Fight Night, part 2

Holy shit. These were the words that came to Cody's mind once his opponents climbed into the cage. Although he had fought six men at once, that was not easy. However, this was something different.

These two men each had near-two-feet height advantage over him, along with a muscle mass that made these two look like brick houses. Cody remembered seeing one of these two men fight before. He could not place which one was whom given their strong resemblance to one another. All that was clear to him was that these two were brothers and had quite a size and strength advantage over him.

"Cody!"

He heard his name being called amid all of the chatter among the crowd. He turned around and saw Jessica against the cage and waved a "come here" hand signal to him so that he could approach her.

"What's going on, Jess?" Cody leaned towards her through a couple of chainlinks.

"Don't do it."

"What? Why?"

"Do I need to explain why? Look at them!"

"Look, I can handle this."

Guy stepped in. "Cody, listen to Jessica. Get out there."

Lucia stepped in as well. "She's right, Cody. I have seen these guys before. They are strong."

Even Carlos, Maki, and Rena signaled to him with concerned expressions. It was interesting that some concern came from Maki given her headstrong and overconfident attitude.

"I wouldn't do it, Cody," Carlos said when he stepped in. "It's suicide."

Cody turned to face the two opponents, both of whom had flexed their muscles and said, "Come on!" One of them punched the palm of his hand. He knew that his friends were looking out for him, but there was something in him that caused him not to listen.

"I got this." Right then, Cody separated himself from the group and went right to face the two large men.

Right when Cody got closer, he laid a few jabs to Hugo, who looked down and looked at Cody and then shoved him. Cody was tossed two feet away from where he initially was. Gunter threw a punch, but Cody quickly dodged. At least there was one thing he had over them, they were big and slow. He was smaller and quicker.

That was until he was met with a punch from Hugo. This time he was clocked in the face. Both of these men had big hands, so it left a rather big bruise on Cody's face.

He quickly rushed towards Hugo, but was then caught and ascended two feet off the ground. Hugo, as he held Cody, rushed towards the fencing.

CLANK!

The sound of the aluminum fencing clanked as Hugo released Cody, who then dropped.

But that wasn't enough. Gunter jumped and spreaded out his arms and legs. Cody quickly thought ahead and rolled.

THUD!

Gunter landed face first on the floor. Cody slowly ascended to his feet. The thought hit him from before. While his group was supportive, if they tried to talk him out of fighting these two, it was clear that they cared. Cody, on the other hand, was not ready to walk away.

Cody rushed and jumped onto Gunter's back and stomped on him, and faced Hugo with a look of, "Come on!" All Hugo did in response was flex his gigantic muscles and pound on his chest, like he was King Kong.

Once Cody stormed towards Hugo, he laid a few hard punches to his gut and chest. Despite feeling like he was punching a brick wall, Cody gave it all of his might. The size of his opponents did not matter to him. He then proceeded to do his sliding side kick that he had taught himself over time. His attacks had some effect on Hugo, but then a huge shadow came from behind.

BAM!

Down went Cody. Gunter got to his feet. He and his brother stood before the fallen Cody. Hugo picked him up as if he was picking up something from off the ground. He had enough strength that Cody's feet didn't touch the ground as he ascended. Hugo quickly grabbed him by the neck with both hands. Hugo gripped Cody's neck so hard that he started to gag. If that wasn't enough, his face had started to turn red. Lucky for Cody, Hugo just punched him in the face, sending him flying to the ground. It didn't stop there, though. Gunter leaped and landed his bottom right onto Cody.

Outside of the cage, Jessica gasped, looked down, sniffed, and turned her head away while her eyes started to water. It was clear what she was feeling at that moment.

She saw Cody slowly crawl. His jaw and nose were bleeding, he had bruises on his face. What more could happen now?

"Guy, Carlos, do either of you have towels?"

Carlos turned towards her. "Why?"

"Can't you see?" Jessica pointed inside the ring.

Carlos already knew what she meant. He wasn't sure why she needed a towel at that point initially. However, Guy already knew what Jessica meant. All he thought at that moment was that he should go in there and help him. Maybe Carlos, too. It would become three on two, but the size of those behemoths, no one was sure if that would even things up. Even Lucia and Maki talked among themselves to see if they should help. Whether it was to get him out or in the fight, that was what they couldn't agree on.

"Jessica, I'm going in there," Guy said and was about to move until Maki interrupted.

"Wait, I have an idea."

Cody reached for the fence. He breathed hard. He slowly got to his feet. All he could think of was what he could do. In his current state, he knew that if he tried to fight them some more, he would likely end up in the hospital, or worse, dead.

