The Enemy of My Enemy, is my friend.

 ~The Next morning~

I was awoken by Soap; I had to say I was in a deep sleep, something I haven’t gotten since this war started. Dunn has been writing to me every now and then telling me DC is trashed and they have to go in to stop them. I just thought it was crazy that the Russians are on American soil. But at the end of the day, there was one man to blame for this war, and that was Makarov. I slowly but surely rolled out of bed and got dressed, I had on my camouflage pants with a simple t-shirt, Soap had came in to check on me, “You have to dress warmer then that Heather, we are going into a cold environment.” He said walking over to me, he looked and pulled out a hoodie for me he placed it on me, it was thick so I knew I’d be warm, he then placed my gear on me and then smiled, “Now you’re ready.” He said I just smiled and we got in a chopper the ride was a while we were heading to the Gulag, but we were being stopped by a SAM we had to take down. We had to go to oil rigs that are being held down by the Russians. “How are we going to clear out the Russians?” I asked, Soap looked at me “Underwater.” He said we linked up with the Navy seals; Soap along with Roach took out the two guards, which allowed us all to get out of the water, “Now what?” I said, “We go save the hostages, remember suppressed weapons only, “Heather you’re with me, Roach and Ghost go breach the other side. I walked over to the door and Soap looked at me, “Are you ready for this?” he asked, I looked at him and nodded and placed the charge on the door, when it went off I turned in first and took out two enemies from the left, and Soap took out the two from the right, I looked and seen Ghost and Roach take out the guys on the other side, “All cleared!” I yelled, “Good job team. Ghost you stay here and wait for the Marines to extract the hostages, Heather you’re with me.” Soap said, we went up to the next level and took out the enemies that got in our way “Ready to breach this room Heather?” he asked me, I reloaded my gun and smiled, “I was born ready!” I said placing a charge on the door, once it blew open I turned and took out the men on my left and Soap took out the others on the right, “Clear…” I said. “Clear.” Soap said, then Bravo came over Soaps radio saying we will be expecting some more men coming in, “Roach, Heather… Planet some C4’s on the bodies.” Soap said, we did just that, and Soap climbed up a ladder to get a better view and I followed him, “Are you switched to plane B?” he asked me, I nodded and we waited, “Standby….. Standby….. NOW!” he yelled, I clicked the detonator to the C4 and blew up the guys then I switched to a Sniper weapon and started to snipe the guys, “This area’s cleared!” I yelled jumping down from the post, “Okay guys just one more area to breach then off to the Gulag.” Soap said, we all ran upstairs and seen the doors we had to go to, just then a smoke screen was thrown up and the enemies were using thermal scoped weapons, so we all switched to ours, I had a thermal sniper and started to snipe them, once I cleared one area I ran over to Soaps side and gave him a hand, while I was reloading I didn’t realize I was out in the open and I got hit on the shoulder and fell back, “HEATHER!!” Soap yelled, he took out the rest of the guys and pulled me over to the side, “Are you okay?” he asked me looking me dead in the eyes, I took a deep breath from the impact “Yeah… I’m… alright.” I said taking another deep breath, “You’re probably in shock, if this is your first time being shot this will happen… Just relax and let me see.” He said, I had my hair in a ponytail and since it was long it had flowed over the area I was shot, he placed my hair behind me and pulled out his knife and cleaned it off and picked out the bullet, “Well you aren’t going to die.” He said ripping off a piece of his t-shirt and wrapped in around the wound. “There, that will do for now, we still have a war to fight.” He said standing up and helping me to my feet, I reloaded my gun and walked over to the door, “Now remember guys, be careful when you breach this room, they rigged it to explode.” Soap said, this time he placed the charge on the door and entered first, “Cleared left.” He said, I turned in and shot the guys on the right, “Cleared right,” I said Ghost and Roach cleared their side, “Okay guys we have to head to the helicopter paid, let’s go.” Soap said, I was the last to leave with Soap behind me, he grabbed my arm and turned me around, “Are you sure you’re shoulder is going to be ok?” he asked me, I just looked him in the eyes, “Yes Soap, I’ll be fine… I promise.” I said, he slowly put his arm around me and we walked to the heli paid together, we sat down and I was handed a sniper, I loaded it and we were on our way to the Gulag.

