As the group looks on at the Armory, seeing various weapons, Nodoka proceeds to pick one out of one of the slots that it sits in, a L85A2. "My father's great grandfather had one of these. He fought in the Royal British Army back in the 2000s. I need to give one of these a go." She says as she then turns to look through the assorted Attachments. Honya, carrying a duffel bag, whispers to Noel, out of the sight of the others. "I need to get something, could you please let them know I'll be right back, Noel-san?" She then walks off to a nearby bathroom. Bride, mostly recovered from her incident earlier, is decked out with her personal firearms, a Colt M1911 and a Saiga 12K.
Nodoka finishes customizing her weapon, putting a combat scope and straight grip on it, and proceeding out to an adjacent firing range. "I've always loved bullpup weapons - My father said that He always liked them because they looked like the rifles of the future - Funny how from what I've seen, most energy weapons follow a bullpup form factor." She says as she aims down the sights. "Yeah. Personally I like my guns to have stopping power - Alexei actually gave me this.." Bride says as she holds up her shotgun, brandishing it. "It's a old relic from the Coalition's early years - can you believe they still make these?" she then takes a magazine with a green band on it, continuing. "I mark my different ammo with colors. Green is 00 Buckshot, Red is Slug, Blue is Stinger Pellets, Black is Fragmentation, and Cyan is Pulse." she says, loading the magazine and chambering the first shell.
Noel is caught off guard momentarily, but regains composure just as quickly. "Oh... Very well Honya." She tells the group and proceeds to look through the Pistols, stopping when she finds a particularly large one. "Hmm... Desert Eagle..." Birdie Comes up next to her looking at her choice. "Nice one, It fires Fifty Caliber Action Express rounds. In other words, big freaking bullets. Pretty sure if you hit center mass on anything, it's not getting back up." Seline's attention is grabbed by a pair of Revolvers "I guess when you ask for as many replica guns they would send in some of these..." She says grabbing them. "Ooh, nice feel... Colt Single Action Army, .45 caliber." She reads off of the label Birdie made for them. Meanwhile, Mark's attention has been grabbed by the shotguns "Gotta love the ammo choices for these" He says picking up a AA-12 "Ok yeah, let's play with our new toys."
Once the group reaches the Firing Range, the Harpies begin loading their weapons, Noel stops however when she hears Brides comment. "Oh, you think energy weapons lack stopping power? Well then, prepare to have your foot in your mouth Miss Bride." She says chuckling, she then reaches into her pocket and brings out a small looking object. Upon closer inspection, it is a small Derringer style pistol. "This is one of tools used by my family to protect the Roi, it may not look like much... But it's power is the exact same as the Energy rifles Used by the Royal Guard. Granted it's power cell can only handle four rapid fire shots before overheating and ejecting from the Blaster, But it's more then enough to handle most threats. Set two targets at twenty meters and thirty five meters." As soon as she says this, two droids walk out into the Range. Jason speaks up soon after they stop moving. "Oh, don't worry Hanamura. These are just programmed to move to the location stated, they're not actually full on AI."
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Nodoka raises her gun, only to lower it just after. "Aah. Set 3 out for me, varying ranges, preferably long." Bride shakes her head. "I Never said they lacked a punch, I meant that I prefer guns that do pack a punch. That thing - if what you say is true - packs a NEMP in a can." Nodoka laughs at Bride's joke. "hehe... NEMP in a can... Yeah.. I say if we do go through with screwing LC five days till Sunday, we just deliver them a NEMP in a can using a old Rhino." Bride turns to Nodoka. "Yeah, let's just mosey on down to Yaren and ask Archos "Hey, we're going to assf**k a bunch of terrorists secretly operating out of Kemmerer using a huge aluminum can, a WMD, and a even larger aluminium can with engines and airsoft turrets strapped to it, mind helping us with their package?"" Bride says, in her usual sarcastic manner. Nodoka's demeanor, as predictable as Nomads attacking the Freeport on her bad days - becomes irritated. "No, smartacre. I'm joking. Do it again and I'll show you what they did in my day when soldiers deal with people spewing that crap." she says, making a bashing motion with the stock of her rifle. Bride, concerned about irritating Nodoka to the point of physical asssault, of which, as a 'hybrid', she was no longer immune to - merely steps back, only to notice Honya's absence. "Wait... bookworm was with us, right?" she says, looking to Nodoka with a confused look and pointing to the entrance to the firing range. "Uhhhh.. yeah. Mark, did you see Honya?" she says, concerned about her friend and facing Mark.
