Breaking the Priest!
Strategy to Get Through!
Rina and Reggie backed up further into the cell trying to figure out the best way to break past Adam's guard. A forward attack would probably be brushed off and repelled due to his heavy attacks. They stepped back and braced themselves. They looked at each and nodded, a simultaneous charge would be their best bet. One would go left and the other right, even if Adam was a skilled fighter he couldn't possibly block them both effectively. They both moved forward at the same exact time.
Despite both of them starting at the same time there was a clear difference between the two, Rina was faster. Rina had been on the battlefield before and had trained with real-life combat as a catalyst. Her speed left Reggie in her dust. Rina immediately dodged to the left. Most people on the planet were right-handed, so that means their left side were usually weaker and Rina hoped to capitalize on the difference. She pushed off of the ground once more, temporarily moving faster, but Adam didn't mind the fact that she stacked the odds in her favor. He brought his arm sweeping through the air, side swiping his massive arm into the side of her head, knocking her down. Rina hit the ground and let out a brief yelp as he head hit one of the walls of the small cell.
Even though it pained her, Reggie ignored her and kept charging forward. Adam's hand was currently extended in one direction and away from her because he struck down Rina. In terms of usual weaknesses, the longer a weapon is and the more force you put behind it the more time it takes to fire a second shot. In other words this was her best bet to pass right by him! She sped forward and let out a brief grunt as she felt her feet leave the ground as a second shot from Adam's arm came shuddering through, lifting her straight up. It was a monstrous uppercut. Reggie's eyes widened as she was flung back into the cell.
"Shit, back to square one," said Reggie as she stood up, wiping the blood off of her lip. She looked over to her ally, who had a fresh new wound on her head. There wasn't any blood, but there was a big bump proving Adam's strength. The Den-Den Mushi was still out of commission, which meant the Marines didn't know what happened in the cells. It was possible that this would be seen as the prisoners trying to escape by blowing up the lock and even staging the Den-Den Mushi shutdown...and while being free and out of these cells seemed like a good thing, it would only make it look like they were trying to get out of trouble and bail. It wasn't a good way to look innocent.
There was another quiet boom out in the Marine Base. Reggie felt tempted to twist her head over in the direction, but she didn't. Her eyes had to remain completely focused on Adam, whatever the boom was there was another twenty or so Marines out there capable of handling it. Adam's ear perked up at the sound, but his eyes didn't leave Reggie. "Crap...White's signaling me. I got to speed this up I'm almost out of time." Adam twisted his two palms inwards to his own chest. His arms dropped down, but he kept his two hands just above his chest.
Reggie inched forward closer to the door, still debating their chances of getting past the Longarm. Apparently, though, Adam decided that was far enough as his left arm shot forward, twisting around in the air like a whip and smashing sideways into Reggie's abdomen pushing her back further into the cell.
Rina moved backwards and, based on his latest attacks, out of his range. She was having trouble telling the man's prowess. Longarms weren't very common in terms of sparring partners. Rina sparred with a Fishman a few times and even a Merman once, but most of her opponent's had been humans and she never came face-to-face with a Longarm. His reach was probably the most superior in terms of all races, no human arms ever grew that long. The longer reach allowed him to strike before they could even reach them. The longer reach allowed him to get a higher momentum before he struck as well.
The first thing Rina could relate him to was a normal human holding a blunt sword or a baseball bat. It would give a human the extra range and the same amount of control as Adam had. Her mind jumped back to the same idea as Reggie had, a longer reach meant a longer time between attacks, but that was obviously wrong.
All of the plans Rina could come to used her chakrams...she had become used to using them to fight and now without them, she felt helpless. If she only had her chakrams on her she could probably beat him. Her strategies revolved around using them to win. Chances are Specter and Reggie felt fairly similar. Alexander could probably beat him up in a fist fight.
How would Alexander beat him? He could probably tuck his body in and charge straight through, ignoring the pain from Adam's punches and then deliver one of his own. Rina made a few punching motions with her arm into the air as she thought about the possibility. She may be able to get in close enough to land a punch with Reggie's help, the question would be would it be worth it? Adam's punches were probably close to four times as strong as hers. She was faster though, she thought as she leaned on her legs. If she had the opening, she could punch him and possible stun him long enough to break free.
Finding the opening would be the most difficult thing to do. His entire body was hidden beneath his cloak. If she charged in haphazardly and fired a punch what could be waiting for her? He obviously wasn't a fair fighter, attacking two trapped girls. So, could he be wearing armor beneath it? She paused as she looked at his abdomen and tried to piece it together. Was there some unnatural bulk beneath it? If that was the case she'd have to back up and keep her distance, but she couldn't she needed to bring him down.
Rina looked over at Reggie and nodded. "D-distract him for me, will you?" asked Rina as she looked at him. A brief distraction to land one punch, was that really what she was counting on? Oh, well, she had to hope that Reggie could survive another punch from the monstrous attacker before them.
