The Gym; Thursday Afternoon, post-workshops.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki has grabbed a practise sword, but it's mostly for just idly spinning and swinging and thrusting as she takes a seat on the bleachers, camcorder in one hand and eye glued to the little display screen the whole time. She probably should do some excersizes while she waited, but she was reviewing the footage she had recieved earlier that day from Walter. Because, really, it was absolutely fascinating to watch.

[[sakurazaki's here for pippi (*sigh, sp eventually 'cause of impending work doom in a few hours*), but the gym be open ^_^]]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi wandered into the gym looking for Sakurazaki.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki looks up at the movement of someone entering the gym, and quickly switches the camera from display mode to filming. It automatically goes up to her eye. It was getting a little scary how familiar that action was becoming this week.

She sets her focus and zoom on Pippi, then waves. "Hello, Pippi!" she calls out from bottom row of the bleachers.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi smiles and waves for the camera.

"Hello! Nice to see you!"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki grins. "Nice to see you, too, even through the lens of a camera."

"Do you want to do some warming up first, and then get right down to the demonstration?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well... I don't really do that warming up thing... though I suppose I should."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Hm, well, the camera's already on Pippi, might as well follow a line of interview thought while it's there. "Why not?" Sakurazaki asks.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"It never occurred to me that it was something that I needed to do."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Perhaps that was something to investigate further after seeing Pippi in action.

"Well, then, in that case," Sakurazaki stands. "Let's go get that bag."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Um, okay..." Pippi got a chair and stood on it next to the heavy back. She started fiddling with the chain.

"So... When I fight. And I don't like to fight actually, not really fight. It's no fun. Anyway... It's a very... I guess you can say informal style? I'm very strong, so for the most part..."

There's a *clink* as she undoes the hook and the heavy bag drops to the ground.

"... My tactic was to pick up my opponent and throw them away somewhere."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Throw them away?" Hoovering close by with her camera, Sakurazaki realizes that her demonstration and interview session with Pippi was going to be much more interactive than the previous ones. Not that she minds; it's a nice change for pace. She considers Pippi; then considers that bag. She couldn't possibly mean that literally, could she?

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes." she said pulling up the bag so that it was sitting on the ground upright. "You see, I am very very strong. I'm the strongest girl in the world... At least, I am the strongest girl in my world. And while I know my own strength, I don't generally like to hit people. Now in the old days? I was generally fighting on ships... So I'd just pick up the attackers and throw them overboard. Or, if I was on land, I'd toss them up into a tree or a tall piece of furniture or whatever. Being picked up generally takes the fight out of a normal person (http://flickr.com/photos/strongestgirl/tags/fight/). Tossing them away gets rid of them, and very rarely did they ever come back."

As Pippi is saying this, she has picked up the heavy back and holds it up over her head with one hand. She tosses it up a bit and catches it, turning it in the air.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

From behind the camera, Sakurazaki's jaw can be seen hanging slightly. That? Was pretty incredible, she had to admit. Already, this was definately not turning out how she thought it was going it, but she thouroughly enjoyed the direction it was taking.

"And when you can't manage to pick them up at first? I can imagine that some people wouldn't exactly just stand there and allow themselves to be hoisted."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm pretty fast on my feet, and they generally don't expect it. So it comes as something of a surprise. Which is have the effectiveness of the thing right there. I would also tend to sneak up behind somebody while they were fighting my friends or had their attention diverted elsewhere. It works very well against your average pirate."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Why so devoted to such a nonconfrontational tactic?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi put the heavy bag down gently at this question and gave it serious thought.

"It seems like the right thing to do." she said solemnly.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"By sneaking up on an enemy in the midsts of a scuffle instead of directly engaging him in a fair fight?" Sakurazaki doesn't mean to be critical, although something in her voice does suggest it. But it's mostly just a sudden panic at the new turn the interview has taken. If Pippi's just going to talk about throwing people, Sakurazaki doesn't have much footage.

[[time for work; enter the SP]]

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Pirate." Pippi said with a grin.

She picked up the heavy bag again and tossed it over her head. It sailed through the air and landed neatly on the top most bleacher.

