Hey everyone i am back for my next chapter. sorry this took a while i had to finish moving so it took longer than i though anyways so first a couple of things i noticed that i kept misspelling Gertrud's name as Gertrude well sorry about that but at this point i learned how to write it that way so it would take a while to break that habit so i decided that i am just going to keep writing it that way. anyways also this is the last chapter that Menendez will be mentioned in for a while some have you have figured it out and yes i am planning on him being the big bad for the sequel story. also before anyone asks Vegas was a dump in the 1940s it didn't become glamorus until the late 70s or so. anyways so this is the tenth chapter i hope you enjoy.
The Plan
NSA Safe House 6
Flying Officer Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen
14:42 Local Time
Everyone was speechless. Frost had dropped a bombshell when he told them that Shepherd had taught him everything that he knew.
"Wait what do you mean that Shepherd taught you everything you know?" Hanna asked Frost.
"Remember when I told you that someone recruited me from my military school when I was a kid? That was Shepherd he picked me out of the class and got me into the military. If it wasn't for Shepherd I probably would not be in Delta Force today." Frost responded. Then Price spoke.
"Frost you don't have to prove anything you don't have to go with us." Captain Price said to Frost who shook his head in disagreement.
"No I have to. I have to be the one who finishes this and kills the bastard for what he has done." Frost responded. Price nodded.
"Alright fair enough; you can go with us." Price told Frost. Price then looked to the witches. "Ladies I know this isn't your fight if any of you want out you are free to go." Price told everyone.
"With respect Captain; Shepherd betrayed us to. He used us to help fight his battles in DC and then tried to kill us when he deemed that we were no longer useful to him. In other words it's personal." Commander Minna told Price who scowled.
"So be it. Nikolai I need you to hack a satellite and get some aerial surveillance of Shadow Company Headquarters up. Grinch if memory serves me correct you did an op in the Shadow Company Headquarters; I need you to draw up a diagram of the interior of the compound." Price told the American Delta Force commando who nodded.
"Shouldn't be that hard; but remember the majority of the facility is underground and in close quarters so everyone should pack for a close quarters battle. In other words pack SMGs, Assault Rifles and Shotguns; and expect hand to hand when we get into the barracks area." Grinch told everyone. Eila didn't like the sound of that; she hated close quarters fighting when she fought the Neuroi back in her world she would hate to imagine what it would be like to fight Shadow Company in a room to room fight.
"Ok I will take that into mind. Sandman and Soap I need you two here to help me coordinate what kind of tactics we will use when we get into the facility. Everyone else you are dismissed." Captain Price told everyone. The witches all went their separate ways. Sanya walked with Eila back to the room that they were staying in.
"God I didn't expect Frost to have been trained by Shepherd. Eila do you think we can still trust him?" Sanya asked Eila who nodded her head.
"Yes I still have the feeling that we can trust him to not betray us. Think about it his mentor turned on him and tried to have him killed; a betrayal that great is bound to hurt. I don't think that we have to worry about Frost's loyalties to the Task Force. Besides Sanya you can read minds of normal humans now can't you? You can always read Frost's mind and see if where his head is at." Eila replied. Sanya shook her head.
"It's not that simple I can't read their direct thoughts I can only get a vague idea of what they are thinking about. It is like trying to listen to the radio through heavy statics sometimes you can make out the words but most of the time all you can hear is static. However I can sense their emotions and feelings. I can sense what someone might do next by feeling what kind of emotions are going through their heads. Like if someone seemed nervous, depending on the context they could be getting ready to attack someone or are expecting to be attacked by someone. But again this isn't entirely accurate; and I am not sure that it works all of the time for example I couldn't peer into Shepherd's mind when we saw him in person and a few of the female soldiers that we encountered in DC I couldn't see into their minds either; And like I said before I can't read the minds of witches either so my new ability isn't exactly foolproof." Sanya said to Eila.
"Hmm interesting well what kind of emotions were you able to sense from these new comers, Captain Price, Mactavish and Nikolai?" Eila asked Sanya who shrugged.
"Mostly confusion and wonder; very similar to what I felt from the Americans when we first met them." Sanya replied.
