Donnie'd been anticipating the other blade. He's also got a brother who uses dual weapons, although to be fair, they'd never done any really serious sparring. The moment he sees the other weapon appear, he's already jerking his staff around, twisting it at a slight angle so the first blade scrapes down its shaft and slices through the cable wrapped around it to free it up.
Red Hood's still moving faster than he'd calculated, and he tries to twist to avoid the other sword when he realizes he can't get his staff around in time. He can feel it graze the edge of his plastron as it slices past his jacket. That could have been messy, not that it doesn't still hurt, but he backs off now that his staff is free, holding it in a defensive stance.
Nothing like a little pain to start wicking off the adrenaline, the rational part of his mind trying to offer a suggestion, maybe drop the charade now before you get yourself killed, huh pal? But that's the easy way out, not that Donnie's quite figured out how the hard way would play out, he hasn't really been planning ahead for any of this.
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Donnie'd been anticipating the other blade. He's also got a brother who uses dual weapons, although to be fair, they'd never done any really serious sparring. The moment he sees the other weapon appear, he's already jerking his staff around, twisting it at a slight angle so the first blade scrapes down its shaft and slices through the cable wrapped around it to free it up.
Red Hood's still moving faster than he'd calculated, and he tries to twist to avoid the other sword when he realizes he can't get his staff around in time. He can feel it graze the edge of his plastron as it slices past his jacket. That could have been messy, not that it doesn't still hurt, but he backs off now that his staff is free, holding it in a defensive stance.
Nothing like a little pain to start wicking off the adrenaline, the rational part of his mind trying to offer a suggestion, maybe drop the charade now before you get yourself killed, huh pal? But that's the easy way out, not that Donnie's quite figured out how the hard way would play out, he hasn't really been planning ahead for any of this.