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Hitomi had finally regained the use of her limbs, and stood up as Ruby rached her. Hitomi gave the cat girl a smile before cocking amd raising her shotgun. [color=ffdd99]“I’m fine,”[/color] she replied, though at that very moment, the door opened and the flying boy from before entered the fray. Damn. Where were Roy and JoJo? Had they been beaten? [color=ffdd99]“Ruby, can you deal with him? He’s setting off my predatorial fears and if I fought him,  can’t promise I won’t faint again. I’ll handle the other two. With Luelle flinging fire, I doubt the last teammate will make an appearance.”[/color]

As Hitomi eyed Luelle, and the soon-to-wake-up Harka, she gulped. It’s all very well acting tough but how was she going to beat them? Her hair was very flammable, and she was no match physically for Haruka’s powersuit. She’d need to think of something. Her brain was her only weapon now. That and her sheep physiology, which she couldn’t imagine being a great help with these opponents.

And then the power went out.

Hitomi grinned. Maybe her sheep physiology would help after all. Though she couldn’t see in total darkness, both sheep and cats have vastly superior night vision to humans provided there’s some light. Hitomi took out her flare, lit it, and threw it into the center of the room. Now that she could see Luelle though she couldn’t see Hitomi nearly as well in the dim red light of the flare, the sheep girl charged her opponent, horns-first. This put her at great risk as she was one fireball away from getting her head set alight, but she would just have to hope that she butted heads with Luelle before that happened.


Seeing that it was indeed just Hitomi’s sheepy nature and not any wound inflicted to her managed to calm Ruby down somewhat. She returned the smile to Hitomi, which was probably one of her first every smiles towards her teammate, and nodded. [color=a187be]“I am glad.”[/color] she managed to say just before the door crashed open and that one opponent from earlier entered. Admittedly, it took a moment for Ruby to recognize who it was, but once she did it hit her like a brick. [color=a187be]“What about that Roy guy and the fast girl?”[/color] Yes she had already forgotten their names sadly. She didn’t exactly have the best memory. 

With a confirming nod Ruby left Hitomi’s side to face Acion in front of her. The grip of her right hand on the handle of her large blade tightened, the pain from her left hand which was somewhat burned was still ever-so present in her mind, but it didn’t matter. [color=a187be]“Not looking too great is it huh…”[/color] Ruby whispered to herself before pointing her sword at Acion. 
[color=a187be]“What have you done to my teammates?!” [/color]
Right when she shouted the question at Acion, the lights cut off. The sudden darkness startled Ruby and her eyes needed a few moments to adjust to the lack of light. However, this was what she could take advantage off. Her feline features ensured her a better vision in the darkness, a trait which would be surely of great use here. Just a few moments after darkness settled in she already had her eyes on the shape of Acion which she could somewhat see. Hoping he was not able to see her, Ruby leapt forward and charged into his direction with her trusty sword by her side, ready to strike.

While the sheep girl didn’t seem to mind him, the other did. And just as she shouted her expected question, the light in the room went out. 

[color=fff257]”Oh no…”[/color] 

He was utterly unprepared for darkness fights. 

While it wasn’t total and complete darkness, as there were some lights creeping in from the gaps of doors and entrances, as well as the dull red glow of the distant flare, Acion couldn’t see anything. At all. The exit behind him automatically closed, so the only reliable source of light was out of commission. As much as he was concerned, he remembered the moment he was picking out the equipment for the fight. He went right pass the night vision goggle, ignoring it, solely because he didn’t expect to fight in a dark room. The auditorium was supposed to deliver great lights, but there were still a power source responsible for that. And that power source could be cut off. He didn’t think it would come to this.

And he was about to receive his punishment for his short-sightedness.

[color=fff257]”Gah!”[/color] He was struck in the rib by a hard, sharp object. Acion was practically blind, but he could use his survival instinct within him to sense the danger ahead. But that was far from enough. He had predicted the swing coming from the side, and raised his wings to block. But instinct was just one thing. He missed the block, by a few centimeters as it harmlessly slipped through the gap between his two wings and clashed into his torso. Without the armor he had worn, it would have been a lot worse.

