She is very sure. (She can set up all the needed protections to be appropriately unobtrusive and all that).

9S's Pod pops its gun out and takes careful aim.

Then fires.

One of the small bits of metal hits her in the leg.

Predictably, this hurts.

She lets her leg fold, take her partially to the ground.

She laughs.

"Oh, that's marvelous! Try more center mass now? Not my head, that'll take too long to deal with." She waves at her torso. "Around here. Oh, no, wait, I should heal first-"

Summon out the bullet, concentrate, concentrate, concentrate. She stands back up.

"There we are. Now try it!"

...Okay.

This is so great. 

This one takes more healing. She does healing.

She is smiling rather blazingly. "Your pods are great, I'm a big fan. Does the non-bullet stuff have a lower key version too? Don't really want to try being all exploded right now, but there was the, what was it, laser-"

"I guess..."

It's a bit.. awkward that she has to talk through Aye to talk to him, here, but -

"Is - something about this making you uncomfortable? Aside from the obvious?"

"No, I think it's mostly the obvious thing."

"It's, um - the reason she can pretend to be a mage slave. And um. Was." And apparently part of her wants to defend Aye, now, as well as wanting this person to be alright... "Is it - something specific, or just - you're not used to it?" 

"We were built to fight for humans, not shoot them."

...Somewhat different 'obvious' then, she should maybe have been more specific on that.

"Well this is all sorts of relevant to fighting, good to know and test things now before we start on things!

...if you think it might work and feel like giving me the tutorial, I could have it shoot me? Actually unless you mind at some point we should check if I can do that anyway."

"That wouldn't work." He taps his head. "You don't have the hardware to connect with a Pod."

She waves her fingers cheerfully.

"I have very general purpose hardware!

But unless you mind we can check that later and just shoot me with a laser now?"

"Here goes."

There's a flash, and a chunk of her leg is vaporized.

She halfway falls over again, goes somewhat breathless for a bit.

Checks out the effect and starts promptly on the healing.

"Wow"

Healing healing. 

Grinning a lot. 

"Well, thank you!

Want to try out shields tonight too, or waiting with that?"

"If you're up to it."

This is about the most exciting day she's ever had, and she is very much up to it!

Handily if something goes wrong she just gets shot again! She makes a shield.

And the shield gets shot at.

They should probably do this several times with different strengths of shields and different amount of shooting and stuff.

...Can she make the shield around not-her? That would make testing-to-destruction a lot safer.

She can but not as well. Try stuff up to below that and then see?

They'll ramp up slowly, then.

Stronger shields block harder blasts. She needs to restrengthen shields after they take hits. If she doesn't do that and they keep taking hits they'll break sooner. Putting more power into a shield to begin with is more effective than restrengthening. (She has more power available, that usual ocean at rest. She's not changing that, at the moment. But she has plenty as it is).

If the shield is weak, the Pod can ramp up faster than she can restrengthen it. But a full-power shield can stand up to a full-power Pod.