"Aiming right!" Roger snapped, eyes still closed and hoping like hell nobody got in the way. "Firing!"

The AER9 laser rifle is not an automatic weapon. It is, however, a weapon that can get twenty-four good shots in a row off a single microfusion cell, as fast as the operator's finger can repeatedly squeeze the trigger.

If Marco's aerobatics didn't distract the monstrous snake, the barrage of laser fire probably would.