Description: The gangs running amok in Metro City attempt an attack on the Metro City police, but the Metro Three (Haggar, Guy, Cody) and Razor show up to stop them... in the most brutal manner possible.
Metro Square, Police Headquarters -
Enter Metro City's Metro Square: It's a gorgeous, scenic, part of town that really shows the money that has been invested into it. There's five star restaurants lining the streets, glass towers that reach to the heavens belonging to excessively wealthy businesses, and miniature well-kempt gardens of groomed shrubbery and various colors of flowers lining the winding interconnected streets and sidewalks. A beautiful, cloudless, azure sky is overhead as well... with just the right temperature for a cozy afternoon stroll...
Or it would be, were the whole of this area not positively saturated with criminal elements at the moment.
Though they appear to be rather chaotically destroying everything in their paths, a keen eye would notice they seeem particularly interested in the large, two story, building near the center of the Square. The building with a large, blue and white, lit sign saying "Police".
Filling the parking lot of Police HQ are a small legion of 'gang members' wearing a variety of clothing, a couple of patrol cars... some of them busted up...., and a small group of uniformed police officers struggling to hold their own against the thugs trying to break into the station. Clearly they are having a time of it, because for every thug they knock down... one or two manages to climb in through a broken window or doorway.
"Damn it all to hell!" One officer shouts, loudly, into the mid-day air as his uniform cap is knocked from his head by a grazing punch. He then proceeds to swing his wooden, ebony, nightstick towaard the thug's neck... sending him sprawling to the ground at his feet. "...Where the hell are they all coming from?!"
The city is in chaos; a sort of urban explosion of raw street filth that few societies are truly prepared to handle. But this is not the first time this has happened to Metro City. In fact, it might not even be in the top half dozen. And there's a mayor who's entire platform has been his steadfast declaration to all the citizens. Mike 'Macho' Haggar would use his former powers in the ring to protect this city until his moustache falls off his face. This means it might even last well past the point of death.
He's also presently flying into the scene.
From an adjacent building, a whirlwind of mass shrieks through the air. Mike Haggar, having donned his traditional shirtless ensemble, is presently piledriving a small car about three stories. His roar of attack echoes high, and he lands right in the midst of a particularly heady bunch of thugs. It promptly explodes into a fireball, sending many of them flying.
Striding from the wreckage only blackened and scorched, Haggar surveys the situation. "Take heart, men! Your mayor is here to fight with you!!" Many policemen understandably cheer as the ragtag assault force does quite the opposite. Moreso when Mike Haggar rushes forward, grappling a nearby mohawked figure. And then begins to piledrive him in a chain, slamming him atop one thug after another, like he was playing some horrible, horrible game of checkers.
Using the lives of /criminals./
Within moments after the Mayor's arrival, a few thugs are thrown out of a window, and the Guy responsible for that notices the mayor when his eyes trace their trajecture. Rather than risk being overwhelmed if more serious threats turn out to be precent, he jumps out of the window himself, kicking off against a lamp post before striking a thug who was hoping to attack Haggar from behind.
"Glad to see you, Mayor." Not much of any emotion in his voice, and he continues to combat the large amount of thugs with his back towards the mayor. His eyes are observing the area while he fights, if it's just these thugs there is no need to be worried, if there are more dangerous opponents around, then they must be identified before they can cause any major trouble.
Either way, Guy will be ready.
They think they finally got him. It's been a gruelling series of hours just getting the guy in. The guy nobody really likes to look upon. It's a face that's still intact after so much... well, violence. Not a bad looker, still. It's hard to look upon the face of that man any more and not feel some tinge of regret or frustration.
A thirty-something blonde caucasian male, dressed in prison clothes caked with dirt and a bit of blood sits hunched over in a cell with no less than two physicians carefully pulling out three darts. Tranquilizers.
"We got a situation out there," mumbles one officer.
"We got one taken care of /in here/," says one as he looks over his shoulder to the man in the cell, "like hell we're going to--"
"It's a warzone out there! We get out there now, and hold 'em back... or that's gonna be our final fight!"
With increasing reluctance, those capable of getting out there to hold back the tide of street toughs leave the cell.
A small smile cracks on the man's face, left with only those two physicians.
"Do you think we used too much?" Asks one of them.
"Nah," utters the blonde man.
Both of the physicians quickly back away as the prison jumpsuit-clad man sits up, stands, and stretches his arms up with a yawn. "We done with the siesta?"
"Please sit back down... Cody."
This polite request is unheeded. A desperate attempt by the other physician to jab another sedative into his neck is met with a (mercifully) gentle shove to the ground.
"Shit, don't tell me I'm not getting VIP box seats to the action," Cody mumbles. The sheer power of curisoity, overwhelming boredom, and - evidently - far too few tranquilizer darts spur him to just throw open his cell door as though a trifle, casually strolling right back out the police station with nary a care despite shouts and demands he park his tookus back where they put him.
He's got better things to do as he takes a nice, big, long look out the barricade of police officers, a few old friends, and, well...
"Glad I didn't sleep in." These words may be as reassuring as they are outright chilling, depending on the listener as Cody presses his hands together as he situates himself behind two men of... well, far higher regard in this day and age.
