Where the hell was Gabriel? The mech was striding this way, pointing one of those metal arms at the building.<br/><br/>“Gabriel?” she hissed, hesitant to call much attention to her whereabouts.<br/><br/>One minute Niva was standing by the broken window of the McDonald’s trying to catch her breath and the next, she was being hauled in said window, nearly ripping her arm open on the glass and then stuffed under a fireproof blanket. An explosion exploded in a huge fiery mess, at least that is what it sounded like but she was protected in the blackness of the blanket, her body pressed against a man. She felt around and found his face,Yes, No hair. Must be Gabriel.<br/><br/>Silence fell around her and although she could feel his face moving, she couldn’t hear anything. She did think that strange but then she realized she was deaf from the blast.<br/><br/>“Damn,” she said, at least she thought she said it, because she couldn’t even hear it in her head when she spoke. Irritated, she tossed off the blanket and looked outside in time to see that bad ass third rider zapping the mech back into the 20th century. Smoke rose lazily from the hunk of metal and the humoid with the long ears seemed to be monetarily drained. Niva found herself hoping that she/it suffered no ill effects in the aftermath of opening a can of whoop ass on that thing. She grinned to herself. Opening a can on that can. She laughed until tears ran down her face and she realized her body was releasing adrenaline. She instantly sobered.<br/><br/>“Who are you?” she thought she asked, as she turned around to look at Gabriel. Shaking her head, Niva wondered at the impact this man was having on the system. Who was he to have brought down the interest of not only the government and the private sector but people from other planets and some kind of mercenary army type?<br/><br/>Inspecting her arm, Niva realized she would live. She was hearing a buzzing in her ears now and something that sounded like a distant siren. She banged the side of her head but this did nothing to clear up the hearing. Time, she guessed would fix it. Next project would be to see Gabriel to safety and then plan how they would infiltrate The Corporation.<br/><br/>She checked her pockets and found her weapons were still intact,.Much good would  small weapons for in close fighting do with half of a junk yard chasing you, she thought wryly. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw some heavily armored men running for the McDonald's parking lot.<br/><br/>"Gabriel!" she thought she said in a suppressed whisper but had the oddest feeling she was really shouting. "I don't know who those men are, but the way things have been going, I think we might want to get out of here."