Round 1, Fight 7: Neo Germany vs. Neo Hong Kong

[Cardi Doorl]

THIRD GUNDAM FIGHT
ROUND 1, FIGHT 7
NEO GERMANY vs. NEO HONG KONG

- Yellowstone National Park -

December 3rd, FC 16

Early afternoon in the dense woodland of Yellowstone National Park, and there was snow decent quantity on the ground and trees, though of course not nearly enough to affect a Gundam's mobility on its own.

The arena was an open type, with no clearly defined boundaries. The contestants were free to let their fight spread out anywhere in the National Park. As was the case with all these open-arena fights, the audience watched from airships a safe altitude up.

The speakers on these airships crackled to life as the announcer came on. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to bring you the seventh match of the third Gundam Fight finals! The contenders in this match have come thirsting for victory, but in the end only one will walk away with another notch for his - or her - nation. Are you ready to watch, ladies and gentlemen?"

The roar of the crowd was an inarguable "YES!".

"Good! That's the spirit! You already know the contenders, folks, otherwise you wouldn't be here. But no less they'll get their introductions.

"On one side is Dieter Mayers, representative of Neo Germany and pilot of the Gundam Effizienz!"

Those who came to support Dieter drowned out the announcer to the point that he was inaudible past the word 'Neo'.

"He will be facing," he continued unfazed, "Ning-qiu Ouyang, representing Neo Hong Kong in the Gun-fu Gundam!"

Those supporting Ning followed the Neo German example, but whether they outdid them, equaled them, or didn't match up was highly debatable.

"And now, let the Gundam Fighters confirm their readiness..."

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

Dieter bared his teeth in a devilish grin when he and the Effizienz were announced. The Gundam stood in a half crouch on a gentle snow covered slope. Both arms cradled the huge MG-42. Dieter’s left hand moved to the gun’s barrel, a graceful, barely noticeable motion. The other hand found the gun’s action as Dieter’s voice boomed through the crisp air.

“GUNDAM FIGHT! RRRREADYY??!....”

At ‘ready’, Dieter cocked the MG-42, a deliberate and menacing cue for the other fighter to continue. In the Gundam’s cockpit, the grin had turned into a scowl, and Dieter’s eyes narrowed to malevolent slits as he waited for his opponent to move.

[Ziryab]

((I thought it was the ref that gave the go signal? >.> *shrugs*))

Confirming her readiness to the announcer Ning effortlessly slid in a horse stance. Remaining almost motionless save for the unholstering of her beam pistols. A single twirl on her finger and the barrels were pointed away from her opponent as he arms reached forward.

Meanwhile her main camera was making out the image of Dieter's Gundam craddle its gun as if it were a child.

“GUNDAM FIGHT! RRRREADYY??!....” he began.

Her stance loosened. Her brow furrowed as she Prepared herself to perform the splits before rocketing upwards. She knew that unfortunately most of her shots would be lost to the dense woodlands once fell that low. So she intended to use only one gun while she was there. Using the other once she threw herself into the air.

The Gundam's head pitched forward slightly as she replied. "GO!!!"

[Wingnut]

(OOC: Hey! I start these things here.)

The Neo Australian referee had been chosen for this location because it was similar to the wooded area of the Outback where he was from and thus he knew best how to navigate the terrain to keep track of the fighters.
Both seemed eager to begin, thus when they both gave signs of being ready he shouted "GUNDAM FIGHT! RRRREADYY??!....GO!"

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Myers - Neo Germany -

Dieter moved the second he sensed Ning’s upward motion. He scowled at the referee’s insistence on yelling the start of the match, but ignored it for the moment to maneuver. As soon as the match began, he leaned backwards slightly and activated the trace command to make the Effizienz “skate” backwards with its thrusters into denser forest. Once he was sure Ning’s vision was appropriately obstructed, he made a strange move that cut the thrusters and pitched his Gundam forward at the same time. When the Effizienz was leaning far enough forward, he used an acrobatic move to spin the Gundam sideways and land in a prone position. It skidded quickly to a stop, and the machine gun’s bipod slammed down into position.

“Machine... gun...!” Dieter barked, moving his hands into an approximate gunning position. The mobile trace responded, hunkering the Gundam down a bit and raising the MG-42 into a firing position. “GO!” he screamed, ‘pulling’ the trigger in the cockpit. The machine gun jumped to life, spitting a line of beam fire so quickly it soon sounded like a giant sheet of paper being ripped continuously. All of the fire was directed at Ning as she rose into the air.

