"This is your 7th bottle, Miho." The bartender said as he handed Miho another Grey Goose vodka.
She happily accepted the bottle, bringing it to a total of 7. After the mission to the stronghold, she constantly drank vodka, with the Single Action Army pistol, which had a single bullet with her at all times. She is pretty much alone in the bar, sitting at the counter as the bartender doing his work in front of her. He is pretty pitiful to see Miho in such a state as this.
"Please try to cut down on the drinking, Miho!" The bartender said aloud as he continued to wipe the used glasses that were left by the other members. He sighed as he finished with the last one.
"You knaw, I can drink ash mush ash I want ta." Miho slurred as she started to chug down the next bottle.
She keeps chugging the bottle down until…
*BAK*
The vodka went empty, and Miho immediately fell asleep from her drunkenness.
The bartender sighed again, knowing she won't listen to him. He then shook his head to Miho. He keeps wondering to himself how a soldier like herself could do something like that.
"Teens," He thought as he started to wipe the table.
12 hours later:
[Live]
Sandman grabbed the door handle, which activated a sensor. The detonators immediately triggered on the door and exploded, throw the two backward from the blasted door with Sandman on top of Frost. Frost immediately went for Sandman's pistol on his right leg holster and quickly shot the two soldiers who came out of the room attempting to kill the squad. After killing them, he pushed Sandman forward, and as soon as they stood up, the Mi-24 Hind began to take off, with Alena Vorshevsky being pulled back into the heli as it was taking off.
"Help me!" Alena shouted as the helicopter started to fly away. Grinch attempted to kill the soldier, holding her.
Right when Grinch is about to pull the trigger on his MK14, Sandman grabs his rifle down quickly and makes him miss four shots despite the scream they heard from Alena.
"We can't risk it," Sandman said as he waved at them with a shook.
He then turned his communicator on as he stepped forward onto the opening, his eyes never leave the direction of the leaving.
"Overlord, negative precious cargo. We lost her." Sandman said as he saw the helicopter immediately vanish beyond the fog of war.
[Live end]
"So, now that Team Delta failed to rescue her, how are we going to deal with this mess?" Miho asked Price and Yuri.
"I guess we have to get involved. MacMillan is calling." Price said as he answered the ringing phone.
Footage of Alena being taken away in the Mi-24 Hind
Facial Recognition Confirmed
Sandman: Price – we lost the girl. Looks like the helo took her to a diamond mine in Siberia.
Price: We're gonna have one shot to grab the President before he gives up the launch codes, and Makarov turns Europe into glass. Once we get boots on the ground, it's going to get lively down there.
Tracking Mi-24 Hind's route. Standby…
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Route found
Location: Unnamed Diamond Mine, Siberia
Hind analyzed
Confirmed matching helicopter carrying the hostage
Miho: Looks like dirty work, not that I'm not used to it.
Price: Obviously, Miho. All of us are used to this kind of job.
Sandman: Hopefully you can keep up, old man.
Profile of President Vorshevsky and Alena Vorshevsky
Price: I know you Yanks like to take all the credit. So Yuri, Miho, and I will keep the neighbors in check while we roll hard to secure the hostages.
Diamond Mine site is analyzed
Showing schematics of the entire complex.
Insertion Point located: Diamond Mine Elevator
Rescue team located in the moving elevator.
Sandman: Okay. Weapons tight, guys. No one likes a dead hostage.
Truck: What's the score, boss?
Sandman: Everyone's hostile.
Grinch: Ain't that the truth.
"Down The Rabbit Hole"
October 14th - 11:08:14
1st Lt. Miho Nishizumi
Delta Force/Task Force 141 – Disavowed
Eastern Siberia, Russia
By the time they entered the insertion point, four hostiles are already dead 2 minutes later. The team is already inside the elevator, with Price flipped over a hostile to the ground before shot him in the head. Miho only blinked. She just had amnesia of what they did before entering the elevator. But she paid no mind about right when a Delta member, Mccoy, hits the switch of the elevator.
"Ready?" Sandman asked as the elevator started to move downwards.
"I was ready yesterday, lads," Miho replied as she made checked to make sure her assault rifle was loaded.
For today, she had brought an HK416 to the battle instead of an M4A1 with P226 as her pistol which uses .357 SIG rounds. Miho wore the same jacket as everyone in the room except that she didn't wear any headgear, excluding her NVG. Miho cocked her rifle a few times to make sure there's no jamming in the feed system.
Satisfied, she lowered her gun. The elevator was going down slowly, making Grinch sigh.
"This thing go any faster?" Grinch asked with a sigh as he checked his watch.
"Easy, Grinch," Sandman replied as he looked around to make sure everyone was present. Satisfied, he got ready himself.
"Top off your rifles," Sandman said as everyone make sure that their guns are ready to fire.
"If we fail this, I'm blaming you," Price said as he got in position.
"We have no time for that," Sandman replied grudgingly as the elevator kept moving down.
"I hope you're not planning for a civil war," Miho said to them, something that made Grinch chuckled.
"Don't worry, that ain't happening."
"Where's Frost, by the way?" Miho wondered. "Shouldn't he be here?"
"He had to stay in Berlin," Truck replied as he makes sure the comms are on. "The CSAR needs his help to see if anyone from the German Division along with US combatants survived the ambush."
Grinch can't help but sighs to that. "Can't believe the Russians dropped the building on us."
"You're not the first person who had that," Yuri told him with a raised eyebrow, which made Grinch chuckles again.
Suddenly, the elevator stopped. Everyone immediately crouched and trained their weapons at the door.
"Get ready," Sandman said as the doors slowly started to open. Two Russian soldiers were standing in front of the elevator in the distance, with Miho's group all ready to attack.
"Now!" Price shouted as everyone started to fire.
*BRRRRRRRRRT-BRRRT-BRRRT-BRRRRT-BRRTT*
Those two hostiles quickly mowed down from the attack. Of course, the team supposes to make their attack loud. Not a moment later, a wave of Ultranationalist soldiers stormed into the room.
"Contact! Twelve o'clock!" Grinch shouted as several more soldiers entered the room.
"That escalated quickly," Miho commented as they returned fire from inside the elevator.
But only one member who noticed an Ultranationalist was seen carrying an RPG. McCoy was the first to be shocked to see that.
"Look out!" Mccoy shouted as the soldier got ready to shoot. Truck saw the same soldier, and he was surprised by the hostile's presence
"RPG!" Truck shouted aloud.
*PWUUUSH-BUAARRR*
The rocket hit the upper right of the elevator body. The blast was so deadly that the blast wave hit Mccoy hard and dropped to the floor. Miho can't tell if he's dead or not when the elevator immediately misaligned from the explosion, and everyone inside nearly stumbled.
"Ooohh, Shit!" Grinch shouted.
*BBRRRWUUUUUUUZZZZZ*
Right when the elevator began to freefall.
"Hold on!" Truck shouted as the elevator kept falling.
*SSIIIIINGGG-BRUUAK*
Miho could tell that this will be the last time she had the worst ride son the elevator ever. Everyone who didn't stumble; instead, they fell to their knees. They were a bit dizzy from that ride but managed to recover quickly.
