Zarene Yin [v] Arkandos Phelan

[Dire Wolf]

The air rushes from the top of the mountain to the valley below, animals can be heard in the distance, apparently oblivious to what was about to happen.

Zarene Yin [v] Arkandos Phelan
Duration: 6 Rounds
Dark Jedi v. Mandalorian Cyborg
First attack to the Challenger.

3.... 2.... 1..... GO! (Super Smash Brothers voice)

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Thump.

Something was coming,... something big. Zarene Yin scanned her surroundings quickly. The young dark jedi was standing in a field of tall grass, with mountains in the distance and forest and a small lake nearby. Whatever it was, she couldn't see it yet. But she could hear it, and she knew that it was hunting for her.

Thump.

It was definitely getting closer, but where was it? Somewhere in the trees most likely, considering she still couldn't see it yet. Or perhaps the better question at the moment would have been "what was it?"

Doesn't matter, she thought, crouching down in the tall grass. It wouldn't hide her whole body, but she didn't want to feel completely exposed just standing there in the open. I've seen and survived plenty of battles before. This is just one more. You'll see that I am NOT easy prey!

Still crouching, she did a quick weapons check. Lightsaber hanging at her belt? Check. Twin blasters in their holsters? Check. Full bandolier of ammo? Check. She removed a small explosive rocket from the pouch at her waist, one of a half-dozen. The top panel of her mechanical arm popped open with a quiet click, and she loaded the warhead into the launching mechanism inside. Check.

Thump.

Come out wherever you are. I'm ready for you.

A dark shadowed shape was emerging from the woods. Quickly, Zarene seized control of the Force, letting its power flow through her, as her blasters leaped from their holsters into her waiting hands. The... thing... was coming into view, and it was big! It was easily ten feet tall, a giant cyborg creature with a huge laser cannon where its arm should have been. "Bloody ----! You've gotta be kidding me..." she muttered as she raised her blasters and prepared to fight.

[Zarkan]

Arkandos' broad armored feet crunched through the undergrowth as the armored Juggernaut labored through the lightly forested alpine woods of the mountain valley. Ah, patrol Ark thought as remembered this reason for being out in the woods that day. Any soldiers first hate he finished his thought with a light chuckle before turning about to look at his surroundings he had long since deactivated his RADAR; the tool being of no use in woods at high noon. He held his primary weapon a multibarreled laser cannon easily in his left hand not expecting trouble as he continued his slow easy pace through the valley stooping dead now and again to admire a bird to a tree here and there.

Ark stopped at a small stream cutting through the forest and became still for several minutes simply starring at his form in the water and the occasionally fish zipping down the channel of water. The crack of a twig drew the cyborg's attention across the river switching his infered system on he could just make out the image of a small herd of prong horn like animals moving about the woods. Sighing he began his march once more his first step sending a cascade of startled birds skywards and the deer-like beasts scattering in each direction. His second step brought him into the stream and a third step brought him to the far bank.

Truthfully the assault droid bodied mandalorian was paying very little attention to his surroundings as he finally breached the edge of the woods. Movement to his right caught his attention and the inferred pierced the tall grass and showed the vague outline of a woman gripping twin blaster pistols. Swining his left arm up he griped the fore grip of the cannon with his right arm and unlocking the safety let the six barrels spin for several moments before actually depressing the trigger and spraying a burst of yellow bolt over the woman's head in warning before speaking. "In the authority of mandalore Surrender!"

[Dire Wolf]

Round 1

Zarene
Effort: 4/5
Fairness: 4/5
Detail: 4/5
Coolness: 4/5
Bonus: 0/2
Comments: Keep up the good work, Zark only got a point on you because he went into detail a little more than you did

Ark
Effort: 4/5
Fairness: 4/5
Detail: 5/5
Coolness: 4/5
Bonus: 0/2
Comments: Keep up the good work

Total:

Zarene: 16
Ark: 17

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The incoming shots flew high, but Zarene instinctively ducked anyway.

She took the next few moments to quickly size up her opponent. Having never fought anything quite like what she was facing right now before in her life, she really didn't where to start. First time for everything, and he's not going to wait forever for a response. Standing up straight as confidently as she could, Zarene raised her voice. "Surrender to you, metal-head? I don't think so!"

