Breaking in the New Guy

Hikaru's grunts of effort paid off and he lifted the smaller wrestler successfully into an inverted position. He felt him fidgeting around for some sort of counter, but whatever he was trying wasn't working. Hikaru looked down and noticed that Shido was covering his head, quite smart since it would lessen the impact of any moves targeting the head.

Hikaru changed his strategy slightly, taking a few steps forward and swinging Shido's body forward. He jumped into the air and then slammed Shido's body into the mat with a sitout powerbomb. The ring shook with the strength of the impact and Hikaru rolled away to his knees, eager to see how his opponent would fare.

Shido gasped as Hikaru swung him upwards to deliver a devastating powerbomb. "Powerbomb? Sugoi." he muttered before being slammed into the mat.

Shido took a moment to recuperate by  lying motionless before rolling back onto his shoulders and springing up to his feet with a kip up. "Awesome move....but I've still got a lot left in the tank" He said, while taking deep breaths.

"Good, wouldn't be any fun if you crumpled like paper" Hikaru grinned, popping up to his knees and slapping his thighs. Even though Shido was still talking big, those deep breaths he was taking suggested he had indeed taken some good damage from that hit. He stalked forward with arms raised like he was challenging the newcomer to a test of strength.

Hikaru wiggled his fingers and brows to entice the guy. "Let's see what you're made of"

"Paper? I'll have you know I'm an environmentalist!" he replied with banter, trying to draw out time to get over the effects from the powerbomb.

Shido assumed a stance to entertain Hikaru's gesture for a test of strength, but he merely circled the ring with him, trying to maintain distance. Shido was determined to try to allow his opponent to make the first move, since doing that himself didn't work out in his favor last time.

Hikaru rolled his eyes at Shido's banter and advanced towards him, seeing that the newcomer was playing it safe. Maybe he wasn't completely without a brain, but just holding back and laying low wasn't going to be a good enough defense. When he was close enough, Hikaru jumped forwards at Shido but rather than trying to lock up with him, he threw a big boot forward at the kid's chest.

Shido kept his eyes on Hikaru, waiting for an opening. He could barely react as he noticed a boot flying at him.

He grunted as he took the brunt of the boot to his chest, only barely able to get his hands around around Hikaru's foot, still planted on Shido's chest. After absorbing the impact, he would attempt a dragon screw, attempting to take both of them to the mat, still holding onto Hikaru's leg, hoping to attempt a submission hold on his leg afterwards!

Hikaru's boot lands cleanly in Shido's chest and he drives his momentum in hard in the hopes he'll knock the guy down. To his surprise, Shido mixes a little ingenuity with a little skill and manages to prevent himself from being downed by grabbing on to Hikaru's leg, and then rapidly twisting and sending both men to the mat.

"Nghhh" Hikaru grunts in wide-eyed surprise as he hits the mat. He starts to push back to try to get away from Shido.

Shido tried to waste little time to with following up. Glad that he was able to floor his opponent and get Hikaru down on his back, he would make sure he kept hold of his foot and moved in to attempt a kneebar submission.

For reference (only the last two seconds of the gif is the actual hold)

Despite Hikaru's attempts to immediately break away from Shido, the newcomer proves resourceful again and latches right on to the leg. He pulls it in tight to his chest and applies pressure to set up a kneebar submission. He cursed under his breath as every little movement of his own sent twangs of pain through the limb, he might even be impressed if it didn't hurt so bad.

However, Shido only had control over one of his knees, and with Hikaru on his back, his other leg was free to swing a strong kick aimed at Shido's head.

Shido smiled in success and he locked on the hold and just began doing some damage. His instincts were sharp enough to keep him aware of Hikaru's movements and intentions at this point. But that didn't mean he could actually do much about it.

He gritted his teeth and put one of his forearms
up against the side of his head to block. He'd still take some damage from the kick but at the very least, he could mitigate it. With one hand and both legs still wrapper around Hikaru's leg, he'd try to bend his knee the wrong way and crank the hold one more time before accepting the inevitable and letting go before he had yo take another kick.