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Cora looked at her sparring partner. She was going to fight a kid? Somehow that didn't seem quite right for a match up, but she wasn't going to argue with Superboy. Cora quickly checked to make sure that there wasn't any clothing that she'd miss if she broke it and morphed her arms. She suppressed the rush of anger and stretched before starting.

"I promise not to try and get too competitive..." Cora said, half laughing with anxiety. Cora really hadn't had time to use these powers like this before, but she'd try to win anyway.

Kimberly looked at her opponent, which was the odd-looking face-plated girl. If she really was as dangerous as everyone said, then she didn't mind at all. "Too bad for you, then," Kimberly said confidently, taking a fighting stance. She held up a hand, a spark of electricity being Cora's only warning before a bolt of lightning fired from Kimberly's palm.

Thankfully, the palm being raised was just enough warning for Cora to get out of the way. Having fought Doctor Fate before, she knew that supers and raised palms always meant run. Of course the lightning was unexpected, but then again she didn't exactly remember that the girl's powers were. Did she say it earlier or was Cora just forgetful?

"That was close, but uh... aren't lightning strikes a little deadly for a sparring match?" Cora asked, shifting from demons arms to demon legs. She'd need the speed just to keep avoiding the lightning strikes.

But seriously, lightning strikes? Cora, without thought, charged angrily at Kimberly at the idea that Kimberly was more powerful than Cora had previously thought.

Kimberly jumped to the left and quickly rolled back onto her feet, then replied, "You can always just give up!" Cora seemed to have some sort of shapeshifting ability. She didn't remember exactly what was said about it, if it was said at all, but Kimberly was having fun. Kimberly aimed her palm again and began to fire a small volley of lightning bolts. Of course, Kimberly didn't have the power to make her lightning bolts lethal, but it's not like Cora knew that.

Kimberly hit a nerve. In a second, Cora stopped goofing around and decided to beat this little punk. She wanted to beat Kimberly until the other girl barely had enough breath to breathe out 'uncle'. Cora tried to suppress the thought but allowed herself to be angry at the other's girl's comment.

"That will not be happening."

Once the volley began, Cora dodged most and tried to close the distance between her and Kimberly, but one lightning bolt caught her in the shoulder. Thankfully, it wasn't lethal, but her right arm was now numb. However, now Cora was close enough to front kick Kimberly, aiming low and for the other girl's stomach.

Kimberly had underestimated Cora, seeing her dodge most of her lightning, and was slow to react to Cora's kick. She had jumped back, which lessened the impact, but the blow still hurt and knocked her onto the ground. Kimberly was on her knees now, clutching her stomach in discomfort and pain. However, she tried to shrug it off and got back onto her feet. "Guess it's time for me to get serious too," Kimberly said, creating a solid electrical construct of a whip in her right hand. Wasting no time, Kimberly began to lash out, swinging her whip at Cora.

Cora, having successfully injured Kimberly, tried to move close to the other girl again, but as soon as the whip was created, she ducked down to the floor to try and avoid it. While the little blasts were nonlethal, Cora's arm had yet to recover from numbness, and losing use of another arm was not an option. She barely managed to dodge it, but as soon as Kimberly was open, Cora moved close in once again and aimed to kick low to knock the girl off of her feet, leaving Kimberly open to more attacks.

This time, Kimberly was a bit more accustomed to Cora's speed, and performed a backflip to avoid Cora's kick. Once she was back on her feet, Kimberly raised her left hand to fire another short volley of lightning bolts at Cora. 

"Would you-" Cora growled out as the girl backflipped away, "just hold still and let me pummel you?"

The girl started to make another volley of lightning bolts and Cora changed tactics again. Switching to her arms allowed some of the numbness to go away, but Cora wouldn't be able to dodge the volley while charging Kimberly, so Cora instead moved farther away and moved in one direction. It only barely worked, and the back of her shirt was now slightly singed, but now Cora could charge again, readying a fist but instead sliding once she was close and popped up behind Kimberly. Cora then aimed a punch at the other girl's back.

Kimberly moved towards Cora as she moved away, believing she was winning. Then Cora began to charge again. Kimberly readied another volley, but Cora was quicker and managed to get behind Kimberly. Kimberly turned to counterattack with her whip, but Cora's punch connected with her right shoulder, sending her back and rolling on the ground. Still on the ground, Kimberly swung her whip at Cora again, trying to hit her with it this time. 

Cora dodged to the left just a hair too slow, and the whip connected with the already numb arm. Cora couldn't move it now, and it hung limply by her side. Still, Cora thought, at least she got a hit in on lighting bug down there.

As Cora moved, Kimberly continued her assault to launch yet another volley of lightning bolts.

The volley hit Cora and simply made her angrier. Cora wasn't going to lose to a kid, and she didn't want to admit defeat. After the volley Cora switched to her legs again, regaining her agility and trying to get close to Kimberly and end the fight quickly.

Kimberly tried to swing her whip again, but the blow on her shoulder was taking its toll, making it difficult to move her arm through the pain, and the whip ended up missing by a mile. Kimberly then decided to move backwards while trying to fire more lightning bolts, hoping it would be enough for now.

The whip was easy to dodge, but the volley was significantly more difficult to avoid, so Cora's right leg took a couple of hits but she just barely managed to stay standing. Once Cora was close she put her healthy leg on Kimberly, breathing hard.

"Give up bug, before I squish you right now."

Kimberly tried to push herself back up, but after a couple seconds, it was clear who had won. "Fine, I give," Kimberly said.

Cora removed her foot from Kimberly and fell down onto her butt, trying to regain her breath.

Cora was torn. On one hand she wanted to see if she could go toe to toe with Superboy. On the other... she didn't really want to show the others what she was like when she was actually using her powers. Her competitive streak won out and Cora stood in line behind Singularity. She looked as though she was regretting her choice, but she convinced herself that she had to train anyway and they'd see her in action regardless of her personal preference. Might as well do it on her terms.

"I'm in, I've always wondered if I could fight Superboy and win. Also Superman.... Black Canary... Atom Smasher..." she didn't have to ask about a few of them, but she mostly hoped she didn't have to fight them in a non-training sense. Cora liked to see where she stood but she didn't have a death wish. "I suspect that I'll just get tossed around like a ragdoll after a while, though."

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