Just a Black Ops fanfic

Pyrric Victory

(Years after the previous chapter)

(Outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska, 1986. Alex Mason and young David Mason are seen climbing a tree at a great height. David tries to reach out for the next branch but can't reach.)

David: Dad, I'm scared. I-I need help

Mason: You're 7 years old, David, stop acting like a baby

David: I hate you...

(A Chinook helicopter can be heard and seen flying in the distance. David tries to get back down)

Mason: David...wait!

(David slips and falls from the tree, cutting his hand on a branch and landing hard on the ground. Mason climbs back down to the ground just as the Chinook lands. Mason attempts to look at David's wound, but he manages to get back up and moves away from Mason)

David: Go back to the army, like you did when mom died...

(Jason Hudson and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North are seen exiting the Chinook and approach Mason)

North: (Shaking hands with Mason) Lt. Col North, NSC. You already know Jason Hudson

Mason: What are you doin' here?

North: Yesterday, Sgt. Woods led a covert team to take out an arms smuggling rig in Angola. This morning, we lost contact

Mason: So go get him, CIA. Why are you here?

Hudson: Castro and the Russians are all over Angola. We can't go in. The CIA have buried the mission. Woods and his squad no longer exist

North: We got whatever you need Mason. Name it

Hudson: David can stay with Jenny, like before. She loves having him, he'll be fine

David: Dad, you said you'd never go back to the army. You promised me

Mason: It's Uncle Woods, son. He'd do it for me...

(Flash forward. To Angola)

(A man is burning and trapped inside an upturned buffel. Alex Mason kicks at the glass to get to the man but it won't break)

Mason: No!!! I need help over here! Hold on!

(Jonas Savimbi, the commander of the UNITA arrives)

Savimbi: Mason!

Mason: Savimbi, you gotta help!

(Mason grabs a shovel and starts hitting the glass)

Mason: Break, dammit!

(The man inside screams for the final time and succumbs to the fire)

Savimbi: The fire finished him. Sometimes it's too late to save a man. We must move out, before we join him in death

(Savimbi gives Mason a machete and Savimbi is given an MM1 Grenade Launcher by one of his men. Mortar fire is devastating the way ahead)

Savimbi: The mortar fire means that the MPLA is readying for attack. If they want a fight, we'll give them a fight! MOVE OUT!

(Jason Hudson arrives overhead via a helicopter)

Hudson: Mason, you copy?

Mason: Go ahead, Hudson

Hudson: MPLA forces advancing on your position, about one klick north

Mason: Yeah, we know. Savimbi's leading a counter-charge