This may be Razor's home town, but this particular part of Metro City isn't normally Razor's scene. Razor is more at home in the run-down streets and alleys of the slums and the old industrial areas than here in the presence of the glass towers and commercial enterprises. But today, downtown feels a little more like home than usual.
Ironically, it was the hope of relative safety that brought Razor here today. Not for himself - he can handle himself against a few thugs, or even just blend in if he had to, in his hooded jacket and worn-in jeans. But he isn't alone right now. There's a young child holding his hand, dressed in a jacket that has the look of a hand-me-down and looking terrified of the chaos around the area.
Razor's eyes, however, are focused intently on the police station. Normally, he wouldn't step foot near one, as there are plenty of counts of assault that could be pressed against him if the people he perpetrated such actions against were the sort to want to have anything to do with the police. But it seemed like the right place to take the kid when he had found them, lost and alone. Now that he's here, he has to wonder if this was such a safe place to take them after all - but where else is there to go?
"Listen, kid," he says in a low voice as the two of them reach an abandoned car in a lot across the street from the police department building. "Wait here. Hide under this car till the way to the station is clear."
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to go help the cops fight the bad guys. Don't try to follow me."
As the child scuttles under the vehicle, Razor checks the trunk and manages to come up with a tire iron before turning toward the parking lot in front of the police station. Luckily, it looks like he's not the only one here to do so. Recognizing Mayor Haggar's arrival, Razor starts heading purposefully in that direction, not trying to pick a fight just yet, but on the alert in case someone else decides to do so with him.
Out on the pavement of the Police HQ, even with the appearance of three very intimidating and well-known faces, it is utter chaos. Though, the moment those three famous fighters make themselves known to all... and the roar of cheering by the men and women in uniform washes over the scene... the game does noticeably change!
A gaggle of thugs nearest the front entrance, a spot which could now fittingly be called 'Ground Zero', thins out quickly as Haggar explodes from the sky wielding a FREAKING CAR and takes out roughly half of their numbers in one go of it. Most of them, anyway, those stupid enough to stick around are either beaten to a pulp by the hulking Mayor or get their shit kicked in by Guy. Then there's... Cody. The moment the bored-looking criminal makes his way out of the building... the more cowardly amongst the group begin contemplating an exit strategy...
Fortunately, or perhaps not so fortunately, a very large man - easily as large as Haggar - of considerable height wades his way toward the action wearing a shit-eating grin. He's wearing torn blue jeans but is otherwise bare, his long blonde hair is tied back into a not so neat ponytail and his eyes aree alit with mischief. ... He's also carrying two squirming officers, one in each hand, both female. "Hey, hey, hey...!" He says, finally dropping the squirming girls in grass-stained blue uniforms... whom crawl away almost as soon as he does. He cracks his knuckles quietly for a moment, even as the fight rages on loudly in the rest of the lot. Two lesser men in similar denim dress, one with red-hair and the other balding, step up behind him. The bald one is wielding a thick piece of lead pipe... "Looks like we got a real fight here after all, I thought thsis was gonaa be boring haha..." He's incredibly arrogant and irreverent for one faced with fighting these highly dangerous men. Must be a gang leader... "Alright, let's tussle!"
The largest man heads straight for Haggar, gurling a meaty fist straight toward his mustached visage. Meanwhile, the man wielding crowbar charges Cody and swiwngs thta thick, iron, crowbar for his skull. Te red-haired man simply opts to try and charge guy... grabbing a nearby busted off headlight and hurling at him with all speed. ... No one seems to e bothering with Razor just yet, but this makes perfect opening for a sneak attack!
COMBATSYS: Jess has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Cody has joined the fight here on the top side.
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COMBATSYS: Jess successfully hits Haggar with Jab Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Guy has joined the fight here on the top side.
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Haggar begins to turn a touch too late, already bracing for the impact of the assault sure to come. Only to find Guy leap down and strike him, a grin of pearly whites manifesting beneath his proud moustache. "Guy! It is good to see someone I can count on, outside the Metro City police force!" A huge hand moves to grasp the ninja's own, in a momentary lock of bulging muscle. A simple enough greeting for men who have bonded within such battlefields. "This leaves me uneasy. If the gangs simply wanted territory, they have the numbers to do that already. But they are attacking the police stations instead... why? The police already could do nothing! Something does not smell ri--"
And then he tenses, before whirling around explosively and kicking off the ground towards Razor. For a second, he will know exactly what all these thugs felt facing Mike "Macho" Haggar. A huge wall of perfect muscle, an intensity on his face that shows an iron will, and the mastered techniques of a man who dominated the wrestling ring to such an extent that, even retired, he remains a goal for men like Alex and Zangief...!!
But then he stops, blinking in surprise and skidding to a stop. "You're not a gang member..." But he is distracted when Jess calls him out. Turning around slowly, he raises to his own imposing height and moves forward. Guy is left to his own devices after the brief exchange. Eyes narrow in anger, great meaty fists clenching into destructive hams, as the police officers flee.
As Jess rushes forward and swings, no attempt is made to dodge. He is struck clean in the face, but his thick corded neck only steels, and his chin is barely angled away. "You are new to my city... or you would never be suicidal enough to challenge ME!!"
Both hands lash out, aiming to grip Jess by the midsection. Despite them supposedly having the same mass, he would then explosively leap high into the air, a good twenty feet; before inverting and beginning to spin like a top, intent on explosively cratoring the cocky gang leader into the street!!