"Status?" Sandman asked, wanting to make sure everyone can move forward.
"I'm good. We're clear!" Grinch replied.
"I'm fine," Miho then noticed the downed member next to the elevator door. "How's Mccoy?"
Sandman immediately checked on Mccoy's pulse on his neck, but it seems Sandman is a bit surprised at how he is doing.
"Looks like he just winded," Sandman replied with a shrug.
"No way, that was a helluva ride to go down," Truck knew that people who try to stay alive by lying down on the floor wouldn't survive.
"Looks like he's lucky," Miho commented, glad to know that Mccoy's alive and yet survived death.
That's when they noticed the elevator doors are opening. It slowly shows the darkroom ahead and also ultranationalist that are shooting at them from behind the crates. They ducked down as they waited for the Elevator fence to open.
"Heads up!" Sandman alerted everyone.
"Чёрт! Contact!" Yuri shouted as he responds to contact.
The team immediately fired back at the soldiers as they equipped their NVGs. Miho did a favor of throwing a flashbang through the small opened fence and stunned them. Seeing an opportunity, Sandman immediately shows the two hostiles in the head before crawling out of the elevator, which then followed by Price and Yuri as more hostiles showed up. Miho was the last to leave as everyone was out of the elevator when she noticed Mccoy is starting to conscious.
"Ah, hell," Mccoy shook his head for a moment until he looked up to Miho with a surprised look. "What the hell just happened?"
"We nearly hit by an RPG, our elevator crashed, you got winded, and we're under attack by hostiles," Miho then pulls him up to his feet. "Come on; we got a job to do."
"Damn, thanks for waking me up," Mccoy said as Miho gave him his M4A1.
"No sweat, let's go," Miho then crawls out of the elevator as Mccoy did the same.
Miho and Mccoy took cover behind the crates as the rest taking cover either on the other covers or down in the open. "Mccoy, I hope you had a good sleep!" Grinch joked under the gunfire.
"Shut up, Grinch!" Mccoy grudgingly responded, then in annoyance, sends a grenade launcher to a group of four hostiles and blown them to hell. "I need a raise after this!"
"Won't be so hopeful on that, American," Yuri replied with a smirk.
The team immediately advanced when they dispatched all the hostiles. As the team kept moving forward, Miho saw men of 4 on platforms ahead shooting at the team. The night vision goggles helped them spot the Ultranationalist soldiers, making sure that they would be taken down. Miho, Truck, and Price shot the bastards above before heading through two separate paths.
"Grinch, Truck, Mccoy, sweep left!" Sandman ordered the three, who then headed through the platform above.
"The rest of you, on me!" Price ordered Miho nodded as they followed Price through a tunnel below the platform.
"What a warm welcome we are facing, isn't it, Yuri?" Miho sarcastically asked as they entered the tunnel, killing the men in front of them.
"You tell me," Yuri replied as they exited the tunnel.
"You need tea for that kind of welcome?" Sandman asked them.
"We're not in UK, mate," Miho replied as they advanced. "But I don't mind to have one."
Seeing a light source, everyone disabled their night-vision goggles. The first thing they noticed upon entering the next room was the hostile up on the platform ahead.
"Targets! Twelve o'clock high!" Truck shouted, with Miho immediately seeing where he was informing the group.
"I see 'em!" Grinch shouted as the group entered a large atrium.
"Contact roping down the catwalks!" Mccoy shouted as the team quickly ran to cover.
"Got two of them," Price confirmed as the bastards fall off the ropes.
Ultranationalists have stormed the room behind machinery and crates. It wasn't helpful that three more Ultranationalists appeared on the upper platforms, two of them carrying RPGs and firing on them. One missed Miho and Yuri as it flew overhead.
"More RPGs? Why're they shooting them indoors?" Miho was pissed. With them being in a mine, those explosions would kill everyone if those rockets hit a weak area in the rocks.
"It's the wrong time to ask that!" Yuri replied as he ducked down to avoid incoming RPGs.
"Sort 'em out!" Price shouted as he killed men on the left. With the soldiers becoming less and less, Price saw an opening.
"Frag out!" Mccoy warned as he threw a grenade far behind enemy line, killing three of them near small stairs.
"Enemy infantry in the open!" Sandman warned as he took cover behind a mining machine.
"Roger, I see them," Truck responded with a suppressive fire of his M249.
"Who's going to shoot the bastards on our twelve high!?" Miho asked aloud through radio. "Those rockets going to pin us down!"
"I'll handle them," Grinch replied and aimed his MK14 to the said three targets on their twelve.
*BAM-BAM-BAM*
"Alright, targets down!" Grinch said in relieve. "No more RPGs."
Miho returned fire at the hostiles when her eyes caught a glimpse of her left, which are small stairs to the control room. "Price, Yuri, cover me. I'm going through the left flank."
"Roger, covering fire," Price immediately replied as he crouched and shot from behind cover.
Miho quickly to run to the left as Price raised his gun to avoid his aim to Miho. She goes up a couple of staircases and into the control room. She then proceeded to flank the hostiles from there. She managed to shot a few of them behind cover and gives the team breathing space.
"Keep moving!" Miho said on the radio. "I'll cover from here."
"Push forward!" Sandman ordered as the group started to go out of cover and move, entering the tunnel. More of the soldiers appeared nearby.
"Copy, advancing," Yuri affirmatively replied as the team push the enemy line back
"Yuri, is it me, or did all of Makarov's men relocate themselves to this area?" Miho asked as she shoots at them.
"I think the latter." Was his reply as they reached the end of the room.
Miho vaulted through the window from the second floor and landed back to the ground floor. She noticed there are two tunnels ahead of her, left and right. She opted to go left and met up with Grinch, Yuri, and Mccoy. Miho ran forward and immediately took cover behind a rock as they received constant fire from ahead.
Miho then throws a flashbang into the tunnel. "Banger out!"
*BANG*
"Good call," Mccoy commented; thanks to the flashbang, they easily mowed the enemy infantry ahead because they stunned and stood out in the open.
"Keep pushing," Yuri ordered as they begin to run and gun at the enemy ahead.
As they managed to kill a few more than five hostiles, the remnants of enemy combatants quickly retreat through a large metal door and locked the team out. They regrouped at the large metal door as Sandman, Price, and Truck catch up from the right tunnel.
"All clear." Truck informed everyone, everyone readied themselves near the metal door.
"Truck, you're up," Sandman ordered him, Truck knew what to do.
"On it."
Truck pulled out his sawblade and saw off the locking mechanism on the top of the door. Thankfully, he doesn't have to cut the bottom one as well. Truck then threw his sawblade away and stood beside the door. Price and Miho got in front of the door and kicked it open. Miho and Price met with a surprised enemy soldier and quickly shot at him; unfortunately, he got away just in time. She and Price went up a flight of stairs and cleared the room quickly, Price killed the last two hostiles on the right that were hiding behind a table.
In that room, there are also wide windows showing the whole contents of the docking bay tunnel. Grinch, Truck, Sandman, and Price took cover from there while Miho, Yuri, and Mccoy dodged the incoming bullets and entered a small room on the left side of the windows. There's also one wide window in that room facing the docking bay and proceed to flank from there.
