Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR]

Subject: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:20 am

He was ready. The time for building things to aid him, preparation, relaxing with the new girlfriend and creating future strategies was over; it was time to face down the crime lord. Before leaving he made sure to perform 20 laps around the perimeter of Darkman Tower as a way of loosening up.

The Vigilante's main plan was to end this as quickly as possible. He was just going to floor the old man while he recited some speech about being and elder or something along those lines. Flight time from the Tower to the Red Light District at normal speeds took nearly 10 minutes.

He didn't smash a hole in the cement like last time, instead he used his cape to slow the momentum of his fall to land normally before the front doors. Xan said he'd be expected. He didn't want to just walk in, so he waited for a Goon or someone else to come and receive him...

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:49 pm

So the young whippa snappa was back and ready to do the damn thing. This time his ass better not tear shit up.

The Massage Parlor was renovated. All previous damage had been fixed, including the destruction the kid caused coming in last time, the wrecked floors, the destroyed equipment, everything was replaced. Costed a pretty penny, but worth it. Some of the guys got patched up a little too, so they weren't gonna take to well to this kid showing up again. Shit would escalate and everything would turn to shit again. More wrecked things, more holes in the fucking walls. No, if he wanted to fight and 'defeat the bad guy' he was going to do it clean, Xan's way.

"Joe... That kid with the cape and the V on his chest, he's back... make sure he gets up here to me with no trouble. Do you hear me? I said I don't want any shit while this kid is on his way up to me! You sons of bitches get into fights and tear everything up, I have to spend the money to get it all replaced in the end! That shit is gonna stop!"

Citizen Posts : 9 Credits : 175

A bunch of ribs were still smashed in, and an eye was black. How the hell some kid could get the drop on everybody like he did, he'd never know. Joe wanted payback, but he couldn't do anything. It made him mad. The boss was going to handle things.

Joe opened the front door for the kid with the red V on his chest frowning. He stood to the side and held the door open. "...The boss expects you," he said. "...And personally I hope he kicks your costumed ass."

Joe was going to watch the whole thing through the cameras. If anybody could stick it to this kid, he knew it would be the boss..

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:33 pm

"Ha! That sounds kind of funny coming from somebody like you," Vigilante said as he walked past Joe. "Maybe you should just hold doors open from now on! Then maybe you won't run the risk of getting your big musclebound butt kicked by a kid wearing a costume and cape!"

Vigilante didn't waste his time walking back through this building, this time not being torn to all hell and back while he made his way up. The dirty looked Xan's guys had to be giving him on the way would be nothing short of gut busting funny.

Unless someone was planning on attacking him along the way, Vigilante went back to the room from last time, where Xan sat on the floor and Cala was being held hostage, assuming that Xan was still in this room. "I'm back...I hope you had time to oil your joints or whatever it is you had to do to get ready, because this little crime family you have going here is finished."

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:19 pm

"Blah blah blah. Stop with all of that lip lappin' and jaw jackin.' Did you come here to talk, or fight?"

Xan slowly rose to his feet. What was the kid going to break out with first. Was he gonna break out with some I AM A HERO rant? Children these days. Always trying to act like these clowns they see in cartoons and video games. But even still, this could be interesting. The kid was a child prodigy, meaning that he was a student that would one day surpass the master. That was good. That was real good. Maybe he could be the one to learn...

Bionic Physiology, Old Prime and Chi Manipulation had Xan's Default Speed and Strength at +3. Raising this higher? This would take just a thought at first, then a little effort later on. Xan pushed his cloak from around his neck and took his fighting stance. Xan hadn't fought anyone in years. The idiots in this Massage Parlor didn't count; Xan hadn't had a real fight against a formidable opponent in a long time. This would be fun.

"I don't feel like hearing that speech you recited to yourself 8 times in the mirror last night while looking tough about how you're going to 'defeat me,' so what say we skip through the pleasantries and just get straight to the violence?"

+3 Speed/Strength:

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sat Jun 08, 2013 3:52 pm

V did a quick scan while activating his shield. The particles wrapped around the armor and began to glow several seconds before turning transparent. Vigilante's scanners had Xan placed at somewhere between +2 and +3 Speed/Strength, since he was once Human, and was now mostly bionic. V was going to lean toward +3.

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

His Vigilantism training, Enhanced Condition because of his Nanoids, Exoskeleton, and the handy little extra boost that the torso and boots gave him placed Vigilante at +4 Speed/Strength.

