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"Ah~ Don't you look bored for a person who's picking fights left right and center~?" She landed softly in front of him, brushing off imaginary dirt as she stood, mentally checking the pre-arranged arsenal she had at her disposal. She hated having to give away all her skills at once, but it would be best to surprise him, so she'd left the sword behind this time.

She really didn't need it, anyway. It was best to just throw him off completely by coming at him with something he hadn't expected, which meant general kunai usage was out too. A pity, but what Tenten had lined up was sure to surprise him. It helped that it was a favourite of hers, too.

"I'd ask how Cobray's feeling, but you probably don't care."

"I assume you've come to defeat me, as many have done before you and only few succeeded. Since you showed up, I'll show you how futile the situation is."

Ingram looked back at Dis Astranagun, who was a small distance away. He held his hand out towards Astranagun. A small piece of metal broke off it's foot and spun quickly towards Ingram. It stopped about three feet away from Ingram's hand, where upon he raised it to the sky. The metal followed suit, spinning rapidly enough to kick up the dust around him into a whirlwind. It then dropped into his hand. It looked like a tuning fork, but one of the forks was snapped off.

"Oh Tenten. I'll start easy, but I assure you, you won't even touch me."

"The futility of this is to be decided once you've pulled yourself off the ground, Ingram." She smirked slightly, hands reaching behind her back, waiting. She'd let him move first.

It wasn't that she knew she'd win the fight for sure - there were too many variables that would probably end in her losing - but she was confident enough that she could last out long enough to find how deep she needed to dig to get Cobray back. The rest would follow after that.

"As for touching you~" Her fingers tightened around the scroll she had hidden from view. "I'm not a hands person. I let the weapons do the talking~"

Ingram ignored her and grasped tightly onto the handle of his seemingly broken weapon. He took a second to concentrate.

"T-Link Sword!" Ingram yelled. A green blade shot out of the handle. It took the shape of a longsword, however, the one edge was covered by the tuning fork piece that was jutting out of the handle. The blade wavered and glimmered in the light. Ingram then reached into his pocket and pulled out his own kunai.

"A superior throwing weapon. We don't have these things where I come from. However..," Ingram trailed off. He tossed the kunai hard to the right, where it vanished.

"Let's see how well your reflexes are, shall we?" Ingram asked, looking at the kunai that had appeared behind Tenten was sailing toward her.

She merely shrugged, flicking the scroll open to summon her sai as she shifted her weight to the right, left hand coming up to deflect the projectile with one of her newly aquired blades.

Tenten wasn't about to let him best her with a weapon she'd mastered years ago, after all. "Your space bending, I take it?"

"Quite possibly. I will warn you however. I will give you two moves. Then I will end this fight. But fighting little old me would be quite boring, I'd assume, so I'll make it harder. Let's go, Gun Slaves!"

Dis Astranagun bent it's back and five sets of batwings appeared. They broke forth into what looked like winged half circles, with the bottom part sporting a laser cannon. The five Gun Slaves floated around Astranagun.

While waiting for the Gun Slaves to come out, Ingram took a step forward and swung his sword straight down at Tenten.

"What information you gained from my fight with Cobray is useless here. Not only was I taking it easy, I was using a sword. Each weapon requires a different style, so I'm not going to react the way you expect me to." Tenten ignored the Gun Slaves for now, content to handle them when she didn't have both sai in her hands.

She chose instead to dodge to the left as she brought her hand up to catch the metal part of his sword with the one sai, right hand swinging around towards his side, mind already working on pushing him forward and away from the giant mech he seemed so fond of.

Ingram let go of his sword and hopped backwards.

"I may have underestimated you. You were smart enough to grab the metal instead of the actual blade. However, that was move number one."

Ingram held his hand out and a short metal staff came out of his pocket. He swung it to the side and a 10 foot long broadsword formed. Lightning shot up and down the blade as the machine cells struggled to form. He held it up easily with his right hand hand, implying that it was actually very light. Ingram charged forward, putting his left hand on the blade, preparing to swing it horizontal.

At the same time, the Gun Slaves began to swoop in and open fire with lasers. However, their size became a major inhibitation. They were three times the size of a human, so accuracy was out of the question. They served more as a distraction.

"What can I say?" She tossed the sai at the Gun Slaves, more to give them something else to target than to honestly take them out, wooden tonfa taking thier place in her hands. "I like to use my brain."

