Description: Munin gets a surprise visit from an old foe and Noboru leaps in to... er... 'save the day.' Also, someone's insurance rates go through the roof.
Evening falls in eastern Ohio. On the nearby highway the muted sound of cars driving to their destinations can be faintly made out, coupled with the murmurings of people as they come and go from the Cracker Barrel across the street. The quality inn itself is quiet, as most of it's current occupants have turned in for the night.
In room 115, Munin wearily flops on the rooms bed, a small backpack off to the side of the room. After the long day, she was glad to finally find the place off I-70. (A few hours of sleep, and i'll be back on the road again) she thinks to herself, as she goes over her itinerary in her head. (Doors locked, chained, and bolted. Money in the safe. Windows locked. Keys are in my pack....). Her eyes begin to slowly close and drift into slumber as this runs through her mind.......
Just moments after Munin's eyes close, there comes the faintest of low-pitched hums from just outside. It's quiet at first, sounding no different from the buzz of a street lamp coming on. In seconds, it's loud enough to shake the glass panes of the window. Then, suddenly, it cuts off -- just before the window shatters, shards of glass bursting inwards while accompanied by a flash of purple energy and a loud, booming laugh.
Hovering in through the freshly 'opened' window, his arms crossed over his broad chest, legs straight down, cape fluttering behind him in an unnaturally dramatic fashion, comes Vega.
"Munin Arshe," he greets, his teeth bared in a broad grin, "It has been too long." Once he's fully in through the window and cleared the majority of the glass, he drops with a soft thud and regards her with his dead, white eyes.
"It is time I repayed you for your interference."
Not many people can pull off a dramatic entrance like Vega. It probably has something to do with the fact Vega can fly, glow, and dresses in so much red. Sort of like an evil Santa Clause.
A fraction of a second after Vega's feet thump down onto the floor a dark shadow drops from above and lands crouched on the window ledge directly behind him. The shape has no psycho signature for Vega to pick up on, and blends in perfectly with the surrounding flows of Chi. It is a big shape, however, and thus Munin might get a glimpse of it around Vega's bulk before it leaps into action.
Without a sound Noboru uncoils from his crouch and throws himself bodily at Vega's back. That's about 230 pounds of prime ninja moving at a high rate of velocity, arms spread as if he is about to try and wrestle the tyrant...
COMBATSYS: Noboru has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Vega has joined the fight here as a boss!
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Slower..... slooooower..... shes at the cusp of nodding off the suddenly....
The world implodes!
With an alarmed shriek, she rolls from the bed, taking a few nicks from the glass and now WIIIIIDE awake! As Vega speaks his words, and stays down behind the side of the bed, eyes wide with terror.
Her worst nightmare has just come true.
Rising slowly, resolute to her fate seeing as she has little chance of running, she stares at the lunatic dictator, smokey ki billowing from her body "If i had the chance, i'd mak the same choices without hesitating!".
So terrified is she, that the shadowy figure behind Vega is completely missed. (Best to make him get close than to come to him.... ) With a quick motion, she grabs the lamp from the table between the beds, and hurls it at Vegas head!
COMBATSYS: Noboru successfully hits Vega with Chiropractic Therapy.
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Noboru slams into Vega's back with the meaty 'thud' two bulky fighters make when making muscle to muscle contact. Immediately his left arm rams it's way through Vega's armpit and swings up to hook his left shoulder, while the shinobi's right palm braces against the psycho fighter's right shoulder.
Now, an interesting feature of the Miyama's getup are their black leather boots. These boots are split at the front so the big toe can move separately from the rest. One reason for that becomes clear when Noboru swings his feet down and braces his heels against the floor, his toes acting like hands and gripping Vega's ankles.
Holding Vega thus, the bulky shinobi strains, muscles flexing as eh attempts to haul back on Vega's left arm and push forward on his right shoulder until his upper body is forced to twist further than it was ever intended to go, and his spine makes an audible 'POP!'. If he can only accomplish hat much he will jerk his arms free, aim two quick hooking punches to either side of the tyrant's head, then release his foot grip on the red-clad man's ankles and dive off to his right into an action roll.
COMBATSYS: Vega blocks Munin's Small Thrown Object.