"Cody, take this!"

He turned the moment he heard his name. There was Maki and tossed something over the top edge of the fencing. Cody quickly caught the item. It was her tonfa. It didn't matter if he knew how to use it properly, he knew of one way to use some kind of weapon.

No one said what the rules were in fights like this.

Without any warning, Cody whacked Gunter in the nuts with the weapon.

Everyone in the crowd yelled "OOH!" and winced at what they saw. Cody proceeded to whack Hugo in the leg with the tonfa and then in the gut and finally in the face.

Cody was surprised, as was everyone in the fight arena. He had been beaten badly, and now he got his second wind. It was as if the beating he took was nothing. Cody tossed the weapon aside and got in his fighting stance once again.

Outside, Jessica looked on with a mixture of emotions. Her eyes were still moist, but she had a look of shock, but she cracked a smile a tad. It was a combination of her thinking "Cody, what are you doing?" and "Go, Cody!"

If that wasn't enough, Lucia started chanting his name, causing everyone in the arena to do the same, except for the likes of Damnd and some of the other Mad Gear thugs like Bred, Dug, Jake, and Simons, as well as Two-P, J, Mic, and Mark. Even Poison and Roxy were rooting for Cody, despite who they ran with. Rolento, along with his cohorts like Freddie, Serge, Holly Wood, and El Gado just looked on, but there was a sign that Rolento was impressed by this man's fighting ability.

The two Andore brothers looked at Cody with such fury in their eyes. Cody was ready to throw down once more. The Andore brothers rushed towards him, but something that nobody in the venue expected. Once Cody threw a punch, a force sent the two brothers flying in circles.

THUD!

The force of energy that Cody let out looked like a duster, a small tornado. Cody looked around with a look of confusion. The two brothers lay on the ground. The entire arena went quiet. After a few seconds, there was a huge ovation for Cody. So much applause and cheering. All Cody could do was pick up the tonfa and exit the cage.

His group all greeted him while everyone chanted "CODY! CODY! CODY!"

The first thing he did was approach Maki and hand her the tonfa.

"Thank you, Maki."

"Don't worry about it. I saved your brother and I saved you."

Cody nodded in response. He knew he owed her as well for saving Kyle and his friends that night. It was not the time to talk about that. No matter how much Lucia, Carlos, Rena, and Guy patted him on the shoulders to congratulate him for the victory, the only thing on his mind was the blonde beauty standing before him.

Jessica breathed slowly and quickly hugged him. "Oh, Cody, I was so scared, but you were great in there!"

Cody held her with so much embrace. "Man, I am fucking beat. I need to breathe right now."

"Let me go with you."

"No, I need to catch my breath right now. Stay here with everyone else."

Guy stepped in. "Maybe you should go into the bar. I don't think you should go outside."

"Aren't we technically outside?" Cody felt like he had to point out the obvious that they were in the patio area of the Surf Bar.

"You know what I mean," Guy said. "Or maybe we should leave together."

There was not a lot left to do tonight, but Cody just needed to get away from everyone else and he would rejoin the group after a few minutes. Guy still looked on as Cody walked away. There was something that didn't seem right with this feeling he had.

Cody proceeded to leave the bar to have some time alone. However, a voice was heard.

"Hey, asshole! Remember us?"

To his left, there were Slash and Axl, along with their crew.

"What the fuck do you guys want? Do you want to fight again?"

"Nah, we just want to congratulate you, champ!" Axl said.

BAM!

Cody dropped to the ground as he felt a smack from behind. He looked up and saw another man who stood nearly eight feet tall, wearing a similar outfit to the Andore brothers, except this man looked nothing like him. He had a mohawk haircut and had some facepaint around his eyes. He was as muscular as those guys were, though.

"Good job, Abigail," Axl said.

Slash said. "Come on, boys. Let's take him for a ride."

Abigail picked up Cody and put him in the trunk of Slash's 1970 Dodge Charger. Despite being a biker, Slash was a car guy, though he still rode motorcycles.

Slash and Axl took off in the Charger, while Crush, Chains, Skull, and 8-Ball all drove their bikes behind them, as did Abigail in his truck.

Unbeknownst to all of them, Guy saw the caravan drive off. Lucky for him, he saw a taxi cab pulling up. With the money he won that night, he had no choice but to use some of it as fare. But in this situation, a close friend of his was in trouble. There was no time to waste.

It was not long until Jessica came out with Rena, Carlos, Maki, and Lucia.

"Cody? Guy? Where are you guys?" Jessica said.

What happened? Where could they have gone?