Description: One of the Time Spheres had been destroyed. Forces beyond estimation by even Saiki himself have conspired to rectify this situation, in a way absolutely no one would have expected. A rift has opened between parallel universes somewhere within the vicinity of the city of Ise, and with it has come Dan Hibiki with a new Time Sphere... Who has full intent to deliver it to the Saiki of this universe. Backed by a Ryuhaku Todoh of especially vague origins, it is up to Yun and Yuri to stop them from making the deadly delivery and escape that rift before it is too late, to be unsung heroes of at least two different universes (and possibly even more than that).
Ise. The town's built on top of a mountainside overlooking the coastal cities below, and ... well, the rural town gets its fair share of tourists, but nothing like the mass influx of visitors it's had since a spawning portal of hell opened up just a few shorts weeks ago. Not tourists, of course, but thrillseekers. People convinced that there's a cult on the other side of the portal. Crazy people looking to end their lives in the most ridiculous and xtreeeem way possible. The government, still something of a shambles after the recent political upheaval, has been forced to mobilize the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to keep the public from not only zerging the portal, but to keep the little town from getting absolutely overrun. So while there ARE lots of people here, there are police and military forces assembled in the streets to keep people from loitering.
%Suffice to say, visitors to the Ise Grand Shrine are pretty limited right now. There -is- access, but only for those who look like they can take a punch or two. Because as crazy as the situation is up there in the Ise Grand Shrine, it's only going to get worse if everyone approaches en masse.
So when two crazyheads appear within the military barricades, it sets off a firestorm of activity among the military, radios blaring as the soldiers establish communication with one another... until they collectively realize...
They came from the portal itself.
And the fighters -- who -definitely- look they could take a punch -- may look a bit familiar. One of them looks just like Dan Hibiki... except he's more built. More buff. He's got the same cocky swagger that he's been known for... but he is carrying himself differently. Right hand stroking his goatee in contemplation, as he strides towards the military barricades. Left hand carrying a bright glowing sphere, glittering with sparks.
"Ora ora oraaaa!" he calls out, his bass voice rumbling out, overpowering the steady thrum-thrum-thrum of the portal behind him. Needless to say, this just confuses the heck out of the military standing by watching. He looks over to his companion. "They don't know who I am." Rolling his eyes, he turns back to those at the barricade, raising his fist and flexing his bicep in a threatening fashion. "DON'T YOU KNOW THE GREAT AND POWERFUL DAN HIBIKI WHEN YOU SEE HIM?!!"
"Well, of course they don't!" Scolds some... guy.
Long black hair, nicely-kept moustache, kind of traditional-ish Japanese clothing... who is this guy, again? The narration can't be bothered to even remember their name for the sake of the readers who now have to suffer and acknowledge his presence as something that is there. Nonetheless...
There is a strange, absolutely unwarranted calm coming from this man, whom exudes some sort of... comfort with the situation? Resignation? Hands on his hips, he points a hand outward to the confused, increasingly disorganized military presence here who have no idea how to take any of this. Who would, given... these... people?
"Now, now, my good countrymen!" Says this strange man in traditional Japanese dress. "You needn't worry! Aside from whatever excruciating pain and mayhem my fellow visitor from... uh, shall we say, elsewhere, will inflict," he beams a bright, white smile.
His teeth are clean. Perfect. The sort of gleam that has only ever been truly perfected by the likes of Kim Kaphwan, South Korea's champion of justice. This man is not Kim Kaphwan. Still, something about this currently nameless individual seems familiar. Maybe it's on the tip of someone's tongue? Two syllables... probably?
"It'll be temporary at best! Once this Time Sphere is delivered where it needs to go, I guarantee things will turn right around! You'll, ah, only feel a slight twinge in your place in the time-space continuum but it's only a momentary discomfort, really, truly," he appears to try and be reassuring to the gathered... and finally, an aside to... the goatee'd Dan.
"Please don't make me regret this."
Skateboarding can happen anywhere. And should happen anywhere. Especially when it is happening in places that it shouldn't be. The street-wear clad Yun Lee is grabbing the end of his board as he sails up and over something that should be preventing him from being in this particular location within time and space. Perhaps through the legendary heroic channels of Off-Screen is why and how the skateboarding hero has managed to get himself locked down into this location.
"Wahoo!" Yun lets the wheels of his board hit the ground and he pushes off, keeping up the speed and putting some more space between himself and whatever military losers are trying to stop him. He bobs and weaves around whatever's in his way, taking to the air when he has to, if only to leave his pursuers in the dust. "Haha! Sorry, no autographs. Got a world to save!" Tun smirks over his shoulder and turns his attention back towards the direction is heading in. "... or two. Three? I dunno! Somethin' crazy like that!"
Yun gives a dismissive wave of his hand as he approaches the area where the portal has decided to open up. "Get low!" Yun yells at the soldier in front of him. He leaps off the skateboard, plants his hands on the soldier's shoulders for leapfrogness and lands on his skateboard on the other side. He pulls up to a stop, spinning on the board and then hops off, snatching his cap off his head and giving it a twirl around his finger. "Thank you, thank you! Please, hold your applause until /after/ I whoop these dudes asses! Haha!"
He tosses his cap back on his head and kicks his skateboard up and beneath his arm, before turning his attention to the portal interlopers of injustice. "Psst. This is the part where you run."
Clad in a karate gi top, with purple leggings, white socks, and red Chuck Taylor sneakers, Yuri doesn't seem like the type of person who would be willing to risk going into a place like this. Especially with the petite build she has. But underneath that small, unique appearance is a toughened young woman who's come quite a ways throughout this whole ordeal. Her childish demeanor has been replaced by one that is more stern and determined. In the past, she might have simply looked at this and shook her head in disbelief before scampering away, or giving it a razz before attempting to rush in recklessly. But now, Yuri's acting a lot different in this situation. Namely because while Yun's skateboarded into the area, the Kyokugen princess has chosen to make her way into the area on foot, running from whereever she was off-screen into the area. She stops only briefly to demonstrate a Haoh Sho Ko Ken to the soldiers at the barricade, before running into the area where the temple is.
"Skateboarding at a time like this?!" Yuri shakes her head in disbelief. "I can't believe you'd do such a thing!" She shrugs it off, before looking to Todoh and Dan, the latter of whom she has heard about, as well as how his style of martial arts has a lot of similarity to Kyokugen. Something that Yuri is not happy about one bit. But that's something for another time. Right now, there's a bigger issue on their hands. Namely one involving that huge sphere which Yuri and Yun are here to take back... or at least stop from being used for the wrong purposes.
