That afternoon, Alex was behind the controls of a helicopter once again. She liked flying them no doubt but after flying them from age seventeen to twenty four, it got old. She was flying the helicopter with the Ghosts team in the back, but had to help take out all the targets first. There were turrets, machine guns, and other helicopter all thrown in the mix. When she saw how many targets she had, she was a little overwhelmed, but kept her focus. She circled to the side of the complex and took out the turrets first and then the roads leading into the complex. The other three helicopters were taking out enemy fire elsewhere while Alex stuck to her route.

Missiles were starting to be launched way and she shot out her flares so the helicopter wouldn't get hit. She circled around and took out the missile launchers as well as more machine guns. It's been a while since she was doing this type of helicopter work so her aim was a bit off with her machine gun. There was a lot of enemy fire coming from the smoke stacks in the center of the complex, so she fired several missiles in that direction which took out the problem pretty quickly.

After a few minutes, the rapid fire stopped for a few seconds when an enemy chopper arose and began launching missiles. Alex maneuvered out of the way and fired her flares again before taking down the helicopter. "Enemy chopper down." she reported. "I count five more."

Missiles were being launched left and right by the enemy helicopters which required Alex to use a lot of her flares. She got a lock on most of her targets, but a few missiles whizzed by them through the air much to Alex's dismay. "God damn it." she cursed under her breath as she fired another missile. She shot the chopper down when another missile was coming her way. She flew frontwards and fired more flares, the missile exploding behind the chopper.

"Little too close for comfort, Alex!" Keegan said through the comms.

"Would you like to come up and do this?" Alex retorted. Keegan didn't respond. "Didn't think so. Now shut up."

Alex refocused her attention on the task on hand and began firing at the enemy helicopters once again. "More choppers inbound." Alex reported to the other pilots. She fired her machine gun at them and launched more missiles. Another enemy missile came just a bit too close to them, but Alex maneuvered away from it just in time. She circled around again to grab her bearing before she continued to help shoot down the helicopters. Once they were all down and sinking to the bottom of the gulf, Alex flew over to the drop point for the team.

Before she landed the helicopter, she and another one of the choppers took out all the enemies at the drop point. Once it was clear, Alex landed the helicopter. "You all better come back in one piece with Rorke!" Alex yelled to them as they left the helicopter. "You got it little sister." Merrick replied.

Alex took off again and got up in the air to make a clearer path for the team. She took out more hostiles and a few trucks as well as a large group of Feds. She wanted to be down there with them and helo, but she was fastened to the seat of a helicopter firing at enemies down below. She was still part of the mission, but she wanted to be with her brother. No, she needed to be with him. In case something happened she had to be there.

A few minutes passed before the team got close to where Rorke was. "You've got enemy ordnance outside your building." Alex said through the comms. "We're engaging. Danger close. Repeat danger close."

Alex and another chopper fired down on the trucks and turrets on the roof of the building the team was in. Once they were destroyed, Alex gave the go ahead to the team. They moved up to the building where Rorke was and Alex spotted more enemy fighters in their path. "Engaging." She informed Merrick and the others. Right away, she unleashed bullets from her machine gun and took out the Feds in the team's way. She cleared a path for the team who then infiltrated the building where Rorke was. They weren't even in the building for two minutes before Hesh came over the comms.

"Pirate this is Ghost-Six-Three. Urchin is secure. Moving to extraction point now." He said.

"Scarecrow this is Six-One. We have him." Merrick added.

"Roger that. Alex will bring you to the RV. We have to be mobile in thirty mikes." Elias responded.

Alex flew to the extraction point where the team was waiting for the Ghost Killer himself…Rorke. The look on Merrick's face was confusing. Even through his mask, Alex could make out pure anger mixed with hate, disappointment, and loss. And when Alex saw Rorke for the first time in person, it scared her. And she wasn't afraid of a lot of things, but the look he had in his eye…it was terrifying.

OOOOO

A couple hours later, Alex found herself on a plane with the team, Elias, and Rorke toed to a chair as Logan beat Rorke senseless. Elias kept asking about the dig sight Hesh and Logan found in San Diego. Alex was standing near her brother and watched Logan deliver punch after punch across Rorke's face. Elias eventually told him to stop and Logan did, stepping back with bloody knuckles. "What did they do to you?" Elias asked his former commander. "The same thing you did…" Rorke answered. "They set me free."

"You taught me a long time ago-Ghosts don't break." Elias reminded Rorke. "Now I'm gonna ask you one more time…"

"Everyone breaks Elias!" Rorke interrupted him. "Why don't you ask your buddy, Ajax…well…if he were still with us."

Elias, angered, pushed Hesh back and stormed over to the side of the plane. Alex backed up with Merrick to the side as Elias ordered his sons to grab Rorke's chair and bring him over to him. "So this is how it ends Elias?" Rorke questioned when Elias opened up the back of the plane. "You're gonna throw me out of this plane?"

"You're gonna tell me all about that dig site in San Diego." Elias declared.

"What, you're gonna drop me Lieutenant, again?"

"Answer me Rorke!"

"You really think you're gonna break me Elias? Bring it on! Come on! Here I am!"

"Logan bring him to me!"

Elias grabbed Rorke by the front of his shirt and Alex watched as he slammed him onto the floor. "It's over Rorke." Elias said. "We beat you."

"You didn't beat me, Elias…" Rorke replied. "You just made my job a hell of a lot easier."

Right after he said that, enemy planes appeared right behind them. "Back! Get back! BACK!" Elias yelled. Merrick grabbed Alex and pulled her behind him as the plane launched ropes out and attached them to the plane, pulling it apart. The force of gravity pulled everyone down, but Merrick was able to keep a hold on his sister. He had her by the wrist and was holding her as she dangled in the air. Unfortunately physics wanted her to come down and Merrick didn't know how much longer he could hold onto her.

"Merrick let me go!" she told him.

"No!" he replied.

"Merrick I have a chute! We're gonna hit the ground eventually…now let me go!"

"I'm not dropping you!"

"We can't stay together like this! I promise I will find you when we get to the ground but you have to let me go!"

Merrick met his sister's eyes and slowly released his grip on her wrist and then watched her as she fell. He let go moments after and followed her down, but it wasn't lone until he lost sight of her in the clouds and plane parts falling through the air. Alex was falling through the air and doing spin after spin making her sick to her stomach. She opened her chute and the fall slowed down, but then she realized her chute was tangled so she was still falling through the air rather fast. She looked up and saw the lines were tangled to shit and that wasn't good. When she looked back down, she hit a large piece of metal and everything went black.

So this chapter might be a little boring because although Birds of Prey was fun to play, it wasn't as fun and exciting to write. And for The Hunted, I don't know how it will turn out. So this and the next chapter won't be the most amazing chapters, so I apologize. But I guess we all end up with those kinds of chapters eventually.