6201/Glass Cannon vs Berserker!

Glass Cannon vs Berserker!
Date of Scene:	19 January 2019
Location:	Shrine of Adversity
Synopsis:	Yang and Sarracenia face off in front of Gilgamesh!
Cast of Characters:	Sarracenia, Gilgamesh, Yang Xiao Long

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Sarracenia has posed:
     As happens to her often, Princess Sarracenia finds herself lacking in amusement. Then, an idea strikes her. Supposedly the great Gilgamesh has been beaten by only a handful of fighters, and one of those is in her own faction! So, the princess contacts the yellow haired hard-hitter known as Yang so they might test each other's strengths!

     The princess waits in the middle of the room, her oversized hammer held upright beside her with the handle resting on the floor. She waits with barely contained excitement for the warrior with the golden hair of whom even Gilgamesh speaks highly. "This is going to be epic!" she exclaims in a whisper to herself before she bounces lightly in place, then blinks and quickly returns to her regal pose.

Gilgamesh has posed:
     The King of Heroes doesn't really /ask/ for permission to go places. Asking for permission is for people who are not the King. As Archer likes to remind people in his sarcastic tone, the King does as he pleases.

     What the King currently pleases is sunning himself in the Shrine of Adversity to watch two women he is deeply interested in beat each other senseless.

     He's topless, he's wearing gold swimtrunks, he's got silver shades on, and he's sitting in what looks like an ancient Babylonian massage recliner-throne, leaned back with his hands behind his head. There's a bottle of his divine alcohol sitting on the armrest. There's a golem with a video camera next to him, recording the fight.

     The King waves at both girls. He winks over his sunglasses. Then he pushes them back up and resumes sunning his perfect body.

     He's kind of an asshole.

Yang Xiao Long has posed:
    The sound of a motorcycle outside would likely signify the arrival of said golden haired brawler. Soon enough, Yang appears at the entrance, striding out confidently as she adjusts her braclets on her wrists. She's not wearing her 'usual' outfit, instead opting for a more 'refined' alternative in cream and black. Her boots click on the ground as she moves up to square off with the hammer-princess.

    "Yo." is all she says in greeting, deploying her weapon along her forearms with a ratcheting set of clicks and whirrs, then throws both elbows back to rack the slides with a satisfying CLK-CHAK. "Ready when you are."

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia blinks. Was he here the whole time? When Gilgamesh waves and winks she can't quite contain the small, shy smile that appears on her face before she waggles her fingers in a return wave...only to remember that huff, she doesn't like Gilgamesh! She pauses mid-wave before letting out said huff and straightening up again before giving her hair a toss.

     Yang enters, and Sarracenia's eyes widen. Yang almost looks like a princess herself! With that amazing hair and such elegant clothing, Sarracenia would probably believe it if Yang claimed to be one. The only part that might give Sarra pause is the lack of a dress. Yang prepares her weapon, and Sarracenia lifts then raps her hammer's haft on the floor to cause a resounding thud before she twirls it around herself with seemingly minimal effort. "Giving me the first move? How generous of you!"

     She grins a bit. "You may come to regret it, though!" she exclaims before leaping forward, spinning upright through the air like a top with her hammer outstretched above her head to allow her to quicken her rotations. She doesn't actually extend it until she is just about to reach Yang, trying to channel the rotational energy into the attack!

Yang Xiao Long has posed:
    Yang grins, giving a wink back at Gilgamesh before she returns her attention to... oh man, that's not good. HAMMERTOP!

    Shifting stance, Yang braces for the strike, putting most of her Aura into her arms to absorb the blow... but it just isn't enough and she gets sent flying, skidding and skipping along the ground from the force.

    She goes a distance, then fires her weapon, using the recoil and kinetic force projections to slow her, before she slams a fist into the floor, kipping her up and over into a crouch, kicking up dust as she skids the last few feet to a half.

    Yang grins, it's not a pleasant one, as her hair hides her eyes. "Nice hit." she calls out as she stands; then lifts her chin to show the burning red coals that have become her eyes. "My turn."

