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[color=darkgray]"I'll take that as a 'no but don't care either way',"[/color] Kanna said to no one in particular after her attempt at small talk fell on uninterested ears. She didn't matter it since it didn't take long for their whole squad to gather up as well, with their dauntless leader spewing her words of command, before giving them the go-ahead signal.

[color=darkgray]"Team what?"[/color] Kanna replied to Gudako's order with an expression of such utter shock on her face that ICEY's features almost glitched. Who in the world would think of naming their team after some random internet person? [color=darkgray]"Well, it doesn't matter. You are the leader, whatever you say goes!"[/color] she added while pocketing one the last of the IEDs that she assembled with the components she could find around her and some of her own materials.

[color=darkgray]"Anyway, I guess that the action caught up with us before we expected,"[/color] Kanna said in a deadpan voice as their team was caught in a hail of machine gun fire. It was only thanks to her improved reaction time that she was able to roll behind a pile of scrap and avoid being torn to pieces by the hail of lead. [color=darkgray]"At least they are making it easy for us to find their position,"[/color] she commented in a witty tone, barely being able to listen to her own voice over the hellish symphony of the enemy's attack, along with their curses and provocations which seemed to—and probably did— come from the mouth of a gang of twelve-years-old children playing with burly-looking avatars who had the gall to stand in the open, atop a crane and nearby crap heap as they opened fire in turns; two of them shooting their guns while a third reloaded his.

The fourth member of their team, if there was any, was yet to be seen. Maybe there were plotting an ambush. Who knows? The only thing Kanna was sure of is that advancing through a low-maneuverability place while their enemies held the high ground with automatic weaponry wasn't going to be an easy task.
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What else would prove to not be as easy as it first seemed to be was the situation of Team GSRT. While Leadsinger would find her journey out of the Mill an easy one, thanks to the lack of nearby opposition, her allies would have a much rougher time than they thought.

The satisfactory sound of an enemy's death cry, followed by a second one in quick succession, would come right after Kiss❤Shot and Clementine unloaded their grenades, downing both the opposing team's sniper and spotter in one fell swoop.

The problem would come right after when a completely silent attack targeted Clementine. It would become quickly apparent that they weren't fighting just one team of enemies but that they had spawned in the middle of an ongoing fight between two other teams, one of which had an archer named [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2277678]GRDaze[/url] quickly pop out of the darkness of the catwalks above their head, fire a three armor-penetrating arrows multishot at Clementine and then retreat back to the shadows. The second member of the second team to attack them, named [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2852095]SHOUSUKE[/url], came equally out of the blue, throwing a stun grenade at Grave Trench before springing from behind a nearby robotic arm with a knife in hand, lunging right for his neck.

Meanwhile, the third and fourth members of the second team, named [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2599602]AmyLee[/url] and [url=https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2872231]MESH[/url], held the remaining members of the first team in a fight at the  Assembly's second floor, keeping them away from the access to the catwalks where GRDaze could snipe the whole bottom floor with impunity.