COMBATSYS: Jess blocks Haggar's Screw Piledriver.
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COMBATSYS: Guy dodges Cal's Small Thrown Object.
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The object is thrown to Guy, but he noticed the attack, weaving to the side as he charges the thug who tried to attack him in one swift movement. The thug was kind enough to assist in crossing the distance, and as such it is rather easy to close in. Of course, getting close enough to attack doesn't guarantee you'll actually get to attack.
On the other hand, if you keep waiting around for the perfect opening you'll never attack anyway, and so Guy's hand reaches out for the thug's head, getting ready to grab his head from above and then initiate a downwards momentum that is intended to make the thug's face initiate a rapid collission with the hard asphalt that makes up the ground for this fight.
COMBATSYS: Cody endures Lyle's Medium Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Guy successfully hits Cal with Bushin Izuna Otoshi.
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The blonde-haired brawler's already looking ready to just curl back up and sleep the rest of the day away, a love for a good fight probably the only thing fighting off the tranquilizers as it is. He frowns as he sees a good portion of the chaotic crowd seem to start thinking about backing down. Was he getting all worked up over nothing?
The crowbar-wielding guy gets, by all appearances, the cleanest possible shot as the crowbar's wedge bats up against Cody's head. He only seems to physically acknowledge it with a slightly rattled head as he brings one of his hands up on the shaft of the crowbar.
Maybe he simply finds Haggar's piledriver considerably more interesting than his well-being? He nonetheless attempts to simply take the crowbar out of Lyle's hand and just club him upside the head in a backhand swing as if either lacking in interest or maybe showing just enough pity to want to educate him as how to best beat someone's head in with one of these things.
"I didn't catch what you all were blabbering about," Cody dourly notes, "but it better be hella good."
With the mountain of a mayor hurtling toward him, Razor goes still, hands held low to his sides. It could be seen by some as a moment of terror, like that of a deer caught in the headlights of a Mack truck. But in truth, it's a moment of respect. Razor wouldn't raise a hand against the Mayor, even at risk of his own health. He doesn't make an attempt at defending himself, as that would probably give him the appearance of hostile intent in such a situation. But if he's afraid, even for a moment, his eyes don't show it. Perhaps that moment is what causes Haggar to recognize Razor as not being on the same wavelength as the other thugs around here.
"You're right about that," Razor says, probably too late for Haggar to hear him as the man moustache turns on the apparent gang leader. As he speaks, the tire iron slides out of his sleeve and into his hand, unnoticed by most around in the chaos. Then suddenly the weighted metal is being swung at the back of the head of the man wielding the crowbar. It's a cheap shot, but what do you expect when you bring a crowbar to a brawl?
COMBATSYS: Razor has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Lyle blocks Razor's Random Weapon.
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COMBATSYS: Cody successfully hits Lyle with Random Weapon.
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COMBATSYS: Razor has joined the fight here in the center.
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Jess braces himself following the punch thrown to the mighty Haggar's face. He was proud, and arrogant, but definitely not too stupid. He knew fairly well what attacking Mayor Mike Haggar meant, but he'd been waiting for the opportunity for a long time!
"Ha!" He belts out, flexing his own powerful muscles as Haggar attempts to latch onto him. It's a crushing grip the Mayor has... and it hurts the blonde man considerably trying to resist it. His bones and muscles are even at the beginning of the fight screaming at him. ... But resist he does, and he manages to stave those mighty arms off just long enough to slip out of Haggar's grasp. "I know who you are! I ain't that stupid..." He grins ear-to ear then... "But taking you out would make ME the strongest and most respected man about town! You better know I'm gonna try...!" He whirls, sudenly on one his left foot... raising his right almost simultaneously... and hurls a kick directly for Haggar's midsection. "Let's do it, boss man! Lets see what you got...!"
Cal, meanwhile, is not starting off anywhere near as well with Guy.
The highly skilled ninja deftly dodges Cal's thrown headlight, and immediately makes a beeline for the soon-to-be sorry red-haired thug. What happens is almost entirely too fast for Cal to properly process: One moment he's standing and the red-clad blur is homing in one him... and the next? He's been smashed fast first into the pavement, destroying the top layer of it and sending a flash of white across his eyes and PAIN through his skull. ... He manage to pick himself up, however, with a groan of misery. He then mumbles to himself.. "Fuck man, the things I do for money..." Having said that, he then resorts to possibly the dirtiest trick in the book: He attempts to knee Guy right in the crotch!
Lyle, too, is not faring nearly as well as the mountainous Jess. While Jess is a wall of solidly built muscle, and an experienced fighter to boot, Lyle is just... a rather rotund failed ex-wrestler turned criminal to pay the bills. That's why, when Cody attempts to take his weapon away and pimp smack him with it...
It works... and the strike sends Lyle sprawling to the ground on his back. ... A position he is reluctant to get up from, given who he's been charged with fighting.
But... get up he does. Just in time to see Razor attempt to swat him with a crowbar, which he blocks with one hand, and attempts to snatch it with the other just as Cody had done to him. If he can manage? He then will try to smack Razor across the face with it... perhaps stupidly ignoring the more dangerous Cody for a moment too long.
COMBATSYS: Haggar interrupts Strong Kick from Jess with Hammer Thru.
