Ranma/Metroid
'Ill Gain'
Kasumi stared at the glowing blue sphere that floated before her, and sighed. She was really getting tired of being attacked from behind...
Kasumi faded out of the way of a short blue stream of energy meant for her head. As she spun around to return fire, the Space Hunter found herself tackled by a blue blur. Kasumi used the backwards momentum to roll with the collision, and plant her feet into the mid of the blue mass. She kicked it backwards, and as she did so, got a good look at what her opponent was.
The doppleganger caught itself on its left hand, and flipped to standing; firing as soon as it braced itself. "I guess I'm supposed to say something witty about imitations now..." Kasumi mocked, as she returned fire. Two of their blasts collided in the air, causing an explosion of ions and cancelling each other out. The rest Kasumi dodged, but not with much ease.
"[You should concentrate on your opponent instead of contemplating unnessesary banter.]"
"You know, Nabiki, you weren't always this anti-social." One of the Space Hunter's blasts scored a hit; the plasma blast managing to shear a good portion of her opponent's mass from the side of the abdomen. Immidiately, one of the blue spheres in the room darted over, replacing the missing mass of the main body.
Kasumi groaned at its recovery, but continued to fire. The psuedo-Kasumi continued to return fire, but still narrowly missing its target. Unfortunately for it, the true Space Hunter scored two more. Two of the spheres in the room glided over and patched up the wounds. Narrowing her eyes behind the visor, Kasumi turned to fire on one of the floating spheres. It popped like a bubble, only to have another one melt from the wall to take its place.
"Nabiki, any ideas?"
"[No.]"
"No...? NO?!? Oh, gee, sis, I'm so happy your taking this calml-YIPE!" the doppleganger leapt into the air, and fired down towards Kasumi. She easily had stepped the blast, and didn't realize until it was almost too late that the thing fired an imitation of her grappling beam. It then used it to pull itself towards Kasumi's direction with its leg out for a kick. The Space Hunter rolled under the attack, and delivered a hand plant kick back towards its back. The doppleganger recovered before the kick could connect, and scissored it's legs around Kasumi's outstretched one. Then it twisted, bending the knee with the joint, locking Kasumi as it turned its cannon to her head at point blank.
Kasumi parried the cannon with her left hand, sending the blast past her head. She then brought her own cannon up, and returned fire towards its head, at point blank range.
The Space Hunter rolled away, as the doppleganger reeled back from missing its head, and once again, a blue sphere came to repair the damage.
"Little help here..." Kasumi replied nervously, as she backed up and dodged the barrage of blasts directed towards her.
"[I'm working on it. Keep fighting it until I find a weakness.]"
"Sounds like a brilliant plan to me. Maybe I should forgoe the futile part of this confrontation and just stand still?"
"[I wouldn't suggest that, keep moving.]"
Kasumi was about to retort, when the doppleganger changed tactics, and closed the distance between them for hand to hand. The Space Hunter easily evaded the pattern attack, and leapt back. "Hey, nice moves, Mr. Pale Imitation, wish I had a set like them," Kasumi replied sarcastically, and then blinked; That was a combination attack of the Tendou school that she had yet to use for a while. How did her opponent know it?
The Doppleganger suddenly leapt into the air, and Kasumi *almost* followed. Instead, she fired up towards it in a seemingly wall of plasma blasts. The theory she came up with was proven correct, as the energy construct nimbly evaded every blast in the air with gracious ease.
"Saotome School aero-evasion, no doubt," Kasumi mumbled to herself.
"[Pardon?]"
"OF COURSE! They must have expected us to make it this far!" Kasumi exclaimed, as she backflipped away from her opponent's falling knee crush.
"[Explain.]"
"This aura enhancement, it was part of a trap for us.. I mean me, I think." Kasumi ducked under a flying kick, and attempted to retaliate with an uppercut, but found her blow redirected by a technique from Happosai's school. "Ouch," she whimpered, landing against the wall hard enough for her concussive dampeners to be temporarily overloaded, "It was allowing whatever this place is to 'study' me, reading my- alley oop!- technique and utilizing it as it's own."
