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Post by Cress on Nov 4, 2019 21:05:12 GMT -6
Cress flew around searching for anything interesting going on that he could get involved in. After a while of searching he spotted two groups fighting with a truck apparently being the reason. He flew above them and stopped, observing them while they were distracted. They engaged in hand to hand combat, moving very quickly but making sure to avoid the truck. Their punches seemed to have quite a bit of force behind them, but not enough for them to not be totally eclipsed by Cress' own strength, even when put together. "Interesting enough." He started a rapid descent towards the ground, landing right beside the contested truck. Cress wondered "What's in here that's so important?" Cress placed both hands on the handles at the back of the truck, preparing to part them to see what was valuable enough to fight to the death over. That is until he was rudely interrupted by one man who'd just recently put down his opponent. "You want some too?!" Without hesitation, the man charged at him.
Cress just smirked, spreading his hand and aiming it at him. Letting out a grunt, Cress sent a kiai flying from the palm of his hand at the man. The powerful shock-wave hit the man, sending him flying as well as instantly killing him from internal damage. It was clear that all of them were outmatched by him. To Cress the mans movements were sluggish. While he hoped for a proper fight he supposed it couldn't be helped- he was at the point where he'd rarely find anyone that stood much of a chance against him, which was starting to get boring. Hopefully that'd change soon when he'd be helping Vocado out.
Putting his focus back on the truck, he began to pull the doors apart, revealing gold bars on the inside. "Jackpot."
PL: 125,000
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Post by Kuma on Nov 4, 2019 21:56:54 GMT -6
Kuma had become rather bored with Earth, finding only a few curious individuals to talk to, and one Saiyan worth getting information from, but now she found herself stuck on Earth and tired of being there. She had seen her fair share of fights, rarely involving herself, and was bored of them when it came to the humans as most were too weak to join in on without hurting someone, or drawing the attention of someone far too strong for her to deal with. What had caught her attention in mid air was a Saiyan who seemed much more curious about one himself, causing her to slow in mid air but not quite stop as she approached. It wasn't until one of the humans decided it was in his best interests to get himself beat up that she fully stopped to watch, giving a bit of a laugh as she watched a body go flying like a ragdoll, but gave a bit of a cringe when she saw him land and stop moving.
It was less the actions but the lack of remorse shown that caught her attention and caused her to start lowering as well, mostly ignoring the others as she touched down just feet in front of this Saiyan. Now standing in front of Cress was a Saiyan woman in a black gi skirt wrapped at the waist with a yellow belt, long disheveled light brown hair, a scar under her left eye. Most curiously of her state and gear was the space pod she was holding that was clearly broken given the seat looked to have been completely ripped out of it with the door hanging open, which she let fall and roll to a stop off to the side. She didn't do anything to stop him opening the truck, not even caring or curious of the contents, just keeping her eyes locked on him as she loudly cleared her throat. "I can see why the humans don't like us much if Saiyans are arbitrarily killing them."
PL 32k
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Post by Cress on Nov 5, 2019 11:09:47 GMT -6
Cress looked around for anyone else who wanted a piece of him before he'd get to taking the contents of the truck, planning to sell the gold bars off for money and hopefully getting a dragon ball radar made for him with the money gained. If that didn't work out maybe he could contact Xana and work something out with her, but he hadn't heard from her in a while. She was probably off working on something important for the Kingdom. While looking around he noticed an approaching sent, and looking up he spotted a woman wearing a black gi landing in front of him. She didn't seem to be hostile though, calmly approaching him. She came with a battered space-pod, in tow, which she let fall beside her. From what he could tell she had nothing to do with what was going on here. Her eyes met his, seemingly more curious about him than the contents in the truck. Not feeling threatened by her, Cress kept the same calm stance he'd held before. "They look like they're more busy with killing each other over what's in the truck." He gestured toward the people still fighting in the area, although they seemed to be tiring themselves out and drawing their fights to a close. Soon the victors attention would be back on him, possibly dragging her into a fight. "Who are you? And why have you decided to approach me?"
Cress forgot that he may have been recognizable to many, considering he was still a wanted man after destroying a portion of West City with Nashua.
