Iron Wolf: Demons Within/The Rational Mind

A few scenes show Locke's time at the PMC. One scene depicts him, JJ and others assisting local residents in a wartorn city by carrying supplies and giving out medical aid. Another scene depicts them scouting in a jungle, using metascreen camouflage, arriving at a plane crashsite. The last scene shows them breaching into a room and securing a group of civilians. It cuts to Locke and JJ sitting on a trunk of a truck, with Locke smoking a cigar. He asks how many days of the tour are left, to which JJ replies he has no idea and guesses a few days. Locke is per se satisfied with a few days.

Suddenly, their comms start talking, saying that the enemies have begun sweeping into the streets. JJ shouts showtime and knocks on the backwindow of the car. The car drives off with them readying their weapons in the trunck. They arrive among other troops and step out, regrouping with a squad. The squad leader explains that the enemies are using civilians as collateral and that they need to watch their fire. The firefight ensues, but the enemies manage to push further into the streets towards them. They are pinned down and try to back down, but eventually the squad leader gives orders to fire AGM missiles to Locke. At first confused, saying that they still have civilians as collateral, the squad leaders responds that they'll lose to much ground if they don't.

Locke runs back to a vehicle and grabs a console of a drone. He orders the drone to fire its missiles upon the enemies. After requesting the missile fire, he looks up towards the designated area, seeing the missiles causing great destruction. Stunned for a second, Locke is ordered alongside the others to check for remaining survivors. Locke walks towards JJ, who has already gone towards the ground zero, shouting "JJ hang on". It shows a closeup of Locke's face saying it again, but this time it is revealed to be at the end at chapter 1. Locke takes a deep breath in and out and stands up, firing towards the enemies, pinning them down. He keeps them suppressed, until friendlies appear to help them.

Locke decides to focus on JJ, putting pressure on his wound. He tells him he is going to be okay, but JJ tells him that whatever happens, Locke was the toughest son of a bitch he knew. Locke tells him to knock off the cliche bullshit, making JJ laugh, which leads to him coughing up blood. Locke is pushed aside by a medic and another medic takes away Locke for examination. While being helped onto his feet and with walking, Locke reassures that everything will be fine.