Hey there! This is a re-write of my previous work Call of Duty Ghosts: The Forgotten. This one should be a whole lot better and will go more in depth to the characters. Anyways the story line and plot will change severely. I'm not doing descriptions, those are on my profile if you are curious, make sure to review...

WARNING: This story is rated M, for mature audiences only. A minimum age of 14 is required to continue. This chapter may, or may not, include: Violence, gore, drug abuse, sexual themes, extreme language, and various other subjects not appropriate for young audiences. Viewer Discretion is advised...

Call of Duty Ghosts:

"Phantoms of War"

Act I

"The Federation's Plans"

A base is lively with Federation units going about their business. It's configured so that there is a road leading threw it. To the right is not much room as it holds fuel tanks to refuel any vehicles. To the left are 4 small, elongated cabins, in horizontal rows. Each looks like it could hold 12 soldiers. Then further past them are the officer's cabins. There's 2 of them vertically against the fence. Just past them, to the north, is the officers lounge, past that is the armory, and across from them is the command center. It's a stone building that looks to be 4 stories tall. The bottom consist of one main, horizontal, rectangular structure, with an elevated back left corner, and a tall tower raising out of that back corner. behind it were some more barracks for common soldiers. Each entrance, the north and south road, had two tents with sand bags in them, One possessed a mounted M.G. and the other had a couple of soldiers huddling around the fire. It was about 7 in the morning, so it was pretty cold. All in all there was about 96 soldiers there; Give or take a few.

There was a reason we start off at this base. You see in approximately 1 hour a convoy will arrive with 1 captured informant on board. He needs to be rescued. His team members have tracked him and found out he was heading to this base. Thanks to some confiscated A.T.V.s, and some short cuts, they managed to beat the convoy here. There plan was: Get into position, wait until the bring him inside the building, blow up the fuel depot, destroying the convoy along with it, began the assault on the East side of the compound, drawing attention away from the West side, as two of their own cut threw the West fence, behind the officer's cabin, while the others distract the main force, sneak into the command center, neutralize any hostiles, gather important information, rig it to blow, escape with their fellow ghost in toe and bring it down, effectively ruining the base.

The Ghosts get into position and wait for the convoy to arrive. 3 ghosts are in the field to the right and 2 to the left. The ones in the field were wet-faces with the exception of the squad leader who wore a mask resembling Keegan's The remaining wet faces laid in the, smaller, field to the left waiting for the signal, the explosion, to go off. They continued to wait. On the West side the ghosts were: Cpl. Yammamoto (Ya-ma-mow-toe) 'Dare Devil' and S.S. Kaley (Kay-Lee) 'Seeker'. Dare Devil had a MP5 w/ suppressor and extended mags. Seeker had an Honey Badger w/ suppressor, duel mags, and a grip.

Soon an explosion went off and screams filled the air. The two could here the officers rushing out to see what happen as well as more gunshots; with the occasional scream of agony. They looked up from their hiding spot and noticed their side of the base was clear for now and rushed up to the fence behind the officer's cabins. Dare Devil cut the fence below it and the, him and Seeker, crawled in under the cabin. They got to the front of it and Seeker looked around for any Federation troopers lagging behind. Luckily there wasn't so he proceeded to climb out from under the cabin. When he was out he got into a crouched position and scanned his surroundings. Sure enough everything was quiet.

He leaned back down to under the cabin and whispered "Hey, Dare Devil, let's move." He waited a minute before questioning "Toshi?" After no response he bent down only to see him fiddling with things under the cabin. "Toshi!"

This time he responded "Yeah?"

"What the fuck are you doing down there? We need to go get the informant." Seeker asked.

Dare Devil climbs out from under the cabin, his face paint smudged on his face, and smiles before responding "I was leaving them a present."

Seeker just sighs before reading his weapon and walking left towards the doors of the command center. The door is directly across from the armory. The two stood on both sides of the door. Seeker mouthed the words One... Two... Three! They kicked in the door and went to work. There was five soldiers in the floor. One to the left behind a small rail, not paying attention to the door, two across the room at the consoles, one standing by a bloodied person strapped to a chair, the informant, and then one by the door guarding. The guard to the left, tried rushing dare devil with a knife. He quickly caught his wrist and blocked his left hand's punch. He then pulled the wrist, with the knife, across his other arm, twirled the knife around so it faced him, and jabbed the knife into his throat. He then pulled his body in front of him to block any bullets sent his way.

While this was happening Seeker quickly took out the man by the informant. He did just before he could pull the trigger and kill the informant. He then spun, so he faced right, and killed the still startled guard; before spinning one last time, so he faced backwards, into cover behind a vertical row of cabinets against the railing.

The one of the remaining two at the consoles had turned around and started firing his M9 pistol at Dare Devil, who replied kindly by moving forward allowing the dead body to take the hits for him, and the other seemed to be shouting something into the intercom. He then hit the siren button and turned around as the ghost reached his intended target.

