The Atlas Chronicles: Operation Red Sky

This is an outline of an existing story called The Atlas Chronicles: Operation Red Sky. It is the first in the series of Atlas Chronicles novels and apparently it has a lot of connections to the Call of Duty series and other major famous books and\or movie series. Oh, and I throw in alternate scenarios that explain why certain characters are absent in the missions of certain Call of Duty games (ex: Derek "Frost" Westbrook).

Feel free to comment on the outline.

FYI: I plan on releasing the finished product here, on Call of Duty Fan Fiction Wikia.

Operation Red Sky (Outline)
  This is a new draft for a Call of Duty\Castle\Crysis\Marvel Cinematic Universe\Jason Bourne\Law & Order: SVU fan-fiction!



 Premise: In an alternate 21st century two superpowers emerge, an Islamic superpower called HPCIS (Holy People’s Caliphate and Islamic State), and an international mercenary group called Cerberus. HPCIS launches terrorist attacks on multiple different countries. Eventually, something more sinister is afoot…something that threatens to destroy the future of Atlas Corporation and, if not stopped soon, the world.





 Mission Statement: The Future is the Present





 Character Outline:



A. US Air Force

1. Erin Ready= Aged 17; former Tactical American Coalition operative turned US Air Force pilot (and future Atlas agent) who is “war-hardened” and ready to face even the toughest enemies, especially HPCIS and the RCPR.

2. Laura Byrne= Aged 17-Twenties; former high school graduate turned US Air Force pilot, and future Atlas agent, who is on good terms with Erin, even though the two of them occasionally have trouble getting along on certain things.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2level1lfo2"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">3. Kelsey Dotson= Aged 21; a fighter pilot who knows how to fly aircraft like a pro, and Laura’s best friend forever (BFF).

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l16level1lfo1"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">B. Delta Force

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l54level1lfo3"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">1. Derek “Frost” Westbrook= Late twenties to early thirties; Delta Force operative who was discharged following an injury during a mission in Berlin.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l54level1lfo3"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">2. Alex “Sandman” Miller= Late forties; Frost’s commanding officer who was killed during a diamond mine collapse

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l54level1lfo3"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">4. Gordon “Truck” Sanders= Mid-forties; Delta Force operative who is killed alongside Sandman in a diamond mine collapse.

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l16level1lfo1"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">C. Atlas Corporation\CHIMERA\HYDRA\CryNet

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">1. Jennifer Dotson= Late forties; mother of Kelsey Dotson and evil dictator disguised as charismatic CEO.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">2. Vladimira Omorova= Nineteen; former Spetsnatz operative turned Atlas operative turned Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">3. Aaron Wideman= Forties; father of Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman, and director of Atlas Corporation (who is actually an evil dictator in disguise).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">4. Olivia Stanely Coonz\Lindsey Edward Benson= Aged twenty; commanding officer of Atlas Corporation and girlfriend of Logan Walker

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">5. Logan Walker= Aged 20-25; boyfriend of Olivia Walker and commanding officer of Atlas Corporation

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">6. Lexy Mae Cooper= Aged twenty-six; commanding officer of Atlas Corporation

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">7. Kjia Zuroweste= Aged 18; Olivia’s BFF from childhood

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">8. John Honeycutt= Aged 18; Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman’s partner

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">9. Erin Ready= Aged 18; transfer from the US Marines

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">10. Laura Byrne= Aged 18; transfer from the US Marines

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">11. Derek “Frost” Westbrook= Aged 25-30; transfer from Delta Force after an injury in a past mission resulted in him being honorably discharged, but later being recruited into Atlas Corporation

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">12. Bar Yadin= Late twenties to early thirties; Israel Defense Forces operator turned Atlas Corporation (later defector) operative.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">13. Emmi Windes= Atlas Corporation operative (actually CIA and Task Force Osprey mole).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">14. Marcus Burns= Early to mid thirties; former SAS commando who was discharged after an injury involving a noxious gas attack and Atlas transfer (later defector)

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">15. Gideon Wallcroft= Late thirties to early forties; former SAS commando who was discharged after an accident involving a noxious gas attack, and future Atlas agent\defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">16. Alena Vorshevsky= Daughter of Russian President Boris Vorshevsky (who later becomes an Atlas operative, and much later an Osprey operative).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">17. Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman= Aged eighteen; former Red Hand operative and partner of Olivia Coonz who is “equal” with her in terms of awesomeness

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">18. Christine Holley Smithsburg= Aged 16; daughter of Trinity Smithsburg and recent Atlas Corporation recruit (she joined shortly before Laura did).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">19. Sam Cooper= Aged 14; sister of Lexy Cooper.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">20. Sam Coonz= Aged 15; Olivia’s brother and former commanding officer of Atlas Corporation, later turned into commanding officer of government-owned Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">21. AJ Nates= Aged sixteen; Sam Coonz’s BFF

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">22. Nate Davis= Aged fifteen; AJ Nantz’s “other BFF”.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">23. Irina Kamova= Aged 21; a former college student turned Atlas operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">24. Arnim Zola: Swiss scientist who was a member of HYDRA; originally deceased, but his brain was preserved via computer.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">25. George Benton: Late forties; director of CryNet Systems, and commander of CryNet Enforcement and Local Logistics

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">26. George Stern: Late teens; analyst for CryNet Enforcement and Local Logistics

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">27. Amelia Schrader: Late teens; undercover mole for CHIMERA posing as Atlas Corporation’s technical expert, later defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">28. Trevor Pierce: Field commander for CHIMERA\Atlas Corporation’s Cobra unit.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">29. Jacques Moreau: Early thirties; asset (secretly) sent to kill Makarov

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">30. Katie Winslow: Late teens; TFO asset inside Atlas

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">31. Trinity Smithsburg= Aged 15; CHIMERA terrorist inserted inside Shadow Force

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo4"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">32. Alex Smith : Early teens; random operative selected to assist Olivia Coonz in a [failed] mission to stop HPCIS terrorists from destroying a power plant in London.

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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l16level1lfo1"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">D. Task Force Osprey

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">1. Vladimir Arkadin: Late thirties to early forties; Russian government asset inserted inside Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">2. Olivia Stanely Coonz= Aged twenty; commanding officer of Atlas Corporation and girlfriend of Logan Walker (who is killed).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">3. Mason Davidson= Mid thirties to early forties; commanding officer of Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">4. Lexy Mae Cooper= Aged twenty-six; former commanding officer of Atlas Corporation turned defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">5. Kjia Zuroweste= Aged 18; Olivia’s BFF from childhood and Atlas defector

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">6. John Honeycutt= Aged 18; Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman’s partner and defector

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">7. Erin Ready= Aged 18; transfer from the US Marines into Atlas Corporation and current defector

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">8. Laura Byrne= Aged 18; transfer from the US Marines into Atlas Corporation and current defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">9. Derek “Frost” Westbrook= Aged 25-30; transfer from Delta Force after an injury in a past mission resulted in him being honorably discharged, but later being recruited into Atlas Corporation. Current defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">10. Yuri Raskolinov= Early forties; former Russian Army soldier turned Atlas Corporation member, and current defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">11. Lev Raskov: Mid twenties; former GRU soldier and current Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">12. Sam Coonz= Aged 15; Olivia’s brother and former commanding officer of Atlas Corporation, later turned into commanding officer of government-owned Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">13. Emmi Windes= Task Force Osprey mole and CIA informant inserted into Atlas Corporation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">14. Marcus Burns= Early to mid thirties; former SAS commando who was discharged after an injury involving a noxious gas attack and Atlas transfer (later defector); current Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">15. Gideon Wallcroft= Late thirties to early forties; former SAS commando who was discharged after an accident involving a noxious gas attack, and future Atlas agent\defector. Current Osprey operative.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">16. Alena Vorshevsky= Daughter of Russian President Boris Vorshevsky (who later becomes an Atlas operative, and much later an Osprey operative).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">17. Vladimira Omorova= Nineteen; former Spetsnatz operative turned Atlas operative turned Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">18. Aaron Jackson Nates\AJ Nates= Aged sixteen; Sam Coonz’s BFF

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">19. Jordan Portner= Early twenties; also known as Punisher X-2, he is a vigilante that is serious about justice in the world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l79level1lfo5"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">20. Amelia Schneider: Aged seventeen; field commander of Task Force Osprey

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">2. Keegan P. Russ: Mid to late thirties; rifleman for the Ghosts.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">3. Sheryl Ellis= Aged 19; girlfriend of Derek Westbrook

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">4. Ellie Hoving= Aged fourteen; Audrey’s younger sister

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">5. Alexandra Rozhdestvenski: Thirties; former Cordis Die agent

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">6. Chloe Morrel: Early forties; former French spy.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">7. Oleg Makarov= Mid twenties to early thirties; son of Vladimir Makarov and leader of Cerberus

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">8. Alexei Krushnov= Early thirties; one of Oleg’s most trusted colleagues and Makarov’s “right hand man.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">9. Marilia Kamova= Late twenties; scientist for Cerberus’ Science Division

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">10. Viktor “Volk” Krishtenko= Late fifties to early sixties Former Fregata Industries member turned Cerberus henchman

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">11. Vladimir Arkadin: Late thirties to early forties; Russian mole in Atlas Corporation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">12. Vladimir Arkadin: Late thirties to early forties; Russian government asset inserted inside Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">13. Olivia Stanely Coonz= Aged twenty; commanding officer of Atlas Corporation and girlfriend of Logan Walker (who is killed).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">14. Mason Davidson= Mid thirties to early forties; commanding officer of Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">15. Lexy Mae Cooper= Aged twenty-six; former commanding officer of Atlas Corporation turned defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">16. Kjia Zuroweste= Aged 18; Olivia’s BFF from childhood and Atlas defector

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">17. John Honeycutt= Aged 18; Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman’s partner and defector

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">18. Erin Ready= Aged 18; transfer from the US Marines into Atlas Corporation and current defector

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">19. Laura Byrne= Aged 18; transfer from the US Marines into Atlas Corporation and current defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">20. Derek “Frost” Westbrook= Aged 25-30; transfer from Delta Force after an injury in a past mission resulted in him being honorably discharged, but later being recruited into Atlas Corporation. Current defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">21. Yuri Raskolinov= Early forties; former Russian Army soldier turned Atlas Corporation member, and current defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">22. Lev Raskov: Mid twenties; former GRU soldier and current Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">23. Sam Coonz= Aged 15; Olivia’s brother and former commanding officer of Atlas Corporation, later turned into commanding officer of government-owned Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">24. Emmi Windes= Task Force Osprey mole and CIA informant inserted into Atlas Corporation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">25. Marcus Burns= Early to mid thirties; former SAS commando who was discharged after an injury involving a noxious gas attack and Atlas transfer (later defector); current Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">26. Gideon Wallcroft= Late thirties to early forties; former SAS commando who was discharged after an accident involving a noxious gas attack, and future Atlas agent\defector. Current Osprey operative.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">27. Alena Vorshevsky= Daughter of Russian President Boris Vorshevsky (who later becomes an Atlas operative, and much later an Osprey operative).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">28. Vladimira Omorova= Nineteen; former Spetsnatz operative turned Atlas operative turned Osprey operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">29. AJ Nates= Aged sixteen; Sam Coonz’s BFF

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">30. Jordan Portner= Early twenties; also known as Punisher X-2, he is a vigilante that is serious about justice in the world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">31. Daniel Windes: Aged forty-seven; father of Emmi Windes and forward operating commander of Task Force Osprey

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">32. Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman= Aged eighteen; former Red Hand operative and partner of Olivia Coonz who is “equal” with her in terms of awesomeness

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">33. Brianna Robinson= Aged twenty-three; former FBI agent turned Task Force Osprey field commander

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">34. Emily Smart\Assassin X= Aged twenty-nine; a “lab rat” in Cerberus’ experimentation program (who later goes rogue).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">35. Tracy Abernathy: Early to mid thirties; CIA informant and part-time journalist, later MEDUSA operative

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">36. Brittney Winchester: Aged 19; field commander of Task Force Osprey

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">37. Emily Underdown (Terminatrix): Unmanned Terminatrix drone

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">38. Sam Cooper= Aged 14; sister of Lexy Cooper.