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With another booming laugh, Vega's hand snaps up and knocks the lamp thrown at him out of the air with nothing short of contempt. "Is this all yo-" he begins, but suddenly a shinobi cuts his condescending comment short. Noboru's stealth training and invisibility to Vega's psycho senses allows him to take the dictator entirely by surprise. He tries to fight back, but the positioning is terrible and before he can so much as curse the Miyama clan, his spine pops and two quick shots are delivered straight to his head as Vega reels.
Breathing heavily for a few moments, twisted into an awkward and painful looking position, the tyrant stands completely still.
Then, with a flash, purple energy flares up around him and he twists violently in the opposite direction, correcting his spine with another pop and a broad grin, a single drop of blood beading in the corner of his mouth before he reaches a hand up to wipe it away.
"Impressive," he congratulates Noboru, just before he casually flicks a hand towards him, a ball of glowing light firing from the shroud of energy that encompasses him and hurtling straight for the shinobi.
COMBATSYS: Vega knocks away Noboru with Psycho Shot.
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Noboru comes smoothly up to a crouch after his diving roll away from Vega, the maneuver putting him in the southwest corner of the room. His gloved right hand reaches out to smack the wall, to give him that bit of extra speed so he can whirl around fast enough to...
Noboru's left forearm is lifted and he is half-turned back toward Vega when the ball of psycho energy ploughs into his left shoulder. The force of it knocks him out of his crouch and smashes him through the southern wall and into the room beyond. Dust and debris flies in all directions as he tumbles across the floor of the new room and slams into the standing holding its TV. As recaps of last week's SNF flash across the screen the TV tumbles from it's perch and smashes against the ground.
"Hrrrrrgh." Grumbles Noboru as he snaps out and slams his left fist through the west wall, using the hole he has made to haul himself slowly to his feet. At least Vega might have a hard time seeing him through all this dust. After all, he's still invisible to psycho sense.
The pudgy man lying on the bed in his underwear can see Noboru just fine though. In fact, he's gaping at him right now.
COMBATSYS: Noboru focuses on his next action.
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(What the hell?)
As Noboru attacks Vega, Munin sees him finally, and recognizes him from the hospital with Takako. As Vega turns to deal with him, she leaps over the other bed to her pack. Pulling out her cellphone, she sends a text to Rust and Takako, the only fighters she can think offhand from the list in a short time. It is short and sweet, and takes only seconds to send:
Vega is back!
She sends it just as Noboru is sent through the wall! Tossing her phone under the bed, she leaps at him from behind, striking low at the small of his back, hoping to use the force of the blow to lift him up and toss him to the floor!
And maybe.... JUST maybe....
Distract him long enough for them to escape!
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Munin's Eclipse.
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Vega simply tilts his head as he watches the newcomer go flying through the wall, taking a single step to the side to peer through the dust and into the next room. "Was that it?" he asks towards the pudgy man on the bed, as if maybe he knows whether or not Noboru plans on getting back into the fight, "And after such a strong start..." With a slightly overdramatic sigh and shrug, he lifts his hand again, another flare of purple energy forming in the palm of his hand as he winds up, preparing to lob it through the hole in the wall -- always remember to double tap, kids.
That is, of course, until he hears footsteps behind him. His grin grows just a fraction as he leaps into the air, somersaulting backwards over Munin's charging punch, mostly maintaining his previous position -- just airborne. As he reaches the point directly above her, he lifts his head to turn that too-wide smile on her, hand still blazing with purple energy.
When you're Vega, laws mean nothing to you. Even the laws of physics.
He comes to a complete stop in midair, and, showing just how much he cares for Newton and his notions of momentum, he reverses direction and hurtles towards Munin, purple shrouded hand outstretched in an attempt to deliver a powerful punch into /her/ back.
While the pudgy man scrambles off of his bed and hurries toward the door out of this crazy ass hotel, Noboru prowls silently through the dust toward the hole he and Vega so recently created. He is moving a bit stiffly after his psycho-fueled tumble rabbit hole, but it doesn't seem to be slowing him down over much..
Noboru steps into the wall hole just in time to see Vega flip over Munin, leaving him nearly face to face with the young woman. Dust cakes the bulky Shinobi, dripping from his shaggy hair and turning most of his uniform shades of light grey and dirty brown. Despite that his remaining blue eye is sharp and alert. He might be moving a bit slower, but he obviously still has his wits about him.
