>>5230516All right. You think you’re done here. You clap your hands together. “Hey, Pantea? We’re in the home stretch now. You can handle Recoome, right?”
“I mean sure, if you want me to go two for two.” she replies with a cheeky grin.
The large red haired man finally gets up, looking mighty miffed. He gets into the ring, charging his Ki. And yet you kinda ignore it, floating back confidently and closing your eyes. “Hey, just means I can try to get ‘em both next round. Let this be a CHILLING reminder of the kind of-”
“RECOOME KICK!”
You get knee’d in the gut and end up knocked to the floor, sliding across the ice. You’re not all that injured, you didn’t have your guard down completely but… ow. Your pride. You skirt just out of combat, crossing your arms as you do.
“Toh! Gotcha!” Recoome triumphantly declares, striking a pose.
https://youtu.be/CPSqIyhIr1g“Ahem.” Pantea speaks up, her aura flaring up around her, one hand sparking with energy, charging up power.
He holds his pose for a moment. “...Oh yeah, right.”
Recoome tries to spin around and launch a Ki blast in retaliation, even following it with a leap in the air as he attempts to hit her with a hammer blow. Pantea just catches the Ki attack with her free hand, then aims upward with her charging attack, firing it off and hitting Recoome straight-on, which even stuns him for a moment, following it up with her tossing his own Ki blast right back at him for good measure.
Pantea turns her back to him as Recoome hits the ground again, and this time it’s for the count. She strikes a victory pose, grinning wide.
“...Nine! …TEN! THAT’S IT, RECOOME IS DOWN FOR SURE NOW! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PANTEA AND IZUMI ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ROUND!” Pilaf declares to the cheering crowds.
You still lay there for a moment, arms still crossed, as she comes to help you up. “You doing okay there?” she asks, offering you a hand.
“Yeah, I’m just chillin’.” you respond, stonefaced.
She giggles a little. “Well, those puns were COOL enough to get us through Guldo.”
You snort-laugh at that. Okay, okay. You take her hand and get back up.
>A. Check up with Recoome and Guldo. No hard feelings, right? Had to play things up for the crowds>B. Head back in and see Hado and Sala, maybe give some pointers before their match starts>C. Okay, you should start preparing for things like that to happen. Overconfidence and bad luck can do a fusion dance and ruin your day, so you need something as backup>D. Something else?