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">40. Amelia Schrader: Late teens; undercover mole for CHIMERA posing as Atlas Corporation’s technical expert, later defector.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">41. Richard Castle= Late forties; NYPD cop in Manhattan

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">42. Kate Beckett= Mid to late thirties; Castle’s sidekick

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">43. Olivia Benson= Olivia Coonz’s biological mother and member of the Special Victims Unit branch of the NYPD

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">44. Elizabeth Johnson= Aged 19; Shadow Force commanding officer

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">45. Sadye Weible= Aged 20; fighter pilot for Shadow Force

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">46. Audrey Hoving= Aged 19; part-time physical therapist and Shadow Force’s tech analyst

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">47. Jamie N. Gebauer= Aged 19; Audrey Hoving’s BFF

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">48. Trinity Smithsburg= Aged 15; newest “grunt” in Shadow Force

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">49. Annabelle Gyngard= Aged 25; Liz Johnson’s BFF

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">50. Saeed Toncin= Aged 35; Norwegian informant

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l67level1lfo64"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">51. Katie Winslow: Late teens; asset for MEDUSA

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:45.0pt;mso-add-space: auto"> I. Act I

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">1. Emmi Windes, CIA agent, narrates background information; after Tommy Cheng tampers with the time bridge (not shown), history is suddenly reset to early 2011 (after the events of the previous novel); over the past year, three dictatorships have formed: an Islamic self-proclaimed caliphate called the Holy People’s Caliphate and Islamic State (based on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, AKA ISIS), a South American Federation, and the Russian Communist People’s Republic (RCPR):

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l63level1lfo6"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. The RCPR, the Federation and HPCIS are gaining power by annexing countries within their vicinity rapidly, until both empires reach superpower status.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l63level1lfo6"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Months later, however, various nations-apparently ticked off by the “inhumane things” the Federation has done, rebel against the central government in Venezuela, plunging the member states into civil war, with Federation loyalists fighting against dissenting rebel countries.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l63level1lfo6"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Cerberus, a left-wing Communist international terrorist group based primarily in Russia, is formed and begins making threats against HPCIS, the RCPR, and superpowers he considers his “enemies.” It also makes demands for the Federation to stop the civil war.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l63level1lfo6"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. After Oleg launches a cyber-attack on various major countries (and then frames HPCIS), the RCPR-believing Oleg’s manipulative lies-declares war on HPCIS, accusing the superpower of “sheltering” the terrorists, and-together with the United States-sends troops to Saudi Arabia to help the Saudis fight Cerberus (much to the outrage of HPCIS leaders across the Muslim Middle East).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">2. In Caracas, Venezuela, where the fighting is heaviest, Olivia Coonz is injured following a previous mission that led to a life-threatening injury:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto"> a. Vladimira Omorova, a former Spetsnatz operative, and Christine H. Smithsburg , sister of Trinity Smithsburg and newest Atlas recruit, is called in to assist Atlas Corporation soldiers in evacuating Olivia Coonz from a hospital in Caracas, the Federation capital of Venezuela, during a firefight between the Federation loyalists and the anti-Federation rebels.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">3. Laura Byrne, a US Air Force fighter pilot, is deployed with her friend Kelsey Dotson to Caracas, Venezuela:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l26level1lfo9"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Laura and Kelsey are in an AC-130 Specter, providing air support for Vladimira Omorova and the Atlas strike team sent to evacuate Olivia Walker from the hospital.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l26level1lfo9"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. However, a Stinger missile from a Federation soldier blasts Laura’s Specter out of the sky. Though Laura survives and is evacuated by Atlas operatives Sam Coonz, Vladimira Omorova and AJ Nantz, Kelsey is killed and Laura suffers an arm injury resulting from stray shrapnel from her destroyed aircraft, which eventually leads to her arm being amputated to avoid a nasty infection.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l26level1lfo9"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Vladimira attempts to talk to Laura to get her mind off of the loss of her dead friend, but her efforts don’t help much. Rather, they make the loss of her friend harder for Laura to endure.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l26level1lfo9"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Laura returns to the United States, heartbroken from the loss of her friend and on the verge of falling into a “permanent state of depression.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">4. Upon returning to the United States, a funeral is held for Kelsey Dotson and the rest of the fallen soldiers involved in the Battle of Caracas.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">5. Later, Kelsey’s mother Jennifer Dotson approaches Laura and offers her a “second chance” as a mercenary for Atlas Corporation (which, according to Dotson, possesses prosthetic arms “twenty years beyond anything offered by the military”). Though Laura is a bit reluctant to join, she at least decides to look into it.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">6. While recuperating at her hometown in New York City, New York, Laura undergoes physical therapy under therapist and undercover Shadow Force operative Audrey Hoving. Laura reveals that Jennifer Dotson, director of Atlas Corporation, has given her a second chance. Audrey is happy for Laura, but later warns her that Atlas is prone to doing “crazy things.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">7. Meanwhile, Erin Ready has also been offered a job at Atlas Corporation and goes on to tell Laura about it. Laura tells Erin that she’s been offered a job too, and Erin attempts to persuade Laura to join Atlas together, though Laura is still a bit uneasy about going into combat with a prosthetic arm.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">8. Enter Derek Westbrook, AKA “ Frost ” (warped from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ); he is with his girlfriend Sheryl Ellis , whom he apparently met during his senior year in high school:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l40level1lfo11"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Sheryl notices that Derek has been a bit “down in the dumps” lately and inquires what’s wrong.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l40level1lfo11"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Derek reveals that in the year 2016 (his home universe), he was part of a team of Special Forces Operations Detachment-Delta (Delta Force) soldiers in Berlin, attempting to save Alena Vorshevsky, the daughter of the Russian President Boris Vorshevsky, from Russian terrorists working for a man named Vladimir Makarov. However, the operation took a nasty turn when Makarov’s men managed to reach Alena and Frost tried to stop them, but not before Makarov’s man Alexei injured Frost.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l40level1lfo11"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Determined to not let Alexei get away, Frost pursued Alexei, eventually attacking him while inside the latter’s helicopter, which eventually led to said helicopter crashing into the street, further injuring Frost but saving Alena’s life.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l40level1lfo11"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Shortly afterwards, Derek was honorably discharged due to a broken rib, and later he’d learned that during a separate attempt to rescue Alena’s father and the Russian President, Boris Vorshevsky, his buddies Alex “Sandman” Miller, Kenneth “Grinch” Coughlin , and Gordon “Truck” Sanders were all killed when the diamond mine collapsed. It is then revealed that Russian terrorist Vladimir Makarov, outraged at the fact that US Special Forces and his old nemesis John Price had managed to rescue the Russian president and his family, tried to kill both Price and the American soldiers by ordering a group of “daredevils” in his army to deliberately destroy the mine and kill everyone-including the Russian President himself-inside the mine.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l40level1lfo11"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Days later, he gets a call from Atlas’ assistant director Aaron Wideman saying he’s been offered a job as an Atlas agent.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l40level1lfo11"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Derek breaks the news to his girlfriend, who sees this as a new step in Frost’s life and encourages him to join, something Frost ends up doing two years later.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">9. Two years later, in 2013, Laura Byrne is now an official member of Atlas Corporation:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l73level1lfo12"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. She participates in a training simulator at an Atlas training facility in Austin, Texas, but fails it when her new prosthetic arm begins to glitch on her.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l73level1lfo12"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Afterwards, she is given a tour of the Atlas premises by her commanding officer Olivia Coonz, and is later taken to a technical facility to get her arm fixed.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l73level1lfo12"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. After the arm is fixed, Laura engages in firearms training, and demolitions training.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l73level1lfo12"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. She later retakes the simulator, and passes it with flying colors, leading to her official admission as an Atlas agent.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l44level1lfo48"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">11. At the Atlas HQ, Laura gets herself acquainted with other Atlas soldiers:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Yuri Raskolinov, a recruit from the Russian Special Forces, speaks with Laura about grievances he has against the dictatorship HPCIS.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Later, Yuri reveals that he is a fan of Disturbed, an American rock band. He later sings, The Animal by Disturbed.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Laura notices an Atlas soldier named Kjia Zuroweste, who seems to really like listening to other people sing, as well as singing in general. Laura talks with Kjia and the latter reveals that before joining Atlas, she dreamt of becoming a pop star.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Later Gideon Wallcroft, a former British Special Air Service soldier (and avid singer), challenges Laura to a singing contest. At the same time, she has an unexpected reunion with Erin Ready, who has also joined Atlas. The two-Laura and Gideon-sing a variety of songs from various popular artists (actually modern-day artists), and are later joined by other prominent Atlas members-including her commanding officer Olivia S. Coonz, her friend Erin Ready, Kjia Zuroweste, and eventually Tatiana Chirkova\Emma Wideman, and even Emily Smart, AKA Assassin X.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. One day later, while dining at a large cafeteria (actually a mess hall disguised as a café), Laura gets a chance to speak to fellow Atlas soldier Christine Smithsburg, who was also admitted into Atlas Corporation alongside Vladimira Omorova.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Laura shares with Christine (and later, the others at her table) a brief history of her life, from the time she was born to the day that her friend Kelsey died, back in Caracas:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l37level1lfo68"> ·       Apparently, she was born to a rather troubled family; her mother didn’t have a job of her own and her dad used to be a cop, until an accident on the job forced him into retirement.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l37level1lfo68"> ·       Laura explains that her childhood was a bit rough; she struggled with the effects of her family’s struggles on her own life, until Kelsey Dotson came along.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l37level1lfo68"> ·       Laura then tells the team about how her childhood abruptly brightened when Kelsey became her friend, and how Kelsey eventually convinced Laura to join the US Armed Forces, particularly the US Air Force.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l37level1lfo68"> ·       She later finishes her life narrative with the story of Kelsey’s death in Caracas, and how Laura met Atlas firsthand, and how Atlas rescued her from the depths of despair and hopelessness.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Touched by her story, the others tell their own stories about their own lives:

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l70level1lfo70"> ·       Christine was a former high school student who was apparently drawn into joining Atlas after completing her senior year. Even though her parents were a bit uneasy about her joining a multinational fighting unit at the age of sixteen, they let her join anyway.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l70level1lfo70"> ·       Yuri Raskolinov had a troubled past; his father became an abusive alcoholic shortly after his birth on August 3, 1998, during which his mother abruptly died.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l70level1lfo70"> ·       His grandparents obtained legal custody of Yuri and moved him to the United States to get away from his abusive father, where he soon settled in St. Paul, Minnesota.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l70level1lfo70"> ·       After completing his middle school and high school years, Yuri joined Atlas after completing a semester of college.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l70level1lfo70"> ·       Vladimira Omorova was born to a Russian billionaire, who soon went bankrupt. Omorova’s family moved to the United States to find a better life and after completing high school, Vladimira joined Atlas.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l56level1lfo69"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Christine then tells Laura that she has heard rumors concerning Atlas being an evil dictatorship in disguise, but both girls dismiss the reports as mere gossip.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l56level1lfo69"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">ii. Later, former SAS soldier turned Atlas soldiers Marcus Burns approaches Laura, with Marcus asking the latter how she is improving with her prosthetic arm.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:2.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l56level1lfo69"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iii. Laura admits that a prosthetic arm is hard to get used to without a physical therapist, though Marcus Burns jokingly comments that some prosthetic arms don’t need a physical therapist for use.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l20level1lfo49"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Laura is later introduced to her new quarters as well as her roommate, who is revealed to be Irina Kamova, the same teammate that Laura participated in the hostage rescue simulator with. She reveals herself as a Russian high school graduate who joined Atlas to search for a new life:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l50level1lfo51"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Though she refuses to share her sorrows at first (after Laura attempts to coax the information out of her several times), Irina eventually confesses that the real reason she joined Atlas was to get away from her grandfather, a former Spetsnaz commander turned criminal.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l50level1lfo51"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">ii. When asked why her grandfather turned criminal, Irina confesses that after his return to civilian life, Irina’s grandfather went bankrupt. Desperate, he turned to drug dealing and robbing banks and check fraud to earn money. Fearing that her grandfather would be a bad influence, Irina and her family moved from Russia to the United States to find a new life, which eventually led to Irina’s admission into Atlas.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l50level1lfo51"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iii. Later lamenting her actions, Irina further confesses that her grandfather threatened to kill her if her secret got out, though Laura refuses to believe such a thing, as he is currently halfway around the world in a Russian prison.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l50level1lfo51"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iv. Prior to falling asleep, Laura contemplates whether Atlas Corporation was worth it.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l44level1lfo48"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">12. The next morning, Emmi Windes approaches Laura, and speaks to her about everyone’s thoughts on their newest operative.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l44level1lfo48"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">13. Surprised, Laura asks exactly how everyone’s been since her admission. To this, Emmi explains that everyone has looked at the “newest recruit” with compassion due to the loss of her friend. Laura is baffled at first, but later accepts the information with a new sense of “togetherness.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l44level1lfo48"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">14. During a meal at the Atlas café, Olivia approaches Laura and informs her that the Boss feels that her “newest grunt” is ready for a real mission, which Laura eagerly accepts.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l44level1lfo48"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">15. Later, Jennifer Dotson assigns a unit to Byrne. To her joy and surprise, Laura is put in a unit led by Gideon Wallcroft, Logan Walker, Emmi Windes and Olivia Coonz. Her teammates are revealed to be Irina Kamova, Derek Westbrook, and Vladimira Omorova. Her commander is revealed to be Atlas Corporation’s tech expert (later revealed to be a CHIMERA mole) Amelia Schrader, aged sixteen.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l44level1lfo48"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">16. Laura Byrne’s first mission as a new Atlas soldier is in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, participating in Operation Blind Hammer. The mission: investigate alleged illegal activities done by the international group Cerberus:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Cerberus leader and son of Vladimir Makarov Oleg Makarov is revealed to be in Saudi Arabia, planning some sort of terrorist attack on the holy cities of Medina and Mecca.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Laura Byrne, Vladimira Omorova, Olivia Coonz, and Irina Kamova receive orders to find and capture Oleg so that Atlas can gain information about the attacks and know how to stop them.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. While in Jeddah, Emmi Windes encounters a live TV broadcast of Abdullah Al-Hazmi ; Al-Hazmi has declared jihad on Cerberus and Atlas Corporation for occupying “the lands of Islam in the holiest of places” and accusing Atlas of helping Cerberus oppress innocent Muslims.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Meanwhile, Laura and Olivia navigate through the streets of Jeddah, fighting HPCIS and Cerberus soldiers alike as they jump onto people’s cars in order to reach Makarov’s location

