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Grendel: Online

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Nikki "Diamond" Vetter picked the sound up on her audio implants and leapt backwards at blinding speed. It had been the high-pitched whistling sound of the air currents above her as someone or something was coming in hard and fast. She flipped gracefully, head over heels in a high somersault as the object slammed into the street where she had been literally a second before, cracking the asphalt and sending chunks of it in all directions. Then almost as quickly as it had landed, the object lunged towards her. It was obviously a woman, well-built and encased in tight, black leather from head-to-toe. She was wearing a black helmet complete with gas-mask and goggles, like she was a villain in a bad anime. As Nikki landed the woman had swung around with her right, slamming her fist hard into her collarbone. Nikki registered the force of the blow at around 51 tons. She flew backwards, colliding with a nearby brick wall. She was unhurt, but still surprised at the strength and agility of her opponent. A quick x-ray scan revealed something even more surprising however: this woman was a highly advanced cyborg.

Nikki's mind raced. She didn't seem like one of Sataria's mindless drones. She was dressed similar to those damned neo-Nazis that some of the other capes in the city had tangled with, but she didn't have any of their insignia. It would require investigation, hopefully when she had beat her into spare parts and junk. Barring that however she took the opportunity to activate her camera, taping her battle with this cybernetic assassin. The woman shot out towards her again at amazing speed, but this time she met with a left hook from Diamond, equally as fast, that staggered her backwards. Nikki followed it up with a leg sweep from the opposite side, but the black-clad woman leapt up and over coming down across the street. As she turned in the air, twin discs launched from her torso cutting through the air towards her. One missed and Nikki batted the other one aside as she rushed to confront the woman who was landing. As they made contact with the buildings behind her the detonated, blasting debris and rubble in all directions.

The woman landed only to have Nikki kick her dead in the face, sending her sprawling. She slid along the ground briefly before tumbling up and into a crouching position a few yards from her. Nikki advanced towards her, her irritation finally becoming vocal.

"You picked the wrong bitch to fuck with."

Nikki swung again, not holding back any of her considerable strength. The woman blocked. Punch, block, punch, block. Nikki switched to Wing Chun, slamming her elbow hard into the cyborg's side. The woman let out a muffled groan under her gas-mask, doubling slightly, and Nikki pressed her advantage. Perhaps she was just as strong and resilient, but not as well-trained. Switching again to capoeria, she lashed out with a perfectly executed Aú Fechado, both of her feet smashing into the assassin's face throwing her up in the air and down on her back. Nikki followed, hoping to finish off her opponent. Grendel retaliated with lightning fast kick to her shin, throwing her off balance. She she steadied herself, Grendel kicked up to her feet and followed through with a fouetté that caught her dead in the face, slamming her back against the side of the nearby building. This bitch knew Savate. She cursed knowing it would have been too easy.

Grendel raced over, throwing off a series of body blows at the sort of blinding speeds only enhanced reflexes could give you. Nikki yelped as fists smashed into her like wrecking balls over and over. Cursing she reared back and head-butted her opponent, knocking her back enough for her to launch another high kick, catching her in the ribs with it. Grendel spun around and came up popping twin gleaming claws from her forearms. Nikki chuckled for a moment.

"Yeah that's it bitch, go all Wolverine on someone whose nickname is 'Diamond'. Good luck with that."

The woman didn't reply. Instead she seemed to emit a white pulse of energy from her body. For a moment everything was deathly quiet and still. Then Nikki began to panic as she felt her internal circuits and hardware beginning to shut down. She was shielded against all forms in intrusion and EMP! How was this possible? What the hell kind of weapon did this cyborg have implanted onboard? She couldn't think about it now. Already her hydraulics were seizing up and her vision was going fuzzy. She dropped to one knee. Rapidly she began to re-route power as the cyborg rushed at her, blades shining under the street-lights. She reacted by firing off a burst of heat vision, punching it through her opponent's midsection. It might buy her a moment or two to get partially back online, but she didn't know if it would be enough to stop her from sinking those blades home. With her computer in a state of flux she didn't know if her cyber-skin would react as it should. Strangely the blow never landed.

Grendel stood there clutching her midsection almost absently. It wasn't that she was in great pain, it was that she had seen this kind of thing before. Laser Vision. She couldn't remember where or from who, but it brought back an odd sensation of memory. A fleeting series of images that came as a jumble and made little sense to her. Something was wrong. Nikki meanwhile had successfully managed to re-route most of her neural pathways and gotten back to her feet again. She fired off another blast of heat vision as she dodged to the side, this time catching the dazed woman across her face-mask. Grendel flew forward, taken out of her thoughts by the second blast. She was dazed, confused. Nothing made sense. She had to get back to Ilsa. She had to know what was wrong with her.

As Nikki turned to fire a third blast, the mystery woman knelt down where she had been stunned and leapt away, launching herself upwards like a rocket. Nikki started to go after her, but her hydraulics were still coming back to full strength. The cyborg-chick was well over a half-mile up and moving too fast. Nikki cursed like a sailor, throwing her fists up in the air. She had beaten her, but it was a hollow victory. The battle had been far too quick and brief. She still didn't know who she was or who she worked for, if anyone. She would take the video-record of there skirmish back for analysis. This was far from over between them and she would be seeing her again. That was a promise.

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Special thanks to :iconnathandart: for once again providing a fantastic image for me to write for!

The lovely Ms. Vetter belongs to :iconmrmarcus: and is used here with permission.

Grendel and the story were both created by :iconsoviet-superwoman:

This takes place in good ole' :iconangel-fallsda:
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Tazirai's avatar
good job man love it.