Hello, and thank you for reading my story. Soon I will be posting another story about another character of mine that will actually show up in this story too. I hope you enjoy it. Reviews are appreciated :)

Carmen's POV

The next day we ended up in briefing room because Pvt. Allen fucked up with his mission and our world was raging with war. Wasn't it right what I said to Scarecrow? You can't send an American with no knowledge of Russian language undercover to Russia. It's stupid. But at the moment it wasn't the point. We were at the briefing room looking at the pictures and pieces of information on the screen. TF141 was after Alejandro Rojas guy from Brazil who supplied Makarov.

Shepherd dismissed everyone and ordered to get ready ASAP. Everyone left except for me; I stayed sitting. He looked at me with anger. Maybe not anger but more like a mix of disgust and disappointment.

"You are sending me and Scarecrow to battle? We haven't recovered yet." I complained.

"No. Scarecrow is sitting this one out. You on the other hand are going." He said coldly.

"Really? Do you see how I look? I don't think I'm ready for another battle!" My voice was rising as my heart filled with frustration.

"I don't care how you look. You are capable of holding a weapon in your hands which means you are going. That's it. You're dismissed."

"What if I don't want to be dismissed until you explain why did you send us to far East if the supplier is in Brazil? Are you trying to get rid of us?"

"You know nothing about this. You are just a small weapon in a greater game and you will play by the rules I dictate."

I noticed how his expression changed and knew that ot was dangerous to stay there and dashed out the door as fast as I could. Last time I saw Shepherd like that I ended up locked in one room for two months.

We were driving on the streets of Rio de Janeiro tailing some kind of van looking for Rojas' right hand. We've stopped twice already. I was quite frustrated and scared from my chat with father and this third world war the world was coming to. I was brought to reality when we've stopped again.

"Wait. They've stopped again. Standby." Said Captain who was sitting next to me in the back. Driver and Roach were sitting at the front.

"Got a positive ID." I gripped my weapon firmer feeling the adrenaline rushing over me. Another fight was about to begin. I've heard gunshots and Captain spoke again "Ghost, we have a situation here!"

The bullets started flying towards the car and MacTavish commanded us to get down. When no more shots were heard we got out of our vehicle and ran after the Rojas' assistant.

"Ghost, our driver's dead! We're on foot. Meet us at Hotel Rio and cut him off if you can!"

"Roger I'm on my way." I heard Ghost's response.

We were moving through the streets with cars crashing around and civvies running around screaming in terror. Soon Ghost came up sprinting towards us saying "He went into the alley!"

"Non-lethal takedowns only! We need him alive!" Captain instructed sprinting into the alley after our enemy. "Roach take the shot. Go for his leg!"

"He's down." I've heard his voice through coms as I was the last one to enter the alley. I dropped down beside the wall to rest while Captain and Ghost dragged the assistant into one of the garages. It gave me some time to rest until Meat and Royce joined us. I really needed to catch my breath as I wasn't fully recovered from last time. I mean surviving an explosion, falling down a few floors, being beaten up during interrogation and losing some blood might not seem like a big deal for all of the muscular and fit men that surrounded me but I was a young female that didn't have such built body and my father was a douche that sent me from no military service straight to hell.

"Roach, this is going to take some time. Go with Meat and Royce and check the favela for any sign of Rojas - that's where this guy was headed. You go too, Carmen."

Royce offered me a hand and pulled me up to my feet when I took it. We walked up to the fence and he warned us about civvies in the favela. When the four of us dropped down the ledge Royce ordered Meat to get the people that were in the small area out of the way.

"Roger that." He said and fired his gun into the air. "Este lugar nao e seguro!"

Just as civvies started running away enemies have shown up.

We were fighting our way through favela and I was creeping around every corner trying my best to not get hurt again. Captain asked Royce for a sitrep. There was lots of militia, but no sign of Rojas. I turned around one of the corners pointing my weapon forward when a civil jumped up in front of me when trying to run away. I was a millisecond from pulling a trigger and killing him. I breathed out and nodded him to get out of my way. My heart froze for what it looked like eternity when I hear Royce say "Meat is down! I repeat, Meat is down!"