In the past, she was used to being able to bash her opponents with her mechanical right arm, or slice through them with her lightsaber. Those probably weren't going to work here. Up against his cannon her blasters looked like a pair of little pea-shooters. The grassy fields offered little cover, and her opponent was many times her size, and far more heavily armed and armored. She couldn't rely on most of her normal tactics here. She had to fight smart.

Adjust and adapt. That's always been the way to survive, she thought as she reached out with the Force, First things first, the infrared sensors on his head,... those have to go.

From the shore of the nearby stream, a stone the size of a human head rose from the ground lifted by invisible hands, wobbling slightly. Hoping that the giant cyborg would be too focused on her to notice the levitating rock to his left, she sent the stone hurtling towards his infrared sensors with a flick of her wrist. She then aimed her blasters towards her opponent, pressed one trigger and then the other.

[Zarkan]

The seconds ticked by as Arkandos stood watching the woman listened to the sound of the winds blowing across the grass the sound of the nearby river it was almost, tranquil it was a shame he'd have to disturb it. The woman took her time slowly raising though not much in insulting the proud warrior and causing his ire to rise. His posture still and almost lose with his knees bowing slightly under the weight of his torso belayed the anger that coursed through his mind as he prepared himself for the fight.

Lifting his Cannon and directing his reticule on the woman he would have completely missed the stone practically skipping on the waves of the air if not for the automated warning system in his mechanical body sending warning zaps onto his brain and arrows on his H.U.D. Still even with this his dodge came just in time for the heavy stone to strike just a inch to the left of his head. Arkandos didn't even bother attempting to evade the blaster fire that harmlessly splattered with a quick nova of light against the cyborg's energy shield.

Though outwardly calm ark was a little annoyed that the young pup wouldn't see reason and surrender. With a vocal sigh ark brought the cannon up and fired a burst of more than one hundred golden yellow bolts scorching through the air at the young force using woman.

[Dire Wolf]

Round 2

Zarene
Effort: 4/5
Fairness: 4/5
Detail: 4/5
Coolness: 4/5
Bonus: 0/2
Comments: Keep it up

Ark
Effort: 4/5
Fairness: 3/5
Detail: 4/5
Coolness: 4/5
Bonus: 0/2
Comments: The only reason you got a lower fairness this time is 'cause you are fighting with a 10' tall walking tank/cyborg with a medium laser cannon on his arm. Other than that keep up the good work, Zark.

Total:

Zarene: 32
Ark: 32

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Blast! He evaded the rock AND he's got energy shields?! Zarene barely had time to mutter a few curses before her opponent retaliated with a stream of yellow plasma bolts. Only one thing she could do noew. She ran.

The ground where she had been standing a moment before exploded, pelting her with a shower of dirt and gravel. One screw-up, one hit from his cannon and she would go down. She had to keep moving, had to be fast and unpredictable if she wanted any hope of surviving this encounter. Pushing off the ground, she flipped high into the air, feeling her heart stop for a moment as several bolts passed under her within inches of her head. Too close!

Landing on her feet, she replied to his shots with a few of her own, blood red bolts answering golden yellow. She knew that those blaster bolts wouldn't even put a scratch on him, but each impact between blaster and shield did produce a blinding flash of white light. Something to use to her advantage perhaps? If he couldn't see her clearly, then he wouldn't be able to aim properly, and she could use the opportunity to get closer.

Moving towards him in a zig-zagging motion, using the Force to enhance her movements, Zarene dodged and jumped while keeping up a steady stream of fire, emptying out an entire pair of energy packs. She hoped that the flashing lights were doing their job, as patches of earth erupted around her.

Don't let up. Keep moving. Can't kill what you can't hit... what am I going to do when I get closer anyways? she thought, mind racing. Can't out-firepower him at this range... can't keep dodging forever. He's tiring me out,... I need to move closer...

Over the years Zarene had practiced her own quick method for reloading her pistols with the aid of the Force. A quick press of a button, and the empty packs were ejected while she used the Force to pull a new pair from her belt. Swinging her arms horizontally behind her body in one smooth motion, the handles of her blasters lined up with the floating energy packs, which slid into place with a quick click. All in less than a second, and just in time too, for as soon as she finished this maneuver a yellow bolt streaked through the air were her arm had just been, burning through her sleeve and singeing her skin on her upper left arm. Way too close! It was just a surface burn, but it hurt!

Zarene wouldn't let this shake her though. She had to focus! Continuing her erratic zig-zagging movements, she raised her blasters and continued firing.

