Mercenary 1: "Sound the alarm! Warn the gate watch! Go! Find the chosen one!"
Mercenary 3: "This one is mine. I've been waiting for you, girl. You killed my brothers. Now wait! Stop moving! Show your face… I'll shoot it off!"
"Come outta there! No, no! Don't come any closer! No hiding now. I'm going to fucking kill you, child. Oh shit!
Right when Section and Lara took cover behind a wall, she ran out of the cover to take an attachment.
"Where is she going now?!" He asked himself.
"Oh shit! She's got a grenade launcher!"
"That's right! Run, you bastards! I'm coming for you all!" An angry Lara shouted.
Mercenary 2: "She killed Nikolai! Where did she get that thing?"
Mercenary 1: "What the hell happened here? Oh shit, it's the outsider… she made it out. And she has a fucking grenade launcher!"
"Stay away from me!" Lara shouted, shooting along with Section.
"You got a deathwish!?" Section yelled while killing Solariis too.
Mercenary 3: "Come with us… we won't hurt you."
"Stay back!" Lara yelled.
Mercenary 2: "Goddamn it, don't hurt her! We need her alive!"
Mercenary 1: "No… stop!"
Lara yelled one more time: "Sam! Run!"
Mercenary: "She had a goddamn gun. We couldn't take her. Go get her… move!"
Mercenary 2: "Ah fuck… move out… keep looking! We have to find her! Get word to the main gate."
Mercenary 2: "She's down there. See if you can get a shot. Get me some light!"
Mercenary 1: "There she is, take her out!"
Mercenary 2: "She's got a grenade launcher! Take her out before she gets too close! Keep it up, we almost got her!
"You're not stopping me!" Lara yelled more angry than ever.
"Lara! Lara! Climb over, come on!" Sam said from the other side of the wall.
"No, head for Roth. I'll follow. And don't get on the helicopter. Just trust me, please trust me!..
Go!"
After a couple of minutes…
"Oh no… I've got to stop them from getting on that helicopter."
"Maybe it's time you talk for 2, since I'm helping you!" Section yelled from behind while they were getting shot at.
"Destroy the bridge!" Mathias commanded.
Mercenary 1: "But we'll kill our own people!"
Mathias didn't hesitate to shoot him. "Any other non-believers?"
(Roth - via radio) "We're taking fire. Everybody get to higher ground!"
"Wait… the storms! It's too dangerous! Roth!? Damn it! Roth, where are you!?" Lara asked herself climbing up on the roof, followed by Section.
"I'm here, girl! Come on, jump! You can do i IIt!" But as soon as they jumped, the roof broke, causing them to hit the wooden platform underneath. But there was the chopper still waiting for them, so they took a run-up.
"Lara, grab my hand! There you go." Roth said as Lara got on the heli safe. It wasn't the same for Section. The Solariis' managed to get on the roof and they jumped on the wooden platform. The helicopter faced Section, as he decided that the only way to get out of there alive was to try to fight. Section gestured for the pilot to go away, shaking his arm in the air from left to right once, rotating his finger. He slid to stop his sprinting, then turned around, ACR in hands, and started blasting on them Solariis.
"No! What is he doing?" Lara asked herself, not wanting to lose the backup.
Section eventually managed to kill everyone, noticing that the shooting wasn't really over. He climbed up on the roof again, then headed right, where he saw 3 known people shooting, along with a girl in white pants, who was behind them, trying to protect herself.
(Section- Via Radio) "Holt, come in! I saw the sniper from before, alone. Where the fuck are you!?" He asked, yelling: the shootout muffled his voice.
*radio static* "Section! I am just outside a little town. I hear shooting, so it must be you. I got separated from the old man due to this motherfuckers who surrounded us. He ran off, I jumped off a cliff. Where are you?"
"I'm on a roof, but I'm about to get down. Huh... coordinates 39 56' 26" (clearly causal numbers, don't search that on Google)
"On my way." "And, Holt. Contact Bowman, tell her we found the hostages and we're figuring something out to get back home. I'm pretty busy at the moment!"
"Consider it done, Holt out."
