Clash for Konats Ashi Vs Typha (Ashi)

The weird and oddly emotional scuffle back at that random field had only just ended, and Ashi found herself flying high after Typha, since he was both the only person she was particularly familiar with on this rock, and also he'd wanted her to follow him. Oh, and now she was also strong enough to be able to somewhat beat him up, so that was a big plus, too. Yeah, he was probably still stronger than her, cause he had gotten that weird and totally biased training from that one god, apparently,but even still, now he couldn't just entirely destroy her being in one hit like he'd always been able to before. She was catching up! Give her a few more months of training, and she could probably whoops his ass from one end of the galaxy to the other. Provided neither of them died in the meantime. Though, at this point, she could see herself going and getting those Dragon Balls to revive him just to make a point of how much better she was than him.

Those were the main thoughts on her mind, anyway, as she raced through the skies of Namek until her scouter picked up on Typha's power level again. From the looks of it, there was another, much lower power level alongside him. His ogre friend, Ashi assumed. Sure enough, as the pair came into view below, she recognized his horned, wrinkly head from up above, along with the faded pink mohawk of the Konatsian Prince. "Hey, shell head," Ashi called down to Typha from above as she descended down onto the pair. "I didn't know your ogre friend was here, too." She glanced him up and down with what looked like suspicion in her eyes, before asking, "You two aren't, like, an item, right?" She couldn't remember if that had been clarified before.

"And for the record, I might be 'evil' and all that, but I have no problems with any of that stuff," she quickly clarified. There was a difference between being a bad guy and just plain being an asshole, and while Ashi occasionally walked that line, she liked to consider herself more on the "well meaning" half of things. She cleared her throat. "Ahem. Anyway, I'm here, you're here, and we're both still feeling the adrenaline from that big battle, right?" she asked, deciding to just get straight to the point. "So, come on! Let's have ourselves a good fight, here! I'm like a gazillion times stronger than I was the last time we came to blows. And even like a hundred times stronger than the last time we even met!" Ashi flexed her muscles in front of Typha, but it was kind of hard to see them under her new baggy, orange coat.

TAGS: Typha

"Into elf ladies like me?" Ashi replied with an amused smirk, her arms crossing over her chest in front of her. She somehow doubted that elf ladies "like her" were quite in the range of the Prince's heart. She was pretty confident he at least thought she was attractive, because, let's be real, she was, but it took more than just a pretty face for someone to really be into someone else. "So, you're one of those old perverts that always goes after young girls and gets shocked when they either smack you or tell you to go to Hell, if that it?" she further clarified with Yudi before glancing back over at Typha. "Interesting choice of companion," she commented with another smirk. Yudi's questionable romance advice aside, Ashi did have to wonder what purpose the ogre was serving Typha now that he wasn't dead. Just following him out of respect, or trying to win some favor with a royal?

For whatever reason, Typha didn't sound all too enthusiastic about getting into a fight with Ashi, which she frowned at. "What, am I still not enough of a challenge for you to be exciting to fight?" she asked, her arms still crossed in front of her. "Don't worry, I'll prove you wrong completely in just a few minutes." When it came to warriors from Konats who could truly hold their own against the strongest the galaxy had to offer, Typha and Ashi were all that were there, as far as she knew. So, it wasn't like he was going to be finding anyone else who was actually capable of giving off a decent challenge. Hell, his brother hadn't gained so much as a single point in his power level in the last entire year. And he couldn't just always rely on Typha to be there to be his bouncer, either.

And, as for their current fight, Typha wanted to know if they should ramp themselves up a bit, or just go all out right from the start. While Ashi saw the merit in the dramatic tension of slowly ramping up their forms and powers bit by bit, she also really just wanted to show the Prince what she was capable of, now. So, she shook her head. "All or nothin', baby," she confidently stated before drawing her blade. Her power level shortly began to increase. First by twofold, then by threefold, and before long, it had blasted well past a million, and settled down at a whole million and two hundred thousand! As this went on, Ashi's form was enveloped in a deep blue flaming twister, and when the twister vanished, a burning mask of flames had taken form around her eyes. "This isn't everything I've got," she assured him, "But it's a worthy start. You impressed yet, or what?"

TAGS: Typha

Ashi activates Luminary Blase (x12P) and her power level increases to 1,200,000!

"I think the possibility of you 'dying young' was ruled out years ago, pal," Ashi commented on Yudi's own explanation for, well, why he was the way he was. It was a shoddy one, if anything. Some samurai he was, Ashi thought as she smirked over at him in his moment of cowardice. "What's so bad about dying for you?" she further asked him. "Don't you live in Hell anyway? It's not like anything's gonna change for you if you bite it." Maybe there was some kind of semantics thing where if someone from the Otherworld dies they get sent to the regular realms instead? ...Who knew how it worked. At least it was looking like Yudi would just stay out of the battle, as Typha himself prepared to start tapping into his true strength. He probably still somewhat outmatched Ashi, but the gap between them was steadily and surely closing. "I'll catch up even more if you give me a month or two!" Ashi confidently stated as he revealed he'd not expected her to achieve this strength so quickly.

