First fight Yvonne and Ke, contenders approach! * Yvonne approaches! She's grinning toothily. Go Yvonne! * Ke comes forward as well. So, where do you want to fight? We've got a mix of places that are marked for destruction apparently. No underwater, no space. Otherwise fine. * Yvonne considers. "Ooooh... How about the Colleseum?" * Saldin looks at Yvonne a bit oddly at that. That'd be cool. That particular monument is not up for destruction. We can use an arena if you like though. What? It's a good place for fights. That's what the Romans used it for! Oh. * Yvonne looks disappointed. Well, okay. * Ke nods. "I agree." [Some interminent time later. The first fight convenes. Anyone of the SAB crews that wishes to come may attend, Frei is also welcome to stop by. Eris has a bar to run, so she's skipping.] [You meet in a soccer arena, not a huge one, which in fact is why it is to be demolished, the team apparently has gained a fan base to big for its home.] * Yvonne looks around disappointedly. It's not as cool as the Colleseum would've been. [The lot of you, and Volt, are gathered in the most stable sections of the bleachers, safely away from the battle.] [Paragene executives seem to be content to watch the film being kept by little flying cameras.] [Saldin didn't make it to this occassion, apparently the universe had something better for him to do. Shocking!] [So, the lot of you are in the bleachers. Volt sits some distance away. He apparently doesn't feel talkative.] * Red has a seat in the old stadium. * Yuri sits in the bleachers! She changed out of her hakama into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with the kanjis for 'Dreamer' on it the second Saldin was out of sight. She happens to sit by Red. Huh. * Tim leans back on the bleachers, "This place needs a hotdog vender." Well, hullo Yuri. * Red snickers and nods in agreement with Tim. * Frei pops out of the ether, hoving on his stomach behind Tim. He's wearing tight black leather pants and an oversize Manchester United jersey. "Hey, baby. I gotta hot dog." He grins and rights himself, stretching. "Man, I love cheesy lines like that." * Yuri chuckles slightly. "Saldin would hate me to say it, but I'm with you. Travelling with him makes it easy to forget you have to eat. And hello Red. Saldin tells me all sortsa things--" * Yuri gets interrupted by a man with a floating man with a 'hot dog'. * Miles appears sitting right next to Red, teleporting in. He leans his head against her and, well, just leans. [Ke and Yvonne await in the arena below for the signal from Breaker.] [Init!] [Yvonne Ke] Begin! * Breaker's actually closer than you guys, but she's also nigh invulnerable, so.. * Yvonne smirks and dashes in as soon as the match begins, skimming along the ground towards her opponent. When she gets there she jumps, throwing a spinning kick. "Don't underestimate me, you big ugly ox!" * Tim eyes Frei, "Have enough to go around?" * Frei snickers. "And then some." He eyes the field. "And the pale nympho opens with a kick to the solar plexus and some stock dialogue. Ouch." * Red ruffles Miles' hair. So, what kind of things does Saldin tell you, Yuri? * Yuri blinks at Frei, and huhs, then looks back at the arena. She respons to Red with, "Oh, you know. Idle chit chat about what he does on his path. He figures it's better than me watching TV in my free time." * Miles closes his eyes and rests there. [Ke takes the hit and is not backed a bit. She sags slightly under the weight of her equipment, but still seems strong enough to keep it on.] And she lands it too. Well, is he any good at telling stories? * Frei produces some opera glasses. At close range it's apparent he has a wireless mic on his lapel. "That it does! And it does no good! Because she totally looks like a strong breeze could knock her over." * Yuri nods slightly, with a little smile. "Better than you'd think." * Yvonne is cool with that, because after planting her foot on the woman, she uses her other foot to sommersault off of her. * Ke take's another hit but doesn't get knocked back nearl as much by this one, in fact the damage from it is already fading as she begins her attack. * Frei squints. "Well, that and dear sweet jesus, what the fuck is she fighting, Andrea the Giant?" Well, then it could bery well be better than television. * Red calls up to Frei, "Considering the company she's fighting for, she's doubtless the result of genetic tampering. And who are you, anyway?" * Yuri nods, and says with amusement in her tone. "Yeah, but don't tell him that." She looks carefully down at the arena with her solid yellow/gold eyes. * Frei ohhhs in appreciation. "Woo, gene splicing. That's OLD SKOOL cyberpunk. Let's hear it for... whatever the hell company built her." He turns and smiles at Red. "I am Jack's interest in commentary," he says cryptically. "Speaking of which, it looks like whatsername's pretty acrobatic. Which... if you think about it, sort of makes sense. Does she do it upside down, folks? Only half the men on Earth know for sure." * Miles may look like he's resting, but his ears are clearly active. He's gotta work on that. And a fourth or so of the women I'd imagine, and her name's Yvonne. * Ke grins. "What's beautiful is on the inside. Let's see how you look," as a wave of superheated plasma spreads out from the gun. [Ranged Defense roll, +1 penalty] * Yuri snickers at Frei. Yvonne, right! I know she likes lollipops. But... DOES SHE LIKE PLASMA? Haha, I am the master of the stupid segue. [Yvonne tries to dive out of the way, but Ke just turns the nozzle keeping the attack on her, there's a smell of burning flesh in the arena.] * Tim winces, "Ugh, maybe I should have volunteered to fight her." * Frei pauses and puts a finger to his chin. "Though really, Meat Mountain's battle banter needs a serious tune up. 