"Well sir, I can honestly say, we're totally screwed," Ghost complained.

"Agreed Lieutenant. We really are," MacTavish agreed hanging his head in defeat.

"There has to be a way out of here. I refuse to just sit here and let those bastards come and find us," Ghost said standing up.

"Does anyone still have a map?" He asked.

Meat and Royce fished around in there packs. They were the least damaged out of the group.

"I do," Royce said pulling out his map. It was a bit crumpled, but it was still readable.

"Give it here," Ghost said spreading it out on the ground.

Nikolai scooted a little closer to get a better look of the map.

"We took off here," Ghost said pointing at the spot that was highlighted on the map.

"We were flying 100 kilometers an hour for about 2 and a half hour," Nikolai said. He remembered setting the chopper to fly about that fast.

Ghost did that math in his head.

"That would put us roughly in this area," Ghost said pointing to a spot about 250 kilometers away from their original position.

"That's pretty much the middle of nowhere," Nikolai said.

"Are you sure there isn't anything out here?" Ghost asked, defeat almost evident in his voice.

"There is small town about 15 miles away, but we would never make it before sunrise," Nikolai said looking at his watch. Sunrise was about two hours away.

"We can't get that far that quick," MacTavish piped in. Not when we are all weak from blood loss, and more than a little battered up from the crash.

"True, and if we do have to stop, we don't know if there is any place where we could take shelter," Toad said.

"Wait, did you say we were around this area?" Nikolai asked suddenly.

"Yeah," Ghost said skeptically. "Why?"

"I know someone who lives two miles south of here," Nikolai said.

Everyone looked up hopefully.

"And you're sure that this "friend" would be willing to help us?" MacTavish asked.

"Yes," Nikolai said getting up.

"The two strongest people need to carry Roach and Archer. We're getting out of here after all," MacTavish said with a small smile on his face.
Ghost got up and picked up Roach. Toad lifted Archer and threw him over his shoulders in a fireman's lift.

"Follow me my friends. His house is this way," Nikolai said heading south, exiting the small cave they had just been vacating.

The team walked quietly, but swiftly as they could. They needed to get to the house before sunrise, so they wouldn't be found, but they also needed to move quietly so the Ultranationalists moving around in the woods wouldn't be alerted to their presence.

They had to stop many times so people could catch their breath.

"Come one MacTavish," Ghost panted. "At this rate, we'll never make it."

"Hold you're bloody horses, I'm moving as fast as I can.

Ghost was worrying. He glanced at Nikolai's watch. Thirty minutes. They were still quite a ways away.