Still - she was far less adversarial than with Shampoo, and she'd have gotten along fairly well with Akane if not for the fact that she often felt a minor late-coming addon consideration - a minor player in the world that revolved around and deferred to Akane Tendo.
Especially where that regarded one Ranma Saotome. Ukyo was in the process of becoming bitter and resentful and hateful, her last hopes being on a bullet-train ride for permanent crushing.
She was fairly skilled as a fighter, though she spent more and more time practicing the cooking end of her Art instead of the fighting end. Better than Akane or Kodachi, not quite in Shampoo's league though she could hold her own against Shampoo for brief periods.
Against Akuma she might as well have been a first year student.
She managed to block the first punch with her main battle spatula even as the "wall of muscle" practically teleported to where she stood. That had bent her new spring-steel spatula into a "U" shape and rendered it useless.
The kick that followed that punch was part of a twelve hit combo that left Ukyo lying on the ground wondering if those white things in her blurred vision were her teeth.
She was in too much pain to be more than partially aware she was being picked up, shaken, and then casually discarded when it was obvious that she wouldn't be getting up soon.
She was vaguely aware of being forced through the wall surrounding the Tendo yard as everything began spiralling to blessed darkness.
"Aiyah! Look like warzone."
It was a measure of her remaining character than instead of satisfaction that Shampoo was about to get squished that she wanted to try and warn her rival off.
"Aiyah! Look like warzone." Shampoo had seen some pretty nasty martial artists and knew their battles could get fairly destructive. This looked more like the PRC had decided to send tanks or mortar fire into the compound.
There was this smouldering crater where their dojo had been. There were these smaller craters - some of which had occupants imbedded in the bottoms. There was a wall partially collapsed on top of Spatula Girl. Oooh those arms were definitely not supposed to bend there. Akane (as usual) came off relatively better. But only relatively.
Akuma turned to the new challenger.
Shampoo considered her options very carefully. She'd gone ahead of Great Grandmama and Airen in order to see this for herself (and maybe gloat at her rival's pain - though this was way past anything she would have done herself) but this was giving her very bad feeling.
So, what she'd do was:
(Posted Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:12)
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