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"You are WRONG. You ARE that stupid... because you truly deluded yourself into thinking you could surpass Metro City's guardian angel!!" Haggar growls at Jess, before he assumes a peculiar looking stance. It certainly seems to be open for a kicking, but the moment that heel makes contact, Haggar slides forward. Steeled abs cause the boot to slough off, before he unleashes a brutal standing clothesline that impacts Jess in the face with rather excessively destructive force, likely sending him spinning once in the air before crashing to the ground.
"Any enemy of Metro City's vermin is a friend of mine!!" he shouts out towards Razor, before turning around and punching a thug who got sassy trying to stab him so hard in the face that he flies away, pants fluttering to the gruond and left behind. How he just punched someone's pants off without affecting their shoes or any other part of them is beyond comprehension.
"Cody!! Is Jessica alright?! This is no time to worry about serving your sentence!!" Haggar has grudgingly allowed Cody to tackle his problems on his own -- he could have pardoned him at any time, if only the black and white striped man had asked. But perhaps he battles corruption in his own way by letting it consume him and coming out cleaner and stronger. Or maybe he's just proud and stubborn. Haggar truly isn't sure.
COMBATSYS: Guy dodges Cal's Low Blow.
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The thug liked to use low blows, apparently. Guy was quick to get out of the way of the strike to his family jewels, knowing that a direct hit would seriously cramp his style. He made no comments on the topic, deciding instead to make his opponent of the day rue the decision to make such an attempt by more literal means.
His own strike was as aggressive as the one his opponent had used, but with a lot less dishonorable intent behind the targeting, as he stepped past Cal's blow, an elbow lashed out aggressively at what must be an already rather sore face. If successful, the elbow to the face would immediately be followed up with a quick leg sweep to reintroduce Cal to the Asphalt.
This was definitely not 'just another thug', and that meant Guy had to take him seriously. And that meant not holding back, for now.
COMBATSYS: Cal dodges Guy's Combo Grapple.
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Maybe most insulting a gesture of all to the ex-wrestler thug is how Cody casually tosses the stolen crowbar away like simple garbage once poor Lyle's on his back. He cocks his head off to the side and scratches at his neck absent-mindedly as he fights back another yawn. Haggar and Guy, old friends united together against the latest big Metro Clusterfuck(tm) to an audience of helpless cops and rallying hellions, and Cody seems... disappointed?
"Makin' a big scene about muscling in Metro like the Chinese... can't say you're livin' up to the hype." It could just be the tranquilizers talking, dulling his senses. His eyes do seem a touch unfocused. Some of the noise going on rings as incomprehensible, tunnel-like sounds of little definition aside from their sheer volume.
This tone shifts considerably when Haggar addresses him with the question of the ages, another cock of his head and somewhat more alert eyes. "The hell you mean is she alright, I thought--"
If Haggar doesn't know, that fact pierces the tranquilizer- and God-knows-what-else-addled head of Cody like a knife through Bred. (How many knifings did Bred survive, anyway?)
"Shit." Panic sets in as he takes a good, hard look at Razor. If Haggar says he's cool, well hell. Flipping up a knife into his hands from the ground with a sneaker-clad foot, he moves ahead of the struggle beginning to form between the ex-wrestler and the abstinence-promoting tough guy.
"Look, I don't got time for this trash," Cody speaks with a certain haste belying the sleepy, bored tone of voice those tranquilizers are imparting upon him as he drops the knife into one of Razor's pockets, "that punk ain't shit. He's all yours."
Whether Razor is willing to take assistance and what might pass for encouragement for one of the shining beacons of drug abuse and all sorts of self-destructive behavior that stretches the boundaries of Haggar's and Guy's endless patience and support through his (long and numerous) darkest hours is another thing entirely.
COMBATSYS: Cody assists Razor.
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Gauging his opponent's strength, Razor lets the metal bar slip from his hand as Lyle makes a grab for it. Then, as the weapon is swung back at him, he easily raises his other hand to catch him by the wrist. "You maybe should've stayed on the ground," Razor says as he pushes back, putting some distance between them. Suddenly, he feels the knife slipping into his jacket pocket. Turning to look at Cody, just for a moment, he takes a brief moment to speak - "Thanks. You busting out or something?" He doesn't have time to consider the weapon in his pocket before he whirls around, snapping a high spinning axe kick toward Lyle.
"What kind of nutjobs decide to assault a police station?" he yells to the others defending the precinct.
COMBATSYS: Razor successfully hits Lyle with Straight Edge.
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Jess finds himself understandably surprised when, despite their similar builds, his kick does next to nothing against the great mass of muscle that is Haggar. He had expected it to phase him a bit more than that, guess he forgot to account for Haggar's vastly greater inner power and experience!
Then next thing Jess knows, he's eating the back of Haggar's fist as he spinning clotheslines him, and he goes hurtling into the front of a nearby Sedan!
As the fighter becomes embedded in the car, the alarm begins to go off... startling several of the gang members nearby and forcing one of them look away just in time for Haggar to send him airborn... punching him right out of his clothing and off into the bushes nearby.
From behind Haggar, Jess collects himself from the front of the car, standing to his full height and wipes of a bit of blood ffrom his busted lip.
That wicked grin re-emerges... "Maybe...! We'll see about that..." ... He then charges Haggar from behind and attempts to thrust a hard knee into his backside. If that succeeds, he'll then grab Haggar by the pants and overalls and attempt to slam him into the vehicle he just emerged from... throwing several punches toward his torso thereafter.