Reggie nodded. She backed up and slid around in the room trying to find the perfect place to move at him from. Reggie leaned in forward and charged. She had taken a straight and a hook so far and he hook was lighter, she moved in and charged a his left side. She could probably handle another left-handed punch, but she knew a right straight would be disastrous. As soon as she got into his punching range, she began to weave her head about to help avoid a full-on blow. The punch never came. She was almost right in front of him and he still hadn't fired a punch, she didn't care if she could get pass him without taking a hit she's lucky.
Finally it came. An uppercut that came straight from the floor. His hand dropped down, nearly touching the floor and then in the next second it bounced straight-up. The fist flew upwards and into the air with a massive arc. Reggie was still in the middle of a full-body rush, she couldn't just stop. The blow was going to hit her. She tightened her guard and clenched her jaw. Then, more out of a reflex than a plan, she fired her own punch. The two hits slammed home simultaneously, but there was a huge difference in power. Reggie was lifted off of her own feet and tossed into the air, Adam slid back, but for the most part he kept his footing.
Adam looked around and noticed that Rina was already closing in only a few feet away. Not only had he lost his footing due to Reggie's blow, but his uppercut definitely didn't help either. He was too off-balanced to fire a good punch from that angle. He grunted and brought his elbow downwards in an inexperienced and very pathetic attempt to end the match.
"Crap!" cursed Adam as he felt a sharp pain ring out in his side as Rina twisted her body around and fired a single punch into him. He was bigger and heavier then her this meant that ordinarily their punches wouldn't have as much of a oomph to them as his did, but Rina was experienced fighter so she knew how to accommodate for this disadvantage, having fought bigger guys before. The most important thing to know is where to land the punches and due to her smaller size she could easily get in past their guard and fire a punch at those spots. This punch landed into his unguarded liver.
Adam crumbled from the powerful blow temporarily losing his balance even further. He stepped to the side to take a quick break and recover from the consecutive blows. Rina didn't mind as she raced past him and out of the cell, she grabbed the keys and spun back around as quickly as possible. She immediately ran up to Specter's cell and fumbled a key out. She quickly inserted it into the door, but she was knocked back down as Adam recovered enough to do that.
"I asked God to bestow mercy on you and make your deaths quick and painless," offered Adam as if he hoped that that would make him killing them nicer and more humane. "If you continue to struggle I'll have to ignore my own prayers and finish you, breaking as many bones in your body as possible. If you just stand still I'll end it quickly!" Adam lifted his arm up and into the air preparing to strike down upon Rina with all of his weight and power behind it.
Reggie came charging up at him, slamming her entire body into him and forcing him down and away from Rina. Adam cringed at his own smug self-confidence, he had thought that after three of his punches anyone, especially a girl like that would be down for the count and he had foolishly turned his back to Reggie to focus on Rina. If that stupid mistake cost him the fight there's no way he'd be accepted into God's grace anymore. He stood back up bringing himself to a standing position and looked at the two girls with malicious intent.
Reggie and Rina were busily trying out keys to unlock Specter's cell. They didn't seem to be getting any luckier. The ring of keys had at least twenty on it, probably one to every closet in this whole Marine Base. They panicked as they tried out key after key to try to open the door. It didn't seem like much else was working as they tried. Reggie was grabbing her side, probably trying to keep a broken rib in place and doing not much else except shouting at Rina to hurry up. "Look out," yelled Specter.
Rina and Reggie didn't bother to look at what was coming, they both instinctively dodged to the ground just in time for Adam's long arms to come sweeping over their heads. Rina and Reggie then split up each one dodging to their own side as another uppercut swept across the ground and slicing through the air. There was a startled look on Reggie's face as she tried to figure out how the hell she survived that punch.
Adam took another step forward, placing himself perfectly in-between his two opponents, an odd stance when you are outnumbered. Ordinarily you'd want to be viewing both opponent's at once, but now he had to swivel his head from side-to-side to catch to them. However, neither Rina or Reggie seemed to be in the mood to correct him on his fighting stance. Rina charged at him, while Reggie reached over picked up a couple of nick-knacks that lied on the guard's table.
Reggie tossed the objects, which included simple things like staplers, files filled with papers, and the occasional lunch tray. She felt a little disappointed at some of the other ammunition she had to resort to using like a family photo still in its frame and an leftover apple that was still in perfectly good shape, but she needed all the help she could get. Each throw put more and more stress on her ribs and none of the objects she threw had any effect...Adam's long arm swiped through the air at each object...either one of his elbows caught and blew it aside or his hand swooped in and batted it away.
Finally, Rina had managed to close the distance and get in position for another punch. She borrowed the form from one of Adam's previous punches, an uppercut. From her position she could perfectly see his chin and if she could force enough power in to her fist, break it. She was in range and fired a fist upwards at it.
Despite Adam being a man of religious conotation he really isn't taking it easy on two girls, is he? But then again the girls aren't exactly going easy on him! I'm gonna apologize in advance for the next couple of chapters as they get kind of disjuncted and a little bit random, but they are still up to my usual quality so don't worry.
Also, I plan to change my profile pic later this week to a new piece of art done by me, so you can look forward to that as well!
