>>6126020Staring Cooler down, you try and decide what to do next. If you'll defend and let him come at you, activate your Energy Body and defend to get him to wear himself out, or even to rush him down with your Djem So, overpowering him and force him to defend to keep the speed disadvantage from mattering. However, as you struggle to decide how you want to approach, Cooler doesn't have any such hesitation. Before you realize it he's already closed the distance, catching you by complete surprise.
“Wh-?!” you try and exclaim, only to take a powerful right straight to the face. Your nose breaks as Cooler slams his fist into you, knocking you right off your feet. “KYAAAH?!!”
“Too slow!” Cooler taunts, slamming a heavy blow into your back. Knocking you skyward, blinded by pain only to open your eyes just in time to see Cooler wind up a devastating blow. Both hands laced together overhead, he slams his joined fists down into your sternum. Sending you flying down to the ground as something in your chest creak. But he's not done with that yet, landing a flying kick to your chest. Accelerating more and more, slamming you down into the middle of the clearing. Straight into the stone ground, it cracking beneath you.
“Kuh!” you cough, spitting up a bit of blood from the impact. To which Cooler smirks, drawing his foot back a bit and slamming a fist into your guts. Causing you to cough up more blood, Cooler then swinging you up and over his head on the end of his fist, swinging you overhead and back down into the ground again. Seeing stars, you realize that you are losing. And you can't have that, not to Cooler. Not without a fight. “Tch! HRRAAAAA!!”
With a roar you blast him back away from you, giving you a moment to focus. Drawing all your energy in you activate your Energy Body, hardening your ki into a suit of armor as Cooler closes back in, going for another flying kick straight to your sternum. But this time you aren't knocked further into the ground, your shielding energy absorbing the vast majority of the impact. You still feel his blow, but this time it doesn't cause the severe damage of the earlier blows. Wincing, you push back, rising back up to your feet as he leaps back.
“My turn!” you snarl, exploding forward and launching into a barrage of heavy blows. Forcing Cooler onto the defensive, blocking your strikes with his arms and knees. He's clearly surprised that you seemingly aren't slowed down by the damage, fighting just as if you were fresh. And despite the speed difference, your Energy Body absorbing the damage of his strikes allows you to press the assault. Forcing him to block, Cooler giving up on trying to throw quick strikes at you that don't even phase you now.
cont
