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NO RULES!
JUST ACTION!
DBX!
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Everything was… dark. Faint. Blurry. Everything in the area was obscured by a fog being washed away by the rain. The ground looked partially faded, and whatever landmarks could be made out looked like they didn’t belong with one another, like pockets of the world placed in without much thought. Large land masses stretched up into the blank sky, buildings of both pristine condition and fallen over amongst themselves littered the areas as well, and whatever plants there were had no greens to speak of. Trees without leaves, dead hunks of wood leaning against one another. Hell, some of the mentioned were even floating in the sky.
Everything looked like it didn’t belong. This was how a young, orange-haired woman would describe what she saw anyway. She was… lost, both literally and in thought. She… where was she? What… what was she doing here? It’s also important to mention that this woman was dressed oddly, to say the least. She was in some sort of battle gear as a way to describe it, and in her right hand looked to be a large spear.
The young woman brought a hand to her head, trying to recall how she got to this place. She was performing at a concert with someone else, but then-
“Who are you?” Spoke the voice of a gruff-sounding man, causing Kanathe young woman to jump in surprise, clenching her Armed Gear tightly as she spun around. She looked on at an adult figure shrouded in the shadows of a floating building.
“… Kanade. And you are…?” She asked with hesitation to the young man with her back turned to her. There was a stretch of silence before he broke it.
“Gohan.” He responded before turning around and taking a few steps forward into whatever light existed in this void of a world, allowing Kanade to get a good look at him. He had short black hair and a few scars on his face and wore an orange gi. But most surprising of all, to Kanade at least, was the fact he was missing an arm, his left specifically. Gohan looked at Kanade with a stern expression.
“Where the heck am I?” Kanade asked, a hint of hostility in her voice. Gohan closed his eyes before responding. “I’m not sure myself… but you’re the only person I’ve come across since I’ve gotten here. But given how I got here, I have an idea as to what this all this.” He said, looking at the unfitting terrain around him.
“And what’s that?” Kanade responded, raising an eyebrow.
“A test. A test to see who is worthy to keep on living.” Gohan said. For a moment, Kanade was confused as to what Gohan had meant, but then it hit her like a freight train to the face. She… She remembered… She was fighting. Fighting monsters called Noise that attacked the people at the concert. Her partner and herself were the only ones that were able to fight these creatures. But then, somebody got hurt… and then she…
“That’s… right. I… I died?” Kanade remarked, not wanting to believe what she was saying. “This… doesn’t feel real…” She continued, looking at her hand as she spoke.
“And if we’re both here… that means we have to truly move on… we have yet to prove ourselves… that one of us is worthy to keep on living…!” Gohan remarked, catching Kanade’s attention.
“I won’t go easy on you. I have people I have to protect, so I have to live!” Gohan remarked, getting into a stance and raising his arm up as he locked eyes with Kanade. Kanade smiled, getting into a stance herself, gripping her armed gear tightly.
“I don’t think I fully understand what’s going on, but I won’t go easy on you either!” She responded. There was a moment of silence before both made a leap toward one another.
HERE WE GOOOOOOOO!
Kanade thrust her armed gear forward toward Gohan as he swerved out of the way of the attack, attempting to throw a punch at Kanade though she was quick to duck underneath the attack. The duo flew past one another as a result of not making contact with either of their attacks, but once they had both landed, Kanade spun around and made a rush for Gohan.
Kanade began swinging her armed gear while advancing forward toward Gohan, with Gohan dodging each swing, with the occasional raising of his arm to knock the weapon away. After a bit, Kanade made a downward slash, to which Gohan jumped back in response, watching as the weapon struck the ground, sending out a shockwave from the impact. Gohan stuck out his arm and fired a blast of blue-colored energy the size of a grapefruit from it.
Kanade ripped her armed gear from the ground and spun around with it in her grasp, easily knocking Gohan’s blast back toward him. Gohan simply took to batting the thing away with a clenched fist, the attack being sent flying off into a distance building and exploding against it upon contact. Kanade glanced over to where the blast had hit then quickly turned her attention back to Gohan, who was making another rush toward her.
Kanade sidestepped an attempted kick from Gohan and swung her armed gear at him once again. Gohan twisted his body around the attack, placing his hand on the flat side of her weapon, using it as some form of leverage to spin around and deliver a strong kick to Kanade’s face. The result of the sudden impact sent Kanade flying back, armed gear still held firmly.
