Warning: Failure to complete Second Chance, now in line with the Complete Ending walkthrough, will result in the loss of a supporting character, special rewards and the mission's special intel. As well as the discontinuation of the attempt altogether.
Admiral Briggs: What the FUCK was that, Mason?! I expected better from you! From the three of you!
Section: Sir, we did our best to rescue Karma—
Admiral Briggs: And yet, your best wasn't enough! Who the hell didn't inform Petty Officer Crosby in the first place?! I was shocked as he was when he found out you went in without him!
Section: It was my call, sir. I kept Petty Officer Crosby in the dark because I was confident that we did not need him. We also needed to keep our numbers small in order to draw less attention.
Admiral Briggs: It seems I can smell your bullshit from a mile away, COMMANDER! Now is not the time for petty rivalries and vendettas!
Harper: Sir, Petty Officer Crosby was not ready.
Admiral Briggs: Ready for what, huh?! Answer me, Lieutenant! Ready to operate like the three of you?! What makes you think you're all better than him?! And don't you fucking dare say rank!
Salazar: Ready to let his vendetta with Commander Mason go, sir.
Admiral Briggs: I just heard him gladly compliment Commander Mason after our success in Afghanistan, even if he took no notice. A vengeful man would never do that. And what the fuck is all this, Chief, Lieutenant?! Let me tell you right now, taking responsibility for your CO is not and never will be your full-time job! Because you all sound so fucking stupid! I'm talking to Mason here! As for you, "Section". I just got King, Shade and Crosby's reports on Trident Team from 2021 to this year. While you were training Lieutenant Harper and Chief Salazar in exchange for help in your obsession with Menendez, the Commander and Master Chief had to train Petty Officer Crosby. He may be the lowest ranking member in the team, but he's more equal to you than you care to realize. Listen, CAREFULLY. You, your work and all of this intel are useless if all of us cannot work together to act on it. No one is indispensable in the military, ever. Not even in these circumstances. Not even you. Now, if you can't understand that and overstep one more time, then I WILL send you and your obsessions back to whatever frozen forest shithole in Alaska you came from. Am I understood?
Section: Yes, sir.
Admiral Briggs: Now get you and your sons of bitches out of my sight.
22:00:03, after getting an ass kicking from the Kraken himself, the trio heads to their bunks to get some shut-eye. June 13th, 2025 - 06:06:22, in the Mess Hall, Salazar apologizes to Crosby for keeping the Colossus mission a secret.
But the Petty Officer held no grudges as he already knew that Section would pull something like that off. While the Chief Petty Officer joins his old friend in breakfast, the Lieutenant Commander and Harper go in the opposite direction to eat by themselves.
07:45:05, Briggs calls in Section, Crosby and JSOC Strike Force for some news on Afghanistan and Chloe from King and Farid themselves.
Admiral Briggs: Russia's foreign minister has officially denounced the S.D.C., and has declared it a belligerent threat to the peace and stability of the civilized WORLD! *laughs*
Crosby: *claps* Yeah! *laughs*
JSOC Strike Force: *claps* Hooyah! *cheers*
Admiral Briggs: If they had smoked him and the president of Afghanistan, today the world would look a lot different. This is the beginning of the end of the Strategic Defense Coalition, people. You keep this up, and they will be finished. Commander, Petty Officer.
Section: An hour ago, Agent Farid in the Yemen archipelago told us that DeFalco has Chloe Lynch hostage in a local village not far from his Cordis Die post. We believe that this woman is one of the foremost experts in Celerium technology, coming from The Tacitus Corporation itself.
Admiral Briggs: The brains downstairs haven't been able to crack the Celerium device that we recovered from Myanmar. This scientist is our best shot.
Section: The village where our HVI is being held captive is in the Hajhir Mountains, on the northwestern peninsula of Socotra. Cordis Die movement in the area suggests that she could be in any one of these five buildings. Wherever she is, the place will be swarming with insurgents.
Admiral Briggs: This is a textbook snatch and grab. We got to do this fucking quick.
Crosby: Rescue Team 1 and Rescue Team 2 will search all buildings together. More will be on standby if needed. You'll have a VTOL with minguns manned by Rescue Team 3 for air support and the evac of Chloe Lynch. Shade will be joining you in this op. Meet him on board the USS Bainbridge. That's your staging area.
Section: Once you've scaled the cliffs, we'll carpet the place with tear gas. Sweep the area until you locate the HVI. Leave no stone unturned.
Admiral Briggs: Once you hit paydirt, you call up the Kraken and Commander Mason will handle exfil with the extraction team.
Section: You got it, Admiral. Once I get the signal, hang tight until we arrive.
Admiral Briggs: This egghead scientist could be our only chance at cracking the Celerium device. Let's go get her.