~At the Gulag~

“This place has a history, not much of it pretty. It has an actual dungeon, the structure survived every brutal winter, the people that lived in it… Not so lucky.” Soap said when we got close to the Gulag Soap told us to get our snipers ready; I loaded and locked my gun, “Okay, let’s light them up!!” Soap said, I looked in the scope of my sniper and started sniping, taking a quick breath before pulling each trigger.  When we were getting ready to shoot at these people, one of the American air force planes shot a little too close to us, “Shepherd get your men to seize fire that was too close.” Soap said, Shepherd got on and said how the pilot isn’t really in a talking mood, and I felt that was kind of fishy. “When are we landing Soap?” I asked him, he looked at me, “Right now… But how’s your shoulder?” I just looked at him, Soap was built like you’re typical solider, he had those big biceps, he was in such physical shape he looks like he can tip a train over, but he wasn’t big like those body builders you would see. He had a scare over his right eye; I never did ask him how he got it, but his hair… It wasn’t a military buzz cut; he had a short kind of buzzed cut looking Mohawk. It really fit his appearance. “Heather… Are you okay?” Soap asked me; I snapped out of it, “Yeah, I’m fine.” I said smiling; I slowly stepped off the chopper and followed Soap and the others to our check point, “Heather snipe the RPG’s on the roofs!” Soap yelled, “Got it!” I said, I looked up and seen them with my scope, I held in my breath and took them out, I released my breath and we all went inside, and cleared areas there, then we reached the cells, “Ghost, try to get these cell doors open, everyone else on me!” Soap yelled, we walked down through the cells, “He’s not in this one!” I shouted looking in the empty cell, you can tell this place was old; the paint was peeling off the walls like when someone peels a potato. I walked back over to Soap who was waiting for the doors to open, we heard one open, but it was the wrong one, “Damn it Ghost you opened the wrong one!” Soap said killing the enemies that were coming through, then the one in front of us had opened and we ran through it, “Quick, down to the Amery!” I yelled, Soap just gave me a look like why are you giving me orders, I’m the captain here, “Soap come on, he isn’t in any of these cells, it’ll be pointless to look through all of them.” I said grabbing his arm and pulling him down the stairs, “See anything you like boys?” I asked, I walked over and picked up an AK47. “Ghost open this door to the other side of the Amery.” Soap said, “Okay I’m on it.” He said in reply to Soap, just then we heard gun shots, “Everyone grab a riot shield.” Soap said, I walked over and picked one up, “Ghost open the door!” Soap said, “I’m trying, it’s stuck!!!!” Ghost yelled back, it took a while but we got it open, I ran out first, I bashed my riot shield against an enemy as hard as I can, but he was stronger than me and ended up knocking me on the ground, he was about to shoot me, but Soap shot him before he can, “Clear?” Soap asked, “Clear!” Roach said, I looked over the rail, and looked at Soap, “You thinking what I’m thinking?” I said to him, he pulled out a rappelling rope… “One step ahead of you,” he smiled, “Hook up everyone!” he said, we all did and rappelled down, when we landed we didn’t have enemy forces near us; we all slowly walked up, “Clear left.” Roach said, “Clear Right.” I said, we all went right and Soap stopped at a wall, “Heather, put a charge on the wall… We are taking a short cut.” He said to me, I did that and planted the charge, once it blew I slowly turned in and started cleaning house, I cleared left and in front of me, and Soap did the same thing to the right, “Clear!” I yelled we were inside the shower room now; a group of Russians had riot shields, “Stay to the sides everyone and cook your grenades and toss them behind the guys okay?” Soap said, we did so and went through the showers, killing them off one by one, once we were cleared we went down a hole at the end of the shower rooms, “Task Force this is Bravo team, we are detecting two heat signatures in the wall beside you, one of them is Prisoner 627.” The overlord said “Okay we got it; Roach put a charge on the wall.” Soap said, he did that and breached through the door, then he ended up on the ground, I looked and seen a gun held to him face, then I looked at soap, “Drop it.” He said to the prisoner, holding a pistol to his head “Soap?” he said, “Price?” Soap said pulling the pistol away from his head and turning it around so the grip was facing Price, “This belongs to you sir.” Soap said, I remember that pistol, Price had gave it to Soap when they were on a bridge, Soap used that pistol to kill Zakhaev who was a Russian terrorist that ran the Ultranationalist Party but when he died, Makarov became the leader of the group and changed the name to the Inner Circle. Just then explosions started going off, “We got to get the hell out of here!” I yelled “Is that Heather?” Price asked Soap before he can answer Shepherd went on the radio “Be advised Task Force that the Navy had started their bombing early!” Shepherd said, “This way everyone!” Soap yelled, we all followed him, we ran and as we were running walls were falling everywhere “There I see the chopper!” I yelled running over to the exit, but then a big piece of wall fell down blocking it, “Come on this way!” Soap yelled, we all ran into this room, wall and plaster were still falling down, I looked over and seen Roach fall to the ground, he had got hit from a falling wall, Price went over to him and helped him out, then he looked over to Soap, “Whatever you’re going to do Soap, do it now!!!” he yelled, Soap looked up through a hole and shot a flare up it, then a rope had fell down, “Okay everyone hook up!” he yelled, I was looking for a spot for me, and there wasn’t one, “There isn’t any room!” I yelled, and the rope was getting ready to go up, Soap just pulled me close to him and held me tight by my waste, I had wrapped my arms around his neck so I wouldn’t fall. As the chopper was pulling us up, everything was blowing up below us… I had my eyes closed, and then I opened them, and looked at Soap, “So where are we going now?” I asked him, he just looked at me, “Back to base for now.” He said.

