Sloan lifted her turret to fire while the front door burst open and two more girls dashed inside. For a pivotal moment Sloan hesitated, unsure whether to fire at the ball-and-chain girl or the two new ones. The moment cost her as the first of the two girls smacked Sloan in the face with a paper fan, the kind used by fancy ladies and Super Smash Brethren. Before Sloan's head finished recoiling from the first strike, a second came, and a third, and a fourth.

A flurry of gunshots rang out and the girl with the fan flew back. The girl behind her charged forward with a can of pepper spray and sent a noxious blast directly into Sloan's eyes. Unfortunately this girl had attacked literally the one thing Sloan could heal, so Sloan quickly recovered and blasted her. The light from her gun rattled with a raindrop din against the girl's golden armor, but the force propelled her backward out the door and over the railing.

(Chapter 37)