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Tracking… Found
Sgt. Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Delta Force
The North Sea
We were in the war room on the USS Reagan. We were receiving a call from Price, not the most popular guy with the United States Government, or any government for that matter, but he was a close friend.
"Price, thanks for the tip on Kingfish. You should know Uncle Sam's got a Kill/ Capture order on your head." Sandman said
"Tell 'em to join the bloody queue." Price said
On the screen in front of us, the picture of a man appeared. He looked like he was about forty, was losing his hair, and like he was fat as hell.
"Makarov's bomb-maker, Volk, is in Paris. We need to act before he bolts and I can't make the window. You're the only one I trust with this."
"I'm on it." Sandman said
The screen started showing WMDs being assembled and put in Fregata Industries containers.
"The bastard used Fregata Industries to distribute the WMDs, I'm en route to their European HQ."
Price's transmission cut off and we started getting into contact with the French GIGN so they could help us find Volk. If they could find him soon, then we could just get the bastard.
Three Hours Later
They did it. They found him. Now we just needed to get the hell in there. We were being briefed by Overlord before we went in, so we knew exactly what we were walking into when we got there.
"French special forces have located Volk. GIGN tracked him deep behind enemy lines, but they're pinned down." Overlord said
"And you want us to unpin them?" Sandman asked
"Prosecute the target as needed, but Volk comes back alive."
We all went to the armory and picked up our weapons and gear, then got on a Little Bird. It was going to be a short flight to Paris, and we're going to be dropped right in the middle of the contamination radius. But that wouldn't matter. We've got gas masks, and we're going to kick any and all hostile's ass.
One Hour Later
We were moving in on Montmartre Hill, and I could see that Paris was hit hard by the attacks. We had planes dropping in reinforcements, but they won't do much help if they didn't get any air support. Like ODA 595. It was sad listening to their radio chatter.
"Any station, any station, this is ODA 595. All civilians in The Louvre are dead. Requesting decon units and medivac."
"595, this is Overlord actual. Negative. All US forces in Paris are engaged. Triage the civilians and move your team upwind of the plume."
We landed on the roof of apartment building. It was the best point of insertion around because of the fact that part of the roof was collapsed in on the apartment below.
"The area's still dirty from the chemical attack. Keep your masks on. Truck, we're on the deck and moving."
"Roger. I'll meet you at the LZ in one hour. Good luck."
We jump from the roof to the floor below and start moving through the apartment. There were a couple bodies on the floor. I guess they couldn't get out before the agent got to them.
"Metal 0-1, GIGN is pinned down at the Palme d'or restaurant. Get there fast or we'll lose the only shot we've got at finding Makarov." Overlord said
"Roger wilco."
We stopped at the end of a hallway, where Sandman took the vitals of the dead civies. He got no pulse. They were dead. Grinch, trying to lighten the mood, tried to make smalltalk.
"595 sounds like they got hit hard. Lot of rooks in that unit."
"No one's a rook today." Sandman said
I looked over at Jade. Up until Manhattan, she was a rook. Today reminded me a lot of then. The only difference that this was Paris and it was the Eifel Tower in danger of blowing up rather than the Statue of Liberty. We moved towards the edge of the building. There was a piece of debris in the way, so Sandman pushed it off the building and into the street below. We all started moving along the outer edge of the building. I looked down into the street below and saw many dead civilians. I wanted to look anywhere but down, but I needed to make sure that I wouldn't fall off the ledge.
"Watch your step." Jade said
"0-1, be advised, GIGN is taking heavy casualties. They won't last long. You'll need to double time it to make the RV." Overlord said
"Patch me through to 'em." Sandman said
"This is Sabre! How much longer?"
"Three minutes out. Just keep your perimeter secure. We're almost there."
"Please just hurry!"
"Let's go. This way! Move!"
We started to move through the building, trying to make it to Sabre and his team's position. If we couldn't get to them in time, then we'll have lost Volk for good. As we were starting to make our way down to ground level, windows started exploding.
"We're compromised!" Grinch yelled
"Contact, building across the street!" I yelled
"Go loud!"
And that's where one of the hardest battles of my life started. We moved down the stairs and out onto the street. The building the Russians were in as a two-story bookstore.
