The moment the truck came to a stop, Ran did the unthinkable and pulled out his handgun.
Firing from the inside of the medical transport, his gun boomed several times over as Fian sunk into his seat for cover, unburnt powder striking him like pepper from a 3 year old's shaker. Holes were punched clean through the glass as rounds sparked off of cars, forcing the nearest few into cover before others returned fire. The entire view from inside the cabin turned into a spider-web of cracked ice as both Ran and Fian somehow remained alive - they only had Nepleslia to thank for one-way ballistic glass! With no time for prayers, the prettier of the two shoved the other out of the vehicle and into the snowy streets. Nearby, Krex checked his magazine and found it loaded with 7 rounds of .45 - fresh out of the ration pack! Slipping it back in, he leaned out and took aim, firing as Alice did the same with the submachine gun in her hands.
The pirates were in cover, but they didn't stay that way for long. Blind firing at first, their own guns started hammering into the vehicles the marines hid behind. As sparks flew, the metal hulls plinking as though hellish hail pelted their skins, they could all see a shotgun barrel stick out of a second story window further back to the left.
Taking aim from her vantage point, Slip-Ring neatly lined up the sights on her shotgun on the back and side of one enemy before a dozen holes burst across the man's vest and body, the snow around him turning red as he toppled over. Racking the slide, the nearly literal aim-bot fired again as the first shell toppled to the floor, still smoking. A second man's head snapped around and sighted the gynoid, only to get splattered against the pavement. Bullets snapped into the window sill, the rounds falling short of their mark as the third managed to quickly squeeze off a few rounds before his arm was torn clean off at the shoulder! Fredriika, a floor below and a store over, wasn't about to let her subordinates do all the work either - lining up her handgun, she let loose a handful of shots into the side of one man as the ballistic fabric tore and finally gave, a round slipping into his armpit as the pirate keeled over.
Though they managed to get some shots in, the fight wasn't over yet!
Realizing the threat, several of the pirates turned their guns on Slip-Ring and Fredriika, taking some of the pressure off of the rest at the far side of the street. Even then, if they didn't put the pressure back on the enemy instead, things would go south quickly!