Joseph(L)vs Chaos(W)[Sneak Attack][Ref: Yan]

Joseph breathed as he watched Chaos reel away from his attack in an ultraviolent flash. The Emperor flew back at him just as quickly, coming toward him with a thrust of his sword. Golden flames flared from Joseph as he sprung to the side, rolling to the side, catching himself on his hands, and cartwheeling to an upright position.

The child quickly turned to face the pursuing Celestial, blade glimmering as he slashed downward to ravage his shoulder. Joseph gritted his teeth, crossed his arms in front of his body, and rose them to meet the blade amid its arc. As he did so, a shock of pain hit his shoulder. It caused only the slightest stutter of his movements as Joseph steeled himself against the pain. Gauntleted wrists met the edge as a clang resonated through the air.

Joseph took a back at the moment of collision to distance himself from the blade and its wielder. He saw Chaos release his sword overhead and caught an incoming strike from the corner of his eye. Joseph dropped, ducking beneath the ear clap. As Chaos caught the blade and shot it forward, the boy leaned deeply to drop below the thrust, placed his hands on the ground, and flipped back to a proper standing position.

Chaos’ leg snapped at his knee. Joseph raised his leg and turned to meet the kick with his wrapped shins. The slash that followed it was met with his arm. He grunted as the shock agitated his shoulder injury. Joseph crossed his arms in front to brace himself for further assault. The seemingly sporadic motions of his weapons made them difficult to track, even when watching carefully. He followed them the best he could while turning his guard toward them. The slash grazed his forearm before he jerked to the side to divert the strike with his gauntlet.

Joseph reeled away as Chaos lanced his sword at his body, the sharp blade jabbing his arm. He fought through the burning pain and pivoted turn from the stab. This was becoming untenable; it was only a matter of time before a surge of shoulder pain would make him lag during a crucial moment, and he was accumulating defense wounds during this one-sided exchange. His eyes roved around in search of his weapon, and he caught it in the distance, lying in the street where he dropped it.

Joseph circled around the Emperor and moved closer to his weapon. He knew he couldn’t secure his cudgel now, but at least he knew where it was. Then once he got it, his staff could take the attacks instead. The child lurched at Chaos and shot his hand up toward his chin to strike it with an open palm. The boy then shot the hand behind it to hit the Emperor with a cross to his stomach. The child then lifted his leading foot and violently snapped it forward, launching a heavy kick to send Chaos back and hopefully give him a chance to pursue his weapon.

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Ki: 28%

DMG
Joseph: 49.01%
Chaos: 64.29%

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So Chaos was slacking off a lot this round and Joseph’s responses were more interesting to read at this point. I am at my normal point of bored af by combos, as so it seems are both of you and yet they keep flying. Despite that though, the way Joseph defended kept pissing me off. The man was so desperate for close range fighting and then depends every single (exaggeration) block/dodge on his ability to take distance. THERE IS NO DISTANCE. Then he goes, it grazed me but I dodged! That’s a partial dodge bro. Like I wanted to give it to you, I really did. I’m a big fan of internal monologues that fit into whats happening, but ultimately it’s a battle rp, and roleplayed actions are super important.

Like I said though , Chaos’ slacked off, less monologues and his writing quality has diminished in the game of “how many ways can you slash a sword?” His sudden exhaustion in the last post after being so into his fighting also rubbed me the wrong way. Yes, you are exhausted but you didn’t play into it enough while in the groove of the grapple to just be whacked by it for no reason. The stumble of fatigue could have been more nuanced and the almost shock of it after the adrenaline of the grapple. It read 100% “oh I guess since I have barely any ki I should write myself tired now” versus conscious thought into the flow of this exhaustion and development.

