Softcore Tournament Round 2: Aoka Reinhardt Vs. Lady Lakota

Janet herself at least seemed to be trying to stay civil in this encounter...though in the end it did come off as quite awkward, the two of them didn't seem to be very capable when it came to interacting with each other in a normal manner, at least not yet. There was still a mountain of tension separating them from being able to interact in a more normal manner. Either this match would only add more tension or it would be able to clear up a bit...though the safest bet was probably on the latter option than the former. Regardless of which it was just something they'd have to deal with sooner or late if they ever wanted to bury the hatchet. IF they ever wanted to, that was.

With the two of them now in a grappling stance and ready to get their match started, all the awkwardness turned into focus and cal, between to thew ladies as they readied up for the match. They moved closer towards each other, Aoko took a deep breath as she soon interlocked her fingers with Janet and the two of them was in the fight position to start things out.

Aoko's blue eyes stared deeply into Janet's green pair, both of them seemed completely ready to start out this bout between them. The two beauties soon enough started their test of strength. Aoko braced her feet against the mat as she tried to throw her weight forward, not wanting to underestimate Janet one bit, the redheaded actress attempted to go all out right at the get go. " You Too.."

She was met with quite a bit of resistance from her rival as she felt Janet press against her as well, Aoko cringed as she tried to hold her ground and move forward, attempting to use all her power and weight to try and power power her raven haired rival.

All things considered, this was going rather well. Both wrestlers were restraining from using any particularly nasty language towards the other one—indeed, they were actually being almost overly pleasant. It was all superficial, of course. When they got down to it, they both knew what the score was, and what the other one was thinking right at this moment. It was almost intimate, the way they could practically read each other's thoughts right now.

The two of them interlocked their fingers as they both bent forward into a grappling position, ready to start this match off with a test of strength. Janet was tempted to use the opportunity for a quick attack to try to gain the advantage over Aoko. But she wouldn't do it. The truth was, she really wanted to know how this test of strength would turn out. In this, none of the moves she had learned from Cecilia or from any other source would be of any help to her. But then, nothing that Aoko had learned before or since their last encounter would help her. It was the purest test of Janet's body against Aoko's, and the thought made the Lakota wrestler very excited.

She nodded when Aoko returned her awkward well wishes. "Thanks," Janet would grunt, before she immediately poured everything she had into the test of strength. Aoko did the same. Neither one of them was going to try to hold back to gauge what the other could offer. Janet groaned as she felt the stress of Aoko's pushing on her arms, but she refused to take a step back, and would push forward as well, already starting to sweat a little as she exerted herself, doing her best to keep from being backed up, and to back up Aoko instead! It was quite the challenge to get the redhead to move at all, however.

Right now, the two of them seemed dead even.

Now that the two of them had finally started off their match it seemed as if it was going to be rather intense, even if the awkward mannerisms of the pair could be picked up by the crowd or ref, it was clear as day now that there was quite a bit of intensity going on between Aoko and Janet, from how they had started the match. A test of strength wasn't exactly uncommon but this one was just different, it was easy to tell that both women were dead set on doing the best they could in this little competition.

Aoko groaned a bit as she struggled against Janet's pressure, her rival was without a doubt quite strong and it didn't seem as if this was gonna be an easy win...if a win at all. Aoko however, did not want to give up. She wanted to fight and try to come out on top, attempting to push forward further and further, trying to dig into even more power with each passing second, gritting her teeth as she struggled.

It was not like Aoko was stubborn...or rather it was only like that, Aoko was very stubborn and she did not want to lose the first little competition against Janet, the worst case scenario was to come out even against Janet...cause losing this was not an option in the actress mind.

There was no gradual buildup, no more taunting or teasing back and forth after the two of them had locked up for this test of strength. Not that they wouldn't have some choice words for each other as the match wore on—but right now, every modicum of focus, every ounce of strength was being channeled into their arms as they both tried to push the other back. Neither held anything back, and the two similarly-sized women almost immediately came to a sudden halt, stalemating each other as they both tried to force each other back.

