Author's Note: I'm a bit nervous about what you guys might think of the story. Most OC stories aren't popular unless they're legendary, and I'm scared out of my f***ing mind! I'm getting my information off of Call of Duty Wiki and from the actual game, so if anything seems out of place please PM me. This first chapter starts off immediately in the battle; the mission is "Goalpost" on Act II. I'll try my best to explain things to you and I hope you all R&R and Enjoy~
P.S. About Frost's description, I looked him up on Wikipedia and Google. He's apparently wearing a helmet, a black mask (like Ghost's mask without the design), and ski goggles. If you're curious about it, just go on Google or Call of Duty wiki and you can see him. That's how he'll be visually described in the story (except when he's not on the battlefield).
SFC Scarlet
Chapter 1: The FNG
Objective: Locate Goalpost
Date: October 6, 2016 - 13:30:54
Location: Hamburg, Germany
"Scarlet!" She could hear her name being called, but it sounded hazy to the soldier. All she could hear through her ringing ears was the sounds of bullets being fired, RPG's being shot, bombs, and the faint sound of her name being called. The soldier looked up at the sky, the afternoon sun covered completely by gray clouds as jets flew above her head.
The whole world seemed to be spinning around her, though the ground wasn't moving, so things seemed even harder to comprehend as the FNG stood in place, her body tense, her grip on the handle of her M16a4 tight. "Scarlet!"
The sergeant looked at her surroundings, casualities leaning on the wall as medics and soldiers tried to cover for them, dead bodies piled on the streets of Hamburg, the smell of smoke filling the air. Finally, to take her out of this nightmare, a huge hand roughly pulled her to the side. Whoever grabbed her, brought the girl into a building as she fell on the cracked, blue flooring. Her arm throbbed now from the force, finally helping her comprehend everything that was going on as she looked at her teammate Derek Westbrook, codename Frost.
Frost, seeing that she still was a little off after that bullet missed her head by an inch, grabbed Scarlet by her arm, again, and pulled her into cover behind one of the fallen desk in the office building he'd pulled her into. He looked over to his left and saw that Grinch and Sandman were following him into the building as well as they took cover behind the wall and the desk as well.
"Are you alright?" Frost asked Scarlet, patting her on the shoulder roughly. Scarlet blinked and immediately she remembered what she needed to do. "Yeah, I'm fine," she said.
Twenty nine minutes have gone by since the Delta Force and U.S. Army Rangers were sent to Hamburg, Germany. Overlord had called/ordered Metal 0-1 to reroute to Hamburg to participate in a principal-level hostage rescue, which was to find and save the Vice President. Thus, Team Metal and the Rangers fought their way through the now ruined town of Hamburg as they searched for Goalpost (the Vice President's code name), many dying along the way.
This was First Class Sergeant Ashlette "Scarlet" Knight's first mission on the Delta Force, and things weren't going as she hoped for them too. If it weren't for Frost being by her side when that Russian soldier shot at her, she might not of been standing... or rather sitting behind a desk with her partner. If Scarlet had been killed by that one bullet, she wouldn't have been the only one to have died by the enemy today.
Scarlet's train of thought was interrupted when Frost shot his M4a1 Grenadier at two of the Russian soldiers standing at the room entrance. Frost looked down at her, his blue eyes hidden behind gray goggles looming over a black mask. "Are you sure you're alright?" he asked her. "You're zoning out a lot."
She shook her head, looking over the desk as she shot her gun at the last of the tangos up ahead. "I'm fine Frost, stop worrying," she said in a somewhat playful voice.
"Good, because I won't be able to save your ass all day," Frost teased, dashing up ahead as he caught up with Grinch and Sandman who'd already moved into the next room. Scarlet stood up and chased after the sergeant as she took cover behind a wall directly across from him. "Frag' out!" she shouted, pulling the metal latch on one of the many grenades she had as she threw it at the end of the room. After four seconds had gone by, the grenade exploded, a few things like computer monitors and pieces of desk came flying over as it almost hit Grinch in the face.
He ducked immediately, watching as the desk piece smashed into the ground behind him. Grinch turned to look at Scarlet as he scowled. Scarlet gave him a mischievous smile as they stared at each other, the angry chemistry flowing between them. "Watch where you're throwing that!" he shouted.
"Watch where you're standing!" Scarlet shouted back, changing the magazine on her gun as she ran after Frost and Sandman. They climbed out the office window as they took cover behind a bus that had been abandoned on the street. Scarlet took cover beside Sandman who took a glance at her, but then went right back to shooting. "Goalpost should be behind that building," Sandman told Scarlet, pointing over at the building they just came out of, a few men running from around the corner as they hid behind a few cars.
Scarlet watched as Sandman moved up, shooting anyone that got in his way as he took cover behind the next car. Scarlet moved up with him, though every time she tried to use the same cover as him he'd move to a different spot. It's as if he's trying to avoid me, Scarlet thought after he ran from her three times in a row.
"Why are you following him around Scarlet?" She could hear a male voice ask her from behind. Scarlet turned and saw Frost jogging over to where she was as he took cover behind the wall she was hiding behind as well. "I should be asking you the same question," Scarlet commented back.
