Description: As repairs drag on in post-war China, the presence of troops everywhere is taking a toll on the people's morale. Well, what better way to cheer them up than to bring back what they'd been missing for some time? This expansive sports venue has been fitted--just in case--with blast shields around what will be the fifty-foot wide ring in which these two blondes will go at it. It's up to prove that hand-to-hand combat is still safe for everyone to enjoy. (Winner: Guile)
The crowd in Guangdong Stadium is immense. In the aftermath of this terrible war, where the winners won hard and the losers lost very hard, this fight is proving to be just the type of relaxation that the people of China needed. Broadcast from the hundreds of cameras throughout the arena, and tuned into by many millions of television sets around the world. The arena itself is a sight to behold, with a capacity crowd of over 80,000 people in attendence. The field has been lined with a 50' x 50' hard wood floor surrounded on all sides by blast shields to protect the audience from the massive energies which are forthcoming. Between the two competitors stands a man in a Chinese man in a tuxedo holding a microphone. There is no referree. The soundcheck guy did his job right because when he speaks, his voice echos throughout the venue:
"Ladies and gentlemen of China, visitors from foreign lands, and to the billions tuned in tonight on our signal broadcast around the world... Welcome to your Satuday Night Fights MAIN EVENT!"
The announcer quickly turns to his left, "To my left. Fighting out of Edwards Air Force Base, USA. Weighing 189 pounds, with a record of 6 wins. He is... GUILE!"
And the crowd cheers and loudly. The rafters seem to start shaking and to the competitors in the ring, it could very easily seem like the stadium itself is swiming. Without missing a beat, the announcer turns to his right, "And to my right. Fighting out of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Weighing in at 140 lbs. With a record of 23 wins! He is... ZACH GLEN!"
The crowd goes wild yet again. It truly seems as if the amount of applause was not so much a matter of popularity, but that two high calibre fighters will be matching it up for their entertainment tonight."
Guile takes a few steps towards his opponent, looking towards him with fierce determination. He smirks slightly to Zach, "Come to China, I say... Watch me fight, I say..." He then nods, a quiet word away from microphones for just the two of them, "Thanks for filling in. I owe you one." He proceeds to the center of the ring formally, offering a fist to bump and then dropping back into his bouncing fighting stance.
"Yeah," Zach admits, holding up a hand to ask Guile to wait a second. He still has that /cast/ on his right arm. "Tell me about it. Gimme a sec." Zach points his right arm away from Guile and focuses his attention on it for a moment. Golden light spills out of the finger openings, and with a loud *CRACK!* the cast splits into two halves before falling to the ground. Glen grins a bit, scooping up the cast pieces. He spins, and flings one over the west side of the blast walls before throwing the second over the east walls. He then turns to Guile with a wide grin, extending his right fist to bump knuckles with the Air Force fighter.
"And don't worry about the arm. It'll be fine," Zach explains, taking a few steps back and dropping into a tight boxing stance. He keeps his eyes level on Guile, and simply waits for the bell to ring.
COMBATSYS: Zach has started a fight here.
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Zach 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Guile has joined the fight here.
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Guile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
The bell rings, and Zach flings himself not towards Guile to start punching, but /away/ from the larger man. Zach does, however, still throw a right straight. Given the distance and the retreating movement, a missed punch is to be expected.
However, there is a bloom of yellow energy that erupts from Zach's extended fist that launches towards Guile at high speed. Zach skips back another pace or two before starting to dash laterally.
COMBATSYS: Guile interrupts Blast Punch from Zach with Rolling Sobat.
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Guile 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Zach
Strafing sideways, the Spec Op with the Flat Top finds himself right on the money for some Blast Punch lovin'. He skids to a halt as he realizes Zach baited him into the path of the projectile by his own movement to the side. He eyes Zach from over the whirling Psi energy and springs towards the Marine, turning over in midair. When he intercepts the blast, he is turned over with his head facing the ground. There is a brilliant flash of energy and a crash of thunder. When the bright light disappears a moment later, Guile is still arcing towards Zach inverted! He swings his leg out towards the face of Zach, intended to catch him around the chin.
Zach recoils sharply under the thunderous force of Guile's kick, wobbling to one side. He winces, but tells himself he's been hit harder recently. Zach slides to a stop, eyeing Guile warily. Direct projectiles will likely be no good, Zach decides as he takes off again, still circling Guile.
He throws a sharp, downward arcing hook that also falls well short of the Air Force pilot. However, there is suddenly a trio of razor thin slats of sunlight yellow energy that slash in to cut Guile off from the short psion. While the Pile Smash is dropping, Zach is on the move again, shifting to strike Guile from a different angle, or perhaps intercept the response.
COMBATSYS: Guile just-defends Zach's Pile Smash!
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Guile 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Zach
As the kick impacts flesh and bone, Guile by instinct continues the roll to come back on to his feet. He rises to meet Zach, but is cut off and beaten back down to his knees by the thin slats of sunlight. He brings his arm up to protect himself from the falling sunshine and stands again. He shakes his arm out as Zach cuts away to play a game of angles with him.
