BloodHarpy IceNeko and LadyDeathStriker vs GrimReaper Gaunt and jessejames

BloodHarpy, Yautja, 12 years ago

Ok let the fun and agony begin!

Year:2134
Location:Mercenary Hang-Out
Planet:Desert Planet Name Unknown
Time:5:34 pm
Terrain:Desert, rocky, no much water and dead brown grass.


A large crowd had gathered around a twenty foot deep fifteen foot wide pit inside the building everyone mostly hung around in. This was where they usually held fights, mostly between humans and Bad Bloods and the rare hybrid. Today though it was two Bad Bloods against a lone female Xenomorph hybrid. She was tall lean and according to one of the mercenaries watching the fight "hot as hell" not that she paid attention to the cat calls from the males. The fight started near the area that served as the bar when one of Bad Bloods shoved the hybrid out of his way and called her is his tounge a "half-breed bitch" until she challenged him to a duel to the death. The fool gladly obliged and even got one of his group to join in the duel. No sooner than they set foot in the pit they were almost done for. One of the Bad Bloods threw a punch at the hybrid and missed only to have his fist slam into the hard concrete wall shattering every last bone. Roaring in agony the yautja clutched his fist and snarled at his commrade who simply ignored him. Before he could even react the wounded Bad Blood nearly shrieked in agony when a sharp tail burst through his chest and lifted him two feet of the ground. With shock and anger who was brought face to face with the hybrid he was dueling. An evil little smile spread across her face before she finally said something.

"You are by far the worst yautja I've ever fought with. Pathetic." she hissed before ripping her tail out the Bad Blood's chest killing him and letting him drop to the ground with a solid thud. A disgusted look plastered across her face. The other Bad Blood took this chance to charge the hybrid but this also proved to be a dumbass move. The hybrid figured the other yautja would try this and once he was within range the she swipped her tail around and the barbed end sliced across throat nearly severing his head but ultimately killing him. Cheers from both humans, yautja and the few hybrids in the crowd rang out as the champion threw her head back and unleashed a hellish shriek. A smile on her face as she boldly walked out of the pit and up towards the second level of the hide-out. Once at the second level she sat down at the bar again and gave and contented sigh. Another woman sat down next to the hybrid only this one was human. The new arrival ordered a beer and slid a pricey looking gun to the barmen. The hybrid glanced over at the woman and frowned.

"What the hell took you so long?" Harpy asked bitting back a hiss.

Gaunt, Yautja, 12 years ago

'FUCKING CAGE!!!'.

Gaunt was pissed, his claws, tail and head were clamped down, restrained by metalic shackles in a small, constrictive cage.

How this happened he could not remember, he remembered falling asleep in that cave, 'AHHHHH!!!, in my sleep, CAUGHT IN MY FUCKING SLEEP!', he tried to let out a loud shriek in anger but failed to reverberate a single tone that came even close to a shriek, he shook his head as best he could, they had put a muzzle on him.

Turning his head as best he could, he made out that he was being held in the arms of a single Human, wearing a strange uniform. As he turned his head to face forwards again they went through a giant archway, a number of others joined his carrier, he could make them out farly clearly, Humans and ... Hybrids? together, Gaunt shook his head in discontent, whatever was going on couldn't be good.

Gaunt heard them starting to mutter, joke and laugh, "Don't tell me your putting THAT Xeno in the ring?", another voiced joined in, "HAHH!, little thing won't stand a chance, i'm betting on one of the others".
Gaunt gripped his claws in anger, 'WHEN I'M OUT OF THIS CAGE ...'

He stopped plotting and turned his head in bewilderment, all the follower had gone silent. They had stopped moving, a giant stone door lay in front of him and Gaunt heard the turning of a key,as the tumblers released and the door slowly started to open he was grabbed by several hands, the top of his cage had been opened.

They grabbed his head, his tail, his arms and any part of him they could get hold of, Gaunt sqwirmed violently trying to wriggle free but to no avail,
they were signalling and speaking to each other, "ON THREE!, ONE ... TWO ... THREE!!!".

On three they flung Gaunt through the doorway into unknown on the other side, Gaunt went crashing into the dusty ground within. Enraged by what had just happened he turned to face his captors only to find that the door had been shut.

