The King of Fighters '94 Rebirth

Chapter 7: Mercenaries

"Mayday, mayday!" The pilot started to yell. "The plane is falling, some kind of technical problem!" The co-pilot shouted; the mercenaries hurried up and each one of them took his emergency parachute ready to jump. "It was nice to meet you all!" Ralf said on a hilarious way from some point of view while he prepared to jump. "Are you sure about this?" Clark asked his partner already knowing his personality. "Geronimoooo!" Ralf jumped in front of Clark. "Wait for me!" Clark then jumped just after him opening his parachute.

Away from all the others mercenaries and the place where the plane crashed, Ralf and Clark were lost inside Amazon Forest. "Clark, are you okay? Ralf asked from the ground seeing Clark over a trunk of tree fallen. "I think so." Clark replied jumping and taking his sunglasses from the ground. "Let's search for the others." Ralf spoke and alongside Clark started to walk making a search for the Ikari Village and the others mercenaries. "It is easier to find an anaconda." Clark said thoughtful following Ralf.

A chat could be heard from the distance, the two were approaching and Ralf soon hurried. "There is somebody there." Ralf pointed the place when Clark ordered the same to keep silence. "Speak low, let's see who are first." After analyzing with the binoculars, they found tents, and around it, a lot of men armed. "Damn, they are enemies, I am pretty sure" Clark said delivering his binoculars to Ralf which simply took a pack of cigarettes from the pocket. "Again?!" Asked Clark "It seems like we have a mission before we arrive at the base, thinking on that, how is it Brazil?" Ralf fumed from his cigarette and were more excited than Clark, much more excited to be more precise, like it was a chance of him to test his mercenary's abilities, Ralf liked a battlefield, he lived the tension between life and death to survive and this had become almost a hobby for him, the mission from the two started now, it was to kill or to be killed.

"Let's see the place's map and plan our escape route." A map was withdrawn from Clark's backpack that was worried on arriving at the base. "Did you say escape?" Ralf asked letting clear to Clark get worried again. "Here we go again..." Clark sensed the danger.

Somewhere in Amazon Forest, Ralf Jones and Clark Still were lost trying to understand through a map where they had fell and how they would get to the Ikari Village. "Not wanting to dishearten you but, I think it's better to keep your map for when we got time." Ralf said giving back Clark's binoculars. "Some armed men are coming towards us." It was Ralf's warning, Clark kept quickly his map putting his backpack on the back and throwing himself into some shrub to hide himself, Ralf also left and hide along his partner. "Put out the cigarette is also a good idea." Clark whispered to Ralf which disappointed threw away the cigarette he was smoking on the ground and step on it putting it out. "We need to stay alert, there are mercenaries from Ikari Village between us, have you heard about the plane crash?" Two young men walking with an assault rifle 5.56 IA2 were passing by a ground trail near the shrub where Ralf and Clark were, an explosion happened a short time after the two landed, the same explosion caught the enemies' attention and the two were so distracted trying to get rid of the situation that they ended not even noticing how quickly was the accident. "I hope everybody is alive..." Were the thoughts of Ralf which could not say anything being nearby the two enemies' location, Clark then gave the signal to Ralf that each one of them were get rid of the other two and took his knife from his vest awaiting the right time. "Then that's why we were ordered for this sudden search around the base?" The other replied with another question stopping and turning around in front of his partner. "Do not use the radio yet, we have more areas to cover. If the boss needs to talk to us, he will enter in contact." Said the first guard holding his fellow arm which after hearing about the mercenaries was almost taking his radio communicator. "All right, then I think we can proceed..." He said turning around ready to continue walking when suddenly the two were caught from the back by Ralf and Clark with their knives on a tie stroke. "Don't move!" Ralf said to the guards, one of them was trying to react turning on the radio, but when he saw the knife and felt his breath running out, he decided to give up. "They are dead." Said Clark letting go of the guard and taking his Assault Rifle, Ralf then did the same and with his gun on the left hand extended up, straightened his pants with his right hand and checked his stock of items and equipment. "Take it Ralf" Clark was handing over his hand with one of the radio communicators, since the other one was already kept on his vest. "What do you intend to do taking the guards radio?" Ralf asked thinking that could be worse for them. "Did you not hear the talk? If their boss needs to talk to them, it's better having someone to answer." Clark gave a soft laugh after explaining it to Ralf. "Well thinking, we can borrow some time or simply set a trap for our enemies." Ralf then helped him hide the bodies behind the same shrub they were using to hide. "Let's keep moving." Clark said leaving by the way they were to continue the patrol.

After gaining some good distance from the place they killed the two men from patrol, Ralf then stopped. "So, what's the plan?" Ralf asked already crouching and taking from his backpack a compass. "The plan will be easier after we use your compass and my map to find ourselves into this place and to understand how we can make it to the Ikari Village." Clark said crouching too to take his map and alongside the compass draw their way. Ralf took his own scope to search for the enemy base. "We are a few mercenaries but we can manage them, the problem would be If they would to attack the village while we are here." He was worried about killing his enemies and lose their way to their destination. "Our top priority needs to be reaching the village, with that we can alert them and have more men for this operation." Clark replied to Ralf which could not stay still just looking, his blood seethed. "By the way it would be good If we find the others mercenaries from that flight." Still using the binoculars Ralf kept the talk always waiting a good plan from Clark, the two already have worked together and they knew their strong and weak spots, he knew he used to act before thinking and that Clark could think a lot before acting.