She needed a moment to think. Using one of her more advanced abilities would require energy and she had precious little to spare, but the numbers were too great to risk letting these strange-looking creatures have their way. Those mandibles looked like they could chew through synthetics without much fuss.

A pair of machines rolled right in upon her next thought, and immediately she felt something of a sense of home- machines, or perhaps some sort of defense force from the city ahead! The insects weren't the most impervious to fired rounds, and she could comfortably lower her rapier and move on ahead.

"Thank you!" She addressed the drones, but she scanned the horizon. That wall could be scaled no problem, but what would she find once inside?