Ella and Jamie vs Naomi, Part 1

"It looks like we've found our first target!" Jamie exclaims as she punches an iron fist into her iron palm.

"Are you sure? She could be...strong...maybe we should wait for backup?" Ella whimpers.

"Oh, Ella, show more confidence in yourself! You're strong, I'm strong, you even make others strong!" Jamie exclaims as she roughly pats Ella on the back with an iron hand, causing her to flinch.

"Hey, ladies, I dun wanna break up the lovely girl talk but aren't we *buuuuuuuurp* here to fight each other?" Noami asks, slurring her words as she takes a swig from the mystery liquid in her bottle. 

"Hey Ella, doesn't this inmate seem to be slurring her words a bit? I think she might be...drunk?" Jamie whispers to Ella, who gasps in response.

"Intoxicated?! That's horrible! My mom always warned me about alcohol. It rots the brian, and makes you sick, and-" Ella rambles.

"So what if I am?" Naomi drunkenly snaps. In this facility, I make the best damn wine you've ever had!" 

"Oh, Jamie...does she mean…?" Ella asks, growing pale.

"She does.." Jamie gags.

"Toilet wine!?!?" The girls simultaneously cry.

"That's nasty as hell, woman!" Jamie snaps. "What's next, urinal beer?!"

"Ugh you too sure are vulgar for girls with such pretty faces," Naomi drunkenly replies. Let's just get this fight over with." As she says that, Naomi takes a huge swig of wine from her bottle, before tossing the empty bottle to the ground. "Raah....RAAH!" A pinkish-purple Cursed Power begins swirling around Naomi's body, much like the pinkish-purple wine which swirls around in her bottle.

"Hey, Jamie, she's powering up!" Ella cries.

"Stay back," Jamie orders as she clenches the iron ball bearing in her right hand even tighter. "Adaptability: Iron Cloak!" Jamie shouts as her fists and arms turn into iron.

Jamie and Naomi charge one another and exchange blows, Jamie's iron armor just barely protecting her from Naomi's overwhelming strength boost. After shoving Jamie off of her, Naomi reaches behind her and grabs another bottle, filled with that some toilet-wine from before and talks another swig. Naomi's purple Cursed Power begins swirling around her body again.

"Adaptability: Iron Gauntlet!" Jamie shouts as the two two charge one another again, exchanging another flurry of blows. Jamie launches an iron fist towards Naomi's face, who counters with a punch of her own. The two women's knuckles collide, the force of Naomi's punch sending cracks spreading through Jamie's iron armor. "Shit!" Jamie cries as she undoes her iron transformation, before her arm could shatter. Blood squirts from the cuts running along Jamie's arm, caused by her cracking armor. This gives Naomi the chance to strike, slamming a roundhouse kick into Jamie's gut, who just barely gets a chance to turn her chest into iron to defend. But even with Jamie's iron armor, the force of Naomi's kick is enough to send Jamie flying backwards. Jamie's iron back lands on the ground of the prison, causing sparks to fly out from the impact.

"Jamie!" Ella cries as she rushes over to Jamie and kneels down, tending to her wounds.

"Nah, don't worry about it," Jamie says as she lightly pushes Ella away, who runs right back to Jamie's side, helping her stand up. "You're already drained from healing Austin."

"Oh, okay…" Ella replies, looking glum. "Her Cursed Ability definitely has something to do with that wine, because everytime she takes a sip, her Cursed Power seems to explode out of her."

"Yeah, good guess," Jamie agrees. "She seems to get physically stronger the more she drinks, so…her Cursed Ability is that she gets stronger the drunker she gets?"

"But how would that make sense? You can't fight drunk?" Ella asks.

After reactivating her Iron Cloak across her arms and fists, Jamie and Naomi then charge one another again, further exchanging blows. Punches, jabs, uppercuts, even elbow strikes. Naomi is damaging Jamie a little, but can't seem to put a dent in her armor. In response to her failure, Noami shoves Jamie off of her again and decides to take another drink.

"Alright, now I'm serious," Noami Gunts, speaking in slurs." Noami holds her bottle up to her lips and slurps down every last bit of wine, furiously shaking her bottle to get each and every last droplet down her gullet. Naomi then tosses her bottle to the floor and lets out a mighty burp, one so fearsome that Ella and Jamie wince and cover their ears. Once again Naomi's Cursed Power begins swirling around her, then bam! With a great surge of power, Naomi's Cursed Power explodes out of her and begins to wrap around her body, cradling it like a blanket. After doing this, Naomi seems to lose a little. Naomi's eyes gloss over and she no longer speaks anymore than incomprehensible grunts.

