Show me what ya got kid (Jaz)

Pulling out her earbuds, Mia dropped them into their little pod container and into her coat pocket, having been wearing a fur-rimmed coat while she waited for Jasmine but quickly taking it off, tossing it a good distance so there wouldn't be too much chance of it getting caught in the crossfire, glancing across to spot a tree branch it hooked itself too and trying to make note of it for later. A cheeky laugh escaped her at Jasmine's logic. Kid had it going on and Mia could never fault her on her confidence. Mia, now left in cargo pants, boots, and an honestly cozy looking sweater spread her arms out and took on a look of mock offense.

"Kid what you on about? I mean don't get me wrong you got it goin' on so bad I'm sure they could get me fired if I started listin' alllll the shit you got goin' on but-" She gave a light twirl on her heels, though definitely a more stylish, masculine spin than a feminine twirl by any means. "You seen this shit? Where are my models? I should just fuckin' flex and hear a fine ass bitch cry in ecstacy in the distance. I mean-" she let her spread arms come back to just gesture over herself. "I know we're about to see who's packin' the most heat, but there's a reason I'm wearin' layers, cause YOU need to be insulated from alllllll this!~"

Mia of course burst into laughter the moment she dropped the exagerated act, grinning wide to herself behind her hand as she had a good laugh at her own expense, flashing Jasmine a wink. "Nah kid, seriously it's good. You should bring her down the cabin sometime... or, ya know. Maybe on a job or somethin.~ Be nice to meet her when I ain't being her fuckin' teacher or something."

Rolling her shoulders back to loosen up, Mia popped her neck in either direction before lowering into a more readied stance. She wasn't about to catch Jasmine by surprise, letting the two toned lass get ready herself, but she was at least gonna give her the pleasure of not having to make the first move this time. "Don't worry... been ready for a while... keep up won't ya?~"

Mia sweeped about herself, a hand lurching out on the spin and her claws digging into the edge of a rocky surface behind her, wrenching from it, barely breaking her momentum, a boulder sized chunk, sharp edged and still crumbling some of it's more poorly held pieces as she flung it about herself, shooting the massive chunk off towards Jasmine. She didn't faulter for a second, using the same motion to fall with her arm, her elbow harshly striking the ground and sending her spinning on her side while flying up into the air, the force enough to already tear a hole in her sweater where her elbow was, a wild grin on her face.

"HOPE YA DON'T MIND ME STARTIN' WITH THE CLASSICS SIS! Gotta see how you've improved!" The boulder was a strong start, but to follow up Mia slammed her fist against the air, the echoed force shaking the trees around them as the compacted blast of air hurtled towards Jasmine, rippling the air itself to the point the incoming bundle of force was practically visble.

Mia quirked her brow for a moment before bursting out into laughter as she realized what she'd just been reminded of, and moreso laughing at the fact she even had the audacity to do that in the first place. God her humor got so much worse over texts didn't it? "Aw man I almost forgot I did that... fuckin' hell I can't even remember if I'd had a few beers in me... no, wait, it was like, the middle of the day right? Definitely not.~" She had another little chuckle, sighing as she shook her head. "Jesus though... hey did she end up doing it?~" She'd ask with a shit eating grin, hoping to break the tension down all over again before bursting into some more chuckles. Ah well. Down to business!

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Mia wasn't at all shocked by the shattering of the boulder she'd used, but even with the damage she'd done to her surroundings already the fact Jaz was able to shatter the thing without an explosion definitely raised an eyebrow, and if anything, the fact Jaz didn't resort to them even as her shockwave came in was a stunner in itself. The results? They made her smile like all hell though. She could tell from the clear exertion Jasmine seemed to put out that it took a lot for her to match even one of Mia's lesser shockwave blows, but the fact she could even come close with her smaller arms, knowing enough about science to know her much larger fists gave her a bit of an advantage there... well, the world went slow mo for a moment. She just admired the kid before her and the clear strength she held... fuck. She was almost annoyed she wasn't that strong when she was her age. Maybe she'd be giving up her throne sooner than expected.

