Day One: Part 1

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#17 Lubbock vs #01 Android 18

Lubbock was feeling pretty good. The whole ‘preshow’ event had let him meet a lot of really interesting people, and while he wasn’t huge into the whole collar thing, he figured he’d make the best of it.

Up ahead, the street vanished into a tunnel. The map told him he was looking at the entrance to the ‘East Blair Tunnel.’ With a nod, the former assassin rolled up the map and stuffed it into his bag. Before throwing it over his shoulders, he scooped out his ‘weapons’ that the people had provided him with before he had been thrown out of the helicopter. Although the oversized green gloves didn’t seem that threatening, he couldn’t help but feel like he could smash the world as he slipped them over his hands. In the event that things really hit the fan, he knew he could circumvent the collar to use his wires…

With any luck, it wouldn’t come to that.

Smiling and trying to feel a little upbeat (maybe he’d find those friends he’d made in the preshow); Lubbock made his way toward the tunnel. As he got closer, he spotted a young woman casually leaning against the wall.

“Hey!” Lubbock shouted, waving on of his giant green hands. The closer he got, the more he started to see how beautiful this woman was… Her blonde locks looked as if they had recently been styled, and her eyes seemed to peer right into his soul. He’d seen a few ladies in the preshow but none of them looked like this woman.

And yet… as he drew closer, Lubbock started to see the faultlines. Among all the beauty were a collection of scars and the traces of bruises that would never quite heal. One of those gorgeous eyes had a red patch that seemed to be a leftover remnant of some abuse.

“You all right?” Lubbock asked. For that fleeting moment, his need to comfort a pretty face won out over common sense.

That is… until he saw the crossbow and heard the whirl off the quarrel as it zipped toward him.

With a grunt, Lubbock dropped down to a knee, his eyes falling to the crossbow bolt buried through his left leg. The green-haired man glanced up to see the woman racing at him. Her eyes weren’t so beautiful anymore.

No, they were horrifying.

Instinct kicked in, and Lubbock found his hands moving as the collar around his neck beeped. The noise made the woman stop and stare, and that was the short moment the former assassin needed to summon the thread blade. With a grunt, he thrust the improvised sword at the woman’s gut, and while he missed her stomach, the blade ripped through her side.

Even as her blood was splashed against the pavement, the woman didn’t scream. No, she’d expended all her screams months ago.

Leaning forward, she grabbed the quarrel and tore it back out through Lubbock’s leg. “Follow me, and I’ll make you regret every moment of your life,” she rasped, her voice hollow and devoid of life as she vanished into the darkness of the tunnel, leaving a stunned young man clutching at his leg and wondering what the hell he had gotten himself into.

[spoiler]Lubbock has taken a crossbow bolt through his leg (and back out again!) -- Major injury (+4 Damage)
Android 18 has a nasty slash on her side -- Minor Injury (+2 Damage)
Lubbock has the Hulk hands / Android 18 has the crossbow
Lubbock has used his Level 0 Super Move, Thread Blade (-1 SP)[/spoiler]