Still, she frowned as he stated that if this really was all she had, that this fight wouldn't last very long. He sure was confident in his abilities, wasn't he? Well, Ashi was just as confident in hers, so there was no telling quite which direction this fight would be swinging in. Typha's power then burst forth from his body and quite quickly grew to great levels. Levels beyond that which Ashi had currently reached. It almost seemed like he may have just about been able to reach double her current power, but he stopped just short of it. Almost a million above her current pace. "You're certainly no slacker, unlike another Konatsian Prince I know of," she commented with a grin. This fight was certainly going to be challenging... But not totally unwinnable.

She'd gotten a bit more used to how ki energy worked now that she'd had almost a year of practice with it herself, and while her energy flared half as powerful as Typha's, his was also exploding far more violently, more ferociously. She could likely keep up her current power practically indefinitely, but she could tell if Typha stretched himself too thin, he might risk falling out of his powerful form, and she'd quickly take the upper hand in that case. This was going to be a test of endurance. Typha's sword was now drawn, and he was clearly waiting for her to press the attack, though Ashi knew that playing defensively to begin with was going to be her best bet. Still, she couldn't just not comply to her foe offering her the first move.

Ashi's foot swept smoothly across the dirt in front of her, and her stance lowered slightly as her grip around the blade tightened. And then, she rushed forward, the speed at which she moved likely impossible for Yudi to follow as her blade was slashed around in a quick maneuver right for the side of Typha's head. A simple start, but it was something to get their blood flowing.

TAGS: Typha

"Bullshit!" Ashi shouted over at Yudi before the clash of swords began. No way was that wrinkly old bastard only a few years older than her. He was at least twice her age, if not triple it. Ashi wasn't getting old already. Typha made ore excuses for Riis' incompetence, but Ashi had to say, at this point she didn't much feel like trying to prove to the other Konatsian that his brother was a lost cause. He'd probably manage to prove that to Typha all by himself, given long enough. For now, she was going to have to focus all of her attention on their battle, given the discrepancy in the two elves' power levels. Her initial strike was off to a promising start, but Typha's guard would not be so easily pierced, as her blade met with his in a vicious clash. 

"Of course I have been!" she replied as Typha commented on the improvement in her overall ability, not just in the strength within her muscles. Though her face had initially been grimacing from the amount of effort she'd put into her strike, a grin broke across her face as she further replied, "I have to give it my all to keep up with you and your head start, after all. You got to have a good six months of practice while I was busy being dead!" And apparently he'd gotten some special training even while he was dead that Ashi had not been privy to, but that would only go so far for him. The mohawked Prince also finally began his counter strike, with his foot lashing out to trip Ashi up at speeds a bit higher than she could manage to evade. His foot smacked into her ankle and shoved her a bit off balance, although she'd been expecting the follow up strike.

The steel of her blade clashed loudly against Typha's hilt as she moved it just in time to block his abdomen blow, and Ashi backed herself up slightly to regain her balance, but only for a moment. Her ki began to focus throughout her body, then was channeled directly into her sword, as it took on a blazing look of its own. "See, last time we fought, I'd have already lost by now," she stated, before she reared her sword ahead in a swift stabbing motion, its powerful tip piercing straight for the Prince. Ashi smirked as she found that the power of this, one of her weaker attacks, if anything, now managed to completely rival the stuff that she could only manage to pump out if she'd been giving it her absolute all just a short while before. Progress!

TAGS: Typha

[A1] used against Typha for 396,000 PL damage!
KP: 3/3 > 2/3

"Hey, admit it or not, I bet all that robot fighting gave you a massive power boost," Ashi replied. Training may have been easy to do in the Afterlife, but there was only so much she could really push herself to do without anyone to test her limits against. All the other Konatsians didn't seem terribly concerned with making themselves stronger, since, well, they were dead. Ashi wasn't entirely sure why she'd felt the need to keep pushing herself even before she'd gotten revived, but, well, she supposed she could be glad that she had now. If she'd never decided to start training, then she'd probably just still be toiling away in her blacksmith shop back on Konats, generally oblivious to all the goings on of the wider universe. ...For a brief moment, she had to wonder if that might end up being the better, happier life for her. Either way, it was a path she'd long left behind.

