Chapter Four

I know it's been awhile, been busy with College and senior shit that I gotta go through.

Third Person PoV:

The morning light shines through the window signally morning has come. In the bunk rooms, only one person lay in his bed while the bunks around him were empty. Roach opens his eyes as he scans the area around him. He sees that the dorm is empty and he closes his eyes back again and falls back asleep. As he starts falling back to deep sleep he can hear the sound of someone kicking a wall. He opens his eyes as he sees two 141 members standing across his bed. Both of them are talking to each other as another one is kicking the wall with his boots. Roach opens his eyes and sits up as he can no longer tolerate the noise.

"Hey, look who decided to finally wake up" The man said.

Roach rubs his eyes as he stares at the two of them and he climbs out of his bed and walks towards them.

"Who are you two?" Roach asked.

The one in a blue T-Shirt with a brown Kevlar vest walks up to him and shakes his hands.

"The names Cpl. Nick Moore, you can call me Rocket." Rocket replied. Oddly enough he is wearing a balaclava covering his entire face except for a giant oval cut out for his eyes and his goggles are propped on his helmet. The partner who is African American and is not wearing a ski mask and is instead showing his face.

"The name's Sgt. Jeremiah Miller, you can call me Chemo." Chemo said.

"Nice meeting both of you." Roach replied

"Mind telling me where everyone is?" Roach asked

"Yea, everyone is down for breakfast at the cafeteria. You might wanna get dressed and do your business, Mactavish wants to speak with you as well." Chemo replied.

Roach nods as the two of them walks off to the cafeteria and Roach looks around as he gets dressed with his normal attire which is black shirt and blue jeans. He does his normal routine of 20 pushups and 10 sit ups before heading down for breakfast. As he reaches breakfast he sees everyone looking up at him before acknowledging his existence and goes back to their normal conversations. Roach walks to the lunch line as he gets his food and sits by a empty table. He starts eating and he looks around realizing that he's the only one sitting alone.

"Well...I am the FNG, gonna take some time." Roach whispered.

He continues eating as he looks up and sees Capt. MacTavish walking to his table and sits down across from him.

"So, Roach, what do you think?" MacTavish asked.

"Pretty good I guess, can't complain." Roach replies

Just then Ghost comes by and sits down next to Roach and he looks at him before putting his hands out.

"The names Ghost, we already met." Ghost said.

"Roach." Roach replied as he shook his hands.

Roach stares at Ghost as he puts his plate down and picks up the fork to start eating.
"Is there a problem?" Ghost asked.

"Not really...just how are you gonna eat with that mask on?" Roach asked.

MacTavish then speaks out.
"Don't worry mate, Let him be, you'll find out eventually." MacTavish said.

With that being said Roach goes back to eating his breakfast. Once he was done he wanders around getting more information about each room and how their daily lives are. Most of the 141 members just hang out by the basketball court or the shooting range but mainly everyone just hangs out or run the course once in awhile. Roach wanders to the basketball court and sits by the bleachers to watch. There were about 20 141 members out side sitting cheering the red team on while the other 20 was cheering on the blue team. Roach sat on the side lines and watched with intensity. The only thing that indicated their names was on the back. Blue team consisted of: Ozone, Scarecrow, Rook, Angel, Zero, Chemist and Cherub. Red team consisted of Exxon, Twister, Cyclone, Cyclops, Gator and Bearcat. Both teams were playing the game like it was for their life. Roach cracked a smile as he watched them cheer and play each other, surprisingly even though they were pushed or shoved they showed good sportsmanship throughout the entire game. Finally MacTavish walks out and puts his hands on Roach's shoulders.

"Alright mate, it's time to test out your skills, let's see what you go" MacTavish said.

"What do you mean?" Roach replied.

"I mean it's time to test your skills, if you can beat the course in a set amount of time, you can stay. If not, you are sent back to your original unit." MacTavish answered

Roach nods his heads

"I got it."

The two start to walk back inside before MacTavish stops.

"Oh, I forgot to mention, everyone here, has made the course, no one has failed it."

Roach gulps and he looks at the course. Currently there is someone running the course as Ghost stands in the observatory deck and he looks. Near the entrance there are 141 members dressed up and gearing up for the course. He spots Chemo and Rocket there.

"Thats why they were both geared up" Roach whispered to himself.

Just then the two of them made it to the course.

"Alright, Roach, there is where you gear up, get whatever equipment you need and be ready" MacTavish said as he walks towards the observatory deck.

"Ghost, I'm gonna need the course for a bit." MacTavish said.

"You got it." Ghost replied. He stops the course and the soldier gets up from his prone position and he walks off. Everyone leaves the course but waits outside to see how Roach otherwise known as the FNG would do. Roach has already gathered his equipment and he walks towards the entrance of the course. Just then an intercom opens and MacTavish's voice is heard.