~Back at Base~

“I have a mission we can do.” Price said to us, I was laying on a couch icing my shoulder I had got shot in earlier that day, Soap was sitting next to me allowing me to rest my feet on him, Ghost and Roach were playing a card game of some sort. “Really, what does this mission involve old man?” Soap asked, “You’ll find out tomorrow, but we are going to Petropavlovsk, Russia well somewhere close to it.” Price said, “Well then I better get some rest. I said stretching and turning so that my feet hang off the side of the couch, “Okay Heather… Rest that shoulder.” Soap said, I just walked out the door and into my bunker. Price looked over at me, “What are you looking at Price?” I asked him. “You like her don’t you Soap?” he said with a cheesy looking smirk, “I don’t not have to answer that!” I said, “That’s because it’s true!!” Roach yelled in the background. “No one asked you.” I said sounding defensive, and then I finally gave in signing, “Okay… I maybe like her a little.” I said “More like a lot.” Ghost muttered, “Okay enough of this. I’m going to bed.” I said walking away… they just laughed and I kind of laughed too…

~The next morning~

“Shepherd are you willing to do what is necessary to win?” I asked Shepherd over the phone, “Always.” He replied. “We got ourselves a pretty big fire. Gonna need a huge bang.” I replied back to him, “Price, you've been locked in the gulag for too long. Better get your mind right, son. Focus on taking out Makarov.” He said to me, I took a deep breath “No can do, sir. We have to end this war today.” I said I'm not asking you, Price. This is an order! You're to— before he can finish I hung up the phone “Looks like we lost our connection." I said before gathering up Ghost and Roach and heading over to this submarine the Russians have. If Shepherd doesn’t want this war on American soil to stop, I’ll stop it myself.

