Description: Just having Hayato duke it out with Aranha and Munin in an enclosed space might be enough for some shows, but SNF has to go one step further! The enclosed space the three fighters will be brawling in is actually a large industrial oven, which will slowly be turned up as the fight progresses. For the first three rounds it will just sap Reserve, but then it will get hot enough to actually start damaging health. An upper limit has been set to avoid actually cooking anybody, but it's apt to get unpleasant if the fight drags on! (Winners: Aranha/Munin)
Saturday Night Fights chose the Akutagawa Manufacturing Plant as a staging ground for the a fight between Hayato Nekketsu and the team of Munin Arshe and Aranha. It was chosen because of a particular feature. The walk-in industrial oven with highly adjustable settings. They intend to to light a fire under the fighters in order to make the action fast and furious.
Aranha for his part wasn't informed about the ovens. After all, he has been very vocal about his dislike of some of the previous scenarios he has participated in. If they told him he was to fight in an oven beforehand, it was incredibly likely he wouldn't have shown up at all. As a result, they kept the heated situation quiet until he arrived and by then it was already too late.
When the others arrive the camera crew can be seen setting up heat resistant cameras while Aranha himself is yelling at the production staff about the whole situation. Considering Aranha has a rep for being relatively laidback when it comes to these types of fights the fact that he looks absolutely furious should be the first indication that something isn't quite right. In the back of the capoeirista's mind, he wonders why he can't have a fight against Hayato without something being highly messed up about it.
For his part, Hayato is pretty laid back about things like this. Sure, it's a little strange, but it's a challenge! A chance to push himself harder! And he's fairly certain that the SNF staff wouldn't do something /really/ likely to result in competitors winding up dead. It'd be terrible PR, and probably cause some major insurance hassles.
The teacher gives Aranha a friendly pat (as he'd call it, though it's got enough force behind it that he tends to cause students to stumble when he does it), and tries to get him to look on the bright side. "Hey, don't worry about it! Working up a good sweat is healthy, anyway!" And with that, the teacher strides happily toward the oven.
Aranha isn't the ONLY one unhappy with this arrangement. His 'partner' for the match, Munin, stands not too far away from where he is having his shouting match, looking none too pleased herself. Seems Aranha wasn't the only one left in the dark about the stipulation concerning the temperature settings.
She really isn't TOO concerned about it. Hot temperatures can't be any worse than being burned and battered by Vegas psycho power not too long ago. HOWEVER, she STILL expects to be TOLD of these minor details before agreeing to the match. She would be ranting and raving herself, were Aranha not doing an admirable job of it already. For now, she is content to stand nearby, arms folded, glaring at the staffers over the top of her tinted shades.
She begins taking off her duster, since it won't be needed in the heat to come, while in the back of her mind, the details she was able to dig up on the teacher they will be facing are reviewed again: Armed with a shinai, gym teacher, very strong, a bit on the cocky side. As the subject in question approaches, she raises an eyebrow "As long as the sweat doesn't include severe burns, there won't be a problem".
COMBATSYS: Aranha has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Hayato has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Aranha 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Hayato
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Hayato
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Aranha continues to lay into the the production with choice words laced with expletives the likes of which would make sailors blush and then cringe in turn. He threatens to do things to them involving his footwear that is biologically impossible with the earnestness of someone who would be determined to find a way to achieve that impossible task. And that's when he feels the friendly pat causing him to lurch forwards resulting in him inadvertantly headbutting one of the production staff, from whom he was tearing a new one out.
When Aranha recovers his balance he glares at Hayato. He wasn't done yelling at that now currently unconscious staff member. Whatever else he has to say will have to wait until after the fight and so he dutifully walks into the oven and waits for the other fighters to do the same and when he's told to start he nods.
The heat is felt immediately and it serves to stoke the rage of the African American fighter. He forgoes ginga and simply marches up to Hayato before winding back and swinging a blue chi enhanced sweeping palm strike to the face and then using the generated momentum of the spin to come back in with a powerful side kick to the chest.