Pointing at the two guys who are controlling that sphere, Yuri yells out, "You've got one last chance to surrender, otherwise we kick your butts good!" Despite the wording, Yuri is not joking around in the least bit. "That sphere doesn't belong to you, and you're gonna pay for misusing it!" She clenches her fists and adopts her traditional stance, bouncing on her heels as she anticipates the inevitable battle that will most likely be starting almost immediately.
COMBATSYS: Dan has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Todoh has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Yun has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Yuri has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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-kzzz-RRRKT- The crackle of military radios is echoed in manifold directions from all the officers in close proximity. The soldiers resist -- at first -- but as the standing order seems to be to let "true fighters" in -- even if they're acting rambunctious -- well.
The soldier Yun introduced him to sure has to strain every muscle in his body to keep from making a grab for a kid, though. The man's itchy trigger fingers stay pinned at his side, with effort.
Dan knew the older Japanese man was trying to keep things civil -- and that's why, in a complete fit of tactlessness, responds with bellowing. He keeps his 'guns' raised, too, just to make sure everyone gets a good look at his beefy biceps. "Regret?! Regret what!? GAHAHAHAHAHA! What's the harm here? Look, Toady -- can I call you Toady? -- you're with the strongest fighter in the country -- in the /world!/" The brash fighter in the mint-green gi struts down the hill towards the barricade. "Look, I took down my father's killer with the greatest of ease, chopped him down -- right in his prime! What are these scrubs gonna do about it?" He snaps a look over to Yuri, eyeing her up and down. "Wow, check out Queen 'B' over here... " He passes her a dismissive smirk, cradling the Time Sphere with both hands. "This? Oh, I think you're right, Missy! It =doesn't= belong to us, as a matter of fact! And we're bringing it to its true master."
The .. very cocky, very confident not-Dan continues striding forward, stopping by a small door -- the small closet for one of the shrine's maintenance people. "And check out this guy... this is the part where I run? Gimme a break... where'd you get that hat, the dollar store?" He pauses for a moment, then stabs a finger at Yun. "OH! Long braid! Now I remember where I saw this guy!"
With a swift motion of his foot, he snags the half-full water pail sitting by the janitor's door. "Check this out, Toady, I've seen this kid before. If you splash this guy with water he turns into a smokin' hot redhead!" And with a whirling roundhouse kick, the pail of water goes flying off towards Yun!
The dentist-approved perfect smile twitches with the entrance of vague amounts of actual expectation of the young Yun and equally young Yuri, as though maybe someone were to have to stop and simply ask... why?
"Oh, it's not you I'm worried about, Dan, more than... usual, yes, yes, your creative nicknames you scraped up off the schoolyard sandlot, ahem," 'Toady' pretends he's not aggravated by this turn of events, somewhat poorly. That, or maybe he's realized that is exactly what the narration will refer to him as from here on out and now it is too late.
"If I may so kindly /explain/," 'Toady' raises his voice slightly as he approaches Yuri, as though finding some sort of inherent value in taking the time to explain this to her and not the young man over there, "it is true the sphere has been taken from somewhere people may rather it stay, but, it is very important it goes where it needs to, you see."
The strangely familiar man reaches out with a hand to try and pat Yuri on the scalp with a haste that makes it far more forceful than usual, as though to send along a young child in a significant hurry.
"Run along, dear! That hooligan and I will take care of all this," he says as he winces, an aside to Dan at the flung bucket of water, "I daresay your fixation on truly obscure one-off young adult entertainment is worrying, but never mind that!"
Yuri should probably just go on ahead and punch him in the face on principle, while he's slightly distracted. She is no longer a little girl one just tries to pat on the head any more, is she?!
Besides, he looks and sounds an awful lot like that... guy... the Sakazakis aren't too fond of.
COMBATSYS: Yun parries Dan's Large Thrown Object!
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Yun is in the middle of not paying attention to anything Evil Dan is saying because why would he? There's a slick female by his side now and that's all that matters. "After this? Noodles on me?" Yun just offers a bit of a wink, before his attention is stolen by Evil Dan and he proceeds to turn to fully face him with enough time to notice the bucket of water being hurled in his direction. He smirks and gives the skateboard a bo-staffly twirl, knocking the bucket aside as he spins on his heels and out of the way of such aquatic attacks.
The board hits the ground and Yun's on top of it, kicking off with a quick foot and speeding in the general direction of Evil Dan. "Nice try, but you're the one that's washed up, man. I mean, seriously, nobody even wears goatees anymore. Loser." The words are meant for distractionary purposes, as Yun drops back and off his board, kicking it up into the air. He rushes towards Evil Dan with a quick two steps, aiming a couple of fists towards his chest and aims a somersaulting push-kick off his skull to sail backwards and catch his board in the air, so he has something cool to land on and skate back into a new position.
Normally, he wouldn't be trying such fierce combinations. But there's a hottie in the vicinity. Gotta' go HAM.
COMBATSYS: Yuri blocks Todoh's Weakened Quick Throw.
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That attempt at touching Yuri was more insulting than anything. Patting a girl like that on the head? She may have once been childish before, but those days seem to be over for now. Yuri scowls at Todoh and slaps his hand away as it comes towards her scalp. "Keep your grubby mitts to yourself, Todoh!" Yuri shouts angrily. "You have no idea what you're dealing with here!" She says this in reference to both the sphere as well as the team of her and Yun. "I knew you were bad news, Todoh, but this is going way too far for even my liking!"
Then Yuri chooses to respond to the attempt to treat her like a child by patting her on the head. "And I'll have you know that I'm no little girl! I'm a master of the Kyokugen style of karate! While you are just another thorn in my side." She clenches her fists tighter than before. "Except unlike real thorns, I don't need any clippers to take you out! I've got my own personal tools right here!" And if Todoh wanted a punch in the face, he's gonna get one, because Yuri's throwing a swift left punch upwards now.
COMBATSYS: Dan blocks Yun's Fierce Combo EX.
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COMBATSYS: Yuri successfully hits Todoh with Jab Punch.
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The military gentlemen take notice that these two... teenagers seem to be doing the jobs that they just alerted headquarters to. Hey, good for them! They sweep in to close off the barricades and keep other people from coming in.
While Todoh starts trying to make nice with Yuri, Dan's got Yun to contend with. So much for that pail of water he'd slung his way! But... what's this? Goatees aren't cool any more? "PSHAW! I'll have you know, scrub -- after I took out Sagat, the world got -sweet-, and =everyone= started sporting goatees. Not to mention these sweet ponytails, eh? YAHOO!
