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 "You rich puta bitch. You live in the nice mansion on the hill and you pretend you speak for mutants?" She charged, her claws meeting air initially. Maya moved her baton to push Thornn’s claws away from her, giving her another shock as part of the move as she turned in the opposite direction. She hadn’t quite judged the foot claws well enough and almost stumbled as she felt them rake along her thigh as she lunged sideways. It hurt like a bitch but she couldn’t let it stop her. She brought her other shock baton around and hit the woman in the side with a stronger shock. Enough of those and she hoped it would drop her. “You don’t know anything about who I am.” Maya gritted out, deeply offended at the unfairness of that statement. Was this what she sounded like? Fuck, she had some apologies to make when she got back. “Maybe you should stop listening to cult leaders and start thinking for yourself.” "Or maybe you see things differently when you lose something," she snarled, darting under the batons to open up Maya's left calf with her claws as she rolled, and then lashed out, her foot catching the back of her knee and taking Maya's legs out from under her. It wasn’t that Maya didn’t feel the slashes from Thornn’s claws, it was that she couldn’t allow them to distract her from the fight at hand. It was a gift of sorts from her power, the ability to drop into a perfect calm that allowed her to focus she might not otherwise have. She allowed herself to fall and then rolled tightly to take the impact on one shoulder before springing back up. Thornn was at her back, however, and so she pushed to spring sideways into a twist to get back facing the right way. It was more a cheerleading move than a fight move but you used what you had. She threw one of her batons at Thornn’s head before aiming the other at center mass. Thornn's hand snaked out and caught the first baton, but had caught it by the head. The first electric shock ripped through her as the second baton caught her between the eyes. The mutant went down, convulsing helplessly as the shocks raced up and down her nervous system, hair sticking out all over. Maya moved quickly to pick up both batons, striking Thornn several more times to knock her out before she reached for the bindings she’d been given to tie her up. |