Janet would dig in her heels and groan as she was trying with all of her might to force Aoko back. But the two of them were very evenly matched. Red hair fell over brown and vice versa as the two of them pushed against each other, their heads relatively close, their bodies arching back in either direction, legs straining and flexing to try to overpower the other. Janet tried to tap into any extra recesses of power that she had, wanting to win this fight against Aoko. Like her rival, Janet did not even consider the possibility of losing, or of using some underhanded means to turn the result in her favor. This was a prideful fight, and Janet wanted to best Aoko in a contest of raw strength versus raw strength.

But that meant a long, hard slog. Even after minutes began to pass, neither one of them had moved much at all. Janet would try to force the issue, then, lifting a foot and quickly taking a step forward before Aoko could take advantage of the lack of balance. Janet would stomp her boot down and plant it heavily on the canvas, trying to move forward and gain some ground against her rival, even if she wasn't able to push Aoko back.

This was without a doubt a adifficult challenge between the two equally sized ladies, with both of them pressing against one another in a fierce competition to determine who was the physically strongest. It seemed as though that would be a very hard tell though, as Aoko instead for herself stopped in her tracks and unable to push further against Janet.

She had always known Janet was a tough opponent and that they were fairly even in many regards, but she had never actually thought it was this close between them, at least in terms of their bodies. Aoko couldn't help but feel a bit proud though...Janet had been a lot more prolific in the field of wrestling as of late, but here she was holding her own against someone like that. Even as Janet stepped forward and closed the distance between their frames while Aoko remained fixed in her place.

The Actress though would not just take such an advancement without fighting back. Those who carelessly waited was doomed to be attacked over and over, as such Aoko would attempt to lift her leg up and instead of stepping forward would try and snake it behind Janet's legs, letting it press against the back of her rivals knee. As she did so Aoko would proceed to try and push forward even further, trying to bend and twist those wrists of Janet in order to try and push her rival backwards so she could attempt and force Janet down onto her back.

Janet stepped forward to close the distance between herself and her rival. She knew that it would make it a little more challenging for herself, but also that it would make it more challenging for Aoko. Neither one of them could just push straight forward like they had been, arms flexing against arms. Now, the rest of their bodies could come into play, as well, so that they could test every ounce of each of their beings against the other's.

The Lakota wrestler knew that Aoko would fight back, of course, and when the actress's leg began to move around behind Janet's own, the Lakota knew that she was going to be in a very desperate position. So long as she could keep on pushing forward, she was not likely to have a problem, as Aoko's leg, while it would be locked behind her own, would not cause hers to bend, or cause her to trip. But if Aoko got even the slightest advantage, she could push Janet over onto her back. It was tricky on the part of the famous redhead, but Janet refused to be the inevitable victim in this game of strength against strength! She would match what Aoko had done, snaking a leg around Aoko's and hooking it just behind the actress's ankles.

Janet smirked. Her heart was pounding fast. Now, as soon as one of them managed to get the advantage, she would be able to trip the other one and force her down onto her back. Both of them were equally at risk, and it made for quite the thrilling game—a game that Janet did not intend to lose. "Getting...tired, yet?" she would ask Aoko, as she tried to twist Aoko's wrists and pain her so that she might lose her concentration and fall back.

Aoko soon enough got to feel that Janet was quite clever herself, or perhaps she was just a bit of a copy cat, as she soon after the redhead had performed her little plan, practically copied it and moved into a similar position and set of actions, even down to trying to twist and leverage their wrists. As far as anyone could see, this fight wasn't going to go anywhere it seemed.

It would only be a matter of minutes before the two of them tired each other out, but did that matter to Aoko ? Not really, she was a stubborn girl, it was what got her through most of her fights, and if she had to keep it up for as long as it took then she'd do so.

As the two were matching each other move for move at the moment, like a chessboard the opening acts were being played and the ground work for bigger game ending moves were starting to be planned....though perhaps they weren't actually thinking that far, this match was a fight of heart, not brain. Aoko took a deep breath as she kept her bright blue eyes fixed with Janet's green. " Not even..the least, you ?" Aoko would let out as she'd attempt to pull their arms downwards, arching them out in a big circle as she tried to change the pace up a bit all the while attempting to bend Janet's hands and wrists backwards to try and force the girl to experience some pain and perhaps a bit of a distraction, so Aoko could attempt to push forward with her body against Janets, breasts against breasts in order to try and push her rival back and gain the momentum.

