PRT building training room
The large training room smelled of old sweat and leather, with an undercurrent of the wood oil they used to polish the basket ball court on the other side of the room. On this side there was a thick layering of rubber mats on the floor with a square painted onto it.
Shadow Stalker and Druid both stood in the square eyeing each other.
"Alright. I want a clean fight, no powers, no low blows, no giant cats..."
"Shut up." Shadow Stalker snapped at Clockblocker, who flipped her off in return.
"Clock leave it." Aegis stated as Vista did bad things to space and Aegis grabbed Clock and pulled him to the other side of the room away from the pair where she and Apocalypse Meow sat just off the edge of the mat, by the wall. Aegis nodded and took a step forward to the edge of the painted square.
"I still think this is stupid. What was Miss Militia thinking letting Stalker pick a fight and why did Druid agree?" Vista huffed.
"Miss Militia's a bit too soft touch with kids, you know this, and Stalker knows it." Clockblocker added not seeming to be that upset about being pulled away." Hand held candy girl went to go find the big cheese to deal with our level of stupid."
"Hand held candy girl?" Aegis asked.
"MM" Clockblocker smirked.
"That was bad even for you. That was Assault 'dad joke' level of bad." Vista groaned and even Apocalypse Meow seemed annoyed with him for the joke.
In the middle of the training mat, Shadow Stalker had stripped off most of her gear leaving herself in a pair of tight pants and a long sleeved unitard, gloves, and her mask.
Druid reached into one of the pockets in her cloak and after searching a bit pulled out a pair of gloves pulling them on.
"Gloves? What, afraid you'll chip a nail?" Shadow Stalker taunted.
"Nah, my power works on touch, fights even spars get heated, so I'm putting these on so I don't accidentally go too far and stop your heart. " Druid pointed out as she pulled on her gloves. "It'd be a pain to restart it."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever helps you sleep at night." Shadow Stalker huffed.
Druid shrugged and pulled off her hooded cloak, dropping it at the edge of the mat before pulling off her armored vest leaving her in the cargo pants and a sports bra top.
"HOLY SHIT!" Clockblocker cried out, pointing at Druid who was still had on her face mask in case any one came down here, the training area wasn't as secure as the Ward's room.
"What?" Druid blinked.
"DAMN girl I need to know your training regime so I can look at it and despair at how out of shape I am." Clockblocker continued.
"Seriously?" Vista frowned. "Boys."
"Do not give me that pipsqueak, look at her, look at her. You could grate cheese on those abs, you cannot tell me you are not either impressed, horrified, interested, or all three." Clockblocker flailed.
"Are we going to have to make you take the sexual harassment course again Clockblocker?" Aegis sighed.
Vista was rather silent in response to his demand.
Druid blinked looking down at herself briefly. She didn't see the big deal, sure she had some abs and some muscle, but her mom had more definition, and bigger boobs to boot. Druid wasn't thrilled that she didn't have anything like that yet.
"Muscles don't mean you can fight. Lets go." Shadow Stalker snapped.
"You ready? You ready? Good. Go!" Aegis called after checking with both of them.
Stalker moved, and Druid had to duck away from a couple of swift strikes aimed at her face. Druid frowned as the other girl kept going lashing out in fast jabs and punches at a speed that surprised her. Druid moved blocking a few with her forearm as she lifted her guard, not having expected Shadow Stalker to be a boxer.
A kick lashed out suddenly hitting her side and Druid reflexively dropped her elbow and trapped the leg against her barrel wincing at the impact and wondering if that was enough force to crack a rib.
Shadow Stalker kicked off the ground with her other foot and spun in the air, her heel nearly slamming into the side of Druid's head only missing by an inch as Druid yanked her head back but the blow still caught her cheek and sent her tumbling back to the ground with a crash as Shadow Stalker hopped back to her feet with a smirk.
"That's one fall for Druid." Aegis stated as Druid picked herself up with a grumble.
"You learn your place yet piggy?" Shadow Stalker taunted.
"It was best of five right?" Druid offered standing back up and reaching up to rub her cheek.
Shadow Stalker nodded at that bouncing back as Druid repositioned herself.
"GO!" Aegis snapped.
Shadow Stalker moved, darting forward with a flurry of punches that Druid moved out of the way of or blocked again. She let herself be lead back and again Stalker lashed out with a kick only to find Druid had dropped to all fours under the kick Surging forward to slam her shoulder against Stalker's thigh as she tried to complete the arch of the kick.
Druid's right arm shot up wrapping over Stalkers thigh while her left hand grabbed Stalkers right arm yanking down hard on it as she completed the charge standing up and shoving Stalker forward.
The movement took Stalker's other foot off the mat just before her head and shoulders slammed into it from Druid's 'football tackle'.
"One fall for Shadow Stalker." Aegis called. "Break."
Druid pulled back, quickly ducking out of range of a swipe from stalker as the girl surged back to her feet.
