Overpowers Alexandria

Her fists slammed home into my open palms with a sound like thunder, rumbling and powerful. The air around us rippled and rain was pushed away, as though we were the center of an explosion. For an instant, we hung there, matching fists.

Then, gravity took over and I landed, and Alexandria followed me down, hovering just high enough to stay level with my eyes. Even like that, I dwarfed her, and if I’d cared, I might have found it comical.

I didn’t care. I didn’t even take the time to try. I abandoned all other thought aside from moving forward and killing Leviathan, and if I had to push Alexandria out of the way with every step, then that was exactly what I would do.

“▅▅▄▄▃▃▂▂▃▃▄▄…! ”

I stepped forward. Alexandria, grunting, was pushed back. Her arms were held almost perfectly straight, and her lips had curled into a snarl of effort. She was giving it her all to try and hold me back, and even though she was failing, she was failing slowly. That she hadn’t buckled immediately gave proof to her claim as the strongest woman in the world.

At any other time, I would have found that impressive. Then and there, I only cared that it put her in my way.

My left foot swung. I took another step forward, as inevitable as time, as inexorable as a mountain. Alexandria, arms trembling from the effort, teeth gritted together, slid back, and when it became obvious that whatever method allowed her to fly didn’t give her enough leverage, she dropped fully to the ground and planted her feet.

It wasn’t enough.

My right foot swung forward. The pavement buckled and broke. Her boots ripped and tore. The asphalt wore away at the fabric of her costume, shredding it. Carving twin grooves into the street, Alexandria was pushed back.

A curl of vindictive pleasure swam through my gut.

Even the strongest woman in the world wouldn’t, couldn’t, stop me from killing Leviathan.

She was just a nuisance that kept getting in my way.

So why don’t you get that through your head already…

A growl rumbled deep in my throat, more animal than human.

AND GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY!

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Another step, and another, and another. First my left foot, then my right, then my left again. Each one came faster as I picked up momentum and inertia. Each one came easier.

But Alexandria didn’t give up. She matched my growl with one of her own, and it rose and rose with each step until she was roaring her defiance in my face. Even as I pushed her back, even as she was forced to give ground, even as her boots ripped away and she was left in her bare feet.