"Enemy on that snow truck!" Price shouted.
"Target acquired!" Mccoy confirmed as he killed the hostile on the back of the snow truck. "He's down."
"Looks like Makarov really wants to keep the two hostages, doesn't he?" Miho asked as she helped clear the way. I followed up with small explosions from the destroyed snowmobiles and fuel barrels.
"Yeah. Now it reminds me of Africa." Yuri said as he peeked out for a moment before ducking down.
"Don't you dare, Yuri…" Miho warned annoyingly; she then tosses a frag through the window blindly.
"Granata!"
*BUAR*
"Two targets down!" Sandman confirmed as they fire from the other windows.
"The men are hiding behind the vehicles!" Yuri shouted as he vaulted through the window and took cover in front of the snow truck.
"I know!" Miho shouted as she followed him and shot at them.
Before she managed to reach the cover of the snow truck; however, Miho notices a hostile is going to shoot at her.
With an RPG.
"Ah, shite. RPG!"
*PWUUSSH-BUAR*
Miho narrowly dodges from the RPG blast, and she jumps to her right just in time. Despite that, Yuri got her up and covered by the snow truck. But Miho immediately noticed a pain on her right arm, which she found out that her arm was injured from the RPG's shrapnel.
"Are you ok, Miho?" Price asked in concern as he killed the bastard who shoots the RPG.
Miho started to apply band-aids on her bleeding right arm. It took her for about 10 seconds before she finished it.
"I'm fine. Let's keep moving." Miho replied as she got up and packed her medkit, Yuri and Mccoy advance to her left flank in the open and Miho snuck through the right pass the truck. The rest of Delta and Price entered the bay as the hostiles began to thin out as expected.
"RPG, RPG, why is it always RPG?" Miho mumbled to herself as they advanced.
"We're gonna need another way out of here!" Truck stated to everyone.
"Stairwell left side! Let's go!" Sandman stated back, and they proceed to go up to the stairwell.
Mccoy and Yuri were the first to go up before Price and Miho. She could see that Yuri and Mccoy just shot and killed the last two ultranationalists that were about to go down the stairwell. Once everyone reaches the top, they turned right through a doorway before going left through the doorway with number 3 next to it. Ahead of them is a crateful of ammo supplies thanks to their luck, and there's another doorway on their left, which is the only exit from the interior complex. Everyone regrouped there as they temporarily stock on ammo.
Miho was about to head to that closed doorway but stumbles down when she walks up a small stair.
Sandman went to her and helped her up. "Miho, if you can't go on, we can handle it. You can go back if you want."
"No. I can continue." She replied as she stretched her injured right arm, showing that she's still combatting effective. "I'm not leaving until the President and his daughter are safe."
They could hear Truck sighed and shook his head. "Sometimes, I wonder how the hell a teenage girl like you got signed up to join 141."
"It's a long tale to tell," Price replied to him as he, Mccoy, Yuri, Miho, and Sandman regrouped in front of the closed doorway.
"Overlord, this is Sandman. We're at the bottom of the mine. We're going to need air support." Sandman requested, he knew that they're going to face heavy resistance outside due to their small numbers of combatants.
"Affirmative, Sandman. We'll chop a predator to you." was the reply as everyone got into position.
"Really glad to hear that," Mccoy commented happily.
Miho's curiosity gets the better of her and proceeds to contact overlord. "Overlord, this is Miho Nishizumi. Will we get any additional support aside from the Predator?"
"Affirmative, Miho. Little Birds will be on-site for additional air support, and other Delta units are sent to assist you in the battle."
"Roger that, Overlord. Miho out."
Miho sighs in relieve but then noticed the group with her gazing at her. "What?"
"Did you think we'll be doing this rescue by ourselves?" Sandman asked with a raised brow.
"We're not really alone in this, y'know?" Mccoy added questioningly.
Miho only shrugs to them. "I just want to make sure that we didn't get screwed all over like when we were in Prague."
Sandman and Mccoy then looked back at the other 141 members and noticed they are frowning. Sandman frowned as well to them.
"I'm sorry about what happened to Soap," although Sandman's tone was flat, he is very sincere of it.
Eventually, the 141 members nodded at him with a silent thank. "Should we get moving?" Yuri asked them.
"We should," Sandman replied, he then steadies himself at the door. "Ready?"
Price chuckled as he steadies himself next to Sandman.
"Try and keep up."
They both then kicked the door open and went through the exit. They were greeted by the Ultranationalists who were shooting rockets at the Little Birds, which were making attack runs at the soldiers on the ground. They also saw a Hind which was trying to take the Little Bird down chasing the helicopter.
Picking up an RPG, Miho shot at an SUV that arrived in the courtyard in front of them, eventually blowing them to scraps, including the hostiles inside. She tossed away the RPG and went back for HK416. However, many more men kept arriving nearby. They shoot from there for the moment as Miho focused on killing hostiles on the left flank.
"Hop the rail! Move it!" Sandman shouted as the team followed Price and slid down the slope, ending up on the ground.
Once they cleared out the area, they headed through the gate. They saw both Little Birds touch down in front of them, with reinforcement of Delta soldiers arriving in the area.
"Viper 4, troops are on the deck."
"Viper 6, the team is on the ground. Going into cover pattern."
"Good to see you, mates!" Miho said joyfully. "Let's push them back!"
"Yes, ma'am!" one of the Delta operatives responded before taking cover behind a small wall ahead, followed by Miho and Mccoy.
"Go to the complex there! We will have more cover!" Price shouted as the group followed him. They got into position right outside the area.
"UAV is on station with a full load of AGMs. Ready for targets." Overlord informed Miho, who got her portable laptop out and connected to the drone.
The drone showed her where the soldiers were currently, as she knew where to target it. Firing a missile where there were most men together, the missile hit, killing several men.
"Nice work. Multiple KIAs." The team kept moving forward, getting rid of more men.
"Viper 4, taking out targets at the construction site. Inbound is hot."
"AGMs are online." With that info, Miho targeted more men, who were twice more than a while ago. Miho targeted those who are on top of the construction building where Viper 4 bird is shooting at.
*WOOOOOOSH-BUAAARR*
"Five plus kills confirmed. Good work." Overlord said as he kept monitoring the situation.
"Nice job, Miho!" Price shouted as she put the laptop away and followed the team, entering the complex.
"Whoa, who stole my kills?" Viper 4 asked in surprise.
"Sorry, mate," Miho apologized on the radio. "I just bombed them."
"Warn me next time," Viper 4 replied before continue to engage the remaining hostiles of the building's rooftop.
"Cut through the construction yard! There's more cover!" Sandman shouted as they entered the area, which was previously occupied by the Ultranationalists.
"Are you sure it is safe? I'm sure that it was full of those Ultranationalists just a while ago!" Yuri complained as they entered the area.
"It should be clear now!" Price replied as they got into cover behind several buildings and construction material.
"AGMS are online," Overlord informed Miho again.
She wasn't in a safe spot; however, she moves up with the team to the construction yard. Moreover, Miho split up from the team and headed into the building while the rest went to the left to get to the yard.
"Viper Six, we're moving into the construction yard! Watch your fire!" Sandman informed the squad as they kept moving.