[color=fff257]”If you want to know, ask them!”[/color] Acion sharply replied, without looking at Ruby, for the simple reason was that he couldn’t see her. One of his gloved hands gripped onto the blade that just struck him, while the other quickly ripped off a feather from his wings, and held it as a knife. Hoping that the girl was right in front of him, he went forward and prepared for a counter slice. 

Luelle stayed calm as the power gave out. The only light around her was the glow around her hands and eye, but even that was barely enough. This was a situation where she had to stay calm and think straight. Feeling eyes watching her, she moved her head discreetly, her eyes doing most of the wandering. Her eyes caught sight of the flare moving in the air, landing not far from where she was.

Snapping her head towards the area it came from, she located her new opponent. She had somewhat seen Hitomi in battle during her battle with Ruby, but this would be her first time fighting her. She silently took in the female’s form, her mind trying to come up with a way to try and take her down as quickly as possible. 

Deciding to make the first move, her moved her hands around, almost like a Hawaiian dancer with branches on fire, medium size pillars of fire spouted from her form and went towards Hitomi.

It was lucky for Hitomi that the attack was pillars of fire, and not a small, fast fireball, as she wouldn’t have been able to dodge that and it would have hit her slap bang on the top of her head, with her highly flammable wollen hair. As it was, she was able to rear her head up and dive out of the way whilst bringing up her arms to shield herself. This costume was tight and uncomfortable, but she could hug her teacher in Support Class right now for insisting that all their costumes be made out of fire retardant material. The flames did not burn her or her suit, though the heat still hurt and was very uncomfortable for the temperature-sensitive sheep. 

She knew that charging Luelle was now out of the option, but her charging attack had got her close enough to use her shotgun. When the light of the flames died down, Hitomi slunk back into the shadows, and on her light feet, flanked Luelle before raising her shotgun and opening fire. The crowd control beanbag rounds were non-lethal and wouldn’t even cause an injury more major than bruising, but they didn’t half sting if they hit an unarmored part of the body.

Luelle could barely see were Hitomi was even with her fire. By the time Hitomi got close enough it was to late for Luelle to dodge. She tried to blast Hitomi with her warm fire but a beanbag slammed into her shoulder. This caused Luelle’s attack to sweep the area in front of her instead of going direct to Hitomi, but it also made her use hot fire instead, causing a bit of the stage to catch on fire. She tried to throw a fast fireball where she thought Hitomi was, but right after she tossed it Luelle stumbled into the hole that she came into. She landed on her feet but was now in a rather deep pit.

Donny was near by continuing his plan, but also popping in and out to try and see what was going on. Of course, he couldn’t really tell much since it was pitch black. His radar gave him a good idea of where people were at but aside from Luelle throwing fireballs everywhere he couldn’t really see anything in the dim light. He did, however, see Luelle fall into a hole. [color=firebrick]”Shit.”[/color] He said quietly as he stuffed himself back into his meatbag and went to help Luelle. He did notice that he was missing an arm; he’ll have to go find that once this was all over.

[color=firebrick]”Luelle! Are you alright?”[/color]

[color=29B6F6]"Yeah, I'm alright. My chest hurts though"[/color] She said. She sat up and winced. That shot really stung. She looked at Donny.

Donny hid his missing arm and motioned for Luelle to follow him. [color=firebrick]“T-T-This fight isn’t looking too good... B-B-But I have an i-idea. Well. One that I already f-f-finished.  Just need you s-s-s-somewhere safe for now, okay?”[/color]

Luelle nodding, following after him.  She ignored the pain and could already feel the bruising forming.  [color=29B6F6]"What's the plan Donny?"[/color]

Leading Luelle through the tunnels she’d notice that they were going down at first, and the. Started to trek back up. [color=firebrick]“I need to put you somewhere safe and high. I think this spot leads to some staircases going up.” [/color]Donny hide his body as he ate the dirt and cement leading up into the floor, and sure enough he could vaguely make out some sort of door using his cellphone light. [color=firebrick]“Alright, up this way. I don’t know where these stairs lead to but I think you’ll be safe here. When you hear a loud boom that means it’s go time, okay?”[/color]

She nodded. [color=29B6F6]"Thanks Donny. I'm glad you are on this team with me. You will make a great friend."[/color] She said smiling.