He knows it's a little gauche, but that's =why= he does it. And it's also why he just throws his arms up when Yun closes in. He steps backwards, like a competent martial artist would, each blow of Yun's met with an open palm and a bored expression. When Yun tries to kickflip off his face, well, that's met with a forearm. "YAWN. C'mon, boy-type, lemme show you how Saikyo-ryu's done." He lunges forward, expecting Yun to land on his board, and aims to reach out and grab the boy by the face... pull him close... and HEADBUTT him! "YOSHAAA!"
Yuri punches the identified Todoh in the face (he is silently thankful that now he can be called by his proper name), popping his chin up and seeing his feet slide back a good inch or two with all the proper fury of an heir to the Kyokugen style itself can muster. It's quite a bit, for such a single, simple punch.
"Bad... news?" Todoh wheezes as he recovers from his tap to the chin, as though... amused? No, the amusement's gone. "Y-You're misunderstanding me here! This is for everyone's good, you know! Have you even looked at the world around you?!"
Wiping his mouth as he casts a look over his shoulder to Dan with only a tinge of worry, but the two have an understanding. Of sorts. For now.
"Then again," Todoh's eyes shut tightly as he raises his hands up into the air, facing back towards Yuri as he summons his inner focus, "no matter what time or place, you Sakazaki folks have always been so difficult to deal with, so it is no surprise you are here."
"If you feel there's a better answer for this world as it is, you know what to do," he says as he summons a very familiar array of segmented chi of a yellowish-orange color, blocky and vulgar in its design as the traditional Todoh way of manipulating chi into power to strike, to affect the world, throwing his hands downward to guide it down upon Yuri.
"Ask for it with your might!"
COMBATSYS: Yun dodges Dan's Otoko Nage.
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TTrying to catch the master of the Skate-Fu is not exactly in Evil Dan's best interests. When Yun's feet hit the board and he spots that hand coming for him, he spins on the board and right out of the way of that grab. "Say again? I couldn't hear you over the whiff! sound effect." Yun flashes a wink to anyone that may be watching, before he hops off the skateboard and kicks it up into his hands.
"Let me show you why my friends call me the Chairman of the Board." The skateboard gets flipped around in his hands a couple of times, before he leaps up and gives a mighty baseball swing with that thing, aiming to see if he can't knock some sense into (and out of) the Evil Dan. He's all about the headshot attempts it would seem. But that's just because catching a skateboard to the face might actually do some damage. That's the plan anyway!
COMBATSYS: Yuri fails to reflect Kasane Ate from Todoh with Saiha.
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"Ask for it with my might? You don't know what true might is!" Yuri says while continuing to clench her fists. "I'll teach you what it is, but I doubt you'd care what it truly is, with your twisted views of things!" She attempts to speed things up a little by shifting her legs from side to side a few times, as if building up a little extra adrenaline. When Todoh comes in with his attack, Yuri attempts to shield it with a chi field around her hands... but she's not quite fast enough. The blast hits her and knocks her onto her back. It's a painful hit, but Yuri manages to roll backwards into a standing position again.
"Owww..." Yuri mutters, more frustrated than truly in pain. She is relieved to find she's not bleeding just yet. But even without her cocky attitude, it's obvious she still made a bit of a mistake there. Returning to her fighting stance, Yuri remains a short distance away from Todoh, keeping a close eye on him. "That was simply a miscalculation on my part. Next time you won't be so lucky!"
COMBATSYS: Yun successfully hits Dan with Random Weapon.
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Whiff sound effect. Dan composes himself after his failed attempt to grasp hold of Yun, glancing over to Yuri and Todoh for a moment. "Yeah, chicky," he calls out, "just listen to the geezer! World's ending soon! Just kick back and relax already, and we'll push the reset button for ya!"
And it's right around then that the cocky Hibiki gets a facefull of skateboard -- the impressions from the trucks and wheels can be seen as Dan reels backwards from the blow!
One hand snaps back to his face, the other still cradled around the so-called Time Sphere. He clucks his tongue, shaking his head from side to side. "Listen... I was taking it easy on you till now... kid gloves are -off- now, baby!"
And with that, Dan breaks into a run, trying to catch up with the speeding youngster. And he leaps into the sky, kicking once, twice, then a third time! If Yun likes headshots so much, why doesn't he marry them?!!!
To Yuri's credit, there is little wrong with her reflective energy shielding attempt - it's often angled in such a way that an overhead chi strike would normally have a hard time getting past it, such as the... thing... that just went past it.
"It's not luck, I'm afraid!" Todoh shakes his head in scolding disagreement, waving a finger. "What you see before you, young lady, is..."
"JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE FACE OF OBLIVION!" He throws his hands up, clapping them above his head with such ferocity and strength that the very air rushes out around the point of impact. Small wisps of particles of light gather around his feet in wake of this, opening his mouth to that blindingly shiny grin.
Does this even sound like the Todoh Yuri has the displeasure to know of?
"There's nothing twisted about our aims!" An aside to Dan. "C-Correction! Nothing twisted about my aims, see. What you don't understand is that everything here is falling apart! It's not something being young and hot-blooded can fix..."
"For, you see, hm, if you will allow me to go into further detail," Todoh says as he closes his eyes again, taking in a deep breath to center his focus, to find his inner... plot exposition, on some level Yuri might give him the time of day...
This should instead probably be treated as another opportunity to go punch him in the face, because this is Todoh.
A Todoh?
Whatever.
COMBATSYS: Todoh focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Yun with Dankuu Kyaku.
- CRAZY Hit! -
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"Justice and righteousness? JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS?!" Yuri can't believe those words coming from Todoh's mouth. "You are not one to talk! After all the crap you've been involved with, you are definitely not one to talk!" Yuri glares daggers at Todoh, narrowing her eyes and waiting for him to attack her again. But surprisingly he doesn't. Instead, he closes his eyes as if lost in thought about something, and this only makes Yuri even more angry. She senses that there is a bit of sarcasm within that action, and that does not sit well with Yuri. That, along with the fact he's treating her like a child, even though she's in her late teens and is (finally) starting to mature a bit.
"What are you waiting for, Todoh? Are you testing me or are you just proving your arrogance?" Yuri waits for a moment for an answer, but then realizes waiting for an answer is not the best thing to do here. "You know what, forget it! I don't need any more of your filthy lies!" Yuri brings her hands behind her back, focusing her chi into them. "Instead, I'll show you what I do to people I don't like!" She continues to focus her chi, and then calls out those four magic words that few Kyokugen fighters are capable of using properly, but when used properly, can be very powerful and dangerous for their opponent. Yes, the Haoh Sho Ko Ken, being sent directly at Todoh from Yuri, expressly! "TAKE THIS!" She yells as she throws the large fireball at him.
