“Hello martial arts fans!” The voice of the announcer echoed throughout the grand arena as he greeted the energetic crowd from his announcer’s box, eliciting a cheer from the audience who had gathered to watch the match and root for their favorites.
“Wow, you can really feel the electricity in the air! So what do you say we get this party started!?” The crowd cheered in affirmation, ready for the match to begin.
“Alright then! Round one of the Tournament of Glory features Captain Verst and Bee! Give ‘em a warm welcome!” As the combatants stepped onto the pristine alabaster tiles of the arena, a dome of bright blue energy formed to encase them inside and keep those outside of the arena safe. Once the combatants took their positions, the announcer grinned with excitement. This was always his favorite part.
“Fighters, get ready!” The whole arena fell silent for a moment. So silent, one could hear a pin drop. At last, the announcer signaled the start of the match.
“BEGIN!!!” Raising his hand with a cheer, the crowd went absolutely ballistic. It was sure to be an electrifying match. The crowd cheered on the participants, eager to see what they could do.
Post by Captain Verst on Sept 13, 2024 19:30:29 GMT -5
From a pit in the ground to an arena in the sky, the recent tournaments have been varied and intriguing. Though, now this one was on Earth, a distant densley populated planet, on the far side of the galaxy from Arcose, yet some would call it important. Verst found its ambiguous nature absurd, it was neither hot like Namek, nor cold like home. It wasn’t evenly split in two like Plant, it was awash with biomes and terrains. Life here moved out of necessity with the changing of months, day and night were drastic shifts here, and the cities were named obnoxiously, as though there could only be one large settlement per cardinal direction.
He rolled his eyes at the thought as he stepped out of the elevator, marching towards the centre he barely paused when entered the marked square and heard the commentator’s speech, no doubt they had said a variation a dozen times over, and another dozen dozen times to follow it. But here Verst was, his opponent, Kay Bee…
A child, why did it always have to be a youth? After the brawl hole, he had hoped there would be solely fit adult fighters here, but disappointment already found its way into his heart.
Without so much as a word, the second Kay Bee entered the arena, Verst took a step, and before the other foot fell, his form had jumped up two feet, and bulked up significantly, as he charged at the small figure, his lower limbs swinging at them with violent intentions, kicks and tail sweeps, testing the youth’s defences.
Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 13, 2024 19:56:41 GMT -5
Bee walked out onto the stage, twiddling his little thumbs. He was nervous, if he was honest. Kabe had told him he was a little champion, that he'd be fine, but Bee wasn't so sure. Little insectoid fingers clicked against eachother as he walked up the stairs and onto the stage. Across from him was some big serious-looking man. An Acrosian, or whatever those lizard guys were called. "Hi!" he called out, waving.
But the man didn't say hi, didn't wave back. Didn't even say anything at all. He just rushed forward and before Bee could really throw up his guard since he'd been expecting some kind of fanfare like tournaments were for, he felt kicks hit him upside the head followed by tails that swept him over, knocking him flat onto his face on the ground. "Ow, ow, ow!" he shouted, pulling his arms up.
Eventually he rolled out of harms way and stood up. "That mean! Not do what suppposed! Bully!" Bee huffed, and he puffed, and his body shifted into something big and scary. That was how you scared away bullies, right? Or big cats... he'd ask later. Right now he had a lot of energy bubbled up inside of him and he shouted out, spewing it towards his opponent. "BULLY!!"
/BEE [PL 33,000 (297,000) | DMG 80 | KP 0 MP 2]
BEE takes 80% damage!
BEE uses [Heavy] Hetap Blast for 6KP! 100% = 297,000 headed for Verst!
Post by Captain Verst on Sept 14, 2024 16:03:04 GMT -5
Between strikes Verst would sputter out the sentence “Why… do people… always… want… to… talk… in… a… FIGHT!” After the last strike, and the younger opponent had to recover, he strode around the centre of the arena. Being called a bully was definitely the weakest thing he had been called in his life. He laughed as the small child-like being stood up and proclaimed it as though it would wound the Sun Raider.
