The German shepherd perched on the rooftop where she'd set up her makeshift command post, surveying the palls of black smoke, ears perking at the occasional chatter of automatic weapons mixed with the booming report of a shotgun, sprinkled with a small explosion here and there. The mission had gone about as well as it could have; the target was dead and all that was left was dispatching the occasional bit of dwindling resistance from the dictator's vacantly-trained security forces. A cakewalk for Divebomb and Bloodhound.

Dora pressed the play button on her MP3 player

"You are, my fiiiireee. My one, desiiiireee."

"Hey boss! Whatcha listening to?"

Dora jumped a bit as Optica plopped down next to her, the hyena smirking that she'd once again been able to sneak up on the shepherd.

"Oh it's ah, just some random stuff from the 90's..." Dora replied with just a hint of a blush.

"Jeezus is that an actual operating clicky-wheel iPod?"

"Yup."

"Surprised it still works. Anyway, lemme listen."

Before Dora could protest, Optica yoinked one of the earbuds from the shepherd and put it into her own ear. The look that followed was a mixture of amusement and confusion.

"What?"

"Nothing." Optica grinned. "Just kinda figured you were more of a heavy metal girl."

"I like to switch it up every now and then. Keeps people on their toes." The shepherd winked.

"So I've heard." The hyena grinned.

A few moments later, both girls were belting out the chorus at the top of their lungs, seemingly oblivious to the death and destruction that lay before them, until Dora's comm link crackled to life.

"We can hear you two from over here, you know." Came a familiar grumpy voice.

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So this came from a discussion and I were having in Discord, I was thinking about a list of songs that Dora would listen to while she did what Dora does, and brought up "That Way" by The Backstreet Boys.

Then he went and commissioned this :3 Our two ladies just hanging out and chilling with some upbeat music, probably a way of decompressing after they've just unalived a whole bunch of bad guys and blew up their stuff.

Artwork is © The always talented and lovely to work with  Cinnameana

Skylar "Optica" Townsend is ©
Andrea "Bloodhound" Rayne (story cameo) is ©
Zephyr "Divebomb" Vespera *mentioned* is ©

And of course, Dora is mine.