"Right!  We'll cut right through them," Joy answered Aika.  She turned on the tong fighter that was yet untouched, that savage grin on her face.  She threw a powerful uppercut, the force of it actually hurling her forward at the man.  He shifted just enough to barely avoid it and rocked back, grunting.  The bar above him flashed and slid down to one third, the green briefly becoming yellow and then red.  "Tough guy, huh?"<br/><br/>Another one of the thugs had the wind blasted out of him and was nearly blown across the space they were in as Aika delivered a hard two-fingered jab to the Crown Charka in his head at the same moment as another flying kick from Miku took him int he chest.  He went down hard, actually bouncing off the wall and then the floor before he lay still.  The Air Ryujin landed nimble and tossed her long pigtails over her shoulders as she stood, "Maybe you're just not as good as you think, Armstrong."<br/><br/>The blonde bombshell growled and her eyes narrowed.  She stepped forward and swing her left arm forward, bending it, the sweeping and almost slicing movement smashing her elbow into the tong fighter's temple.  The man went down this time, crumpling into a heap.  "Not as good?  That's two for me."<br/><br/>Miku was moving fast, pressing the attack on the lone remaining opponent with a whirlwind flurry of knife-hand strikes to the man's temples, neck, and shoulder joints.  He stumbled backwards from the assault and then fell down onto his back with a groan.  "And three for me.  So you might be good.  But I'm better."<br/><br/>"Bullshit!  Two of those guys were already hit by Aika!"  Joy shook her head, "You get an assist on those, not a full takedown."<br/><br/>"Typical of a low class American," Miku sneered, "Changing the rules when you can't win the game."<br/><br/>Before Joy could retort, the footsteps they'd heard approaching became three more tong fighters who came around a corner.  The men didn't balk at the sight of their comrades lying all over the place but moved into their fighting stances and advanced steadily.