    The ground cracks as the Golden Berserker crouches slightly, then dimples down into a crater as she kicks off, firing her gauntlets to propel her faster. It's a simple maneuver, a straight charging haymaker, but the speed of it is intense. "HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia grins back at Yang. "Naturally~ I am the great Princess Sarracenia Sundew, Crown Pri-"

     The speed of Yang's attack is such that Sarracenia can't even finish her title, much less defend against, and this time it is her turn to go bouncing across the ground almost all the way to the other side of the ring. She finally brings her hammer down like an anchor and slides to a stop, taking some of the ground with her.

     She huffs after that. "You didn't even let me...finish!" she exclaims as she pulls something from her purse.

     It's a bullet. A bullet as big as the Princess herself. She tosses it up into the air. "Here, try one of my favorites!" she says with a bit of a sadistic grin. The bullet comes back down as she twirls quickly, and with amazing precision and skill she hits the Bullet Bill on the flat side...firing it like a cannon shot at Yang. Whether it hits directly or not, the shark-faced shell explodes with quite a bit of force!

Yang Xiao Long has posed:
    Yang skids along from her own momentum, enough that when the Bullet Bill comes screaming back at her, she hardly has time to try and evade. She punches sideways, throwing herself out of the path of the attack, only to be caught in the ensuing explosion.

    A bright flare of golden light blunts the damage, but goes out before Yang slams into the arena wall, leaving a Yang-shaped indent in the material. She pushes herself out, lands awkwardly then slams her fists together, causing her hair to burst into golden flames and a fiery aura to engulf her body.

    She turns, leveling glowing gold eyes on Sarra now, but doesn't close in, instead she punches the air, each thrown punch sending an explosive bolt out at the Princess, each pull back racking the slide to chamber the next shell.

Gilgamesh has posed:
     Gilgamesh snaps his fingers. Another golem just sort of comes out of nowhere, then trundles off to another side to get a second angle. It is also holding a camera. Two more golems do the same, trundling to other sides. The last golem stands with the camera pointed at Gilgamesh.

     It's important.

     He swirls his drink in his hand as he watches the girls violently smash into each other. He's fought them both before, he knows they're both capable.

     Sip. Yang's already moved on to her golden form.

     One of the golems zooms in a bit.

     He likes gold.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Long distance punches?! Sarracenia is hit, then hit again, and again, each one accompanied by a rather high pitched squeak. She hits the wall behind her after a few, then gets pummelled deeper into the wall steadily by each consecutive hit. It isn't so much a princess-shaped hole as a tunnel by the time Yang finishes, and it takes a few moments for Sarracenia to drag herself out again. "Nnng...n-nice attack." she says as she flops her way back onto open ground, then slowly stands up. She's sure she can't take much more of this and quickly goes through options in her head.

     She reaches into her purse and pulls out...some sort of perfectly polished silver crown? "I haven't used this one before. Took a while to find one. Let me see how you like it!"

     She puts on the crown, and in a flash she seems to turn into a solid polished steel statue of herself. She grins, then charges toward Yang. "Here I come!" she shouts, her steps ringing with metallic sounds. As she is running she pulls out a small, cute little Bob-omb and throws it. The little creature explodes violently on impact, but doesn't seem like it was the main part of her attack.

     The smoke shrouding things after the attack suddenly whips away violently as Sarracenia comes spiraling in. She twirls her hammer all the way around before bringing it down in a powerful overhead strike, and somehow even the hammer hitting the ground produces another explosion!

Yang Xiao Long has posed:
    Yang brings her arms up when the Bob-omb explodes, but too late realizes the real attack. She shifts stands to brace, but gets hurled back by the pure impact of that strike, sending her back into the arena wall, and several feet into it.

    It seems to be over, the only movement is a bit of debris falling from the top of the hole drilled into the wall... but there's a strange golden light emitting from deep within the darkness.

    Suddenly, the hole erupts, and flings debris in all directions.

    From within, that light grows stronger, until it's like trying to look into the sun at midday.

    That's when the strike comes.

    It isn't flashy, it isn't elegant and it certainly isn't restrained. With a wordless warcry of pure, unbridled rage, Yang comes charging in and starts laying a flurry of blows into the metallic Princess, fists flying with enough speed that each movement causes a miniature sonic boom, her arms a blurr to those watching from the outside.

