Ingrid rocked once more, this time sent forward!  The explosions of a set of high-yield missiles were coupled with the instantaneous beeping in her helmet's speakers that warned her of a sudden and completely unexpected shot to the back.  An early warning system like this had saved her life plenty of times before, but this time it was merely redundant.

Returning the [i]Ostroc[/i] to its full stance, she did a backpedaling three-point turn that brought the machine about-face as fast as she could.  That Jenner was going to be a pain until she could get rid of it - but first, the life of her comrade was more important.  Her limited readout of Ziska's [i]Raven's[/i] status on her screen flashed critical warnings, and a quick glance to the right revealed the same thing - the bird-like mechanical form on the ground, smoking from fire and pushing itself back upward.  If there was one thing they couldn't afford, it was losing her...

She offered a mostly redundant call of [color=SteelBlue]"Alleycat!  Full retreat, don't waste your time here!"[/color] before she did much the same.  It took too long for her tastes to line the shot up on the much more nimble [i]Jenner[/i], and she knew she was making a sloppy, dangerous shot, but if anything would spell out [i]"Hau ab"[/i] to the enemy pilot, it was this.

Four barrels of fire, four tubes of missiles, all fired at once in its direction.  After that, she'd run for the hills, or the storm cell at least.  The heat around Ramrod flashed once more, violently, and this time it stuck.  Regardless if she hit, if [i]anything[/i] was going to scare it off...