Rainbow Six Siege: A Ghost in the Shadows (Complete)

Chapter 12.5: Operation Hope (Part 2)

Your POV

As the door to the jet closes behind me, I hear multiple sighs from my squadmates. I take a seat next to IQ who looks at me with a smile before continuing to read the mission file. "Hey, Monika? How hard would it be to have a relationship with a job like this?" IQ closed the file and looked at me with a raised eyebrow and a small smile. "Why? Is there a special someone you have your eye on? Please, tell me!" IQ starts bouncing up and down in her chair like a small child about to receive a birthday present, although it is rather adorable. "It's nobody, I was just curious is all. How come you were so excited anyway? Were you hoping I was doing one of those cheesy movie things where I ask you and then tell you that the person I have feelings is you?" IQ laughs while gently punching me in the arm. "No, you dork. In all honesty, it is pretty hard to have a relationship when your job is killing people and their's is a bank manager. My last relationship didn't go so well, he found the gun I keep at my apartment for safekeeping and called the police. Thankfully, they knew who I was and let me go rather quickly. What about you? What was your last girlfriend like?" I lean back in my chair as the seatbelt sign flickered to life and everyone around us began paying attention to me after clipping their seatbelt. "Wow, where to start."

Timeskip: Landing in Montana (Your POV)

