A/N: Sorry for the late update, I've been terribly busy with school, work and other creative works. So, here it is. :)
It's short but this will hold you over until I finish the next chapter.
CHAPTER 6:
"Ghost, Roach, and Mui! Someone bloody well come in!" Price growled again. Mui panted; her heart in her throat.
"Price…Mui here. It's too late."
"What?"
"Ghost and Roach are dead! Shepherd…he shot them point blank." She said shakily. She heard Shepherd's men hoarding past the woods. She prayed silently to whoever was listening that she would remain unseen.
"Where are you?"
"I'm hiding in the woods next to the LZ where Shepherd landed. His troops are scanning the area but I think they're leaving." She whispered.
"I'm sending a chopper in to get you the hell out of there. ETA twenty minutes. Hold on. Price out."
Mui rested, crouched on her heels. She was anxious, shaken and she felt like a fool for not taking out Shepherd after he killed Ghost and Roach. She wished she had taken the shot, even if they found her afterwards and killed her. She could have potentially saved the world from Shepherd's treachery.
Twenty minutes passed ever so slowly; Mui felt herself shaking, a possible symptom of shock. She then heard the rotating blades and hum of a helicopter in a distance. She peered out of the trees to see that Shepherd's mercenaries had been long gone and now a TF141 helicopter was landing down in almost the exact same spot. She rushed out, her M9 pistol in her hand as she approached the copter. She was paranoid, half-expecting it to be a trap, as if Shepherd knew what she saw.
"Hey, Mui, let's get a move on eh?" A man with a voice hinted with Russian called out over the roaring of the helicopter blades. "I'm Nicolai; friend of Soap and Price. You all right?" he tilted his head towards her shaky grip on her pistol. She nodded silently and buckled herself into a seat. Nicolai just shrugged and took off in a hurry.
When they arrived back at base, Nicolai had just rescued Soap and Price from an airplane grave yard. Mui was still on board, holding onto her pistol like it was her life line. Then, Soap and Priced drove on board just in time to avoid missing the plane as it took off.
"Bloody hell mate." Soap panted, turning off the engine of his Jeep and parking it in the cargo hold. The plane was already away up in the sky, far from the fight below them. Soap walked over to the few seats on the sides of the plane. He looked at Mui who seemed rather blank and to be staring off into space.
"You all right?" Soap asked, taking a seat next to her. Meanwhile, Price went and sat with Nicolai.
"No."
"You've been shot?" Soap asked worriedly.
"No, no…Shepherd killed Ghost…and Roach." She whimpered when said Simon's call-sign.
"Wait, what? Price didn't say anything about this to me."
"They went to hand him the DSM. I was a hundred yards back, when all of a sudden Shepherd took out a Magnum and shot of both of them point blank. I ducked into the cover of the woods. I could of killed him, I could have but…I couldn't move…" Jen buried her face in her hands. She didn't want to show weakness, but she couldn't control the sobs that escaped from her lips. Soap reached over and to Mui's surprise, he held her to his chest.
"It's all right. We'll figure this out. Don't you worry. I'll get Shepherd if it's the last thing I do."