2814/WMAT AQ1 Fuki vs Mantigora vs Ika Musume

WMAT AQ1 Fuki vs Mantigora vs Ika Musume
Date of Scene:	15 August 2015
Location:	Papaya Island - Stadium
Synopsis:	A three way fight between Fuki, Mantigora and Ika Musume. The results aren't squidding you!
Cast of Characters:	Fuki, 583, 840

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Fuki has posed:
    Afternoon in the stadium, the announcement of a three way brawlfest gets the stadium packed with people from all sorts to watch what will happen. Cheering, clapping and even chants for the fighters that are next fill the air along with the scent of hotdogs, popcorn and beer. Today... is the day of one of the qualification matches!

    Despite being six inches tall, Fuki's ever present and noticed along the stadium floor, the black 'speck' on white tile makes her easy to find, with people cheering on for the Shinki. She went far last year, will she do it again? Fuki's master, Kourin's in the stands, holding up a "YOu go Fuki!" along with most of Kourin's Shinki repitorie.

    Fuki herself gives a wave to the crowd, her scythe, rifle and armor materalizing into view, making a mid air bow. "I'm going to move on to the matches! So help me here!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
On the other hand Mantigora seems to literally step out of thin air, having walked into the arena with her optical cloak fully active. "Don't get too ahead of yourself.. You've still got us to go through." She grabs her longcoat with one hand and yanks it off, throwing it aside. She needs to keep light on her feet to fight two opponents at once, so she's relying mainly on her unreinforced leather armor and nanotech for this match up. "But your reputation for effectiveness far outways your small size."

It's hardly stands packing, but the bounty huntress does have enough of a reputation that there's a few packs of various Dominion denzines in the bleachers to cheer for her. Maybe a little less intense cheering from her fellow Draken, once they found out this wasn't a bloodsport, but cheering none the less.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
"Wh.. whoah." Ika Musume strides out onto the stadium grounds, eyes wide as she looks up at the stands. "There are this many people here..." She shudders a bit, but lifts her hand and clenches it into a fist. "No matter! I will detentacle my opponents and show everyone that a squid is nothing to be trifled with!" Despite her bravado, her tentacles wiggle behind her nervously. "N..now, I just need to find who I'm fighting, and give 'em the squidness!" Fist is dropped into hand, and she looks across the arena.

"I have no idea who either of you are," she states, deadpan, reaching up to scratch the side of her head. "But I guess we have to fight, so tentacles up!"

Fuki has posed:
    "It's been a while since I had a spar with the Confederacy members, I think it will be good practice, don't you think?" Fuki smirks, "My repuation huh? I hope to impress you with it some more then, Mantigora. I've been wanting to see how you fight.. along with that Chua pet of yours. May it be a good one, don't you agree?" Fuki quickly gets herself into a combat stance, her scythe held in both hands as she traces lines in her eyes between Mantigora and Ika Musume.... speaking of...

    "You... however... I don't think I've seen you ever, but I'm not going to back down from a person costuming as a squid. How did they even let you in here anyways!" she gives a nod as a small green light pops up in her own display and, with a heavy flap of the wings and the sun gleaming down on the black scythe, she makes a few test runs... diving down to try and knick Mantigora in the leg with her scythe, only to pull up and quickly swap to her gun to fire off a few snapshots towards Ika Musume! "Time to use speed as my advantage!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
The small shinki is fast, but not quite fast enough for Mantigora to not see her coming. Almost immeadiately her hardwiring picks up on the motion and the Stalker side-steps out of the way, only to spin around and try to slap Fuki aside with her tail. Also to keep her opponents in sight. Last thing she needs to do is loose track of one of them in the fracas. "I would rather Skuzzler not try to pick you apart... but you'll get plenty of experience of me!"

At the same time a small disc of nano-tech energy forms between her fingers, which she whips in the direction of the squid?-person with the motion of her spin. "Don't just stand there and be easy target! Or this won't be any -fun-."

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
Ika Musume squints as she looks over at Fuki. "I think I'd remember someone as little as you!" One of her tentacles pokes the side of her head, and she crosses her arms, grinning smugly. "A squid never forgets! ....hey! I am not costuming, I am a squid! I--eep!" The squid girl yelps as several small bullets find their mark, tearing holes in her skirt. "H..hey, what's the big idea?! Shooting a poor defenseless squid... it's attempted squidicide, you know!" She may have ranted a bit more, but something else is flying at her. This time, though, she sees it out of the corner of her eye and leaps up, boosted by a shove from her tentacles against the ground.