[Zarkan]

Arkandos watched on grimly as he rained laser cannon bolt towards the woman sending spouts of dirt, clay, and sand several meters into the sky generated a thin hazy dust increased by smoke from fires that began licking through the plain as globs of molten glass and flaming debris landed in the under brush. Despite the common believe among non-mandalorians Ark like most mandos would rather a unequal foe flee than be forced to kill them and even at this point he still wasn't aiming for a "kill shot" as he fired a stream of bolts below the flipping woman. Pain shot through his mind as the blinding lights of the blaster bolts splattering against his sheilds appeared directly over his photoreceptors leaving a bright white after image on his mind for several moments he couldn't even see the woman. With a simple mental cue the brutes shields flickered off as a flurry of blaster bolts rained down on his beskar carapace sending thin rivulets of molten mandolorian iron running down his chest as he returned the favor by spraying the area around her down with his laser cannon.

Quick little one. Arkandos thought as he watched her change her blaster back in a scant few seconds and a jedi he realized as he caught sight of a lightsaber attached to her belt. I deep slow sigh escaped his vocabulator as he saw the thin puff of smoke from her sleeve as one of his bolts seared a line along it's width. "Come, young jedi." he said as he took two thundering steps towards the woman the some what soft ground supporting his weight narrowly by the mat of grass roots laying above it. "See reason and surrender, there is no reason for you to expire on this world."

Arkandos took another step towards the woman his left foot causing the ground to sag a great deal under his thirteen hundred pound mass and as he lifted up his right foot his left punched through the mat casting the cyborg off balance and he crashed on his left side. He cursed out loud as he rolled slightly he left arm now also sunk deep in the wet clay as he struggled to lift his mass up in the increasingly unstable ground.. Releasing his hold on the cannon ark flung it away from himself with out his other arm to steady it the weapon was almost useless and pulled his "rifle" ;actually a modifed medium blaster cannon, from it's clamp on his right back and readied it.

[Dire Wolf]

Round 3

Zarene
Effort: 4/5
Fairness: 5/5
Detail: 5/5
Coolness: 5/5
Bonus: 0/2
Comments: good work ^^

Ark
Effort: 4/5
Fairness: 4/5
Detail: 5/5
Coolness: 5/5
Bonus: 1/2
Comments: I do have to give you props for sinking into the mud like that, while I hesitate to give you a 5/5 in fairness (for obvious
reasons) you get 1 bonus point for that little 'sinking into the mud' thing.
Total:

Zarene: 51
Ark: 51

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So much for Plan A..., Zarene thought as her opponent lowered his shields, instead relying on his thick armor to absorb her shots, which it was apparently doing very well at. She ground her teeth in frustration. It wasn't fair!

Fortunately, she got her break when the giant cyborg advanced, lost his balance in the slippery mud, and sank several feet into the ground. The spray of yellow plasma bolts stopped as he tossed aside his enormous cannon in exchange for a smaller but still impressively large blaster rifle.

It was just the opening that Zarene needed. The Force powering her stride, she holstered her blasters and sprinted forward. Her lightsaber detached itself from her belt and flew into her hand, blue blade igniting with a snap-hiss. She had been considered particularly skilled with a lightsaber, but for what she needed to do right now, the skills she had would be enough.

Unfortunately, the mud did not discriminate when it came to who it would trip up, as Zarene learned soon learned. Her foot slipping on the wet ground, she struggled to keep her balance as her opponent raised and readied his new weapon.

No!

Her feet lacked the traction on the ground to allow her to change direction to dodge his shots, so she dropped. Gasping, she lost her grip on her saber as she used her arm to break her fall, landing hard on her bottom. However, the momentum she had before kept her body sliding forwards in the slippery mud, and she let it carry her towards her opponent. There was no time to retrieve her lost saber, but she wasn't out of tricks just yet.

Thirty feet separated the two combatants. Zarene focused, raised her cybernetic right arm, and took aim.

Click. The top panel of her arm sprung open, revealing the small rocket launcher hidden within. She held her aim steady as she slid, targeting the joints of his weapon arm.

Click. Rocket armed. Twenty-five feet.

A sharp hiss and smoke filled the air, and the missile screamed as it streaked towards its target. Shockwaves rippled through her arm, only partially absorbed by the dampeners in her shoulder. Quickly she dropped her body to a completely horizontal position, using her hand to shield her face from the blast.