Belasy adjusted her opinion of Kaneda upwards, favoring his choice with a faint smile that wasn't even turned in his direction.  "Sure thing," Izkry answered aloud, grinning widely.  "Well done on that record.  Certainly none of us were going to get it."

The question was one Izkry had honestly expected to come much sooner.  He glanced at Bel -- she'd taken the failure of that team hard, despite knowing it was the likely outcome.  "Well...most of the Hydragruppen we met died in combat.  Bel and I,  we didn't see many of them up close.  She is a good sniper, you see, so we work better at a distance.  One looked to be breathing fire, and another didn't seem to get injured much, but other than that, I couldn't say."  He spoke with the words spaced neatly into his breathing rhythm.  It was early enough in the run that it wasn't an issue yet to talk.  

Oscar mentioned the preparation, and as much as he disliked the guy Izkry had to nod.  "That team had very little training.  Some barely even knew how to shoot a gun.  We had no teambuilding beforehand -- that one is important in particular.  You--" he glared at Oscar "--do not use survival as an excuse for desertion.  You abandoned your team.  If you aren't going to fight you damn well desert /before/ the battle.  Don't leave your team counting on you if you can't pull through!"  The words came out far more sharply than he intended, but the young man didn't care.  "We survived because we had each other, because we fought smart.  And not even because we weren't in the thick of things.  One of the others survived the fight but died to infection after.  The ones that killed everyone weren't even supersoldiers.  They were regular men who knew how to fight as a team.  But a coward like you wouldn't understand that, would he?!"

Izkry stopped.  He was getting worked up, and not breathing right -- dangerous in a long run.  When he had his cool again he continued in a lower voice.  "This team is better, but still we have issues.  Most of the Hydragruppen, they must have been new, and the Westminster folk, we were lucky.  There is a training program to take those with powers and train them as soldiers from childhood.  I would not be surprised if most Nazi supers are combat experts.  We will /need/ teamwork to survive.  And we cannot trust Oscar not to betray us again.  He should not be here."