Description: After her miraculous recovery, Takako wakes up in a hospital room confronted by HER NEMESIS. A mysterious ninja has also chosen this moment to try and make a play for Munin himself. Really, there is only one possible outcome: all out brawl.
Night has fallen, and the hospital room that Takako Fujiwa occupies is finally, blessedly, silent. Since her recovery, the girl has been obstinate about her desire to leave the hospital - in such a place, she couldn't train, she couldn't fight, she couldn't be herself! - And yet, in her weakened state, the doctors have done an admirable job of keeping her in check. She's wearing a hospital gown, even. The kimono she habitually wears has been ruined, laid out to dry. The ruined symbol of the Fujiwa family even now mocks her from the other end of the room.
She still hasn't let go of her bokken, though. No amount of protest or effort from the doctors and their staff have managed that. And, as she'd been cuffed to the bed, she has been left, mostly, on her own.
Which is why now is the perfect time to try again. A desperate groan from the girl as she wobbles and forces herself up to her feet. She practically tumbles from the bed, hitting the ground hard, but her wrist snaps free of the cuff, and she smiles to herself. "Not... gonna, lay around, feeling, sorry for, myself!"
The beginnings of Takakos 'great escape' do not go unobserved. A figure sits in the chair near her bed, hidden in shadow, dark lenses covering her eyes. Not even the hospital staff know she is there. Munin has never really been the type to sign in, anyway.
Smirking, she can't help but comment "Been a long time. You haven't lost your drive, i see. I expected no less. Should wait to escape until you've healed more, though".
Typical hospital noises drift in through the open door of Takako's hospital cell. Clearly, if the staff had known how little good their cuffs were going to do they wouldn't have left the door open, but they have underestimated the strength of the little fighter's resolve.
For the moment no one outside seems to have noticed Munin's unauthorized entry, or Takako's third escape attempt. The soft conversation of busy nurses and low beeping of various equipment is unchanged. Briefly a large, darkly dressed man with blond hair strolls past the doorway, but he doesn't look in through the door and quickly moves on out of sight. He probably has some other place to be.
"YOU!"
Hearing 'that voice' is enough to get Takako on her feet again. She almost springs up, though it doesn't last long before she slumps against the side of the bed, arm quivering before she stubbornly manages to get herself back up on her feet. Back rigid, glaring at the figure in the corner.
"If I wanted your advice on how to recover, I would ask for it!" She says, hotly, eyes narrowing as she tosses her hair back. She has of course, never been the most observant perrson - so she fails to notice any undue attention outside, either.
"I suppose you, are here to gloat!" She huffs, "Don't you dare think that I've lost my edge just because of this little setback! Don't you, dare!"
Agent Ochre wakes up.
Munin can't help bu wince at the burst of sound as Takako recognizes her. She had been expecting something similar, though now it will likely get the nurses attention.
Oh well....
She too thinks little of the man in passing, though she does note he was there. As Takako makes her supposition, Munin only shakes her head, peering over her sunglasses and fixing Takako with a firm expression with those glowing purple eyes of hers "Actually, gloating was the furthest thing from my mind. I wanted to make sure you were all right. By all means, retain your edge and once healed up try your luck. Don't mix competitive spirit up with concern for a fellow fighters health after something that could have killed most people, fighters and non-fighters alike".
Sliding her shades back into place, she softens "I'm honestly looking forwards to seeing you on your feet again. You've thrown yourself against some serious competition. I'm curious to see what you do next".
COMBATSYS: Agent Ochre has left the fight here.
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Still the hospital noises continue unbroken. The sound of two men laughing can be heard very distinctly, followed by a female voice laughingly admonishing them for being horrible.
"I'm going to check on Ms. Fujiwa." States a third distinct male voice, this one deep and articulate. The two previous male voices both jokingly ask if he thinks he can handle her. The third voice doesn't respond.
Abruptly there is a tall, sandy-blond man stepping through the door into Takako's cell. His face is turned down, looking at a clipboard held in his right hand. In many ways he looks like he might belong here, judging by his long white Doctor's coat, bustling professional manner, and the afore mentioned clipboard. However, in other ways he stands out. Firstly, he is much more heavily built than most doctors you're bound to meet, and as a result his coat doesn't fit very well. Secondly, when he is through the door he looks up from his clipboard and reveals the huge scar running through his left eye. And thirdly?
