I looked through the windows towards the dust-covered ground. The Cabal had surrounded us, while we were exploring inside of the abandoned building, that was placed in the middle of the complex. Once we could localize their stations, we realized that there was no chance to escape. The Cabal had Centurions and Legionnares placed all around us, no more than 50 feet between each post. In the destroyed buildings they had placed several squadrons, or at least that’s what we thought based on the fires we saw, when night came. Although the Cabal hadn’t attacked yet, since they did not know our numbers, we knew it wouldn’t take much longer. After five hours I said to Michael, a hunter I met in the Tower a few weeks earlier, that we would have to try our luck and sneak past the Cabal. He agreed, saying there was no other way. We went to speak to Alyssa, one of the Awoken’s strongest titan’s, and asked her what she thought of our plan. She too agreed, saying that she would like to kill them, but she was not stupid enough to try. For once violence would not save us. We waited one more hour, then, at 4 a.m. City-time, we made our move. We left the building through the cylinder-shaped part on the roof, since the Cabal could not get to it without entering through the ground-level. We then sneaked through one of the abandoned buildings. High on pride, the Cabal did not cover the lower floors. We only saw one legionnaire and Michael used his sniper-rifle to quickly dispatch the soldier. A few miles away from the complex, we called our dropships and returned to the Vanguard-base on Mars. We had survived against all odds.