Copy that, 0-1. We're movin' to the next area." Viper 6-1 replied as they left the area.
Miho made sure the building is secure first. She spotted a couple of hostiles moving behind a layer of blue cloth in front of her. She shot through the layer and killed both the bastards before reloading her HK416. Now that the place is safe, Miho got out of the tac-laptop. She spotted a lot of enemy Ultranationalists are converging into the construction yard for about a dozen and the team are pinned down behind the fence.
"Predator drone ready for next targets." She then launches the AGM towards the construction yard. Right in front of the team.
*BBUUUUUAUAARRRRRMM*
"WOAH, SHIT!" she heard. Truck shouted, it seems that took them off-guard.
"10 plus hostiles neutralized. Good shot," Overlord stated on the radio.
"Hey!" Miho turned her head at the team, specifically Grinch, from inside the building. "Have you lost your mind!?"
"Well, I saved your time, didn't I?" Miho responded flatly.
"Why the hell did you drop the bomb right in front of us?" Mccoy asked aloud from the fence.
"Since when do you have problems with dropping bombs on terrorists?!"
Price gave a smug look and a tilted head. "She has a point."
"I hope we're done here! This place is slowly reminding me of Africa!" Yuri complained as everyone jumped down into the yard.
"At least it's cold here," Miho added optimistically.
They manage to press forward until they reached a stacked cargo freight on their left. Miho reloads her HK416 once more before taking cover behind a small concrete wall next to the cargo. Price killed a couple of bastards that just came out from inside the cargos; it turns out the cargos were modified into a control room. Before they began to press on, however, they heard a blast in the sky.
"Overlord, a SAM just took out our UAV!" Sandman informed Overlord.
"Oh, for Queen's sake." – Miho
"Argh, иди нaхуи." – Yuri
"Oh, my Jesus." – Truck
Everyone immediately looks at Truck despite the gunfire they received. "The hell you're looking at me like that?"
"Oh my, what?" Miho asked him confusingly.
"For real, Truck?!" Grinch responded annoyingly. "Don't get religious here!"
"Hey, I'm not!" Truck responded aloud as he ducked his head a little. "Now I'm not allowed to say something religious like that!?"
"Shut the bloody hell up, you two!" Price retorted in annoyance. "We got more pressing matters than that!"
"We need another way into the mine!" Sandman shouted as the group hid behind cover, being shot at from several men.
"We're not getting in there without some heavy firepower!" Price said as he reloaded his gun and began to shoot at more men.
"No shite, Sherlock! I'm not going to die here!" Miho shouted as she shot at several men aggressively, being pissed off that they were in a tough position. Not only that, a couple of hostiles SUV arrived on site and are armed with miniguns. They are pretty much pinned down from all that firepower. Her injury was making it hard, but she ignored the pain.
"Calm down, Miho! Your arm!" Price said, worried as she killed several more people.
Overlord acknowledged their problem. "Solid copy, Sandman. Odin Six, payload target coordinates are as follows: 7 9 4 4."
"Everyone, sit tight!" Sandman shouted as the group gets their heads down. Soon followed by dozens of artillery striking the huge blast door of the mine.
*BUARR-BUAAAR-DUUAARR-BLLAAAR-BUAAR BUAAAR-DUUAARR-BLLAAAR-BUAAR BUAAAR-DUUAARR-BLLAAAR-BUAAR-BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR*
"Now that's more like it!" Price agreed as he got out of cover as the others followed suit.
Now the way into the mine is opened wide with a lot of enemy's bombed corpses outside. And the SUV armed miniguns are destroyed.
"Inside! Now!" Sandman shouted as Miho and Yuri shot at the few remaining Ultranationalists that survived the strike.
The team makes the run for the blasted bunker. Hopping over a trench before reaching the bunker as they returned fire at the hostiles trying to defend it. Entering the bunker, Price led the group left and going further down into a hole that leads to a tunnel.
"Overlord, we're in! Approaching the target now." Miho and Yuri ran first, seeing several of the soldiers who were alive but were heavily injured and supporting each other. They were the ones affected by the explosions nearby.
"So, should we shoot them?" Miho asked.
"I guess?" Yuri said as they moved.
Some of the men on the ground got out their pistols and attempted to kill the two, but Miho and Yuri killed them. The two also killed the rest of them, all who dare to retreat. It's more like a no enemy survivor scenario. Once they reached the end of the tunnel, they met with another door.
"Miho, take care of the door." Price ordered.
She nodded before planting a breaching charge; she took cover for a moment.
*BLAAAR*
She quickly entered the room with her rifle trained forward, ready to kill everyone in the room. Just before she pulled the trigger.
"Wait!"
Miho quickly lowers her rifle after Truck's warning, when she saw the beaten Alena Vorshevsky tied to a chair.
"It's the daughter." Truck informed the team as Price cut the rope that tied her hands.
"Is she okay?" Miho asked in heavy concern.
"She's hurt, but she's alright," Price replied with condolences on the daughter's condition.
As he was cutting the ropes, Overlord contacted them.
"Metal 0-1, what is your status? Have you secured the President?"
"Negative, Overlord, but we have the girl," Sandman replied as Price lays her on the table beside them.
"We'll prep a team for extraction. Continue searching for the President."
"Looks like we have a long day ahead of us." Miho sighed as she checked her ammo reserves. Suddenly, Alena started to say something.
"She's trying to say something…" Truck said as he listens over to the weak-voiced Alena. He got closer to hear what she said and understood what she said.
"они взяли его глубже в рудник"
"She says they took her father deeper into the mine."
Miho could only sigh. They've gone this far and have to go even deeper. This day was already tiring for her. Damn bastards maybe one step ahead of them, by they will catch up. Miho got out a cigar and began to smoke for a moment.
"Then that's where we're going. Come on," Sandman said as he was about to move, but Yuri stopped him by a touch on his shoulder.
"We will move out in a minute." Price informed the group as they all checked their weapons and reloaded their guns. Some just sat down, tired from moving.
"After this job, I'm going to have a lot of whiskeys back home." Truck said as he stood up, ready to move out.
"Drink's on me if we finish this job in one piece." Price told the group as he looks over to everyone.
"IF we finish this job," Miho then looks to Mccoy, who's tending on the President's daughter. "Mccoy, you got her from here?"
"Don't worry, she'll be in good hands," Mccoy replied with a nod. "I'll handle her from here, you go ahead and save the president."
Everyone then looks back at each other again with their determined looks. "Everyone ready?" Yuri asked them.
Miho lets out a fog of smoke, before dumping her cigar away. "Yeah, let's go."
As the team was about to move at the door, Mccoy contacts HQ. "Overlord, we are at grid coordinate 5. I need a MEDEVAC for a critical casualty, she's hurt bad. Request MH-6 Bird to RV with us at LZ Bravo. We're six minutes out — that's zero-six mikes. Confirm station time, over?"
After Sandman and Price kick another door open ahead, everyone soon faced a large resistance of Ultranationalist soldiers who arrived in the area. Thankfully, they were pretty disorganized upon meeting the team, and they were soon mowed down. They continue to move until they saw a large hole that leads to the bottom of the mine with a catwalk in the middle. Aside from the incoming resistance, they saw the Ultranationalists are moving President Vorshevsky away from the team.
