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[alongtailtalltale]

Who: Tangle and Everyone!
What: Training Log
Where: Gym Car
When: 23rd of Fiddlesticks (backdated)

You may have seen a few posters strewn about the train. They're crudely drawn/written, and read like this:

I'm gonna be training!
23rd Fiddlesticks!
Come if you want to get buff 2!
Sparring! All Day!

This stream of consciousness is accompanied by a different drawing of Tangle on each one, doing a different kind of (badly drawn) pose. If you can decipher her meaning, Tangle will be waiting in the gym car, eager and ready, for people to join her in training.

Once you arrive, the Lemur offers you a greeting. "Hey!" she says. "Glad you could come! We could just work out together, or we could have a sparring match! Anything to keep ourselves sharp, right?!"

Comments

[schrodingersghost]

Danny wasn't really one for training, outside of trying to figure out how his powers worked. All of his fighting was self taught, and he'd learned most of it on the job, while trying not to be flattened into concrete.

But he recognized Tangle in the drawings, and he didn't really have anything better to do than to put in an appearance.

So right on time, he arrives in the gym and gives her an uncertain wave.

"Hey. I have to say I'm not really sure how this kind of thing works."

[alongtailtalltale]

Tangle's face lights up. "Hey, it's the ghost guy!" she exclaimed. "Didn't the posters explain it? I'm up for sparring and training to keep our skills sharp, what about you?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Yeah..." He rubs the back of his head awkwardly."So the thing is I mostly learned how to fight on the job? I've never actually sparred with anyone."

[alongtailtalltale]

Tangle just grinned.

"That's okay! I'm mostly self-taught too!" she said. "Just make sure you don't go too far, like, blasting me to atoms or something. If you can do that, that is!"

[schrodingersghost]

"I think I can promise no ectoblasts! Stuff like shields and ice is okay though, right?"

He was mostly guessing here.

[alongtailtalltale]

"That sounds just fine," Tangle said with a nod. "Whatever works for you, man."

All the while, that just made Tangle more excited to fight. Ice powers? Shields? That sounded awesome!

[schrodingersghost]

"Right."

He backs up a little and quickly transforms in a flash of white light.

"So what now?"

[alongtailtalltale]

"Whoa... you look like a totally different person!"

Girl, his hair just changed color.

"Anyway, uh, now one of us tries to attack the other. Why don't you go first?"

[schrodingersghost]

Hey, if it was enough to fool an entire city back home...

"Um, okay? Let me think." He drifts slowly into the air and goes for a careful punch. He had no idea how strong of an attack was safe to use.

[silentwoof]

Well. This is adorable, but Whisper's going to have to show up to... watch. She ought to focus on that, anyways. Keep Tangle from getting hurt, offer advice.

That's the plan, anyways.

[alongtailtalltale]

Tangle looks excited when Whisper enters. She runs up to give the wolf a quick hug, not lingering too long.

"Whisper!" she exclaimed. "You wanted to spar too, huh? Ha ha, you're probably gonna kick my butt!"

[silentwoof]

Whisper hugged back, getting a quick smile out of her.

"Was gonna watch." She raised an eyebrow, considering it. "But... I could throw you around a bit," Whisper decided with a nod.

[alongtailtalltale]

"Awesome!" Tangle exclaimed, hopping back a bit. She got into a fighting stance, and grinned. "Don't hold back on me now, alright?"

[silentwoof]

Whisper stretched, relaxed, sizing Tangle up. For all her skill, she wasn't actually a hand-to-hand fighter most of the time, while Tangle had that incredible tail. Of course, she could try to leap on her and drop her into a join lock but even if Tangle didn't want her to hold back, that might not actually teach her anything.

Dropping into a casual fighting stance, she looked calm, but was sizing up exactly how not-holding-back she should get.

[alongtailtalltale]

Tangle, meanwhile... Tangle was always a bundle of impulse, and instinct. Aside from her tail, she didn't use funny tricks, and when it came to a melee fight, she didn't exactly have a lot of finesse.

Deciding to make the first move, she jumped at Whisper, swinging her leg to kick at her side.

[silentwoof]

Not a lot of finesse - tons of energy, though. Impressive agility and flexibility. Improvisational skills, when she ran out of obvious ideas.

The straightforward kick was easy to block, at least, taking it on her forearm while stepping in closer to let the strongest part of the kick behind her. And then she... paused.

Throwing an elbow at Tangle's face didn't actually sound too appealing. It was just a moment, but it was something of an opening.

[alongtailtalltale]

When Whisper stopped, Tangle took advantage. As the wolf blocked her kick, Tangle's tail swung downward and at Whisper's ankles, attempting to knock her off her feet. That's the ingenuity at work, right there.

[sunbloom]

Itsuki would admit to being a little skeptical about the sparring meet, given the posters, but then she'd been exposed to the idea that one didn't need to be well rounded to function in the wider world, so perhaps it'd be fine? Well, couldn't hurt anything, right?

That thought brought her to the gym car, still wishing she had a better training uniform but dealing with what she had. Not sure who she was looking for, she peered around, calling, "Hello? Um, I saw the posters and wanted to see about sparring?"

There's probably a better way to do this but she can't think of it right now.

[alongtailtalltale]

"Hi there!" Tangle exclaimed when Itsuki walked in. She waved, with her tail to her, beaming with excitement. This is a five foot tall lemur offering you a greeting, girl.

"You came to the right place! I'm Tangle! Pleasure to meet you!"

[sunbloom]

Huh. This is... new. "Hi there. I'm Itsuki. Nice to meet you as well." It's automatic, as she's distracted for a second.

...she still hasn't really gotten used to people on the train taking such a variety of shapes, but she'll get there. It takes her a second, but she shakes off her shock and smiles. "You must be decently good to put up those posters, huh?"

[alongtailtalltale]

"Heh," Tangle said, brushing the bottom of her nose. "I'm pretty good, yeah. Though, uh, we should probably set some limits, right? I doubt you wanna deal with my tail while we're fighting, right?"

[sunbloom]

Itsuki blinks; that's something she hadn't even thought about. "Uh. No, I don't. Not to start, at least. We can work our way up, perhaps?"

Well, she'd wanted a challenge, she supposed. She's going to get one.

[alongtailtalltale]

"Sure, that's fine!" Tangle said. "Whatever you're most comfortable with."

And with that, she backed up a few feet away form Itsuki and got into a fighting stance. "Show me watcha got!"

[sunbloom]

Whatever she's most comfortable with, huh... It wouldn't exactly be sporting to transform and go all out, but she can deal with traditional human limits. "Okay, sure. Let's see what we can do." Itsuki's own stance is... a little limited by being in a polo shirt, of all things, but she can deal.

She takes a breath, and then after a moment, she charges Tangle. Her style isn't entirely meant for offense, but she can handle it; probably better not to start with the crazy stuff, though. She'll lead with a series of punches instead, not aiming to seriously injure but not going easy either.

[alongtailtalltale]

For the most part, Tangle is able to block; but her efforts to do so are clumsy without her tail, having to rely instead on using her arms and shoulders. She's already wincing a bit, when she decides to kick out and go for a sweep to Itsuki's feet.