Vaudevillain

Dextra Black leaned back in their customized aircraft as it intimidatingly maneuvered toward Cowabunga’s last known location. Thomas figured the overpowered villain would be the perfect counterpart for his character. A classic strength versus wits matchup.

One that Dextra wasn’t about to lose.

After all, this time the player had done his research. Cowabunga’s power worked in a strange way. Anything surfs basically worked like a frictionless shield. Whatever the hero targeted with his power would ‘surf’ over everything else. Meaning that when the hero targeted himself, everything that hit him would act as if he was untouchable. And from there, Cowabunga could target the deflected attacks and ‘surf’ them back toward his opponents.

Which meant Cowabunga’s weakness was in his targeting. If he couldn’t see an attack he couldn’t target it. However, he’d mitigated that weakness with a power that gave him a spherical bubble of awareness around him.

A crafty solution for sure, but Dextra still had a plan to win.

At it’s core, the plan was simple. Overwhelm the hero’s ability to select a target.

Of course, that was decidedly easier said than done. People had rather quick reaction times, on average around two hundred and fifty milliseconds. With the circular bubble of awareness, Dextra would have to use an inordinate number of attacks for even one to hit Cowabunga.

And so, Dextra decided that they would just cheat.

“We’re approaching the hero now, Ms. Black,” a subordinate said.