"On the catwalk!" Price informed them, Miho and Yuri saw the president and ran as close as they can despite the gunfire.
"There he is! I see him!" Miho heard Grinch said as they engaged the hostiles firing from the catwalk. It's unbearably annoying that they send another RPGs at them.
"Then we're not too late! Keep pushing!" Sadly, the Ultranationalists managed to get him onto an elevator and started to go down.
They cleared out the catwalk in a jiffy, as Miho was the person who killed the last five hostiles on the catwalk with ease. They immediately ran over to the catwalk and prepared the ropes.
"Hook up!" Sandman ordered.
Miho and the team hooked the ropes and climbed to the other side of the catwalk's railing. The team looks at each other before they jumped off the catwalk and hold onto their ropes. Miho holds the rope with her left hand while her right hand is free. Miho was pretty nervous about height but she managed to stay optimistic. They immediately saw the bastards moving the President when they almost reach the bottom.
"There they are!" Grinch informed with his pointed finger.
"He's right there! Right there!" Truck informed as well before they landed to the ground.
Miho got into the cover on the left flank, right when several hostiles with RPGs started to shoot at her along with her team. One barely hits Miho; if not for her to hid behind a rock just in time.
"These rockets are pissing me off!" Miho shouted as she suppressed the hostiles on the catwalks. Grinch and Yuri did the job to take care of them.
"We have more pressing matters, Miho!" Yuri shouted as he cleared the platform, where several men were shooting at the team.
As everyone cleared the area halfway, the blast doors began to close.
"They're closing the blast doors!" Truck shouted. Miho saw the large doors begin to close. Sadly, with the amount of resistance, they wouldn't be able to get there in time. The doors closed in the end.
"We'll find a way to deal with it after we managed to get out of this area!" Price shouted as he shot another soldier dead.
Miho tried to flank through the left while Yuri and Grinch take the right flank. Truck, Price, and Sandman stayed in the middle behind a line of boxes to draw hostiles' fire. When Miho, Yuri and Grinch cleared their way through that flank, they nearly walked out into the open by the time an Ultranationalist began to shoot a machinegun at them. Miho saw where he was and it's above the blast doors.
"Yuri, Grinch, distract him!" Miho ordered as she gestured her hands to the bastard.
"Covering fire," Grinch and Yuri immediately suppressed the machine gunner, which in turn begin shooting in their direction.
"You got him, Miho?" Truck asked aloud.
"Almost!"
*DAR-DAR*
"Got him!"
"Machine gun's down, let's move!" Sandman ordered as the team begins to move out into the open and firing from there.
Miho didn't take long to notice another hostile on the level above the blast doors. "Put them down!"
"Got them in my sights!" Price announced, just right when an RPG flew past him. "Nice try."
"BAR-BAR-BAR-BAR-BAR-BAR"
"Clear!" Grinch shouted as the last of the men are neutralized.
"Regroup!" Miho ordered as they immediately converge toward the locked blast doors.
"We gotta get through that door!" Sandman stated as Price walks over to the door.
Price could only give a bang on it. Price knew that it was impossible to break it open. The blast doors are explosive proof.
"It's reinforced steel. We can't get through this!"
"Any bright ideas?" Grinch asked as Miho snickered. There was no way to break it open with the equipment they had currently except for satchel charges.
Price immediately had an idea. "I've got one. Up top. Follow me."
Price only pointed his finger to above him before turning around and walk up the stairs next to the doors. Everyone followed Price onto the floor above the blast doors. Miho could snicker at the idea Price had. Price stopped in an open area in the middle, pointing to some random parts in the middle of the floor.
"Yuri, Miho! Get charges here, here and here!"
Miho and Yuri got out their explosives and started to plant them in the middle of the floor. The rest of the team plant the charges in the form of half-circle. They stand in the half-circle of the floor. Miho detaches her mag to check her bullets before inserting them back again.
"Is everyone ready?" Price asked them.
"Ready," Miho replied with a nod, her rifle aimed at the floor. "On your go."
"3, 2, 1."
*BUAR-BUAR-BUAR-BUAR-BUAR-BUAR*
The moment the charges blew a hole on the floor, everything in her surroundings began to slow down. The floor collapses, followed by the team with their rifles ready. Five hostiles are taken off-guard with one already knocked out from the blast underneath. Miho began to fire in mid-air to neutralize the three hostiles. Only one hostile left, who is using the President as a human shield.
Once Miho landed on one knee and her rifle aimed next to the president's head, the last hostile is going to pull the trigger.
*DAR*
Miho beats him quick, and the last gunman suffered a headshot. He could nearly pull the trigger before he was killed and soon dropped to the floor. Then the time immediately goes back to normal, with the President stumbled back in anxiety. Thankfully, the President is so relieved of his saviors. Miho quickly points her rifle upward as she, Sandman, Price, and Yuri walk over to him.
"Overlord, jackpot. The President is secure." Sandman informed Overlord as Price helped to untie the Russian President's hands.
"Solid Copy. Gather your team and proceed to the RV."
The Russian president sighs a lot as he is relieved from taken hostage. Though, he still shows his worry after he was untied.
"My daughter…"
"She's alright. She's alive." Price reassured him as he helped the president stand.
"Your daughter is already being sent to the safe zone as we speak," Miho informed him as he patted his shoulder. "Now we need to get you out of here."
"Thank you," President Vorshevsky responded in heavy relieve, despite the distress he has until now. "Thank you so much."
"Don't thank us yet," Yuri sheepishly replied, knowing they're both are Russians. "We need to get you out from here."
Suddenly, the group heard a faint sound from outside.
*bum-bum*
"What the hell?!" Miho heard Truck shouted out of the hole as everyone confused about what they just heard.
*BLUUUAARR*
Everyone stumbled down but quickly recovered from the explosion. Didn't leave any bruise but enough to remind them to clean their clothes the moment they returned from the mission.
"Move! Move!" Price shouted as everyone began to move out from the hole and began escorting the President.
"They're trying to bury us alive!" Miho stated, she didn't think it would get worse than this. "We need that extraction, now!"
Sandman reached for his earpiece and contacted HQ. "Overlord, this place is gonna collapse any minute! The birds need to come to us!"
"Copy that. Hammer 1 is now en-route. ETA thirty seconds. Stand by."
Miho wasn't reassured, they don't have that many seconds to wait. They regrouped with Truck and Grinch at the fence from whence they came. They immediately rejoined to know that they are under fire from enemy Ultranationalist trying to swarm their small numbers.
"Hold this position! Evac will be here in thirty seconds!" Sandman shouted as he reloaded his gun.
"Miho! Get on the machine gun!" Price shouted.
"You don't need to tell me that, old man!" She shouted back as she started to shoot at the men who were taking cover while trying to kill all of them.
"More bad guys inbound!" Truck informed them as several Ultranationalists entered the area, coming out of the smoke.
There was a large smoke behind hostiles, where the men are coming. While the team can't see the most of the hostiles in that smoke, the hostiles are flooding the open area below the level. Miho even manages to avoid a couple of hostiles going up the stairs to ambush the group. Miho was also getting shot at, but thankfully none of them hit her. She shoots burst by burst to make sure the machinegun didn't overheat and occasionally checks around her to make sure the President is still with them.