Tenten smirked again, leaping back and using the momentum to launch herself into the air, dodging the laser blasts effortlessly as she caught Ingrams sword arm with the tonfa, pushing him towards the ground with her body weight as she manouvered to kick him in the head at the same time.

Ingram's arm was forced to stop. However, that wasn't his only concern. The foot that was heading towards his head represented a problem. Ingram smirked.

He let go of the sword with his left hand and raised it to where the kick was going to land. When Tenten's foot came in, it slammed into a field. It sparked as it clashed with the power of Tenten's foot. It held up long enough to allow Ingram to drop backwards and land on his back.

Laying on his back, Ingram said, "Every psychodriver worth his own mind can create a Nendou Field. But, now your time is up. I'm done fooling around. Your pathetic attempts to keep me away from Astranagun are worthless."

Astranagun let out a low growl, and in a flash of light, Ingram was teleported inside it. The Gun Slaves stopped shooting and headed back towards Astranagun. It's wings unfurled and it lifted off about 5 feet into the air.

"Now, it's time for you to witness the power you have been underestimating the whole time. The one thing that no one in this city can stand up against," Ingram's voice reverbrated, amplified by Astranagun.

"Now that's just super cheap." Then again, Tenten wasn't a ninja for nothing, and the exploding tag she'd managed to smack onto his arm should be going off soon enough...

She flipped back, recovering the sai and taking note of the best places to run and hide in case she really needed it, but paying more attention to the best route needed to get high enough. Most of her weapons wouldn't be able to scratch the mech, assuming she could get past the shield in the first place, but the brunette was hoping that the other exploding tags she'd managed to hide earlier would be enough to force him out if needed.

It was just a matter of waiting to see how well the first one acted for her, and she didn't need to wait much longer.

The two packs hanging off the back of Astranagun folded up and over it's shoulders. They extended outwards, forming to large cannons. A black mysterious energy flowed through them.

"Emeth to Meth. The only true wasy to go is from darkness to light!" Ingram said, starting the cannons to charge.

Ingram looked down and felt something odd on his arm. It was a piece of paper, half burned. He was curious, so he allotted Tenten a few more seconds of time.

"May I ask what this is? I assure you, it will cause me no harm, however, it will represent a problem when I leave here. Let me explain. I pilot Astranagun in a null space. Whenever positive energy flows, it is counteracted by negative energy. The opposite also applies. That is how I kept your shinigami friend from waking up so long. Storing her here in null space kept her from doing anything unless I allowed her too. Your surprise did catch me off guard, but it is worthless versus technology," Ingram explained.

"Also, don't think of leaving. I did say I was going to capture you. If you may know or not know, around this area is surrounded a selective wormhole that was supposed to keep all females out. However, Greed complained, so I changed it. Once I learned you were angry and were out to get me, it was simple to reset it to keeping all females in, no? Ah, it looks like Meth Asher is done charging. Any last words?"

"Last words? I don't see why you're in such a hurry to say this is over." Well, at least he was being forthcoming with information. The whole capturing thing didn't sit too well with her, though, and she frowned, reaching for two more scrolls. She'd contemplated removing her weights and going for it, but against the mech itself that part of her plan wasn't likely to work, so she left them where they were, flicking the first scroll open.

"But I'd like to go with boom? I think that sums everything up quite nicely." She smiled nonchalantly, watching him carefully as her fingers worked their way around the clasp on the second scroll.

"You will go with an implosion, I assure you."

The two cannons stopped glowing with black energy. "Meth Asher! Fire!"

Two black beams outlined in a faint white color shot forth and slammed into the ground around Tenten. Everything in the area began to feel heavier. Alot heavier. Two miniature black holes formed from the impact with the earth. They picked themselves up on their sides, their immense gravity slowly forcing them to draw toward each other, sandwiching Tenten in between them.

"Eh... Now that looks painful." She glanced at where the bunshin clone had been, swinging the mace in her hand with a small grin from her place behind the mech.

"But you know, it's a shame it missed. I guess all that training with Lee really has upped my speed~" She shrugged, gloved hands gripping the chain tight as she watched carefully.

