Derrick casually stated in a loud voice<strong>"Hate to say I told you so!"</strong>Before he shouldered his rifle and turned around slowly. He moved closer to Ashleigh and made sure the scientist was safely behind him. Speaking back over his shoulder<strong>"The head or the heart, fastest way to take them down. We don't want to get trapped out of here, so keep moving."</strong>To the other two soldiers, he spoke<strong>"Brain Donors, we want to keep on the move. I'm going to follow Hackett, you lot? Get out of here. Either of the two women get hurt? We'll have words."</strong><br/><br/>Without another word, he quickly took off after Hackett. Moving at a much faster speed than a man his build should be able to. Moving through the forest, he could hear the infected all around him. There were definitely a lot of them. Ducking as he heard rustling behind him, Derrick twisted around and used his left hand to grasp his Ka-bar and easily cut an infected's throat open deeply enough to drop it instantly before he continued on his stride. Hearing the flashbang, he realized exactly what Hackett was doing. Trying to draw them away. It was a sound plan, he decided to aid her in this task. Pulling a flashbang out, Derrick activated and chucked it out into the woods. Shielding his eyes for a moment as it flew a good distance from him and went off. A good deal of them had taken the bait, though one stray seemed to be heading for Hackett. Against his better judgement, Derrick leapt out from the small ridge he was on and tackled it to the ground. Driving the knife into it's eye socket until he felt the back of it's skull and twisted the blade. Quickly getting to his feet he looked down at Hackett,<strong>"You make a lot of noise."</strong>He muttered sarcastically.<strong>"They're taking off like a bat out of hell. So if you want to make a shit load of noise to keep these fucks away from them? I'm game, or you can just shoot me in the back of the head."</strong>The last bit was stated with a grin, Derrick was an expert at human psychology. Someone with Hackett's training and mentality? Wouldn't take kindly to his disregard for procedure, or his behavior. He thought something was wrong with her, if she wasn't considering killing him off.