Donny's face looked flustered for a second, which Luelle could see since his mask was nowhere to be seen. [color=firebrick]"I... Um... Okay. J-J-Just go upstairs and if you need anything h-h-h-h-hollar."[/color] Donny gulped as he covered his head and went back down into the tunnels. He needed to get Haruka and Acion out of danger too.

Luelle got out of the hole and brushed off the cement and dirt off her. She looked around, seeing the staircase leading up.  It eased her a little bit and she rushed towards the door opening it.

Ruby didn’t enter this exercise to kill anyone. Which is why she was careful, not to use enough force to cut someone in half! Her sword itself is way too thick to really cut anything in half. It is more similar to a large cleaver than anything else. So when she got the hit in she was content to see that it was effective but not too much, even though that caused further problems for her. Since Acion was tougher than what Ruby initially expected, he did seemingly manage to beat her teammates after all, at least to her knowledge, he must be quite strong. She couldn’t afford to be hit and when he swung the feather down in front of him, she had no choice but to dodge. Luckily for the catgirl he couldn’t see anything, which is why his attack was imprecise enough for her to avoid it. 

With her right hand still grabbing onto the sword she used her quirk to freeze it in place and then pounced backwards. The sword itself had the long piece of cloth attached to the handle at the end and with the speed and force of her attack the soft cloth was being pulled behind her. So when Ruby froze the sword the cloth basically remained in its position, horizontally above the floor on the same height as the sword. The feline used this to her advantage and jumped upon it, thinking the highgrounds would be a better position for her. At the same time, freezing the sword would force Acion to retreat and not further attack as the sword was stuck in his side, at least that is what Ruby hoped. 
[color=a187be]“Since they aren’t here and you don’t want to answer me…”[/color] She stood up from her crouching position on the piece of cloth suspended in the air, using her sense of balance to stay on top without tripping and stared at Acion. With the flare behind her, Acion should be able to at least see the outline of Ruby’s figure, even though shrouded in shadows. [color=a187be]“I guess I’ll have to get the answer out of you.”[/color]

The slice didn’t quite hit the mark. It was really dark after all. 

After the attack, his hand promptly released the sword, as he took one moment to truly figure out the girl’s position. With the flare behind her that just popped, he could see her, standing tall on a strangely hovering platform, seemingly intimidating, and issuing a challenge. That figure stuck with him as she spoke. 

The avian man gave one chuckle, and a smile, though unlikely to be seen by Ruby. He liked such determination. And with that same pride and gesture, he replied. 

[color=fff257]”Good. You can try.”[/color]

Target confirmed. 

If he wanted to survive in this fight, he could either run, which defeated all the initial purpose of his arrival, or engage quickly and actually dealt damage. But without precision, since he was in the dark, what better way to engage her than attacking in great masses. Briefly looking back, the light creeping into the room through the door he just entered dictated, generally, how far he was from it. Not far. He could reach it in a few strides. And when the moment came, he suddenly made a dash in the opposite direction of Ruby, towards the door. While it may seem like a withdrawal for a second, the girl would see the figure of Acion suddenly spread his proud mighty wings wide, as he jumped up, one of his feet stepped onto the vertical wall. After stepping on the wall, he turned around, that same foot thrusted him in the opposite direction, now back towards Ruby. And that was when his wings came into play. He made one ferocious flap, propelling him even higher in a parabola. Once he was on the top of the parabola, he used the precious seconds to swing his six wings repeatedly, sending dozens of sharp feathers down at the figure that he could perceive as Ruby. A second later, gravity would begin to pull him down to Earth. He could not risk flying inside without visions. 

