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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 31, 2006 0:06:17 GMT
A hand suddenly zoomed forward and siezed the hoodlum's wrist, twisting it until bones cracked and the thug was instantly brought down to his knees. Dimitri stood there and drew his gunblade, cracking the subdued thug in the head and sent him crashing to the pavement. He then struck down another that rushed him and leapt over him and knocked one off of Rude.
"I dont think you gentlemen have any business with these people, I suggest you disperse now..."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 0:16:32 GMT
"Yo, Dimitri!" Reno greeted, ducking under the leader's continued barrage, his counterstrikes consistently being blocked. "Thought you were meetin' up with Tseng or somethin'..." He returned his focus to the fight and finally got a solid hit in on the leader's head. He reeled before coming back up with a switchblade aimed at Reno's arm, which snagged his jacket sleeve...
Rude punched out the hood attacking him from the front and turned back to power-chop the leader's arm, snapping it and knocking the blade out of his hand as Reno gave the man another punch in the face with his free arm, accompanied by a leg sweep that put him down and kept him there.
A burly creature loomed up and lunged at Nikky, but Reno checked him with a wild charge, swiping at his barrel chest. Rude followed that with a roundhouse blow from behind...
A fierce, cat-like streetmouse, a blur of tangled hair, tattered black leather, and sharp claws, came down on Dimitri from a fire escape, aiming a fistful of daggers at him...
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 31, 2006 0:27:02 GMT
Dimitri twisted where he stood and backslashed at the descending lizard-like attacker, cleanly cleaving his hand from his body and sending him screeching to the ground. The second landed on his back and wrapped its arms around his neck. Dimitri struggled and braced one foot against a nearby wall, pushing off with all his might and slamming his assailant into a street lamp. He threw off his attacker and spun around to shoot them with his gunblade... but found himself looking at a woman. He gritted his teeth and quickly rushed forward, pinching a pressure point in her neck and rendering her unconscious.
A thug with a nasty scar on his chin sprinted down the sidewalk at Rude, weilding a trash can, which he swung wildly, trying to clock Rude on the head. Another, perched on the fire-escape nearby, began hurtling bottles at the group and one zoomed towards the easy target of Reno's red head.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 0:44:51 GMT
Rude ducked and let the trashcan-weidling assailant clock out his barrel-chested colleage before coming up with a well-placed elbow to the face.
That's nine down, eleven to go, he thought while grabbing one of the flying bottles from midair, tossing it once to test its weight, and hurling it full-force at the urchin throwing them, hitting him square in the head and knocking him down from his perch. Make that ten down, ten to go.
Reno swung out his EMR at one of the bottles, shattering it and throwing up an arm to shield himself from flying glass shards. Another snaky little weasel slunk up to Nikky and caught her wrist, but Reno kicked him in the groin and slammed the EMR into the side of his face, putting him out of commission. "Get your slimy meathooks offa--"
"Watch it!" Rude warned as Reno's assailant reached him, snagging him by the hair and slamming his head into the pavement. Reno shook his head, slightly dazed, before kicking out at the attacker in return...
An urchin who looked to be about sixteen or so emerged from his post inside a dumpster and launched himself at Dimitri's legs...
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 1:09:51 GMT
Meanwhile, back at the Ragnorak, Ami's presence settled back into her body. She took a deep, shuddering breath and shivered at the chill in her own flesh as she waited for Kamen to catch up with her and return to consciousness... she kept a strong grip on his hand in case he had trouble finding his way back...
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Post by *~Nikkole~* on Oct 31, 2006 1:18:48 GMT
kamen came back to it after a few moments of being lost. he opened his eyes and shook himself more awake. he looked around before slowly meeting ami's gaze. he smiled warmly.
nikky snarled slightly at the hoods before tackling one.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 1:28:12 GMT
Ami smiled at Kamen in return. "That was... uh, interesting." She looked down at their joined hands, and as she pulled hers away... there were two red ribbons in her palm.
She stuffed one into her pocket and tied the other around her hair alongside the white one. "Anyway..." She stretched out. "Aye, it's cold out there when you haven't got a body to your name." She winked at Kamen and turned to the others, who were gazing at her pensively.
"We're going to the Northern Crater."
****
Reno managed to knock down his attacker, but the creep rallied with a side chop at Reno's chest, which he barely evaded by rolling to the side...
Rude intercepted the urchin with a powerful gut kick. "There are times to be nice to kids and there are times to kick kids' butts," he commented dryly as the boy slumped against his dumpster, out cold. He made his way towards his partner's assailant... Twelve down, eight to go...
The hood Nikky was attacking, a slight, pale fellow in a gray, tattered hood, bolted back up to his feet, jolting her off him, before yanking out a pair of nunchuks and swinging them at her head...
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 31, 2006 1:32:29 GMT
Dimitri leapt over the attacker as he dove for his legs and landed right on top of the urchin as he passed beneath his feet. Dimitri delivered a swift kick to the side of the punk's head, knocking him out cold. His head snapped around and he saw the attacker heading for Nikky and fired a slug from his gunblade, blasting him off his feet.
