Major Freya is watching soldiers load supplies into a rge AC-130, Commanders, Silica, Stait, Osami and Arndt, are off to the side, getting their gear on. The Sun sets in the distance.

  A soldier runs up to Freya and gives her a satellite phone. She nods to the soldier and grabs the phone, before listening to it. She gets a quick briefing on the Success Of Operation Overlord and Dragon's Breath.

  She pockets the phone and walks over to her fellow soldiers. "Alright girls, it's go time! Both operations were a success, but we've suffered heavy casualties. So let's not make their sacrifices be in vain!"

  The other nod and Stait speaks up.

  "How many?"

  "5,000 plus so far." Freya walks past the girls and grabs an M4A1SOPMOD. "And there were a few ship casualties."

  "Who did we lose?" Arndt asks in an angry tone.

  "Don't know yet, didn't want to know honestly. I want to keep a straight head on." Freya heads towards the pne as it starts up. "Let's go girls."

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  Satellite imagery locates Team 141's pne in the Altay Mountains. Freya is heard over the radio.

  "It's quite simple. Either we retake the unch facility or we won't recognize the world tomorrow. Green light to HALP. Charlie Team go."

  A set of soldiers jump out the pne.

  "Second drop approaching. Bravo Team stay tight. Go."

  The satellite tracks the movements of Taskforce 141, and it shows Commander Arndt moving far off course from the rest of the squad.

  Then Silica nds on the ground and she takes off her parachute and readies her M4A1 SOPMOD.

  "Code Bck"Sep 20, 1943 - 06:19:38Aty Mountains, Northern ParlimentCommander Alice SilicaTask Force 141

  Silica regroups with Freya, Osami and Stait. Snow falls slowly around them. Osami shivers a little as she fixes her gsses.

  "Where's Arndt?" Freya questions.

  "No idea ma'am." Stait checks her rifle quickly.

  Suddenly Command is heard over the radio.

  "Bravo Six, Arndt just activated her emergency transponder. She's half a klick to your south west, over."

  Freya puts a hand up to her ear. "We're on our way. Bravo Six out." She turns to the rest. "Let's go."

  Freya takes the lead and the rest follows. Engines roar the distance, getting closer.

  "I-I hear engines." Silica calls out.

  "Contact front." Stait calls out. "Enemy vehicle."

  The squad takes cover behind some trees as they spot a car stop 10 meters ahead, and several enemy soldiers climb out.

  "Drop 'em." Freya orders.

  The squad open fires, quietly and quickly taking them down. Freya motions forward.

  "Move."

  They move through the dark snowy ndscape.

  "Fshlights." Osami spots half a dozen fshlights in the distance, soldiers approaching their position.

  "Hold your fire." Freya orders. "Let them get a little closer."

  Silica moves behind a tree and leans her rifle against it, as she aims it at the approaching hostiles. They get closer and a minute passes until their nearly right in front of the team.

  "Open fire." Freya orders, and the four swiftly take out the patrol.

  They quickly move on and come to a small little vilge.

  "They must have Arndt in one of those houses." Freya mutters, and she finds a door. "There's an entry point through the basement door. We'll go room to room from there. Keep it quiet. Move out."

  Silica posts at the bottom of a small stairs to the door, aiming her rifle at it. Osami positions herself on the other side of Freya, and Stait moves behind Freya.

  The Major brings up her rifle and silently enters the house, with the other quietly following. The small basement is empty and Freya heads up a set of stairs, with Silica right behind her.

  Freya enters a living room and finds a Separatist looking out a window. She sets her rifle on her side and grabs a knife from her hip. She tiptoes over and grabs the soldier, putting a hand over his mouth, and stabbing him in the throat.

  After a small and short struggle, Freya sets the soldiers body on the ground, cleaning her knife on his uniform. Silica moves into the dinning room, finding it empty, as Stait moves into the kitchen.

  "Room clear." Stait whispers.

  "This floor's clear. Move up to the second." Osami whispers.

  Osami stops at the bottom of the stairs and motions for Silica to move up. Silica nods and slowly heads up the stairs, with Osami right behind her.

  Silica finds a closed door at the top of the stairs, and an open door just down the hall. Osami motions to the end of the hallway, as she posts on the closed door.

  Silica stops right outside the room, and peers inside. Seeing a soldier resting on a chair with his feet on a box, and a solider in the door way, her back to Silica, smoking.

  Silica pulls out her knife and suppressed pistol. She fires a round into the smoking female soldier's head, before grabbing the sleeping solder and stabbing him in the throat.

