High Speed Smackdown!

Getting stood up on a date, and ghosted by the mare who asked you out in the first place, really stunk. Nar COULD feel sorry for himself... OR, he could- oh hey! A text from his friend, Spins! Meet up for pizza? Hell yes! Nar quickly begins to draft a reply, excited for some pizza with his friend whom he hasn't seen in quite a while. As Nar exits the little park he'd just been in, he stops to complete his reply to Spins. However, he can hear a sounds quickly approaching him from down the street. It sounds like... Skateboard wheels on concrete! Nar stops texting for a moment to look over his shoulder. He looks just in time to see a talon swipe towards his face. Quick reflexes save Nar's eyes from getting clawed out, and he ducks to the side as a gryphon on a skateboard flies past him. The gryphon quickly powerslides to a stop, then turns to stare Nar down with a death glare. As Nar's head snaps back, he briefly catches a glimpse of a camera crew nearby, filming the two. (https://youtu.be/rJj0OuBbUaI?si=zPjqIZLw4TsOtE4x) "Any time, any place, bitch." The gryphon growls, with a smirk. Nar shifts his stance. "Alright then. Let's dance!" The motors in his skates whine to life, as Nar goes to return the favor of a blitz attack. The gryphon manages to evade the punch, despite not moving off of his skateboard. Nar continues on past the gryphon, causing him to turn to give chase. Back at the hotel, Asuka's phone buzzes as it receives a text. Looks like Juno sent a text to the band's group chat. "Channel 2. It's going down." With that, Asuka flips the channel on her suite room's TV to channel two, and is greeted with an isometric view of Nar, and the gryphon guitarist of Def Metal skating down the streets of Manehatten at breakneck speeds. All the while, they throw punches, kicks, and other attacks at each other. Even worse? It's being broadcast to the whole country. Asuka begins to scream at her television at the disgusting lack of safety gear either of the two are wearing. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! DUMBASSES! YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOURSELVES KILLED!" A slashing talon barely misses tearing a chunk out of Nar's left arm. Nar attempts to retaliate with a punch of his own, but he can't turn his body to punch effectively. There isn't as much power behind the punch as there would be if he was punching to his front. The position Nar finds himself in is really starting to frustrate him. He has to face forward to keep moving, but the gryphon can still face him, while moving forwards. Because of this, Nar has already taken quite a beating, but the gryphon is largely unscathed. A punch knocks Nar to the side, causing him to stumble slightly. He regains his balance before his face has a catastrophic meeting with the sidewalk. With a frustrated grunt, Nar initiates a hop up onto a railing, hoping to get some sort of advantage. He throws out a quick kick, which the gryphon ducks under, then retaliates by trying to grab Nar's other leg. Nar re-chambers his kick, and goes for another, causing the gryphon to disengage momentarily. His wing flashes out, and Nar barely manages to hop over it before it can knock him off the railing. As Nar brings his foot back down, the gryphon's wing flashes out again. Nar manages to hop just in time again, but his landing is shaky, and he wobbles a bit before finding his balance. If he does that shit ONE MORE TIME, Nar is gonna break that fucking wing! Sure enough, the wing comes out again. This time, Nar hops up, but quickly slams his feet back down onto the rail. The gryhpon quickly retracts his wing, but Nar catches a good chunk of feathers under his skate, ripping them out of the wing. This seems to set the gryphon off. He cries out in pain, then growls a low growl. "Fucker! I'm gonna smash those skates of yours into pieces after I beat your ass into the pavement!" A flurry of punches, clawing slashes, and wing strikes follow. Nar barely manages to avoid getting knocked off of the rail, but his legs take a beating. At the end of the rail, Nar hops back onto the pavement, and pushes the motors in his skates to their limits. He tears down the sidewalk towards a plaza full of modern art pieces, leaving the gryphon in his dust. "Why are you running! Pussy!" The gryphon's shout is drowned out by the wind in Nar's ear. As he enters the plaza, he spots a large art piece of a bunch of concentric, metal rings in the very center. He has an idea. The gryphon looses sight of his quarry as it passes into the plaza. With as much speed as he can muster, the gryphon barrels into the plaza, roaring his anger. The bystanders in the plaza watch in confusion, and fear as this seemingly feral gryphon on a skateboard screams obscenities into the sky, promising an 'ass whopping of the century' to some unseen person. The gryphon's head jerks erratically as he searches for his quarry. For a moment, he thinks he can hear the sound of metal grinding on metal. He looks to the central art piece in the plaza, but can't see anything. His head jerks to his right, then, up, and to his left. He sees a split second of Nar's foot swinging towards his face, then, WHAM!

The gryphon's skateboard continues on it's path, as the rider slams onto the concrete of the plaza. Nar lands two feet away, and quickly skids to a stop. The skateboard slams into a bench, and comes to a halt. The gryphon lays on the concrete, out cold. Nar cringes, hard. "Oooooh shit. He hit the back of his head, really hard." Immediately, Nar pulls out his phone. He scrolls off of his drafted text to Spins in order to dial emergency services, and call for an ambulance. Around two minutes later, the unconscious gryphon is loaded into the back of an ambulance as the camera crew assures Nar that as long as the damage isn't permanent, he's covered by the waiver. Thankfully, no police are called, and Nar is free to go about his evening after having won his fight in the Battle of the Bands. That just leaves Asuka to win her fight, then... Attack on Mango is the number one band in Equestria! After the ambulance pulls away, Nar pulls out his phone once more, and finishes up his text to Spins before sending it off. "Hey! Sorry for the late reply! I'm sure you saw why. If not, battle of the bands stuff. Anyway, pizza sounds awesome! I'll send a text in the band group chat and see if the others can come! Cookie's spending some time with her grandparents in Ponyville right now, so she won't be able to join. Just send me an address, and I'll have everyone meet you there!"