"Octavius, stand your men down, and we will stand our own!", Annie shouted to the Roman commander, hoping they would find peace before there was a massacre. "We will walk away [i]quietly[/i]!", she added, directly wavering the last word to Jedediah, standing next to her. The cowgirl needed to get it through his thick skull to understand the word of 'peace', and she was sure that he would, although the fact remains that he will "forget" on such a vow. She was keening her green eyes at him, boring them at him, in order to provoke him to agree. 

"Silence!", shouted back the Roman general on the floor, below the Western diorama. "The Roman Empire knows no boundaries", he grimly told them, not easily backing down.

Annie knew that there will be indeed Hell if this proceeds, but with the order being said, she stiffed on the spot, as though she was being watched under someone's eye -- and it came from behind them! Slowly, turning her head to the left halfway, she glanced at the corner of her sharp eye that there was someone aiming at them. Alarm struck the brown-haired blonde when she realized that she and Jed were targets to that said-person. 

Down below, sheathing his sword, Octavious raised it triumphantly. "Unleash Hell!", he ordered his armada, with an agreeing shout coming right back into the air. That is when Annie quickly used her body weight, despite how small she was, and pushed herself and her leader out of harm's way from the propelled artillery. She did notice herself nearly landing on top of the cowboy, but she quickly removed herself from landing in such an embarrassing position with a groan. 

"Sir, we're being watched. Someone's here", she told Jed while she was on the ground with him before taking out one of her guns from her waist, and beginning to shoot at the offender on top of the cave -- from her laying position next to the cowboy!