[VS] Bear vs. Pangolin

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #1 

That island didn´t even have a proper name. Just a small piece of deserted rock in the middle of East Blue, with area around 1000m2 As long as it´s inhabitants (several different species of sea birds, lizards and few sea turtles) could remember, nothing remarkable ever happened on their island, but that was about to change as their homeland was about to witness battle of epic proportions. Fight between two powerful monsters male bear and female pangolin, who happened to accidentally meet each other. Under normal circumstances these two would probably just pass along each other without any serious confrontation, but that wasn´t possible this time, as they were members of two hostile fractions, the Marines and Pirates.

When he finally wake up, Roland was in pretty bad mood. As if it wasn´t enough that he suddenly found himself on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere, he found himself there with a girl wearing marine uniform.

“Alright, what is this, some kind of sick marine joke?”

Sighted Roland with hands deep in the pockets of his trousers. He was standing almost thirty meters away from the marine girl, looking at her with a mixture of curiosity and distrust in his eyes.

[Fox]

The last thing Rosie remembered, she was enjoying a nice cup of tea. Now, her eyes opened under an unfamiliar sky. How curious. She sat up, dusting herself off when she noticed movement from nearby. Hm. Rosie recognized him from somewhere. After a moment, it came to her. She placed her fist on top of her palm in a little ah-ha moment. Roland Zuber. He had a ten million beri bounty. It was a fairly substantial one for the East Blue.

Rising to her full height of roughly ten and a half feet, Rosie glanced around for any sign of a boat or why she had been dragged to an island with a criminal. Hm. No immediate answers from a cursory inspection. Oh well. She supposed that she could simply arrest him and deal with getting off the island later. As he turned to her, she adjusted her glasses and smiled at him.

“Ah… I’m sure I have no idea what you mean, Roland Zuber,” she said with a hollow sounding mirthm, “I don’t play games. I simply thought it best to arrest you where the conflict could not bring harm to anyone else.” Rosie shifted her stance and raised a metal gauntlet up. “Won’t you oblige me? The only way you’re getting off this island is through me.”

From what she knew of him, Roland was a devil fruit user and extremely dangerous. But, she had a few tricks of her own. He was approximately one year younger than her and she was about a third taller than him. Hm… She was curious if her size advantage would give her the edge in terms of raw strength. Curious, curious. “Now, then. Let’s begin.”

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[Mr. Moon]

Roland #2 

Roland was looking at the giant of women, who was towering him for more than meter. He would swear that she didn´t look so big, when she was lying down on the rocks. But in the end, why should he cares?

“Oh, give me a break lady, don´t you see that I have terrible hangover?”

Roland muttered, when he noticed her metal glove pointing at him. Unfortunately, it looked like she was dead serious about her intention to fight him so he sighted once again.

“Well, as you wish, but don´t say I didn´t warned you”
He muttered, as he slowly switched from walk to full speed dash towards her. In the first few steps his body grew up substantially, so now they were pretty equal in height but he gained obvious advantage in the weight as his muscular mass grew even more than his height. With his bear like head, brown fur and long claws at the and of his fingers it was obvious, that he transformed into his hybrid form.

With his powerful legs, covering the distance between them should be matter of only few steps and than, his most favourite past time could begin. Test of pure strength, between ancient bear and giant woman.

[Fox]

Rosie didn’t much care about Roland Zuber’s hangover. She just didn’t much care for him. He was exactly the sort of person that she wished to exterminate. As he began to walk toward her, she tensed slightly. Was he just going to charge? Hm. She couldn’t say she liked straightforward men much. They were brash and crass. No, she preferred to play a little cat and mouse. Oh well. Playing around had cost her a bit before.

When Roland’s form began to shift, Rosie’s frown deepened. Straight to the punch, then? Fine, she could call his raise. Rosie’s body morphed. Scales burst from her skin. Pink fur coated her as a long armored tail slid out from beneath her coat. Her hybrid form was best suited for combat. Firing off three metal stakes at him with her Needler, Rosie used to tail to throw herself out of the way of his charge.

“My, my, quite the brute, aren’t you? Jumping right into the deep end. Ah.. well…”

Swinging her tail at him, Rosie tried to club him about the head. It would be best if she could concuss him at once and put an end to this quickly.

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #3 

As Roland started to run towards Rosie, she didn´t move, or at least not initially and instead of that started shifting her form to something that was resembling humanoid armadillo or maybe pangolin? He couldn´t tell, not that it would in his eyes actually mattered, as whatever it was, it wasn´t even carnivorous, let alone Ancient Zoan, meaning that from the strength standpoint he should have the clear advantage and from Roland´s point of view, every fight was contest of strength...in a way.

