Well at least I'm not stuck with some dullard. Tess allowed herself a small grin at the rejoinder. Better to be in a firefight with someone who can laugh through it, such things made it less stressful. Speaking of less stressful, twin shots rang out from the impressively futuristic looking; and sounding, gun that her newest ally carried. She would have to talk to the director about additional funding when this all blew over.
Then came the answer that she had been fearing. Evac is gone, GravStabs at risk, the rescue needs rescue. She stopped herself short of thinking that though, she wasn't going to ask for help yet, there had to still be a way out. Good to know that's an option though, I'm sure hes watching all this shit go down anyway.
"Good to know you're still optomistic of our odds, but that is a good place to start." The mech was making any open spaces impassable, and they needed to move soon before they got flanked. How to take it down though. From what she had seen, it was an older model, ex armed forces, probably surplus. That made it no less deadly though. It would be controlled by a mind of lower rating.
Wait, Im coming at this the wrong way. Like he had taught her, she needed to get a different perspective, stop thinking with her gun and think with her situation. The mech was hostile towards just about everybody, the irregular combatants were hostile towards the mech and BESC, for the most part, while they, the BESC, was going to shoot anyone that shot at them first. The biggest threat was the mech. If they could get the irregulars to focus on the mech.
"I think I have an idea. Do you think we can disappear for a few minutes? If we're gone, all of these tower residents will have one thing shooting at them, and one thing to shoot. The mech." She started looking around, gauging the options. They were near the lip of the landing platform, there might be something below the edge they could use to move unseen. Or the supporting structures above them could aid that as well. Maybe her ally had seen something on the way in.
"Any ideas?"