"[So, in other words, it knows what you know, now?]"
Kasumi winced, as her sister simplified it; it sounded a lot worse in Layman's terms. She stepped inside of the doppleganger's left straight punch, blocking it with her back, and then delivered a heavy right elbow to her opponent in the gut. Fortunately, it felt like she was attacking her own armor, and she had reinforced her blow with her own ki to get the extra advantage in durability over the immitation. The doppleganger staggered back, and Kasumi straighted out her right arm so her cannon's head was now pressed up against the psuedo-Space Hunter's gut.
In a quick and steady barrage of fire, Kasumi cleaved the thing in half, right up the middle. It was another attack that proved futile, as it six blue spheres quickly rushed to replace the damage.
"[Attacking it directly is proving useless...]"
"Then what do you suggest?" Kasumi snapped, irritated, "If you're going to prove yourself nothing more than an emotionless coordinater, then at least be useful in that!"
Nabiki only noted the malice and spite in Kasumi's voice directed towards her on an intellectual level, "[I would suggest possibly attacking it at the source, then.]"
"Now why didn't I think of that?" Kasumi asked herself. She suddenly found her opponent was on par with her in hand to hand, almost seeming to know what she was going to do before she did it. Finally, the doppleganger managed to snake one through, almost connecting with the Space Hunter. In reaction, Kasumi turned redirected its force with one of Happosai's techniques, and then quickly modified it with a grapple from the Tendou school.
The psuedo-Kasumi found itself slammed into the ground, with the real Kasumi still holding onto its arm. The Space Hunter then slammed her opponent back to the other side, and then finally, while still holding onto its arm, spun it around, and threw it against the wall; right where one of the blue lights tracing the grooves in the wall was moving to.
Before the doppleganger could fall from the wall, a plasma blast went right through it. A high pitched winding sound was emitted from it, signifying that Kasumi's shot was a success. The Space Hunter smiled to herself; her opponent may have been well versed in the Tendou, Saotome, and Happosai school of Anything Goes Martial Arts, but she always wanted to create her own branch.
As her opponent repaired itself with another blue sphere, Kasumi quickly took aim and destroyed ten of the blue lights tracing the floor, and smiled to herself as each and every one of them 'popped' and gave that winding noise.
With Kasumi suddenly finding its weakness, several of the blue spheres suddenly merged, to form a second doppleganger. Kasumi could guess that it would be just as proficient as the first one was in martial arts, and she also knew that her previous adaptations would probably not work a second time on either of them. It was and advantage that her opponents didn't seem to have her adaptability, which was the embodiment of the Anything Goes styles. With a smile, Kasumi casually stated to herself, "Mmmm, cake!"
She danced from one doppleganger to the other, trading blows with both to keep them at bay. When she was ready, Kasumi leapt into the air, in which they both followed, just as she planned it. While in the air, Kasumi rolled herself into a rapidly spinning ball, and launched bombs everywhere. The dopplegangers caught the brunt of the bombs, damaging them both severely. They were a lot slower to recover, and Kasumi again returned her attention to destroying the sphere emitters. Abandoning their idleness, the remaining spheres that weren't used for repair formed a third Doppleganger. None of them noticed the superbomb that Kasumi discreetly layed on the ground, while she herself payed no attention to any of them, and marked the positions of the remaining energy sphere emitters.
Just as three blue hued fists were about to collide with her head, everything went blindingly white...
___________________________
The Space Hunter confidently strode through the open door, and looked around. All about her was massive amounts of technology, signifying she had reached the main layer of the Space Pirates. She idly noted that it would have been obvious with the sheer amount of the mantis-like humanoids that were waiting for her.
Kasumi smirked beneith her visor, and lifted her cannon from the elbow to point up. She opened the top of it to convert it to missiles, and then closed it back to plasma cannon in a confident taunt, "Weeeeee're heeeeeeere!"
