“I suppose we’ll see, won’t we?” Mei replied lightly with a playful smile and a soft chuckle as she turned so that her back was close to his as she scanned the opposite end of the street. She knew she’d be just fine, but she had already told him she was good on the ground, so she had no reason to answer seriously. This was far more amusing to her, and either way, he would see more of what she could do soon enough, so she would let her actions speak for her instead.<br/><br/>As he was aiming his rifle at the group of soldiers coming down the street, she was scanning the windows, rooftops, and other potential sniper perches with her rifle in hand. Upon finding a soldier preparing to shoot, she aimed the rifle and fired a single shot at the sniper. Before his body hit the floor, she had swung the rifle over her shoulder and seemingly disappeared from where she’d stood behind Skyler, scaling the building opposite his perch with apparent ease.<br/><br/>She wasn’t accustomed to the harness yet, so she didn’t use it, but she had reached her destination no less quickly. Slipping in behind the second sniper that was setting up, she quietly slit his throat and laid his body on the floor. As she rose, her eyes quickly scanned the area once more, this time from a new vantage point. Their surroundings were now clear, but she could see additional forces approaching from the distance, although she couldn’t make out what all they had with them from where she currently stood.<br/><br/>After her momentary surveyal of the area, she quickly and nimbly made her silent descent back down the building. By the time he had loaded his fresh magazine, she was already standing behind him once more, as if she’d never been gone in the first place. Her eyes scanned the area, noting the other pilot who swung by in her peripherals but not giving him her full attention. Instead, she was focused on the area surrounding them, how quiet and deserted it seemed to be.<br/><br/>Her eyes glanced in the direction she had seen troops in when she heard the quiet rumble. [i]’Is that coming from what I saw before?’[i] she wondered to herself as he pressed his palm to the tarmac. “Seems like it,” she agreed when he voiced his assessment, that the rumbling was coming from enemy tanks. She would have been much happier to hear that the tanks were theirs, but she hadn’t truly expected that they would be.<br/><br/>While he talked with Rico, Mei kept a lookout, watching the area for any signs of enemies while she checked over her weapons to ensure everything was good to go. Her gaze briefly shifted over to Rico when he dropped in and tossed the requested objects to Skylar before disappearing once again. She glanced Skylar’s way when he spoke, explaining who the individual had been. “Oh, yeah? Sounds like a fun guy,” she replied with a light chuckle. “Must be a blast at parties,” she joked before quickly wincing as if the joke had physically wounded her. “Noooo... That was a terrible joke. I’m sorry. Please pretend you didn’t hear that,” she requested with an almost sheepish chuckle.<br/><br/>She accepted the charges he handed her, glad to move past that rather unfortunate joke. “Aye aye, Captain,” she replied with a two-finger salute as she clipped the charges to her own vest and then slipped away behind a nearby vehicle. Flicking what appeared to be a very small screen of sorts down over her eye, she made a few small gestures, as if pressing unseen buttons next to the screen, before looking around the area briefly, the device allowing her to see beyond her normal field of vision, including acting in a similar manner to his antenna, allowing her a better view of the area and the incoming enemies, as well as quickly mapping out the area.<br/><br/>She narrowed her eyes slightly as the enemy came into view, infantry spreading out ahead of the tanks, as well as searching buildings behind them, bringing civilians out and herding them towards the trunks that brought up the rear. Moments later, she saw Skylar’s grapple fire across the street, signaling the beginning of their assault on the troops. She chuckled a little to herself, waiting a few more moments before she joined in.<br/><br/>For her part, Mei’s actions were far less flashy and dramatic, which was par for the course, considering her background. She moved quickly but silently from her hiding place, rushing towards her targets and quickly slicing the throats of the first two enemies she made contact with before flipping away, sending a knife flying into the throat of one of the men atop the tank before they had a chance to fire on her. From there, she dropped to the ground and slid under the tank.<br/><br/>Without slowing her movements, she slapped the charge on the bottom of the tank and retrieved two small disks from her belt. The moment she had slid from beneath the tank, she threw the disks at the two soldiers nearby before springing to her feet as the devices released pulses of electricity strong enough to paralyze the two soldiers before rendering them unconscious. Without a second look at them, she moved between the two tanks, crouching low so that the turret was unable to target her as she quickly moved toward the second tank.<br/><br/>As she reached the second tank, she pulled out two long needle-like objects, throwing one in either direction and piercing the eye sockets of two soldiers who had moved to intercept her. She then hoisted herself up onto the tank and rushed towards the tank’s turret. Leaping into the air, she pulled another metal wire from her glove and caught the throat of one of the soldiers, using the momentum of her movement to yank him out of the hatch as her boots made contact with the roof of the tank. She then released the wire and flipped back over the body, twisting her body to kick the soldier who moved to pull the hatch shut, her boot slamming into his head, driving the small blade that had sprung from the boot into his skull.<br/><br/>Yanking the hatch back open, she shoved the body back inside with her foot to momentarily distract any soldiers who might remain inside as she slapped the charge inside and slammed the hatch down. Tossing another small disk onto the hatch for good measure, Mei flipped off the tank and landed gracefully on her feet in between a group of soldiers. “Excuse me, boys,” she spoke in a light, casual tone before ducking to the ground and sweeping two of them off their feet, but not before one panicked, firing off several shots. She narrowly managed to avoid the shots, but one of his comrades wasn’t so lucky.<br/><br/>Springing back to her feet, she pivoted to her left and slammed her boot into the chest of the remaining soldier, sending him careening backward into a nearby building. Turning slightly to face the two soldiers who lay on the ground, she drew two pistols, firing a single shot at each of them before heading in the direction of the rear tank. She fired another shot into the head of the soldier who lay against the building as she passed, before heading for Skylar, who had just rolled off the tank and cut down another nearby soldier.<br/><br/>Coming to a stop next to Skylar, Mei gestured in the direction of the trucks that carried the civilians with a nod of her head.  “Shall we?” she asked in a calm voice that didn’t seem to carry any particular sense of urgency, offering a hand to help him up as she fired three shots to take out three soldiers who came around the corner of the tank. Despite the notable lack of any apparent urgency, she was ready to move for several reasons, not the least of which was that it was dangerous to stay in a place like this for long. Beyond that, though, they needed to get to the civilians and away from these tanks as soon as possible.