"Well I saw those three in my vision alongside Frost so I am guessing that we can trust them as well. Either way though we are going to have to work together if we want to survive in this world; I have the feeling that our toughest battles are yet to come." Eila stated. Sanya nodded in agreement. Eila could sense the melancholy that had fallen over both of them so she decided to change the subject. "Well we have the rest of today and probably tomorrow to relax before we make our move against General Shepherd do you want to watch another movie?" Eila asked Sanya who smiled and nodded.
"Sure do you want to watch another horror movie or do you want to watch something else?" Sanya asked her. Eila thought for a moment and remembered seeing another movie that caught her eye.
"How about a comedy I saw one that sounded pretty funny. I think it was called something like Bad Company or something like that." Eila said to Sanya who nodded.
"Ok that sounds good; I could use a good movie to cheer me up." Sanya replied to her. Eila nodded and went out to the main room where all of the movies were being kept. On the couch was Frost and Hanna they were speaking about something but Eila didn't want to eves drop so she tried her best to ignore them. Eila found the movie that she was looking for and headed back to the room with Sanya who was already in her underwear and under the covers of the bed. Eila popped the DVD into the DVD player and grabbed the remote before stripping to her underwear and joining Sanya in bed. Then the movie started up and began to play.
NSA Safe House 6 USA
Flight Lieutenant Hanna Justina Marseille
15:03 Local Time
"So why did you never tell me about your connection with Shepherd before?" Hanna inquired of Frost who was sitting next to her on the couch.
"I don't know, I thought it wasn't really worthy of note or that you wouldn't believe me or something." Frost told her. Hanna frowned.
"Why wouldn't I believe you? Hell it seems like anything is possible in this godforsaken world of yours." Hanna replied. Frost didn't say anything in response. "So why did Shepherd pick you of all people to train, if you don't mind me asking?" Hanna asked him.
"When I met him six years ago he told me that I had potential and he saw a bright future ahead of me in the Special Forces community; and that orphans make the best recruits." Frost told her. Hanna lifted an eyebrow in confusion.
"What why do orphans make better recruits then people who had parents growing up." Hanna inquired.
"It's because we have had a tough life to begin with so we have already experienced the hardships that are to come and more importantly; we don't have anyone back home to worry about us so if we die we are considered expendable since there is no one to mourn us." Frost told her. Even to Hanna that seemed rather cold hearted for someone to do; treating people like they were expendable assets that could just be used and tossed aside when they were no longer necessary. That Shepherd bastard back in her world was the same way he had no problem throwing his soldiers lives away as long as he got results. Hanna had over flown a battlefield that Shepherd the Second had commanded and saw that he had sacrificed an entire armored company to secure a strategic objective. It made Hanna sick to see such a waste of human life. And now in this world Shepherd the Third seemed like he treated his men just as poorly. After all General Shepherd had ordered the Task Force terminated so he didn't have to worry about them when he threw his little coup d'état against the government.
"Frost you're not expendable." Hanna told Frost who looked surprised.
"What?" he replied.
"Frost you have people who care about you. If you die think of all of the people who will miss you. Sandman, Grinch, Price, Soap, and Nikolai would be crushed if they lost you just like how they are about Truck's death. For that matter think of Perrine or the other witches who you have become friends with. Do you honestly think they wouldn't give a shit if you bit the dust? But more importantly Frost." Hanna leaned in so she was face to face with Frost. "I would miss you. I don't know what I would do if you got killed. You are the only one I think I have made much of a connection with since I arrived in your world. Look I know I am kind of an ass to people and that probably hasn't won me any friends in the 501st. Gertrude hates me for sure but the feeling is mutual trust me. Erica isn't my biggest fan either, she thinks I am a hypercompetitive asshole. As for the others they probably don't give much of a shit about me either way. So if you die I am left with no one here; so please for me don't die." Hanna confessed to Frost who was at a loss for words. Finally Frost smiled.
"Thanks Hanna it means a lot to me to hear you say that." Frost paused for a second then spoke. "Oh and for the record the feeling is mutual; don't die on me Hanna I don't know what I would do either if you got killed." Frost told her. Hanna smiled; it was nice to hear that from someone else. Frankly she didn't have many friends back in her world she usually didn't care too much either way but it was nice to hear that someone cared for her.
"Alright I will tell you what I won't die if you won't die. Deal?" Hanna stuck out her hand and Frost took it.
"Deal." Frost replied. Hanna smiled.
"Ok good besides I still plan on getting your ass in bed so you can't get it shot off just yet." Hanna said as casually as she could. Frost chuckled.
