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Amane Kishimoto
Tomoe glared into the oblivion of the auditorium. It was pitch black so her eyes had to get used to it for a moment. When she saw a lot better she could see what was all happening in the room itself. There were plenty of people around mostly fighting each other one on one. When she saw Jett her sharp shark like teeth audibly grinded against each other as one of her eyes twitched. Jett was lying onto the not known student with his face buried in between hills. She felt furious to both of them. She dashed off towards Jett and slowed down when she was almost at him.She lowered her body a little and grabbed hold on the back of his collar with two hands. She turned herself around with both hands over one side of her shoulder and pulled Jett as hard as she could out of Mina’s hands with the strength of her legs before she threw him over her head away with all her might away from them to bury his face elsewhere.
”BAKA!”
She furiously panted as she snapped her eyes back at the catgirl and jumped onto her, firstly punching her into the stomach before trying to bite into one of her arms with her sharp teeth.
Jett took a moment to pull his senses back and realize...after reaching up and grabbing the soft things around him, only to lift his head up and realize… he was holding onto some random girls breast. His eyes wide and cheeks burning hot, he tried to apologize and let go but before he could he heard Mina talk to him in a condescending tone. While she grabbed him, “Wait a min…” Before he could finished Tomoes clone managed to rip him up and away from the girl, and Mina’s hands and chuck him farther down the room. While calling him a Baka. It’s not like he could control where he landed! He was just kicked through a fucking wall! AFTER getting fucking Amane away from Mina. Jett braced himself, not knowing what he was going to hit. He did break through something, his left hand first into it. He winced at the sudden but slight pain that went away after a moment when he realized he was thrown into a large speaker. He suddenly felt a click inside and the restraint that Yukari had thrown on him released finally. He flipped on his nightvision to look and see what happened and saw a very large magnet that his hand was on. He flexed his hand now, free from it’s awkward position.
He sat back and grunted as he looked at the fighting in the room. As of right now he was able to relax and catch his breath, He had to rest his ankle for a second as it was throbbing now.
Ruby herself finally snapped back into reality the moment a certain girl started screaming loudly. Thanks to her reflexes Ruby managed to roll backwards from the laying position, onto her hands and then stood up by pushing herself onto her legs gracefully with both arms, picking up her sword in the process. She tried to wipe off the embarrassed expression on her face, to no avail though. She only managed to brush off some dust off her clothes!
With a shocked expression however Ruby stared at Tomoe.
“Calm down! It was his fault not m...mine… i didn’t want any of that!”
Ruby rather tried to calm the situation down than fight the feral girl, the expression seemed wild and scary so the catgirl wanted to stay away as far as possible. Deeply inside of her; she was incredibly nervous because of the amount of people that suddenly appeared
With Jett safely evacuated out of the way she was onto this cat girl now. Tomoe did try to punch her while she was still on the ground but it appeared she was too slow to hit her. Ruby had backrolled away from Tomoe her punch just in time. Swiftly her gaze followed the girl up to her feet. Tomoe had to pull a few times on her arm to get it out of the ground. She had left quite a dent in the ground, her hand looked a little beat up but nothing more. Tomoe quickly stepped back on her feet and tried biting the girl but missed as well. She growled for a moment as Ruby tried talking to her. The only thing that was clear to Tomoe was that she was the enemy. She hadn’t seen her around before so she naturally saw her as something to smash in two. There was no talking to this beast. Tomoe tried punching her twice more, firstly she tried hitting the girl in the stomach again before continuing with an uppercut to the chin.
It seemed as though talking had no use. Well, the girl was technically her enemy anyways. Ruby considered herself rather lucky that she seemingly only had this one enemy though. With an audible sigh she put the sharp blade back into its sheath on her back until a clicking noise was heard. Then, immediately after, Ruby pulled the sword together with the sheath out to use as a weapon. With her golden eyes she followed the hand of Tomoe which she pulled out of the floor- The catgirl definitely did not want to get hit by that.
When Tomoe rushed at her, Ruby held out her sword with the broad side forward to block her punch into the abdomen. Even though she successfully blocked it with the strong material, the force was enough to push her back on her feet. Both amazed and terrified at the strength, Ruby quickly dodged the the side to avoid the uppercut which would’ve surely knocked her out otherwise.
Mina turned away from this scene. Why should she interfere? Tomoe was on her team, contesting the point, and Jett was no longer groping a strange girl’s tits. All was right in the world again. She was still in pain, though, and the one who did this to her had yet to face the wrath and vengeance of the future Number 1 Hero. Mina looked up until she caught Amane’s eye, and once she had it (hard to miss a glowing girl in a dark room), she smiled, gestured to herself, standing tall despite what he’d done to her. She then raised her hand, and beckoned him with a ‘come on!’ gesture. She was not broken yet. Nowhere near.
