Quick word...

I got an anomynos review from someone, who gave me excellent feedback...I wished they have given me a pen name so I could thank them more personally...

They had said how my character, mamori had gotten more diologue than the Canon characters. A completely reasonable comment that I appreciate. And my reply is a simple one.

I know she has a lot of diologue. I did it so I can portray her personality more. The canon characters will get their share of diologue as the chapters progress. But then again, I really don't see much of Price and MacTavish being "talkative," MacTavish moreso. But don't worry, I'll get them to talk more.

If anyone else notices anything, please, please say something. I always take to critism very well, flames as any other person would take them...comic relief, and other things. Please don't hesitate to say something...

Way too long, let's get on with the story, shall we?


"So, what's Worm like?" Mamori asked. They were inside the airport's food court, dried blood on almost every surface it could touch.

"A brave soldier, but he has a stupid streak to him though." MacTavish replied after a minutes.

"Like Toad's stupid streaks?" Mamori joked.

"Nah, Toad's worse." Archer grinned widely, which received a punch to the stomach by Toad.

"Where did you guys say you would meet him anyway?" MacTavish asked.

"He said he would be at the main security gates." Toad replied.

"Where's that?" Mamori asked, walking backwards in front of the three men.

"Down this wall and to the right."

"Oh! Th-WHOA!" Mamori jumped as the new voice registered in her head.

"Hey Worm! 'sup?" Toad greeted. Worm grinned.

"You guys take way too long, I thought you guys got stuck in this airport traffic." he joked.

"He had to pick her up, made us late and we got into airport rush." Archer smirked.

"Damn good to see you Worm." MacTavish grinned.

"Hella good to see you too sir." Worm shook hands, then spotted Mamori.

"You...look really familiar." he said, looking over her.

"Same to you...wait...you're name...is it Aaron?" Mamori crossed her arms in thought.

"...Mamori? Hooooly shit I haven't seen you since...oh my God, I don't remember!" Worm's reaction shocked Toad.

"You know her?" he asked.

"Yeah, we met five years ago when I was transferred to the 141." Worm replied.

"Yeah, he had to stop in Japan, and I was on base for a job of my Dad's." Mamori added. Archer leaned over to MacTavish.

"I thought Toad and Worm were bad enough...Mamori added doesn't seem..." Archer stopped for a loss of words.

"I'm with you. Two is bad, three is ridiculous." he groaned. "Come on you muppets. Price and the others are going to leave us behind." he called over his shoulder. Mamori walked next to him in step as Toad and Worm followed right behind.

"Are you kidding? Oh my God you FNG!" Worm laughed as Toad and Mamori explained Adrian's apparent lack of something that the other men (and Mamori) found more than amusing.

"Ok, ok. Give Adrian a break." Nikolai scolded from his pilot's seat.

They were flying west towards Great Britain, where Mamori said she had a place where they could lay low for a while before they were cramped into another air vehicle for longer than four hours. They planned to take Nikolai's C-130 that Nikolai had left with her when Price and MacTavish headed to Afghan.

"So...what to do to pass the time?" Toad asked. Mamori shrugged as she pulled off her guns and took off her Kevlar vest.

"I don't know about you guys..." she started, opening a few pockets of her vest, the objects she pulled out shocking them. "...but I plan on listening to music and playing me some video games." she grinned, unraveling her iPod ear buds and lifting a handheld game system. MacTavish and Price stared at her as she put the ear buds in and turned on her game. Worm and Toad, who sat on either side of her, leaned in to watch her play a shooter game.

"Seriously? A shooter game?" Toad asked in disbelief.

"Why not?" Mamori asked innocently.

"You live through it!" Worm pointed out.

"Yeah, but I've gotten better reflexes through this game." Mamori grinned, swaying to the beat of the music as she furiously tapped buttons.

"Oh? What's the game called?" Toad asked.

"I don't know...something like 'Modernized War' or something." Mamori replied with a shrug. Toad and Worm looked at each other before taking one of Mamori's ear buds each and listening.

"...is this classical?" Worm asked in disbelief.

"It's relaxing!" Mamori shot out, pausing her game and taking the ear buds back.

"You should've met Griggs." Price smirked, MacTavish smiling at the mention of the name.

"Who's that?" Archer asked.

"He was a marine we worked with five years ago. He would always listen to rap music on missions, 24/7. His Kevlar vest had CD's, no matter what. Most of them broke each time he was shot, but he had about twenty back ups of each CD back on base." MacTavish replied, smiling at a memory of when him and Gaz had tried to pull a stunt and break all of his CD's to find Grigg's stash a few minutes later.

"...iPods are better." Mamori muttered. Archer approached her and took one of the buds, listening for a moment before commenting.

"Beethoven's Fifth. Nice choice." he commented.

"You know the song?" Worm asked.

"Yeah, it's pretty famous." Archer shrugged.

"Have you heard of the Piano Concerto number 20 in D minor?" Price asked suddenly.

"One of my favorites!" Mamori replied. She, Price, Archer and Adrian continued the conversation as Toad and Worm took the game and played, yelling every time something "supernatural" happened as to which MacTavish would remind them it's only a game.


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