I can’t think of any better way to begin the week than to have these two teams duke it out. Without further ado, let’s begin FITE WEEK 2!
VS.
Tonight the holodeck arena has been set to simulate a gritty old scrapyard where large piles of rusty old metal might serve either as cover or as precarious heaps just waiting to be knocked over. The comrades in arm cannons choose to have Utsuho begin the battle, relying on her advantage of being the only flying character to enter this match. Daniel and Carol, on the other hand, have chosen to send in Daniel first despite the fact he is locked to the ground and lacks any ranged attacks. Samus is confused by this choice and keeps a close eye on Daniel, but Utsuho does not see anything odd about their choice and is eager to start the battle.
Refbot gives the signal, and the fite begins!
Daniel quickly dives behind a pile of scrap, accurately predicting Utsuho’s immediate reaction of unleashing a barrage of tiny blue pellets. The balls singe the stacked metals, but Daniel is completely shielded from their power. Utsuho flies around the pile, trying to adjust her aim, but as she circles it she is unable to locate Daniel. The mutant has crawled into the pile of metal, ignoring the sharp corners that jabbed into him as he sought cover. Utsuho hovers above the pile, scanning the arena for where Daniel might have run off to, but she did not think to check beneath herself. Daniel pushes himself to the top of the pile and leaps up, grabbing Utsuho by her legs and startling the raven.
Utsuho begins to fly frantically as she tries to shake Daniel off of her, but Daniel refuses to let go. The mutant’s bone spikes jut out, but in his position he is unable to do anything with them. The Hell raven begins slashing at Daniel with the Sword of Hisou, but Daniel blocks the blows with his bone spikes. Each block involved a perilous maneuver where he let go of one of Okuu's legs, and Utsuho's frantic flapping through the air starts to make things difficult for Daniel. He can't hang on forever after all.
On the sidelines, Samus’s attention shifts away from the battle to Carol. The young technopath is not standing by waiting to be tagged in. Instead, Carol is in a corner of the arena removing a panel from the holodeck’s wall. Samus senses trickery and begins to walk over to investigate, but as soon as the panel is removed Carol gets to work rewiring the arena’s holographic projector. The scrapyard begins to disappear, and the battle suddenly shifts to an unlit road tunnel.
Utsuho was not expecting the arena change, and with so little room to fly about in the tunnel the nuclear raven accidentally slams her head into the tunnel’s ceiling. Utsuho and Daniel crash into the ground and the mutant quickly uses the opportunity to get on top of her and begin slashing her with his bone spikes. Utsuho tries to block the attacks with her fuel rod arm, but in the darkness of the tunnel only the faint light of her own nuclear glow lights up the battle. Samus has no trouble seeing the battle with her visor’s Heat Vision setting, and she begins making her way over to Carol to try and prevent further arena tampering.
Despite the constant barrage, Utsuho manages to pull her sword to bear and evoke its weather controlling powers. She tries to form a heavy hailstorm to pelt Daniel with, but her lack of knowledge with the weapon and the distraction of constantly being slashed leads instead to a flurry of graupel pouring down on the battle. Daniel initially mistake the graupel for hail though and tries to shield himself from it, but as the tiny snow pellets lightly bounce off of him, he realizes there is no threat. The short distraction does give Utsuho an opening though, and she slams the side of the Sword of Hisou into Daniel’s waist.
Daniel is forced off of Okuu by the blow and she immediately takes to the air now that the opportunity arose. Daniel lies on the ground clutching the huge new gash in his side, but now that Okuu is in the air she is unable to see where Daniel is in the darkness. Utsuho decides to bring on the sun and bring in the light by unleashing one of her mini-super nova attacks in the direction she last saw Daniel, and since the mutant was still suffering from his fresh wound, he didn’t really have the time or energy to move away.
The dark may impede some people, but the technopathic Carol was able to run on knowledge and insight alone to continue fiddling with the holodeck controls. Before the mini-sun reached Daniel, the arena shifted again, this time into an approximation of the LegoLand theme park. Instead of burning Daniel to death, Utsuho’s attack slammed into a scale model of the Space Needle and sent a shower of melted plastic out across the arena. Daniel is pelted by the tiny plastic bricks, but he is spared the stronger blast.