"Noel said she needed to get something... Right Noel?" Mark says, scratching his head. Noel responds as she's putting in ear plugs. "All she said was that she needed to get something, and that she'd be right back. Other than that. I don't know." She assumes a stance and then fires what seems at first a single shot, but it is in fact two. Both of the Drones fly backwards the closest one takes a shot to the head, nearly doing an involuntary backflip, the second takes the shot in the center torso, rolling a good two meters away from where it was standing. Noel puts her blaster back in her pocket and smiles smugly at Bride as she removes the ear plugs. "It has an effective range of fifty meters as well, beyond that and starts to weaken as you would expect." Birdie then chimes in. "You still haven't let me take a look at that gun, I really want to make more of those, maybe upscale it to the size of a basic Pistol so we're not limited to the four rapid shots."
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[img float=right]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/387414523163967502/403759771783659529/unknown.png?width=250&height=250[/img]Bride looks to Nodoka. "Please don't tell me she went to dig something out of Alexei's cache." Nodoka shakes her head. "No, she's not as daft as you. that and I think she was going to bring something. Maybe her '57?" she says to her jet-black haired comrade-in-arms, only for the door to open.
The group, sans Noel, focused on her shooting looks to see Honya approach, clutching her AR-57 behind her back, Smiling and looking directly at Nodoka, moving her hips with seductive intent as she approaches her, wearing what appears to be a Kusarian high schooler's sailor fuku top, cropped to reveal her navel, as well as a grey zip-up parka, worn in such a way to promote attention to her curves. As for her lower attire, it consists of army-green shorts that hug her body, only slightly exposing her high-leg underwear. Her perfume smells of lavender and berries, slightly musky, but accentuating her femininity as she engages in what most would call a masculine pastime.
As she approaches, Nodoka looks on in surprise, astonished and lovestruck by what her father would call a 'battle angel' if he were still alive. Bride is much the same, sans any love, rather concern for any gazing eyes, not yet noticing Nodoka's gaze. Honya looks on as she retains her demeanor, giving a assertive and alluring smile. However, the mind behind it all is nervous. "I hope Hanamura-sensei likes this.. I really want to make my move go off without a hitch.." she thinks to herself. Once the girl approaches her close friend, she inhales, and exhales, the hormones causing her digital brain to shift from nervous to slightly concerned, as the breathing settles her. "How do I look, Hanamura-sensei?"
Nodoka, still in shock, slowly begins to speak. "Like a pin-up model... and God above, I love it." she says, her heart beating heavily. Honya's smile grows as she moves to kiss her on the cheek, and moves to prepare herself to fire, lowering the gun down to a passive position, just above her navel, held to her stomach, lengthwise. "Do we have any targets, Birdie-san?" she says, looking to Birdie.
