Froggy wrote: Sable would see the gas from her grenade dissipate as Shen clapped his hands. He then leaped into the air, his right leg held high as he slammed down on her with an axe kick from his massive seven foot frame
Reaper only barely managed to side step this and hit him with a quick strike in the throat before kicking his knee and then elbowing and kicking him in the stomach. But Shen shrugged off her hits and retaliated and Reaper dodged like her life depended on it, barely able to avoid his attacks. She tried to return her own but Shen blocked whatever she threw at him. Shen blocked a punch and struck Reaper in the chest with a punch, sending her flying several feet away and making her slide along the floor. Sable gritted her teeth, feeling like she was just hit by a cannonball full force. She was trying to pick herself up when Shen suddenly flipped over to her and kicked Reaper up into the ceiling, her armored body cracking it and causing to fall down and settle on the floor, and then punched her away when she came back down. Reaper smashed a chair and knocked over a table she collided with. She rolled over on her back, dazed.
(Get up. Get up dammit! GET UP!) That was the only thought in her head as she dug the claws of her gauntlet into the floor and pushed herself to her feet.
All those years of hard training, practicing until her knuckles bled and her bones cracked, pushing herself to the brink of exhaustion as she fought for days on end, building up her body and honing herself to physical perfection, it would not be for nothing. The pain she put herself through far exceeded whatever this man could do to her. Then, as Reaper stood tall once more, she thought of something she hadn't before. Pain, training, anatomy. Reaper stared Shen down and studied him. A straight up fight would get her killed at this rate, so she would have to switch up her fighting methods, combine her skills and technology to fight him, and now that she had the chance to think, she knew exactly how to do it. True, Sable was never as good at this method of fighting as Gryphon and Jape, but she knew enough to be effective.
Shen rushed her and Reaper reacted quickly and threw out her trick cape at him. The cape stretched out and wrapped around his arm and she pulled him forward, surprising him and using his own momentum to her advantage. Reaper readied her strike, remembering what Lady Liberty had taught her.
"To effect the brain with a strike, avoid the skull. It is hard due to needing to protect the brain. Instead, strike the chin with a palm strike from thirty degrees below. If done correctly, this will cause a dislocation of the jaw and the brain to shake."Using his surprise to her advantage, Reaper struck his chin as hard as she could with the palm strike before releasing him from her cape hold and kicking his feet and flipping him. Reaper reached back and pulled out one of her multi-purpose skull bombs, a blue one with an electric charge, and dashed away as the stunned Shen was recovering.