1. Kyber is a strong brute, stronger than Rath. He threw the knife hard enough to bury it to the hilt in metal armor. We are not a strong brute, so there is no way we are strong enough to just pull the knife out.
Actually, Khyber isn't stronger then Rath. He was a better
fighter then Rath, but lost when he pitted his strength against Rath's directly.
One of the creators explicitly compared Khyber to Captain America in strength/power, so that gives us a good idea of how strong he is.
Plus, you know, he threw the knife, meaning it's power was dependent on fast it was moving, rather then having continuous force applied. An issue Taylor wouldn't have.
We are not a strong brute, so there is no way we are strong enough to just pull the knife out.
4. We are a Speedster in a fight with 3 brutes. The amount of damage we can do is much less than what Kyber or Glory Girl can do,
Eh, not quite. While it's true that as Kinetic(currently winning name, anyone else expecting it to be taken?) we're not overly tough, and our flaw makes us weaker, the forms we transform into are otherwise peak-whatever for their species of the users age and gender, and Ben as Xlr8 was far stronger then Ben. In fact, we see it happens two chapters back, when Taylor picks up a "heavyset man" and a young girl. Hell, we see it in the latest chapter, when we bring the hostages out.
Khybers
probably a bit stronger then us, but it should be enough to get the knife out.
2. If we try to pull the knife out, we will have to stay still for at least a moment, in the middle of a fight between 3 strong brutes. That could end badly.
3. The fact that the knife is in the claw joint may be all that is keeping Kraab from using his claw. If we pull it out that might help Kraab.
4. We are a Speedster in a fight with 3 brutes. The amount of damage we can do is much less than what Kyber or Glory Girl can do, and so we should focus on distracting Kraab so our friendly brutes can get hits in.
5. Glory Girl won't want to leave. We can't just grab her and get out like we could with hostages. Also she can fly, and is fully capable of deciding to retreat herself.
2) Eh, he'd still have to catch us.
3) Khyber isn't after us, Glory Girl isn't after us, and we won't be still for long, if at all. And if Kraab wasn't fast enough to kill the hostage, he's pretty unlikely to be fast enough to hit us in that possible moment of slowdown.
4) Glory Girl seems to be going after Khyber, presumably due to being a bigger threat, so that's those two distracted.
5) I wasn't exactly planning on giving her a choice, and we certainly can grab her and get her out. We're literally over 6 times faster then her, and being hit pops her forcefield. This is not a fight she should be involved in.
My plan was made with simple logical underpinnings:
1) Kraab was slow enough the knife managed to get him, and Khyber states that Kraab wouldn't have been fast enough to kill the hostages despite the point blank range. Meaning he's unlikely to be fast enough to catch/stop us.
2) Khyber, while likely/almost certainly stronger then us, isn't as fast as us, nor is he overwhelmingly so. Meaning that the knife, while fast, is not likely to have been overwhelmingly faster/more impactful then something we can achieve. And unless it's far heavier then it looks, not that much mass, which we can supply.
3) We could use our claws, but how they'd hold up to whatever material Kraab is made of is unknown. The Knife is safer.
4) Glory Girl has no business being in this fight, her presence doesn't really accomplish much but make things more complex/put her in danger.