Gaunt turned to view his surroundings, he was in an arena, hard dusty ground surrounded by what looked like an electrified fence. He still had the muzzle over his mouth, gripping his claws around the edges he pryed it off with ease, throwing it in a fit of rage against the fence which it reacted with and melded to making a matalic mush that drooped down and slipped down to the ground again, it was definatly an electric fence.

Gaunt let out a shriek of fury, he turned his attention to the arena floor, as he looked around he could see that he was surrounded by a huge crowd made of Humans, Hybrids and even yautja spectators, all restlessly screeching, waiting for something to happen.

Gaunt stretched out his inner jaw, he grinned, he role in here was clear, kill or be killed, he saw two other doors open on the other side of the arena, one released a lowly Human, wearing an orange convict uniform, the other an overgrown Kurn which twited itself savagly as it pulled itself free and charged out into the center of the arena.

The crowd cheered, bells rang and officials called out, the Kurn turned to the Human who was now hammering on the door he came hrough, begging to be let back in. Gaunt let out a monsterous shriek, gaining the attention of Kurn, the Human and a majority of the crowd.

He rended his jaws and charged at the Kurn which in turn started to charge him, as they closed in on each other screeching and growling manicly, Gaunt pounced upwards and onto the Kurns back where he started to slice through it's flesh in a bloody rage, the games had begun.




Side note:

For those who don't know,
This is a Kurn

GrimReaper, Yautja, 12 years ago

Reaper had been alternating between watching the two on one fight and flirting with a couple of women. He watched the hybrid that had fought exit the ring and head upstairs. He though she looked familier for some reason. He went upstairs and silently odserved the female hybrid at the bar. Another woman sat next to her and the hybrid spoke to her. The other woman he'd seen before for sure. That when he realized where he'd seen the hybrid before.

"Oh fuck. Harpy!" he said feeling somewhat alarmed. Harpy waqs one of the ruthless members from the notorious Dark Blood Organization headed by yet another hybrid, some human criminals and some yautja Bad Bloods. Reaper recognized the other chick as well, Kacey was an ex-Marine turned mercenary also associated with the DBO. Reaper looked around to make sure none of the other known members were around before he began making his way towards the bar until he bumped into a small figure wearing a hoodie.

"Hey watch it runt I'm walking here!" he snapped at the person. Big mistake. Before he could even turn around fully he felt a sharp sting on the bacl of his knees and was propeled forward onto the ground face first. He spit out blood and turned aropund to see a young pissed of girl glaring at him with inhuman green eyes.

jessejames, Yautja, 12 years ago

the guards walk up to his cell and looks at him and then opens the cell door and he then is lead up to the bar and the guard pushes him in and looks at him "you better enjoy yourself this time cause the boss thinks that you deserve the right to the bar now enjoy yourself and don't even think about trying to escape" the guard says and closes the door and jesse walks through the crowd and many stop and look at him and others say good job in the fight and sees a guy on the floor because of a girl he must've pissed off and sits at the bar table near acouple of girls and by looking at one he can tell she's a hybrid the famouse harpy and just shrugs and orders a beer and just hears people talk around and just ignores them and runs a finger along the long scar on his face from a xenomorph he and his squad encountered and some more bumps into him and makes him spill his beer and he turns and shouts "hey what it you merc piece of shit" jesse says and the guy pulls him off his seat and then looks at him " what did you call me you marine dog?"


"you heard me are you mercs deaf aswell?" jesse says and ducks the guys punch and delivers a hard punch to the guys gut then a hard knee to the guiys face and the guy gets up and pushes him back and looks at him and jese brushes his shoulder off and then flips the merc off and suddenly a bar fight breaks out between jesse and the merc that made him spill his beer.

LadyDeathStriker, Yautja, 12 years ago

Kieran glared at the guy she knocked over. A hateful gleam in her eyes as the man spit blood out of his mouth.

"Got anything else you wanna say punk?" she hissed curling his clawed hands into a fist. The man was still on the floor and didn't reply. Kieran huffed and walked past him, dodged a fight between two other men that had started and sat down next to her sister.

"So what's up?" Kieran asked happily until she noticed the glare her sister gave her.

"Oh what now?" Kieran growled, the sound of glass breaking could be heard downstairs and a series of yells and roars. Probably just another Bad Blood argument gone violent.

IceNeko, Yautja, 12 years ago

Kacey sat silently before speaking to Harpy.

