Monkey Business

“Well, since you know, give a bit of that fire back!” Nero stretched a little bit before continuing both talking and the pressure of the match they had come to. “C’mon, only you can hit that kind of stride!” Zhalla grumbled but eventually got up to stand. She always got back up, but this was noticeably slower than usual. She didn’t have that level of motivation that she normally had, and Nero didn’t even hit her that hard to begin with!

Still, he knew that she would eventually bring her best, that is something that she also always ended up doing. In Nero’s opinion, she needed to do that now more than ever since she would be doing it not just for herself but for those that she cared about.

A little bit more of her normal effort began to show itself when she began a charge forward, some ki focused into her musculature. Nero also charged forward, at least that was what it looked like at first. As soon as he got close enough, Nero gave Zhalla a wink and in a flash of light, swiftly sprung himself upward, aiming to clear jump over her while also leaving a duplication of himself exactly where he was, trying to make it seem like she had tackled him over, at least at first— for all he knew she might even see right through that trick, maybe it wouldn’t even work at all, but she needed to wake up and take things seriously so everything he did was part of a plan to get through to her with that.