Videl Satan vs. Sara Conners - Head-Cha-La

[BlackAkuma]

Guard tight, eyes forward, mind focused. Sara was ready.

Yes, this was a bad position, but she knew the trick was not to panic when shit like this went down. Everyone found themselves on the floor eventually, but what separated the goods from the greats was how they dealt with it. If she panicked, if she faltered, she was just inviting openings for Videl to work with, things she could take advantage of.

The patience paid off. Videl tried to fake her out, giving her a left for bait when the real strike was a right hook. That blow sunk into her abs and made her seize up, but she kept her guard strong and could block the actual left that came soon after, taking it hard on the guard, but staying in the fight. Still, this was an untenable position, and she needed a fast escape.

Sara saw one, dangling from her opponent’s head. She reached up, trying to grab one of Videl’s pigtails to give them a good yank and pulled her off as she twisted hard to the side, hoping to either switch places or at least give her some breathing room. The referee would bitch, sure, but that wasn’t a big concern in for Sara, ever. She could live with some chastisement, no big deal.

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Videl's fist struck Sara's stomach, but in an impressive show of defense, it didn't debilitate the blonde enough to stop her from protecting herself from the martial artist's follow up at her face. Videl kept trying to poke holes in Sara's guard and connect with one of her strikes, but before too long, the android's arm reached up and started pulling her by the hair.

"Nrgh!" hissed Videl as she pulled against Sara's attempt to throw her off. Her lithe body slid slightly to the side, but stayed mounted atop the larger women. Videl was forced to let up her attacks for a moment, and her position on top of Sara was no longer as stable as it had been, but the android had also sacrificed half of her guard. The Lightweight would quickly return to wailing on the blonde with her fists, trying to pummel Sara into letting go before she could throw Videl off.

[BlackAkuma]

”Sara! Let go of the hair! Let go!”

Sure enough, there was the referee, right on cue. Sara had to be careful, here. While she wasn’t above using something like this to her advantage, she didn’t want to lose by any mean, least of all DQ. That sort of thing wouldn’t play well with her rip, but neither would getting beaten by the Japanese equivalent of Pippi Longstalking. There was a balance she needed to strike.

Videl seemed to realize the situation she was falling into, because her fighting reached a new ferocity, throwing hard shots straight in her face. Sara took two straight on the brow, before she gave her opponent the freedom she wanted, but not without cost. She bucked hard to the side, shoved at her chest, and threw the smaller woman off with an explosive burst, finally escaping the mount.

Sara wasted no time, rolling to the side and popping up to her feet in a rush. She thought about charging in, but her wobbly legs told her that was a bad idea. Instead, she was content with raising her guard and standing at the ready, not knowing what approach her opponent would go for next.

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Videl managed to nail Sara clean in the face a couple of times despite the blonde's grip on her before was snap-thrown off of the larger woman. Videl landed on her back shoulder and rolled over onto her stomach, catching herself with an arm and two legs into a very wide and low to the ground three-point stance. Recovering from being thrown almost as quickly as Sara had chucked her.

Crucially, Videl saw a little buckle in Sara's legs before the Android chose to stay back. Something which the martial artist regarded as nothing less than blood in the water. Videl wouldn't even spend a step getting up or closing the distance, she would immediately launch herself with one leg to send her other leg foot first into Sara with a base slide kick.

If Videl's first kick landed, then she would go through Sara's legs in a way that would try to get the larger woman falling down towards herself. This was because the Lightweight had a massive combo planned. A combo that Videl intended to put the match away with for her first victory in LAW. Using the strength of her core, the leg which she had just struck with, and her arms, Videl would pop up out of her slide. While she rose and Sara fell, Videl would drive her knee through the Android's solar plexus with her Rising Eagle.

Rising Eagle

But Videl's frenetic attack was still not yet done. As she would be driving Sara back, the moment the Lightweight's legs touched the ground, she would propel herself through the air yet again. This time trying to get her legs up over Sara's shoulder's so that she could finish the Android off with her signature Frankensteiner, landing into the pin that would end the match if she hit. There was however, one caveat. This combo required multiple consecutive big bursts of energy to execute. If it didn't finish the job, and Sara escaped the combo or kicked out of the pin, Videl was in big trouble.

Frankensteiner

[BlackAkuma]

Sara’s teeth ground down hard as she looked towards Videl, recognizing the look in her eye, that flash of realization. It was the same one she’d had in her own eyes, more than a few times. The look of a woman who saw blood in the water, who knew there was a golden opportunity waiting for her, and that all she had to do was reach out and seize it.

Credit where it was due, Videl did just that. She came in fast and low, targeting Sara’s lower body with a sliding kick that struck at her ankles and made her already shaky base that much less tenuous. She struggled to correct herself, but the younger fighter was on her before she had the chance, rising quickly and burying her knee deep into Sara’s stomach, hitting with enough impact to lift the blonde off her feet.

