I sigh and look behind me both Ghost and Soap decide to have you in their group. Alejandro and Charlie are another group. I sigh and peer over the wall to see a few guards. I look back at them, I don't want to talk, but we can't stay here forever.
"Gisele, Soap, go Left and I'll go right." Ghost gruffly whispers and begins to shuffle away. I turn to Soap and we both nod.
"Go back and let me take them out, look for Snipers." Soap instructs. I fall back and look through my scope and see a few. I quietly take aim and shoot the sniper down.
I look around and see a group of soldiers walking towards us. "Shit!" I whisper and fall back even more. I look over to see both of them not noticing the new arrivals. I look around and pull out a grenade. I threw it towards the forest. The sound pierced into the night.
A few broke off from the group to check it out, while the rest continued to walk towards us. I frown, they are still making their way towards Soap and Ghost. I fell back to the forest letting myself be seen and ran into the forest. I quickly jump into a tree and gaze down. My heartbeat violently beat against my chest as the anxiety in my stomach began to rise up.
I moved around the treetops and found a large tree where I could comfortably lie down and take a shooting position. I found one person trailing in the back, away from everyone else. I took the shot and he fell, my silencer helped shush the noise.
I hope both Soap and Ghost took this opportunity to sweep the building and find out if their target was there. I can take care of this crowd. I vanish higher into the tree and let out a systematic set of noise. The first sound was a scream that eerily sounded like mountain lions. I went in and out of screaming. I let it die down into a whistle, an eerie song to sink into their mind. I went silent and let the silence get into their minds.
"Gisele, where are you?" My comms turn on as Soap calls in. I stay silent and turn off my comms I can't let the noise distract me; I will find them afterward. I look down to see A few men gathering together. They were talking about me wondering where I disappeared. I drop down and drop a grenade next to them. I quickly switched trees and let the group to their fate. I saw both Soap and Ghost coming out of the building with the target in hand. I walk out of the forest and towards them. "Where were you?" Ghost asked a little annoyed. I turn and point to the forest.
"Your fast thinking gave us some time." Soap jumps in with a smile I give him a curt nod and look at the man they have in their grasp.
"Let's check with Alejandro."
"Alejandro."
"Ghost.
"We have the target let's meet up."
"Alright."
We regroup in an abandoned building. I walked up to Charlie and first bumped I'm. Both Alejandro and Charlie begin the interrogation of the Cartel leader. I stayed back with Soap as Ghost stood a little closer to the scene.
"You know, you didn't have to do that." Soap turns to me with a kind smile, "I know what you did was to draw the attention away from us." Soap pats me on the shoulder before giving it a squeeze.
"Next time let's work together, we rather not lose you in a forest." Soap jokes and walk closer.
I frown. Lose me in a forest, I am never lost. I do not get lost. I simply become my surroundings. I don't understand Soap one moment he's judging me and the next he's all buddy buddy to me, it's... two-faced. I slightly sneer and fold my arms, men are sometimes more confused them the body language women set to each other.
Charlie noticed me by myself and walked to me, 'how was it?' He signs to me.
'People are weird their minds change too fast for me.'
'Elaborate.'
'Soap is being too nice to me.'
'Oh, I spoke about you to them, I think they see you a little more human than before.'
'Fuck you, bitch.' Charlie laughed and leaned against the wall with me.
"You should be glad one is trying to warm up to you, I will have to leave after the main event." I roll my eyes, "main event" is a matter of when then if. My famous breakdown.
"The moment I learn not to cry during an argument I will be unstoppable," I whisper to Charlie.
"If that ever happens, I will actually be very proud of you," Charlie mutters back to me.
"Say Charlie you like any of them?"
"Soap is fun to talk to."
"You like the dumb fun ones."
"Indeed."
"What are you two talking about," Soap asked as he walked closer to us. I closed my mouth and looked away, I'm not a big fan of the main task force members. Charlie elbows me and I correct my behavior and look at Soap.
"Just that you're a fun person to talk to," Charlie spoke half the truth. Soap broke into a smile and began to strike up a little conversation with Charlie.
"Charlie," Alejandro calls out and Charlie moves forwards and listens to what he has to say.
I know Charlie the best here. He's kind but he has never let go of that thug/gangster attitude or mentality. He can easily switch into that mentality; I've seen him do that to recruits who think picking on me is funny. He turns to the Cartel leader or whatever his title is, I forgot and to me, it doesn't matter. His expression changes and his tone drops. His dominance filled the room, I felt a smirk growing on my face.
Charlie be a scary gangster if he were one.
I have no idea what he was saying but the moment he said "La araña", I knew the man would fold. And he did. La araña a little nickname I earned when we first worked with Alejandro and the Mexican special forces against the cartel.
It was first a joke started with the special force. When they decided to prank us with spiders, I the only one not afraid collected all the spiders and put them on my head. It was to show these men, that I am much weirder than them. It was a pure accident really; one overheard conversation and I became a legend. La araña. Became the boogie man and the special forces lean into it.
The man begins to beg, beg for them to keep la araña out of this. Alejandro smirked and took over the conversation. Charlie backed up and stood next to me. "Your little legend is truly an amazing thing." I roll my eyes and softly punch him in the shoulder. He chuckles and watches on with me.
"So, who's La araña?" Soap asks as we sit in the truck. I look over to see Alejandro and Charlie looking at me.
"La araña is a famous cartel killer in the Mexican special forces." Both Soap and Ghost nod.
"Funny enough she's sitting in this truck." Soap's head snaps backward his eyes slightly bulge out at me. I slightly smile at him.
"YOU?"
"Yeah... It's funny it's an inside joke taken very far." Alejandro laughs and pats me on the head.
"How?"
"Well, it started off..." Charlie begins telling the story of my nickname. Soap turns to me with an expression of awe and fear.
"I can't believe you let a spider climb all over you." I shrug and look at Alejandro who only smirk. "Like... How?"
"She did it to make a point."
"A point?" Ghost echoes Charlie's words.
"A point. She wanted to be taken seriously, so she did stuff to establish dominance, and let me say this, the way she does it will always be unsettling." Charlie muses with fond memories.
"How so?" Alejandro asks never hearing this story.
"She looked a drill sergeant in the eye and ate a live cockroach. She ate a ghost pepper and went to bed afterward. Like she does shit in a way that will tilt you for a week." All of them laugh and turn to me.
"You're full of surprise."
"What about the nickname Spider Monkey?"
"She's a mix between Spider and monkey when she climbs things." Alejandro and Soap fell into loud laughter.