Description: The Dancing Spider ends up getting assigned hired muscle duty. Being up the thugs is easy at first but then a couple of brawlers thinking that gang warfare woould make for some fun fights ends up complicating things a bit for Aranha.
After the hit on the warehouses Aranha was called back to the harbor to assist in breaking heads. He hasn't reported that he had encountered Shadaloo interference while on his mission, chalking it up to 'What they don't know will hopefully hurt them.' But for now, the 5'5" ex-ex-cat burglar is now on forced muscle duty.
He doesn't want to be instantly recognized and so he wears a black long sleeve shirt, black sweatpants, black faceless mask is worn over his face. All blending in with the night. Kain's gang probably didn't expect for someone of Aranha's calibur to attack the harbor this night. As a result, the black garbed fighter, ends up cutting a large swath through the ranks, taking out thugs left and right.
The man known as Shen Woo was in Southtown for two reasons. He wanted to sign autographs and look for some punks to punch. Having take care of he former, Shen Woo now is determined to complete the latter. And so, a handsome blonde-haired man strolls into one of the worst parts of town with a nonchalant look on his face.
Being in the right place at the right time allows Shen to see Aranha in action. The fighter is first impressed at the mans handiwork, but then Shen frowns slightly. This mysterious fighter was taking Shen's glory. He was here to clean up he harbor of punks after all ! Not wasting anymore time, Shen Woo rears back and punches one of he docks thugs so hard that he lands in the water. "Alright! Whose next?!"
It was a tough night for Kain gangsters.
They didn't totally absolve the chance for a fight. There were fights happening all over the harbor now, there was open fighting. Every night, something would break out. The fact it was happening wasn't the wild card, it was the fact that nobody knew where. But when the spider dove down from its web at Warehouse 13, twenty gangsters thought they might have a chance with raw numbers. It was just one man this time, what could go wrong?
But the crowd begins to thin elsewhere as well.
A pain grunt comes out, followed by the sound of an arm snapping. The heavy thuds. A flutter of an open silk shirt billows in the night, red and loose. Dark hair and bronze skin smashes a fist down hard, smashing the dockside thug to the asphalt. Wiping his face with the back of his hand, a wild punch surges into the bat-wielding punk charging up, stopping him cold. The stubble-faced Mexican thunders with a stride, readying a third slam of his fist...
But someone cuts him off.
His thug goes flying out of reach, right into the water. Miguel scowls, rolling his neck as he draws back the fist. Like Shenwoo, he had the same idea; there was chaos coming down in the harbor, a chance to pick fresh fights. There were rumors running around the underworld that Southshore as about to go to hell. More rumors said that Mishima had something to do with it. Miguel had business in that regard. But ignoring the black-clad instigator of this chaos, he casts through the thugs at the pink-clad man that had punched down his target for the evening. And looking up and down over the man, he calls out to Shenwoo with a taunting smirk.
"I didn't know they made those shirts for men, amigo!"
The thing is while Aranha expected other people, he didn't expect for many other people to be joining him in smacking down thugs. First he sees a Chinese man wearing a pink shirt. He raises an eyebrow which fortunately can't be seen under that mask he's currently wearing. Then when Miguel shows up it makes the capoeirista a little more confused.
He has to stop for a moment. He needs to determine if these guys are enemies or are allies. He can see thugs that he knows are part of Duke's crew coming up from the flank to take on the remaining members of Kain's crew. Either way, Aranha can see this becoming the clusteriest of clusterfucks.
Aranha still has his own mission to attend to and so he continues to slam sneaker clad feet into Kain's crew. He won't act on those two until he sees how they deal with Duke's crew coming in. If they go after them, he'll get involved otherwise, he'll just keep doing what he's doing. He doesn't have the time to indulge in fights for his amusement while Damnd has his sister captured.
Shen Woo was already looking for his next opponent/victim when he is addressed by a burly Hispanic brawler. The God of Battle turns smoothly towards the red wearing man. Hmmm. He probably could use a shave and some more an work, but not bad. He might actually put up a challenge. "It's true. Not many men have he guts to dress as well as I do." Shen's smile broadens. "But even fewer can fight anywhere near my level!" Shen flexes his arms at Miguel. "You think you can, -amigo-?"
