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Metanoia’s eyes widened as she watched the cape scale the building. In the precious few seconds she had before the cape reached her, she mentally revised her evaluation of the cape and retreated from the edge of the rooftop. Not only was the enemy cape fast and strong, but she was also dextrous and nimble. And...where was she? Metanoia had lost sight of her because she’d retreated from the rooftop to avoid being thrown off, but at the previous cape’s climbing speed she should have been here alre—

Metanoia began backpedaling as fast as possible, but she wasn’t fast enough simply due to the inertia of her few hundreds pounds of armor. The cape struck with a thunderclap of sound, her fist shattering the bone shield effortlessly and slamming into Metanoia’s midsection. The thicker armor underneath held firm, though, and Metanoia immediately shifted her growth toward fixing the slight bruise underneath her armor and fixing the shield.

Then the enemy cape grabbed the ragged bone edge of the shield and pulled. Metanoia found herself thrown forward, her spiked boots having been angled to resist something pushing her and not pulling her. Note to self, consider adjusting spike weave.

A large chunk of the shield on Metanoia’s arm will snap off, leaving the villain holding a large, ragged, flat plate of bone with a few spikes dotting the surface. Metanoia will regain her footing as quickly as possible and immediately sprout two flat, very thin blades about two feet long from her knuckles in less than a second, defensively holding them out in front of herself to keep the enemy cape at a distance. The way that the sword grows will look organic, like tiny white roots growing and branching and splitting at their ends until the mass solidifies into an ivory sheet. She’ll then shift part of her growth toward thickening the base of the swords, so that if the blades snap off she’ll have a thicker base to regrow them from, and use the other part of her growth toward growing more densely-packed fast-twitch muscle and thicker tendons underneath her armor to increase the explosive strength and speed of her movements.