Robert blinked at the sudden assault before turning to fire at the nearest SUV aiming for the driver. "Holy crap, they were waiting for us Boss!"

Luca blinked and looked over to Robert and watched the two other SUV's charge into side streets and collect unwanted passengers, sending them hurtling across the sky, "I dunno, they seem to be going for anything that moves - and last time I checked, we move!"

Enzo started to follow everyone out until he saw they were walking. Already knowing where the casino was in relation to everyone else, he decided to pull out his air bike from the Lady's hold and catch up to them. Not satisfied to wait for Smith to take the bait any longer, Enzo walked past him into the hangar and his ship waiting beyond.

Uriel, far too aggravated with the incessant nonsense happening all around him, did the stupid thing and stood his ground. He leveled his hefty revolver, but did not fire a shot. Luca did the work for him, and what marvelous work it was. Strength was turned to weakness, turned to a fatal blow. He lowered his gun and resumed his stride. He had an agenda to maintain and no hooligans in expensive armored cars were going to stop him.

He approached the young man hiding behind the car. "Move."

Smith didn't rise to take Enzo's bait; she was already starting to go back into being a he. Though not outwardly yet, the mental changes were already starting. With a minor huff of annoyance at the other man, she promptly picked up her suitcase and walked with Luca as he made his way to...wherever he was going.

The Tsundere in her was finally shut up.

****

All hell broke loose in the streets, which wasn't anything special for Nepleslia, but likely a horrible shock to Yamataians. Out of childhood instinct, Smith dodged into an alley with the suitcase in hand and undid the clasps, revealing a disassembled custom GP-1. Smith quickly put it together and threaded the silencer on before screwing the auto-zeroing combat scope onto the top rail. With this done, she pocketed the magazines in the case and slung the rifle

A fire escape ladder lead her to a nice advantage point on the roof.

She wasn't going to be nice either.

Zeta walked next to Luca. He was right, this was quite slow. "You know, boss if everyone would get armours like me and Rob, we could just fly over there." SHe said, but before Luca could answer SUB came out of the Zero-casino.

Luca did not waste any time dispatching it with his M'Cell, leaving fiery wreck driving of the street with remaining momentum. Zeta smirked and seeing as another SUB driven out, she walked in the middle of the street.

"Bloody hell, these bastard never learn. If they would just wait for, us it would be much, much easier. Well it was their choice." She said as she started walking towards the speeding SUV. "Bad one," she added as she raised her gatling.

Her armours targeting system aligned with the weapon and she could clearly seeing where she aimed over-sized weapon. If she wouldn't wear helmet other could see rather scary smile that appeared on her face. She then pulled the the trigger and barrels started rotating and firing fast and deadly gamma rays were send against speeding car.

"I think we're ambushing each other at the same time!" Luca yelled as he kept moving across the street and pressing what advantage he had left. As far as he knew, the Zeroes' SUV's were not focussing on Luca's group, and were still engaged in plain old wanton mayhem.

However, there were a few reasons for them to start focussing on them, since Zeta had opened up with her Gamma Ray Vulcan (Boosted with a backpack) and fried the occupants inside the incoming SUV shortly before making it go up in smoke. Other Zeroes members were running around in the dragnet, and started to notice this. They saw Luca running towards the casino.

They gathered a few things as they pulled their sawn off shotguns, revolvers and sub machine guns from their persons - first of all, he had a smoking grenade launcher in his hands, second, he had friends - armed friends, third, they had no idea who he was - but he was interrupting their 'playtime'.

One of them had barely pulled the hammers back on his shotgun before Luca leapt into him, took him down to the ground and lifted him up as a human shield. Luca had his revolver pulled out and started firing upon other Zeroes members, who were quick to take cover. The proximity of the revolver to the human shield deafened him with every shot.
He then grabbed the gang banger by the belt and the scruff of his neck and threw him across the street, leaving his shotgun behind and taking it for himself in his other hand.

The physics of dual wielding two very powerful weapons without getting a broken wrist could've come into play, but a bit of skill, training and plain-as-day balls overcame the limitations.

"Luca, I've managed to get a visual on the inside of the casino," A voice in Luca's earpiece spoke, it was Echelon. Her computer voice was surprisingly pleasant compared to her speaking voice.
"Wonderful," Luca replied before blasting a Zero's leg off with the shotgun at close range, "How many of them are in there?"
"There are at least fifty armed men inside the casino. The civilians have fled and taken cover, but I see no 'kingpin'."
"Great. He'll die tired," Luca lamented.

Meanwhile, further back, the Beta member was still on his phone, having being pushed out of cover and finding another refuge quickly, "...and suddenly this bunch of badasses show up and they're takin' control! One of them sounds a bit like you, boss!"

As the fight unfolded, Luca was taking point, but found himself pinned down by suppressing fire by Zeroes members armed with automatic weapons. As he was hiding behind a civilian's car next to the engine block, he searched his pocket for a fragmentation grenade. He pulled the pin and threw it over his cover blindly, exploding on the street, and not close enough to any of the Zeroes to hurt them.

There were at least six of them blocking progress, and Luca started to notice red dots on the ground, just outside of cover, and just towards safety, causing him to yell: "Snipers!"

And it was about that time that Seiren finally got on over to the fray in his custom LEAF, where he decided to 'gently place' some rounds from the built-in Mancannon towards the standers on the street, seeing as a pistol wasn't much good against sniper fire.

"Sorry I'm late!" He chimed, pulling closer to Luca's position and preparing the point lasers against any potential rockets that a walking hunk of metal tended to be prone to. "The thing got caught up in a pothole! What can I do?"

Shortly after the arrival of the miniature inventor, another motorized whine greeted the arrival of the crew's token crook. Enzo sailed into place next to Seiren on his airbike and lit a cigarette. He was foolishly without a helmet.

"Where's the snipers, Cap'n Pavone?" Enzo asked, unholstering his Tigers' Tears with his left hand. The powerful revolver shuddered as he drew back its hammer. "Point me at 'em, an' I'll takes care of 'em for yous. You guys can push on through while I plays with my food."

Uriel never took kindly to being ignored. Now that he was under threat of death, he had zero patience. The young man he now presumed to be a member of Beta's gang- It was Beta, wasn't it? he asked himself- was ignoring him. His mistake.

The archangel clutched the young Nepleslian by the throat and forced him onto his back. He knelt, one knee pressing on the gangster's stomach. Their lower profile provided greater safety behind the car. The business end of Professor Hisshana's revolver laid gently against the lad's forehead. "You'll answer me this time, or you'll answer to God for your earthly doings: who are you, and with whom are you speaking?"