Of course, he wasn´t completely stupid. Once transformed, his sensitive nose picked up the weird metallic smell coming from her and so he was wary about possible hidden weapons. He expected thrown knives, guns maybe, but when she pointed her glove at him, he jumped. Just in the case and since something metallic ringed on the stones beneath him, he realized mid jump, that he did the right thing.

“Sneaky armadillo”

He growled,

when he landed back on the ground. Roland managed to do another two step, before Rosie swung her armored tail against him.

“Your wish...”

He muttered for himself as he quickly transformed to his full beast mode. In Arctotherium form he was even bigger and much heavier than in his hybrid form, but, on all four he was much shorter so the tail missed his head by fair margin.

“Charge!”

From point black, he suddenly accelerated on his all four with the clear aim to tackle Rosie with his shoulder, throwing her on the ground, where she should be much easier pray for his claws and teeth

[Fox]

Both of her attacks had missed. How vexing. Her attacks had also served to leave her in a bit of a vulnerable position, didn’t it? She was off balance. Rosie didn’t have much in the way of an answer when Roland transformed fully and rushed her. She just braced herself as best she could. The impact threw her down, but she reflexively curled up into an armored ball before Roland’s claws could reach her. Her shoulder ached a bit, but it was nothing intolerable.

“Hmph. Definitely a brute…” Rosie mumbled under her breath.

Fortunately, from this defensive position, Rosie could still attack. Sticking one of her claws out of a gap, she fired off another volley of steel stakes into Roland at point blank range. She would love to see him dodge that. That being said, she couldn’t win curled up like this forever. She needed to think of a strategy based on observed behaviors.

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #4 

Roland´s charge was successful. The giant pangolin woman wasn´t fast enough to dodge it and so his massive shoulder threw her off her balance down on the ground, where she should become easy pray for his claws and teeth. In this case, should was pretty important word, as Roland didn´t expected her to curl herself into almost impenetrable armored ball.

“What the...”

Roland cursed when he noticed gap in her armor. Too late he realized that the gap could be used to shoot from her glove and so, when he noticed a faint sheen from the flying needles, the only thing he could do was crouch down a little bit and turn himself to the side to let the needles hit the upper part of his flank heavily covered by thick fur and even thicker.
“That hurt you *****!”

Roland yelled, but unfortunately in his full transformation it sounded more like a roar of angry bear than human speech.

At the same time, he reflexively swept with his front paw from down to up in an attempt to use her current round shape to bat her off in the direction of the sea.

[Fox]

Hm. Her attack had certainly hit its mark judging by the angry snarling. Rosie thought that she could just about pick out words from that bestial roar, but she wasn’t entirely sure. Well, perhaps that was for the best. Whatever would come out of his filthy and worthless mouth would undoubtedly not be worth the expenditure of oxygen. She felt something sweep beneath her and send her rolling and tumbling off into a different direction.

Well, that wouldn’t do at all. Rosie unfurled from her ball shape to stop her backwards momentum. Fortunate too. She didn’t fancy taking a swim just yet. Using her thick tail to launch her forward, Rosie drew back and lunged with her sharp, long claws, aiming to gouge out a sizable chunk out of his side. He had the advantage in raw power, but if she crippled his movements, it would be much more difficult for him to capitalize on it and get its full effect.

“Now, now. No need to toss me so carelessly about. I’m a lady, you know.”

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #5 

In all honesty, Roland didn´t expected from such simple attack to work. Of course it would be nice bonus, but on the other hand he would be quite disappointed if she would lose just like that. On the other hand, his sweep managed to accomplish really important goal. The marine women unfurled herself and than used her long tail to not only stop her movement but also to reverse it and propel herself against Roland.

Since the huge bear lacked ability to use fine mimic because of the structure of his mimic muscles, he smiled only in his mind. But despite, or maybe because of that it was very honest smile. Because there was nothing he loved more than good contest of strength. And if that woman thought that her little zoan could give her the edge against his mighty bear, than so be it.

With a terrifying roar, he raised on his hind legs, using the reach advantage of his fully transformed form to tear her down on the ground.

As the pangolin get closer, he swung his front legs from the up down, aiming for her attacking limb and head from the above. He let the full weight of his transformed body to follow his movement with the intent of crushing her under his paws.

[Fox]

The beast man let out another roar, which made Rosie question once more whether she was fighting a being with actual intelligence or a dumb beast of burden. He stood up on his hind legs, which provided her the opening that she needed to do some truly serious damage. She landed in front of him as he brought his considerable bulk down on top of her, but Rosie was undaunted. This would work to her advantage anyway. Bringing her tail up to shield her head and prevent the worst of the damage, Rosie shot her metal coated claw into the bear’s chest to pierce the flesh with the help of his weight driving her claw deeper.