By The Power Invested In Me, The Narrator, I Know Pronounce You Feet And Face.
The marriage of one kick after another smacking into Yun's face is what knocks him backwards and off his board. He gets his face rocked something fierce and the next thing he knows, he's rolling away from the skateboard (which keeps on rolling on its own) and he's smacking backwards into something behind him. It doesn't matter. The pain is CRAZY.
"Hahaha. 'Bout time!" Yun reaches up to straighten his cap, which had been knocked askew by the trifecta of kicks from Evil Dan. He then hops up to his feet as if he hadn't been knocked for a loop and gets back into his own fighting stance, showing immediate flavors of his Kempo style. Hands go up and everything. "I was wonderin' if there was more to ya' than that horrible six o'clock shadow." Yun just gives a shake of his head. Pitiful. His lip is bleeding but it doesn't matter. He's still smirking poetic.
"Can't stand up to my Kung Fu!" And that's when Yun steps forward and spins on his heels, "Time to show off a little!" And he's practically a blur as he moves in towards Evil Dan with an elbow strike followed by another one in quick succession. Movements continue with eloquence and speed as he attempts to follow up with a pair of lunging palm strikes. After which there's a small pause to straighten out his cap, before he takes another step and leaps into the air with a powerful high kick! His bloody mouth expressing with a smile this entire time!
COMBATSYS: Dan fails to interrupt Sourai Rengeki from Yun with Kouryuken.
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COMBATSYS: Todoh endures Yuri's Haoh Sho Ko Ken.
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The steely Dan -- not to be confused with regular Dan - doesn't get -too- cocky when his feet connect with Yun, sending him flying into the background scenery. No... he just tosses a smug grin towards the boy. "Try again, kid. You've got a lot to learn before you can beat me."
And then, while Todoh and Yuri are trying to decide who's more just and righteous than the other, Yun's over there talking smack to the one, the only... (only one in his timeframe, which he's not currently in right now) DAN HIBIKI!? "... Show off a little?! Seriously, kid, what do you think martial arts is all about, the art? It's not, it's about bein' being Marshal of the Town of Badass, population moi!"
And he intends to show Yun just how it's done, cradling that sphere low -- he's being nice, only fighting with ONE ARM -- and plunging an uppercut right into Yun's chin just as he starts that series of attacks. But the MASTER of SAIKYO-RYU, DAN HIBIKI ... well, he's not as good as he thinks he is. That part's the same as this world's counterpart, anyway. When Yun leaps forward, Dan underestimates his speed due to all the blurring, and gets clocked by the first strikes, which juggles him backwards and keeps him off-balance. And then DAN flies backwards, knocking over a trash can and sending wrappers from discarded McDonald's, MosBurger, and Lotteria meals flying every which way!
Extricating himself from the mess, he coos to the sphere he's holding in his arms. "Don't worry, baby. We'll bring you to Saiki soon enough... and besides, the scrub's skateboard is rolling downhill... what's he got left?"
Let's be honest, who absolutely would believe those words coming out of Todoh's mouth? Ryuhaku Todoh! Man of... something or another, whose aims continue to be vague other than being a gigantic pain in the butt for pretty much everyone ever. (Something or another about self-promotion of the family style and ruining the day of everyone he dislikes, which is just about everyone ever, but, that's splitting hairs.)
Then there's... Todoh. This is Todoh, isn't it?
"There are no lies here, young lady," so politely Todoh responds as he lowers his hands away from his stance of focus, holding them horizontal in that familiar fighting stance that does largely identify Todoh if he ever stands still in someone's view for more than like three seconds, "now if you'll--"
His eyes open up wide to the great wellspring of chi power she has inherited from her father being gathered in her hands. Shaking his head as if to say no, no, no, don't do it, wait--
She won't wait. She throws it, the great big wave of chi energy enveloping Todoh and rendering him invisible beyond a big wave of light that splashes around and even through him, before dispersing with a significant hole going around it to give the appearance of a hoop being flung into the aether...
Because he's shoved himself right on through, right in front of Yuri.
"If I did that to everyone I didn't like, such as /him/," he says in reference to Dan over there as he threatens to wrap his hands around Yuri's gi folds and belt, to try and lift her up and slam her into the dirt road of this stretch of tumultuous Ise, "well, come to think of it there wouldn't be that many people I'd do that to..."
Is this really the Todoh that Yuri has the displeasure of knowing?
"Th-that's not the point, listen, I, I beg of you, this is getting silly...! I'm not some two-bit one-off faceless speed-bump like--"
Yun ain't too worried about the skateboard right now. Even with it rolling downhill, he's pretty sure he'll be able to get to it after all this is over. Besides, he's got to focus on what's important and that would be getting that Time Sphere. He doesn't know why but he does know that it is important. And as a HERO that's what he should be focusing on right now.
Which is why he's already moving right back in towards Evil Dan in an attempt to-- wait, Deadly Dan sounds better.
Which is why he's already moving right back in towards DEADLY Dan. He reaches out, swingin at him with a couple of feint-fists, before spinning on his heels and aiming an elbow at his chest. Another quick spin should allow him to reach around and grab at Deadly Dan's gi, before he twists and attempts to drop down towards the ground, while one leg extends to see if he can't kick that Time Sphere loose on his way down.
COMBATSYS: Yuri blocks Todoh's Bodyslam.
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"Like what, Todoh?!" Yuri yells as he tries to grab a hold of her belt. "Actually, no, I don't wanna know!" She slaps his hands away again and glares at him. "Didn't I tell you to keep your hands to yourself? Even if I didn't, the point still remains! I don't want a fool like you touching me! And you think this is silly? You are not one to talk!" Yuri rolls her eyes at that comment. She doesn't seem too surprised by the fact that Todoh literally stepped through her attack, given how defiant he's been throughout this entire fight. Even if it was a bit painful, he's still standing tall it seems.
"I take what I said back," Yuri says after a moment, gritting her teeth a little. "The only silly things going on here are your ramblings. You never did make sense to me, and you never will!" She steps towards Todoh slowly. "But it doesn't matter really. After all, it's our fists and feet that do the real talking!" Yuri brings her leg up at the part about the feet and then attempts a forward snap kick.
COMBATSYS: Dan dodges Yun's Combo Grapple.
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COMBATSYS: Yuri successfully hits Todoh with Medium Kick.
- CRAZY Hit! -
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This narrator TOTALLY cribs from that other narrator over there -- Deadly Dan cups one hand over his mouth, calling over to Todoh as he adjusts the glowing, sparkling Time Sphere under one arm. "Hey, you two, I can -hear- you over there! Words can hurt!" They don't hurt HIM much, though, but to just let Todoh's casual sniping at his TEAMMATE go unnoticed is... uncalled for!
