Chiaki went up against the Zoot Suit Gang in an unpublished story - and they thought of the same thing, trying to create multiple paths of attack so she can't avoid it. They did manage to capture her, but they underestimated her ability to adapt, and they also were fooled by her constant politeness and composure. From being tied up, she managed to turn vicious on them and kill two people with her bare hands, and then corner Frankie.

Left on her own, Chiaki might try to rely on her instincts and flexibility to protect her when going after those psychics. But Yuki would have to be out of her mind to let her do that alone.

Most likely Yuki would assign someone like Nena to go with Chiaki. Yuki's strategy would be to pick someone who doesn't look like an even bigger threat than Chiaki, and who is relatively unknown to the other side. That would hopefully lead them to spend very few resources in stopping the two of them.

She would pick Nena because she only *looks* harmless. If you've ever seen Black Magic M-66, that's the sort of training she has - she can absolutely destroy an entire paramilitary force in seconds. Why not Anna? Because out of the two "sisters", Anna is the one that respects human life. Nena has a strong sense of morality, but is indifferent toward humans.





I have said before that Faite is an opportunist. She often waits to take action because she wants it to have maximum impact. If she keeps making small changes, anyone opposing her will keep adapting to counter it.

So it's most likely that Faite, unless backed into a corner needing to save the Lair Legion from utter destruction, will wait until a pivotal moment and then do something major, when it's too difficult - or better yet, too late - to counter it. Something that will tilt the battlefield firmly in her favor.





I thought about it some more, about how Yuki would plan something like this out. She would basically follow the same advice Chiaki keeps giving - to hide your true power - and push lower-power resources to exhaustion first. Keep pushing them and pushing them until the enemy believes that's all she has to offer. Just when they think they're going to win, the fully refreshed heavy hitters start to come in, and by then the enemy is exhausted and off guard.

She knows the enemy will try the same tactic; so she'll always keep something hidden, so just when they think she's out of weapons and ideas, she'll have more. Slow and steady wins the race.

The point to all of that is Lara will find it frustrating when Yuki keeps her in the Lair Mansion to "keep it safe and secure". She might keep Liu Xi Xian there as well, at first, and rely on the old school Lair Legion members to wear down the enemy first. She might even ask Chiaki to stay there too.

Faite would definitely be asked to stay put. Yuki would tell her that she has *one* job, and that's to figure out how to break the rules and stop the war once and for all.





Here's some irony for you, on that topic: Lara Night is by far the most experienced dealing with overwhelming opposition. Back home, she's not the only Guardian - there are several, and not all of them are selfless. So she's had to confront one with way more power and experience than she has. Sadly, the only way she could think to survive that encounter was to kill that Guardian quickly before he had a change to fight back.

But there was a consequence to that. The people of her Earth realized her "true power" then (the one that Chiaki keeps telling everyone to keep hidden) and they started to develop resources. Now any police agency in her world has the ability to contain and capture her. Part of the reason she retired - because it meant her world no longer really needed people like her.

So Lara might be the only super-type in the Parodyverse right now that truly understands what it's like to be an obsolete Superman.





And that's partly how I came up with Yuki's most likely strategy. She knows the old-school Legion has more in them than they've used in quite a while. She knows the other side may have organizational skills, but they don't have the ability to hold back. That's her advantage. With any luck, the primary LL attack force will take out most of the really tough villains, and leave the rest vulnerable.

She also hopes her strategy means that they'll essentially be on the doorstep of a win before she ever has to deploy the more powerful resources.

Yuki would also probably hope that she can work with Al B Harper on tech to break the rules and neutralize the villains without killing them. She does peripherally believe Faite, and hopes breaking enough rules will infuriate the Celestian.








Lara's "last resort" theory is that if things get really bad, she could destroy everything, ending the battle quickly enough that the Celestian will feel like it's not fair, and reset it back to the beginning again. It's a self-sacrifice theory, because she knows it will cause her to be kicked back home with no way to get back. She'd hope that things would go better for the heroes the next time, without her there.

Basically her theory is based on the idea that she feels the Celestian *is* like a child, and will become angry and change the rules if his toys don't cooperate.

It might not be a correct theory, but that's the best last-resort she can come up with based on what's around her.

Though on a much darker note, she also believes that it might be better for a falling Lair Legion to meet a quick end rather than suffer whatever comes next for them. She believes that there are no limits to the depths the truly evil will sink, and she imagines all the horrible things that would happen to Magweed and Griffin, for instance, after all the primary LL members are killed.

She doesn't think it would count as a "suicide attack" because she would technically survive it when she's booted back home.





Side note about Faite: She still believes the Dreaming Celesian forgot some things, and she's determined to find out everything he forgot about. The thing is, she's not aware if anyone else is thinking the same thing.

But it does mean she's going to "calculate" every single loophole and exploit it both to protect her friends, and also to follow Yuki's order to figure out a way to put a stop to it.





Part of Yuki's (above) strategy, I believe, is that she knows that they know exactly what she's doing, but they won't be able to do anything about it. They're just going to have to play along.





Faite wouldn't be intimidated by them. She knows how to keep them busy.





As I mentioned above, though, Yuki knows their one weakness: Each one of them wants the glory and the gold. The Lair Legion is more satisfied with doing their part.





This is where Yuki might quickly learn from military long-term strategy and adapt her strategy to it. That kind of strategy is when a force allows some civilian target damage and casualties in order to ultimately free them all from even greater danger.