"So this is fighting... I don't know yet if I like it!" Even before she lands, though, a pair of tentacles whip out, extending and closing the distance to both Fuki and Mantigora. They move with surprising speed as the ends flick, slapping at each of her opponents.

Fuki has posed:
    The combined whip of the tail and the tentacle thwack sends the already light Shinki quite a ways back, the roboassassin's wings flare out to stop her backwards movement only to shoot upwards. "Ow." and with a shake of her head, "Then stop punning and actually do something! That tail had more punch than your limp noodle of a costume!" The scythe and rifle dissapear for a moment, replaced only by a few shuriken.

    "Perhaps this will get the point that I should move on." she smirks behind that mask of hers, diving back down between the two other competetors and, in a rapid spin, kunai start flying out of every direction. "Ninja Art: Death Blossom Experimental!" the kunai's tips are painted green, some sort of nauseous poison put on them to help make them sting a bit better! "If you don't like fighting, then get out of the ring!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
Mantigora activates her battleclaws, the dual blades extending out of her forearms to a length that doesn't look like it would of fit in her arms at all. The wonders of alien super-technology. A few quick swipes deflect several of the shuriken, but a couple clip her shoulder and make the Draken wince. That would not of penetrated if she had been wearing her coat as well. It stings, though her nanotech is quick to pump anti-virals into the wound to prevent the poison from spreading into her body.

The other problem is that she gets blindsided by a tentacle while she's doing that, which slams her into the ground. A grunt follows as the Stalker skids a bit and then flips backwards onto her feet again. She crouchs a bit, then breaks into a dash. The charge towards Ika takes a sudden change as she jumps into a lunging strike at the squid, only to launch off of that attack and whirl through the air with the sort of agility Stalkers are infamous for to land near Fuki and aim a kick but not entirely aimed kick at the small robot.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
"What puns?" Ika Musume blinks in confusion for a moment. "...It's not a squidding costume!" Tentacles flail briefly behind her as she stomps her foot on the ground. "I never said I didn't like fighting, just that I don't know if I do yet!" A number of small blades fly by her, and a few even pinprick her skin, but the squid girl looks down and plucks them out. "Huh." She shrugs and tosses them over her shoulder. Whatever poison that was on them must not be effective against the mighty cephalopod! "Anyway, stop being annoying!" Two tentacles zoom out, then slap together, trying to catch Fuki in between!

"U fufu. Now, then, I--" Any gloating is cut short as Mantigora leaps from above, hitting her with enough impact to send her tumbling. "Waa!" She finally extends two tentacles out to grab hold of the ground and stop herself, then quickly kicks up, launching herself feet-first at the Stalker!

Fuki has posed:
    Okay, that may have been a bad move by the Shinki but it just goes into her knowledge base of fighting styles. Never get in with two melee combatants if you can stay at range otherwise.. kicks and tentacles will definately break a few things as evidenced by cracks in the Shinki's armor. "I don't know what those tentacles are made up but damn, they're tough." she backhanded compliments Ika.. "And those boots.. what do you have in there, lead?"

    She recovers some from the pounding, looking between the two as her rifle comes back into view, taking a bit back into the air, targeting reticles appear in her eyes, hovering over the other two and with rapid clicks of the trigger, red lasers spill out from the barrel rapidly towards Mantigora and Ika Musume, hoping to burn something with them! "Not sure your tentacles can reach in the sky, so I should be fine here!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
Several laser shots burn through the light competative armor Mantigora is wearing, scorching the scaled skin beneath. The Stalker nanoskin quickly starts to weave the wounds shut, but that's only a measure to prevent them from becoming infected or opened farther, it doesn't actually undo the damage done any.

"You are full of tricks despite your size. Good!" Mantigora responds in kind, generating one of her nanotech darts and firing it at the Shinki. It's armed with a digital virus instead of the usual chemical toxins, but as she knows very little about Shinki so it's questionable how effective it will be.

Split-second reflexes catch the leaping kick by the squid-girl, the Stalker spinning around surprisingly fast to cross her blades and block the attack. Then tries to grab the offending leg before her attacker can recover, and slam her into the ground hard and fast.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
Her kick is blocked, and Ika Musume lets out a yelp as she's slammed into the ground hard enough to crack it. For a moment, she just lies there, staring at the sky. Oh look, a cloud. And a bird. And a shrimp. Mmm... shrimp. Wait, that's not a shrimp, that's a shinki! "My tentacles are made of tentacles!" She glances down at her shoes without trying to stand up. "No... Why, did you throw any into the sea? You shouldn't!" For a moment, she doesn't even notice the lasers hitting her. But then the sizzling comes, and she sniffs. "What's that... WAAAAUGH!" The squid girl flails her arms, reaching over to pat out the scorched tentacle. "Why would you do something like that? I'm not for cooking!"

