Description: Haggar, after the failed City Hall attack, mounts an offense against the regrouping gang to break their back once and for all and ensure the successful mopping up afterwards. But in the eve of the narrow victory, a much more ominous future is realized...
Vyle says, "Alrighty."
COMBATSYS: Haggar has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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The brutal attack on City Hall was only a couple hours ago, but Haggar did not pause at all. Every available fighter who was able to lift up a crowbar or heft a trashcan has been rallied. A great mob of police and other heroes, along with an unexpected mob of Mad Gear lead by none other then Damnd. Haggar made it very clear to his former enemy that if he did anything suspicious he'd be pliedrived off a skyscraper, but at this point manpower is something they lack. Cody was called away from his listless migrating for some medicinal ass pounding of his favorite sort -- fist-based. Guy's recon pinpointed where the gangs were beginning to congregate once again, and if they are shattered, it should destroy any cohesive offensive that could be managed in Metro City once and for all!!
Although Haggar is rather less subtle in many manners. He is riding on the back of a small Hum-Vee, holding up a massive American flag. Behind him is a tide of police cruisers and people on feet, with Damnd and his crew off to the side. Whatever random chain of command is running the gangers has given them their orders; break Haggar and his group of men once and for all, or die trying. This is the last chance the mercenary group of gang members will have to win the vanguard assault of Metro City, and the Chin does not tolerate failure.
As the rival gang members get in sight, countless thugs with random weapons and molotov cocktails, Haggar thrusts the flag high. "RALLY BEHIND ME!! YOUR MAYOR DOES NOT FIGHT WITH YOU ALONE... BUT THE VERY HEART AND SOUL OF METRO CITY'S DEFIANCE!!" A rally cry of support erupts behind!
Damnd and fifteen hoodlums walks down the street alongside Haggar's force of police and vigilantes. He'd rather be looting this city, but Duke has his orders - the disruption to Mad Gear business must be ended immediately, so that Haggar doesn't come down on everyone. Even if Haggar is already involved, and Shadaloo offered Damnd a huge sum of money, Damnd decides to follow an ancient rule. Don't shit where you eat.
Damnd spots the enemy, and his men all pull out pipes, bats, chains, and knives. "Okay, rude dudes. Some o' you know me...And some o' you are from de Duke...But who cares about how we got here. We all got our orders. We gotta stop dis shit. Dis shit is stupid, wrecking da city. We need da city. So let's get in dere, stick together, and stay behind me. We're gonna roll an' control." His thugs nod, before Damnd begins running into battle, his thugs following him in a triangle shape with Damnd at the front point.
Cody Travers, for being so draped in infamy and violence that constantly goes at odds with the heroic feat of that first time people dared to give Mad Gear a bloody nose, is awful chill in the wake of so much hot blood, city pride, and American spirit. Curiously, rather than keep his distance from Damnd and his gang bangers, Cody's walking awful close to them as he tosses a knife up and down one of his cuffed hands. (This, incidentally, is the fourth knife he's been juggling, evidently he's gotten bored of the feel of the previous three in favor of the latest shiny-looking knife on the ground.)
"That whole thing with China gave you a change of heart, huh," he says in his usual nearly sleepy, yet sarcastic demeanor. Starting trouble with Mad Gear? When aren't they in some variation of the very concept?
He casts a tired smile back over in Haggar's direction. Some kinda day this is gonna be, he thinks to himself with every measured step. Some kinda day this is gonna be, but shit, all this walking's been hell on his knees.
It has been too long since Diesel was out in the field. Here role in the war had been minimal, her attempts to win money in the NDP to rebuild Shadaloo had been non existent and her continues attempts to capture prominent psy users to recruit more dolls had all ended in disaster.
It was truly time to give back some, the Thousand Fists will not stand for this incompetent string of failures, not matter who is she serving now.
On the other side of the street, a crowd of people are seen marching directly towards Town Hall and the blockade set by Mayor Haggar and his allies. They move in several neat files speaking of orderly training, not at all like the chaotic gang bangers of Damnd or even the rowdy police men, these are trained mercenaries of sort even they are still dressed like petty thugs...albeit well equipped ones. Riot shields, bullet vests, tactical helmets and padding are strapped on this men and many of them are carrying guns with them.
Leading them is quite a stunning figure, a seven feet tall woman dressed in priestess garb. Dark skin, long curly black tresses and muscled body that is only slightly less bulky than that of Haggar himself.
She's scowling..
"Just go with it, dammit!" "But boss, this itches." "DON'T SCRATCH IT, you moron, I had to spring some serious favors for that kind of stuff. And it took so long to put on because you kept fidgeting..." "But..." "NO BUTS! Now go out there, stand like you're a big man on the block, and play your goddamned part! Unless you want to get your head blown open from the inside out...."
The hushed, harsh chatter comes from the alleyways, suitably chastised grunts dressed in their best gang regalia, representing the long history of Metro City thuggery. Matter of fact, they could look just like a certain gang if they really wanted! And in the middle of the huddle? It's none other than the Shadaloo instigator himself, Vyle, making sure his personal gang of mooks have their stories and aims straight. "Now get ready. Beefhead and his convoy are coming through to root any instigators out. So we need to be ready to march in and mash heads in first, element of surprise, YOU GOT THAT?!" he shouts, pointing at a particularly tall thug, who nods hastily, holding on to something on his face. "Now....get ready....and for god's sake, ACT LIKE GANGBANGERS, NOT LIKE SHADALOO!"
With everything straightened out, Vyle adjusted his own outfit, canting his head toward the open mouth of an alley to direct his gang.
...and surprisingly? He's not at the forefront. In fact, he's in the middle of the pack, dressed in an iconic pancho jacket of certain gang stalwarts in this city...except rather than blue and yellow, it's in purple and green, purple sweats underneath, green pancho with purple radioactive signal painted on the back....and in the front of the pack? A large man, looking rather nervous, but trying to wipe that expression off his face. Not quite as large as Andore, but close...and with a rather large, jutting, clefted....Chin. That's right, Vyle is sacrificing one of his own mooks to act as this mysterious 'Chin' everyone was talking about. The poor sap.
A crowd of assorted gang members closes in on Damnd. It's easily twice his the size of the one he has with him, and every single person is wearing a flashy red piece of clothing, although which piece of clothing seems to have been chosen more or less at random. Though they move together, there's clearly smaller groups within it, they move more as a bunch of groups than a single unit. Their leader rides a horse in the back, and wears a bright red scarf.
"Mad Gear, right?" His voice is snide, superior. "You know, it was always a little suspicious to me how he let you guys hung around after getting crushed by him. Guess you've just been his puppets all along, huh?" He makes a hand chop, and half of the group splits to the right, the other splits to the left, closing around the Jamiacan in a pincer movement, while the horseman himself stays back. "Let's take these streets! Mad Gear is just a beaten dog!" His gangs shout a number of less polite sentiments.
Damnd sees the Red Coalition approach him and his gang. As they split up, showing more battle savvy and strategy than Damnd's men are capable of, Damnd launches himself right, his boys charging left. Damnd shouts, "Okay, rude boyz! Let's dick dese guys around!" Damnd attempts to grab one gang member by the throat, lifting him up, then hurling him into the other mooks. Meanwhile, his thugs clash with the other half of the Red Coalition, using their improvised weapons to great effect.