June 14th, 2025 - 05:55:12, after preparing for everything in the USS Barack Obama Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier and USS Bainbridge Arleigh Bruke-class guided missile destroyer, from approvals to combat ready teams and vehicles, JSOC Strike Force starts making entry. The DEVGRU operators' best way into the village is by scaling its cliff with their Climbing Nano Gloves.
After getting the CTR from Shade, who is hanging on the cliff's edge, Section starts the operation. And Briggs orders the USS Bainbridge to launch its tear gas missiles and detonate them mid-air to get the civilians out of the AO.
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SECOND CHANCE
HAJHIR MOUNTAINS, YEMEN
JSOC STRIKE FORCE
JUNE 14TH, 2025 - 05:55:22
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Section: POTUS Level 1 Op is approved. High Value Individual extraction is a go. Remember, we need her alive. Tear gas deployed in the AO. Civilians' presence minimized. Let's make this quick.
Shade: Come on up, gentlemen. Let's get our lady and head home.
Section: Search location is directed.
On site.
Raptor 1-1: Raptor 1-1 approaching combat zone.
Shade: Trident 4 and Rescue 1 are in. Commencing search now, over.
Rescue 1-1: On your lead, Trident 4.
Rescue 2-1: Rescue 2 will be on site in 30 seconds, over.
Rescue 3-1: Rescue 3 has visual on multiple insurgents moving toward the search party. Thinning 'em out now. Stand clear.
brrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
Shade is an invulnerable NPC once again, but will die if the mission fails via timer running out or Chloe getting killed. Recommend breaching and clearing all last known locations as quickly as possible to have a better chance of mission success.
As he engages Yemeni terrorists with his M16A5 (2025 variant of the Colt M16A1) with the same attachments as his M27, Shade thinks that the most logical thing to do is to keep Chloe deep into the village. So he leads the search party to the Far End Building.
All while killing Cordis Die insurgents armed with LSATs, HAMRs, SPAS-12s (2025 variant), Citori 725s (2025 variant of the Olympia), PP-19 Vityaz's (2025 variant of the AK-74U), Uzi SMGs (2025 variant), Dragunovs (2025 variant), SVU-AS's, B23Rs, Browning HPs (2025 variant), SMAWs and RPGs along the way. Who are also backed by a squadron of Quad Rotor Drones, which confirms the fact that DeFalco was here and probably gave the terrorists some WCO PMC support as well.
In the Far End Building.
Shade: Far End Building's a dry hole! No sign of HVI!
Rescue 1-1: Move out, team!
Rescue 2-1: Rescue 2 has entered the village. Awaiting your orders, Trident 4.
While moving on to the Far Building with Rescue 1, the Master Chief Petty Officer orders Rescue 2 to breach and clear the Middle Building. After terminating four enemy squads in total, both teams still have not found Chloe.
Shade: HVI not here in the Far Building! Rescue 2, SITREP!
Rescue 1-1: Continue search!
Rescue 2-1: Middle Building's a dry hole!
Shade: Roger that! Search the Near Right Building! Rescue 1 and I will take the Near End Building! We'll turn this entire island upside down if we have to!
Rescue 2-1: Roger, Trident 4!
At the last two possible locations, Rescue 2 comes out empty-handed. But Shade and Rescue 1 manage to locate an alive and well Chloe tied to a chair near two dead Colossus pilots, so Rescue 2 moves to the Near End Building to assist.
Rescue 2-1: HVI's not here in the Near Right Building, over!
Shade: HVI has been located! Near End Building, over!
Rescue 1-1: Defensive positions, Rescue 1!
Rescue 2-1: Moving to assist!
Chloe: *gasps* Who the hell are you?!
Shade: Call me Shade. We're U.S. Navy SEALs. Here to get you out.
Chloe: Gimme a gun. I'll follow you.
Shade: Okay, here. Be safe.
After un-gagging and freeing her, Shade safely gives Chloe his backup Springfield 1911 (2025 variant of the M1911) and starts escorting her with the Rescue Teams. While Section re-tasks Raptor 1-1 to hover on standby at the extraction point, the same cliff JSOC Strike Force came from.
Section: Re-tasking your assets. Raptor 1-1 moving to extract HVI at insertion point.
Raptor 1-1: Raptor 1-1 approaching pick-up zone.
Shade: Rescues, form up around Chloe! Keep her alive and unharmed at all costs! Move out!
Rescue 1-1: Move out!
Rescue 2-1: Move out!
Chloe: Alright, Shade. What's the plan?
Shade: Get to our VTOL aircraft for evac. Stay close, Chloe. Let's hit it.
Chloe: No shit.
Rescue 3-1: Rescue 3-1 to all units. Raptor 1-1 is spinning on deck. Load your packs.