+4 Speed/Strength:

The old man wasn't going to be able to dodge or block the rapid movement that Vigilante displayed that very next instant. The kid moved across the room through the distance that separated he and the crime boss in under a second, executing a critical impact blow toward the mid-section. If successful, the left hand would daze the old man and knock the wind from his lungs. The daze would leave him open to a punishing assault of rapid blows aimed at the chest and stomach. 2 seconds of these punches would occur until the final right handed haymaker sent the old man to the ground, and most likely into unconsciousness.

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Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:51 pm

Let's let him have is 15 minutes of fame. Let him think he did something. The reaction he'll give off will be priceless.

It was the very moment that his first attack landed that Xan opened the first of 8 gates. The process would increase his speed and strength to +4. Everything that followed afterward was of equal strength, but the critical impact blow that was launched did it's job, indeed dazing Xan. It was because he opened this gate that he wasn't knocked unconscious by that last haymaker, but after the rapid combo that didn't really hurt much he was sent to the floor, sliding a distance.

That was a nice warm-up. Let's lay here for a while, let the kid think he did some damage. It was all part of the plan.

Gate #1:

Citizen Posts : 2 Credits : 50

On a building next door was a man and a woman. The man was wearing a baseball cap backwards, carrying a video camera and a lot of equipment. Despite this he could move around easily, meaning he wasn't very hindered by all of the things he carried.

The woman was a very attractive young news reporter dressed in a tight top and dress that showed off a perfect figure. She was Stacey Newman, the self proclaimed "Face of Edge News." Through tasks and favors she'd rather leave unmentioned Stacey was able to get her hands on technology originally intended for Company hands. She was able to use the tech to build new kinds of cameras that could fly at high speeds and be remotely controlled. The Cameras could record things that moved at super fast speeds so that it could be played back clearly in slow motion. Because of her aggressive approach at journalism and finding a story, and providing footage like no other station could, Stacey was indeed living up to her moniker.

"Good evening Edge, i'm Stacey Newman the Face of your News," Stacey said into a microphone, looking into the camera that her partner pointed at her. "Right now we're live at the scene of a breaking story! I'm sure you're all aware of the recent appearance of the super hero that calls himself The Vigilante, mostly seen with an un-named female accomplice, "Catgirl" she's been called," Pictures of Vigilante and Cala saving the bank were shown. Pictures of Vigilante making his way through the Massage Parlor were also shown.

"We are continuing with our story with Vigilante's apparent attempts at shutting down the Crippler Crime Family. This reporter brought you live footage of Vigilante's last visit here to Madam Wu's Massage parlor, the headquarters of the crime family. Vigilante has recently returned and was let inside without resistance, only now we see it was to have a private fighting match with what looks to be a robotic man! Could this unknown individual be the true leader of the crime family?"

There was a floating camera near one of the windows. Footage was able to catch Vigilante executing a combination upon Xan and knocking him down. "It seems The Vigilante strikes first! The unknown crime boss goes down, and---Oh? Stand by, Edge..." Stacey listened in on an ear piece for several moments. "This just in, there seems to have been the appearance of yet another hero type figure! He doesn't have a name yet, but everyone who has encountered this mystery man tell of a gas mask and glowing green eyes. What is it with the recent rise in what is beginning to be known as the art of Vigilantism? This reporter won't stop until she gets an exclusive with The Vigilante, and possibly this new edition to the population of Edge City's super people. Stay tuned, Edge..."

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sat Jun 08, 2013 10:53 pm

V straightened out his gloves. Scanners picked up on something outside the window, something that looked like a camera. If someone was nearby recording all of this he couldn't really pay attention to that at the moment. Flooring this old guy was too easy. His condition readings were all in the green even after that combo; in fact he seemed to be in even better shape than he was before he hit the floor. Something was up with this old robo man...

"You putting in cheat codes old man?" he asked. V hit the button that would allow him to begin collecting kinetic energy. He ascertained that there was some sort of bionic enhancement making him stronger and faster; some sort of steroid set to go off when he took damage, or something like that. It was the best educated guess he could come up with. "I expected as much from your tired ass, but i'm still gonna beat you!"

Spoiler:

V hit another button that allowed his scanner to begin to recognize Xan. After 3 minutes, he was in for a world of hurt. He wouldn't know this of course, to him V would just be pushing buttons. A meter in his heads-up display began to fill while the scanner worked on Xan.

