Palace Interior
Ace turned around just long enough to see the deputy before he grabbed a man from the group and held him while he backed away. "Right behind you." Ace dumped the man before picking up the wounded Uso and sprinting after the deputy. "Hey don't mind me asking but who are you?" Ace looked at the man's weapons. "Hey got a spare?" Ace pointed to the man's guns.
Of course, while Gut-Stripe was terrifying enough to keep the other soldiers away, Ace was not so lucky. Despite being fortunate so far, he finally managed to catch a shotgun blast to his leg, the exotic metals of the spacer ship shredding the meat of his muscles.