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Along the way, they suddenly encounter Abdullah’s son Shadir Al-Hazmi, inside a private limousine owned by HPCIS.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Shadir sees Laura and immediately orders his security team to engage the two girls, when the unthinkable happens:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Laura and Olivia are faced with a rather shocking sight: Assassin X, AKA Emily Smart , jumping on the HPCIS vehicle they are standing on, grabbing a nearby HPCIS soldier, and killing him by throwing him out of the car and onto incoming traffic.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       The private limo’s driver slams the brake, throwing Emily, Laura, and Olivia off the vehicle. Laura observes that Emily lands on her feet and slides across the road, almost painlessly and flawlessly, and the former has a rather shocking moment.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Suddenly, the HPCIS car the two girls had been standing on is rear-ended by a large Hummer. Jumping onto the limousine, Emily kills the driver and then crashes the vehicle by tearing out the steering wheel, shortly afterwards the vehicle crashes into a telephone pole.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Looking at the Hummer, Laura sees Emily talking with unknown mercenaries (later revealed to be Task Force Osprey operatives), who promptly fire on the HPCIS soldiers behind the two girls.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Caught in the crossfire, Olivia and Laura seek cover, while at the same time Emily Smart and her Osprey cohorts engage in a massive firefight against the HPCIS forces on the highway.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       |[CS1]    Olivia and Laura decide to help Emily, even though Laura doesn’t officially know the latter and is skeptical of her loyalties.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Christine Smithsburg, Marcus Burns, and Gideon Wallcroft join the girls, and they watch as Emily and her cohorts rout and eventually completely destroy two thirds of the HPCIS soldiers that are members of Al-Hazmi’s security detail.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Shadir gathers a new army of HPCIS soldiers and they put up a rather fierce gunfight, during which Emily gets her goggles damaged.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       After a brief moment, Emily unleashes a torrent of gunfire from her weapon, which causes Shadir and his surviving minions to retreat. Emily then tells Olivia and her team to find Makarov while Emily herself goes after Al-Hazmi.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:117.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l58level1lfo71"> ·       Though Olivia at first refuses, instead opting to go with her friend, Emily is able to convince Olivia to go without her, reasoning that, “every second gives Makarov a window to escape.” Reluctantly, Olivia and her squad leave Emily.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. After Laura, Christine, Gideon, Marcus, and Olivia hijack a HPCIS enemy fighter jet and crash it into the side of Makarov’s estate in order to quickly gain access to the building’s second, it is revealed that Oleg had successfully evaded capture, after someone apparently told him the Atlas team was coming.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. The Atlas squad suspects that there is a traitor within their ranks, but before they can do anything else, an assassin (later revealed to be CHIMERA agent Jacques Moreau ) attacks the squad, though he is quickly defeated and killed thanks to the quick thinking of Jule Ozec (referred to as the Norwegian ) a Norwegian double agent who hid in the estate (with help from Laura Byrne).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Feeling threatened by each other, the Norwegian and Laura interrogate each other while pointing guns at each other, but neither side gets Jule promptly flees the scene after hearing police sirens, but not before telling Laura, “Atlas isn’t to be trusted.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">j. Later, Derek gets some disturbing news: HPCIS soldiers have kidnapped Derek Westbrook’s girlfriend Sheryl, because of her apparent “connections” to the US government and its involvement in uncovering the Cerberus attack. In addition, Therese Eriksson, daughter of Swedish cop Martin Eriksson , has also been kidnapped and is currently being held for a ransom in response to Swedish military involvement in the combating of HPCIS.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">k. Meanwhile, Sheryl herself is imprisoned along with Therese in a large room in a building in Jeddah, where she awaits being traded for Muslim POWs in America and Europe.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:81.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5level1lfo13"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">l. After watching a ransom video from HPCIS, the Atlas team manages to rescue Sheryl and Therese from a large building five miles outside Jeddah. Afterwards, Derek gets his hands on a series of documents, which were apparently authored by the son of Vladimir Makarov (and the leader of a large multinational military corporation called Cerberus), Oleg Makarov.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">10. After the rescue mission, Logan Walker, boyfriend of Olivia Coonz, offers to take Sheryl home. But Derek insists on doing it himself.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">11. Later, during a drive back to Atlas Corporation’s home base in Texas in a private SUV belonging to Korey Hogan, a member of the ATLAS Board, Laura speaks with Emmi concerning random garbage that people with “epic powers” like to talk about. Later Emmi asks about Laura’s motive for joining Atlas.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">12. Laura merely responds that she found Jennifer’s offer “too tempting to refuse.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">13. Afterwards, the team is under attack:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l74level1lfo62"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. CHIMERA mercenaries disguised as thugs attack the private vehicle, after killing a random driver that causes his vehicle to crash into Korey Hogan’s SUV.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l74level1lfo62"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Despite being outnumbered and injured, Olivia Coonz’s quick thinking saves everyone inside the vehicle, but leads to a high speed chase through the Austin streets. Suddenly, Korey’s SUV is disabled when a CHIMERA sniper punctures a tire, causing it to crash into a telephone pole.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l74level1lfo62"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. With civilians now endangered in the high-speed chase\assassination attempt, Olivia and her friends fight back against the CHIMERA spies.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l74level1lfo62"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. What follows is a massive gunfight spanning several city blocks, which eventually ends with Logan being shot and killed by the CHIMERA spies, much to Olivia’s dismay and grief.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l74level1lfo62"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. After concluding that the thugs were either HPCIS terrorists in disguise, or Cerberus terrorists seeking to destroy Atlas, the remaining Atlas soldiers fight their way through the streets and reach safety.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">14. |[CS2]   Once the Atlas team reaches home base, Laura is treated for her injuries:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l29level1lfo77"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Irina takes care of Laura’s injured head and then tells her about something her father said-that loss is part of growing up and part of growing up is accepting the inevitability of death.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l29level1lfo77"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Laura just thinks about how Logan’s family would feel once they learn of his death.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l29level1lfo77"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Irina tells Laura that the leaders of ATLAS are launching an investigation, in an attempt to identify the killers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l29level1lfo77"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Gideon tells the two girls that they can visit Olivia.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l29level1lfo77"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. On the way to Liv’s hospital room, Laura ponders Irina’s statement and realizes that she has no choice but to get over her childhood friend’s demise.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">15. Two weeks later, Laura pays a visit to a grieving Olivia:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l71level1lfo78"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Olivia tearfully confesses that she was planning to marry Logan once she retired from Atlas, but now that he was dead, she had no where else to turn.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l71level1lfo78"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Laura is abruptly reminded of her childhood friend’s death once again, and gives Olivia a hug, hoping to calm things down, but it doesn’t work. She later repeats Irina’s mini-monologue about death.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">16. Gideon later enters and tells Laura that Jennifer wants to speak with her in the latter’s office, located on the second floor of the headquarters building:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l48level1lfo79"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Inside the elevator, Laura and Olivia fall victim to an attempted assassination done by a team of CHIMERA agents disguised as ATLAS operatives led by Saeed Toncin, who is really a double agent working for TESLA Corporation (after noticing that the agents are wearing tattoos with the CHIMERA insignia on them). |[CS3]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l48level1lfo79"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. After fending off the attackers, Olivia examines the CHIMERA tattoos on the mercenaries, wondering what CHIMERA is.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l48level1lfo79"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. When they reaches the second floor, more CHIMERA agents disguised as Atlas agents attack the two girls, but are foiled and later arrested thanks to Jennifer Dotson’s security detail.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">17. A few minutes later, Jennifer speaks with Olivia and Laura concerning Korey Hogan’s retirement and the two assassins fighting each other back in Makarov’s estate:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l38level1lfo72"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. “The Norwegian” is revealed to be Jule Ozec |[CS4]  , a former Atlas operative that defected and became a rogue agent in the process.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l38level1lfo72"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. “The Frenchman” is revealed to be another rogue agent of Atlas (in order to hide the fact that he’s actually an undercover terrorist) called Jacques Moreau who apparently heard of Oleg Makarov and wanted to kill him, but ran into the Atlas team instead and sought to kill them instead, only to be stopped by the so-called “rogue agent” Ozec.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l38level1lfo72"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. In regards to the mercenaries involved in the highway attack, Jennifer only tells Laura that they are “rogue agents seeking to destroy Atlas.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l38level1lfo72"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Laura questions Jennifer about the so-called “enemies of Atlas”, but Jennifer only tells Laura that there are many, and that the attack on Korey Hogan will be one of many attempts to destroy the corporation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">18. Laura then questions Jennifer about CHIMERA, asking what it is:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l34level1lfo84"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Jennifer’s reply is that CHIMERA is one of ATLAS Corporation’s many enemies and she “fears” that there may be traitors within the Atlas ranks |[CS5]  .

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l34level1lfo84"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Olivia doubts whether what Jennifer says is true, and Jennifer asks her if she had been backstabbed.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l34level1lfo84"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Olivia replies that she had been backstabbed couple times during her rather “premature” military career.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">19. Meanwhile, Sam Coonz and Sam Cooper read over the documents from the estate, in the process uncovering a sinister terrorist operation named Operation Grouse (which Oleg apparently knew about):