Kanade stuck her armed gear into the ground as a way to stop her momentum, noticing Gohan was trailing after her. Planting her feet on the ground, she quickly made a leap straight over Gohan, who had attempted to kick Kanade. Kanade, in return, spun around and slammed the flat side of her armed gear into Gohan’s back, eliciting a grunt of pain from him while forcing him forward.
Gohan quickly spun around, throwing his arm out, and launched a small blast of energy towards Kanade who had just landed. She ducked out of the way of the attack, rushing towards Gohan afterward as he started to make leaps backward, firing out more blasts of energy towards Kanade as he did so in an attempt to gain some distance. As the blasts drew closer, Kanade swatted them away with her armed gear as she grew closer and closer to the young half-Saiyan, eventually piercing her weapon into one of the blasts.
“Huh?” Gohan exclaimed as a smile appeared on Kanade’s face. She spun around and threw her armed gear toward Gohan like a javelin. Gohan took on a defensive stance, his body tensing up as he raised his arm. Once the armed gear was close enough, Gohan moved out of the way ever so slightly and slammed his palm into the flat side of the weapon, launching the weapon high into the blank sky.
Both looked up at the soaring weapon, though when Gohan looked over at Kanade he watched as she started leaping from debris to debris, closing the distance between her and her weapon remarkably fast. Gohan quickly stuck out his arm and started firing ki blasts at Kanade with a steady pace, though each one just barely missed its target.
Eventually, Kanade made one last leap off of a floating piece of a building, grabbing hold of the handle of her weapon. The tip of Kanade’s armed gear began to spin rapidly as if it were a drill being powered. In response to this, Gohan stuck his arm out in front of him and started firing out a rapid stream of ki blasts from his hand. As the attacks rapidly approached, the spinning of Kanade’s weapon grew faster and faster.
Soon enough, it began to string up a strong wind current around itself, one strong enough to not only begin to form a small tornado around her weapon but also draw in Gohan’s blasts. Gohan stopped his barrage as soon as he noticed his attacks were being sucked in. What he also noticed, was a smile on Kanade’s face as she rocketed back down the ground, swinging her armed gear into it, sending a large tornado straight towards Gohan, to which Gohan took up a defensive stance in anticipation of the attack’s impact.
LAST∞METEOR
The cyclone easily overtook Gohan, and he did his best to stand his ground against the powerful torrent of wind, though once Gohan’s blasts started to make contact with his body from within the tornado, the more his defense began to falter. Not every blast hit him, a lot whizzed right past the half-saiyan, but the ones that did slowly started to force him back. Eventually, his footing gave away and he was carried along by the gust of wind, straight through a pale building.
Soon the tornado attack dissipated and Kanade made a mad dash towards Gohan. She’s got the upper hand, so he has to capitalize on it as best she could. Where Gohan had been covered in a huge cloud of dust, but she was certain she could-
“Huh?” Kanade muttered, stopping on a dime, noticing a bright, shining golden light from within the dust cloud. As it dissipated, Kanade made out a figure, most certainly Gohan’s, with his hand held openly in front of his forehead, a golden light emanating from his palm, and it looked to be growing even brighter.
“MASENKOOOO!” Gohan shouted, throwing his arm out in front of himself and firing a large yellow beam of energy from it. In a panic, Kanade jumped to her left, just barely able to get out of the way of the large beam as it sped right past her, effortlessly tearing through the ground and anything else that got in its way. Once the attack dissipated, Kanade and Gohan took a moment to breathe, with Kanade glancing in the direction Gohan’s attack traveled in, taking in the carnage it had unleashed, before turning her attention towards Gohan, as he began advancing towards Kanade.
“You’ve got a lot of power under that hood… It wouldn’t be good to let it go unchecked.” Kanade remarked, her grip on her armed gear tightening.
“I used this power to fight to my last breath. Nearly every second I lived, I lived in battle, all so I could protect people from… ‘them’.” Gohan responded, a faint clear aura pulsating around him. Kanade remained silent for a second as she took in her opponent’s words.
