CHAPTER 5:
Mui rushed out into the darkness, barely avoiding tripping over a root of a tree. She cursed to herself and then hurried down to where the post was. She saw Roach crouching in her thermal scope. She whistled out to him. He turned round and hooted back. Mui walked over.
"Mui?" He called out to her in a loud whisper.
"It's me."
"What the bloody hell took you so long?" Roach asked. She was half an hour late.
"Sorry…erm…nature calls." She replied, avoiding his eyes. Nature calls all right.
"Ohh…sorry…Right, well I've seen nothing but rabbits. I'm off. G'night."
"Night." Mui replied and sat down on the cold forest ground. She had a long two hours ahead of her and all she could think about was Ghost.
The night went by, Mui had ended her post and she went back into her tent to get a few more hours sleep before they got up and began the assault on the cabin. When she lay back down in her sleeping bag, she felt a protective arm grasp her waist from behind. She turned round onto her right side. Ghost was smiling at her.
"Welcome back love." He whispered.
"Get your arm off. If anyone walked in…"
"They won't. Trust me."
"Bollocks! Get your arm off me!" Ghost sighed dejectedly, pouting. Mui glared at him, slowly leaning closer until she kissed him again.
"Oh so I can't have my arm on your waist but you can kiss me? That's not fair."
"Don't push it or you won't be allowed near me again. Good night, Simon."
"G'night Jen."
A few hours later…Day 6, 2016
"AMBUSH! Get down! Targets left side! Left side!" Ghost yelled. They all went prone, not two seconds before the first mine went off. Suddenly, Ghost heard a hissing noise and looked up. The enemy had set off a smoke screen and were advancing towards them. He let off round after round from his ACR, taking men down with ease. They just kept coming and he threw a grenade. Suddenly, a large bang hit them; they were being fired upon by mortars.
"Come on! This way before the mortar fires again!" yelled one of the TF141. Roach, Mui and Ghost had been joined by an entire unit to take the cabin. Meanwhile Cpt. Price and Cpt. MacTavish had left them, boarding the helicopter that brought the other troops, heading towards Afghanistan in search of another place where Makarov could be hiding.
Mui ran forth, firing at one remaining soldier who was holding his knee in pain on the ground. He dropped when she shot him in the face.
"Over here!" Mui shouted, taking cover behind a large tree stump. They had just made it through the smokescreen and were now hiding from the mortar fire. Roach ran forward and Mui and Ghost followed him. They made it to a field of solar panels when Archer, one of the support sniper's voice came in over the radio.
"We got two trucks leaving the target building!"
"Don't let those trucks get away!" Ghost roared.
"Roger, firing javelin, danger close!" Archer replied.
"Get back from the road!" Ghost yelled to Roach who had attempted to take out the driver of one of the trucks. "Bloody hell, these trucks are bullet-proofed!"
Suddenly a javelin went off, hitting the first truck, sending it off the road in a large explosion.
"Moving vehicles have been neutralised." Archer said. "Be advised, we have not, I repeat we have not spotted Makarov and no one else has left the house. Those trucks may have been decoys. Over."
"Roger that, we're advancing on the house now!" Ghost replied, reloading the ACR. Mui switched the SMG to her Barrett.
"I'm going to give you sniper fire from over the hill in the bushes."
"You got a spotter?" Ghost asked worriedly.
"I don't need one. They're gonna be pretty damn busy with the house." Mui retorted, sprinting up the steep hill roughly half a mile from the house. She nestled down between two bushes and trees, throwing on a smaller version of a ghille suit. She set herself up with a grand view of the cabin. Perfect.
"Clear the perimeter!" Ghost ordered. Roach began immediately shooting down oncoming enemies from the solar panel field. "Breach and clear the safe house! Go! Go!" Roach followed Ghost up to the cabin. They went to the door to the basement first. The explosive went off and Roach took point, killing the two soldiers inside, both with insanely accurate headshots. They proceeded through the house, killing soldier after soldier. They got to the second door. Planting the explosive, Roach easily took out more soldiers who had their backs turned towards him.
"Ozone, Mui, make sure no one leaves through the kitchen." Ghost ordered.
"Roger that." Mui replied from her perch. She saw two tangos headed towards the house from the solar panel field. She took them out, only using one bullet as it pierced through the neck of the first one and into the head of the other.
"Scarecrow, give me a sitrep."
"No one's leaving through the front of the basement. I got your back Roach."
"Office clear!" Ghost shouted. Roach planted the finally charge and when it exploded e took out his shot gun and blasted three men, blood and shells going everywhere.
"Basement clear! Copy basement clear!"
"Dining room clear!"
"I've got this area covered Roach, go and check the top floors." Scarecrow said reassuringly.
"All clear! Squad, regroup on me!" Ghost barked. Roach and the other men went down the front stairs into the living room of the house. "Shepherd this is Ghost, no sign of Makarov, I repeat, no sign of Makarov. Captain Price, any luck in Afghanistan?"
"Plenty…at least fifty hired guns here, but no sign of Makarov. Maybe our Intel was off." Replied Price.