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Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:28 am

Seemed to be something outside watching. A camera? Two people were on the roof across the way. The boys were fucking slipping. Then again they wouldn't be expecting some chick with a flying camera to be hiding on the roof of the building next door. So what then, let them have their little show. I'm the bad guy, i'll go on like one, and end up like one. Whatever it took to get people to just leave me alone...

Gate #2 was the last gate that Xan would be able to open with no effort. His speed and strength elevated to +5 as he sat up and then stood to his feet again, dusting himself off. A power he hadn't felt in years flowed through him. Someone would surely come around wanting revenge for beating on the boy too badly, but if he was a bad guy, it was time to act like one before the end. The end would be worth it. Comfortable silence. The boy was young, he'd heal.

"Lotta pent up anger there, kid. That Vampire girl, Cala's her name? She not give you any for that stunt you pulled the last time you were here, Mr hero? I'd say you earned a trip 'tween those thighs."

Gate #2:

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 2:16 pm

"None of your business you old pervert!"

Something was going wrong here. He landed a solid combo on the guy, but instead of getting weaker, he seemed to be getting stronger? The recognition scanner still needed a couple more minutes to get a complete scan. This was surely something unexpected.

Or this all had to be some sort of bluff. The old man was hurt, he was just making it seem that he was fine. He was half bionic after all, it would be easy to fool his sensors into believing that he was somehow becoming stronger and faster. Vigilante decided to try his bluff. He had him figured out to be on the ropes and desperate.

The Jets boost V across the room. The kid executed a jumping roundhouse kick, with the intentions of driving his right foot into the left temple of the crime boss Xan and possibly put the old buzzard into a coma.

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:56 pm

...Then the destruction began.

When the kid's toy boots fired up to move him, Xan went into motion. An intercepting kick with the left leg aimed at the stomach. It was a Multi-Hit Strike that would feel like it hit 6 times in the same place, in one focused strike. The body blow would be agony on the insides should any of the 6 strikes penetrate his defenses, opening him for several knife-like strikes to the head area. Fists would rapidly speed toward the jaw and eye sockets. Xan didn't really care what kind of damage he did to the kid's fancy suit of armor, but on the inside of it he was more than likely feeling the impact of the blows.

Multi-Hit Strike:

"KA--" Hard right kick toward the ribs. "ME--" Left hook toward the jaw. "HA--" Elbow toward the mid-section. "ME--" Thrusting kick toward the chest to send him flying backwards, while curling his arms to his left side, a sphere of red Chi appearing between his palms, concentrating it so that it didn't cause too much damage. (As Chi was mostly life energy, this meant that any attempts at negation would be invalid.)

"HAA!" Xan threw his arms forward, blasting fourth a small energy beam toward the kid, who'd be firing backwards. If the beam hit him there would be a small explosion which would further rattle the kid inside of his suit of armor. What kind of damage would be done to it? Xan didn't know and didn't care. He'd just wait and see. Unless the kid had a way of boosting his strength and speed, he was going to wake up in pain tomorrow morning.

Kamehameha:

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 4:23 pm

It was no bluff! By the time he realized this there was nothing he could do to avoid the coming punishment. Only one kick came, but by some means to went through each layer of the shield and even hit him once. A foot straight to the gut. The Heads-up display began to fuzz like snow on a tv everytime he got hit with everything that came behind it. He started saying something that V really couldn't hear since by then he was seeing stars and hearing a strange whistling sound. He flew backwards after a kick, then something red hit him while he was in the air, and exploded.

V landed...somewhere. One of his eyes started to swell. The taste of blood was in his mouth, and it hurt to move. It dawned on him that maybe he'd finally gotten in over his head. The shield was totally gone and would take 5 minutes to re-charge, but even then, the old man could just go through it again in one of those multi blows. Some of his armor was blown off, but the Nanoids started slowly rebuilding it. His only hope as he lie there in pain was the Physiology Recognition, If he could somehow land a hit on the old fart, then he thought he had him.

But how? He was too damn fast...He needed a plan.

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[Kinetic Energy Count= 2]

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:29 pm

"Nothing to say now, kid? No funny one liners out of a comic book? Real talkative a second ago when you thought you were gonna beat up the old man, right? Gonna take down a crime boss, become a bonafide super hero! Look at'cha, down there on the ground, still wet behind the ears. You think this shit is a game, kid? There ain't no reset buttons here to save you!"

Xan executed a stomping motion toward the kid's head. If the kid was stupid he'd lie there and realize that a stomp executed at +4 speed was aimed toward his forehead. Was he even going to move out of the way? Was the kid that soft to be KO'd by just one combo? This was where he'd see what the kid was made of.

