Chapter 15: Robby vs. Tory
Saturday, July 7th, 2018, during the daytime.
Demetri is at the front door of the Cobra Kai dojo. He knocks on it a few times and no one answers, so he opens the door himself and sticks his head through it.
"Hello?" Asked Demetri.
Someone walks out of the green room, and it's none other than Robby, dressed up in his dojo Gi and wearing his headband.
"Oh, Hi, Demetri!" Said a smiling Robby.
"Hey Robby!" Replied Demetri as he walked into the dojo.
"Demetri, set your bag down and takes your shoes off." Said Robby.
"Oh, Sorry." Replied Demetri.
"It's okay." Replied Robby.
Demetri sets his bag down and begins to take off his shoes before getting on the mat.
"I saw your little demonstration at Valley Fest." Continued Demetri as he took off his left shoe.
"Badass, wasn't it?" Asked Robby.
"Yeah, it was." Answered Demetri as he took off his right shoe. "You, Hawk, and Miguel have been requesting that I come join the club. So, uh, I feel like it's time to give it another go."
Robby smiles, and Demetri drops his shoes on the floor and walks onto the mat.
"So, Robby, is your dad here?" Asked Demetri as he walked around
"No, but he should be here any minute." Answered Robby.
"Good, because I've got some ground rules that I need to go over with him." Replied Demetri.
Right after Demetri tells Robby about needing to go over ground rules, Johnny drives into the parking lot and parks in it. Robby notices this.
"Well, looks like he's here." Said Robby.
Demetri turns around and faces the door, and Johnny walks into the dojo, carrying his bag.
"Hello, Mr. Lawrence." Said a nervous Demetri.
"Oh, God, this kid again." Johnny thought to himself.
"Demetri's decided he's gonna give Cobra Kai another shot!" Announced an enthusiastic Robby.
"But before I resume my training, I have some ground rules that you and I need to go over." Announced Demetri. "I prefer to take a flag football approach to my karate training. Ideally, learning to hit and kick without actually being hit or kicked."
"This is a karate dojo, not flag football practice." Replied Johnny.
"That doesn't mean the dojo can't have a similar training approach." Replied Demetri.
"Look, No T, I'm not gonna pamper you." Replied an irritated Johnny. "If you're not Cobra Kai material, then get your skinny little ass out of here."
"Dad, can you and I talk in private for a minute?" Asked Robby.
"Sure." Answered Johnny.
Robby and Johnny bow to Demetri, and Robby and Johnny go into Johnny's office, and Johnny sets
"Look, dad, I know that Demetri can be whiny sometimes, but I really think he's got potential." Said Robby.
"What potential?" Asked Johnny. "You yourself called him No T."
"Only because I wanted to impress you." Answered Robby. "I mean, look at him, he's tall, and tall people tend to have advantages. If Miguel, Aisha, and Hawk can become Cobras, so can Demetri!"
"So, what, you're saying that No T should be pampered so he can eventually catch up to those three?" Asked Johnny.
"No." Answered Robby. "I'm saying that maybe we should let Demetri get the hang of it before putting him through hardcore training. I guarantee you, he'll be ready after awhile. Let's just do that and see what happens."
"Let me think." Replied Johnny.
Johnny thinks for a about five seconds, and makes a decision.
"Okay, fine." Decided Johnny.
Johnny and Robby leave the dojo office and go into the main dojo to talk to Demetri.
"Okay, No T, We'll make a deal with you." Announced Johnny.
"Really?" Asked Demetri. "What?"
"We'll train you flag football style for now, but eventually, you're going to have to start training the real way." Answered Johnny.
"Thanks." Replied a smiling Demetri.
"But I have one more thing to tell you." Announced Johnny.
"Really?" Asked Demetri. "What?"
"Today, I'm going to be challenging the new recruits to a sparring match with Robby, and if none of them have the balls to take him on, you will have to." Answered Johnny.
After hearing this, Demetri has a nervous look on his face. Johnny goes back into the dojo office to grab his bag so he can go into the bathroom and change into his Gi.
"Don't worry." Said Robby to Demetri. "The likelihood of nobody else taking the challenge is so low that I'm positive that you don't have anything to worry about."
"Thanks, Robby." Replied a smiling Demetri.
Later that day.
"Listen up!" Announced Sensei Johnny Lawrence to his students as he walked into the main dojo. "I see we got some new recruits."
Some of Johnny's students who were sitting down now get back up on their feet.
"Everybody, Fall In." Ordered Sensei Lawrence.
The students begin to fall in.
"In neat rows and lines." Continued Sensei Lawrence.
Johnny's students get in neat rows and lines.
"Time to see what your made of." Said Sensei Lawrence.
Johnny begins to walk through the lines and he approaches the ginger twin students.
"Straighten up, Ginger twins." Ordered Sensei Lawrence.