We were all in Russia, and I must say… It is freaking cold here! “So why do I get to help you set up predator drones?” I asked Soap, “Because it’s not an easy thing one person can do.” Soap said to me, then I looked on the radar and seen Roach wasn’t on there “Uh… Price, can you see if Roach is okay? I’m not picking him up on the radar.” I said, “Copy that, I found him… He seems to be in one piece, how’s that predator missile going along Soap?” Price asked, “Good.” He replied, “Okay guys, there is some guards, up a head of you guys… Two dogs are with them.” I said “Dogs. I hate dogs.” Soap said I just laughed, once Price and Roach took out the gauds they moved on. It wasn’t long before they caught up with ghost. “Okay predator missile is ready.” Soap said, “Okay Roach drop it…” Price said, “Shit… there’s a SMG somewhere out there, it shot down the missile.” I said, “I’ll get it.” Ghost said he was able to take down the SMG; they cut through the Russian bases clearing areas like they were told too. “You guys are almost to the submarine.” Soap said, “There's the submarine, right below that crane! Roach; soften up their defenses with the Predator. Watch for the flashing strobes…that's us." Price said, Roach took out the vehicle with the Predator and they held down the ground as Price went into the Submarine… Just then the sides of the submarine started to open “Price, do you copy? The silo doors are open, I repeat, the silo doors are open!” Ghost said, “Good.” Price said… While Ghost, Roach and the other were heading to Caucasus Mountains, in Russia to locate Makarov, who was said to be in a safe house there, myself, Soap and Price are heading to 60 miles SW of Kandahar, Afghanistan, U.S. Vehicle Disposal Yard 437… But when we got there I can’t believe what I was seeing…

~At Caucasus Mountains in Russia. (Tracking Makarov’s Safe house, Roaches POV)~

It was me and Ghost, we and some of the other guys from the team had to go to Makarov’s safe house, on Shepherds orders of course. Heather, Soap and Price were in Afghanistan cutting loose ends worth the Russians; we worked our way down the mountain and as we were almost at the end of the path we go ambushed, “Ambush!!” Ghost yelled, we had to fight our way through the Russians and the smoke screen. Then we finally made it near the safe house, “There are two trucks driving by, Makarov should be in one of them.” Ghost said, and we started shooting at them, “Shit they are bullet proof!” I said,
“Quick, hit them with a

Javelin!” I added, and they did, “Trucks are down.” Ghost said, “They could have been decoys.” He added, “Come on, let’s clear the safe house.” I said, we all walked up to the safe house and breached through the front door first, we took out the enemies and I moved down stairs and breached through what was an armory, “Enemy down.” I said, “Okay Roach, come up here and clear the upstairs.” Ghost said, I walked up the stairs and cleared it… “All clear.” I said, “No sign of Makarov here.” Ghost said, “Roach, connect the DSM to Makarovs computer we’ll get his files and hopefully get a lead on him.” Ghost said, I connected the DSM and waited, “Be advised men, Russian models heading your way, I advise you stock up on ammo and hold your ground, your extract unit should be there shortly.” The guy said over the radio, we did just that, “The files are done!” I shouted retrieving the DSM, “Okay let’s go!” Ghost yelled, we started running to the extract point, “Shepherd we got the DSM where is our ride out of here?” Ghost said, “We will be there shortly,” Shepherd said, I was running to the check point, but I was knocked down by a mortar, “I got you Roach!” Ghost said helping me to my feet; we walked over to the check point “Do you have the DSM?” Shepherd asked us, “Yes sir,” Ghost said, “Good. That’s one less loose end.” Shepherd said, just then I was shot, by Shepherd, and then ghost was shot by Shepherd… “Ghost, Come in! Do not trust Shepherd! We are under attack by his men in the bone yard! I repeat do not trust Shepherd!! SOAP, HEATHER watch the left flank!” Price yelled. “Ghost? Roach? Come in, Do you copy? Does anyone Copy?” Soap said, “They’re dead Soap.” Price said. “We trusted him.” Soap said, “You have to trust someone to be betrayed, I never did.” Price said…

~At the Bone yard. ~ (Heathers POV)