Haggar's Hum-Vee continues to thrum forward, as he holds up binoculars and observes the groups. There's a number of red people flanking to the right. "Cody! Leave those to Damnd!! Take out the giant girl!! --WHAT? IS THAT--" He then zooms in on a spectacular looking chin in the midst of the group. "MAD GEAR?! Damnd, was there a splinter faction that rebelled?!" He puts down the binoculars, before scoffing over at the horse riding figures. "Mad Gear has a right to exist here... as long as they do not go too far!! The moment they hurt a civilian is when I will permanently crush them!!"
And then his Hum-Vee's driver puts the pedal to the metal, and begins rushing forward. The myriad police and other defenders rush behind on foot and in cruisers, shouting loudly. "TO ARMS!!" The Hum-Vee screeches to a stop, and Haggar goes launching forward. His mighty fists raise overhead, and descends down in a brutal axehand, right for Vyle's scapegoated lackey. "WHO ARE YOU REALLY?!"
"You mean Ol' Whistler over here?" Cody probably can't be heard from where he is - Haggar's got a lot on his plate with a lot of people counting on him for leadership in figuring out which way's up, down, left, or right, but he doesn't seem to have much faith in Damnd doing anything other than giggling on broadcasts or whistling in the sidelines.
Haggar says 'giant girl,' Cody sees something different other than 'giant girl,' no, even from here he can tell by that dress, the way she moves as he breaks away from borderline instigating violence with Damnd's little motley crew to stand before the marching lines of petty thugs.
"Lining yourselves up to take a turn, huh," Cody muses aloud as he is now juggling a rock (he got bored of that fourth knife pretty quick, turns out), "can't say that's standard Metro manners." The way he stands unfazed in the face of these toughs. Underestimating them? Completely, utterly bored? "Well, shit, if you all wanted to just come here for a fight you just need to walk up and punch me in the face. That's how we do things around here."
This lesson in etiquette delivered, he keeps tossing the rock up and down, up and down, up and down...
COMBATSYS: Cody takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Red Coalition blocks Damnd's Strong Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Riot "Mob" blocks Haggar's Fierce Punch.
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A big tough swats down the mook Damnd through into the rest of the gang before he upsets their balance, and he smacks hard into the pavement, gurgling for a moment before going limp. The rest of the gang hesitates for a moment. Their leader pulls out a molotov, spinning the bottle on his finger, snapping his lighter on in his other hand. "What the fuck is wrong with you fools? He's just one man! Need me to speed things up?" That half of the gang rushes in towards Damnd, harrying him with a variety of blows and grabs.
The other half of the Red Coalition has their hands full with his men, and slowly give ground, staying on the defensive in hopes of overpowering them after their comrades finish off Damnd.
COMBATSYS: Red Coalition successfully hit Damnd with Gang-Up Beating.
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Damnd blinks as the guy he threw is knocked aside, watching him drop to the ground. "Hey mon, dat's cold. You guys don't -" he begins, before getting swarmed by red-clad gangbangers. He sinks to the ground beneath them, disappearing for a few moments, before he explodes upward in a spinning ball, attempting to ricochet between the members of the rival gang and do some real damage.
"They call me Chin, if you haven't heard. And you think you got the real Mad Gear on your side? You think that old and busted pothead actually runs anything anymore?!" the tall mook with the chin prosthesis boasts, arms folded, dressed rather...stately actually, for a gangbanger. A suit jacket, tie, shirt, and dress slacks...mind, the suit jacket's sleeves are ripped to show off broad arms, the tie is frayed, and the suit pants cut in fringes. "It's a new day, old man. And we're running the show!" TUrning to 'his' gang, he points straight for the prize target: Haggar himself. "CHARGE!"
And with that, they fly toward the mayor, stampeding while...'Chin' oddly stays back. Or not so oddly, considering Mad Gear's old tactics. A good thing, as when the axehandle comes, a slender, acrobatic looking gangster eats the blow. He tries to block it, but ends up blown aside instead...but better one loss than several.
And it doesn't stem the charge, several of them trying to latch onto Haggar, drag him off his humvee, and smother him into the street. And for the REAL leader? Vyle is there too, trying to grab on hard to the mayor's ankle, a little more forceful as he yanks in hopes of making his gang's job a little easier.
COMBATSYS: Haggar endures Vyle's Medium Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar interrupts Multiple Tackles from Riot "Mob" with Hammer Thru.
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COMBATSYS: Damnd successfully hits Red Coalition with Damnd Ball.
- Power hit! -
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Haggar is now in the midst of the horde of gang members, and towers over everyone but the enigmatic Chin. His fists thrust up into the heavens with a mighty roar, as they all then launch themselves in tandem at the Fighting Mayor. The first one to impact him is literally caught, and a couple more cling tenaciously. "...?!" Vyle's individual competency surprises him, but he crashes to the ground on his back. Before hulking up and spinning, using his caught ganger to start slamming into the incoming ones, causing those gripping his muscled torso to also get hucked away. "HNNGH!!" And then he lets go of his captive, sending him hurtling towards Chin!!
Let battle be joined.
Wit the combined forces of Vyle and cavalry charging the defenders of Metro City's flanks, Diesel and her team of seemingly very disciplined mercenaries are left to stare down the lone blond fighter than comes to oppose them. Haggard crashes into the mob next to them, yet Diesel and her men do not flinch, the Red Coalition collides with Damnd and Mad Gear loyalists and still they do not move. These guys are true professionals it seems.
"Steady on my command." A muscled arm is raised to the side ready to give the order, Diesel's hand is raised to halt any advance from her forces until she thinks the time is right.
"Get ready--" "KILL HIM!!!!"" And that's when all hell breaks loose. One of them men up in the front gives out a vicious battle cry and it spreads like the plague through Diesel's group. They bang their riot shields like madmen, shoot at the air and finally charge at Cody like a vicious mob pouring besides Diesel leaving her like a stalwart pillar in the middle of a flood. A very angry flood at that.
"What in blazes!? Who gave the order to charge!?? STOP!!" The Amazonian woman had never seen such undiscpline before and she's left aghast as the first few members of her group reach up to Cody aiming to clubber him senseless with their tonfas and improvised clubs.
So much for waiting for their turn.
COMBATSYS: Diesel bids her time before getting back to the killing.
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COMBATSYS: Cody endures Alpha Squadron's Snag and Beat.
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"You gonna cry about friendship? Mad Gear is soft!" The Red Coalition gets more cocky as they seem to have taken down their foe - and then Damnd explodes back up from beneath the gang members, and they fall back, several of them barely struggling to their feet after that onslaught. The tough that swatted down his companion tries the same trick against Damnd, but instead gets hit in the head sending him flying back through a nearby car window. The car alarm starts going off.
After a moment, though, four gang members rush up, and try to grab onto one of Damnd's limbs each, and hurl him to the ground and hold him there. If successful, their comrades will beat him with pipes and baseball bats.
COMBATSYS: Damnd Toughs Out Red Coalition's Hold and Punch EX!
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The mayor's reputation is definitely not unwarranted, and it shows when the supposed Mad Gear offshoot is hastily parted, one poor sap grabbed and swung around like an olympic hammer, slamming into and plowing through several of the men, leaving them unconscious on the ground after one hit, ironically missing those he managed to shrug off first in the midst of his swing, including Vyle himself. While Chin manages to dodge aside from the flung underling, a good third of the gang is already decimated and spread across the ground in an unconscious mess.
"Dammit...GET OUT THE FIRE!" he shouts, several bringing out lit bottles and holding them at the ready.
And vaulting off the humvee? That Two-P wannabe in green and purple, trying to hammer down onto Haggar's head from above with repeated leaping stomps while two gangers try a suicidal tactic of trying to smash Haggar with lit molotov cocktails at close range.
COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Riot "Mob"'s Molotov Spray.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Vyle's Light Kick.
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Damnd lands from the successful cannonball, only to be grabbed by four guns and held down on the ground. "Hey, hey, hey, wait, wait," Damnd says, before he gets clobbered by blunt objects from the Red Coalition's remaining members. Bloody, his shades broken and a few teeth spitting out of his mouth, he flexes his muscles and throws the hoods off, tossing his busted sunglasses away. "Now you did it!" he shouts, attempting to grab one of the goons and lifting him up, before throwing him at the other group, presently fighting his men, causing chaos for both sides at will. Damnd's a little excited.
Forearms lift as the spray of fire is launched in point blank, but it doesn't coat anything important; and in fact, leaves his FISTS FLAMING. This is probably not going to be conducive to making him less dangerous in the slightest. Roaring, he hulks upwards, Vyle instead hitting him in the shoulders as opposed to the head. Before he lunches forward, stomping heavily and trying to knock over anyone in his way as he heads for CHIN. Leaping up, both his legs scissor out, attempting to catch him by the midsection and take him down heavily. And then... multiple, molotov-burning punches are leveled at his prosthetic!! "How did you bankroll this, fiend?! Mad Gear doesn't have access to the funds needed to hire assassins and mercenaries of this volume!!"
Oh, they jump Cody. When doesn't Cody get jumped? He seems to put a show of it as he appears to lean back. Second thoughts, perhaps? For a moment, he disappears underneath the rowdy bunch of people that have broken formation. There's the unmistakable sounds of violence, of cudgel hitting flesh with gut-wrenching cracks, of a vague form of someone or /something/ being worked over, of being directed towards the ground so that they may continue to be helpless again--
"Pff," Cody's upper body pops up out of the mob at an unexpected speed, lifting himself up out of it as he just fastballs the rock into the crowd with all the mocking strength of a man who pisses his life away getting into fights and occasionally sampling... er, exotic chemicals, "what're the rest of you waitin' for?" Cody seems to taunt.
At least until he slips back down into his present beating.
COMBATSYS: Damnd successfully hits Red Coalition with Guillotine Drop.
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COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron blocks Cody's Thrown Object.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Riot "Mob" with Violent Grapple.
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"What... what the hell is this guy? No amount of money is worth this...." One of the gangs that compose the red coalation pick up their fallen comrade who was swatted to the pavement, and start heading out. The other gang members are just staring.
Suddenly a molotov crashes down on the fleeing group, exploding the group into quicker fleeing, screams, and flames. The leader on his horse with the red scarf shakes a finger, pulling out a molotov. A grin is widening on his face. "Either you go to hell, or he does!"
The rest of the coalition look back and forth to each other, then rush towards Damnd yelling, attacking him with passionate fury. Bats and pipes are swung as if it's the last hit they'll get in - which is entirely possible - and they grip and paw at him with a ferocity borne of desperation.
COMBATSYS: Damnd just-defends Red Coalition's Gangbang!
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MAIM KILL BURN are seemingly the cries of Diesel gangs as they work Cody over. Or at least that is what it looks like from Diesel's vintage point, although she didn't approve of their tactics, if one could even call them that, the sight of Cody getting drowned in an ocean of burly men is definitely pleasing.
In a...not Yaoi fan girl kind of way..erm.
There's a smug scene of satisfaction from Diesel when Cody nimbly slides away from the crowd of heavily armed thugs to repel them as best he can. Of course that wouldn't work, she thinks, only my superior strategy could ever down one such as he.
The Diesel casually walks towards her own unruly mob as one of them gets pinged right between the eyes by an incoming rock, the man falls on his back holding his bloodied face wailing in agony. "Let that be a lesson to you." Mutters the she beast as she pushes aside her own men with broad powerful strokes so she's directly facing the blond brawler, staring at him with eyes full of hatred.
"You!" She points. "I WILL BREAK YOU!!"
Charging, the woman doesn't so much as run but slides through the pavement directly towards Cody, aiming to crash her knuckles right on Cody's teeth.
COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron takes no action.
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Damnd stares down the hoodlums as he grins, a few teeth missing in the front from the beating he took earlier. "Come on, dickheads, you see just how far you get with de Damnd mon!" Damnd taunts, as he slaps aside the bats and pipes, knocking aside anyone that tries to get close. Then, suddenly, he launches a counter offensive, punching through the remaining goons on his way to the man on the horse. His blood shot eyes look crazy, blood and spit flying from Damnd's mouth.
COMBATSYS: Cody blocks Diesel's Raksha Nakhariskira.
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Diesel 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Cody
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Well, that....that did not work out quite as well as anyone in the 'gang' hoped. Haggar is dangerous enough. A Haggar on fire, not being HURT by said fire, and attacking YOU with said fire is like a triple nightmare come true, especially to anyone without world fighting ambition or reputation. So it shouldn't be surprising that when the mayor hulks up, with fists now flaming thanks to the molotovs, it spells bad news for anyone in his path. That includes, but isn't exclusive to, the enigmatic Chin, who ends up plowed over with a Lou Thesz press, and punched repeatedly despite his best attempts to fend off the assault. And then....something weird happens.
The 'Chin' loses his namesake. In fact, it ends up flying off and attaching itself onto the forehead of an unconscious mook, making him look like a literal butthead. "...you don't...*cough*....get it," the fake 'Chin' groans. "You're...looking in all the wrong places..." he mutters...before trying to raise his knee and crotch the mayor in the lowest of blows.
With the gang almost completely decimated and only the cream of the crop left over, they circle until 'Chin' gives his contribution, immediately pouncing and trying to hammer into Haggar's back with whatever weapons they can muster. Pipes, trash cans, bricks, anything they can swing or smash with....
And then Purple Rain? Two Green? Whatever you want to call his disguise, the real mastermind of this group Vyle dives in, trying to leap from behind, catch Haggar's head, and DDT him into the ground before his sacrificial lamb is too sacrificed to be of use.
COMBATSYS: Red Coalition endures Damnd's Hyper Damnd.
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Vyle 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Riot "Mob" successfully hit Haggar with Gang Warfare.
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Vyle 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Haggar fails to interrupt Dead Spiral from Vyle with Double Lariat.
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Vyle 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Haggar
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Haggar is completely baffled when the chin is literally punched off. He's gaping at it, shaking away the last of the molotov's flames from his scorched knuckles. "What?! You... you're a fake!! You aren't the CHIN!!" And then he gets slugged right between the leg, staggering backwards before the remnants of the horde leap to attack him with whatever's handy. Vyle then rushes from behind, and in a roar he tries to spin. But it's too much!! Like a horde of ants attacking a beetle he is simply overwhelmed, Vyle taking cruel advantage before imprinting the Fighting Mayor's face quite literally on the street. "HNGHGHGH!!" The momentum has completely shifted against him!!
Cody actually has to pull himself out of that crowd a second time, not from desperation but perhaps sheer, utter disappointment that most of them just aren't looking to step up. A bunch of pretty faces, he's ready to write 'em off as.
Until the Big One comes. The giant lady, probably the largest to walk the Earth today, crashing a fist into Cody with such conviction and ill intent that when open hand meets fist, he visibly flinches. A flinch he tries to play off with a small frown even as the ground under his feet rattle slightly under the strength of that punch empowered by... that feeling he doesn't like.
"Shit," he finally speaks up, "that look on your face. You don't look like one of those sorry lots who don't have anything better to do. It's kinda like... you have to be here."
