Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[Zanjitsu]

"Huh, well... Neat", infrared huh? Fancy. As he followed the party into the depths of the ruins, the architecture became a topic worthy of notice... Yes, these red eyes on some of the walls seemed to be alive, vividly so. It was likely these ruins could move about, considering the cubical structure of most parts. Eventually they got to a spike pit, but it appears to have been solved with pushing a large cube onto it in order to cross... Well, mostly solved. A whole bunch of turrets went up as soon as the stone cube made the team a bridge to cross. Apparently a pressure switch had been let go which freed up a bunch of turrets.

Raven was one of the few to come out of this surprise unscathed, he was fast enough to react and dodge for cover, and made a couple pot shots over cover. It looks like he got one, but there were still numerous more, and the others couldn't really take this any longer, unless he had a bounty of cover, he wasn't going to be able to clear these turrets.

The dude with the infrared from earlier though sprung into action. What was his name... Stack? Stook?... Oh right, it was Stark. He managed to retrigger the switch, and force the turrets back into their little hidey holes, and the team moved forward.

"Hm?", the switch was slowly coming back up... The turrets had stopped firing, well, most of them at least, but now it was more manageable, too many shots, his own hitbox wouldn't be small enough to avoid damage.

"Well, this just looks like target practice to me", he confidently smirked. He stepped up, and immediately took a rather unique stance, in the way it didn't look like it was for sturdy combat, it seemed fluid, and moved in strange motions. This was his Bullet Dance. The bullets were flying past him and with each bullet fire at him, he easily fired one back from seemingly impossible positions, and doing this with two busters, he quickly prioritized the ones still firing, and within seconds it was down to just the two in the pit which were beginning to fire up again, only to be shut down by a few rapid shots right through the centre.

He twirled his busters in both hands and then put them back into the holster on his back.

"Man, the base should get a VR room or something so I can do this again, that was fun", well, it looked like someone was enjoying themselves.

"Oh hey, we can cross now", he stated, nimbly jumping onto the other side first. He waited for the rest to get over, he wanted to go on ahead, but it looked like it might be better to let Stark take the lead some more. He seemed dependable, and he was equipped to scan ahead too.