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Post by Kuma on Nov 5, 2019 19:51:34 GMT -6
In all honesty the entire situation didn't bother her, and truth be told she was more proud of using the new word she had learned, puffing out her chest and standing up a bit more straight than normal. She had been looking for a chance to finally use it, and it was by sheer luck she had used it correctly in a sentence and everything! Or at least she hoped...The guy she had addressed seemed a bit too preoccupied with his looting to notice her right away, so she simply cleared her throat a bit louder and waited for a response.
She had all but ignored the other humans beating each other over the head like angry cavemen and let out a bit of a snicker before turning back and giving a bit of a shrug. "What can you do. These Earthlings don't seem all that bright." One of them came close enough as they had seen the two Saiyans standing there and out of sheer stupidity took a swing at Kuma. She didn't bother dodging, simply grabbing them by the back of the head and slamming their face into the side of the truck, leaving a bit of a dent and them passed out next to her, then her attention back as if nothing happened. "I'm Kuma. I decided to approach you because I wanted to.", crossing her arms and trying to look menacing despite her short stature. "Just saw some stupid people fighting, then saw what I thought was a Saiyan and here you are. Here I am." She had no clue who he was, but she didn't know who a lot of people she should have known were. "So are you one of those living on Planet Dirt Saiyans, or are you part of the Kingdom?"
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Post by Cress on Nov 6, 2019 18:54:12 GMT -6
Cress, finding what Kuma said to be incorrect, formed a quick response in an attempt to try to correct her. "These Earthlings are smarter than you give them credit for. This planet still exists for a reason. There are just some that make dumb choices, it's the same on every planet." A man, who'd just finished up with an opponent, decided to attack Kuma, proving his point. Cress knew this wouldn't go to well for him. Maybe the others would stop after seeing how easily the two could take them out. Cress wondered, how strong was this woman? If he had to guess he'd say she was weaker than him, though, which was his guess for most people he ran into that he hadn't heard of before.
Kuma swiftly dealt with the man, appearing to show off a little bit. If it was Cress he would've just blew him away like the last man with little effort. After that encounter, she responded to both his questions. "A risky choice. I could've blown you away just as easily as I did the last guy." Cress smirked at her, not intimidated by her attempt to look menacing. "I'm Cress, and I guess you could say I live here since this planet is where I've spent most of my time for nearly two years since I left Shikk. But I am part of the Kingdom, as you can see." As he finished up that sentence he pointed to the red symbol on the left side of his chest on his black spandex jumpsuit that he usually sported.
"I'm surprised you haven't heard of me after all I've done on this planet and for the Kingdom."
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Post by Kuma on Nov 6, 2019 19:30:38 GMT -6
Her first interaction with this specific Saiyan wasn't going as hoped, but she could say the same for most of them she had found on Earth thus far it seemed. Had so much changed in such a short amount of years that this was the norm among Saiyans? Slowly her eyelids closed into a scowled face altogether before relaxing and leaving her with narrowed eyes. "They named their planet after dirt, so you'll forgive me for not having a lot of faith in their brain meats.", tapping the side of her head with a finger. "They also keep around a set of magic wish balls and act surprised people show up to steal them. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit now that I think about it.", slowly crossing her arms again. "A lot of planets still exist, but that doesn't mean the people there are smart. Look at those Arcosians. They survived all this time despite being dumb enough to attack us. You don't need a high IQ to have a populated planet." He wasn't completely wrong about the risk she had taken just dropping down into the scene, but worst case she was in for a fight, and what would that hurt in the end.
"Risky maybe, I dunno. You did randomly kill that one guy back there. Wouldn't be the first time I got myself in trouble being curious. Though I'm not as weak as I look, so maybe I'm just being cocky.", shrugging her shoulders, still never breaking eye contact with Cress. "Well, I saw another Saiyan just a few days ago wearing that Kingdom Logo, and he wasn't part of the Kingdom, so I figure it's best not to guess. He was a bit of a nut case.", Her eyes lowered just long enough to eye up the symbol he pointed to before looking back up. "I don't pay attention to what people do here, so for all I know you could be the king of planet dirt here. Besides, I've spent nearly the last year flying around looking for my stupid cousin and the entire year before that being not alive. Hard to keep up with what people are doing from Hell." It suddenly snapped in her brain the fact he was from the Kingdom, and from the way he was talking he made it sound like he was important to some degree so perhaps he knew who she was looking for. "So mister important guy, you know someone named Nashua?", she blurted out.
