As the heat rushed towards Rakhana's opponent, the man used his obviously well-honed evasion skills once more, this time to jump above both the wave of scorching heat and the Rakhana copies littering the bridge and leaving buckled steel from a small post and a chain-link fence in the wake of his escape. Both were further weakened and distorted by the blast of heat, the links in the fence completely obliterated and the frame brittle and scorched, reduced close to nothing by the time the wave of heat had passed. Of course, the blue-haired man would have been well clear by that point, but if he chanced to look back at any point, it would be a reminder of her pure destructive capabilities.

Leo did not look to be landing with grace and poise either, and collided against the floor with all the strength behind his muscles and his weapon swing, the concrete beneath his feet practically shuddering at the forceful landing. Moments later, a chunk of the overpass was hurtling towards Rakhana, and her natural instinct was to drop to one knee to stabilise herself as she shifted the energy output around her from heat to kinetic, using a powerful blast of force to deflect the hunk of concrete out and away from her. Flecks of rubble splintered off as the boulder-like mass bounced to her left, only coming to a stop once it collided with the side of a building. This was turning out to be a more destructive meeting than Rakhana had previously anticipated, though in her Hyde-state she was less concerned with that than she might have otherwise been. At the moment, her only concern was to ensure that the Fifth Apocalypse never saw the light of day again.

Shifting her aura back to heat again the moment Leo's attack was successfully deflected, the young Russian noted him sprinting towards her, once again trying to close the gap. The man was fast, but Rakhana was definitely faster - with the adrenaline coursing through her veins, she could easily outrun a speeding supercar, let alone this man whose top speed seemed to be well within a highway speed limit. She could lead him on a merry chase throughout New York, likely tiring him without even breaking a sweat. But she was tired of running, and tired of hiding from men who thought the world, and all the people in it, were theirs to ruin and destroy. 

As Leo moved within a hundred feet of her (ninety-four feet, by the time he had reached the railing, to be precise), Rakhana forced the thermochemical energy constantly produced through her body through the foot and opposing knee in contact with the floor, throwing herself to the side as she once again utilised a layer of heat energy to leave an echo in her place and mask her movement. The movement only placed her a couple of feet to the right, just enough to throw him off balance with the heat echo and, hopefully, leave him open to an attack. Raising the unsheathed Shiva and aiming it at the opponent above her, she fired three rounds of plasma in quick succession towards her opponent's upper torso; even partially obscured by the rail behind which he sought shelter, the cover-penetrating plasma round would still pose a threat to Leo, albeit slightly mitigated by having to burn through the defence first. Between her cloaked movement, the decreased distance between them and the unnatural speed of the rounds, it would be rather difficult for him to evade this particular attack.

But Rakhana was prepared for even that eventuality, and the aura around her shifted once more, this time into a stratified, dual-energy cocoon. It started at her skin, pulsing outwards with a powerful kinetic force that then converted itself into a second layer of incandescent, scorching plasma. The heat and the kinetic shield beneath, the armoured superfluid atop her skin, and her surgically enhanced muscles that were coiled, tensed, and ready to deflect any attack that came her way. She had laid defence after defence, transforming herself into a near-indestructible bastion, ready to explode with her raw, overwhelming strength the moment her opponent got within range.

[i](Note: Edited with opponent's agreement to clear up some discrepancies on distance.)[/i]