North eastern Virginia

"Are you seeing this? Jesus Christ look at them all!" Dunn says looking at the sky in bewilderment as Russian cargo planes fly overhead the suburbs of Northern Virginia.

Pvt. James Ramirez, Allen's replacement, is looking outside at the absolute carnage. Cars flipped over, people screaming and lying dead on the streets, and the thick smoke protruding from houses. The Humvee in front of them started to let loose on some poor Ruskies that landed to close to them.

"Hey M4 let loose on some of those fuckers" Sgt. Foley orders.

M4 turns the mini gun to her left,"Yessir!" and starts to spit hot lead towards the enemy cutting down Paratroopers in the sky.

Ramirez turns his head towards 'M4' a code name that he never understood, "must be some sort of spec ops shit." He thinks to himself.

M4 was shorter then him with long black hair and streak of green. She was in the normal ranger uniform with a skull half mask covering the lower half of her face and combat goggles as eye protection. Her namesake rifle sitting on one of the chairs.

Dunn must have noticed Ramirez staring at her for too long, "hey new guy, don't let her catch you staring. She fucked the last guy up, heard she broke his nose. And in my opinion? You don't got a chance." Dunn pleased with the teasing began to chuckle.

Ramirez sighed, "look, I'm not into her and thanks for the info."

"Hey man whatever you say" he replies back.

"Broken arrow! Broken arrow!" Was the last thing Ramirez heard from the radio before...

"We got a BTR! Get out get out!" Sgt. Foley yells as the BTR destroys the lead humvee killing its crew and reducing them to Swiss cheese.

Quickly grabbing his Scar h Ramirez gets out barely with him tumbling onto the grassy front yard of a normal suburban house.

M4 grabbed Ramirez by his wrist and yanks him up, "team this way, let's go!" Sgt foley yells as he signals towards a alley way.

Dodging the cannon fire he and his unit make their way down the alley and into the backyards.

"Overlord this is hunter 2-1 requesting air support over!" Foley yells out over the radio

Overlord responded quickly,"Hunter 2-1 all air support is already engaged... additional ground support is en route to your position, but has encountered heavy resistance over."

"Roger that overlord... be advised we have encountered enemy armor and are proceeding on foot, over"

"Overlord copies all, good luck, out"

"Roger that"

"Hey sarge" Dunn questioned, "did HQ tell us to go 'F' ourselves"

"Pretty much corporal," Foley replied.

Hunter 2-1 crossed the road heading straight towards the BTR, "Team be advised don't engage the BTR it hasn't acquired us yet!"

Ramirez moved up with M4 checking the streets, windows, trees, and houses for any Russians, "uh thank you M4 for back there"

Even though James couldn't see it M4 flashed a smile, "don't worry about it, oh and you owe me"

Ramirez sighed, "yeah yeah, I know"

Foley moved up, "hang right stay behind it!" He said while eyeing the BTR as its destroying houses left and right.

The team made their way behind the BTR and is carefully following it hoping not to be seen.

"I got visual on the crash sight" Foley says through the radio, "that's where raptor went down!"

The team hides behinds some of the parked cars on the side of the roads. The Russians dismount the BTR and start to shoot at them.

"We've been spotted Ramirez! Use your smoke to blind it. M4, Dunn, Morgan cover him!"

M4 nods and peaks the corner gunning down two enemies with her namesake.

And Ramirez pulls out a smoke grenade and throws it as hard as he can towards the BTR. He does with the other 3.

"Yo James on your left!" Dunn calls out as he points towards his left.

Ramirez turns with his weapon to his left seeing a soldier popping out of one of the houses. He aims his scar and fires three rounds ending his life. Ramirez quickly then readjusts his aim to the contacts in front of him.

"Use the cover from the smoke and run past the BTR into the alley!" Yells foley as he sprints towards the small cloud enveloping the BTR.

Morgan stood up and began to sprint until a stray round from the BTR met his left shoulder cutting his arm and sending shrapnel to his face killing him instantly. Ramirez passes Dunn and enters the alley way coming face to face with very angry looking Slavic men.