'Let's see your insides hurhur PLASMA!' Hello? Cauterized. You say that before you, like, use an AXE or something." He sniffs. "Wow. Is a 'tastes like chicken' joke out of place?" * Yuri winces and draws back. "Oh yuck." * Yvonne howls. "Oow! Oooh, you're gonna regret that!" She dashes in again, throwing another kick at her chest. * Volt laughs from his position. Mmm, yeah, another kick. The last couple ones worked so well. * Frei turns to the SAB people. "Tell me she's got, like... a giant blowshitupatronic beam gun hidden somewhere." * Tim sighs, "I wish." 'Fraid not. * Frei nods and crosses his legs in midair (he's not actually sitting in a seat). "Yeah, I bet she does too. Or at least X-ray glasses." * Ke takes another hit in the chest, staggering back once again. * Yvonne spins all the way around, following up with a palm strike to the chin. * Ke gets her head knocked up and strides back another few yards. Hey, that one looks like it did some good. [Ke is still healing, but the damage is obviously piling up.] * Frei picks up the opera glasses again. "Well, that was a nice chin smack, but let's face it, unless she's going for a touchdown with extra point, this could go on all day." * Red sighs. "I so dislike long fights." * Yuri nods slightly along with Frei and says, sighing, "I wish I could have figured out the regeneration." * Ke braces herself and adjusts the spray on her weapon, keeping still and aiming towards Yvonne. "Try that again, bitch." I'm actually sort of disappointed. I mean, I think genetic manipulation, I think FREAKS, you know? Not Brunhilde from the Ring Saga. Maybe the next version up will have witty lines too. Hopefully Yvonne will win. I'd hate for Paragene to win this event. [Ke doesn't actually fire at the moment. Yvonne!] And the giant decides to, uh... do nothing. Maybe she likes it? * Yvonne considers. "Okay!" She dashes in again. * Frei brings up the opera glasses again. "Uh, yeah. Ride on, one-trick pony. You suck at this." * Yuri frowns and shakes her head. "Don't think so..." Ke is probably just waiting for her to get close. It might even work. What do you think, Yuri? * Ke lets the plasma rifle go, full stream, much wider spread, doesn't matter if she's got a reactor this can't last long, Yvonne avoids the worst of it, but there's such an intensit of spray, some of it incidentally splashing back and burning Ke, that completing her attack in and of itself is enough to burn her. * Yuri winces as the massive plasma burst comes out. "Something like that." That sounds about right, yes. C'mon Yvonne, duck this one! [Give me an acrobatics or ranged defense roll Yvonne. You're missing, but you still need to try to avoid getting hit by the aura.] * Frei watches the plasma fire go on. "I mean, where's the HORNS? The green skin? The.... the giant tits?! Don't all lab geeks do this with genetic women? Giant tits, man. Hell, they might even be HELPFUL in this fight." * Frei puts out both his hands. "Hello, miss nympho. Would you like to nuzzle my giant genengineered mammaries? Why yes, I believe it will! Then you crush her head like a walnut." * Red rubs her face. * Frei whistles. "And a surprising kamikaze plasma burst from... can someone give me her name? Anyhow. I'd say nobody saw that coming but that'd be a lie. Hey, Panagene: Consider hardcoding in The Art of War next time, or at least, like... an Unreal Tournament convention highlights tape. Something." [Yvonne successfull rolls off to the side before she completes her attack.] Woo! Go Yvonne! And short, pale, and slutty makes a nice save from the superheated plasma. Stop, drop, and roll, remember. * Ke meanwhile keeps it at full spray, she seems to be healing about as fast as it is burning her. * Ke, however, doesn't keep good control on her attack, possibly because she was weakened by Yvonne's blows.] So... the UT tape has an extended human torch number on it? * Yuri gives Frei a gold-eyed glance, then looks back to the arena. Well, no, but it has, uh... quad damage. Or was that Quake? God, I don't remember, geeks aren't good for much more than one night, they always have some stupid online roleplaying game to do the next night. * Miles sighs and looks at the fighting. [Yvonne!] * Yvonne huffs and pulls herself to her feet. "... You suck." She charges! * Yvonne reaches Ke and punches her, trying to ignore the aura. * Tim blinks, "What does she think she's doing?" Uh... well, I don't even have a good joke for this one, because, LOOK AT HER. Jesus. * Yuri stares. "... fighting like a crazy woman. Does she do this a lot?" I haven't known her long enough to say. * Ke stumbles again, but no way in hell Yvonne can ignore that aura, it cauterizes some of the flesh on her fist. Really, she *should* start finding thrings to throw. or marshmallows and a nice long stick. And oh, how easy it would be to disable that weapon. I could even make the shot from here. * Yvonne grimaces, and punches with the other fist! Why doesn't she just, like... run around BEHIND her? How hard is that? Because as slow as she is, the woman *can* turn. * Ke falls over the plasma sprays everywhere. [She does make a rather satisfying sound when she hits the ground, knocked there by Yvonne's attack, but right now Yvonne has a more pressing problem. Dodge roll. -4 bonus since it's wild spray.] [Or finish the attack.] * Yvonne grimaces again as she draws back her other hand. But she grins, too. "I hope you have more tricks up your sleeve than that." Her other hand glows red as she thrusts it at the woman. "Because I do." Mm, glowy hand! Hey, maybe we'll actually see something interesting now. I hope. * Red whispers something to Miles. * Red nods and whispers again. [Ke apparently is going to stay down, she slumps to the side. Yvonne meanwhile gets another fist caterized, although oddly much of her other wounds are now looking better.] And... I think that we win! Go Yvonne! * Frei huhs and tilts his head. "Some kinda... vampiric-looking thing. At least there was no blood-sucking, that's a bit too kinky even for me." * Yvonne falls over! Thud. Shit! Yvonne! * Red frowns. "What is she doing?" * Miles blinks, then doubletakes at Red. "Should I go down there?" * Yvonne then stirs, and pushes herself to her feet. She gets the heck away from the woman who's still spewing plasma all over. No, it looks like she's fine afterall. * Yuri waves her hand and then stands. "You worry too much." Wheew. [After about five seconds later the spewing stops and the noozle falls lifeless to the side.] * Yvonne breathes heavily. She looks down at the woman and smiles, a rather less-than-carefree-as-usual smile. "Gotcha." Alrighty then! It looks like the first round goes to Yvonne! Who's lucky to have survived. Meanwhile, Panagene will take whatsername home and have her disassembled for parts like a good little pretty hate machine. * Yuri looks over at Volt way over where he is and smiles cheerily. * Frei waves his hand, though it lacks a little pennant. "Japan." * Breaker gives the count and then calls out. "This round to Yvonne. Congratulations." * Yvonne grins and waves to the bleachers, jumping up and down. "Yaaaaaaaaay!" * Tim waves back at Yvonne, even if she can't see it! * Yuri waves back too. * Red waves back as well. Why not? * Miles waves weakly. * Yvonne waves to the public. * Warlow looks fairly bemused, Breaker waves back. * Frei stretches and leans back in, uh... air. "Wow, that was spectacularly BORING. I agreed to do this 'cause I thought there'd be, you know... big WWF-style free-for-alls with a big pretty SFX lightshow, not an oversize chick fight." Emphasize on the 'oversize'. It's only round one. Round one sucked. * Miles blinks at Frei. "You look like you would enjoy that?" * Frei grins at Miles. Fang! "You bet I would. People are at their best when their lives are on the line, you know. It's terribly sexy." * Tim looks over at Red, "Good luck with that." * Miles doesn't look very fazed. He smiles back with some fangs of his own. "If you say so." Thanks, Tim. * Yuri looks over at Red. "Saldin would wish you luck if he were here, so hey, good luck." * Red stands up with her rifle. "I'm afraid that this fight will be be an absolute snore," she comments towards Frei. * Frei waves a hand toward Red. "Eh, don't worry about it. You're cute and flashy, that helps." * Miles gives Red a hug and teleports her down to the fighting area. Plus there's a good chance you won't stick your hand in plasma like some sort of moron. Big plus there. * Ren leans back against something. Lean, watch, yawn, wait. * Yuri looks down and shakes her head. "I don't know what Mr. Gibraltar's going to do." * Yvonne arrives. "Hihihi!" * Frei gets a small notebook out of his pocket and flips through it. "Wait, she's fighting a priest? What kind of fucked-up match is that? Is he going to good nature her to death?" I'm curious about that myself. * Tim waves at Yvonne, "Hey, congrats!" * Frei puts out his arm dramatically. "Why hello, Miss. Please let God into your heart. 'No'. BLAM! Fight over." He pauses. "Of course, he could be the Wyoming seperatist militia type. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition and all." * Yuri nods at Yvonne. "Good choice." * Miles curls his legs closer and holds them there with his arms. * Yuri then looks over at Frei. "That's Mak's job, I think... Frei." * Ren stretches back, and yawns, keeping one eye lazilly open. * Yvonne smiles toothily at Tim. "Thanks! I toldja I could do it. * Tim nods, "And you did a pretty good job of it too... how are your hands?" Who's Mak? * Yvonne smiles. "They'll get better. But that hurt! That was a dirty trick she pulled." She yawns. * Frei eyes his watch. "Beh, tell me later. Toodles!" Bamf! Here today, gone tomorrow. Well take a seat and watch Red then. I could... heal them if you want? * Yvonne holds her hands out to Miles. "Okay!" She takes a seat, too. * Ren is there, watching, sitting back, arms crossed behind his head. He looks comfortable. Next round, Red and priest Peter.