"I had to get past a group of mercs by the entrance. On top of that they kept trying to flirt with me but I eventually got in." Kacey replied pulling out a serated knife and staring at the blade. Harpy drummed her tail against the floor to the tune of some song she liked, her eyes flashed with interest. Then her lips spread into a evil grin. Kacey rolled her eyes and shook her head. She knew whenever Harpy got that look she was ready to fight.

"Harpy didn't you just finish killing a couple of Bad Bloods? Give it a rest will ya?" Kacey asked duking when a glass fell at the wall next to her pissing her off.

"Hey watch it you idiot!" Kacey glared at the man who threw the glass at the wall who gave her the one finger salute. Kacey turned and looked at Kieran.

"So Xeuss let you outside huh? I'm surprised he let you leave the ship, especially after the "generator incident". You know you will never live that downright kiddo?" Kacey said laughing.

Gaunt, Yautja, 12 years ago

Blood spirted everywhere as Gaunt had his fill, the guards and mercs had been able to hold him while he slept and was vunerable but not when he was awake and aware.

The cell door lay flung open, one dead Human, half in half out, a look of pure terror in his cold, dead eyes, others lay scattered, some 'partly' intact and some ripped to bloody shreds.

Gaunt lay on the chest of his most recent kill, ripping flesh and muscle from bone, wagging his tail in delight and relishing in the moment.

He could see alot clearer now, after being asleep for such a period he wasn't at full strength before, however now he had recovered and was ready to move.

He retracted his inner jaw for the final time, something was happening, just up above him, several meters away, multiple life signs.

No surprise more Humans, Hybrids, Yautja, odd congregations in the back and the sides of the room, huge chaotic mass in the center, brawling, fighting.
Gaunts grinned, 'Perfect, one of those creatures must have a ship, away off this rock'.

Gaunt turned his head to find a small, but easily accessible pipe, leading up to the room. He clambered up and cut it open which released an endless gush of mixed alcoholic fluid. Gaunt sqweezed into the pipe and proceeded upwards, moving closer to the room.

jessejames, Yautja, 12 years ago

keeps fighting with the merc that pissed him off and as others watch on the end up putting eachother threw tables and busting bottles and pushing a few people onto the ground and the mercs are cheering and shouting and jesse grabs a chair and smacks the guy across the head with it and dodges the chair the merc threw but it hits a guy named reaper instead and jesse keeps fighting the merc as they do so the crowd gets rowdy and soon others are fighting all over the bar.


shouting and comotion as jesse and the merc fight around the others and takeing beer bottles and bashing them over the others head and jesse tackles the other guy down and gets the mercs shoulders pinned down and starts to rain punches onto the mercs face repeatedly breaking the guys face with each punch cause of jesse's fingerless gloves that have metal where the knuckles are and keeps it up until someone knocks jesse out with a beer bottle and the merc is also knocked out and the fighting keeps going even though both of them are out cold.

BloodHarpy, Yautja, 12 years ago

Yep it was true. Once one person started a fight in a bar the whole damn bar acted up. Several humasn and Predators got into, another mercenary was having his ass handed to him buy three other guys, a guy who looked like a amrine was getting beaten up and a female Predator threw some down into the pit. Harpy stood up and pulled out her knife, Kacey and Kieran followed suit.

"Ok time to get to work!" Harpy yelled with glee and proceeded to charge one of the mercenaries beating up Reaper and then stabbed him twice on the neck killing him. Harpy did a back flip over another mercenary then stab him in the back and kicked him into a table breaking it then pulled out her pistol and shot the two remaining mercenaries thus freeing Reaper. Harpy ducked when a shruiken flew past her head and angrily shouted at the offending Predator who just turned back to the fight he was embroiled in. Harpy slashed her tail at a few people missing only one, she swiped a few men across the face with her claws and back-handed a woman who tried to stab her in the face. She turned to Reaper and smirked.

"Alright Reaper, I'm going to give you a choice; lay there like some wounded mongrel or get up and fight me. I don't have all day so hurry up!" Harpy shouted. She ignored Kacey and Kieran who were busy already.

Gaunt, Yautja, 12 years ago

Gaunt sqwirmed up the pipe with tremendous speed, he was being sucked through it, followed by a huge gush of liquor which swirled around his tail.