He switched to the under barrel shotgun and blasts the men with it. Before switching to the normal gun and killing the rest. A massive firefight ensues in the alley way as the Rangers push up and the Russians try their best to defend.

M4 was watching Ramirez basically bring hell to the Russians killing them efficiently. It was clear to her at least that he wasn't some new guy in the block sort of deal. Ramirez was experienced and a force to be reckoned with.

Fighting moved from the alley way to a gas station that the Russians took cover in. Ramirez and Dunn took point, "Hey Ramirez throw a nade inside! They'll run out once they hear that thing hit the floor!"

"Copy that" Ramirez grabbed a grenade from his vest and threw it inside.

"Граната! граната!" Yelled one of soldiers inside. He ran out and met Dunn's rifle fire.

Ramirez ran inside and cleared the building, "It's clear! It's clear!"

Sgt. Foley ran down the road, "Copy that Ramirez, on me! Go go go!"

The team sprinted across the street to a restaurants called Nates. They ran into another Ranger taking cover behind a car.

"Private give me a sit-rep! where's raptor?" Sgt foley yells out as he also takes cover behind the car.

"We moved him to the meat locker it's practically bullet proof!" He responds as he shoots back at the Russians.

"What's his status?"

"He's still unconscious, got a medic?"

"Corporal Dunn check it out what else?"

"We got a supply drop on the roof with an M-5 sentry gun!"

"Ramirez! Get on that roof and check out that supply drop. M4 go with him!"

Ramirez nodded and looked at M4, "Let's move"

The duo went inside Nates restaurant and climbed the ladder to the roof. M4 resupplied and Ramirez checked out the sentry turret, "woah check out this thing out! God damn this turrets gonna spit hot lead."

M4 smiled, "one of the new military inventions and honestly I have no clue how it works."

"We gonna have robotic androids soon too?" Ramirez replied

M4s smile turned into a grin, "well the technology is a whole lot closer then you think."

Ramirez raised an eyebrow, "wait wha-"

"Heads up ladies, we got trucks to the south!" Sgt. Foley yelled over the radio.

Smoke popped out on the south side of the road, "they're using smoke to cover their advance!" Dunn cried out.

"Squad this is hunter 2-1 actual. switch to thermals if you got them... incoming from the south! Two dozen plus foot mobiles!"

Ramirez grabbed an EBR-14 with a thermal optic, "haha, it's showtime"

Shots rung out and bullets zipped past. Ramirez was shooting blind fish in a barrel, the Russians had no idea what hit them.

"M4! M4! Behind us tangos on the roof behind us. Shoot em!" Foley screamed as M4 turned around and quickly dispatched the Russians behind them.

A soldier next to her was unfortunately killed in the fighting taking multiple bullets to the upper torso.

She winced and pulled his body behind cover, "Fuck Walters down! Walters down!"

"Dunn!" Sgt. Foley yelled, "watch the sides they're trying to climb up. Ramirez! Keep on shooting them!"

Ramirez was in the middle of changing a magazine, "I'm trying I'm trying! You kill one another takes his place!"

"We got hostiles on the roof M4 and Dunn take them out!"

M4 emptied a mag into three Russians while Dunn stabbed one of them with his combat knife, "Yeah! Get some!" He yelled as he pushed the body to the side.

Sgt. Foley looked behind him, "shit, we got contacts to the north. Team, shift your fire north."

Ramirez grabbed the sentry turret and lugged it across to the other side, "Jesus this thing is heavy."

Once placed down the sentry gun did its work and blasted the charging Russians.

"Ramirez take them down!" Cried out Dunn while he was suppressed by gun fire.

Ramirez did just that continuing on shooting through the smoke.

The attack stopped and for a short period of time they could rest. Until two BTRs came down the street crushing a police car in the process.

And then an explosion hit the diner in front of them, blowing it up to kingdom come.