COMBATSYS: Hayato dodges Aranha's Dead Man's Hand.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Hayato
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To start, the oven is only a bit uncomfortable. Possibly it would have been a good idea for Hayato to leave his track jacket outside, but he didn't think of it. He might regret that before long. There's more important things to worry about, though! Like the fight getting started. Aranha's hand sweeps out towards his face, but Hayato swiftly shifts back a step. He almost moves back in, but spots the movement indicating the oncoming kick and hangs back for a moment longer.
The moment he's safe from Aranh's foot, though, Hayato lunges in, reaching out with his left hand in an attempt to grab Aranha and drag him closer. At the same time his right arm comes swinging upward and in, aiming to ram into Aranha's stomach hard enough to lift him off his feet, then slam him down.
As the trio step out of Aranhas frying pan and into the fire, Munin is glad she took of her duster. With the heat to come, it would be just what Hayato is now thinking about: a liability. The runes on her gloves begin to glow with dark purple coloration, and the similar glow of her eyes intensifies, visible now as she left her shaded glasses outside with her coat.
With a sweep of her hand and not a word of warning as he contends with Aranha, she flings a wave of violet, shadowy chi at Hayatos exposed back, aiming just to the side to try to grab him should he try to outmanuever it at the last minute.
COMBATSYS: Hayato successfully hits Aranha with Power Punch.
- CRAZY Hit! -
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Munin 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Hayato
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Speaking of liabilities, the overcommitment to that kick ends up putting Aranha in an even more uncomfortable position. Before Aranha can even put his kicking leg down let alone rock away from the kick, the Dancing Spider finds himself lifted and slammed into the ground leaving a dent in the oven's floor the shape of his torso.
It takes a few moments but Aranha pulls himself out of the Aranha shaped crater before swaying from side to side in a dance. He then lashes out with a kick to Hayato's hip before hopping up to swing a roundhouse kick to the head from the other leg.
COMBATSYS: Hayato dodges Munin's Shadow Wave.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hayato
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COMBATSYS: Hayato blocks Aranha's Change-Up Kick.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hayato
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Hayato's a big man, and while the interior of this oven is pretty spacious as far as such things go, it's not really a very open area. But the teacher is also quite athletic, and not all of the sports he practices rely entirely on brute force. Reflexes are quite helpful as well. Hayato springs to one side, pushing up against one of the oven walls as Munin's blast flies past him. By then Aranha is up and coming back at him.
Hayato pushes off from the wall, twisting his body to take Aranha's first kick as well as possible, and bringing his arms into play to block the followup aimed at his head. And he keeps moving past Aranha as he does so. Rather than follow up against Aranha, Hayato kicks off the next wall, suddenly turning himself around and launching Munin. There's a wide grin on his face as he brings his lift fist swinging around in a blow aimed at the base of Munin's ribcage.
COMBATSYS: Munin blocks Hayato's Power Strike.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Hayato
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Moving quickly, Munin positions her forearms horozontally, one above the other, stopping the blow with minimal damage. Sure, her forearms hurt now, but if blocking hurt that much, she can only imagine if the blow had connected.
She then crosses her arms at the wrists, uses the crossing point to move aside his fist, and spins, attempting to backhand Hayato across the face with a violet-glowing fist and a crude smirk. Hopefully, Aranha can hit him from behind while his attention is on her.
Aranha's kick combo did what it was supposed to do and back Hayato into a corner. What Aranha didn't expect was the gym teacher to bound off the wall. Waitasec... Wasn't that supposed to be Aranha's schtick. Ok Aranha/Chun Li/a long list of ninjas' schtick. Whatever. Point is Aranha was not expecting to see that.
Meanwhile, Aranha moves to take advantage of positioning to make it hard for Hayato to deal with a side-kick to the shoulder. Question is, is Hayato capable of dealing with a kick delivered just outside of his peripheral vision?