"Ok well you only have a few months left before you are eighteen anyway so I guess you will have to wait for a bit then." Frost said. Hanna huffed and let out a sigh.
"Damn who the fuck came up with that stupid rule anyway? If I want to fuck I should be able to fuck." Hanna snorted. Frost laughed. Then Captain Price came out of one of the rooms.
"Frost I need your help assembling the UAV we are going to use on this op. Stop flirting with your girlfriend and get your ass into the armory." Price stated. Frost got up from the couch.
"Alright but Hanna isn't my girlfriend." Frost stated. Price laughed.
"Sure she isn't cradle robber." Price snickered. Frost chuckled.
"Oh come on this is coming from the guy who married a twenty three year old when he was forty six." Frost stated.
"Yeah let's not talk about my third wife that was a rather drunken mistake on my end." Price laughed.
"Hey you know what they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Frost replied chuckling. Hanna lifted an eyebrow; she remembered her trip to Vegas last year when she was on leave the place was a dump even Reno was better than that ghost town.
"Alright you had your fun come on." Price stated as he turned to go back into the armory.
"Ok be there in a second." Frost stated he then turned to Hanna. "Oh and thanks again for the talk I really appreciated it Hanna." Frost said to her. Hanna smiled.
"Don't mention it, oh and call me Tina." Hanna replied Frost raised an eyebrow.
"Tina?" Frost inquired.
"My full name is Hanna Justina Marseille, but my close friends call me Tina for short." Hanna told him.
"Ah I see, well thanks again Tina I do appreciate the talking to." Frost said to her as he turned to follow Price. Hanna thought to herself. What did she really think about Frost?
NSA Safe House 6
Sergeant Yoshika Miyafuji
16:34 Local Time
Yoshika, Lynne and one of the new comers named Nikolai were sitting on the couch in the common area watching the news on the big movie screen mounted on the wall. The commercials had finished and a big red white and blue logo with the words "Liberty News" emblazed on the logo appeared. Then the newscaster started speaking.
"This is Happening Now with Brett Braid reporting live from UP headquarters in Houston Texas. As you can see behind me the scene of the devastation left behind in the bombing committed by the terrorist group only known as Cordis Die. So far the death toll has reached well over two hundred as reports of the injuries are still coming in from the hospitals all around the city. So far everyone is still asking why has this happened, and who is the man calling himself "Odysseus"? Anne what are your thoughts on this attack." Brett asked another reporter. The screen split to show the image of an older women sitting at a desk in a newsroom. The words "Anne Coulter reporting in from Little Rock" was written underneath her photo.
"Clearly this is some kind of far left terrorist group who hate our country's economic freedom. I blame President Obama for letting this attack happen if he would have passed Bill…" Nikolai turned off the movie screen and thought to himself before he spoke.
"There is only one man who would do something like this." Nikolai stated.
"Who was it, Makarov?" Yoshika asked Nikolai. Lynne nodded.
"Yes this seems like something he would do. Besides who else in this world would carry out such a senseless act of violence." Lynne stated; Nikolai shook his head.
"No it isn't Makarov; he doesn't have a grudge against big business and capitalism. If Makarov carried out this attack he would have gone after something to maximize the body count like a subway or a sports stadium. The only man Odysseus could be is Raul Menendez." Nikolai stated. Yoshika thought for a second, and then remembered that Menendez was the guy that Frost rescued Isabella from.
"What? I thought he was some kind of crime boss wouldn't he be motivated by profit not politics?" Lynne asked Nikolai who shook his head.
"No. Selling drugs was just a means to an end for Menendez. Raul Menendez has held a grudge against the United States his entire life. The drugs were just easy money for him; money that he used to hire his own private army to do his dirty work for him." Nikolai told them.
"It sounds like you know Menendez pretty well." Yoshika said to him. Nikolai nodded.
"Da, I know him because in the 1980s I was sent to kill him." he replied. Yoshika's jaw dropped.
"What you were sent to kill him how could you. Governments don't sanction assassinations… do they?" Yoshika asked him.