"Frost, Midnight, with me! Hit the bookstore!" Sandman yelled
We ran into the bookstore, killing every Russian in sight. Grinch remained in the apartment building providing overwatch. Within minutes, the bookstore was emptied of hostiles.
"Clear! Check the door!" Grinch said
We moved to a metal door that led to an alley. We all stacked up, checking our weapons and ammo.
"The restaurant's at the end of this alley." Grinch said
"Sabre, this is Sandman. Watch your fire to the north. We are coming to you."
"Copy that. Merde (Shit), we're glad to see you." Sabre said
We went into the alley just in time to see the last of the Russians get killed. At least there won't be a fight to get to them.
"À la, dépêchez!" (In here, hurry up!)
"It's the GIGN!" Jade said Please, don't let her be infected by everyone else's Captain Obvious Syndrome.
"Allez!" (Go!)
"That's all of 'em?" Grinch said
I agreed with Grinch. There were only about half a dozen left alive. We ran into the restaurant's kitchen, where we found multiple GIGN casualties and Sabre.
"What's your status?" Sandman asked him
"Seven men standing." Sabre said
"Where's Volk?"
"The Russians launched the chemical attack from a staging ground in the catacombs. We believe Volk is still there."
"We got your six. Lead the way. Overlord, this is Metal 0-1. Link-up complete. We're en route to the HVI's location now."
We moved into the dining area of the restaurant and engaged more Russians. If we couldn't get through these guys then the mission would fail. We need to get to Volk. And the cluster fuck outside in the courtyard didn't help matters. There were Russians everywhere.
"We gotta get across the courtyard! Metal, lay down cover fire! Move! Move!"
We started to move out into the courtyard and began taking the Russians down one-by-one. We cleared out two cafés and the rooftops around the courtyard. We began to move towards a set of stairs at the end of the courtyard, but a group of Russians appeared at the top with fucking RPGs. Why do they have to be noob-toobers? Literally, only the inexperienced and the soldiers who are scared shitless use rocket launchers. Be a man and shoot at us with an actual gun.
"RPG! Top of the stairs!" Sandman yelled
We opened fire on the Russians and continued to move up the stairs. We continued to follow Sabre and his team through the streets. We turned into a building and killed more Russians. We moved through the second story and then dropped through a hole in the floor. We continued to move down the street and came to a large set of stairs. At the bottom, it looked like every Russian in the city was converging on our position.
"Boss, we got bad guys inbound!" Grinch said
"How many we got?" Sandman asked How can he not see how many assholes are down there? It's not hard.
"Looks like Moscow down there! We're gonna need air support!"
"Warhammer, this is Metal 0-1. Request fire mission, over."
"Roger, Metal 0-1. Established in orbit at 12,000 feet. Full load. Mark your targets." The pilot said
"Frost, ID the targets with smoke!"
I pulled one of the smoke grenades from my vest and threw it as far as I could towards the trucks at the bottom of the stairs. And I guess I've got good aim, because I ended up hitting one of the Russians in the head.
"Target acquired. Going hot." Warhammer's pilot said
The AC-130's rounds rained down on the street, killing every tango in the area. Within seconds, the street was clear.
"Down the alley!" Sabre yelled
We went down the stairs and came to a plaza that was, wouldn't you know it? Full of Russians. We started taking them down when a nice little surprise rolled up the street: A fucking BTR.
"Midnight, BTR at the end of the alley! Put smoke on it!"
Jade popped out of cover to throw the smoke grenade, but she was hit in the chest by a bullet. That scared the shit out of me. I don't know if the bullet went all the way through. Without thinking or looking, I pulled out a smoke grenade and threw it in the direction of the BTR and ran to her side. I pulled her farther away from the Russians and behind one of the Russian's burned out trucks. She was groggy and was barely paying attention to anything. I looked at her vest and saw the bullet. It wasn't in her, so I figured I'd leave it alone. Better to not make her start bleeding when there's no medic here to help.
"Hey, Jade! Jade! Talk to me Jade!"
She started to groggily open her eyes. Okay, at least she's awake. I tried to think of what to do next, but she started talking.