"What the hell was that!" Dunn yelled he was on his back as the shockwave pushed him down.

"Get off the roof... Ramirez get off that fucking roof!"

"I copy I copy!" Ramirez said as he climbed down the ladder.

"It's a enemy UAV operator, I have a visual on him, he's remote piloting those fucking missiles. We got to do something about him." Dunn said as he pointed to the diner, "he's over there, that diner to the west"

M4 raised her hand, "I'll go! I'll go and take out that SOB!"

Sgt. Foley shook his head, "No... Ramirez!"

Ramirez perked his head up as he grabbed an AK-12 off of one of the dead paratroopers, "Sir?"

"Get over there and kill that SOB! I'm sending apart of the squad to go help you!"

"Uh... yessir!"

M4 watched as Ramirez ran towards a burning car taking cover behind it. While the BTR and other Russian troopers relentlessly fired at the squad.

An explosion rocked the ground next to him as Ramirez and the two other Rangers hit the ground hard. M4 gasped and studied them for any movement.

"Hey Thomas you alright?!" Ramirez said as he pulled him towards cover.

"I'm good I just have a pain in my leg, what abou-"

Before Thomas could speak Ramirez already spoke, "Dead"

"Hey Thomas can you run?"

"I can I can." He does a thumbs up

"Ok we run on 3... 1... 2... 3, go go go!"

The duo sprinted across the open road as shells land next to and beside them. They make it across to the side of the restaurant.

"Ramirez got a grenade or a flash bang?"

"I got one right here, ready?"

"Mentally no, physically yes"

"Sounds like your ready then"

Thomas nods and Ramirez throws the grenade. The Russians start to shout inside and are silenced by the blast. The surviving ones are then killed by Thomas and Ramirez.

Thomas walked inside first, "clear!"

Ramirez followed, "we gotta silence those BTRs."

His eyes darted around until it landed on the UAV control laptop thing, "you know how to use it?" Thomas said right behind Ramirez thinking of the same idea.

"Yes... maybe."

Ramirez grabbed the laptop and saw the arial view of the ground. His hands hovered over a fire button, he pressed it and used what seemed to be arrow keys? To guide the missile in destroying a BTR.

"Good effect on target that's a kill Ramirez, take out the second!"

Ramirez did the same for the second BTR, "nice work team regroup over here" Sgt. Foley said.

Thomas and Ramirez quickly get out and start running towards Nates diner, "enemy fast movers take cover!"

Three Russian fighter jets swoosh down and almost demolish the entire diner. Ramirez ran faster grabbing his radio, "Hunter 2-1 actual you still there!?"

Sgt. Foley responded coughing hard, "Affirmative Ramirez, everyone listen up we got a new plan. Ramirez take your team and secure the burger town, we're gonna move raptor there. This locations compromised. M4 join Ramirez."

M4 joined up with Ramirez and punched his shoulder, "ow what was that for?"

M4 responded in a stern voice, "Don't do anything stupid like that again. Running the street with no cover, you could've died" She had a glare that could kill.

Ramirez couldn't help but smirk, "Haha caring about my well-being? Ok mom"

M4 scoffed, "Wait what now!?"

"Nothing nothing!" Ramirez ran off with the other Rangers to take Burger town and M4 quickly followed suit.

The fight outside was pretty intense. Ramirez shot his under barrel grenade launcher at the Russians wiping out a good portion of defenders at the windows. His team stacked up outside and entered in quickly clearing out the remainder of its occupants.

"We're gonna move raptor to the burger town meat locker as a group on three... one... two... thee! Go go go!"

Sgt. Foley emerged from the back entrance accompanied by fellow Rangers. Ramirez on the other hand grabbed the laptop and was watching the ground from above.

"What are you doing? Protect the sarge! Ramirez!" M4 shouted in his ears

"Agh! Hold on, just watch." Ramirez said rubbing his ears.

M4 watched the screen and looked up at the predator drone in the sky. Ramirez saw a clump of Russians and fired off a missile killing all of them. He repeated this process until Foley made it and secured Raptor inside the burger town meat locker.