“Heather, Soap, don’t get pinned down out there, you have Shepherds men fighting on one side and Makarovs fighting on the other. Let them kill each other off and make your way to the runway!” Price said, “Heather hurry up!” Soap yelled, I got to my feet, and started running, I stopped every now and then to catch my breath, “The rides here hurry up!” Price yelled, I seen Soap already on the runway, I got up and started running, then I bumped into someone and fell to the ground, I knew he fell too because I heard him grunt, I looked up, “Dunn?” I said, he looked at me, “Heather?! What the hell are you doing here?” he asked, “Fighting a war… Why are you here?” I asked him, he looked at me, “Same.” He said, “No! This isn’t your war Dunn. This isn’t any of the Rangers war! Not anymore.” I said, he looked at me, “What do you mean?” he asked, “Your war ended in DC. Go I know they have extracts for the Rangers back that way… I want you to get on that plane Dunn. Shepherd set you up… He set all of us up.” I said, “Okay Heather… I’ll go… It’s good to see you again.” He said to me. I looked at him and just hugged him. “Now go Dunn… Go back to where it’s safe.” I said running off, I looked back to see if he was running off, and he was. I finally made it to the run way, “Took you long enough.” Soap said, “Sorry.” I said, “No worries.” He said, Price was able to get contact with Makarov.  “Makarov, I know you’re on this line… I give it a week and you won’t last.” Price said, “And neither will you.” Makarov said, “Makarov, have you ever heard the saying, the enemy of my enemy is my friend?” Price said, “Price, one day you’re going to find that cuts both ways. Shepherd is using Site Hotel Bravo. You know where it is, I’ll see you in hell.” Makarov said, “Looking forward to it. Give my regards to Zakhaev if you get there first.” Price said hanging up.

~At Site Hotel Bravo~ (Soaps POV)

"The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take... inventory. Out-gunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and rocks here stained with thousands of years of warfare... they will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."  Price said, he was referring to Shepherd, “I’ll come back in about 3 hours to pick you guys up.” Nikolai said, “Don’t bother this is a one way trip.” Price said stepping off of the chopper and I followed him, “What does he mean a one way trip.” Heather said looking at me, “It means… We might not make it out of this one.” I said to her, she just looked at me, “What?! This is a fucking joke right?” she said to me, I looked at her, “No… It’s two of us against Shepherds army, who knows what’s waiting for us.” I said to her. “I want to come with you guys.” She said, “No… We can’t risk it Heather. Just stay with Nikolai.” I said to her, “No Soap… What… If I don’t… see you again?” she said to me, “Then it looks like Shepherds lie becomes a truth and Makarov is left to take over Russia and the world.” I said to her, she just went and sat on the chopper, and I knew she was about to cry, I could tell by the look on her face, I slowly walked over to her and placed my hands on her cheeks. “Don’t cry… A good solider never lets his team see him cry.” I said whipping her tears from the sides of her cheek bones, “Well I guess I’m not a good soldier,” she said, I laughed, “No… You’re a great one. I promise you I’ll make it back here alive okay?” I said to her, she looked me in the eyes, “Okay Soap,” she said, I slowly lifted her head up by the bottom of her chin and slowly kissed her on the lips. “I promise.” I said to her before walking off with Price.

