"I see it," she responded to Aika alerting her to the Beatdown opportunity, thought another quick pause of scrolling text described it in full.  "Time for the old one-two!"  The buxom blonde stepped up to him, her left fist shooting out in a jab that hit the Tong lieutenant right in the nose, which broke with a satisfying crack of cartilage.  She shifted her weight, throwing her hips into the follow up right hook that hit just under the jaw and through the man's head back.<br/><br/>Aika darted in and struck with a lightning quick blow, her hand stiffened and flat, hitting with the edge of it in a classic knife-hand strike that hit just below the man's neck.  He coughed and choked before stumbling and falling flat on his back.  In their strangely mingled game vision, the red bar over him drained and then the star on it glowed brightly and then winked out.  The bar then refilled and the thug growled and rolled up onto his shoulders and then pushed off to to complete a backward roll and got to his feet.  "The Jade Fang strikes so swiftly, you will never see death coming!"<br/><br/>"How is that a response to what just-whoa!"  The man lurched into motion and Joy threw up her hands across her chest, her Mugen power surging through her as she gathered her might to make her body like stone.  He was too fast and his blow struck before she could get her block fully in place, "Uhn!"  Joy rocked back on her heels as his foot grazed her head, jerking it to the side.<br/><br/>On her forearm, her own bar depleted one segment.  The Muay Thai fighter shook her head, resuming her stance, "Look at that!  One of you guys finally got a hit in!"