Cal, meanwhile, is still reluctantly fighting that impossibly greater skilled ninja. His knee to the groin is avoided, and then elbow that comes in immediately after is narrowly avoided - not by any skilled maneuver - by by complete coincidence. He stumbled immediately after throwing that knee, tripping over a nearby fire hydrant and tumbling to the ground behind Guy before the sweep even comes.
He then wordlessly seizes on the opening to collect himself clumsily and dart toward Guy in an attempt to get his arms up under Guy's own. If he succeeds? He'll attempt another clumsy, amateurish, supplex... bringing Guy head over feet as he bends backwards and tries to drive him headfirst into the ground. This maneuver is so clumsily done though... he may well hurt himself in the process.
Lyle, though focused on Razor mostly, finds himself somewhat torn as the more frightening convinct Cody begins to move about again and talk at his gathered friends. He cocks his head to the side, eyes wandering toward the blonde man in shackles... just as Razoer effectivey stops his crowbar mid-swing.
That tears his eyes away from Cody and aims them squarely at the hooded slum fighter. There's a great deal of concern in those eyes. Even more so once he realizes Cody had just dropped a KNIFE in Razor's pocket and told him to stick him like a pig!
This causes him to back off, of or attempt to, but since Razor has effectively managed to seize his wrist there is little he can do except taking the axe kick to his left shoulder and sprawl out on the ground again shortly afterwards.
He does, perhaps stupidly, get up again... despite every bone and muscle in his body positively aching from that kick. Some of them might be fractured too...
Wordlessly, he stumbles... and then charges back into Razor's territory and performs a very poor imitation of Haggar's earlier attack... whirling his way toward Razor with a spinning clothesline attack!
The police nearby have found a great source of courage suddenly, raging back against their surrounding assailants even despite their greater numbers... night sticks swings and feet and hands flying as the miniature war for territory continues in earnest. The gangs themselves, though still mounting a resistance in large part, seem to be slowly breaking apart. Some of them even running away, as what once was a well-coordinated attack suddenly becomes a ddesperate struggle to survive. Or at least... not get thrown into the nearby jail!
COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Jess' Jailbreak.
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Choosing to take the fight up close and personal is far from something Haggar is against. That normally desperate impulse from a thug in the midst of fight or flight might help against your everday erson... but it won't be saving Jess at all! Even though it appears that Cody has no idea where his daughter is, which can only mean one thing: And that one thing is 'nothing good'. Despite being distracted by worry, he still catches the incoming knee, staggering backwards into a parked police car before a few of those punches catch him in the cheek.
But then Haggar swiftly slams his head forward, attempting to catch Jess right in the nose. A few knees to the midsection would follow, before the mayor moves to spin him in a violent pivot and send Jess' face right through the armored glass window in the pack. "I don't have time for you trash anymore!!"
COMBATSYS: Jess interrupts Violent Grapple from Haggar with Face First.
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Jess's vicious knee is effectively blocked, if clumsily, by the mighty hand of Haggar. As the force of the knee sends Haggar back into the patrol car, however, the younger fighter seizes on the opportunity to spring at Haggar and begin bombarding him with a series of punches. Some of which actually mannage to catch Haggar in the face.
...But! ... he wouldn't have too much time to enjoy having managed a somewhat successful assault... for the vicious and mighty Mayor and savior of Metro City retaliates against him quite painfully!
The skull bash catches Jess square in the nose, busting his cartilage and causing crimson fluid to flow from his nostrils. Then the knees come, and almost all of them hit, winding him severely and causing him to nearly collapse.
...Yet, he finds the strength somehow to block the last despite his weakened state and deftly avoid the more experienced fighter's grasp. Spitting blood on the ground, he grins again, attempting to seize on Haggar not even a moment after his last had failed. "Damn man! You're as hard as they say! You're a mean son of a bitch..." ... then he grabs at Haggar's well-kempt head of brown hair ... "...Not as mean as me though, old man!" ... and slams Haggar's head into the front of the patrol car several times. Face First.
Let's be fair - who can put 'good things' and 'Cody' together in the same sentence with a straight face? This particularly bleak fact of life has that meager silver lining in that it seems to go more or less both ways as the blonde brawler turns his gaze out towards the mean parking lots of the Metro Police HQ and the unfriendly streets of Metro City beyond.
"If it puts you at any kinda ease," Cody remarks to Razor as he cracks his knuckles, "think of it as some kinda community service."
Regardless of however Cody or anyone else may define it, community service of the actual legal definition probably does not include - in any shape or form - part of the following laundry list of things that occur in the process of Cody excusing himself to ensure Jessica's safety and the following five or so minutes:
1. Breaking off a piece of an already damaged street light to swing into thugs.
2. Deciding he really likes the heft of this newly vandalized city property to bat a nearby car hard enough to roll over onto a couple thugs.
3. In either serendipity or just plain snark, uprooting a 'no parking' sign maybe as a thoughtful way to prevent the owner of the newly misplaced car from having to pay for a parking ticket.
4. Picking his nose.
5. Busting someone's head against the pedestrian traffic passage button enough times to just break it.
6. Jaywalking.
7. Emptying a mailbox of its contents just so he can stuff someone inside it to be rid of them.
8. A sudden but ultimately short-lived fascination with the improper usage of traffic cones in conjunction with a hot dog stand.