For Yun's part, though... Dan's still got skateboard trucks imprinted on his face, and multiple swelling bruises threatening to make his colorful garb all the more colorful. He isn't going to give the boy any -less- attention after all that, that's for sure. "What's the matter, kid, all sassed out?!" He hops backwards, curving around to the side so that he doesn't stray too far from his companion, nimbly evading each of Yun's successive attacks.
When Yun's kick snakes out, though, Dan just raises a taunting finger, snatching the sphere out of his reach. "Now, now, what was it that nice lady said about taking things that don't belong to you?!" Dan whirls around with a spin kick, and his backwards momentum quickly shifts into forward momentum -- "HISSHOU!" as he advances with a dizzyingly fast array of knee strikes, elbow smashes, and gut punches -- all with one hand still cradling that time sphere. And if those all land, he'd finish it off with a rising uppercut to make his dear departed daddy proud. "BURAIIIIKENNNN!"
COMBATSYS: Yun blocks Dan's Hisshou Burai Ken.
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The snap kick is one that would make daddy proud (probably more the part about landing it on Todoh more than the actual snap kick itself), striking him square in the chest with such power that he steps back...
...to stagger onto the skateboard that's rolling away, and proceed, to trip in exaggerated fashion, kicking his feet into the air as he hits the ground on his back at an angle that is wince-worthy.
"That... that way of thinking is dangerous," Todoh says as he pulls himself back up with a kick, "please, listen to me! Engage me here, young lady! I'm trying to reach out! Really, I am, so that you'll understand..."
"We aren't exactly enemies here!" Ryuhaku Todoh somehow says words that Ryuhaku Todoh should never actually say. Not enemies, to a Sakazaki? WHAT KIND OF MADNESS IS THIS?!
Wheezing, he tries to put on the winning smile again. That toothping. It blinds.
"The world as we know it is ending! No matter what, if it goes on... it's not going to be pleasant to survive through, but there's a way out of this! That's why I dare even bring that... person over there with me!" He refers to Dan with his magnificent goatee, probably.
"You have to step aside and let us give the sphere to Saiki! He is the only hope this world has to recovery... and it pains me to say that, really it does... but if you won't back down," and when would a Sakazaki ever back down from a Todoh, or vice-versa, as he waves a finger scoldingly...
He summons the familiar wave of energy again, in all of its terror-inspiring(?), world-shaking(?) glory(?), throwing his arms down as though he were summoning a sledgehammer that just happens to take the shape of those yellowish-orangeish segmented blocky chunks of chi that he dares to throw down upon Yuri's personage.
"I have no choice but to do this for everyone's sake... even yours," he screams a selfless oath which is... absolutely foreign and wrong to hear from that man's voice.
There's a combination of wincing as Yun plants his feet and attempts to block each and every one of those strikes that comes in his direction from the likes of Deadly Dan. While he's quick to use his speed to protect himself, there's a few of those strikes that end up stumbling the balance master that is Yun Lee. He stumbles backwards, but that's good enough to give him some space. He needs just a little bit of space to work, you see.
"All sassed out?" Yun smirks and gives himself a second to catch a breather. Or maybe just the chitter chatter is enough to make sure that he has a chance to start feeling better. Whatever the case may be, Yun is back into his stance, balancing on his toes and prepping those sneakers of his for some more action. "Nah. I just figured you might wanna' quit losin' this battle of wits!"
Yun is back into a running leap at Deadly Dan. He attempts to catch him by the gi and plant his feet in his chest, before dropping backwards and aiming to flip-throw this fool off in a random direction. And hopefully, once again, attempt to knock that Time Sphere loose. That is the priority, after all!
COMBATSYS: Yuri reflects Fierce Kasane Ate from Todoh with Saiha.
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COMBATSYS: Dan Toughs Out Yun's Monkey Throw!
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"You think I'M dangerous?" Yuri asks, now in total disbelief at what Todoh is saying. "You've got everything mixed up big time!" She's still slightly shocked by how hard she kicked Todoh just now, but not surprised it didn't snap him back into reality at all. Then again, in a situation like this, he's gotta be way out of touch with reality. Yuri shouldn't be too surprised really. Nor is she surprised when Todoh tries to send that huge wave at her again. "Oh no, you don't!" Yuri yells, once again bringing up her energy shield by her fists. This time, the shield does the trick.
When the wave of energy hits Yuri's shield, it's reflected back. Now, instead of having to attack Todoh, his attack is coming back at him. "Let's see how you like a taste of your own medicine, you foolish fiend!" The insult is a bit of an ad lib for Yuri, considering how much adrenaline is flowing through her body right now.
COMBATSYS: Todoh blocks Yuri's Reflected Fierce Kasane Ate.
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The sky? It's grown dark by now from all the clouds rolling in, circling hundreds of feet above the portal. The air grows thick with the static crackle of electricity, but for now... that's all it is.
Deadly Dan's expression grows a bit... determined as none of his attacks seem to be breaking past Yun's guard. But... well, he dropped the hammer a bit closer, that's enough to count for something, right?
"Toady! Knock her out, we gotta move! And naw, you gotta play the game like it meant to be PLAYED!" It sounds .... comically awkward coming out of Deadly Dan's mouth... Maybe he's just making fun of Yun... or maybe he just hasn't bothered to learn how to sass right. Whatever! As Yun comes running at him with a kick, Dan... actually runs =into= the kick, tilting is shoulder into the blow to keep the Time Sphere from getting dislodged. He lets himself get pulled by Yun, even smirking as the young man does it. "Ha! Let's see what your scrubby arms can do!"
And see he does, as Dan is flung about, a tumbling mass of seafoam green and garishly tanned flesh.
And then Dan snaps -out- of the roll, landing nimbly on one foot and charging right back at Yun -- for ROLLING is what DANS do best! "Yoshaaaaa!" he hollers, screaming all the way back to Yun with every aim of delivering a block-rocking beat straight to the cranium.
"Listen to yourself, young lady!" Todoh doesn't insult Yuri - he sounds like he's actually pleading as she deflects the segmented chi wave that he crosses his arms in front of him in which to protect himself. "Yes, here, you have quite a grasp of cliche comebacks, I respect that but this has to stop! Right now!"
Uncrossing his arms, he leans in a bit closer as he takes in breath. He's exerted, slowly being worn down - if there's any sign that Yuri has come so far with her training and ability, this is it. She's a highly honed Kyokugen killing machine, even with her father's initial reluctance to teach her the martial art. Surely, he has no second thoughts now...