LegoLand is much better lit than the tunnel, and with the light back on we can see that Samus is right behind Carol. The bounty hunter pulls Carol up into the air by the back of her shirt’s collar. Carol begins flailing around, not really able to attack Samus due to the way she was being held. Refbot beeps out a warning, indicating that the two would not be able to fite unless they were tagged in, so Samus pulls the technopath over to the still suffering Daniel.
“Why don’t you take five Daniel? I’ve got some business with your friend here.” Samus tosses Carol onto Daniel, which I guess counts as a tag in some way. Utsuho flies down to see what is happening, but before she even had time to find out what the situation is Samus slaps her hand to tag herself in. Carol helps Daniel up and he walks over the sideline, but Utsuho takes a bit longer to realize she has been tagged out.
Samus shoos her off, and preps her own arm cannon to battle Carol before the technopath could further fiddle with the holodeck’s projections.
Carol pulls her Pomson 6000 up to begin the battle, but Samus begins firing a rapid stream of weak Power Beam blasts at Carol as soon as the tag in is official. Carol is forced to cartwheel away and the young mutant immediately seeks shelter behind a meticulously crafted Lego sculpture of an elephant. Samus’s power beam shot blasts chunks of tiny bricks off of the sculpture, but blasting through the brick beast’s thick flank is a time-consuming endeavor. Carol pokes out from the side of the giant statue’s leg and fires a few pot shots at Samus with her Pomson, but the bounty hunter has no trouble diving away from the Pomson beams’ paths.
Carol pumps the Pomson to reload, but Samus messes with her own gun as well. Her beam weaponry shifts to Plasma, and as Samus opens fire the heavily damaged brick elephant in the way of her attack becomes inconsequential. The plasma beam passes right through the plastic pachyderm and burns the young girl on the other side. Plasma beams continue to shoot through what was once safe cover, so Carol flees to find safety in some other part of the park. Samus pursues, turning her X-Ray visor on to see through the many brick monuments and buildings that Carol might try to hide in. Samus spies a skeleton over near the outside edge of the arena, but when she runs over to see who owns it, she ends up running into Daniel rather than Carol.
Before the bounty hunter can resume her search, four Pomson blasts rip into the back of Samus’s Varia Suit. The blasts did not manage to hit Samus within the suit, but there was now a giant gaping hole in the back of the bounty hunter’s armor. Samus curls into a morph ball and rolls away, trying to avoid any further sneak attacks. As Samus rolls about and Carol hides within the park, there is a stretch of time where neither side attacks. Utsuho begins to get impatient with the slow pace of the fite and takes to the air to spot where Carol is hiding.
“SAMUS! She’s on the big ship! The battle cruiser! I think that’s what it’s called…” Refbot beeps a warning at Utsuho, but there is no rule against spotting for your ally technically. Daniel tries to do the same, but Samus was already rolling towards the water portion of the park. He can only warn Carol that Samus is coming.
Samus unfurls from her morph ball form just in time to see Carol leaping off of the boat and onto her. Samus is too surprised at first to strike, so Carol begins to pound her fists into Samus's armor, but she is not strong enough to do any damage to the tough suit. She pulls her Pomson up instead and tries to fire, but Samus has had time to recover from the shock and manages to smack the gun's aim away from blasting right through her visor. A shoulderpad is sheared off by the beam, but Samus grabs the side of the Pomson to prevent it from aiming anywhere else. Samus yanks the Pomson away from Carol, leaving the young technopath with no way to really hurt her foe and Daniel much too far away to tag in. Carol starts to scramble around Samus's body like a spider, and despite Samus's attempts to swat her she eventually ends up on the back of the bounty hunter. Carol almost abandoned her foe to make a mad dash for Daniel, but the open hole in Samus's armor beckons to her. Carol makes a split second decision and reaches into the suit to fiddle with the suit's internal systems. The Varia Suit runs mostly on the movements of Samus, but the complexity of things such as the morph ball and the necessary systems for life support allow Carol to reach and gain some semblance of control over the bounty hunter.
