“Uuuggghhh…”
Just before her teeth could descend on your trachea, you brought your cowl up, and in one last act of desperation, smashed your forehead against her nose.
The feel of her flesh literally splitting in half against your forehead made you cringe, but it was a necessary evil to avoid her ripping out your jugular.
She immediately reeled back as blood spewed from her caved in nose. Slamming your head directly between her eyes had stunned the feline fatale, and also granted you a crucial opening that you were going to take advantage of.
With her arms hanging loosely to the side and her hair flowing backwards, you only had a few seconds to capitalize on this opening, and you weren’t intended on fumbling the ball.
Before she could recover, you struck her once again across the cheek, knocking her back before she could lunge at you again. Your fist swiftly pounded her other cheekbone in, leaving her looking like a blow fish.
Her slender body collapsed to the ground beside you, buying you just a few more moment’s respite. As soon as her tail fluttered to the ground weakly, you took a breath before rubbing the throat wound she had inflicted upon you. Just touching the now open wound seemed to incite even more waves of pain that spread throughout your body and prickled at your muscles like hot knives.
So the wound wouldn’t get infected, you quickly reached into your utility belt and wrapped a wad of medical gauze around it, then pressed it firmly to suppress the bleeding. It still hurt like hell, but at least it was manageable.
Groans emitting from Cheetah’s body brought you back to reality. With your strength quickly fading, you sat up, and grabbed her ankle as she feebly tried to escape.
“You’re not going anywhere, Minerva!” you snarled angrily, before yanking her back towards you, your body weight serving as an anchor. She immediately twisted her body in protest, writhing away from your iron hard grip, but you aren't yielding any inches.
She only glanced on blankly as you half straddled her on her left side, pinning your knee to her breast as you cocked a fist high above your shoulder.
“This ends now,” you grated through gritted teeth, about to strike her down when a violet whip suddenly slammed against your sides and knocked you back.
Your flailing body soared through the air before meeting a hard place in the form a column of individually stacked crates. Your spine nearly cracked in half as you collided against the wooden containers. Your only remaining gauntlet accidentally sliced through the wood, releasing its contents to the ground.
As you collapsed face first to the ground, you could only hear the taunting sound of Star Sapphire’s booted feet, or rather, booted foot, approaching. Out of your peripheral vision, you spotted the Sapphire Queen, aiming her ring hand confidently at you while still missing her right boot.
Clutching her sides sorely with the other forearm, she wore a sly grin across her face as the whip construct retreated back within her Sapphire ring.
“I quite agree, Batman. This ends now,” she smiled, before unleashing an entire horde of kitchen knife constructs your way.
Your eyes widened as the deadly weapons whizzed through the air with the bullseye being your entire body. With very little time to think, you grabbed an item from the crate you involuntarily opened before rolling to the sides.
The knives instead pierced the wooden crates as you jumped out of the way, barely avoiding certain death by the fabric of your cape.
After rolling back up, you tried racing around Sapphire to get the angle on her, but she was quickly becoming wise to your tactics. Just as you rounded the corner, she began peppering the ground near you with violet energy blasts.
Gritting her teeth in frustration, she conjured up another energy whip and coiled it around your left ankle, before tugging back hard.
Losing your balance, you crumbled to the ground but not before hurling the mysterious object towards the Star Sapphire: a rusted crowbar.
Having already knocked you to the ground, Sapphire was preparing her head gem for one last blast to literally wipe you from existence. She was expecting an easy victory, but what she wasn’t expecting was a crowbar heading straight towards her moneymaker.
The tool nailed her directly between the eyes, the blunt end smashing right through her crown and smashing in her nose. Blood spurted out of the now crushed limb as the whip construct dissipated into thin air, and the violet aura surrounding her actually evaporating.
“Oooohhh…” she murmured blankly as the color drained from her face, leaving her on wobbly legs and arms swaying back and forth. As the crowbar clanged to the floor harmlessly at her feet, she staggered forward one last time, her ring hand trying to focus in on you.
But alas, it was not meant to be.
Her eyes rolled to the back of her head as she collapsed flat on her back, unconscious. The crown that previously housed her Sapphire gem literally broke in half thanks to the velocity that you hurled the crowbar, splitting the cosmic material in half.