'Ill Gain'
Kasumi stared at the glowing blue sphere that floated before her, and sighed. She was really getting tired of being attacked from behind...
Kasumi faded out of the way of a short blue stream of energy meant for her head. As she spun around to return fire, the Space Hunter found herself tackled by a blue blur. Kasumi used the backwards momentum to roll with the collision, and plant her feet into the mid of the blue mass. She kicked it backwards, and as she did so, got a good look at what her opponent was.
The doppleganger caught itself on its left hand, and flipped to standing; firing as soon as it braced itself. "I guess I'm supposed to say something witty about imitations now..." Kasumi mocked, as she returned fire. Two of their blasts collided in the air, causing an explosion of ions and cancelling each other out. The rest Kasumi dodged, but not with much ease.
"[You should concentrate on your opponent instead of contemplating unnessesary banter.]"
"You know, Nabiki, you weren't always this anti-social." One of the Space Hunter's blasts scored a hit; the plasma blast managing to shear a good portion of her opponent's mass from the side of the abdomen. Immidiately, one of the blue spheres in the room darted over, replacing the missing mass of the main body.
Kasumi groaned at its recovery, but continued to fire. The psuedo-Kasumi continued to return fire, but still narrowly missing its target. Unfortunately for it, the true Space Hunter scored two more. Two of the spheres in the room glided over and patched up the wounds. Narrowing her eyes behind the visor, Kasumi turned to fire on one of the floating spheres. It popped like a bubble, only to have another one melt from the wall to take its place.
"Nabiki, any ideas?"
"[No.]"
"No...? NO?!? Oh, gee, sis, I'm so happy your taking this calml-YIPE!" the doppleganger leapt into the air, and fired down towards Kasumi. She easily had stepped the blast, and didn't realize until it was almost too late that the thing fired an imitation of her grappling beam. It then used it to pull itself towards Kasumi's direction with its leg out for a kick. The Space Hunter rolled under the attack, and delivered a hand plant kick back towards its back. The doppleganger recovered before the kick could connect, and scissored it's legs around Kasumi's outstretched one. Then it twisted, bending the knee with the joint, locking Kasumi as it turned its cannon to her head at point blank.
Kasumi parried the cannon with her left hand, sending the blast past her head. She then brought her own cannon up, and returned fire towards its head, at point blank range.
The Space Hunter rolled away, as the doppleganger reeled back from missing its head, and once again, a blue sphere came to repair the damage.
"Little help here..." Kasumi replied nervously, as she backed up and dodged the barrage of blasts directed towards her.
"[I'm working on it. Keep fighting it until I find a weakness.]"
"Sounds like a brilliant plan to me. Maybe I should forgoe the futile part of this confrontation and just stand still?"
"[I wouldn't suggest that, keep moving.]"
Kasumi was about to retort, when the doppleganger changed tactics, and closed the distance between them for hand to hand. The Space Hunter easily evaded the pattern attack, and leapt back. "Hey, nice moves, Mr. Pale Imitation, wish I had a set like them," Kasumi replied sarcastically, and then blinked; That was a combination attack of the Tendou school that she had yet to use for a while. How did her opponent know it?
The Doppleganger suddenly leapt into the air, and Kasumi *almost* followed. Instead, she fired up towards it in a seemingly wall of plasma blasts. The theory she came up with was proven correct, as the energy construct nimbly evaded every blast in the air with gracious ease.
"Saotome School aero-evasion, no doubt," Kasumi mumbled to herself.
"[Pardon?]"
"OF COURSE! They must have expected us to make it this far!" Kasumi exclaimed, as she backflipped away from her opponent's falling knee crush.
"[Explain.]"
"This aura enhancement, it was part of a trap for us.. I mean me, I think." Kasumi ducked under a flying kick, and attempted to retaliate with an uppercut, but found her blow redirected by a technique from Happosai's school. "Ouch," she whimpered, landing against the wall hard enough for her concussive dampeners to be temporarily overloaded, "It was allowing whatever this place is to 'study' me, reading my- alley oop!- technique and utilizing it as it's own."
