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((No you see, what I'm saying is this. You wouldent be standing on me. I yanked the hell out of your bottom half. I did not slightly pull on you in the direction you were moving. You were jumping towards and over me, I pulled away and down from me. From my perspective, you're on the ground.))

((His foot hit my chin, then was redirected down, not through, but fine.))

Alan's eyes would flash purple as the shotgun came up. The shotgun would immediately be pressed sideways by a LOT of force before it was even fully aimed at Jacknife, perhaps even bending the barrel if it was held in place by enough strength. In the meantime Alan's forearms would move to block his face. His legs would quickly flip up and around the man's chest as Jacknife pressed upwards with his torso and pulled Skinner back with his legs.

"Well... what we got going on here?"

Sakura scratched her head a bit as she looked at what was going on before her. Her left hand went to her katana at her side, while her right went to the one at her back. But it occurred to her that she still had no idea what was going on.

"Hey! Which one of you is on my side? Or am I gonna have to kick both your asses?" She yelled, hoping to get the attention of one or the other.

Shaking his head as he proceeded to do an unseen great acrobatic feat through the air, from the stumps and into this new forest area.

"He's Skinner and I'm not!" Alan grunted/shouted. This was no time for introductions. As soon as he heard the gun go off, Jacknife moved his arms. As he moved his left arm his arm gaurd caught a knife in one of it's ridges. "Sneaky b*****d." Jacknife said to Skinner. Jacknife twisted his hand and caught Skinner's arm that was holding the knife. His boot pressed into Skinner's face, which he could now reach due to the crouch. Jacknife's own bootknife slid out and struck towards Skinner's neck, which was now being held open as a target by Jacknife's foot. The knife did not have far to travel.

(( So many threads to deal with... ))

Despite that Jack couldn't see it coming, he could apparently guard against it. It's not like it was being stabbed directly into his guard, it went behind his arm to stab him in the side of the neck. Or it was intended to.

Apparently not.

Jack's knife slid out in full view of the man, who could see everything about Jack's feet. In responce, he pulled back with his right that was holding the knife and slammed his forearm in against the side of Jack's left knee, while he reached up quickly with his left to force the knife back into the sheath before it could be drawn.

It was a ******** up wrestling match they were in... one which might have just broken Jack's knee.



The men surrouned Sakura and drew knives, brandishing them menacingly.

Jacknife was able to press against Skinner's arm that he was holding with enough force to keep it from severely injuring his knee. Jacknife's pistol whipped back up off the ground where it had been dropped and took aim at Skinner's side again and fired into the man's ribcage. Jacknife's right arm came around to grab Skinner's left and hold both fists away from him. He considered stomping at Skinner's face, but at the moment he would rather keep the man away from him.

Jacknife let the pistol fall and began pushing the knives back up with three hundred pounds of force, each. Added to the force of his own arms this was an very substantial ammount. But it wouldent be added to the force of his arms. Three hundred pounds was easily more than any human could produce with thier biceps. Jacknife let go of Skinner's arms and began to punch the man in the face, left right left style. Luckily the movement of Jacknife's shoulder as he punched made the bullet hit his body armor instead. "********, fight fair man!" Jacknife spat at Skinner as his arm went numb from the impact briefly after getting in only one punch. Well, his right was stronger anyway.