Not a comment on her body, or disbelief in her gender? Who even knows what's going through that guy's head by now, other than reassurance in at least one thing he seems more than happy to speak his mind on as he throws a hooking punch for her own face.
"I'll take that off you for free." Not that anybody has ever paid Cody to beat the crap out of them, or - perhaps - thought to try and pay Cody to /not/ beat the crap out of them, but for whatever sort of altruism can go behind the sheer act of violence itself, this particular punch for the sake of wiping something off Diesel's face is - in his words - free.
"Hold him!" The leader of the Red Coalition smirks, waiting for Damnd to get through his goons. Of course, the end of that punch should leave Damnd a bit open for a moment, while the leader can simply wait for his opportunity. "Very well. You wish to fight against the elite? So be it!" He lights the lighter in front of his horse's eye, and it shies away and rears up, then comes back down, it's front hooves crashing down at Damnd's face.
COMBATSYS: Diesel endures Cody's Medium Strike.
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Vyle 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Damnd blocks Red Coalition's Crushing Strike.
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Vyle 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Haggar
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Damnd huffs and puffs after dispatching all the goons, the remnants of his gang rallying around the man on the horse, trapping him with Damnd. It'd be no good if the big cheese (relative to the size of the gang) got away - Damnd wants to prove a point. He crosses his arms at the horse stomping down on him, catching the horse from below. He attempts to lift the horse and rider into the air, before jumping backwards to give the horse, rider, and everything a giant suplex. "EAT DIS, YOU STUPID HORSE!" he screams.
Rolling off the ground and back to his feet, Vyle's jacket flaps about with a flair, dropping into a low stance mirrored by the remaining members of the gang, including Chin who, at the very least, is a lot sturdier than his fake namesake. Not quite real boss material, but at least he has some meat to absorb with. "You think you know what's really going on..." The mohawked, sunglassed thug sneers, picking up a nearby trashcan.
"But look at what allies you've got," Chin intones deeply, a small wavering to his voice as he gestures for his cohorts to keep up the perimeter. "We own this town...and you're do desperate, you got us to watch your back while we kick you from the front!" the purple and green 'thug' continues with a cackle, before the rest of the gang swarms over the mayor again, trying to pick their shots and swing for vital areas, though not with much finesse.
And the Two-P wannabe, who sounsd a lot chattier than mooks usually are? He's leaping again, trying to hammer Haggar from above yet again, this time with a much higher vault and a much steeper dive. "Answer's right in front of your face, old man!"
COMBATSYS: Red Coalition interrupts Bulldog from Damnd with Molotov Spray.
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Vyle 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Red Coalition can no longer fight.
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Vyle 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Vyle successfully hits Haggar with Riot Stampede.
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Vyle 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Haggar blocks Riot "Mob"'s Reckless Attacks.
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Vyle 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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The Red Coalation leader laughs as his horse is picked up, and cracks the molotov over his horse's head as the two of them are thrown into the air. "BURN IN HELL!" He flicks up his lighter, and engulfs his horse, himself, and Damnd in flames, before Damnd supplexes both him and his horse into the ground.
After the suplex, neither horse nor rider look like they will move again anytime soon.
This is going badly for Haggar, the longer it continues. Vyle is apparently the true concern here, after the ambush from behind. He knew he had greater capabilities then he lead on, but it still took Mike "Macho" Haggar by surprise. "I do not know... what is going on. But I intend to find out...!!" Although the mention of Mad Gear intending to backstab him does cause Haggar to quickly turn towards Damned, just in time for Vyle to take advantage of it and dropkick him in the face. Knocked backwards, he manages to bring up his forearms before roaring and knocking back the additional assault from the few remaining gangers and Anti-Chin. "DAMND!! IS... IS IT TRUE?! ARE YOU GOING TO BETRAY ME? IF NOT... THEN... HELP ME WITH THESE FOOLS!!" He then lunges towards Vyle, attempting to grasp him by the face before doing a leaping bulldog and slamming his face right into a curb!!
Damnd is light aflame, but barely notices it, as he sees Haggar in trouble. Damnd rushes into battle with his remaining men, the drug dealer launching himself into the mob with either arm out, performing a flything double lariat into battle. "I got yo' back, Haggar mon! Let's dice dese dudes!" he shouts, even as his hair continues to burn. It's questionable what drug Damnd did before this battle. It was definitely /something/, though.
COMBATSYS: Haggar successfully hits Vyle with Medium Throw.
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Vyle 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/----===|=======\==-----\1 Haggar
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The Diesel is not free.
The very ground trembles when the woman's fist crash lands on Cody's guard, but even ground shattering attacks are not enough to fell one of the original Metro Three. A massive strike is repaid with another one as solid *CRACK* is heard when Cody hooks Diesel right on the jaw. The woman leans to the side, moving with the blow after her head is violently forced to the side, maybe she can dish it but can't take it?
Or perhaps she really is as tough as she looks. Diesel cracks her head back and stares at Cody with shit eating busted lip. "That all you got, little man?" Cody's question about why is the woman here go unanswered, although it truly is as he fears, there's something really odd powering this woman and it ain't the limb ripping muscles she has. There's certain...energy.
Hardly, I am not one to take things for free. HRAAAAAAHH!!!" A massive arm is raised in order to viciously strike Cody on his collar bone with a hammer fist, the men around her fan out to the sides placing a few pistol shots on the brawler's ribs.
You know, just to take the wind off his sails a bit.
COMBATSYS: Riot "Mob" blocks Damnd's Flying Clothesline.
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Vyle 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Diesel successfully hits Cody with Bhima Parigha.
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Vyle 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Cody fails to slow Covering Fire from Alpha Squadron with Large Thrown Object.
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Vyle 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Cody
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It says quite a bit about Haggar's acumen, picking up Vyle finally amongst the group as the real threat. Of course, his chattiness probably didn't help, but the luchador finds himself beset upon soon as he rolls back up from his Riot Stampede. The meatwall approaching him is just too oppressive, and the slight wrestler ends up caught by the head and smashed face first into the curb. "MGNhhhhhhhhh!!" Survival instincts kicking in, and assurance that even if his identity is made that it won't harm the cause TOO badly, the 'Two-P wannabe' rolls over, face bloodied by a cracked nose...and mouth stained by green? Haggar wouldn't have time to wonder why before a spray of green mist is sprayed straight toward his face, trying to blind the mayor.
The mob, in the meanwhile...one of the remaining crowd is bowled over and knocked into a dumpster, but the Chin and a handful of others managed to scatter from the flaming rasta, eyes glancing between each other as the genuine Mad Gear article joins the fight. They look hesitant....before one 'stage whispers' to the other saying "Make it look good" before they all try to swing on Damnd in unison, hoping to hit him with a pipe symphony.
COMBATSYS: Damnd blocks Riot "Mob"'s Medium Strike.
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Damnd surges to his feet, knocking aside pipe after pipe, bruising his hands but managing to defend himself from the attack. "Make it look good? Do I even know you dudes?" Damnd asks, frowning. He looks over at Haggar. "Hey, mon, seriously, dese guys aren't de genuine article. I never seen any of these guys." He turns his focus back to the fight, swinging out with one of his big fists as his hair continues to burn, Damnd ignoring the pain.
Cody's not entirely sure when he punches Diesel in the face but there's a sudden surge of pain in one of his knuckles. He might have just somehow managed to shatter one of them just punching her, and... that's indicative.