"See M4, I did protect the sarge" Ramirez grinned

M4 sighed and puffed her cheeks, "alright fine, you did."

"Ramirez we got dozens of foot mobiles coming in to our position use that predator drone to eliminate that infantry! Protect the burger town!" Sgt. Foley yelled in the radio.

M4 sighed even more shaking her head and face palming.

Ramirez's grin grew so wide that M4 could see it under his neck gaiter.

The Russians just kept on coming even if Ramirez was smiting them, they were coming from all sides, all angles, and every single building.

Ramirez was about to send another missile in until the screen went static, "Somebody destroyed our predator!" Called out a Ranger

Ramirez frowned, "I was having fun! Goddamn ruskies!"

M4 smirked, "come on now Ramirez you have a gun don't you? So kill them with it!"

Ramirez nodded and started shooting back. The Russians stopped coming and then overlord said that an enemy gunship was approaching.

"Enemy gunship is here! I saw a couple stingers at the gas station we were just at! Let's move team!" Foley said.

And so Ramirez ran accompanied by the squad, he grabbed the stinger and ran outside locking on to the MI-28 havoc. He heard the stinger finish locking on and fired. It swerved and followed the havoc as it hit it in the tail section. The helicopter went down.

"Hunter 2-1 this is overlord we have an estimated 20 foot mobiles heading towards your position.We also see another enemy gun ship heading towards you. Over."

"Copy that overlord"

M4 and Dunn opened fire once they caught sight of the Russians, "Ramirez I saw some stingers on top of Nates diner. Let's move team!"

The team moved quickly towards the diner killing Russians on their way. The gunship peppered them with Cannon fire killing a couple Rangers on the way.

"Hey M4 help me out over here" Ramirez called out to her, "Half the ladders busted I need you to boost me up there."

M4 nodded, "Roger that James. I'll boost you up."

Ramirez got boosted up like he weighed like nothing. Strange since with all the gear and fighting they've been through she should be struggling a little bit at least.

Climbing the ladder he could see the MI-28 pass overhead gunning down more Rangers. Once he got to the roof he grabbed the stinger from the weapons case. He locked on and fired. The rocket once again did its thing hitting the helicopter making it crash into the ground.

Ramirez climbed back down and dropped once he got to the destroyed part. M4 was waiting for him, "hey nice work"

"Not a problem"

"I see the convoy!" Sgt. Foley yelled, "let's get out of here now! Let's go let's go!"

They ran outside running towards the convoy, "this overlord hunter 2-1 give me a sit-rep over"

"Overlord, hunter 2-1. Be advised precious cargo is secured I repeat precious cargo is secured. We're Oscar Mike"

"Overlord copies all good job"

"Squad" Sgt. Foley addresses them all, "we still got 2,000 civies in Arcadia if you got a family there it's your lucky day. We're saving their lives."

Ramirez looks over to M4, "say you have a family?"

M4 nods, "three sisters actually"

"Names?" Ramirez got curious

"M16 she's with the Marines, M4 Sop-mod she's a Spec-Ops member, and AR-15 is homeland security."

"I see... wait what? Why are you all named after guns?"

M4 turns her head away, "haha" she's laughing nervously, "well you see... um... ugh... er... how do I... i-it's cl-classified"

"Classified?"

"Y-yes!" M4 exhales a breath of relief.

Ramirez raised his eyebrow, "oh ok" he decided not to question it any further. Maybe he'll ask Dunn or Foley about it.

Now though, he's got a long trip ahead of him going to Arcadia.

A/N: this chapter is more of meet the characters sort of deal, next chapter will have some more M4 and Ramirez interactions. Oh and of course we'll have some "RAMIREZ GO DESTROY THE RUSSIAN ARMY WITH THIS M9" moments with Sgt. Foley and some moments with Dunn and Ramirez being bros.

Will Ramirez find out that M4 is not as human as he thought? Find out next time.