The Battle of the Bloody Bridge! [Exhibition Event]

"Aaaah, weell, actually, you see! This is how I'd want to use my quirk normally! It's better to have the threat just to deter, than to sudden deafness recklessly confer," Farrah responded to Meera with an awkward smile, as she pointed out that she really didn't want to blow out anybody's ear-drums with her quirk if she could help it anyway... she had an upper limit somewhere, but having not beein in a lot of combat situations (or any that involved real opponents), she'd never really tested it. That was a fine excuse, but in reality, she wasn't sure if she could pull the trigger risk hurting her ally, even if it was for the sake of their strategy... the time may come during the contest where the situation would call for it. The answer would have to wait till then, since the time had come for Meara to go her own way. They'd learn together if she was capable of doing that.

For that matter, Kirk wasn't so confident about her ability to keep that perch atop his pouch without falling out either. "Not to worry! I'm a cheerleader, remember? I haven't had any sort of fall since that one time in December!" she confidently pronounced, placing one hand on her chest and tilting her nose up proudly... A workplace accident rate of once per three months or so for a single employee wasn't actually all that great, though. With a brief pause, wiggling her butt in the seat to get it just right, she then placed both hands on the traps between his neck and shoulders for stability while they took off.

Farrah gave Jace a smirk and a wink that said, without using so many words, that she wasn't taking cuddling off the table either because he wasn't cat-like enough or on fire, come what may. Whether his wishes entered into it in her mind remained to be seen.

Jisa had already taken off, along with Tetsuko, who vowed to protect him. It was a bit of a ninja infiltration, samurai front-line situation! "A strategy that dates back to that era: feudal! Going up against Tetsuko would be sheerly brutal!" she thought to herself. Now, all that was left was to tag along with Kirk and focus on protecting the flanks, so no one could maneuver around Kirk to get to their flag. It'd be a bit of a tall order, especially given the jumping power she knew at least one of her opponents had... some airborne bubbles might be in order as the contest progressed.

The poetess of the group, hitching a ride in Kirk's pouch, would find herself carried right into the thick of it, as both teams formed mid-ranged offenses against each other, intending to stop the others from crossing to their side. Nobody was really going for a throw off the bridge just yet; in fighting game terms, this was all "zoning." Well, there was a bit of hand to hand going on elsewhere, but not right in front of her. Frankly, she thought to herself, she wished that it was a more martial artsy type... this blue fire quirk didn't look like the kind of thing she could go toe to toe with easily!

As she contemplated whether she should erect another wall or just let them have it, Kirk chose for her, giving her a clear direction. "Yes, I was thinking that as well! And with this rhyme, now, they swell!" she agreed, standing up for a moment and keeping both hands in place, so that she could fire five bubbles over Kirk's head without hitting him. The arc of Kirk's projectiles were as intuitive as tennis balls on the court... Farrah's were like something with physics that didn't take real world factors like gravity into account, just moving slowly out from the circle shape of her mouth. Rather than utilizing only whispers, again, she decided to fill a few with normal volume spoken words... that way, the enemies would get the hint that she had the ability to raise their volume. Still, she'd keep them no louder than Kirk's voice, as to go any further could injure her own teammates (including Kirk, if it popped in his face). She oriented them very close together, but with a little bit of horizontal distance between each, so that if he stayed at a range they would spread out a bit before reaching him and couldn't all be shot at once.

The advantage of this strange firing method: with their slowness, they'd probably form a second salvo behind Kirk's own. The disadvantage: there was plenty of time to anticipate and pop or evade them if the enemy was so inclined. To use them at all, she had to play a "guess where the enemy is going" game... Luckily, in the case of a bridge, there were really only so many places they could go. If the enemy intended to continue straight, she'd have a line to pop on them. The issues would be if they decided to join the others below or take the up-and-over approach.

Little did Farrah know that her plans would go off the rails moments later, as Kirk ran from mid-range... to short-range... to what could properly be referred to as "in your face" range! Farrah lost her cap, unable to hold it as she used one hand to keep a grasp on Kirk's traps and the other to desperately grasp at Arthur's band. It was reckless, but Kirk seemed to be making the effort to put her in position for it, so she had to take the shot!