Chaos is a solid all around writer while I see Joseph almost getting there and flubbing it, making me much harder on him throughout. I see the improvements he makes each round after I complain though, taking everything I say into account. Because of that, and only because of that--I was really tempted to roll a dice or still give it to Chaos despite these diminished returns, you can tell by my first paragraph--Joseph has managed to secure the RP award. Keep up this round with a little more consciousness to how the battle is flowing and what you should and should not do to better control the flow of things, and you might just keep it--assuming Chaos’ IRL combo fatigue doesn’t let up.

As Joseph awaited Chaos, he felt a shock carry through his body. He gasped as he suddenly felt short of breath, and his grip loosened, causing his staff to the ground. It felt like he had been abruptly sapped of his energy. The boy hardly had time to wonder what came over him before he was struck in the head by the hilt of Chaos’ sword that struck him, sounding a thud as his head snapped back. Then came a slash at his injured arm that widened his wounds, blood pouring from his shoulder as burning pain flared. A thrust kick sent him stumbling back before a spinning slash went across his body, tearing through his tattered gui and shirt and cutting the flesh underneath.

The next attack was a slash at his throat. The blade struck against his scarf, its fabrics denying its edge his throat, stopping this battle from ending then and there, but it only dampened the force to a degree; he felt his throat tighten as the metal slammed against his throat. The child hacked and breathed heavily as he became even more desperate for air.

A strike to his chest added to his pain as the blade pierced through his tunic and shirt and nearly missed his vitals. The boy wobbled back and began regaining himself. He could see Chaos’ eyes widening as he pressed his attack with cruel alacrity. The child curled up, raised his arms, and exerted his energy, shaping it into a bubble of energy. His shield caught the strike at his throat, absorbing the impact entirely.

Joseph stood while holding his guard. He yielded to the force of the next slash, letting it push him back. The strike at his face shattered the barrier and nearly made him trip just before he was met with a brazen backhand that struck across his face knocking his gaze to the side. He was surprised and felt he should be offended; not even Aria had ever hit him with such a disrespectful move. The blade went downward carving down his cut riddled shoulder down his hip drawing his longest laceration yet. The boy began to feel dizzy. His vision blurred as he felt like he was about to pass out, he slumped and began to fall to the ground before his he stopped, arched himself back upright and tightened his fist.  A strike was shot towards his gut. He gritted his teeth and quickly shifted outside the path of the thrust.

Joseph then lurched forward with a sharply bent elbow bounded up to slam it into Chaos’ jaw. The boy then lifted his leg up, running on the the fumes of his remaining energy and unyielding resolve release a blurring flurry of kicks shooting rapidly at Chaos’ face and body. Joseph then set the leg down and followed by launching a heavy uppercut at Chaos gut before jumping into the air, he cupped his hands as he faced down toward Chaos. Ka-Me-He-Me-Ha! The Demi-Earthling shot his arms down toward Chaos releasing the iconic blue beam of energy that rushed down to envelope and crush the emperor.



A1) Stunned
A2) Body Shield[-5%ki]@a1[-100% damage], Free take A2[-50%]-A3[-25%]
Free) Take A4
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A4-T) Meteor Combination[4SA, 3 Speed Teleports][Kamehameha at half damage][DR 7][Critical: Burn][7%ki]
Ki: 11%

Joseph's second post was really good. I liked it a lot, but I think Chaos did too because he came in strong on his third post. Ultimately, the 24 screws in more ways than one, and without a third post to judge, Chaos gets the RP Award back.

Chaos
DMG: 82.06%
Ki: 25%
Stamina Drain: 112,680

Joseph
DMG: 64.92%
Ki: 6%
Stamina Drain: 668,620

Meaning you are -69,601 All stats

If you think my numbers are off please check the sheet for any inconsistencies as I might have missed something. I will do my best to keep up with DMG since ND is so very close.

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Everything became a blur. Joseph’s blows at the Celestial fell short, and the boy stumbled, bangs dropping and shifting to their black color. The blurs and vague shapes began to fade as the child fell forward until a limp body hit the streets with a loud thud. Joseph lay there completely still, barely breathing. His body had finally yielded to exhaustion and dozens of accumulated wounds from the life-siphoning blade.

