With a drool-laden cough, the captain reared his cutlass high and charged gracelessly at her, rising to her challenge. Her own sword slid up and caught his as her feet nimbly side-stepped and allowed his own momentum to trip him up as he crashed into the side of the ship. There were laughs from her mutinous allies and the loyal crew began to step forward until the captain shouted at them to back off. "This bitch is mine!" He snarled before stomping towards her, cutlass cruelly slashing before him.<br/><br/>Mei-Li remembered enough of how fighting worked in the previous games to see how it played out here in this seeming real life version. The captain attempted three basic moves in random order and she had to time her ducks or blocks to both keep her safe and to knock him off balance to land blows of her own.<br/><br/>The juxtaposition of the familiar, game-like mechanics with the visceral realness of the sounds and smells of the world around her were jarring and the cry of an actual gull in her ear distracted her enough that the captain managed to knock her sword away and spin her into his grasp. With a lurid chuckle, he slid fat fingers across one of her breasts and gloated, "see boys! No girly girl in her finest can compete with a real man!" Cruel sausage-like digits prodded for her nipple through her clothes and he licked the side of her face, leaving a trail of foul-smelling slime but distracted by her comeliness, he lost focus and left an opening for her to exploit.