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"Campbell, there was this custom flight module shooting rockets down at me. Is she with the B&B Unit?"
"Hmm. I recognize the insignia and the Raptora Suit design, but all the dossiers we have don't point to this group being stationed in Egypt— no, that's Amari's daughter!"
"You know who she is?"
"That's the daughter of the not-so-late Ana Amari, Fareeha Amari, call sign Pharah. I may not know them personally, but I know of them. They're a military family, like mine."
"Good. Maybe you can get her from blowing me to smithereens."
"I'm afraid I don't have that kind of power. Pharah is not part of the egyptian army anymore. She's now a commander for a private security firm called Helix Security International."
"A 'private security firm?' That's the most decorated way to call a merc group I've ever heard."
"Don't get me wrong Snake, Pharah has done good, honorable work. In fact, she might be doing a better job at neutralizing AIs than we are."
"She was apart of the Anubis incident? I heard some stuff about that. The Patriots had nothing to do with that god program, as far as Otacon can confirm. But hers wasn't already controlling most of the world!"
"Quite honestly, her fighting here doesn't surprise me anymore. We've been keeping tabs on people that could follow behind the Overwatch recall, and she is certainly on that list."
"It's not hard for me to see why. She would have been a little girl during the Omnic Crisis, and seeing her nuclear family around the people that ended it? She probably sees them as heroes. And she wants to be one too.
"Heh. Maybe we're both experts on people like that… Meryl heard enough from me about the topic. I've never tried to stop her, but sometimes, she's still convinced that there's nothing but glory to take out of a military career."
"I know that too. I talked about it with Meryl once, way back during the Shadow Moses mission. But I like to think that Meryl knows better to believe in something else, maybe this Pharah girl knows too."
"Fighting for the innocent."
"Or fighting for their families."
"In any case, you've dealt with flight modules before, Snake. Use something accurate to shoot her out of the sky."
"Campbell, you do know that usually results in a suit malfunction or an explosion? You want me to kill her?"
"Of course not! Not if you can help it!"
"Can't you emphasize a little? She may not be your daughter, but she is someone's…"