“It is now,” you told her simply, before standing back up.
“Not for you, darling,” a feral voice snarled from behind, nearly catching you off guard before the Cheetah sprang back into the picture.
“RAARRWWHH!”
You had barely enough time to raise your only remaining gauntlet in defense as Cheetah launched at you from the air, bringing with her a hail of blows and brutality.
SHINK!!! Her clawed hand once again scraped against your steel gauntlet, emitting an ear piercing screech that echoed throughout the warehouse. Descending upon you from atop a nearby generator, Cheetah used her aerial offense as an advantage, maneuvering her body in mid-air in order to follow up.
Before you could block, Cheetah recovered by twisting her hips into a spinning back heel kick, a momentous blow that jolted your lower jaw and sent you spinning backwards. Her heel nearly knocked some of your front teeth out as she focused much of her downward momentum behind it.
As Cheetah gracefully landed on the ground, you spat out yet another mouthful of crimson, and growled at the feline fatale.
“Tired yet, love?” she taunted, cocking her head sideways in mock concern.
“Only of hearing you talk!” you snarled, beckoning her forward.
With a feral smile, she lunged at you again, this time becoming as relentless and furious as her animal namesake.
“Hah!” Cheetah absolutely whaled on you with a series of rights and lefts, roundhouses and round kicks, even eye raking at the tail end of each combo. Her forearms and legs became blurs themselves, constantly whizzing past you or barely missing slicing through your suit. Sooner than later, your suit was gradually being torn to literal ribbons by the villainess, who had already tasted your blood and was hungry for more.
When she attempted a downward slash after three continuous combos, you raised both forearms in an attempt to defend your exposed face. Cheetah, knowing your tactics, used both hands to rake down against your arms, slicing your remaining gauntlet in half while revealing three identical slash marks on both arms that revealed your exposed flesh.
Blood dripping off your arms and to the floor, causing Cheetah to lick her lips in anticipation before aiming another palm strike towards your throat, the tip of her fingernails heading directly towards your jugular.
Thinking fast, you intercepted her forearm underneath your armpit, trapping her while aiming a swift right hook at her face. Learning from her previous mistake, Cheetah ducked the blow rather easily, before lifting her right leg up and nailing a devastating high axe kick to the base of your skull, knocking you back.
Seeing stars, you stumbled back as Cheetah freed herself, and lunged towards you yet again to capitalize.
Lurching backwards, you now found yourself on the defensive yet again as Cheetah suddenly kicked off of the ground and landed on her hands right in front of you, performing a perfect jumping handstand.
To cap it all off, she then reared her legs back before executing a handspring, ramming her feet right underneath your chin, rattling your teeth. As you staggered backwards, she pushed herself off the ground with ease, landing with grace while you could barely stand.
Striking you once more across the cheek with her patented claws, you stumbled back towards the railing as Cheetah dropped down to all fours and lunged at you yet again.
Without much thought, you sluggishly aimed a right haymaker towards her racing blur, but she easily ducked and rolled underneath your armpit.
When you twirled around to meet her, she responded by driving her fist underneath your chin, knocking you upright while pivoting on her heel and landing yet another jump spin kick against your already broken nose, knocking your visor out of focus.
Seeing static, you blindly leaned against the railing.
When your visor came back into focus, you were met with a startling sight: Cheetah’s bare foot.
Delivering a swift side kick to your chin, you reeled back almost instinctively as the sole of her foot left a sweaty imprint on your mouth, her toes briefly tracing your lips. The kick remained plastered on your neck, her sole grinding against your face, muffling your agonized cries.
Almost savoring her victory, Cheetah sneered as her pointed toes traced your nose, her aroma entering through your nostrils and causing you to gag. The sweat accumulated from your quite lengthy duel had definitely begun smearing onto your face. Maintaining this quite athletic pose was easy for the former explorer, who continued driving her heel into your windpipe.
"Sometimes I think you enjoy me kicking your ass," she mocked, drilling her heel into your throat to prevent a response.
“Any last words?” she purred victoriously, as she continued pressing her advantage, literally.
“Yeah,” you snorted, before spitting out below:
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