The ginger twins straighten up. After they straightened up, Johnny notices a new recruit, an overweight white male, who appears to be in his early 30's, Wearing a blue shirt and has a blue bandana wrapped around his forehead.
"Sorry, parents can't stay for class." Said Sensei Lawrence as he approached the man. "It's an insurance thing."
"I'm not a dad." Replied the man. "I am here to kick some ass, sir!"
Suddenly, Johnny begins to think that he's seen this guy before.
"Do I know you from somewhere?" Asked Sensei Lawrence.
"Oh, Yeah, they, uh…, I sold you the mirror." Answered the man. "We kind of bonded, talked about rock bands."
"Look, you're a little old." Replied Sensei Lawrence. "This is a class for teenagers."
"Well, I can take 'em." Replied Raymond. "I'm not afraid of kids, sir. And my mom, she doesn't charge me rent, So I got a lot of cash to burn."
Raymond pulls out some cash to give Sensei Lawrence, and Sensei Lawrence accepts the money.
"We'll consider this a trial run." Said Sensei Lawrence.
Johnny turns around and walks over to where the "Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy" creed is and stands in front of it.
"I thought my last group of recruits was pathetic." Said Sensei Lawrence. "But if you do what I tell you to do, you'll at least have a chance of becoming a fighter. But to do that, you gotta fight. So, which one of you has the balls to take on the champ?"
All of the dojo students are silent, and after about five seconds, Demetri begins to feel nervous. After five more seconds, Raymond almost raises his hand, but he's interrupted by the voice of a teenage girl.
"I'll take him on." Said the teenage girl.
Everybody in the dojo turns around and looks at who this brave teenage girl is, and they see that she's an attractive girl with dirty blonde hair, and she is wearing a waistless, long sleeve Santa Cruz T-Shirt, as well as a white shirt underneath, and also a pair of athletic sweatpants.
"Oh, thank god." Whispered a relieved Demetri to himself.
"Oh, you will, huh?" Asked Sensei Lawrence.
"I saw your little demo at Valley Fest." Said the girl as Johnny began to approach her. "You guys can put on a show, but can you actually fight?"
Aisha looks at the girl with an impressed look on her face, admiring her courage.
"That sounds like a challenge." Replied Sensei Lawrence.
"I like a challenge." Replied the girl.
Johnny turns around and begins to walk over to where the creed is.
"Mr. Lawrence, Show little Miss Hotshot here what Cobra Kai is all about." Ordered Sensei Lawrence.
Robby bows, and everyone else gets out of the way so Robby and Little Miss Hotshot can have their sparring match, and Robby begins to approach her.
"Look." Said Robby. "Are you sure you wanna do…"
Suddenly, Little Miss Hotshot delivers a front kick to Robby's abdomen, and while it was a very strong kick, Robby is not knocked down, and is instead pushed back a bit.
"All Right, Game On." Said an Impressed Robby.
Robby draws his hands, and Little Miss Hotshot throws a left punch at Robby, but he successfully ducks and he avoids getting hit. She then throws a right punch and he successfully ducks again. She then throws a right kick at Robby, but he gets out of the way and as a result, she misses. The two get back in their fighting positions.
"Close the gap." Requested Robby.
Little Miss Hotshot charges at Robby and tries to kick him with her left leg, but Robby grabs her by her left ankle and sweeps her right leg, knocking her down to the ground. She does a backflip on the floor and gets back up on her feet, and she and Robby face each other. She throws a left handed punch at Robby, but he blocks it with his right arm. She then throws a right handed punch at him, but he blocks it with his left arm. She then throws another right handed punch at Robby, only for him to grab her right hand and push her about a foot or two away. She then tries to elbow Robby with her left arm, but he successfully blocks her elbow strike and pushes it out of the way. She then tries to throw a right handed punch at Robby's face, but he successfully dodges her right hook.
"You're telegraphing." Said Robby.
Robby kicks little Miss Hotshot on her left leg and knocks her down.
"Don't let me see it coming." Demanded Robby.
Little Miss Hotshot charges at Robby like a wrestler and grabs him and throws him down to the ground. After throwing Robby down, she gets back up on her feet.
"Did you see that coming?" Asked Little Miss Hotshot.
Robby traps her legs with his legs and yanks her down to the ground, causing her to fall flat on her back.
"Yes." Replied Robby, who still has the girl trapped.
Robby delivers a swift but hard karate chop to the girl's abdomen.
Later that day, shortly after class.
Aisha is in the Reseda Strip Mall Convenience Store, in her street clothes, carrying her backpack, walking through the cereal aisle. When she makes it to the end of the cereal aisle, she suddenly receives a text, so she gets out her phone and sees that the text is from her mother, so she opens the text and reads it. Unbeknownst to her, Little Miss Hotshot is also in the store, carrying a bag on her sleeve, and the two of them are about to meet face to face.
"Sweet!" Said an ecstatic Aisha.
