Vikram had no time to retrieve his bayonet.
The blunt pangolin claws extended from his fingers.
He dodges at an impossible angle, almost flexing his upper body perpendicularly at the fourth vertebrae from the top, while he flexes his hand with claws like a hook to flip the alligator with its own weight.
It's a common sanda move where you pull the opponent as he punches you to increase his speed, unbalancing the opponent and attacking his spinal position by punching with your elbow in reverse.
Instead of attacking with the elbow, Vikram twirled in half then let his other hand grow butterfly claws, which are sharper and pointy than the army knives, poked straight into the alligator's belly where the pancreas exists.
The alligator fell on the other side of the street, twitching like a loach thrown in hot salt water.