Description: In England, Lita is fighting in an underground fighting ring to infiltrate it for Delta Red. Rio is fighting in an underground fighting arena because that's her idea of fun. They fight.
An underground boxing ring, even if boxing doesn't go on in it anymore. An old one, or at least old-style - a circular shape rather than the modern square. There's some brown stains that could be blood on the floor. There's not a lot announcers, and thought the ring itself is well lit, outside it, the watchers are dimly lit, hard to make out.
For similar reasons, Rio is wearing a black burgular-style mask that covers up her face in addition to her outfit. Not that it makes a huge difference, Rio isn't really worried about the stupid risk she's taking from one day to the other, and police might be the least of her worries with a place like this. She stands in the spotlight, doing some flashy card tricks while she waits for her opponent to arrive - deck goes from one hand to another, cuts the rest of the deck with a the Ace of Spades midair, tosses the pieces up, catches them, and slides the now-once-again-whole deck of cards into a fan to fan herself with.
When Lita approaches the ring she glances around. While she fights, her Delta Red team is keeping in contact with her via a well hidden head set. They want her to fight so they can get at the head of this crime ring. While the fighting isn't illegal in itself, it would give an opportunity for the Delta Red to infiltrate the crime boss' organization.
Her hair is dyed black, khaki cargo pants and black tank top. Black leather studded bracelets on her wrists. And her signature sword is no where to be found since she's attempting to keep a relatively low profile.
She ducks under the top rope and climbs into the ring looking at the announcer waiting for him to start the fight. She glances at the deck of cards.
Rio walks up closer to Lita, the cards vanishing with a flicker of her hands, and raises a hand to tip her hat. "This place is kinda creepy, don't you think? I'm guessing you're not a regular here by the way you're looking around here." Her voice is a low growl, as if she's trying to intimidate Lita by these words - or at least convince other people that's what she's trying to do. One hand stays on her hat, while the other hand raises towards Lita's chin while she stares into her eyes with a faintly aggressive smile, then winks. "Anyways, you want to make a bet? Unless you're really into violence, I doubt this is where you wanted to wind up. Maybe I can help you, if you win, but if I win..." She pauses, tilts her hand to one side as she tries to take Lita's chin gently in her hand. "Or am I reading you wrong?"
There's no announcer, just a bell ringing, announcing the start of the fight.
"First time here. But even if it wasn't, I'd still look around. I'd rather be aware of my surroundings than be surprised and pay for it." Her lips curl into a relatively cheeky smirk. "I don't think you have what I want, love."
She slides into a peek-a-boo boxing stance. "Plus I don't enter bets with people I don't know." Plus entering bets went against what she stood for while she's mentally and emotionally in work mode.
"Time to put up or shut up." She lifts a foot off the ground to fake a kick before driving a knee into Rio's stomach.
COMBATSYS: Lita has started a fight here.
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Lita 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Rio has joined the fight here.
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Lita 0/-------/-------|======-\-------\0 Rio
COMBATSYS: Rio interrupts Heavy Kick from Lita with Fox's Sudden Evocation.
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Lita 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Rio
Rio flips her hat off her head as she sees Lita's leg lift, and a barrage of fireworks erupt from her hat towards the Delta Red's stomach, the rockets screaming through the air and momentarily lighting up the arena as they fly off in every direction. This probably violates fire code. As she does so, she steps backwards so Lita's knee barely grazes her abdomen.
"How better to get to know someone then fighting them?" She flips her hat up into the air.
The fireworks fly from the hat and the soldier is sent stumbling backwards as her tank top gets singed. She does fall down but that's only to roll and put out the flames before the rest of her top gets damaged giving the people more of a show than she had planned on.
She quickly gets up. "Bloody 'ell!" Are you trying to burn my eye brows off?"
It's situations like this that she would love to bring grenades, especially since her opponent brought the incendiaries to a street fight. While there aren't any rules in a street fight, that type of thing could endanger spectators.