Lingering in midair, the momentum of her punch allowing her to dangle there for a moment, Jasmine breaking the distance came as no surprise, and knowing that midair combat was where her sister definitely held the advantage, Mia crossed her arms over herself ready to take the full blow rather than even attempt to dodge it. The blasts ripped across her tight frame and before Mia knew it she was flying backwards through the air over the sparse tree coverage of the mountainside. She could feel some heavy bruising was gonna be forming on her forearms, but from Jaz? Always a token of pride to leave a sparring session with those. Glancing back over her shoulder, she spotted she was heading for a tree, flipping herself and coming into the top of it's trunk feet first. Thankfully it seemed to have enough rubber to absorb her momentum, bending almost a full ninety degrees as it took Mia's weight, grasping the bending tree beneath her in one hand, tensing her other into a fist.

"Yeah... let's!"

The tree snapped back to a stand, the force it absorbed springing back through it, shattering the trunk as Mia left it behind, hurtling back through the air like a cannon herself. Jasmine by far had the advantage on midair mobility, but Mia could shift her weight just enough to give her a good aim on the kid. She didn't plan to hit her, Jasmine could dodge her with ease, but that was hardly the point. Whether Jasmine was at the edge of her fist or not, Mia would rocket into the earth behind her like a true missile, shattering the earth, chunks of stone, tree, earth, all lingering in the air around her as gravity seemed too scared to pull them back down too soon, giving her plenty of ammunition.

She bounded off her own fist and onto her feet in the crator she created, looking up to Jasmine, still likely in the air, and rushing back the way she came. He body was wild and manic, grabbing hefty chunks of debris she created and firing them off one after the other, roaring wildly as she just let instinct take her. Chunks Of rock, earth, tree alike, tossing chunks with the relative speed heavy caliber WW1 machine gun.

Had to keep things interesting for her sister now didn't she?~

Rapidfire like this definitely wasn’t Mia’s forte. She’d experimented with it a bit when she took on that immovable wall twerp back during the zombie outbreak, but she’d really had to push past her limits and channel the red that time. Now? She was still peachy skinned and using very makeshift projectiles. The mental instinct to know which rocks to grab and how to move to make sure she could grab a rock right after she threw the last would probably be mind boggling to a scientist to study, and for Mia herself she had little idea what the fuck she was doing either, her forehead actually heating up just by letting herself flow on instinct alone to pull this off, but as she started to run out of ammo, catching her breath, she got to admire the work her Sis had done to make herself impervious to her onslaught.

“Heh… That’s new…”

Unable to admire the sun for long, Jasmine came bursting out full speed towards her at full force, and as if on cue the earth lingering in the air around Mia seemed to drop to the ground, no longer eager to be thrown, the force of Jasmine’s rush knocking them to the ground as she came in to Mia. The Heroine turned her heels and dug herself into the spot, ready to take whatever was coming at her, a wild glee in her eyes even as she faced down something truly devastating.

Sometimes, she really did feel sorry for the quirkless. They never got a chance to experience shit like this!!!

Mia raised her arms in defense at the last moment she could have. The explosion from Jasmine’s heel meaning she didn’t have enough time to shift into a grab or anything of the like. She felt like the world around her went deaf from the impact for a moment. Her left eardrum definitely burst for a moment… but like a web of tissue being strung together, she slowly felt it repair inside her head as the eruption of force finally began to calm.

For a flash, Mia’s whole right side from her fist up to halfway across her face, stopping about her hip, was a thick red. The monstrous visage of her red rage was visible, the horn began to crack, and a deep darkness seemed to fill her eye on Jasmine’s side. As her skin grew denser however, the muscle forced to become more compact, the vibrant gold filled that same eye, and the crack began to heal itself over.

“This quick huh? You really bring out the best in me-SIS!” Breaking her guard rather forcefully to knock Jaz back, Mia seemed to have her entire left arm Red still and it was staying that way with half of her face, but she couldn’t get it to spread. At the very least though, she could maintain it, and that put a smile on her face. “Ya know, I can only get a flicker of this shit since I learned to control it. Well done for setting yourself up for an ass whoopin!”

