SageAcrin
*Seven days ago...*
"Hmmm." Edge said, glancing over the list of the week's matchups as they were posted.
As usual, the event had drawn somewhat of a crowd, among those who hadn't bothered to find out about the matches that hadn't blown up half the Duelling League.
"Are any of these worth watching? Transvestite against cold swordgirl, couple of vampire-wannabees...Galam..." Edge shuddered, recalling one of his recent "matches" for a moment. "...Avoiding him as much as possible for the rest of my life....hmmm, most of these matches are pretty dull...hmm. A fox lady against a foxy lady. Interesting."
"Eheheh, I bet you have something planned." Sten said, looking sideways at Edge. "But it can't possibly beat what I'm planning! It'll leave a mark forever!"
"You couldn't plan your way out of a paper bag, Sten." Edge said, smirking.
"What!? You just wait!" Sten said, running off.
"Heheh. Now, which arena is th-...oh. Leave it to monkey brain to figure out the obvious trick you can do with a arena with a mudpit trapdoor in it." Edge said, chuckling.
"He doesn't even remember what happened to the last person that messed with that? Or that the thing's been trapped for ages by the best mages and technological minds in the League? It's not like it was done in secret... Oh, this will be great." Edge said, laughing and rubbing his hands together. "Maybe I can even show him up, to add insult to injury...well, as long as Rydia doesn't catch me..."
*Seven days later...*
"Eheheheheheh...ahahahah! My greatest work is here!" Sten cackled, as he looked over his crudly constructed switch box. "With this, which I stole from Lexis after I had him make it for me, so I didn't have to pay him!"
"Are...you sure that thing will work?" Zidane said dubiously, looking at the box.
"Lexis isn't known for getting things to work right on his first try." Sheena Lepant said, staring at the box. "I...think I'll just watch this whole thing from as far away as I can get. Even I have limits."
"Coward! Spineless! Bah." Sten yelled after Sheena, as he walked out of the room. "Now, let's get into position..."
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"Hehehe. Glad you decided to join us." Edge said to Sheena, lounging under a tree.
"It should be an interesting show, though we'll have to see it on the little screen here." Yuri said, patting a nearby portable TV. "You won't see much from here, but trust me, it'll be a great show. Still, you didn't tell anyone, right?"
"That you two were leaving the arena alone, going away from the fight between two cute girls? No, I'm not stupid." Sheena said, grinning. "So, what's the plan?"
"Simple enough." Edge said, pulling out a small controller. "First, we wait for the chimp to make his move...."
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"Hmmm. I trust we can make this a clean fight?" Karin said, smiling at Ursula.
"Of course. There's no need to worry about it degenerating into a brawl. A simple battle until first blood will do." Ursula said, stretching her arms. "After all, I trust you to fight honorably." She said, as the battle was announced started.
"It's time! It's time!!" Sten laughed exicitedly from his seat in the stands, as he pulled out his controller, the nearby seated perverts leaning forward with baited breath as Sten happily pressed the button...
And the doors to the pit in the arena sprung open. Upwards.
Not even for the first time in the arena history...however, the last time they did that had been a jury-rigging accident. This was far more purposeful.
Any number of traps had been laced on that pit, as anyone remotely intelligent had figured out by now. Even Lexis knew it, which was why he had been working on a more advanced model than the prototype that Sten had stolen, because his current model wouldn't get around those traps...
As the crowd watched, stunned, a massive vortex of flames wrenched out of the pit and snatched Zidane, Sten, and their crew of loyal-yet-stupid perverted friends into mid-air, charring them to a crisp.
Then several small hatches opened up near the pit, and several turrets on the outer rim sprang to life, opening up on the center of the vortex. Missiles, lasers, Magitek beams, arcs of lightning and blasts of ice converged on the target. Then, as the stunned crowd watched, the devastating blast was caught in a Graviton Cannon blast, and simple crushed it's self out.
Leaving half a dozen people raining to the arena floor.
Still alive. The best trap, it was decided, was one that trained people off doing things again, rather than killing them. Studying Yu Yevon has proven useful in producing a projectable auto-life field, as it turned out. Piastol had spared no expenses.
"...I'm...so glad I didn't go with them." Sheena said, his jaw hanging open at the scene on the screen.
"And now for the fun." Edge said. "It turns out, Lexis was quite willing to do a little work for free for me, just to humiliate that monkey more than he was going to be." He said, pressing a button.
And a massive cannon rose out of the ground, splitting the fake tree that the two of them had been sitting under in half.
"Presenting the Creamonade, Lexis Shaia's greatest invention. Capable of...well, you'll see." Edge said, pressing another button.
Two massive, shock-absorbing secondary arms branched down from the cannon, the barrel of the cannon extended, shone with various random and pointless lights, and something incredible happened.
Four thousand gallons of high pressure cream, whipped instantly by the barrel's design, blasted out of the cannon, on a high arc trajectory.
Towards the arena.
"My...god." Sheena said, staring at the screen, as Ursula, covered in whipped cream, staggered to her feet. "This is..."
"The best thing science has ever done for the world. That Shaia's a genius." Yuri said, smiling.
"Sadly, though, I think Sten may have still won." Edge said.
"No one will forget him bursting into flames like that." Edge said, sighing, as he watched the drenched Karin and Ursula slide around in what was now a massive vat of whipped cream...
"Though, I suggest we run. Karin just slipped and knocked her self out. She may not appreciate finding out who helped cost her this match." Yuri said, stretching.
"Agreed." Sheena and Edge said, laughing...
Ursula: 31
Karin Koenig: 30
CmdrKing
Heading toward her locker room to freshen up before the epic military matchup, Karin was confronted by an oddly formal, blue-haired woman.
"Lt. Karin Koenig?"
"Yes?"
"I have been sent to inform you that your locker room is no longer available."
"What? But I... I need to get ready! What's going on?!"
"It has been destroyed by the coital violence of Veronica Vera and Grigori Rasputin. While I have been sent to dispatch them and collect compensation, you must also be informed that you must use Locker Room Number two, two, three, zero."
Thoroughly baffled and desperately trying to clear her mind of horrible images, Karin made her way to the specified room.
Within, she quickly began to change, dropping Cornelia's hand-me-downs in favor of her old Army uniform. Midway through, she noticed rather suddenly she was not alone. Fighters she vaugly identified as Nel, Elly, Lucca, Emily, Shion... all woman who, at least under the right light and with a fair deal of myopia, had red hair.
They were all also rather shockingly naked. And entirely too close together.
Again willing her brain to simply shut down, Karin did up her buttons and fled to the relative sanity of the Arena. Ursula, her opponent was there. Ursula's pants, an article of clothing, was not. Apparently the young Captain had been in conversation with an unnamed monkey-man and taken a rather bizzare dare.
Karin, upon yet another attempt on her mind, finally lost it. Screaming "This is for the children!", she launched herself, using her rapier not so much as a sword as an old fashioned bludgeon. Some claim repeated shouts of "Die foul innuendo die" were heard, although this can't be confirmed.
Also unconfirmed are reports of sudden skyrockets in the sale of Pure Extract, though financial news may be able to do so at the end of the week.
Meanwhile, Captain Ursula is still being scraped from the arena floor, though they have worked up to snow shovels instead of plows.
LegendaryCountryBoy
As awesome as Ursula, her best power stuff is Fire elemental, and Karin takes less damage from Fire.
Now, a non-classed sword dance is Karin's best. And Ursula isn't exactly a defensive queen.
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