"Watch the left flank!" Grinch shouted as soldiers were coming out of the left, forcing the team to focus there.
"Scheisse!" Miho shoots the left flank just in time to kill the ambushing hostiles, along with other hostiles flanking from opposite catwalks along with the middle.
Grinch managed to slip a joke under fire. "Since when you became German?"
"Shut up, Grinch!" everyone, including the President (wait, what?), retorted at him, much to his fright.
"Hammer 1, you gonna bail us out of this or what?" Sandman complained as the group was close to being overrun.
"Almost there. Just hold on," Hammer 1 replied, however, that didn't calm Miho that much.
"Hurry up, bollocks! We're being overrun here!" She shouted as Ultranationalist soldiers were coming from all sides at this point.
Miho swears it feels like it's been a minute to hold their position. She swerves the MG everywhere to make sure the advancing Ultranationalists are either killed or suppressed indefinitely. It seems endless for them to hold the enemy back. Miho was starting to wish if she would've just stayed in tankery than this.
But then, they a loud sound on the other end of the mine. Miho looked up and saw an armed Little Bird arrived on the scene. Miho begins to feel comfortable for its arrival.
"Looks like our ride's here!" Grinch shouted as the Little Bird is still floating and provide air support on the other end of the mine.
"Meta 0-1, this is Vulture 6, let's get the hell out of here."
"Ya' took your time, ya' bastards!" Miho shouted on the communicator as she shot the last soldier in the open before Miho quickly get off the MG.
"Sounds good, 6-1!" Sandman replied as they motioned the President to move with them before moving down the stairs. "Alright, let's move! Go!"
They only kept running as fast as they can despite the gunfire from oncoming hostiles from all sides and ignoring the explosions around them. The sign of the collapse is near and they have no time to stay much longer. When they make their way to Vulture 6-1 and Hammer 1-6, they didn't expect this.
"RPG! Move! Move!" Hammer 1-6 shouted as he avoided; however, Vulture 6-1 was so unlucky.
*BUAR*
The said RPG hit the Little Bird by its tail and began spinning uncontrollably.
"I'm hit! I'm hit! Going down!" Vulture 6's efforts are in vain.
Only right when the team is nearly reached the extraction, Vulture 6 immediately crashed into the ground in front of them. *BUAARR* Followed by a lot of explosives that blinded, deafen, and knocked out Miho so hard. Miho doesn't know if she's got hit by any shrapnel because she was unconscious for the moment, but God knows what she had suffered from that blast. She still blacked out from the blast except for the deafening noise of singing steel.
"Miho!"
Price's almost unheard voice was the only thing that wakes her immediately. And she found herself lying on the floor, wounded and facing at the Black Hawk on-site. She has a hard time to breathe, and her tired eyes struggled from fainting again. Thankfully, she was glad to see the rest of the team survived the blast and currently returning fire at the hostiles to protect the Black Hawk.
"Get the President on board! We got to get the hell outta here!" Hammer 1-6 radioed in concern as he landed the Blackhawk.
Miho blinks for about 2 seconds before looking again. She now saw Yuri is helping the President to board the Black Hawk with Grinch and Truck covering them. Once the President is in, Yuri stayed outside the chopper to provide cover for the retreating team.
"President's secure!" Grinch shouted as he kept covering fire. Seeing Miho on the ground, Truck ran to Miho, who was about to faint.
"Get Miho!" Yuri screamed as Truck was first to notice her hurtful condition and ran over to her.
"Hang on! I got ya!" He said as he picks Miho by the back of her shoulders and slowly started dragging her to the chopper. Miho pulls out her P226 as she tried to provide support fire to any avail, and tries to suppress the pain she had by only holding her voice. "Miho – wounded!"
"Type of injury?" Yuri asked him.
"Shrapnels!" Truck responded to him. "Got her left leg and near her waist. Small pieces."
"Damn it!" Grinch knew she wouldn't walk with that. "Get her to the chopper!"
They retreated as fast as they could. Miho could see Price and Sandman in front of her, trying to cover their retreat as best as they can. Miho could notice the blood she left from her wound while she's dragged, but didn't get distracted to it. It was so stressful and… claustrophobic to try to survive and retreat from numerous Ultranationalist coming from all sides. It was… how Miho say it?
It's the survival of the fittest.
"Price! You got to go! Make sure the president gets out!" Sandman shouted as everyone was slowly moving backward, shooting at the oncoming soldiers as everyone gives cover fire.
"Don't even think about it, mate! We're in this together!" Price is so persistent with his friend.
Sandman responded to him. "Price, grab your guy and-
"RPG!" Grinch suddenly shouted as a rocket flew above them. Miho managed to shoot that RPG hostile with a pistol despite her bloody aim and distance.
"Nice job, Miho!" Truck commented lowly as they all were continuing to move backward.
"Truck! Cover the right side!" Sandman ordered with a gesture to his right and managed to ignore the RPG blast in front of him.
Price faced at him in determination and hope. "You better be right behind me!"
He turns around and exchanges part with Truck to drag Miho to safety. Miho holstered her pistol before Price gave her his M4A1. Price begins to drag Miho away from the battle after Truck covered the right side. Miho could see back again at the battle in front of her.
It was pure chaos. Everything around her slows down a bit. And every kind of sound, such as shouting, gunfire, explosions, and even footsteps are heard at a deafening level. Miho can't even properly aim in her wounded state which she has no choice but to shoot from the hip. As Miho covered the right between Truck and Sandman, she barely saw Grinch rolled backward to avoid the oncoming RPG before shooting back again.
Then she saw Sandman called Truck loud before giving him his last mag for his M4A1 and ignore the smoke produced in front of them. Once the smoke dissipates, Miho saw Truck tackled by a nearby Ultranationalist but able to counter by flipping him over and shoot him straight with his rifle. Miho begins to fire wildly to all front sides and avoided hitting the three standing Delta in front of her. Miho could see Grinch is out of ammo for his MK14 and threw his rifle away to use his dual Berettas. The smoke produced again in front of the soldiers as Sandman and Truck covered the right side.
Out of nowhere, an enemy emerged from the smoke and tried to attack Sandman up close. Before Miho managed to shoot him, Sandman got a chance to slapped him with his rifle's stock before pulling out his knife and side-stabbed him in the chest. He then pulled his knife out and threw it at the other enemy in the face who was trying to get in melee range with him. That's when Miho's resolve weakens.
Sandman is immediately shot in the right shoulder, and he lost grip on his rifle. Wounded, tired and he stumbled onto one knee after losing his only rifle and with Grinch and Truck on his sides, getting pinned down and low on ammo. But then Miho and Price reached the helicopter with Yuri and Vorshevsky are helping them especially the wounded Miho to get on board.
Price and Miho stood and sat at the Black Hawk's side door.
The last three Deltas are still outside. And they can't leave them there.
"Sandman! It's time to go! C'mon!" Price shouted as he motioned to them to come to the heli.
"Just go! Get out of here!" Sandman replied. However, Price wasn't going to take that for an answer.