Alas, it was not alone. A great blast of energy followed it and caught the laughing Arcosian off guard; his eyes opened to the bright light searing towards him and before he could react it struck him squarely in the chest. As the force sent him sprawling to the floor, he took a pained breath and stood back up. His bracer opened as a small turret protruded from it pointed towards his opponent and fired a bright yellow orb at them.
Verst took a moment to catch his breath and regain his form. Before planning his next assault. Hoping to finish this fight quickly, that last attack hurt, and he couldn’t take too many of them in a row. “I’ll show you. I’m worse than a Bully by far.”
Post by Captain Kabe on Sept 16, 2024 16:34:18 GMT -5
"Yes! Bee strongest! Suckee!" Bee shouted, putting his hand over his head in the shape of an L, mismatching insults as he proudly beamed at paying back the bully. His attack had worked! Hit the bully and knocked him over onto the floor! Bee was about to proclaim his complete and total victory as the strongest kid in the whole universe when to his dismay his opponent got back up from the ground.
And shot him. He tried to swallow as much of the little energy bullets as he could but they hit him hard, burning at his carapace and skin.
He shook his head and pointed. "No! No! Unfair! Bully stay down!" he growled, face splitting to insectiod maw as he chittered in frustration. He looked out into the crowd and went to shout out to Kabe and point out how he should totally be winning. "Dad! It-" he started to shout, but his dad simply shook his head at him, and shouted out. "Just hit him harder next time little man! You've got this!" Kabe shouted out, and Bee got a determined little look on his face and turned back.
Hit him harder? He could do that. He could hit him so hard!
He transformed, skin stretching until he was as big as an elephant, and he swung his giant insect hands and humanoid fists down onto the arcosian. "Now bully stay down!" he shouted!
Post by Captain Verst on Sept 19, 2024 5:05:33 GMT -5
This annoying little brat. Luckily his blaster had hit the upstart, Verst felt a wave of anger raise within his chest, his heart was pounding. How dare this creature strike an Arcosian, the Captain of the Armored Squadron. Their defiance was adorable, as they looked to the crowd for their support.
‘His father?’ Verst thought. A saiyan in the crowd responded. It was one of the Saiyan Kingdom’s highest ranking members. The Sun Raider turned to the crowd. “I’m afraid your son isn’t going to get that chance." He turned back to Kaybee, just in time too, as the now giant form of the youth came barreling towards him.
Ultimately size was never a decider for strength however, the four arms were giving Verst some trouble, even with his tail it was hard to combat all of the limbs as a few made hard connections, knocking him back across the arena, but he kept his footwork and readjusted and realigned more than he blocked. There was no ki being forced into these hits, so while they hurt, his armour dealt with most of the force.
The annoyance had finally reached a breaking point, as Verst took a nasty jab to his ribcage from one of the insectoid limbs, he roared with the pain, his aura flared, larger than it had before. His arms became enhanced with red and yellow energy swirling around his forearms, as he started to use them like hammers, knocking away the last couple of attacks, Verst would leap into the air and start hammering downwards towards the head and shoulders of the giant beast.
Oct 20, 2024 18:31:30 GMT -5
Marimba: Yep. Better than ever too.
Oct 20, 2024 21:26:39 GMT -5
Rhuba: I wish I saw Marimba talk more in the Discord.
Oct 21, 2024 16:21:05 GMT -5
Yakito: Marimbus will perish by my hands.
Oct 22, 2024 2:13:57 GMT -5
Chomei: Marimbus will persevere by my hands.
Oct 22, 2024 4:38:31 GMT -5
Rhuba: Why is he preserving your hand?
Oct 22, 2024 15:18:52 GMT -5
Pom: Maybe he likes it?
Oct 22, 2024 17:04:34 GMT -5
Marimba: It'll come in handy some day
Oct 23, 2024 12:26:15 GMT -5
Mister Steel: Chomei's estate is vast, and marriage into the family can only benefit Marimba with access to cattle, pasture land, and much grain to feed his armies.