"Officially they don't but when I was working with the Spetsnaz in Afghanistan we were ordered to track down and kill Menendez. The KGB which was the Soviet's secret police found out that Menendez had corrupted one of our generals and was using him to get weapons and intelligence on the CIA and KGB. So I was part of a GRU unit sent in country to capture or kill him. For the record they put an emphasis on kill not capture. Well some CIA guys killed the general that was working for Menendez but we still had to take Raul out ourselves. My unit tracked him down to a compound in the middle of the Hindu Kush. It looked easy enough we slipped in no problem but when we got there they were waiting for us. The first two operatives that made it into the compound were shredded by claymores; then our sniper got his head blown off by an assassin hired by Menendez to work as his body guard. That just left me and another operative named Boris. Well we decided to high tail it out of there and headed for the hills. Menendez's goons chased us the entire way. We were within two miles of our base when they finally captured us. He took us back to his compound and tortured us for days, weeks hell I don't know it seemed like an eternity. He wanted to know what the CIA and KGB knew about him. Eventually he started to tell us about his plan on how he was going to get revenge against the United States for killing his father and maiming his sister. So after he was done with us he buried us up to our necks in sand in the middle of nowhere to let us die. For three days I was left in the desert. Boris died; the vultures pecked out his eyes and devoured what they could. I was about to meet the same fate when someone; another Russian I don't know who rescued me. He told me I had a greater purpose in life and that I couldn't die in the desert. So he gave me some food and some water and then he left." Nikolai told them the whole story.
"Do you know who the guy who rescued you was?" Lynne asked Nikolai who shook his head.
"No I was delirious by the time he rescued me I started hearing and seeing numbers in the air and I passed out after he gave me the water. When I came to he was gone, and I mean gone gone. The desert was totally featureless just flat desert as far as the eye could see and I couldn't see him in the distance. To be honest sometimes I wonder if I am dead and this is all just a dying dream." Nikolai said to them.
"Well I can guarantee you that we are very much real Nikolai." Yoshika said to him. Nikolai chuckled.
"If you say so." He replied.
"So do you think this Menendez guy will attack again?" Yoshika asked the Russian commando.
"Yes if he says he will attack again he plans on doing it. But for now Menendez isn't the real threat Makarov and Shepherd should be the Task Force's main priority." Nikolai stated. Yoshika grimaced. The longer she was in this world the more she grew to hate it. It seemed that there was no shortage of people who were absolutely crazy and wanted to kill people for no reason. Frankly compared to this world Yoshika's world was a utopia. The thing that got to Yoshika the most was the thought that she might be permanently stuck in this world. What would she do if that happened? Would she have to live her whole life on the run from people who wanted her dead? If that was the case then it was only a matter of time before someone got lucky and killed her. And what about Lynnette and the other witches what would become of them if they stayed here any longer. Well only time would tell what would happen to the witches but Yoshika sincerely hoped that she would at some point be able to live in peace.
Shadow Company Headquarters USA
Corporal Isabella Marquez
17:23 Local Time
"Why Isabella?" General Shepherd asked her. Isabella struggled against her captors; two mercenaries were restraining her and had forced her to her knees.
"Shouldn't it be obvious Shepherd? You are betraying the country you swore to protect, and you are trying to kill our best chance of killing Makarov and stopping him from succeeding in his plan. Remember when I first met you I told you that I would serve you as long as you made sure that your top priority was killing Makarov." Isabella replied. Shepherd frowned.
"Don't you think that when I take power that I would make it my number one priority to kill Makarov? When I am leading this country America will be unstoppable and no enemy shall ever be able to stand against us." Shepherd said to her.
"But if you kill all of those people in your attempt to kill Makarov you will do his work for him. When they come we won't stand a chance against them." Isabella pleaded to her former commander.
"If that happens ODESSA will be ready for them. We have spent decades preparing for them and with the millions of volunteers to our armed forces we will have the man power to face them on our own if necessary." Shepherd replied smugly.
"You don't know what they are capable of, simulations and statistics can only tell you so much. Even I don't know how powerful they are. All I know is that the 501st are our best chance to defeat them and you are trying to kill them." Isabella snarled. Shepherd looked away.
"I doubt that twelve little girls can really make much of a difference for us." Shepherd stated.
"And why are you betraying our country? It goes against everything you swore to uphold when you put on that uniform." Isabella inquired. Shepherd smirked at her.
"Cute, our country remember you are not even an American yet you are still a guest here, and who said anything about betraying my country? I am merely saving America from itself. You see Isabella I am a patriot and I want to make sure my nation has the empire that she deserves. I am trying to create a one thousand year empire and if I have to break a few eggs in the process so be it." Shepherd told her. Isabella laughed which just seemed to annoy Shepherd. "What is so funny?" he asked her.
