While Ghost lays there trying to figure out what to do, the militia men bare down closer on him. Looking at the windshield he tries to sit up and ram it with his shoulder a few times to knock the whole thing out but to no avail. He quickly starts to slam the butt of his rifle against it, hitting it will all his strength. As the men start to come around near the hood, this was it! This was Ghost's last shot and he had to take it! He yells as he rams his shoulder into the windshield once more, this time causing it to dislodge and fall with him. As he fall out of the car, he catches sight of the men and them of him but he is first to fire. Without even aiming he goes for the old spray and pray technique, just holding down the trigger and yelling as he waves his gun back and forth towards the men. Within seconds he has spent all his ammo and he constantly hears the click from his gun as without realizing it, he is still trying to pull the trigger and fire. There was no need though as the men were all quite dead.

Ghost quickly gets clear of the car and brushes of some glass from his clothes. He can hear the enemy trying to find out what the hell just happened and Ghost uses this opportunity to try and find Fiona before they are getting shot at again. He looks at the car and then in the direction she might have been thrown. Right away he sees her just laying on the ground and he rushes over to her. "Hey! Hey! Wake up!" He yells as he shakes her. Fiona soon starts to come to. "Huh?....What happened?" She asked, looking around dazed. "You learned to fly for a few seconds. Now shut up and get on your feet! We got to move now!" He orders her, helping her up and the two of them start making a run for the extraction point.

While they make a dash for the LZ, a truck is soon seen driving around the crashed Hummer. Ghost quickly turns and using his last grenade he fires it and hits the engine block dead on, causing the car to explode into a burst of flames. "Damn Im good." He said with a grin. "But now Im out...." Sadly Ghost didnt bring along extra ammo with him as he did not expect the mission to go this way. Dropping his gun he begins running as fast as he can trying to catch up to Fiona. As they run the militia men begin rapidly firing rounds at them from a distance, very inaccurate but still deadly if one of them gets lucky. Sadly one does....

As Ghost gets ready to run between a pair of large solid rocks he suddenly feels a sudden sharp pain hit him in the right ass cheek. "Son of a bitch!!" He yells out as he quickly falls to his knees. He does his best to try and walk but the sudden pain and bleeding leaves his legs weak, though he is able to get behind the rock to shield himself from oncoming fire. He does his best to examine the wound. "Oh fuck the hurts! Hmmmmm!!" He howls out in pain as he keeps touching his bleeding wound. Fiona heard his screams and quickly rushes back to him. "Are you okay!?" She asks with concern. "Oh yeah I'm fine, just taking a little break. No you moron! I've been shot!" He yells at her, the bullet still in him and causing great pain.

Just as Fiona tries to help him up their hear a voice from the his radio. "Lone Wolf this is Retrieval 1, we are thirty seconds out. Pop smoke and prepare for extract. Over." "Copy that." Ghost responds as he pulls out the colored smoke grenade and tosses it away from them and the militia. Fiona watches this and tries to pick up Ghost to carry him. "What the hell are you doing!? Leave me you idiot." "But..." "You try and help me and we both get killed before they even get close." He reaches over to her and takes her pistol. "Get going, I will cover you as best I can." He tells her as he cocks the pistol, Fiona just staring at him. "You deaf? I said go. NOW!" Ghost turning away from her and doing his best to leans over the side of the rock to get a few shots off. Fiona still in shock at his words starts to walk backwards away from him and turns, getting ready to run to the incoming helicopter. But before she even gets ten feet, she stops dead in her tracks and hangs her head down. She thinks back to all the times he has insulted, calling her dumb and making her feel worthless and now how selfish he was being was sacrificing his life to let her live. This just enraged her greatly! She clenched her fists and bared her fangs as she marched back over to Ghost and with great force turned him around to face her, pushing him up against the rock too. "Now look here! I'm going to save you and your going to like it!" She yelled at him in a commanding voice, Ghost looking a bit scared now. "Take this!" She said as she pushed her gun up against him. "You shoot and cover us while I get us to the chopper! Got it!? I would like to not get shot like you!" Ghost just nods as she picks him up over her shoulder and starts dashing for the LZ.

As they run, Ghost does his best to shoot the SAW while bouncing on Fiona's shoulder. But as they get to the smoke, the helicopter soon is in range and the door gunner starts to open fire with his minigun on the unsuspecting militia men below. They are torn apart by the shear firepower of this weapon, standing no chance what-so-ever against it. Once the chopper was low enough, Fiona tosses Ghost in and he lands hard on his wound. "Oh God that hurts so much!!" He whined out, flopping around in the chopper like a fish out of water. Fiona soon jumped in and tapped the pilot on the shoulders to signal him that they were clear. The pilot nods as they take off quite quickly, the door gunner still firing at the enemy as the helicopter banks left and climbs upwards heading back out towards the ocean and where there rescue ship awaits.

To be concluded next time.

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