Part 3
Irina Shayk - Tigress
Lady Justice was delivering the criminal to the police, when she felt a shift of air behind her. Yet even with her superpowers she did not have time to react and was hit from behind and fell to the ground in an instant. She turned and saw a woman in a costume with a black bodice with red stripes on her hips, and a red mask. She was taller than Lady Justice, but with a more slender body.
"Who are you?" the heroine shouted, surprised by the power of the blow. Immediately, Lady Justice went after her rival with confidence and the woman with a Russian accent answered with a provocative tone
"A Superheroine, surprised? Are you not used to dealing with women with your own strength?
My name is Tigress and I will make you and your country cry"at that point the super villain threw herself on LJ and with long and sharp nails she tried to hit the heroine.
She just managed to avoid being hit, but not without great difficulty.
'She is strong and agile, " thought the heroine, "certainly the strongest opponent I've faced since I became Lady Justice". The heroine was hit by a fist in the abdomen and a strike to the head, as Tigress slammed the back of LJ’s head to the floor with an audible smack. The heroine was scratched by Tigress, her costume showed cuts that had also scratched the skin of the heroine a little.
She had underestimated her rival and realized that continuing to stand on the defensive and back away sooner or later would lead to her being seriously injured and so she went on to the counterattack, crouching low with her body and trying with her left leg to hit the opponent in the legs with a sweep to knock her off balance. But Tigress was very agile and with a quick jump not only did she avoid the blow, but she struck with a flying kick to the face of the American heroine, who again hit the ground.
The blow hurt her pride , she who had never before been so distressed by an opponent or adversary.
"Need a hand?" said the Tigress say sarcastically.
"She is quicker, stronger and more skilled than all my enemy so far" thought the heroine, who took a risky decision and jumped on the opponent for a hand-to-hand fight, conscious of risking being hit by the claws of Tigress "It is undoubtedly more agile than me" thought the heroine
The two exchanged numerous blows, advancing and backing away into a now deserted square Lady Justice threw punch after punch to Tigress face and belly.
Fortunately for Lady Justice her preparation and her power were superior to those of her opponent who showed signs of fatigue, slowing down and with weaker strikes of her own . Tigress body was bruised and battered and the heroine connected with a vicious knee to Tigress head that saw her enemy dropping to the ground.
Then she grabbed her by the shoulders and lifted her up and started pounding punches into Tigress belly. Soon, Tigress’s movements slowed and a jab of LJ's stretched out Tigress flat on her back, only semi-conscious in the center of the square.
"Surrender" exclaimed the heroine looking down at the barely conscious enemy, now helpless. The villain was exhausted and had been completely overwhelmed by Lady Justice. She was utterly at the heroine's mercy. But now she extracted from her costume a small kind of pill, swallowed and before Lady Justice had a chance to do anything, the body decomposed, leaving only ash with the heroine stunned by what was happening in front of her eyes "There is something big and dangerous at stake, I had never faced an adversary able to keep up with me for so long and why commit suicide when she was defeated? How did she have these powers? "were the thoughts in the heroine's head.
Lara Dean and her colleagues reached the victorious heroine, but this time she did not stop to talk to the press and Lara Dean, who now knew Lady Justice quite well, noticed the disquiet of the Megacity champion. For the first time since she appeared on the scene, she seemed nervous and not so sure of herself, even in triumph. She seemed worried.