"You are no patriot you are just a traitor nothing more." Isabella sneered. A look of pure rage shot across Shepherd's face and he backhanded her.
"No I am the true patriot here Marquez remember that. The only traitors here are the civilian government that has led our country to ruin over the last fifteen years. I am the only one fighting to regain America's marshal spirit." Shepherd spat. He then let out a sigh. "Isabella it's still not too late to join me I could use someone like you when I take power. If you join me I could give you an influential position in the NSA or CIA. You can help this country root out its domestic enemies. One day we may even go after Menendez I can make sure you are the one who pulls the trigger on him." Shepherd offered her.
"No thanks I would rather die with my self-respect than to betray the country I have come to think of as my own. America might be flawed, but it is still the greatest nation on earth and I would rather die than to see you destroy everything I have come to love." Isabella told him. Shepherd frowned and looked away. Just then Jerome Jackson and Mattias Nelson walked into the room.
"Yo boss we are here what is up?" Mattias said to Shepherd who held his hand up. He then turned to Marquez and spoke.
"I have to ask how did you find out what I was planning anyway?" He asked her.
"Simple when I cracked the code to the DSM I read everything Makarov had on you. I found out how you set Allen up and how you compromised the ACS module. Then I did some digging of my own and found out about ODESSA and your plans. So I forwarded the plans to Minna and hid the documents in a safe place." Isabella told him. Shepherd nodded then he looked to Mattias and Jerome.
"Mattias, Jerome take her to her cell; she will come around to our side after we have taken over this country." Shepherd told his two most trusted henchmen. The big African American Green Beret grabbed her by her arm and started to force her to her feet.
"Come on get your ass up." Jerome told her. Isabella glared at him.
"I expected better of you Jerome I didn't think of you as a traitor." Isabella said to him. Jerome scowled.
"I am no traitor." Jerome told her.
"You honestly believe that Shepherd has America's best interests at heart? He doesn't, he is going to destroy the very concept of democracy and civil rights in this country." Isabella informed him.
"Yeah and what have those things gotten us?" Jerome stated as he pushed her into her cell. Then Mattias spoke.
"You know Marquez if you sent an email out to the Task Force then you must know where they are." He said as he undid his belt. "And you are going to tell me where they are. Or don't either way is fine by me I get to have some fun either way." He leered at her.
"You think threatening to rape me is going to make me talk. Please Mattias I was raped daily for three years by Menendez's cronies; there is nothing that you can do to me that I haven't already had happen to me before." Isabella told him. Mattias didn't seem to care he just kept staring at her with a lecherous look in his eyes.
"I don't really care. You know for a freak you got a pretty nice body on you I wouldn't mind giving you a test drive." He chuckled. Then Jerome put a hand on his shoulder.
"Yo man Shepherd would be pissed if you hurt her; and trust me you wouldn't want to make the old man angry." Jerome said to the Swedish mercenary who scowled and then spat on the ground.
"You're lucky that you are Shepherd's pet freak otherwise you would be in for a world of hurt. Well I can still make you suffer even if I don't get to touch you. I guess I will just rape and torture some of the witches in front of you so I can watch the hope die in your eyes." Mattias laughed as he walked away. Isabella sighed one way or another all of this would soon end.
NSA Safe House 6 USA
Captain John "Soap" Mactavish
18:01 Local Time
"Alright so you see here that their base is located at the end of the valley here." Price said as he pointed to the base. It was surrounded on three sides by mountain tops that they couldn't scale the only way in was a frontal assault on the main gate. "There is only one way into the base which is this road right here." Price said as he pointed to the gate.
"That is suicide man they must have a dozen heavy weapon emplacements there." Perrine stated to Price who nodded.
"Yes it would be that is why we aren't going in through the front gate we are going to BASE jump in from both sides in the middle of the night." Price said to the group.
"Surely Shadow Company must have already anticipated that move and will be waiting for us." Soap said to Price who nodded again.
