"The general advice is, try for throws and holds rather than strikes, start pulling your blows and do that gradually less and less into the fight, the fight breaks when someone says 'hold' or 'yield,' and don't hit hard enough to break the other's gear. Today - if you can grab me and keep me grabbed you've won; if I can touch your armor I have?"

"And I'll need to put down my sword; we want to keep that out of the fight." And he'll drop down to do that. "Don't let anyone grab it."

"That all seems reasonable to me! Is it okay if I fly?"

<Can you let me know if it looks like something might happen to his sword?>

<Of course.>

Ceru is also going to look up Sanctuary's powerset in the databases Minerva has pointed her at. She's not going to share the info with Musoka unprompted, since fighting against opponents with unknown capabilities is a useful skill Musoka needs to practice, but she's curious.

"Of course."

He flies really fast by non-Musoka standards, he has better than normal hand-eye coordination, he's very tough and he's very strong.

("C-ranked brick/flier.")

Nothing at all about swords.

Huh. She looks for related links. Maybe the sword is from an ally?

Musoka takes a deep breath, gathering her hopes of getting better at fighting and impressing this Very Serious Hero.

"Ready when you are!"

That'll do it. Needlewoman was on a team with him ("West Coast Protectors," officially, "Pacific Kids" in actual use), retired after an injury, and has the power to create a thin line of empty space and attach it to things, though she can apparently only have one up at a time. Attached to the edge of a blade, the weapon could "cut through" literally anything without pausing.

"Count of three." He hovers to midair, well away from her.

"Three. Two. One."

And then he's going to charge. He is, by non-Blue Lantern standards, really, really, fast.

Musoka's current plan when charged is to evade up, and so as soon as she registers the action, she's hovering about 100 meters above her prior position and facing downward. She projects a large blue hand downwards, the "arm" attaching it to her ring extending further as it approaches Sanctuary...

He will dodge that (he seems to be able to accelerate horizontally without changing posture extremely fast) and charge again.

Huh! She lets the hand dissipate. How to fight another high-mobility flier...

She'll back away from Sanctuary at the speed he's approaching her, maintaining a constant distance of about 15 meters between them (She's not sure if he's moving at his top speed or not, so she instructs Ceru to match any velocity changes he makes for now). At the same time, she generates a very thin ring construct around herself, and then starts to expand the radius while moving it towards her pursuer.

He's going to try to dodge the construct and to charge at her from a different angle, then!

Unfortunately for him, with their relative velocities matched by Ceru, any attempt to dodge utterly fails to change the distance between them! Musoka expands the ring into a sphere around Sanctuary, pouring her hopes that she can hold him in place into the construct to strengthen the prison.

Sanctuary dodges rapidly away - and rebounds off the side of the bubble which he is now trapped in.

He'll then tries to punch his way out. He's pretty strong!

He is! However, Musoka's hope-made-real is stronger. The bubble holds firm.

Musoka grins happily, and then carefully starts shrinking her sphere into something directly-confining enough to be considered a "grab". (She also makes it gas-permeable in the space near his head - wouldn't want him running short of breath)

He'll try punching his way out and flying at the walls to build up momentum, but before long he'll say -

"Yield."

She drops the construct imprisoning him and wiggles happily inside her power armor. She won!!

She absolutely did! He'll give her a soft, slow nod. "Looks like I'm outclassed. Another go?"

"Sure! Want to change anything up?"

(She's not planning on using Ceru to lock their positions like that again; it seems kinda rude.)

"Don't think there's anything obvious. Do what you'd need to." He's trying to consider what he'd do in a real fight and ending up with "use his sword or call for backup," neither of which is sparring-appropriate.

"Sounds good." She zooms a respectable distance away from him.

"Ready when you are!" She calls, her ring making her voice easily audible across the distance.

"Ready."

And then he'll move.

He's fast, and he's not just fast he's good at completely changing his angle of attack, at dodging as though momentum means nothing to him, and he's very hard to hit.

Also, he's not a lantern. This is a surprising handicap under the circumstances!

Musoka has decided to try a completely different strategy, and is neither dodging nor approaching, just facing Sanctuary while hovering in midair. Once he starts moving, she shields herself with her hopes, surrounding her power armor with a durable layer of construct armor, before summoning a tower shield in her left hand that she tries to keep between her and Sanctuary.

That... is not going to work very well. The ability to change direction in midair, combined with his fly speed, means that the difference between "in front of you, ten feet away" and "behind you" is not tactically significant. Just how well are her hopes going to protect her from someone really strong punching her a lot in the back?