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The man looks down the street as he hears the sound of a skateboard rolling across pavement. He knew some things about his opponent, such as the fact that he road a skateboard, and also that he had spiked blonde hair. Though in the case of abilities and the like, he never really tried to find out. He thought it more sporting to not know.

The man turned so that he was facing the skateboarder as he came rolling up. He had his hands in the pockets of his white dress pants and he was standing up strait with perfect posture, legs tight together and feet pointing at a ninty degree angle. Yet he looked comfertable and relaxed which would lead anyone to beleave that he stood like this all the time.

He rasied his left hand in welcome while keeping his right in his pocket. Saying nothing he waited for hsi opponent to stop, before any futher action would be taken.

The man looked down to his opponent with very little intrest.

"My name... is Staccato Tranus. Are you the one that is to be my opponent today?" The man said as he looked at the boy.

Staccato's expression changed very little. If anything his face just became a little more annoyed. He properly tilted his head so that he was not looking at the boy's chest, but instead was looking at his face again. He then pushed up his glasses with his left hand and let his hand finally hang loosely at his side.

"It is not the size of the opponent that matters... but more the skill with which they fight."

Staccato did not even move out of the way of the blow and was hit full force by it. This sent him back skidding across the ground in front of the train station. He bounced a few times then just laid there on his back for a moment.

He slowly stood up and as he did so he pulled something out of his pocket. It appeared to be a small silver cylinder about the size of his index finger. When he was almost all the way standing he slipped the cylinder over the index finger of his left hand. Then he just stood there motionless.

Just as Bert jumped from his skateboard, Staccato pointed at it with his left index finger. The wheel barrings suddnely melted an the melted meterial lept to Staccato's finger creating a long whip made of metal. While Staccato was pointing at the skateboard he was also sidestepping to the left so that he was able to dodge out of the way of the tackle.

He then turned his body to face his opponent and brought his finger down in an attempt to hit Bert with his newly made metal whip.

The metal whip would coil around Bert's arm and start to cut into it. Due to the fact that the whip was made of metal and rather thin because he did not use a large amount of metal. If Bert then continued by pulling the whip in, he would have a very deep cut in his arm. Depending on how hard he would pull it could even sever his arm, much like a metal wire could remove a person's head.

Though if he did pull he would get the chance to kick Staccato in the face. the shock from the hit would cause Staccato to lose consentration and make the whip detach from his finger.

As soon as the wire became licourice it was released from Staccato's power, which left him weaponless again. Of course this would mean that when Bert pulled he would be pulling on nothing at all since the candy no longer was attached to Staccato's finger.

The lack of tension would cause Staccato to fall back also, as he would land on his butt. The next thing he did was look for some other type of metal that he could use to his advantage, but in the back of his mind he would be wondering whe he had lost control of his whip.

Staccato would look about and find a nearby lamp post made of metal for his next weapon. He would point at the Lamp post and it would start to melt while it moved toward his finger.