[center][color=SteelBlue]Name: Damian Seran
Role: Soldier 1
Location: Junon
Tag: Alain[@Double], Laphicet[@Tenma Tendo], Astral[@Renny][/color][/center]

The first sign that things weren't going to work as planned was that Alain hadn't moved, which meant that he would-yep, the look of pain said all that Damian needed to know that he had been caught in the Demi spell. Of course, Damian hadn't used Demi II, as he didn't want to destroy any part of the barrel. That plan was no longer possible though, or, at least the damage free part wasn't, as the red laser lanced out. [color=SteelBlue]"Crap!"[/color] He avoided it with a small hop to one side, not trusting a roll, and suddenly realized with a start that the section of barrel that he was on was no longer attached to the rest of it as gravity kicked in. [color=SteelBlue]"Just another day..."[/color] Looking around, he realized that the cut was too clean to have left behind debris, and at that point, he was too low to just hop forward and up. Kneeling, he took a moment before leaping to the bottom edge on the bottom of the barrel. He managed to place his double-bladed swords back on his back before he continued, pulling himself up into the barrel.

Taking a moment to survey the damage, he could only cringe at it and think of the reeming that was coming their way. [color=SteelBlue][i]I don't remember them having laser eyes before. Or maybe I missed that in part of a briefing. Ah well.[/i][/color] Turning, he jumps again and catching the top lip before pulling himself up again, right into Alain's tongue lashing.

"Why? You... what in the #@$&^$&* HELL were you thinking? It's a superweapon! What did you think would happen if you attacked it directly?!" The older SOLDIER let the young man have his piece, allowing him to yell and cuss at him until he finally relent with a fist to the metal of the now inert Cricket. After a moment of silence, in which Damian realized that Astral, Laphicet, and Caius had arrived, he responded.

[color=SteelBlue]"Because it would have figured out you were there before you found that switch. And then it would have bucked you off. Hell, if you'd just MOVED like I said to, you wouldn't have been caught in Demi. All you had to do was jump up for a split second. But no, you decided to try and call out to wait while it was about to launch missiles."[/color] He shook his head and turned to look around before frowning. It had taken time for Shinra to mobilize it's SOLDIER 1st Classes into action after the call for help from Junon had been received including the travel time it would have taken for all of them to get to their various insertion points. 

So that begged the question; if the Sister Ray had been the Metal Cricket's target, why had it waited so long to do any damage while it had more than enough time to cause it without challenge of significance? [color=SteelBlue]"You know, it occurs to me that the Cricket had all this time to damage the gun, but didn't do a thing until we showed up."[/color]