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WC 940

Jace was underneath the bridge still while everyone was topside, either on the stone or wooden bridge. But while keeping track of the entire gang wasn't too difficult, even being able to just barely smell the feint traces that were Farrah and Kirk, along with all the enemies who'd stayed on the wooden bridge, clinging too the stone bridge very suddenly got much harder. He wasn't sure what set Lucas off, maybe Tetsuko hit him hard or Meara listened too him and hit his legs, but either way the T-Rex had gone from being an obstacle to a stage hazard as he rampaged around the stone bridge. While this might be manageable for those topside, Jace was having a much harder time of it on the underbelly of the stone bridge, having to slow his pace to a crawl while clinging to the bridge for dear life as parts crumbled off and there were smashes against the support beams as Lucas' tail caused just as much havoc as the dino himself did. It would seem that cat boy was in a bit of a snag, having to slow his pace just to keep from being shaken off.

But just ass suddenly as it came, it would stop, Jace able to smell Tetsuko right next to the giant dinosaur kid now. But, this was less a case of relief and more "out of the frying pan, and into the oven". Jace would be able to hear the splintering of the bridge, as some of the scents that had been on TOP of the wooden bridge were now very much not on the wooden bridge, instead now on the stone bridge right across from Tetsuko, and by proxy Jace, even if he was below them. But even that wouldn't keep being the case, as Jace would hear words that caused his eyes to widen in surprise. ...Mind covering below? Even with Lucas roaring, he heard that part, and suddenly the part of the bridge right in front of him blew apart, as a blonde boy fell in front of him. At first the cat boy tried to block some of the debris from his face with his arm, before he found himself staring at the boy, the shock on his face palpable. U-Uhh-Uhhhh.... He couldn't really get any words out, instead spattering nothing, before he'd simply stare at the boy for a moment, still in shock. Then he'd scurry up to the side of the bridge.

Jace wasnt averse to combat per se, buuuut that had him in the disadvantage in every way. The boy had been on the same the copper bridge, something Jace couldn't climb, in a completely open area, and instead of Jace getting the surprise attack it'd been flipped and Jace was the one caught off guard. He had no real desire to fight a battle stacked against him. But that didn't mean he was going to ignore the blonde either. But before he did that, he needed to handle what was topside first.

The surprise of being dropped in on meant he wasn't quite sure what was going on anymore, but as he peeked over the side, he realized he'd managed to come up at one heck of a time. Now Kirk was dropping in too, breaking through the wooden bridge as Tetsuko charged forward towards the girl who had been on top of the T-Rex but no longer was, and the flame guy. And as she did, Jace saw a slight opportunity, and for all of Jace's MANY faults, hesitation wasn't one of them. He rushed the exposed girl, matching Tetsuko's charge in a side ambush, hoping to catch both her and the fire guy off guard. His body would ignite as he rushed towards her on all fours, popping out of the side of the bridge, and if he saw her band he'd reach out and claw for it, before smashing into her whether he saw it or not, trying too push her towards the edge of the bridge. He'd then follow up on his attack with a kick, trying to finish her and kick her off the edge into the net below,and retreating back towards Meara, Lucas, and Kirk while Tetsuko charged towards the flame guy. Though he'd stop short of getting actually involved in Kirk and Lucas' fight. He wasn't a titan, and wasn't fit to join a battle of such.

If he'd managed to snag Julia's armband, he'd try to find Meara. Ummm...M-Meara!! Here! Then he'd toss it to the girl, trusting her to keep better care of it than him. He'd stop for a moment, considering whether to ask for help below. U-Ummm...Good luck... He decided against it, looking to the ground as he changed what he was going to say. With such a big fight on the stone bridge, he should probably try going at this alone. And so he would, running towards the end of the bridge again, and once again climbing off the side. But this time, he was going to try to have the advantage.