Suddenly, a sewer cover burst open and several more thugs poured out, three grabbed Rude's legs and began yanking him down with them.
A piece of a brick flew through the air and hit Reno in the shoulder just as he came up from his roll.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 2:10:22 GMT
Rude struck out, grabbing the sewer plate and smacking the thug's hands with them, trying to loosen their grip.
Reno squawked and rubbed his shoulder as the brick bounced off of it. "Hey, who's the wise guy?!"
He vaulted in the direction it had come from...
"Reno! A little help?"
He turned back to find his partner being dragged underground. "Oy, vey..."
He returned to him and yanked him out of the hole. Rude then proceeded to use the sewer cover to bash his assailants in the head... repeatedly. He shoved them back into the hole and jammed the cover back down where it belonged.
A few of the scragglier gang members who remained started to make a break for it, but Reno didn't feel like letting them off THAT easy. He started to pursue...
Rude helped Nikky stand. "You hurt?" he asked concisely.
One last thug, a lean, shadow-like composition, hurled himself out of the darker recesses of the alley towards Dimitri in a last-ditch attack...
****
Ami had just finished recounting what she'd seen at the Mansion. "So he's apparently set up camp there. Soon as Reno and Rude get back, we're outta here."
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 31, 2006 2:25:49 GMT
Dimitri finished off one of the thugs and looked to make sure Nikky was ok, then he felt the impact of the thug slamming into his waist. The two hit the pavement hard and began to brawl, Dimitri pummeled him with punches, but the thug was a tough one, he managed to grab hold of Dimitri's throat and started strangling him. Dimitri kneed the assailant in the sternum and reached desperately for his Gunblade. His hand finally touched it and he snatched the weapon off the ground, slamming the hilt into the thug's face, then spun it around and blasted the punk off of him with a slug. Dimitri went over to Rude and Nikky the moment he was back on his feet, wincing slightly as he'd torn open one of his healing bullet wounds again during the fight.
"Will Reno be alright going after them or should I go after him?"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 2:35:25 GMT
A couple of shouts and thuds later, Reno returned to the group, a little worse for the wear. "Ya never woulda laid a glove on me if I'd got some decent sleep last night, yo!" Reno shouted back in their general direction, staggering back over to the others. He pointed a hitcher's thumb at them. "Eh, don't worry, they won't be bothering us anymore, yo." He straigtened out his coat. "Shinra trash, my a**." He looked at the others. "Let's get back to the ship, hey?"
He started off in the Ragnorak's direction. Rude surveyed the unconscious thugs lying around him, shrugged, and followed. "Partner, you don't look so good."
Reno shrugged. "Eh, it's nothing. I just gotta rest some, yo." He looked back at Nikky. "Coming, babe?"
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Post by *~Nikkole~* on Oct 31, 2006 2:38:29 GMT
nikky stumbled and swayed slightly before grinning at him. ''yeah...'' she walked over and held her side with a wince. it had started bleeding again.... she walked with them, yawning slightly.
kamen sat back and listened, hiding his hands in his coat pockets. he relaxed and got used to his body again.
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 31, 2006 2:38:47 GMT
Dimitri followed the others silently for awhile. He kept his eyes open on their surroundings to make sure no other headstrong punks took a shot at them. After a few blocks, he decided to fill them in.
"I contacted Tseng, he's going to meet me at the Shinra Mansion."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 31, 2006 2:47:15 GMT
Reno nodded. "Terrific. We'll have the guys drop you there, yo." They came within sight of the ship. "Oh, thank G** in heaven," Reno sighed. "Glory hallelujah... let me get some repose, yo."
He banged on the hatch. "Yo, Ami! Open up!"
She got the hatch, still a little wavery from her out of body experience. "Hey, guys! We got a fix on Shinra... he's at the Northern Crater."
"And we have a fix on Tseng... we're droppin' Dimitri off at Shinra Mansion, yo," Reno replied. "That said, I'm gonna crash." He proceeded into one of the cabins to collapse on a cot. He looked up wearily. "Yo, Nikky?"
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Rude came in behind the others, pulling the hatch shut. He noticed Nikky's wounds. "You'd better have Ami see to that?"
"See to what?" Ami looked and noticed Nikky was bleeding through her bandage. She got her gauze from her bag. "Good grief, what happened out there?"
"Nothing unusual," Rude replied dryly. He sat down. "Dimitri, you know where we're headed... in the words of a certain other bald man, make it so." He waited for takeoff.
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 31, 2006 2:53:16 GMT
Dimitri nodded and headed to the thingpit, groaning slightly as he shifted his wounds again to sit down. He piloted the ship away from Midgar, heading towards Shinra Mansion.
"So once I meet with Tseng, I'm going to tell him that Xima's location is the north crater, he'll show up with all his shock troops, which, in league with Rufus' troops, catch Xima in the crossfire and with any luck wipe her out?"
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