Now that you're in what could be called a route to safety, you allow yourself the time to assess the pain in your own body and the damage done to your brand new Valkyrie. Thanks to the makeshift tourniquets the blood loss was temporarily mitigated and all you're left with is a mix of the pain and the disorienting sensation that invites you to fall unconscious, but one look at the Valkyrie pushing you in the shopping cart with an unsatisfied smirk and another at your model 22 laying there awkwardly as if she was beyond saving help you to at least stay focused. And if it wasn't enough, the sounds of gunfire quickly make your body go back into alert mode.

"Fuck! They covered the main road already" Amber hissed, quickly taking the shopping cart and herself to cover behind one of the walls of another decayed building. 

"Amber here, road back to the camp has been taken over by the rogue soldiers, awaiting for instructions and/or reinforcements" Amber said over her radio and you noticed the tone was different than the snarky and condescending way she addressed you and 22. It was more formal, and if anything it sounded more passive too. Of course, you remembered as a Valkyrie she didn't have the autonomy to just make tactical decisions in the battlefield, she needed authorization at all times. And something in the way she stated her request made you feel she wasn't really expecting any to come.

"Found a wounded human and a... err.. Valkyrie from Aurora Federation, might need instructions or reinforcements ASAP so they can be escorted to our camp" the redhaired Valkyrie repeated with the same tone, before settling next to you with a frustrated sigh.

"Still alive, corpse?" she said to you with her snarky tone back

"Who are they?" You ignored her jab and tried to gather any kind of intel that would help you get out of this, what else could you do?

"This area is a contested zone between two rogue factions, it might look like a dumpster but it offers a pretty nice way to intercept and raid whatever ship is stupid enough to get close, as you could experience" Amber chuckled "Lately the attacks on commonwealth ships and even a couple of ships from our kingdom were attacked in this zone, so we established a camp to assess how to regain control here"

"What is a rookie doing here anyway?" Amber asked noticing your lack of pins, and you explained in a few words your retrieval mission which was described to you as "routine". Amber just shook her head.

"So human bait, huh" Amber said with a hint of sympathy in her voice that you had no answer for until the sounds of fight suddenly increased in volume

"They are getting closer" Amber muttered

"What do you think we can do?" 

"We can try just getting away from here and take the long route back to my camp, although it doesn't help your odds of survival. Or we can just wait and hope the battle moves somewhere else" Amber stated, you noted she didn't mention the possibility of waiting for the reinforcements she called over coming.

You tried to think over what to do before the pain got too much and forced you to fall unconscious.

What happens next?