[Ziryab]

There was a scowl upon her features as the Effizienz repelled itself backwards towards the denser forest at the start of the match. Already in her splits, she was hoping that Dieter would have taken the initiative and tried shooting at her from the start. Instead shots from a single beam pistol tried to follow her retreating opponent to no avail. Tearing through the trees instead.

Undeterred she rocket upwards. She “eeped” at the sudden incoming alert and main camera displaying the sight of incoming beam fire. Increasing her thruster speed she quickly bent her knees in so the closest shots coming at her would not strike her legs. Almost rolling in midair she continued her flight path to the side rather than straight on. Viewing from directly overhead her flight path resembled a capital letter “Y” missing one arm.

Hitting the ground, she began circling around to where she best guessed the fire originated from. Zigging and zagging, zagging and zigging through the trees just incase Dieter managed to track her.

She licked her lips and began to grin. This was almost like more than one movie she was in featuring a fight in a bamboo or treed forest, which gave her some modified ideas. Of course none of those movies involved guns. And those that did… well she did not remember any of the machine guns sounding like that. Of course those were props. And this one was real. But then again it was of giant robot scale and fire beams so that could have made some difference.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

Dieter did his best to track Ning as she flew through the air, and dropped the angle of fire down to ground level when she landed and began maneuvering into the forested area. As he tracked his opponent while she grew closer and closer, snaking and weaving through the majority of his fire as he tried to follow and lead her properly, he rose onto one knee, firing the whole time.

[Ziryab]

The tourist in her wanted to wail at Dieter’s single handed deforestation. But that would have to wait as she ran, bobbed, weaved, zigged, zagged and dodged through an obstacle course of falling and exploding trees. Aiding her speed, despite the forest confines and gunfire hampering in prolonged movements of swiftness, Ning holstered her pistols to free the use of her hands. Using the trunks of the trees, some smaller than her MF and a few probably taller than both hers and Dieter’s combined; she grabbed and swung from them. Turning and propelling herself in different directions or slingshoting herself forward. Trying her darnedest to evade Dieter’s fire while closing in, the latter task growing in difficulty as she closed in on him, beam fire forcing her to double back as Dieter’s targeting system was probably gaining a clearer image as she approached.

Unfortunately the same couldn’t be said for her systems. Moving around erratically as she did made it difficult to gain a proper lock on her opponent’s Gundam.

A frustrated growl came over the comms as Ning was reduced to moving in an erractic looking, evasive circle about the Effizienz Gundam. Unable to close in much further, or gain a clear enough shot, Ning began unholstering one of her beam pistols despite the lack of power it would have at such a range if it managed to hit Dieter. She kept her head forward to see where she was going, still propelling herself with a free hand, while letting the target system at least shot in the general direction of Dieter.

If he did not run out of ammo soon, hopefully the shots, whether they missed or not, would give her a brief reprieve as he paused to evade them. Long enough for her to close in further.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

As he continued to run through beam charge like it was going out of style, Dieter was alerted through side cameras to the crowd's general displeasure at the destruction he was inflicting on the forest. He could only imagine Ning felt the same way...

Schadenfreude detected. Freude levels rising...

The Effizienz' system's petite female voice announced that Dieter's detectable 'Freude' level was increasing. In his peripheral vision, Dieter could see a green bar rise towards a tick mark.

Dieter stifled a laugh as he continued to swing the MG around in a ragged circle after the dodging opponent. Now and then one of the pistol's beams that hadn't hit an obstacle would spray out of the forest and past his Gundam. Dieter was just about to start really pouring the pressure on when warning lights began flashing in the cockpit. "Overheat? SCHEIßE!" he growled as the MG-42 ceased fire abrubtly thanks to a safety override. Dieter slapped the barrel release and the white-hot internal barrel of the gun slid out and landed on the ground with a hiss. The grass around it lit up, but Dieter was already on the move.

With another, more colorful curse, Dieter dropped the MG outright and reached back for the Gundam's Teutonic sword to wait for Ning to enter the beam-cut clearing he had made.

[Ziryab]

Around the moment the Effizienz Gundam began dropping his MG-42, Ning was just beginning to fully realize the lack of incoming fire alerts or the landscape being ripped apart about her. Rather than slow down she dived into a roll admist the fallen debris of trees.

Maybe Dieter had stopped long enough expecting her to stop in confusion, only to immediately gun her down once she did.

In her prone position, the Mobile Fighter began crawling on its elbows. After a few moments of crawling the silence of gunfire was getting to her. Taking a moment to pause, with one beam pistol Ning moved as far as her wrist atop a fallen tree's trunk and wildly fired in her opponent's general direction. She quickly crawled away after squeezing a few shots but there was no reaction.