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Hayato with Aggressive Strike.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Hayato
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COMBATSYS: Hayato dodges Aranha's Strong Kick.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Hayato
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Munin does attract Hayato's attention, but things don't work out perhaps quite as they were planned. He brings up an arm to defend himself, but not in time to stop Munin from backhanding him across the face with a glowing hand. It sends him staggering back for a moment, but doesn't ring his head hard enough to keep him from noticing the movement coming up from behind him. He quickly hops to one side, causing Aranha's kick to just catch the fluttering side of his jacket. It's starting to get pretty warm now, but unfortunately with both opponents right on top of him there's no time for Hayato to take the jacket off.
Having just barely evaded Aranha's kick, Hayato whips around with a kick of his own, taking advantage of his longer reach. His leg snaps out, blazing chi surrounding his foot as he attempts to drive it into any part of the capoeirista's torso that he can reach.
As Hayato turns his back to attack Aranha, Munin rushes in!
She does her best to reach around his neck with one arm, and deliver a kick to the back of one of his knees to give him a hit to his balance before flipping him up, over, and down with a painful-looking throw, leaving her grip just loose enough to hope to compensate for him to potentially struggle out of her grasp!
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Hayato's Devastation Kick.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hayato
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Aranha is no longer there when Hayato's legs snap out to smash him outright with blazing chi. The capoeirista reaches down to the ground before cartwheeling out of the way of the attempt to smash his torso with such a devastating kick. He in turn uses that evasive cartwheel to close distance as well before going into a spin. He then lashes out with a chi enhanced roundhouse kick followed up by a blue chi engulfed spinning jump kick and then finishing by turning his back towards Hayato for just long enough flip backwards with a final downward kick on top of the Burning Teacher's dome.
COMBATSYS: Hayato dodges Munin's Power Throw.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hayato
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COMBATSYS: Hayato blocks Aranha's Aggressive Dance.
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Munin 1/------=/=======|==-----\-------\0 Hayato
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Munin's hand brushes against Hayato's neck before he's able to figure out what's going on and react, but then he swiftly ducks and steps forward, foiling her attempt to snare him. That still leaves the potential of a follow up knee, but Hayato doesn't stand still for long. Though Aranha does force him to do it for a bit. He's forced to step and bring his arms up to weather the series of kicks from Aranha. Can't be too fancy there, because letting even one get through would be a bad thing.
The teacher has definitely worked up a sweat now, but he still seems to be enjoying himself in spite of it. He lets his arms drop after defending against Aranha, then suddenly steps back toward Munin and spins about rapidly. As he's spinning about, he brings one arm sweeping out toward her. It's not exactly his usual attack style, but having found himself in a pretty good position to pull off a clothesline, he's perfectly willing to track knocking Munin right off her feet.
COMBATSYS: Munin counters Fierce Strike from Hayato with Shadow Strike.
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Munin 1/---====/=======|===----\-------\0 Hayato
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(Dammit....) is Munins single thought as Hayato slips her grip. She takes a moment to recover her balance, and wipes the sweat off her forehead with the back of one of her gloved hands. This proves to be a mistake as Hayato sends a clothesline at her!
She ducks just at the last moment through sheer instinct, striking at Hayatos side with a lance of chi that erupts from her palm as she slips by him, and follows with a quick leaping backflip to give herself some ground.
She once again wipes the sweat from her head and face as she stares intently at Hayato, glowing eyes pulsing brighter momentarily. The heat is starting to get to her a bit, sapping some of her strength, slowly but surely.
Aranha continues to maintain the pressure and he can see that they are slowly eroding the rock steady gym teacher of burning spirit. But then he can only watch as the teacher goes after Munin but what is impressive about the whole thing is her response that fluidly goes from defense to offense landing a telling blow. A blow that presents plenty of opportunities for the capoeirista should he be both quick enough and skillful enough to take advantage of them.
Aranha steps forward as beads of sweat drip down his forehead and onto the surface of the oven. As the temperature rises so does his rage but he moves in carefully in spite of it and then all of a sudden he swings a powerful roundhouse for Hayato's head before whipping that same foot in the direction from which it came and hooking it behind the teacher's head and should his foot gain purchase, he'll drop his body weight downwards forcing the teacher face first to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Hayato counters Face Down from Aranha with Counter Thrust.