“I’m not going to give up just because I heard your sob story. I have people I fight to protect as well, so I’m not backing down.” Kanade said, rushing towards the man. Gohan brought up his arm in response as Kanade began swinging her weapon in an attempt to hit the Saiyan, though he simply started moving out of the way of the attacks, dodging and ducking underneath them.
After avoiding an overhead swing from Kanade, Gohan spun around, kicking Kanade in the chest, forcing her across the terrain somewhat. Kanade prematurely stopped herself and leaped back toward Gohan. Gohan opened up his right hand and gathered a ball of ki into it. Quickly, Gohan sidestepped another of Kanade’s attacks and threw his arm at her, ki blast still in hand.
Kanade’s response was to lean back as far as she could, avoiding the attempted attack while also swinging her leg upwards, kicking the ki blast out of Gohan’s hand and high into the sky. Kanade quickly spun around to a stand, carrying her momentum in such a way that lead to her taking another swing at Gohan, though he simply made a leap high into the air, catching up to and catching the ki ball that was just knocked out of his grasp.
Gohan propelled himself toward the ground again as Kanade jumped back in anticipation as Gohan’s feet slammed into the ground. Surprising to Kanade however was Gohan’s next action. Instead of throwing the ki ball at her, he simply threw it at the ground at his feet, causing it to explode into a large cloud of smoke, engulfing the 2. Kanade attempted to keep up her guard as best she could, but due to her lack of sight on her opponent, she wound up leaving herself wide open for a clean hit, specifically Gohan landing a strong punch across her face.
Kanade recoiled back for a second before attacking in front of herself in an attempt to hit Gohan, though all she wound up hitting was the smoke-filled air in front of her. After her failed attack, she felt something strike her in the back of the head as Gohan slammed his Knee into the back of her head, disappearing again as soon as Kanade attempted a counterattack. This song and dance repeated with Gohan landing a hit on Kanade, and her failing to hit him back for his pot shots.
Eventually, Kanade grew fed up, raising her armed gear above her head and swinging it down at the ground as hard as she could, and with a strong yell. Her armed gear slammed into the ground, creating a powerful shockwave, instantly dispersing the smoke cloud… and revealing Gohan in front of her, just far enough away from her weapon to have avoided being hit by it, with her arm held behind herself.
“HIYAH!” Gohan shouted as he threw his arm up at Kanade. She couldn’t react in time as Gohan’s fist made contact with her lower jaw, the sheer power behind the attack was enough to effortlessly send Kanade flying high into the sky, armed gear in hand. Kanade cried out in pain as she flew upwards, grunting a bit as her body broke through smaller floating pieces of debris.
A white aura flared up around Gohan as he took off toward Kanade, trailing after her in an attempt to follow up, though stopped himself when he watched Kanade reorient herself as she flew backward, planting her feet onto a floating piece of debris behind her, and pull back her arm, aiming her armed gear towards Gohan. As Kanade threw her weapon, Gohan brought up a spherical barrier around himself in an attempt to block the attack.
But Gohan wasn’t prepared for the armed gear to suddenly increase in size several times over after Kanade threw it at him. As it traveled toward Gohan, Kanade jumped from her perch and delivered a strong kick into the hilt of her weapon causing it to suddenly accelerate towards Gohan.
SPEAR∞ORBIT
It struck Gohan’s energy shield for a moment before effortlessly shattering it. In a panic, Gohan grabbed hold of the giant weapon, holding himself just barely away from its sharp tip as the two of them struck a large dead tree, causing it to burst into a cloud of dust and smoke. Kanade landed on the ground, taking in some deep breaths as her armed gear came flying out of the cloud, Kanade caught it without a second thought, holding it at her side as she looked on at the cloud. She wasn’t the most confident that attack did Gohan in, but there always was a chance, especially considering the tree that was there was basically no more.
“…” Kanade looked at the cloud of smoke and dust as it dissipated. She was doing her best to try and see through it. Eventually, though, she was able to see something within it. It was a human figure, undoubtedly Gohan, standing hunched over, or so it appeared to Kanade. Her grip on her weapon tightened as she mentally prepared herself to continue the fight, but then something odd happened.
With a flex of Gohan’s body, he let out a shockwave which instantly cleared out the dust cloud around him, revealing himself standing slightly hunched over and breathing heavily. He had some cuts and scratches but otherwise appeared fine. With his eyes locked on Kanade, he bent forward slightly, gritting his teeth together, a clear aura surrounding him, small rocks on the ground starting to rise up as Gohan’s power grew.
