Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[Zanjitsu]

As they emerged from the ruins, with the gained ground Raven turned around and unloaded a barrage of buster shots back to keep them from advancing, though he only slowed them down. There was a stone bridge behind them, no other path, they certainly can't try and get back into the ruins, and the bridge looked like they should pass through it as quickly as possible.

Raven avoided injury just barely as he shifted slightly to avoid a shot, and turned to notice the jet pack pantheons appearing.

"Oh come on", he commented. There was only one way through, and Raven intended to get through that.

"Anne, I'll race ya to the other side", he was aware of the direness of the situation, but it didn't hurt to make it less tense.

Raven sprinted right at the jetpack pantheons, and for a moment it seemed he'd run right into their bullets, but he suddenly went low, and gained speed, sliding on his front foot in a foot slide, and as rode across the ground he fired at the pantheons from below, managing to hit their vital functions on their jet packs, if not their guns or faces. After managing to run past the main force he got back up at the end of his slide and kept sprinting forward. Occasionally zig-zagging with short dashes to avoid shots incoming from behind, but hopefully his stunt thinned out the jetpack pantheons enough for Andraia to clean up.