While seeing Acions’ smile was too much for even Ruby’s eyes, she did see his shape rushing away from her. While unexpected, she surely wouldn’t let her guard down. After accepting her challenge like that, there was no way the avian would just back away like that, he must’ve planned something…

Ruby jumped overly dramatic down from her position with a backflip, admittedly; She was really enjoying herself, and then unfroze her sword and pulled on the cloth to send it flying towards her, finally catching it with her right hand. Seeing him spread his wings in an impressive manner and fly upwards, Ruby was stuck in awe for a few short moments, before reality hit her again. The feathers were too fast and too small for her to see in this dark room, but she knew how to use her other senses. The moment he launched his feathers the cat’s feline ears twitched. She heard the sound of something moving through the air at a rapid pace. It didn’t sound very pleasant. It was the same kind of noise Ruby heard once before, earlier in the exercise when Acion attacked them. Yes, this had to be the same attack which he had launched earlier. Dozens of sharp and tough feathers, enough to severely injure and incapacitate her. There was no time to waste.
Ruby pulled her cloak forward in the direction where Acion was coming from, using her quirk to turn it into a shield for herself. The feathers would strike down upon the hard cloth and don’t get stuck inside but rather bounce off of it with a loud metal cling. 
After having used her quirk so much already in this battle, she could slowly feel how exhaustion was beginning to slow her actions down. This surely wasn’t the right time for it though, she would have to fight through.

Once the attack was over, ruby would pull the cloak away and look upwards, trying to track Acion. She knew that jumping up would only make her vulnerable. However, there was one idea in her mind…
Rapidly the black haired one began to pick up the feathers that had just bounced off her cloak and then launched them upwards towards Acion, using her quirk to make them stuck mid-air. Now there are around 10-ish feathers in stasis mid-air, spread around above Ruby. If Acion attempted to assault her from the top he would be likely to land on one of the razor-sharp feathers that were immovable.

Yes, now is the chance for a counteratta-

[color=fff257]”Thurrgh!”[/color]

Wait what?! 

She countered him with his own feathers?! 

It didn’t seem like that at all. It wasn’t that Acion’s feathers being thrown back at him, but rather than he collided with it mid-air. Thankfully, the point of collision was his tough wings instead. But then he collided with another one, this time on his back. While he had his armor protecting him, he could feel the edges of his sharp feathers hitting him. Fortunately, that was the end of it, as he fell down unopposed. Furthermore, he had a precious second to adjust himself from touching down in an awkward position that could possibly injure his bones or damaged his organs. He landed in a crouching position, safely. Though he wouldn’t be safe from Ruby’s next attack, which he thought would inevitably come right after.

Inside of her mind Ruby was very happy that her attack worked out. Excited, even. [color=a187be]“Now let’s knock him out”[/color]
Ruby grabbed tightly to her sword, which was sheathed the whole time. However, the sheath is quite thick so it can be used well as a blunt object. If she were to pull it out of its sheath she would just risk unnecessary injuries, and she did not need to… yet.

Anyhow, with the sword tightly in mind and Acion rather closely in front of her, Ruby spun around one time on her foot, gaining momentum, with her right arm extended outward and then used the momentum to launch her sword towards Acion. Yes, she threw it at max speed with the tip of the blunt and hard sheath rushing towards his face. However, as a failsave, Ruby made sure to let the cloth that was attached slide through her palm so that she would be able to stop it with a tight grip, and possibly her quirk, if necessary. While she spun around to launch the sword, she couldn’t help but scream out loudly, the situation got her too excited. [color=a187be]“Taaaaaaaaake This!”[/color]

In that moment after he landed, a second seemed like eternity. He really didn’t like fighting directionless like this. Nor he had trained himself to fight directionless either. A sweat broke from his temple. All his senses were on high alert. 

And then… 

!!!!

He jerked to his right, just as the sword were launched upon him. Half a second later, and he would have taken a direct hit. His senses had saved him in between the hair strands. But did he still take the hit? Yes. The sword grazed through his cheek. He didn’t know whether or not it bleeds, but the pain were apparent. 

What the hell was her quirk that could freeze his feathers in mid-air? Whether that was, attacking from above didn’t seem viable anymore. But going personal wouldn’t be effective either. She had a sword. That meant she should be able to use it effectively. While Acion, though capable of knife attacks, he was not that good due to the gigantic wings he had on his back. But now he didn’t have a choice. Ranged doesn’t work, then he had to go close. 

Right after the sword passed by, he jumped up again, trying to go high, but not as high as the last time he jumped. He aimed for Ruby, and when he touched down he smashed all six gigantic wings down to the ground. And when he stood up, he positioned his wings so that all the sharp edges were placed horizontally. And then he would spin towards wherever she was, for a few rounds like a fidget spinner. A sharp fidget spinner. 

