The blowback from Kanaya's initial knocked her away. She had to swim against her own momentum to move in for a repeated, futile swipe, and so she'd only made her third by the time the tentacles came down to voice their own protests. Her attention is wrested away by having to knock away the cages that kept trying to trap her. She wasn't going to get very far at this rate.

Seeing herself stuck in a stalemate, she pulled her weapon back into its specibus and kicked off the bottom of the hull, swimming around one of the cages and grabbing onto the tentacle behind it, sinking in her fangs.