Kicking off the ground, Mia reared back her red arm, and a good few meters still from Jaz, let rip a mighty punch, slamming her bicep into her other palm to halt the momentum dead and let it flow into the air around her. A blast of air more sizeable than Mia herself would rapidly expand from her fist and fly forward, and even if Jasmine avoided it, the air alone would have enough force to dig a deep trench through the earth behind her. The power of Mia when she could control her Red rage showing itself without hesitation or Mercy.

“FUCK YEAH!~”

…Jesus. She knew that blow had one hell of a wide blast radius to it but from what she could tell Jasmine had barely even tried to get out of the way. A hint of concern hit her as she watched the kid crash like a tumbleweed, barely keeping themselves from some true time in the dirt. She’d been filled with adrenaline one moment then legit fear the kid might snap their neck the next. She knew Jasmine was a tough cookie but… jesus, that was almost a little hard to watch.

When she finally found her feet Mia was more than a little relieved. At this distance she couldn’t see the brief look of probable despair when she was thinking she couldn’t beat Mia, and the blonde called out. “Hey you okay!?” Through the distance between them. Ever so faintly the red on her face and her shoulder started to recede back towards her fist, starting to calm down in some legitimate concern for Jaz… but she knew that two toned bitch better than most, and as she called out a battle cry of sorts for them to keep going, Mia tightened her fist, the Red on her skin surging back up to where it had been a second ago and locking in place there, shifting her stance to something more solid as she waited for Jasmine to close the distance.

“You and me both Jaz!~”

She really needed to get out of that instinctive urge of calling her ‘kid’. They’d been standing on the same ground for a long time.

With Jasmine’s approach Mia could probably give the air an open palmed slap to get the widest range she could on another air blast, but where was the fun in that? She wanted to see the girl up close and personal and with a wild grin she reared back her red arm, ready to punch again when she was close enough for a shot to be a dead certain hit. She felt the veins bulging along her muscles, muscles tightly compacted around her dense bone, and when Jasmine was finally close enough she threw her punch forward, only to watch as the two toned lass shot down to the ground, using the torn up earth to her advantage to slide through it like softened mud and between her legs, an explosive crash sounding behind her as she did where Mia’s fist impacted the air where she’d once been, he stomache left unguarded. While a portion of it was turning red, she was still taking a majority of those explosions right to her peachy gut, stopping her from raising her guard all that soon in response.

“Cheap shot…! If that’d’ve hit me in the cunt…!”

With the kick coming round into her head she was left completely unguarded this time, unable to cope with the speed. Even with control over her red state tending to favour quicker, sharper motions than the beastly monster it had once been, Jasmine blowing up her gut like that before going right for a headblow from behind was a little too fast for her brain to keep up with. Uprooted from her spot, her head flowed with the kick, knocked entirely off balance and crashing down off her shoulder, skimming a step before digging in her claws and throwing her head up. A second golden eye met Jasmine, and the Red rage spread from the harsh imprint of her boot against her face, down along her neck and across her shoulder. Briefly her muscle seemed to bulk to the level of her beastly state, before her skin seemed to forcibly restrict and condense the muscle down to a leaner state, the red coating flowing midway down her abdominals as she rose up to a full stand.

“I’d call that a cheap shot but…we both know that took some fuckin’ skill!~” Her freshly reddened cheek seemed to steam almost as her healing factor started to get to work, healing the damage beneath her skin, almost searing the ruptured veins back shut before bruises or swelling could occur. The pain was INTENSE in her face but she managed to hold a wild smile through it. If anything, she felt better than ever.

“Ya know…! I’m almost sad I don’t know how to turn this on but… Guess I just get to savor it all the more if it only comes with someone as tough as you!~”

She took a long breath to just savour how it felt. The heat under her skin almost felt like it was burning her from the inside… and a weird part of her fucking loved it!

“RAAAAAAAAARGH!”