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l52level1lfo16"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Operation Grouse is apparently a plot to attack many major cities in the world’s major countries, apparently headed by HPCIS leader Abdullah Al-Hazmi himself.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l52level1lfo16"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. The targets are revealed to be underground subway systems, various government buildings and even power plants, with “thousands of people” expected to die.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l52level1lfo16"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. The motive behind the attacks becomes clear: Al-Hazmi is outraged that “foreigners” are occupying Saudi Arabia, the “land of Islam in the holiest of places” and seeks to punish them.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">20. In addition, new information is discovered:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6level1lfo26"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Oleg has developed a counter-operation against Atlas Corporation called Operation Red Sky:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l12level1lfo27"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Oleg plans to launch his own “retaliatory strike” against Atlas Corporation, claiming it to be “evil”.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l12level1lfo27"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">ii. Unlike Operation Grouse, Operation Red Sky doesn’t target subways and powerplants, but Atlas itself.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l12level1lfo27"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iii. Makarov’s ultimate goal is to “cripple” ATLAS to the point where it falls.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">21. Alarmed by this information, Coonz and Cooper devise a plan: Sam Cooper would lead an operation to stop and Makarov’s scheme while someone else goes to tell Jennifer Dotson, AKA The Boss, about the incident.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">22. Later, when Olivia Coonz returns to her multimillion dollar apartment (actually safehouse) in Austin, she encounters Korey Hogan with an “injury” (which he really just faked in order to deceive the “enemies of Atlas” into thinking he was dead): |[CS6]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Korey tells Olivia that ATLAS Corporation’s been compromised, and that the highway attack that killed Logan was meant to kill Korey instead.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Korey then reveals that Olivia should trust “no one”, moments before he is shot by a CHIMERA agent disguised as a SWAT sniper, who is immediately eliminated by Laura Byrne, who arrived at about the same time Coonz did.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Later, another CHIMERA agent disguised as a fellow resident in the apartment attacks Olivia, seeking to kill Korey a second time to make it appear that the first time succeeded. |[CS7]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Kicking into action, Olivia Coonz\Lindsey Benson fights the assassin and, though it takes a while, kills him. Laura Byrne, after she sees Korey Hogan bleeding on the floor of the apartment, calls the cops.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Immediately afterwards, a backup squad of undercover CHIMERA soldiers disguised as cops appears to finish the job, as well as kill Benson\Coonz and Byrne to avoid any witnesses.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Benson\Coonz is about to act when the CHIMERA operatives are later ambushed and many are gunned down through the ceiling.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. While pursuing the surviving members of the strike team, Coonz\Benson observes that her awesomeness has allowed her to keep running, even though she should’ve collapsed earlier.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Left with the last man, Lindsey\Olivia corners him on the rooftop and attempts to interrogate him about CHIMERA, but he gets shot and killed by Emily Smart\Assassin X before he can give a clear answer.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Now pursuing Emily Smart, Lindsey\Olivia-thinking that Emily has once again been brainwashed-pursues her friend.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">j. When the former attempts to incapacitate Emily by throwing a brick at her, Emily catches it out of the sky and says to her friend, “You shouldn’t have come here.” |[CS8]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">k. After staring at her friend with a dumbfounded expression for a brief moment, Olivia asks Emily about CHIMERA, but she is only given a cryptic answer: “It’s everywhere. Even in your next door neighbor.” Emily then runs off before more CHIMERA soldiers can find her.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l15level1lfo63"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">l. Olivia is left to ponder her friend’s cryptic message as she stares off into the night.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">23. Operation Red Sky is launched:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l18level1lfo29"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Guillermo Villacranca, Oleg Makarov’s right-hand man, leads a team of men to infiltrate the private airplane HPCIS dictator Abdullah Al-Hazmi. Moments later, a bomb goes off aboard the airplane.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l18level1lfo29"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. The airplane crashes into a snowy mountain in Poland.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l18level1lfo29"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Separated, Guillermo fights his way to President Al-Hazmi, and escorts him to the getaway chopper-only to encounter Oleg Makarov.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l18level1lfo29"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Oleg, apparently knowing that Guillermo is not HPCIS, but Cerberus, shoots him (unbeknownst to everyone else, the gun fires blanks) and captures Al-Hazmi, where he demands that the President give him the launch codes for the HPCIS drone fleet.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l18level1lfo29"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Al-Hazmi refuses, calling Oleg a madman (a callback to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ) and eventually orders Al-Hazmi to be taken to Makarov’s stronghold, a castle in Prague, Czech Republic.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">24. |[CS9]   Operation Black Dog, an Atlas counter-operation to stop Operation Grouse, begins:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l64level1lfo17"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">1. Sam Kuper, Laura Byrne, Erin Ready, Marcus Burns, Nate Davis, AJ Nates, Sam Coonz, Emma Wideman, David “Hesh” Walker, Emmi Windes, and Olivia S. Coonz are divided into teams:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l46level1lfo18"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">A. Olivia Coonz, Emma Wideman, Alexandra Rozdhstvensky, Chloe Morrel, Katie Winslow, Emily Smart\Assassin X, Alex Smith, Gideon Wallcroft, Bill Griffen , and Lev Raskov are sent into London, England, one of the cities targeted by HPCIS, in order to stop a HPCIS attempt to cause a nuclear meltdown at a power plant there.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l46level1lfo18"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">B. Laura Byrne, Sam Cooper, Erin Ready, Emmi Windes, Marcus Burns, Sam Coonz, AJ Nates, and Nate Davis team up with Shadow Force and lead an Atlas team to stop HPCIS terrorists from bombing the Stock Exchange, with help from a team of New York policemen led by Richard Castle and his partner Kate Beckett.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l46level1lfo18"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">C. Olivia leads her team in London to link up with Bill Griffen, one of the British SAS soldiers involved in the mission. Together with the SAS, Emily Smart leads a small team of ATLAS soldiers and they a full-scale assault on the plant, killing HPCIS terrorists disguised as security guards and power plant employees.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">25. Back in New York City, Elizabeth Johnson, leader of Shadow Force, works with Kate Beckett and is able to pinpoint the location of the bomb to the New York to a rather surprising location: the New York Stock Exchange.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">26. Audrey Hoving assists Kate Beckett, Laura Byrne, Nate Davis, and Sam Cooper in locating the bomb:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l23level1lfo21"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. The plan apparently succeeds when Sam, with help from Beckett and Castle, is able to locate the guy who planted the bomb to begin with: Al-Hazmi’s right hand man Ibrahim Sharif.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l23level1lfo21"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">ii. Emmi promptly tries to attack the guy, but he escapes.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l23level1lfo21"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iii. Eventually, following a chase through the Stock Exchange, Emmi is able to incapacitate Sharif by beating him unconscious with a weekend edition newspaper.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">27. Emmi discovers the bomb on the bottom floor of the Exchange, but soon finds out that it’s actually a dud. Panicked, she radios Richard Castle, reporting the bad news.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">28. Kate and Audrey both realize that the real bomb is actually hidden on the upper floor of the building, and race to evacuate the upper floor.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">29. However, during the evacuation, a second HPCIS gunman attacks Audrey, who is able to fight him off with help from Emmi Windes, Kate Beckett, Nate Davis, Sam Kuper, and Sam Coonz.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">30. Unfortunately, their attempts to find the bomb are in vain; the bomb goes off and injures Kate, Sam Coonz, Sam Kuper, Nate Davis, and Emmi Windes (who were all attempting to evacuate the building together).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">31. In London, Olivia Coonz and her strike team are notified of the failure to protect the Stock Exchange.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">32. As the mission progresses and Olivia’s team fights through the power plant towards the reactor room, they abruptly encounter Olivia Benson, Coonz’s biological mother, who tells her that HPCIS terrorists are attempting to trigger a meltdown and need to leave, but Coonz attempts to explain that they’ve been sent to stop the explosion:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">33. Unfortunately, the HPCIS terrorists succeed in triggering the meltdown:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l66level1lfo85"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. The power plant staff races to evacuate the facility, and Olivia’s ATLAS team is left with the task of assisting the evacuation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l66level1lfo85"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Olivia Benson, who somehow loses sight of her biological daughter in the plant, orders staff members to keep the blast doors open while she goes to rescue Coonz.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l66level1lfo85"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Coonz, meanwhile, makes a mad dash for the checkpoint, killing HPCIS terrorists that try to attack her. In the ensuing gunfight, Gideon and Lev are injured.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l66level1lfo85"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Lev manages to make it out with Gideon, Olivia, and Emma. Olivia, under pressure, seals the blast doors to prevent the meltdown from releasing radiation into the city, resulting in the deaths of thousands, including Griffen, Morrel, and Smith.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">34. |[CS10]   In the wake of the HPCIS attacks, the Islamic Caliphate launches a full-scale invasion of the affected nations, but are quickly stopped from capturing the United States of America, thanks to Atlas. However, HPCIS establishes secret human trafficking rings in the affected US cities.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">35. Upon returning to the Atlas base in Texas, Jennifer Dotson is informed by fellow Atlas director Aaron Wideman about the HPCIS attacks, and of the invasion by HPCIS, when Oleg Makarov’s Cerberus soldiers attack the base themselves:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l24level1lfo61"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. During the siege, Oleg Makarov attempts to kill Jennifer Dotson after breaking into the main building of the Atlas HQ, but is abruptly stymied when Laura Byrne attacks him. Though Oleg is a rather experienced fighter, Laura is able to gain an upper hand with the help of her exoskeleton suit.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l24level1lfo61"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. However, Laura winds up being defeated by Makarov. At first, Makarov tries to kill her, but to his surprise he is unable to. Instead of killing her, therefore, Makarov tells Laura, “You are a fool to believe Atlas is your safe haven. It is not. Atlas shouldn’t be trusted.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l24level1lfo61"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Afterwards, Makarov makes his way towards Jennifer Dotson once more, only to be forced to flee when Olivia Coonz and her team of soldiers break into Dotson’s office to protect her, firing on Makarov’s assault team.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">36. |[CS11]   Skip to two months after the failed mission and successful escape, and the Cerberus siege on the Atlas base:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l60level1lfo22"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Oleg Makarov, leader of Cerberus, makes a statement against the Muslims, declaring that the attacks have roused the people “from their sleep.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l60level1lfo22"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. It is revealed that London and New York weren’t the only target in this “global 9\11” attack by HPCIS:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l7level1lfo23"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Various other cities have been affected as well, with Tokyo, Japan, Beijing, China, Moscow, Russia, Hereford, England, Munich Germany, Hamburg, Germany, Berlin, Germany, Athens, Greece, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, and Paris, France, to name a few. |[CS12]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l7level1lfo23"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">ii. Immediately after the attacks, HPCIS launches a full-scale invasion of the decimated nations, which is immediately countered by both Makarov’s private army and Atlas (despite the fact that at this point, the two of them are still enemies), which race to protect those nations, eventually sparking a full-scale war that goes by many names-the “Global Jihad Movement” by HPCIS and the “War Against Religion” by Makarov.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l7level1lfo23"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iii. HPCIS manages to seize a great number of countries in the Middle East and Europe, but ultimately fails to overtake the United States military, thanks to Atlas Corporation and its allies.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l7level1lfo23"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iv. Those that have survived the attacks and the invasion are now living in civilian refugee camps in said affected cities, which are now owned by Atlas Corporation. Unbeknownst to Atlas Corporation and its allies, HPCIS has placed sleeper cells and undercover moles inside the US government in an attempt to destroy the military infrastructure from the inside (in response to the failed invasion attempt).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l7level1lfo23"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">v. Even though it is the talk of the nation that Makarov is against HPCIS, Atlas leaders are skeptical, believing that Makarov is faking his move against HPCIS and is secretly allied with them. But people inside Atlas-like Emmi Windes-suspect that something else is at work.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">37. Inside a refugee camp in New York City, NY, Emmi Windes watches as Olivia Coonz\Lindsey Benson confronts her biological mother about her past:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l77level1lfo24"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Olivia Benson lays down the whole thing, revealing that Olivia Coonz indeed was born from a rape and that her awesomeness really did come from Benson, having been passed down to her child after the rape.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l77level1lfo24"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Benson also adds that she gave Coonz away not out of hate (for she assumed that Lindsey\Olivia would hate her for what she’d done), but out of fear, because Benson didn’t feel ready to take care of a child.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l77level1lfo24"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. In addition, Olivia Coonz was more than just an adopted name-it was actually a personality that she’d inherited from Benson herself, as part of her genome.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l77level1lfo24"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Apparently, when Lindsey Benson\Olivia Coonz was born, she had multiple personality disorder, which meant that she could switch between different personalities in different situations. Her calm self was Lindsey Benson, and her active “war-like” self was Olivia Coonz, which would activate when threatened and\or assaulted.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">38. Shocked, Olivia Coonz\Lindsey Benson ends up rethinking the way she was born, and rethinks the history of her awesomeness.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">39. Two weeks after this startling revelation, Lindsey Benson\Olivia Coonz is later given a rather difficult assignment: lead a small strike team in capturing Marilia Kamova, a scientist working inside New York City with the terrorist group Cerberus, in a mission codenamed Operation Moth:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. After exiting the compound, Emmi Windes, Coondog, Gideon Wallcroft, Marcus Burns, Logan Walker, Richard Castle, Kate Beckett, Lev Raskov, Laura Byrne, and Vladimira Omorova enter a rather decimated New York City.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. After entering New York City, the team splits up, with Emmi, Laura and Vladimira going with Wallcroft, Castle, Raskov and Burns, and Logan Walker going with Coonz, Beckett, and Burns.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Wallcroft leads Windes, Omorova, and Byrne through a high school, where they discover a rather gruesome scene: a whole faculty of high school juniors massacred by what appear to be HPCIS soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. However, they soon realize that they’ve stumbled upon a HPCIS human trafficking ring, in which HPCIS soldiers are kidnapping Western girls and young women, and selling them to raise enough money to fund an army with which to destroy the United States military and ultimately destroy America.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. After a short moment of contemplation as to whether Oleg Makarov’s Cerberus group fits into this or not, the team continues through the school, eventually culminating when Emmi and Vladimira are abruptly separated from the group when they fall through a glass window and end up in a room infested with HPCIS soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Later, when the others try to rescue them, the two end up falling further into a basement full of HPCIS soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. After killing a HPCIS soldier and obtaining a weapon from him, Vladimira and Emmi make their way through the building, killing HPCIS soldiers in their way.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Along the way, Vladimira hears what she thinks is an auction going on elsewhere in the building and reports her suspicions to Wallcroft, who is waiting for them outside.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Moments later, Emmi and Vladimira abruptly encounter a HPCIS soldier who attempts to ambush them, but Emmi manages to kill him by bashing him on the head with a weekend edition newspaper fashioned into a “milbrick wall” and stabbing him with a knife

