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[The feed opens up to a crooked shot of a building that screams abandoned warehouse vibes. Out of frame is a man in a black karate gi standing next to a grandfather clock with the words "Professor Dongspin" written on it in green paint.]

Now I just got here but I've been seen a lot of talk about free fighting lessons. But we all know that in life you get what you pay for.

You want to really kick the competition? Then you need to get your ass down to Cobra Kai.

Screw that weird ass fairy tale bullshit. Learn from someone who drinks raw eggs, not pansy ass hot chocolate.

You'll learn bone crunching, face smashing, all American Karate. For the reasonable price of your blood, sweat and tears.

We're not going to be doing any self-defense, It's time to learn self-offense.

Don't be a pussy. Join Cobra Kai and let me teach you the way of the fist.

[And then leaps into the air and delivers a spinning kick into the grandfather clock which collapses and smashes against the ground.

The feed cuts out shortly after.]

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[Johnny sees this guy and he's immediately reminded of the asshole who killed him on the beach during his first day in town.

Is Johnny afraid? No. Fear does not exist in his dojo.]

Don't know what a Jedi is but if they kick ass in a fight than I'm definitely that and not a prostitute.

It's the philosophy of the fighting style. Karate includes punching and kicking and basically anything else you need to be a badass in a fight.

...By the way you on the run from the cops or something? Dyeing all of your skin yellow is pretty try hard.

They preach a lot and then have a habit of dying. [So really, he's already on the mark even if he doesn't know it.] Jedi, as far as I know, are not prostitutes.

Your description makes this style sound like it could be anything then.

[Dyeing his skin tone... was this guy real?]

Yellow is my natural skin colour. It isn't rare for my species.

Sounds like fucking Miyagi-Do. We do less preaching more ass kicking.

There are styles of Karate. So it can be. Cobra Kai, my style of Karate is about fight aggressively. Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy. Those are our tenents.

Seriously? Last time I saw you, you had red skin.

So you only aim for the ass with your feet. Where do you aim your fists then?

Sounds like Juyo. I expect I could still put you in the ground against your karate.

[He growled low in his throat.]

And how well did that end for you?

Not only but it is a good target. Fists mainly go to the face. Elbow to the balls. Whatever works.

The hell is Juyo? Sounds fruity. We can always step into the ring and see who wins if you want.

[Did Johnny learn any lessons from messing with Maul? Unfortunately not.]

I'm still standing here, aren't I?

At least you don't seem to care for what others would consider honorable fighting.

It's an aggressive combat style. [He didn't specify lightsaber just yet.] I don't require a ring, but if it makes you feel more comfortable.

[At this point, Savage pauses and calls to someone not in the room "Brother, have you killed a human recently? Yes? Okay then."]

Death doesn't have permanence, but it seems you've met by brother. He is far less tolerant to human nonsense than I am.

Don't get me wrong. There is room for honor in how I fight. I'm not training people to be a bunch of assholes. But to be a real badass you have to know when to show it. You don't go out looking for a cripple monkey to fight. You face your opponent when he's at his strongest and toughest and bring him to the ground. You don't start the fight but you sure as hell finish it.

Doesn't have to be in a ring. Can't settle every fight you have in a tournament. It's just helps with the lessons.

[Johnny doesn't seem too bothered to get call out on his bullshit but nods.]

Yeah. I'm figuring that out. We had a run in. Used some weird fucking voodoo shit to take me down. I'll give him another go some other time.

You talk like you're one of those asshole humans. The strong will survive, and the weak will die, so there's no point picking a fight with them when they will likely find a battle they can't win on their own.

If you're as tough as you say, you should be willing to fight anytime and anywhere.

[Savage snorted through his nose.]

If you're after a rematch, you'll go through me to get it.

I learned from those assholes and I'm still trying to figure out my way too. It's a work in progress.

I am, but I want a good fight and I want the people I fight to know I'm the best. That's not going to happen if all my opponents come at me with their arms and legs already broken. Yeah, I beat them. But it doesn't say much about me.

[He flashes a smile.]

See now you're getting it. When we throw down next I'll be sure you're there or call you up. You'll both be drinking through straws for a week afterward.

No wonder you died as soon as you arrived.

I guarantee you aren't the best. There will always be someone somewhere better than you.

Or we'll kill you and eat you.

Because I'm not a cheap pussy? Says a lot about this place.

Yeah. And I'll rise up and beat the shit out of that person eventually. Or I'll train a student to do it.

Sounds like a fun time.

Because you don't know when to keep your mouth shut. You have no restraint.

I suppose you have opportunity to try, try again since death doesn't appear permanent here.

That's because restraint is for pussies.

But... I mean I guess not always. One of my students was trying to teach that me that.

I probably will at some point. Just need to find a way around all his cheap bullshit if he tries it again.

Restraint is for those that have learned to survive.

Cheap bullshit? He can kill you any number of ways.

Offense will always be more badass.

He could have and he chose the most cowardly way to do it. Choked me out with his magic powers. Couldn't even get his hands dirty.

Badass, yes, but also stupid if you can't keep yourself from dying all the time.

He could have dropped a building on you, dismembered you, tore your heart out or crushed it. So asphyxiation is a cowardly death? How did you survive to adulthood on your world?

I won't. Any time someone pulls a move like that on me I'm going to learn how to strike before they can do it again.

[Johnny actually had some strangulation related trauma but that was beside the point.]

He could have done it with his own two hands and not some magic power. That's what made it cowardly.

You’re going to learn, are you? I suppose Trench provides you with the opportunity, but you’ll be dying or extremely injured a lot.

[He almost felt bad for Johnny. Here was some adult human acting like a kit who hadn’t received the right kind of tutelage and now just shot off at the mouth for any kind of attention.]

So blaster fire, thrown knives, shooting down your ship or any hands-off death is cowardly?

Yeah. I catch on pretty quick. Apparently not fast enough for this place but that apparently doesn't matter too much.

[That was about sixty percent of Johnny problems. He just let them stew for about thirty years before trying to do something about it.]

I'll let throwing knives and blaster fire count as long as it comes from the front and not some sort of sneaky shit.

A real test of skills is when two men face off at their best. That's how real men should settle their differences.

You have a number of opportunities, as long as the traumas of death don't catch up to you.

[He wasn't so certain he believed much in the intelligence or sanity of anyone that rushed into death without any apparent need for survival. To fight in war was different from what seemed to have happened here anyway.]

So death by friendly fire is cowardly.

[He actually laughed. By the Fanged God's balls, this human was something else.]

What would you know about what it is to be a 'real' man? What is a 'real' man in human society?

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