"See, this might become a stalemate. I can dodge whatever you throw at me, and apparently your mech has an infinate battery. But we're both human, and I'm pretty sure one of us forgot to have breakfsat this morning, huh~? As for your wormhole thing... Eh. I'm a girl with all the right contacts. I'm sure I'll figre something out."

"I think you are a little wrong. I am in fact, not human. However, you have surprised me once again. If this goes any longer, I'll get bored and will have to use my trump card. However, I've still got more up my sleeve."

Dis Astranagun reached down at his sides and pulled off the two long sticks. He attached them together while soaring into the air. He turned and dived for the ground, firing his RAAM shotgun spread shot at Tenten.

"All your attacks are the same though~ They lack flair." She dodged easily enough, avoiding all but one that caught the edge of her shirt as she moved to the left, three exploding tags landing on the mech's leg as he dived over her.

"Plus, since you're such a large target, it makes it easy to predict what you're going to do and react accordingly." Since the one on him didn't seem to be working, maybe these ones would since they weren't inside the mech. Tenten wasn't sure it would make much difference, but the information could come in handy. And they were her best work - the middle one designed to explode into shrapnel, with the other two acting to heat the shrapnel up faster, allowing it to slice through things more efficently. Not even Neji's kaiten had been able to stop all the particles when she'd tested it out, to her great amusment.

And at the very least, she'd have used them in a fight for real. That alone made the gamble worth it as she moved back, out of the range, waiting to see how effective it would be.

The tags on Astranagun's leg exploded, tearing it off. The leg dropped and slammed into the ground, evaporating into dust.

"Sly, I must say, however, remember that growing sword from earlier?" Ingram inquired. Lightning shot forth as the machine cells in Astranagun furiously multiplied, growing another leg in place of the last one.

"You are quite fast, however, I haven't even shown the extent of my powers. Ever wonder why they called Cobray "Another TimeDiver"?"

Ingram muttered the three words that all shinigami in the town should fear. "Dis Lev...Overdrive!" Astranagun's engine drew in an exceedingly large amount of energy, primarily from Cobray.

That energy was then focused on everything around Astranagun. Time began to slow down, but Astranagun and Ingram moved at normal speed. Ingram quickly flipped the large stick around and a metal scythe formed out of liquid that exuded from the stick.

She smirked with the realization that they worked, before frowning again. So he was going to take away her speed advantage? Then she'd have to do something about that. She knelt down as he formed his scythe, freeing something from her ankles before standing again.

"Overcompensating much?" She pulled her sleeves up, starting to untie the weights that lay on her wrists. The first one fell with a dull thud as she moved on to the other one. "I've always hated a person who thinks the larger the weapon the better. It shows no understanding whatsoever." The second was off, echoing the other with another thud as she grabbed a kunai, twirling it from hand to hand before raising her shirt slightly, slicing away at the bandages around her stomach and freeing another set of weights that dropped with another loud thud although they were nowhere as heavy as the ones Lee wore. The shrapnel tags worked, although it was only a small benefit. If she could move quickly enough, get enough of them on, she should be able to force him out. Tenten just needed the opening, the height. She nudged the weights with her foot, a small smile sliding into place.

"To think I'd have to show you this. It's a shame. I only ever wanted to have to remove them to take down Neji and Lee. But I guess I'll consider this a practice run for that." It was an long shot, said on the off chance that she could anger him and make him lose his edge. It was always easier to take down someone who couldn't control thier anger, after all. Giant robot with lasers or not. "I'm going to force Cobray out of you, Ingram~"

Ingram smiled. To him, this was probably her trump card. He won't even have to show his own, however much he wanted to. But Ingram had discussed things with Orochimaru. Ninja's can get worn out quite quickly.

"This fight is over." A small white light flashed out of Astranagun's chest. He soared high into the air. High in the sky, a red flash illuminated. The sign of one of the demonic sybols being formed. Astranagun dropped through it. A few seconds later, Astranagun appeared right beside Tenten, the scythe streaking down towards her.

"If you say so. But I'm four times faster now~" The scythe hit the block of wood from her kawarimi and she kicked off the ground form her new position some feet away, using Astranagun itself to launch herself higher, placing exploding tags in a line up its back as she made her way to the top, flipping over in mid air and slamming six down on what passed for it's head. She threw the kunai behind the mech as she kicked off, facing him head on.