Before anymore hot air can come forth from Shenwoo, a huge thug grabs the boasting blond's arm. The God of Battle turns and upper cuts this foolishly brave thug into he water too. "Nice try, kid. But you really needed that bath." He calls out to the thug that he just dunked into the water. Shen now turns back at Miguel. "Now where were we?" This last punk very well may have been one of Duke's men. Shenwoo can't really tell the difference between one thug and another these days. Shenwoo is a non discriminatory punching and head butting machine in all honesty.
"Oh, it's guts now!"
Miguel casually catches one of the Kain thugs into a headlock. Keeping his gaze on Shenwoo, he idly unleashes a chain of punches into the face of the pink-faced thug. "I thought you were walking down the docks, turning tricks for some lucky sailors! Well." Miguel grips the thug by the hem of his britches, chucking him into the water right after the last one the God of Battle threw. "In your case?"
"More desperate than lucky."
Miguel sticks a tongue in his cheek, as one of the Syndicate thugs finally catch up to him. This time, however, the gangster gets the drop. The mohawked thug throws out one punch right into Miguel's head. The Hispanic brawler does his best to ignore it, but the thug has to throw a second punch. A look of exasperation comes over the brawler's face as he grips the offending thug by the jacket, and after a fierce head smash into the face of the punk, knocks him spiraling into the water with a wild upper cut. Adjusting his shirt briskly, he spits after him.
"I think we were about to see how full of hot air you are, amigo."
Between the fact that one Duke's thugs that Aranha had recognized had gone after Miguel and the fact that Shenwoo had just punched out another one of the Syndicate thugs it was clear that neither of them were on his side. That made them obstacles to his particular objective. He turns towards the Chinese brawler and and growls.
He knocks out a thug of his own and lets out an annoyed sigh as he rushes towards the Shanghai brawler, vaulting over one thug, sliding between the legs of another thug and bounding onto the shoulder of one last thug, and leaps off to come down feet first upon Shenwoo's head.
"I don't have time for this!"
COMBATSYS: Aranha has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Shenwoo has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Shenwoo with Sky's the Limit.
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Shenwoo 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Aranha
Somewhere, an irony meter is exploding as bare chested, open shirted Miguel infers that it is bare chested, open shirted Shenwoo is a homosexual. Some fighters would just snark right back, but Shenwoo doesn't snark; Shenwoo punches. The blond man opens his manly right fist and gestures a barking motion with it. "Talk! It's always talk." His right fist closes and drops to his side. Shen's grin has become borderline crazy. "The time for that is over now." And then Shen woo lurches forward with his right fist lagging behind him in what looks to be a telegraphed maneuver. Was Shen Woo seriously going to try to just run straight in and punch Miguel? Yup.
But suddenly, Aranha attacks! "Ninja! Niiiiinja!" shouts Shen as he turns and attempts to chest down he attack. Aranha simply has too much forward velocity and staggers Shen Woo back. A blood rage descends on the blonde fighter as his right fist glows with gathering chi. This lpunch was for Miguel but a new challenger has appeared. "That was a cheap shot. Lets see if you can even handle this!" Shen then explodes forward with a mighty punch aimed towards Aranha's midsection.
Technically, he just called him a whore.
As Shenwoo loses his patience, Miguel cracks his fingers. The Kain and Syndicate gangsters... begin to stay away from the duo, both sides learning that no, it was not worth it to get near any of them. And yet, their own fighting continues as Miguel focuses on his only concern: An angry Shenwoo ready to blow right in. "Then lets see what you got, amigo!" His arms drop to the side, as he watches, waiting for Shenwoo's first move.
"Hijo de puta!"
The shout comes out from Miguel's throat as he glares at the spider that comes out of nowhere. As Shenwoo gets a kick to the chest, the Hispanic man's brow furrows as he glares at the intruder. "Piss off hombre! The men are talking!" Miguel snarls as Shenwoo bites off with an explosive punch. Normally, he would be keen to let out a punch to Shenwoo, but Aranha had to go and step in between them. But now, Miguel was the one trying to step out before Shenwoo, trying to land the proper punch first. Dipping low, his hand comes out fast and loose, a sweeping punch attempting to catch Aranha by the legs.. and bringing him out of reach of Shenwoo's punch
To make up for that stolen knockout earlier.