"[So, in other words, it knows what you know, now?]"
Kasumi winced, as her sister simplified it; it sounded a lot worse in Layman's terms. She stepped inside of the doppleganger's left straight punch, blocking it with her back, and then delivered a heavy right elbow to her opponent in the gut. Fortunately, it felt like she was attacking her own armor, and she had reinforced her blow with her own ki to get the extra advantage in durability over the immitation. The doppleganger staggered back, and Kasumi straighted out her right arm so her cannon's head was now pressed up against the psuedo-Space Hunter's gut.
In a quick and steady barrage of fire, Kasumi cleaved the thing in half, right up the middle. It was another attack that proved futile, as it six blue spheres quickly rushed to replace the damage.
"[Attacking it directly is proving useless...]"
"Then what do you suggest?" Kasumi snapped, irritated, "If you're going to prove yourself nothing more than an emotionless coordinater, then at least be useful in that!"
Nabiki only noted the malice and spite in Kasumi's voice directed towards her on an intellectual level, "[I would suggest possibly attacking it at the source, then.]"
"Now why didn't I think of that?" Kasumi asked herself. She suddenly found her opponent was on par with her in hand to hand, almost seeming to know what she was going to do before she did it. Finally, the doppleganger managed to snake one through, almost connecting with the Space Hunter. In reaction, Kasumi turned redirected its force with one of Happosai's techniques, and then quickly modified it with a grapple from the Tendou school.
The psuedo-Kasumi found itself slammed into the ground, with the real Kasumi still holding onto its arm. The Space Hunter then slammed her opponent back to the other side, and then finally, while still holding onto its arm, spun it around, and threw it against the wall; right where one of the blue lights tracing the grooves in the wall was moving to.
Before the doppleganger could fall from the wall, a plasma blast went right through it. A high pitched winding sound was emitted from it, signifying that Kasumi's shot was a success. The Space Hunter smiled to herself; her opponent may have been well versed in the Tendou, Saotome, and Happosai school of Anything Goes Martial Arts, but she always wanted to create her own branch.
As her opponent repaired itself with another blue sphere, Kasumi quickly took aim and destroyed ten of the blue lights tracing the floor, and smiled to herself as each and every one of them 'popped' and gave that winding noise.
With Kasumi suddenly finding its weakness, several of the blue spheres suddenly merged, to form a second doppleganger. Kasumi could guess that it would be just as proficient as the first one was in martial arts, and she also knew that her previous adaptations would probably not work a second time on either of them. It was and advantage that her opponents didn't seem to have her adaptability, which was the embodiment of the Anything Goes styles. With a smile, Kasumi casually stated to herself, "Mmmm, cake!"
She danced from one doppleganger to the other, trading blows with both to keep them at bay. When she was ready, Kasumi leapt into the air, in which they both followed, just as she planned it. While in the air, Kasumi rolled herself into a rapidly spinning ball, and launched bombs everywhere. The dopplegangers caught the brunt of the bombs, damaging them both severely. They were a lot slower to recover, and Kasumi again returned her attention to destroying the sphere emitters. Abandoning their idleness, the remaining spheres that weren't used for repair formed a third Doppleganger. None of them noticed the superbomb that Kasumi discreetly layed on the ground, while she herself payed no attention to any of them, and marked the positions of the remaining energy sphere emitters.
Just as three blue hued fists were about to collide with her head, everything went blindingly white...
___________________________
The Space Hunter confidently strode through the open door, and looked around. All about her was massive amounts of technology, signifying she had reached the main layer of the Space Pirates. She idly noted that it would have been obvious with the sheer amount of the mantis-like humanoids that were waiting for her.
Kasumi smirked beneith her visor, and lifted her cannon from the elbow to point up. She opened the top of it to convert it to missiles, and then closed it back to plasma cannon in a confident taunt, "Weeeeee're heeeeeeere!"