"Jamie, you can't fight alone anymore, you need my power now!" Ella cries.

 "Yeah su-" Jamie tries to reply, but she doesn't get enough time to respond to Ella before turning back to face her opponent, seeing that Naomi is just about on top of her. Naomi reaches up, grabbing Jamie by the sides of her head with both hands, and yanks downwards with all her might. Just before Jamie's face can get slammed into Naomi's knee, Jamie activates her Iron Cloak all across her face, just barely defending her against Naomi's strike.

Jamie stumbles backwards and clutches her face, undoing her iron transformation. When she does so, blood squirts from the cuts branching all across Jamie's head.

"Damn...she's out powering my iron!" Jamie cries.

"Jamie, over here! I'll heal you!" Ella calls to her teammate.

Jamie motions to approach Ella but she is too late! Before Jamie can even take another step, Naomi punches her right in the gut. Jamie spits up a glob of blood as the impact from Naomi's punch sends her flying towards the wall behind her! Jamie's back slams into the prison wall behind her with an unsettling "crack," before sliding down the wall. Before now, Jamie had her Iron Cloak everytime that she was struck by one of Naomi's blows, but this time, Jamie had to take the full force of Naomi's superhuman punch.

"Jamie! Oh no, oh no…" Ella whimpers. "What do I do? What do I do?!"

Naomi turns to face Ella then charges. Ella flinches in response and puts her hands up in defense, as if Ella's bare hands could do what Jamie's iron one's couldn't. But then, something bizarre happens. Ella's Wave seems to activate on its own. An orange pulse spews out of Ella's hands, making contact with Naomi. At first, the Wave seems to do nothing, as Naomi continues her charge towards Ella.

"Ella, noooo!" Jamie cries from her place on the floor as Naomi readies her fist, preparing the final blow to end Ella. Bam! But when Naomi's fist slams into Ella's face, Ella, she doesn't even flinch.

"Huh?" Ella asks as she lowers her hands and turns back to face Naomi. "Are you sure-" Ella begins to say as her words are interrupted by another sift punch to the face. She doesn't flinch again. "That these attacks-" Ella continues, but she's interrupted by a second punch. "Are strong?" Ella finishes as Naomi attempts to land one more punch on Ella, which still has no effect on the girl.

"Ella, what kind of Waves did you use back there?!" Jamie cries as she rushes over to Ella, grabbing the girl by the shoulders and furiously shaking her back and forth.

"Um…" Ella begins to say, razzled by Jamie's frantic shakes. "I don't know. I just sort of…used my Cursed Power subconsciously, just doing whatever felt natural for survival. Kind of like Luis, in the exams."

"That orange wave you released…it must have weakened her attacks!" Jamie exclaims.

"Oh," Ella nonchalantly replies. "That makes sense. I was wondering why her punches weren't hurting me." Ella then peers down at her hands. "EH, I WEAKENED HER?!" Ella cries, with her delayed reaction.

"You sure did," Jamie happily answers as she slings her arm around Ella's shoulder. "Ella, my girl, you're our key to victory!"

"Adaptability: Rubber Cloak!" Upon inspection, the appearance of Jamie's skin looks as if it hadn't changed at all, but then Ella pressed her hands against Jamies skin.

"Woah!" Ella cries as she rubs Jamie's skin. "It feels just like rubber! Creepy…" 

"Hey, would you stop that!" Jamie snaps, sounding flustered.

"Hee hee, sorry," Ella giggles.

"Adaptability, Rubber Gauntlet!" Jamie shouts as she punches towards Naomi. And just as Ella said, Jamie's arm does do something creepy. Jamie's arm begins to stretch and stretch, flying towards Naomi like a bullet, and socking Naomi right in the chin, who's reaction time has been dulled by her drunkenness. "Damnit," Jamie grunts as she retracts her out-stretched rubber arm, grabbing her shoulder. "My Rubber Gauntlet doesn't have enough power on its own. It's like by dulling her reaction time and senses, she increased her pain tolerance by being drunk! Quick, Ella, boost me up!"

Ella does as she's told. She rushes up to Jamie's side, placing her hands on Jamie's shoulder blades, and letting her Cursed Power flow into her. "I boosted your physical power rather than your Cursed Power. Since your Cursed Ability is a transformation type, I figured boosting your Cursed Power would seldom help. By boosting up the strength of your muscles, your rubber attacks will pack way more of a punch!" Ella explains.