As powerful as the beast was, and as impressively quick as it could move its limbs, it still could not simply club its way through a plasma sword. When the two met, it was the energy blade that incinerated any flesh it touched. She split the club in half down the middle for some distance down the length of the tentacle. Part of the tentacle did strike her stomach, though without near the full force. It only served to slow her down somewhat before she resumed her charge forward. 

When Rareth came in close, it was to slash at the remaining tentacles close to their source. Thebes requested cover to extract Carthage, which was precisely what Rareth gave. She was quick, and there was no sneaking up on her. If any part of the creature so much as came close to her, her blade could cleave it in two. Two of the tentacles closest to Carthage she severed near the base, while others farther away started to keep just out of reach, though her particle cannon could still injure them. 

Once Carthage started to fall further into the beak, Rareth turned to assist. The tentacle that jabbed at Thebes was met with the burning edge of Rareth’s sword, and would certainly be severed like the rest if it was too stubborn to give up. At the same time, she collapsed her other arm back into its normal configuration, then grabbed a hold of Carthage as well under her arm. She added her considerable strength to pulling the Human from the beast’s clutches, then decided to further [i]discourage[/i] the creature by using her blade to start indiscriminately carving through any piece of its mouthparts that she could reach. “Just…get her out, and I can finish the beast.”