The list goes on almost as long as the number of toughs he fights his way through. Everyone knows what happened the last time Jessica Haggar was threatened, and few people can really stand in Cody's way for long when the thought of her endangerment hangs heavy above them in these mysteriously active times.
Maybe Cody will stop whining about his boredom for a good half an hour.
COMBATSYS: Cody has left the fight here.
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After this round, if Guy returns we'll resume wit normal order.
COMBATSYS: Razor just-defends Lyle's Spinning Clothesline!
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Well, nobody can say that Jess wasn't a brutal man raised on these streets. Haggar's a touch distracted at the moment, creating all the opportunity needed to turn around his brutal assault! The metal of the patrol car is severely dented by the onslaught, and when released Haggar staggers backwards, catching himself on the edge of the police cruiser. "...Do you really think..." Suddenly every muscle on Haggar's body goes rigid and steel, feet sinking into the concrete as he roars. "You are still anywhere near defeating me?!" And then suddenly the police cruiser's wheels leave the ground... and a moment later, the entire hulking mass of metal is sent hurtling in Jess' direction! Cody appears to be putting his priorities in order, although he's having trouble finding Guy in the intense confusion. But it's clear the police are rallying and beginning to beat back the advancing thugs!
COMBATSYS: Jess blocks Haggar's Huge Thrown Object.
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He may not be on the same level as the mayor, the ninja or the convict who have a history of saving Metro from those who cause chaos within its streets, but Razor has been in more than enough fights to read Lyle's attack like a telegraph. As the wrestling has-been lumbers toward him with a spinning motion, Razor does a slight sidestep while smacking away one of his outstretched forearms with both hands. "I already told you you'd best stay down," he says as he reaches out to grab the wrestler by the shoulder to hold him in place with his left hand while his right throws a series of punches into the man's face. If successful, the move will end with Razor giving the thug a schoolyard shove to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Lyle fails to interrupt Beat Ray from Razor with Chin Music.
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The large group of thugs, who were fighting against the remaining police, just north of where Haggar and Jess have been squaring off... begin to slowly dissipate as the dangerous Cody lumbers towards them lazily. The smartest ones turn and flee, well before he can get to them, but the ones either not smart enough or not fast enough will soon find themselves in a lot of trouble. Cody breaks off a large chunk of street light and proceeds to unload his fury on them as he flips over a damn car onto a couple of them... turns random street decorations into environmental hazards... and even stuffs one inside a mailbox. Somehow. ... By the time the bored, escaping, ex-convict hits the streets he's cut a major swath through the gangs plaguing the area and left what few of them remained lying around in mangled heaps.
Jess, despite having successfuly hit Haggar solidly quite a few times, is beginning to realize he is in deep shit. Here he is, winded and bleeding and barely able to stand, and Haggar - looking a bit ruffled and little more - is already picking up another vehicle. This can only hurt bad... "W-woah... holy shit...!" He says, panicked, and still gasping for breath as that car sails inward.
All of what he can do is brace himself for what comes next as the car's great heft SMASHES into him and knocks him to the ground before sailing over his head. It then impacts with the ground and goes rolling into a wall of the police station.
Battered, and broken in several places, Jess still manages to stand again in what barely passes for a defiant manner. He came this far... might as well get this done with! ... Charging back into Mike Haggar's territtory again, with a broken arm and a fractured leg (to say nothing of his pride), he then proceeds to unleash a flurry of punches and elbows with his one good arm, and a good hard knee, before attempting to use that one good arm to seize Haggar by the overalls again and toss him down onto the pavement!
While Razor's skill may not be as good as any single member of the Metro 3's own, it's still far greater than Lyle's. A thing which he proves well by not only deflecting that spinning clothesline and side-stepping it effortlessly. As the grab comes, however, Lyle defiantly attempts to shove a fist straight up into Razor's chin. Unfortunately for Lyle, he never quite gets that far... and finds himself overwhelmed by Razor's own punches... and then shoved to the ground hard again.
By this point, the dazed and pained Lyle is seriously considering making a break for it. Even if Jess would later kill him for trying. All he can do at this point, however, is to lie there... trying to focus his eyes enough to stop seeing three of Razor...
COMBATSYS: Lyle focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar fails to interrupt Curb Stomp from Jess with Giant Swing.
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Police cruisers are rather more solidly built then the small compact he piledrived into the fight with, and once it leaves the ground his back cricks up something awful, leaving Haggar in a zombie-like arch of pain. "Agh!" Sometimes the beginning of age show their ugly face, but he twists forward and ignores it, trying to assume a brutal stance once more. Jess reaches him and begins punching, but in that moment both of his arms whirl out, aiming to intersect like a pair of scissors around the other massive man's entire body. But he's hefted up before completion, making a sound of grunting surprise before he crashes on his back, finally knocked off his feet by the gang leader. That alone is probably an accomplishment to most anyone in Metro City! Still, he pushes up once more, if looking a good deal slower then at the onset. The gangs are rather tougher then he remembers... but any softening he gained during the relative peace will be quickly hammered out now that he's on the streets once more! "Controlling Metro City is one thing... but this is anarchy!! What spurred on this gang revival?!"
