To The End

01 ~ Introductions

A military base in an undisclosed location in Ireland.

Six long years.

Six long years just to get thrust into a task force with men she has never met or heard of.

Six long years of training herself to work with the men she's been assigned, only for it all to be tossed to the fire by one Kate Laswell.

Alexius throws herself onto her bed, slamming the laptop closed. She groans and rolls over, looking towards her go-bag. With a sigh, she stands and walks to her bathroom, taking a long look at herself. Her piercing blue eyes are the only feature of her face visible due to the mask and hood she wears as part of her uniform. A knock on her door breaks her gaze, and she sighs, grabbing her little belongings and walking to the door.

"I was told to escort you to your plane ma'am." A private she never learned the name of squeaks out, clearly intimidated by her cold glare towards him. She nods and follows him out, gripping her bag tightly.

Unspecified Airbase

The roaring of helicopter blades and cargo trucks invades her thoughts as she steps off the truck that brought her there. Looking around she notices a tall masked figure like her, a skull painted on his balaclava. As Alexius makes her way over, she switches her coms to her new team's frequency and overhears General Shepard.

"You're wheels-up in five." Shepard barks out. "Roger." A thick British voice speaks over coms. Shepard's voice cuts in again, "Marines are loading in now. You and the Sergeants are leading the way on this."

She smiles to herself as she makes her way toward the masked figure as another soldier hops out of a different vehicle.

"The Sergeants?" the figure questions. "Soap MacTavish and Phoenix O'Clery," Shepherd states as I finally reach the two. The man assumed to be 'Soap' begins, "Let's get ourselves a win, yeah, L.t.? Serg? Save you some seats.". He states tapping the lieutenant on the shoulder and nodding at Alexius. She nods at the figure and walk towards the helicopter, grabbing a seat next to Soap, and readying herself to fly to Al Mazrah.

Al Mazrah

The helo lands and the man she learned is named Ghost, stands to command the Alpha and Bravo teams. "Bravo team offloads here. Alpha team stays onboard to land downrange. Both teams meet in the middle. Remember, we want Hassan alive, but this is capture or kill." She nods and stand with the rest of Bravo team, ready to follow Ghost out. Ghost reminds Soap to keep up and She walks past the both of them, flipping down her night vision goggles.

"Razor-1. all Bravo deployed. Moving to secondary HLZ." The pilot states as they move closer to the houses they need to search. "All stations- Razor-1 is bracketed, we're getting lit! Incoming- Flares! Flares!" She watches as the missile diverts and makes a motion to grab her coms when she hear someone yell out, "Second missile!"

Her eyes shoot up as Razor-1 begins to speak, "Razor 1 going down! We're going down!" Her eyes widen as they begin to run closer towards the crash. "L.t.! We should be down there with 'em!" Alexius' Irish accent coming out more than she'd like. Ghost motions his hand up in a stop. "Hold up. Alpha what's your status?!" She hears coughing and gunfire over the radio and tries to block it out as Ghost speaks to them. She readies her rifle and aims toward the crashed helo.

Her sights are filled with white-hot streaks as all hell rains upon them. When she finally started paying attention to the rest of Bravo, Ghost stated they needed to clear for Hassan first. She grips her rifle tighter and makes her way towards the first house.

They push up to the house and can hear yelling from inside as Ghost breaches the door. Alexius forced herself in and cleared the first floor before making her way toward the stairs, all before the rest of Bravo got through the door. "Damn Serg, sure glad you're on our side." She hears Soap state and she laughs. "You should be," She says playfully and moves up the stairs, gun drawn.

"Second deck clear," She states and aims out the window towards the second building. "Contact! Building two!" Bravo 7-3 states as we take fire. Ghost yells out, "They know we're here!" as they return fire. Taking out a sniper on the second floor she jumps out of the window and books it to cover closer to the building.

As they clear the exterior she hears Ghost, "All Bravo, move on building two!" She begins to walk towards the building, stepping to the side of the door. Suddenly a man pops through the floor and Alexius takes a bullet to the side of the head, grazing her ear, making them ring. After taking him down, she drops to the ground, clutching her bleeding ear in her hand, noticing the rip now made in her mask.

All that is heard is mumbles like there is yelling way off in the distance. She sits there dazed as another soldier pulls her out of the house to the back, leaning her up against the wall. A bandage is wrapped around her head, careful not to remove her mask. Her blurry eyes can't make out the figure as she drifts off, falling unconscious.

As she comes too, Alexius realizes that she was moved to what looks like a warehouse, littered with the bodies of the men who were protecting Hassan. "An bhfuair muid Hassan?" She mutters as she stands, forgetting she's the only Irish soldier there.

"Speak bloody English O'Clery", Ghost grumbles. "I repeat, did we bloody get Hassan?" She bites back at him. Soap speaks up next, "No but we found a bloody missile." Alexius glances up at the missile and her eyes widen in panic. "Get Laswell on the phone now."

Bravo 7-6 gets Laswell on coms, "This is Watcher-1, send traffic."

Ghost begins, "Laswell, this is Ghost, we got something"

"Tell me you found Hassan.."

Soap and Alexius both look at each other before Alexius begins, "Ghost, take a look at this..."

"Ghost, do you have Hassan?" Laswell says paniced.

"Negative. We found a weapons cache. Hassan's got missiles... they're American."

"0-7 -- This is Gold Eagle Actual, repeat your last." Shepherd chimes in.

Alexius grabs her radio, "This is Phoenix, I say again- Hassan has American missiles."

After a brief pause Shepherd come on the radio again, "Gold Eagle Actual to Ghost- Move your team and call for fire, I want those weapons destroyed."

Ghost replies, "Roger that, Actual."

Alexius glances at her team, still dizzy from the shot to her ear. "Now what?"

// Author's Note \\

Thank you so much for reading! I'm replaying the game as I write this so hopefully, it won't take too long for chapters to come out! I am very excited to dive into Alexius' story and how she became who she is, as her character develops!

I own nothing but my character and her story. All rights are reserved to the Call of Duty developers. I only own Alexius and the lines and relationships I give her to the rest of the crew!