Ann dodged and avoided both of them until she had jumped into a position where Adam was between herself and her other opponent. Then she deliberately left herself almost totally unguarded, so that Adam would try to punch her. He threw a fast chop at the back of her open hand, but the pain was felt by him, rather than her. The two karate black belts would continue to think that she was using special martial arts techniques, never suspecting her true secrets, because of their strong belief in the capabilities of their own martial arts skills. Now was her chance.

Adam had hurt his hand too badly to pull it away immediately after delivering his blow. Ann had to use this advantage to act fast, before Josh could finish his attempt to move around behind Ann and attack her. She twisted her open hand and gripped Adam's wrist tightly. He would never escape an exolimb hand grip. Then, using the properties of the exolimb arm, she pulled him rapidly forward, grabbing his same wrist with her other arm as well, and pivotted her body, and managed to throw Adam into the approaching Josh with an incredible force, which knocked them both over. They would feel the bruises for a long time to come.

"Hey this martial arts stuff is lots of fun," said Ann, "Get back up, so we can fight again."

Not one student had left the hall. They had all enjoyed the event.

"Not again Ann," groaned Josh, rubbing his chest in agony, "We'll give you black belt straight off. When do you want it ready?"
"Don't stop just yet," said Adam, "Mate, let's show her we're still the best. Nobody does this to us!"

"Oh you try showing her, mate," said Josh, "I know when it's time to give in."

"What? Are you afraid of a girl?" bellowed Adam, heaving Josh to his feet. Well you're at least going to fight her again, or fight me."

Adam was out of control, and putting a filthy smirk on his face in order to try to disguise his anger and fear of Ann.

"Oh, spurting spraycans," thought Ann, "I should never go near these two or anywhere where I just might run into them, without my exolimbs."

"Give it a rest, Adam. I can't beat you, and we can't beat her."

"You stupid baby," said Adam, "Beat this, if you won't help me fight her."

Adam started punching Josh repeatedly. Josh used his techniques to block many of them, but several other punches were hitting him solidly in the head and the chest. Adam's desired victory had been denied him for the very first time, and he was out of control. Ann saw the dirty grin on his face as he kept on hitting Josh, purely to try to offset the humiliation he had suffered from Ann.

Then Ann did something which had not been part of her plan for the evening. As she saw the fear in Josh's eyes, and again looked at Adam's unpleasant snickering face, she burst into furious tears, as she stepped between them, knocking Adam's fists away with the exolimbs.

"Stop it, just stop it now," she cried, and kicked Adam's left leg so hard that Adam's left foot lifted from the ground and slammed into his right leg, knocking him over. She dragged him upwards and knee struck him in the chest. He fell over terrified.

"Alright, alright, I've had enough. Stop it. I won't do anything else. You can have one grade above me, even."

"I don't want one," said Ann, as she turned and walked out of the room, "I hate all this violence."