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Post by Cress on Nov 6, 2019 20:05:52 GMT -6
While Kuma did bring up a couple good points, it seemed that she'd not read up on her history. Especially between the saiyan faction and this planet. She also brought up the Arcosians, claiming they weren't that smart after they almost wiped out the Kingdom. The only reason the Kingdom still remained was because of him and a couple others suddenly growing multiple times stronger and wishing the back the people who died in the attack, making it look as if nothing ever happened. If it was up to Cress the people who died in the attack would have remained dead, paving a way for a stronger race. They were done a favor.
"The humans managed to beat back an invasion from us centuries ago, and I'm sure that wasn't the first one. They were also smart enough to talk our leaders out of doing it again. I've avoiding a lot of human interaction because of that." Cress paused for a second before continuing. "As for the arcosians, I can agree that them attacking us was a dumb idea. If they'd have held off for another century we would've been helpless due to the people of the Kingdom growing even softer."
Moving along in their conversation, she responded to his comment about her risking her safety approaching him. "Randomly? I'm sure he would've killed me had I been weaker than him, just as he did the guy he was fighting beforehand. But if I'd have to guess your strength, I'd say your not even a tenth of mine at best." She also informed him that there was a fake running around. "I take it you dealt with him since you're so confident."
She gave him a poor excuse as to why she didn't know about much of the things that'd been going on. She brought up Nashua's name though, could that be the cousin she was talking about. "Yeah, she has the second highest authority in the Kingdom. Last I heard she became the Queen of Arcose. I would've just blown it up but I couldn't do it while she was around. Wouldn't even let me kill that one arcosian that attempted to switch sides." Speaking of him, he wondered what happened to him after the fight. He hadn't stuck around to find out, leaving the planet soon after leaving the fight, seeing it as a waste of his time. In all honesty it was, there was no purpose in remaining there if all he would've met was resistance from his allies. "If Nashua is the cousin you're talking about, you're not very good at looking for someone. Flying around isn't very efficient. Putting that aside, you should be thanking her. She's probably the only reason why you all were wished back. If it were up to anyone else you guys would've stayed dead." While it may have been harsh it was true. But maybe they would learn from their mistakes and become stronger as a people, gaining the mindset of the people who lived during the time of the Saiyan Solar Empire's warring periods.
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Post by Kuma on Nov 6, 2019 20:36:36 GMT -6
Her eyes stayed narrowed as she was feeling more like she was being lectured than having a conversation. She honestly didn't know who this Cress guy was but he was quickly rubbing her the wrong way. "The humans beat back an invasion or Earthlings beat back an invasions, because I think we both know those are two very different things. There are Androids, Saiyans, Namekians, and all types'a creatures on this planet that fight for it that are stronger than most of these humans. I mean you are apparently all strong and important and you say you live here, so that makes you an Earthling, yeah?" Her pride was quickly getting in the way of her logic, but there wasn't much to be done about it when it started. "Saiyans protect Saiyans, but humans usually need everyone else to save them. Hell even the Arcosians didn't just show up on Vegeta alone, they had help." Her eye twitched heavily at him calling the Kingdom soft, her jaw visibly flexing from her teeth clenching. "You don't talk like a Saiyan at all, especially not one from Planet Vegeta. You claim to be all important and strong and from the Kingdom, but you live on Earth apparently and call the Kingdom soft from all the way over here on another planet." She was fired up now, spitting off to the side with a lip curl and looking back with a fire in her eyes. "If we were on Vegeta and you had just said that to me I'm might have punched you."
All she could muster was a slight scoff of a laugh at his comment, appreciating the bluntness but not so much the subject matter. "You basically killed a puppy for barking. What's the point in that? Did that make you feel better? Did it further boost that ego of yours mister I should have heard of you and all you've done?", giving another scoffed laugh at his comments. "So you don't even know, but you are guessing how strong I am. I won't lie and say I'm not real tempted to show you.", as her hand barely visibly began to glow red. "Hmph, I didn't need to deal with him because it's not my place to kill people for the sake of killing people. He didn't need killing and I didn't need to kill him." Every time she shut her mouth from talking her jaw clenched a bit more.