AS soon as the doctor is fully through the door he reaches out and swings it firmly shut behind him, then reaches beneath his long white coat to pull out a throwing knife. In one smooth motion he turns and drives the knife deep into the crack of the door. Removing his hand from the knife handle he starts to peel off the white plastic gloves he had been wearing, revealing black leather gloves underneath.
COMBATSYS: Takako has joined the fight here on the top side.
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COMBATSYS: Noboru has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Takako 0|-------|-------
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Noboru
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here on the top side.
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Munin 0|-------|-======
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Takako 0|-------|-------
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Noboru
COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Noboru
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"It'll take more than drowning to kill me!"
Takako's eyes are somewhat wild, and as the 'doctor' enters the room she... doesn't notice. Stumbling across towards Munin instead, at about the same time that the ninja is driving a knife into the door to lodge it shut, she is waving her bokken in front of Munin's face. Though the movement is erratic and confused enough that it is far from menacing.
"I don't need your pity! I... I'm still as strong as I ever was... stronger, even! Next time, I will win!"
And then the doctor starts to peel off his gloves, and Takako rounds on Noboru, as though just aware that he's in here at all. He is a very large doctor, but in her current state, neither that, nor the gloves, nor the knife locking the door, strike her as particularly strange.
"AND AS FOR YOU, I AM THROUGH BEING STOPPED FROM LEAVING!! KIYAAAAAAAAH!"
D-does, does she actually think the blonde man is still a Doctor, even now?
Apparently so, and the girl is charging forwards with her head down, half-stumbling over her feet as she aims to plow her skull right into the would-be kidnapper's stomach!
Munin shakes her head. ALSO expected, harmless concern being considered pity. She half-expects a fight right here when the door suddenly opens. She leaps to her feet as the man suddenly comes in, and flicks chi to her hand as he puts a knife in the door. (Wonderful place.... least no one outside the room'll get hurt with it jammed. Better down this guy fast....).
When Takako suddenly swings at him, mistaking him for a doctor, she moves in as wall, coming in low, going for a thrust at his midsection, chi lance in her palm, intending to lift him up and swing him down on his back if she connects......
COMBATSYS: Noboru endures Takako's Weakened Random Strike.
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Munin 0/-------/--=====|
COMBATSYS: Noboru blocks Munin's Eclipse.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
Noboru tosses both of his plastic gloves to the floor, lifting his now leather-clad hands to his throat to drag a length of taught black silk up over his face, concealing ruggedly American features covered in a layer of blond stubble. Now properly masked, the Shinobi's single icy-blue eye tracks the incoming girls as they both choose to rush him.
Hunching forward a bit, the bulky man tenses up just before Takako's head slams into his stomach. She has probably head butted a brick wall before. The Ninja's abdomen has slightly more give than that, but not by much.
Munen's attack draws a bit more of the man's attention. As her hand comes swooping up at his stomach he glances down past Takako, left hand snapping out to grab hold of her wrist just before impact. Yanking her hand a bit off course, it still manages to drive into his left hip, forcing him to brace his bulk against the combined force of both female fighters.
Releasing Munin's wrist, Noboru lashes out with that same hand around Takako's arm , and aims a single half-fist strike toward the purple-eyed girl's stomach. More specifically, the savage blow is aimed toward the left side of her stomach, where her liver currently resides, and though the attack looks offhand and quick, the Shinobi is rather big.
With her headbutt neatly defused, Takako is momentarily confused. On the other hand, she HAS been causing a lot of trouble for the doctors, and broke one poor nurse's nose in her delirious state on arrival. Is it really so surprising that they'd send the doctor with some fighter training to try and subdue her this time? Then again, why is he going for Munin?
These are questions which she can ponder in more philosophical times. Now, the rush of the fight is filling her blood again! She remembers how this goes!
"KIYAH!"
