Predator Eyes Of The Demon 52

A nearby ooman shook himself, spotting the bullet-riddled leader hanging impossibly mid-air, curving scimitar blades exploding from his back below his shoulder blades, then launched up from the floor with his combat blade.

R'Kyn's bio-helmet possessed excellent field vision, yet still had blind spots. Distracted, the reduced distance failed to trip her proximity sensors and she missed the ooman's thermal blur from below, catching a glimpse of the swinging knife. Jinking aside, she swatted the blade from his grip. The squat ooman struck out with punches, yelling "Down, down, down!" and R'Kyn staggered, irritated at her concentration lapse.

His ferocity caught her off-game. She rallied; tightened her core strength, planted her balance, grabbed the ooman by the neck with her right claw, tried to shake the impaled corpse's deadweight. The ooman's neck bones crunched, but he kept whaling.

A blow connected with the being's fishnet body-cabling, its appearance glitching. R'Kyn heaved mightily, and the ooman flailed wildly through the air, met the wall head-on.-pg.276 chpt.10