRACK!* as her collarbone fractures, sending pain that is a mere idle throb through her compared to the explosion that just hit her.
However, almost a minute later, she manages to pull herself up with her other arm, hurt, but alive. Right away she moves to help the others, in case they weren't so lucky. They need to hurry away from here, due to the radiation!
COMBATSYS: Munin has left the fight here.
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ElFuerte 0|-------|--=====
COMBATSYS: Aithon successfully hits ElFuerte with #Localized Holocaust#.
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ElFuerte 1|---====|=======
Knees collide against the well trained boxer's guard and once El Fuerte luchador flips backwards to resume his attack. Relentless, fearless, utterly unwilling to back down even against such dire circumstances. The wrestler will fight on and defend those need him most until--
Nononono, never mind, he's running! Running running running!!
As soon as Bison was engulfed by the atomic blast, El Fuerte does as any peerless warrior does and turns tail to run! Screw this! He's not to the level yet where he can /outwrestle/ an atomic bomb!
"It's okay! I can outrun it! I can outrun anything!!!" If he can dodge a shoryuken he can dodge this right!?
Nope
Fuerte gets caught with the blast and is propelled onward and upwards, blasting into the air, possibly due to his light frame.
"AAAUUUGH!! THAT IS ONE SPIcy enchila............"
His voice fades away as he keeps up acceding into the heavens to join the stars above.
And probably land somewhere in Mexico.
COMBATSYS: ElFuerte takes no action.
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ElFuerte 1|---====|=======
COMBATSYS: ElFuerte has left the fight here.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|-------\-------\0 Terry
COMBATSYS: Aithon successfully hits Terry with #Localized Holocaust#.
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MayLee 1/--=====/=======|===----\-------\0 Terry
The explosion--they were too late! It comes as Terry is landing and the force of it is incredible. Only quick thinking, reflexive action, keeps him from standing -right in the blast-. The reflexive back hop probably saves him, as he is literally hurled away, across the battlefield. It is only fetching up against, then rolling over, a pile of already-dead NATO soldiers that keeps him relatively safe.
Even so... such a terriblet hing marks the end of the fight. Vega is gone--Terry saw that moments before the explosion--and... there's nothing he can do here. For all his skill, all his power, there -are- some things wrought by man that are simply too terrible to be dealt with. With a heavy heart, Terry leaves the battlefield, not knowing whether this was a win... or a loss.
He suspecta that the world won't know what to think of it, either. But he knows one thing. If Vega shows up with another one of these forsaken machines, it is going to be destroyed, utterly. And -then- they can destroy Vega.
COMBATSYS: Terry resumes wandering.
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COMBATSYS: Aithon takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Aithon has suffered catastrophic damage and fallen offline.
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COMBATSYS: Vega has ended the fight here.
Log created on 18:10:28 03/07/2012 by Vega, and last modified on 00:09:06 03/08/2012.