We Got a Runner
The helicopter lifted from the ground and flew to the sky, "There!" Nora points at a patch of trees moving violently in a straight path. The helicopter flies to the path with the moving trees, i can catch a small glimpse of smoke in the forest. Stephen aimed his rifle at the front of the moving path, Stephen fired a shot at the patch. The shot slammed into the ground but missed its target, five seconds after Stephen shot at the jeep bullets returned and hit the chopper, a shot hit the rotor and the helicopter lost some of its balance. "Get higher" said Sebastian to the pilot, the helicopter flew higher and higher from the forest but the jeep was still visible.
We were reaching the end of the forest and can see the road ahead, the jeep got out of the forest and landed on the road. "Sir he's on the road" said Sebastian "Copy going to your location now" replied the cparain on the radio. Two police cars emerged into our line of sight followed with other police cruisers, I aimed my rifle at the jeep's machine gun at the back, there were two heat signatures. Must be two important people on that thing, the cruisers got closer and closer to the jeep until, a larger vehicle emerged from the forest.
A vehicle similar to an apc crashed out of the forest and onto road, it aimed its cannon at one of the cruisers and fired. A loud bang as the police cruiser is engulfed in flames and blocks a portion of the road, the man on the jeep goes behind the apc and jumps onto the top, the jeep loses control and tumbled onto the road creating more blockage.
By this time only a van and three cruisers remain along with us at the heli, "We need to run it off the road" said Stephen. Stephen aimed his rifle again and fired, the shot slammed into one the wheels, puncturing it and making it lose its balance. We needed to make this fast as its heading nearer to the roadside cliff area. Stephen continued firing at the wheels of the car, as he was about to fire the last shot the cannon aimed at the helicopter and fired. we lost balance and the entire back of the helicopter was broken "Once we get near to the trees jump and try to grab on them!" shouted Sebastian.
The helicopter neared the trees and each of us jumped out each grabbing onto anything on the tree, i jumped last and latched on a sturdy branch, an ear splitting explosion was all i heard as the helicopter finally crashed into the ground, i carefully maneuvered myself down the tree making sure not to fall. Once i hit the ground the others landed alongside me, i looked down a small rod was lodged into my stomach, but i didnt feel much pain from it. Alina grabbed the rod and pulled it out, immediately after, she injected something into my wound. Looking down again the wound was fully or partially healed, Mary ran into the site where the chopper crashed possibly checking if the man survived, "Alina get over here!" Mary shouted in the distance, we ran to Mary seeing what happened, the helicopter was a burning wreck with the pilot burnt and very injured, nonetheless still alive.
Alina helped Mary get the man out of the helicopter and rested him on the flat ground, half of the man's face was severely burned from the fire, a large sheet of metal from the helicopter wreck impaled his stomach along with a rod. "Damon help me here" said Alina, i ran to the man and crouch next to him, "I need you to carefully remove the shards slowly got it?" Alina asked, "Yeah yeah i got it"
The broken sheet of metal was deeply embedded into his stomach, it took some time to slowly pull the metal plate out, trying my best to not cause more damage. The metal sheet finally got taken out but the rod was still stuck in his chest, Alina tended to the large wound that came from the metal plate i removed. I wriggled the rod out the man's chest and threw it aside, Alina was finished with the wound and tended to the second one.
While Alina was tending to the pilot who had regained slight consciousness, looking up the cliff was far up from where we were. "We see that your pings are still in the radar, were sending a chopper to you with a medic" the voice on the radio said. Waiting for the helicopter a loud crash hit the forest far from where we were, above us the helicopter hastily arrived. We went on the helicopter while carrying the injured pilot and it quickly lifted us up in the air, in the distance is a patch of black smoke emerging and surrounded with toppled over trees, its the apc. Along with the cloud of smoke multiple helicopters in the distance were flying to the location, maybe more reinforcements.
"The wheels gave up and it fell" the voice on the radio said, going closer to it the apc was badly damaged mostly on the front. The helicopter landed and we jumped out, i slowly approached the apc with its front spewing out thick black smoke into the air, a banging on the rear door of the apc startled me, how are they still alive. Two police officers ran to the door with crowbars in hand and attempted to pry it, it took a couple of tries until the door broke open. Five peole emerged from the apc door including the poacher that escaped, an officer went to the front of the engine, maybe to assess the damage.
"Thanks for the help, we will take it from he-" before he can finish his sentence a bullet pierced his skull, the cops were in a scramble trying to find the shooter in the forest. Yellow streams of light flew through the trees passing or grazing us, two other officers were shot and killed in front of me, the rest of the group took cover behind the apc and any other form of cover they can find. Aiming my rifle at the trees there were signatures of about six people, i aimed at one of them and pulled the trigger. The signature fell as the target got hit, one down, the gunfire was relentless it seems more and more are coming out of the forest.
I aimed my rifle again at the forest, oh god how many are there? i aimed my rifle at one of the shooters and pulled the trigger. The man fell dead on the ground, Stephen, Nora, Mary, and Marcel took turns in returning fire at the trees, i was probably the only one that knew where they were, i readied my rifle and continued aiming at each target and firing.
It isn't any use more and more kept coming replacing the already dead combatants, a rain of bullets poured out the sky as two choppers, "Damon get behind the enemy, Mary will follow!" shouted Sebastian, the shooters were focused at the helicopters so i ran at the trees at my side. Shortly after Mary ran into the trees as well, aiming my rifle once again i can see where the source was all too clearly. Two apcs were carrying soldiers into battle with another apc arriving as the second one departs, they must have a camp nearby here. "So what is it" asked Mary, "Constant reinforcements and apcs, maybe also from Burnwick" i replied.
Looking outside the prisoners were still being held captive by the officers who got cover from behind the apc, by this time a helicopter that looks larger and looks to be powered with jet engines lands on the forest ground. The doors opened as five men with machineguns begin firing at the forest, the officers begin carrying wounded allies from the ground and onto the ship. Mary ran to it and i followed suit, while running a stray bullet hit Mary in the leg. Crouching down to help her i felt something hit my chest and arm, i got shot again.
Dragging Mary to the airship that just landed, everyone got on board and the metal doors closed shut behind us, with everyone on board, the ship ascended. I breathe a sigh of relief as its over, Alina was busy applying medication to the wounded, looking at where i was shot, there were no wounds. "Good job Damon, also that's now one of your new perks, your body can heal almost immediately. It doesn't fully recover though but kind of hardens for some time" said Sebastian, "How do you know?" I asked.
"Well when you got shot i saw that the wound you had began to heal and the bullet was ejected from the body, the injection you got from Alina wasn't really much of a healer, it just dulls the pain." Sebastian explained, luckily all of us got out with some injuries. Many officers died during the ambush and chase, but above all we got our objective, but i wonder why Burnwick soldiers would want to help the poacher.