The Shinobi says nothing to Munin or Vega. Instead he quickly steps sideways into the room, clearing the way for Munin to get blasted through the hole he was just standing in, and slips his right hand from beneath his coat. A sharp flick of his wrist sends the diamond-shaped throwing knife he just drew hissing through the air toward Vega's chest. It's a nice bit of work. Obviously hand forged, the handle wrapped tightly with grey string.
COMBATSYS: Vega knocks away Munin with Devil Reverse.
- Power hit! -
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Unfortunately for Munin, her plans don't go quite as expected. Vega leaps up and over her, and she has but a moment to realize he's gone past her when his fist impacts her in the back instead of the other way around! Her expression is one of stunned agony as the ribs in her back audibly crack, and send her flying to the ground, landing in a pained heap in front of the hole previously made.
She coughs up a mouthful of blood as she tries to pull herself into a sitting-up position, adrenaline fueling her movements, aims, and with a pained yell throws a burst of black shadowy chi at vega! Hit or miss, she uses the potential distraction of it to pull herself up, using the edge of the hole to pull herself up with
COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Noboru's Shuriken.
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COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Vega with Shadow Wave.
Glancing Blow
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As he feels her bones break beneath his fist, Vega pulls his fist back and lets the field of psycho power fade away. Slowly, he begins correcting his descent so he can land on his feet in suitably dramatic fashion, but Noboru's already back in the fight with his shuriken.
Fast as it may be, Vega turns out to be faster. Just as it seems about to embed itself in the Leader of Shadaloo's chest, it passes straight through a wispy purple outline of the man it was intended for as Vega teleports away.
But two attacks delivered by the talented fighters he faces now is too much even for him to fully keep track of. When he reappears, it's directly in the path of Munin's Shadow Wave and he's forced to lurch to the side, breaking his uncaring composure once again as it slashes through the sleeve of his crimson uniform and draws blood.
"Once again, we see your determination, Munin," he booms, regaining his grin as soon the immediate danger of her attack passes, "This time, however, you do not have enough friends to save you from Vega's might." His dead eyes turn on Noboru now, and the grin ticks upwards just a fraction, "And the one you do have is utterly inadequate."
Suddenly, the field of psycho power blooms into life around him again, this time stronger then before, a second, deeper shade of purple flaring at the edges like fire. Tensing his right arm, he brings it up beside him and the purple 'flames' coil into a ball of tightly packed energy in his palm as he braces himself on his back foot.
"Psycho..."
With a push, he surges forward, barreling through the room horizontally as he holds out his palm towards Noboru, spinning as he goes.
"Crusher!"
COMBATSYS: Vega successfully hits Noboru with Psycho Crusher+.
~ Cruel hit! ~
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"Hrrrr." Noboru grumbles back, the deep, annoyed rumble sounding almost like a growl. His icy blue eye is fixed on Vega as the man comes hurtling toward him with a ball of crushing psycho power in hand. The chi aware might sense a faint spike as the ninja drops his energy shroud and flexes the little bit of chi talent he has, pushing a thin field of energy through his skin and bones to harden himself against what is coming.
Taking a step forward to meat Vega's rush, Noboru takes the psycho crusher squarely in the center of his chest. However, even as the shinobi is flying backwards toward the outside wall he reaches up with both gloved hands, attempting to wrap his leather-clad digits around Vega's throat and drag him along for the tumble, squeezing ever tighter.
Luckily for Noboru the wall he hits this time only buckles outward a bit. It threatens to collapse atop him in a shower of bricks and sheet rock, but for the moment it holds. Parts of the inner wall break and fall away, revealing a fluffy grey wall of insulation studded with electrical fittings and plumbing pipes. Behind that is the brick wall, now covered in spreading cracks.
As Vega speaks his moves name, Munin has a flashback to when he used that move on HER so long ago, to such damaging effect. Fear burrows into her heart as fully as the blood it pumps. Blood that now is coughed up in another mouthful. This brings her back to reality long enough to see Noboru not just seeming to TAKE the move head on, but potentially strike back?!? She is truely impressed.....
While he's holding Vega there dealing with him, with a pained leap she suddenly splits in two, one Munin leaping high, the other leaping low, chi-lance lighting her palms as she comes in at Vega from high and low simultaniously! One is real, the other, an illusion, but which is which?
The one trailing blood! Hopefully Vega won't think of that until she has hit him, though!
COMBATSYS: Vega endures Noboru's Strangulation.