She charges in to get close and then attempts a hip toss. If she can get that initial throw, she'll stab her hand into Rio's chest fingers first like a knife. "So far, I'm getting reckless out of you."
COMBATSYS: Rio dodges Lita's Delta Strike.
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Lita 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Rio
Rio was standing so her hat would fall back on her head, but as Lita's hand reaches out to touch her, she leaps backwards, falling into a roll and standing back up to bounce against the rope of the boxing ring. The hat falls to the ground.
"Oh no! I'm in an underground fighting tournament! My eyebrows might get singed!"
She rebounds off the rope, and runs back into range, jumping up to aim a kick straight at Lita's stomach. "And you like to play it safe, don't you?"
COMBATSYS: Lita interrupts Heavy Kick from Rio with Overhead Strike.
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Lita 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Rio
She doesn't quite get the grip she wants since Rio leaps back and rolls away from her but she continues to pursue. After all, she doesn't want the mask fighter to get too much space. She watches as Rio bounds off the rope and she stops pursuing. Instead she raises her hands above her head as if inviting the kick to connect with her body. There's a sudden movement as she brings them down in a double axe handle right on her knee cap just as the foot connects with her abdomen.
It didn't connect cleanly but it still forced the British soldier to stumble backwards.
She rubs her stomach. "Just don't like risking collateral damage. Not sure these chaps would like them getting burned either"
Rio falls to the ground after the double axle hits her kneecap, and tries to struggle to her feet, then grits her teeth, as if her leg can't quite move well enough. "Well, I won't use any fireworks or grenades or the like... if you make a bet with me." Her teeth-gritting spreads into a smile, and she swings her other leg around to kick her hat off the floor of the ring back onto her head.
"What do you say?" She tilts her head to one side.
COMBATSYS: Rio comes up with a CUNNING PLAN.
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Lita 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Rio
"What is with your obsession with betting?" She folds one arm while resting the elbow of the other on it and her chin on that hand. It's something someone who has worked as a bodyguard or bouncer would use so their hand would be free if someone were to throw an attack at them instead of folding their arms. She walks around for a moment.
"Like I said. I don't think you have anything that I want."
She moves in back inside with a peek-a-boo stance and then leads in with a jab before following with a spinning back hand.
COMBATSYS: Lita successfully hits Rio with Quick Strike.
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Lita 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Rio
Rio raises an arm to ward off the jab, which instead hits her in her arm near the rest, and the spinning backhand knocks her head back a little.
"A hundred reasons. For one, I'm a thrillseeker. Just fighting in an underground arena isn't exciting enough."
She scoots back a bit, and pulls a couple of grenades out of thin air, pulls the pins, and throws them at Lita's feet.
They immediately explode into smoke, and in this brief instant, she's going to take the opportunity to attack!
COMBATSYS: Rio successfully hits Lita with Power Fling.
- Power hit! -
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Lita 1/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Rio
Through the smoke, Rio pitches several billiard balls, one after the other, aiming mainly for where she expects Lita's stomach to be.
If there's one thing that she had to curse, it was the fact that this particular disguise did not give her anything that she could throw. Her instincts screamed throw something but her kunai would have instantly gave her away. Plus the outfit didn't lend themselves to holding the stuff she'd prefer throwing.
That's when those billiard balls impact with her body taking her clear off her feet. She grabs one of the billiard balls and then slowly climbs to her feet. "That's the thing. I'm not in this for the thrills. I don't need the adrenaline high."
She winds back and then proceeds to hurl the billiard ball right back at Rio. "Return to sender!"
COMBATSYS: Rio overcomes Power Fling from Lita with Fairy's Thousand Charms.
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Lita 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Rio
Rio pushes herself to her feet with a cane as the smoke clears, getting up about the same time Lita does.
