Shizen noticed that her visor went translucent as the screen popped up with a message from Aren. "Crap!" she yells out and quickly loads the live ammunition into her side-arm semi-auto ballistic. "Jal, get to the waterfall, there's a cave that can hide your mech while I distract the frontline. When they come through fire at will when you spot the largest or most troublesome mech," she calls through the radio to her sparring partner, sending her an encoded message for the in-battle station that she had to memorize since there were too many to just read through casually. "Hound prepped for combat, beginning stealth manuever 7 Alpha."<br/><br/>With that her mech dissolves into the foliage before she pilots it into the water, switching to electronic sensors since visual would be ineffective as well as thermal and movement due to the cold water. That and the pain would be washed away quickly from the turmoil behind one of the riverbed's turns or boulders. "Shortblades ready, barbed Pitons active, run pre-battle diagnostics," she calls through to her mech, getting an 'Affirmitive' on her screen before reds greens and blues are shown on the screen.<em>Damn, there's a paint jam in the gun,</em>she thinks to herself, but then gets an idea for it.<em>Wait, paint jam in the gun...</em>