And wow, her voice really IS good for someone recovering from such an ordeal. That echoing cry itself stings the ears, but the bokken - so stubbornly held onto - now comes into play as she roughly wrenches her hand back from the ninja's grasp. Swinging it around in a wide, unfocused arc, she aims to bring it in up and under Noboru's guard, and then stab the tip right between his eyes.
It is, of course, made of wood... but being beaten up with a toughened length of wood is still distinctly unpleasant.
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Noboru's Blunt Force Trauma.
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Munin has been wondering that same question, noticing how he came right for her seemingly. Still, it matters not who he is here for, herself or Takako. She isn't going to allow a kidnapping here and now without a fight.
As the blow comes in, she steps sideways, letting it sail past, and with a growled "Shi-ne!" to match Takakos shout, uses the spin of her dodge to bring her other hand around, a lance of chi extending from the open palm, and aimed at the attackers face as well!
COMBATSYS: Takako successfully hits Noboru with Weakened Advancing Gale.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 0/-------/--=====|
COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Noboru with Spin Slash.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
Noboru jerks his left hand back after Munen has dodged clear of his initial blow, just in time for Takako to yell at him. Apparently the Shinobi had completely forgotten the Japanese girl was even in the room, because as his single eye flicks down to see why he is being yelled at it widens fractionally with surprise to see the tip of a Bokken darting toward the center of his forehead. His gloved right hand, having been hanging idly at his side, snaps up just in time to catch the wooden sword...after it thunks him between the eyes.
"Hrr." Grunts the now thoroughly annoyed Shinobi, just as the other girl decides to yell at him.
Noboru starts to jerk himself forward and to his left, but is too slow to avoid Munen's lance of chi aimed at the side of his head. As he is in the process of ducking, the blast Impacts with the top of his skull and causes his long blond hair to flare out wildly, but doesn't quite manage to force the ninja to stop moving. Still holding the end of Takako's Bokken in his right fist, he turns his duck into a lunging charge, attempting to drag the wooden sword and the girl attached to the other end of it along behind. As he hurtles past Munen toward the other end of the room he snaps out his left hand, attempting to get a tight grip on her throat and drag her along as well.
Being dragged along is more an insult to Takako than anything else. The girl is... not used to being moved when she doesn't want to be moved - at least, not unless it is coupled by some horrifying display of strength and power. Just being yanked around because, ultimately, she's a sixteen year old japanese girl and he is a tall, fully grown adult American...
"Oh, I see! I SEE!" Takako shouts, "You brought this man here to try and HUMILIATE me, Munin!? YOU THINK YOU TWO CAN FIGHT AND NOT EVEN NOTICE ME?!"
Her voice is rapidly approaching the pitch of a boiling kettle, and as her bare feet slam down into the ground in front of Noboru, she puts her back into trying to stop him. Eyes wide, teeth gritted, she does, at least, manage to slow the assault, but he's still rushing towards the other side of the room, and--
"KIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
If there was anyone in the hospital unaware of the fact /there is a fight in here/, that is no longer the case. Takako's voice echoes with chi and there's a literal, explosive force which suddenly erupts from the girl as she SHOUTS AS LOUD AS SHE CAN. The windows shatter, broken glass covering the floor, which also cuts her feet... but if anything, that just seems to be making her MORE angry as that hot indignation boils anew in her stomach.
COMBATSYS: Munin blocks Noboru's Strangulation.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
COMBATSYS: Takako successfully hits Munin with Weakened Kiai EX.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
Her blow having landed, Munin has only a moment to react, using her arm to redirect the grab enough to only be grazed rather than squeezed by it! She inwardly signs as Takako accuses her of setting this all up, responding "You want to beat me up and then be done with it. I have NO idea what he wants, so he takes higher priority".
Of course, she isn't even expecting the scream attack, as usually you don't attack someone your fighting with.
Boy, does she forget THAT lesson a lot.
She only grunts to mentally shut out the scream as she tries to bring her hand down on the mans redirected arm, and hopefully pull him into a throw and takedown!
COMBATSYS: Takako successfully hits Noboru with Weakened Kiai EX.
