"Are you planning to take enough C4 to blow up the drug cartel's operations or something? I was planning on heading<em>away</em>, if we can.", Rachel teased Oscar gently. "Don't forget to grab something else for backup. We don't know what jungle humidity might do to the laser rifles guts. No moving parts, sure...but just to be safe, right? Do me a favour and grab a vest for Jane, please, Oscar?"<br/><br/>When she came back out of the plane, Athena looked well and truly ready for battle, decked out in body armour and a helmet, with a tactical load bearing harness covered in pouches full of extra magazines and a bandoleer of 40mm grenades across her chest. She had her 'two-oh-three', simple slang for a rifle with the M203 underslung, dangling from a strap as she set two ILBEs, her sniper rifle in it's case, and a second helmet down just outside the plane and stepped up to Jon holding out a Dragon Skin vest for him to put on.<br/><br/>"Relax, Jon, these two wanted to lead us somewhere, which means their buddies aren't that close. They'd have surrounded us before making themselves known, probably tried to take us alive to see if we could be ransomed, if they could. I brought you a pack, there. Now, let's get this on you.", from her manner, Rachel wasn't taking no for an answer as she all but manhandled Talpert into the body armour, then placed the helmet on his head and took a quick minute to adjust the straps, but only superficially.<br/><br/>"That's not to say we shouldn't be quick, but if we leave unprepared and without supplies the jungle could kill us just as sure as the cartel. We'll take a better look at how this stuff is sitting on you when we have enough time, but this should do for now. Here...safety, off...on...release the magazine like so, slap another one in firmly, pull the slide back, and never, ever have your finger on the trigger unless you're pointing the weapon at something you want to kill. Keep it along the slide, here, until then." she showed him a M9 semi-automatic pistol, handing it to him with a holster and a handful of extra magazines of 9mm ammunition. "Don't get all worked up, Jon, it's for self-defense only. If the bullets start flying, you just get your head down and leave it to us superheroes, but we can't be everywhere at once; this is just in case you find yourself face to face with a bad guy, but don't worry about using till then, okay?"<br/><br/>"Alright," Rachel picked up the volume some, definately, and automatically, going to her command voice, "we're about set here, so grab your packs and let's get moving. We're going to head away from where these guys wanted to take us, we'll check the GPS and plot ourselves a course out of here as we're hiking. Assuming that wasn't an EMP and the GPS still works...map and a compass will if it doesn't. Oscar, you want the honours of blowing the plane?"