Description: Fighting on top of the Sunshine 60 Hotel, this Neo Development Match pits Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu student Daniel Jack against the young and upcoming Kyokugen Kara- I mean Ansatsuken Star Shun. (WINNER: Shun)
Sunshine City. Sunshine 60 Rooftop.
10 AM.
Daniel Jack stands tall as the morning sun casts down on him. Dressed in his three-pieced orange Zoot Suit, the detective keeps near the edge of the rooftop. Peering through the high fencing (for safety of course), he just watches over the morning bustle of the city. Daniel didn't know what to make of Sunshine City. He had railed into before, after the watch thief job. But after meeting with Alice... he saw that there was a heart in the city. It was just strange to him; it just wasn't a Metro City.
It wasn't even really a Southtown, either.
The judge for the fight stands by the sidelines, fighting arena put in place. The camera crew, set up properly, calls out to the detective. "Mr. Little? We are ready for you!" Daniel Jack turns around, and nods. "Real straight then, scuzzy." Adjusting his hat and jacket, he walks to the starting point of the match... and looks straight at his opponent.
Holding a vengeance in his heart.
COMBATSYS: Daniel has started a fight here.
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Daniel 0/-------/-------|
Shun comes walking into the arena. Unlike Daniel, she has no vengeance in her heart. But... this doesn't mean she will be fighting any less seriously to win. She looks at her opponent and his unusual outfit, "Mr. Little?" She asks softly, smiling at the man in front of her. "I'm Shun Himura, I believe it's our fight today."
She doesn't quite wait for Daniel to respond, dipping into the kind of respectful bow that martial artists make when trying to win. "May the best fighter win." She is entirely unaware she's fighting the mentor of the young man she beat up so recently, but she does think 'and that fighter is me.' Doesn't sat it however, but somewhere it can be gleaned from her cocky smirk.
The arbitrator marks the start of the fight, and Shun doesn't waste any time waiting, she hurries towards Daniel and uses her momentum to assist her kick, her left foot digging into the ground as her right foot moves in a swift roundhouse kick, aiming for Daniel's hips.
COMBATSYS: Shun has joined the fight here.
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Daniel 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Shun
COMBATSYS: Daniel blocks Shun's Inazuma Kakato Wari.
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Daniel 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Shun
Daniel Jack reaches into his pocket as Shun begins to walk out. Checking the time, he looks up, watching Shun warily behind rose-tinted sunglasses. Danny carries a cold, grim expression on his face. "Call me Daniel. Daniel Jack." The detective growls, eyeing the teenager. "And I damn well agree. May the best fighter win." The detective pockets the watch, and looks over to the judge.
Show time.
As the fight starts, the detective falls into a defensive stance of Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu, likely very similar to the stance that Shun had seen once before when facing off Benkei. A dead copy of the horse-stance of Aikido, the detective holds out his hands, keeping hiscenter of balance as Shun lunges in with her roundhouse kick. Catching the blow cleanly with his hands, the detective's guard wanes briefly, but his body, primarily his hips, are protected for now.
And now, Daniel was in position.
"Heard you did a number on my kid, sweetheart." The detective growls, attempting to seize the opportunity that Shun had opened up. Attempting to latch his grip on Shun's leg, the detective would aim to grab the teenager above the knee and above the ankle. With a sharp twist, he would try to force her to the ground, wrenching the leg brutally in a nasty lock.
"I'm talking about Benkei."
COMBATSYS: Shun interrupts Mad Jack Crack from Daniel with Shouken.
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Daniel 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Shun
Shun is quick to react to the attempted throw, and while the twist to her ankle hurts her, it does not throw her down as Daniel might have hurt. Rather, it puts her in position, she launches a rising uppercut, jumping and hitting Daniel's chin while she calls out the move's name.
"SHOUKEN!"
As she lands on the ground once more, she flexes her ankle to get rid of the pain it did to her. She takes a step back and looks at the man she's fighting. "It was nothing personal. He seemed to think there's a martial art superior to Ansatsuken, and we can't really have that." She has a cocky grin on her face, and seems to be amused enough by the circumstances.
"I hope you're aware that he was wrong?"
