Jason felt a fire in his chest...her chest...Joy's...the confusion almost took him out of the moment.  Almost.  The overlays he saw now were like those he'd see in the game, even if everything else looked completely real.  Well, as real as these bodies could be.  But despite the strangeness of everything, he knew this was fight, and he knew what he had to do.<br/><br/>"Azure riders?"  Jason scoffed in Joy's powerful and gorgeous feminine body, "You're about to be the Red Smears."  He took a half step back, and then pounced into a shallow jump, dashing forward as he shot his right knee forward in a flying knee, "Khao Loi!"  Joy's knee slammed into the chest of the thug who'd spoken and his breath rushed out of him all at once, a dirty cracking sound as his ribs broke.  His eyes rolled up towards the top of his head and over it, the red bar emptied to the right leaving only blackness behind before it winked out and he fell to the ground in a heap.  His feet hit the smooth cobbles of the path and he felt, more than saw the rushing attack of one of the goon's companions, letting the momentum of his strike carry him on past the clumsy attempt.<br/><br/>His smile was fierce and joyful, almost a snarl, "Come on, boys!  You can do better than that, can't you?  If this is all you've got than the guys will be along any minute to roll your carcasses down the steps and into the street."