In a sense, it was probably inevitable that someone in the main group was going to have to make a heroic last stand to get the rest of the group to the capital. I just expected it to be Minerva, or maybe Kai.
There’s a lot going on at the start of this chapter too. The whole A2 bomb thing, and the realization that Angie is, quite literally, “The Bomb”. Setting off a nuclear-like weapon to destroy a major enemy city and force the government to surrender and end a war. Where have we heard that before?