Once the debris cleared Amane stood nobly at the top of the auditorium looking down , it seemed like everyone was fighting in the darkness. His eyebrow raised and a smile came about under his helmet. It was the girl again, the one he thrashed who was miraculously back on her feet. She still wanted another round with him in the ring. Amane had one eye open as the tear gas was still affecting him.
“You have guts. But shouldn't you be more worried about your teammate who fought valiantly for your sake? It seems like the lesson I was trying to teach didn't get through that thick skull of yours” the last couple of words sounding rather toxic.
Amane stepped through the hole in the wall and into the auditorium gripping his staff tightly. He let out a deep sigh before performing large leap from top of the auditorium. The boy swung his arms over head as he prepared for an overhead smash with his staff. Amane decided to let gravity take its course once he reached the peak of his jump. His weight combined with gravity creating a large amount of force behind his attack as he came flying at Mina.
Mina didn’t even stand guard as she saw the attack coming. At the last moment, she leapt aside, and rolled back to her feet, an athletic move that ordinarily would have been no sweat, however, when she got back to her feet, she was momentarily stunned by the sheer pain that shot down her back. Damn. She was still hurt. She couldn’t battle him with her superior physicality. She’d have to resort to her superior mind. It was fortunate for her that there were a few tricks she’d never been able to try out in combat before, and this lighting was the perfect time to bust them out. She started to turn round, but then stopped, and turned back to face Amane. But that’s not what he’d see...
Humans rely on light to see. When Mina was experimenting with her quirk, the initially useless ability to glow, and with more development, glow different colors, she realised something. It was not appreciated enough, the role of light in our everyday lives. Everything we see is due to light, and to be able to manipulate light is to be able to manipulate your opponent’s very sense of sight. With the exact correct combination of colors and intensities emitted at the right times, Mina was an outright illusionist. While she had turned round and turned back, what Amane saw was her completely turning around so that she now appeared to be facing away from him. He could plainly see the back of her dress, and her long, blonde hair.She was turning her back on him! Was she mocking him?!
Amane crashed into the ground with a large boom, upon impact he smash some of the seats into pieces as his staff slammed into the ground. Mina effectively dodged his attack and it was a good thing she did. If she took the force of that attack her bones could have easily been shattered. Amane laid crouched on the floor preparing for his next attack, he slid his hands up his staff as he prepared to thrust the weapon into Mina's core. This time around he was going for much more than fun, he was really trying to disable this girl.
As he picked his head up to follow through he realized that Mina had her back turned to him. In which pissed him off. She must have been really stupid to turn her back against him. With all his force Amane thrusted the rod into supposedly what he thought was Mina's back. The force behind his attack was enough to disperse the wind in the area sending a breeze outward.
He’d feel the staff stop before it connected with her back, and the light would face, revealing Mina facing towards him, having caught the staff, and holding it in place with one hand, threw a punch at his face with the other whilst she simultaneously pulled at the staff, hoping to disarm him.
Much to Mamoru’s surprise, the auditorium was pitch black! That was going to make things rather difficult for her. She doesn’t mind swinging into the darkness but she would be much better if she could see her opponents, and her other senses were only kinda okay when it comes to not having her sight. Still, if things were that dark, then she could use it to her advantage. Drop a little grenade in there and catch everyone by surprise. Mamoru looked over to Yukari as she held out her Hornet Nest. ”Hey Yuyu-chan, I got an idea. You still have your smoke grenade right? It’s completely pitch black down there so I can’t really see anything. So why don’t I drop my bomb and your bomb at the same time, and then when we drop in, we stick real close together? You can sense people just fine without me so let me watch your back while you fight!”
Hearing the fighting down below made Yukari nervous. It wasn’t just a one-on-one battle down there. Mamoru wanted to drop some bombs to soften up the others so she took out her smoke grenade. ”I don’t mind. In fact I have an idea.” Yukari wrapped her body around Mamoru’s chest so that she was on her back like a backpack. ”This way it’ll be harder to seperate us. Go ahead and drop my bomb inside. Once things look clear we’ll hop in.”
“Oft. A bit tight around the chest but I can dig it” This was kind of weird but Mamoru could work with it. First unpinning the smoke Mamoru dropped it down into the auditorium as close to the center as she could. She didn’t know where that was so she just threw it somewhere close to the flare. Once she hears the smoke then she unpins her Hornet’s Nest and tosses that down as well. It doesn’t hit the ground and instead explodes just a couple feet off the ground, sending hundreds of pellet sized rubber balls all over the auditorium. While they wouldn’t be able to penetrate skin, they could still leave painful welts and were just bouncing around everywhere for the next twenty seconds as the smoke was filling the room. Once the pellets stopped bouncing around Mamoru jumped down, landing on her shield to soften the drop.