COMBATSYS: Cal has left the fight here.
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Jess hehs, as Haggar's failed attempt to counter actually manages to help Jess put the Mayor on his back in the middle of the now empty parking lot. ... As Haggar rises again, slower this time, the weathered gang members smirks... wiping a bit more blood from his mouth with his good arm... "I don't usually bother talking to people when I'm kicking their ass...", he replies to Haggar's question in kind... "But since you're a pretty bad dude, I guess I respect you enough to give you this much..." He spits blood onto the brick pillar of the police station entrance, carelessly, and takes a breath. He might as well say something... his body didn't really feel like moving right now... "I dunno who they worked for... I don't ask such questions. ... I wouldn't either, 'cuz this dude was death..." Pretty revealing that someone who didn't fear Haggar feared whoever approached him for this job... "We got told, me and my boys... that we'd get paid big if we went and rioted at the police station here. I thought, hell, could be fun..." He chuckles though... standing to his full height again from his previously tired posture... apparently almost ready to fight again... "We ain't from around here though, I came a long way out here... just for the money and a chance to fight you!"
COMBATSYS: Jess focuses on his next action.
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As Lyle lies on the ground, gathering his senses, Razor cracks the knuckles of the fist that he just sent into the degenerate's face. He doesn't even look at the man, practically dismissing as irrelevant - or perhaps taking pity on him.
"Now's your chance to get out of here," he offers to Lyle. "Whatever you're getting paid, it ain't worth it." Sure, there's no reason to let him escape, from a legal perspective, but pragmatically speaking, the police will have enough on their hands with as many criminals as could be arrested here tonight - and that's if things go well. Instead of moving to finish off the washed-up wrestler, Razor has his eyes on the man who just took Mike Haggar off his feet.
"Hey, asshole!" he calls out before winding up and throwing a Hail Mary of a punch at the pony-tailed man's back. "I got your money right here!" The warning probably makes it even easier to see the attack coming, but if it's enough to buy Haggar a moment, then it's good enough for Razor.
COMBATSYS: Jess interrupts Haymaker Punch from Razor with Kidney Punch.
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"...what?" Haggar states, rather surprised by this revelation. An unknown individual of sufficient menace to curtail a man like Jess, also bothered with the expense of funneling them all the way to Metro City? This is nothing like the other events in the city. He could tell before that people had a goal. They wanted Metro City. Some people might call it being king of the garbage heap, but he could tell what drove every thug on the streets. This is different. It seems less sensible. And no wonder, if all these violent gangers are from outside the city! Metro City gangsters at least have their pride!!
"I see." is all he offers after that burst of thought. Before he limps over to a nearby garbage can at the edge of the parking lot, and brutally kicks it over. After the meal, he turns back towards Jess, just as Razor explodes into the fight. "You won't be getting paid here... but if you ran away now... Then it wouldn't be a very high priority to run you down, I think..."
COMBATSYS: Haggar punches a nearby barrel and eats the succulent turkey beneath.
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Jess can hear Razor's footsteps as he closes in, thinking to get a nasty surprise attack on him. But Razor's picked the wrong target. As the insult comes, Jess doesn't even bother to look. He can see everything in his peripheral vision that he needs to.
*SMACK*
The punch is caught, nearly effortlessly, even in Jess's broken state. He then lets go of it, and immediately throws an underhanded punch toward Razor's lower torso - intent to drop him to the ground. "Hey, fuck off runt. I'm fighting..." ... then he looks back at Haggar, who is busy devouring the contents of a turned over trash can. "The fuck...??" He shouts, in surprise, right as Haggar finishes his meal... "Shit, man... do they not pay they god damned Mayor enough for food in this city??" Thoroughly disgusted, but ready to continue fighting Haggar, Jess shakes his head dismssively and then charges Haggar again... "To hell with that man, I came here and I ain't leaving 'til I get what I wanted..." ... even if it's on a stretcher.
That said he then proceeds to rush Haggar and attempt the imppossible: to get one of his massive hands around Haggar's even more massive neck and strangle him with that one good arm. If he can do that, he'll then proceed to lift Haggar into the air and then SMASH him downwards face first into the pavement bellow!
Lyle, meanwhile, finally seems to have reached aa decision. The rotund ex-wrestlerr slowly gets to his feet and then bolts away before Jess can realize what he's done. Two nearby offcers ould be chasing him soon after however...
COMBATSYS: Lyle has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar fails to interrupt Nighty-Night EX from Jess with Double Lariat.
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"Metro City's famous Turkey Platter family restaurant will never pollute our cities' streets." is all Haggar has to say on the matter. That turkey got his team through some hard times, and is also why the homeless enjoy such a well-fed existance. After Mad Gear fell, he might have diverted resources into freshly populating key areas with nutricious turkeys. But he's a touch wizened all the same, and when he is charged by Jess he attempts to stand up tall and do a brutal lariat with his hand. But Jess snakes close and grasps him, and with a gurgling sound the mayor is hurled to the ground, sliding away. "Stop...!" he demands of Razor. "He wants a battle with the Fighting Mayor..." And then he rises once more, like a great oak close to being chopped down, but still with strong roots. "He will get it!!"