It was official; Kuma did not like this Saiyan one bit. "I hope for the sake of the Kingdom that you're not what passes for the top tier of Saiyans these days. Do you realize how crazy you sound? Killing people that likely can't even hurt you with a thousand punches, wanting to kill people for wearing a symbol on their clothes, and blowing up an entire planet. What the hell is wrong with you?", throwing her arms up in confusion. Her arms dropped as she let out a slow sigh, and nodded. "Yes, Nashua is my cousin. I was dead for a year you moron, and it's not like I have a number I can call to find her, and I can't leave this stupid planet with a broken space pod.", kicking at it lightly, rolling it further away. "So what else do you want me to do? Go around murdering strangers?" Her teeth her showing visibly as he spoke, her fists clenched. "It's official, I hate you. You clearly have no loyalty to your own people, want nothing more than to murder people for the sake of not being you, and all you've done is insult me.", bringing up her hand as she spoke, letting the glow of her hand increase as a red swirl grew in her palm the size of a baseball. "I don't really like to do this given there are people around, but I really want to shut you up."
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Post by Cress on Nov 8, 2019 20:41:47 GMT -6
"I haven't take citizenship on this planet, so no I'm not an Earthling. You could consider me an invader since my purpose here is only to fight." It seemed like she was trying to push something onto him that he was unaware of. Cress would not be considered one of these people, he traveled and fought just like any warrior, living off the land as he went. This planet had more active strong people to fight than any other planet he'd been too, but that didn't mean he'd fight to protect it. If it were reduced to rubble he'd not harbor any resentment to the person who did it. Maybe he'd do it for the hell of it to finally have a reason to leave. "That is true. I don't view anything as a conflict restricted by race. Anyone can take any side." It seemed like Kuma was growing upset during their conversation. Cress remained perfectly level as he usually did, until she claimed that he didn't sound like a saiyan.
"I'm more of a saiyan than you are. I've said once that I wasn't from Planet Vegeta, but from Planet Shikk. Had you been listening and not getting in your feelings you probably would've noticed. Don't get it twisted though, I am an invader on this planets. I've killed more humans than I could possibly count, Nashua has as well during our rampage through West City. What she did may have been unintentional, but I knew exactly what I was doing. I live wherever gets me closer to conflict."
"Does being on Earth intimidate you? Or are you just scared to hit me?" Cress taunted her, smirking the whole time as her anger growing. "I had no reason to kill him, but I did. It was a natural reaction. Is that enough of an answer for you?" The conversation was clearly about to get violent, Cress saw the energy building up in her hand. Yet he was not worried in the slightest.
She called him crazy, that wasn't the first time he'd been called that. All he wished for was the betterment of the saiyan race. She went on about Nashua. "You weren't trying hard enough. This is why the saiyan race has fallen from greatness and was invaded. The majority have forgotten what it means to be a saiyan, a warrior people. Despite what you may think, I will bring our race back to greatness. But first I need the strength to do so, which is why I'm here, for strength."
She stated that she didn't want to fight because there were people here, giving yet another excuse. "Stop with the excuses, let's see how strong you are!" Cress let out a roar, sending a kiai flying out in all directions around him. The people around were already killing each other, and it wasn't like the people around weren't already killing each other. The gold would be fine, too. With that kiai, he would send nearly everything in the area flying, possibly sending Kuma flying too if she wasn't careful.
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Post by Kuma on Nov 8, 2019 22:23:46 GMT -6
Kuma would have usually been on a more even keel when it came to her temper and her emotions, but everything was out of whack in a way that usually ended up frustrating her more when she caught herself. In this case however she was letting her emotions get the best of her and her mouth was running away faster than she could catch it to put on the breaks. What she was saying for the most part was how she felt but the filter was broken in a very serious way. "You are more of a psychotic asshole than I am and that's about it. You can be a Saiyan all you want from wherever you want, but you heard me as well as I heard you. You are no real Saiyan, you are just some guy with enough blood running in your body to raise the Saiyan flag and going around hurting people with no goal. Coming to this planet just to fight and hurt people doesn't make you a real Saiyan. Being strong doesn't make you a real Saiyan either.", shaking her head with disbelief. "The fact that you are what passes for a member of the Kingdom these days blows my mind. All of us Saiyans love fighting and we look for a fight as much as the next Saiyan and so on, but going around killing people just for the sake of it that can't fight back is pathetic."