"So you do have some fight." Stalker growled.
"Hey I needed to learn it. Not all of us can turn to smoke so they can run away." Druid snapped back.
"Read my file bitch?" Stalker growled. "Not everything's in there."
"Seems you did the same with me." Druid smirked. "And same thing."
"GO!" Aegis snapped and the two rushed each other again.
This time was a bit different as both of them were trading blows, seemingly having taken the measure of each other in the last two bouts. Despite the viciousness the two were giving each other, very few hits connected, both were likely gonna bruise up from this, but at the moment neither could gain the advantage and the impact of flesh and cries at the attacks filled the room.
"Holy shit... this is some MMA shit here. Dean is gonna hate he missed it." Clockblocker offered.
"I'm sure his girlfriend will be happy he's not watching two half naked girls beat the crap out of each other." Vista grumped.
"Okay one, only druid is showing any skin, and that's just her arms and those sweet abs. Two, we knew Stalker was gonna try this, we just didn't expect Druid to be into it as well." Clockblocker offered. "Three, don't be hating girl. Vicky is nice."
"You're only saying that because she's blonde." Vista grumbled.
"So are you, but nah, I like redheads." Clockblocker offered. "And those of the raven haired persuasion."
"And brunettes." Aegis offered.
"Them too. And the ones with the weird anime colored hair, I really like those." Clockblocker continued." Ehh, blondes are okay too."
"Dude you need a girlfriend." Aegis huffed.
"As if any one could put up with him." Vista added.
"You two are cruel... sooo cruel." Clockblocker grumbled.
"Two falls for Shadow Stalker." Aegis called.
Druid had managed to get under a punch and shove Shadow Stalker back sweeping her leg at the same time sending her down to the mat, with Druid following behind and wrapping the other girl up in a rather complex looking hold that Aegis had seen some of the Troopers use to restrain irate or drugged subjects when the con foam couldn't be deployed. He wondered where she had learned that, before wondering if the rumors about Director Piggot might have been true after all.
Not the one Clockblocker came up with about her being Slayer though, that was just dumb.
Druid untangled herself from Stalker and rolled back to her feet keeping an eye on Stalker as she surged to her feet.
"Next Round. GO!" Aegis shouted as the pair retreated to their corners.
Druid and Shadow Stalker surged at each other picking up where they left off in the blows.
"We really need some one higher up here for this." Aegis sighed.
"Neither of them would wait." Clockblocker offered. "We barely managed to convince them to listen to you as ref. Only the threat of Vista keeping them apart and me tagging them got us that much."
"From Shadow Stalker any way." Vista agreed. "I figure Druid would have backed down if Stalker did."
"Probably... HEY!" Aegis offered before shouting at the two on the mat.
Druid had gotten a hold of Stalker again, the girl a much better grappler than expected, which countered Shadow Stalkers style of quick strikes rather well.
The problem this time was Druid had gotten Stalker into a head lock and arm bar and was looking to either make her tap out this time or drop her and finish. Shadow Stalker turned to smoky black mist and flowed back though Druid in her breaker state, reforming and snapping her arms around Druid putting her in the same headlock she had put Stalker in.
Druid winced, both from the feeling of the breaker state passing through her and the sudden reverse lock.
"What happened to no powers?' Druid gasped .
"If you're in a fair fight, someone fucked up." Shadow Stalker offered with a snarl.
"Okay then." Druid agreed her free hand reaching up to her mask, pulling it down off her mouth." If we're playing that way."
Druid promptly bit down on the fleshy part of Shadow Stalker's inner elbow where her costume was the weakest, her teeth sinking through the tight cloth.
Shadow Stalker cried out at the bite, tensed up, then slumped bonelessly back to collapse on the mat.
Druid spat out a bit of blood with a curse and stood up rubbing her neck before pulling her mask back up over her face.
"Uhh...Three falls Stalker... Druid wins?" Aegis offered as he walked up onto the mat.
"Is she dead? Is the nightmare finally over?" Clockblocker added.
"She's fine." Druid offered as Apocalypse Meow walked up to her nuzzling against Druid's bare arm.
"I just knocked her out. by adjusting the blood flow to her brain enough that her body shut down."
"By biting her?" Vista questioned. "Also isn't that dangerous?"
"Sure, if I couldn't switch it back on and repair any damage the second she dropped. I could have also turned a percentage of her mass into an anesthesia agent, but mom doesn't want me doing that until I take the relevant courses in college." Druid sighed." Mom's also gonna be mad I bit her."
"Well well, seems we missed the fight. Who won?" A mocking voice offered .
The Wards looked over as Mouse Protector, Alucard, and Assault walked in, all of them still dressed as Janitors, with Miss Militia behind them.
"Druid did." Aegis offered taking note that Assault sighed and offered Alucard a twenty which the vampire themed cape took with a cackle.