  The soldier struggles for a second, before going still. Silica cleans her knife before putting it away. Osami peers into the room and nods to Silica.

  "Upstairs is clear." Silica says into her radio. "But Arndt isn't here."

  "Roger that, regroup on me downstairs." Freya orders.

  Osami and Silica head back to the stairs, with Silica peering into the room Osami went in. Spotting a pair of dead soldiers on bunk beads. Their throats cut open, Silica shivers, but steels her nerves and follows Osami down stairs.

  Silica finds Freya drinking from a bottle of vodka, before setting it on a table. She then looks over to the two as she heads for the front door.

  "Move to the next house, keep it quiet."

  Freya heads outside with Stait right behind her. Osami gives a "Really" look as she looks between Freya and the empty bottle of Vodka. She and Silica quickly follow after the other two.

  The find two houses in front of them, and Freya motions to the one of the right.

  "Silica, go take a look. Osami, make sure no returning patrols find us."

  Freya and Stait head into the left house, as Silica heads to the right. A soldier is leaning against a truck just outside her house, and she fires a round to her head.

  The soldier falls to the ground with a thud and Silica moves to the front door, peering into the window beside it.

  Freya is then heard over the radio. "The sun's coming up. We're running out of time."

  Silica looks to the horizon and sees the sun peaking, casting its warm glow over the cold and snowy mountains. She then heads inside and hears Arndt's loud compining from upstairs.

  She scans the bottom floor, finding no one. She then heads upstairs, finding an empty room and a room down the hall with closed doors, Arndt's voice is heard inside it.

  "I found Arndt." Silica heads for the door.

  "Good, we're on our way over." Stait informs.

  Silica grabs a breaching charge and puts it on the handle, and lights the fuse. She turns away from it, and after a few seconds it goes off, blowing the door open.

  Silica quickly moves inside, gunning down three stunned soldiers. She looks to her left, finding Commander Arndt tied to a chair, blood falling from her nose as she smiles.

  "Well, hello there." Arndt greets.

  Silica sets her rifle on her back as she pulls out her knife. She walks behind and cuts the zipties holding Arndt. The other three enter the room as Arndt stands up.

  "Wurde auch verdammt nochmal Zeit." Arndt compins. "I was starting to think you guys were gonna leave me behind."

  Freya grabs Arndt's RPD off a table and hands it to her. "That was my first though, but your arse had all the C4." She looks her up and down. "You alright?"

  Arndt chuckles as she wipes her nose. "Yeah, I'm right as rain."

  Everyone heads back downstairs and head outside, moving up the road. Freya gnces back at everyone, before speaking.

  "We need to knock out that tower so the advance teams can breach the electrified perimeter."

  They move up a path towards a electrical tower, but the sounds of helicopters cut through the air in the distance, coming towards them.

  "Enemy helicopters." Stait calls out.

  Everyone hits the deck as Hind fly overhead.

  "Go!" Freya calls out and everyone heads towards the Eletrical tower.

  "Charlie Six, what's your status? Over." Freya asks in her coms.

  "Team Two in position at the perimeter." Charlie Six informs. "Waiting on you to kill the power, over."

  "Roger. Arndt, Silica. Pnt the charges. Go."

  Arndt tosses Silica a block of C4 as the climb onto the Electrical Tower's cement base. They pnt their explosives on the front legs, before running back to a safe distance with the others.

  "Charges set. Everyone get clear!" Arndt shouts.

  Arndt tosses Silica the detonator. Freya nods to Silica.

  "Silica - do it!"

  Silica triggers the detonation, causing a loud explosion to ring out in the valley. The tower groans as it falls forward, crashing into the valley bellow. The wires above the group spark as they tumble to the ground. They head to the edge of the cliff and look out to the unch facility in the distance.

  Freya speaks into her radio. "Charlie Six, the tower's down and the power's out. Twenty Seconds."

  Smoke rises up from the tower's crash site.

  "Roger. We're breaching the perimeter. Standby." Charlie Six informs.

  "Backup power in ten seconds..." Arndt informs.

  "Standby."

  "Five seconds..."

  Silica runs a hand through her white hair. She lets out an anxious breath. Stait grabs her hand and squeezes it, the two smile at each other.

  Charlie Six then speaks over coms. "Ok. We're through. Bravo Six, we'll wait for you at the rally point. Over."

  Freya lets out a breath. "Roger Team Two, we're on our way. Out." They head to a chain-link fence that blocks their path. "Get that fence open!"