"I'm not mad! Really, I'm not! Frustrated, yeeeesss," he concedes as he waves a hand in a circular motion, as Dan interrupts him.
"Ah, you're right!" Beat. He waves a finger at Dan, with a scowl on his face. "THIS IS THE ONLY TIME I AM EVER SAYING YOU ARE RIGHT, YOU RAMBUNCTIOUS FIEND, YOU." That's a yelling tone of voice of which those who... know?... Todoh would be more accustomed to, but yet...
"As it is, young lady," he turns back to Yuri, somewhat apologetically, "I'm sorry I have no further time to convince you to stand aside, so yes, from here, fists and feet shall do the talking... between the hopes of my justice-empowered heart, mind, body, and soul," he says as he thrusts down low with a hooking kick, hands against the ground for stability.% r Incidentally... it is true that Todoh seems to appear as he ought to, but now that he is attacking this way, it's more clear to see (...as opposed to when he was tripping on a skateboard) that he's not wearing his usual footwear.
No! He's wearing two very good shoes. Really nice ones. Two of them, like most people - why is it important to say it's two of them, anyway? They're still good, though.
Probably won't be good if he manages to kick out Yuri's shins with those good two shoes, though.
COMBATSYS: Yun dodges Dan's Strong Punch.
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Yun is starting to feel the flow right now. He was shaken up for a bit there but now that he's starting to recover, he's getting his feet underneath him the way they should be. He's already stepping backwards when he spots Deadly Dan tanking his throw with ease and he moves with some skill to spin backwards and out of the way of that strong ass punch.
"Yeah. That probably would've hurt if you didn't suck." Yun flashes a big smile as he turns towards Deadly Dan and lunges in his direction with his arm extended and that fist of his primed for some epic collision course of Kempo greatness! There's a whole leaping stride that comes with it as he attempts to lay the smack down on Deadly Dan's jaw!
COMBATSYS: Yuri dodges Todoh's Sweeping Kick.
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"Rambunctious? Me?" Yuri headshakes again, still scowling. "You need a dictionary, or something like that. Actually, no, a dictionary wouldn't do a fool like you any good in a situation like this!" The shoes may be nice, but Yuri doesn't want to feel them personally. Quite the opposite actually. So when Todoh attempts to sweep her off of her feet, Yuri's feet have other plans. Namely, jumping up into the air over Todoh's foot and then landing without any effort whatsoever. "Was that your best? I've seen yellow belts who could do a better foot sweep than that!" She smirks a little at that sarcastic comment, but it's only a brief smirk. Yuri's stern emotion returns to her face almost instantly.
"I always knew you were bad news, but now you think you're full of justice? You're just delusional, no thanks to that sphere you've got I bet!" Yuri cracks her knuckles a little and then says, "So I'm going to have to cure you of your delusions in my own personal way." She crouches down a little as if to prepare herself for something, then dashes at Todoh, attempting to launch into her trademark rising uppercut attack.
COMBATSYS: Dan interrupts Ze-Sho Hohou from Yun with Kouryuken.
- CRAZY Hit! -
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Hefting the Time Sphere in his arm, he widens his stance for stability, recovering as Yun sasses him! Dan meets the young upstart's winning smile with one of his own EVEN WINNINGER smile. Because he's had decades to study the collected works of Charlie Sheen, and Yun... hasn't. So when Yun comes racing at him for with a punch...
A bolt of lightning splits the heavens, heralded a split-second afterwards by the momentous crash of thunder, that it becomes terrifyingly obvious how -freaking awesome- this location is! KRACKA-THOOOM! Well, less awesome for the temporary shelter that gets blasted to smithereens in the process, but still -- AWESOME
And THAT, friends, is the flash of lightning that obscures Dan -- and the world around -- for just that one moment, as Yun's fist connects -- with Deadly Dan's shoulder. Not his jaw? Not his jaw, because he'd crouched down in the burst of lightning. And Dan's own fist is careening upwards towards =Yun's= jaw, with a halcyon cry of "KOURYUUUUUUKEN!", as he's set to propel Yun high into the air!
Landing in a low crouch, clearly feeling some of his adrenaline wear off, he scrubs his nose with the back of his vambrace. "That was -weeeeeeeeak-. Your insults are lacking -- almost as much as your talent!"
Deadly Dan pauses to glance over to Todoh, shaking his head. "Toady! How's it goin' over there, you havin' girl trouble?! GYAHAHAHAHA"
COMBATSYS: Todoh fails to counter Yuri Chou Upper from Yuri with Kuzu Otoshi.
-* WILD HIT! *-
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Even in an overcommitted and unbalanced position as Yuri dances away from the swinging foot, Todoh works himself up to a stand as she rants and raves as though he's not a person, but some obstacle, something to overcome which is... not entirely untrue given their entirely different ideas and aims with the time spheres, to anyone's understanding of what's even going on at all.
In that amazing burst of lightning, there is an outline of Ryuhaku Todoh's arms, one raised wide, the other held forwards, in a moment of complete and perfect focus. Yuri's uppercut slides through the outstretched arm and goes straight for the jaw, shutting that gleaming smile tight enough some of those teeth might finally be cracked as he flies up into the air, bouncing away, face down...
"Girl trouble, you say," he spits out to Dan as he pulls himself up, shakily, "for... for as long as I stand, for... for everything Ryuhaku Todoh stands for... justice! Happiness for all! A brighter tomorrow, I, I..."
Then, out of nowhere - this should not be understated, this comes literally out of nowhere - a steamroller just drops from the sky and falls on top of him, his feet sticking out from under the giant crushing press.
"YEH HAH HAH HAH HAAAAAH!" Comes laughter from... probably the exact same person, even though he just got crushed?!
"I was getting SICK and TIRED of watching some kind of GOODIE TWO-SHOES version of me think he got the upper hand in all this!" So proclaims Ryuhaku Todoh - one who should sound much, much more familiar to Yuri in terms of tone, demeanor, well, everything, as he stands atop the thing and fans himself with a flag bearing the mark of Ezo which now has a post-it note of a hastily drawn red circle placed over the center. How it folded out cleanly with it is a mystery.
"So! You!" He points at Dan. "YOU went through the trouble to bring that for ME! ME alone! And you know what I'm gonna do with it?!" He sneers, scowling and snarling all the same as he shakes a fist. "With it, everything's gonna change! I'll... I'll make it all different! From the beginning... the Sakazaki family will have bowed to MY superiority! They'll never get the upper hand on me AGAIN!!"
He points a challenge over to everyone - Dan, Yuri, and Yun alike.