Again she shook her head, even giving a bit of a laugh at his comment. "Why would I be scared to hit you?", pointing to her head and tapping at the side. "I know for a fact that my head is a scrambled mess right now, but you must have taken a few too many blows to the head with that twisted logic of yours. Is that what this is? Did you get beat up too much by people stronger than you so now you are taking it out on people weaker? Is this an insecurity thing?" The ball of energy stayed in her other hand still, her fingers slowly curling around it. "Don't pretend to know what or how I was trying anything. Your vision of what Saiyans are is off in another galaxy from reality. We've all killed people, the Kingdom has conquered planets before, but only the crazy ones go and do this sociopathic mess that you call being a Saiyan." Her eyes were narrowed and all she could manage was another sigh and yet another shaking of her head. She moved over to the humans she had knocked out and one by one grabbed and tossed them away towards a few of the others as she yelled out. "If you idiots don't want to die, I suggest you run, and run fast. You won't get a second chance." Her attention had dropped for just long enough to get hit by the blast sent from Cress' body, only having time to give a jump to launch back and regain her footing as she watched. "Alright then.", holding her arm back and chunking the energy straight up into the sky above them. "Good luck. Time to let the other guy take the wheel for a bit."
The change wasn't instant, but it started quickly enough to be noticeable. The moment her body began to react her mind was gone, and whatever this was had taken over in full. Her face began to change first, showing the ape like change of fangs, then the elongated facial features, and all at once the fur across her body began to grow. The change increased rapidly and exponentially as she expanded in mass, her skirt ripping apart leaving the black stretching bodysuit underneath keeping her from being a giant naked ape. Now towering over the area stood Kuma in body but not in mind, screaming out a primal roar in no specific direction.
Power Ball used
Oozaru transformation with the + 1x/0x from power ball
192,000/160,000
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Post by Cress on Nov 13, 2019 0:09:47 GMT -6
"I could say the same about you. People like you make me loose faith that we'll ever return to our old ways. You sound just like an Earthling." It appeared there conversation was nearing its end. Good, he was itching to test out the saiyaness' power.. She responded to his question with another question after having a quick laugh. He didn't find anything she'd said to be funny. "I don't know how you're getting that from any of this. Is that 'scrambled mess' of a head of yours your talking about not know what an invader does?" Cress grinned and laugh. "Another reality? You know nothing of our past, how it should be."
The kiai caught Kuma off-guard, causing her to put some space in between the two. The fight was about to start. Cress entered his battle stance, staring Kuma down and preparing to react to the ki in her hand. It threw him off a bit when she launched it into the sky, though, saying that she'd let the other guy take over. "Are you not going to fight me? Is someone else here besides the humans?"
It suddenly became clear that she'd be the one fighting, just not in her normal state of mind as her body began to warp as she transformed into an Oozaru. Cress jumped back as to not get caught in the Oozaru's stomping range after it transformed, grinning in excitement as his eyes followed her fully red ones. Manifesting ki atop his palm, Cress shot into the air with a burst of speed and fired the ki at the roaring Kuma, attempting to send the blast flying into her maw, resulting in an explosion.
Fired [A1] Searing Ray
33% (41250) PL Damage Incoming
2/3 KP Remains
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Post by Kuma on Nov 13, 2019 12:40:44 GMT -6
The time for talking and arguing was over at this point. Even if Kuma wanted to say anything it was a bit too late for that given her current state, and she was well aware of that fact before she threw the ball of energy into the sky above her head. Despite the intentions, the first person in Kuma's site wasn't Cress at all but one of the humans who were still in the process of running away from a giant ape creature now reaching for them. It only took a single swipe for her to grab them up as she turned and looked for anyone else moving around, this time getting her attention on Cress as he seemed focused on attacking her immediately and no attempts at moving out of site.