She leans on the cane with her arm, holding a deck of cards with that hand, and with her other hand, starts throwing out an entire deck of cards impossibly fast towards Lita, the first 30 or so deflecting the billiard ball, the other 22 flying straight towards the undercover agent.
"You're not here for thrills, and you're not here for money. So tell me what you're here for!"
COMBATSYS: Rio successfully hits Lita with Fairy's Thousand Charms.
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Lita 1/-----==/=======|===----\-------\0 Rio
"None..."
Lita doesn't have a chance to finish that statement before those cards dig into her body. Clearly those cards weren't for show. Lita's body is bloody, battered and somewhat singed. She wobbles at first but then she takes a deep breath as she attempts to charge right at Rio. "As I was saying... NONE OF YOUR BLOODY BUSINESS!"
Lita barrels into the masked fighter with an attempt to tackle her down to the ground and then she proceeds to deliver hammer fist after hammer fist in rapid succession until her fists get sore and her arms get tired.
COMBATSYS: Rio interrupts Seeing Red from Lita with Coyote's Invisible Fang.
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Lita 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Rio
Rio's grin widens at Lita's emotional surge. "Blood, you say...."
Her hand flickers on her the handle of her cane, and a sliver blade swings in and out of it, slashing at Lita and then back into the scabbard too fast to be seen. Then Lita's on top of her, and Rio blocks blow after blow with the cane, her palms becoming a little bloody from the impact, until finally it shatters, bits of wood and metal sticking into the magician's abdomen. She stares up at the Lita, breathing heavily, her eyes wide with adrenaline.
"Well... I hope whatever your fighting for doesn't require winning, because unless I'm mistaken, you don't have much more to give."
The Delta Red had kept charging through in spite of the sword slash and kept trying to savagely to smash her in spite of her attacks being turned aside. As much as she hates to admit it, Rio is right. Lita doesn't have much left give and quite frankly this mission right here is a wash.
Hopefully Delta Red has a backup plan. Gone are the days that they could use Cammy as a secondary hand to hand combatant. That's another fact that Lita had to bitterly accept.
Lita still has pinned the gambler down and so she attempts to deliver a couple of knees to the ribs and then afterwards tries to lift Rio off the ground and slam her back down to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Rio dodges Lita's Savage Combo.
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Lita 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Rio
As Lita begins to move her knees once again, Rio shoves against the ground and slides right out of her clothes and Lita's grasp, and up onto one leg. She's still wearing clothes underneath that, but it's a tight-fitting black catsuit. She leaps back in with that foot, aiming an elbow at Lita's face, but at the last minute, twists aside, saying softly but quickly as she goes past, "Rio Fujisaki. Find me if you want to talk." She aims her hands at the floor, and pushes herself up to kick backwards at the back of Lita's head instead.
COMBATSYS: Lita fails to interrupt Medium Strike from Rio with Heavy Kick.
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COMBATSYS: Lita can no longer fight.
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As Rio shoots by her, Lita turns with her making sure to keep her eyes on her. Rio was tricky enough to keep up with while she had her hands in full view. Letting her get her back was tantamount to suicide. "I'd probably wouldn't hold my bre.."
Lita goes for a football kick to Rio's head just as Rio's connects with her chin.
Lita drops like a sack of potatoes before her own foot could connect with Rio.
Rio looks back down at Lita cautiously as she stands back up, tilts her head a bit to one side, and finally, raises her fist in the air. "Victory!" And the bell rings.
She stares down at Lita for a moment longer, then moves her hands down to her knee, feeling it, pushing it and making sure everything is in place. She grits her teeth, picks Lita up, and starts to head out of the arena to get her at least as far as the hospital, painful as it might be. She's going there anyway, and she can't trust that her opponent is going to get medical help here. Which might look like kidnapping to Delta Red, but she's kinda unaware of that whole thing.
COMBATSYS: Rio has ended the fight here.
Log created on 23:04:03 09/04/2013 by Rio, and last modified on 19:11:41 09/05/2013.