Fast little sucker.
Daniel's attempt at a takedown is brutally interrupted by a swift rising uppercut right to the jaw. Stumbling back, the detective releases Shun before any real damage could be done. The detective plants a hand right on his head, keeping it in place, before casting his gaze across to his opponent. Ansatsuken? It looked like some kind of rip-off of Kyokugen. Daniel Jack shakes the stars from his head, before shifting back to the defensive stance... but not before letting out a warning.
"Don't get cocky, kid!"
Daniel Jack surges back forward with a careful, dilligent approach. Launching a palm strike forward with his left, he carefully closes in on the Ansatsuken fighter. Whether or not the palm strike lands or not doesn't matter to the detective, as he quickly follows up with a hand chop with his right. Leaning back, he follows up the combo with a straight kick with his left leg, before finishing the combo with a reverse roundhouse kick with the right. A clean demonstration of the strikes of Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu.
And of Daniel's own talents.
COMBATSYS: Daniel successfully hits Shun with Zoot Suit Riot.
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Daniel 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Shun
Shun isn't getting cocky, despite her smirks. She knows the fight is far from won, as Daniel cleanly shows when he hits her despite her attempts to move out of the way. She looks at the man who she's engaging in combat, and responds. "Neither should you get cocky." She answers the man with a cocky smirk. She gathers up energy in her hand, blue-ish white as Daniel might or might not have seen in the past, when she pushes her hands forwards, she cries out the attack's name.
"GIJI HADOUKEN!"
It's a fast moving blast of chi energy, not nearly as big as a 'real' Hadouken, but if Daniel has seen the real deal, the similarities should immediately be obvious to him...
COMBATSYS: Shun successfully hits Daniel with Giji Hadouken.
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Daniel 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Shun
Daniel Jack finishes the combo, recovering from the final kick. "Cocky? Maybe I got a reason to be cocky, kid." What reason that might be becomes moot as he sees that bluish blast of energy surging his way. Attempting to side-step the blast, the detective instead becomes hit cleanly by the fireball, sending him tumbling back. Now, the hat was clean off. But as Daniel Jack rises up again, he runs his fingers through his hair, and bear the look of finally understanding what he is facing against. "Of course." Daniel begins, rising up from the ground. "First the Hien Shippu Kyaku, then the Ryuugeki Ken. Or as you say, Giji Ryuugeki Ken. You are clearly..."
"A copycat of Kyokugen Karate!"
Daniel Jack -looms- at his opponent, an intense rage drawing from within. "And there is nothing more shameful than a copycat, unless it is of a superior style like..." The detective advances on the girl steadily, hand burning with orange chi. "Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu!" As he finally closes in on the girl, he swipes his hand, unleashing a wave of orange energy. Much shorter in range than Shun's own Hadouken, it still cascades out, attempting to blast the girl back cleanly.
"KASANE ATE!"
COMBATSYS: Shun overcomes Kasane Ate from Daniel with Giji Hadouken.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Daniel 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Shun
"I have never heard of Kyokugen before today." Shun answers, a surge of anger at that allegation welling inside of her. "Ansatsuken is the Killing Fist, a style passed down to me by Ken Masters, who has been taught the style by Gouken!" So her training wasn't all that long, it's still training and her style IS Ansatsuken. It's not yet mastered, but that wouldn't be expected from someone her age. She gathers more chi in her hands, again the blueish white chi she had shown before.
"GIJI HADOUKEN!"
The small ball of burning chi shatters the incoming Kasane Ate, passing through it and going quickly towards Daniel. "And this is a move belonging to Ansatsuken." She calms down some now that she has shattered the incoming attack, and looks at Daniel.
COMBATSYS: Shun successfully hits Daniel with Giji Hadouken.
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Daniel 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Shun
Ansatsuken?
Daniel Jack unleashes his wave of energy out, not sure what to make of her claims. As the girl unleashes another frightful wave of energy, though, the detective staggers back. She was just tossing those balls all out, wasn't she! The detective crosses his arms, staring at the fireball... and something strange happens. The detective's colors seems to blend towards, to saturate. For a brief moment, Daniel Jack seems to just... become a face in the crowd. A bystander at the fence. A member of the judging panel. A wandering janitor. This effect is only briefly, but as the fireball hits him this time... it looks to do so with even lesser effect.
