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No, you idiot! We're under attack!

*Puts both hands to my mouth*

NIGHTWATCH, TO ARMS!

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*My expression quickly changes as I dash to the nearest wall for cover*

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*I draw my SMGs as Mikhail raises a gigantic machine gun. The sound of engines roaring becomes apparent as an armored car pulls up with a mounted machine gun*

It's the NKVD!

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Melody?...

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I'm wondering about the giant creature that seemed to be grown into the mountain.

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That's the mimic I presume.

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Biggest mimic I’ve ever seen.

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Supposedly some can assume complex shape.

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Katyusha: *Gestures to Leon* Prove your mettle! *Lets off a shot with a sniper-rifle*

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Do you think this entire mountain is a single giant mimic?

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*Looks in your direction, but before I meet your gaze I fly into the storm*

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Don't worry about me.
*Reaches behind me and pulls a burly yet sleek looking rifle*
Far from my worst scrap.
*Aims with it around the corner and fires off a singular very loud shot, shredding one of the vehicles with a very power anti-materiel round*

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*A missile flies by, detonating a second. Behind you, Mikhail reloads a rocket launcher.*

You don't know what you're up against, Leon. The NKVD is a very powerful enemy. We cannot face them!

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Definitely not, we'd be dead by now if that were true.

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Wh-
*Sputters*
Wait! You don't know how unstable that thing is!

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*Contemplates for just a brief moment, before looking back to you and nodding*
Alright, then how do you usually handle this?

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We have to hold them back, so we can move our operation. We need to buy time!

*The deafening sound of dozens marching in perfect unison fills the air. Turning the corner is a group of skeletal androids, not even flinching as rifle bullets ping off of their armor. Behind them, five hunter-killer drones advance, their weapons primed.*

*I duck my head as a laser light illuminates it, barely dodging a sniper's bullet, which continues on to dome one of my subordinates.*

You have anything to suppress the snipers?

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*A grimace tugs at the corner of my lips before the storm obscures me from view*
Any of you who will help me... please...
*The scarlet perpendicular lines spanning across my body stop shifting and deepen as the red notifications in my eyes fade out, leaving nothing but “Update Complete” sprawled across each iris*
I need you!
*A virtual fountain of data erupts from behind me, blue and red voxels materializing into a digital menagerie of creatures—a swarm of bats spiral out from the geyser and begin probing throughout the storm; an array of living shields materialize from the data and spin around me, locked together in formation, and four large spider-like creatures cling to my body and create a rippling barrier of shimmering light and darkness*

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*Places the rifle back over my shoulders*
Yes and no.
*Reaches into my jacket and pulls out a pair of sleek looking handguns of my own, that have several multicolored lights dotted across them*
I can keep them from seeing us for a bit
*Points up into the sky between us and the snipers and fires a handful of rounds from the handguns that detonate mid-air, unleashing white hot clouds of gas that linger in the air and obstruct both normal view and thermal vision*

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That works!

*Katyusha fires two more shots, each on destroying a different android.*

*I go still as I realize something.*

ALEXANDRIA!