Mina had gone to the preparation room expecting that the fight between Ibara and Mei to be over quickly.
Instead, she sat there for a good twenty minutes just waiting, before she was finally called out to her fight with Tokage from 1-B.
As she stepped out into the sunlight, she glanced over up at the stadium, to the place where the students sat.
She saw that neither Tenya nor Todoroki had come back from the infirmary, nor had Uraraka come back after going to visit Shoto after he lost.
The rest of her friends were all there though, including Izuku at the very end of the stands. She gave a big grin and a wave.
She was about to look for her mom, but she didn't find her in the stands before she was up on the arena, and face to face with Tokage.
Her opponent was also grinning, but unlike Mina, she had a mouth of sharp teeth, just like Kirishima. For some reason she had her jacket fully open, revealing just a sports bra underneath. Like Izuku, she had discarded her shoes for some reason, though in her case, she wasn't even wearing socks.
"So you're Black Cat's daughter eh?"
"Yep."
"Well then little kitty cat, I'm afraid you're gonna have a very bad time. You might just say… You've got some terribly bad luck."
At that she raised her hand up in a fist, which she unclenched as it turned green, and scaly, her fingertips becoming sharp claws.
"Wait… Was that supposed to be a cat pun? That… That was really stretching it."
"Really? I thought it was Purrfect."
Mina was about to reply but was cut off by Present Mic.
"AND IN THE PENULTIMATE BOUT OF THE SECOND ROUNDS OF THIS TOURNAMENT, WE HAVE ASHIDO MINA IN ON CORNER! THE DAUGHTER OF THE LEGENDARY BLACK CAT, THIS PINK LITTLE JAGUAR SHALL NOW HAVE TO FACE THE MIGHT, OF THE TOKAGE SETSUNA, THE FLYING, GREEN LIZARD OF 1-B! WHO SHALL PREVAIL IN THIS BOUT OF THE JUNGLE? LET'S FIND OUT… RIGHT NOW! START!!!"
Mina moved the moment the T sound reached her ears.
In one second she had closed the gap between the two of them and hit Tsukage with a strong hook to the side. Not nearly as hard as she could hit, but more than enough to-
Her entire side exploded into red as Mina's punch ripped out her entire side, bones, and blood and muscle flying everywhere.
Mina froze in complete shock, her hand covered in blood, absolutely horrified at what she had just made happened
That turned out to be a mistake, however, as a green fist slammed into the side of her head, sending her flying.
She almost went out of bounds, but instinct drilled into her made her slam her hand down into the ground, acid letting her bore her fingers for a grip hold.
She as quickly got to her feet, still shaken, she could hear horrified gasps and other such sounds from all around the arena.
Tokage was standing where she had been standing when Mina hit her, making a comical face of horror and despair.
"Oh noooo…. You have killed meee…. I'm going to dieee…."
Her lung was completely gone, lying in a hundred pieces on the floor, making for a macabre sight, but her comically over the top acting made it pretty clear she wasn't exactly in pain.
That and the stinging in her cheek from where she'd been hit replaced Mina's horror, with annoyance and anger.
"You got a healing factor don't you?"
"Awww… I was hoping you'd play along a bit longer pussy cat."
Her lung began growing back, sinew, bone, and muscle growing back in a few seconds, though her jacket and pants were now absolutely covered in blood. Tokage didn't seem to mind.
"Gotta say though pussy cat, that was some really fast movement there. Almost too fast to be legal. You might just say, that you're… A cheetah."
Mina's next attack was a sweep kick, sweeping Tokage's legs out from under her. Literally, as they exploded into a red mess of blood and bone, the moment she hit them.
Mina had planned to follow that up by grabbing her upper body and flinging it out of the arena. In fact, she had her hands around Tokage's jacket before gravity had even set in.
Only instead of being flung, her upper body remained firmly in place as the jacket ripped apart instead.
This time, Mina avoided the follow-up punch and was halfway across the arena in the blink of an eye.
Tokage remained standing exactly where she was, her legs having turned to a complete, non-existent mess, whole her disembodied torso remained floating in the air.
Right… She had done something similar before, hadn't she? She had disconnected her hand and kept it floating to help Bakugou in the cavalry battle right?
As she was standing there, Tokage began regrowing her legs, in a similar fashion to how she'd regrow her lung.
Regeneration.
What had her mom said about those? That you beat them by either exhausting their stamina, capturing them in a closed space, or freezing them whole.
The second and third weren't gonna happen.
And that left…
"I don't suppose you have a limit on that regeneration."
"Sure do pussy cat. 10-20 minutes of non-stop regeneration will slow it down drastically, and eventually, I'll be immobilized unless I get something to eat."
"... You're… You're just telling me this? Just like that?"
"Sure. After all…" Her body began to transform. "I'm ending this in the next two."
Her skin turned green, scales reknitting over skin, the backside of her pants ripped as a long, powerful tail sprouted from her waist. Her face twisted, a snout forming, her sharp teeth rearranging themselves into a maw like that of a dragon.
Her eyes changed, the white going out of them, replaced by blood red, her pupils shifting and turning until they were nothing more than slits. When she was finished, she had gained about 40 centimeters in height and had become way bulkier.
When she spoke again, her voice had gone down several levels, though Mina could still tell that it was Tokage.
"Now, my unfortunate friend… Let's go."
Then she burst forward. Mina ducked as Tokage launched a sideways kick right at her, then grabbed her tail as she followed the kick up with using her tail as a whip.
Then she grabbed the tail and yanked, expecting it to either come loose or give her a good way to throw Tokage's body.
Instead, a detached hand once more hit her, this time in the back of the head.
Mina saw stars and she slammed into the ground, and she felt a crushing grip above her.
"End of the line kitty ca-"
Mina surrounded her arm in acid, and swiped around In a circle, searing Tokage in half, the lower body, and arms dropping like a sack of potatoes.
Then, now on her back, she headbutted the woman right in her snout.
She felt a sickening "crunch" as bones and nose broke beneath her forehead.
Then staggered to her feet, and once more put distance between her and Tokage.
It was only then that she realized her entire body was coated in blood.
Holy shit this had gotten really fucking disturbing, really disturbingly fast.
"Not so easy is it kitty cat?" The lizard woman said in a cheerful tone.
"I've seen that reaction before. Everyone thinks, I'll just stall while doing as much damage as I can, but in almost every case I've ever seen, they always get that same reaction once the blood really gets going."
As she talked, the disembodied upper body regrew it's lost parts, a new couple of arms sprouting into being in a bloody, gory mess, while a new set of legs sprouted from a regrown, now naked lower body.
As if to emphasize the point, Tokage slammed her newly regrown foot down on her former lower half, and it exploded into a mess of blood, bones, and broken sinew.
Mina wanted to throw up.
She almost did in fact, but she barely managed to keep it down.
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