But as Rescue 1, Rescue 2, Shade and Chloe get closer to the exfil point, Cordis Die SMAW and RPG teams start hitting JSOC Strike Force with everything they have.
Rescue 1-1: Enemy SMAWs! Watch out! Watch out—
boom boom*
Chloe: Nooo!
automatic rifle fire*
Rescue 2-1: Shade! Get the HVI outta here! RPG—
boom boom boom*
automatic rifle and LMG fire*
Shade: SHIT!
Rescue 3-1: Rescue 1! Rescue 2! Come in! Respond!
Chloe: They killed a lot of us, Shade!
Shade: We can't stay here, Chloe! Keep running to the VTOL! Go!
After losing Rescue Teams 1 and 2, Shade tells Chloe to run towards Rescue 3 and get on board Raptor 1-1. Once the HVI is secure, the Master Chief Petty Officer orders Rescue 3 and Raptor 1-1 to leave without him so that he can cover the escape from the SMAW and RPG teams, as well as join Rescue Teams 4 and 5 in recovering the fallen operators and Colossus pilots later.
Rescue 3-1: Come on, come on!
Chloe: Shade!
Shade: I'll be fine! Go on!
Rescue 3-2: He'll be okay. Don't worry, ma'am.
Rescue 3-3: HVI and all Rescue 3s on board! Full head count!
Rescue 3-4: Get us outta here!
Raptor 1-1: Pulling out! Hang on!
Shade: This is Trident 4! Enemy demo teams neutralized! Raptor 1-1 is up and away! En route to the Bainbridge, over!
Crosby: Roger that, Trident 4. Rescue 4 and Rescue 5 are up and ready to assist in the emergency recovery phase. Copy, over?
Shade: Copy that, Kraken, over! Rescue 4! Rescue 5! Let's get our boys home!
At the end of the operation, Shade, Rescue 4 and Rescue 5 manage to extract with their fallen brothers without anymore casualties. As the Cordis Die terrorist cell leaves the village the moment they were met with overwhelming retaliation.
In the Obama's Team Room, Briggs compliments Section and Crosby. The Petty Officer says his thanks and shares his thoughts on the mission's result to his TL.
To his surprise, the Lieutenant Commander agrees with it.
Admiral Briggs: Nice work, Mason, Crosby.
Crosby: Thank you, Admiral. *sighs* We lost a lot of our best men in this damn cold war. Didn't we? *makes sign of the Crucifix* Glad we made sure they didn't die for nothing.
Section: Agreed.
Crosby: Hmm.
Career Record:
Karma rescued.
Rewards:
M16A5
Springfield 1911
Browning HP (2025 variant)
SPAS-12 (2025 variant)
Citori 725
PP-19 Vityaz
Uzi (2025 variant)
Dragunov (2025 variant)
Second Chance Intel
The Second Chance intel shows the pending funerals for Rescue 1, Rescue 2 and the murdered Colossus pilots who were forced by DeFalco to take him and Chloe to Yemen. Including the specs of the VTOL transport variant and Chloe's progress on cracking the Celerium device.
And lastly, the compiled, coherent file of DeFalco himself. In layman's terms, the parts in the original dossier that are not covered in black ink.
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Name: [REDACTED]
Codename/Alias: 'DeFalco'
Position/Rank: Second in Command of Cordis Die, Worldwide Civil Order Private Military Contractors Chief Executive Officer, [REDACTED]
Affiliation: Cordis Die, Worldwide Civil Order Private Military Contractors, United Nations Military Peacekeeping Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
I.D. # [REDACTED]
Age: [REDACTED]
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 LBS
Bio:
In unrelated news, the whole personal background of DeFalco remains heavily redacted, except for the fact that he understands the concepts of mercy and empathy. Because U.N. Military Peacekeeping Intelligence still keeps its agent's uncensored file and objective so close to its chest, despite orders from the U.S. to release them. In related news, the real foundation of the Worldwide Civil Order Private Military Contractors can be traced back to the United Nations Security Council, with one of its best field agents acting as its CEO. Because of his strong, unwavering support for Raul Menendez and everything he and Cordis Die stand for, DeFalco was just the man the U.N. needed for their off-the-books clandestine ops in support of "Odysseus" and his "revolutionary group" to carry out The Second Cold War against the United States for The Cyber Attack on the Chinese Stock Markets. His substantial aid for the terrorist group and its cells all over the world convinced Menendez to welcome him into the Cordis Die Founding Inner Circle as his second in command. Farid, who was present at the time, said that the British agent/terrorist described his initiation as his life's proudest moment. Despite hails from the United Nations, the U.S. has officially designated DeFalco as a clear and present threat. Terminate on sight.