”It’s go time.” Mamoru said quietly, taking out her tonfa.
Jett winced as he looked at Mina, who was apparently fighting Amane again. “Son of a Bitch…” he said, After her condition and what he just went through with no appreciation she is once again trying to fight him. He did a quick inventory… noticing his gun was gone, it must have been where he first fell right next to tomoe and the girl...well he groaped. He had a few more magazines that he could use. He had one smoke bomb. Two flash bangs, grappling hook and paracord for it. He also had two restraints that he took from Yukari and bleach still.
He saw the smoke bomb drop and another one drop behind it. He quickly turned on his com. “Kasuke! Tomoe GET DOWN NOW.” He said as he covered his own face and got into a fetal position on the ground, a few of them hit him as he felt like he was shot with paintballs, leaving light bruises for him because his armor took most of the force. Once they stopped Jett scrambled for the stage to get a better advantage point, hobbling as he did on his ankle and using the wall for support.
Looking around he saw Mamoru and Yukari on her back just entering the fray. He looked up to the entrance he was planning on using at the beginning of the match and swore… Surely Dulga would be up there with her gun. Not that she could see much in this light but who knows perhaps she had night vision as well. He reached into his pouch and grabbed two things while grabbing his flashbang. He knelt on the stage and whistled as loud as he could to gain Yukari’s attention. They both happened to be right next to his gun, and he had to get them away from it. It was dark and highly unlikely that they would see it, He only saw it because of his night vision. He didn’t want to fight them, but just get around them and back up Kasuke, or go for Dulga.
Very much thanks to Ruby’s feline ears which gave her some form of better hearing she was able to hear both the entrance of the next team and Jett’s shouting. It was enough for her to know: She had to take cover. Having just pulled out her sword to fight Tomoe, Ruby quickly put it back onto her back and both turned her back towards where she thought the turmoil would be coming from and pulled the cloak so that it covered her body to the best extent possible. Once the bomb went off, she put her cloak into stasis to block off the bullets. Maybe if she was lucky they would injure Tomoe or at least hinder her and give Ruby an opening or an opportunity of some sorts. That didn’t matter right now anyways, her brown frame under the cloak was not visible very well within the room and smoke anyways, so taking cover until the assault was over would be her best choice.
When Tomoe first tried to punch Ruby she expected the soft touch of the tender meat of this girl but was met with a heavy thud instead. Tomoe saw the blade blocking her fist. It hurted a little to hit something so hard and definitely left some more bruises on her knuckles. Tomoe clenched her teeth as she clicked her tongue in annoyance. Her other hand formed into a fist and tried to uppercut the girl as she was still distracted by her first fist. The girl dodged however as she tried to hit her. Tomoe clicked her tongue once more while her pupils decreased in size. This was getting really annoying to her. Before she could launch her next attack a piercing sound echoed through her head. Was it the earpiece? It was close to waking her up. What was happening. Jett had been screaming through the room at the same time. Tomoe turned her head at Jett to see what was up. He was balled up on the ground. Tomoe her gaze shot somewhat in worry as she realised what she had heard him say. While turning her head away from Jett his position she whispered to herself.
’Get down now…’
Small rubber balls shot around the room hitting everything and everyone. Tomoe was still in the middle of turning away from the balls as she was hit. Every ball could be felt hitting her body. Like bullets hitting you all over. Her legs got the worst of it since they were bare but her face got some of it as well. There were dots of skin gone on her cheek. Normally there would be bruised spots and blood but instead it looked like a bright pink night sky with bright yellow stars floating around like the body was made of magic. Hurriedly she ducked down to the ground immediately shooting her arms up to her eye and leg in pain. A flashbang sounded shortly after as well but she still had her eyes winced in pain. She regain composure and stood up to her feet again letting go of her leg but not of her face yet. She faced back at Ruby looking quite a lot more mad now. She dropped the other hand from her face past her side again as well and gently opened her eye as well. There was a spot of her eye missing as well filled with the same starry substance clearly indicating she wasn’t real. It was ever so growing in size over her eye. She would have probably felt that if it wasn’t for her clone. Tomoe softly growled at Ruby as she clenched her fist.
Just as fast as it had started it was over again. The rain of rubber bullets surely was terrifying on its own, luckily Ruby had the ideal quirk against this kind of threat. Once she heard that the assault was over, Ruby got out of her own little fortress that was made of the thin cloak and checked her surroundings. The chaos surely seemed to have unfolded itself on the point… the hopes of gaining additional capture time were slim. That didn’t matter however, considering the length of capturing they had already done at that point.
