Star Sapphire’s lust-charged mace slammed into the generator beside you, impacting the metallic surface instead of your cowl.
Just as the spiked sphere impacted the machine, you ducked out of sheer instinct. Wincing heavily as your fractured ribs once again pierced your side, you jerked back as she hefted the medieval weapon.
Grinning like the proverbial Cheshire cat, she swung at you yet again with her mace. Skipping back, you barely avoided getting your face smashed in as the construct whizzed by.
Snarling in frustration, the violet vixen tried again, but with similar results. Jerking back with every swing, you knew it was only a matter of time before she got you, so you had hoped to have some kind of strategy by then.
Feinting a swing to your head, you instinctively brought up your elbow to parry it. Just as your elbow rose up from your side, Sapphire made her move.
“Hah!” She suddenly slammed her mace against your kidney, eliciting a pain-stricken shriek from your lips. As soon as it connected, you fell to one knee, with the renewed waves of pain threatening to overwhelm you.
Once again struggling to breathe, you clutched your side sorely as Sapphire raised the mace triumphantly. Grinning from corner to corner, she winked at you almost out of spite, before bringing it down like a hammer.
Measuring your response window, you lunged at her underneath her armpit. Dodging the blow by a few hairs, you reappeared next to her. Before she could respond, you delivered a rising elbow to her temple.
Crying out in pain, she staggered away with one gloved hand covering her now lacerated forehead. Her back to you, you pounced on her without second thought, hell-bent on ending her threat.
Just as you were about to punch her at the base of her neck and render her immobile, she turned back to you with a coy grin painted across her face. It was at that moment you realized she had once again baited you, but by then, it was already too late.
“Aarrgghh…” You recoiled as a violet energy whip slashed across your chest, sending waves of violet energy cascading across your body. The bursts of pain were only doubled by the surprise attack.
Your undersuit now exposed across your chest insignia and body armor, you narrowed your eyes as she stood up, her whip coiling beside her thigh.
“You never learn, do you?” she mocked dryly, as her whip straightened into a medieval longsword, one at least three feet long.
Then, she ran at you with her sword in tow. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she resembled Joan of Arc as she charged at you.
Making a wild swipe for your neck, you skipped back a step, once again barely avoiding decapitation. Another stab attempt speared empty air.
Narrowing her eyes in irritation, she resorted to circling around you to find a more viable opening. Studying you with a predatory glare, she held her sword front and center while your forearms remained in the boxing stance.
Circling each other like warriors on the battlefield, you tried focusing in on her eyes. However, your eyes kept trailing down to her feet, much to your chagrin.
Grinding your teeth together, you couldn’t help but stare as her bare foot crossed her booted foot, then vice versa. Her arch was as visible as her quite vibrant toenail polish. Her toes, tensed up in anticipation, nearly had your-
“Hah!” Sapphire’s cry (thankfully) broke you out of your mental block, catching you in a compromised position: looking down. Your eyes had divulged down for too long, and the ringbearer had caught on.
Her sword sliced across your left shoulder, snipping off a path of your cape in the process. The tip of her blade drilling into your skin, you howled as a new bandage of searing pain was ripped off.
Staggering back with blood oozing out of an open laceration, you had to duck another two-handed swing from the Sapphire queen. The swing ended up severing a dangling pipe above you.
Lashing at you again, her second strike nearly caught your throat but you were a step too fast. Just as she stabbed at your windpipe, you sidestepped, watching as the blade shot past you, literally centimeters apart.
In response, you brought up your right hand, and delivered a swift palm strike to her crown as she reared back towards you. You had planned on focusing enough energy to at least shatter the concentration between the gem and Carol Ferris.
The attack stunned her for sure, knocking her back a few steps. As you straightened your posture, you had hoped that the palm strike would at least give Carol a fighting chance at breaking the control of the all-controlling gem.
You hoped wrong.
Mere seconds afterwards, she whirled around on her heel, once again facing you. Reaching into your belt, you had a Batarang halfway out of the pouch before another violet chain construct suddenly coiled around your neck.
“Ack!” You nearly choked on your words as the chain tightened, and Sapphire’s grin only grew larger. Gripping the other end with her free hand, she had you collared like her own pet dog.
