 You. Hello, baby. Miss me? Miss putting my fist in your face. Sonia Blade. Following in her father's footsteps, Sonia joined the United States Marines. Her impulsiveness, combat skills, and loyalty earned her respect and admiration from those she served with. Now, General Blade of Earthrealm Special Forces is a beautiful, stern leader and fiercely agile combatant. Armed with drones, demolition grenades, plus the experience of being married to a movie star and raising a teenager, Sonia strives to defend Earthrealm and her family. Let's call it enhanced training. In the Special Forces variation, Sonia calls down a drone to give her new special attacks. Unlike other special moves, Sonia must finish her combo strings before the drone can be given commands. Look for combo strings with lots of hit advantage for Sonia to call down a strike. Use homing missile, 2 plus block, to press your advantage. For kamikaze, 4 plus block, to launch your opponent. And your combos would beat down, 2, 1, 3, 4, to allow Sonia enough time to call for backup. I'm going to beat some respect out of you. In the covert ops variation, Sonia exercises her combat prowess with military stance, down back, too. Canceling Sonia's combo strings early into military stance grab will result in a tick throw, a concept we learned about in a previous lesson with Jax. After a double kick juggle, use American Way, 2, 1, up, 4, to help carry your opponent to the corner, or with military stance grab for extra damage. Practice cancelling your stance as well. This will bait out hasty reversals from your opponent that can be punished with a parry. Dead or alive, take your pick. In the demolition variation, Sonia equips three grenades. Using negative edge in the controller options gives Sonia a unique advantage on the battlefield, allowing her to throw, detonate, or reload grenades with a single input. To practice this, open up your opponent and manually detonate the first grenade behind their head. Quickly throw a second grenade. As Sonia recovers, throw the third grenade close to you and hold down one. Then push four, down, down, and release one, causing Sonia to detonate the third grenade and reload at the same time. And your combos would beat down to give ample time to reload. Sonia combines gymnastic mobility with a strong mix of potential. Each variation gives her tools to cover any gaps in her offense. Alternate between a high pressure play style with a strong defense to ensure you have all of your tools at the ready. Show what happens when you mess with Texas with an X-ray parry. Scar your opponent for life with a brutality. Spoiler alert. You lose. Sonia wins. Take charge with one hell of a model American mom, Sonia Blade.