Kaede was going to actually participate this time--right up until a turret lifted up out of the ground where there were only sprinklers before.

So much for that.

It didn't even shoot bullets, just--energy. Energy she'd never seen before or had to deal with and it was flying right at her. She didn't move instantly, trusting to her vectors to deflect it like they did so many other things. But they had trouble adjusting to something so new so quickly. They screeched to higher resonances than they should, even turning plainly visible and ghost-white to untrained eyes--and audible as a whining, buzzing sound. The vectors held, sparks cascading off of the field--but that wasn't the only turret showing its face.

"Move now, talk later!"