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:10 pm

His arms formed an "X" above his head to block the stomp aimed there. If the block was successful, V would attempt to counter the stomp by standing and pushing the leg upward with such force that Xan would be sent into a back flip.

Once risen completely to his feet, Vigilante then executed a right handed power blow toward the airborne Xan, assuming he was still in mid-air. The blow would probably do little damage, but it would push Xan away from him a distance to give him time to gather himself and form a plan. Right now, all options were heavily pointing toward running away. He was obviously no match for someone who could become stronger and faster at will. V had no such techniques. Perhaps another conversation with Alec was in order. If he got out of here....

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[Kinetic Energy Count= 3]

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:24 pm

This kid's gotta know he's got no hope and he's still trying to fight. Impressive.

Ok, so Xan was thrown into a back flip. That was ok, he would use that momentum. When thrown, he rolled with that. His body flipped around, doing an entire revolution before Xan launched a kick, while falling backward to land on his back. If timed correctly, it would slam into the chest of the red V wearing kid around the same time that the right hand he launched would hit Xan. The right hand? That was gonna hurt, yeah, but the foot that was about to slam into the kid's chest? If it hit, which 9 times out of 10 it would, he was going night-night.

Time to wrap this up...

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 8:39 pm

So it was an unavoidable collision course. It all came down to who was going to hit the hardest. There was a small moment in time in which V was able to realize he was about to go down for the count. If that was really the case, he was going to make this old fart remember him, and let him know that his victory didn't come easy.

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A beep sound, milliseconds before his fist impacted Xan let V know that before he got kicked with the blow that was going to put him to sleep, the punch Xan was about to get hit with would sting long after it hit him. As an extra going away present, as both blows hit their intended targets, Vigilante released all of his built up kinetic energy.

[Kinetic Energy Count= 4]

With that much energy built up, this meant that the nasty punch that just hit Xan was now going to throw him through several walls and possibly as far as 2 buildings distance behind him. This, of course, was a double edged sword. Vigilante was going to be launched in the opposite direction on his own trip several blocks over through walls, concrete, family homes, businesses and who's guess what else, all while slipping into unconsciousness, leaving behind a dustcloud from his trail of destruction...

/Exit, unless searched for and found/

Subject: Re: Hero Vs Villain [Open, NR] Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:07 pm

Son of a BITCH.

What the fuck was this? Some wild kind of force hit him as he hit the kid. The punch he landed stung for some reason. He found that he couldn't shrug the blow off like he normally did, and found that he was in pain. The force sent Xan flying backwards to smash through the walls behind him, blowing his way outside around the same time that the kid went out the front way. Fuck. Another mess to clean up, another fortune to be spent...

So after flying a while, smashing through a wall, sliding across a table that a family was sitting at having dinner, and finally getting control of himself after smashing through another wall, Xan fell down into the streets below to land and sit down in the doorway between 2 houses. Whatever the hell that kid did, it hurt. Debris from his mess above came raining down into the streets, and there was much commotion behind what just happened.

Nice one, kid. You might just be the one to learn what I have to teach after all. Go heal up from your wounds...Then maybe we'll go again...

-Exit-

Citizen Posts : 2 Credits : 50

Multiple cameras caught footage of Xan over-powering The Vigilante, hitting him many times, knocking him backwards, and shooting what appeared to be a beam of energy from the palms of his hands. The beam hits The Vigilante and explodes.

"Oh no! Vigilante is down! Let's hope this isn't the end for him, folks! Get up, V!" rallied Stacey. "We believe in y---Oh? stand by folks, we're being fed new footage... It appears that the other mysterious hero with the green eyes was caught on camera foiling the attempted robbery of a convenience store in the meat quarter..." Stacey shared the footage of Spook slicing the guns and beating the robbers into submission. He bought a bag of chips and left in the end. "Interesting developments indeed! We'll keep our eyes peeled for more sightings of this mystery man! But meanwhile--"

Xan attempts to stomp The Vigilante, but the young man does something that sends Xan into a back flip. Xan kicks as Vigilante punches. It is unclear what exactly happens, but there is a reaction so violent that sends both fighters speeding in opposite directions, smashing their way through the walls of the surrounding buildings. The camera man does his best to catch it all on film, while the flying bots record every angle.

"Ohmygod...ohmygod, we're not sure what just happened, but it looks like both fighters are down! Could this be the end of The Vigilante?..."

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