Indicative of what? He only shares with a brief whistle as she asks him the all-important question he asks of just about any lowlife he might dismiss.
"Well damn." That's a rather calm way for the troubled brawler to put it as swings an arm up a bit too late to slow the blow to the collarbone as he is forced to the ground in a lengthy tumble that puts into perspective how much power she's packing into those muscles of hers. They ain't for show!
Thinking quickly when he sees those toughs point guns at him, he frowns as he hefts up a manhole cover to just flip it at them. His fingers slip as the shots sink into him while he's down, the dirt and dust of his prison uniform adding another few patches of red for the collection.
"You guys ain't fuckin' around," Cody grouses in a tone that does not quite sell the pain running through one of his knuckles and his side, fighting himself up to a slow kneel. He's sure Mike's holding the line juuuuust fine though.
Right?
COMBATSYS: Haggar interrupts Venom Breath from Vyle with Giant Swing.
- Power hit! -
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Vyle 1/-======/=======|=======\=------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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A heel move?! "This... Wrestling?!" Haggar instantly realizes that Vyle is not a ganger at all, although that does little to help pinpointing his true identity just yet. But he closes his eyes and mouth, rushing through it without a moment's pause. Uh oh. He knows how to deal with such petty tactics. And then both meaty hands grasp Vyle by the hips, before he begins to spin faster and faster. Before letting go with a roar, sending Vyle flying head over heels directly towards the parked Hum-Vee, probably hard enough to slam into it and tip it clean over!! "Who do you work for?! Tell me, and I'll lighten your sentencing!!"
COMBATSYS: Riot "Mob" dodges Damnd's Strong Punch.
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Vyle 1/-======/=======|=======\=------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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"Pitiful."
Is the mocking word that comes from the Amazon in the priestess grab, an odd word to be tossed around in the midst of this chaos from an equally odd woman. She is not the type that would be found in this mess, but in that same vein she seems to fit the part of a rowdy gang banger to a T.
Looking down to Cody as he is forced to his knees and then promptly shot on the sides by her cronies, the woman raises a hand to signal her me to cease fire and this time, thanks to a firm glare from her part, they decide to heed her words.
"Your weakness disgusts me. It is not enough to merely tear you and your friends asunder now. For your insolence, you'll have the pleasure of watching your precious city burned to ashes. So that you may know the folly of standing against Sha---" Woops! Almost blew it there. The woman hesitates and stutters realizing her error quickly correcting herself by swinging a kick right at Cody's jaw while he's down!!
"DIE!!"
COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron takes no action.
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Vyle 1/-======/=======|=======\=------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Cody
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COMBATSYS: Cody attempts to interrupt Heavy Kick from Diesel with Criminal Upper.
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Vyle 1/-======/=======|=======\=------\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Unfortunately for Vyle, Haggar has dealt with the likes of El Stingray and the Great Oni. So it shouldn't have been surprising that the mist is handled the natural way, and that spells bad news for Vyle. And with him still lying on the ground, it's just a matter of reaching down for Haggar to pick him up, swinging him around, and send him crashing into that Humvee, apparently using him to play lawn darts with the car. Groaning, it takes him some time to pull out of the tipped over tank of a car, that jacket barely hanging onto his body and almost leaving only the purple sweats. "You...you know...I'm just going to lie to you. I'm probably lying about lying....maybe the Chin....isn't real...or maybe he's...right behind you...." he taunts, dizzy, but not enough that he can't taunt the Mayor and provoke him as much as possible.
Meanwhile, the gang manages to spread out when Damnd keeps swatting aside their pipe shots, managing to keep out of the radius of the Mad Gear lieutenant's wild swings. The fake 'Chin' starts directing traffic like a real leader at this point, trying to come up behind Damnd and put him in a full nelson. "TAKE HIM APART!" he shouts, trying to leave an opening for the last 3 or so gangsters to put the boots straight to Damnd's gut.
COMBATSYS: Vyle taunts proddingly in hopes of creating an opening.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Haggar
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COMBATSYS: Damnd blocks Riot "Mob"'s Hold and Punch.
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Vyle 1/-======/=======|=======\==-----\1 Damnd
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Cody
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"...?!" Haggar does once more glance backwards, eyeballing Chin as he continues to deal with Damnd. There's no hint that the Mad Gear ally has any intentions of ambushing him. Were that his goal, he already passed up the best opportunities. "Enough... obviously I won't get anywhere attempting parlay! Then we'll settle this in the CONCRETE RING!!" And then Haggar rushes forward, smacking his giant elbow twice with a meaty hand before lunging upwards, attempting to bring it down explosively into Vyle's face! Completely unaware that might be a Bad Idea <TM>...
Damnd swings wildly at the evading gangmembers, completing forgetting about Faux-Vega. As the Chin gets up behind him, he manages to avoid some of the hold and only gets locked in a half nelson, spinning around in Shadaloo member's grasp as he uses his free arm to block the attacks. He then attempts to pick up the Chin with his open arm, wrestling in the hold like a cobra fighting a mongoose. He attempts to lift up the Chin into the air, before falling sideways and slamming him into the asphalt.
"Pitiful? What, you're gonna go on a tirade about the 'hero of Metro' or some crap, aren't you," Cody's disinterest in what he assumes to be Diesel's word choices overpowers the sting of pain and maybe shame on the butterfingers of the manhole cover.
There's no comparison to some legacy or another people want to hold him to, no, just talking down as though she were in a truly superior position. In a way, it's as though she doesn't know who he is.
It's kind of refreshing.
So refreshing, he just flings a fist upwards to the oncoming boot to his head to help himself up, a windy chi-like eneryy gathering in a column around his fist...!
"Die? We're just startin' to get real here." But is this exactly as real as he's anticipating, or moving towards some unforseen quantity of real-ness that even he is not prepared for...?!
COMBATSYS: Vyle fails to counter Medium Kick from Haggar with Relapse.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Damnd
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Vyle can no longer fight.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Damnd
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Cody
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Diesel reverses Criminal Upper from Cody with Sahadeva Krpura.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Damnd
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Riot "Mob" 0/-------/--=====|=======\=------\1 Cody
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Riot "Mob" fails to interrupt Super Guillotine Drop from Damnd with Multiple Tackles.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Cody
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|=------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Riot "Mob" can no longer fight.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Cody
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|=------\-------\0 Haggar
And when Haggar rushes forward, Vyle is there to....
Get clocked in the back of the head, sending him hurtling over the humvee into the alleyway, only a pile of trash and trashcans softening his blow, leaving him completely out of the game...but more importantly, out of line of sight.
While the gang? Well, Damnd didn't get to the top tier of the Mad Gear chain for nothing, as he manages to slip out of Chin's grasp, turn him about, and slam him straight into the street, unconscious before he even finishes bouncing off the pavement. The rest of the 'gang' sees the writing on the wall, and gets to running off, a cry of 'SCATTER!' sending them all in separate directions.
And anyone who might investigate the alleyway that the 'Two-P Wannabe' fell into? They'd find a discarded green windbreaker, blood-stained purple sweats, and a mohawk cap similarly torn and bloodied.
Oh....Diesel is very, as they say, Fo' Real.
Diesel's foot collides against Cody's fierce uppercut, the gust of wind erupting from the man's knuckles is more than enough to blast her foot out of the way to leave her chin exposed and ready to get blasted into oblivion. Such a movement from the legendary Cody would be enough to fall a mighty warrior. But not one that has been trained by the ancient order of the Sahastra Mustu.