Section turned his radio off, then jumped on the roof that was next to his. Luckily, this one was lower, so he had no problem getting down.
He saw the Solariis' surrounding the 4 people, so he did the first thing that he could think of that could kill several men in a row. A man itself.
He threw a stun grenade in the middle, stunning literally every human, then he made a run for it, pulling out his machete, starting a chained takedown.
Mercenary 1: *cough* "I can't see anything!"
Mercenary 2: "Neithe-" *machete going into his body* *death grunts*
Mercenary 3: "Leroy! Lero-" *death grunts*
*machete getting out of his body and entering many more*
Section: *panting* "Motherfuckers.." He headed towards the 4 people he had to rescue in the first place, asking them if they were ok.
"Barely, but thanks man." Alex said to him, that caused him to nod.
*explosion* 'Shit! That must've been the heli.' Section thought, before running into the nearby woods with the rest of them.
"Lara! Lara… Oh no… Come on, Lara!" Roth said as he got rid of a piece of metal that was blocking his leg.
"Come on!"
Lara eventually regained consciousness after seconds that lasted hours for Roth.
"That's it, that's it. Come on! Come on, Lara."
*struggling for breath*
Other Solariis' approaching.
"It's them." She said with the remaining strength she had in her body.
Roth managed to shoot the mercenaries, but there's too many of them.
Mathias threw an axe at Lara, but Roth turned around to cover her.
The axe was suddenly stopped by a 45.ACP bullet that was fired from Section's Tec45.
When Mathias and the remaining Solariis' got that they were outnumbered, they ran away, disappearing.
The rest of them, along with Section, walked towards the two people.
"Are you okay, Lara?" Sam asked her, who was visibly shocked.
"Is she okay? Because it's all about Lara, isn't it? Have you forgotten that she's the reason we're here?"
"Go easy on her, she's been through a lot more than us." Jonah said as he let his shotgun lean against his neck, raising it.
"You're right. I shouldn't have said that. It's just… I miss my daughter."
"Let's just find someplace safe and make preparations. Today it's the day we got together, and we're not separating again." Jonah kept saying.
After that, a branch creaked behind them, revealing another Ghost, Holt.
Everybody raised their guns at the figure, aside from Lara, Sam (obv) and Section, who already knew who it was.
"That old PT boat on the beach, I should be able to fix it up."
"It's worth a shot." Alex said.
"It doesn't matter… we're not getting off this island.",
"Come on, Lara… Don't talk like that. You know you can do this." Roth reassured her.
"You just don't get it… any of you. Something won't let us leave."
"Some "thing"? Lara, you need sleep."
"Look, I'll be the first to admit that I usually go in for the weird stuff - but this place is off the charts."
"I'm not dying here! I'm fixing that boat and we are leaving!"
"Come on, who talked about dying?" Holt asked.
"You know this island isn't right, Jonah. I know you do."
"All I know is that we can't use logic to understand this place. I know you think your instincts are a weakness but they're a strength. Trust them. We need you, Lara."
"He's right."
Everybody was standing in front of the burning helicopter.
"Did you contact Bowman?" Section asked without looking elsewhere.
"She said that we can tell her the coordinates whenever we want to get a helicopter down here."
"You know we can't afford a chopper, do you?"
"I know, we're fucking trapped here." Holt said.
"Not you too! This is nonsense." Reyes said, disbelieving her ears.
"Hey it doesn't usually take 7 bullets to take down a man. Even these people, they're not normal for me."
Lara cracked a little smile knowing that she wasn't the only one who was thinking that.
"C'mon, I'm starving." Jonah said, followed by Alex. "Yeah..I could bite a tree at any moment.."
The whole group moved towards a nearby beach, to set up camp for the night.
Lara handed a gun to Sam.
"Keep this close."
"Sam.. I need to tell you something.
"What's going on?" She asked, curious.
"I don't think we can leave this island… something is keeping us here. I have to go back to the monastery."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Sam. I need you to keep this to yourself for now. I'm going to help Reyes fix that boat, but then I'm taking it inland."
"Lara… I don't know about this…"
"Just trust me, it's the only way."
"Alright… you be careful."