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">j. The pair are reunited with Wallcroft and the others, and Wallcroft informs Windes that he heard the auction too as the team of adults were making their way through the building.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">k. |[CS13]   Later the team reunites with Olivia Coonz’s unit, and they decide to find and foil the “slave auctioning” together.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">l. Fighting through another series of rooms infested with HPCIS soldiers, the team eventually finds the slave auction-and Olivia recognizes someone she remembered seeing as a witness of the HPCIS attack on the Stock Exchange: Ellie Hoving, Audrey Hoving’s fourteen-year old sister. In addition, they discover Marilia Kamova, Oleg Makarov’s scientist.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">m. After destroying the HPCIS soldiers at the auction, both Marilia and Ellie and their fellow captives are rescued, the girls are brought back to the Atlas HQ.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">40. After returning to the Atlas HQ, the Atlas soldiers question Ellie and Marilia, as both of them apparently know where Oleg Makarov is:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l83level1lfo28"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. After some coaxing, Ellie reveals that Oleg is hiding in the Spanish city of Seville, suspected by the Spaniards of holding “suspicious information.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l83level1lfo28"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. When the rest of the Atlas soldiers express doubts, Marilia helps Ellie back up her claims and they are able to conjure up enough evidence to prove that Makarov is really in Seville, Spain.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">41. After the interrogation, Audrey approaches Ellie and, noticing that she feels somewhat guilty for “spilling the beans” about Makarov, assures her that the team needed the information.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">42. Ellie reveals that she didn’t feel guilty about giving Makarov away, but she was still “traumatized” by the events of the Stock Exchange bombing. However, Audrey isn’t so easily unnerved, saying that she’s happy that her sister is “still in one piece.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">43. Two years later, in 2015, following an argument between former US National Guardsman turned forward military commander of Task Force Osprey Daniel Windes and Atlas CEO Jennifer Dotson, the team goes to Seville, Spain, with Olivia Coonz\Lindsey Benson and Tatiana Chirkiva\Emma Wideman leading a team of Atlas soldiers to capture Makarov alive for the sole purpose of getting information out of him concerning Operation Red Sky.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">44. Meanwhile, Russian Cerberus asset\mole in Atlas Corporation Vladimir Arkadin is sent in to find and kill Mai Gao, a Muslim convert and member of HPCIS, notorious for fighting with hammers:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l61level1lfo58"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. After witnessing Mai killing some thugs aboard a subway train in Bangkok, Thailand, she faces Vladimir Arkadin, the former Spetsnaz soldier turned Russian government mole in Atlas Corporation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l61level1lfo58"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Vladimir, a veteran fighter due to his time in the Spetsnaz, is able to successfully defeat Mai Gao and interrogate her.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l61level1lfo58"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. |[CS14]   It is revealed that Mai knew about Oleg Makarov’s Operation Red Sky, and that she was sent in to kill Makarov before Red Sky could be launched.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l61level1lfo58"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. However, instead of giving herself up to the authorities trying to hunt her down, Mai later commits suicide, leading Arkadin to find a lead in Seville, Spain.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">45. Two months later, Olivia Coonz’s team is on a flight to Seville, and Laura Byrne has an encounter with Tracey Abernathy, a CIA agent and part-time journalist:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Tracey and Laura talk about random things, from news-related talk to talk of HPCIS.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Laura speaks to Tracey about her business and finds that Tracey is indeed very interested in journalism.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Further talking reveals that Tracey is also investigating the stories of HPCIS and suspected connections between Oleg Makarov’s Cerberus and Shadir Al-Hazmi’s HPCIS.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Laura learns that the civil war between the Federation and the anti-Fed rebels had ended with the Federation recapturing the dissenting states and imposing martial law upon the cities involved in the so-called “Fed uprising”, and that the nation of Israel is becoming increasingly worried about HPCIS’ rise to power.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. When the Atlas team lands in Seville, Tracey interviews Laura about “suspicions” concerning Atlas, revealing that there are people within the United States and other countries that are starting to allege that Atlas Corporation is secretly “evil”, though Laura denies these claims.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Later, Gideon Wallcroft approaches Tracey, and they strike a random conversation about bullfighting. Moments later, Wallcroft gets an update from Shadow Force commander Elizabeth Johnson confirming that Oleg Makarov and, much to Wallcroft’s surprise, Shadir Al-Hazmi, have landed in Seville.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. When Tracey attempts to interview Olivia concerning the HPCIS threat, a HPCIS militant immediately ambushes the strike force, intending to kill Tracey, though Emmi Windes is able to fend him off.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l31level1lfo32"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. However, the man commits suicide when Emmi attempts to interrogate him, and Emmi finds a brochure showing a bullfighting ring inside his knapsack. In addition, Emmi discovers a note saying, Makarov is here, accompanied by a picture of a bullfighting ring.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">46. Six days later, the team is in said bullfighting ring in Seville, Spain, with Vladimira Omorova leading an assault team consisting of Emmi Windes and Sam Cooper, and Elizabeth Johnson leading her own assault team of Shadow Force soldiers. Operation Rattlesnake, a mission to find and capture Oleg Makarov for questioning, begins:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. At the bullfighting ring, a team led by Emmi Windes, Gideon Wallcroft, Marcus Burns, Olivia Coonz, Vladimira Omorova, and Sam Cooper spies on Makarov and his right-hand man Alexei after Tracey interviews Olivia Coonz about Makarov.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. While spying on Makarov and Krushnov, Olivia notices that Shadir Al-Hazmi is also in Seville and decides to go with Emmi, Vladimira, Wallcroft, and Burns to investigate while Tracey looks on.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Meanwhile, Oleg Makarov tails Shadir Al-Hazmi and eventually finds him inside the small anteroom, where a bull is kept inside a pen.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Makarov confronts Al-Hazmi and they fight, as Emmi, Olivia, Gideon, and Vladimira observe; Al-Hazmi appears to be more powerful than Makarov at first, but Makarov is eventually able to overpower Al-Hazmi, although he ultimately ends up in the pen, along with Al-Hazmi the bull.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Al-Hazmi pummels Makarov inside the pen, but Makarov is able to once again disarm him and eventually injure him enough times to put him out of action, leaving Makarov with the bull.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. After keeping the bull away, Makarov searches the unconscious Al-Hazmi for information, but only finds the man’s passport, a gun, a visa, and a laptop in the Islamic jihadist leader’s backpack.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Olivia’s strike team moves in to capture Makarov, but their mission is abruptly foiled when the bull attacks them. Oleg realizes that he has no choice but to team up with Olivia’s strike team (much to the chagrin of both parties) in order to keep from being slaughtered by the raging bovine.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. In their attempt to stop the bull, both Makarov, his right-hand man Krushnov, Coonz, Windes, Omorova, and Cooper are injured.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. |[CS15]   Moments later, Emma Wideman, Liz Johnson, Tracey Abernathy, Audrey Hoving, Sadye Weible, Laura Byrne, Marcus Burns, Erin Ready, Gideon Wallcroft, and Derek Westbrook are injured when the bull, out of anger, attacks the audience attending the bullfight after Liz’s Shadow Force soldiers attempt to help Olivia’s injured assault team, as well as Abernathy, Makarov and Krushnov.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l55level1lfo31"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">j. Everyone involved in the bull attack ends up in the hospital as a direct result of the bull attack in the bullfighting ring.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">47. After Olivia regains consciousness inside a hospital in Seville, she has a run-in with her biological mother once again:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l22level1lfo33"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Liv Benson, referring to her “biological kid” as Lindsey Edward Benson, reveals that she retired from the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l22level1lfo33"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. When Coonz asks why, Benson comments that it was Oskar Baughman\William Lewis that made her retire, though Coonz is sure that her biological mother is joking.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l22level1lfo33"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Coonz is abruptly surprised when Benson reveals the same information Abernathy gave earlier: Atlas is rumored to be an evil dictatorship in disguise and is therefore not to be trusted.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Act II

