Caewil, Traction, and Yegor had just begun their placid walk over to the warehouse entrance when they were treated to Kali stunt-diving off of Damien's Rotor drone and through the skylight. The shattering glass and snapping girders was loud; the ensuing gunfire from at least half a dozen weapons was nonetheless louder.

Traction, despite the look of utter dismay that flashed across her face, recovered quickly and had already started talking again. Her words were rushed and her voice somewhat strained, but it was otherwise hard to tell what kind of straights she was in. "If they haven't called the PD by now, some wageslave nearby has. Forget the old plan, we have three minutes before the ped shows up. Damien, get your Nissan in there now and give us fire support, then drive around to the loading dock. Recluse, go with Damien and plant charges to blow open the bay doors, we're not gonna have time to open them the nice way. Yegor, you head in first so I can share telemetry data for all our smartlinks; Kali still doesn't have any. I'll follow you in and we'll clear the room. Just focus on dumping them, don't worry about trying to assist Kali." And there it was. Traction had all but written Kali off at this point. If she got through the firefight, fine. If she was bleeding out on the ground, Traction had no intention whatsoever of wasting time trying to stabilize or retrieve her.

Traction reached into her coat with both hands and pulled out her smartguns as she began to head for the warehouse entrance again, walking at a hurried pace. Instantly, Yegor's cybereye started receiving enhanced telemetry data from both, along with Traction's smartlens and his Predator. Even though none of them could see anything, snippets of overhead data from Damien's Nissan had apparently caught a few hostiles through the skylight, and already his cybereye was projecting AR reticules onto the wall of the warehouse in case he felt like trying to shoot any of them through it. They weren't giving favorable tohit percentages, but once they were inside he wasn't going to miss on account of his meat. "Caewil, take up the rear. Take whatever shots you need to, but focus on any Astral noise that looks funny."