"And it will be greatly appreciated."

She laughs. "Let's get going, then."

"Okay."

Zoom! Off into the desert! 

This place is apparently pretty dense with enemies, who are in nice polite clusters far enough away from each other that Jackass can pick some off with a sniper riffle without the other groups pivoting to attack her. 

... well if they're showing off sniper rifles. Akira has one of those too. It's substantially weaker than Jackass's. When she notices she asks, "Is your gun representative? I have stronger weapons but they tend to be a lot showier."

"Heh, nah, showy's common. My original build was for intel stuff though, and intel work nowadays is sneakier - I've upgraded and all, but I still prefer not letting my enemy shoot back. Though if you can play the tank, go right ahead." She shoots another machine. "I'm one of the best snipers you'll meet though, and my equipment's top of the line - this gun doesn't look like much, but I'm swapping between nano-tip, explosive, EMP, corrosion, and energy rounds. Which the fanciest dedicated gun units usually have like, one of bullets or energy rounds and only one or two special attacks - you're doing about normal gun damage."

"Huh, guns in particular do less damage here? Or do you just mean ranged weapons in general? And how literal is the definition of ranged? I have swords that shoot waves of energy."

"Most of it has to do with their armor - even a pretty cheap machine gun can pulverize un-reinforced concrete and, like, trees. The armor's harder against sudden point pressure, but weaker against sustained and sliding pressure. And against being blown up! And shockwaves work a lot better than bullets, but - man, if you want to see what weapons can really do, I should drag one of those YoRHa out here. 13B's one of their highest end units, and she's got a sword that'll slice a goliath spider in half. A shockwave won't do much more than dent a goliath's main body; I'd usually just blow up their limbs and then wedge them somewhere so they can't angrily roll at me - but a shockwave from a sword like hers is plenty enough to kill multiple of these little guys in one swing."

"Huh, so armor is much more important here. I don't think a lot of my more dangerous weapons are safe to use from inside a car. Maybe this." She appears a rather large pink sword and flicks the tip in the direction of the enemies. There's a sound of a meow and a small cat trailing rainbows is launched towards the enemies at a speed much slower than bullets occasionally bouncing off the ground and releasing a sparkling explosion when it does. This is considerably more effective.

"What in the world?" She starts laughing. "Holographic weapon? You've got style."

"I just call it magic. I don't think there's any holograms involved."

"Like, old world magic - ?"

"I'm not sure what you mean."

"Best we can tell - though a lot of archives are fucked - this planet didn't have magic like, ten thousand years ago? Magic was introduced when two beings came over from another world, and it's still pretty rare - we don't know a ton of things about that other world but for whatever reason we've settled on calling it 'the old world.'"

"Oh. That's interesting, what sorts of things does the local magic do?"