Rewinding back while Kai was preparing to practice shooting the formation dummies, Cheri strode through the encirclement dummies and stood in the center. She drew her Baur Heavy-Assault Rifle, an upgraded variant of the SCAR 11. Cheri preferred this weapon since it is built to fire high-caliber, tungsten-core ammunition for maximum damage potential. The Baur H-AR has an rpm of 600 and can fire out 20 rounds. Since it has a small magazine capacity, it can be reloaded in three seconds top.
It took Cheri years of experience to master using the weapon effectively since after the first shot accuracy, the recoil kicks back hard if fired in fully automatic mode. The trick she learned is to fire in semi-automatic mode which increases her chance of landing more than one sure shot accuracy. She positioned herself in her ‘shoot and scoot’ mode which involved distancing her feet a few inches apart while slightly bending her knee. She aimed her assault rifle to the dummy in front of her and took a couple slow breaths.
“Focus, trace the target, shoot and scoot. Phew.”
Cheri whispered to herself before she zeroed in on her first headshot. She moved swiftly to the next couple of dummies in a clockwise manner, landing a few head and neck shots. After Cheri had gone through twenty dummies, she realized that her primary is dry and quickly threw her assault rifle at the head of the twenty-first dummy. With lightning fast reflexes, she drew out her P33 Pereira revolver which was loaded with 10 magnum rounds and started shooting the chest and shoulder of the dummies. Once she ran out bullets on her thirty-first dummy in the encirclement formation, she again threw her revolver at the next dummy.
Cheri knew her next engagement will be in close quarters as she drew her Dogtagger Dagger which was sheathed on the side of her left shoulder. She grinned as she lunged at the thirty-third dummy in the encirclement and immediately decapitated its head. She didn’t stop there, she proceeded to chop up the next couple of dummies’ shoulders and ripped apart the knights’ armors. Her crazed look sent chills down to a few heroes that paused to look at the ruckus she was causing.
Cheri was too engulfed in decapitating the dummies that she failed to notice that she gathered quite a crowd from the knights and nobles. In the corner of her view, she saw Kai making his way over and waved at him.
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"Kai! I'm dry! Need Resupplies!"
Kai answered back her request with a thumbs up and jogged to her position.
“Yea. Cheri. You might want to chill on the carnage. And you threw your weapons again didn’t you?”
Kai looked at the dummies impaled in the head and chest with Cheri’s assault rifle and revolver.
“With great throwing force at that.”
Kai facepalmed and shook his head sideways.
“It is safe to assume that both of us are already familiar with how our movements and combat works?”
Cheri nodded her head in response to Kai.
“Everything else still functions just like how we are used to back in playing Battlefield 2142:Redux.”
Cheri added while going through the other menu options in her Heads-up display.
“It’s going to be tough figuring out how ‘Tdoll Contracts’ and gacha currency will be dropped.”
Both Cheri and Kai are veterans at the game since they both knew killing enemy players and androids will drop construction contracts that can be picked up. Killing marked players will guarantee ‘Ice Diamonds’ which is the currency for the gacha part of the game. The difference is that the ‘Tdoll contracts’ contracts train you androids between the one to five-star pool and is replicable at low cost. While ‘Ice Diamonds’ contracts mercenaries from different sectors of the galaxies.
Now that both of them are in another world, the rules might have changed for them. Kai and Cheri both sighed at the same time since they both know that they are stuck here with no way to get back home.
Cheri motioned to the knights that they were done training. As the knights began to take down the dummies, Kai leaned close to Cheri’s ear and whispered.
“Since we are both here, why not we go on an adventure?”
In response Cheri grinned and gave Kai their little secret handshake.
“That is an exciting idea. But I have a bad feeling that we won’t be let go so easily after today’s spectacle.”
Both Kai and Cheri retired back to their room to prepare for the next day. Cheri was almost right on her hunch however a plan was already conducted in secret later on that day by a nobleman who was in the crowd that day. After seeing the destructive power that both heroes wield, he must acquire both of them to serve as his pawns in his scheme.
In the vacant training ground, he gave his trustworthy aide an order.
“Contact the knights and maids under my payroll. I want those two tonight. Use whatever methods you think is effective. This is once in a million chance that I am not letting this opportunity slip by.”
That order from the nobleman will later put the kingdom that summoned Cheri and Kai in a very bad light.