She'd probably get hit by her own shrapnel if she didn't land quickly enough, but it was a small enough risk to warrant the action. She pulled on the string attached to her hand, yanking the kunai back to her as it wrapped around the mech, another tag attached to it and about to explode, setting off the rest.

"Meth Asher! Once again, fire!"

Ingram smiled. He was surprised Tenten didn't realize what that light was for. When he used his wormhole, he grabbed a tree and tossed it through another wormhole, and then with that white light, cast a hologram of Dis Astranagun on the uprooted tree. Of course, he borrowed that idea from the previous bunshin trick, but he had to make it seem solid, or else it would fail.

But now, once again, twin black blasts sheathed in white slammed into the ground around Tenten. The blackholes formed and began to draw together, anything in between immobilized from the two gravity wells pulling at each other.

Cheap. The word echoed in her head as she quickly slipped through the hand movements one more time for kawarimi sliding to a stop some distance away. Getting in close was proving difficult, and as predicted she'd been hit by her own shrapnel that revealed the tree to her. She pulled the larger pieces out of her left leg, gritting her teeth slightly as she did so.

"Are you done shitting about yet?" She had enough tags left, but barely. She was going to blow that thing to pieces and get him out if it was the last thing she did.

"Actually, I'm not 'shitting about'. I think I'm just going to hover up here for a while. But one word of advice. You may remember that I had 5 Gun Slaves earlier, correct? I've got one more surprise for you."

From behind Tenten, the sixth and final Gun Slave drove in at her hard. It was the one he left to keep a watch on Tayuya a week ago. It came in, it's 6 legs open wide, reaching out to grab Tenten.

Four times her normal speed was just enough, even with her leg threatening to give out on her. She ducked, using her blood to trigger the scroll that came to hand, kunai bow ready and aimed in a split second. She didn't hesitate shooting, letting the eight kunai fly, adding in several shuriken in thier wake as she forced herself to slide out of the way to save energy and chakra.

"Your surprises are pretty lame." If he was going to stay up there, she'd go to him. Tenten wasn't as adept as Neji or Shikamaru at coming up with scenarios, but she was still capable. "I'm just wondering why Cobray isn't offering you any hints. He'd know how to throw me off balance, I'm sure. You? You're only making me wish you hadn't gotten faster, which is, at the very most, a small irritation." Tenten let the bow hang idly in her hand, waiting once again.

"As you have yet to wow me. I don't play like other villians and show off everything I have. I like to play it safe. Like now. I can just lock on and shoot. Lock on and shoot."

He pulled up his shotgun and set it to energy mode. He used his sensors to lock onto Tenten and squeezed off a shot. He waited for her to move, so he could do it again and again.

"I don't intend to wow you. I intend to knock Cobray to his senses. Way to know what the fight is all about."

Oddly enough, he'd played right into what she'd hoped he would. The bunshin was fast enough to dodge the shots, sticking to roughly the same area as it moved, occasionally launching a kunai or three at the mech, leaving her free to move. As long as the bunshin lasted, she could take care of more of the shrapnel digging into her leg and prepare for the next attack from her safe spot.

"All right. You want Cobray so bad, then I'll give him to you. I hope you are ready for this, because if you aren't a shinigami, there is no surviving this one. I was hoping to use it on your Yondaime, since he seemed quite powerful, but I guess I'll have to show it off ahead of time."

"Tetractys Grammaton," Ingram mumbled, but it still echoed loudly. Astranagun reached down and opened up a compartment on his chest. A small black cylinder came forth and opened up. A blinding white light shot out of it. In the light, a huge tranlucent image of Ingram could be seen, but he had long hair. Behind him, overshadowed was a weary Cobray, being forced to merge with Ingram. Ingram held an open hand infront of his face. The cylinder created a ball which grew to a massive size, inside it looked to be another universe.

The bunshin wouldn't make it, whatever he was doing, but that was fine. It meant her attack would throw him off without fail. If he planned to use that against Yondaime-sama too... Well, all the brunette knew was that he was being a right idiot, letting her see it. Of course the Yondaime would hear about it from her.

Not that she'd ever let the two fight. She bound her leg as best she could, giving up on the rest of the metal as she prepared herself. Let him get rid of the bunshin, and she'd move from there. But she wouldn't waste a chance to understand this attack.

The bunshin stared up at him, prepared to just take the attack.

"Hahaha, do you take me for a fool! You wouldn't stand there and take it. Well, it's not like it matters. When I said this attack doesn't miss, I meant it."