"Give ME the sphere and I'll... well, if you don't I'll ask nicely, maybe," he calms down, before raising to a furious crescendo, "OR YOU'LL REGRET IT. I won't ask for it with my might..."
"I'll DEMAND IT!!"
The Ryuhaku Todoh of this dimension is no longer content to be someone's first easy enemy in a journey to save their sister/girlfriend. No, he's here to make a bid for final boss-dom...!!
But... he's still Ryuhaku Todoh...
COMBATSYS: Todoh has joined the fight here in the center.
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RIDE THE LIGHTNING!
The Narrator is having a ball making sure to keep the exciting match up between Deadly Dan and Yun Lee as exciting as possible. When the lightning fist of Deadly Dan strikes Yun, there's the instant stench of sizzling skateboarder. He gets taken into the sky (fried the entire way up) and then is left to fall back down with the greatest of painful ease. His smoking body connects with the ground a few moments later and Yun doesn't seem to be moving for a long time. His cap has been knocked off his head and it finally lands right next to his unmoving head, right in the dirt. There's a huge lightning bolt scar across the front of it now.
Soon enough, though, Yun is kip-upping back to his feet. He reaches down to snatch his cap up and gives it a flip before pulling it down on his head. It still fits. And that's all that matters. He drops his hands to his sides, making quick fists as energy surges throughout his body. It must be his inner chi. Training from Gen flows through his body as he opens his eyes. "Go! Genei Jin!" And that's when Yun rushes towards Deadly Dan and leaps over him?!?! "Duck, you sucka'!" What the hell?!
Yun is followed by a trail of Phantom Yun's and surges forth with a series of punches, kicks, flips, twists and twirling kick flips all in an effort to Phantom Combo the holy hell out of BOSS TODOH.
"Make a wish, motherfu-" SUDDEN LOUD KICKING SOUND EFFECTS.
Yeah, he would've loved to finish whoopin' up Deadly Dan. But you kind of have to stop and pay attention when a giant steamroller changes the game on the bonafide serious tip, yo. Word Life.
Yuri can only stare in horror and disbelief at what has just transpired. Apparently, there was more than one type of Todoh... or someone was playing him in an attempt to trick Yuri. Either way, one Todoh has just been crushed like a pancake by a steamroller, driven by... the real Todoh?! This whole thing has gotten crazier by the minute it seems. But now that the real Todoh has made himself visible, Yuri's really gotten herself pumped up like never before.
"You've finally decided to show yourself for real! I'd compliment you, but I'm afraid I have no compliments for jerks like you!" Yuri taps her fists together a few times to emphasise this. "Instead, I only give them things like this!" Yuri takes one hand and attempts to drive forth a smaller fireball than before. Small, yes, but it could still pack a punch if it hits!
When that steamroller crashes down, it shakes the entire shrine area so loud... Deadly Dan's heart actually skips a beat. "What the --" And then... he sees his companion. Crushed. No hope of him emerging alive from out of that. A single tear comes to the deadly Dan's eye. "... guy owed me five thousand yen. That cheap -bastard-."
But then he sees that the two kids he was fighting... are teaming up on the newcomer. The newcomer who's pointing at HIM. "Oh. Uh. Yeah! Totally brought it for you! I'll be right there, though, I had tacos for lunch, and..."
Dan Hibiki would gladly stand and fight. But THIS Dan Hibiki knows discretion. THIS Dan Hibiki knows how to kick ass. And THIS Dan Hibiki knows Saiki is going to kick -his- ass if he messes this up. Which is why he starts booking it down the hill, =away= from all these crazyheads. "Asta la vista, crazies!" he hollers, ponytail streaming along behind the goateed wonder as he starts racing down the hill -- but not without grabbing Yun's skateboard and winging it over to the back of Yuri's head. OMG SUCH A BAD
COMBATSYS: Yuri successfully hits Todoh with Ko'ou Ken.
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"I've always been there to see, oh you little loud-mouthed overgrown baby girl!" Todoh taunts in oddly-phrased insults, which is really par for the course for him as he waves that fan. "You simpleton! You toddler! I threw everyone off my trial when I let myself pretend I no longer had interest while accosting some indecently dressed girl in the middle of nowhere!!"
He's... giving himself probably far too much credit as to how much anyone's been really watching him.
"You dweebenheimers have been dancing around my wrath for far too long, my patience grows far too thin," he says as he starts to step off the steamroller to actually better face everyone present with an awe-inspiring... presence. It is as though he were finally choosing to cast away the veils of secrecy and odd appearances with no set pattern to finally truly reveal his master plan, his final gambit for...
...whatever he's trying to accomplish, which is still as short-sighted, petty, and worthless as ever, and yet...
"Now, I--"
Yun just cuts him off, straight up, in a flurry of blows so powerful, quick, and precise that in the shadowy, colorful afterimages of Yun's lightning-quick movement that there is only a single, echoing yell in its place as he is summarily crushed in one single, decisive combo for all of his bluster and boasting.
"N-Noooo! I refuse thiiiiisss!" Todoh exclaims as he staggers backwards, against the side of the steamroller as Yuri gives him a comparatively dismissive Kou'ou Ken that suggests he is not worth the effort of anything greater - and this may be true, as he is flung over the control seat.
He accidentally trips a lever. The exhausts of the steamroller spout flame. (Huh, he tricked out that steamroller, it seems. Nitros!)
It suddenly gains tremendous speed that a construction vehicle like itself really should not, as it rolls down the hill after the fleeing Dan as this universe's Todoh lies sprawled down on the ground, raising a hand to the air.
"I, I wanted to be more than just some... some little anecdote for Takuma and his... FRIENDS, and FAMILY, to laugh over drinks!" He sobs incoherently. "I wanted to be more than just some... some sap that knew only one move! I wanted to be more than just some sight in the crowds, some injoke...!"
The steamroller gains ground fast on Dan. Good Todoh rolls along the press, somehow not a messy bloody smear. It doesn't say much for his chance of surviving that.
"Yeh hah hah... they laugh, I have no ability, try again...!" He whines, and carries on. "Wanting me to say... donor something she is, go ask Jack at Mac's Bar or something...!"
The Jack in question is currently just boozing it up somewhere for the end of the world, he doesn't give a crap and hasn't paid much thought to his time with the Syndicate years and years ago when Ryo and Robert cleaned the streets of Southtown.
This odd non-sequitur about an incident long ago he never grew past as the topper of a childhood full of being one-upped by Takuma, he grows quieter and quieter yet.
"J-Just you wait! There'll be... be another millionaire fight or something, some day, I'll be back, and you'll... you'll be so sorry you didn't acknowledge my style as the greatest in the world...!!"
