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[color=00a651]"I'm a little busy!"[/color] Maki replied over the comms as she engaged in a dogfight with the Fenrir still trying to get a kill shot on her. The Fenrir pilot knew what he was doing, but he was engaging in a close-quarters, turning fight with a Hellcat. Maki had the upperhand in this regard, if only Fenrirs weren't so sodding durable. Her shots were on target, but the Fenrir's armour was holding up. Most of her shots were either just chipping chunks of armour off and doing nothing else, or damaging minor systems that wasn't really slowing the enemy down.

[color=00a651]"Well, if guns don't work..."[/color] She hissed, throwing the Hellcat into a vertical bank and as the Fenrir tried to swivel itself around to catch a lead on her would be position, his gun ready to obliterate the Hellcat when it entered its field of fire. [i]If[/i] it entered the field of fire. Right in the middle of the move, Maki threw her machine into a somersault, and fired the leg thrusters, essentially bring the Hellcat flying down on the Fenrir's rear at full speed, right in melee range.

Her plan had been to activate the Hellcat's melee weapon, the energy sword, and slash down the Ferir lengthwise. It was very promptly interrupted by Wes, who crashed into her opponent just as she was about to attack. He knew full well she could have handled a Ferir in close quarters, and she knew he was just screwing with her to deny her the kill for her Ace.

[color=00a651]"Do your fucking job instead of screwing around, asshole!"[/color] Maki yelled over the comms, furious. What the hell was the bastard thinking, exposing his back to the enemy with a bomb strapped to it? He was actually doubling [i]back[/i] just to troll her instead of delivering the payload to the enemy. Now wasn't the time to be bickering, however, so she just fired a Rapier at the Ferir Disposal was pummeling, certain Wes would be caught in the splash of the explosion. It wouldn't hurt him much, but it'd piss him off. Tit for tat.

[color=00a651]"Hunter, en route to engage."[/color] She reported before hastening towards her new objective. She was tempted to make some jab about Alexis watching her ass a little too closely, but now wasn't the time for it. Besides, she was still seething about Shanks' unprofessional conduct. [color=00a651]"Brick, fuck around with me again and I'll shoot you myself."[/color]

An approach vector drawn on her console, Maki flew the Hellcat at full speed, confident the other Coalition machines would be either too far away or too busy with the rest of the 7th to do much else about her other than warn their comrades, and even then it was unlikely they'd seen her. Well, as long as she was still closing in and not actually engaging targets, she saw no harm in ribbing Alexis for her comment about giving Ariana a bonus. [color=00a651]"Hey Cap, I'm one kill short of my Ace, I'm expecting some kind of reward as well!"[/color]