- Power hit! -
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
COMBATSYS: Noboru endures Munin's Quick Throw.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
Takako's heels digging into the floor are the first of several things to go wrong with Noboru's charge. Though he continues to drag her along by the end of her Bokken, it slows the Shinobi down. Next, his side swipe for Munin's throat is neatly diverted, the tips of his gloved fingers scraping her throat as he jerks them shut. And finally, the scream comes.
"Hrrr." Noboru grunts for a second time as windows shatter on two of the room's walls, exposing the metal mesh that had been sandwiched between panes. The charging Shinobi doesn't dignify the screech with any further answer, aside from giving a sharp yank on Takako's Bokken and lowering his head to put on a burst of speed.
Noboru's plan becomes clear as soon as Munin's arm links through his. He makes no move to pull away, but instead throws himself forward into a full on leap toward the far wall, assisted by Munin's throw. As it turns out, the big ninja can leap quite spectacularly. It's a fact both female fighters find out first hand as his right hand tightens on the Bokken, and his left flexes, trying to trap Munin's in the curve of his elbow.
The leap ends when the Shinobi slams his right shoulder hard into the wall, causing it to vibrate with the impact. Whipping both arms forward, he attempts to hammer Takako and Munin into the wall on either side of him, then release them as his feet drop back to the floor and he straightens, a couple of ceiling tiles clattering to the floor around him in a shower of dust. He doesn't even notice the glass that now crunches underfoot.
COMBATSYS: Noboru successfully hits Takako with Power Throw.
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Munin 0/-------/-======|
CRUNCH.
The wall actually crumbles as Takako is hammered into it. Behind the group of fighters, hospital orderlies can be heard trying to break down the door, and Takako, for once, doesn't actually spring back up to her feet right away. Instead, she hits the ground pretty hard, land face-down in the broken glass, the shock of pain that runs through her body is... intense.
When she does stagger up to her feet, Takako has taken a firmer grip on her bokken. One eye twitches momentarily, and she finds herself focusing not on the man who just tried to do interior decorating with her skull... but on the real villainous mastermind behind all of this.
"You, had to, COME HERE!!"
With a wordless shriek, Takako throws herself at Munin. The hilt of her bokken leads the way in a vicious overhead smash, and she just keeps going for it, over and over, aiming to batter and beat down Munin. What she currently lacks in things like 'control' and 'focus' she is definitely making up for in blind, furious rage. Actual tears welling up in her eyes as she goes for one last, powerful overhead swing.
"WHY CAN'T I BEAT YOU?!"
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Takako's Weakened Raging Tornado EX.
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COMBATSYS: Munin counters Power Throw from Noboru with Shadow Strike.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Noboru
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Munin 1/-------/=======|
The moment doctor who does his manuever, Munins only response in her mind is 'Oh crap!'. Seeing it coming, she deftly disconnects her arm from his, and springs down low under his torso to his other side, near where Takako is standing up. As she goes, she slices across at his chest with a lance of Chi from her palm.
She glances at Takako momentarily to see if she gets up just in time to see her attack coming, and lean back out of the way of it! "Hey! He's the bad guy here! You can try and beat me up later if you like!".
Glancing back, she tries to take in the assailant, to find any identifying marks or clues to his identity as she catches her breath from the sudden rush.
Noboru slowly turns around so that his back is to the wall he and Takako just abused. His icy blue gaze sweeps across both girls, watching without visible emotion as one tries to beat the other's brains out. As he watches, a dark patch appears and starts to slowly spread across the left breast of his white doctor's coat.
Silently the hulking shinobi shrugs his way out of the poorly fitted garment, gloved hands lifting to peal it away from his bleeding chest, then sliding it down his arms and snapping it around in front of himself with a flick of his left wrist. This reveals the dark blue coat he wears beneath, currently folded up at the sleeves and lower hem so it wouldn't poke out from under his disguise. The left breast of the coat is dark with blood, a faint red slash gaping through the tear to the rhythm of his slow breaths.
"I am Noboru Miyama." States the man in flawless Japanese. His voice is deep and calm, in control as he adds simply, "Tell me Munin, Takako. What is freedom?"