  Osami pulls out some sort of spray, and sprays a small hole on the fence. She tosses the can to the side and grabs the fence, and tugs on it. The part she sprayed gives way, making her fall to the ground with a yelp.

  Arndt lets out a chuckle and Osami gres at her, pushing herself off the ground. They head through the hole and moves through a small forest, a small base on the other side.

  "Enemy helicopters." Stait calls out as a set of Hind flies overhead, towards to the baseand dropping off soldiers.

  "Gonna get real busy around here, soon." Arndt smiles as she gives an evil chuckle.

  Silica moves slightly away from Arndt. They come to the edge of the complex.

  "Osami, take Silica and Stait, and scout through the base." Freya grabs Arndt by the shoulder. "Arndt and I will look for an alternate route."

  "On it." Osami then leads the other two through a hole in the bases wall.

  They come to a small weapons cache and Osami grabs a couple grenades and fshbangs, while Stait grabs a Dragunov. Silica finds an Northern Parliament RPG and she slings it on her back, and puts an extra rocket on the back of her hip.

  The three then enter an empty garage as the helicopters take off. The see soldier running around the base, moving towards them and Stait open fires first with her sniper rifle.

  Osami and Silica swiftly move out of the garage and open fire onto the solders, before taking cover behind some rge crates. With Stait providing cover, Silica and Osami quickly take out the soldiers around them.

  "More Choppers!" Arndt shouts over coms as a pair of hinds fly in and stop overhead.

  Silica uses the under barrel grenade under to take down the helicopters, and they crash just outside the base. Osami gives her a thumbs up.

  "Well, that's one way to use that."

  "Honestly, always wanted to do that." Silica admits as Stait regroups with them.

  "Let's move up." Stait orders and the three head trough a warehouse, and spot Arndt and Freya on the other side of the road. They run over and start moving through the second half of the base.

  More choppers fly in and drop off soldiers on the other side of a building in front of them. They go to shoot at it, but dive for cover as a pair of RPGs fly over their heads.

  Stait uses her sniper to shoot down the rocket unchers. The group slowly moves through the base, keeping to cover as rounds fly over their heads.

  Kilo Four Foxtrot speaks over coms. "Bravo Sit be advised, three trucks packed with shooters are headed your way."

  They head through another warehouse and a set of trucks pull up. Osami takes out a pair of grenades and tosses them. One nds through an open window of one transport truck and at the base of the other. The grenades go off, blowing up one truck and killing the soldiers in the other.

  Silica swiftly pulls out her RPG and fires onto the st truck, blowing it and the soldiers with it , up. The group quickly finishes off an stragglers.

  They heads down the road away from the base. Sirens start to sound off int he distance from the Launch Facility.

  "That's not good." Silica mutters.

  "Let's hurry." Freya calls out

  Suddenly the radio flickers to life.

  "Bravo Six, Sniper Team Two. We're comin' outta the treeline to the south."

  A pair of gullied snipers walk out from the forest beside the team. Freya holds her hand up.

  Baxterbro

  "Hold your fire, it's one of the Eagle Union sniper teams."

  The group moves up to the snipers.

  Kilo Four Foxtrot heads over to Freya and smiles, the two shake hands.

  "Good to see you guys made it." He nods to Silica, she nods back. "Commander Silica." He then look back to Freya. "We'll give you sniper cover once you're inside the perime-" The ground shakes as a light shines from the Launch base. "What the hell is that?"

  A bright light shines, making everyone cover their eyes. Once it dies down they spot a missile travel towards the sky.

  "Uhhh, we got a problem here!" Arndt shouts.

  Freya brings a hand to her headset and shouts. "Delta One X-Ray. We got a missile Launch, I repeat we have a missile-" The ground shakes again as a second missile takes to the air.

  "There's another one!" Arndt shout sin horror.

  "Delta One X-Ray - we have two missiles in the air over!"

  Silica watches in horror as the missiles fly high into the sky. Their target is most likely her home country. Everyone stares in shock.

  Command then speaks over coms. "Uhh... roger. Bravo Six, our satellites are tracking them now. Get your team inside the facility and retake the unch control center. We're working on getting the abort codes from Northern Parliament at this time. Out."

  Everyone runs for the base as fast as their legs can take them.

  "Roger that!"

  Arndt grits her teeth. "It's on now Major."

  They move as fast as they can, their hearts beating out of their chests. As Millions of Lives are in their hands.

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