Jess's counterpunch catches Razor in the abdomen as he comes in with the high haymaker, causing him to stumble back a bit, a hand moving briefly to his ribs as he grits his teeth. He raises his fists back up in a boxing position and is about to come in for another swing in Haggar's defense when the Mayor insists that he hold back.
"You sure about that, Haggar? I don't think he should be fighting you. He hits like a little girl." Notwithstanding the fact that schoolgirls are sometimes one of the most dangerous weapons on the planet. Razor keeps in his fighting stance, maneuvering for an opening in case he does need to come to the Mayor's aid. And in the meanwhile, he decks another gangster who happens to be running past him with a box of stolen doughnuts in the schnoz, knocking the man flat.
COMBATSYS: Razor focuses on his next action.
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Jess can only look at Haggar with puzzlement, after he choke-slams him to the pavement, having registered his rant about Turkey Platter restaurants shortly after. He doesn't say it, but he thinks the Metro City Mayor's been hit in the head a few times too many with lead pipes. "...Yeah, whatever man..." ...is just about all can manage though, really.
As Razor taunts the hulking blonde, however, Jess turns a fierce stare in Razor's direction... stupidly ignoring Haggar and assuming him beaten. He then begins to lumber toward Razor slowly, with only one good arm left and on a leg that hurts like hell no less. "You wanna find out what I hit like, short stop? Okay, I'll play ball with you..." ... then, Jess uses that one good arm to rear back and attept to smash Razor in the face with a punch. Pure and simple, but it might hurt like hell if it hits..
Well, then. Haggar was willing to allow Jess to see the fight to it's fruition. As compensation for the valuable information, of course. But then he turns his back to the monolith of muscle, and there is a burning intensity felt staring into Jess' shoulders. "...You said..." And then he hurls himself forward, arms swishing to either side. Aiming to swing and catch the gang leader around the hips in a crushing hold. "WE WERE FIGHTING!!" If such is managed, he will then perform a brutal suplex backwards, aiming to impact his head into the ground with concussive force!!
COMBATSYS: Jess blocks Haggar's Strong Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Razor interrupts Black Eye from Jess with Raise Your Fist.
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As the taller, bulkier man lumbers toward him, Razor just keeps a level stare, focusing on the moment when Jess will move in for the punch. When it comes, he ducks under it, the big fist only managing to knock the hood of his jacket back to his neck. And then suddenly Razor is coming back with a punch of his own, rising up with an uppercut straight to Jess's jaw, probably hard enough to send the big man stumbling backward.
"I'm not a short stop, I'm a pinch hitter," Razor declares as he reaches up to brush a finger through his hair after it got ruffled by Jess's fist. "Next time you should really consider running home instead of going for a home run."
Before Jess can even manage to strike Razor, the beaten but not down older Mayor comes from behind him to seize him by the waist. This forces him to not only miss his punch, but forces him tot ry and wrestle with Haggar's vice-like grip once more... this time with only one good arm to do it with. It's pretty much all the opening Razor needs to get his uppercut off and land it solidly on Jess's jaw, causing his head to rock back as he goes unconscious. He's then promptlyn suplexed by Haggar into the concrete and simply collapses innto a heap there. His fighting is, quite clearly, done for today.
As Jess is finaly beaten, whatever remains of his boys begin to flee from the police station immediately. With possibly the only guy who could even remotely contest Haggar out cold, it'd be all down hill for them there anyway...
COMBATSYS: Jess can no longer fight.
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Once more Haggar stands tall, although Jess proved himself to be every bit the tenacious foe. Exhaling slowly, he then looks towards Razor once more. "Well done...! If you truly care to help this city..." A small walkie talkie is pulled out of a large pocket, before he tosses it in Razor's direction. "Then you will need this. Be ready to fight back at any time! Your name, citizen?" Despite being thoroughly wounded, the strength and charisma of Metro City's heroic mayor exudes off him, massive arms crossing as the remaining police begin to cheer at the successful defense!
COMBATSYS: Haggar has left the fight here.
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"Rex Rodfield, sir," Razor answers as he easily catches the the walkie talkie that's tossed to him, glancing down at it before looking back up to the Mayor. "But most people call me Razor. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't willing to help." Then again, if things had gone differently in his youth, Razor might as easily have been here alongside the other criminals out to cause trouble. The thought reminds him that there was a reason that he came here to begin with. "I'll be back in a minute. There's somebody who'll be needing help close by."
With that, Rex tucks the walkie-talkie into his own jacket pocket and turns to head back across the street while the coast is relatively clear, breaking into a jog as he approaches the car that he left the child under previously. Kneeling down beside the vehicle, he looks underneath and sees the boy still wide-eyed and hidden beneath the car's underside. Offering a hand, the skin raw on his knuckles, he says, "It's alright, kid. It's safe now. And there's somebody you might want to meet over here..."
COMBATSYS: Razor has left the fight here.
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"You're proof that you can choose your path, Razor. This city only breaks those who give up." Haggar states with true admiration. A police medic is checking over his wounds, but compared to the shattered Jess, he's only lightly scuffed up. Noticing the kid being hidden away, the Fighting Mayor gives a single nod of approval. Razor is doing the most important thing to make sure Metro City continues growing positively -- insuring the next generation will also grow up on the same path. "Come over, kid!! You can take a picture with Mayor Haggar himself!"
Log created on 16:19:19 08/09/2012 by Vega, and last modified on 00:21:41 08/11/2012.