Then, she suddenly yanked the other end towards her, and you staggered groggily to her right. Bringing her back leg up, she then delivered a powerful, thunderous roundhouse kick to your cheekbone.
“Uuuggghhh…” The top of her foot cracked against your cheekbone with resounding fury, nearly knocking you out.
Literally running on willpower at this point, your legs were teetering like a Popsicle tower. Reeling back, you nearly tripped over your feet twice until you bumped against a generator.
Vision darkening, you defiantly raised your hands as Sapphire sauntered towards you, her hourglass figure now a blur to you.
“Pathetic,” she taunted, brandishing her sword as she approached. Her drawling tone was starting to repeat in your head as you put together one last strategy.
Raising her sword, she stopped only two feet away, confident in your seemingly imminent demise. Grinning eagerly, she blew you a kiss goodbye before plunging the sword right through.
The generator.
Using her hubris as your ammunition, you snapped out of your groggy trance just in time, moving to the left just as her blade whistled past.
Instead, the construct drilled through the generator you leaned against, with you a few inches to the right. As her eyes widened in shock, you punched her across the mouth in a right cross devoid of any sympathy.
Face planting to the ground unceremoniously, Star Sapphire struggled to get up while clutching her now broken nose. The sword construct dissolved, as did her previous confidence. Blood seeping onto the ground, she looked horrified at her now disfigured appearance. Rubbing her crooked nose, she continued to cower from you.
Feeling your own broken nose, you had to wonder just how defiant the Sapphire gem was. It was hell-bent on keeping Carol its physical vessel, despite the abuse she took. You would’ve felt sorry for her, but you had let your guard down one too many times.
“On your feet,” you snarled, grabbing her roughly by the forearm. Feeling no resistance on her end, you brought her up to one knee, and were seconds from slapping a pair of handcuffs on her before she unveiled her own last resort.
You had made the mistake of looking directly in her eyes as you turned her over, and instantly was under her spell. Her dazzling eyes, however, were the appetizer compared to what happened next.
Falling backwards, she created a love tether, a makeshift “Cupid’s arrow” that could be extracted from the heart of a Sapphire and plunged into the hearts of an outsider, revealing their innermost desires and wants. Hal Jordan had mentioned those once, and you were now about to be on the receiving end.
“Aarrgghh…” You cried out as the arrow pierced your chest plate, and became overwhelmed not by blunt trauma, but by sudden ecstasy.
“Let’s tug on this tether, shall we?” came Sapphire’s voice, lost amongst the emotional overload you were currently experiencing.
Flashes of your love life rushed past you in a frenzy: images of Talia Al Ghul, Selina Kyle, even Vicki Vale. Fond memories of the moments shared by those women became materialized in a emotionally sideshow that brought a droopy smile to your face.
“My my, haven’t we been busy?” Sapphire smirked, her voice thundering like a god in your mind. It was like having an out-of-body experience, losing complete control of your physical body and trapped in your head.
It was a bittersweet feeling when those feelings suddenly dissipated into nothingness, the tantalizing visions of what your future could’ve been now vanishing. You almost whined in protest, but that was nothing compared to the image that popped up next.
Her bare foot.
Even if it was an exaggerated and quite enlarged representation, it was still in your face, yet you couldn't turn away. Or rather, you wouldn't.
“Well well, aren’t you a naughty boy?” Sapphire taunted, with a mischievous glint in her voice.
Much to your utter embarrassment, your mouth was absolutely watering at the image of her bare foot. Almost like a showcase, the foot was shown in its full glory: pink toenail polish glowing, her long toes flexing sleepily, even her long arch. Your admiration was mutating into lust, and worse yet, you couldn’t stop staring. In fact, you wanted to stare!
Feeling your physical body grow miniature next to her gargantuan-sized foot, you felt just as small mentally. Her foot had completely stumped you, yet you didn't move away. Instead, you moved towards it.
Now drooling, you made a wild leap towards her foot, your lips puckering to kiss her smooth, flawless skin. In fact, you could almost smell her peach-scented lotion until….
You were jolted back to reality, now on your knees. Realizing that Sapphire had been watching intently this whole time, you were speechless. She wasn’t.
“Well, this is quite an interesting development,” she purred seductively, brushing her bare foot against your groin rather sensually.
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