Nodoka keeps looking to her friend's body as she moves, with Bride turning to her as she notices Nodoka's stare. "The hell? I mean, I know Bookworm cuddles with you and what not since it's out of her still being a little childish at times, and that's fine, but that's my goddamn sister you're drooling over, Byun-teh!" she says out of earshot of Honya, not amused with Nodoka's state of mind, or her glares at her sister, who responds after her statement to Birdie with a blush and stare to Nodoka once more before checking her gun. "Oh, are you butthurt that you'll actually have to get up off your lazy backend and one day, just maybe, use that commie boom-stick of yours for a shotgun wedding?" Nodoka says, in retalliation to Bride's defensive behavior, engaging in, as all their argumentative conversations seem to start with as of late - ad hominem. "No actually, I had half a clock to fire a pulse shell up your ass, however now that I think about it, I'll probably use the whole damn mag - But knowing you and the crap you do, that'd actually be a good thing for you, wouldn't it?!" She says to Nodoka, surpsingly out of earshot of Honya as she listens to Birdie's response, but just audible enough to get the attention of one or two of the others, if the fact they were about to literally butt heads wasn't enough.
Diana leaves the sink after a few minutes of continous drinking and looks around where she has ended up. Where the hell am I? This isn't the administrative annex, neither my bedroom." she says to herself only to notice Alexei near the bed. "What are you looking at? Gosh...how much did I sleep?Where are the others?".
Diana walks towards the door, taking a peek on left and right, and then at the sign above her saying "Medical Bay- Room 4". "Medical bay?!?! What the hell am I doing here? Alexei come on...tell me!" she tells to Alexei looking at him with a confused look in her eyes.
Alexei places his hand on Diana's shoulder in attempt to calm her. "Relax, Babushka. You're safe here. I was worried because you ran like a mad woman over to that sink just now like a fish out of water after being out for around 20 minutes - You collapsed in the annex and after we confirmed bride was okay, had you taken to the infirmary instead." An alarm goes off elsewhere in the medical bay, grabbing the attention of the doctors. "The others are on the Hecate, the Harpies' capital ship, still moored with the Freeport. I assume you want to go see them." He says to Diana, curious about where she wants to go from here, He looks to the devices. "The tupitsa idioty forgot to arm the alarm system... And people wonder why we have a high fatality rate here."
Seline, at first awestruck by Honya's new choice in fashion quickly notices the fight starting to brew between Nodoka and Bride and goes to attempt to diffuse the situation. "Whoa there ladies... Let's NOT start opening fire on each other? Ok? Good." She says without either of them being able to react to the forceful redhead currently pushing her way between them.
Noel's smugness vanishes the moment she sees Honya, looking her up and down a few times before shaking her head. "Uh-Wha... Honya!? Is that you? Or did someone replace you?" Birdie, at first surprised as well recovers when she hears the question pointed at her. "Oh, yeah... You mind moving targets? Or are you more in the mood for basic ones?"
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Honya notices the situation and approaches them, gun holstered to her side, still in her hand. "Bride-san, knock it off! We're here to enjoy ourselves, not argue.. same to you as well, Hanamura-sensei." She turns to Birdie. "Moving, please~!" before patting her sister on the back and proceeding to move back into position to fire. Nodoka nods to Seline, pulling her away, just as Bride turns to look at Honya. "Why are you wearing that get up and acting like this? You're not provocative, you're usually demure if anything!" Bride says, looking to Honya. "Because I have wanted to show off, to show Hanamura-sensei there is a sensual part of me as well - You have trusted her for years, why is it that now you are so protective of me when she means no ill will?" she responds, concerned about Bride possibly ruining her chances. "But.. but..." Bride says, seemingly defeated. "Never mind. I was just worried about you is all. Forget I said anything." she says before stepping aside, trying to keep herself under control, checking her shotgun to keep herself distracted.
"She's concerned about me and her, I bet. To be honest, this is the first time Honya has made such advances." Nodoka says to Seline quietly, rubbing the back of her own neck.
After loading his shotgun and placing it on a table, Mark walks over to Bride to make sure things didn't explode too badly. "You ok? That looked pretty heated from my perspective."
While Birdie begins setting up the paths of the drones, she looks over to Honya. "So... What's the occasion for that outfit? Anywho, I'm not making this easy for you, five targets, all running at full speed. They might be dumber then a sack of bricks... But they're pretty damn fast when they want to be."
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