Honestly? He didn't really need to worry about Maria. Hasted and with upgraded gunblades, which as everyone knows are overpowered weapons, she didn't need GFs and Junctions to cut through the grats. She had plenty of her own muscle that she'd earned the hard way.

Not that she was unscathed, mind; the grats had laid open several stripes on her forearms, which she seemed inclined to block with if she couldn't parry with her blades in time. She hadn't taken any wounds to the chest or head, so call it a victory as far as it went.

Trusting the Commander to do his thing with the T-Rexaur, she flipped lightly over one grat, nailed it to the ground with both gunblades, then chain-pulled the triggers like she was being offered a prize for most twitches of an index finger in ten seconds. Needless to say, when she yanked her weapons free of the ground, the grat didn't move much any more.