"Hey, Derek, I'm okay. It hurts, that's all. Give me my gun and get me back into the fight."
Alright, if she can talk, then I'll just have to believe she's okay. For now. If she shows any sign that she's not okay, then I'm getting her the hell out of here.
"We're clear!" Grinch yelled
"The entrance is up ahead." Sabre said
"Metal 0-1, I am bingo on fuel. Give me ten mikes to gas up and rearm, over." Warhammer said
We started moving down the alley the BTR came down and found a manhole cover.
"Over here. The entrance to the catacombs!" Sabre said
We pulled up a manhole cover, revealing a ladder leading down to below ground. Everyone went down one-by-one. After everyone went down, I finally descended. Once I got to the bottom, I saw that Sandman was walking around and one of Sabre's men were standing guard. Of the seven that left the restaurant with us, he was the only one that survived.
"Checking for toxins. Hold up." Sandman said
After a few seconds, he gave the all clear to take off our gas masks. Once everyone was ready, Sandman told us that we needed to make sure that our signature was minimized, so we could only have one light source.
"Metal 0-1, Blue Force Tracker dropped the fix on your position." Overlord said
"We're in the catacombs. Proceeding to possible target location."
"Roger, 0-1. We're sending a Ranger QRF to your location. Mark your route with flares so they can locate your position."
"Roger your last. 0-1, out."
We moved down a set of stairs and continued farther into the sewers. As we continued moving along, Sandman began to drop flares every thirty meters or so. Grinch said something about the smell, but Jade said that it wouldn't kill him. And she's right. I'd rather be smelling shit than breathing in chemicals that will kill me. We eventually came to a bridge that crossed a waterway, and Sabre took us across.
"All clear. Move up."
"Where's the rest of the GIGN?" Sandman asked
"A chemical strike hit our barracks at Satory last night. Most of my men died within minutes."
"A friend of mine was at Satory." "Je suis désolé. (I'm sorry)… This is why Volk must pay for what he's done."
"He will. I'll see to that." Grinch said
We continued along the sewers until we came to a door with a sign on it. It read 'Danger'. The other GIGN guy, Faucon ripped off the lock with a crowbar while Sabre kicked the door open.
"Bienvenue." (Welcome.) Sabre said
"Stay sharp." Sandman said
We started moving through a tunnel, and came to a section where part of the tunnel wall caved in. What was left was a narrow crevice. We went under an exposed bar and moved past the rubble.
"This way. Approaching suspected location of HVI. 100 meters." Sabre said
We came into a round room where the walls were made out of hundreds of skulls and skeletons. There had to be thousands of different bones down here.
"How many bodies do you think are buried down here?" I wondered
"Don't know. Let's make sure we don't join them." Sandman said
We started to move through a hallway at the other end of the room. We got about halfway down the hallway when a Russian knocked a door down onto Sabre. Sabre shoots him through the door and pushes the body and door off of him. More Russians begin to shoot at us from the end of the hallway, but we were better shots. We began to push them back, but just as we were about to get to their control room, I heard one word I didn't want to hear.
"Flashbang!"
The damned thing went off, blinding me. I stretched out my hands, hoping to lean on the walls of the tunnel. I eventually found one and started to lean on it. When my vision came back, I saw Volk running for a metal stair case on the other side of the room.
"We got a runner!" Grinch yelled
"It's Volk!" Jade yelled after him
"Overlord! We have a positive ID on the HVI! In hot pursuit!" Sandman said
"Roger, 01. Remember we need Volk captured alive. He holds the only actionable intel on Makarov."
We cleared the room of Russians and then began to ascend the staircase. At the top of the stairs was another tunnel, filled with Russians and crates of supplies. Looks like these guys were planning on staying here a while. At the other end, Volk was climbing up a ladder.
"He's heading up the ladder!" Grinch yelled You don't say?
We cleared the hall and followed him up the ladder. We come to a room with another set of stairs. We went up those and went down a hall where we found a door to an uncontaminated part of Paris.
"Volk's getting in the grey sedan!" Grinch yelled
"Get in the blue van! Move!"
"You go! I'll cover you!"