But then the chopper is immediately receiving an attack from RPGs. And they barely hit the chopper.
"RPG!" Truck shouted as the helicopter rocked from the blast. The pilot was just in time to take off the ground.
"Hang on!" Hammer 1-6 said as the helicopter struggled to stay airborne. Hammer 1-6 managed to get the helicopter stable despite being shot at by hostiles.
Price and Miho looked down on the last three Deltas on the ground. Intentionally left behind and abandoned from the extraction. Miho can't help but look down at Sandman's face for the last time.
"Just go! Go!" Sandman waves at them to leave immediately before turning at the numerous enemies with a handgun with his left.
It's Metal 0's last stand. She couldn't comprehend to leave them here.
"We can't stay here! We gotta leave!" the pilot's answer brought the nightmares to Miho, as the Black Hawk began ascending in a circle.
"No! Get us back down there!" Price demanded as the helicopter continued to climb. Explosions were seen all around them as the mine's collapse.
"Are you going to leave the three there to die?" Miho shouted, despite the exhaustion and the wounds she had.
"It's too hot! We go back; we all die!" Hammer 6-1 reasoned. They have no choice.
"Sandman, do you read me?!" Price asked as they escaped the collapsing mine in time. But he received no answer.
*BUAR-BUARM-BUAR-DUAR-BLARR-BLAR-BLAR-BUUUUUAAARRR*
Explosions are still heard throughout the mine, especially the one they just escaped.
"Sandman, come in!" Price tried again as they looked down at the collapsed mine. No response.
"Sandman, do you copy! Sandman, are you still there?"
There's… still… no… response…
"No!" Miho screamed at the collapsed mine. "No!"
She's tearing up; she's starting to feel it. That agony, that pain, that loss, that… failure of hers. She can't believe it… she left them alone fighting against the horde of enemies there for their survival.
"No…" Miho's crying was enough to silence everyone on board the chopper. The President himself along with the pilot, didn't dare to say a word. "No…You… you didn't have to stay there… Why?"
All the men inside could only glance at her before avoid their gaze to her due to her mental breakdown. Except for Vorshevsky, however, because he begins to feel how much she has lost due to this damned war and the terrorists. The atmosphere is silent, save for the rotor blades of the Black Hawk that keeps spinning. They only sat in silence for the rest of the trip with Yuri trying to tend her wounds in silence.
It was an uneventful trip. But they made it out alive.
(News report)
"Thousands of people have gathered today to greet President Vorshevsky in his return to Moscow… reports have confirmed that peace talks between Russia and the US are about to begin… In other news, the Ultranationalist Leader, Vladimir Makarov, is still at large."
"Aaaahhh!" Miho threw the TV remote on the wall, destroying it. She is currently recovering from surgery in the N.N Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital due to the injuries she sustained during the mission to rescue the Russian President and his daughter. Miho controls her breath to calm herself down but to no avail. After losing too much to get this far, save for the President, she still can't get to Makarov yet.
The doors opened, and Price entered, carrying some beef stroganoff and Schi soup. Also on the tray was a cup of Earl Grey.
"So, how are you doing…?" Price asked slowly and saw the broken remote on the ground. Apparently Miho wasn't too happy about it.
"What do you think?" Miho responded coldly as she was resting. She had her laptop out and began reviewing the missions and all intel on him.
Price stares at her for a moment before he sighed and shook his head.
"Your obsession with him won't do you anything good, Miho. You don't have to let it go, but you shouldn't have such a bad obsession that you would devote your life to killing that bastard." Miho sighed as she heard this.
"I'm guessing that none of the three survived…" Miho said as she closed the laptop. Miho can't stop crying with this until now. At least, she's still sobbing for now.
"Yeah. You saw how the Diamond mine was destroyed as we were taking off. I know it hurts, and you're not the only one." Price said as she put the laptop on the ground and put the tray on the table. "You'll be attending the ceremony, which you will receive the Hero of the Russian Federation award next week."
Miho didn't expect that, but it was the greatest achievement in her career. Miho wasn't so sure if she's still tired of the ceremony, knowing how much ordeal she had. How many ordeals that could break a girl's mind and mental health.
"I wish we could have gotten everyone out." She whispered enough for Price to hear. Price sets the tray down. Price could see she's still in sorrow to have confirmed that the three Deltas are deceased.
"Sandman wouldn't want you to be sad, Miho. None of the three would." Price comforts her. Miho nodded as she grabbed the fork and boringly stabbing the meat.
"I'm guessing that the doctor also asked you to tell me something." Miho looks up to him.
Price only grabbed a chair and sat down. He then sighed with hope in the girl's health.
"Yes. The doctor requested that you stop drinking alcohol while you're healing, along with smoking."
"I think I can handle that," Miho replied as she began to take a bite of the beef.
"Just…" Price then looks away with a sigh, before looking back at her. "Just promise me you'll be fine."
Miho only gave him her longing look. "I don't know if I can promise that. But… I'll try it."
"The Ceremony"
December 15 - 12:30:46
1st Lt. Miho Nishizumi
Task Force 141 – Reinstated
Moscow, Kremlin
Miho was wearing an olive-green uniform that Russian officers wore, holding her pocket watch. She was a bit nervous. She is used to being in public for months in battles, not in some ceremonial award. Beside her was Price and Yuri, who also wore the same uniform. And their presence calms her nerves down.
"I guess the three of us are getting awarded for that rescue," Yuri said as he pulled out a flask and took a sip.
"Yes. Considering that Sandman, Truck, and Grinch was also there, they are getting post-humorous ones instead." Price replied.
Pulling out her pocket watch, she saw the time. It was almost time for them to appear on stage.
"We better go now," Miho said as she approached the double doors, followed by her comrades. Once outside, she saw the President, Boris Vorshevsky, was about to start the ceremony. In front of him, was several important public figures and the media, taking pictures and putting the speech on living.
"Thank you for coming today. Today, I will bestow upon these brave men and women who risked their lives to save my daughter and myself from the clutches of the terrorist Makarov and stop the war altogether, the title, 'Hero of the Russian Federation. Due to how the other three of the soldiers are not here, it doesn't matter, as they are to receive the awards nonetheless." In cue, Miho, Price, and Yuri approached the president and stopped right in front of him.
"John Price, Miho Nishizumi, Yuri. You three have risked your lives to rescue my daughter and me, and I am grateful." He said as he pinned the 'Hero of the Russian Federation' medal on the three. With that, the crowd clapped. They stopped a few seconds later.
"Due to the situation that three of the brave men are not here today, I bestow the title to Grinch, Sandman, and Truck the 'Hero of the Russian Federation.'" The crowd clapped again.
Miho felt guilty of this. She was guilty to know that she's one of the heroes who survived the war and the mines. But the Deltas didn't.
They should've been the heroes instead of her. She didn't need this title.
But she received it nonetheless.
Everything was in the dark. But a grim nightmare also exists.
"Why did you leave us, Miho?!" Sandman angrily asked as he grabbed Miho by the throat. Beside her was Grinch and Truck, who both had black eyes.