COMBATSYS: Noboru focuses on his next action.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|
Takako is trembling. Munin's evasion of her technique makes it painfully clear that the gap betwee them has only grown! Although more likely, that is because of the horrendous shape she is currently in, that very state means that she's having trouble focusing on ... well, reality. Not that Takako has much luck maintaining a grip on that at the best of times.
"Freedom?!" Takako barks out, shooting a dark look at the ninja. Sweat pours off her brow, and she struggles even to stay standing - but she's not backing down, either. "Freedom is VICTORY!"
Not her most eloquent words ever, but as she couples it by bracing both hands on the hilt of her bokken, and aiming to drive the hard wooden tip powerfully into Munin's side, she might express a little more of it in actions than with words. Freedom is victory, yes; victory over limitations. Over what is expected of you. Over common sense.
Over yourself.
COMBATSYS: Munin dodges Takako's Weakened Power Strike.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|
Wary eyes analyze Noboru as he takes off his disguise, as well as asks his question. She pauses a moment to contemplate it, warning herself it could simply be a distraction, a way to make her think of something besides his attacks. Speaking of which.....
Right on cue, after Takako states her response, the attack comes in. Being ready for it, Munin steps back, letting the strike from the injured girl strike nothing but air. At this rate Munin wonders if she isn't hurting herself more by being up.
Her eyes lock onto Noboru as she files his name away for later, her eyes glow a pulse brighter through her shades a moment. "To me, freedom is walking the path one chooses for oneself, wherever it may lead".
That said, she flicks her hands, dark purple lances of chi manifesting, as she readies for whatever he has planned.....
COMBATSYS: Munin focuses on her next action.
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Munin 1/-------/=======|
Two flicks of Noboru's wrists cause his folded up sleeves to shake free and fall forward across the backs of his hands. Something metallic had been briefly visible along the back of his right forearm, perhaps a bracer of some kind, but now it's hidden from sight. The bloody doctor's coat still hangs ignored from his left fist.
The Shinobi gives no indication of what he thinks about his fellow fighter's opinions on freedom. As the pounding on the door breaks off into ominous silence, he suddenly tosses the lab coat in his left fist away with a quick backhanded motion, it flowing between Takako and Munin before falling to the ground with a muffled 'thump'. While his left hand does this, his right slips beneath his coat, then snaps out into another back hand throw that sends a dull grey throwing star humming through the air toward Munin's left shin.
If it wasn't hurting her before, Takako's irritation at the way things are going is driving her on to injure herself now. Honestly, she shouldn't be fighting in this state at all; but worse, Munin's easy evasion of her strike just seems the height of arrogance to her. Why can't she just stand there and soak the blow like a true warrior?!
And then Noboru goes and throws a coat between them, just as she was preparing to try and hit her again. Takako's teeth grind together, and her eyes narrow. "What the hell..."
Rounding on Noboru, the change in appearance doesn't even seem to faze her - possibly, she is genuinely unaware of it, as the shuriken flings towards HER opponent, "DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!"
Swinging the bokken around, brilliant chi is focused along the 'blade'. For a moment, it is rendered genuinely sharp... but the effort of doing so cuts deep into Takako, too. When the energy tears from the weapon in a bright, slashing wave of wind-aligned chi, the effort forces her down to one knee, and a little blood trickles from between her lips.
COMBATSYS: Noboru successfully hits Munin with Shuriken.
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The change in Noborus appearance has little effect on Munins perception of him. However, when he throws his coat, she actually twitches as if to dodge for a moment, falling for the ruse. A ruse similar to some she herself has used!
For shame....
A moment before the realization strikes her as to what he is really doing, so does the shuriken, right in her leg. Pain races through the limb as it begins to bleed.
She grits her teeth, and the shadows around her seem to stir up, making vision of her body difficult to make out. All that is visible are those narrowed purple-glowing eyes. With a vicious scream, the darkness rushes at Noboru, hidden within several spears of shadowy chi seeking to impale him from various angles!
Hit or miss, the shadowy conflagration around her fades to normal, leaving her looking very tired.....
COMBATSYS: Noboru blocks Takako's Weakened Bladed Gust.