She talks like a bruiser, acts like a bruiser but her moves are definitely martial artsy. Diesel moves with speed that belies her girt and evades the punch swung at her face, twisting in the same movement to slide her muscled arm right under Cody's armpit, heave him over her shoulder and send him head first right into the unforgiving pavement!
The movement elicits a blood curling cry from her gang members, leaving Diesel standing tall screaming bloody murder at Cody's face, she's even gnashing her jagged canine like teeth.
"HRAAAAAH!!! YOU ARE NOTHING!!!!"
That woman is insane.
"Hnnngh! Damnd... hit the thugs attacking Cody...!!" Haggar comments, before he beats on his chest with charred fists. "I WILL ATTACK THE MOUNTAIN OF A MAN." Wait, what? Maybe he's not seeing well, but either way it seems Cody has held them off long enough for some support. He then rushes towards Cody, before moving to grasp him by the back of his black and whites. Before attempting to HURL him right at Diesel, with far more force then he might care for!!
COMBATSYS: Haggar assists Cody.
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Damnd sinks to a knee after dispatching Chin. He shakes his head back and forth, before looking up at Haggar. "You got it, mon!" Damnd says, standing and turning around to face the group of disciplined thugs, walking towards him as the fire on his head finally goes out. "Okay, guys. Let's make dis quick - I'm pretty tired, you're pretty tired, we're all pretty tired." He attempts to pick one of them up, before bringing the goon down on another like he's wielding a giant riot-armored club.
That foot makes Cody's fist work for every inch, and he does not suspect that she's got the last say when she gets him under his arm and... well he's not too clear about any moment in time between 'throwing punch' and 'all of a sudden head is buried in the road.'
In fact, his being is so buried into the road and part of the way he can see last night's dinner from here. He doesn't have a four-letter word for this, and Cody has a lot of four-letter words to describe a multitude of situations, objects, people, and any combination of these three concepts.
And then Haggar pulls him up out of his incredible ostrich impersonation - a situation not wholly unfamiliar to any of the Metro Three - a bloodied and bruised face not hiding the eyes of a man with a sudden renewed interest and the adrenaline of a guy who can't decide if it's because his life may legitimately be on the line or that this chick is... really... putting up a good fight.
Because Haggar's throwing him it's probably more the former as he just thrusts one of his legs out in a leaping kick as he counts on Haggar's brutal body tossing strength, Diesel being in the way, and that wall behind her having juuuuuust enough give.
There's nothing smart to say about any part of that.
COMBATSYS: Diesel Toughs Out Cody's Heavy Kick!
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COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron endures Damnd's Strong Throw!
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"HA HA HA HA!! INFIDEL!" Booming laughter comes from the statuesque woman, reveling in the middle of the battle field, the sounds of agonizing screams being music to hear ears. Diesel is so certain of her victory right now that she turns to her troops, massive muscled arms raised in victory as she flexes them showing up her biceps. And in the process she realizes that there's a rather large chunk of her men missing.
"Hey! Where's the rest of you lot!?"
"We still a bunch to worry about boss!" "The other guys done gone and ran away!!" "Wh-what do we do..?? LOOK OUT!! AAAH!!" Panic begins to set on Diesel's group as a large Rasta man barrels into their ranks and easily picks one of them up to use him as a club against his fellows, the whole scene looking like a giant ogre smashing through a hapless villager more than anything.
The only thing that keeps the men from fleeing is the fact that they have something a lot more scarier than a muscled Jamaican to deal with should they retreat. "HOLD THE LINE YOU DOGS!!" Diesel barks at them making circling movements with her finger. "SCHILTRON FORMATION! Form a circle and push him back!! Don't let him--UGH!!" Her vicious ordering is interrupted by a strong pair of legs crashing right into her gut, a blond projectile courtesy of Mayor Haggar.
Fortunately she missed when he called him a guy, and also very fortunate Diesel thankfully blocked that....with her rock solid abs.
"You....." Feral growling comes from the woman as she takes a wide Kalaripayyatu stance, very much getting 'real' now as Cody wished for. "Kalimaaaaa...." Too real in fact, the tip of her fingers begin to glow with purple energy as she drives them right for Cody's chest, aiming to slam with such force that it'll give the blond brawler a sever case of cardiac arrest. "KALI MUSTU!!!"
As for the goons, they have absolufreakinglutely no idea what 'Schiltron' formation is, but they caught the bit about forming a circle and the aim to do just that. Putting their riot shields around Diesel, they form a protective circle while they go try and push Damnd back via tonfa swings.
COMBATSYS: Damnd Toughs Out Alpha Squadron's Snag and Beat EX!
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Damnd turns about to face the circle of goons blocking him from Diesel, charging forward with a laugh. The tonfas beat against him but he ignores the pain, his mocha flesh bruised all over as blood trickles out his mouth and nose. "Youse all racist!" he accuses them, unleashing a hail of fists on the squad of hooligans.
COMBATSYS: Diesel successfully hits Cody with Kali Mustu.
-+- CALCULATED HIT -+-
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It's not too pleasant for Cody to begin with either, one of his knees bending inwards sharply at the impact of foot against rock-hard abs (...even harder than rock?) and finds himself landing sprawled out on his back as though the very act of colliding against those impossibly toned abs of Diesel the same as being knocked flat by a punch as he staggers along up to a stand.
"Yeah," Cody works up a smile, "aren't I glad I stuck around for--" he's too punch drunk to really consider the threat of the glowing purple energy around her fingers as she slips them underneath his sloppy guard and into his chest that he stands straight up. Not knocked back, or down - stood up, teeth bared and blonde hair ominously hiding his eyes as one of his hands press up against his chest as he staggers back. Blood drips from his forehead, showing the path of weakness in his loosening balance and ability to keep standing.
"Well," he gasps the word out, finding it difficult to suck in any oxygen as his heart threatens to explode on him from exertion, at which point his back slams up against a dumpster. The dumpster is the only thing willing to support Cody now, unyielding in its rusted, decayed, putrid, long-since-needed-to-be-replaced state.
Cody does not respect this dumpster's support as he finds it in him to reach down with one of his hands, "I'm wide awake," he sure doesn't sound it as he strains to heft the damn dumpster - has this even been emptied yet? - finding what power and sheer cussedness he does to thoughtlessly try to lift the thing up as it clashes against the outer staircase railing around the nearby building.
It gets stuck there, as Cody tugs at it a couple times, unable to determine if he's amused by this bad circumstance or actually legitimately frustrated that this staircase does not respect this dumpster that he is currently disrespecting in his attempt to bring it down on Diesel's... everything. Diesel has a lot of everything to bring stuff down on, you gotta understand, staircase!!
Haggar backs away from Diesel when the momentous team-up attack fails to inflict the desired level of damage on her. "Watch it... she's a dangerous one!" He doesn't seem entirely concerned that Cody is going to keel over and die, but he might just be hoping for a better match for his darling Jessica. At the moment acting more protective of his long-time friend, he hangs back in case Diesel is going to initiate another attack against him. "..." But then he realizes Cody's goal, and grinning, an abandoned police cruiser is hefted up with a roar. Before he approaches Cody's dumpster, and then swings with all his might, aiming to impact it with the explosive force of the Fighting Mayor and send Cody hurtling towards the Shadaloo assassin like a rocket!! "GO!!"
COMBATSYS: Diesel blocks Cody and Haggar's Random Weapon!!.
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Alpha Squadron 1/------=/=======|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Damnd successfully hits Alpha Squadron with Punch Mayhem.
