Double

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

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I figured Li wouldn't be involved right away, since he was so close to Han, in a sort of a mentor role. Of course, when (not if) Goda fails in his mission on Mars, Li would then be dispatched to finish the job.

Or were you really wanting him involved right away?

@Balthazar007

It's not like he would show up immediately. News of Goda's failure needs to reach Laoguai first before Li is dispatched. And by then we presumably are long gone and won't actually see him until another time later on.

The Key of Twilight (Kingdom Hearts AU)

@Wayward Sure. If I had to guess the others are waiting for the finish playing out.

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

@Balthazar007 Oh, just noticed this in your villain scene, but I was planning on Li being the one who specializes in hunting down traitors.

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

@Double Wait, is it my turn and stuff? We've done the montage. Am I handling the landing?

@FalloutJack

I dunno. I was just going by the fact we were going back and forth up to now.

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

@FalloutJack You, uh... you still around, bro?

The Key of Twilight (Kingdom Hearts AU)

Seifer didn't lose a single ounce of his confidence. He'd been working on a way to answer a counter like this, and now was as good a time as any to give it a field test. Seifer brought his baton-arm forward to meet the incoming swing from Zack, luckily for him his opening thrust was a feint and so adjusting for a different attack was relatively easy to do. But like with many of Seifer's tactics, this was not something to take at face value. A split moment before his arm's movement, he loosened his grip on the Struggle Bat handle and let it fall into a backhanded grip. This sort of swing could come faster and with less of a tell than fronthanded swings, at the cost of losing some reach and swing power, not that Seifer needed either of those at this moment. A quick change of grips like this was actually the same tactic that had ultimately done Seifer in at the finals last year. Clearly he'd learned from that defeat and decided to "borrow" that strategy for himself. Though not without adding his own modification to it.

There was one final reason for Seifer's preference for holding his weapon straight and forward. It often allowed him to use his baton-arm as a makeshift measuring stick in order to more easily calculate and the reach of his opponent's swings and react accordingly. This was doubly the case for opponents whom Seifer had fought before, such as Zack, since that meant Seifer already had a decent idea of how far Zack could reach with his swings. And so, the speed of the backhanded swing combined with Seifer's method of calculating his opponent's reach made catching Zack's swing with his baton rather easy.

After catching Zack's baton against his own, Seifer used this moment of closeness to attempt the modification he'd made to the strategy he borrowed. The Struggle Bats all had handles that ended in a hook shape. Already holding his bat backhanded, Seifer moved to grab hold of Zack's bat using the hook end of his handle and tried to force the bat out of Zack's hands. A disarmed opponent would make for easy pickings, and an easy win.

The Key of Twilight (Kingdom Hearts AU)

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I hear you on that. Took me a bit to decide how to have Zack start off his end.

Are you ok with predetermining the winner of Tournament proper?

@Wayward

If you're the only one planning to take part then I presume it would be you who wins.

The Key of Twilight (Kingdom Hearts AU)

@Wayward I'm good. I think I've written and scrapped like 3 different versions of how Seifer responds to Zack's counter. Writer's block is a bitch.

The Key of Twilight (Kingdom Hearts AU)

@Wayward For the record, Seifer isn't the defending champion.

Dragon Ball: Universe Zero

@FalloutJack@Balthazar007

So like... if/when we take down the MMC, a presumed Global Corporation, exactly how many Governments do you think Han and Niko will have pissed off? If there's one thing huge corporations love, it's lobbying money at governments to get laws and stuff passed that favor them. And if there's one thing that pisses the Government off more than anything, it's losing large sources of money. Is that, like, gonna be a follow up storyline for later? Han and Niko ending up on the wanted lists for however many different governments because of their actions against the MMC and having to deal with that little hornet's nest?