COMBATSYS: Miguel has joined the fight here in the center.
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COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Shenwoo's Gekiken.
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COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Miguel's Aggressive Strike.
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Aranha moves towards Shenwoo as the brawler delivers his punch before spinning around as he deflects it to the side. This enables him to see Miguel swinging for the capoeirista's legs. With him coming in fast Aranha has to react faster. Just as the punch to the legs is about to connect, Aranha leaps up and over performing a no-handed cartwheel over the Mexican.
"Excuse me. I was here first. I have stuff to do here and you're /both/ interfering with my work."
A hand is brought in front of his face. "So if you guys want to continue your brawl elsewhere, it's fine by me but get the hell out of my way!"
That's when Aranha goes into a sudden burst of motion. Sending a side kick right for Miguel's body and then immediately following it with a spinning jump kick right for the Mexican's head.
That punch would have been the curtain call to any normal thug. Shen would have expected that this accursed ninja was a cut above the average thug. His rocket punch sends him past the ninja and the rude Hispanic guy. Did he-did he just help the ninja get around his signature punch? The blonde maybe not Chinese man turns towards Miguel and scowls towards him. "Don't -help- the ninja, you idiot!" And then the ninja speaks!
Shen Woo recovers from his missed punch and considers what the acrobatic( another tell tale ninja sign) has to say. Get out of his way? No one tells the God of Battle what to do! Shen Woo hand drops back again in the exact same way as before. He charges up and then he releases it. He instead rolls in towards the ninja and attempts to deliver a left handed punch after his feint.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Miguel with Strong Kick.
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He wasn't helping the ninja!
Shenwoo's punch is deflected, Miguel watches the agile martial artist almost like he was dancing. He was way too technical for a gangster. Maybe it was one of those Tae Kwon Do martial artists. But as the limb slam goes wide, or rather, he bounds clear out of reach. Smashing a fist into the harbor-side concrete, it splinters up shards. He recovers slowly, as the flying kick comes to the head. Miguel leans back, attempting to fall back. But instead, he takes the hit to the head. Falling on his back, he spits out a curse.
"Chingada Madre!"
"Bastardo!" The mexican brawler hisses, rising back up. And he wasn't rushing Aranha this time. No, he was stepping towards ShenWoo. Feet stamping, a hapless thug stumbles back into Miguel. The Hispanic street fighter simply downs him with a jaw-shattering jab as he strides straight towards the Chinese brawler. "You threw me off!" He snarls, attempting to seize Shenwoo from behind. If successful, he will give a pivot, and swing him around. Hopefully, he will hurl him right into the midsts of a bunch of Syndicate and Kain gangsters.
And leave himself to deal with the annoying not-ninja.
COMBATSYS: Aranha fails to interrupt Medium Punch from Shenwoo with Bad Beat.
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COMBATSYS: Shenwoo blocks Miguel's Enhancer.
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The same punch that he danced around from before? No one throws the exact same punch that they were unsuccessful with right after they threw it. As a result he reads the feint for exactly what it is. A feint. The problem is dealing with the timing of that second punch. He hunkers down, prepares dart in.
And all of a sudden, Aranha ends up having a an 'Oh shit' moment. His feet push off the ground and he launches himself head first, right into Shenwoo's left fist. What Aranha had meant to do was launch himself head first right into the God of Battle's bread basket.
The results of Aranha's miscalculation, other than the severe headache, is the fact that he's now flying towards the pile of bodies that the three men had been accumulating.
"Oh god dammit."
Shen Woo cannot help but grin when he finally connects a fist against hat pesky ninjas dome piece. Phew. Shen almost got nicked in the melon himself here. But there was no time to think too hard about near misses as a large, burly man has just came up behind him.
Silly Miguel. No one seizes Shenwoo from behind, -no one-.
It takes some concentrated effort on his part, but Shen Woo breaks Miguel's hold on him and turns quickly around. "Get away from me!" yells Shenwoo as be takes a half step forward and attempts to place an expensive shoed foot straight into Miguel's chest.
He will deal with that ninja later as he has his Hispanic doppelgänger to deal with.
COMBATSYS: Miguel blocks Shenwoo's Fusen Kyaku.