Though it sure does a number on his dry cleaning.
Colors surging back, Daniel falls to one knee, his jacket torn badly from the one-two combo of Hadokens. "Never heard of Ansatsuken. But that clearly is a feeble attempt at Ryuugeki Ken, the signature fireball of Kyokugen! If Ken Masters uses it... well, maybe Ken Masters likes learning McMoves like the kind Kyokugen puts out!" The detective takes off his coat, and then, his hat. Underneath reveals his black waistcoat, a pair of tight suspenders... and an empty concealed holster. Tossing the jacket aside, he snaps his suspenders, before dropping back in the defensive stance of Todoh. "Doesn't matter though. You want to play with the big boys of Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu? Then I guess it's time to..."
"... Jack this up a notch."
COMBATSYS: Daniel jacks it up a notch!
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Daniel 1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Shun
As Daniel decides to 'Jack it up a notch', Shun just forms a cocky smile, "If Kyokugen is similar to Ansatsuken, then the only possible conclusion is that Kyokugen is an inferior copy of Ansatsuken. There is no greater style than Ansatsuken in the whole world." She doesn't keep it to just words, fully intent to make this fight one that ends quickly and in her favour.
Moving towards Daniel, at first it seems like she's crouching, but then she jumps up and goes for an arial kick, aiming right for Daniel's chest. If she hits, this is going to hurt. Badly. Though she does seem to be forsaking accuracy to pull off this move. "I'm hardly one of the big names of Ansatsuken, but I know what I'm doing."
COMBATSYS: Shun successfully hits Daniel with Strong Kick.
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Daniel 1/----===/=======|====---\-------\0 Shun
Daniel Jack mulls about that for a moment. Kyokugen must be an inferior copy of Ansatsuken.
"well, can't argue with you there.
Daniel Jack is actually kinda relaxed about this. Yeah. He can get on board with this. Kyokuen is inferior to Ansatsuken. "Yeah, I totally agree. Ansatusken is totally better than K-"
Suddenly Aeriel Kick.
The detective hits the floor HARD. Biting down on the roofing, the detective groans. "ARGH! Jesus, kid, ease up!" Aerials. Daniel was AWFUL with aerials. They were the plague to his existence. Unlike many fighters, Daniel had a pure ground game, and no real counters against leaping attacks, other than side stepping, and MAYBE a grapple. He should have done the grapple, come to think of it. Recovering from the attack, the detective doesn't waste a moment.
He had to start bringing out some real firepower.
Rushing back towards Shun, he begins the combo again. A palm strike with the left. A hand chop with the right. "I mean, jeeze, big names of Ansatsuken. You are a lot better than Kyokugen, but I wouldn't say it's a big name, even if Ken Masters does it." Daniel Jack lunges in after the hand chop, attempting to grip Shun by the shoulder and waist. If successful, he will perform an across the body throw, trying to hurl her straight down to the ground with staggering force.
He had to build up with those grapples.
COMBATSYS: Daniel successfully hits Shun with Tequila Sunrise.
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Daniel 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\0 Shun
Aaaand that is a very successful onslaught, Shun is battered around and thrown to the ground. But what's possibly the worst thing is that she doesn't really seem to mind. She gets up from the ground with the knowledge that she's still ahead in the game. She knows that she can't possibly be hurting as bad as Daniel, and it is for this reason that she keeps on trucking.
Deciding to go for a mostly reliable kind of attack, it really isn't anything flashy this time around. A few quick movements before Shun lashes our with a mean right hook, aimed squarely for Daniel's nose. "I can't ease up, not until the fight is over." She responds, "I have a point to make, and I need to win as much as I can to make it."
COMBATSYS: Shun successfully hits Daniel with Quick Punch.
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Daniel 1/--=====/=======|=======\-------\0 Shun
Shun might have a point. Daniel Jack WAS really feeling the burn. He was at the end of his rope, and as long as she was pushing him, he wasn't going to break through to the other side. There was a significant gap between the blows he landed, and the blows she landed. And frankly, Daniel was the kind of fighter where he had to squeeze in a few more hits. And as Shun comes rolling in, he gets even further behind on the hits. Nose bleeding, he gasps for air, right on the cusp of a KO. But it is Shun's words that ultimately bring him back.