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COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Noboru with Iron Maiden.
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Noboru reacts smoothly as Takako rounds on him, already having turned his attention away from his shuriken. Glass grinds under his odd black boots as he braces his feet and slides his right hand back beneath his coat, left arm coming up to catch the slashing blade of wind chi on his meaty forearm. The attack tears through the silk sleeve of his coat and digs into the flesh beneath, a thin line of red blood welling up to drip through the fabric. For just a moment the big shinobi peers past his arm toward Takako's slumped form, and gives her the slightest nod of his blond head.
Abruptly the ninja jerks his head around to stare toward Munin, somehow seeming to know what is happening even before she draws forth enough chi to cover herself in inky blackness. His expression does not change as he is screamed at, that one visible blue eye staring back as flatly as the blank white one beside it. Then the chi spears are shooting toward him and a lot happens in a very short amount of time.
Just before impact Noboru's Right hand, flicks free of his coat for the third time and a spherical object drops from his hand to impact the ground. Then, Noboru's left forearm swipes around to intercept one of the spears aimed for his chest, the rest plunge deep into his body, and the sphere between his feet explodes into a roiling cloud of choking smoke that expands quickly to fill the entire room. Munin can feel a violent jerk on the other end of her chi spears just before they vanish, then something whizzes past her ear through the smoke and thunks into the wall behind her. Another something hums through the air over Takako's head, there is the loud screech of tearing metal, and then the crash of something hitting the floor. But where is the attacking coming from? What is Noboru doing?
COMBATSYS: Noboru can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Takako endures Noboru's BOMB!.
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Munin 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 LaShey
The doctor coat that had been part of Noboru's disguise moments ago. The same coat that was tossed to the ground with a 'thump'. That coat, suddenly explodes in a ball of fire, the concussive force of it throwing the bed onto it's side, blowing tiles from the ceiling, and shredding the paint from the walls. It also has the added effect of forcing the smoke out of the glassless windows in two thick streams, like the nostrils of an angry dragon. The clearing of the smoke reveals two more throwing stars imbedded the walls, one of the windows metal screens having been torn frame and all out of the wall and tossed tot he floor, and no sign of Noboru anywhere.
Fighting Takako is often depressing for more manipulative and plan-oriented sorts. Certainly, to most people, being unable to tell where attacks are coming from or even what they are would be a disturbing state. For Takako, she simply holds true to the teachings of her style; wait until the enemy has hit you, and then hit them back as hard as you can.
So when the smoke fills the room, she closes her eyes, and shifts her feet against the broken glass, grinding her bloody soles into the floor. If the ninja was to hit her in the darkness, she would be ready to give back as good as she got.
Instead, she is lightly peppered with throwing stars, and as the smoke begins to clear, it becomes obvious that even with all of that - the ninja is nowhere to be seen. A low, frustrated growl sounds in the back of the small girl's throat.
And she neatly topples over onto the floor, the added weight of metal sticking into her back helping to weigh her down just that little bit more than her exhausted form can cope with right now.
COMBATSYS: Takako strongly considers the way her life is going.
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Munin 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 LaShey
COMBATSYS: Takako has left the fight here.
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Munin 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 LaShey
COMBATSYS: Munin blocks Noboru's BOMB!.
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Munin 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 LaShey
As her attack hits, and fades, the smoke goes off, and Munin blinks for a moment, feeling the object wizz past her. SOMEthing is going to happen, she knows, but her attack has left her too tired for the moment to react. So she does the only thing she can do....
Brace herself and hope!
The explosion goes off, sending her flying into the wall with a bone-cracking crunch. Literally, cause she cracks a few ribs on impact!
Running on too much adrenaline to notice yet, she stands, pulling the knife free from the door, and pulling it open for the folks outside. This is gonna be a longer night than she planned. (Can't WAIT to explain THIS one......) she thinks sarcasticly to herself.
At least she and Takako are already at the hospital for treatment!
COMBATSYS: Munin has left the fight here.
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|
Agent Ochre falls asleep.
Log created on 13:55:15 06/30/2014 by Takako, and last modified on 12:29:40 07/01/2014.