Kanade kept herself tense, ready to react to whatever her opponent was about to do. Yet she raised an eyebrow as Gohan’s white aura began to take on a yellow-gold tint to it, more and more small pieces of debris rising into the air. Their eyes locked for a moment, and that’s when it finally happened.
Gohan’s hair turned a glorious golden color in a flash of light and a sudden shout.
The light given off by Gohan’s intense golden aura spread across the vague terrain, almost appearing to bring life back into it. Kanade couldn’t look away from Gohan. This sudden transformation he’d undergone was… mesmerizing so to speak, she was finding it difficult to act.
“I’m not gonna be pulling my punches now. Get ready…” Gohan remarked, tensing his body up before leaping towards Kanade. In a slight panic, she brought up one of her arms to defend against Gohan, only to be too slow and receive a strong punch to the face. Despite the pain, Kanade swung her armed gear in retaliation, only for Gohan to bring his arm up and grab hold of it.
With a shocked expression, Gohan’s grip tightened on the weapon and he delivered a swift kick to Kanade’s mid-section which sent her flying back, her grasp on her weapon slipping as Gohan held onto it. Now without a weapon, Kanade picked herself up off the ground and watched as Gohan stuck the weapon into the ground and flew towards her at a great speed. Kanade attempted to raise her arms up in a defensive position, only to feel Gohan grab hold of her arm.
She wasn’t able to act as Gohan swung Kanade over his head and slammed her straight into the ground, eliciting a cry of pain from her. Gritting her teeth, she grabbed Gohan’s arm with her own free arm and spun around as best she could, sweeping her legs underneath Gohan, knocking him off balance and snapping his focus just long enough for her to break free from his grasp and jump to her feet and make a run towards her weapon.
Gohan quickly reoriented himself and took off towards Kanade, intercepting her quickly and forcing her to stop in her tracks, a look of concern on her face. Gohan smirked before throwing a punch at Kanade’s face. Though to his surprise, she was just barely able to avoid it, his fist just barely grazing her cheek. She quickly retaliated by grabbing his arm and doing her best to throw him back over her shoulder.
But Gohan wasn’t about to let himself be tossed around so easily. While she was still holding onto him, Gohan started spinning around in place, his golden aura flaring to life as he did so. After a few seconds of spinning, Kanade let go, going flying back as Gohan stopped his spinning instantly, throwing his hand forward and firing a ki blast in Kanade’s direction.
Yet Kanade still found herself smiling as she flew back. Without even looking at where she was going, she extended her arm out to her side and grabbed hold of the handle of her armed gear, yanking it out of the ground thanks to her momentum. Again, without looking, Kanade planted her feet onto a concrete wall, leaping off of it with such force that it shattered into dust. Kanade held her armed gear in front of herself like a lance.
Gohan quickly took off into the air as a means to evade Kanade’s attack, watching her whiz past his previous location and slide across the blank ground in an attempt to stop herself. With a slight smile, Gohan extended his hand in front of himself, letting loose a barrage of ki blasts at Kanade in a steady stream. Kanade looked up at the condensed rain of energy blasts heading her way and shifted her stance somewhat.
Kanade then began spinning her armed gear above herself, akin to a propellor blade. Each blast that made contact with her spinning weapon was simply destroyed, bursting into small puffs upon contact. Once she was sure she had negated the last one, she pulled her armed gear behind herself and threw it as high as she could into the air where she anticipated Gohan to be, only to be left in a stage of confusion. He was just pelting her with his ranged attacks a second ago, and she threw it in-
WHAM!
“GAH!” Kanade cried out as Gohan’s fist made contact with her stomach. There was a moment of slowness as Kanade took in the pain, before Gohan followed up with a swift kick to her face faster than the blink of an eye, forcing her to the ground. She lay there for a second as Gohan looked down at her, watching her slowly begin to push herself up off the ground. He was about to think of his next course of action, but his train of thought was cut off before it could start as Gohan caught little flashes of light above him.
