Tales of the First

"Cricket balls!" Lucy said suddenly.

"Hmm?" Martin looked over at her with a puzzled frown. “Cricket balls?”

"We should upgrade to using cricket balls, both for her normal shield and this new thing. They'll hit with more force but still won't do too much damage if the shield fails. If she can stop those we can move on to even more forceful attack in gradual increments."

"That's a good idea," Martin said. "But we'll still need to be careful and avoid lethal force because if it turns out the shield gives all at once rather than stopping most of the force of an attack that could be fatal."

"The principal is good though," Wendy said. "We'll get some cricket balls before the next session." She hefted the Nerf gun. "For now lets move on with the next part of this session."

Trying to stop Wendy firing the Nerf gun at her was more fun than Sienna had anticipated, and by the time Wendy ran out of ammunition she had managed to knock the gun muzzle away from her on most occasions and even pull the gun from Wendy's hands a couple of times before the ammunition ran out.

"That went well," she said before realising that Martin was shaking his head. "What?"

"You need to actually stop her firing," he said. "If you knock a gun aside or grab it there's too much chance of it going off and hitting someone else. The whole idea is to stop the bullets flying around. You need to try and hold the trigger against her so she can't fire."

"I see." Sienna tutted at the ceiling. "That will be harder, but I'll try."