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COMBATSYS: Vega blocks Munin's Mirror Image.
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Vega makes no effort to dodge or break Noboru's grip on his throat as they both go careening towards the wall. The only reaction he gives to the shinobi now threatening to squeeze the life from him is a strangled gasp for air as they both start hovering upwards, the Miyama pinned against the wall as Vega does nothing more than press towards him and his grasping hands.
Even Munin's attack is little more than a distraction for the Psycho Tyrant. With barely a glance spared her way, his opposite knee and elbow come up, both snapping quickly into the path of her pair of blades, though only one gains a fresh, but shallow cut as the purple energy flares briefly around both to shield him from the majority of the attack.
Vega's gaze swing back towards Noboru and his smile slowly returns even as veins bulge in his neck beneath the Shinobi's hands. Then, without much warning, his fist drives back and forwards in a quick motion, heading straight for the man's gut without so much as a flicker of psycho power.
COMBATSYS: Noboru blocks Vega's Medium Punch.
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Munin frowns, blood dribbling down her mouth a bit. Definately a puntured lung.... she doesn't have long before breathing will become more difficult, and medical assistance found! She pulls all her chi to herself, and her eyes gain an increasingly bright glow.
She suddenly splits again, and appears to throw several moves at once from several angles! One jumps left and throws another shadow wave. One leaps in with a palm strike! Yet another leaps back, and sends multiple tendrils of solid black chi with razor sharp tips at him! Still one more comes in low with a sweep!
This time, they ALL appear to be bleeding, too.
Hit or miss, once completed, the fakes vanish, and she looks ready to fall over due to the burn of energy.....
"HNNNGH!" Noboru grunts through his dusty black mask into Vega's face. His back scrapes along the bricks of the outer wall, shoulders barging aside electrical wires and shoving insulation out of their way like snow ploughs as the two fighters rise up off the ground. Throughout all of this the ninja's good eye is fixed on his opponent's face, sweat starting to turn the dust in his shaggy hair to mud.
When the punch finally comes, Noboru tries to block it in the only way he currently can. Using his grip on Vega's throat he shoves the floating man to the left while swinging his body to the right, causing the fist to slam hard into his left hip bone rather than hitting him full in the gut. It still hurts, but, his whole body is still sort of numb from the psycho crusher.
Letting out a soft grunt Noboru releases his grip on Vega's neck and drops toward the ground. As his feet touch the floor he bends his knees and sinks into a crouch. Head bowed, the shinobi draws in a deep breath and lets his right hand dangle at his side. Clenching it into a tight fist,the ninja juts out his thumb.
'snick'
Six inches of dull grey steel slide out of Noboru's right sleeve just beneath his pinky. Letting out an explosive breath, the Ninja launches himself back up toward Vega and swings his right fist up into a vicious uppercut, the point of his once-hidden blade leading the way toward the tyrant's gut. It loosk like he's trying tp punch him straight up through the roof, Mortal Kombat style.
COMBATSYS: Noboru successfully hits Vega with Hidden Blade.
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COMBATSYS: Vega overcomes Iron Maiden from Munin with Psycho Shot.
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As Noboru actually manages to 'block' his attack, Vega turns an impressed eye down on him as he continues to hover a foot or two off the ground. "I must say," he begins, looking between both Munin and Noboru now, "You have impressed me today." Call it instinct, call it impressive amounts of training, but when Munin attacks, his hand snaps out and a ball of pure psycho power fires in a straight line towards one of the images as he ignores the rest, blasting aside her attack and driving onwards towards her with implacable determination.
"Munin, you have always proven yourself to be a particularly sharp thorn in my side, so I expected no le-"
Surprise and pain flashes across Vega's face as Noboru's blade pierces his side. Some small attempt is made to move away from the knife, but it's too little, too late. With a snarl, he teleports off the knife and out towards the street, hovering in the air just outside the shattered window as blood streams from the fresh wound and rage twists his face. "Damn you! You will die with her!"
"I do not intend to die today." Noboru responds in flawless Japanese, his voice a solemn rumble. Apparently a man of few words, the ninja glances idly out the window toward Vega as his knife slides back into his sleeve with a soft 'snick.'
The stoic shinobi's left hand, however, is just emerging from beneath his coat, palming a fist-sized sack of grey material. When This is tossed to the ground it explodes into a billowing cloud of choking grey smoke that quickly spreads to fill the room. Perhaps most frustrating of all for Vega is the fact that Noboru's psycho signature vanishes as soon as he is hidden from view.