"Alright Roach, the course is simple. Go up the ramp and dodge the four sentry guns, they are non lethal. Then take out the hostile targets and storm the building, go up and clear each room as fast as you can. Then rappel down and clear the landing and sneak your way out the course." MacTavish explained.

Roach nodded but inside he was really nervous wreck. If he even messed up once, he would be a laughing stock of the place so he had a lot of pressure on him.

"Alright, Roach the timer starts when you enter are you ready?" Ghost said.

Roach decides to look over his weapon and equipment once again. He picked out his weapons; a M4A1 with a red dot and silencer. His secondary rather than a pistol, he picks up a MP5K with a silencer. He grabs 5 flash bangs and 5 grenades and decides to go light and takes out the metal plating on the Kevlar. He puts on a balaclava; similar to Chemo and puts his goggles on. He walks to the entrance carrying the M4A1.

"Alright Roach, you ready?" MacTavish asked.

"Yea, I'm ready." Roach said.

"Roach, when you clear the building, it is a different time." Ghost added.

With that being said Roach walks to the gate and waits for MacTavish to signal him. All 100 members of the 141 watched as Roach took one deep breath.

"START!" MacTavish yelled.

The gates open and the sentry gun's swayed from left to right. The laser was what Roach needed to watch out for; if the laser got a hold of him, he would be pinned for a long time. He watched as the laser moved away from his position and ran to the closest sandbag wall. He looked up and looked around.

"Okay, I'm pinned here but if I can just get something to distract the sentry guns I can get out of this spot."Roach thought.

He looks around takes out his Kevlar vest and he pops up and throws it at the sentry guns. When the laser designator spotted the moving object, the sentry gun spun it's barrel it's guns and shot out paintball that turn the Kevlar from brown to 10 different colors. Roach used the distraction to run towards the building. He aimed down the red dot as the enemy targets were popping up. He took shots to the chest and some to the head. He ran inside the building and shot at the targets that would appear. Then the intercom came on.

"Roach, clear the two floors as fast as you can, the moment you kick the door down, a new timer will start." MacTavish said into the Intercom.

Roach cleared the room and reloaded the M4 and switched to his MP5. Once he was done, he kicked the door down and tossed a flash bang inside and pop out and shot at the hostile targets. He cleared the three rooms by doing the same thing. He runs up the stairs and clears the two rooms. He runs up the stairs, kicks the door open and guns down the targets up on the roof.

"Roach, rappel down and finish the course. GO GO GO!" Ghost yelled.

Roach took the rope and tied it to his waist as he doesn't have his Kevlar with him. He takes the clip, wraps it around the metal bar and he tugs on it to make sure it will hold. He then climbs to the other side and jumps off holding the rope and stopping ever so often to make sure he doesn't fall. Once he lands he takes out his knife and cuts the rope. During that time he was spotted by a sentry that he should of sneaked out of and had to duck for cover. The targets started to pop up and each noise that it made would make the sentry gun move around longer. He knifed the target and crawled his way around. He would shoot his M4 at the targets that were far away. Just as he was about to reach the end however, the sentry spots him and begins firing away. Roach ducks for cover but he had no choice but to toss the grenades which destroyed the sentry and paved the way for his exit. Once he exits a timer stopped and a time was shown. It read 20.45 seconds for Intro 18.45 for building and 21.34 for exit. Roach drops his guns and sits down catching his breath. He felt like he ran 10 miles and he could barely breathe. He rips off the balaclava so he can breathe better.

"Good Job mate, you made the team." MacTavish said as he patted his back.

Roach took a large breath and grinned. The 141 cheered for him and patted his back, many said "Nice Job man" others "Nice trick with the Kevlar" and lastly "Congrats, welcome." Roach was the center of attention until the doors from the exit opened and the President walked in. They all looked and saluted him.

"You don't need to keep doing that" President said.

They all dropped their hands and smiled.

"Roach, front and center" President yelled.

Roach walked through the crowd and walked in front of the President. He had a stern look but then dropped it and smiled.

"Congrats for making the team Roach. You can now wear that emblem on your shirt proudly." President said as he handed him the 141 badge.

Roach took it and saluted him.

"Now, here's the formal greeting." President said as he cleared his throat.

"Welcome, Gary "Roach" Sanderson, to the 141, best handpicked group of warriors from the planet." President said.

Roach grinned and saluted him one last time.

"It's an honor sir." Roach replied.

With that being said Roach shakes his hands and he walks to the crowd as they all cheer.

"Alright you guys, remember, you guys will have a mission soon. So be prepared. I will be leaving, just came to congratulate the newest member." President said.

The President leaves and everyone then disperses chatting away. MacTavish and Ghost congratulates him. Roach walks to the bunk and he drops to the bed and dozes off with a grin on his face.