Sara stayed on her feet by some miracle, gasping and wheezing, but Videl wasn’t about to give her any leeway. The little brat was on her before she could even contemplate escaping, leaping up, wrapping her legs around her head, and pulling her forward at a ludicrous speed. Her back hit the canvas and she wound up aching as she looked up at her opponent’s beady eyes.

”1…!”

Oh, shit.

Sara needed out of this and she needed out of this right now. More than that, she needed to escape in a way that didn't leave her immediately vulnerable to the fresher woman. It was a hard trick to pull off, but she felt she had an idea.

”2…!”

Sara threw herself hard to the side at the last moment, avoiding a wrong end by the slimmest of margins. At the same time, she grabbed Videl’s leg before she could get away, pulled her ankle against her chest, wrapped her legs around her thigh and tried to catch her with a kneebar, hoping to equalize all the damage she’d take in a single moment.

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Videl's slide kick connected, her rising knee drove through Sara's gut, the Frankensteiner slammed the blonde down to the mat. The pinfall. . . broken out at two. "Woah!" Videl yelped as she's thrown off of the Android's body. Then she feels her leg getting grabbed as she falls to the mat, keeping the martial artist in place.

Videl would soon find that leg bent backwards at the knee as Sara locked her into a Kneebar. "Ah! Argh!" the Lightweight cried out as the Android wrenched her leg. Breathing heavily, Videl did not have the energy to make a big burst of movement to try to escape after her offensive. So all she could do was reach over with her arm and grab Sara by the throat to try to start strangling her as a counterattack.

[BlackAkuma]

Sara had put this move onto more people than she cared to count. Dozens. Maybe over a hundred even, if you counted spars and such. While it was a favorite, she liked it for the utility, not because she got any perverse pleasure out of inflicting pain on her opponents.

Not until today, that is.

She caught Videl in the hold, cranked up the pressure, and was overjoyed to hear the woman’s suffering as the hold tore at her ligaments, ramping up the pressure with each second as she sneered towards her foe. She would’ve enjoyed it even more if her opponent had tapped out, but she remained her stubborn self and fought to the end, even reaching over to try and strangle.

”Enough!” She smacked the hand away and tried to go right back to applying pressure, making to keep her neck away from Videl’s reach to try and avoid that in the future. ”Give up or I’ll break your damn leg. Just watch!”

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Videl had Sara fuming, despite the fact that she was the one locked into a submission. Though on her end, the martial artist was pretty much praying that her desperation strangle would provide an opening, or else she would be forced to tap no matter how much she had managed to get into the Android's head. But then it came, Sara let go of her leg with one of her hands to beat away Videl's hand.

"NOT YET!" Videl cried out as she powered her leg towards where the pressure had been let up, putting all the muscle she had into the limb to pull it out off the Kneebar. Breaking loose from the grip of Sara's singular remaining hand before the blonde could get her second hand back to reestablish the full force of the submission hold.

Submissions were obviously not Videl's specialty, but she only struggled with them defensively. When she was attacking, the martial artist was perfectly capable at making somebody tap. So after Videl broke out of Sara's submission, she would attempt to grab one of the Android's arms and swing her body around so that she could get her legs around it in an attempt to lock the larger woman into an Armbar.

[BlackAkuma]

Sara was not a happy woman.

She was rarely a happy woman, to be fair, but something that made her even more unhappy than usual was an opponent that just refused to stay the hell down. That was the sort of match this was turning out to be with Videl - a smarmy, annoying brat who had no business being in the same ring as her, punching far above her weight. She needed to be put down. Now.

She’d thought she had it with the kneebar, only for the little worm to squirm her way free, narrowly avoiding her fate. Sara wanted to get up and continue the onslaught, but her foe beat her to it, rising quick, pulling her arm away, and locking her into an armbar, of all things.

Painful. Effective. Irritating.

With a haggard groan, Sara rolled over, trying to stack Videl up and alleviate the pressure. More than that, however, she wanted to get a good angle on her opponent’s face - as soon as she was up, she’d throw down a stiff shot towards Videl’s unprotected face, trying to make her let go of the vicious hold.

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Videl had successfully countered Sara's Knee Bar with an Armbar, and now had her legs holding the blonde down by her chest while she wrenched her arm. It was a dangerous hold, but Sara's size and strength did give her an easier time at trying to break out of Videl's attack. The martial artist quickly felt her legs starting to bend as the Android turned in towards her.

As Sara came over the top, Videl saw her free fist reeled back to swing. Possibly set to target her stomach, but from what Videl had learned about Sara in this match, she knew guessing that the blonde's fist was coming for her face was a much safer bet. As Sara's punch came down, Videl would pull one leg from her Armbar and shoot it across the Android's jaw. Each woman clocked the other simultaneously, and Videl lost her hold.