The group, Percy, Grover, and Annabeth, travel west to go and meet Hades, although the god who has turned was actually Ares. Percy later finds Zeus' lightning bolt in a backpack given to him by Ares. He returns it to Zeus, as well as Hades' Helm of Darkness, which was also in the possession of Ares.
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unnecessarily restates the editor's claim. We already can see that it would help by looking at sentence 3, and it restates sentence 1. it is an unnecessary sentence.
They wanted to get the harder person first. They did the hard thing first and finished with the easiest. also they probably didn't want to get caught by the sniper if they shot the woman first.