Olympic Mashup - Carmen Rodriguez vs. Themis (D)

[TickTock]

Themis could playfully jab at her opponent’s tactics, but she couldn’t deny they were smart. Both times catching the Greekwoman off guard, yet to her own credit, she managed to worm her way out of it, the first with her own instincts, and this time with her skill, countering the waist lock into a headlock.

Yet Carmen wasn’t a noob herself, bringing the two to the ropes and bouncing her opponent off of them, losing her grip and sent running. And Themis knew this could end a few ways, once she came rebounding off the opposite set of ropes. Yet instead of running through every possibility within a second, she just went with her instinct, which told her to embrace the speed, hitting the ropes with momentum and coming back to see the boxer charging at her.

SMACK!

Themis had lowered her shoulder to meet Carmen’s, which resulted in a hard smack of their bodies meeting each other. And the Amazon, while feeling her opponent’s strength, refused to budge and came to a still right in front of her.

“Not shabby,” she chuckled, making a show of brushing her fingers over the shoulder that had impacted against her opponent, before pointing towards the ropes. “Again?”

Themis didn’t wait for an answer to her challenge, turning around to build speed and hit the ropes again. She knew she’d have her answer by the time she turned around, and if Carmen awaited her, she’d throw her shoulder forward again, to see which of the two could take the blunt force.

[BlackAkuma]

Carmen rushed into Diana with a full head of steam, figuring she could knock her down with relative ease. While the woman was built like a living statue, carved out of solid granite, there was only so much that anyone could do when you had speed on your side. Mass times acceleration equals force, and she had more than enough of the latter to make up for any deficiencies in the former.

Or so she thought.

She set that notion aside as their bodies collided, smacking together with a hearty thwack that you could probably hear outside of the arena. The impact knocked Carmen back a step, but she found her footing quickly enough and locked eyes with Diana.

She wanted more? Okay. ”Yes, ma’am.”

Carmen rolled her neck then darted off to the side and rushed over to meet Diana again. This time she made sure to put some real oomph into her the shoulder tackle, throwing her full weight forward with a blow that would certainly topple the amazon.

…right?

[TickTock]

Themis was built like a statue, she knew that much. But she wasn’t invulnerable…

… just close to it.

In spite of Carmen’s momentum, the Greekwoman had built her own momentum running the ropes and thus generated power to mitigate the damage and allow her to remain standing after their clash of bodies. And she even wanted seconds, prompting the two to run the ropes again for another collision.

This was pure might vs might… and Diana didn’t intend to lose.

Hitting the ropes hard, she came back in a flash, her chiseled arm leaned in. Not just aiming to hit Carmen… but run right through her! She had confidence in her power, a lively look in her way as she came in towards the boxer, a battering ram intending to bash open her defenses!

[BlackAkuma]

This… was doable. Carmen was reasonably sure of that. Tough, yes, obviously…but doable.

After the second clash, she could see where the problem was. It wasn’t just a matter of speed and momentum - those would’ve been able to carry her well enough with most opponents, but against a foe of Themis’ calibre, she would need timing as well. It wasn’t just how she hit, but when she hit.

Carmen came storming off the ropes, built up all the speed she could muster, came bearing down on Diana with a full head of steam, her feet barely touching the canvas as she moved, and-

She got knocked flat.

It wasn’t even close. Diana hit, and the next thing Carmen knew, she was flat on her back with no shortage of pain in her spine, hammered hard into the canvas. She didn’t even remember the trip down.

Hissing, groaning, she shook her head and started to sit up, but it was a slow and ginger rising.