Her attention shifted back to her opponent who… just as the catgirl expected, actually did get hit quite badly. Though it was weird… where she got hit there were no wounds, there was no blood. It seemed very surreal, Ruby couldn’t describe it if she tried to. “What are you…?” She said out loud, drawing her sword, together with the sheath of course, from her back “Well… I guess, you really DO want to fight after all.” Since Ruby saw no other option, she suddenly rushed from her position towards where Tomoe was. She tried to use her speed as an advantage, using her blunt weapon to try to hit her into the side of her abdomen.
Her left eye was hazy, she couldn’t see through it properly to use it so she simply held it softly close. It was pretty bad that people saw this about her, it meant her quirk was partly given away to the rest. The girl asked what she was. She was definitely conspicuous about Tomoe her body. Tomoe glared at her as she whispered more to herself then to Ruby.
’Like you’d care.’
After saying that Ruby commented on how Tomoe did look like she wanted to fight but, Tomoe wanted more then fight. She wanted to smash her to pieces. The girl rushed at her, the sword was right of her. She could see it coming. Ruby was fast but Tomoe was fast as well. The sword was gonna hit the side of her but Tomoe threw her right fist to the other side to punch the side of the blade to the ground with no holdback. She would quickly get back up again with Ruby off guard right now. Tomoe tried punching her head with the same fist again but suddenly widened her eyes and held back when she was about hit her.
Ruby’s attack was easily avoided, much to her own surprise. Physically speaking, Tomoe was definitely above Ruby. She would have to find a way to avoid her strikes…
The sword was punched onto the ground and very quickly the catgirl reacted, raising her arm and hardening her coat with her quirk so she would block the strike but- The punch never came. Ruby unfroze her cloak and looked at Tomoe carefully from a lowered position, quickly picking up her sword and… observing.
She was ready to counterattack if necessary, but she didn’t dare talking right now. She wanted to see what was happening for herself.
Tomoe blinked a few times at what had just happened herself. Her knuckles softly dropped against Ruby her head now all the momentum had disappeared. Dumbfoundedly she looked at Ruby, she did mean to hit her but she was not able to hit her with all her might. She shook her head a little and put up a serious look again, she pulled back her other hand and tried punching Ruby with that but just like two seconds ago her hand slowed down again before it hit. It was a little forcefuller now that Tomoe put some will behind it but still not a big injury. Tomoe gritted her teeth in annoyance as she tried to bit Ruby but again, her teeth only barely made contact with her skin while she was still trying to bite her jaw down further. There was some mental blockage or the likes going on where she had no control over. This was the first time she actually had to fight other humans but it was still hard for her to do. Only objects would get properly damaged.
Ruby was… confused to say the least. She let Tomoe attempt to hit her for one or two times and even though it clearly seemed like the girl wanted to hit Ruby, she didn’t actually manage to do any damage at all. The catgirl thought for a second and realized that this might be a downside of her quirk! Maybe the physical exhaustion leaves her in such a vulnerable state… the catgirl would be stupid to not take advantage of it. With a very focused face Ruby grabbed Tomoe’s arm immediately the next time she tried to punch her weakly and then turned around with it. Using Tomoe’s bodyweight, as little as it was, against her, Ruby managed to drag Tomoe over Ruby’s head and slam her onto the floor with a takedown. It wasn’t enough to really hurt her, a human would still feel it though since the floor is concrete. If Tomoe really is too exhausted to keep fighting then Ruby didn’t want to unnecessarily beat down on her when she could not fight back anyways.
When Tomoe was laying on the floor the neko quickly talked to her.
“If you are too exhausted to fight then stay down. I don’t want to hurt anyone who can’t fight back… “
Though admittedly, in the back of her head she thought that it could be related to other reasons. However, she didn’t know the strange girl’s quirk nearly enough to judge.
She didn’t do anything to ruby at all. Hitting her once, twice or a hundred times wouldn’t get her down. Tomoe her clone might have been confused by the draw back but Tomoe herself was clearly aware of it. If she didn’t hold back she might actually obliterate someone. Now was this a little much of a hold back but she couldn’t hurt Ruby that much. She still wasn’t the best at controlling her power but when she noticed that even the floor broke it was a little scary to use on others. Tomoe her clone tried to hit Ruby once or twice more but it was nothing more than a flick. Ruby got hold of her arm and flung her over her head. Tomoe seemed a little surprised at the sudden move off Ruby and was thrown over her head. In complete confusion she lied on the ground staring at the sky. Ruby told her not to fight if she couldn’t. Tomoe her expression tensed as Ruby said something as mean as that to her.
”No!...”
Tomoe quickly hopped back to her feet and glared at Ruby. She slammed her hand onto her chest as she spoke.
