CHAPTER 2:
Roach turned his head slightly to his right and looked at the sharp tongued woman beside him. She was most definitely of an Asian origin, but she spoke with a very pronounced and crisp British accent. Her hair was jet black and was almost perfectly straight. Her fatigues seemed to hug her curvy body way tighter than normal. Roach was undecided if she was really that talented or if she was somehow bluffing, flirting her way past Captain Price.
He started walking to the gun range anyways. Grudgingly, Mui followed him. She at least wanted to see some more of this huge base before they were deployed somewhere else. Roach walked quickly and quietly, taking a few turns here and there until finally he reached the range. It was indoors, with several lanes and targets. To the side there were weapon crates, each filled with different styles of guns. Mui instinctively walked over to where the sniper rifles were stored. There was an Intervention, the German WA2000 and her all time favourite, the Barrett .50 Cal. She reached for it, when Roach grabbed it before her.
"You sure you can handle the recoil on that?"
"Of fucking course I can. Now give it here, and I'll show you." She glared at him, his innocent brown eyes reminding her of a puppy's. She put in a fresh magazine, and walked over to the range. She went prone as she cocked the gun. She held her breath in anticipation for the next target when BOOM she shot the target dead on in the head the moment it popped up. She got up and smirked when she saw the look on Roach's face. He looked liked he was shell-shocked; even he couldn't fire that fast and that accurately. She unloaded the gun, and put it away, blowing the smoke away from the barrel. Roach started nodding his head slowly. Mui had proven herself to Roach, now she needed to do so for the other members of the squad.
Hours had past and mainly Mui spent them with Roach, getting to know him a little better. She found out that he was from Liverpool; born right in downtown, making him a true Liverpudlian. He had been on the Task Force for a little while before the war erupted. Roach found out that she had originally been born in Hong Kong, back when it was still and English colony an after her parents divorced, she moved to England with her mother. They were sitting in the canteen, eating an early dinner before their scheduled meeting when Roach waved another man over to their table. Mui turned round in her seat and looked at him and what he was wearing. He had a black balaclava, with a skull pattern on it, with dark red sunglasses covering his eyes. She found it odd that he kept it on while at 'home' at the base. He swiftly walked over and sat down next to Roach.
"Mui, this is Lieutenant Simon Riley, otherwise known as, Ghost. Ghost, this is the…"
"So you're the mercenary Cpt. Price hired."
"I am. Nice to meet you." Mui again, held out her hand to shake his. Ghost returned the handshake and sat down farther back in his chair. Mui studied him; he wasn't as tall as Roach and definitely not as broad shouldered as Soap but he still had a mysterious charm about him. She could tell he again was a fellow Brit, not only from the flag patch on his shoulder, but by his accent. She judged that he could be a fellow Londoner or at least from around the same area. She and Roach continued eating the rest of their dinners and before they knew it, it was nearly time for their meeting.