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Shenwoo cock block Miguel AGAIN!
The not-ninja falls for the feint, and takes the face punch hard. Unfortunately for Miguel, HE wanted a piece of the scrappy kick fighter. As Aranha goes sailing into one group of thugs, the second group of thugs remains untouched. Miguel doesn't even get grips on Shenwoo proper. And that was making him ANGRY.
"Hey! You had your chance, amigo!"
The Mexican spits back at the God of Battle, as he catches the explosive foot with his hands. It is a crude catch, a clumsy catch. The Mexican doesn't even get he chance to follow up proper; instead he responds with a stumble back, arms making a snapping sound as he pushes back. Regaining his footing, he turns his nose up at the Shanghai Warrior, his left arm going limp in front of him.
"What, the pretty nina doesn't want to get dirty?"
He shouts out, mockery hanging heavy in his voice as he swaggers. Miguel was striding towards the Chinese brawler. With that, he lets out a low jab with his front-swinging arm, hooking in right towards Shen's groin, before smashing in a follow up with his right fist, hurling out a ground-spiking haymaker.
"TCH!"
The brawlers seem content to beat each other senseless instead of attacking him. To be honest, the capoeirista is split on his feelings towards this. On one hand, he's being left alone on the other, he figures it's only a matter of time before they decide to spread their battle over to his 'allies.'
As long as they are focusing on each other and not on the Syndicate thugs. He can continue working over Kain's crew. He turns towards Kain's thugs, and then proceeds to kick one thug in the chin, another in the chest, a spinning back heel to a third.
COMBATSYS: Aranha takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Miguel successfully hits Shenwoo with Fierce Punch.
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Shenwoo would attack that pesky not ninja, but he was a little far away for he boxer to do much towards without running towards him like a freight train. The martial artist just might have to do that later. He can close distances rather quick after all.
And he also had more pressing matters to deal with like one angry Spaniard. Shen bobs and weaves out of the first couple of attacks, it is caught -hard- by that last punch. The blow sends Shen reeling and knocks him physically backwards a few dozen feet. The blonde man wipes some blood off his face as he squares up with Miguel once more. "Not bad." He spits some blood on he ground now. "But you are starting to really tick me off!" The God of Battle drops back again with a hand being held behind himself. There may be some distance between him and Miguel, but distance is all relative to Shen and Shen was pissed. In a blink of the eye, Shen Woo catapults forward into a huge uppercut. And should this blow hit, an explosion of chi energy will radiate from Shen to further enhance the huge punch should it connect with Miguel.
COMBATSYS: Shenwoo successfully hits Miguel with Bakuma Assault.
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Miguel was VERY content to beat Shenwoo senseless!
As Aranha wisely keeps his distance from the duo, Miguel hurls out the fierce combo of violence. The Hispanic brawler can feel when that haymaker comes roaring down, feel the contact. And with it comes a smirk. "Not bad? You got some better?" The smirk doesn't break as the man roars in with an uppercut. Holding his ground, Miguel grits his teeth behind that smirk when he doesn't back down. And slowly, a laugh begins to come from his chest. He doesn't back down, shrugging his shoulder as he stands in place as he lets him come and take his hit.
But then, the hit actually shows up.
"GRK!" Comes the ground, as the Spainard winces. Body tightening, he struggles to avoid getting knocked clean off his feet. He almost holds it against the punch. But then, the explosion of energy roars up, consuming him cleanly... and knocking him into the air. With a crack, he lands right on a nearby Mad Gear gangster. The pair grunts in pain. But a smash and splash of blood comes, as he slams his gangster's skull into the pavement. The brawler rises up warily, coughing harshly. Flecks of blood covers his forearm.
But that smirk isn't gone.
Swaggering back towards Shenwoo, two slow steps becomes a charge. Roaring forth, his eyes burn with an inner fire. "That -was- better!" He belts out as he closes in on the Shangai street fighter. The path veers, Miguel trying to run right past Shenwoo... and stops cold. He pivots, a flat hand coming in. As he attempts to smash a hand across his face, A single, firm backhand, the Spainard states quite calmly a response.
"Let me show you the best."
More and more thugs show up and Aranha ends up getting surrounded. The capoeirista however manages to signal to Duke's crew to keep away from Miguel and Shenwoo. He doesn't want the Syndicate thugs taking losses from getting involved in that brawl when they could be better to use fighting Kain's people.