Honestly how much longer is he going to babble like this?! Dan's getting away with the Time Sphere! Who has time to entertain the first speedbump's wishes and woes when the universe is at stake?!
COMBATSYS: Todoh can no longer fight.
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For all intents and purposes, by the time that Yun is done, there's no sign of Deadly Dan. Except, of course, for the fact that he's thrown his skateboard at the random act of hotness that was nearby. "Yo! Party foul, man!" Whether he's talking about the tossing of the skateboard or the fact that it was thrown at Yuri, that much is probably a little too difficult to pick up on.
Yun realizes that Todoh has fallen and he's turning his attention fully to Dan now. "Why you runnin', Sasshole?!" Yun doesn't really give chase. He doesn't need to because uh, y'know, Steamroller. But even with that going on, he just moves in Yuri's direction. Or the direction of his skateboard. One of those things is important to him. The other is Yuri.
COMBATSYS: Yun takes no action.
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Dodging the thrown skateboard, Yuri shrugs as she goes to grab it, and then realizes with horror what's just happened, although it feels like a bad dream to her in some ways. Nevertheless, she slaps her face a few times to keep herself within the present moment. Even though this should not be happening, Yuri realizes that this is because of the sphere, and because of that it seems that just about anything is possible in this day and age. Even in spite of that, though, Yuri still stands strong and looks to Yun, tossing him his skateboard. Then she realizes that there's still that steamroller.
"What do we do now?" Yuri asks. "Do we go after them or just deal with the sphere?"
COMBATSYS: Yuri takes no action.
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The dapper, daring, and most of all deadly Dan is doing more than his fair share of booking it down hill to get away from those crazy kids -- the kids who don't seem to be bothered that he's carrying the key to absolutely FIXING this timeline right in his hot little hands! He leaps over the barricades, glaring at the security officers -- whose horrified looks are CLEARLY inspired by his FEARSOME PRESENCE... But damn if he isn't thirsty. Luckily, there's a drink machine not far down the hill. He stops at it, chucks some coins into the slot, and... hey. Apparently his Japan uses the same currency, who'd have thought!? "Heh, it's my lucky day..." he notes, shifting the weight of the sparkly Time Sphere in his arms.
It's right about then that Dan looks up. And sees why the officers had been so quick to get out of his way, amidst the CRUNCH CRUNCH of wooden barricades and water-filled weights.
The steamroller - showing no signs of slowing down - plows right over him, the thick drum muffling his horrified howls.
Well, until it plows into the drink machine. The machine crumples, spits out drinks with a KA-CHUNGA KA-CHUNGA noise.
And one of the cans hits the drive lever into reverse. The steamroller doesn't drive as quickly in reverse as it does forward... which gives plenty of time to see Dan and Todoh, diametrically opposed, as the steamroller chugs back up, up, up... and into the portal.
Did anyone happen to notice the Time Sphere? Oh, it was... still in Dan's arms when he got flattened, wasn't it...
COMBATSYS: Dan takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Dan can no longer fight.
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The rolling press has a jumpy bump every time it rolls back over Dan, as the tricked out steamroller rolls backwards, backwards, backwards into the hazy colors and twisted shapes human eyes aren't quite supposed to be able to comprehend from whence this... alternate Dan and other Todoh came.
It might be really telling that the battered and injured local Todoh visibly starts to crawl away with every 'bump' in the rotation of the steamroller, his face going from mopey half-consciousness to that of agape, abject horror as to what might possibly happen. He doesn't get far before he stumbles down again, covering his head and shuddering in fear. He doesn't give any helpful advice to let the others know about why this is...
Disappearing into the portal, the alternate Sphere of Sparks that was brought to help this Saiki's plans appears to be eliminated from the playing field as soon as it began. Does this put a halt to whatever ambitions that may have been formed around it? Could Yun Lee and Yuri Sakazaki have saved this dimension and the next, right then and there...?
MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE ALTERNATE DIMENSION...
'Goodie Two-Shoes' Todoh finally has the strength to crawl out of being nearly flattened like a pancake when the steamroller upends itself in the process of being shifted back to his home dimension, where the portal lies in Metro City instead (and Damnd is the mayor, but that's another story entirely).
"...Daaaaaaannn," wheezes the Good Todoh, "d-did you get the sphere in Saiki's haaaands...?"
Yun catches his skateboard and gives it a quick once over. Twice over. Thrice over. He has to make sure it's okay. It's kind of like his hat! Same thing. Material things are important too! "What do we do now? You mean, after we freakin' just saved the world?" Yun drops the skateboard down to the ground and hops on it. "Don't you know?" He kicks off and starts skating away, leading the way towards the Noodlest Place on Earth.
"We're goin' to Genhaten!"
For a moment, Yuri can only stare in disbelief and awe. But then she realizes that Yun has a good point. They just did their part to save the world, and they deserve a reward. Yuri realizes what Yun is talking about and she grins. "Hey, don't leave me behind! I'm coming with you! In fact, I bet I can beat you there. If I do, you're buying!" She calls out as she runs off behind him.
In alternate-Metro City, Deadly Dan groans, somehow NOT DEAD after all that nonsense. He, too, peels himself off the steamroller, collapsing onto the pavement in a heap. "... nnnngh... "
In some languages, that means "no". For all other observers, it would be plainly easy to see the Sphere of Sparks roll out of Dan's limp grip onto the pavement, drifting away until it hits the curb. Pretty spiderwebbed cracks have formed along its crystalline surface, the light from within refracting out in scintillating patterns. And woe be unto the person who finds it... and decides to give it just -one- more jostle.
MEANWHILE, IN A VOID...
Magaki spasms erratically. This is not new for him, his physical form often... uncomfortable, in a space that is so teeming with chi that makes him giddy with anticipation of how to twist and turn it to his own ends... no, that would be so vain of him to say, to Saiki's ends...!
Saiki did not anticipate... assistance. No one did. No one could. No one would be aware, thanks to the timely intervention of Yuri and Yun.
This did not stop Magaki from hatching his own idea to restore the sphere, draining away at his spiritual lifeblood in a space... devoid of the undercurrent of energy. No pollutants, no... distractions. He shudders, spasming in pain rather than anticipation as he can feel himself slowly bleed away while the gathered fragments - itself a vague concept that would require far more explanation than most anyone has time for or should really stop to learn about given the urgency of it all - to reconstruct the sphere that was destroyed to the ultimate end.
It would take more than one intervention, more than one team of heroes, indeed...
But this story of the next, inevitable encounter as those capable all descend upon Ise and its vortex throw in their lot would be told another time...
Log created on 14:44:02 10/18/2014 by GLaDOS, and last modified on 14:44:12 10/18/2014.