"Fight… me…”
Words didn’t seem to come out so simple. Her clone clearly wasn’t good at communicating yet. They were only basic words a small child would be able to say but it came across that she was mad.
Ruby had already turned around and fully anticipated walking away in search for either her team or the next opponent.
However, the girl that had attacked her wouldn’t back down that easily it seemed. She turned her head to face Tomoe and only looked over her shoulder.
“So you actually can talk? That’s better.”
Now she suddenly turned around and jumped forwards, closing the gap between herself and Tomoe at quite an impressive speed and then proceeded to give Tomoe a kick straight into her stomach, using both the momentum of herself and her own power. Once it connected, Ruby stared at Tomoe in anticipation.
“I’ll fulfill your wish.”
Tomoe simply nodded in response to Ruby her words. It was still a bit lacking but she would learn over time. It was quickly back to combat again after the few exchange of words. It was a little unsettling to see Ruby suddenly move at those speeds but that was a sword user for you. Thrusts were a mayor part of sword fighting in close combat areas. She did not expect a kick from her however. She was more focused on the sword then anything else. She did feel the sudden kick, a soft breath of air escaped her mouth as she quickly reacted by grabbing the foot with both hands. She pulled on Ruby her leg and started turning in circles while holding Ruby her foot. Once she was spinning like crazy she would let go.
”Baka baka”
“W….whaaaaaa!”
That was a move she didn’t expect, seemingly Tomoe was able to either shake off pain very easily or just blocked it somehow because that is the only way Ruby could explain herself how she was able to go for such a quick counterattack after just being hit with a powerful kick.
The situation she found herself in was a tricky one since she couldn’t just kick her hand away, but she also couldn’t just freeze herself in the air because she would be too close to Tomoe and vulnerable. Therefore she only thought of one solution…
Eventually, Tomoe let go of her and Ruby was sent flying towards the wall. She breathed in deeply, preparing for the pain of absorbing the kinetic energy from her own body and then froze her cape once she had some distance to Tomoe and was immediately stuck in mid-air. The sudden disruption of her flight had an impact on her body, but since she didn’t ‘smash’ into any surface, it wasn’t as bad as flying into the wall at this speed.
From the outside however, none of that was visible. Just a few seconds after that happened, she unfroze her cape and then dropped back down to the floor. While the cloak’s saved energy was enough to move her backwards some more, it certainly wasn’t enough to impact her too much.
On the floor she landed in a 3-point landing, using one of her hands as balance. At this point the catgirl could be seen panting, but she still wasn’t nearly done.
With Tomoe letting go of the cat feline her leg she was flung severals meters across the auditorium but made an abrupt stop for no whatever reason. For a moment it seemed like she was frozen solid in the air during her flight. It was rather strange to see someone stop so abruptly like that leaving Tomoe somewhat flabbergasted. Ruby fell down from mid air onto the ground again and didn’t look hurted or affected at all from Tomoe her throw. The most that Tomoe could make out of her was that she was only a bit tired.
”What?”
Was Tomoe not able to do any damage for some reason? Punching and biting didn’t work but now throwing her against stuff didn’t work either. Tomoe gave her a nasty sneer as she walked back up to her. She was breathing quite heavily as her brows furrowed in anger.
”Stop! Resi-sting!”
Ruby came to the realization that she wouldn’t be able to do damage to Tomoe in direct close-combat, unless she decided to use the sharp blade that was still holstered. Since the catgirl had no intentions of doing so yet, she would save it for when it was absolutely necessary, she had to go for a different gameplan.There was another idea she had in mind after all…
Seeing Tomoe slowly walk up to her, Ruby stared into her eyes intensely and then picked up some loose, small pieces of debris from the floor that were caused by the general chaos. Clinging onto them tightly she waited for Tomoe to further approach, this time finally using the reactionary fighting style that the neko was used to instead of attacking aggressively. Once Tomoe had reached her, Ruby would throw the pieces of debris in front of her in a cone, covering a wide area both horizontally and vertically until she would put them into stasis, rendering them frozen in mid-air. Even though the pieces were just small, since they covered such a large area Tomoe would now be more or less trapped in the middle of a tight field of immovable small stones which she would have to carefully navigate around, in case it worked.