Dare Devil threw the corpse aside and speared the one with the pistol onto the controls. He pushed himself up an socked the Fed in the face. When he pulled up the second time he caught a punch to the jaw and stumbled left; only to be kicked in the gut and sent to the floor by the one he had just punched. Then he jumped on Dare Devil punching him in the face. Dare devil manged to the see the one in his peripheral vision shake violently before finally falling down. He was dazed by each punch the attacker threw and when he finally came to his senses the attack had lifted his knife, about to bring it down. Suddenly blood splattered from his chest. He looked up and was hit a few more times before falling back off Dare Devil.

He, Dare Devil, managed to roll over and see his savor. It was a young Hispanic man holding a pistol. He had brown hair, green eyes, and a deep tan. He was in a office white shirt, black pants, black penny loafers, a red tie and had blood streaming down his right cheek. He also had a black eye and blood all over the collar of his work shirt. The informant grabbed Seeker's pistol to save Dare Devil. He managed to stand up on his own and walked over to him and said "Thank you... What's you'r name?"

"Victor Rodriguez... but I'm call signed: "Warp 0-0"." He replied. This was him. The informant they were supposed to get. Seeker looked around and told the rest to do the same. They started searching and had nothing until the informant shouted "Jack pot!"

They both ran over to the informant and found a screen full of plans and co-ordinates. "What is it?" asked Seeker.

"It's the Federation's plans. Apparently, if my Spanish is correct, which it better be if I've been a mole this hole time, then the Federation are planning a sneak attack some where in the North."

"The North? How's that even possible?" asked Dare Devil.

"It goes more into detail; but I'd have to decipher the rest-"

Their radios crackled to life and they heard their team leader's voice over the radio say: "Attention all Ghosts! This is Predator 1-1 recognize!"

Instantly Predator's 1-2 and 1-3 responded. Now they just waited for 1-4, Kaley, and 1-5, Yammamoto, to respond. 1-3 picked up his radio and spoke into it. "Confirmed, We read you loud and clear 1-1."

They waited about a minute before it came to life again "Alright, listen up! Predators 1-1-1-3 are to lead them back threw the field towards the tree line where we'll use the ATVs, across the river to get away and meet up at check point Vermont. Predators 1-4 and 1-5 are to lead the warp back to the extraction point. It should be 3 clicks past check point Vermont. This order is active as of now! Anyone who drags there feet will be left behind! Predator 1-1 out."

"I can tell we don't have time for deciphering so I'll just download it real quick." Rodriguez said.

"Alright you got 5 minutes to get what you can! Dare! Let's finish the charges!"

"Got it."

Seeker and Dare Devil went to work planting the packages of C4. In total they planted 6 packages. 3 on the East console, 2 on the southern wall, and 2 on the northern wall. They had finished with 20 seconds to spare. "0-0 what's taking so long with that info?!"

"Done! Let's go!"

They all ran out of the building. At the last second Dare Devil turned and planted something on the door frame and ran to catch up to them. Seeker and the informant already started to crawl under the cabin to escape. when Dare got to the Cabin he heard foot steps approaching (The sirens are still going off mind you) he slapped the trip laser on the door and crawled under. When he resurfaced on the other side, Seeker and Warp had already made it to the tree line and were signaling him to hurry up. Dare evil began sprinting towards them when he heard an explosion sound. When he turned another one went off sending him flying threw the air. He lands only a few feet away from the tree line unconscious.

Seeker runs over to him and grabs him by the straps of his vest and drags him towards the tree line The back of his vest is burnt and there's a fairly large piece of wood sticking out of his back. Already fearing the worst for his teammate he throws him on the back of his ATV and says to the informant: "Hop on the other one!" He does as told and the began to speed away into the forest...

After some time of traveling they reach their destination. Upon arrival there's already a chopper waiting for them. It was one of the new stealth choppers they've been integrating. This one had two rotors and had a 4 man squad of Delta Force (Air Force's version of Special Forces) waiting. They pulled up and the soldiers instantly trained their guns on them only to see it was the ghost. He stopped his ATV and climbed off and said to the approaching soldiers: "Hey this man need medical attention. Get him on board now!"

They did as he told them and he ushered the informant on board. He waited for, what felt like, hours before asking how long they had left until they took off. He didn't like the response as it was 5 minutes. so he waited counting down. When he got to the 1 minute marker the propellers started up. It was then he heard some gun shots in the distance and he saw 3 figures running towards the chopper. He sat up from his seat and squinted. As they got closer he recognized them as the other ghosts! Than an explosion ripped threw the clearing. It got the attention of the Delta Force members and the ran outside to see what was happening. What they saw was three ghosts running for their lives as a Federation tank and armored vehicles come into view behind them Luckily the tank blocks most of the narrow entrance into the small valley they were in. Seeker turns to the soldier next to him and asks "Do you have anything that could bring that thing down?!"