'THUNK!', he collided with the end of the pipe, the tap, the pressure started to increase as the liquor surrounded him, searching for the way out.

'FUCK THIS', slicing through the rusted pipe Gaunt burst out of the bar tap and propeled across the room, crashing into the body of someone amist all of the violent brawling.

He imediatly started to tear into whatever he had landed on, the cry of pains that came from it ignored by all other around who were fighting their own battles.

Gaunt pounced upwards onto the shabby lighting above, coiling himself around a bulb, he let out an ear piercing shriek, drawing the attention of some of the mass.

He rended his jaw and started to drool, focusing his attention on every individual that turned to face him, gripping his claws in antisipation for the first strike.

He let out a roar of happiness, slavering on the persons below him, excitement was building up in him, he glaced around the room one more time, 'Who's first then?'.

LadyDeathStriker, Yautja, 12 years ago

Kieran had managed the kill two peole and had to avoid being shott wice by a drunkw ith a gun. Kieran ducked a flying table that landed on four not so lucky people.

"Yikes! This is getting worse people lets hurry up!" Kieran shouted to her two companions. They didn't seem to hear her so Kieran continued running and stabbing on the occasion. Kieran was grabbed and thrown through a wall by a Bad Blood who in turn was stabbed by another Bad Blood who then fired off his plasma caster into part of the crowd killing several people. Kieran rolled her eyes. What a show off. All she had to do was gett outta hear alive. Kieran wished she was back on the ship instead of here in this mad house. Her thoughts were interupted when when another unlucky person/thing was thrown through the same wall. Upon closer looked Kieran saw it was a man that had just finished meeting the sharp end of Harpy's tail.

"Well sucks to be you today huh?" Kieran said while searching the body fopr anything useful only to find a pack of gum and a small knife.

Gaunt, Yautja, 12 years ago

Gunfire gleamed off his smooth, domed head as Gaunt twisted inbetween the rafters at breakneck speeds.

Above the crowds, the swarming mob of brawlers he fell, clinging to the first thing he came into contact with, bullets flying in his direction as he started to mutilate his victim.

He pounced at his attackers, spinning and twisting in all directions, slicing through flesh and bone, his tail and claws out of control, like a Predator shriuken flying through the air.

Blood spilt everywhere, screams of pain, anger, fear and even the enevitable gasps of death filled the air, creating a massed scream of dread. Gaunt wagged his tail, the room on his end was fairly clear now, people running in shear fright, crashing around in all directions in amassed horror.

Several Predators turned to face him, drawing spears and their wrist blades. Gaunt turned his head to see past his confronters, there was still a fairly big mob in the room, most were starting to flee as others overpowered and slaughtered them.

Ducking his head as a smartdisk flew right over it Gaunt charged the Pred who had thrown it, raising his claws in attentment, swipping his tail back and forth and drooling in hunger, letting out a shriek of displeasure.

jessejames, Yautja, 12 years ago

jesse had the upper hand when he started fitghting the merc but when his friends came to help him out it was three against one he knew they had the upper hand but jesse wasn't one to go down without a fight and tries to take all three of them on they end up kicking his ass and ends up being tossed around then he felt his body hit a hybrids who shoved him off and the three mercs re sumed their fun and kicking his ass all over the bar but then he gets a lucky break when reaper got involved and slugged one of the mercs in the jaw and nods a thanks and reaper returns it before themerc he slugged tackles him and after jesse takes care of the other two he kicks the last merc off of reaper and then holds out a hand to help reaper up while tge fight goes on around them

LadyDeathStriker, Yautja, 12 years ago

Kieran had just finished off a a Predator when she suddenly flung into the wall near a guy who looked like a marine and the guy she tripped earlier. She bit back a scream of pain and glared at her attacker. A huge Predator stalked towards with two mauls ready to slice her apart. Before he could reach her a hellish shriek echoed in the room making some bralwers stop. Harpy leaped in front of her and hissed like a demeneted Cobra at the Predator who in turn roared at her sister. Kieran knew this Predator was screwed. Harpy could be a bit distant and sometimes cold-hearted even towards her sister but if Kieran was under attack then she would come to her defense. Kieran groaned and clutched her ribs in pain, two were broken and she didn't know how much she would be able to move around. She looked to her right and paused; the mercenary she'd roughed up was glaring right at her. After Harpy leaped for the Predator the rest of the bar got back to fighting. Kieran meanwhile was struggling to stand.

