"You guys, come quick, Captain Pemberton seems to be a little off."
"Hurry, turn her over, be careful... wait, her stomach hit a rock!"
"She's bleeding, what do we do?!"
"What to do, get her back immediately, best if she can go with that pregnant woman, take a helicopter back together!"
Ella Pemberton heard this vaguely; before her consciousness completely faded, she succumbed to intense pain and fell into a coma.
In the trees, after completing her shot and feeling pretty good, Nancy Phillips, who had just jumped down and flicked a bug from her collar, heard the commotion and instantly realized something was wrong. She hurried towards Ella Pemberton's location.
...
In the mountains, thousands of meters away.
The battle continued.
Both sides had been at a standoff for a while, with no clear winner in sight.
The snipers too, were silently competing, trying to pinpoint each other's location while also vying for who could hit more targets.
