With a punch to the face, Yang smiled as he felt the rare satisfaction of justice. Yin though, was not one to accept this and upon his opponent's next punch he dodged to the side, grabbed his arm and flung Yang into the air. What happened next was only just within the range of human sight. Yin teleported up into the sky, wrapped his hands together and slammed Yang back towards the ground. He then teleported back to the ground with enough time to stop and brush himself off before kicking Yang's plummeting body off into the distance. He flew off out of range of sight and returned just before Yang's unfortunate ragdoll of a body came hurtling back. With one last smirk, Yin gyrated in midair and hit Yang square off in the chest, slamming him down into the ground. And charged up and fired an energy blast at him. Yang regained his senses in just enough time to block it and send it flying off into the sunset. He cracked his neck and stood up looking up at Yin, who was now out of breath and a bit worse for wear.
Why the hell am I so tired? Yin wondered I've crushed insects that do this sort of thing for a warm up.
Yang looked up at Yin and grinned.
"My Turn" He said
With that he flew up into the air doing a triple backwards somersault, which ended with kicking Yin in the jaw on the upward curve. He then grabbed Yin's arms and began the spin him in circles as if to do an Olympic hammer throw. He then sent him flying towards the ground only to land in exactly the same dent that Yang had made. Yang then began to charge a blast of energy, but Yin saw this coming, stood up and braced himself for impact. However, he wasn't expecting what was to come next and was taken by surprise. Yang had charged it up completely and was preparing to fire the beam when he vanished. Yin was perplexed by this until he heard a poof behind him. He turned around and landed on the receiving end of a high power energy beam. This knocked him off of his feet and back headfirst into the wall of the ring. He pulled himself together after the attack, and stood up feeling sore and dizzy from the assault. He began to think out loud.
"Seriously, what the hell is going on here? I should not be in this bad of condition this soon into the fight. Did I really expend that much energy in the prior fights?"
"Ha! You've brought this upon yourself Yin. This is the result of my Negative Karma Ball, I was afraid you'd cheated the system for a moment. It takes the evil energy and impurity of the victim's heart and uses it to slowly weaken them and drain their energy. It doesn't work on those with a pure heart, and for a moment I thought it might have failed against you since your heart IS pure, pure evil. I guess it just had a lot of evil energy to drain. Now do you see? Good will ALWAYS triumph over evil, look at the condition you're in compared to me, I still have most of my energy, while you wasted your right from the get-go. What do you say to that!?" Proclaimed Yang
"That you are a fool!" shouted Yin
Yin then rushed Yang and jumped towards him, Yang dodged back, and prepared to capitalize on Yin's lack of defense, but Yin was too quick and hit the ground before Yang could react. Upon touching it, he burrowed below, out of sight. Yang frantically looked around and saw Yin burst out of the ground from behind him just a little too late. Yin grabbed him and threw him into the air, catching him by the neck on the way down. Yang started to struggle without too much panic, as he knew he just needed to outlast his opponent a little bit longer before victory would be easy. However, Yang began to feel his strength leave his body and was thrown into a wild frenzy. He escaped about ten seconds later and jumped to his feet away from Yin, very startled and very worried.
"HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Did you REALLY not see that coming!? C'mon Lightbulb! You'll have to do better than that! Energy draining powers? HA! That's my specialty! I just drained away two years of your life! How do you feel?"
"What!? That's inconceivable!!"
"Then Conceive this!!"
Yin then enveloped the arena in darkness, and rushed at him. Yang, knowing now that his tactic of holding back and letting Yin expend all of his energy would no longer work (outlasting him would be much more difficult under these circumstances), braced himself and waited until Yin was right upon him before releasing a blinding light and shattering the darkness. Yin was disoriented, especially under the effects of the karma ball. He was now rapidly losing strength, and he knew that the only way to win would be to force yang to lose his energy first. Yang then rushed to the offensive, and pummeled Yin with a series of powerful punches, knocking the breath out of Yin before slipping up and allowing his hand to be grabbed. The sudden drainage of power slowed his assault and allowed Yin to block and grab ahold of his other limbs, greedily gaining energy only just faster than he was losing it. Yang broke free with a powerful headbutt, swung around and roundhouse kicked Yin in the face, knocking him back. By this time, the deprivation of energy was beginning to affect Yang as well, but he still held the advantage over Yin. Knowing that he would need to keep that advantage strong, he prepared to take the offensive. Yang shimmered, and used the stage light to his advantage, playing tricks with it and creating mirages of himself. The mirages surrounded the baffled Yin, who began frantically grabbing at each one in an attempt to gain more energy, but was overtaken by the real Yang before he could be found. They then moved back and surrounded the arena, moving in rapid circles.
"By my calculations Yin, you can only last another few minutes before your reserves are depleted. Can you find me in time?"
Yin burst with frustration, but immediately realized that it would only speed up the process. He cleared his mind and allowed himself to think rationally for a change. He focused on all of the copies, searching for a flaw in any of them which would allow him to find the real one. He patiently scanned each, looking for the slightest difference; but it was in vain, as all were completely identical. He was beginning to panic and starting to have trouble standing when something caught his eye. A very faint drop of sweat began to fall from the heads of all of the beings, when they fell, not a one of them hit the ground. This was the chance he was looking for, and he frantically scanned the ground before finding the small drop of sweat on the ground below the third one over from the left on the east side of the ring. He didn't let on that he knew and overplayed his weakness.
"Looks like your time is up Yin, any last words?"
"Just one.....GOTCHA!!!!"
Yin used up his last burst of energy to pounce on Yin, grab his neck, and swing around behind him. He put him in an inescapable submissive hold and began to greedily draw energy just in time to stop himself from running out. Yang frantically squirmed, as the he was now losing energy as fast as Yin, but he found not a single opening and not a single means of escape. He gradually struggled less and less, and Yin cackled, barely finding the breath to support it.
"Hahahahaha!! Look Whose....the big....man...now..."
Yin closed his eyes and loosened his grip on the now unconscious Yang. He collapsed an hit the floor.
Yin felt himself get a jolt of power and he groggily awakened.
"Oooh, What happened? Did I win?" Yin looked up into the face of the man who had resuscitated him, it was the Mad Doctor Schenckenstien, who had returned from the laboratory just in time to see the end of the fight.
"Well, I guess you could say that. It was AWFULLY close though. We WERE going to call it a tie, but after closely reexamining the footage, we discovered that you lost consciousness 0.005 milliseconds after Yang, so that technically makes you the victor."
Upon hearing this Yin sprung to his feet with joy, jumping and flailing his arms in excitement, a few seconds later, he collapsed, still not having fully recovered from the battle.
"Phew, I'm not gonna lie doc, I don't know how we're going to keep this up after a fight like that."
"Oh don't worry, I've got my secret weapon that will tip the scales in favor of you two."
"So you're saying, you're going to help us cheat?"
"For all intents and purposes....yes"
"Well I LIKE IT!!! Alright, who do I have to beat the crap out of next!?"
"Let's find out folks! Those two have brought us through one WILD party, let's see how much longer they can stay on their toes after this next matchup!" Trexyl spun the wheel and after a dramatic buildup, it was reveal ed to be the battle of Yang vs Benvolio.
"Alrighty then, you've seen the contestants, you know the rules. Now somebody wake up the good guy and let's get ready to PARTAY!!!"