"Well the quality of the Intel's about to change. This safe house's a bloody gold mine." Ghost told him anxiously.
"Copy that." General Shepherd's voice cackled to life over the radio at last. "Ghost, have your team collect everything you can for an operations playbook. Names, contacts, places, everything."
"We're already on it sir. Makarov will have nowhere to run." Ghost said. He was already one step ahead.
"That's the idea. I'm bringing the extraction force, ETA five minutes. Get that Intel. Shepherd, out."
"Roach, get on Makarov's computer and start the transfer. Ozone, you're on rear security. Mui, still covering from the boathouse hill?"
"Yes sir." She replied. She had barely spent one magazine of ammo, but her gut was telling her she'd be using a hell of a lot more very, very shortly.
"Task force, this is Price. More of Makarov's men just arrived at the bone yard…Soap, cover me. I'm gonna slot that guy over there and use his radio to tap into their comms. Ghost, we're going silent for a few minutes. Good luck up there in Russia. Price out."
"Makarov's men are gonna do whatever it takes to keep us from leaving with this Intel. We need to protect the DSM until the transfer's done." Ghost explained, taking one of the many rifles from the wall in the armoury of the house. "Defensive positions let's go!" Ghost took a point of hiding behind a table behind a couch. Roach went prone on the floor, his sights marked on the front doorway. Suddenly, the floor shook.
"What the hell was that?" Ozone asked, his voice strained with nerves.
"You've got a lot of hostiles coming in from the southeast. Recommend you switch to scoped weapons over." Archer informed them.
"Roger that! Everyone cover the field to the southeast! Move!" Ghost barked, running to the back side of the house. Mui heard the radio commotion and shifted her attention to her right. Gunfire immediately went off. She peered through her scope, easily picking off the unsuspecting Russians. The silencer also hid her position quite well and they kept running forwards, oblivious to the sniper fire.
Five Minutes Later…
"Roach! The transfer's complete! I'll cover the main approach while you get the DSM! Move!"
"This is Shepherd. We're almost at the LZ. What's your status, over?"
"We're on our way to the LZ! Roach, Mui let's go!" Ghost shouted as they began running out of the house towards the east of the estate. Mui gathered her things and switched back to the SMG rifle, slinging the massive sniper rifle over her back.
"Roger." She replied rushing to catch up to them.
"They're bracketing our position with mortars, keep moving but watch your back!" Ghost shouted, informing them that the next one hundred meters could kill them just before they got to the LZ. Over the ridge there were about twenty Russians standing there, waiting to be on the attack. Mui went to the far left, hiding behind a set of trees. She swapped guns again, and began quickly shooting the men down, letting Roach and Ghost get by to safety with the mega load of Intel. That Intel was the key and she wasn't gonna let some mediocre Russian stop them when they were so close. Suddenly another mortar hit a metre or two behind Roach. He collapsed, wounded.
"I've got you Roach hang on!" Ghost stumbled back, reaching down to Roach.
"I've got your backs!" Mui shouted into her radio. She shot down multiple enemies who were set on killing the pair of men.
"Thunder two one, I've popped red smoke in the tree line! Standby to engage on my mark!" A black helicopter soon arrived, its machine guns firing into the trees, mowing down enemy after enemy. Mui ran a little ahead into the next set of trees opposite where the helicopter was firing into. She saw that Ghost was helping Roach along, dragging him back slowly. Roach felt himself going in and out of consciousness, his world going from colours to black.
"Come on! Get up!" Ghost urged him up. "Get up, get up we're almost there!" Ghost let Roach lean on his shoulder. The pair started slowly moving to the LZ. The helicopter had landed thirty feet in front of them. Mui was still two hundred yards back. She started lightly jogging towards them, rifle in hand.
"Do you have the DSM?" General Shepherd asked as he stepped down the beige ramp of the helicopter. Mui looked down her scope to see what was happening.
"We've got it sir!" Ghost told him.
"Good, that's one less loose end." Shepherd replied, reaching to his holster at his side. He took out his revolver, shooting Roach first point blank.
"NOOOOOO!" Ghost roared. Mui watched from her scope in vacant horror as Shepherd shot him straight in the chest before he could even react. She felt tears well up in her eyes as she fell down prone, still watching through the scope. Shepherd grabbed the DSM off of Roach's now still body and walked back to his helicopter. A few of his men walked over and grabbed Ghost and Roach's bodies. They tossed them into a gully in the hillside, barren of any grass. Mui had moved from her position farther into the woods where she couldn't be seen. Tears welled in her eyes as she saw the completely lifeless body of Ghost land hard on the ground and then rolled down the gully slightly. She had seen where the bullet had exited, straight through to his back.
"Ghost come in, this is Price! We're under attack by Shepherd's men at the Bone yard! Soap, hold the left flank! Do not trust Shepherd! I'll say it again, DO NOT TRUST SHEPHERD!"
Mui heard Price's voice come in, but she froze in place, her mouth open, wanting to reply. She watched as Shepherd's men poured gasoline on the bodies and Shepherd lighting the fire himself with his cigar.