"Oh, you got a point?"
Daniel Jack suddenly flares up with chi. "I'm sorry. You had a point? Well aren't you just a special little snowflake." The detective suddenly blasts forward with a palm strike, followed by a hand chop. Then palm strike, hand chop, palm strike, hand chop. The real offense, however, was the dripping, caustic poison coming from the detective's mouth.
"No. Really. Of ALL the people I have fought in this dang tournament, you are the first one to have a point to win it! Not Zach, who needed it to guide himself to building his own dojo. Not every damn punk who wanted to get their name out to be the number one fighter! Not those who are making ends meet by fighting for the prize money! And especially not me or Benkei, who are in it for the promotion of the Todoh-Ryuu Kobojutsu Dojo!"
As the chain of strikes come to a close, the detective switches to a wave of chi, followed by another wave of chi, followed by a third wave of chi. The combo comes to an end as Daniel, in a surge of energy, attempting to rush into the girl, grab her by the shoulder and waist again, and just hurl her flat on her back again. But not before asking one sarcastic, bitterly-toned question.
"So, sunshine, What point are YOU making."
COMBATSYS: Shun endures Daniel's Harlem Sunset.
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Daniel 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Shun
Shun lets the strikes hit her. She lets the Chi hit her. She evens allows that she's thrown to the ground. She lets it all happen, for a reason. She rolls with that final throw and gets up, forming a crouching stance as she gathers large amounts of blue-ish white Chi in her hands. She doesn't wait long to unleash this attack either.
"HAAAAAA-"
"DOOOUUU-"
"KEEEEEN!"
This time it's the real deal, a much larger blast of chi than her previous hadoukens, which were in the end but mere imitations of what she's pulling off right now. It's really a pretty sizable fireball, and worse, it's going at a collision course towards Daniel.
"My point? There's this guy I love, but he doesn't pay any attention to me, but he loves watching fighting tournaments." She makes a cocky smirk, "So this is the way I can prove I'm worth paying attention to!"
COMBATSYS: Shun successfully hits Daniel with Hadouken.
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Daniel 1/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Shun
A flawless execution of the three techniques of Todoh, the detective almost channels the youth and arrogance of the plucky teenager. That is, until the very end, when that blast comes roaring up. The detective doesn't even have time to whistle dixie at it when he is send launching through the air. Landing with a sickening crack back on the rooftop, Daniel Jack just lays there for a moment. But then, that smile hits him, and the spirit of Todoh flashes once more. Daniel rises up like a zombie, stumbling and rolling, side to side. He doesn't respond, so much as croak back a response
"Then lets give him a show."
Palm strike. Hand chop. Palm strike. Hand Chop. The detective was a whirlwind of focus. Focus was all he had left, as his body begins fail. The hands chops go wide, the palms strikes falter. Even the Kasane Ates as half-assed and barely roll out. But the throw of Kasumi Todoh was intact. Lunging in with another grab, the detective would get his footing, and try to heft the girl well overhead. With a smooth, steady slam, he would smash her right to the roofing. But whether he made that grapple or not, the ending would be the same.
Daniel would collapse, with only the ashes of his burning spirit remaining.
COMBATSYS: Daniel can no longer fight.
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Shun 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Shun fails to interrupt Harlem Sunset from Daniel with Shouken.
- Power fail! -
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Shun 0/-------/-----==|
This time, Shun tries to break through that onslaught with a rising uppercut, but she trips and isn't fast enough, the onslaught of strikes landing successfully as she is thrown back. For a short while, it looks like she's entirely out of the fight... but then she groans and gets up, giving a nod to the arbitrator and offering a blown kiss to the camera.
"Thanks for the show, Daniel." She says as she turns to help her opponent up. She does believe in being a good sport.
COMBATSYS: Shun has ended the fight here.
Log created on 11:12:35 04/17/2012 by Daniel, and last modified on 18:53:36 04/17/2012.