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"Are you in position?" Cypher asks.
There was a touch of static before Cypher opens comms again," Tarik, do you read me?"
But there was still nothing there.
"Tarik god damn it-" Cypher pinches the bridge of his nose before leaving his hiding spot but before he can take any step further a gust of wind blows by.
At first Cypher was relieved, thinking that it was a teammate, that is until he looked at their eyes. In the split second he turns around, the enemy raises their gun to shoot him.
All he could see was red before darkness.
"Tarik!"
Tarik yelps as he was chased out of his hiding spot.
"What?!"
"Are you in position?"
"Yes yes... what happened to Toast? Why are you giving me orders?" Tarik pouts.
"Don't call him Toast, call him by his code name! Do you want to get doxxed or what?!"
"Right right mommy," Tarik sighs picking his nose.
"I swear-" Sage grumbles into her communicator. But it is strange that Toast is absent from giving orders... unless he's dead... he will not stop bossing people around.
"Tarik, hurry, I think something might have actually happened to Toast..."
"What happened to code names?" Tarik muses but at the sound of Toast being in trouble... he starts to get serious.
"Aiya, just do what you must! But hurry! Or we all will not make it out of here alive..."
Tarik wanted to wait for the last person to appear but it seems that they are pressed for time. He leaps high into the sky, wind dancing around him. The sound of the wind alerted the people at the bottom of site.
Bullets whiz past him as he dashed forward and easily takes out the enemies just by using his spectre.
"Woo!" Tarik exclaims and just his luck, he was also near the bomb which is ticking away, oblivious to it's demise soon to be met by yours truly.
Before he could take out the defuser however something caught his eye.
"Step away from the bomb Jett or your partner gets it," Fade warns, kicking an unconscious Cypher onto the ground with her Vandal pointed at his head.
Tarik tsks, of all things Toast had to get himself captured. He tosses the defuser aside and raises his hand.
Fade smirks before pointing her gun at him. What she didn't expect was for Tarik to have his dash ready, he dashes to the side as the bullet shot through where he was and he easily takes out fade with a bullet through the head.
"Toast... you alright?" Tarik asks, quickly going towards Toast, shaking him awake.
"Tarik! The bomb!"
"Oh..."
He quickly grabs the defuser that was thrown to the side and sprints to the bomb. But from the sound of the bomb speeding up, it seem very close. And very close indeed as they are engulfed in white light.
"Tarik!"
"What?! I could have had it!" Tarik exclaims." I just needed to be a second faster!"
Sage sighs, face palming, seems like they aren't all that ready for a real mission.
"Tarik... instead of trying to show off, you could have dispatched the fade early and won!" Phoenix exclaims.
"Yeah yeah... but with no finesse how can I ever win the heart of the superiors?" Tarik grins.
"You seriously have no regard for your own life or the mission," Sage grumbles before noticing Toast has already waken up from being knocked out cold.
"One day someone will get hurt because of your carelessness and you will have to pay for that price yourself," Sage adds before leaving.
"Huh? Is that it?" Phoenix asks as he follows Sage out.
Tarik sighs scratching his head, it's true but... this was a training mission, not the real deal, so what was Sage so worried about.
His thoughts were cut off when someone punches him in the back.
He yelps and lands onto the ground, although it wasn't a strong punch, he knew who it was so he had to play weak or well-
"What were you thinking?! You could have had that!" Toast exclaims.
"What?! I wanted to save you!" Tarik defended.
"Tsk... I don't need saving... " Toast grumbles," to be fair I miscalculated the abilities of this new agent we have... now we'll need to go over different strategies to counter her abilities..."
"Ha... haha... you know me... I'm all about strategies..." Tarik grins.
"No..." Tarik looks at Toast's angry face and gulps," no you're not..."