They all sat down around a campfire that had some crates around it. It really looked like a proper campfire; Jonah soon lighted a fire, and everyone started to warm up again.
"So is everyone here? Someone missing?" The Ghost asked.
"Dr.Whitman. I don't know where he is, but he'll show up eventually." Roth said, looking at Holt.
"So, what's the plan? They told us it was a hostage situation but apparently you can handle yourself, and I don't really know what to do once the boat is fixed. There's the island problem." Section asked, causing Reyes to sigh.
"You can ignore it forever, soon or later we'll have to face this. We either get off this island, or die trying." Jonah said as he was fishing, while the fire burnt the wood that was now ready to cook some food.
Eventually, Reyes answered.
"...To fix the boat I'll need some tools, I think there's some on the Endurance."
"Nice, I'm going." Section said as he stood up, asking which one of the rooms he had to look for.
"The engine room, but there may be some of those maniacs, I wouldn't go there alone." Alex said.
"I'll stay here to cover, in case of an attack." Holt said.
Section glanced at him, waiting for someone to stand up and help him.
"I really gotta rest. I just crashed a helicopter." Roth said, arching his back, tired. "I believe it's the same for Lara."
"..you gotta fix the boat, he's fishing.." Section's face met Alex's.
"You comin'?" He asked.
"Huh..sure.. but-.."
"Nice." Section clapped his hands once, then started to walk.
When he got further, Alex yelled: "Aren't you hungry..?"
He nodded his head no from afar.
"You're not forced to come!" Section said as he disappeared.
Jonah chuckled, while he was fiddling with the fishing pole he was holding.
Lara looked at Section while he was getting away, she didn't know why, but she did.
Section climbed up a sunken ship, when he got memories of parkouring with his brother, Grant.
"C'mon Jason, catch me!" Grant said as he climbed up a wall, running away.
Jason couldn't climb yet, but he had to try. His father promised an ice cream to the one that got to the bar the fastest.
He really wanted that white chocolate magnum. He licked his lips at the thought of it, so he decided to do it. He put his hands on the tallest point of the wall, helping himself with a box that was there. He pushed his hands into the wall to lift him, successfully climbing up the wall. Now he had to get down, so he just jumped off of it.
He landed onto the road, then headed in a casual way.
He didn't really know where the main square full of bars was, but when he saw his elder brother running to his right, he assumed it was where he was heading.
He was smaller, so he was faster. He sprinted through the people that were walking, laughing, but serious in a certain way.
A few meters later, he saw it. The main square of the city. He sprinted faster than before, hoping to pass his brother, but Grant got to his parents first.
A panting Jason arrived soon after, reading the Bar's name, and noticing his family just outside.
*panting* Jason held his knees while catching breath, while Grant was laughing.
When Jason lifted his head up, he saw his father giving some money to Grant, who got inside the bar seconds after, and his mother, who was holding his younger brother, Riley, playing with him.
"Who's the cutest boy in this family? Who? Who?" She smiled when the little baby laughed.
Eventually, Grant came out of the bar with 2 Ice creams, instead of one. "Haha! I knew I was as fast as you!"
"Don't get too excited, we're even just for a second." Grant told him.
They started licking their ice cream, sitting under a fountain.
Jason jumped one last time on the last sunken ship, only to see the Endurance a few meters over. "I miss you, Brother." He said to himself while sliding mid-air towards the Endurance Plymouth. (Cable)
He landed, finding out that the Solariis' had the ship secured.
He decided to avoid these guys, even because there was an armed to the teeth one, that wouldn't be easy to take down.
He passed into an opened container, avoiding 3 mercenaries just outside of it.
Mercenary 1: "Any news about the outsiders?"
Mercenary 2: "No. The others talked about a couple of soldiers. They've managed to get here, it seems."
Mercenary 1: "Nonsense. Himiko doesn't let anyone in, or out."
Mercenary 2: "I don't know. People like to talk."
Section/Jason walked past them, entering the Ship.
He walke down the stairs, then headed towards the hallway, wanting to find a blueprint of the ship.
He eventually came across a door that led into the hallway, but it was blocked by a mass of rocks that got into the ship during the storm.