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">48. After Coonz is released two months later, the team heads back to the Atlas HQ in Tel Aviv, Israel, where the team is in for a surprise.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">49. Olivia and the rest of the team discover Arnim Zola, a Swiss scientist and member of the Nazi terrorist group HYDRA.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">50. At first, Olivia is unconvinced that HYDRA managed to follow the team into the real world, but Zola reveals a shocking revelation:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. HYDRA, originally a Nazi extremist group during World War II, was founded on the belief that humanity couldn’t be trusted with its own freedom |[CS16]  . At the same time, CryNet Systems was founded on the belief that a perfect world could be created through technology.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. However, the problem was that when people tried to take that freedom, they resisted. The only solution was to convince humans to give up their freedom willingly.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. After the Second World War, SHIELD was founded. German scientists were recruited during Operation Paperclip, post-World War II, and by the year 2014, HYDRA had managed to take over SHIELD, unbeknownst to its leaders. |[CS17]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. During the Cold War, after World War II, CryNet was founded and HYDRA soon joined with CryNet when both organizations fell into debt. After HYDRA successfully prevented both the Korean War and the Vietnam War (in the new timeline the team found themselves in), Atlas Corporation was founded and once again both CryNet and HYDRA fell into a debt crisis.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Out of desperation, CryNet and HYDRA merged and in 2001, HYDRA managed to stop 9\11 while inside SHIELD.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. When the recession occurred in the United States, HYDRA and CryNet merged to create CHIMERA, the next biggest dictatorship. However, that didn’t solve the debt problem.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. |[CS18]   To further attempt to solve the debt problem, those in both CryNet and HYDRA who were affected by the debt joined Atlas, eventually creating a “new CHIMERA”, one that was born inside Atlas. |[CS19]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l75level1lfo53"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Zola then explains that the new CHIMERA has been secretly feeding crisis, reaping war, and history was changed when it did not cooperate, thus explaining previous events the Atlas team hadn’t known about, including the assassination of Saddam Hussein by Atlas soldiers, the Atlas raid on a Palestinian terrorist hideout, and the elimination of the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda resulting from various members of the group being assassinated, eventually ending with the assassination of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. |[CS20]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">51. Zola later finishes by saying that everything Olivia and the team had done-from the failed attempt to stop the HPCIS attacks on America, to the attempt to capture Oleg Makarov, even to Logan Walker’s accidental killing during the seemingly random, attack (later revealed to be a deliberate attempt to kill Korey Hogan that Jennifer Dotson apparently ordered herself)-were all part of CHIMERA’s attempts to take over the world, one nation at a time.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">52. Alarmed, Olivia’s team realizes that they have been used as pawns in a game of world domination, and choose to defect. However, Jennifer Dotson arrives and, angered and disturbed that the team has uncovered her secret plot, orders them arrested.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">53. The team goes rogue and fights through Tel Aviv’s streets, reaching the rooftop of a large building, where Erin Ready, Captain America, AKA Steve Rogers , Natasha Romanoff , AKA Black Widow , and some old friends of Olivia Coonz- Mason Davidson, Erin Ready , Korey Hogan and Kjia Zuroweste -picks them up; Erin is revealed to be part of a US-led multinational task force called Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">54. After Olivia questions Erin, Kjia, Korey and Mason about Osprey, Mason reveals that the team was founded two years after the HPCIS attack. Originally founded to help fight HPCIS, the team was later utilized to fight against Atlas Corporation, after it’s revealed that Jennifer used the attacks to increase Atlas’ reputation, and eventually take over America and the rest of the world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">55. |[CS21]   Though Olivia expresses doubts about fighting against the very corporation that they thought was home, the rogue soldiers eventually meet some new buddies:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l30level1lfo34"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Alena Vorshevsky, daughter of ex-Russian president Boris Vorshevsky, introduces the team to the rest of the squad, consisting of Lexy Mae Cooper , Yuri Raskolinov, former Russian Air Force, a Terminatrix modeled after former high school student Emily Underdown (who apparently shares the name of its former human model and who was apparently built by Lev Raskov), Sam Coonz (Olivia’s bro) and AJ Nates-former high school students, Amelia Schneider , Jacob Fitts , Nate Davis , Bar Yadin , former IDF, Olivia’s friend Emily Smart, Brittney Winchester , and-surprisingly-the main characters’ parents.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">56. Alena starts to complain that war is “unnecessary” and needs to end, though everyone else disagrees.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">57. Later, Osprey commander Korey Hogan comes forth to confess his own feelings about war and its negative effects.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">58. The team’s first mission as Osprey members begins:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. The Osprey team is sent into Jakarta, Indonesia, tasked with obtaining information about Jennifer Dotson’s scheme against the world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Disguised as partygoers, Olivia Coonz and Emmi Windes lead a small team of Shadow Force and Task Force Osprey soldiers and they enter the estate while Olivia Benson and Aaron Wideman lead a separate team of Task Force Osprey soldiers in an attempt to infiltrate the estate from the rooftop.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Olivia and Marcus, disguised as partygoers, decide to spy on Jennifer Dotson:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"> i. A partygoer and his girlfriend meet the two “lovebirds” and said partygoer (who is a minor character) strikes up a conversation with them.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"> ii. Later, partygoer heads to the bathroom while Olivia talks with his girlfriend.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"> iii. Partygoer’s girlfriend asks Olivia to accompany her to the bathroom.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"> iv. While she is there, Olivia falls victim to an attempt by a CHIMERA agent to kill her, though she is able to fend the attacker off.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. While Aaron’s strike team disables the estate’s security system, Emmi Windes’ assault team enters the estate and manages to hack into Jennifer Dotson’s private desk, in the process accessing some really chilling information:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l4level1lfo36"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Jennifer is planning on waging war against the entire world, claiming that all the world’s problems begin with “countries that can’t get along.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l4level1lfo36"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">ii. To kick her plan into action, Jennifer has created a cyber-weapon aiming to destroy the military infrastructures of entire countries, eventually destroying them, and a biological weapon called “Armageddon”, a deadly virus that will kill in seconds, though it doesn’t kill ex-Atlas Corporation soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.5in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l4level1lfo36"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">iii. In addition, information confirming Zola’s revelations that Atlas Corporation has been taken over by CHIMERA emerges, including information that reveals that Arnim Zola secretly collaborated with Jennifer Dotson to become the new leader of Atlas, the first step in world domination. In addition to this, it is also revealed that Korey Hogan’s retirement actually paved the way for CHIMERA to infiltrate Atlas, take it over, and eventually start a war with the entire world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Armed with this new information, Emmi reports to Olivia that they have the intel, but is redirected to a rather suspicious exchange between Jennifer Dotson and other soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Regrouping with Olivia’s strike force, it is revealed that Jennifer Dotson is using scientists worldwide to manufacture the bioweapon.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Winslow, Katie Winslow’s brother, is watching Olivia Coonz’s rather hasty escape from the bathroom:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"> i. He later becomes paranoid when he sees security guards with shotguns, revealing that he is scared of shotguns.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto"> ii. Nathaniel radios Aaron Wideman, reporting the heavy security.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. During an attempt to escape from the mansion, the mission is compromised and Emmi and Olivia’s team is forced to fight through the Atlas security guards in order to make it out.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l43level1lfo35"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. However, Arkadin, who reveals that he has also been sent to stop Dotson, abruptly stops them. After assisting the Osprey soldiers in fighting through the mansion to safety, Arkadin gives them a piece of intel concerning key CHIMERA members inside Atlas Corporation’s body of officers and flees, leaving the Osprey soldiers to sort out the information on their own.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">59. At the Osprey base, everyone is confused about the information:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l41level1lfo59"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Sam Coonz believes that the information Arkadin gave pointed to the possibility that Atlas has been compromised so severely that it can no longer be trusted.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l41level1lfo59"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Olivia Coonz, however, disagrees, reasoning that there’s still time to eliminate the CHIMERA moles. She also reasons that if Dotson is destroyed, then CHIMERA will be exposed and the rest of the government will know what has happened.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l41level1lfo59"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Irina Kamova, Vladimira Omorova, Laura Byrne, Nate Davis, and AJ Nantz, however, propose a different theory. They suggest that Korey Hogan’s unexpected retirement was something Dotson actually planned in advance. In fact, Dotson may have even contributed to the circumstances leading to Korey’s retirement. Olivia is tempted to tell her squad about Emily’s revelation, but chooses to keep silent.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">60. Days later, Osprey’s next mission is to find and interrogate undercover CHIMERA agent Amelia Schrader, who knows about the Armageddon Virus, as well as the details behind the circumstances leading to Korey’s retirement:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8level1lfo54"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. After locating Schrader, the team, led by Sam Cooper, Lexy Cooper, Vladimira Omorova, Irina Kamova, Laura Byrne, Sam Coonz, AJ Nantz, and Nate Davis, pursues Schrader through a shopping mall, which is revealed to be infested with CHIMERA soldiers disguised as mall security guards.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8level1lfo54"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. A shootout erupts, and many civilians are either slaughtered or injured.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8level1lfo54"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Undercover CHIMERA member Trevor Burns leads a team of soldiers to kill the Ospreys, but is successfully defeated by Osprey, with help from Shadow Force, even though Nate Davis is injured in the ensuing melee.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8level1lfo54"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Amelia Schrader is later captured and taken to a Shadow Force safehouse for interrogation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">61. |[CS22]   Schrader reveals that the Armageddon Virus will kill anyone who is not an ex-Atlas soldier, though it recognizes DNA from Atlas soldiers and is able to avoid them. In regards to the circumstances leading to Korey’s retirement from Atlas, Schrader gives a startling revelation:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l80level1lfo60"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Korey’s “car accident” was actually a deliberate attempt on his life by CHIMERA soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l80level1lfo60"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. As Schrader tells it, Jennifer Dotson sought to overthrow Korey Hogan, and take over Atlas, letting the international terrorist group CHIMERA infiltrate the organization and, eventually, take over the US government.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l80level1lfo60"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. When the Osprey soldiers express doubt about her story, Schrader presents credible proof, including news reports about the so-called “assassination attempt” and suspicious news reports concerning Jennifer Dotson being “elected” as Atlas Corporation’s next CEO.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto"> 57. Afterwards, when Olivia is asked whether she knew the information from the start, she admits that she does. When asked why she chose not to tell anyone, Olivia simply replies: “Emily wanted to save my life.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">62. Later, another mission is launched to capture George Stern, another undercover CHIMERA operative inserted into Atlas, who knows of the Armageddon Virus and of Jennifer’s attempt to assassinate Korey Hogan:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. The team traces George’s location to Washington DC. Unlike Amelia, who fled the pursuers, George surrenders without incident.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. After George is put in Osprey custody, he explains that both he and Amelia worked together to help Jennifer build the virus. He also explains that Jennifer and only Jennifer alone had plotted the attempt to kill Korey Hogan, debunking any rumors that she had any assistance.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. AJ Nantz and Nate Davis both suggest finding Jennifer and taking her out, though George is adamant that it is a bad idea.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Suddenly, Bucky Barnes, AKA the Winter Soldier , attacks the Ospreys’ vehicle, killing George Stern by throwing him into oncoming traffic. The vehicle is soon totaled and destroyed, and the team of Osprey soldiers finds itself under fire from the Winter Soldier and his fellow CHIMERA assassins, this time disguised as gangsters. |[CS23]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. However, former Treadstone operative turned Osprey asset David Webb, AKA Jason Bourne , backed up by Logan Walker’s old team of Ghosts, consisting of Keegan P. Russ and Thomas Merrick , appears and assists the Osprey squad in eliminating the CHIMERA assassins.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Jason Bourne then takes on the Winter Soldier, but since he is not “awesome enough” he is easily defeated.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. However, Nate Davis is able to defeat the Winter Soldier with his baton, which is really a multipurpose weapon consisting of a taser and a boomerang built into one weapon.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo55"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Captain America appears and recognizes the Winter Soldier as Bucky Barnes, but since Bucky’s mind has been wiped clean by CHIMERA, the latter doesn’t recognize him and later flees the scene.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">63. Task Force Osprey’s next mission is to find and capture Ibrahim Sharif, an associate of Al-Hazmi who knows about Makarov’s intentions to destroy HPCIS, as well as Jennifer Dotson’s plan to wage war on the entire world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">64. The US President authorizes Operation Trident, a three-pronged attack mission in the continent of Europe, with Shadow Force assigned to find and capture Ibrahim (who is currently hiding in Tehran, Iran), US Special Forces assigned to go after Makarov, and Task Force Osprey assigned to find and capture Viktor “Volk” Krishtenko, who had been captured by Delta Force during World War III years earlier, but later escaped custody and joined Cerberus.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">65. Stage One of Operation Trident begins:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l45level1lfo37"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. In Tehran, Jamie Nicole Gebauer, Elizabeth Johnson, newest Shadow Force grunt Trinity Smithsburg (actually disguised CHIMERA asset), and the rest of the strike force are watching US air strikes and they witness units of Atlas soldiers moving through the city, acting as death squads and executing suspected HPCIS loyalists.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l45level1lfo37"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Later, when Commander Windes gives the go-ahead, the strike force joins US Marines in a full-scale charge against the HPCIS soldiers, dodging mortar strikes along the way, and eventually reaching a wall, which they are able to breach over.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l45level1lfo37"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Once the team reaches the city, the team fights through the city streets, clearing out multiple apartments inside Tehran, until they reach a hotel.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">66. |[CS24]   In Atlas-occupied Hamburg, Germany, Task Force Osprey collaborates with Derek Westbrook’s Delta Force unit in order to find and secure Volk:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. The Osprey soldiers learn that Atlas soldiers have abducted both Tracey Abernathy and Kate Beckett in retaliation for exposing Jennifer Dotson’s sinister plot to the world and are holding them in a large office building somewhere in Hamburg.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Inside said office building, Tracey and Kate plan an escape attempt.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Outside, the Osprey\Delta team fights through the streets of Hamburg, in an attempt to reach the building where Tracey is being kept, but eventually encounter a problem when during an attempt to find out how far the target building is, Atlas soldiers ambush the team and destroy one of the US Marine tanks assisting the Osprey\Delta Force squad.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Emmi Windes has no choice but to man the minigun aboard the tank (just like Frost had to do in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ) for the squad to advance.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. While Emmi provides covering fire, Derek Westbrook, Gideon Wallcroft, Marcus Burns, Olivia Coonz and Sam Coonz, Nate Davis, and AJ Nates lead a full-scale assault against the Atlas soldiers, eventually reaching the building that Tracey is being held in.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Meanwhile, after hearing the team their way through the building, Kate and Tracey attempt their escape by incapacitating the guard in their makeshift prison cell and attempting to sneak through the building, only to be abruptly exposed when Osprey soldiers are heard breaking into the building.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. While Kate Beckett covers their escape, Tracey flees and ends up being pursued by Atlas soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. However, Volk intervenes, killing one of the soldiers before running into the Osprey team.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l59level1lfo38"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. After securing the two women, the Osprey\Delta squad apprehends Volk, who informs the two teams of soldiers that “Chimera will be upon them.” When asked about the whereabouts of Ibrahim Sharif, Volk tells the Osprey strike force that he has fled with Al-Hazmi to Saudi Arabia.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">67. |[CS25]   Back in Tehran, Shadow Force assists the US Marines in attempting to capture a bank, but end up being pinned down by Atlas soldiers, who are also engaging HPCIS soldiers:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l39level1lfo39"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Trinity Smithsburg flanks the building by infiltrating a bathroom.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l39level1lfo39"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Inside the bathroom, a HPCIS soldier ambushes the girl, but Trinity is to fight him off.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l39level1lfo39"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Eventually, the girl makes her way out of the bathroom, assists the main assault squad in killing the Atlas soldiers inside the bank, and help the US Marines break into a bank vault.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l39level1lfo39"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Inside the bank vault, they find crates containing computer chips labeled ARMAGEDDON, which is revealed to be a nasty computer virus that Atlas Corporation’s legion of scientists apparently engineered themselves.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l39level1lfo39"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. A video recording of Jennifer Dotson reveals that CHIMERA, having successfully taken over Atlas Corporation, plans to use Chimera to destroy the military infrastructures of various countries worldwide, which will then pave the way for an Atlas takeover of the world and “unite” the world into a one-world government, AKA “the New World Order”.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l39level1lfo39"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Abruptly, Trinity betrays Shadow Force and reveals that she is an undercover CHIMERA mole by bombing the room with tear gas, killing all the HPCIS soldiers and Marines inside the bank and escaping, while at the same time covering up her little mess to make it look like an accident.