Aranha still has to address that problem of being surrounded. One thug comes in attempting to knee cap him with a baseball bat while another one tries to gut him with a knife. The black garbed fighter leaps over the swing and then manages to catch a chain wielding thug coming in. He then snags the end of the chain and wraps it around the arm of the knife wielder and then proceeds to head butt him while his arms are occupied. Then he slips behind the chain wielder as he buckles his legs and then leans backwards sending the chain wielder down on his back. A follow up stomp then takes him out of the fight.
He finally turns towards that bat swinging hooligan and then plants a powerful front kick in his chest which sends him flying towards Shenwoo and Miguel's fight, particularly at Miguel.
"Oops! Sorry guys."
COMBATSYS: Shenwoo Toughs Out Miguel's Manly Slap!
-@- Dazing Hit! -@-
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Shen Woo has a wide grin in his face as he feels his fist connect with Miguel. He finally broke through his guard and was able to land one of his flashiest moves. Well that's that. Now all that is left is to hunt down that ninja and punch him into the stratosphere.
But Miguel seemed rather nonplussed with the attack after landing on the unfortunate thug. Ugh. What do they feed guys in Spain?
Shen's big opponent comes rushing towards him and then past him. His attack comes and it is a SLAP.
The sheer audacity of the attack leaves Shen speechless for a brief moment. The effect o the slap is hard to tell as Shen merely slams his head forward in a headbutt towards Miguel before attempting to toss him through he air. Hopefully he stars will align and Shen will throw Miguel straight into the dude that Aranha threw. Please let the cruel fates be kind.
COMBATSYS: Miguel endures Shenwoo's Kyakuten Touchi.
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COMBATSYS: Miguel interrupts Large Thrown Object from Aranha with Cross Beam.
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Oh, Miguel felt that last one.
If Miguel was a lesser man like these thugs, he wouldn't be back up. But he no longer doubted the divine nature of the God. His head was ringing as he hurls out that fierce backhand, to set things in line. The dazing strike seems to keep Shenwoo off balanced, the martial artist regaining his center. But in a free-for-all in Southtown like this, it was hard to get a break.
Aranha was making sure of that.
As Aranha flings out one of the gangsters, Shenwoo gets his bearings... and roars back with a headbutt. Miguel is already in mid-turn, taking the smash to the nose. Blood pours down his lips as he takes the momentum, hurling himself straight into the oncoming thug.
ANd he catches the thug face first.
Clutching the gangster with one arm, he continues to rush forward, bolting with a long, wound-up punch. Hurling out the uppercut into Aranha, the brawler slams down his gangster. Miguel bleeds a bit from one ear, and he spits out a tooth. And he lets out finishing kick into Aranha.
"No problem amigo."
Of all the things Aranha had expected, seeing the thug get face snatched while getting plowed into was not one them. His body gets lifted into the air and for a moment his vision goes white as Miguel thoroughly cleans his clock. The Dancing Spider is sent end over end and smashes into a few more of Kain's thugs.
The capoeirista slowly picks himself up off the ground, shakes his head to clear out the cobwebs and then makes his way over to Miguel, elbowing and kicking thugs out of his way before his hand starts glowing blue.
After a moment of glancing down at that glowing hand, he brings it across Miguel's face with a chi enhanced, pimp slap from hell, then immediately, he follows it up with a spinning back heel kick to the temple.
Shen watches as the Miguel missile shoots through the air. It seems the burly brawler was more aerodynamic then Shenwoo would have thought. But now was not the time to gawk, it was the time for manly action.
Earlier, Shenwoo chose to bot attack Aranjha because he was too far away. The thing about Shen is that he has something of a 'gal closer' he keeps up his short sleeve. The blonde warrior smiles to himself as he begins running towards Aranha with a his right fist trailing him. He seems to be heading straight for the kicking ninja. It looks like there won't be a feint this time.
%An explosion of chi suddenly burts around the God of Battle as he -zooms- towards Aranha now with his right fist leading the way. It is that dash punch from earlier, but Shen has somehow found a way to accelerate himself even faster towards his foe then last time.
COMBATSYS: Miguel endures Aranha's Dead Man's Hand.
