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Baiken - Cannon blowback

Jul 3rd, 2022 (edited)
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  1. While Baiken’s attention was focussed on Batroc, One Eye crouched low and stalked through the leaves across her left - her blind side.
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  3. He burst up from the leaves, hammer at the ready.
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  5. He caught her eye. She blanched. “What are you---?”
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  7. “The ultimate evil. Apparently.”
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  9. With a surgeon’s precision he tapped the hammer sharply against a microfracture in the cannon barrel.
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  11. Right as the fuse hit powder.
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  13. (...)
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  15. When One Eye struck the cannon it backfired with exactly as much force as expected.
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  17. Iron shrapnel from the gunmetal along with gold from the bursting shell turned the walls to swiss cheese.
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  19. Thankfully, the initial explosion blasted One Eye under the staircase which shielded him from the brunt of the shrapnel. Batroc doubled back behind the statue of Khonshu with Carolina to wait out the storm.
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  21. When the dust cleared, Baiken still stood. Growing spots of crimson dyed her white kimono but she grit her teeth, animated by a raw sort of fury.
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  23. ***
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  25. Proletlariet, Round 2
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