When he looked up, his eyes widened in shock. Falling from the sky like rain in a monsoon, was Kanade’s armed gear. Only, it wasn’t just one, it was hundreds of them, potentially thousands. With his attention elsewhere, Kanade sprung to her feet, slamming her shoulder into Gohan, knocking him to the ground. His attention shifted between Kanade, who had a cocky smile on her face as she made a leap backward, and up at the imminent rain of Kanade’s attack.
STARDUST∞FOTON
Instinctively, Gohan got up and quickly turned his attention to Kanade, who was simply confused that he was focusing on her but watched him quickly raise his arm up, hand in front of his forehead. She was expecting another of those energy beams from before, but instead, Gohan shut his eyes and shouted “SOLAR FLARE!” which let loose a bright flash of light from Gohan’s location.
Kanade witnessed this flash and was forced to close her eyes, wincing in discomfort as she used a hand to also cover her eyes. Now knowing she wouldn’t interfere, Gohan turned his attention back to her previously launched attack, which was already starting to make contact with the ground, each blade exploding into smoke upon impact with the ground and whatever other structures and debris there were. There were so many of them… Gohan rallied himself and started knocking away any that got close to him.
Albeit his defense wasn’t perfect, so he still had to dodge a stray if it got close, and even then he was still taking a few. Some grazed past him, leaving behind small cuts, one even across the bridge of his nose, and one even exploding upon hitting his chest. Still, even though it was like a minefield was being set off, Gohan still remained strong. Eventually, the attack subsided, and Gohan looked over at Kanade as she caught her armed gear in her hand while rubbing her eyes with the other.
Kanade opened her eyes, squinting somewhat as she made out what she assumed to be her opponent, Gohan, dashing toward her once again. Things were still a bit blurry so she couldn’t be exactly sure, but never the less she made a leap up into the air in an attempt to evade his strike and hopefully counterattack. Who she presumed was Gohan sped right past her, yet right after it did, she felt something grab onto her leg.
What she assumed to be Gohan was simply a large chunk of concrete that Gohan had thrown at her. Now, with her in his grasp, Gohan immediately took off high into the air, slamming her into stray pieces of floating debris as he flew up. Eventually, Gohan got high enough to where he stopped his ascent and started diving straight for the ground again, ready to slam Kanade into the ground at a blistering speed… if it wasn’t for Gohan’s grip loosening when Kanade slammed the hilt of her armed gear into the back of his head.
Utilizing him as a jumping-off point, Kanade made a jump toward a floating piece of debris, staggering a bit as the debris shifted under her feet. Her breathing started to get noticeably heavier as she looked on at Gohan, who extended his arm out in front of himself, firing a ball of energy toward Kanade. Kanade thrust her armed gear, stabbing through the ki blast, popping it like a balloon.
Kanade pulled her weapon back and made a leap to another floating piece of debris as Gohan shot another ki blast at her, which destroyed her prior platform with ease. This repeated for a bit, with Kanade jumping from platform to platform, as Gohan kept destroying them, causing a lot of dust to start to build up around the duo, eventually leading to the pair losing sight of one another.
Yet they still knew exactly where each other was. Gohan kept his eyes locked on Kanade’s location as Kanade made a leap from her final platform towards Gohan, holding her armed gear behind herself. In response, Gohan pulled his arm back, hand clenched into a fist. They both drew close to one another, Kanade swinging her armed gear toward Gohan and Gohan throwing a punch toward Kanade.
The result of this interaction was Gohan striking Kanade in the face, and Kanade slamming the side of her weapon into Gohan’s face. There was a shockwave that cleared the dust around them as a result of their attacks before they were both sent flying, Kanade higher up into the air, and Gohan back towards the ground.
Kanade groaned in pain as she reoriented herself, gripping her armed gear tightly with bother her hands as she held it above her head. Her body gave off a faint golden glow as she swung her arms downwards as hard as she could, creating a large crescent-shaped shockwave as a result that started making its way directly after Gohan.
POWER∞SHINE
Gohan looked off in Kanade’s direction, overcome with shock as her attack sped toward him. He couldn’t react in time as it made contact with his chest and carried him straight into the ground, or more specifically a large pile of debris that exploded into a cloud of smoke and dust upon his impact. Kanade on the other hand simply fell back to the ground, landing… not gracefully that’s for sure.
She landed on her feet, but almost immediately fell to her knees in pain. The glow that had surrounded her for that attack now faded away as Kanade held herself up off the ground with her hands, breathing heavier than ever, clearly exhausted beyond belief.