"That is why Nikolai is going to hack their systems and shut down the power. After that we are going to have a diversionary strike against the main gate using an XM300 mortar with DPICM rounds. We will have someone mark targets with the drone and relay it to the mortar's targeting computer. Meanwhile we will have a missile strike from two FGM-199 guided missile launchers on their heliport. After that I want Grinch, Lynne and Soap to snipe targets at the main gate. Frost, Sandman and I will be carrying Stingers to take out any choppers that were out on patrol during the start of the raid. During the Mortar attack the assault teams will BASE jump in from behind the main gate and surprise the defenders before opening the gates for the diversion team to head in. when we enter the facility we will split into three groups. Group one will head for the motor pool and take out the missiles in their mobile launchers before Shepherd can use them on the government. Group two will head into the server room and see if we can gather data to clear our names and prove that Shepherd is a traitor. Finally group three will go in and extract Marquez Shepherd has probably found out she betrayed him and if she is still alive he will be holding her in the brig. After all three of those objectives are met we will move in to take out Shepherd, he will probably make his last stand in the command room so be ready for everything. Ok is everyone clear?" Price asked everyone. Everyone in the Task Force nodded. "Ok so Lynnette was it? When we get inside your sniper rifle won't be of much use; so use this." Price said as he tossed her a FAMAS F2 with an ACOG scope attached to it.
"Ok I don't really know how to use it but I am a quick learner I will see what I can do." Lynnette replied. Sandman then looked to the young Russian Girl.
"Sanya the we don't have an XM25 and it wouldn't do much good anyways so instead we got you a Mini-Uzi SMG it is perfect for close quarters." Sandman said to her as he handed her the Israeli made gun.
"Thanks I will put it to good use." Sanya replied.
"Hey Grinch you are probably going to want to pack something other than your sniper rifle too." Shirley said to the American who smiled.
"That is why I am bringing this bad boy." Grinch said as he held up and AUG A2.
"Man why do I get the feeling that this mission is really going to suck." Erica said to no one in particular.
"Oh can it you drunkard." The French girl said to Erica who glared at her.
"Just because you are physically incapable of having fun doesn't mean I can't have fun when I want to." Erica replied.
"Zip it you two." The Japanese women with the eye patch said to them. Then Gertrude spoke.
"My Magic is based around strength I can probably carry that mortar to the staging point if I need to." Gertrude told Price who nodded.
"Ok good, Erica, Perrine you just volunteered to carry the mortar shells." Price said to them.
"Man why do I have to carry the ammo." Erica protested.
"Call it punishment for getting drunk on duty." Soap said to her. Erica let out a sigh in frustration.
"Ok well I think that is all I have to say. Get some rest because tomorrow we start our trek to the vehicle I have stashed away." Price said to them. Everyone shuffled out of the room until it was just Soap and Price left in the room.
"Price do you really think that we will be able to succeed with this mission?" Soap asked his old friend who shrugged.
"We are dead men walking if we don't so I guess that we either win or we die." Price stated to him. Soap nodded.
"I guess we are all in then." Soap stated. Price chuckled.
"Hopefully these witches will be the ace up our sleeves that will win us the game." Price said. Soap thought to himself could he really trust the witches to watch his back when the shit hit the fan.
The Vault USA
Gunnery Sergeant Frank Woods (retired)
15:34 Local Time
"Nurse Bat Shit, where the hell is my Soda?" Frank shouted to Sarah his nurse who had been absent for the last ten minutes. God she is probably texting or something like that. Frank thought to himself as he flipped through the channels on his TV. Most of the news networks were talking about the Cordis Die attack or how the Russian Navy was steaming towards New York and the FEMA assholes were screwing up the evac even worse than they did during Hurricane Katrina. Frank turned off the TV and pulled out a pack of cigarettes he needed a smoke; then he would tear his nurse a new one. Frank turned the wheels on his wheel chair and faced the door. Then he stopped dead in his tracks as standing in the doorway was his old enemy.
"Hello Frank Woods, we meet again." Raul Menendez said to Frank with a smirk on his face. In Menendez's hands was a heart shaped pendant one that Frank recognized from his last run in with Menendez in Panama.
"What have you done to Sarah?" Frank demanded of the drug cartel leader who smirked. He gestured for someone to come into the room. Sarah stepped into the room with an albino man pointing a revolver to her head.
"I am sorry Frank they said they would kill me if I screamed." Sarah sobbed to him.
"Let her go DeFalco she isn't involved in this she is innocent." Frank shouted to the British terrorist.
