[Round 1] Jibril & Harley Quinn vs Cerise & Gildarts

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#32 Jibril & #30 Harley Quinn vs #19 Cerise & #34 Gildarts

Blurs started to take shape and colors started to unblend as Gildarts planted a knee into the arena floor and rose to a fully vertical position.  He tilted his head and winced as the images finally came into focus—Cerise was on the retreat from a paired assault by the bat-wielding clown and the girl-turned-Grim Reaper.

The crash mage kicked off the stone and rush forward.  He was hurting, but he had enough in him to be of use to his partner.

“Left!”  Harley barked as she pulled back a swing and reached for a revolver.

Jibril craned her head and scowled just as the metal fist crashed into the side of her face.  A moment later, a second blow thundered up into her sternum.  Never one to leave a job half-finished, Gildarts leaned back and leashed another haymaker that sent the stunned fighter crashing to the grass outside the arena.

“Over here!”  A soft voice taunted as Gildarts turned right into a homerun swing from Harley Quinn.

The jester flashed a Cheshire grin as the big man lurched forward and crumbled into a heap a few inches from the unconscious Jibril.  While she wanted to relish the moment just a little more, Harley knew this was the part where she was supposed to take her own knockout blow—a bit of payback for hubris or some nonsense.

Bat in hands, she twisted and parried Cerise’s strike.

“Gotcha!”  Harley sneered as she hoisted her weapon up over her head for the follow-up blow.  Instead of sweet victory, she got a fistful of snake venom right in her eyes.  A set of fingers instinctively moved to her face as the caustic bile sizzled on her exposed skin. “Mother fu—” A pair of hands crashed into Harley’s chest, throwing her off balance.  The blinded woman got one last swing of the bat before she toppled from the arena.

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Cerise (2.85) & Gildarts (2.6) defeat Jibril (2.15) and Harley Quinn (3.05)

Cerise & Gildarts advance to Round 2

Jibril and Harley Quinn move to Match D of the Redemption Bracket and will face Retane and Victor Wolfe

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