“Damn it…” She mumbled to herself. Things were starting to get a bit blurry for her as her exhaustion was slowly taking hold of her. On a whim, she looked up at where Gohan was sent flying into, watching the cloud of dust that surrounded him be forcibly dissipated as Gohan let his golden aura flare up around himself. He was just as exhausted as Kanade was, perhaps a bit more so, but he was at least standing, while Kanade has only begun to pick herself up off the ground.
“… I’m ending this…” Gohan remarked, his aura flaring up like wildfire, clearly charging up something big.
“Ka… Me… Ha… Me…” Gohan chanted as he pulled his arm back, pooling energy within his hand, forming a ball of energy in his hand that slowly got larger and brighter. Kanade fully picked herself up off the ground and up to a stand, staggering a bit as she steadied herself.
“HAAAAAAAAAAA!”
Gohan thrust his arm forward, letting loose a large blue beam of energy from his hand, one that completely obliterated everything in its way, tearing through the ground without any effort as it sped toward Kanade.
And yet, Kanade simply smiled. “Guess this is as far as I can go… or maybe, I can go just a bit further.” She said, raising up her armed gear above her head, opening her mouth, and started singing.
As Kanade sang, a purple light draped the area around her, alongside what looked to be a dome of energy emitting from her body, expanding outwards.
In a moment’s notice, Gohan’s beam made contact with Kanade’s own attack, both pushing against one another at full force. Gohan’s energy beam started to grow weaker, being pushed back by Kanade’s still-expanding energy blast. Gohan could feel his arm going limp… he was exhausted, and it was beginning to show. His arm started to fall limp, slowly and steadily, which caused his beam to weaken more.
“… NO!” Gohan shouted, gripping his hand into a fist before pulling it back behind himself once again. “I’M NOT GIVING IN! I’LL PUT MY VERY LIFE ON THE LINE IF IT MEANS A PEACEFUL FUTURE CAN EXIST!” Gohan shouted, throwing his arm back into the beam, while also taking steps forward. In response, the beam regained its lost girth, and maybe even grew a bit larger as it pushed against Kanade’s attack, Gohan slowly getting closer with each step he made.
“Tch!” Kanade could feel blood starting to leak from her mouth. The Superb Song was a suicide move for her, so she knew she was dead either way… But that didn’t mean she could let herself go and die just like that. With the blast still going, Kanade lowered her armed gear, held it behind herself, and started to walk forward, not noticing pieces of her armor start to chip off and float away.
By now, both of the fighter’s attacks were growing more and more unstable. The power the pair was putting into their last stands was clear as day. Kanade’s purple dome was spiking in random places, and Gohan’s beam shook slightly, with these effects growing more prevalent the closer they got to one another.
And, when they eventually met face to face, both looking at one another with a look of determination, their attacks reached their limit. Both had burst, exploding outwards like balloons filled with too much air, the colors of the two blasts melding together into a light show of epic proportions, all with them at the center.
And yes, they were still fighting. Unphased by what was going on around them, they inched closer and closer to one another. Gohan pulled his arm back with his hand clenched into a fist. Kanade pulled her arm back, hand held firmly on the cracking handle of her armed gear.
There was a pause, broken by Gohan and Kanade thrusting their arms toward one another. Gohan’s fist made contact with Kanade’s face as Kanade’s armed gear penetrated through Gohan’s shoulder. As quickly as they had made contact, they had been thrust away. A shockwave was created by their impact, instantly dispersing their combined explosion and throwing the pair back.
As they flew back, however, they both felt… content. Their bodies gave off a faint green glow as it appeared like they were being carried away by fireflies, their bodies becoming more and more transparent as they flew back. It was like they were fading away. But even as this was happening, some final thoughts passed through their minds…
“I’m not needed anymore…”
“Maybe…”
“Someone stronger will raise up in my place!”
Both Gohan and Kanade had vanished within a flash of green light, their very spirits carried along by some otherworldly wind. Had they been deemed worthy to keep on living? Or had they moved on? We can’t know for sure. The void fell silent, except with two new additions to the scenery—a large spear of sorts, and an orange gi attached to it.
Only time would tell if any other restless souls would find what these two had left behind…
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This Battle’s outcome is…
A DRAW!