Even as she pushes herself to her feet with the help of a few tentacles, several more reach upward, extending farther, farther... it seems she -can- reach fairly high into the sky! And she swats at Fuki, trying to knock the shinki right back down to earth. "And you!" One tentacle wraps around a piece of rubble, then throws it at Mantigora. Or, more specifically, she aims right for those claws.

Fuki has posed:
    Yes, that is a Shinki and with a squid's oddly accurate tentacle smack, it does knock Fuki down quite a bit and the nano dart strikes home and the virus tries to take hold, Fuki's eyes going blank as she plummets. "No... no no no no... don't lock up. Emergency software route, program A Fifty Five..." Fuki's eyes light back up and suddenly pulls up from the ground, coming inches from smashing into the ground, spinning to regain some altitude and stabilization from the twin impact.

    A small window pops up... [Virus Scan: 100, Virus deleted! Rerouting main programming routines.]

    With that out of the way... Fuki grumbles, Mantigora needs to go down quick and that squid even quicker. Why is she even getting beat up by sushi of all things?! Her scythe returns to her, dripping with green liquid. Her acid scythe. And with a wide swing, she sends swathes of acid slinging to the walking sushi and tailed machine! "Time to melt you two..."

Mantigora (583) has posed:
There's actually a toothy smile cracking Mantigora's features as Fuki recovers fairly quickly from the technological attack. "Good, good! Would be disappointed if you did not have countermeasures to such tactics!" On the other hand Skuzzler is probably cursing in the stands somewhere when his modifications to the dart generation didn't prove entirely effective. She uses a thrust of one set of blades to bust the rock flung at her, but the rubble resulting from the deflection attempt still belts her with jagged stone shrapnel.

She tries to twist out of the way but Fuki's small size makes her extremely fast and the acid tainted blade slices across the side of the Draken's midsection even as she's trying to maneuver. As evasive as she is, she has to keep her other opponent in mind at all times, and that limits the tactical movements she has that won't put her at a disadvantage as well.

After the attacks she crouchs a bit, tail lashing. Mentally she's flying through multiple options and alternate strategies in her head thanks to how lightning quick a Stalker's tactical hardware is. But she is not as idle as she might appear first.... It's only faintly visible but there's a crackle of greenish hue around her as a burst of energy generated by her nanotech ripples through the air in an attempt to catch both her opponents with one attack.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
Whatever that is falling from the sky, it doesn't look good. Ika Musume reaches over with four tentacles, prying up a large slab of the arena floor, and lifting it up over her head. The acid strikes that, sizzling and bubbling, burning partway through. "That would have hurt!"

And then some invisible force slams into her, knocking her off her feet. "Wha--"

Then the chunk of rock she was holding lands on her with a loud FWUMP.

The ends of a few tentacles splay out from beneath the rock. Twitch. Twitch twitch. "Nnn... not giving up here!" comes her voice from beneath the rock, just before it cracks and shatters, spraying debris in all directions! Ika Musume rises up from the dust cloud, one tentacle zipping out with terrifying speed to try to grab Fuki and slam the shinki down into the ground. Two more tentacles dart toward Mantigora, the ends bouncing once against the ground hard enough to leave a small crater before they spear right for the Stalker.

Fuki has posed:
    All this is really doing a number on the poor Shinki. Armors cracking everywhere, her internal gryoscope is getting close to off balance... and frankly, she's had enough of seafood for a while, time to sell all those sushi jelly cans. Once released from the tentacle, Fuki shakes her head, righting herself and trying to adjust her balance... "Ugh, so done with seafood for a while."

    Well, time to cut to the chase for this one as Fuki's scythe continues to drip with that acid and with a course plotted, she extends the scythe outward and starts to spin with the point outwards to dig into the one she's going to bounce herself into! And with a extension of a wing, she darts off towards Mantigora, moving erraticly through the air as she attempts to crash into her with it and bounce off to run into Ika.. even if she just bounces off the ground, she twists a bit to correct her course to send her straight into the other one...!

