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[runningjoke]

CHARACTERS: Peridot, Pearl, and OPEN!

DATE: After Oska-sim, before the Team-Bonding tasks event

WARNINGS: Robotic dismemberment, maybe.

SUMMARY: Robot fights??? Robot fights.

• BEFORE THE FIGHT •

[Now that Oska has been "fixed"… it's about time to mess it up again. At least in a contained way that doesn't involve any "false realities." Two large, pilot-able robots stand opposite each other in a large ring, circled off with linked rope and poles.

One robot is a bright green color, diamond shaped with claw-like hands, and shorter than the other robot. The second robot is tall, smoother looking, with longer "legs" and pastel colored.

Both are unoccupied… for now, but outside of the ring is a crudely, and almost lazily painted sign with the words: ]

BUY TICKETS HERE

[…Someone's selling tickets to this??

Maybe someone else is nearby who can answer some questions… Or maybe also has no idea what's about to happen, but hey, feel free to look around anyway. ]

• THE FIGHT •

[A. - Closed to Peridot and Pearl]

[Now that the tickets have been sold, both Gems arrive at the arena.

After inspecting the area marked for their fight, and then inspecting her own robot to make sure Pearl hadn't tried to CHEAT while she was away, Peridot climbs into her own robot, testing the controls. It works just as well as it did when she first assembled it, so everything seems fine. As Pearl climbs into her own robot, Peridot calls out a taunt.]

I HOPE YOU'RE READY TO PRACTICE BOWING AGAIN, RENEGADE SCUM!!

[B. - Open To All]

[Oh, so that's why those giant robots were there. An old fashioned showdown, This Town Isn't Big Enough For The Both Of Us-style... But no guns and quick drawing, and with robots instead? Seems like it. Feel free to watch, and maybe wind up dodging some torn up dirt as the fight processes.]

Comments

[beyourrock]

[He words had lit something deep inside her. Confidence. Passion. Pent up anxiety, worries, self confidence issues, all rising up in her chest.

Ranmaru had the confidence to take on anything. Gods, Demons, whatever. If she says she can take a hit, then so be it! It was the kind of confidence in which Pearl envies in most of her friends here.

With a sharp intake of breath, she pulls a balled fist back, and with all her Gem might.

She throws a punch right for Ranmaru's jaw.]

1/2

[unoradinary]

[Annnd she's pretty much thrown off her feet. Pearl's a strong gem after all, and even if someone's able to take a punch whether or not they're still gonna be thrown back by it is a different story altogether. In this case, it's completely unrelated to the former.]

Ghk!

[unoradinary]

[Yet any concerns she might have about whether or not she overdid it should be dealt with pretty quickly, because...Ran's laughing from down there all of a sudden. Ranmaru sits up and rubs at her jaw briefly, looking up at Pearl from her seated position on the floor.]

Hahh...okay, I'll admit, not what I was expecting.

[Still, despite everything, this is someone who falling 13 stories and landing directly onto a car is no big deal for. She stands back up, hands on her hips.]

So? You believe me now?

[They're not going to fight now after all; not after everything Pearl's been through already. But she just wanted to prove her point, so she can help Pearl become stronger later, once she's in better shape. Trust was the first and most necessary step.]

[beyourrock]

[Pearl looks like she immediately regrets the decision as she rushes over beside Ranmaru, letting a flood of apologies escape her mouth. She didn't mean to knock her down like that! Then again, she took the hit better than Chantes' guard back during the jailbreak.

She quiets down once Ranmaru speaks and furrows her brow, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.]

Well it look like you can take quite the punch! I'd be interested to see what you'd do stacked up against a Jasper or an Amethyst.

[A bashful laugh escapes her before she moves to a kneeling position, instead of on her knees and offers a hand down to her, to help her up.]

I suppose it will just take some... time.

[unoradinary]

[Fairly pleased with the compliment she seems to brighten further, if that's even possible, taking the offered hand to pull herself up. Once she's up, Ranmaru moves to readjust her hat and brush herself down, speaking as she does.]

Well, s'all I can hope for right now. One thing at a time, right?

[She's not naive enough to think it could all be smoothed over in one moment...but it's a start. A good one, at that.]