Guppy doesn't have time to grin back, he slices a ninja where the carotid artery would be, blasts at the areas under knees where the artery would flow, and kicks at pressure points when all else fails.

He feels almost detached from his own body, but only in the sense of someone who is drowning. Around him is a pile of groaning, dying or dead people, defeated only by a man's determination to survive for his brothers, wife and baby.