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No time for early celebrations, though, as your radio crackles to life.
"Dorn Wilton? You still in the exercise?" Norman's voice reaches your ear. You give him an affirmative answer, and he lets out a sigh of relief. "Good to hear. We're still hanging on, but they're really giving us a hard fight out here. I'd like it if you could just get Blue Team's flag and we can stop this exercise, please."
You chuckle and turn to Ami and Jax. Without any heavy ordinance, it'll be better for you to just scale the barricade; it's still the fastest way to the other flag, and there can't be many of them guarding their flag if they're giving your defensive team a hard time. Unless it's Morgan defending the flag…
Sighing, you shake your head as you lead your teammates to the barricade and start to scale it. You'll find out when you cross the line, you muse to yourself, climbing the barricade as fast as you can.
It's an easy climb, and soon you're at the top.
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From atop the barricade, you notice two fairly obvious things: firstly, this side of the barricade is a gentle downwards slope. Secondly, you can see Blue Team's flag, fluttering in the air as it stands roughly 300 yards away, planted in an open area that's surrounded by lots of ruined buildings. The perfect place for a defensive ambush, you muse aloud, and Ami and Jax agree with that assessment.
Still, you have very little time to be extremely cautious, since Blue Team is already at your flag's doorstep, and any moment's delay might cost you the win. You take a deep breath and exhale once before you decide to take…
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