The scene before her seemed to freeze for a moment as everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and looked at her. It didn’t last long though, the whatever she was in the net took the opportunity to charge at the man Elisa had disarmed, grab him, and throw him at the others.

The mystery woman struggled with the net over her, trying to get it off.

”Switch to rubber bullets!” One of the men shouted the command.

Elisa took aim and shot one of them who was drawing a gun in the shoulder, reset her rifle, took aim and fired at another of the men who was aiming at her, hitting him in the shoulder as well. She ducked to the side and rolled, using her rifle as a club and hitting another of them in the belly with all the considerable force she could leverage behind it. It knocked the wind out of him and made him double over, so she’d hit him at the right angle. She got up and hit him over the head with the butt of her rifle next – Hopefully he’d be out cold.

She looked over and saw the woman with the wings finally get free of the net. Two of the men with the electrified javelins were advancing on her while another was leveling a gun. She didn’t have time to use her own gun, so she charged him with it and used it like a battering ram. He fired just before she crashed into him. Elisa’s heart sank a little at the sound, knowing she might have failed and the woman with the wings could be hurt or even dead because she hadn’t been fast enough. Even rubber bullets could kill if they hit you in the wrong place. She crashed to the debris-strewn floor on top of the man.

”What sort of crazy are you, lady?” He said to her, getting leverage and pushing her off him.

She’d lost her rifle – Elisa heard the sound of it being reset and realized with dread that the man she tackled had it now instead. She looked and saw him leveling the gun at her. Luckily, the way she’d landed, she was able to kick out with her left leg and knock off his aim. She made a desperate tackle for him next, knowing she was too far from cover to do anything else before he could aim the gun at her again.