Just when the cloth was about to slip out of her hand fully, Ruby closed her hand tightly and then pulled on it strongly, pulling the sword back to herself just like she did a few moments earlier. This time however it was Acion who was on the offense. Admittedly, the sight of those dangerous wings rushing towards Ruby was somewhat intimidating, but it also helped her realize one important thing: He didn’t understand her quirk yet. 
She smirked and then grabbed the sword with both hands; the adrenaline made her forget that pain that it was causing as she was living just for this moment, feeling the rush of a real fight with actual stakes for the first time, and then rushed towards him surprisingly. 

[color=a187be]“You still didn’t understand how my quirk works, huh?”[/color] She yelled at him while swinging her sword forward with both of her hands, freezing it just in time when the wings and feathers were about to connect with it. When it did hit the immovable sword, still stuck in the sheath might I add, the impact was enough to almost send a shockwave behind Ruby; It was certainly enough to blow some wind around them in a similar fashion. The feathers of his attack stopped just inches away from her face, but Ruby didn’t lose her pokerface on the outside. Of course, if Acion paid attention he would hear a gulp inside of the cat’s throat. She was hoping that the fact how easily she blocked his attack would shock him long enough for her to counter attack, so she spun on her right foot one more time and with the momentum and all her might aimed for a kick right into his abdomen to push him away and possibly injure him. 

[color=fff257]”I may have gotten a glimpse after everything…”[/color] He replied as he panted, after recovering from the move. The frozen feathers were the largest hint, and the fact that his wings smashed into the sword and that he could not sense or feel the damage he caused to her equipment allowed him to deduce somewhat her ability. Still, the fact that she could fight this effectively in the dark was impressive. He was actually having a hard time, despite that he was fighting in a disadvantageous environment.

[color=fff257]”An impressive performance.”[/color] He wasted no words in that compliment, as Ruby’s kick slammed into his arm, which tried to cover his abdomen. [color=fff257]”But let us bring this battle to a conclusion.”[/color]

As soon as he finished his word, he began taking his stances preparing for a charge. A final charge.

With Luelle taken away by Donny, and Haruka still not unfrozen, it seemed, Hitomi turned her attention now to the part of the stage that had caught fire from Luelle’s last attack. She didn’t want it to spread. There would be no point to hold if it was all burning. Jumping onto the stage, Hitomi pulled one of the dusty curtains off it’s railing, before throwing it down onto the fire and stomping on it. With the fire put out, the light of the flames was also gone, and Hitomi’s eyes adjusted to the dull red glow of the flare, which was still going but who knows for how long. The sheep girl turned to Ruby and Acion. Hitomi gulped. Though she was scared of the bird of prey boy, She had to help out her teammate with their last present foe. She started to make her way over there, being careful of holes in the floor.

Taking a leap backwards, Ruby was now again positioned in a way that the light was coming from behind her and allowing Acion to see her shadowy figure. She made sure to hold to her sword tightly and grinned at Acion’s words, though he surely couldn’t see that… unless he had adopted well enough to the darkness by now. 
Ruby pulled the hood of her cloak on her head and then took her stance too. 
[color=a187be]“I am still uninjured and you want to finish this fight with one big attack? I am interested.”[/color] the catgirl replied with a chuckle. [color=a187be]“I’ll repay that compliment by taking you seriously and giving you my all too.”[/color]
Ruby pulled the trigger that was connected to the handle of her blade and the large sheath fell off. The feline grabbed it and secured it on her back… now Acion could see that her blade was not one thick and broad blunt weapon, but beneath was a sword similar to the shape of a katana, more than capable of cutting through strong materials. 

[color=a187be]“Show me what you got.”[/color] With her blade she pointed at Acion and readied herself to finish this battle.

All of Jett’s breath was knocked clear out of him with that kick. It felt like getting hit by a car all focused into one point. He didn’t really feel the force on his back breaking through the wall, or even as his body rolled like a ragdoll down the stairs, his helmet coming off at the force as well, while still connected to his hood it simply banged the back of his head a few times. All he could think was that if only he didn’t have a sprained ankle at the time, or even a hand that was in an awkward position. He could have taken Amane down. 