All we seen was dirt, “Okay Soap, remember keep it silent, there’s a patrol ahead of us, four men, and two dogs. Wait till the other two are far away and take out the ones standing close to us… Stand by… Stand by… Now!” he said, as we both took out the two men closet to us and their dogs, then we moved down the hill, “Okay Soap, you take the guy on the left, and at a count of three we will take them out together.” Price said, “1…2…3!” he said and we took them both down, “Just like old times.” He said laughing, I laughed too, “No time to hide the bodies, let’s go over the rail!” Price said running over to a rail and I followed him, we rappelled down slowly because to enemies were under us, I pulled out my knife and placed my hand over the guys mouth knifing him and killing him, Price did the same thing to the other guy, I unhooked myself and we ran into what looked like a cave, but was swarming with Shepherds men! “This way.” Price said, and I followed him, we can hear over the guy’s radios about them not having contact with the patrol, but since we were in the middle of a sandstorm they thought it was interference, we reached our check point… But then we were forced to hide as a patrol of enemies were heading towards us, we waited and then open fired on them. We took them out and the proceeded, we had took out men with riot shields and then we heard Shepherd over the Radio, he said how he was taking a Zodiac, “You hear that Soap? Shepherd is taking a Zodiac, which means there must be water nearby! Let’s move!” Price said, we cleared out the men stopping us from getting in a Zodiac, “There I see Shepherd!” I yelled, we jumped in the Zodiac, I was running the motor and Price was doing some shooting, and I did too with a pistol, I have to say, Shepherd didn’t want us to catch him, he had his guys throwing everything at us, RPG’s even his men were on Zodiacs trying to stop us, but we couldn’t let him get away! We were now dogging a chopper, it was shooting us and I had to swerve to get by the chain of bullets that came at us, we cut through a cave and were able to shake the chopper. We reached a bit of a downhill river, it was bumpy and I thought the Zodiac was going to topple over, but Shepherds Zodiac made it in that chopper that was shooting at us earlier, it turned to us, “Hold it steady Soap!!” Price yelled, and I did that, “Steady… Steady…” he said, shooting the chopper down. The he looked at me with a panic, “Back… Back!” he yelled, and I had seen what he was talking about… A waterfall was dead ahead of us. But it was too late, the Zodiac and us went over the waterfall, and I braced myself for impact…

I coughed, and coughed till I cleared my lungs with water… The sandstorm had hit, and I was still a bit gazed from the impact of that fall, I had my knife in hand, I couldn’t see Price anywhere, so I just tried looking for Shepherd, I killed a pilot that was flying the plane. Then I seen Shepherd, he ran out of the disabled chopper and ran, I followed him, than he was leaning against a car, I knew it was the perfect moment to go in for the kill, I ran ready to stab him, but he smashed my face against the car and I fell to the ground… I seen him pull out his knife, and he stabbed me, right in the chest, I then seen him pull out a pistol, and loaded it… “Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in a blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin’ watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots. I know you understand.” He said to me holding the gun to me… Before he was able to actually shoot me, Price pushed him and they started fighting…. But Shepherd was getting the upper hand, I seen the pistol and went to go reach for it, but Shepherd kicked it away and stomped on my face, I laid there. Gazed, and Shepherd was still having the upper hand on Price, I had to think then and there. That’s when it hit me, I looked at the knife in my chest, I slowly gripped it, and started pulling on it… It was in there pretty damn tight, I grabbed my other hand and wrapped it around the knife pulling it, screaming form the pain then it came out, I turned it, and angled it right, I knew I only had one chance at this… Shepherd was on top of Price punching him, then he looked up at me, and I threw it, I threw the knife with all the power I had left, and it hit Shepherd, in the eye, killing him right away, I just laid back, it was over, Shepherd was dead… But I was going to die too, I lost a lot of blood and I felt as if I was going to black out, I just laid back, then I seen Price move, he coughed, then looked at me, “Soap…” he said walking over to me, he bandaged me up and a little chopper landed, “This will due for now.” He said, helping me to my feet, he seen it was Nikolai, “I thought I told you this was a one way trip!” Price said, “Da, it looks like it still is, they are going to be looking for you.” Nikolai said, “We need to get Soap out of here.” Price said, “Da, I know a place.” Nikolai said, then Heather ran out of the chopper and ran up to us, “Oh my gosh, what the fuck happened?” she asked, “Soaps hurt. We got to get him out of here, but we are going to need help! Nikolai, who’s your best man?” Price asked, “Yuri… Ex-Septsnaz, the only man I know that hates Makarov more than you!” Nikolai said, “Get him.” Price said loading me onto the chopper and Heather and Nikolai followed….