JUNKER Training Hall

It's late when Ake gets there, intent on practicing more before her first big deploy, and she's surprised to see Kenoko there - not wearing her coat, leaving her clad in just her sleeveless t-shirt, but she's not practicing. "Kenoko-senpai! I'm surprised to see you here."

"Oh you shouldn't be." Kenoko looks back at her, eyes hard, and Ake is surprised to see her blocky Rider Gear at her waist. "You should henshin."

"... why?"

Kenoko's lips twist in a thin sneer. "So I don't kill you while I beat some sense into you for what you did to Becca."

Ake winces. "I'm not getting out of here without a fight, am I?" she asks, slowly placing on her Rider Gear - Kenoko could beat her to the door anyway. She takes her starting card somberly. "Ride on, Decade."

"Good choice," Kenoko snarls, and throws herself at Proto-DCD.

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"Holy shit, the Lion is fighting that sexy one!"

Xander stops on his way out the gates, ending up with a cluster of lower-trooper types who are watching the training hall video feed on a clearly hacked-in screen. He stops, whistles lowly. "This should be good. We laying down bets?"

In a heartbeat there's heated betting going on.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX2jrWifKak

Kenoko is blindingly fast, even without henshin - Akebara barely sees the first punch coming, manages redirect it with her palm, and then ducks under a wickedly fast outside crescent kick that Kenoko brings out of almost nowhere... only to eat a surprise elbow to her chin as Kenoko twists to absorb it. She staggers back, her hands briefly dropping, and Kenoko exploits it with a superman punch that flies over Ake's guard and plants her flat on her back in the floor, leaving a small crater behind.

The Lion stands over Ake, cracking her knuckles. "What, that's it? I'd have thought you'd have the skill to back this up. Get up."

"Shut up." Ake growls, drawing herself up to one knee - and catching a scything kick across her face that plants her facedown on the mat, the side of her helmet dented in. She lies there, stunned.

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"Oh wow!"

"Knockout in JUNKER TH, goddamn!"

Xander's eyes narrow. "No, she's not out yet."

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His prediction is correct, Ake grits her teeth and starts forcing herself to her feet, and then charges at Kenoko, shooting for a double-leg takedown - Kenoko sidesteps, wraps an arm aound Ake's throat, and then spins and hurls her, throwing her across the room in a blur of black and white. Ake impacts so hard she actually leaves a body outline in the wall, peeling off in a fashion that would be almost comical if it wasn't for the way she flopped... broken, like a toy. And then Kenoko is there, laying a goalkick into Ake's left ribs that actually bounces her off the wall, whereupon Kenoko grabs her again and pulls her body in a deadly crescent, burying her into the floor once more - blood splashes out from Proto-DCD's mouthpiece, but Ake determinedly refuses to cry out in pain, in spite of the fact that she's lying there stunned.

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"Damn, stay down, girl."

"Fight another day..."

"She's getting up." Xander grins in spite of himself. "She's gettin' up, she's getting up!"

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Sure enough, Ake is getting up - she swears and rolls away from Kenoko's attempted stomp, drawing her Proto Divider in gun form and unloading into Kenoko, who staggers under the barrage, but isn't actually hurt by it. She lets loose an angry roar and charges, catching the gun above and below the barrel and twisting; Ake is thrown and hits the ground on her side, but rolls back onto her feet, drawing a card. "Keh, alright, how about this -"

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