Their arrival on the ship was met with cheers, although Mei knew they were aimed at Skylar rather than herself, which was fine by her. Her work before becoming a pilot had always been covert, so she neither needed nor cared for a spotlight. When the ramp closed behind them and they rose, she looked to Skylar as he suggested she sit down, lest she potentially end up falling into the bulkheads. She might have been fine but given that it was a new ship for her, and she was not a stubborn fool, she decided to take his advice and have a seat.<br/><br/>She nodded when he informed her that the insertion would be rapid, noting that she might want a bit of gear to prevent her from going<span style="font-style: italic">splat</span>. She adjusted a little in her seat to prevent herself from moving as the dropship banked, watching as a few of the soldiers lost their balance. “Thanks,” she took the harness that was offered to her and began to put it on as he explained that all this would do was slow her descent to a standstill until the system was associated with her movements.<br/><br/>“Fair enough,” she replied as finished putting it in place. She remained seated as they leveled off and the armored cavalry unloaded, only standing once the ship repositioned and the ramp opened once again, with Skylar standing in front of it. She moved to stand behind his men who had lined up, doing a quick second check of her harness and weapons as he spoke to his men.<br/><br/>She smiled just a little to herself as they screamed before sprinting forward and off the ramp at his command. “You got it,” she replied to him with a nod when he told her to follow him. She jumped off the ramp after him, spreading her arms with a grin as she fell through the open air. She then twisted herself in the air so that she was also falling feet first.<br/><br/>As he had told her it would, the harness slowed her descent and brought her to a standstill before she hit the ground. The next moment she dropped to the ground, landing with a graceful forward tumble that ended with her in a low crouched position behind a group of soldiers. She immediately rushed forward, producing a knife in each hand as she did. Before they had a chance to react, her first knife had sliced cleanly through the throat of one soldier while the other flew towards a second, lodging itself in their throat.<br/><br/>As the first two fell, she pulled her rifle from her shoulder and threw it to one of the enemy soldiers, “Hold this for me, will you?” The soldier instinctively caught the weapon that flew at his face, and as he did, she jumped up, one of her boots making contact with his chest. Using him as something like a springboard, she pushed off of him and leaped through the air towards the next soldier, wrapping her legs around his neck and twisting her body to bring him down hard against the pavement, landing in a crouch with one leg to either side of his head and a knife through his throat.<br/><br/>As she landed, she released another knife from her other hand, which stabbed through the head of the fourth soldier. She pulled her knife from the man’s throat, then stood and rushed towards the soldier who held her rifle, pulling what appeared to be thing metal string from a circular device on the top of her glove as she nimbly dodged the fire of the sixth soldier. She leaped into the air, flipping over the soldier with her rifle, wrapping the metal string around his neck as she did. As she landed, she pulled the string tight, pulling him back with her, the metal string cutting into his throat as several bullets from his comrade’s rifle pierced his chest.<br/><br/>Almost as soon as she landed, she turned around, freeing the short metal string from her glove and letting the man’s body fall backward as she drew one of her pistols and fired a single shot at the remaining soldier, hitting him in the head. As his body fell, she holstered the pistol and took her rifle from the hands of the other dead soldier. “Thanks for that,” she said as she began to walk through the group of fallen soldiers. She snatched up her knives and put them away without stopping as she continued forward, coming up next to Skylar. “Shall we?” She asked before she continued forward to join the rest of the battle.