I wake up to see everyone except me and IQ getting their gear ready. Speaking of IQ, I looked down and found her asleep with her head resting on my lap. I gently shook her, causing her head to begin moving closer towards...something. I began pinching her cheek which made her slap my hand away and, shuffle away and pout on her seat. She holds her cheek while getting out of her seat and grabbing her gear, all the time still pouting at me. Getting out of my seat, I hold out my hand for IQ to pass me the bag I'd brought with me. She narrows her eyes at me and walks off with her things. Sighing, I grab the bag and close the compartment while unzipping the bag. IQ hugs me from behind while quietly yawning and resting her head on my back. "Can I just have five more minutes, please?" Before I can say anything, she's already quietly snoring with her head on my back. I hold onto her arms and turn around so we're face to face and gently shake her awake again. "Monika, wake up before I pinch you again." Her eyes instantly open and she began blushing once she saw how little distance there was between us. IQ rested her forehead against mine while fastening her vest and grabbing her helmet from behind me. "When we get back you owe me some sleep time, with you more specifically. Deal?" I sigh in frustration while putting on my balaclava and patting her on the head. "Fine. Let's just get going, they might get ideas otherwise." IQ blushed and followed me outside of the jet where the others were waiting. All of us hopped into an armoured SUV and began driving to the location while I skimmed over the file. "Ok, says here there's a bunch of members from the local cult defending it. They plan to blow it up and blame it on the US government while the leader and his lackeys take shelter in their own private bunkers. Also says that an unnamed cop has been going around and has killed his three family members who the bunkers belong to and destroyed them. Apparently, he's going to the leader's main compound in a couple hours, about 15 minutes before the nuke goes off. When we get there I want IQ and Thatcher defusing the thing while Thermite preps the facility half a mile down the road for destruction. Cav, you stay with IQ and Thatch while I go with Thermite. Any questions?" Nobody responds as the car comes to a stop in front of a road blockade. "Good, let's get this done fast and loud." All of us exit the SUV as a group of five men come up to us with weapons raised, yelling at us to get on our knees. I nod at the others behind me and all of us fire at the men, killing four of them but only wounding the last. Caveira walks past me and kneels next to the man and begins to snap his fingers, making all of us wince at the sound. Eventually, the man shouts something at her before getting shot by the Brazilian. She nods at us as we begin to walk down the road. After a minute or so of walking, we see around 30 people armed to the teeth protecting what I can only assume is the bomb. I grab Thermite and begin to walk towards the East and on top of a hill while taking out my sniper. "Y'know, this may have been a lot easier if we'd brought Glaz with us." I look back at him as he stares back at me. "...Shut up Jordan." I aim down the scope as he begins laughing to himself, I can see Thatcher give me a thumbs up and take a shot at a cult member. The cultist falls to the ground as the rest of his comrades begin to prep their weapons and find out where the shot came from. I continue firing until I hear a click, signalling that the mag is empty. I reload and aim down the scope, seeing the rest of my squad firing at them. I empty out another mag before I hear radio static and Thatcher's voice come through the comms. "Go on lads, we'll take it from here." I replace my sniper on my back and take out my L85A2 while Thermite and I are jogging towards the facility. As it begins to come into view, I hear Thermite whistle behind me. "What's up, Jordan?" He looks over at me with an insane grin while rubbing his hands together. "That's a lot of shit to blow up, where do we start boss?" I grin and shake my head at him as we come to a door. I kick it open and look around me before giving him the signal that it's safe. Seeing a set of stairs, we begin our descent down to where the cult makes their explosives. Once we reach the bottom of the stairs, we're greeted by the sight of rows of cages with corpses, people or animals inside of them. We reassure the captives that we'll come back to rescue them once we're sure that the facility is safe and come to a set of double doors, Thermite nods at me before kicking it open. Everyone on the factory floor looks towards us and raises their hands in the air. "Anyone who is here willingly raise your hand." All hands remain by their sides as they continue to look at us. "Ok, I want all of you to free the people being kept captive here and escape. This place is being blown up in 5 minutes." Everyone begins to run up the stairs, towards the area where the cages are and begin to unlock them and getting people outside. Thermite and I begin grabbing finished explosives and strapping them to pillars. Once finished, we begin to go up the stairs to the ground floor. After finishing planting explosives on the pillars on the ground floor, Thermite passes me the detonator with a nod and both of us run outside to a safe distance away. Once away from the facility, me and Thermite fist bump as I press the detonator and watch the factory crumble to the ground. "We need some help, right fookin' now mates!" As Thatcher's voice disappears from the radio, we take a nearby cult truck and begin to drive back towards where the others were. Upon seeing that Caveira was pinned while IQ was trying her best to keep cultists away from Thatcher, Thermite brought the truck to a halt and both of us got out and began to fire on the cultists. Hearing a thud next to me, I look over to see Thermite holding his right shoulder while still firing at the enemies. I move to help him but he shakes his head at me. "We can deal with me later, just focus on keeping them safe!" I nod at him and see Caveira come out from behind cover and begin to take out cultists while their backs are turned. Two minutes later, it's just us alone in the middle of a clearing, next to the bomb. Thatcher stops tinkering and looks over at me in shock. "I think I got it, I disabled the detonator and the timer. Monika, would that be enough to stop it going off?" IQ walks over and kneels down next to him while inspecting the nuke with her scanner. "I'm not getting anything from my scanner, I think you got it, Mike." I walk over and pat him on the back as he stands up triumphantly. We hear a beeping and our eyes widen until we turn around and see that it was an alarm on Caveira's phone. She looks up at us and shrugs. "Just an alarm for the 10-minute mark to give us some time to try and escape." We glare at her before I remember something from the file. "Wasnt the bomb supposed to go off 15 minutes after that cop showed up?" The others look at each other before nodding at me. "That means we can go watch him kick some ass!" All of them smile while beginning to get into the SUV. After I get in, Caveira taps me on the back. "There's a helicopter down the hill that way, if we take it then we'll make it in time." I nod at her and turn the car towards the direction she mentioned and began driving. Sure enough, there was an unguarded chopper sat in a next to a supply cache. Once we were next to it, we changed vehicles and let Thatcher fly the chopper towards the compound where the standoff would be happening. Next to me, Thermite is on the phone to someone and smiling to himself. Once he saw my raised eyebrow, he finished his call and turned to me. "National Guard, I had a feeling they'd wanna know they're about to get themselves a new friend." I smiled at him as I felt the chopper slowing down and saw that there was a group of people aiming their weapons from below us. I leaned my head out the side of the chopper and looked down at them while waving. "Hey, don't shoot! We're on your side!" They began to lower their weapons as we finished descending and came to a stop on the ground. Once I get out the chopper, I'm tackled onto the ground with someone laughing on top of me. Looking up, I come face to face with the last person I expected to see: Wolf. "Holy shit, Chris?! What the hell are you doing here man?!" Chris gets off of me and pulls me to my feet while laughing. "I can ask you the same thing (Y/N)! How come you're here with Rainbow?" I look over at the cult leader and point at him, Chris turns around to look at him with a raised eyebrow. "That crazy fuck was going to set off a nuclear bomb but we defused it, we think anyway. Might want to start running." Everyone starts laughing as the cult leader just stands there looking shocked. "How did you stop it? HOW DID YOU STOP THE COLLAPSE?!" A bearded man with aviator glasses and trucker cap kick him onto his knees and smacks him with the butt of his gun as Chris turns around. "Will you just shut the fuck up Seed? You've lost, deal with it. Thanks, Nick." Nick nods at him while Chris turns to me with a grin. "So, you've got team Rainbow and I've got my resistance. I'd say that makes us pretty even, right?" I laugh and pat him on the shoulder as choppers begin to fly overhead, making us shield our eyes from the dust. Once one of them landed, a US Marshall walks out and comes towards us. "We got a call saying that you caught Seed, where is he?" Chris points over to Seed as Nick and a woman with a hood and a bow stand him up and hand him over to the Marshall. As they walk past, the Marshall nods at us and gets in the chopper with Seed and begins to fly off with the other choppers in tow. As they fade from view into the distance, Chris wraps an arm around my shoulder and begins leading me off as while my squad and his resistance follow behind us. "We need to catch up dude, wanna go blow shit up while we do it?" I turn around to see everyone with their weapons by their sides, with one guy shooting flames from his flamethrower into the air, and smirking at us. "You know what Chris? Let's go tear some shit up!"

A/N

Wow, two chapters in one day? Oh how I spoil you so. Won't lie, writing these two chapters has really made me want to play Far Cry 5 again. Fuck it, Xbox here I come!