The boy lay there. Everything started to drift away and become black. Joseph wondered if he was being sent back to that illusionary void. He felt numbness up and down his being. The Demi-Earthling wanted to rise back up and continue fighting, but his body simply wasn’t moving to fulfill that desire. Yet again, his abilities came up short against another foe. So much for ensuring that the Cosmic Empire would not rise back to power and getting Mona back her sword.

He and his abilities, yet again, did not come through against another foe, and now for the first time in a long time where it was a fair fight. There was no interference on behalf of either side. Not even Pyramid head nor Bruce was here for their owners. No obstacles or distractions in the form of civilians that need to be saved. It was the most tried and true battle that he had in a long time, and still, he was on the ground while his opponent was standing.

Whom he was facing made it more than a true fight. This was the Cosmic Emperor himself. Before this fight, Joseph had only met him in what he could only describe as dreams, talks in the astral realm, and intervening during a volatile encounter between Chaos and a group of simple merchants. It was funny how impersonal this belated confrontation was. Despite the many meetings with the Lords of the Cosmic Empire, most notable being the times he nearly lost his life twice to a mindlessly destructive Saiyan and lost his life to Recoome. Chaos had nothing to do with these, however. Those were not on the Emperor’s orders but rather the precarious whims of those he happened to call friends. Even with Mona, he put the Mage on to him, and she pursued him in the absence of the order and disregarded the plan to fight them together. Nonetheless, he was still the one some of his worse enemies answered to, and this battle could be the answer if he could surmount those seemingly long-gone foes.

Apparently not. The boy felt disgusted and dissatisfied with his current state. Still alive but not fighting. Instead, lying down, bleeding out, in an abandoned PTO base due to become the next scarecrow. The child’s aura crackled around him, stirring from the sheer outrage of such a thought. The boy’s aura continued to surge around him, and the ground began to shake. Such an ending would not satisfy him, and people were counting on him.

The half Saiyans ki flared around him, veiling him in a fiery azure aura as he slowly began to stand. It would not end here. He wanted to further test his limits. He wanted to go beyond them. Coinciding with that was the desire to know he was enough or could be enough when people were counting on him. Joseph stretched his arms to  both sides. Sparks crackled in his palms as he struggled to gather energy in his exhausted, battered state. Joseph gritted his teeth and focused, forcing the energy to manifest. Red orbs of energy emerged in his hands as he breathed heavily and he began rapidly throwing his hands back and forth firing out a flurry of a dozen blasts at Chaos to bombard him.

Joseph raised his arms a red pillar of light shooting up from his person going up into the sky. The boy continued pouring power into the beam as he raised his arms into the air and spread his arms apart. The energy expanded spreading through out the air casting a crimson cloud in the sky, and from it descended a half dozen rings of red energy that surrounded Joseph and the Emperor. The rings began to spin, and from each of them came scarlet bolts of ki firing at Chaos from every direction, blasts speeding toward him from multiple angles like a hailstorm. Each blast exuded a power that could be sensed across Toffit and all with the power but not the scale to lay lesser worlds to waste. The spinning rings blurred the image of the blasts, many of them would appear as mere flashes. The red storm raged over the battlefield and the pillar of rings could be seen from space as the barrage of blasts rained down. Eventually the blasts stopped, and the rings became transparent and slowly faded allow while the red storm slowly parted. Joseph huffed, standing, his eyes gradually narrowed until they completely closed. He fell to his knees and slumped to the side, falling prone to the ground as his consciousness left him.



A1-A2) Charged Renzoku Energy Dan[DR 8][-15%][19][Hard to Dodge][Approximate PL: 1,7million]
A3-T)Zanzoken+Charged Galactic Machine Gun[DR 11][-23%ki][27][Hard to Dodge][Speed: 486,380][Approximate Power Level: 2.93million]

72% ki