Mantigora (583) has posed:
Thinking quickly as the tentacles surge towards her, Mantigora narrows her eyes as they bounce off the ground and leave their impact mount. A surge of quick calculations she's not even entirely concious of follow, and at what seems the last moment she turns her body sideways and ducks into the attack a bit. One tentacle shoots past her completely, while the other rebounds off her shoulder. But it's that second tendril that she then grabs with one hand.

Out of the corner of her eye she spots the inbound Shinki, and makes a quick snap with the other arm to intercept, and realizing she can't actually stop the speedy teeny robot, opts to use her swing to smack her back into the air instead of blocking the attack.

Then back to her first opponent as she gives the tentacle a heavy yank to pull Ika towards her with her augmented strength.

Just to try and slam a headbutt into the squid girl if the GET OVER HERE move works.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
It's hard to dodge something so tiny! Ika Musume can barely see Fuki as the shinki moves in at high speeds, slamming into her hard enough to send her staggering back and knock the wind right out of her. "Oof! Even... even that won't... huh?"

The squid girl's eyes widen as she feels a tug on one of her tentacles, then a yank hard enough to lift her off the ground. "Ow, untentacle me!" The force of the yank is enough to send her flying directly at Mantigora, only Ika Musume doesn't have the advantage of horns. She does, however, have a very hard head, and the sound of skull impacting horns can be heard echoing through the arena with a loud CRACK!

Falling back to her feet, Ika Musume staggers uncertainly, lifting her hands to the sides of her head. "M-m-m-make the world stop spinning...." With eyes still lacking focus, her tentacles fly out in all directions, striking blindly! Some of them hit the ground, smashing more craters. But others...

Fuki has posed:
    Fortunately, the bouncing lets Fuki literally roll with it, only to get slammed right into those wacky wild not-inflatable tube tentacle things, which slam her right into the ground when they're done with her. Forutnately... she's not in her synth body to deal with this. "Nnngh.. ow ow ow..." she slowly picks herself up and looks up between the two... she's not in a good position and her systems are slowly going wonky along with broken armor and a broken mask, showing part of her face.

    Too bad she doesn't have her Abstractum here, then she'd show them who's the boss shinki... but alas, Silent Black's been on a long sleep for some reason but this doesn't mean she can't do anything similar! A flash of light has her equip a set of claws both on her hands and her feet, the talon like claws being replaced with fox-like claws... and the tail from her armor is replaced with a steel poof! It might 'look' silly but... she launches herself at Ika's face and starts clawing on her way, trying to maul the girl's face to make her aim worse... before taking flight up in the air and, with a small item being taken out, it looks like a certain costume she got from Sarracenia... She presses it, a small bit of smoke is given and down comes a Shinki-Sized hunk of granite in the shape of Fuki holding a staff falling directly at Mantigora!

Mantigora (583) has posed:
So many tentacles!

Mantigora does her best to deal with the flurry, but even with her slicing at tendrils left and right several get through her aggressive defense and smash into her body. If it wasn't for all the intergrated augementations Stalkers have through their nanotech, those blows could do a lot worse than welts and bruises and possibly a broken rib of three.

But again her tenacity to remain aware of her surroundings as well as her opponent pay off, and she's able to dive and roll out of the way of the... falling statue? That.. actually gets a befuddled look out of her at how sheerly odd the attack method was even if it did miss. And it's when she's gawking that one last tentacle smacks into her face and for a moment floors the Draken.

With a growl she gets back up, and makes a quick sprint towards Ika, coming in with a powerful thrusting strike with one of her arm blades. It looks like she's forgotten entirely about Fuki... Until a second Mantigora seems to appear right next to her, taking a slicing swing at the robot girl as well. It's a hologram, but thanks to the nanotech projection it is more than enough of a physical construct to make the blow actually hurt if it does hit.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
Head still ringing, Ika Musume finally plants both feet firmly on the ground and both hands on her head until the ringing stops.

And that's about when she gets a face full of shinki. "Ackflglkerlbl!" is her articulate reaction as she flails, swatting at the space in front of her nose even after Fuki flies off. She rubs at her face, quietly whimpering... but then peeks between her fingers as she senses movement! Two tentacles quickly arc up, crossing over each other and blocking the point of that blade before it can hit her! It still hits her tentacles, of course, and the squid girl lets out a yelp as the end of one of them is sheared off.

"Okay, now I'm going tog et squidding serious!" Tentacles fly out to the sides, and Ika Musuma leaps into the air... and keeps going up, and up, and up.... and then starts to fall. As she does, the wind whistles around her, and her feet aim toward Mantigora. On impact... she very obviously dod not weigh the same as before, because she leaves an enormous crater beneath her feet, sending rubble flying in all directions! One of the larger pieces of rubble is grabbed by her tentacles, and she swings it around, trying to sandwitch Fuki between it and the ground!

