"While your plan is indeed valid, I have to question - to what extent can we count as Gaz destroying the enemy team before we do - and more importantly - without too much of our involvement?" Anchovy asks Haruka, "Gaz is not easy to predict."
Turning to Trey, she adds, "a support unit such as you does indeed count towards a team of three with the right strategies. Hide well for the time being until the signal is provided - a bullet to the air."
So despite all his efforts to convince them otherwise, they seemed intent on dueling the others. Trey sighed. He prayed desperately he had gotten lucky on the draw with his teammates. He really was at a disadvantage; he had no idea what they did, and he didn't have anything particularly out of the ordinary to surprise them. He was in a bad spot either way.
"...F-fine…" Trey hung his head for a moment, internally sensing his chances of success crumbling away. "But how am I support, exactly? All I really have is a variable and my small stature. I can hide, but I have to get in close to hit them…." He folded his arms in frustration. "Apparently our team consists of a long range and a much more powerful short range. I guess I'm not good for much else but a surprise kamikaze…?"
"Hm? Easy peasy," Haruka replied cheerily, snapping her fingers together, "Anchovy loads you up in a cannon and launches you off! I'm the scary one here, so all eyes would be on me if I even do something like wave my hand at em, so that's where Trey goes cannonball in! The good ol shock and awe~"
"A dual-deployment, very well," Anchovy responds, "I believe that all immediate issues have been discussed, and any other issues are to be thought about on a whim. Before the big plan. All of us are to move discreetly and minimalize detection - move close to the ground and within buildings as much as possible. Anything else to be covered?"
"Yeah, one thing." Trey piped up, obviously concerned with one major factor that had occurred to him once the decision had been made that they would not be playing nice. If he was even going to have a CHANCE, he needed to know as much as possible… "Um...er...exactly what are you guys capable of? The last thing I need is to be going in blind t-to my teammates' abilities...and worse, our opponents'...."
"Prier, the girl with the super duper long hair is mainly a gravity girl," Haruka began, "While the rest of them can be treated as long range physical users as well, all things considered. So hey, it's all pretty simple! We win with closing distance, and we lose if we can't do that!"
"I'm short range physical, by the by, and Anchovy, well…"
"I am primarily long range physical, long range mental. I will remain ranged when necessary," Anchovy adds, "my mental abilities allow me to view through the eyes of others - be it cameras or organic optics."
"Short range physical...and...something." Trey huffed. "I've mentioned it a lot, b-but..well. My mental type is a total unknown. I didn't figure it out in time for the sim." Trey sighed, but spun his variable, shaped like a staff, defiantly, almost to the situation itself. "But I have been training with staves since I was little...I make up for lack of p-power with a lot of skill."
"Total unknown means it's a deus ex machina for us then," Haruka said cheerily, slapping the dude on the back, "And we got super great scouting potential on Anchovy's part as well. Now then, cause I can totally see them doing this...how will we deal with them if they take flight?"
"Two options - stay safe and at low ground, hiding underneath the roof of buildings and ensuring that we are out of sight," Anchovy discusses, "or we could bring the fight to them, flying as well for full aerial combat."
Trey remained silent as the two discussed combat options. "It's not like I can reach them from the ground, but I was planning on taking it to the sky anyways...360 degree short-range combat is p-pretty tough to master. I think I'd be most likely to beat them if I have more options to keep in motion and react to their shots." He shut his eyes. "But if that's the case w-we'll have to take our Prier immediately. Gravity and flight...don't go together."
"We can't win by hiding though," Haruka stated, taking a quick look at the time, "And we probably won't have enough time to drain them dry of their energy by forcing them to stay flying. That being said…"
She pursed her lips together, thinking back to the fight with the simulation.
"Anchovy, did you get the feeling that Prier's gravity manipulation had 'infinite' vertical range? Or was it more of a localized sphere of influence? If it's the former, attacking vertically might be a good counter. After all, if she got herself caught in the gravity well..."
"Personally, I believe that the range, while great, is limited. Even in the context of actual gravity, one is less affected when they are higher, and there is no way Prier is on the level of planets. A high-speed far-range snipe would serve well to negate," Anchovy responds, "if there is no true way to know now, we will have to observe first in their fight against Gaz."
"So n-now we're assuming they'll go after Gaz?" Trey cast his eye to Anchovy with confusion. "We should be thinking worst-case scenario. I see two possibilities...they go to us with the hopes w-we join them to fight Gaz...or they take the battle directly to us. I'm betting on the latter for the same reason w-we're not fighting him. Frankly...I think if we're to beat Prier, we'll have to do two things...first we have to keep the others distracted so they can't protect her. And then...we'll have to outwit her."
Hm, this conversation was going in an odd direction, wasn't it? "Well, let's keep it simple. I'll serve as the vanguard, Anchovy as sniper support, and Trey as her spotter and shield. They definitely aren't stupid enough to go after Gaz solo, so the simplest plan will be…"
Haruka raised one finger per point.
"Anchovy grabs their eyes and figures out where they're looking."
"I arrive dynamically and grab their focus."
"Anchovy takes the snipe on Prier while they're distracted."
"Trey comes in to support via cannonball, and we mop up the rest."
A shrug, a smile. "It's a bit mean, but we have superior scouting capabilities, while Prier is their solo threat. Shouldn't be too hard to grab the initiative, if they're as blind as we are in regards to locations."
"So that would require me making contact with their eyes, perhaps forging a false alliance, then splitting up," Anchovy crosses her arms, "a sound plan to me. Let us proceed. We have little time before it truly begins."