Post by muezick on Mar 4, 2012 16:12:00 GMT -4
Why would some one like superman ever bother with martial arts? He doesn't need to avoid blows or use his opponents strength against him. After fighting beings like darkseid though, he knows a thing or two about what a hard hit feels like. He knows a thing or two about fighting in hand to hand combat. He can do more than throw punches.
But it wont be enough against this living instrument of death.
The blade sails by Clark, flying end over end with enough speed and force to launch it across the country and over into the next. But that attack was just a ruse! A means to keep Superman off balance.
When the Reaver shows her face next, she's hammering Clark from behind. A rear uppercut hits Clarks spine, the pain he feels is nothing like he's ever felt before, it's like The Reaver is attacking his nervous system with her fists. She throws an arm around Superman's neck and pulls him back and down. Her strength is amazing! As she brings Clark back and down she brings her knee up to connect with the back of Clarks head. The blow lands and sends Superman into a dazed state of pain and confusion.
His senses are suddenly fried! He can't hear, he can't see straight. The knee to the back of the head did more than inflict superficial pain, it has some how effected his mind, his neural axons feel like they've been severed.
His whole body goes numb, then she puts her fist into clarks face and sends him flying. He doesn't pass go, he doesn't collect two hundred dollars. He sails with the force of a bullet train into the remains of a collapsed building. Smoke and dust kick up in the wake of his cataclysmic fall.
Superman is far stronger, faster and more durable than The Reaver, but the Reaver fights smart, her technique is unique, unknown and plays to all of her strengths and against all of clark's weaknesses. Plus there is an unknown third factor that Clark is currently feeling in every square inch of his body. This bizare phantom pain that he feels under his skin, under his muscle. It's fake, it's not real, but it feels so real.
Some where in his spinning confusion and lost senses, Clark, in his minds eye, knows it isn't real and if he can just...muster the will to over come it...The game will be over. He knows it! But can he do it!?