"If I was this strong back then, I don't think the robots would have killed so many of us. Including me," Ashi further replied, "So keeping ourselves and our people safe is well within grasp, if I do say so myself!" Ashi and Typha teaming up seemed out of the ordinary, but she was quite certain they could manage to see eye to eye if there was ever some force that threatened Konats. Keeping the planet from getting blown up like that again was probably the one main thing that linked the two of them together in their common, generally non hostile rivalry. Ashi's powerful strike toward her rival, the Prince, was quickly parried, however. His superior might was already proving to be an issue as his blade, charged with ki clashed against her own.

It quite easily pierced through, and Ashi was unable to step aside in time to completely avoid his blade. Her teeth grit as his sword slashed against her stomach and slightly tore her orange coat, the faint trickle of red staining the rim of the cut mark. Well, at least he hadn't disemboweled her. "Hey!" she scolded him. "You're just lucky these clothes are magic, or I'd get pissed about having to sew that up!" Oddly enough, she didn't seem too concerned about the minor gash across her stomach as she raised her blade and came in for a brief swipe at Typha's face. She'd need to give her next real blow more power to push through, she thought.

TAGS: Typha

OOC NOTES: KP: 2/3 > 3/3
28% damage taken!

"Psh, who's making all these robots?" Ashi shot back with a smirk. She was pretty sure if she ever came across anything even resembling a "robot factory" on Konats, she would almost immediately blow it up without asking a single question. Granted, she was smart enough to be able to tell the difference between a regular factory and one that produces killer robots, so regular factories needed not fear. She was pretty sure she could tell, anyway. About eighty percent. And as for her clothes... "Well, I'm not gonna take the time to change clothes just cause they might get torn! There's only like, ten people in the universe who're probably strong enough to do that, anyway! And you just happened to be one of 'em!" At least they were magic clothes, so all she'd probably have to do was summon them up again and they'd be normal. If they were still torn, though, she'd be pissed.

On the bright side of things, her blow had struck him pretty good, which brought a grin to her face. He might have been stronger, but he wasn't completely invulnerable to her advances. She'd just need to pace herself, a bit. Typha seemed to have realized this, as well, as he suddenly raised his hands to bring his blade down for a powerful overhead strike. Ashi wasn't going to let herself get smashed that easily, though. Her ki having been given the time it needed to recharge, she thrust her blade forward in a smooth flow, her ki channeling once again throughout her body, this time twice as more potent as it had been before. This one had the potential to lay on some hurt if Typha didn't exercise some caution. Her blade countered against his before she swiped it down a clean motion towards his chest, hoping to give him a gash of his own as recompense for the one he'd given her!

TAGS: Typha

[UA2] used against Typha for 792,000 PL damage!
KP: 3/3 > 1/3

What? Machines making machines? Ashi had no idea that was, well, a thing. It was kind of worrying, actually. She'd never considered that those things were actually able to self reproduce. That could mean that if so much as one robot had survived the war, that they could be making more robots to start another war as they spoke! ...Something to worry about later, though. Ashi had to focus with her fight against Typha, first and foremost! "Yeah, lucky you," Ashi replied with a smirk. He was lucky that he still managed to outpace her when it came to strength. Given enough time, though, she was certain she'd pass him up. Then he'd have a real struggle on his hands. For now, Ashi could mostly only barely keep up even while giving it her all. She let out a groan of annoyance as her second attack whiffed him.

"Gah, you're just a bundle of tricks and energy, aren't you?" she angrily muttered as her blade made contact with nothing but the air. If he could manage to avoid her attacks so effortlessly, then her whole strategy of wearing him down until he'd fall out of his powerful form was worthless! It became clear to Ashi that she was going to need to squeeze more power out of each of her blows, here. But she'd already expended so much of her energy on those attacks, and Typha seemed to have an overabundance remaining within himself. Ashi grit her teeth as it was starting to dawn on her this challenge would likely not end in her favor. And then her landed on top of her own sword. "Wh- Hey, get off of-" she started to protest, but before she could so much as flip her blade over and throw him off balance, he lashed out at her.

His foot struck her in the neck and sent her flying back, her back landing on the dirt with a thud, and the wind thoroughly knocked out of her. She coughed a few times while struggling to get to her feet. "O-Okay," she grumbled as she struggled back onto her feet. That had hurt. If Typha hadn't held back there, he may well have just snapped her neck with that single kick! "If that's how you're gonna play it, then no holds barred from here on!" Ashi's ki then flared up yet again, increasing twofold more until it finally came to a stop, her fiery ki lashing out around her in a powerful but unstable form. Maybe it was unwise to drop into this type of power while down on energy, but Ashi was kind of pissed. "This is closer to the most I can do," she declared, "But even now I'm not at full strength!"

TAGS: Typha

OOC NOTES: Ashi activates her [UT] Big Bang Bulkier for a new multiplier of (x14/x9P)! Her power level changes to 1,400,000/900,000!
KP: 1/3 > 2/3