Nearing the end of the fallen debris she dart-thrusted to one of the taller, still standing trees almost large enough to hide the MF's frame from view.

Cautiously looking from behind the tree she felt a tinge of humiliation. Grinding her teeth that the Effizienz Gundam was merely waiting there for her. Sword in hand.

No doubt you've just had another good laugh at my expense, she thought to herself while glaring at an image of the fighter in her mind.

"So you are a real man," purposely mocking him while guessing he had grown tired of his game and wanted a real fight. "I'll oblige you then," smoothly holstering her beam pistol and drawing forth the beam jian while behind the tree.

Somewhat, she grinned.

Beam jian in hand and unactivated, Ning dashed from behind the tree. Grappling two of the smaller, fallen trees before racing towards Dieter. Though Dieter may have seen the action, it did not halt her charge as the two logs trailed directly behind her back.

Rolling a shoulder she forcefully hurled on of the logs at the Effizienz Gundam. As she planned the momentum of the throw spun her, and as the Gun-fu Gundam made a single 360 in its charge the second log became planted into the ground. Use as an improvised pole vault as she propelled herself feet first at Dieter.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

Ning’s little blind-fired barrage missed almost entirely, but Dieter had to drop to a knee to avoid one of the closer beams.

When the Gun-fu made it’s charge, Dieter rose back to his feet and loosened up into a wider ready stance. Ning hurled the first log at the Effizienz, but Dieter just hurdled the tree and brought the sword up into a stabbing position from his right shoulder. “If she wants to test a foot against my blade, she can be my guest...!”

[Ziryab]

Not how I hoped, eyes widening at the sight of Gundam Effizeinz holding its sword at shoulder height, parallel to the ground.

Ning gritted her teeth as she flew feet first at him. In what little time she had before being impaled she immediately cut on her thrusters. The ones on Gun-fu Gundam's feet acting as retro-rockets while tilting at the waist to have the thrusters about the torso/abdomen push her downwards.

Her teeth gritted tighter as she came ever closer.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

Dieter chuckled evilly as he detected Ning’s panic in the short time before impact.

Freude levels rising...

The green bar rose again, this time considerably less than the last time. Of course, “Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude (denn sie kommt von Herzen)” and all that.

And then the Gun-fu pulled something he wasn’t expecting. Just as Dieter stabbed forward, the tip of the sword aimed at where Ning’s left foot had been... “Had been?!” Dieter croaked, shocked at the sudden movement of rockets and the opponent’s body. Both of the Gun-fu’s feet connected squarely with the Effizienz’ chest, sending the VW Gundam flying backwards into an eventual rough sprawl of a landing. Dieter cried out in surprise and pain when the kick connected, but it cut off in a wheezy “Guh-!” as he traveled through the air. The sword flew from his hands and landed nearby, it’s blade buried into the ground enough to make it stand on its own.

Dieter struggled to keep himself from losing his wind, as the kick had nearly knocked the breath out of him. He cursed silently until he took in a ragged gasp. “Cursed woman!” he growled, turning the Gundam over and standing it up. He snatched the sword’s handle and pulled it from the earth. Ignoring the temporary pain and his quickly returning breath, Dieter moved back to his close range stance and held the sword out at the ready. “Let’s see you do that again!” he grunted.

Up above the fight, in Neo Germany’s Zeppelin, the VW ‘crew’ was watching intently through binoculars and the national television broadcast. The three girls ‘eep!’ed in surprise at the rough kick Dieter took, but breathed a sigh of relief when he quickly regained his footing. Aiko nodded solemnly and pointed out, “See? His Freude levels didn’t suffer. He’ll do fine,”. “EH?” Felica said, sitting up from a alcohol-induced half sleep. The lounge’s 80" television was on ESPN 6, which was showing Neo Germany vs. Neo Hong Kong.

[Ziryab]

((an 80” television? o.o *envy*))

The immediately desperate and awkward change in course had the Gun-fu Gundam skidding along the snow covered ground for a distance. Eventually stopping as the Gundam slapped its arms on the ground.

One eye squinted at the mobile trace’s pain receptors, Ning pulled off a classical wuxia cinematic maneuver in getting up. Pushing off the ground with both hands to perform a jump spin/roll onto her feet.

Low to the ground and spread leg, she ran hand along her left thigh. Wanting to sooth the pain. Though her kick had managed to connect, and she had avoided impalement, the sword had still scraped along her thigh scant seconds before he blow landed.

“Let’s see you do that again!” Dieter scolded over the comms, ready for a round two as it were.