Fuki has posed:
    Just as soon as Fuki gets out of the statue mode that the Tanuki Suit offers (and before anyone can really see the adorable suit), she looks up and sees the rubble being swung around. "Well shi..." *CRUNCH!* goes the Shinki beneath the rubble, creating a good sized hole in the ground... at least, despite being bruised and battered, she can at least ponder her next action here... one... she's dealing with a technological adept person and a squid. Two: She's tiny and they keep nailing her. Three: A lot of her armor is broken... and she's not happy about it.

    With these three thoughts in mind, she bursts out of the ground and huffs... "Okay, no more Miss Nice Fubuki!" she shouts as she takes flight a bit more, moving around to position herself better as she grabs her pair of kama and... dives between Mantigora's legs to slice at her thighs and darts towards Ika's thighs to do the same thing! Might as well use their height and expose some flaws while she's at it! No armor!

    "I need to get past this point in the tournament, I'm sorry!" she shouts as she makes another run between them, taking another slice at the outer thighs as she goes by them both once more, "And enough tentacles!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
Who knew squids could fly? Or jump good, at the very least. Mantigora digs her feet in to brace herself, dumping a charge of nano-energy into her personal emergency shields. Unfortunately she has no idea about the change in Ika's mass as well, and the aerial drop slams into her with enough force that there is an audible shattering sound as the shield tech is broken. The only virtue of this is hitting the shield pushes her out from under the squid girl, and instead of getting slammed into the middle of that crater the shock of the impact just slams her into the ground at the edge of it.

With a grunt she gets partway onto her feet, only to stop and smack the palm of hand against the side of her head. Something from the force of that blow caused a disruption in her hardware. Fuki's attack capitalizes on the moment though, intentional and not, and the double gash from darting between her legs gets a growl of pain out of the Draken. She's starting to rack up injury faster than her nanotech can keep up with, if the fact that the gouges in her thighs are actually bleeding instead of being sealed up is any indicator.

"Well, if we are going to be playing with blades.." The Stalker extends her own weapons fully, a palpable thrum in the air as they start charging with energy. With both her opponents still in relatively close quarters all she has to do is making a powerful swing and go into a frenzied spinning motion with her arms outstretched. Even if one manages to avoid the whirling arm-blades directly, there's the the trails of slicing energy left in her whirlijig wake to worry about!

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
There are mysterious secrets to squids that very few surface dwellers can comprehend! Ika Musume is breathing heavily as she lands, crossing her arms and grinning smugly. "There, you see how inkredible I am?"

Her weight returns to normal as she climbs out of the crater, only to find herself immediately on the defensice as Fuki begins zipping around her. "Hey, my tentacles!" Ika Musume tries to block some of the shinki's slashes with her tentacles, but that only results in two of them having bits sliced off. A few more of those strikes get through to her legs, and the squid girl stumbles back and falls on her rear. "We're not playing with blades!" More tentacles come up to block Mantigora, and three more have bits sliced off, leaving the girl whimpering. Her 'hair' seems to be much more of a mess now, with only two left hanging behind her head and two in front.

"I..I'm not scared at all, these will grow back!" The two in the back of her head extend ot, swatting at Fuki frantically, while Ika Musume herself runs at Mantigora. She lowers her head, charging in... and stops just short of attempting to ram! Instead, those short fins on her 'hat' swing, slapping the taller fighter. For such narrow fins with such a small reach, they're able to hit quite hard, though!

Fuki has posed:
    Those flying razors cut in and nearly seperate the Shinki in two, most of her circuits could be seen, her armor is falling off and somehow, she's still fighting on. A few blinking lights in her chest means her CMS is exposed... "Ngh, I'm going to take one of you out with me..." she chides, the tentacle smack sending her flailing a bit, "ENOUGH TENTACLES!"

    Fuki reaches out and tries to close the distance, taking one of her Kama to embed right into that hat of Ika's, no fancy thing, no stealth... just straight up slamming the point end down into the hat! Or at least an attempt that is! And with Mantigora, she takes her other kama and darts over, moving to slam the blade's tip or at least try to slam it into her shoulder, "Aaaaah! Enough!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
Normally Mantigora might of been able to shrug off the bizarre slapping attack, but in the current state of affairs even a swat is like having Granok club you with his rock hard... What? I was going to say arm! They are big heavy rock people after all. Seriously. Ahem, anyways. The slap as awkward as it is still packs enough to stagger the Stalker, and Fuki preys upon the moment with her not so tender administrations, jabbing a sword into her shoulder. That stings! That little robot can certainly slice and dice with the best of them, about the only thing that spared her more agonizing injury is the stalker nanoskin keeping the stab from fully penetrating.

