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"Yeah alright." He tips his hat and follows after him, trying his best to stay close.

The time quickly passed as the two reached the forest. "Watch your step in here." Before them was a huge green needleaf forest. John went in and began walking through it.

Just as before, fatigue began to get to him again. He's capable with wearing armour to a certain degree, but this in particular was too tight, constricting his joints, creating a great amount of discomfort. Regardless of the pain, he treks through the forest alongside John. During their trek, something had just occurred to him. Without any further hesitation, his lips parted. "Hey, what about breakfast?"

"I guess i was a bit exited. Alright why not?" He sat down and withdrew some food and water, which he began to consume.

Tai was just about to sit with him, but a subtle noise began to form in the air. A humming noise, like that from a drone of sorts. Gently, Tai places his hand over his holstered revolver, looking around frantically. He looks to John, worried. "Mate... we gotta hide!" He whispers, before dashing behind a tree, and leaning against it. The humming noise begins to escalate, as if the supposed drones are nearing to their location.

John quickly dropped to the ground and hid in some bushes. He pulled out a small device that would mess up the drones search patterns. The issue with this is it would be known by whoever was operating it. So he waited for them to pass.

After a prolonged minute or so, they arrive... 3 scout drones with a small squad of APF officers. They seem to be carrying fully automatic rifles and armoured from their collar bone down. They look around in great vigilance and care, potentially looking for John and Tai. A frontal assault would be suicidal and reckless.

As Tai hid behind the tree, he bites his lip. His determination and pure recklessness beginning to get the better of him. He looks to where John is hiding and mouths "Watch this." before grinning mischievously, and dashing to another tree, causing the officers to look in his direction. After a few seconds they continue on their way, turning their backs to Tai. With the force facing the other direction, Tai springs out from behind tree whistling, and unleashing a barrage of bullets with a quick-draw, hitting the drones in vital areas, causing them to explode on impact. He quickly takes cover behind the tree before the APF officers unleash their share of lethal shrapnel upon him, hitting the tree.

"You've got to be shitting me." John still on the moved to where he could get a shot. He rose to a crouch and raised his rifle. He placed the sights on the head of on APF officer, held his breath and squeezed the trigger slowly as he released his breath. He did so taking out two when another heard his gunfire, spun in his direction. Before he could fire a round found its way into his skull. John drew from his belt his one smoke grenade and threw it at the ground slightly infront of himself. Once the smoke had become thick he prepared to dash back.

Just as John was making his escape, Tai was having a blast, multiple ones in fact. He brings his revolver close to his face and giggles. "Just like the good ol' days..." He whispers to himself before rolling out from his cover and firing at the officers from the hip, attempting to hit their heads. The bullets manage to hit their destination as their blood splatters on the leafy ground. There was only a mere few left at this point.

Tai quickly reloads his revolver and dashes at an APF officer who was firing his rifle at him, to which Tai nimbly attempts to duck and weave beneath the bullets. He jumps to a tree trunk and launches himself off it before firing another round into the officer, hitting his neck. "Ooooh baby! This is f-" He was cut off as an officer fires a round into his shoulder, to which he turns and fires quickly, hitting the officer in the head. He relaxes, but the pain suddenly got to him. He shouts a curse as he holds on to his bleeding shoulder. "Son of a- aaaah!"

John stopped and spun around, dashing to the aid of Tai. "What the hell happened?" He pulled out aome field medical suppliea. He began to dress the wound. "You are reckless, you nearly got yourself killed."

He watches as John dresses his wound, predominantly removing his duster for ease of access. He hisses in pain for a second as he tends to his wound. He starts giggling. "That's the beauty of it... y'know? Just mowing down them bloody fascists with a single draw..." He snickers. "That, to me is beauty."

"You can have your fun later, but now we need to get out of here." John finished dressing the wound and stood up to help Tai up.

He stands up alongside John and scoffs in disapproval. He bore a grimace at first but smiles all so suddenly. "Why so serious?" He jests.

"Because this is an important mission." He said "We have completed one stage but we still have a ways to go until we have completed it."

He snickers beneath his hat. "Have it your way." He twirls his revolver one last time before holstering it. "Anyway, how far are we?"

"We've been in the forest for a bit, I would say we have gone about 4 klicks in it, 6 in total so 14 until we meet a friendly aircraft. If we move fast we should be there by dusk." John looked towards the mountains 3 kilometers away from where they were. They were not high up but the side they would face was steep and had few ways up. John waved over Tai "Let's move."

Aircraft? Well, it could've been much worse from Tai's perspective. God forbid it'd be a boat, but that doesn't matter. His sense of the forest is a little vague, yet with enough time, he could potentially track their way out. For now, he'll just follow John's orders, regardless of how much he would disagree.

Tai trails behind John as he leads the way, not saying a word. The armour beginning to feel even tighter on his chest.

A time of around an hour passed until the trees began to give way to a flat open grassy area, with little trees. The grass broke into a rocky plain which stretched to the bottom of the mountain. John stood below the steep rock face, a daunting challenge. John turned to Tai and spoke aloud to him "Some ways down there," He pointed left "Is a rope on a cliffs edge we need to climb." John waved him to follow as he walked along the edge of the grass and stone.

Tai looked up to the formation of rock and sighs in frustration. He looks to the tight fitting armour, then back to the mountain. It seems he'll have to discard it after all. "You sure there isn't a? Never mind..." Grimacing, he removes the tight vest from his torso and tosses it aside, before following John soon after.

They came upon the precipice, two intrepid gunmen. John looked up at the landscape above, alien to him and Tai. "There is the rope HQ set up, all that's to it now is to climb my friend." John pulled on the rope and stood unflinching as small debris clattered down the ledge. "You ready? You hungry? Hey what the hell does it matter let's go!" John grabbed the rope with both hands and slammed his foot on the hill, and began the long climb.