WHO: Tank Girl, Atsuko Jackson
WHERE: In a department store that Tank is breaking into, for shits and giggles.
WHEN: Urrrr, sometime this weekend?
WARNINGS: Could be anything, given that this is Tank involved.
SUMMARY: Tank breaks the law - what else is new - but this time she's breaking it in front of law enforcement officials.
FORMAT: Whatevs
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The boys are alright, but the girls are even better )
It was disgusting--the coffee, not the gun--but the bitterness and the sudden heat helped to lend her little walks an extra sense of purpose. Especially here, where it still could get so goddamn cold. A vacation might be nice, sometime, except that it would only remind her of what she'd lost. She'd looked at the maps a month ago and confirmed her suspicions; Brazil was a hollow shell. Some of the landmarks were the same, sure, but the cities had different names, and the people who matteredHuh. Look at that. Somebody appeared to be busting ( ... )
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Then she switched over to whistling the Jeopardy theme.
She still held the brick in hand, just looking to break shit inside, just because. Because she was fucking bored and she hadn't done this in so, so long, that it ached.
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She sent the lash shooting out to snake around the brick Tank was holding, then she yanked the handle back. Might as well get rid of the weapon first.
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Then she turned back around, lighting up a cigarette as she did so.
"Mind telling me exactly what the fuck you think you're doing?"
Once lit, she blinked a few times. Then smirked.
"Oh wait, I know you, don't I? You're, uhhh.... uhmmm..."
Biting her lip over it.
"Fuck, I am terrible at names..."
She didn't seem terribly concerned that she was about to be attacked, or possibly arrested.
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She looked familiar, too. It was, what, the girl from that video on the plane wing? The one who had a bar. She hadn't struck her as a bad person, but Atsuko didn't have any excuse for ignoring it. It wasn't that she personally cared whether some woman broke into a department store in the middle of the night, but this was her job, and she had to do it. And she was breaking in with a brick, for Christ's sake; that level of subtlety was a little insulting.
"That's what I should be asking you."
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"Me? I'm fucking bored. I don't need any money or anything from here... I was just gonna fuck it up a little for shits and giggles."
Didn't seem to really mind detailing her entire motivation to her.
"So, what are you? A cop?"
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She glanced at the damage that was already done, raising her eyebrows. Shits and giggles? Sounded like Michiko.
And that wasn't a good thing.
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Tank let her hips sway side to side, letting her tongue hang over her lips.
"So, I'm guessing, you're not just gonna let me roll free with this."
"Which, I guess, means we're fighting?"
Tank shrugged, cracking her neck and assuming a boxing position.
With a devil may care smile on her face.
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The flippancy was beginning to piss her off. The whole thing was pissing her off, actually, and with her luck the woman probably had ridiculous powers and could kick her ass easily.
That only made her want to fight more, honestly.
"So I guess we are," Atsuko said, narrowing her eyes and tightening her grip on the whip's handle. Pausing.
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"Lemme tell you why I'm gonna win."
"I'm crazier than you."
And Tank went a-chargin' headfirst, ever mindful of that whip.
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She hissed through her teeth, moving sideways in an attempt to duck out of Tank's path, and kicked hard in the direction of her shins.
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It seems Tank didn't even bother to dodge the kick.
She just grinned.
"That was a pretty solid kick!"
Followed up with a right hook coming in straight for the jaw.
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Hard.
Fuck.
"Thanks," she half-gasped as her head snapped back, going for a knee to the ribs. Her whip was uncurling of its own accord, but unless she wanted to strangle someone (and she didn't, though she might in a few minutes) it was useless at such close quarters.
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Let them hit you.
Then use their close proximity to fuck them up.
As the knee came hard into Tank's ribs, she sucked in air - then whipped her skull forward, looking to hit Atsuko with a quick headbutt.
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She lashed a leg out at Tank, hoping to trip her up, then tried to pull herself up to stand. If she could get some distance between them, the whip might actually be of some fucking use.
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Too bad it'd take a couple more seconds for her kneecap to get back up to optimum.
So instead, Tank just sidestepped, backing off, keeping her arms moving.
"Seriously, you could just let me roll on free from this. Or, hell, we could go get a drink."
Still not taking this seriously.
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