"It's like this... I'm many times stronger then the opponents I used to always face. Either I throw them away and get them out of the fight, where they can contemplate the error or randomly attacking perfect strangers of whom they have no knowlage... Or I could face tham and reduce them to jelly with a single punch. but none of that really applies any more, since coming here I've had to fight with things like robots... Robots, I discovered very quickly, don't care if you pick them up."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

[[ooc: At some point Tim comes in (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/683336.html?thread=44228680#t44228680).]]

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim came into the gym and saw Pippi and Setsuna. "Hey guys."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi Tim! We're working on a documentary, would you like to spar?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim scratched absently at his chest. "Yeah, sounds good." he grinned.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Okay." she said motioning him over to the mat. "Now before we start, I just want you to know that I'm not going to hurt you, no matter what. Okay?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"That's good to know." Tim said. "And I want you to know I'm a beginner at this. So I'll try not to hurt you by screwing up."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Also good to know." Pippi said smiling at him.

"Okay," she turned back to the camera. "So since coming here I've had to face things that are occasionally faster, or more resilient, and/or stronger then anybody I'd ever faced before. These will be represented by Tim here... First, Tim will represent a Robot."

Pippi reached for Tim.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Danger! Danger Bill Rigginson!" Tim flailed his arms like all the robots in the sci-fi movies he'd seen.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Thank you Tim. If they ever do an In Need of Galactic Directions remake, you should audition."

She hoisted him into the air.

"Now if Tim were made of metal and trying to kill me, he wouldn't really care that I was holding him up like this. Because he would probably not have emotions. So he'd be waving his arms and shooting off his frikkin lazer beams all over the place. And I don't want that because they might hit something important... Like a friend."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim made laser blast noises. "Extinguish! Extinguish! Dominion for Salt Shakers!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"So what I ended up doing was holding a robot, or part of a robot, in front of me like this."

She brought Tim down in front of her. His feet are still not touching the ground.

"And this way I could direct the robot's lazers at other robots and shield myself. Because lasers are burny."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim couldn't help it the idea of representing a robot was too funny to him.

"What are you doing Dan?" he asked reasonablly. "I'm sorry Dan, I cannot allow that."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"So by the time I would get up to the robot or robots I was approaching, the one I was holding would be pretty shot up. So I'd probably throw what was left at the robot I was trying to get at... Which is very much like my old tactic... Only with more crunchy noises... And more 'splosions."

She set Tim down gently.

"Throwing a busted up robot at a much less busted up robot generally didn't bring down the latter, thought it always finished off the former. So at this point I started ripping the arms and siding off the new robot to begin the cycle anew."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Yay recycling." tim said.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That was all well and good. But as the year went on, I ended up against stronger and stronger opponents. And I really have to rethink how I fight. Because I went up against a man who was actually stronger then me, and he litterally swept me aside. So suffice it to say... I've started throwing punches now. But in the end. I'd really just rather do this..."

She takes a hold of Tim again and tosses him up to the top bleacher, next to the heavy bag. Where he lands safely.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Woah!" Tim cried as he flew. That was totally unexpected, and he had to take several deep breaths.

"Woah." he gasped. "Uh, a little warning next time? Though that was kinda fun." He rose shakily. "And who'd you run into who was stronger than-"

Tim put his hand out to brace himself against the nearest handy object, which happened to be the big heavy bag. Which was balanced rather precariously.

*WHAM!*

Tim, and the bag fell from the top bleacher to the hard floor of the gym. He lay like a sack of potatoes.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Tim!" exclaimed as she ran to him."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Ow."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Okay, he was talking... That was good.

"Tim?" she knelt next to him. "Time. How many fingers am I holding up?"

Pippi didn't hold up her hand at all.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim squinted up at her. "Uhm, none?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was good.

"You're right!" she said smiling at him. "Are you hurt?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I'm, a little I think, my head kinda hurts, and my shoulder, but other than that..."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Okay, you can go to your room or you can go to the clinic... And if you don't go to the clinic you will call Vice Principal Pierce if you don't feel better. 'Cause he's a doctor."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

This had to be some of the strangest footage ever. Sakurazaki captured it all in a sort of numb daze, not knowing what to think.

"Um, thank you, Tim," she waves from behind the camera. "You sure you'll be all right?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Think so." he said. What had she called him? "I think I'll get to my room."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"...Do...do you need some help?"

Even if he said no, there was a good chance Sakurazaki wouldn't believe him.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Couldn't hurt."