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Munin 1/---====/=======|=====--\-------\0 Hayato
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Hayato grunts in pain as the blast of chi crashes into his side, dropping his arm from the clothesline to clutch at his side. He can't let the pain distract him for long, though, because Aranha is coming right up on him to take advantage of it. The teacher swiftly ducks under the first kick, squeezing one eye shut for a moment as some sweat drips into it. While Aranha is following through, Hayato springs back up and leads with his fist. He plants a full bodied blow square into the center of Aranha's chest, trying to drive him back and open up a bit of room for moving around. He then quickly wipes a hand across his forehead, wiping away some more sweat.
Munin sees her moment, as Aranha attacks and is rebutted, to move in once more, hoping the constant 1-2 attack pattern will keep getting through enough to succees despite the heat, and Hayatos skill.
With a blur of motion, seeming almost to teleport right to him, Munin comes at Hayato low, a lance of chi blazing from her palm. She jams it towards his stomach, intending to use the momentum, as well as her lowered center of gravity, to lift Hayato up, over, and slam him head-first into the ground behind her!
And it turns out that Aranha was neither fast enough nor skillful enough. It really isn't much of a surprise to the capoeirista considering that even though he has grown from the fighter he was when he fought along side Hayato against Shoma and Shinobu, and even grown as fighter since he took on Hayato in Taizhou alongside Alan, it was clear from the beginning that he still has a ways to go before his skill level comes even close to the gym teacher's.
That fist plows into his chest and all the planning that Aranha was doing goes by the wayside.
Aranha slowly climbs to his feet and to him, it feels as though his skin is starting to burn as the heat intensifies. He slowly dances back into range and then he drops low and into a crouch before going into a front hand spring launching himself feet first at the teacher.
COMBATSYS: Hayato dodges Munin's Eclipse.
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Munin 1/--=====/=======|=====--\-------\0 Hayato
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COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Hayato with Medium Kick.
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Munin 1/--=====/=======|======-\-------\0 Hayato
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Hayato whips around at the movement behind him, leaping to the side as Munin comes to a stop and stabs at him with chi. He manages to avoid taking another body blow from Munin's energy, but it seems the combo attacks are continuing to work. He tries to bring an arm up to catch Aranha's feet, but with the full force of the other fighter's body behind it that's just not enough. Aranha plows past Hayato's guard, hitting him full on and sending him crashing down on his back.
Hayato rolls when he hits the floor, though, not staying in one place for too long. He lashes out with one foot as he does so, attempting to crash a kick into Munin's leg with enough force to send her down for her own impact with the floor. Which has gotten quite uncomfortably hot at this point, though not enough to actually cause burns on contact.
COMBATSYS: Hayato successfully hits Munin with Light Kick.
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The attack dodged, Munin stops to readjust her footing from her low stance. The kick catches her just at this vital moment, and though she goes to try to dodge, the act of doing so only makes it worse as the kick lands, and sends her to the floor.
She rolls with the landing, and comes up on one knee. Sweat is pouring down her face now, and the heat, while not causing severe damage, is starting to blur everything. Nonetheless, she swings around , coming up in her own rendition of Bogards crack shoot, minus the chi or severely well-practiced technique. She hopes it might throw him off, and is good for getting her off the hot ground at the same time!
Aranha's feet impact with the mass of the Burning Teacher(which at this point is close to literal thanks to these ovens) and the Dancing Spider arches his body allowing him to catch himself and flip backwards and landing on his feet right before planting his hands back on the ground. This time in the form of a handstand.
He then proceeds to rapidly walk on his hands so his hands don't have to endure the heat of the oven surface for long. Or at least as long as it takes to get to Hayato. Once there, Aranha is forced to grit his teeth and endure the pain while he proceeds to deliver kick after kick from the handstand position. Good news? Sweat is no longer dripping in his eyes since he's upside down. Bad news? The sweat is pooling under him and may end up posing a slipping risk soon.