“Certainly,” she replied whilst maneuvering into her own en garde stance. “Just, not while you’re looking,” grinning as her stance hinted at her taking the offensive.

Squatting low to the ground, much of her weight was on one foot. The left, in fact, which hung back while her right leg protruded outwards. Only the tip of her right foot and the inside arch of it touching the ground. Her unlit beam jian was at chest height with the hilt protruding no farther than her right knee. Held in her right hand, in an upturn wrist the beam blade aimed directly at Dieter while her open left palm hovered over the pommel of the hilt. As if she could slap her hand over it and thus shoot the weapon itself through her hand at her opponent.

Instead she breathed easy and waited for the moment to charge.

((hopefully that stance is described clear enough. =/))

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

“Certainly,” Ning shot back as she rose and returned to a ready stance, “Just, not while you’re looking,”.

Dieter’s scowl deepened. The pain in his chest caused by the kick was quickly fading, but the initial exchange had left him looking clumsy if not downright foolish. With a wordless battle cry, he set off in a determined run at the Gun-fu, his sword in his right hand, the blade at the ready. Hundreds of years in the past, he would have made a perfect knight. When he was at the edge of striking distance, he slashed out horizontally at the Gun-fu at about chest height.

[Ziryab]

This is not a movie, always telling herself. They will fight you. They can defeat you. They will harm you..., her mind spoke between calming breaths.

A war cry pierced her ears. Roaring over the comms.

Aw... what the hell, she hesitated. Wanting, almost immediately, to roll as she lunged at him as well. Knocking the legs out from under him.

Instead, low to the ground at chest height, Ning charged. Igniting the beam jian as they neared.

The force of his swing nearly tore the beam jian from her hands. She followed the flow of the sword, turning with it. Shoulder rushing into Dieter as she spun with the turn.

Unfortunately Ning's calculations were imperfect. Outside of their mobile fighters she would never had done such as Dieter's sheer weight and speed would have ran her over. She had hope the size and weight of their mobile fighters would somewhat nullify that matter. Unfortunately, being bounced off the opposing Gundam during this collision, her feet starting to come of the ground, she was wrong.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

The shoulder charge rocked Dieter back slightly, causing the end of his swing to turn messy and ineffective. However, he used the opportunity to take a step forward with the foot he rocked back on, adding a downward slash as he did. The Gun-fu was still on the defensive. That brought a small smirk to Dieter’s lips.

Freude levels rising...

The green “Freude” bar rose again, slowing to a stop at a tick mark 3/4 of the way up the panel.

[Ziryab]

The downward slashed had forced the Gun-Fu Gundam onto her knees. Normally the free hand would have pushed on the flat blade of the jian as it held Dieter's sword at bay. But with the jian being a beam weapon, the free hand also held onto the handle.

"Just... grhnng... be thankful I'm a fair fighter," gritting through her teeth. Really wanting to simply turn on her head vulcans as she pushed backed from her crouched position. Practically pinned there by Dieter's strength.

"Otherwise I'd already whipped your yodeling, beer drinking, lederhosen wearing keister up and down this park," a grin creasing her face before she kicked on her body thrusters to assist in pushing the sword back and hopefully to a standing position.

[Fritz Ashlyn]

- Dieter Mayers - Neo Germany -

"Just... grhnng... be thankful I'm a fair fighter," Ning grunted, holding the blade back with her own. "...Otherwise I'd already whipped your yodeling, beer drinking, lederhosen wearing keister up and down this park,” she added as the Gun-fu’s thrusters lit up. Dieter responded to the banter with a hearty laugh. “The yodeling and beer drinking comes after I defeat you, Fräulein! All that movie choreography must have muddled your fighting spirit!” he grinned.

At that remark, he let the Gun-fu’s thrusters send it suddenly into a standing position; as he released the pinning force, he kicked forward at Ning’s chest in the hopes of sending her flying back over him in a throw.

[Ziryab]

Instead of fighting back, as expected, Dieter instead desist in pinning Ning. Her thrust asisted push back quickly forcing her into a standing position and was quickly rising off the ground.

Quicker still when the Effizienz Gundam dealt a hefty and sturdyily swift toe kick upward into her stomach. The combined action of her body curling around the force her trace suit dealt and the thrusters still activated sent the Gun-fu Gundam flying over the Effizenz Gundam's head in a doubled over position.

Beam jian still activated and in hand, Ning tried to make an awkward sword stroke at Dieter as she flew. But the weapon's tip was not long enough to even touch him as she uncermoniously landed atop her shoulders with a surprised "whulpf" from her lungs. Sending the beam jian from her hands.