Emi rushed over to Nelson and put her hand over his mouth and was able to feel a faint breath. She gave a sigh of relief and then glared at the executive box where Marcus and Gustavo were sitting and shouted at them.
"Ain't y'all gon' do somethin?!?" Emi glared at their box after shouting.
Marcus and Gustavo exchanged tired glances at one another in their private velvet room, which had a fully stocked mini-fridge and a private chef that spoke a fancy language.
"I'll send a medic," Gustavo said as he rolled his eyes, and hitting a red button. Immediately, two small underclassmen girls wearing white, red cross helmets, adorned with a flashing red light on the top ran towards the very injured Nelson, their face masks covering everything except for the intense look in their eyes.
They made their way towards Nelson and started sterilizing and bandaging him. Afterward, they unfolded a stretcher, threw him on top, and carried him away. After Nelson was carted away the announcer went back on stage and began to speak into the microphone.
"Well, that was something. Do you have anything to say Thubbins?" The announcer put the microphone in front of Thubbins face, and he began to speak into the microphone.
"This is my school now. I'm the strongest there is. Nobody can stop me. From now on, erybody answers to me" Everyone went quiet. Emi put her face in her hands. The school has occasionally been taken over by stong fighters or groups in the past, with varying degrees of success or inconvenience to the rest of the student body. Emi dreaded the thought of a meathead like Thubbins running things. Some sighs were heard from the audience. The announcer pulled the microphone back to his face and with a worried expression nervously adjusted his sunglasses and began speaking.
"Well before that happens let's bring the next fighter out, a newcomer. Bring him on stage!" The two medic girls from before began pushing a hesitant young man carrying a wrapped up object, who was none other than Ronaldo, onto the arena.
"Hey step off," Ronaldo said. "I'm just trying to use the bathroom right now. What is this anyway? I haven't seen a single toilet."
"Just get on stage," one of the medic girls said through her face mask. "You can go to the bathroom after you fight this guy." The other medic girl began to speak.
"Come on umbrella boy. Don't make me throw you!"
"Jeez, fine. Just stop shoving me." He willingly made his way onto the stage, glimpsed into the crowd and made eye contact with Emi. "Yo! How's it poppin Emiko chan?" He shouted from the arena.
"It's just Emi!" She said as she cringed.
"Sure thing Emiko," Ronaldo responded back. "So what's the deal with this guy?"
"He ate some glue and now he's super strong. If you can't beat him he's going to take over the school. Can you take him?" She asked.
He looked at Thubbins and sized him up. "Only one way to find out I guess." Ronaldo pulled the cloth wrapped around his umbrella and threw it in the air, this got a lot of reactions from the crowd.
"Holy shit, is that an Umbrella."
"I guess Thubbins is going to be head honcho for a while."
"Is that the umbrella guy that beat up that gang."
"I got fifty dollars on Thubbins."
The fight announcer cleared his throat, and the murmurs in the crowd stopped.
"Let's hear it for our newest fighter, the umbrella warrior."
"Yeah! Kick his ass!" Emi shouted. This and a few claps were all the support he got.
"Huh huh huh. Yer gunna fight me with a flower painted umbrella. This'll be easy.'' Thubbins cracked his fists and his eyes started glowing again.
"Well that's different," Ronaldo said as he started to get into a fight stance, pointing his pink and blue floral patterned umbrella at Thubbins. "Have at thee." Ronaldo started to charge at Thubbins, as he did Thubbins pulled out two large containers of glue and started rapidly slashing the containers, sending large swaths of glue hurtling towards Ronaldo. He ducked and dodged each streak of glue that went flying through the air. Ronaldo was finally able to come in close and started unleashing a flurry of blows at the hulking Thubbins, who for some reason had become much faster, and parried the blows with his large glue containers. Ronaldo started sweating from the exertion and started looking for a way to get out of the fight.
"Yer distracted!" Thubbins shouted at Ronaldo, right before he lifted his big meaty leg and planted his foot straight into Ronaldo's face, launching him across the arena with blood spurting out of his nose. Ronaldo bounced across the arena floor a few times, while clutching onto his umbrella, before crumpling onto the ground. Ronaldo started to slowly get up, as he did, Emi covered her mouth at the sight of his face. Ronaldo's left eye was swollen shut, while blood from a cut above his right eyebrow was hampering the vision of his right eye. Ronaldo wiped the blood from his nose and eye with his sleeve and looked at Thubbins through his blurry vision.
"Huh," Thubbins snorted. "You don't look too good." After hearing this Ronaldo smirked and spat out some blood and smiled.
"I don't know," Ronaldo responded with a smile. "Looking at you right now doesn't make me feel too bad about myself."
"Why you.." Thubbins started running towards Ronaldo. As he did, Ronaldo began to deeply breathe, and after doing so, the cut above his eye stopped bleeding as much, and his left eye was less swollen. This partially freed up Ronaldo's vision and allowed him to anticipate Thubbins's first strikes, before Ronaldo leaped to the side to avoid the fifth strike. Ronaldo tried to move away, but his feet were stuck.
"Huh huh huh," Thubbins laughed. "That's the second one I caught today. Now it's time to squash ya." Thubbins started walking towards Ronaldo. Ronaldo closed his eyes and started to breathe deeply, preparing himself for Thubbins.
"Buh-Bye umbrella boy." Thubbins wound up his fist, and like a spring snapping forward, unleashed a devastating strike heading straight for Ronaldo's head.
"Now," when Ronaldo said this his eyes immediately sprung to life and he leapt out of his shoes, causing him to jump over the fist and at the level of Thubbins thick head. Ronaldo then triumphantly struck the top of Thubbins head and then did a flip to land on the other side of Thubbins.
"Ugh," Thubbins said as blood began to drip down his face as he staggered across the arena, the blue glow slowly leaving his eyes. "Uhhhh..." his eyes rolled into the back of his head as he plummeted towards the ground with a THUD!
Everyone in the audience began to cheer, including Emi. Ronaldo smirked and looked up at the crowd.
"Looks like that was a..." Ronaldo paused for a moment, " a sticky situation." Almost immediately, the applause died down and Emi was shaking her head at the terrible joke with a smile on her face.
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