Samus begins to move around jerkily like she was ripped straight from The Grudge, and as Carol gets used to the controls, the bounty hunter begins to walk over to Utsuho. Utsuho nervously watches her puppeted ally approach, not quite sure what to do in this situation. Even Refbot is at a loss on the legality of this maneuver, but Utsuho quickly hedges her bets and rockets forward, slapping Samus’s hand quickly to make sure at least a tag in was official. Carol had not expected to need to use her strange mount for combat, but as Utsuho gets up in the air again, Carol does her best to get Samus to aim her arm cannon at the Hell Raven.
Utsuho considers which moves she might be able to use without harming Samus, but as Carol gets more and more used to Samus’s suit machinery, she discovers the lock-on feature. Plasma beams head directly for Utsuho and blast her out of the sky and into a lego building. The lock-on feature loses track of the Hell raven after she crashes into the building, so Carol just blindly fires the plasma beam through the walls of the establishment. Utsuho remained on the ground though, letting the beam pass over her as she pondered a plan of attack.
The Sword of Hisou called upon the weather again, but this time a dense mist rolled in. Not quite as thick as New England fog, but still thick enough to make Carol unable to see more than a few feet ahead of her. Carol becomes even more uncomfortable with the awkward situation she is in, but now that a dense mist has rolled in, she has no choice but to remain in control of the Varia Suit. Samus’s visors could sort out the situation, but Carol is not able to use them herself. Carol sees a faint glow in the mist though, and believing it to be the nuclear glow of Utsuho, she urges Samus towards it…
Only to discover it’s Hell’s Artificial Sun.
The false star begins to pull Carol and Samus in with its gravity, so without thinking Carol immediately unloads Samus’s arsenal on it in the hopes it might prevent a fiery death. Samus’s super missiles are what do the trick, but the impact of missile against sun leads to a large explosion, blasting Carol and Samus to the ground. Carol’s hands are too tangled in the suit to be forced out now though, and Samus is still a prisoner of her own armor. Okuu does use the distraction to sneak up on them though, and before Samus could get back on her feet, Utsuho brings her sword down to try and decapitate Carol.
Samus is still set to fire super missiles though, and Carol could see Utsuho well enough to quickly aim a blast right into the Hell raven’s stomach. Okuu is blasted away and badly injured, but she’s not down yet. Samus awkwardly stands back up, Carol still clinging to her from the hole in her back. Samus’s armor may not be under her control, but her body still belonged to her.
“Utsuho!” Samus calls out, “Hit us both. Take us both out instead of letting them win!”
Carol looks down at her unwilling mount with a bit of terror, having forgotten that Samus still had a biological side that wasn’t under the technopath’s control. Once the mutant looked back up from Samus, she sees Utsuho jamming her fuel rod arm into the dirt. Carol tries to urge Samus to run away or pull her own hands out of the tangled mess of wires, but a Nuclear Blaze Geyser shoots out from the ground beneath the two women before they can escape.
At full strength maybe the two women would have been fried by the blast, but not even Utsuho could bring herself to fry an ally. The Varia Suit did crackle and complain though, and Carol was badly seared from the geyser. Carol did not even look up as Samus’s sparking cannon arm jerked up and charged up its Power Beam. Utsuho tried to take to the air again, but she still ached from the super missile blast. Utsuho was hardly in the air when the fully charged beam blasted into her. Okuu falls out of the sky and near Samus’s feet. The Hell raven is hardly able to stay conscious, and she was only able to pull herself off the ground by propping herself up on the Sword of Hisou. Okuu’s hand slapped forward lazily, skimming Samus’s own normal hand, signaling a tag in. Before she passed out completely, Utsuho raised the sword one last time and called on a downpour. The nuclear woman then fell to the ground, still holding her sword upwards despite being completely unconscious. Her last second tag in did mean that the battle still continued, but Carol was not afraid to fite an opponent who was unable to strike back…
But the rain was not called on just for the sake of a moody demise. The downpour seeped into the open wiring of the Varia Suit, and an electrical malfunction is ignited. Both Carol and Samus receive a nasty shock, but the electrical jolt is enough to finally force Carol off of the bounty hunter’s back. The malfunction is too much for the suit to handle though, so even though her hijacker was finally dislodged, Samus is forced to ditch her power suit and go Zero Suit.