jessejames, Yautja, 12 years ago

looks at reaper and tries to think why he knows reapers face and after he helped him up he pulls reaper down to duck a predators swinging attack and then he looses his footing and falls to the ground but then dows a sweeping kick to the pred legs and he falls down and then jesse takes his knife out and before the pred could react he slices the pred throat then drives his knife through it's heart and kills it looks at reaper who got up and nods then he sees a punch comeing right at reaper and jesse grabs a empty beer bottle and throws it at the attacker and it hits him smack in the face and runs at the attacker and tackles him then takes his knife and drives it from under his chin and into the guys brain kills him too.

Gaunt, Yautja, 12 years ago

Green lumininous blood sloshed and splashed everywhere, a Pedator limps, trying to leave the bar so that he might live another day.

He is stopped, letting out a loud cry of pain he falls to the floor. Pulling his tail away from his freshes kill Gaunt duck the swing of a comb-stick, rolling over his side to avoid the repeated swings of the angry Predator who had just lost his battle brother.

Gaunt hit the wall, springing himself forwards with his tail he slid across the floor and into the ankle of one of his attackers, seconds of slashing and biting brought his victim to his knees.

A blunt and heavy blow hit him, sending him flying across the room, he crashed into something else. Jumping forwards and off his newly found cushion, he span and landed on the floor to face whatever or whoever he had landed on.

He saw he had landed on a Pred, impaled by a xenomorphic tail, similar to an adult Xenomorphs but with no spore indicators or even any indication of belonging to a pure Xenomorph.

Turning his head in disbelief he saw how this was possible, the tail belonged to a hybrid, it was giving off Human pheremones but had little to no capacity for Xenomorph spores. Female judging from it's physical features and movement, as it quickly and gracefully slid it's tail from the Predators body and threw it across the room, holding her ground as she did.

Gaunt detected more pheremones, another hybrid, behind the first one, clutching at its side, odd features but similar to the first. Moving backwards only slightly, he moved slowly around the hybrids, observing both of them, curiosity overtaking his bloodlust.

He could tell that the room around him was getting emptier and emptier, many had died, more had fled, few were still fighting, only a few were left.

Keeping his distance Gaunt moved back towards the center of the room, now in patient antisipation, focusing on any that moved closer to him, trying to determin which are hostile and which aren't.

jessejames, Yautja, 12 years ago

yeah man this is our rp man!



sits in his cell after they got all the bar fighting calmed down and he looks over and the same over sized chestburster he saw earlier is being carried past him and watches them and thinks about the tournament and knows that it's his only shot at freedom from this rock cause as a marine he heard stories of thes kinds of places where things are brought out and made to fight for the amusement of others. he sits down on his bench and sighs and then the next day the guards come and get him and cuff him and gets him to his feet and then get him moveing towards the gate and thinks that it's started.

Gaunt, Yautja, 12 years ago

Gaunt stirred from yet another forced slumber, his mind sluggishly started to flicker back to life, 'Uhh gas ... electric tasers and now chains again. Damb it I'm leaving this place!, if something or someone else doesn't kill me the drugs eventually will ... cowardly fucks!'.

A door opened infront of him, and he saw the arena floor once more as he was handled by over a dozen figures and tossed into the dusty ground below.

He shook his head, regaining full awareness of his surroundings, it looked like he was being put into a three way stand off, to his left a Human who woar an odd uniform, he clearly had customised gear, some sort of mercinary from the look of it.

To his right the Human he recognised from the bar insident earlier, sporting standard military gear by the looks of it, a lost Colonial Marine grunt by the looks of it. Gaunt could sense something else that was familiar, the strange pheremone trails of the hybrids from the bar.

He turned his attention to the other side of the arena, three other doors had been opened while he had checked over his 'colleges', the two hybrids from the bar were there, the one that was clearly most dominant of the pair was already moving forwards towards the center of the arena the other was still clutching and checking it's side. A Human stood next to the two hybrids, odd that it seemed to be giving off pherimones that indicated it was female aswell, they must of all been involved in the bar fight, all together, now this was their punishment? to be pitted in the arena.

