Connie goes flying when the monstrous hand smacks her, tumbling across the ground for a few seconds before finding her feet and sliding to a stop. The chocobo eater hit like a truck, even with all of her armor protecting her. Which was all the more reason to take this thing down quickly. Connie aims her gunblade at the monster's right eyeball when it growls something vaguely related to English, pointing in Connie's direction. And then she freezes.

Was this thing intelligent? Could they negotiate with it? It was just trying to eat its natural prey, after all. They were the ones being aggressive! Maybe they could get Euphemia to patch it up and have a proper-

Lelouch's spell interrupts her train of thought. Right. Combat situation. This thing was trying to kill her. She could worry about whether or not it was sentient later. Connie was tempted to reprimand Lelouch for deviating from the plan, but the truth was that Freeze was probably a better option that Broil at this point, considering that she did need some breathing room. So instead she yells, "Good thinking!" before taking aim at the chocobo eater's right eye once again, firing off three Fire Bullets, before turning to the left and doing the same. Her chamber would need some time to recharge after firing six charges in the space of two seconds, but she really needed to debilitate this thing somehow.