With the GIGN's cover, the four of us get in the van. I got in the passenger side and pushed out the cracked windshield. Soon after, Grinch gunned it and we took off. Right down the road, two armored cars tried to create a roadblock, but Grinch just sped up, running one of the Russians over.
"Frost! I need you back here now!" Sandman yelled
Why he needed me when Jade was back there, I don't know, but I figured I'd help him if he needed it. I climbed into the back and started to shoot at the chasing Russians. Then a fucking tank pulled out onto the street. Great just what we needed. They began targeting us, but just as it went to fire, we drove down a set of stairs. When we hit the bottom, we crash into a side of a building, causing us to stop. The three of us begin holding off hostiles, Sandman shooting one poor bastard that tried to enter the van. Once we were able to, we took off. More armored trucks followed us, but a quick couple shots through the windshield, and they would crash and burn. And just when I thought we were clear, a fucking Hind showed up. Fucking terrific.
"Hind incoming!" Jade yelled
"Drive! Drive!" Sandman ordered
"Taking a shortcut!" Grinch said
We turned into a shopping mall, driving past rows of stores, destroying the kiosks in the center. Thank god this wasn't one of those malls that had trees on the inside. The only thing that sucks, is that the chopper didn't lose us when we went inside. It kept taking runs at us. But on the upside, Volk's sedan was driving right outside the mall. How we knew this, you ask? Windows.
"Got him!" Grinch yelled
"Frost, ride shotgun!" Sandman told me
I got back in the passenger seat, and Sandman told Grinch to floor it. We exited the mall through a set of double doors, with Volk's car right in front of us.
"Target is dead ahead!" Jade yelled
"Frost, take the shot!" Sandman ordered
I pulled my rifle to my shoulder, aimed down my sights and fired three shots at their rear tires. The rear left tire popped, causing them to veer out of control. It veered to the right and hit the side of a building. After that, Grinch slammed into the side, giving me a chance to kill the Russians inside. Once they were dead, we hit a small ramp, causing the sedan to be thrown into an industrial-sized dumpster. Once we had them pinned down, Sandman jumped right out.
"Rabbit vehicle is down! Get out!" he yelled
I calmly got out while Sandman ran forward and dragged Volk out of the shattered windshield, punching him and slamming him on the hood before finally dragging him to the ground. I turned my helmet cam on, knowing that Overlord would want footage of his capture for later.
"C'mere, asshole! This is Metal 0-1! Jackpot! Volk secure! Aren't you, you son of a bitch?!" Sandman yelled
"Bring him in for interrogation. We'll extract any intel he was on Makarov." Overlord said
"Truck, we've got Volk! We're on our way!" Grinch said
"Copy. Raptor 2's spinnin' up now." Truck said
Half an Hour Later
Hendrix's POV (One of two new characters you'll get to know)
I looked over at Sandler, my teammate. We had already regrouped with Team Metal, but we were only one half of the Ranger team Hunter 2-3. Actually, we were the only members left of Hunter 2-3. We were part of the siege on Hamburg, and the other members of our squad were killed on the beach. It was the D-Day of the 21st Century. Both Sanchez and Sanderson died as soon as they got off that fucking Black Hawk. It just sucks, you know? How two people who we got to know and got to grow close to just die, and there's not a damn thing that you can do about it. But I couldn't focus on their deaths right now. I had to help get Volk out of this city. If I don't, then their sacrifices would've been for nothing. Right now, our ride, a V-22 Osprey, was coming in for a landing. As long as we got out of Paris, then our mission would be accomplished.
"There's our ride. Get Volk! Let's go!" Metal Team's leader, Sandman yelled
"Move! Move!" His second in command, Truck said
"Убери от меня свои руки, ублюдок!" (Get your hands off me, asshole!) Volk said
I didn't speak Russian, but I could tell that he wasn't happy about being tied up. Everybody but Volk and Metal's guy, Grinch, started moving towards the bird. We wanted to make sure that the LZ was clear before we brought Volk anywhere near the Osprey. I guess it was a good idea, because the Osprey was hit by a fucking RPG. Oh, and the best part, the bird was crashing towards us. We all dodged the crashing plane, Sandler just barely.
