“Can do!” the Russian replied to the talking Nimr ordering the elimination of their welcoming comitee. She would’ve loved to continue laying hate down range at the primadonna squad over at the Jeep, but ran into two problems. One, members of the the dream team were just a little too attached to life for her liking and refused to die, no-selling several shots. The million dollar question was whether their plates were ceramic composite or steel. Hopefully the former and a few more shots would render the plates useless and their wearers dead. Sinking dozens of rounds they didn’t exactly have to spare into steel plates hoping they’d fail didn’t sound like fun, and usually wasn’t. Second, by now the inside of her magazine was in all likelihood getting as empty as a shitty pub in Samara five minutes before closing. Indeed, she sent a few more shots at the armored bastards, these much less accurate and much more hurried as they figured out where the offending Russian was hiding, before she pulled the trigger and the rifle didn’t do anything. “Or not, new mag!” She retreated back behind the bulk of the Nimr’s engine bay, swapping out the magazine, returning the empty one into the pouch and racking the charging handle, the whole process taking little longer than she’d liked. It’s been a while since she reloaded on the left shoulder.

Sadly, it was now her turn to sit hopelessly behind a hunk of metal while bullets whizzed by, at least one of the honor students of jihad college keeping her pinned. Hopefully though, between the reduction of enemy numbers and Hypatia now at least temporarily back in the fight, the pucker factor of the situation would significantly decrease, the rest of the squad would start aiming properly and the remainder of the carpet pilots would just fucking die already. She would’ve loved to repeat her Lada maneuver, but didn’t trust herself to throw a grenade at 20 meters without even seeing where she was throwing. As she thought that, she found herself eyeing Cronus’ rifle, namely the grenade launcher attached to the business end of it.