Many have tried to play this game with Guile, in many an unsanctioned match in many farflung places with many lives on the line. Guile follows Zach with his eyes, taking a quick hop to the left and then cutting in to avoid Zach. Appearances can be deceiving, however. The Air Force man plants a foot, bringing him into a high velocity spin which is trailed by a backfist which threatens to intercept Zach with another knock to the face.
At least he's taking it easy on Zach's right arm.
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Spinning Backfist from Guile with Gazelle Punch EX.
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Guile 0/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Zach
Zach only has a second to react to Guile's arcing punch. He ducks low, Guile's fist glancing off the top of his skull. One might argue that the skull's the toughest part of Zach Glen's body. Zach enters a low crouch as he tucks his left fist in for a punch.
The announcer calls out the name of the technique as Zach springs upward with a fierce uppercut aimed at Guile's jaw. "GAZELLE PUUUUNCH!" Zach lands from the uppercut, looking at Guile with a bit of chagrin. "You're worried about something," he says cautiously.
Hitting the ground with shock and amazement, Guile brings his knees up to his chin and kicks up in a kip-up as the crowd goes wild for Zach's offensive. He rubs his jaw as he looks towards Zach. The serious expression gives way to a quick grin as he calls out over the crowd, "I guess I was wrong."
Guile takes a few hopping steps back, his arms spreading out around him. Pure energy coelesces around those arms, and a fierce determination comes to his eyes. He pulls his arms together, the appendages breaking the speed of sound as he shouts, "SONIC BOOM!" The energy coelescing around his arms forms into a viscious whirlwind of sonic energy heading straight for his own brother in arms (as opposed to his brother in law, when he sonic booms the living hell out of Ken).
COMBATSYS: Guile successfully hits Zach with Sonic Boom.
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Guile 1/-------/=======|=======\=======\1 Zach
"Good," Zach says. Then Guile launches his trademark attack. Zach's eyes go wide as Guile's legendary Sonic Boom comes screaming in towards him. He decides to go for the gusto, and simply charges towards the damn thing like a madman. At the last possible second, Zach attempts to slip the projectile and close the distance. The blast was too fast for the boxer, slamming into Zach's chest with a thunderclap of impact. The crowd goes nuts as the blast walls rumble from the shock of the impact. Zach staggers back a couple of paces, eyeing Guile.
"I know," Zach wheezes, "That I've made suggestions about why the Marine Corps press ganged me." Zach regains his footing. "I get the feeling that you've been... skeptical about what exactly I'm capable of." Zach raises an open right hand to the sky. Golden light collects around the waiting palm. Zach gives a wry grin as the sphere enlarges, then elongates into a column of bright yellow light. "Perhaps a demonstration is in order."
Zach brings his left hand up to brace the extended right. "CAPTAIN!" Zach sweeps the beam downward towards Guile's head, carving a wide but shallow trench across the hardwood flooring between the two fighters. "SWOOOOOOORD!"
COMBATSYS: Guile endures Zach's Full Tilt+.
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Guile 1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Zach
Guile hangs back, tucked in the relative security of his fighting stance in order to hear Zach out. When the call for a demonstration is made, Guile lowers his arms and braces himself, his blue eyes full of resolve. In those seconds before the actual attack, as psi power is generated and harnessed for use, the hairs on the back of Guile's neck (the only ones not subject to super high-speed hair spray) stand on edge. In his experience this means one thing. Something big.
For the first time in this fight, in those split seconds before Zach's attack, Guile shows fear. Fear, laced with uncertainty of the future. Was this man so bent on not continuing his service with the Marine Corps that he would send something letal Guile's way? By standing here and not moving to evade or protect himself, is he leaving a widow and a fatherless child back home in California? He is about to find out.
The attack hits him square on, Guile's eyes widening as a bellow rises up from the bottom of his chest. He takes it full force, hardening his stance against the beam and even working to move against it for a moment. When the beam stops, the bellow has turned into a primal war cry. Whipping his hands out to his sides, Guile seems to explode with chi. Even before the explosion dies down, Guile is running straight for Zach.
He launches into a low sommersault moving straight for his opponent rather than straight up. His foot breaks the sound barrier as it rushes for Zach's chin. Should it connect, Guile will power through into another flash kick, and finish it off at its very peak with a third easily twenty feet in the air. It turns out that Guile is truly the only member of the Air Force that can fly without a plane.
As gravity takes its toll on the flyboy, he arcs back towards the ground and falls in a crouch to his knees. He looks up, his flattop swaying slightly at the speed of the twitch to reposition his head, towards where Zach should be landing any second now.
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Guile's Somersault Explosion.
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Guile 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Zach
Zach winces as he feels a wave of... /something/ roll off of Guile before his blast clears. Perhaps he overdid it, despite thinking Guile would be more than up to it. When Guile blasts in, Zach braces up, spinning a thin shield of soul power around his arms to mitigate some of the impact. He catches the first impact on his right arm. It yields, being flung wide by the impact. The second kick catches the left arm, blasting that limb clear.