This thought process ended as he hit into something….or someone rather. Both of their bodies intertwined and rolled together for a few feet untill they came to a stop. It took a moment but when everything seem to drop into place, he felt oddly… comfortable… for a man who was just kicked through a wall with such force. His head wasn’t on hard ground like he thought...nor his body. No. I was on something firm, yet soft. He felt this firmness all around his face and didn’t know what it was, as his face was buried into it and he had no energy to lift his head at the moment. 



[color=fff257]”Ikuzo…”[/color] Acion lowered his tone and readied his two knives, in which he quickly took from the vast reservoir right next to him. [color=fff257]”This will decide things!”[/color]

With that, he slammed his feet onto the ground as he charged. With a speed and ferocity not to be expected of a man injured. His hand gripped tightly on his knives, as steel was about to meet steel, blades about to meet blood. He was determined. If this attack worked perfectly, he would be able to cripple his adversary at the least. It was a sequence of maneuvers that followed quickly after one another by a matter of seconds. He could barely see her, but he could somewhat dictate her figure. And he just needed to know that. It was actually a feigned charge. In reality, he would only utilize the speed of the charge. When he got close enough, he would jump, the momentum coming for Ruby and the force of the jump would propel him into a parabola, ought to be just a little higher than her height. At that point, he would rain down his feathers on her, vertically, at point blank range. If her quirk was the same as he had expected - freezing materials - she could potentially stop it from coming, but if she got tricked by the incoming feigned attack, she would not have enough time to stop his feathers. Even if she did have the time, his second attack, which would came right after he landed, would end her: a back attack with his knives. 

He could only count on this one chance. His ranged attacks ended badly, his close quarter combat wasn’t faring well, and he was practically blind. So his only one chance at winning would be to outmaneuver her with speed and techniques. He had planned this carefully, but it never came to pass...not because he did not execute it well, but because the target simply wasn’t there at the last second. As hilarious as it sounded, things sometimes turned on small details and interruptions. In the frail lights of the auditorium, he could see a glimpse of someone flying sideways, for a split second. That someone then slammed onto the girl in front of him, just mere seconds away from Acion delivering his attack. Seeing that his plan was changed literally at the last second, Acion did not jump as he did. Instead, in a moment of confusion, he just charged ahead. Seconds later, Acion realized he wasn’t charging into nowhere. He was on collision course with another person, a girl with sheep horns. Through the dim light of the flare, he recognized her as his adversary…

Ruby saw him charging straight at her and felt the adrenaline rushing through her body stronger than ever before. This was the moment that would decide it all, she would surely not back down now. All of her focus was put straight into Acion, she would forget about all of her surroundings rather quickly, which would soon be her demise. 
She waited in her position, her fighting style was based on reacting to her opponent so that was what she would do; wait for Acion to do his move only to counter it. 

However, just before she was ready to counter it, suddenly everything went black. She felt a sharp pain rushing through her body as someone crashed straight into her and both fell to the floor besides her. The catgirl let out a loud but rather girly scream as she was pulled to the floor with the unknown person who was now on top of her. [color=a187be]“G...Gaaah!”[/color]
On the floor, Ruby was in a rather awkward position. Her cloak had fallen off to the sides of her body so her belly and chest were exposed. Of course she was wearing the gym uniform below, but the rather skin-tight material were great at showing off her female curvature. 

Once the sharp pain from the collision faded away and Ruby regained her thoughts, she looked down to see who was on top of her. While she needed a second to realize what exactly was going on, when it hit her the catgirl’s cheeks immediately blushed in a rather dark red color. 
On top of her was some unknown guy, presumably from her class. However, his head was stuck right between her breasts! This embarrassing position left Ruby completely dumbfounded. She had no idea how to react! It was as if her body was stiffening up, she couldn’t move an inch as embarrassed noises left her mouth. [color=a187be]“W...whaa….?”[/color] In short, Ruby.exe has stopped working. Her sword was laying on the floor next to her, but she didn’t even think about picking it up because the stranger had confused her so much. Ruby could barely tell if he was conscious or not.