Throwing her arms up together she linked her hands into a single fist, and without thought or tactics to guide her, she slammed all her might down into the already torn up earth around her, sinking herself deeper as the earth around her broke and shattered to make room, warping and distorting like a tsunami of jagged rocks in all directions aiming to engulf Jasmine if she wasn’t on her toes. Mia knew full well this wasn’t a power she should ever use in a populated area unless she truly had to… but FUCK was it tasty to even flex it out here with her girl Jasmine. Fuck injuries, fuck limits, fuck the chance of casualties. Here she just got to fucking FLEX with someone she knew could dish it right back to her!

After the earth came crashing back down around her Mia felt a moment of silence. Her keen eyes felt like they’d seen Jasmine for a hair of a moment but it didn’t fully register in her brain as a true image. Like a trick of the light or wishful thinking that her protégé would have managed to not only avoid the blow but somehow power through it. Alas she couldn’t be sure that was what she’d actually seen… just a flicker of gold on a single frame of her vision. She slowly drew her hands up out of the earth as she tried to survey her surroundings… either Jasmine had been buried under the tsunami of earth entirely and was about to burst back out of the ground, or she’d fled far enough from it into the trees or behind the nearby terrain that Mia just couldn’t see her.

“Well… guess that’s tha-GHK!!”

Mia had just moved to roll back her shoulder and loosen up when the pain finally hit her. Even with the thick red skin of her rage state the sheer speed and sharpness of the blows seemed to tear through her skin and open up the wounds a moment later as the internal pressure of her dense muscles tried to break through the slit like openings, dropping to her knee and panting harshly. The pain wasn’t unbearable, but it had been unexpected, sudden, and harsh. Her eyes crossed her shoulder, and even through the brief moment of agony as muscle fibres felt torn up at her shoulders and her hip joints, she had to smile, truly impressed by the kid who almost looked bewildered themselves if she had to take a stab at that look on their face.

“That’s… new…~”

She only had glee in her voice. It was always great to be stunned by this kid of all people. She pushed her back up, a little shaky to her feet, taking slow deep breaths. Her body had been so stunned that even as the regen factor tried to close up the wounds, the more precise damage to her muscles internally wasn’t getting much help. She could still move, but not with the same precision, the same reaction time. She clenched her fist into a tight ball, but it was shaky to say the least, a wild smile on her maw as every as she locked eyes with Jasmine.

“Gotta ask… can you keep that up for long?~”

(won’t start the cripple countdown yet as Mia is just wasting time talking)

Mia didn't know what this new set of tricks would entail but she could at least see that it was fucking with her regeneration a bit. It hadn't fucked with any vital organs or the like but it was like the explosions, as tiny as they were, were still fighting off her healing properties of her red state. Trying to push through it she could feel the red pushing further down her hips and down her legs. As she did the bulky stake of her muscles condensed and grew more slender, steam pouring from her skin almost as the heat of such compacted muscle seeped through her skin. Much like Jasmine wasn't sure how long her own state was gonna last, she could very much feel the same. Maybe she'd just dehydrate to a crisp, or maybe the steam was the air around her sizzling. Hard for her to tell... but for now at least she was gonna push herself to the limit!

As Jaz came in with her feint, Mia's own senses were keen and sharp. She could see it for what it was, the subtler motions of her arm caught my sharp eyes and keen senses in her heightened, reddened state, she reared back an arm all the same however. She felt like she had the power needed to get out the blow before Jasmine could take her for whatever ride she was planning. Just as she tried to throw the punch, her shoulder locked up, the muscles she needed to use shredded and delaying her by the hair of a second Jasmine needed to swoop around her back, and striking down hard on her back.

By now her clothes were pretty much torn to shreds, the hero-level sports bra pretty much the only thing surviving on her upper half as she keeled forward.

"Fast kid... but lets try THIS!"

Already keeled over low, Mia flowed with that stance and brought her arm under her chest in a swing flowing into an uppercut as she turned around, gritting her teeth and pushing through the pain in her joints as she shot her fist up towards the sky. Blowing all the air above her skyward and creating a monsterous updraft shockwave, trying to force Jasmine up into the sky and putting some distance between the two. Or, at the very least, giving Jaz one hell of a shockwave uppercut to their torso.