Zach only avoids the last kick by flinging himself back, barely keeping his feet. Guile is still airborne. Zach winces, getting his feet under him for a chancy gambit. Zach leaps, executing that leaping uppercut he threw earlier in the match. It is no Shoryuken, but the leap carries Zach towards Guile. "Perhaps I overdid it just then," Zach says as he closes, before lashing out with that soul powered uppercut!
Before he hits the ground, he is blocked and engaged by Zach. He watches the psi leap towards him, having seen this maneuver at least once this match. As Guile seems to flat towards the ground, Zach rises to meet him.
His eyes widening as he sees his opportunity with the airborne Zach, Guile lashes out with a quick airborne punch designed to get past Zach's own uppercut and into his chin.
Then Guile lands in that crouch, 'cause it's so darn dramatic and the crowds love that stuff.
COMBATSYS: Guile fails to interrupt Body Blow from Zach with Quick Punch.
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Guile 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Zach
Except not.
Rather, Guile lands flat on his back as his jab fails to connect and Zach's doesn't. He kicks back up to his feet in a flash, surprise registering on his face, "You kidding me, kid? You sure you're not a Marine?"
Zach turns to face Guile, surprise clear on his face. "Completely, sir," Zach replies confidently. "My grandfather was a Marine, though." His mind is racing; The battle has shifted, surprisingly. Adrenaline is racing through his system, working in tandem with the soul power that is the birthright of his family. "Apparently, he was a lot like I am, power-wise."
Zach decides that he needs to press this, and press this now. "I've never really been completely comfortable with it," he admits as he closes the gap quickly. He leaps a bit; Guile has a good nine inches on him, and slams an explosive headbutt directly between Guile's eyes!
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Guile with Headbutt.
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Guile 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Zach
Shaking his head as Zach begins to rush him, Guile replies with a solid, "I don't believe you." He charges Zach in return, the two clashing in the middle of the arena in a slam of head against forarms.
There is a moment where Guile seems surprised that both of them are still here, but then he vanishes from Zach's view entirely. Two large arms wrap around Zach's waist, and the hands leading from those arms clench in front of him. Zach, if he doesn't block it, may feel the brief sensation of flying followed by the brief sensation of plummeting towards the earth headfirst as Guile drags him into a Dragon Suplex!
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Guile's Dragon Suplex.
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Guile 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Zach
Except Zach isn't grabbed. The psion ducks, slipping through Guile's grip. The boxer can all but /hear/ his coach's voice in his head, urging the boxer to finish it up now that he is in his range. He plants his feet, bringing his left hand back as he spins up soul power around it.
"On the other hand," he admits, "I've got a few tournaments under me." Zach throws his punch, not quite a hook, not quite an uppercut. "So if I carry myself well, that's why." Zach unloads a three-quarters punch, aka the Smash, inspired by Donovan Ruddock.
COMBATSYS: Guile interrupts Dynamite Punch from Zach with Sonic Boom.
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Guile 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Zach
As his arms come up empty, there is a flash of surprise which crosses the face of Guile. He pulls his arms back in an instant, pulling chi towards him as Zach is pulling soul power in his direction. As the boxer comes forward with the punch, Guile sweeps his hands in and sends the sonic boom towards his opponent with a shouted, "SONIC BOOM!"
Guile did not escape unscathed, however, and he's left wobly on his feet by the Dynamite Punch. The crowd is on the edge of their seat at this point. Everyone is screaming someone's name. Some scream for Zach. Some scream for Guile. Some scream for the dim sum vendor who can't hear them over the ruckus. The stadium is literally buzzing with the action of the fans, and everyone is on the edge of their seats.
The second Sonic Boom slams cleanly into Zach's chest, staggering the psion once more. Surprisingly, the young man keeps his feet. Zach's eyes are bleary, unfocused as he takes a wobbly step towards Guile. Then he takes another. He gets once more within striking distance as his balance goes out, forcing Zach into a low crouch.
"...Ga... zelle..." Soul power surges through Zach one last time, "...PUUUUNCH!" as the boxer throws one last punch, one leaping uppercut, at Guile's jaw. Hit or miss, Zach does /not/ stick the landing, falling flat on his face. He does not rise.
COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Guile just-defends Zach's Gazelle Punch!
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Guile 1/------=/=======|
Woozy and wobbly as he is, it's no less than a miracle that Guile brings his hand up and literally catches the Gazelle Punch as it sails towards him. His eagle sharp blue eyes look first to the hand caught in his, then to Zach. Realizing that Zach is falling and not wishing to be taken down with him, Guile reaches out to catch Zach beneath the arms, setting him down flat on his face as easily as possible and falling on his own butt in the process.
"It's over! It's over! The judges have called it! The winner of this match... GUILE!"
The crowd is ecstatic, surging towards the guard rails and over them as they rush the field. Soldiers, police officers and security personnel crowd around Guile and Zach, beginning to usher the two towards the inner depths of the arena as pandamonium breaks out.
Log created on 20:06:14 03/27/2012 by Zach, and last modified on 09:26:07 03/29/2012.