"I wanted to go back and rescue you! It was the pilot who took off when the rocket hit!" She shouted desperately. Around the four were multiple dead bodies, which numbered in the thousands. Some were dressed up as Ultranationalists, some wearing the uniforms, who were loyal to Shepherd, those who she faced in Africa, and some dressed up as the rebels who were fighting the Ultranationalists before the conflict was over.
"You could have tried to come back!" Grinch shouted as he got his rifle and hit her hard in the ribs, breaking one.
*CRACK*
"Ahh!" Miho shouted as she fell on the ground.
Sandman lets go of her, with Miho having a hard time to breathe.
"I'm sorry!" She shouted as she tears up. She's in her Ooarai uniform and unarmed.
She shouldn't have been a soldier but becomes a soldier, nevertheless. She was helpless against the three men who died making sure everyone can get out of the mines. This was all her fault.
"You're not!" Truck shouted as he shot her in the shoulder. Miho screamed in agony as she fell backward, lying on top of the dead bodies.
"Please forgive me!" She begged as she slowly got up. As soon as she did, however, she was in front of Makarov, who was sitting in a chair. There was another chair parallel to him.
"Take a seat, Ms. Nishizumi," Makarov said as he pointed his pistol, a Soviet Makarov towards the wooden chair next to him.
Miho is tired as she stares at him and the empty chair. Miho still cries but muffled her sobbing. She's defenseless against this menace and had no choice but to sit in that chair. She rests her back against the chair with anger, sadness and silence
"You failed the three of them, and failed to stop me. You might have stopped my plans, but I am still here."
Multiple chains immediately emerged and wrapped around Miho's wrists, binding it to the armrests. Multiple chains also chained her hips, preventing her from moving from her seat. She quickly struggled from the chains but to no avail. It was so tight that it could turn her wrists to red.
"I'm surprised that you actually managed to defeat all of my men. However, I have seen far more death than you. After all, I'm responsible for a lot of it. It's nothing new for me."
Miho narrows her eyes to him in confusion. "I don't follow." Makarov sighed.
"Shepherd said he saw 30 thousand men die in a blink of an eye. Yuri told you how he saw ME give the order for the nuke to detonate, which killed those men, women, and children. Anyone who tried to go against me lost their lives as a result." He replied, grinning as Miho's rage began to build up.
Makarov saw the enjoyment in Miho's rage. "Looks like we are on the same page now, Ms. Nishizumi. So, are you going to continue with your hunt, knowing that more people will die as this goes on, or are you going to settle down and stop?" He asked. Miho was only thinking of killing Makarov in the most painful ways.
"The only thing that I am thinking of is how to kill you in the most painful way possible," Miho replied as she began to struggle.
"Your obsession will be the end of you. However, you're welcome to try and take my life, child." He replied as he pointed his gun next to him at a young girl that tried to move, and he shot her.
*DOR*
The child dropped dead as a result. She saw the child and Miho grimly remembered her as a victim of the London Massacre. Miho shook her head violently as she struggles through the chains.
There was another child in the room, but the room is so dark that she couldn't see the person. Makarov points his gun at the child and shot the child. Makarov then drags the dead child… no, a dead teen at her. The dead teen was a girl in an Ooarai school uniform and had short orange hair. When Makarov shows her the dead teen's face, she was so shocked by who's the teen that got killed by a shot in the chest.
"Do you see who this is?"
It looked exactly like her, the day she fell into the portal.
"This will be your end."
"No…"
Makarov threw her reflective dead girl on top of the mound of corpses. Makarov's evil grin never leaves her face.
"The truth is, Miho, that you're here because you wanted to be something you're not, a hero. You needed someone to blame, so you cast it on me, a person you have never met in real life."
"You killed all of those people in London last year!" She protested; it was his doing.
"I won't deny it. After all, I am the one who gave the order… But there was a reason for that. It isn't that simple as black and white. If you knew the full story…" He said as he started to check that his gun had the safety off.
"You're a monster. That's the only answer you got." Miho said as she started to struggle through the chains.
"This all goes way back before you even got involved in this mess. You can continue to hunt me down, even if your friends and loved ones will die as a result." Miho gritted her teeth as she managed to get one of her wrists loose from the chains. Makarov smiled as he pointed the barrel towards her forehead.
"Goodbye, Miho Nishizumi," Makarov said as he pulled the trigger.
*DOR*
Miho closed her eyes as the bullet flew towards her. She prepares for death.
"Ahh!" Miho shouted as she woke up from the nightmare. She reached for the small table beside her, grabbing a pill that helped her sleep. Also, grabbing the cup of water, she swallowed the sleeping pill and went back to sleep.
Doctor's office, London Bridge Hospital. Two days later. 10:00 AM
"Miho Nishizumi is unfit for fighting, and you know it!" a doctor was shouting at MacMillan, who was there to renew Miho's health documents for her continued service in Task Force 141. With the Task Force being reinstated, the entire group needed to receive a re-evaluation, and pretty much everyone passed. Only that the person that failed the testing was Miho.
"She is perfectly fine. Her mental health is not a concern." MacMillan reassured the doctor, who was fuming.
"Jesus Christ!" the doctor said to himself. He wanted to put Miho in a mental asylum due to her being unstable, making her unfit for military service. He needed to do his job, dammit!
"And how do you know that?" The doctor was wondering why on earth, the director of the SAS was there personally. Behind him were two men wearing black suits, one of them holding a brown suitcase.
"Look. I advise you to change your mind and agree with me that she can continue with her 'job.'" MacMillan told the doctor, who stared at him.
"Why should I agree to write up false documents and lie about her condition?" the doctor asked. MacMillan sighed as he ordered the man with the suitcase to put the case on the table. He nodded as the man opened it in front of the doctor.
"This is a million pounds. If you correct it, it's yours."
The time the doctor looked at the money in the case, the doctor can't do anything but to accept the offer. He knew this is a one-time offer. His family needs it, especially after that chemical attack in London.
"Look. I am only trying to do what is best for my patients. I will write up a 'corrected' medical record and corrected evaluation if you let me do some counseling with Miho for a month." The doctor told MacMillan, who groaned.
"We don't have a month. A week tops. She will be leaving soon."
The doctor fell silent for a moment; the frustration he had is visible. "Fine! I'll do what I can."
By now, MacMillan is pretty satisfied. Now he doesn't have to worry about Miho being locked up in the asylum anymore.
Oh, the things he does for the girl.
Present Day. Nishizumi Residence.
Miho currently has breakfast with her family and the maids. They were talking about what is new across Japan. But Miho didn't want to get involved in any conversation. In which she ended up blankly staring forward. It took a moment for her mother to realize that.
"Miho, you okay?"
Miho didn't budge; she didn't even touch her food.
Shiho then waves her hand in front of her face. "Miho?"
Maho then tries to snap her out by snapping her fingers. Miho blinked and came back to reality.
"Huh, yes?" Miho immediately asked to them. "Did I miss something?"
"No, you didn't, but…" Kikuyo paused for a moment. "You've been staring at nothing for 5 minutes."
"Did I?" Miho asked flatly, she then sighed. "Forgive me, I was… lost in my memories."
"I see," Shiho replied with a nod. "I hope you didn't think of a bad memory."
"I hope so…"
The family then continue to eat their breakfast for the rest of their morning.