Franklin stepped forward to cut the vines, lowering Sonny from the tree.
Sonny, grinding his teeth in anger, cursed under his breath as he was lowered down.
Franklin held down Sonny, who was howling in pain, and pulled three wooden spikes from his body, handing them to James.
James took a look and saw they were identical to the spikes he'd seen earlier embedded in the tree trunk. Clearly, the enemy had constructed a simple launcher that was loaded with a bunch of these things, which were fired out like a shower of petals the moment Sonny was suspended.
The unfortunate Sonny was lucky to be wearing a bulletproof vest, leaving only his limbs pierced, which was not fatal. The two shots fired by the enemy didn't hit Sonny, merely grazing off a piece of skin from his arm.
Meanwhile, Lucas had stepped into a spike trap. Fortunately, he was very lucky; only one spike pierced through the calf of his leg without hitting any major blood vessels, although the pain was unbearable.
