12265/The Devil in the Detail

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The Devil in the Detail
Date of Scene: 02 August 2022
Location: Abandoned Warehouse - Chinatown
Synopsis: Elektra and Barbara end up in a fighting tournament on the quest to unravel more Lycan mysteries!
Cast of Characters: Elektra Natchios, Barbara Gordon




Elektra Natchios has posed:
The message had come earlier today:
> Meet me at the abandoned warehouse out of 5th street in Chinatown. Ditch the hood. Fight club happening tonight. E.

Not a lot of time to get ready for it but that was Elektra for you. Act in the moment and leave the planning for later. Yet right now it seems like the only lead they got on finding out more about the lycans that have been prowling around Gotham.

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When one arrives the warehouse looks anything but abandoned, large floor spotlights set to light up the entire floor in a myriad of colors. Most of those lights seem focused on the arena that's been set on the middle and elevated so most can see the action going on inside. And as for the rest of it all? The place seems *packed*. Bodies dancing to the techno music heard throughout the place along with excited screams coming from those closer to the arena as blood flies..

A voice is heard on a microphone, "And the daughter of the Dragon is again smashing on her opponent. Is there no one that can stop her?"

Daughter of the Dragon? Apparently whoever spoke up means the woman currently on the arena, dressed in a white hoodie with a gold dragon embossed on the back. She gets out of the way of a punch, spinning and delivering a snap kick that sends more blood and the man falling down.

And he doesn't get up. The crowd roars. Could it be Elektra up there? The color of the skin on the hands of the figure do match Elektra's but the hood is keeping her face obscured for now.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Barbara acknowledged the message and said she'd be there within the hour. She even sent a picture of herself to show what she would look like for Elektra's benefit. The pictured showed a woman in a black hoodie that was adorned with a big cartoon picture of Harley Quinn on the chest, laughing maniacally. Harley being a icon for rebellious young women in Gotham, her swag was fairly common to find on ladies, or even some men. 'BACK OFF' written down the right sleeve in white font, and 'FUCK OFF' on the left. Over her eyes, Babs has a pair of black shades that help conceal her a bit, though she has the hood up which also has some very foul words in wild font written around the edges and back. Her red hair is mostly hidden inside the hood. She's got dark jeans on her lower half, with a white studded belt, and torn knee, and a pair of black boot.

Lastly Babs has a visible backpack slung over her shoulders, dcovered in random toys and keychains, along with other bling hanging from it, from adult toys to live ammunition.

When she arrives amongst the crowd, Elektra won't have a terribly hard time spotting her now, and the concealed woman just makes her way through the bodies of other young people, using her slight form to slip between them. Her covered eyes look up toward the fighting, and she does indeed wonder if that is the Ninja woman herself...

Finding a group of other young women, Babs just quietly listens to them talking about the fight while not making eye contact.

Elektra Natchios has posed:
The picture of rebel Barbara had merited no reply out of Elektra. Was it a judgemental no-reply at the sight of it? At least there was the little signal on the bottom that showed she had read the message and seen the picture. Which would perhaps help on them not stepping on each other's toes ...

But then again it's Elektra..

The young women are talking excitedly between themselves, Babs able to pick up some threads here and there, "It's my first time in one of these fight clubs, is it true that it always ends with someone dying?" some laughter, "Dunno, but at least there's no lack of blood!" the girl's eyes looking alight, as if she was under the influence of some drug or another. "The Dragon has won a couple of fights already. Think she will be chosen?" "Shhh, stop talking about that, those guys give me the hillyjibbies.." she looking towards a more shadowed area where a raised dais is at. Some figures are visible there but their faces are in the dark though they are keeping their attention on the fights happening in the arena.

"Hey, nice threads, baby girl." One of them tells Barbara with a grin, "Go Harley power!" then another, "Bah, she's just a fucking clown!"

With the fight now over the 'daughter of the dragon' starts walking down the arena and .., begins approaching Barbara. Or at least the area nearby.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
At first, Babs has her eyes solely locked on to the fight... but when she realizes she's being spoken too, she looks over to the voices that she'd been idly listening to. Staring at them from behind her shades, she just smirks softly, her bottomn lip having a lip ring in it on the right side now too... "That Clown has kicked more ass than any of the fuckpuddles fighting here tonight." She says back to the Harley naysayer.

Her eyes go back up to the combat, before she sees the dragon hoodie combatant headed this way.

With a glance toward the girls she'd spoken too, Babs waits until they seem to have moved on, and she turns to walk around some of the warehouse paraphenelia, then finds a place to lean like a true 'cool girl' with her fingers even dipping in to the pockets of her denim trousers.