For perhaps 10 seconds there is no sound from whatever Noboru is doing inside, but then there comes a soft 'tsswip' and a loop of braided leather cord flits out of the darkness, attempting to drop over Vega's head and tighten about his throat.
COMBATSYS: Vega knocks away Munin with Psycho Shot.
# Disabling hit! #
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Of all the things Vega could have done, THAT was the one least expected by Munin, her mind too addled and bloodloss to great to really think it all through.
So it is of little suprise when Vegas attack not only passes through her attack *in no way unbelievable*, and she is caught COMPLETELY flat-footed! The shot hits her in her center of mass with enough force to send her flying! At the angle she is struck, it sends her into the remainds of the window, which does even MORE damage when she impales her arm on a sharp piece of glass still embedded in the frame!
She has only a few moments to look at it, before she drops to her knees, and falls forwards, eyes vacant, and a circle of red forming beneath her....
..... Is what SEEMS to happen! The chi-illusion fades, leaving no body on the floor, and instead the Real Munin appears above Vega, decending in a downward palm strike! There IS glass in her arm, and her eyes ARE dim, as she appears to have lost consciousness mid-strike, but she carrys through the strike on sheer muscle memory and will to try to survive!
Hit or miss, however, afterwards she does indeed fall to the ground, bleeding and unconscious.
COMBATSYS: Munin can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Noboru successfully hits Vega with Punjab Lasso.
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COMBATSYS: Vega dodges Munin's Fierce Punch.
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If the lasso that tightens around Vega's neck is meant to strangle him to death, it is doing a horrible job. Immediately after the loop is jerked tight the cord leading into the smoky room behind goes slack.
'CRASH!'
The weakened section of wall that Vega so recently tried to psycho crusher Noboru through suddenly explodes outward, bricks and pipes cascading down into the alley below amidst a flow of insulation. Jutting conspicuously from this avalanche of debris is a metal bed frame, and tied to that bed frame is a leather cord. The leather cord leads up through the destroyed wall,a round the section of intact wall surrounding the window frame, out the window, and is attached to the loop around Vega's neck. The loop which is suddenly jerked taught by the dragging weight of all that falling debris.
Moments after the crash of the wall being broken, the window of Mr. Pudgy in his Under ware also explodes outward. Noboru's bulky form falls to the alley amidst the glittering shards of glass and lands in a crouch with a soft grunt, Munin's travel bag thrown over one broad shoulder. He does not pause to see if throwing the bed frame through the brick wall paid off. He simply turns and takes off at a dead sprint. AS he passes Munin he stoops down and scoops her up in his left arm, tossing her across his shoulders as if she weighed nothing at all.
For such a big guy, Noboru can move!
Vega may be enraged, but unfortunately for Munin, the fight seems to be over. As she descends from above, he picks up on her psycho signature almost immediately and twitches instantly to the side, blank eyes still locked on the cloud of smoke that hides Noboru, not so much as glancing her way as she falls to the ground below.
How curious that the one he came here for has so severely lost his interest -- or rather, her defender has so masterfully managed to gain it -- that he practically views her as a little more than a distraction in his quest to vaporize the annoyance that is Noboru Miyama.
And what an annoyance he is. The loop lands snugly around Vega's neck as he hovers straight into it and tightens into a not-entirely-strangling noose. Confused for half a hearbeat, Vega's in the process of reaching a hand up to pull the shinobi towards him by his own attack, when the true extent of Noboru's trickery is revealed. With barely time for a surprised grunt, the Psycho Tyrant is dragged through the air and straight into the ruined remains of the hotel, exploding into a cloud of dust and debris as his opponents make their escape.
For a moment, the only sound apart from the falling rubble are the approaching sirens as all sorts of emergency personnel race towards the scene. Then, in a rush of air, the rooms directly below the makeshift battlefield explode in a blinding flash of purple energy as walls burst outwards, glass shatters, bed frames, dressers, and sinks go hurtling in all directions accompanied by a single name, roared in a booming voice towards the sky.
"MUNIN!"
COMBATSYS: Vega has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Noboru has ended the fight here.
Log created on 22:38:58 07/11/2014 by Vega, and last modified on 03:46:46 07/12/2014.