Amanda refused to give up.  Desperately she pried apart the metal fingers around her throat and kicked away from her opponents chest.<br/><br/>Landing nimbly on her feet she staggered- her trousers were round her ankles- trapped by her boots.<br/><br/>Desperately she tried to pull them up but Nova had other ideas.  Stepping forward he drove his metallic fist into the pretty cyborg's face.<br/><br/>She toppled to the floor- her eyes rolling back- completely unconscious.<br/><br/>And there she lay- her body bare to the eyes of the crowd- her trousers round her ankles, her toned and shaven body completely at the mercy of Nova 7.<br/><br/>"The winner is.... Nova 7!"<br/><br/>The crowd went wild- leaping and cavorting around the edge or sadly contemplating their losses.<br/><br/>Suddenly on every view-screen the image changed.  The emperor appeared- clad in his dark grey military uniform- the scar across his cheek eerily lit by the sinister lighting in his palace.<br/><br/>He raised his hand and the crowd fell silent.<br/><br/>"Gladiators you have fought well and amused us greatly.  It is our belief that the cyborg Amanda squandered her opportunity to destroy Nova 7.  She is weak and therefore deserves to die.<br/>Let us see whether Nova 7 has any compassion in his cold, metal heart.<br/>I leave the decision to you Nova 7."<br/><br/>On the concrete floor Amanda slumbered unaware that her fate was being decided by the cyborg she had sought to destroy.  From her previous fights it is fairly clear that Nova 7 would have found no mercy at her hands.