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<p class="MsoNormal"> Act III

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">68. Three months later, Task Force Osprey, now fully aware of CHIMERA’s infiltration of Atlas Corporation, teams up with Cerberus and various United States intelligence agencies to create a new task force altogether: Task Force MEDUSA (NOTE: in the actual story, Medusa isn’t in all caps).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">69. Therese Eriksson’s father Martin Eriksson and his partner Maria-Britt Wallendar personally thank the ex-ATLAS soldiers for the rescuing of Therese:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l19level1lfo75"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Later, Therese herself strikes up a conversation with Lindsey Benson\Olivia Coonz, discussing her future as an operative for MEDUSA. Lindsey decides that she may be able to accommodate her, but adds, “No promises.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l19level1lfo75"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Therese later speaks with Laura Byrne, offering sympathy for her due to the loss of her friend. Laura kindly accepts it and they discuss loss, with Therese claiming, “Loss is part of growing up” and that “part of growing up is accepting the inevitability of death.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l19level1lfo75"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Laura adds that she agrees with Therese, but that doesn’t make the loss of her friend any easier to get over. However, she does add that she is getting better at moving on.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">70. A month later, Emmi Windes is in the United Nations in New York City, where she listens in on a speech that Oleg Makarov, leader of the new task force, is personally delivering to the CHIMERA sleeper cells inside Atlas:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l32level1lfo65"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. He starts off by thanking the United Nations for giving him the privilege of being part of the UN Security Council, and debunks rumors that he is starting a genocidal campaign against the people of the world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l32level1lfo65"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. He then explains that CHIMERA was founded on the belief that humanity couldn’t be trusted with its own free will and that a perfect world could be attained when people groups united and used technology to benefit the world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l32level1lfo65"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. In a chilling display of guts and boldness, Makarov declares war on CHIMERA, blaming them as the source of the world’s problems.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l32level1lfo65"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Touched by the speech, half of CHIMERA moles within Atlas choose to defect, most notably Amelia Schrader, and join MEDUSA, much to Jennifer Dotson’s outrage. Within five hours after Makarov’s war declaration, Atlas declares war on the entire world.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">71. |[CS26]   Two days later, Amelia Schrader approaches Olivia and asks her about job positions in MEDUSA, stating that the US government has offered to let her choose between spending life in prison for treason or joining MEDUSA as a permanent member:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l47level1lfo67"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. To this, Olivia decides to offer Amelia “a second chance”, repeating Jennifer Dotson’s own appealing offer to Laura Byrne earlier in the story, which slightly disturbs Amelia.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l47level1lfo67"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. After being reassured that there are no tricks within MEDUSA and that it is perfectly loyal to the US, despite the rather threatening name, Amelia is won over and joins MEDUSA.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">72. Operation Matador, a US-led attempt to stop Atlas\CHIMERA forces from blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, begins:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l42level1lfo66"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. In New York City, Medusa forces are tasked with fighting Atlas forces trying to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. Backing the Medusa soldiers is the New York Police Department.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l42level1lfo66"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. With help from Richard Castle, the vigilante named Frank Castle, Frank’s right-hand man Jordan Portner , and Kate Beckett, a MEDUSA assault squad led by Olivia Coonz\Lindsey Benson engages Atlas in a large firefight on the bridge, which eventually culminates with one Atlas soldier surrendering.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l42level1lfo66"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Upon apprehension, the soldier reveals that Atlas soldiers have rigged the bridge to explode, pulling out a detonator and destroying it.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l42level1lfo66"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. The bridge collapses, and many civilians and law enforcement die, although Lindsey Benson\Olivia Coonz manages to rescue her biological mother, Marcus Burns is able to rescue Richard Castle, Frank Castle and Jordan Portner, and Emmi Windes is able to rescue both Kate Beckett and Amelia Schrader

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">73. |[CS27]   After the Brooklyn Bridge attack, the rest of the world declares war on Atlas, and Jennifer Dotson is revealed to have gone into hiding in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l13level1lfo40"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. At an air force base in Tel Aviv, Israel Lindsey Benson\Olivia Coonz speaks with her father Donald C. Benson, who is now revealed to have married Olivia Benson after Coonz’s adopted mother died in a car wreck shortly after the Seville operation.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l13level1lfo40"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. The two conclude that Dotson is planning a direct attack on Saudi Arabia, using Saudi Arabia as the forefront for the rest of the Atlas invasion.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l13level1lfo40"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Afterwards, Donald breaks some surprising news to his daughter-after retiring from the Special Victims Unit Olivia Benson became a commander of Task Force Osprey.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l13level1lfo40"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Meanwhile, Annabelle Gyngard speaks with Liz Johnson about how messed up the world’s become after Jennifer Dotson revealed herself as an evil dictator.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l13level1lfo40"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Later, during another talk between Emmi Windes and the rest of the team leads to the conclusion by all that this world is a “land of confusion.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">74. Afterwards, the attack begins:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l69level1lfo41"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Laura Byrne is put in the controls of a fighter jet once more, tasked with destroying Atlas command posts in the Jezreel Valley, and then in the Valley of Jehosephat.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l69level1lfo41"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. She is later re-tasked with providing air support for IDF fighters in Jerusalem, Israel.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l69level1lfo41"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. However, during her new mission, she is abruptly downed when an enemy Stinger knocks her aircraft out of the sky. Suddenly reminded of her friend Kelsey Dotson’s death, Laura promptly ejects from her aircraft, only to get pinned down by Atlas soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l69level1lfo41"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. On the ground, an assault team led by Amelia Schrader and Emmi Windes manages to rescue Laura and they regroup with fellow MEDUSA soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l69level1lfo41"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. As the soldiers advance towards Jennifer Dotson’s estate, Atlas soldiers abruptly release the Armageddon Virus, killing everybody except the ex-Atlas soldiers. |[CS28]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l69level1lfo41"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Atlas soldiers capture the ex-Atlas turned MEDUSA soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">75. The MEDUSA soldiers are sent to a prison camp while being tortured under the hands of abusive guards, where they are put in a torture room with Arkadin, who reveals that Atlas captured him when his cover was blown and that he was discovered to be a Cerberus mole.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">76. As the POWs are marched into prison, Laura witnesses the Atlas soldiers committing horrific atrocities:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l68level1lfo81"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Laura witnesses Atlas scientists experimenting on prison inmates.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l68level1lfo81"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Later, she witnesses Atlas soldiers killing infants and young children of prisoners.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l68level1lfo81"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. When Laura attempts to speak out against the brutality of the Atlas soldiers, she is “punished” with extreme torture methods. At one point, she is beaten to the point where her ribs break.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l68level1lfo81"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Eventually, the soldiers are put inside a torture chamber.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">77. Inside the prison camp’s torture chamber, Jennifer Dotson confronts them.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">78. Jennifer rants about how her daughter Kelsey died because of the US government’s “irresponsible” policies, but Laura sharply objects, arguing that Kelsey died for “what she believed in.” She then incapacitates Amelia with a taser.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">79. After revealing that she is insulted and angry with her “best men and women” betraying her, Dotson explains her disappointment with both Laura and Amelia, reiterating that the two of them had been given a second chance. However, Laura retaliates by adding that though Jennifer gave her a second chance, the former had given it back after realizing that she’d been “ripped off.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">80. Angered and disgusted as Laura’s resistance, Jennifer breaks Laura’s prosthetic arm with a hammer and leaves the prisoners to die in the prison cell.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">81. |[CS29]   Meanwhile, Oleg Makarov and Alexei Krushnov, having heard of what happened, launch a rescue mission, in a new mission called Operation Death Adder:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. After detonating an EMP over Riyadh, the Cerberus soldiers attack Atlas soldiers inside Riyadh.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. However, Cerberus accidentally lets HPCIS soldiers lay siege to the Atlas HQ in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Oleg overhears Shadir Al-Hazmi ordering his men to kill all non-Muslim foreign soldiers in all HPCIS territories via television broadcast, moments before an Atlas airstrike destroys the building containing the TV showing Al-Hazmi making his speech.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Oleg leads a team of Cerberus soldiers in fighting against the Atlas soldiers, as well as the HPCIS defenders, in an attempt to reach the base.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Oleg manages to break into the base, but finds that he cannot reach the prisoners because the HPCIS siege has put the facility on lockdown.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Meanwhile, Alexei Krushnov sees that Shadir Al-Hazmi and his men have breached the base, intending to kill both the Atlas soldiers and the prisoners inside, apparently because the latter’s Islamic religious beliefs lead him to treat everybody-even the prisoners-as enemies.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Oleg sees Ibrahim Sharif, Al-Hazmi’s right-hand man, roaming through the facility and killing Atlas soldiers left and right, and immediately knows that Osprey has branded the guy a target for termination.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l35level1lfo42"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Seeking to do the world a favor, Makarov informs Krushnov to secure the prisoners, and then proceeds to pursue Sharif himself.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">82. The Osprey prisoners, meanwhile, escape and make their way through the prison, which is revealed to also be an experimentation ground for the Armageddon Virus:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3level1lfo52"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. After entering a large room filled with dead subjects wrapped in body bags and strapped to the ceiling, Olivia abruptly recognizes two of her old friends among the dead subjects: former French spy Chloe Morrel and Alexandra Rozhdestvenski.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3level1lfo52"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Chloe, barely alive (from being tortured for information), begs Olivia to stop Dotson before dying, much to Olivia’s distress. However, Alexandra Rozhdestvenski is revealed to still be alive.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3level1lfo52"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Alexandra, in a panic, begs Laura to stop Dotson, the one who put her through all this misery.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3level1lfo52"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. The team then hears soldiers fighting outside and Alexandra’s hopes flare up, thinking that it’s a rescue squad.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">83. However, Alexandra’s hopes are immediately deflated when HPCIS soldiers are seen killing prisoners and Atlas soldiers inside the camp, apparently because Al-Hazmi ordered a purge of all non-Muslims in the Islamic holy land, regardless of whether they are Atlas or MEDUSA.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">84. Meanwhile, Oleg and Ibrahim chase each other through the prison, until Sharif reaches the prison block supposedly containing the MEDUSA prisoners (unaware that it is empty).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">85. Oleg sees Ibrahim entering the prison block through a window, and then jumps through a second window into the prison block, surprising Ibrahim:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Ibrahim attempts to kill Oleg on Al-Hazmi’s orders, but Oleg easily disarms him.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. The two then fight; Oleg is seemingly unable to beat Ibrahim-until he abruptly overpowers the latter and then kills him with a towel.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Searching the dead man, Oleg discovers Ibrahim’s radio, and proceeds to threaten Al-Hazmi, claiming that the next move he makes will be his last move.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Oleg abruptly runs into Olivia Coonz and kills the HPCIS soldiers trying to attack them. Olivia asks Oleg why he is helping them (because earlier he was attacking them). Oleg responds by saying that they [the MEDUSA soldiers] are actually helping him.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Puzzled, Laura questions Oleg about his motives for helping the MEDUSA team escape, but Oleg insists that Laura stays quiet-at least until they kill Al-Hazmi and Jennifer Dotson, the “one who set them up.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. After giving Laura a gun, Oleg instructs Laura and her team to “do him a favor” by helping him reach Al-Hazmi, offering to help the MEDUSA team reach Dotson in return. Olivia reluctantly agrees on the condition that Makarov doesn’t get everyone killed. Makarov agrees, but warns, “No promises.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. After Oleg runs off, Laura and Amelia work together to find and kill Dotson, but cannot seem to do so because of the chaotic gunfight between the Atlas PMCs, the HPCIS soldiers, and the Cerberus soldiers.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Suddenly, another EMP blast blacks out the prison, this one from Task Force MEDUSA forces.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Oleg continues to fight his way through the now-darkened prison, fighting his way towards Al-Hazmi, who has barricaded himself in an office building.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l36level1lfo43"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">j. Oleg breaks into the office building, at the same time Jennifer Dotson does too. Oleg and Jennifer both shoot at Al-Hazmi, but Al-Hazmi manages to injure Dotson and Makarov. A standoff ensues:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">n. Al-Hazmi, shocked at both Makarov and Dotson’s abilities to find him so quickly, attempts to goad both enemies into killing him.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">o. However, Dotson declares that Atlas will be victorious and that once Atlas is the supreme government over the world, there will be no more wars.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">p. Al-Hazmi, using his Islamic ideology, refutes Dotson, claiming that Islam is supreme and will dominate over any and eventually all civilizations, and crushing all rival organizations.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">q. Disgusted that Al-Hazmi is using religion to justify his atrocities, Oleg shouts, “Death to Islam,” and shoots Al-Hazmi.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">r. Surviving the gunshot, Al-Hazmi attempts to kill Makarov, but is then killed by Captain America when the latter throws his shield at Al-Hazmi and breaks his neck.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l57level1lfo25"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">s. After killing Al-Hazmi, Steve turns on Jennifer, calling her actions “unjust.” However, Jennifer attempts to “justify” her actions by claiming that once Atlas has no one else to challenge them, there won’t be any wars.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">86. Suddenly, Olivia Coonz and her squad of Task Force MEDUSA soldiers break into the room Makarov and Dotson are in, with Laura announcing that Dotson’s “scheme” is over. However, Jennifer disables the Osprey team members’ exoskeleton suits.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">87. Jennifer begins ranting about how the world’s nations are sources of the world’s problems, and that her purpose is to end the world’s problems by ridding the world of governments who cannot get along. As to the civilian deaths she’d apparently allowed during the course of the war, Dotson refers to them as “necessary sacrifices.” |[CS30]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l25level1lfo80"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Olivia retaliates against Dotson, saying that the US has beaten Atlas, but Dotson just laughs it off and then aims her gun at the MEDUSA team, only to abandon the attempt to show that she isn’t a “monster”, and then flees.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l25level1lfo80"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Laura, despite complications, frees herself from her disabled exoskeleton, and then tries to free her friends, but finds that she cannot free all of them, having only succeeded in freeing Arkadin, Schrader, Makarov, and Krushnkov. With time running out, Oleg offers to help free the rest of the team while Amelia and Laura go after Jennifer. Though Black Widow is reluctant, Laura eagerly agrees, just as another US air strike hits the Atlas building.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">88. Meanwhile, Bucky Barnes\The Winter Soldier pursues Steve Rogers, who is pursuing Jennifer Dotson. The Winter Soldier attempts to kill Rogers, but he is foiled by Lev Raskov :