Hitomi, on the other hand, saw the series of events perfectly. The charge. The wall exploding and a figure being launched through it and into Ruby. And at that point, the winged boy was coming straight for her! She gulped. She had to put her fear aside. Her partner had been taken out by a freak act of misfortune. Roy and Jojo’s location was still unknown. It was not up to her to contest the point for her team. She sheathed the shotgun and pulled out her grappling gun. Her rounds, she already knew, weren’t effective against his armor. She would have to rely on her brains to emerge victorious from this fight. Unfortunately, she had observed that he was no slouch when it came to fighting smart either. She just knew that she was at less of a disadvantage if they were close. So she ran towards him, hoping he would make the first move.

The sheep girl wasn’t merely standing still, she was heading towards him! But fortunately, he would have enough time to react. Actually, this was better than he had expected. It wasn’t that he had to abandon his move. It was that he was just switching targets. But because she was coming for him instead of standing still like Ruby, he had less precision when it came to the jump. And when the moment finally came, he jumped a little early. The girl would briefly see the winged boy shifting in posture before jumping into the air, in an arc above her. By the time he was above her, he would simply try to attack her with his sharp feathers from his wings.

Despite her plan trying to minimise the chances of him using his wings against her, she knew it was still a fairly large chance, and the moment she saw him prepare to leap, she stopped in her tracks, dropped the grappling gun and shielded her head with her arms, as feathers rained down on her. Miraculously, she suffered only a few cuts, which blood did trickle from, but the real damage was to her flimsy costume, which was in tatters after the onslaught of sharp feathers. Though it had been tight before, their ill-fittingness, combined with the damage, meant that after a few tense seconds of lmbo following the attack, a snapping sound was heard and Hitomi whimpered as she desperately tried to hold the top half up. Her shoulders and upper chest were now bare, and without the support of her arms holding the hole ridden costume up, so too would be everything above her abdomen. She crouched down to the floor in shame and embarrassment.

Whether it worked or not, he didn’t know. Intuitively and automatically, he landed behind the sheep girl, and went for his next move, the backward attack. That would work perfectly, on one condition: that she was there. Again, things tended to turn on the smallest details. As he did not know what was happening to her, he simply just went for her anyway. And by the time he turned back and trying to go for a stab, he realized, a little too late, that he was stabbing nothingness instead. In that moment that he realized in confusion, his legs collided with her shoulders. His legs stopped...His top still went forward...The heavenly warrior plummet to the floor like a duck - a dead duck. 

[color=fff257]”Ow…”[/color]

He was in front of the girl, his knives left his hand from the fall, lying chest first on the floor. The girl in question was clutching a shredded brown latex suit, which a few tattered remnants were present on her neck and shoulders, but from her collarbones to the middle of her breasts, her bare skin was on display. The cleavage was...impressive for a sixteen year old. The girl was desperately clinging to her costume with her eyes closed, her face red, and her expression mortified, as to allow the latex to slip down another inch would be grossly indecent, and she’d never show her face in public again if that were to happen.

Having collapsed to the floor, Acion was perfectly vulnerable. He was passively on the floor, his back exposed to any incoming attack. The winged man just cursed himself, or his dark luck that always happened to ruin his plan, in the most frustrating way possible. He had expected to be gunned, or pinned down after the fall, in which none of them came. Rising up in surprise, Acion was still oblivious to what he had just done to the sheep girl. He quickly bounced back up to combat stances, readying for a counter attack that he could almost certainly say that would come. He thought [i][color=fff257]’Maybe she was also stunned by the attack that he just delivered’[/color][/i]. Who knows what could have happened? No matter what happened, he wouldn’t be caught off-guard. But then, as seconds continued to pass by, it became increasingly odd that nothing happened. Not even the slightest hint of danger was triggered among his senses. What the fuck was happening?

Acion looked ahead of him, expecting her to be in front, but didn’t see her.[color=fff257]”What’s wrong? Why aren’t you attacking?”[/color]

[color=ffdd99]“Um,”[/color] she timidly replied with an emotional voice that sounded near to crying. [color=ffdd99]”You attacks shredded my costume. I’m trying to stop it from falling any more, and crouching so nobody sees me!”[/color]

[color=fff257]”Uhh…[/color]

So that’s what happened…

[color=fff257]”Oh shit…”[/color] His cheeks got warm almost immediately. His battle thinking and tactics that were apparent for a while went straight out of the window. While he did effectively disable the girl’s ability to fight, he was now unable to respond himself. And what the hell could he. A girl with her bare skin in display in front of him, defenseless. Lucky that he could not see, but holy jesus…

Still, he should do something. Give her something to cover? How? His clothes was battle armor. No way that he could give that to her. And there was no way she could fit. If his memory was good, he did remember seeing her having her pretty large cl- wait, no! What the hell are you thinking about?! That’s a big shame! He would reflect on this later. But now what? If someone opened the door and let the light crept into the room, it would be a total disaster. Quickly, and somewhat wildly, he came up with a hastily drawn solution.