"Coincidence I suppose, nothing personal if that's what you're thinking," Frost said, leaning against the wall as he reloaded. "That's good, the last thing I want is someone like you following me around in a firefight," Scarlet said, smiling slightly as she stood shoulder to shoulder with Frost. "You wish," he chuckled, leaving Scarlet behind when the streets were reported clear.
"You two are really talkative today," Truck exclaimed, which was his way of hinting that they needed to stop and get on with the program. "Sorry," Scarlet bluntly said, running over to where the others had stopped. There were about five black trucks left on the streets, bullet holes in the glass and blood stains on the ground. Those were the vehicles the Vice President were suppose to be in.
Scarlet was expecting the mission to be called off, but Sandman proved her wrong when he ordered everyone into the demolished building to the left of them. Scarlet didn't want to ask why, from what she's seen on this mission, Sandman knows what he's doing and he knows what's right.
The building they had ran into was run down and no longer able to be used by others. A majority of the desk and computers that were in the building were broken apart and in pieces on the floor, not to mention that the front door (or rather the wall) was torn off the building and laying on the street.
"Hey, there's a lot of blood over here," Truck mentioned, pointing at the stairs as the group saw a blood trail leading them somewhere. "Up the stairs," Sandman said, taking point as him and Frost went up with him. The rest of the team followed as they watched the trail of blood continue up the stairs. The further up they got, the more footsteps and gunshots they could hear. Frost ran past Sandman as he dashed up the last set of stairs, seeing a door at the end of the hall, along with a few men moving around in the room.
"Get to the door!" Sandman ordered as Frost ran for it. The door shut as soon as he got to it, and everyone could hear a gun going off on the other side. When everyone got to the door, the two men planted a C4 on the door as they blew it open. Inside, there was a dead body in one seats, the Vice President in the other, their target surrounded by the enemy.
Frost quickly shot everyone in the room (except for the Vice President of coarse), killing them with a single bullet as they all fell to the ground. Sandman shoved past Frost as he went to check on the poor man laying limply in his seat. Scarlet walked over to Frost as she stood next to him, looking at Sandman and Grinch help the Vice President up.
"Are we done here?" Scarlet turned to look at Frost who was staring down at her as well. "Yeah, the helicopters should be here in a moment," Frost said. The two sergeants walked over rubble as they made their way to the still standing balcony, helicopters flying over to their direction as Sandman helped the Vice President in his unstable condition. Scarlet set her glove covered hands down on the railing, sighing with relief as she turned around and rested her back on the rails.
"I'm so glad we're done," she said, closing her eyes as she lowered her gun slightly, stretching her left hand up as if trying to reach for the sun. "Scarlet."
Scarlet opened her eyes, shrinking back a little as she saw Frost lean on the balcony next to her. The girl looked up at him curiously, wondering what he had to say as she groaned. "What is it this time Frost?" she asked coldly. "You did a good job today," he complimented, giving her a thumbs up as Scarlet stared at it.
In order to keep from blushing, Scarlet bit her lip before answering. "Don't go all soft on me Frost," she said. "Everyone else did more than me today."
Frost punched her shoulder softly, chuckling a little as he crossed his arms. "You're being way to modest," he shrugged.
"Isn't that a good thing?" Scarlet asked, giggling slightly as she turned away from him.
"That depends on what you're being modest about," Frost said, flicking his finger at her helmet as it made a 'clink' noise, her dark brown pony tail swaying slightly behind her. "But like I said before, good job. You did better than I thought you would do," he said, getting closer to her until their arms were literally rubbing against each other.
Sandman took a glance at them, seeing as they were both talking and laughing loudly. He was glad to see that the FNG and Frost were getting along from the looks of it, and he could tell that everyone else noticed their forming friendship too as Grinch, Truck, and a few other soldiers looked their way.
One of the helicopters pulled in next to the balcony as a few of the soldiers began to board it. Frost climbed onto the balcony and hopped onto the helicopter. He then turned around so he could face Scarlet. Frost outstretched his arm towards her as he offered to help her up.
Scarlet grabbed his hand and allowed her teammate to pull her up onto the helicopter, Sandman and Grinch getting on as well as they helped the Vice President on board.
The helicopter flew up in the sky, its blades spinning fast and loudly as the soldiers began to leave Hamburg. Scarlet brought her frail hands up to her helmet as she took it off, disheveled bangs that had been clipped to the side exposed as she placed the helmet on her lap. She took her hair out of its pony tail, brown locks falling and landing a little above her shoulders, complimenting her light caramel skin as the wind blew on her rosy red cheeks.
Scarlet glanced over at Frost who was sitting next to her, looking out the helicopter window. Because of the goggles and the mask, Scarlet couldn't see what face expression he was making, though she had a pretty good guess on what it was as she leaned on him a little. And for a second, Scarlet thought he was leaning back.
This chapter was plain I know, but I'm doing the roller coaster idea where it starts off slow, and slowly builds up until it gets to its action points. Then the story will be enjoyable and quite impacting around the middle and end (partly the beginning). The next chapter is kind of settle and it mainly focuses on the characters building their relationships towards each other. So the story is kind of on/off with it's action and romance (but it'll have both I promise). I'm super nervous about the reviews (I'm crying). Please Stay Tune for More~
P.S. please read the next chapter... please. (T^T)
