Marlene's old Handou was still keeping-up with the group, helped in no small part by how Cecilia performed the advance to contact so much by the numbers that a person could have probably walked to the objective on foot faster than they had.

Lack of sophisticated comms meant she had to 'escort' one of the more advanced Zarugas, which was performing at a bit of a limp after large chunks of shrapnel had torn through it on that first mission she was with the panthers for. With little more than an unseen nod, Marlene activated her own visual camo short after Kat, and picked-out a good kneeling position stacked-up against a wall to put her 30mm cannon to use, her leg-mounted mortar loaded with smoke and flares just in case audio-only distractions weren't enough.

Marlene shook her head a bit at the boisterous and unprofessional lingo her assigned 'battle-buddy' was using. Everyone knew she was a decent shot and knew how to work a FRAME... but sometimes she just felt like muting her comms so she wouldn't have to hear her bastardize another [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=H4LOGfuuugc#t=195]9-line call[/url] for a fire-mission. Due to the short distances involved this time, her [i]eyes[/i] quickly went back to Mr B; if something bad happened, she was going to act [i]before[/i] they called for her aid.

As if on cue, she glimpsed a large spark and a shower of metal come off of B's 'face' as a mook managed to get a good fix on her. At that, she unleashed a small torrent of 30mm shells to keep them from swarming Sarah's cover like they did to Kat last time... followed by a quick volley of flares and smoke to help break contact long enough for her to rush over to Sarah's position and give her frame a physical reference to go by in the event her mech just went blind.

Stacked-up behind Bubbles, Yassir put an hand on the shoulder of Sarah's frame as she did a quick visual diagnostic to [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF-SC-9b7tc]make sure she wasn't leaking anything vital[/url] and that the inevitable "I'm okay" she'd get from Sarah wasn't a dirty lie, just like it was last time.