Gilgamesh has posed:
     Gilgamesh claps politely from his chair, like he's at a golf match and doesn't want to make too much noise, then takes another sip.

     Honestly you can't pay for this sort of thing.

     Well, you can, but it's probably much less legal in most places.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia is actually ever so slightly concerned when Yang digs that tunnel into the stands. She peeks into the hole cautiously. "...hello?" she says just before that light starts to grow. "You're still...?!" Even with the Metal Cap it wasn't enough?! The princess leaps back and holds her hammer in front of her to try and brace at least a little against the incoming attack, but when Yang finally explodes out of that hole...it does little good. The speed and power of those attacks is such that the first one causes the power of the Metal Cap to explode away from Sarracenia. That's supposed to protect her, or so she was told!

     Sarracenia doesn't fully know what happens after that. Of course, Yang and Gilgamesh get to see her being smashed by all of those punches, but after the first few it is clear that the lights have gone out for the princess. It is only with the final punch that she finally goes flying back and plows a hole perhaps even deeper than Yang's previous crater.

     And there are no building glows or sudden explosives this time. It is very good that they chose this location for the battle, since the princess shows no signs of consciousness. Even with all the safety measures and such, that one hurt.

Yang Xiao Long has posed:
    And that is the power of a berserker. Yang holds the pose of that final punch, chest heaving with the exertion, before she just keels over onto a knee. The fire goes out of her eyes and hair, leaving a battered brawler in front of a big hole in the wall. She just kneels there, one arm resting on her knee, the other clenched into a fist against the ground as sweat beads on her forehead and trickles down her face. "I win."

Sarracenia has posed:
     Finally there are some sounds of movement from within the tunnel, yet still Sarracenia doesn't emerge for 30 seconds or so. Sore, exhausted, and somewhat embarrassed at losing, Sarra crawls her way out before flumping forward on the ground, panting heavily from exertion herself and wincing at a few noticeable bruises and cuts on her fair skin from crashing through walls multiple times.

     She finally manages to push herself up a bit and looks at Yang with one eye still closed. She looks like she is going to say something, but what to say? As much as it chafes her to have lost, and in such a spectacular manner, she slowly gets back to her feet, then pulls her hammer out of the wall adjacent to the hole. "...you are quite strong." she says finally, trying really hard and only somewhat succeeding at hiding the fact that she is a pretty sore loser. She doesn't actually look at Yang as she says this, instead looking up into the stands toward Gilgamesh before letting out a sigh and starting toward the exit. "Thank you for accepting my challenge."

Yang Xiao Long has posed:
    Yang grins, a happy, pleasant one this time, and thumbs up at Sarra. Her weapon packs away again into those bracelets, and the blonde brawler speaks. "Hey, don't feel too down about it. I nearly threw in the towel after that metal trick." she admits. "Anyway, lets go get some ice cream or somethin'. my treat."

Gilgamesh has posed:
     Gilgamesh stands up and snaps his fingers. The golems, the cameras, the chair, and the wine vanish.

     He's probably going to just invite himself along.

     On the other hand, he'll also probably pay for it.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarra blinks, pausing in her retreat as Yang speaks up. Her solemn expression softens somewhat and she waits for Yang to catch up. "Quite generous of you." she says, her tone a bit more pleasant. Gilgamesh inviting himself along draws a light 'hmph' from Sarra. "Did you enjoy the contest, King Gilgamesh?" she asks, trying to act like she doesn't really care whether he did or not. Of course, after losing right in front of Gilgamesh hearing it went as he expected or that it wasn't a good fight would be the last nail in the coffin of her self-confidence for the day.

Gilgamesh has posed:
     Gilgamesh walks forward with a grin on his face. He moves to drape his arms around both girls' shoulders as his proper clothes materialize. He keeps the shades.

     He likes the shades.

     "I always enjoy contests between beautiful and powerful women," Gilgamesh says cheerfully as he walks, "This one was no exception. You both performed splendidly."

     "I will treat you both. Just this once, buy to your heart's content! There is none who can deplete the treasury of the King! Fill your hearts and your stomachs until you're satisfied!"

     "Consider it an early Christmas present. It's not very permanent, so we'll...slide it around the list for the moment."