"Overlord, primary LZ is compromised! Raptor is down! Moving to alternate!" Sandman said
We moved forward, taking cover behind various cars. This wasn't looking good. It was like fucking Moscow over here. There were Russian foot soldiers and tanks everywhere. Not to mention the fucking choppers nearly dominating the fucking airspace. We all began to shoot at the Russians coming our way as Sandman was working on getting our air support to shoot the enemy armor. Eventually, they got the message, and the impending wall of doom was blasted to pieces. We continued to move forward, taking out every hostile we could see. If it weren't for Warhammer, we wouldn't have gotten this far alive. They kept hammering the enemy, blowing them to pieces. We eventually took cover in a hotel, unable to move forward, because there were hostiles pinning us down from the embassy across a courtyard. Warhammer sent a 105 round through it and cleared the hostiles out. Now all we had to worry about were the multiple Russians and the MG surrounding a monument in the middle of a courtyard.
"Building across the courtyard! Give me a 105 round right through it!" Sandman yelled
"Negative, Metal 0-1. We're under heavy enemy fire. Give us five mikes to circle back around."
"Alright. We'll draw fire. Truck and Frost, flank that MG so we can keep moving. Get ready. Go! Go!"
Two of Metal's men ran across the room to a flight of stairs. I could hear gunfire upstairs, so I'm guessing they found some Ivan upstairs. Within a couple minutes, the Russian on the machine gun was killed. We all moved out into the courtyard.
"Move! Move! C'mon! Grinch, keep Volk behind cover!" Sandman yelled
"Affirmative!"
Slowly, the seven of us began to push the Russians to the other side of the monument. Sandman gave us orders to stronghold the monument, so we all got in cover and started to take out the remaining Ruskies in the courtyard. If we kept this up, the Russians in this part of Paris would all be dead. Oh wait, I spoke too soon. Right after I thought that, a fucking Russian tank blew a hole in a wall and rolled right up to the monument. Shit.
"Talk to me, Warhammer, where we at? !" Sandman yelled
"Metal 0-1, we're back on station and available for ten mikes."
"We have enemy armor right in front of us! We're marking with smoke!"
Frost threw a smoke grenade at the tank, but I wasn't sure how dangerous the AC-130's rounds were going to be this close to us. Regardless, Warhammer fired the rounds, destroying the tank. We were up, but there were still a couple clicks between us and the LZ. At least we have a convoy inbound to get us there. We moved out to an intersection, but Warhammer had already cleared it of hostiles. When the Humvees pulled up, we got in and immediately took off for the LZ. Warhammer kept keeping the Russians off of our back, but that didn't help us when we got to a bridge leading to the LZ. I was in the lead Humvee, and just as we turned the corner to get onto the bridge, a rocket exploded on the side of the truck, flipping it upside down. I was tossed around a bit, but I managed to not get too banged up. I looked over at Sandler, and found him unconscious, his head bleeding. I crawled over to him, and started taking a look at him. He had a small gash over his left brow and below his nose. I started to lightly shake him, trying to get him to wake up. Eventually, I got him to open his green-gray eyes.
"Hey." He said
"Don't do that. You scared me." I said
"Hey, don't worry about me. I'll always be around to annoy you."
"Shut up and get back in the fight." I said, handing him his M4A1
After that, we crawled from the wreckage and began to clear the bridge of Russians. Eventually, we began to move forward to the middle of the bridge, which was our secondary LZ. After we cleared out our side of the bridge, we started to stronghold the position. Every single Ruskie that made an attempt at getting close was killed, either by us or by Warhammer. Eventually, and entire fucking column of tanks started rolling towards us, and that's where I began to get seriously worried. We didn't come this far just to fail, did we? No. I couldn't accept that. And apparently Sandman couldn't either. Since we didn't have any smoke grenades to throw, Sandman just told Warhammer to blow everything up north of the middle of the bridge. After that, two A-10s flew in and dropped multiple bombs, killing all Ivan that was trying to kill us. Unfortunately, the Eiffel Tower was damaged so much that it collapsed. The upside, we were finally able to get the fuck out of here. A Little Bird flew in and landed, giving us our ride out. We all hopped on, and finally got out of Paris. Least to say, this was a long and fucking stressful day.