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The numbers of both sides were dwindling.
In the fight between Syndicate and Kain, no one was winning now that Shen Woo and Miguel were just flailing around, for no reason other than to have some fun. As Miguel roars into Aranha, his face was terse, jaw tight, eyes burning, ear bleeding. As the hand turns blue, Miguel smirks. His guard goes down. The Spanish brawler begins to laugh.
He doesn't stop laughing when the heel smashes into his temple.
The brawler was walking faster and faster as he approaches Aranha, ignoring Shenwoo as the Shanghai hellion roars in with a punc of his own. Shen was in tandem with Miguel as the laugh stops, and the two fighters throw out the same thing in unison into the poor not-ninja that just happened to be in their way, like everyone else here tonight, even each other.
A single, skeleton-shattering punch.
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Shenwoo's Zetsu! Gekiken.
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COMBATSYS: Miguel dazes Aranha with Burly Sneer!
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Aranha sees both of them coming towards him like freight trains. Aranha has to think and move fast. The problem is that the two brawlers were both coming in too fast and were too inadvertantly well coordinated for Aranha to completely avoid. The Dancing Spider spins away from Shenwoo's fist and runs face first right into Miguel's. He falls over, incredibly punch drunk and for a few moments has trouble getting himself.
"You have no idea what you have done."
He works himself up to his feet but his balance is shaky and he falls to one knee. He takes a deep breath and through sheer force of will brings himself back up to his feet. His entire body glows blue and then he takes off ina run before releasing all of his pent up fury on the thugs, and on Shenwoo. Bouncing off dumpsters and thugs and buildings like a rogue ball of flubber delivering kicks from every imaginable angle until he drops to one knee between Miguel and Shenwoo and then falls over.
He groans in a weak voice, "You may have doomed my sii... my sister."
COMBATSYS: Aranha can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Shenwoo blocks Aranha's Joker's Wild.
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Shenwoo is both happy and sad at the same time. Aranha, the pesky ninja, gets pummeled but it was Miguel who landed he punch and not him. These mixed feelings give way to a look of pure concentration as Aranha unleashes a plethora of kicks to he nearby thugs and at Shen Woo himself. The boxer times his block just right and manages to prevent getting kicked in the head again. Shen audibly 'phews' and is about to turn to face Miguel when Aranha says something about his sister.
Shen's hero sense tingles as well as this might lead to even bigger fights. First, the battered fighter looks to the remaining foes and then to Miguel. Cogs begin to turn in Shen's head.
"Hey big Spanish guy, you thinking what I am thinking?" The blonde begins before beckoning towards the beleaguered Aranha. "We get this guy to show us where his sister is held, beat up he big idiot holding her captive, rescue his sister, and then finish this fight, man on man like it should be?"
%A closed fist is held out and offered towards Miguel. It was up to him now whether he wanted to brofist or real punch Shen.
COMBATSYS: Shenwoo takes no action.
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For a brief moment, Miguel was proud.
As the fist comes roaring in, knocking Aranha clean out of his mind, he lets the man go berserk, tearing across the remaining gangsters violently. A smirk is over him as he polishes his fist. He was still bleeding. His body had a few cracked ribs. But as Aranha collapses, he lowers down, trying to grip the man by his shirt. Miguel winds back a fist, ready to unleash the finishing punch upon the man.
And then he hears those final words.
The smirk was gone. Miguel twitches a moment, dropping Aranha back down on the ground. He rises up, eyes wide, brow furrowed. As Shen Woo comes in at his flank, the brawler turns, guard up. He hears the pitch. He hears the offer. Miguel's face tightens in fury, his fists clenching. And then, he responds.
"Fine. Whatever."
Miguel growls as he lowers down, hefting Aranha over his shoulder. "We gotta get this guy to the hospital." The brawler spits at the ground, casting a viscious gaze across the harbor grounds. "When he wakes up, we can ask him about his sister, hombre. But if he is just making up stories to buy sympathy? He is going to be a whole hell of pain."
And there, Miguel extends his hand, returning the brofist with the God of Battle.
COMBATSYS: Miguel takes no action.
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Log created on 21:35:52 07/03/2013 by Aranha, and last modified on 22:44:23 07/07/2013.