Day One - Part 2

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#26 Doomguy vs #01 Android 18

With the news that a hurricane was about to hit the island, the marine made his way to somewhere safe to wait out the storm. Thus far, his story had been one of him versus the island, and he was confident that he was winning.

All of his common sense told him that buildings would be killing zones. There were too many primes left on the island, and not enough structures to safely house all of them. Hoping to continue his trend of avoiding senseless confrontation in the opening day, the marine headed south, leaving behind the rains that seemed to plague only the northern half of the island. How real was this island? How long had Karl Jak spent obsessing over all the stupid little details of this place?

As those thoughts swirled in his head, the marine scrambled his way up as the plains gave way to increasing sloping hills. Eventually he could himself pulling himself up small cliffs as the hills turned into small mountains, with the granddaddy of them all still looming in the distance before him.

Pulling himself up onto a relatively large ledge, the marine turned and glanced back at the distance he had covered. Although he had some elevation, he couldn’t spot his former location and wondered how far he’d gone in such a short time. Before he could settle on a location, a crossbow bolt smacked into the back of the faintly glowing armor that the marine wore.

“Heh,” Doomguy muttered as he turned around to see a beautiful blonde woman with cold, dead eyes and a crossbow. “Not what I expected,” the marine added as set his bag on the ground. “Nice firepower, but I’ve got better.”

Doomguy’s collar flashed as he willed his plasma gun into his hands and opened fire on the woman.

Clenching her teeth, Android 18 rushed her opponent. She found the trigger as the plasma rounds slammed into her chest, hip, and thigh, killing her momentum and causing her to hit the ground in an awkward mass. To add insult to injury, her crossbow bolt once again struck the marine’s unique armor without the slightest indication that he had felt a thing.

“Sting?” Doomguy asked as he lined up his neck shot.

“Not as much as this,” Eighteen muttered as a white aura shot up around her. Doomguy pulled the trigger, but the woman slipped out of the stream of plasma bursts and kicked his knee out from under him. The marine hit hard on the floor, and by the time he had spun to gun her down, she had already leapt off the cliff.

Doomguy scowled as the rifle in his hands blinked out of existence.

[spoiler]Android 18 used Tier 1 Transformation ‘Android Upgrade’ (-1 SP)
Doomguy used Tier 1 Super Move Plasma Rifle (-2 SP)
Android 18 has a string of very nasty plasma wounds across her side and upper leg – all counts as a Major Injury (+8 Damage)[/spoiler]