"Let me guess, a Zac Efron shirtless pic?" Asked Little Miss Hotshot as she passed by the cereal aisle, walking over to the drink fridge.
Aisha chuckles.
"No." Answered Aisha. "My mom wants me to go to the beach club with her."
Little Miss Hotshot grabs a bottle of Red Gatorade out of the fridge.
"That sounds nice." Replied Little Miss Hotshot.
Suddenly, Demetri shows up and gets beside Aisha.
"Hi, I just wanted to thank you. You saved my butt in there." Said Demetri to Little Miss Hotshot.
"You're welcome." Replied a smiling little Miss Hotshot, who doesn't know what Demetri is talking about but guesses that it must have something to do with her sparring match with the local all valley champ.
"Anyway, my name is Demetri." Said Demetri. "Demetri with an I, well, I mean, with an I at the end. My name is spelled D-E-M-E-T-R-I, Demetri."
Little Miss Hotshot smiles.
"Nice to meet you Demetri." Replied a chuckling Little Miss Hotshot. "My name is Tory, with a y, T-O-R-Y."
"I'm Aisha." Said Aisha while introducing herself to Tory.
Aisha notices that Tory is wearing a spiked bracelet on her right wrist.
"Hey, that's a cool bracelet." Said an impressed Aisha.
"Oh, This?" Replied Tory. "It's not just for show. Some creepy guy at the mall tried to grab me once, but I managed to block him(Tory imitates the blocking) and give him a gift he won't ever never forget(Tory imitates the gift giving)."
"Woah, that's Beatrix Kiddo level badass!" Replied an impressed Demetri.
"Oh My God!" Replied an ecstatic, smiling Tory. "Kill Bill is my favorite movie of all time!"
"Which one?" Asked Demetri. "Volume One or Two?"
"Personally, I don't have a preference." Answered Tory. "I like the Whole Bloody Affair."
"You seem like you already know how to kick ass pretty well. What do you need Cobra Kai for?" Asked Aisha, changing the subject.
"I've had a couple Kickboxing lessons." Replied Tory.
"A Couple?" Interrupted a disbelieving Demetri.
"Okay, more than a couple." Continued Tory. "And I've had some Muay Thai lessons, and I even learned a few wrestling moves from a past boyfriend, but I've always wanted to smash boards blindfolded."
"Oh." Replied a chuckling Aisha. "You saw that."
"Mmm-hmm." Replied a nodding Tory.
"The secret is poking little holes in the blindfolds." Replied Aisha.
Tory chuckles and says "Cool."
"Yeah." Replied Aisha.
Tory begins to walk off, but Aisha decides to give Tory an offer she can't refuse.
"Hey, would you like to come to the beach with me?" Asked Aisha.
Tory thinks for a moment.
"I guess I could suffer through a day at the beach." Answered Tory.
Aisha smiles, and then she turns around and makes eye contact with Demetri.
"Demetri, you can come too, if you want." Said Aisha.
Demetri smiles, and says "Sure." And follows Tory and Aisha.
A Little Bit Later that day.
Tory and Aisha have just dropped Demetri at his house so he can go grab a bathing suit and a bottle of sunscreen. Demetri goes inside his house.
"Hey Demetri!" Said Demetri's Mom, who's sitting on her living room couch, watching TV. "How did karate go today?"
"It went great, but I have even more exciting news: I'm going to the beach club with Aisha and this new girl named Tory!" Answered an excited Demetri.
"Oh, from the sound of your voice, it sounds like your whole world has turned blonde!" Replied Demetri's Mom.
"Well, Dirty Blonde, to be more precise." Replied Demetri.
"So, this Tory girl, is she as pretty as that Yasmine girl you like?" Asked Demetri's Mom.
"Oh, Mom, She Buries Yasmine in a second." Answered Demetri.
"She buries Yasmine?" Asked Demetri's mother.
"Yep." Answered Demetri.
"Well, have fun at the beach." Said Demetri's Mom.
Demetri goes into his room and grabs a bathing suit out of his drawer. After getting the bathing suit, he goes into his bathroom and grabs a bottle of sunscreen out of the cabinet. After grabbing what he needs, he leaves the bathroom and goes into the living room to tell his mother good bye.
"Bye Mom!" Said Demetri. "I'll be back tonight."
"Stay safe!" Replied his mom.
Demetri walks out the front door and closes it, and he leaves his home to go to the beach club with Tory and Aisha.
Author's Notes: I hope all of you enjoyed this chapter! Also, on a side note, I recently went back and edited the sparring match between Demetri and Robby in Chapter 8 of Robby the Cobra Part I because I decided that the original version of that fight(or should I say pummeling) was too over the top and it didn't really make any logical sense for Robby to act as over the top as he did, so I edited that scene to make it a lot less over the top. Anyway, take care, and hopefully, the next chapter will be done in the near future. Peace Out!