[center][h2][color=#b3ccff]Esben Mathiassen[/color][/h2][/center]
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[color=#b3ccff]"We really should invest in more elevated walkways,"[/color] Esben mused, looking over the thoroughfare below. [color=#b3ccff]"I guess we just got too used to cars too quickly...Wish we'd landed on the other side of the city, there's a hospital there that straddles the road and we'd be able to just stroll across."[/color] A hospital, of course, would only be worse than a dedicated morgue or dropping into the city catacombs during a massive undead outbreak like this, but if they weren't going [i]in...[/i]

Definitely a shame they crashed where they did. That left them with the conundrum of how to pass nearly a hundred of the zombies without getting torn to shreds. The few wounded soldiers they were able to salvage wouldn't be of much use, and most of them didn't really have [i]crowd control[/i] so much as they were very good at taking out single targets. Aside from, of course, Rudolf's borrowed sword, and the fact that he had the training to use it. Not that zombies would be deterred from approach by a man swinging a big sword, unless they had some level of intelligence left.

Rudolf alone, though, was more of a risk than he was willing to take. If anything were to go wrong, they'd basically be sacrificing him to buy themselves some time. Selene could speed him up, maybe he could even loan out his new materia to give the man more to work with like when they'd first fought Leviathan...But he'd still prefer to even up the odds. [color=#b3ccff]"We shouldn't have to cross anything like this again, at least,"[/color] he mumbled, half thinking out loud. [color=#b3ccff]"And we're not lacking for explosives, right? Éliane, Chisato, you two still have more than enough?"[/color]

There was a clear enough path where the automobile wreckage wouldn't get in their way, and he pointed at it for the rest to see. Of course, there were plenty of the undead milling about through there thanks to the same lack of wreckage, but with what he had in mind, that shouldn't be a problem. [color=#b3ccff]"We've all got good arms. Throw bombs through there to clear out the path, and the explosion should stun the rest of the undead long enough for us to make some good progress. Rudolf can go just ahead and clear out the rest of the way—Rudolf, if you think you need it, I'll let you borrow the materia that Halvor gave me too, just no breaking it—and I'll take the rear. Selene and Eos can help us all move a bit quicker and give us a bit more of a buffer. The rest of you pick off any of them that get too close to our sides. Everybody keeps tight in together aside from Rudolf. How's that sound?"[/color]