[hr][center][i][H3][color=00ffff]Shieldmaiden[/color][/h3]Victoria van Dyne[/i][hr][b][Color=00ffff]Location:[/color][/b] Foam sword fighting
[B][Color=00ffff]Skills:[/color][/b]
[Color=00ffff]Blade combat:[/color] Byron Pursebane wants the swords back
[Color=00ffff]Giving up:[/color] Like hell![/center][hr]Victoria could not believe her optics. This should have worked, at least badly. Two blades versus one, even if she died on this hill, she should have taken out her opponent with her. That was basic arithmetic! But apparently, today probability said 'hold my beer' and decided to screw her over. She watched in horror and ever increasing shame as not only was her attack deflected, but she lost one of her weapons, with her own follow-up somehow not materializing.

She watched the lost weapon fly off into the crowd and frag a friendly, unable to avert her gaze from the unraveling disaster. The utter mortification resulting from this took so much of Victoria's attention, that she missed the fact that the disarming strike also launched her own arm in an arc towards her face, up until her own fist clobbered her own temple. Her head snapped backwards, now wearing a look of surprise mixed with bewilderment.

She stood there frozen still, quietly reflecting on her life choices. Perhaps she could still be an accountant? That may be more on her level, apparently.

[code]
Estimating probability of experienced outcome...
~ 0.25%
[/code]

After taking a second to let that number sink in, she slowly straightened her head and glared at Zari. [Color=00ffff]"Okay. I know I said I was going to be bad at this, but come on. I cannot be [b]this[/b] bad. I refuse to believe it! Not after two years in this place! I know I don't have a super gimmck of my own, but there is a guy with bow and arrow on the Avengers, for zuck's sake! This must have been an extreme bad luck on my part, and a lucky shot on yours. If we do this again, this can't end this badly again... Right?"[/color] she frowned, taking a few steps away and readying herself for another round.

[color=00ffff]"Come on, one more time...?"[/color] she half ordered, half pleaded. Now with only one blade, she assumed the same stance as before, only with the freed arm ready to grapple instead.

[Hider=Prepared moves]
If attacked: Deflect blade strike with her own and try to lock Zari's main hand in a grapple.

If on the attack: Go for a weapon bind and then a gut punch.
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