The two wrestlers mirrored each other perfectly, legs hooking around each other's ankles, hands intertwined and both of them trying to twist each other's arms and cause pain in each other's wrists. Obviously, they were getting nowhere fast. Janet knew that she was a superior wrestler to Aoko now, but she was never going to get the chance to show that if she did not end this test of strength and gain the upper hand! Aoko was obviously still fit and strong, and in a test like this, wrestling ability mattered very little.

Aoko was doing all she could to win this test of strength, and was making it difficult for Janet to concentrate. As Janet merely was trying to twist Aoko's wrists, Aoko now circled their arms downwards. Janet would let it happen, continuing to slowly ramp up the pressure she was putting on her foe's limbs, only to realize too late the awkward angles that her arms were beginning to bend at. Janet clenched her teeth and hissed as she felt them twisted, and, distracted like that, Aoko was able to take advantage. She pressed herself into Janet, leaving no space between their bodies. They were breast to breast, and Janet was being bent back—and she knew that any further and she would have her leg taken out from under her.

Janet pushed back as hard as she could, managing to stabilize the situation but having trouble forcing Aoko back into the neutral position. Janet knew that she would be drained much faster than Aoko if they remained like this. Reluctantly, she decided to change tactics. She had an idea. "Oh...I'm fine," she would lie, when Aoko asked if she was tiring. But even though it wasn't quite true, Janet still had a smile on her lips. "Hey, Aoko...I guess you forgot when I used this one on you before, huh? You're not ready for it now, either," she would say, before tilting her head in and pressing her lips against Aoko's for a kiss, opening up her mouth to stick out her tongue and try to slide it into Aoko's mouth. Janet would couple the kiss with a surge of power, as much as she could muster, to try to force Aoko backwards and throw her down on the canvas.

The struggles was a fierce one between these two combatants, the crowd was cheering intensely for their respective "champions" and there was no backing down between them in this contest of strength and skill, it was only a matter of determining who had the greater power and/or the greater skill when it came to this sort of encounter.

It seemed like there might not be a winner though, As neither of the two was able to move the other...until Aoko started to act forward, managing to start and bend Janet down more and more, soon enough she'd have won this little competition of theirs and gotten the upper hand in this match.

" Oh yeah ?...forgot about Wh-MMPH!" Aoko was about to ask as Janet's words confused her, but when her rival locked lips with her, catching the actress by surprise as Janet's tongue entered Aoko's mouth. The beautiful actress was caught off guard and faltered in her test of strength, which allowed Janet to push up into their neutral position with ease before she threw Aoko down onto her back. " Agh.." Aoko let out through gritted teeth. She shook her head before glaring up at Janet..." Cheap.." she released under her breath.

Janet thought that she could hear a few loud exclamations from several women and girls in the crowd—exclamations that had a bit of a jealous tinge to them. The Native American girl wasn't quite sure whether they were jealous of Janet for having the chance to force a kiss on such a popular movie star, or whether they were jealous of Aoko for getting to engage in such a sweet liplock with a former AFW champion. Perhaps there were fans of both girls who were desperately wishing that they could step into the wrestlers' shoes right now.

Janet's kissing tactic was completely successful, as she managed to force Aoko back up into a neutral position, then backwards, bending her towards the ropes, before finally throwing the actress down onto the mat. Janet would not stay up on her feet for long, as she would drop down right on top of Aoko, pressing together with her rival body to body, their chests in close contact as the Lakota now had the advantage in this fight.

"Cheap?" Janet would repeat, before scoffing. "How did you not see that coming? After everything you've done, I would say that you're lucky I decided to go with a kiss rather than a sucker punch to your face." Sensing an opportunity, Janet would reach down and try to grab onto the detached sleeve-gloves that Aoko wore. They constituted one additional item of clothing that Aoko wore which Janet did not, and the Lakota wanted to make everything as even as possible before going forward. Maybe she would even be nice and let Aoko up once things were all evened out.