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Diesel 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
"We can't hold him!! AAAAAGGGH!!" "Jesus, what is this guy made of!!?"
Diesel hears non too comforting cries of pain from her soldiers as Damnd begins to punch right through their shield wall with his bare fists, for crying out loud. 'These chumps never had a chance' is what the expression on Diesel's face says, rolling her eyes in despair as she simply yells back at them from over her shoulder "Keep fighting!! I'll be there in a moment!!" For her part, it seems that her duel with Cody has gone well. No man has ever survived a direct hit of the dreaded Kali Mustu, it won't be long now until Cody's hearth beats out of control and summarily implodes, flooding his lungs and ribs with blood. One could almost say that Cody...
Is already dead.
If he were a normal man that is and as Diesel quickly realizes, she is not dealing with normal men here, for Cody not only survives the blow but comes back at her with a vengeance..fueled by the power of Friendship no less!
"Impossible!! How are you still alive!!?" Diesel's face contorts with rage as Cody and Hagar have the GAL of throwing a dumpster at her, thinking that a warrior of her caliber deserves a proper attack and not this...filth tossed at her! She raises an arm casually to deflect the blow letting rusty steel meet with solid scarred forearms...and is knocked back!!
"HRGGGGH!!" Her heels actually dig into the concrete trying to stay upright after the blow, her arm hanging limply after being struck almost as if the attack had shattered her bones. "Haah....hrrgg!! GRRRRR!!!" Hatred is the only thing fueling Diesel at the moment, her teeth are bared and eyes go almost blank with fury feeling all her enemies surround her weakening forces. This the moment of truth!!
This is the moment of Shadaloo!!
"GRAAAAAAAH!!!" She can't even spout out any sensible come back, much to Cody's displeasure probably, the Amazon warrior simply charges directly at Cody to shoulder check him and sandwich him against an opposing wall. Desperately trying to take at least on of the Metro Three one with her!
The rest of her men, inspired by her ferocity, descend upon Damnd with everything they got left to clubber him senseless with their improvised weapons!
COMBATSYS: Damnd blocks Alpha Squadron's Savage Beating.
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/-<<<<<<|=====--\-------\0 Cody
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
Damnd holds his arms up around his head as blows fall about his face and shoulders, weathering the blows as he sinks to his knees. His vision beginning to get blurry, he surges to his feet and sallies forth into the soldiers, swinging either fist in a punch drunk fury. "I'll kill alls youse!" he shouts, even if he's weaving around due to multiple blows to the skull. He's about to drop dead, but pushes himself to the limit - the very same type of bravery Damnd needed to stand up to Haggar all those years ago.
COMBATSYS: Cody endures Diesel's Nakula Carmika.
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Diesel 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/-<<<<<<|=======\-------\0 Cody
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|-------\-------\0 Haggar
"Cody!!" Haggar yells out when the brutal assault is sent after his friend, before he bursts into action too low. His presence would suddenly be felt behind the assassin; although he is shorter then her, those massive muscles and sheer presence might very well make HER feel like the tiny one. A brutal flex superimposes his veins, and a tower of rage is built within the heart of his meaty soul. "YOU...!!" He then roars, attempting to slam his hands upon Diesel's shapely hips... before hurling himself into the air with her in tow. Only to begin spinning wildly with a roar, aiming for the nearby car that he used to assist Cody's random weapon, and have her impact it with destructive force.
A moment later, it would explode into a fireball.
Through the power of friendship, two strong men utterly wreck the side of a building and possibly Diesel, and that latter part might be all Cody seems to care about... or is it? He turns a bleary eye towards Haggar, face unreadable as if to say 'hey, I had it' or 'hey thanks pal' but perhaps one will never know. Cody tends to have one of the more aggravating poker faces when he's in that mood.
When the dust clears and the screaming amazing woman's looking to make the push, well, she pushes, all right, sandwiching him up against a cracking wall that is just soft enough to give way but hard enough to remain a surface to sandwich Cody against, crushing him all the more.
He puts in a great show of it all the same, pushing himself /back/ against Diesel even at the thunderous point of bone-breaking impact. He works a pained smile as blood dribbles out the side of his already horribly bloodied face, something indistinguishable from a giggle or a wheeze.
"Li'l too crazy," he mumbles. Even as Haggar comes to his aid once more, Cody acts like he's still got a whole lot of fight, like this isn't his final... fight, giving Diesel probably the hardest shove one man really can in these circumstances back towards the sharp debris of the Everything Haggar and Cody Just Did In The Last Ten Seconds.
He faceplants with the movement.
COMBATSYS: Cody can no longer fight.
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Diesel 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/-<<<<<<|-------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Diesel endures Cody's Strong Throw.
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Diesel 1/------=/=======|=====--\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/-<<<<<<|-------\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Diesel counters Screw Piledriver from Haggar with Sahadeva Krpura.
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Diesel 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 0/-------/-<<<<<<|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron blocks Damnd's Lunging Rasta.
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Diesel 1/-----==/=======|======-\-------\0 Damnd
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Alpha Squadron 1/-------/<<<<<<<|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
"HRAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" The thing that makes Diesel so scary is not her girth, or her murderous ancient Martial Arts, or her muscles. Some would argue that it's the fact she doesn't stop screaming like a freaking Berserk all through it. Because the Assassin does not stop screaming in rage, even as Cody starts pushing her back, The Diesel digs her heels on the ground and pushes against him, roaring all the time, /wanting/ to flatten Cody against the wall. When Haggar gets behind her and lifts her? She's snarling like a savage beast too, thrashing and wiggling ferociously against his hold like a dog with rabies.
Others would simply accept their fate and realize that getting tag teamed by Haggar and Cody is the end of all things.
Diesel knows the truth, that the end of all things is Lord Vega...and this..?
This is just Tueday!!
"GET OFFA ME!!" Demands Diesel as Cody decides to cling for the ride and go up into the skies when Haggar lifts both of them up. She pushes the blonde warrior away but shoving his face with her hand and seemingly saves him from getting face planted! But the truth is that she was just making space to maneuver.
Diesel slips right through Haggar's hold in mid air and reverses the grip on him! Trading positions so that he is now the one upside down with her on top!! "I WILL NEVER YIELD!!!!" She screams in rage as she SLAMS Haggar on the top of the car, landing on top of him for good measure! "DO YOU HEAR ME!? NEVER!!! HRUUAAAAAAAGGGH!!"
Then again she just may be incredibly psychotic. That may be why she's such an incredible fighter.
At this point, Diesel's men are far more scared of her than they are of the Rasta currently tearing them a new one. Utterly refusing to back up, the few of them left standing tighten their shields and brace themselves unwilling to get /anywhere/ close to that mad woman. "Shoot mang! Just let us get out of here!!" They beg of Damnd and make a valiant effort to simply barrel through the Rasta and make a run for it!!
COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron successfully hit Damnd with Shoulder Check.
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Alpha Squadron 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Haggar
Damnd gets knocked backwards by the fleeing soldiers, but just won't quit. "You wreck up my city, den expect to run?!" he shouts, throwing himself at the retreating goons with his arms out, attempting to swan dive into them and take them down. The massive effort is too much for Damnd, who passes out after the attack is launched.
COMBATSYS: Damnd can no longer fight.
