Though those chances of escape were destroyed as fast as they gate following a noise. A very familiar noise.

A black truck, corpses dangling from it's side while it's horn echoed through the cavern with Malgore sitting on top, looking outward with his same thoughtful yet empty of emotion pose. The beast that was his truck was louder than anything around it, and it symbolized that the bandits and cannibals were now to begin their chase. Panic easily overcame any who were unprepared, only furthering the disorganized nature of the escaping prisoners already. There were some shouts, others cried out to open fire at the bandits encroaching behind them, meanwhile Jeff kept his foot placed on the peddle and hands firmly around the wheel, as focused on their exit as he could be, ignoring what was going on around and behind them.

It wasn't long before Kalli decided to join in fighting back against the chasing cannibals, stick her head out the window at first. A bullet whizzed passed, causing it to turn and look behind them; two vehicles collided with each other, the bandits leaping on and beating the prisoners senselessly, or plainly shooting them if the odds looked dim. The prime took her rifle, stick her torso out of the doorway and sitting on the window's edge, stomach facing the car. Once her finger was around the trigger and rifle pointing toward the bandit vehicle, she squeezed the trigger numerous times, blood splattering and the bodies of the cannibals halted their breath. Those crawling around the prisoner's hijacked transport would fall into the sand, bleeding and rolling further away from them as the pickup got closer to freedom.

That was nowhere near the last intervention however, for as soon prisoners were able to escape, three more bandit vehicles appeared behind it. Two buggies, and a motorcycle with two cannibals on it, both shooting wildly at Whitthorn's truck, crossing in front of their comrades and going right behind the pickup itself. Kalli responded to the exchange of gunfire with a few shots herself, missing the motorcycle by a hair for every shot, the driver clearly much more competent then the rest of the bandits chasing after them. Once it was close enough, the driver leaped off and took hold onto the flatbed, his passenger taking control of the motorcycle. Pulling the trigger, Kalli's rifle emitted a empty 'click.' The bandit took this opportunity to pull his gun on her- only to riddled with three holes himself, falling off and disappearing into the sand. Aoki lowered the pistol, looking up toward Kalli, who nodded approvingly before slipping back into the vehicle. 

There were a few more gunshots coming from outside their pickup, the bandit driving the motorcycle fell off, slamming into the sand and his skidding to a halt on it's side. And the two other bandit buggies were quickly shot to pieces by prisoners from all across their disorganized escape.

"We're out." Jeff stated plainly, looking ahead as he had been. 

"Where do we go from here?" Kalli asked, looking at him before looking at the unconscious Whitthorn. 

Before Jeff could reply, a explosion boomed behind them, rocks fell from the ceiling of the cave, another explosion following soon after. Two cars slid to a halt outside, prisoners on the roofs of each reloaded their rocket launcher with shaking hands. Once it was loaded, they fired again, giving clear idea of what they were planning to do. Once Jeff was clear from the falling rock, he too slid to a halt, the other hijacked vehicles doing the same, all watching as the cave's structure seemed to come tumbling down before them in the night-sky canyon.

After the eighth explosion, the cave entrance fully collapsed, the chasing bandits disappearing behind the boulders and rock that rolled onto each other, covering the entrance in it's entirety. Everyone began to breath a little easier, a few faint cheers given out.

"They wont be getting out of that any time soon." Aoki said hopefully

But he was quite wrong, the sound of the truck's horn growing ever louder. Malgore's truck slammed right through the rock, seeming almost undamaged as his escorts followed through the rammed pathway, prepared to continue their skirmish.

The pickup sped off into a random direction as soon as Malgore's truck slammed through the rock. They kept driving, farther and farther from the fight, until it was background noise to them. Then once another path in the canyon appeared, the pickup slid to a halt, turning all the way about so the front was pointing toward the battle. Kalli then looked behind her at those in the passenger seats.

"You three need to hide here, wait until the battles over." she stated, loading another clip into her rifle. Jeff checked his own looted weapon as well.

Aoki looked in disbelief "Are you insane? You two are-"

"Keep that pistol with you by the way."

"Listen, I can help-"

"Oh, and if we don't make it back, get as far from here as you can."

"It doesn't have to-"

"There should be a town if you head to Carrefore."

Aoki raised his voice "Can you listen to me for just a moment!?" both Jeff and the prime looked, Aoki continued "I can help, I'm not wounded, I'm not afraid and I want to fight. You helped my people, so at the least I owe you."

The Eldest maintained her silence, Whitthorn was barely conscious and looking in confusion at all the noise, Aoki seemed ready to punch something and the prime was locked in a stare with Jeff, who both were wondering if to agree with the young man's request or not. After a few seconds, they looked back at him "Alright, but we're leaving the other two here." the passenger doors opened later, Whitthorn being carried and The Eldest limping over, both taking shelter behind a rock near the canyon wall. Once they were safely hidden behind the rock, the other three would speed off back into the truck and driving toward the battle in an instant, pickup coming in at full speed.