"Nice moves." Babs says to the hoodie once she's within range.

Elektra Natchios has posed:
"Woah, let's go girls, this one is sending the vibes down, mmmhmm..." One of the girls says looking all offended, "Yea, let's go see about that guy that lost. He might need some comforting..." "You are such a ho, Mindy." "Hey, screw you..!" and so continues their talk as the girls leave, their voices drowned in the loud techno music all over the warehouse...

The 'Dragon' finally gets close enough that a bit more of her face can be discerned besides the chin and the mediterranean tone to her skin. It's the eyes that give it away. Dark and intense, full of that aggression just waiting to be released. Elektra's.

"These guys are a joke." Is she talking about her opponents? "They are really digging through the dregs of society. Or maybe it's just the ones here tonight.." she casts a look at Barbara again, focusing on her face again before looking down at her clothing. Is she silently judging her? Probably not as a brief smirk curls up the side of those lips, "So, how do you want to do this? Those guys over there seem to be running it." she chinjerks to the ones in the shadows.

"Maybe you need to get up there in the arena and be noticed by them."

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Babs pushes off of the lean position and she takes a few steps to stand beside Elektra. She doesn't mind the staring, the outfit was designed to be as ridiculous as it is. Her covered eyes go to where Elektra motions about the men, before she looks back to the woman in the dragon hoodie beside her. "You think?" She inquires, moving her eyes up to the fighting area.

She draws in a breath, and tilts her head side to side. "Maybe..." Then she regards Elektra once more, and a visible grin shows upon her pale pink lips. "What if they put us against each other?" She asks over the sound of the mayhem around them.

Without waiting for an answer though, Babs just starts forward. "What the hell..." She says as she goes, her backpack just jingling with all the crazy crap attached to its dark blue and black canvas.

Soon, Babs is rising up the structure for the fights, until she's standing tall and ... proud? Since she's a relatively small framed woman though, she's already getting jeers and horrendous taunts before she's even made it clear that she's volunteering for a fight...

She looks to the speaker of the night though, just nodding once to them from behind her shaded eyes.

Elektra Natchios has posed:
The question on what would happen if they got to fight each other has Elektra's smirk deepening. "Then we would dance, you and I." she tells the other, eyes flashing as if measuring the redhead once again. And now without the cowl. "It's the best way of knowing someone. Fighting them. Or do you only fight in the suit?" are those taunting words? Or teasing ones? Maybe a mix of the two. Always hard to tell with the assassin.

"Now, who wants to come forward and ---" the voice on the microphone again. "What's this? A new challenger? Go in then and face Boris the Crusher!" Crusher most likely because of those ridiculous thicc arms on the large man that's coming up onto the arena. He smiles viciously towards Barbara but then there's some gesturing from the dais where the group is sitting.

"Change of plans, folks! Our newcomer will be facing the daughter of the dragon herself!" That leaves poor Boris unhappy but Elektra makes her way over and gets into the arena, hands flexing open and close.

"Seems we are dancing tonight after all." Elektra whispers to Babs as they stand up on the arena.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Babs has fought plenty of huge men before. It used to be pretty scary in the early days, but her training with Bruce showed her the ways to bring down a huge foe with very little effort... especially if they lacked any training themselves. She's just eyeing the big man as he gets up on the dias with her, before she smiles at him.

And then she witnesses the switch, which has her just waving toward the big man, even blowing him a kiss from her fingertips to play along with the crowd watching.

When the Dragon is up with her, Babs spins around in time to follow Elektra as she passes, hearing that whisper. She shows her a grin. "I'll go easy on you." She replies as she turns to face the other woman, and starts to remove her backpack, letting it settle down on the floor beside her feet.

'Take it off!' can be heard getting shouted by a number of audience members following that, but it goes ignored.

Hoodie wearing girl, vs Hoodie wearing girl.

Babs evens out her foot position and raises her hands up as she stares past her sunglasses at Elektra.

Was this gathering intel? Or was it just kinda fun...

It's certainly out of the norm for Babs, which is nice for her in some ways, as she's often couped up inside her tower...

Elektra Natchios has posed:
"That would be a mistake." Going easy on Elektra. "I will never go easy on you." Is that a promise? That lazy smirk remains on her lips for a touch longer until it turns into a sharper smile, razor sharp. Head rolls around her shoulders and then she slides down into a stance. Clearly a martial arts posture.