Tomoe got close to Ruby once more and drastically pushed up her speed. Ruby was picking up some stones, probably to blind her or something, it was nothing special of a tactic if she just didn’t get it into her one left over working eye. Tomoe raised up her fist and took her final leap towards Ruby, with a big grin on her face. When she saw the hand of Ruby move up she held her other arm in front of her eyes so she could still see after the wave of dust. The final few inches she had to make to connect her fist were a disaster however. She felt her entire body stop mid air, it felt like sharp rubber bullets pierced her skin all over her body. Her momentum was immediately stopped mid air like she had hit a wall. Her fist had hit one of the small rocks as well having left a gaping hole on a part of her knuckles. She fell back onto some more rocks slightly hurting the back of her head. They were not pleasing to fall against. Tomoe lightly rubbed the back of her head as she seemed somewhat hurted but stood up shortly after anyways. She stared at the floating rocks around her, it was just like when she stopped herself mid air. They had become solid objects that she couldn’t move with any force she could muster. The rock she had hit with all her force was still in the same place. Tomoe tried pushing them away by leaning on them and trying to push them away but there was no budging in it in any way. Tomoe nastily glared at Ruby before she looked around her some more to find a way out. It wasn’t an unbreakable wall that could stop her forever, there were still gaps in between the rocks that would let her out of this cell somewhere. Tomoe fidgeted a little and pushed various body parts through the gaps while she was holding herself upright in mid air by leaning on the other rocks. Eventually she managed to push herself through one of the gaps on top, probably because there were less stones there then near the bottom part. She got various scrapes and cuts over her body from the many rocks having cut her open but it did not matter, she was to be disposed off sooner or later. She could still fight if all her body parts were still there.
”A real challenge for once.”
She smiled in in annoyed matter at the girl as she dashed at her once more. When she was near she jumped up and quickly raised her leg up close to 180 degrees of its original position before trying to make the heel come down on Ruby her shoulder.
Seeing how her opponent fought her way through this field of stones, not caring about her own health and seemingly just ignoring any pain these traps could have caused for her was a scary sight on its own. While it proved Ruby that she could injure Tomoe, it also showed her the dedication her opponent put into this battle. Ruby would be sure to give her the same effort back!
The jumping Tomoe went down for quite the strong kick, the catgirl knew how to counter that one though. Just moments before the heel of Tomoe’s foot came crashing down on her shoulder, Ruby froze her cloak to make it as solid as an object can become. Once the heel connected, the impact was immense. Tomoe had such strength behind it, when it met the immovable object it sent a shockwave away with the center being her heel, which was certainly not enough to knock anyone over, but it would feel like a small gust of wind. The catgirl however, only stared into Tomoe’s eyes and as soon as she stepped down from Ruby’s shoulder, the girl went for her fastest counterattack yet. Within a second she unfroze her cloak and immediately went for a strong hit into Tomoe’s side with her sheathed sword which she held in her right hand. She knew that this was the only way she would be able to beat Tomoe in close combat, if Ruby was able to incapacitate her with one immensely strong blow. For any normal human this attack would be enough to send them staggering if not take them down entirely, but she couldn’t tell how it would be for Tomoe.
Tomoe her foot crashed down onto Ruby her shoulder, the clothing on top of the shoulder almost seemed rock solid. It didn’t bend or move at all. It was just frozen and Tomoe wasn’t able to penetrate through it. She felt the hit stagger through her body as her foot connected. Shortly after the hit she pulled her foot back towards her and landed down onto her legs to immediately be met with the swiftest thing alive. The sword of Ruby hit her side so fast that she couldn’t even react to it. She widened her eyes as she still tried moving her hand before her taile. A breath of air escaped her lips as she felt a sharp pain of being hit in the side. It was a sharp numbing pain feeling as if she was being cut in half. If it wasn’t for the sheath she would probably be in half. Tomoe quickly breathed in again and gritted her teeth. She raised up her other hand and formed it to a fist before bringing it to Ruby her face and forced it against the poor girl her face as hard as she could. Her strength wouldn’t have been so great like before from the hit she just had. Tomoe breathed out again and dropped onto one knee and her fist. She needed a moment to breath. Did she hit something bad?
”Damn-it”
Yes! She had finally gotten a really good hit in. While Ruby was constantly able to poke her reckless opponent for some minor form of injuries, up until that moment Ruby had not been able to get any decent hit in. This one was different, she could feel the impact her sword made and seeing Tomoe actually react in pain pleased Ruby, knowing that she finally did cause damage since before that her opponent almost seemed oblivious to any type of damage or pain.
The catgirl let her guard down; she thought that with the damage done there was no way Tomoe could go for a counterattack immediately. She was wrong.
While the sword was still practically stuck in Tomoe’s side, since it was sheathed it luckily didn’t cut her in half, she suddenly lifted her arm and went for a strong and quick punch, right onto Ruby’s face. Since the catgirl was not prepared at all for a counterattack, it really got her good. Her eyes widened moments before impact but it was already too late and the knuckles of her opponent connected with the neko’s forehead. The force behind it was immense. With just this one punch, Ruby was sent flying backwards a good few meters. If asked later, she wouldn’t be able to remember how long she was airborn for, but she knew that the impact hurt a lot. Landing on top of a pile of rubble, it caused quite the wave of dust where she landed.