[color=fff257]”Um...should you go somewhere…”[/color] Damn it what’s the word. [color=fff257]”quiet-”[/color] No no no no no no! Bad word! She would think that he was some sort of maniac and a pervert. [color=fff257]”No, I mean obscure...a place with no people. I don’t believe you can continue fighting at this rate.”[/color] Not a good explanation, but not a bad one.

Hitomi shook her head as she truly considered his words. She needed to stay on the point! But...was winning this exercise truly worth her dignity? Plus, with Jett having just burst in, Team A is now technically contesting the point. She could leave, cover herself up, and return, and no other team would have amassed control time, or at least not enough to endanger their winning position.

[color=ffdd99]”Yes, I will. Thank you!”[/color] she profusely thanked. Unfortunately, in her haste to thank him and then leave, her planned actions of ‘stand up, then bow’ got muddled and she tried to do both at the same time. Before she could stop herself, her hours were heading straight for his forehead!

This probably was the most ridiculous fight ever. But fine...Whatever sins he committed here, he would reflect on this, later. But unfortunately, the punishment came right immediately, before he even had a chance to repent. Something, something really hard, seemingly her horns, smashed onto his forehead. Because he could not see, and the fact that he was blushing significantly, his senses were really down.  

[color=fff257]”Ah!”[/color] As a result, he never had a chance to dodge her move. The hell...Her hit was really simple, but it packed a punch harder than what he could have taken. His only resistance was taking one step back, kneeled down on one knee, before falling to the floor, again, sideway. In those moments, he thought bitterly to himself. Damn it, was he gonna be taken out right here? He did not go out cold, but for the moment, his head was just too shocked to move.

Despite this being a combat exercise, the next thing he’d hear wasn’t a mocking speech about how he ‘fell for it’, bt was instead a very flustered Sheep Girl. [color=ffdd99]”Oh my god! Oh my god, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to do that! Are you injured?”[/color]

As much as he wanted to say yes, as he was in a pretty bad spot, he decided not to. The girl was surprisingly naive, even more naive than Acion himself. This was combat, and they were opponents, but she didn’t take the chance to take him out, unlike some students would in his class. Taking the battle context out and this did not look any different from a comedy manga. As he slowly recovered from the shock, he couldn’t help hearing her cutely flustered speech. He didn’t expect no less. She was a caring girl, and he liked it. And for the chivalry, he did not hesitate to return her his.

[color=fff257]”Just a shock. I’m alright. Should be.”[/color] Acion said as he tried to stand up, slowly, as his balance was still off. [color=fff257]”You need not worry about me. Go now. I don’t want you to be seen at your current state.”[/color] She nodded, profusely thanked him again, and ran off. That was one opponent off the point, even if the means were...unconventional, to say the least.

[color=firebrick]”Acion, Haruka, g-g-g-get ready to leave!”[/color]

Donny spoke through his communicator as he positioned himself underground. He wasn’t about to let two of his teammates go down, not while he could still fight. He had an idea he was originally going to be saving for when more than one team was here, but now things were starting to look more desperate. And desperate times call for desperate measures. 

[color=firebrick]”T-T-The floor is ready to be c-c-c-collapsed, that should t-t-take those two by surprise. G-G-Get into the air, and make sure Haruka is okay too! A-A-After that… Leave it to me.”[/color]

But then, something happened that would make Donny think twice; he heard Mina’s voice. Jett, on the other hand, would first feel a hand grab his shirt and lift him off Ruby, before hearing the same voice that Donny would, say, in her condescending tone;

[color=ffff99]”Of all the places to land, Jett...Even in combat, you don’t change.”[/color]