Her breathing evens out as the assassin focuses, hands closing into fists until the whites are seen in the knuckles. Nope, clearly not going easy on Babs! Or maybe it's just showing off for the crowd.

The voice on the microphone shouts, "DING DING!", the crowd roards and Elektra advances, full of intent and aggressive as perhaps expected of the kind of techniques that Babs has witnessed her using before..

Is this Elektra's own way of having fun? Violence would just be another Tuesday for the former Hand assassin. But doing it with a partner? There's only been a few times she has done so with any kind of success. She's not a good team player.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
There's no question that Elektra is a better fighter than Barbara. She's been doing it much longer than Babs, and at a much more intense level throughout their separate lives. Babs, however, isn't a slouch. She's trained in Jiu-jitsu, and a number of other defensive-takedown martial arts, and has really been seasoned by her time as Batgirl... even if there was a long hiatus while she was confined to a wheelchair through most of her twenties...

She's not in her suit though, so her strength enhancement is non existent, leaving her to just fall back on her own natural fitness. Thankfully, she and Elektra are very similar bodytypes, with Babs maybe having a bit of a weight advantage over her, by some measure.

Once the fighting starts, its a good show for the audience, who get to see two actually well trained women fighters, instead of just angry posers.

The announcer picks up on it very quickly too, even playing it up as he can tell they have professionals on-hand in this match-up!

Elektra gets Babs thrown to the floor, to applause and cheers, then Babs rolls the darker skinned woman until she has her pinned, only to get counter-rolled and sent kicked away again!

Babs lands hard on her back, but does a nimble kick-rise to get back on to her feet, only to be met face to face with Elektra who tries another take-down maneuver, leaving Barbara to have to plant her feet on a warehouse pylon, and jump back off of it, sending them both rolling again, until they face off against one another in mirrored crouching positions!

Babs has lost her sunglasses at this point, her green eyes visible, her whole face visible for that matter. She's panting heavily as she stares at Elektra from within her hood... her red hair framing her face in untied loose fiery strands.

And then muscles tighten... and release!

The two women are once more striking, blocking, and attempting to toss the other to the floor!

The audience is loving it, but the Caretakers of the event seem to be a bit restless by the women's abilities not yielding a winner in a more dramatic fashion... blood and gore, afterall... is what they like around here!

Elektra Natchios has posed:
It's as much a fight as it's also a study, Elektra's keen gaze taking note of the other woman's capabilities, the training. Similar to Batman's, to be expected. The difference being that it's made for non-lethal takedowns. Which as for Elektra? It's all about getting the quick kill. Something that ironically may give Barbara the advantage as this fight is not about killing. So they roll, toss, punch and kick.

"There they are.." The assassin whispers when those green eyes get finally into sight, her own face fully visible as well as they are too close to keep any semblance of their actual faces hidden from one another. Yet it doesn't seem as if Elektra recognizes the woman as Barbara Gordon, or at least there's no visible look of surprise on her expression.

Elektra's own midnight black hair is visible from within the hood now, some of it framed across her face as she flies across the air from a toss from Babs, landing on a crouch. She is panting harder now, tired at the exertion yet the grin on her expression shows she might just be enjoying it as much as Babs may be, those dark orbs that are her eyes almost as if glistening in the dark with the intensity of it..

So much is Elektra focused on the fight that she doesn't hear those first words from the microphone, "Alright, alright! We want to see blood! Send in the others! Let's get this interesting!" Three of the remaining fighters climb up onto the ring, including Barbara's 'friend' Boris, who looks none-too-pleased with the show the two women are providing. In fact, it seems just that the tree of them are aiming to go to the two.

"Think it's time to shift our strategy.." Elektra suggests to her dance partner.

Barbara Gordon has posed:
With both of their faces revealed to each other, Babs just lingers her stare after her last throw there. She does flicker a little grin moments before motion out of the corner of her eyes has her looking over just in time to see the big bastard from before lumbering toward her and lunging toward her to grab her!

"I think you're right!" Babs grunts back at Elektra as she's raised up in to the air above the man's head. He's about to slam her down in to the ground, and speaks something vulgar to her before he does it, when babs just jams a finger right in to his left eye, then reaches up to grab a dangling chain from the ceiling above!

As the huge man howls, Babs rolls over his right shoulder, and descends down his back, still clutching that thick chain in her hands, using it to wrap around the man's meaty throat and tug him backwards!

With his paws clutching his injured eyeball, Babs hangs from the heavy chain behind him until she touches down on the ground again, her mid section flexing tightly, her hoodie and shirt riding up to expose her bare stomach, which garners more cheers from the crowd, as she grunts loudly and Jabba-The-Hutts the big bastard, choking him with the chain as she runs around now behind him, while he tries to grab the chain and pull her back around to the front of his injured self!

