"Alright..." Xavier took a moment to examine the NMC. "That's different." And not good. Someone collaring, _naming_ NMCs? That had _bad_ written all over it, in 15 ft high flaming letters.
"Okay. Alice, can you get anything?" Xavier asks, then waits a moment. He nods after a bit. "Alright. Alice says she detects 3 other heat signatures besides our own. All she knows about location is that their close. I think our friend here was trying to rejoin the others."
Volke stands close range and prepares to fire with the Hades, having figured that there was an NMC that Allen wanted to kill personally. After all, you don't ID every single enemy you cross unless there was a specific one you wanted...
He growled and pulled the trigger twice (27 to hit, 20 damage, then 22 to hit, 23 damage) before smacking it a final time with the butt of the rifle, (15 to hit, 4 damage)