The purple ball containing the universe grew even larger. Soon it hit the point where it could go no more.

"Now, return to nothingness, in midst of this infinite light! AIN SOPH AUR!"

In a violent explosion, the ball was gone. Suddenly, the scenery changed. Everything began red, and there was no ground. He looked around and spotted Tenten, the fake not there, since it wasn't a living being.

"You know, this attack doesn't work like it used to, but I've tested it out before. Do you know where we are right now? Probably not. We are on the spirit plane. It's pointless to move unless you are a shinigami. All you'll do is strain yourself and you won't move a muscle. Consider it something like nullspace. Anyways, I bid you to look upwards."

"I'm so glad you're kind enough to explain this to me" she grumbled through gritted teeth, obligingly glancing up as her fingers wound their way around the fabric of her last scroll, her last chance effort. Considering this place wasn't made by genjutsu, getting out would be hard, but the scroll should allow it.

"Yeah, this stuff is all so fucking interesting when you're about to die." Hisoka slid to a stop in front of the ninja, katana at his side and unsheathed.

He ignored Ingram's instructions, glancing at the mech. "I take it you had a plan to get rid of that thing? If you can't move, I'll just have to fucking move for you." His free hand pulled Tenten to her feet, holding her as protectively as he could manage.

"Hey, dipshit. If you're going to fight in a shinigami's area, then fight a fucking shinigami. It's a fucking basic rule of fighting."

"Tsk. That's not going to help! She is already marked to die. Even if she leaves before then, the second she comes back, it's over. If you continue to stand in the way, you'll be dragged along with her."

In the sky, the clouds were swirling fast enough to be a hurricane. Another demonic symbol flashed in the clouds. From the center of the spinning mass, a light shone forth. It bathed Tenten and the newcomer in it's warmth.

"Sadly, you are caught in the middle of my own divination," Ingram said as a large circle formed right below them, surrounded by ten smaller circles. The design inside the larger circle was intricate, taking the shape of a decagram.

"Then she won't fucking come back, genius." He caught what she was trying to do with the scroll in her hands and finished flicking it open for her.

The lights didn't bother him as he plunged the katana into the ground, shouldering the ninja across his back before reclaiming the blade and moving forward, towards Ingram. She was surprisingly light, then then again he had seen her drop several pounds of weight on the ground earlier.

"I take it she didn't stop to consider that talking to you might help?" Oh, he'd hate himself for this tomorrow, but that would be tomorrow. Tenten's energy was low, her chakra lower as she clung to his back, and his first concern was getting her out of the way so he could finish what she'd started so he could go home and pretend he hadn't been involved.

"Then again, talking to crazed idiots rarely does any good." She slipped something into his hand and Hisoka took it, continuing to move forward.

Ingram kept his distance, since his part in this attack was done. All he needed to do was wait, and the time had come.

"It's to late. You are stuck."

Out of the ten circles surrounding the larger circle, large orange blobs came forth. They began to orbit quickly around Tenten and her companion. Before anything else could be said, the purple ball that previously formed from the cylinder in Astranagun's chest was now around them, locking them in place, keeping them from moving any further.

"You'd like to think that, I'm sure." Hisoka wasn't the sort to talk, even less so in a fight, and all the less in a fight he considered to be less than fair. But Tenten wanted his blood, and he sliced his thumb, wiping it on the scroll as she'd whispered for him to do.

He hated her instantly, since being blown back by a large explosion really wasn't in his plans for the day, but coupled with his own protection spell it had been enough to launch him out of the sphere. What wounds he had recieved were quick to heal and now freed of the ninja in his arms, it was easy enough to follow through with the rest of her plan.

"I take it you didn't think she'd find backup?" His katana was sharp enough to slice through the metal of the mech and he moved purposefully, mixing her tags in with his own and using his magic to levitate them as high as he needed. "Apparently, she'd rather you were out of there. I'm inclined to agree."

A red symbol shimmered around Astranagun. At the same time, another formed around Tenten.

Ingram crossed his arms, Dis Astranagun doing the same.

"I'm through with this farce. I was enjoying it, but since you came along, I intend to have my goal and leave. I dare you to strike out at me, but don't say I didn't warn you. The results won't be what you like. Also, it won't work the reverse way. Now I'm picking up my prize and leaving."