Jace would try and smell the blonde boy, trying to make sure he knew where he was before he continued, then he'd slowly crawl forwards, peeking to see if the boy was looking straight at him. If he was, then Jace would simply adjust his position somewhat, coming in from an angle instead of head on, but if not, than Jace would charge ahead, running on the bottom of the stone bridge and trying to pounce on the boy while aflame, and hopefully with the advantage of surprise.

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Kirks trick had worked perfectly! And with that he crashed through the bridge! ...But in his excitement and concentration on somehow getting over this obviously dangerous foe, he had forgotten the simple thing he had had to repeat to himself a countless times: Roughhousing on a weak bridge leads to the whole bridge coming down! "...Uuuh, Whoops!" The plan had been to just drop down onto Lucas, but now, the situation was quite a bit bigger than he was! He briefly placed his arms over himself, and trying to cover Farrah with his pouch to prevent her from taking damage... Atleast Kirk was thickskinned enough that a bit of shrapnel from wood didn't hurt THAT bad! "Sorry dudes! not uh... exactly my best of plans!" And with the teacher shouting about it at the same time, Kirk couldn't help but feel like he was aimed at. "I KNOW, I KNOW, SORRY!"

However, atleast the part about Lucas being knocked out for a while had been successful! For now he looked around, trying to see where the big boys bandana was... "But some parts of the plans can always be salvaged, am I right, hehe?" However, with the dinosaur very soon standing back up and starting to go full on Rodeo with him on board, the boy was thrown, off, and there wasn't much he could do about it, as he tumbled down to the ground, getting couple of bruises. "Well... Darn." This just couldn't get much worse, could it? Technically it could, they could be hurt way worse...

However, more importantly, now it came down to what they should do next... and looking over, he could see Meara calling him over. She was looking fine. And as a question about their own health came to a question, Kirk shrugged. "I think we are fine yes!" For a moment, he had to acknowledge the stuff in his pouch, just to make sure Farrah hasn't fallen during this whole mess. "Farrah is in the pouch safe too!" Kirk was given the chance to decide which one of the duo they would go for next... ugh, hard choices. Technically, now the pair was pretty much a cool as heck combo of a medieval knight riding on a dinosaur, but how the heck would they beat that said combo? "I assume you've been aiming for his legs?" Assumedly, those were already pretty beaten up... "I think he has taken such a beating, that he should be close to fall! Either that or I just tire him out and distract him, while you guys do something else!"

He proceeded to open his pouch to let Farrah out... "The next thing I am doing is gonna be a bit too rough for passengers... not that the previous stuff was THAT much different, hehe!" With that, he proceeded to do his usual mad man thing... And proceeded to run towards Lucas, grabbing onto his tail with that sports mans grip! "Okay, Where did this guy put his thing last time?" Yup, this time he was trying to do the same thing as Jace last time, when he was like that annoying gnat... Except well... More on the very frustratingly sized rat in this case... Rat with teeth! He Gripped his baseball bat, and proceeded to bang it against the tail! "HEY! BIG DUDE AND IRON MAN DUDE! YOU GUYS WANNA TELL WHERE YOUR STUFF IS!?" In this case he was hopeful Lucas still held that primal need of a dog from last time. And like a dog, maybe he wouldn't be able to reach his tail. 

...And partially he was hoping that with him now prepared to stick to him, he could stay on without needing to worry about bad things... He was sturdy enough to be a decoy for a while, right? "Let's see which one of us tires first, doggie!"

The vortex and rubble had not been kind this round, Jisa found his footing lost briefly and slipping downward from it and several harsh and strong stones scratching, scraping, and bashing upon his small fuzzy body. Taking what fell like a small beating as he fell briefly ducking and rolling into the fall as best he could trying to make himself into a smaller target as he was rolled up to avoid some of the rubble damage as best as he could but finding himself briefly stopped and upon the ground now. He was dazed and wasn't fully sure what level he had truly been on now or not. Confusion wracking his mind for a few moments as he tried to shake off a dizzy nature setting in. Shaking his head side to side while on his knees for a moment or two trying to snap himself back into his senses and get a feel for where he was and current situation as well once his senses began to come too.