Luckily the adrenaline prevented the pain from being unbearable for her, but it was still present. However, since the punch was right on her head, for the next 10-ish seconds, while laying on the floor, Ruby’s vision was incredibly blurry, she was feeling very dizzy and she heard a constant high-pitched noise in the background. While still not being able to think clearly, the shook cat used her sword, which she had held onto tightly thanks to her natural reflexes, as a sort of pole to first lift her body off the ground onto her knees, and then pushing herself upwards with the help of the sword again. Once she stood on both of her feet again, Ruby actually stumbled backwards a bit, only to use her sword as a means of balancing and supporting herself. With one arm on the tip of the handle of her sword, whose sheathed blade was standing up from the floor to support the catgirl, she slowly moved the other one to her forehead, the dizziness slowly fading away and pain setting in. She wiped over her face and it was exactly as she had feared: Her hand was smeared with blood. The attack had caused a wound to open up on her head; whether it was the actual punch or the landing in the debris is unclear, which bled quite a bit. A string of thick blood was running down her face to her chin from where it dripped down onto the floor.
”F:..fuck….”
She managed to say, knowing full well that this wound would have to be treated rather quickly and it would limit her fighting capabilities. At this point Ruby considered herself lucky to be conscious, being able to think clearly nontheless. With one hand supporting herself on her weapon and the other covering her right eye, which the blood was running over, Ruby looked over to Tomoe, being visibly damaged by the assault.
Finally her fist had connected with the girl her face. It was because of the pain Tomoe did not hold back for once. Although it was a double she would still feel her real body tingle and hurt just like you would think you feel in a dream. Any over the top painful injuries could snap Tomoe out of her sleepy state back to reality. Tomoe did have one speciality in her hands and that was sleeping. Her fort made it able to get so high on the course although it looked like she was not doing anything all day. But many did not know, she was practicing all day long! Tomoe her fist launched the catgirl several meters across the auditorium. Tomoe had put Ruby at peace for a bit, Tomoe immediately clenched back at her waist Ruby had hit. She could feel her broken ribs not being connected to the right places anymore, she couldn’t move without feeling constant pain, this clone was done for.
Tomoe crouched bend down a little clenching lightly to her ribs as she softly walked up to Ruby again to fight on. Ruby had started getting up again already. She didn’t seem fine either. Her forehead was busted and battered from her hit. She seemed dizy and found it hard to stand up. Tomoe did hit her pretty hard, she was surprised Ruby was still conscious. Tomoe gave a sly grin with her batter up eye and scratched up face. It seemed that she still wanted to fight on but deep inside there was a girl terrified of having hurt the catgirl. This was the first she actually hurted someone. This wasn’t right, she had to stop this. Tomoe her clone stopped in its tracks and ripped off the ribbon from the chest piece of her outfit. Shakingly she threw the ribbon at Ruby to bind her wound and gazed at her for a bit before falling to the ground and disappearing like dust at the same time. There was nothing left of the clone as the dust washed itself away with the small wind there was. A soft voice sounded in her ear like the wind passing. As if the soul of the clone returned back to the owner.
”Sorry.”
Acion waited as Hitomi retreated outside the contest point, making sure that age went outside of it, with the door sound being its indication. One opponent contesting the point down, although the means were outright awkward. Really really awkward. But everything ended up well for the two players. Sort of, maybe not for her. He should apologize to her later after the exercise. After the ordeal, his teammate got to him, asking him to leave the battleground.
”Alright. I’m coming now.” But just after he said that, the sound of something dropping into the auditorium, hitting the deck. Something hard, like a grenade…
Just as he said that, he was blinded. Not by the darkness this time, as Mina’s light was shedding some visions for him, but by smoke. Yeah, smoke. Why would someone actually send smoke into a dark room? That’s crazy. Not something a person with common sense would do. But then, common sense wasn’t the thing apparent in the hero course anyway. Especially for a few certain people...Hold on...From the point when he began entering the contest point, he had not seen the presence of two teams. First was team D, who might have been the perpetrator behind this, but he did not know anyone who had this kind of move. But in team B, which was the other case, he knew. He knew one particular person who can.
”I don’t have a good feeling about this…” He mumbled, as he took a few steps back and crouched down on one knee. With his six wings, he quickly barricaded himself, shielding the general area in which he perceive the attack would come from, and on the while making sure that his back was not facing against anyone. ”Haruka. If you can act, get to cover as soon as possible.” And he also told Haruka to do the same.
