"Tch... His mech can take a beating." Serah let out over the intercom of STRAWBERRY, before opening up a private chat with Ian. "Sure! But not here. This isn't a fair 1x1, let's have a private sparring match later!" Serah excitedly spurted out, leaving the call and going back to STRAWBERRY as soon as Ian came in close for the attack. The cheapshot hit for her leg did indeed hit, the message [i]'LEFT FEET THRUSTER 1 & LEFT KNEE THRUSTER 1 OFFLINE'[/i] flashed on her screen. Grr-! This was going to put off her piloting ability so much. She was able to block the second swing with the hilt of Atty's blade though, but repeated jabs to her core did manage to hit... It didn't take long for Serah to realise he was trying to disconnect her from her Framewerk, and as soon as she got a parry in she'd try to stab Ian's framewerk's chest region. The lag started being noticable though, so an Improv strat came to mind. Using her one remaining wing offensivly, it detached itself and tried to ram into Ian's neck, then pinning him down... This had to hit... Come on...