Thanks for the review klondike24680! Only about half an hour after posting and I've already complement, that means a lot to me! As far as my detailing goes, I honestly think I could use some practice, but I've been writing for 5+ years so it stands to reason that I shouldn't… Okay, I'm turning into a windbag so I'm gonna go ahead and get to the next chapter! Also, I should go ahead and say that most of this is going to be through the snipers' eyes as they see what happened to Ghost and Roach.
Thanks for Reading, Fly High Aim Higher
~Spitfire out

Archer's P.O.V

I saw everything. I saw Roach get taken down by a mine, Ghost dragging him to safety and eventually pulling him to his feet. I saw Shepherd and the CH-47. Shepherd's betrayal, that's what got me. I was stunned, too stunned to react. Toad on the other hand was about to jump over the cliff and run to the aid of the fallen soldiers as Shepherd had one of his men poor gasoline over Roach's still body and flick a lit cigar on him, igniting the fluid as he walked away.

I pulled myself together and covered Toad as he ran down to the small burning patch where Ghost and Roach were lying unmoving. Ghost had been shot in the right shoulder and the bullet had gone down through his body and exited out his lower back to the left. Roach had taken a point blank bullet to the gut, his chances were very slim.

Toad made it over to them in record time, pulling Roach out of the fire first, then Ghost. He started patting out the fire that clung to their bodies and clothes.

"Archer!" Toad called hurriedly over the team com-link, "Call in a med-evac now!"

"Already on it, Toad," I answered, cutting the team link and switching over to MacTavish's com set, "Captain, Roach and Ghost are down and in critical, we need an evac now!" I called in a somewhat panicked voice.

"I read you Archer, we're sending Nikoli to get you out," Captain MacTavish answered calmly.

"Tell him to double time it over here," I said in a rushed tone as I ran down to where Toad had set Roach and Ghost to temporarily patch their injuries.

I cut the transmission and switched back to the team link, "Toad, give me a sit-rep," I said as calmly as I could.

"They're both critical but Roach is worse off. Severe burns on both. I think Ghost will make it but I'm not sure about Roach, he was already wounded when Shepherd shot him," Toad answered in a quick yet calm voice that he always used when he was in medic mode as the team often called it.

Toad was supposed to be full time medic but when my sniper partner had been killed we found out that Toad was almost as good a shot as I was so he doubled as both my partner and a medic. He switched between jobs almost seamlessly but it was easy to tell which one he was more focused on.

"Nikoli's on his way, we'll get them out of here and back to base," I said coming up next to him and resting my hand on the medic's shoulder.

"Hope he gets here in time, not much I can do for them right now," Toad said with a sigh.

I heard a faint groan as Ghost slowly started moving, he appeared to be trying to get his eyes open and his body to corporate. There was another pained groan from him and then he lay still. I could see the rise and fall of his chest but it was shallow. Roach looked like he wasn't breathing at all.

"Archer, come in," MacTavish's voice came over the com-link as Toad worked on Roach.

"I read you, Captain," I answered, turning away from the gruesome scene as Toad tried to get the bullet and shrapnel out of Roach.

"Nikoli is two clicks out; you need to pop smoke so he knows where to land," MacTavish said quickly, "how are they doing?"

"Ghost woke up then passed out again soon after, Toad's working on Roach right now," I answered as I pulled a red smoke grenade out of my pouch, "Smoke out!" I called over my shoulder to Toad so he wouldn't think the enemy had thrown it.

I pulled the pin and tossed the grenade close by, watching as the red smoke rose up into the sky, a beacon to the incoming pilot. When the Russian pilot landed his helicopter I helped Toad load Roach and Ghost and we were quickly off towards the base.

Ghost's P.O.V

I could feel myself waking up, I was weaker than I was before; I couldn't even groan this time. I could tell that I was being moved but I couldn't tell where too, though I could hear rotors of a chopper. There was less weight on my chest and arms than there should've been; suggesting that my Kevlar vest and the upper half of my uniform were gone. There was an intense, burning pain in my shoulder and I could feel myself reacting without meaning to.

"Shit," I heard someone mutter from beside me, "Archer, reach in my bag and grab a shot of morphine, you know what to do."

From that I knew it was Toad beside me. A little bit of time passed until there was a sharp pain in the side of my neck. The pain passed quickly along with the pain in my shoulder and back.

'What the hell happened to me?' I asked myself.

I heard Toad mutter again followed by a pause then, "Infection's already setting in. Nikoli, can't this bird go any faster?!"

"I'm afraid not my friend, we're going as fast as we can!" a Russian voice came from nearby.

Nikoli? We were being evac'd but where was Roach.

"Hey, Archer, hold this cloth in place, keep the pressure on, I gotta see to Roach," Toad said quickly.

Ah yes, Toad was most definitely in medic mode. I finally managed a groan and forced my eyes open. Through the blurry haze I could barely make out the guile suited form of Archer leaning over me, his hands pressed firmly on my shoulder. Then I noticed that what I was seeing wasn't as dark as it should be. My shades were gone along with my mask

I groaned again as the room started spinning and I squeezed my eyes shut in a failed attempt to stop it.

"I think Ghost's getting worse, Toad," Archer said after a few minutes of silence.

"I know, but I got to stabilize Roach first, the only reason I was helping him first is the fact that he had stopped breathing," Toad said calmly and quickly.

I groaned again as I felt sweat starting to form on my brow and I could feel my body heating up with fever.

"Damn, he's burning up!" Archer exclaimed, flinching a bit.

"Hang on, I'm almost done," Toad called back.

I opened my eyes again only to feel them lull back in my head as I started to pass out again.