His conceptual skill was spot on. Moments later, a barrage of rubber balls began pounding onto his wings. The strike was powerful like a paintball bullet, but his steel wings managed to absorb the damage, keeping him safe and in check. After the attack, he quickly called for his team, for some navigation. Donny told him to ensure Haruka’s safety, but where was she in the first place.
”Donny? I will get Haruka to your position now, but I don’t know where she is. Can you see? I need a sense of direction.” He tried remaining as calm as possible as he stood up from the Hornet’s Nest attack.
Amane smirked when at Mina’s little magic trick, she was faced him and managed to grab hold of the staff before it was dealt a critical blow. The force behind his attack was enough to slide her back a couple feet but she effectively managed to stop it. She tried tugging on the staff and pulling him into her punch though she must have forgot about the drastic difference in size between the two. Amane had over a foot on her in height as well as 100 pounds in armor. He could possibly manage a counter by using his reach advant-
Dink!Dink!Dink!
It felt as though someone was shooting him all over his body. Though it didn’t hurt him much because of his heavy armor, he was turned into a human instrument. The noise created from the rubber bullets crashing into his suit could be heard all throughout the auditorium. The sudden attack distracted him as Minas attack came near, his chance for a counter was now taken away from him. “Tsk” he sucked his teeth in disappointment. Amane took his right hand off his staff to block her blow. The knight pulled his forearm to the front of his fist allowing for Mina to strike his steel plated gauntlet. Once she struck he was sure turn back onto the offensive by wrapping his hand around her wrist, effectively grabbing her arm and delivering a swift kick to the gut.
Mina, however, while she may have carried on the fight for a few more futile seconds, a series of disadvantageous circumstances occurred. First, she ignored the warning in her comms, so committed was she to her punch. When the bullets hit her, they hit a girl wearing a torn dress. She had little leg protection and the protective lining of her dress was torn and damaged, and wasn’t adequate protection. The rubber pellets hurt. Battered and now bruised, Mina was in no condition to block the kick to her gut, and when it connected, Mina crumpled, clutching her abdomen. Looks like this time, she had been worn down physically enough. She likely still hadn’t learned her lesson, though.
Amane now had a vice grip on Mina after his kick struck her in the stomach dealing decisive damage to her body. He could feel her will to fight beginning to wither with his powerful blow, a smile spread across his lips.
Now all that was left was to crush her spirit.
The knight let go of his staff and made a fist out his left hand, he cocked his arm back before striking the girl right in her cheek, his metal knuckles tore into her cheek bone with the amount of force he used. Minas head was sent jarring to the right aggressively, enough to give her whiplash. The attack to her face was sure to draw some blood.
“You should have just stayed down, the difference in power between us is far too great.”
Amane picked Mina’s body up by the wrist as he proceeded to use her as his punching bag delivering a series of blows. Her body laid weak and limp as she was suspended in the air. It pissed Amane off, as he sucked his teeth once more. The stomach, Ribs, Hip, were just a few of the areas he struck.
“Only you is to blame for your recklessness, never in a million years can someone as incompetent as you could dream of being a hero. Someone with such tunnel vision and selfish desires will only be a liability to the pro society, instead of taking me on by yourself you should have at least attempted to attack me with someone else.”
Amane then wrapped his left hand around her throat, his grip squeezing tighter. “But instead you chose to be an idiot and fight me one on one when you already lost previously.” He raised her high into the air before increasing the gravity in small radius around his significantly, enough for Mina to feel as if she had 70 pound weights attached to her. The knight choke slammed her body into the flooring of the auditorium with a large BOOM. With his own force and the increased gravity, the combined power was enough to imprint Mina’s outline in the floor. He was sure that she would stay down after that one. Once the attack was over the knight released his gravity and let out a sigh. Amane contradicted himself as he himself was tunnel visioned by this girl, enough that he didn’t realize the veil of smoke that surrounded him. Amane ripped her staff out of Mina’s hand before standing back up, holding his weapon straight up in between his elbow crevice as he prepared for the next move.
With his left arm he released the 3 black orbs that circled around his body before activating his quirk, the smoke began flowing in his direction as he cleared it rapidly with the 3 black holes active. Not only did he pull the smoke but all the rubber pelts from the hornets nest Mamoru dropped begin flowing in his direction as they hit everyone for another go around.
The boy picked up his staff once more and laid it across his shoulder as he awaited for the smoke to clear effectively. He looked down at Mina and picked her body up, “Lets go, becoming a pro isn’t the job for you. I’ll provide the perfect job for such trash.”
Mina spat out about two mouthfuls of blood, and could barely form the words to make a reply. ‘Dazed’ was not the accurate word for Mina’s current condition. Imagining Rocky at the End of Rocky 1, on very strong sleeping pills, and you’d be close. She managed to eventually form the sounds “Screw….you….”