Astranagun's wings unfolded and he purposefully glided over to Tenten.

"If you think for one fucking second I'm going to let you take her, then you know jack shit about shinigami." He brought the sword down, the cut rippling through the air as sending the force to cut through the mech. "Your null energy shit doesn't work on me here. And maybe I should warn you, but your boy wants out."

His head was pounding with the influx of emotions but if using empathy was going to help... He really didn't know why he cared what happened to the ninja. He really didn't. He swing the katana again, igniting some of his tags in the process as he slid between the girl and the mech.

"She's going to leave, and then we're going to finish this up. Understand?"

"I would stop that if I were you. I've connected the space around me to the space around Tenten. Everything you do to me will be done to her instead. Her ninja tricks won't get her out of this situation and neither will your shinigami powers avoid it. And like I said, it won't work in reverse. You can't hit her to hit me."

Ingram unleashed all six Gun Slaves and had them spread out. They put up a steady barrage while Astranagun moved forward.

"Don't forget, I can render you powerless, if for just a few moments, so I'd hold that temper."

He glanced over at her, wishing he hadn't been talked into this. He should have just let her die, but really, he knew it would have wound up like this anyway. When the lasers started going he moved to shield her, able to heal himself quickly enough that it didn't matter.

"I'm not like the other shinigami."

She was so sure she had a way to get herself out, so determined that he just had to give her the chance. Stupid girl. As long as he didn't have to shoot her in the head, though, he didn't really care what it took.

"How are you holding up?"

Tenten winced in response, slightly taken aback by his ability to heal. "I think I've been through worse," she managed to get out, glancing over at Ingram and the mech.

"I don't think he knows anything about you guys though. He assumes you're all the same. He can't even tell you're that much slower." She giggled slightly at that, gripping the scroll tightly. "But he doesn't know the limits people go to to protect others. He doesn't understand a thing. That's the one good thing about Cobray. So even if it's going to take some near dieing, once again, on my part, I don't mind.

"I'll give you my full permission to finish this fight up as you see fit." She smeared her own blood across the scroll, moving slowly, carefully, letting him help her move the items around to create an anti shield with the remains of her chakra.

"I won't let you finish this!" Ingram said.

Three Gun Slaves rushed in to grab Tenten while the other three worked to stick their lasers right on the shinigami's face and fire. In the meantime, Astranagun dropped the planar travelling and everyone was about 10 feet off the ground.

"You don't have that much of a fucking say in the manner" Hisoka muttered as the shield slid into place, aided by his own protection spell as he fell back to avoid the shots. Getting hit in the face was painful, after all.

"I don't get why you want her anyway. She sure as hell isn't that attractive, nor is she the strongest." He brought the katana up, slicing clean through one of the Gun Slaves before landing on the ground, not at all fazed by the drop as he glanced back up. "Besides, you do anything to her, and you've got half the City rising up against you in protest because yes, the girl is that wierd and she's made friends with a lot of people here."

"Hahaha. HAHAHA! Don't you see it! It's because she has made many friends is why it's important! I don't plan on killing her, no. She just drove me to that extent. I will not reveal my own plan though. It would be kind of bad, no? Besides, deep down, she knows my only weakness, and I intend to rid her of that memory. However, since you intervened, I'll have to do this another day. Be proud, you saved her...temporarily. However, I've got other bones to pick without having to deal with the likes of you."

Ingram flew backwards a few feet and has Astranagun pick up the pieces of the incompleted mech that was on the ground. He teleported out of the area , leaving a note floating around in the displaced air.

He caught Tenten easily enough, assessing the damage she'd inflicted to herself along with her exhaustion quickly. He had no reason to go after Ingram, though, and grabbed the note as an afterthought. At the very least, he could give it to the ninja.

"Hn. I get involved only to have him run away on me? Fuck, girl, I thought you picked fights with people who weren't cowards." He sighed, hoisting her into his arms bridal style. "You tell anyone I helped you, I'll leave you to bleed in the fountain, got it? I'll take you home for now." Hisoka sighed, still unclear as to why Ingram wanted the girl in his arms, but he didn't dwell on it too much, grabbing her weights and discarded weapons for her before heading to her building.

If he had to, he'd fight Ingram again. And he wouldn't let the coward get away. Not that he'd admit to having fought him in the first place.