"Shit..what now?" He asked himself, trying to find a solution.
And then he spotted the upper floor, which he could get in by climbing a wall. Was that so easy? Well, he managed to find the blueprint for now.
"Engine.. engine..engine...got it."
He walked further, finding out that the floor was missing. A voice came from beneath:
"I hate this fucking island."
"Tell me about it, pal.." Section said, before jumping on the guy, performing a takedown that he liked to call 'Death From Above'.
He found another hallway, full of water. He walked past it, eventually, and got into the engine room. He searched every locker that he could find, finding some tools eventually.
He just got to get back, now.
He walked the same way as earlier, and got out with no problems.
When he got outside, he couldn't get out unnoticed, so he decided to do something a little crazy and highly stupid. He jumped.
*splash* Mercenary 6: "What was that?!"
Mercenary 4: "Look in the waters!"
But when they decided to take a look, Section was underwater, far from the Endurance.
'Gotta tell about this to Fisher' he smiled at the thought of showing his stealth skills to Sam Fisher.
When he got onto the sand, it was dark, and he could see the fire from camp. He walked towards it, noticing the others.
Jonah was cooking the last fishes, and the others were chatting about something.
He noticed a figure he didn't see earlier. 'So he is alive.' He thought when he noticed Dr.Whitman.
He appeared out of nowhere, letting the tools fall on the ground, but gently.
"Here's your tools." Section said.
Alex felt guilty, somehow.
"Oh..you already got that? I was gonn-"
"It's alright. There were many of those fucks, it would have been harder to avoid them."
"There were people on the ship? We didn't hear a shotfire..!" Dr.Whitman said.
"Who said they found me?" Section said as he sat down with the others and started eating.
"Mh! Ninja style!" Dr.Whitman said, trying to sound funny.
"Ninja style." Section said, a little weird.
"I reckon we get to rest for tonight. Not that we have someone to get back." Jonah said.
"No, I got to get back to the monast-"
"Come on, it's not like we can leave, the boat still needs its treatment." Holt said.
"Yeah, let's just enjoy the fact that those bastards went quiet, but that doesn't mean they're going to stay that way. If I'm going to die in this place, I'm not going to do it hungry."
"Once Reyes finishes the boat, we'll be back to civilization in no time… and what a tale we'll have to tell!" Dr.Whitman says.
"A tale? I hope I never hear Himiko's name again!" Sam interrupts him.
"We can take the boat out at high tide." Said Reyes.
Lara sighed, then said: "No. We can't..!"
"Don't start that bullshit again, Lara!"
"Lara isn't the only one who thinks we're trapped. Reyes. Mathias may be insane, but he was certain about it. I saw it in his eyes."
"Yes, he thinks resurrecting Himiko is the key to getting off this island."
"God, it does sound crazy. But this whole place is crazy."
"These storms aren't natural. We have to face that." Holt said too.
"What do YOU know about these 'storms'?" Reyes asked aggressively.
Hearing that, Section grabbed his phone, which obviously said: 'no signal', but he opened his gallery and chose a photo he had with the pilot of the chopper he came on the island with, then he showed it to Reyes.
"His name was Trevor McNally. College, he joined the army, ended up in our team thanks to his sacrifices. He had a wife and 3 kids, and now they don't have him anymore.
Our chopper crashed just a few miles away from this camp, and we couldn't find him, so we do know about these storms."
"... I'm sorry, it's just that.." Reyes tried to justify her behavior.
"Don't worry, Reyes, everybody's shocked by all this." Said Sam.
"He's right. When that storm hit the Endurance… I felt it… something dark… something alive. This place is cursed." Jonah added.
They were chatting about anything that could entertain them, until Alex asked:
"What are your names? You didn't tell us yet." Glancing at Section and Holt, expecting some kind of answer from them.
Roth eventually answered.
"They got code names not to get recognized, that's why they don't tell their names." He explained.
"You got your answer." Holt said, having his last bite of fish.
"Yeah, I shouldn't ask it."
"It's alright, since you're not a threat to us we can give you our names." Holt said.