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It has been a long, long time since Haggar got unwantedly switched and the other person became dominant. The last time resulted in Jessica. Being massive and oily with sweat is used against him brutally, and a loud cry of surprise leaves him before his head is reoriented towards the ground, then sinks into the asphalt with a heavy THUMP, barely missing the intended patrol car. Massive cracks circle around it. This implies a great deal of damage, but actually it's just testament to how hard his head is. With a roar he bursts out of the ground, stumbling uneasily. "Metro City... is not yours... or mine... it belongs to the people!!" And then he rushes forward once more, whirling through the air and attempting to catch Diesel's upper body... intent on yanking her upside-down and piledriving her once more, right into ANOTHER car.
This one would also explode.
COMBATSYS: Diesel endures Haggar's Flying Piledriver but gets knocked away!
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COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron endures Damnd's Flying Clothesline.
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Alpha Squadron 1/=======/=======|
Dominance is what Diesel is all about and not even Mayor Mike Haggar can take that way from her. Even so, she is still human, despite what others may claim and she is forced to take a momentary breather to force air back into her lungs through sheer force of will. This is not hesitation of her part, there is no such as hesitation in the path of an Assassin, her choice to take a moment to breath was merely because she knew that Haggar would require a moment to pry his head off the concrete.
Breathing was the only thing she would be allowed to do as an infuriated Mayor emerges from the ground to attack her, even in her fury, her body is far too bruised and batter to properly react and is deftly caught by the waist, unable to break free this time.
"That's where you are wrong, imbecile!!" Even as she is hoisted and carried, the Amazon warrior defiantly thrashes about and curses the Mayor who gives her the speech of the people. "Your petty city along with the whole world..belongs to my MASTER!!!!!!" She cannot keep her mouth shut and in her zealotry she reveals that she is in fact working for someone. Right before she gets SLAMMED head first into a car that explodes, sending her flying across the street to land somewhere close to the remnants of her Alpha Squadron.
The goons that had attempted to barrel through Damnd lay somewhere off on the side with the big Rasta on top of them, but there are a few that are string about on the ground. One in fact, manages to open his eye and realizes Diesel just landed next to him. "Oh shi- oh shi- OH SHI---" "HRAAAAA!!!!" Diesel raises again from the ground and HEAVES one of her own goons up pulling the grenade pins on his belt. "AAAAAAAAHHH!!! HELP ME!!!!" The man flails about helplessly, trying to undo his belt as fast as he can just as Diesel uses him as a projectile and TOSSES him at Haggar, intent of blowing both of them up!
Whether Haggar helps the man or not is irrelevant, after the explosions erupt, Diesel flies through the curtain of smoke to latch her legs around Haggar's face and make a 360 degree spin to crack his neck something fierce!
COMBATSYS: Alpha Squadron can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar endures Alpha Squadron's Heavy Barrage.
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COMBATSYS: Haggar fails to interrupt Padmini Puspa from Diesel with Hammer Thru.
-+- CALCULATED HIT -+-
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Haggar
COMBATSYS: Haggar has reached second wind!
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Diesel 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Haggar
"...?! Your Master? And who is that? The Chin?!" Haggar states, sounding mildly suspicious but trying to add it to the flow of the combat. Lunging out of the smoking debris, Haggar glances around before realizing the plight of his enemy. Without hesitation, he hurls himself forward, grasping the belt and ripping the man off to be flung away. This results in him brutally exploding, singed and blackened as Decapre rushes towards him. "...VILE WOMAN--" And then he lunges for her, but he is too injured in the wake of helping the other man survive. And in a brutal CRACK, his body suddenly goes limp, crashing face first into the street. The battle is still raging around, but it is a close thing. Whoever prevails here will be able to decisively guarantee which side wins.
Which is why Haggar's meathand slams into the ground, then his other, and he slowly pushes himself up, panting heavily. "You... will not... break the back of Metro City...!!"
Yes, it is a cheap tactic, rely on your opponent's noble attitude so that he'll save someone and leave himself open for a surprise attack!
Diesel's strategy works like a charm, she knew that Haggar would save the hapless goon and in so doing it he'd be left too weakened to properly defend himself from her own attack. Diesel cackles in delight when she successfully puts THE Mayor Hagger on a Lotus Flower neck hold and spins about putting inhuman pressure on his neck. That deadly spin would kill anyone, but as Diesel jumps back and watches Mayor Haggar drop like a boulder, she finds out, just as she did with Cody, that the Metro Three are not to be trifled with.
"The chin? Is that how they call my Lord? I suppose--" She takes a step back, eyes wide with surprise that pierces even her biggest Berserker rage. "What...what are you!!? You should be dead!!!"
It cannot be!!!
Snarling still, Diesel ignores the ache of her body and resets her Kalaripayattu stance, feet on a sidelong horse stand and arms shaped in an L, left on a 90 degree angle while the right rests across her abdomen. "I will break you!!! And then I will break your accursed city!!!!"
Just as she begins to charge, her eyes go blank as a foreign force takes a hold of her and from her mouth comes a robotic voice that is not her own. "-Objective Complete. Evacuate engagement zone immediately.-"
"B-But Master...." She seems to argue with herself and staggers, looking about ready to collapse.
And in the end with one last look of hatred at Haggar, The Diesel turns tail and flees!!
"This isn't over, you scum!!!"
"...Lord?" Haggar mumbles, before he staggers to his feet. He then reaches out and grasps the flaming patrol car beside him, before twisting and hurling it at the fleeing woman as a little going away present. And then he stumbles over to the man he saved, reaching out to grasp his shirt and heft him up to eye level. "Tell me who this Lord Chin is... or I shall piledrive you so deep into Metro City Prison that you won't get parole for thirty years..." His moustache, currently on fire, only adds to his demonic intimidation.
COMBATSYS: Diesel stops Huge Thrown Object from Haggar with Nakula Carmika.
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A parting shot! It seems that Haggar is not so noble after all!
"Heh, trying to shoot a fleeing warrior!" Diesel snerks feeling a giant flaming car getting tossed her way. "Very heroic of you Mayor!!" Says she as she swings a side thrust kick at the incoming patrol car and splits in half as if it were a wooden board! Still scowling, does the Amazon flee using the explosion to cover her escape.
Back into the shadows that spawned her....
Others are not so lucky, like the poor sap that got used as a projectile by Diesel. The young man chokes as he is heaved up by he collar of his shirt and wiggles about like a struck pig. The hockey mask he was wearing is cracked and he can't help but pry it off revealing a bruised, bloodied, scared face. "Dude..dude....calm down!"
Nothing but a punk..no wonder Diesel can't control them. "Wh-who do you think it is dude? The one giving orders to that crazy lady is....is..." He looks around, with wild scared eyes. One has to wonder if there is anything scarier than a pissed off Mayor staring down at you, and judging by the thug's expression, apparently there is.
"It's...the Big V mang..." He all but whispers. "You know...V-Vega... "
"He's back dude.."
"This is a battlefield... I will not honor the rules of combat... against one who refuses the same!!" Haggar yells back, before literally shaking a fist when she counters the patrol car so nimbly. His attention returns to the more useful man, although he does not in fact calm down or stop shaking. Vega. Shadaloo. He knows both of those names, but to try something like this... slowly he drops the hapless thug, turning away and limping. "THE CHIN." It all makes sense now. But why?! He's attacking the city, not trying to take it over! What benefit is there to that? The infrastructure and cost of it, to break something that is already giving him nothing?!
And then, there's a loud crash in the distance. Haggar turns to see a bright flash of fire, before a loud whirr as the city blackens in the budding night. And just like that... he realizes this is not over. In fact. This has only...
JUST BEGUN.
Log created on 19:18:49 08/12/2012 by Haggar, and last modified on 00:57:49 08/13/2012.