A Fair Fight 1/6
anonymous
August 1 2013, 05:23:27 UTC
A!A Notes: Not exactly what I'd call realistic, but the body mechanic works, and it's a hell of a lot more exciting than the three second exchange of reality. I realize that this isn't exactly the pure walkover that was implied by the OP, but I like my heroes to overcome challenges...and it makes the choreography a lot more fun. “He did warn you not to overstay your welcome,” drawled Kai Leng, distortions smudging the air about his hand as his palm cannon vented heat. The assassin swiveled with leonine grace, exposing the monoblade in his hand. It was a challenge as bare as the blade.
Shepard’s lip curled. “Leng,” he spat, slapping his helmet’s visor down. The Shade suit’s VI immediately tagged Leng and painted him with a red glow, tagging weapon systems, shielding, and other combat multipliers with contrasting symbology. Enough to understand, too little to distract. Thanks, Spooky. “Everyone stays back,” he ordered
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A Fair Fight 2/6
anonymous
August 1 2013, 05:26:58 UTC
“You’re slower, weaker, and older, Shepard. But if you want to die like the drell, far be it from me to stop you.” Leng stalked forward, monoblade resting against his shoulder. Shepard matched his steps, blade tip low and forward. As they came into range, Leng’s blade came to a ready position above his shoulder, bodyweight resting on the balls of his feet
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A Fair Fight 3/6
anonymous
August 1 2013, 05:29:42 UTC
Spooky, the Shade armor’s VI, updated the symbology overlaid on the assassin. “Warning: Hostile equipped with kinetic sumps.” Shepard twisted into a teleport forward and to his left, slashing behind him as he emerged. He felt the blade tug at something, but it was tenuous. Stepping back and turning on his other leg, he caught the results of the cut as he reestablished his guard.
Nothing more than a cut in Leng’s coattail.
Shepard afforded himself a silent growl. He might have been one of the deadliest hand-to-hand combatants alive, but it was becoming increasingly clear that Kai Leng was simply faster than him. And now, with the k-sumps, his advantage of biotics was blunted. The Illusive Man really had built Kai Leng to kill him. And for a fraction of a second, Shepard wondered if the assassin really could do it.
Fuck that, Shepard. We’ve got no room for that talk. So he’s faster, and your biotics can’t hurt him. Find an advantage. Shepard stepped into the space behind a slash, cutting down at Leng’s forearm. The assassin twisted
( ... )
A Fair Fight 4/6
anonymous
August 1 2013, 05:32:19 UTC
But the monoblade skittered off a sapphire buckler projected from the assassin’s left hand. Even as Shepard let his stance sink and his blade glide to intercept the assassin’s, he could see Leng’s wrist twist and the glow in his palm turn towards the N7’s face.
Shepard had no wish to test his armor and shields against that most literal handcannon, especially not at point-blank range. Teleporting would take too long, and a biotic charge into Leng, inside the palm gun, would only spit him on the assassin’s monoblade, only for Leng to turn his wrist and blow out the back of Shepard’s skull
( ... )
A Fair Fight 5/6
anonymous
August 1 2013, 05:34:05 UTC
Even as Shepard began to step towards Kai Leng, a pair of phantoms dropped in front of him. The first was met with a rising slash that whispered through her, hip to shoulder, before her feet touched the ground. Stepping to the side, he put the falling corpse between himself and the other one, tugging her with his biotics into a stumble. Grabbing the wrist of her steadying arm, he twisted it with an explosive pop, sending the reflexive palm cannon shot into the temple of an engineer. His monoblade sunk point-on into her breast before he twisted it and ripped it out through her shoulder, robbing her death-cut of all of its power. A kick sent her corpse flailing away into a trooper
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A Fair Fight 6/6
anonymous
August 1 2013, 05:37:12 UTC
Shepard teleported. To deflect large objects, Leng had to contract the shield into a buckler of sorts. That meant it couldn’t cover all the angles at once. Even as the tonfa sparked away from the shield, Shepard appeared behind and to the side of Leng. The assassin was too fast to land a killing blow on, twisting and spinning to bring the buckler and blade to bear on Shepard
( ... )
“He did warn you not to overstay your welcome,” drawled Kai Leng, distortions smudging the air about his hand as his palm cannon vented heat. The assassin swiveled with leonine grace, exposing the monoblade in his hand. It was a challenge as bare as the blade.
Shepard’s lip curled. “Leng,” he spat, slapping his helmet’s visor down. The Shade suit’s VI immediately tagged Leng and painted him with a red glow, tagging weapon systems, shielding, and other combat multipliers with contrasting symbology. Enough to understand, too little to distract. Thanks, Spooky. “Everyone stays back,” he ordered ( ... )
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Nothing more than a cut in Leng’s coattail.
Shepard afforded himself a silent growl. He might have been one of the deadliest hand-to-hand combatants alive, but it was becoming increasingly clear that Kai Leng was simply faster than him. And now, with the k-sumps, his advantage of biotics was blunted. The Illusive Man really had built Kai Leng to kill him. And for a fraction of a second, Shepard wondered if the assassin really could do it.
Fuck that, Shepard. We’ve got no room for that talk. So he’s faster, and your biotics can’t hurt him. Find an advantage. Shepard stepped into the space behind a slash, cutting down at Leng’s forearm. The assassin twisted ( ... )
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Shepard had no wish to test his armor and shields against that most literal handcannon, especially not at point-blank range. Teleporting would take too long, and a biotic charge into Leng, inside the palm gun, would only spit him on the assassin’s monoblade, only for Leng to turn his wrist and blow out the back of Shepard’s skull ( ... )
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