She might have not wanted to hurt any of them humans before, but in this form she had other intentions clearly, growling out at Cress and tossing the human at him like a projectile. Cress had a better idea using his energy to blast at her, barely missing the man she had thrown as the energy came racing at her face. For a moment it looked as if she would make an attempt to block the attack, charging energy in her right hand, but it seemed to fizzle as if the beast wasn't sure how to control it, and its decision not to dodge resulted in her getting blasted right in the face. Both hands came up to clutch at it screaming out in pain and shaking her head as she stumbled back a few steps, but it was only enough to cause severe pain and really piss her off. Again her hand glowed as if she were charging an attack, but again it simply fizzled out, all the while she began to rush forward with heavy steps as she stopped and jumped into the area and came crashing back towards the ground aiming to land on top of Cress.
rounding up, that came to 26% damage taken
Gained back the 1 kp used for power ball
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Post by Cress on Nov 16, 2019 20:13:55 GMT -6
Cress pulled his hand over his shoulder and swatted the man headed towards him mid-air, sending the corpse flying toward the ground. After all that talk she did about me killing that one guy. He couldn't hold it against her, though, since there was a 99% chance she had no control over herself right now. Watching the ki blast he fired hit her in the face after a quick moment of indecisiveness, Cress chuckled. She won't be much of a challenge.
"Come on! Show me just how strong you are!" Brimming with confidence, Cress made no effort to stop the process behind her attack. Holding out his arms as his aura burst out around him, Cress prepared himself to be stomped on. The giant foot struck his defense, pushing him toward the ground and damn near driving him into it.
She's stronger than I thought she'd be. Probably even stronger than I am right now. Gritting his teeth and tensing his muscles, he resisted the force acting on his hand. With a quick burst of side, he'd fly to the side, letting the foot come crashing down onto where he was seconds ago. Quickly following up this move, Cress proceeded to fly upward and attempted to grab her by her tail, and if possible toss her over his shoulder with his immense, ki amplified strength.
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Post by Kuma on Nov 18, 2019 11:05:14 GMT -6
If there was a visual representation of the situation between Kuma and her physical form currently, she would have been sleeping in the backseat while the Oozaru was strapped in behind the wheel in a destruction derby with a wide grin. There was nothing of Kuma in this fight outside of instinct and her strength. While Kuma herself might have retorted to his comment, or came rushing at him in some attempt to in fact show him, the Oozaru didn't care about showing off, or differences in power, it just wanted to hurt things. The convenient thing for Kuma was that Cress was the target of her over sized great ape attentions.
Her knees bent as she felt the resistance of Cress stopping her landing, and gave a bestial grunt as she felt the ground giving just a bit as he moved, leaning forward to rest on her knuckles. She reached out to swat as Cress came running at her, missing by enough that he would feel the strong wind of her palm as it slapped the ground, but she didn't even have time to turn as Cress grabbed a hold of her tail. It didn't take long for him to find her weakness, intentionally or not, as she went almost limp for a moment, but as he used his own strength to throw her, it was a matter of it he noticed it or not. She hit the ground with a hard thud, arms outstretched, but with her tail free she didn't stay there long, growling with a deep throaty roar and turning over to her stomach, glaring at Cress. Instantly she was scratching and crawling to her hands and feet as she charged quickly and raised her right hand to sweep across her body slapping at Cress hard and fast enough that the sound of the wind could be heard before the strike would have reached him.
3/3 KP
26% dmg taken overall
PL still at 192,000/160,000 for clarity
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Post by Cress on Nov 19, 2019 19:27:43 GMT -6
Cress felt surprisingly little resistance as he pulled her over his shoulder. Huh, I could've sworn she was stronger than me. Maybe it was just because she was falling. Kuma hit the ground with a loud thud, but it didn't take her very long to get back up. Cress smirked as he watched her rush him again, swatting at him as if he were a fly. Quickly turning to his left, Cress would hold his arms in an attempt to stop her hand in its track, only to be pushed back by it before being sent careening in the opposite direction. He forced himself to a stop before too much distance was put between the two, glaring at her the entire time just in case she attempted that again.
I was right, she's most likely stronger than me. Her tail is her weakness, but I won't take advantage of it unless I have to. He extended his arms again while his white aura revealed itself. Raze Flash. Suddenly Kuma would be met with a large green and white ki beam headed her way which appeared to be fueled by his aura.
[UA2] Raze Flash - 82,500 PL DMG
1/3 KP at End of Turn
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