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l49level1lfo57"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Armed with a blowtorch, Lev burns Bucky’s prosthetic arm, and then clobbers him with as many weapons as he can get his hands on.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l49level1lfo57"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. However, Bucky manages to use his superhuman abilities to overpower Lev and beat him to near-death, until his “ex-criminal” cousin Oskar Baughman appears to save his life.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l49level1lfo57"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Confused, Lev asks why Oskar is helping him, considering that he’s been evil for a while. Oskar replies that Lev “saved his sanity.” The two then take on the Winter Soldier together, eventually knocking him out of his brainwashing given to him by the then-dominant terrorist group HYDRA and bringing him out of his stupor.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l49level1lfo57"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Captain America meets up with the two cousins and congratulates Lev and Oskar on their efforts, though Bucky Barnes, whose memory is a bit slow in recovering, has no idea why or how Steve got to the Middle East in the first place. The four of them then chase after Jennifer Dotson.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">89. Armed with a knife and a pistol, Laura attempts to kill Jennifer as the two agents chase the undercover CHIMERA agent through the building, fighting Atlas\CHIMERA guards along the way.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">90. After reaching the rotunda area of the Atlas building, Laura tackles Jennifer and they fight.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">91. |[CS31]   Meanwhile, Bucky Barnes, Lev Raskov, Oskar Baughman, and Steve Rogers pursue Trevor Burns:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">92. Trevor is able to injure Oskar with a shot to the ribcage, but Lev is able to tackle him out a window, and they fight.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l62level1lfo50"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Claiming that Lev is “out of his depth”, Trevor taunts Lev by saying that in CHIMERA, there are no prisoners, only pain. To this, Lev simply incapacitates Trevor with a taser and then shoots him through the head with a gun, declaring that his rules are always “enforced by pain.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">93. Meanwhile, Jennifer taunts Laura and then boots her in the face, just as a US Air Force fighter jet strafes the building. Natasha is later shot trying to attack Jennifer:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. As missiles hammer the building, Jennifer and Laura engage in a full-blown brawl, with the two women kicking and punching each other until Laura is able to ram Jennifer through a window, though Jennifer’s able to hang on to Laura’s prosthetic arm, as Amelia watches.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. With Jennifer hanging onto Laura’s prosthetic arm, Laura hears explosions and Jennifer snaps, telling Laura to pull her up.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Laura, however, takes out her knife and declares that though Jennifer gave her a second chance, Laura was giving it back after realizing that she’d been cheated and manipulated, and that “God is coming for you.” |[CS32]

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Later, Laura slowly unscrews the bolts of her prosthetic arm, prompting Jennifer to remind Laura that the former gave her a second chance, though Laura ignores her.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Laura then severs her prosthetic arm, leaving Jennifer to fall to her death while screaming Laura’s name.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. With her prosthetic arm gone and Jennifer Dotson killed, Laura finally is able to relax as Olivia, Alexei, Oleg, and the rest of the MEDUSA squad arrives, now reinforced by ex-Atlas turned defected PMCs, SHIELD loyalists fighting against CHIMERA, and more MEDUSA soldiers. Laura looks at the tracks, and then abruptly begins to regret her actions, even though Olivia reassures her that it couldn’t have ended any other way.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l17level1lfo44"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Gideon Wallcroft steps forward with Korey Hogan and Olivia says to Korey, “I guess you’re back in charge, huh?” However, Korey responds that its time everyone called it quits, and they leave the way they came.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">94. |[CS33]   Six years later, Atlas Corporation has been labeled an enemy of the state following the demise of Jennifer Dotson and various Atlas offices have closed down, with their individual leaders either arrested or forced into a life of exile. Laura ends up getting a new prosthetic arm (this time from Task Force MEDUSA), and is in Miami, Florida, with the rest of the team:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Korey Hogan suggests that he refashion Task Force MEDUSA from a military task force to a private crime-fighting unit, which he claims will back up the United States’ law enforcement.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Olivia objects, claiming that Task Force MEDUSA should always be utilized for the purpose national security.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Eventually, Korey reveals that Task Force MEDUSA has replaced Atlas Corporation as the most powerful military in the world, but unlike Atlas Task Force Osprey does answer to a nation, primarily the United States, although other countries also head the coalition of fighters.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. In addition, Korey adds that more people are signing up for MEDUSA than the United States Armed Forces.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. After Korey leaves, Steve walks up to Olivia and offers her a job as a member of the Avengers. She politely declines, justifying that her awesomeness would overwhelm the team.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Later, Oleg Makarov pays Emmi Windes a visit, with the intention of giving Emmi a job as a Cerberus agent, now that it has become a multinational mass media organization (much like what Cordis Die started out as in Call of Duty: Black Ops II ).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l65level1lfo45"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Emmi contemplates the offer and then, after a few moments, decides to accept, on the condition that Oleg not keep any secrets that would point to her regretting the day she joined.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">95. Later, Oleg Makarov meets up with Laura Byrne and reveals the real reason he attacked the Atlas HQ in Austin, Texas:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l53level1lfo82"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Oleg knew about the CHIMERA takeover of Atlas, and stated that the attempt to kill Laura Byrne in the elevator years ago, was actually planned by Jennifer Dotson herself (who was a master at deception, and therefore successfully covered up the assassination attempt).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l53level1lfo82"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Korey Hogan had survived the assassination attempt, but was forced into retirement because of a broken rib and sprained wrist, but joined MEDUSA soon after his recovery.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">96. Laura doesn’t know how to respond at first, but takes it pretty well.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">97. Laura then asks Oleg how he dealt with the losses of childhood friends, and Oleg gives one simple answer: he just slowly lets go.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">98. Cut to two years later, in 2018:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l81level1lfo83"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Nora Blacher\Lydia Young fulfills her childhood dream of leading an “army of Feds” by creating an entire government of Feds, uniting the USA with the Federation of Americas.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l81level1lfo83"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Emmi Windes becomes the new field commander of MEDUSA.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">99. In the years following the “First War against CHIMERA”, the MEDUSA soldiers return to their civilian lives, and some get part-time jobs:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Audrey Hoving continues her job as a physical therapist.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Olivia Coonz, now Olivia Burns after having married Marcus Burns is a librarian working at the public library in New York City. Towards the end of 2015, they adopt a child originally from Canada and name her Aurora Burns.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Emmi Windes is a YouTuber who makes YouTube vlogs on stuff related to the military, as well as videos of herself using a weekend edition newspaper as a weapon against criminals.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">d. Marcus Burns, now a legalized US citizen, works as a computer analyst for the FBI.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">e. Laura Byrne marries Gideon Wallcroft. Later, Laura, Marcus, Lexy Cooper and Erin Ready are cops working for the NYPD, alongside Richard Castle and Kate Beckett.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">f. Christine Smithsburg is a cheerleader coach.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">g. Derek Westbrook Ellis, besides spending more time with his newlywed wife Sheryl, now has a job, as an NYPD sergeant in the Special Victims Unit while Sheryl is a nurse.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">h. Sam Cooper, AJ Nates, Sam Coonz, and Nate Davis continue their lives as high school students.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">i. Alexandra Rozhdestvenski retires from Cordis Die and joins MEDUSA as its new undercover asset.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l76level1lfo46"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">j. Oskar Baughman, fearing his future as a wanted criminal, has fled the United States and is now living off the grid in an unknown location in the Federation of the Americas.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">100. Therese Eriksson approaches Olivia Burns\Lindsey Burns, saying that she has decided to join MEDUSA. Lindsey happily accepts her, and Therese wonders when training will begin.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l9level1lfo47"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">101. Story ends two months later, with dialog between Laura Burns and Therese Eriksson, after Therese has been officially admitted into MEDUSA:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l10level1lfo76"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a. Laura reveals that she has finally gotten over the loss of Kelsey Dotson, saying, “She is in a better place.”

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l10level1lfo76"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b. Therese states that she has considered becoming a US citizen and permanently living in the USA to study abroad, as well as live life as a MEDUSA agent.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l10level1lfo76"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">c. Laura hugs Therese and warmly accepts her into the new “body of soldiers.”

<p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS1] Reference to Captain America: The Winter Soldier <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS2] Reference to Captain America: The Winter Soldier <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS3] This is a foreshadowing of the CHIMERA takeover of ATLAS Corporation (and is a reference to Captain America: The Winter Soldier). <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS4] Jule Ozec is an actual person I met during my vacation to San Francisco (she didn’t care about me using her real name) <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS5] This is actually a coverup to hide the fact that Jennifer herself is a CHIMERA agent <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS6] Reference to Captain America: The Winter Soldier <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS7] Reference to the movies The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS8] ''Reference to Captain America: The Winter Soldier  <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS9] These whole scenes are a homage to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3'' <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS10] Reference to the 2014 movie Godzilla <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS11] Makarov is technically an ally, and he actually knows about the CHIMERA takeover of ATLAS, and the (secret) CHIMERA takeover is the true motivation behind his attack on the ATLAS base <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS12] This terrorist attack replaces the September 11 Attacks (the real 9\11) in the Old Timeline <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS13] Reference to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare campaign mission “Aftermath” <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS14] Reference to a movie called The Raid 2 <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS15] Reference to a Jason Bourne novel by Eric Van Lustbader <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS16] Captain America reference <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS17] This occurred after the MARVEL Comics Universe was bridged with the alternate universe in this story <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS18] This idea-though it references both a movie and a video game, is original <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS19] Captain America reference <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS20] Though the first section of the statement is a Captain America reference, the second half is original <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS21] Reference to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare mission Utopia (only instead of killing ATLAS soldiers, the rogue soldiers incapacitate them with tasers instead) <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS22] Captain America: The Winter Soldier reference <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS23] Captain America: The Winter Soldier reference <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS24] Battlefield 3 reference <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS25] Reference to MW3 <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS26] This story idea is a blend of references from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and real life history <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS27] Reference to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS28] Advanced Warfare reference <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS29] Reference to Advanced Warfare mission Captured <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS30] Reference to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare mission Terminus <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS31] Reference to Captain America: The Winter Soldier <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS32] Reference to the movie Pompeii (the original line is, “My gods are coming for you.”  <p class="MsoCommentText">  [CS33] This idea is a homage to Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Battlefield 3