He collided with her tail first. The sheer weight of him bashed it against her head, but Rosie had braced herself for the impact. She grunted, stepping forward and falling to a knee as he pressed down on her. Heavier than she suspected, but no matter. There was a way to make him retreat. Whether or not her claw had managed to pierce his thick hide, Rosie fired off three needles into again at point blank range. She wouldn’t fall. Not here and not now.

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #6 

That little pangolin was starting to get on his nerves. Not only she was using her tail as a shield against his attacks, but also dared to look down on his wrestling skills? As if she didn´t know, that the bears were natural born wrestlers!

“Maul!”

Once it was obvious that his sheer bulk won´t be enough to break her defense and her iron claws shot against his chest, Roland started mauling his opponent with fast barrage of circular paw strikes. What at first could look like random act of savagery however turned out to be well calculated step, as he was using his curved claws to hook her arms and tail redirecting them away from his body, even if only so little to avoid both her claws and shot by skin of his teeth. And now…

“Charge!”

As his initial assault with front legs was tiring itself out, he suddenly pushed with his hint legs in an attempt to overpower her and throw her down on her back.

[Fox]

What a ridiculous opponent. Did he have any skill at all? Raining down on her was a flurry of uncoordinated paw strikes. It was enough to make her scowl. Unfortunately, she realized too late his true intentions. His hooked claws wrapped around her arm and pulled it away from him at the critical moment. Her other arm and even her tail were pushed away. Perhaps she had been mistaken. Even more unfortunate was that her late realization put her at a distinct disadvantage when he followed up with a charge.

He threw her down onto her back, her scales colliding with the hard rocky surface of the island. Rosie could guess what would happen next. With her underbelly exposed, she could expect claws to rip and tear at her while perhaps teeth closed around her throat. She probably didn’t have enough time to reload her needlers either if she remained in her current position. Still, it was better than allowing herself to be attacked.

Curling up her knees into her chest and pointing her clawed feet up, Rosie hastily reloaded her needler. Her tail curled and curved to arch itself over the ground. Why did this have to be so difficult?

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #7 

Playing dumb beast proved useful once again, as that marine woman clearly underestimated him until it was too late and his sheer mass threw her on her back. Roland followed the momentum of his own charge, still mauling the fallen pangolin under him with his front legs, trying to open up her defense by pulling her legs and tail away from her body.

Than, suddenly, he clicked with his teeth as close to her neck as he could get and jumped back, transforming himself into his hybrid from.

“Hey, that was a nice fight.”

Laughed Roland, still carefully watching his opponent for any signs of possible attack.

“Since you ended on your backs I think we can call it my win, for this round, don´t you agree?”
He asked and both his voice and posture were full of self confidence of someone, whose ego was many times bigger than his already impressive physique. Than he stopped for a moment as if he remembered something and asked.

“Ah by the way, are we going for three or five rounds? I always forget”

[Fox]

With a click of teeth a couple of inches from her throat, Rosie was a little perplexed when he jumped back just as she was about to launch some needles into his exposed throat. Had he sensed the danger or just… She squinted at him as she swung herself up with her tail, sitting cross-legged in the air on her own tail. She adjusted her glasses and frowned at him as he acted like this was all some sort of game. How very vexing. He even laughed like it was some jest.

“Are you some kind of idiot?”

Rosie shook her head and sighed at just how ridiculous this situation had become. A brute with the mentality of a child was still dangerous, she supposed, but she doubted that he even realized how close her needles had come to piercing his throat. Rosie groaned and rubbed her temples. She just wanted to go back to her lab and spend the day in pajamas and bunny slippers. Rosie sighed to herself again, letting her breath escape her in a low growl. She ought to implement countermeasures specifically for Devil Fruit users.

Hopping off her tail, Rosie swept her tail at Roland, kicking up rocks and sand into his face. With that simple distraction, she lifted up one of her freshly reloaded gauntlets and launched a new volley at him. Using her tail to kick off from her current position, she launched herself to Roland’s left side to attack with her claws.

[Mr. Moon]

Roland #8  

The marine women was so serious that for a second Roland regretted his decision to not sink his teeth deep in her throat, but than again killing her just like that would be a waste even through she was uptight and moody, even going so far as to call him an idiot...well actually that gave him a funny idea.

“Let´s see if I can break through that shell of yours…”

He grinned for himself, but than had to quickly pull himself together, as Rosie decided to attack him again. This time by shooting sand and rubles pebbles right against his face.

“Transporting me to a lone island”

Smirked Roland as he swiftly transformed into his full beast form again to dodge the pebbles while at the same time, unknowingly dodging her needles as well.

“so you could fight me alone.”

Roland intended to charge against her, but then he noticed that she charged herself against him and so instead, he swiftly jumped sideways so her claws just went through his long and thick fur.

“even throwing compliments like that, are you perhaps...”

As he landed on the ground again, he quickly turn himself around to stand face to face with Rosie

“secretly in love with me?”