Between the fingers of his left fist, the demonic Bone Blade wreathed in Hellfire pierced Mar-Vell's calf. James's right hand clamped around the golden band on her left wrist, pulling her body taut at an angle.
Roiling Hellfire scorched the Psyche-Magnitron, and the golden bracer gradually glowed red-hot.
Mar-Vell screamed in agony. She stared at James Howlett, half his body transformed into a hideous, flaming skeleton, and twisted her beautiful, intelligent face in hatred, wishing she could grind her silver teeth to dust.
Her right fist unleashed a Photon shockwave circled by streaks of Mach Diamonds, blasting toward James's head. The calf pinned by the Bone Blade jerked violently, and she broke her own knee with a wrench!
Dragging her severed right leg, she used the shockwave's repulsive force to break free of James's grasp. She became a streak of golden light and shot toward a communications satellite in orbit above a nearby country, then slumped against its outer shell, panting heavily.
More and more cracks spread across the Quantum Bands on her wrists, but their light blazed ever brighter.
James gazed at the figure with her limbs broken, then glanced at the severed leg hanging from his Bone Blade and shook his hand. The calf, its exposed bone and flesh dangling, drifted slowly toward Earth, trailing a string of blood that froze black.
Watching the severed leg rapidly shrink and disappear from sight, James gave an almost imperceptible nod.
"I take back what I said earlier. You—you qualify as a warrior."
Mar-Vell struggled to turn onto her side and push herself up. Waves of Photon energy flowed from the bands on her wrists into the stump, quickly forming an energy limb. Beads of sweat the size of beans evaporated before they could even drift away, seared by the golden