by Rebel Raven » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:47 pm
"Thank you, Hook." She salutes him respectfully.
After the repairs she decides to take that shakedown cruise she had denied herself when her arm was repaired. She heads for an empty area in the grounds around Tau.
Rolling her well articulated shoulders she tests the repairs on her thrusters by moving them rapidly in their full range of articulation as was necessary with her combat style. She fires them off and makes a trio of flying circle kicks with alternating legs with her foot blades at the forefront creating a flashy light show with her ignited heat blades and the flames of her thrusters which kept her in the air.
She lands in a crouch, stabbing at the knee of her imagined foe with a wrist blade, then her other arm's wrist blade stabs aimed below the chest plate angled for the spark case.
Her thrusters ignite again and they spin her around to deliver a whirling heel kick for the head with her foot blade reaping the neck.
Her heel kick finished in less then an astrosecond her thrusters swivel and flare in the face of her foe creating a flash. She follows this with a back-flip with her bladed feet looking to cleave her shadow foe open across the torso.
As she lands, she rockets forward briefly throwing her arms in front of her, both wrist blades moving in a rending motion, aimed to cleave the spark case open.
While she doesn't fly as fast as many, her robot form's movements are very fast. Faster than most. All due to the fact she uses her thruster system agile frame and martial knowledge to make her seem more physically capable than she is. Leverage, balance, precision, speed and velocity. All these things and more come natural to her in melee. What she lacks in other fields she makes up for in dedication to combat. Unfortunately for her it took a toll on everything else.
She rockets back, and starts bouncing on the ends of her feet, turning her thrusters off in a display of footwork. She slides her left foot forward towards the shins of her imagined foe, then kicks the thigh with a downward motion of her foot, and a side kick follows aimed for the ribs.
She leaps up and stabs her left foot blade down as if to stab her fallen foe, and as she lands a wrist blade swipe would cleave the neck, followed by her other wrist blade slamming into the ground aimed for the spark case.
A few moments of thruster propulsion and she's backed off her imagined fallen prey.
Landing on her feet, she boosts back and fires off rounds of needler gun rounds sending a spray of energy shards away from the base. She boosts to the side, and fires away from the Decepticons with her forearm mounted rifle sending a green beam into the horizon. A second blast is fired as her thrusters are used to allow her to ski on her feet, with a shower of sparks from the friction of her feet and the ground in a brief demonstration of high speed combat.
She ends the graceful high speed exercise with a thruster assisted spin adding a bit of flare.
"Much better. Let the Autobots come." She muses to herself, feeling oh so much better with her repairs done and the Constructicons preparing to restore Tau's defenses, clenching her fists in a quasi-dramatic pose, resuming her usual combat readiness as her combat computer assimilates the data from her brief bout of training and begins running simulations to improve her combat maneuvers. Always improving, and striving for more ability, and always prepared to evolve if ever given the chance.
As it is, she's reached a point that few of her rank, if any, had reached with her unwavering dedication to all things combat related, and she may well rival command units in combat, melee-wise at the least, though she has little to no desire to test that theory. Unless they're Autobots, that is. Her courage means she'll fight virtually anyone she felt she could defeat while retreating only when she's been proven wrong.
Even if she could topple the Decepticon chain of command she lacks the ambition to do so even if it meant that she'd take the rank of who she defeated.
She could care less if she decimates the Autobot chain of command. One Autobot is as good as another when it comes to fighting. She'll defeat anyone she possibly can.
War and preparation for combat rule her person. Not climbing the ranks or commanding others. Even prestige is outside her goals. If such things happened to come her way, she would not argue, though.
To call her a consummate combatant is an understatement to say the least.
But unlike many of the martial artists such as Thunderwing, Bugly, and Bludgeon Shrike lacks a mystical/spiritual side since her training is self taught from experience and simulations. Thus she lacks any "mystical" energy bolts they may use.
If she cared to feel the notion of "pride" she would have it in being one of the deadliest fighters on Cybertron.
Still, if she were under the right supervision she could be Titanium in the ore just waiting to be refined and made even better.