“This really needs to stop happening every time I enter a fite,” she says as she looks at her abandoned suit. Samus had no paralyzer this time though, but Utsuho still held the Sword of Hisou. Samus takes her fallen ally's weapon, even more clueless than Utsuho was about how to activate its hidden potential. Carol, meanwhile, was still suffering from the past few blows. She couldn’t even move after that jolt, and the burns of the geyser still ached. If Samus came back with the sword, she would be unable to fite back.
A rough hand clasped Carol’s unmoving hand. Carol’s eyes moved to see Daniel tagging himself in. He was still clearly bothered by his own wound, but there was raw determination burning in his eyes. He could ignore his pain for now if it meant avenging Carol. Daniel’s bone spikes jutted out once more as he marched over to where Samus was picking up the blade. Carol let out a weak cheer for her ally as the two faced off to decide who will move on to the GRAND FITE WEEK 2 FINALE.
Daniel keeps his arms at chest level as he approaches Samus, the bone spikes jutting out like deadly scythes. Samus holds the Sword of Hisou uneasily with both hands, trying to tap into its secret powers as Daniel gets closer and closer. She tries to wave it around like she saw Utsuho do once, but rather than conjuring up any useful weather, the downpour disappears and becomes an aggressive heat wave. Neither fiter is dressed for the warm front, so by the time they begin fiting they are already sweating like they had been exercising non-stop since they woke up.
Daniel begins his attack cautiously, alternating swipes with his bone arms so that one is always protecting his body. Samus parries the incoming attacks well enough, but it is quite clear that she is more of a ranged attacker than a close-quarters combat girl. Samus swings the blade towards Daniel, but the mutant has no trouble hitting the blade aside and using the opportunity to scrape the bounty hunter across the face. Samus jumps back to avoid decapitation, but now that she was open, Daniel moved in with blind fury. He swings both arms wildly, Samus only able to block one arm as the other slashes into her Zero Suit. Samus tries to kick Daniel away from her, but the mutant is quick to extend his knee spikes. The bone jabs into the bounty hunter’s incoming kick, forcing her off balance and onto her knees.
Without missing a beat though, Samus places the Sword of Hisou through Daniel’s legs and pulls it upwards. Daniel is forced to press his elbow spikes down to prevent a rather uncomfortable upwards bisection, but since his hands were still free he grabs the hilt of the sword and begins to try and tug it from Samus’s grip. The bounty hunter gets back on her feet to try and get a better position to pull from, and Daniel quickly steps over the blade to make sure no “accidents” occur during the tug of war.
As the sword is jerked around, the weather begins to turn erratic. Wind whips around, carrying everything from snow to sand to full blown fish. Tornadoes are born and instantly die, only to be replaced by typhoons that give way to weak little dust devils. Neither fiter lets up on their grip though, weathering the weather with stoic resolve. Soon though, like all storms, it comes to lightning and the bolt of electricity hits right by the two fiters. The first bolt startles them, but as more and more lightning crashes around them, the two fiters begin to try and factor it into their battle. The battle shifts from a tug of war to an attempt to push each other down with the sword. The back and forth eventually ends when Daniel lets up on his grip of the sword. Samus did not expect the sudden shift and falls down and right into the path of a thunderbolt.
Samus will be joining the club of people who are lucky enough to survive a lightning strike, but she is not terribly well off after absorbing the lightning crash. Samus stands back up, but her body fells numb and she can hardly move her limbs. Daniel does not do anything at first, convinced a stiff breeze might be enough to finish Samus off, but the bounty hunter swings the sword around and slices into the wound Utsuho created earlier. Daniel didn’t take this strike lightly and charges towards Samus. The bounty hunter lifts the Sword of Hisou to defend, but Daniel smacks it aside with one bone blade and slashes Samus Aran across her stomach.
To a woman already struck by lightning, it didn’t take much to push her over to the other side of death. Maybe she won't be able to join that club after all.
Samus keels over face first into a dirty puddle of sand, dust, and Legos. Refbot signals the battle's end, and Daniel goes over to help Carol up. Both were exhausted but healthy enough to survive the battle, and with a bit of medical care both fiters should be in tip top shape!
Which is good, because both Daniel and Carol will be moving on! Daniel and Carol have won the first fite of FITE WEEK 2!
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