Joel Ambrose Vs Mason Griffon

The Immortal Vs The Half Breed

Hello everyone! I'm sorry for the long wait but I've been busy studying for finals. While will be using a new format for the next installment of this series I thought that would do a matchup that struck me as novel. Neither Joel Ambrose or Ike Mers use firearms and they are both defectors from criminal organizations. The thematic elements of their stories worked for me so I decided to go for this matchup.

Before we get started there's something I have to clear up. Before now I was using bios provided to me by the authors of the OCs, and until now I forgot to credit them for their work. I promise this wasn't out of malice, simply a product of my own forgetfulness, therefore I take full responsibility for it.

Bastion, a frontier city of Northern Vytal. A symbol of humanity's determination and strength. Made wealthy by the Dust and Silver mines within their borders, made famous by the Hunters of Aegis Academy in the city center. This great symbol of mankind's determination has stood for decades, and has started the career of many of Remnants most famous Hunters. Joel Ambrose is among this number.

Instructed by the Hunters of Bastion and trained by the Fortunata Marigold Joel Amberose is one infamous Generation 2 Red Hand Trappers. The victim of two White Fang terrorist attacks on Bastion killing the vast majority of his family Joel joined the Hand out of a desire for revenge. After being accepted into the second generation of Trappers he was taken as an apprentice of Fortuna Marigold, a Generation 1 Trapper and former Bounty Hunter.

After three years with the terrorist organization Joel turned himself in to Kingdom authorities, spending several months in a high security prison following his highly publicized trial. After this period of imprisonment Headmaster Ozpin gave him the opportunity to attend Beacon Academy. Accepting his offer, the former trapper earned command of Team AMBR.

Mason Griffon is the son of White Fang founding member Connory Griffon. After his fathers death Mason was raised by Qrow Branwen and became the childhood companion to Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long.

After leaving home at the age of 15 to search for the legacy of Connory Griffon Mason returned to Vale shortly after team RWBY's first semester at Beacon. While attending the Academy he formed a close relationship with the SDC Heiress Weiss Schnee and forged a firm friendship with team SLVR.

As the year wore on and the White Fang grew bolder by the day Mason chose to leave Beacon Academy. Hoping to put a stop to their plans before they could do catastrophic harm to the people of Vale. His ultimate fate remains unknown.

Former Faunus Insurgent Safe-house: 50 miles outside Bastion.

This White Fang safe house was another bust. In their retreat the insurgents had burned everything of value, and insurgents were nothing if not through. Charred papers and ashes covered the floor, quickly coloring everything it touched a charcoal black.

Mason Griffon was sifting through the ashes, searching for anything that mentioned his father, perhaps a logbook or a personnel roster. The last several days had made him paranoid. Red Hand forces had patrolled this area heavily due to increased White Fang activity. All it took was the sound of floorboards creaking to set off his fight or flight response.

Fight

Joel Ambrose barely had time to evade this intruder's first attack, a bladed gauntlet shredding the place he stood less than a second ago. He drew Storm Circuit and immediately leaped backward to escape the close confines of the safe house. As Mason stepped through the doorway to follow Joel hurled an electrified knife at the half breed, forcing him to dodge to the side.

The Trapper took a moment to prepare himself for the inevitable attack, raising his weapon to a guard position. Griffon came on hard, a wild series of strikes meant to shred the taller man to ribbons every once in a while Mason would overextend himself and Joel took the opportunity to counter with a well placed cut or thrust. This pattern persisted for several minutes, Mason coming on hard and Joel waiting out his opponent.

After missing a right hook Ambrose delivered a cut to the half breed's right leg, severing the muscles and tendons that held him upright. Mason Griffon went to the ground, crumpling like a puppet without strings. The Trapper holstered his weapon, assuming his enemy to be defeated. Only his augmented reflexes saved Joel's live.

Griffon had come back swinging, his first strike delivering a triple pronged thrust into his back. The second was aimed at his neck, hoping to sever the Joel's spine. At the last moment he moved to the left side and griped Mason's arm as it passed. Using the leverage brought on by his superior height and augmented musculature the Immortal violently jerked the limb to the right, throwing his opponent several feet to the side. Before Griffon could recover Joel grabbed him by the throat and discharged as much electricity into the half breed as possible.

The corpse sparked as the energy flowed out of the body. "Who the hell were you?" Joel asked himself as he searched for identification. Without visible Faunus traits he was unable to properly identify his adversary as the son of a White Fang founder.

JudgeOfHunters: Yeah, we realized this was very lopsided after about a half hour of working on it. We pressed in for personal reasons, as I like both of these characters. In layman's terms, Mason is badly suited for single combat against other Hunter Trained opponents.

Wa7chface: His fighting method is way too reckless, leaving Griffon too exposed. Nearly every time he is portrayed in battle Mason is described as wild and had been brought to heel by recklessness several times. (Initiation, his fight against Yang, and his fight against Neo to name a few.)

JudgeOfHunters: Pair off that recklessness with a tactically literate adversary and he's pretty screwed.

Wa7chface: Let's not forget that his Semblance (cellular regeneration) only works when he is already wounded. (I.e. When his Aura is already depleted.)

JudgeOfHunters: With that, we declare Joel Ambrose the victor.

The following are true events that followed the completion of this fight.

*Wa7chface gets up from the computer, closing MS Word.* That took us way too damn long. Two months for a single fight, well, finals take priority over hobbies.

Me: Don't worry about it man, if the Internet can't comprehend that we have lives outside of this site than that's their problem.

Wa7chface: True that. Well, I'm going home to binge watch Battlestar Galactica. See you tomorrow.

Me: See you buddy.

*Wa7chface leaves my house, my little sister watches him walk down the street.*

Little Sister: He's gone now.

Me: Alright, cool. I know for a fact that he doesn't read these so we're good.

First off, sorry for the atrociously long wait between fights. RL's been hectic lately. Other than that I have some announcements.

The next fight will feature one of Wa7chface's characters from his story The Evil of Men. Before you start screaming favoritism let me get to my next announcement.

In order to eliminate personal bias I will be working with a new format to present my logic and numbers in a far clearer way. While this will involve many, many more spoilers I think that it'll be worth it to save my integrity.

On a related topic, the next fight will be a 3 way free for all, and after that my "Season Finale." If you guys like the new format that I use for these next two fights than I'll use it in Season 2.

That's about it... So I'll see ya'll in the reviews.