I stood there frozen until Roach walked up to my side. "You ok?" He asked and when I nodded he said "Stay close and let's go."

We moved through the lower part of the favela killing enemies with bullets flying through the air around us. It wasn't long until Royce informed us about being hit. Roach noticed how I was shaking and once we were done with clearing the surrounding area and reached a road leading to main and upper parts of favela he stopped me. He came closer to comfort me. His arms gently held me close while I buried my face in his chest breathing heavily trying to supress everything that was rushing through me.

"We'll get through this. I won't let you out of my sight this time." He whispered.

Our little moment was interrupted by Captain giving orders. "Roach we've got Rojas' location! He's heading west along the upper levels of the favela. We'll keep him from doubling back on our side - keep going and cut him off at the top! There's no time for backup. You're gonna have to do this on your own. Good luck. Out."

Once again we were in our soldier roles and moved forward through the favela. It consisted a lot more killing as there were only two of us left.

"Roach - this is their territory and they know it well! Keep an eye open for ambush positions and check your corners!" said Captain again as we were clearing our path to the main and higher part of favela. The heat was driving me nuts and I was breathing heavier than usual. Despite the fact I tried my best to keep up with Roach. And from time to time he would look back at me to see if I am ok.

"Roach, watch the rooftops! We've had a few close calls with RPGs and machine guns positioned up high!" Just as Captain said it an enemy with a machine gun burst through a window. Roach pushed me to cover and as I wasn't expected that I stumbled over my own feet and fell down with him falling on me. At least I'm not getting shot at I thought blushing.

"You're not hurt, are you?" he asked.

"I'm fine and will be fine if you don't crush me with your body weight."

He blushed a little too and it looked really cute. "Sorry." said Roach and lifted himself off me and then lifted me back on my feet. Soon we managed to fight our way through all of the trouble to reach the upper part of favela.

"Keep going! Rojas is still headed towards your side of the favela!"

"How big is this place?" I complained. "I'm sure I shot more than a thousand bullets over here." I tried to sound carefree and positive and hide the fact that I was still bitter about what happened to Meat and Royce and that my anxiety was about to burst through and that I was about to break down.

"Don't worry. We're close now. I'm sure we'll be done with this mess soon enough." Roach said reassuringly.

"Roger that! Roach! Carmen! We're still corralling him closer to your side of the hill! Keep an eye open for Rojas! He's making his way across the rooftops!"

"Sir, I've got Rojas in my sights! We can go for a clean leg shot! We can end it here!"

"Negative! We can't risk it! Do not engage!"

Ghost and Captain MacTavish were shouting to us through coms and Roach whispered "You two shouting is not helping us fight at all…"

I laughed moving forward and obviously even more enemies have shown up. "Where are they coming from?" I asked reloading my rifle. "Are they cloning themselves? I'm sure I killed hundreds of them."

"Oh, they just respawn like in a video game." Roach said and I looked at him with 'Are you kidding me' look.

He laughed and pulled me by the arm. "Come on. The more we kill, the faster we get through this."

"I've got another clear leg shot!" I've heard Ghost shout.

"Negative! Not unless you wanna carry him back out with all this militia breathing down your neck! I need him unharmed!" answered Captain.

There weren't any enemies in our way so I rushed after Roach and his extremely fast pace.

"Ghost, I'm going far right!"

"Roger that! He's gonna get away!"

"No he's not." Roach and I walked around the corner just in time to see our Captain smashing through the window, tackling Rojas onto a car.

"Now that's badass." I said staring at our Captain.

"Yea…" said Roach. "Were we any help today?"

I shrugged and walked over to our superiors. I dropped down to the ground in one building's shadow to rest. Roach sat down next to me and I leaned to him and put my head on his shoulder. It was a beginning of a long day with obviously even more fighting awaiting us. I sighed and looked at Ghost having fun interrogating Rojas.