Gaunt grinned, he turned his head to his left then his right once more, 'Humans, colleges? against hybrids!, they better be good or this will be a hell of a fight'.
He preceeded to scuttle forwards towards the center of the arena, he sensed the sudden movement of his colleges as he did, they were nervous, more likely confused rather than frightened as they seemed to follow him with wavering distance and concentration.

He stretched out his inner jaw as he faced the more dominant female hybrid in the center of the arena, everyone met in the center, glancing around at each other there was a a brief silence and tension.

The crowds roared out and cryed screams of anger and bloodlust, Gaunt could sense his conterparts reaching behind themselves for their guns, he began to move himself from side to side between them, pacing back and forth, restaining himself just a little longer, waiting for the first shot to be taken.

IceNeko, Yautja, 12 years ago

Kacey glanced at Kieran in worry. She'd been hit pretty hard and lept her hands on her rib cage. Harpy had confirmed that two of her ribs were broken. Harpy wasn't affected by the fight but now they were ordered intot he fighting pit. Kacey looked on as the crowd screamed, roared and screeched for blood and guts. Kacey watched as chestburster was dropped intot he same pit as herself, Harpy and Kieran.

"Wait they want us to fight a chestburster?" Kacey just gawked at the screechign creature. This must have been some sort of sick joke. Kacey looked up to see three men hauling another man to the pit and then throwing him in and leaving. The man groaned for a minute then stood up and rubbed the side of his head. He looked right at Kieran and Harpy and glared at them. Kacey remembered him from the bar fight.

"So Harpy-oh-fearless-one what do we do?"

jessejames, Yautja, 12 years ago

looks around at the crowd gathered around the pit adn groans as he stands there and sees two hybrids and groans again and thinks it had to be bloodharpy huh shit he won't be getting back anytime soon or even at all and looks beside him and scoffs that he's partnered up with an oversized chestburster and wishes he could be off this rock already but sighs and does his relaxing drills to calm himself down so he can think this through as the crowd starts to roar with antisipation for the fight to start as jesse continues his calming drills and blocks all sounds out as he still has his eyes closed but still has his guard up and ready to counter or block any strike that comes at him.


semper fi mothafucka

GrimReaper, Yautja, 12 years ago

Reaper was less the pleased to see the annoying mini-hybrid glaring at him. He scowled and rubbed the sid eof head.

"Got something you wanna say ya half-breed brat?" he snapped. The girl just glared back at him. Reaper almost smirked happily until he looked towards the larger hybrid. The mini-hybrid's sister. Harpy. She looked about ready to go on a homicidal rampage and going on Reaper knew about her she was more the able. He looked over the three ladies. Each looked ready to tear apart the first person who gave them a chance. Reaper considered his options as well as those of the guy that helped him out during the bar brawl. Reaper was pretty strong and could hold his own against Harpy. Kacey the asian-looking chick was human so she probably wouldn't last long and then there was the brat. Broken bones meant her chances of leaving the pit alive were slim to none. Reaper took a deep breath and looked in Harpy;s direction. She was weaving her tail back and forth like a snake and had unsheathed a knife with a serrated blade. Reaper glanced over at Jesse.

"Hey on the safe side go for the small one. The bigger hybrid is sadistic as hell and has a nasty habit on bitting into her own tounge just to spit blood in someones face. She ain't her group's sub-leader for nothing." Reaper said eyeing the chestburster. Reaper pulled out a large hunting knife and took a few steps forward. The crowd got louder as Harpy mimiced his move, soon the two were slowly circling each other. Reaper watched the large female hybrid as she circled around him. Reaper glanced up at the crowd for four seconds and wished he hadn't. The second he looked away from Harpy she charged him and punched in the face hard e nough to knock him back a few feet. The crowd roared as Harpy advanced on him stopping just two feet from the fallen man. Reaper stood up and shock his head in a daze trying to snap out of it. Blood run out of his nose and mouth. He still had his knife. Harpy just smiled at him and unleashed one of her hellish shrieks as she began to circle him again. Only this time everyone else made their move. Reaper decided to make his and lunged at Harpy who quickly jumped out of the way but not fast enough. He was able to slice her along her right waist. Reaper smiled at his gain but then his smiled fadded. Harpy had acidic blood and his just cut her meaning his knife was not useless. Reaper had just destroyed his weapon.

"FUCK!" Reaper shouted just as Harpy jumped for him again.