X could smell Sarah approach, she felt a bit weird about that. To her, Sarah was like a beacon. It was impossible not to focus on her, she was the only other scent-bearing being in the room. It smelled, for an instant, as though Sarah might betray her. She could feel the emotions mingling in the air, even as she worked to defend against the sudden flurry of well-aimed attacks. 

The AI was good enough to push her back slightly, but Laura parried again and again. Their chiming blades were like a slow rainfall on a tin roof, if rainfall could pack a punch. Sarah's pistol shot was a relief, even if it "missed". The maneuver surprised Laura, maybe less so than Sarah for familiarity's sake, but from that instant she knew she'd have to end this quickly. 

Even if she couldn't tire easily, she could still get distracted. The machine didn't have that and it was quite apparent he was out to kill.

She made a decision. 

The captain's sword pierced through her flimsy guard, the holographic blade bore into her. She could feel the pain pulsing through her abdomen, an electric shock simulation of sorts. Meant to short-circuit her nervous system, it likely would've knocked out most anyone else. She growled in pain, but it was obviously a maneuver of her own choosing. Obvious in the quickness that her legs shot out, that her hand pulled the Captain's grip closer, that her dagger pushed up into his guts. 

He dropped to his knees, she wrapped her arms around his neck and twisted as he fell to the deck, the rest was quiet. She pulled the holographic sword from her gut and let it drop. All there was was silence, the ship belonged to her. She looked over at Sarah, still feeling a bit frazzled from the force of the shock. It wasn't eloquent and it wasn't her best work, but she knew how to use her mutation and could deal with it like few others could. 

"I thought for a second there you might shoot me instead," she said with a sly grin - eyes showing only the slightest hints of pain. "It is...as they say, a pirate's life, right?" The tiniest of laughs fell from her lips like a heavy black cloud. Her smile like summer rain, even if it was warm and beautiful it was still blocking out the sun. 

"One day I hope to meet you ship-to-ship. Maybe we will have our duel then?"