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Hayato with Medium Kick.
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COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Hayato with Inverted Flurry.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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On the plus side, it isn't actually the Crack Shoot. Unfortunately, Munin's kick still hurts. The heat is wearing Hayato down, and although he tries to get out of the way Munin's foot still smashes down on him. Then he blinks a few times at Aranha's approach, wondering if either the sweat is blurring his vision, or just got hit in the head harder than he thought... but it looks like Aranha really is coming toward him in a handstand. Hayato's confused for long enough for Aranha to launch into his impressive inverted series of kicks without Hayato managing to put up any sort of guard. He staggers backwards from the assault, whipping his head back and forth in an attempt to clear it.
"Now this is a rush!" He takes in a deep breath, which judging by the expression briefly on his face might not have been a great idea. Then he lashes out at Aranha with his shinai, attempting to smash him to the ground. And then he follows up with a long series of shinai strikes, aimed at keeping his opponent from managing to recover, before finally winding things up with a kick aimed to send him flying across the interior of the oven.
COMBATSYS: Aranha interrupts Burning Push-Ups from Hayato with Joker's Wild.
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It is, indeed, getting FAR too hot in here, and Munin isn't liking it one bit. She's soaked in sweat, covered in light scorch burns of little seriousness but still mild pain (as burns always are), and hurting from the impacts Hayato has landed.
Landing from her improvised attempt at being a martial-arts mimic, she turns, her eyes glowing brightly. Black chi envelops her body, with her eyes and mouth blazing with violet light. She SCREAMS as spearing tenticles of this pitch-black chi fly from her body, attempting to impale the shinai-wielding teacher from multiple angles with their razor-edged tips.
Hit or miss, once finished, the black chi fades back into Munins body, and she slumps a bit as exhaustion begins to hit her with more force.
Aranha steps forwards as the shinai connects with his back dropping him to one knee as he releases a pained hiss. He waits for the opportunity and as soon as Hayato raises his arm his entire body flares up as it becomes engulfed in blue chi. He explodes upwards in a blur of motion as he lays into the teacher with chi kick. He releases a howl of agony and rage as he bounds from oven wall to Hayato.
Normally when Aranha fights, he tends to be careful about not causing destruction unless it's all part of the scenario. In this case, it's clear that not a single fuck is given about property damage to the as he takes out his rage at this particular scenario both on Hayato and on the walls of the oven bounding back and forth between the oven walls and Hayato with blue afterimages trailing behind him. Eventually the heat and physical exhertion takes it toll on him but not without doing some damage to the source of his rage and discomfort. Aranha collapses to his knees. Sweat dripping down to the ground and almost every nerve in his body is screaming out to him right now.
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Hayato with Iron Maiden.
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Hayato gets flung around the interior of the oven while being stabbed with thin spears of chi. He was already pretty worn down, and he just can't muster up a good defense. And after the first couple stabbings and impacts with the walls, he can't even put together a bad one. The entire oven shakes from Hayato's body bouncing off of it, before he finally thumps to the floor, slowly bleeding onto it and adding an unpleasant smell to the air as the blood spreads across the hot floor.
That doesn't last for too long, though, because when it becomes clear that Hayato's not getting back up the oven is immediately shut off. It takes some time to cool, of course, but the opening of the doors helps matters immensely. And people are swift to start herding the standing fighters out and provide some cold drinks, while others move to drag Hayato out.
COMBATSYS: Hayato takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Hayato can no longer fight.
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Herding the fighters out but the staff give the capoeirista a wide berth after placing drinks down. Aranha was heated about the fight conditions even before the ovens were turned on. And even after, it looks like even exhausted, Aranha would probably would love a convenient outlet for his frustrations. As he chugs down his cold drink, he gives one of the staff members a glare.
And people wondered why Aranha rarely did SNFs and preferred doing Neo League fights. That. Right. There.
Log created on 20:23:42 10/24/2012 by Hayato, and last modified on 00:47:44 10/25/2012.