"Get back here, Little Lamb!" He calls out to the redhead as he yanks hard on the chain!

Elektra Natchios has posed:
The way Barbara is handling Boris the Hutt gets Elektra's eyebrow to turn up just so. Is she impressed? Surprised maybe? Something around that area. Not that she has time to linger and watch because a figure shadows over her. Another one of the fighters, dark skinned, also a grabber. Ugh, Elektra hates these jiu-jutsu types always wanting to bring the fight to the ground. Not that it isn't effective but ....

The man makes the mistake of letting out a roar as he goes for it, having Elektra just simply snap kick the man in-between the legs. Low blow. But it's a low fight. The man whimpers and slides back towards the side of the cage to recover yet as Elektra is stepping forward to go for the ending blow is when the final one intervenes. A kick first that sends the assassin staggering back as it hits her ribs, pained sound escaping her lips. This last one seems to know a bit more on what he's doing, precise strikes that start leading Elektra back. Even putting her on the defensive, unable to send a blow in return. It makes the fighter grow more confident, bold. All until Elektra has angled him towards Boris who's too busy attempting to stop the choking to notice the fighters coming their way. Elektra dodges that last blow a lot quicker than she was moving before and rolls under the man's legs. When she comes back up she kicks him in the back to send him against Boris, making the two fighters just get into a tangle of limbs! And having Boris release the hold in the chain and he starts choking out again..

Poor Boris...

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Boris was JUST about to get free, and get his mitts on Babs again, with a sneer across his lips... but then he's completely side-swiped by the others, and it causes him to release the chain,a nd release Barbara! She falls to the ground in front of him, but doesn't hesitate to roll her weight over her shoulders, and in the process she wraps the chain around the man's legs, as he starts to trip over it, and tumbles down on to his side!

With the others around him, Barbaraa lunges back up to her feet and pulls one of Boris' hands behind his back, using the chain's last few feet of length to hog-tie the man up while she's seated down behind his back.

With her hood almost completely off her head, Babs' red hair is wild around her head now, as crazy looking as the rest of her attire is at this point!

She jumps back to her feet, and strides toward her backpack where she draws out a baton that she uses to kneecap one of the other fighters across the side of his leg, hitting him hard enough that it rings out across the audience, elliciting a wave of 'Oooos' in reaction to the sound of bone clearly breaking!

On her feet again, with wild red hair, Babs breathes heavily, baton in hand, standing over the downed men... her eyes going to Elektra...

Elektra Natchios has posed:
Someone's getting excited! And the broken bones are a clear crowd-pleaser, even if it comes from a weapon! But were weapons ever forbidden in the match? Were there even any rules? Apparently just being the last one standing is enough...

Or one of the two standing, as when Barbara looks up she will find Elektra standing in front of her, feet in a solid stance. Ready to go all the way apparently. Her eyes have the same kind of wildness that the redhead's hair seems to display. Eager to let go of pent-up aggression. The muscle on her shoulders twitch and she is just about to lunge forward when again the voice is heard.

"And it seems we have found our winners!" The crowd goes wild once again, chants of 'Dragon' mixed with 'Harley' (That's what you get from dressing like that, Babs!). The man that was holding the mic starts walking forward and is finally visible, wiry thin and tall with a thin mustache, dressed in a suit.

Elektra's aggression doesn't fully disappear but she straightens up, leaving that stance, "Seems we will have to finish our dance later." she whispers to Barbara.

The man approaches and offers each of them a card, "We were impressed by you. Besides the prize money you will get tonight we have a business proposition to offer." the man's voice smooth, used to doing this, "I promise you won't regret it. Call that number later tonight."

Barbara Gordon has posed:
Once the announcement is made, Babs starts to relax a bit, with her free hand going up to brush her hair aside, then pull her hood back up over her head. She slaps her hand down then against her baton, sending it collapsing back in upon itself before she stuffs it in to the pocket of her hoodie.

The card is accepted from the man, and her eyes glancing down at it, she then looks up to Elektra a moment later, offering the woman a faint smirk. She steps over toward her and leans in to whisper something to the other winner.

"And I thought that would be a challenge." She says with a grin before she goes to dip down and pick up her backpack, then her sunglasses, which get slid back on over her green eyes under the wild strands of red hair...

And to play the crowd up some, Babs offers a wave of a hand to them, before she gives Boris a middle finger, and makes for the way they came up on to the fighting stage...