Grrl Power #1487 - It takes two to backstab (Patreon)

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Sure it takes two to backstab, but a storm of mirror images certainly helps.

The neat part is, Final Blade is always a backstab, no matter which way the target is facing. If the target happens to know that, and they put their back to a jet of plasma, (and presumably aren't incinerated by that) it can be a problem for the backstabber. 

Max isn't arrogant enough to think that she'll come out of the tournament unscathed. She reviewed all the quarterfinalist and above winners of previous U.C.B.A's, and the earliest events usually favored the guy with the biggest cannons and most armor, be they mech or bioroid kaiju. But as the tournaments went on, being tough as shit became the minimum credentials for winning, and increasingly, having some flex skill or crazy hail mary or clinch ability determined the winner. So Max is definitely on the lookout for the Word of Death spell, or Petrify, or Electron Inversion or whatever. 

What she's more worried about is leaving DNA on the field. The Holo-Not-Latex-But-Basically-Print-On-Latex (which is a fair bit stronger than latex) outfit she's wearing will prevent that, assuming attacks never get past her body reinforcement force field thingy. Now you may ask yourself, does Max have DNA at this point? Well, she has something. Human scientists haven't mapped it yet, but it is, as far as anyone can tell, unique to her. The alien law enforcement database of "Protein Encoding Instructions Found in Crime Scene Goo" is vast, but sticking some of her blood or "skin" or whatever in there and have it come back with "Unknown Unique Sample EFX-13025a95" would still be easy enough to match to her if any alien Galaxy Rangers thought to sneak into her quarters and make off with her pillowcase.