"Innocent you say? Is she innocent like my sister the one that you brutally murdered that day in 1986?" Menendez spat to Frank who frowned.
"Menendez that was an accident I didn't know she was there." Frank said to him. Menendez scowled and pulled out a silenced Browning Hi powered. He pointed it to Frank's skull and cocked the hammer. He then quickly turned the pistol and fired a shot through Sarah's skull showering the wall in blood and brains. "NO! HOW COULD YOU!? YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Frank shouted as he grabbed for Menendez who just stood back a few meters.
"You see Frank I decide who lives and who dies now, not you." Menendez said then DeFalco spoke.
"Sir the police are on their way we have about six minutes to get out of here before this place is swarming with cops." He said to his leader.
"Why don't you just kill me and get it over with." Frank said to Menendez who smiled.
"No your punishment must be more severe than that Frank. I am going to force you to watch as I destroy the country you love piece by piece. Then I am going to kill David and Mike Harper; and only after you lost everything you hold dear I will kill you." Menendez told Frank confidently.
"Why are you doing this they have nothing to do with our feud, America has nothing to do with our conflict." Frank said to Raul who smirked.
"Now there is where you are wrong; you see an American torched the farm my sister was in to collect some insurance money. Then your CIA had the Contras murder and pillage their way across my country. After that the CIA killed my father; Alex shot out my eye and finally you killed my sister. So Frank, America has everything to do with our conflict and that is why America must die. Frank I am Odysseus I have over two hundred million followers of Cordis Die at my command and each and every one of them wants to see America become a smoking uninhabited ruin for the rest of eternity." Menendez told Frank. In the distance Frank heard some police sirens.
"You're sick Menendez you know that?" Frank stated Menendez smiled and knelt down so he was eye level with Frank. He then grabbed Frank's hand and placed the heart shaped pendant in Frank's hand.
"Something for you to remember me by." Raul said as he turned and walked away. Frank swore that even if it was the last thing he did he would make sure Menendez was killed.
NSA Safe House 6
Pilot Officer Francesca Lucchini
21:00 Local Time
"Urgh I can't get this damn thing to fly properly." Nikolai said as he struggled to control his little robot plane thing. Soap went over to see if he could help Nikolai but to no avail as the robot fluttered about haphazardly.
"Damn can't we get Frost to fly this damn thing he is the video gamer here." Soap said to Sandman who shook his head.
"No we need every good shooter we can on this mission so we can't have him sitting in the truck flying that thing around." Sandman said as he gestured toward the robot. Shirley put her hand on Francesca's shoulder.
"Hey why don't you give it a try and see if you can do it." Shirley said to her. Francesca nodded.
"Ok. Hey guys can I give it a try?" Francesca asked them. Nikolai looked at her.
"This is fragile we can't have you break it on accident." He said to her. Francesca scowled.
"Don't be mean I am only trying to help." Francesca protested. Soap shrugged and tapped Nikolai on the shoulder.
"Oy just let her give it a try maybe she can fly it." Soap said to the older Russian man who handed the remote controller to Francesca. She fiddled around with the controls for a bit and then started to fly it around the living room much better than the men were earlier. "Well I'll be damned I guess you can fly it." Soap said to her. Francesca smiled.
"I guess we found our designated drone pilot then." Sandman said to Nikolai who rolled his eyes.
"Just because I suck at video games and drone flying you guys have to make fun of me don't you?" Nikolai asked in mock anger.
"Ah don't be mad because you got beaten by a thirteen year old girl gramps, I am sure you are good at other stuff." Francesca said to Nikolai who grumbled.
"Anyway so do you mind flying that thing for us on this mission Francesca? You won't have to attack Shepherd's base directly if you do." Sandman asked her. Francesca nodded.
"Sure I don't mind. Hey this drone thing is kind of fun." Francesca stated.
"Ok good just don't fly around too much longer the batteries will die on that thing." Soap said to her.
"Ok I got you." Francesca said as she landed the drone and pressed the off button on the remote. Francesca smiled to herself maybe she could find a way to be useful to the group after all.
Well that was an interesting chapter wasn't it so many mysterys are yet to be revealed. anyways i hope you guys liked it and the next chapter is the last one on the MW2 story arc as after that we get into the Person Non Grata timeframe (which oddly enough happens before black tuesday chronolgically that is why i am posting it before black tuesday) anyway so please do R/R