The soldier looks back into the chopper and then back to Seeker before replying "Yeah, we got a Javelin with a few rounds inside!" The soldier ran inside and carried it out to him. Once he got it he threw the heavy weapon onto his shoulder. He raised the binocular part to his eyes and took aim. The tank was about to pass threw the pass allowing multiple armored vehicles to pass threw. All of which would tear the helicopter to shreds if they made it with in range. The ghost squad had considerably damage already done to them. The leader's, Stalker, mask was stained with red, Silver was running with a limp, and Shadow was clutching his arm. Seeker than positioned it so the tank was the only thing in it's view. After a few beeps it started ringing and he clicked the fire button and a rocket launched into the sky.

Just before the tank rolled out of the way enough for a vehicle to squeeze threw it erupted into flames as the top half of it, it's cannon, shot up off of it and landed with a crunch. Seeker handed the Stinger back to him and rushed over to his team. When got over to them he immediately started helping Silver over to the chopper where the remaining D.F.s helped him in and tended to his wounds.

They also tended to Shadow's arm, even thought it was just a flesh wound, but when offered medical attention he declined it; saying it wasn't his blood; but his enemies blood. Seeker walked over an checked on him making sure he was alright. "Sir, are you sure you're alright?"

"Yes, Seeker I'm sure. Let's just get this bird in the air before the Feds get wise and pull out their S.M.A.W.s and R.P.G.s." He pulled off his mask an smiled showing no injury.

Seeker did as he was told and walked over to the pilots. "Hey, let's get out of here!" He had to shout so he could be heard by the pilot.

The pilot only nodded in response as the chopper started closing the bay door. When it was closed everyone was strapped in and ready for the trip home. Silver had a bandage around his leg to stop the bleeding, same thing for Shadow except with his arm, and Dare Devil was in a stretcher still unconscious. The informant had a bandage around his head wound and was quiet the whole time. The stealth chopper pulled into the sky and started on it's way back to base; a trip that, beside the Delta Force, was surprisingly quiet...

6 Days Later...

Black Phantom had arrived home just 6 days ago and every one had been discharged except for Toshi. The base was lively with activity. It's not every day they get information about the Federation. So far it had proven true. The ghosts had to go on another mission while Toshi healed up, much to their dismay, but managed to pull t off with out much trouble thanks to their new info they got from H.Q.

Stalker was eating with Silver when a M.P. walked up and tapped his shoulder. Confused he decided to ask: "May I help you?"

"Yes, Colonel Elias Walker wishes to see you." The officer replied.

"Okay... c'mon let's go" Stalker said Silver motioning his head to leave.

"Actually, that won't be necessary, sir." The M.P. cut in before they could leave the table.

Seeker sat back down after hearing this and watched as his Captain walked away with the military police...

Stalker continued walking with them until he was lead to an office. When he got inside he was instantly greeted by Col. Elias Walker. He ushered the M.P. out saying the meeting was classified. He then returned to his seat at his desk.

"Hello, Captain Daniel O. Connors, I take it you'r mission went well?" asked the Colonel; leader of the ghost program.

"Yes, sir, it did. thanks to that new info I've been given. Only complaint is the heat sir." He replied.

"Is that so?... Captain I have a question for you. Who'd you say any one on you'r team has earned their mask yet?"

Stalker started to think. He had been with the team for 6 years now and if one were to earn their mask then he would be transferred to a new squad of wet-faces. However it was his duty to make sure they reached official ghost status... He was deep in thought when Elias snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Captain?"

"... None sir..."

"Hmmm... well that's to bad... Stalker you're being transferred to a new squad. You've been supporting them for too long and the new squads need instructors... They'll just have to make due with out you... Understood?

"Yes sir..."

"Good... Dismissed..."

Stalker got up to leave. Before he grabbed the handle he turned around and asked: "If it's not too much of me to ask sir... What exactly is their next mission?..."

"They'll be deployed up in Canada. If our information's correct then the Federation is sneaking units into the north. There plan is to build an army and catch us with our pants down. If there plan were to succeed I wouldn't have to tell you the causalities would I?"

"No... But how are they getting in threw Canada? I thought they closed their borders and declared themselves neutral?"

"Yes, but the Federation has ignored it and snuck troops in there. We're not sure how, that's why Black Phantom is going in, but the Canadians don't believe us and Congress believes if they press the matter anymore then they'd risk driving them to the Federation... Needless to say this is a top priority mission and if they are caught all comm links will be dropped and they abandoned and labeled Absent With Out Leave. (A/N A.W.O.L.)..."

The room fell silent as the depth of the situation began to sink in on him. This is how his team would earn their masks... He couldn't do anything to stop it and if they failed it would probably mean they'd die... whether it be at the hands of the Federation, the Canadians, or the wilderness it's self... "I understand..."

"Good now if there's no more questions... I need to get back to work..." Stalker just nodded and walked out the door. What ever their fates were in the coming days... He was sure that Black Phantom's coming future was gonna be a hell of a lot harder than his...

Thank you to both guests who pointed it out. I have corrected the error in the story. I sometimes confuse the Javelin for the Stinger so forgive me. Also thank you for you'r reviews. The 2nd chapter should be out today, the 14th, or tomorrow, the 15th, so until then thank you...