She pulled one of the magazines out of her bag and placed it inside the weapon. She pulled the knob on the top weapon labeled "charge" back, and there was the faint sound of the mechanism as the round was chambered.
She glanced at the side of the gun. Seemed to be rudimentary. There was a little button next to the magazine with a little tag that said release, and a switch that said "Safe", "Single", "Burst", and "Auto".
"Nanami," Ranma asked coolly, "Where did you get that weapon?"
"Found it stashed in a room, why?"
Ranma just did not like guns for some reason. They rubbed him the wrong way. He like the idea of hand to hand combat. Standing at range while you just blew your enemy away… it felt wrong somehow.
All three turned as a groaning zombie turned the corner and headed toward them. As the other positioned to attack, Nanami lifted her weapon and fired off a burst. The three explosive tipped exploded in its abdomen sending it to the ground in a bloody heap. Except for some twitching, it did not move.
Ranma glanced at the weapon… bad feelings or no, it was a bloody effective little toy.
"Do you have any idea where you can get more of those?" Ranma asked.
Nanami thought for a moment. "Actually, yes. There's an emergency weapons locker down the hall. You grab the stuff you gathered and meet me there."
They nodded and walked off.
"Ranma-sama," Kodachi stated coolly. "Are you sure about this?"
He shook his head. "No, but I have a feeling they might come in handy."
Kodachi nodded. "I think you're right."
"Lets do this quick. I do not trust her on her own."
Kodachi blinked. "You don't trust her?"
Ranma shook his head. "She is not a fighter. I don't trust her not to go get herself killed."
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Nanami grinned as she arrived in front of the weapons cabinet. Calling it a cabinet was a bit of a misnomer. It was more in the line of a wall safe. Only the security personnel and some of the head researchers had the keys, but she did receive a little training in firearms… while she didn't get it in anything fancy like the Pulse Rifle she had, she did get rudimentary training in weapons like pistols, shotguns, and even flamers. Just the kind of stuff that would be the locker.
She looked at it for a moment. She doubted that even with her enhanced strength she should just rip it out of the wall, and shooting it or using her blood might set off the ammo…
"How to open it… Hmmm… Aha!"
She paused for a moment and grinned. She walked to one of the security zombies, took his wallet, and ran his keycard through the lock. The lock requested a retinal scan, easily provided by lifting the bodies decapitated head. With a loud beep the locker opened.
Inside was a small treasure trove of weapons. She pulled out a duffle bag and quickly put everything inside. She only paused to take a look at the instructional placard on the inside of the door.
"Hmmm… might be worth taking…" she muttered.
She tried to pry it off, but it was riveted to the inside of the door at its for edges.
Nanami grinned and bit her finger hard enough to draw blood. She pressed it against the for rivets and the placard fell to the ground, its four edges melted but the instructions intact.
She sucked on her finger, and reflected. She had though blood had tasted bad before, with that icky irony taste but now it still had that irony taste but tasted like bad vinegar ontop.
Nanami pulled her finger from her mouth and looked at it. Not even a mark.
With a shrug, she picked up the instructions and read over them. Gun safety regulations… instructions on how to load and fire the various weapons… good to know.
She crammed it into her bag and smiled as she saw Ranma and Kodachi coming back with their own hauls.
"Okay!" she exclaimed in a perky voice. "Lets get the HELL out of here!"
Ranma nodded. "Finally… where is this launch bay anyway?"
Nanami pointed down a very long hall way. "Oh, just down there… about half a kilometer or so, past three heavy security doors, take a left at the end, and past the security check point which really shouldn't be much of a problem considering… easy as Pi…"
"Famous last words," Kodachi deadpanned.
"Don't jinx it!" Nanami exclaimed as they started toward their way out...
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