>>6082601“I can't track her. But that doesn't mean I can't predict her.” you think to yourself, closing your eyes with a deep breath. Something Aisha notices almost immediately.
“Hey, you're not giving up already, are you?” she taunts, her voice seemingly coming from all around you. “If you wanna surrender, I'll throw you right out of the ring!”
“If you think I'm quitting, feel free to try me.” you reply, keeping your eyes shut and voice even as you focus. Trying to reattain the state of mind you were in before, to predict the battles back during the war. But for several seconds you feel nothing, and are just about to quit this and try something else when you feel it. Suddenly your mind is not in the present, but the near future. Watching events as they could unfold.
“GOTCHA!” Aisha roars in your vision, rushing you from four sides. But it is the one on your left that's real, knocking you down onto your right side and pinning you down. You've got her. Opening your eyes, her illusory selves are still blinking in and out around you, the Ctarl-Ctarl woman roaring out. “GOTCHA!”
But you know what she's doing, twisting and firing a heavy right. Aisha's eyes widen in surprise as your fist flies towards her, and caught by surprise your punch lands. Knocking her back, tumbling across the ground until she gets her feet under her, clawing the ground and sliding to a stop as her images around you all fade away.
“Grrrrr! Wha-How did you do that?!” she snarls, her beast muzzle slightly distorting the words through her growl. “How did you know that was the real me?”
“Maybe I just got lucky.” you reply with a grin, retaking your fighting stance and once more closing your eyes. You hear her growl at this, once more leaping towards you. Diverting her path from a direct tackle, she again starts splitting into the dozens of herself, once more using that technique. You hear her moving faster and faster around you, feeling her energy multiplying into dozens of signatures all around you. But none of that matters, you tuning it all out and focusing. Trying to once more peer through time, to see what will be. And it comes far faster this time, you seeing her leap at you from four sides once more. But this time silently, without a shout. Only for all four to pass harmlessly through you, while the REAL Aisha leaps into the air, readying a beam and firing it from her mouth down onto you. The vision ends as you open your eyes, and sure enough all four wordlessly pounce. The incorporeal Aisha all leap at you, but you turn your focus skyward, where the REAL Ctarl-Ctarl is.
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