Editing Damsel of Distress (section)

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
When they left [[Brockton Bay]], the remaining members of the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] went to recruit her. Despite being reluctant and covertly antagonistic, she was manipulated into joining. As compromise, Nine offered her an opportunity to act-out a festering grudge.<ref name="Eclipse8"/>

As Ashley correctly suspected, [[Bonesaw]] converted her into one of her "toys" by taking out her ability to speak and further weaponizing her arms, while keeping them as inconvenient as before.<ref name="Eclipse8"/>

With these newly upgraded powers, Damsel was able to easily cut her way through Accord mansion and two of his [[Ambassadors]].<ref name="Eclipse8"/><ref name="I19.x e1">There was a crash, and he nearly jumped out of his skin. He wheeled around.<br/><br/>The woman with the black dress had slammed into the television set. She had holes in her as though she were a piece of Swiss cheese, and more of her had been torn to shreds.<br/><br/>A body fell down the stairs. The man with the lizard mask. Dead, though not so mutilated.<br/><br/>The woman who came down the stairs had an unusual body type accented by her style of dress. She was almost like a boy, she was so thin, and her strapless dress hugged her upper body, but the lower half billowed around her. Her hair was long and white, her eyes wide with irises and pupils small. Her lips had been painted black.<br/><br/>Her arms though… machinery had been crammed into the arms, and they’d been extended to nearly twice the length, the fingers drawn out long. Sparks flew as the woman moved one arm, and she winced.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>“Damsel of Distress, with some modifications by yours truly. Damsel for short. Better at controlling her power now.”<br/><br/>“Hi Damsel.”<br/><br/>Damsel looked at him, spoke in a whisper he couldn’t make out. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/interlude-19-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> In her confrontation with [[Blasto]], [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] killed his fellow cyborg, blinding the villainess with a swipe of his halberd and then bisecting her using [[nano-thorn]]s he installed in his own artificial limbs, disintegrating her head and shoulder.<ref name="I19.x e2">The man reached the bottom of the stairs, turned his head to survey the scene. He wore a visor that combined the movable visor of a knight’s helm with a high-tech equivalent, and the points where they met his helmet were shaped like a lizard’s frill or a dragon’s wing. He held out a rod in one hand, and it unfolded into a spear of ridiculous length.<br/><br/>The lizard theme… if the machines Rey had seen fighting the Slaughterhouse Nine were Dragon’s, was this one of her assistants? Someone working under her?<br/><br/>Or her?<br/><br/>Damsel wheeled around, extended one hand, but the man in armor was quick to step around a pillar for cover. Damsel’s power ripped into the pillar, warping and tearing space in a chaotic storm.<br/><br/>The man in armor ducked and rolled to reach the next piece of cover, one of the stainless steel desks. He arrested his momentum with one outstretched arm, then kicked the desk with both feet. It slammed into Damsel.<br/><br/>He hopped onto his feet in a single movement, slashing with the spear’s point. The tip struck Damsel across the eyes, blinding her. He reversed the spear and swung it, and the spear-butt caught her in the side of the head. She was knocked down onto all fours before she could direct her power at him again.<br/><br/>The man dug the spear’s point into the ground to help propel himself towards her. His leg flared with a gray blur as he reached her, and be brought it down onto her back from above.<br/><br/>It sheared through her as though she weren’t even there, cutting her in half. He kicked out to obliterate her head and one of her shoulders in a single movement, disabled the gray blur, and set his foot down with a thud that rang through the underground laboratory. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/interlude-19-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref><ref name="Cast2"/>