Yet despite being battered, bruised and bleeding the Draken is still standing. And of all things, still smiling... though that is hardly the pleasant, comforting sort of smile. Being an alien cat-lizard woman aside. "Yeees... You both certainly more formidable than appearances tell... But that better not be the best you can offer!" She grabs for Fuki, trying to do so before the Shinki can fly off, and give her a good hard squeeze before throwing her aside.

Then emits a warring cry as she bumrushes Ika, still quite fast despite her injuries, and lashes out with her blades to take out some of her savage fury upon the squid and her crazy barrage of tentacles.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
Tentacles are all she has! Ika Musume lets out a frantic yelp as Fuki darts in close and sinks a blade into her head, the wound beginning to leak... ink? Just a drop, though. "H..hey, watch it!" She slams her hand over the wound, squeezing it down for a moment, and lets out a breath of relief when it seems to have stopped.

"Okay, now--" She turns back to face Mantigora, then glances around. "Where'd the other one go?" Well, if Fuki isn't divebombing her anymore, she can focus her attention on a bigger target! All four remaining tentacles whip out, crossing to parry the blades, though one gets a bit sliced off one side for her troubles. It can still move, though, and the four of them dart and jab at Mantigora repeatedly. "Hatatatatata!"

Mantigora (583) has posed:
"The small soldier faught well. Think you can finish what she started?" The lack of effectiveness in just lashing the squid-girl directly has no passed her notice, and Mantigora attempts to make some quick accomidation for it. She manages to slap one of the tentacles away with her blades, but the other three slam into her forcefully right afterwards. The 1-2-3 is more than enough force her away from her opponent.

But keeping Stalkers at bay is never an easy proposition to manage. Mobility on the battlefield was one of the things they were known and feared for on Nexus. Even when already beaten to a bloody pulp.

She grinds a heel into the ground, spits out a bit of said blood, and then pushes off into another rush towards Ika. But this time at the last moment she veers off, using a side-dashing jump to break to the side. Only for False Retreat to live up to its name as the tactic allows her to jump right back at Ika from the side with a quick jab of the claws to get in close. Followed by a jumping kick to the chest, that from which she spins around to make a second kick with the other foot at Ika's head while giving herself a little more air.

So she can wind-up and use the downward motion to bring a powerful downward slash with both sets of claws at once as she drops back to the ground.

Ika Musume (840) has posed:
Tentacles keep shipping out, but Ika Musume's rhythm is broken as Mantigora rushes inside of her current reach. She retracts her tentacles, but the first strike lands, knocking her off balance, and the follow-up kick strikes her square in the chest. She's already staggering back when the second kick hits, sending her flying back a good distance, clear of the claw strike, but tumbling end over end through the rubble of the cratered arena grounds.

The dust is still floating in the air as Ika Musume wobbles to her feet, taking a step forward. "Ahhh..." She blinks, taking a breath... and then sneezes as the dust tickles her nose. "ACHOO!" Of course, she's a squid, and the result is a blob of ink flying across the battlefield, splattering over the ground. "Ah.. 'scuse me." The squid rubs her nose with a tentacle, then charges forward, other tentacles spreading out to strike!

And that's when she slips on the ink, skidding and turning her controlled charge into a head-first ram all the way to Mantigore!

Mantigora (583) has posed:
Mantigora sucks in a heavy breath after the attack, barbed brow furrowing as she tries hard not to visibly wince. There's definately a couple of broken ribs and she doesn't have the energy reserves left to let her nanotech quick-patch it up. All the same she pushes herself back onto her feet, and spits out another wad of gunk from her mouth. "... Been long time since I've tasted my own blood." But it's going to take more than that and a brutal three-way fight to keep a Draken down.

When Ika recovers and comes charging towards her Mantigora winds back for a counter-attack swing.... but the slip on the ink brings that tactic to a crashing halt as Ika skids below the tall alien's strike range and plows into her midsection with her hard head. You can hear the wind being knocked out of her from the stands!

But that toothy grin still somehow remains. "Fortunate you, both, are on the same side.." And then she finally collapses over, unable to quite get the right compliment out before her stamina fades entirely.