*eating* "I'm Dom...or Holt...mh...and he's Jason, or Section." Holt/Dom said too.
(Yeah, his name's Dominic. I didn't know myself that Nomad's name was Anthony.)
"Jason and Dom." Jonah said smirking.
"Yup." Jason added, sitting on the cement.
"And what are YOUR names? I barely know your faces.." Holt asked himself.
"I'm Samantha, she's Reyes, He's Jonah, he is Dr.Whitman, he's Roth, he's Alex and her name is Lara." Sam explained.
Holt glanced at Sam, and she did so.
(Yeah we're thinking the same thing.)
"Nice to meet you, then." Holt said.
Section stood up, and a question from Holt followed: "Where're you going man?"
"I wanna find the pilot." He said, not looking back.
"Good luck with that.." Holt said as he turned his head around.
"I'm going back to the Monastery." Lara said as she stood up too, taking the same path the Section took.
"These two never stop."
Section arrived at the crash site after he killed a few mercenaries, but nothing too serious.
He searched the helicopter, finding some scissors. Better than nothing.
He went further into the forest when he found some traces, leading to.. the traces stopped right into the forest.
"I can't risk the mercenaries to outnumber me, I can't shout."
He decided to walk in a random direction and see what he could find, but before getting into the forest, he marked a tree with his knife, just to create a path not to get lost.
"I hope Lara can stop these storms…" He said, walking around.
He walked all day long into the forest, not finding anything. So he decided to do the most useless thing, but like I said, it was a thing, at least.
*radio static* "Sandman, come in."
*radio static in response* Section sighed.
"Obviously." He decided to go back, he couldn't do anything. But the thing that was disturbing him was the fact that there was no corpse in the helicopter. It could've been eaten by some animals, or worse yet, he survived and got killed by the Solariis. But the disturbing thing was that they may have stolen the corpse, to do whatever.
He got out of the forest, lost.
When Section got back to camp, later that day, he found everyone with their guns up, aside from Dr.Whitman and Sam, who had mysteriously disappeared
As he got closer, he heard Lara's voice.
"...they won't take her there. They'll take her to the ritual chamber. We can use this inlet to get closer. Look… I know you want to get home to your daughter, believe me. I do. But the fight's not over yet. I'm not asking you to believe, Reyes, I'm asking you to trust." She said putting an arm on Reyes'.
"What happened?" Section asked, noticing the bullet wound in Reyes' arm.
"There you are.." Holt said. "Alone."
"If there was anything back there, I didn't find it."
"I guess Sam and the doctor are together somewhere else." He said too.
"Yes, we're going inland to find them. Let's get this thing in the water!" Lara said, getting on the boat.
"I found some scissors. I can get the bullet out." Section said to Reyes' who was a little afraid.
Noticing how she was ignoring the problem, Jonah said: "We gotta take care of that, it could get worse."
After staring at her for a second, she finally gave up.
"Make it quick." She said, as Jonah behind her took control of the boat.
Section grabbed his lighter to sterilize the scissors, then he shaked them in the air to cool them down a bit, then…
"...motherfucker!..." Reyes' said as he let the scissors in her arm, grabbing the bullet and throwing it into the water.
He then gave her a bandage which she gladly took.
"You're fine." Section said, then Reyes' returned to drive the boat.
They eventually moor at a cave.
"Alright. Let's go." Jonah grabbed his shotgun.
"No. I'll need you and Reyes to guard the main entrance while I go in after Sam."
"You're going in there alone?"
"More people means more danger of being spotted. I need you here taking out as many of those bastards as you can. It won't just be the Solarii either… There will be… others. Samurai, the Queen's Stormguard. Look, anything that's not me or Sam, shoot it."
"We can't take the risk of someone dying. If that happens, our mission's failed." Holt said as he and Section got out of the boat.
"Don't worry, Lara. We're stealth masters, we know how to handle a few mercs." He said too.
"Ok, but don't do anything that isn't killing." Lara warned.
"Yes ma'am." Section said back.
"My Little Bird. This isn't goodbye. I'm not going to say goodbye." Said Jonah.
"We've got your back, Lara."
And with that, the 3 adventurers disappeared.