Young, Smart, Beautiful.
Calculating, Cold, Evil.
There are rationales to all behaviour.
People will rationalise theirs.
Vanessa sees combatants as desperate & evil. Low rung, there to do the bidding of their company.
Under her, they are an offering to her. They can redeem themselves by doing her dirty work and sacrificing themselves for her.
The Masked combatant is nothing but a doll to her, mindless, obedient flesh bag that is useful in certain ways but is disposable and must be refreshed and replaced.
Her goal is to cleanse the zone of the alliance members, her plan is simple. But she has her methods.
The red, green and blue will be washed away in a torrent of Black.
Like water cleansing filth from flesh down the drain she will wash gallons of black to the pint of red if need be.
The Mistress has control of her Tap, and she has twisted it wide open for her darling Vanessa.