"What are you three doing…?" The officer confronted them, making Drew freeze up in place, not knowing what to do. Lukas and Nicola were shocked a little bit, they thought they had made sure this hallway was clean. Apparently though, they guessed wrong. The officer creeps his way, just a bit closer. "Those guys should be in Dr. Guðmundsson's room, not out here away!"
No of them said a word, especially with Drew not wanting anyone to find out who he is. So they all just kept walking away from the officer. That really set them over the edge.
"Get! Back! Here!" they yell whilst putting their hands over their AR. they start to walk faster, and faster. With sweat dripping down Drew's face. Lukas looked back, and glared at the officer to go away. With that expression, earring him a bullet to the arm.
The pain was immediate, he dropped to the floor, and held his arm while getting his teeth. Nicola and Drew were shook. They also came to his aid, and helped him hold his bullet wound. This gave the officer enough time to sneak up on all of them. They whipped out their gun, and put it to their hips. Just intimidating enough to send shivers down Lukas' spine. Nicola and Drew looked up, to see the AR out as well. Nicola didn't really feel like dying today, so he took his hands off Lukas' arm, and backed away to the wall. Lukas just had to grit his teeth, and look down at the floor.
Another officer came out from the other side. He had heard the noise, and wanted to see what was going on.
"HEY! What's going on here?!" They said, while drawing their AR. Drew raises his hands, letting go of the main ticket out of here. Then, he makes the boldest decision yet. He grabs Lukas, and Nicola by the arms, and lifts them both over his shoulders. The two of them were both disoriented to no end. Especially when he started to full sprint his way past the fist officer. They immediately started shouting at him, to come back here; and when that didn't work, they switched to straight gunfire.
Drew was somehow zooming past a bunch of stray bullets. Some of them did connect in his back, but he didn't falter once. The two officers were chasing after him at full speed, accidentally bumping into way more people along the way. which , they didn't even know what was going on, but they started running after him as well. So now a big crowd of officers were after him, where only the people in the front could reliably shoot their guns, the others kind of were just there in case he went down. In which he of course, didn't. The three of them make it back to the main entrance, and smash their bodies through the door. It broke instantly, and Drew just kept on moving with 10 different bullet holes lodged into his back, thankfully though the suit saved his life.
Now that the three of them were finally out of there, and in Drew's arms still. Drew runs though the entire path there, while some guards are trying to get him. Lukas looked back to see that they were stopped by someone's hand, and after that, they finally backed off.
Once they all make it to the forest, Drew plops them both onto the ground, and starts to take off his suit for a second. He also checked if his gun was still with him, and luckily it was. He then stumbles over to a neatly placed tree stump, and gets to sit down after a shit ton of time for him. Lukas and Nicola also walk over, and plop their butts on either side of Drew. They had finally escaped this hell hole, which meant they could leave! Of course though, after witnessing all the bullshit that goes on in this place, they couldn't just leave it behind.
"Oh god! Where did that weirdo doctor say camp γ was again? Up north?!" Drew was scratching his head, trying to pull the memory out of his ass.
"Yeah… somewhere around there…" Nicola was also panting for some reason. "I don't really know where the north is, but we probably should start looking for it now…" he wiped the sweat off of his face. Lukas was looking through a peep between the trees, to see the sun slowly creaking right. He then points deeper into the forest, and says: "that way's north" Drew and Nicola both were shocked at his finding. Lukas didn't care though, he just continued with the trek, still covering the wound on his arm. Nicola also gets up, and is about to question him.
"How'd you do that man?!" He asked.
"The sun was moving…" Lukas replied.
Drew also gets up, and continues with their trek north. Navigating the forest wasn't the hardest thing in the world for them, it was just super tedious and boring. Lukas kept stepping on sticks and leaves, and getting paranoid every time. After those two dreams he couldn't stand anything forest related. Nicola at the moment, was trying not to step on any little creature. It always broke his heart whenever a little critter got hurt in any way.
The deeper they went, the more ominous the woods got. The place seemed to be eerily quiet, with no trace of life at this point. Almost like something was scaring them off. At least it relaxed Nicola's weariness.
*snap
Lukas caught the faintest sound of twigs being snapped, coming from somewhere further north. He stops dead in his tracks, and scans the rest of the way forward, before making another move.
*crack
There it was again, this time being a lot louder than the last. It even made Nicola look up from whatever he was doing, to scan the way forward himself.
*crunch
Now they could all hear something walking around in some area. Even Drew heard it too. They all froze up, and tried not to make a sound. Lukas felt like anything he could do, would set off whatever's making that noise. The sound unfortunately stopped just as they did, which scared the living hell out of all of them.
*crunch
*snap
*crack
Whatever was making that sound, sounded like they were circling around the trio.
*crunch
*snap
*crack
Now the sound was coming from behind them. It kept getting louder and louder. Until it sounded like it was coming from right behind Nicola. He gulped, and almost shit himself trying to keep it together. The breathing on the back of his neck wasn't helping though. It in fact, made it ten times worse.
"What… are you Stancers doing out here…?" A deep, roaring voice came from the thing behind Nicola. Almost sounding like some sort of bear to Lukas and Drew.