Bal-27 Warfare Page #6

GIDEON:

Crossing ACP5. Fence in and keep to 2,000 AGL or less.

JACK MITCHELL:

I DON'T KNOW WHAT ANY OF THAT MEANS!

Eventually, they pass through the CANYON and put an end to this DREADFUL HOMAGE TO INDEPENDENCE DAY.

EXT. ATLAS FACILITY - NEW BAGHDAD

MITCHELL, GIDEON and ILONA join a SENTINEL TEAM in an attack on the ATLAS FACILITY, which is defended by SOLDIERS wearing HEAVILY ARMED MECH SUITS.

GIDEON:

Ilona and I are going to have a cup of tea while you fight these heavy mechs. We'll be sure to incessantly urge you on for the duration of it!

ILONA:

Take care of those mechs, Mitchell!

GIDEON:

You must destroy the heavy mechs!

ILONA:

Mitchell, we can't advance until you clear out --

JACK MITCHELL:

Shut up shut up SHUT UP!

GIDEON:

Calm down, it's not all bad! Remember how cool that open-ended bit in Bangkok was? You've got your grappling hook here as well, so you can make full use of the verticality of this entire square! You can even harmlessly drop from great heights by grappling ledges because f*** physics! Also, if you can get behind the mechs, you can grapple them and yank out the pilots!

JACK MITCHELL:

Really? I want to do that forever now.

MITCHELL manages to DESTROY THE HEAVY MECHS, but then IRONS retaliates by SATURATING THE SQUARE WITH MANTICORE. Anyone who is not a MAIN CHARACTER DIES.

INT. ATLAS PRISON CAMP - NEW BAGHDAD

MITCHELL, GIDEON and ILONA have been CAPTURED by ATLAS and taken to a PRISON CAMP.

PRISON GUARD:

Follow me and do exactly as you're told! I will punch you to death if you so much as look the wrong way!

JACK MITCHELL:

Kind of feels like I've been similarly constrained for the entire game.

They are led past PRISONERS being BRUTALLY BEATEN, used for MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS and locked up in CAGES the size of KENNELS.

JACK MITCHELL:

Okay okay, Atlas is abhorrently evil. We don't really need this excessive and tasteless allusion to concentration camps on top of everything. At this point I'll take even one guard being slightly squeamish about the depths he's sunk to.

GIDEON:

This is a Call of Duty game, did you honestly expect any nuance?

JACK MITCHELL:

No, but this blatant exploitation does undercut any legitimate concerns about the rise of military contractors. I mean, who really bears the responsibility for the crimes of PMCs? What happens when they alienate local communities? Can they be considered --

PRISON GUARD:

NO TALKING!

(Punches Mitchell evilly)

They are RESTRAINED and brought before IRONS, who has CORMACK at GUNPOINT.

MAJOR CORMACK:

Guys, you're alive! Manticore wiped out my entire squad! I only survived because I've had lines so far!

JONATHAN IRONS:

Quiet you.

IRONS shoots CORMACK in the SPLEEN because he F***ING WELL CAN.

JONATHAN IRONS:

You may be a main character but you're not a protagonist, so forget about sweating out that bullet.

(Turns to Mitchell)

Ah, the prodigal son returns.

JACK MITCHELL:

Still with the son thing?

JONATHAN IRONS:

That was the last one, considering you've so utterly failed me. We don't tolerate failure here at Atlas. You did sort of help me out in that regard though. By killing all the men I've sent after you, you've punished them for failing to kill you! Now how shall I punish you?

JACK MITCHELL:

Man, I figured the CEO of a military contractor played by Kevin F***ing Spacey would be ruthless, but this is WAY over the top. I swear you're seconds away from just letting rip with an evil cackle.

JONATHAN IRONS:

I've made some valid points about American interventionism, DON'T YOU DENY IT, so I need to counter that with monstrous methods to make my villainy palatable. That's why I'm going to launch a bunch of rockets loaded with Manticore at military bases all over the world. The first one's ready to go in two hours!

JACK MITCHELL:

It's also pretty obvious you're acting out of spite towards me. That helps too.

JONATHAN IRONS:

I HAVE NO SURROGATE SON!

IRONS uses a LUG WRENCH to SMASH MITCHELL'S PROSTHETIC ARM. As soon as he LEAVES, GIDEON and ILONA overpower the GUARDS and free MITCHELL and CORMACK.

GIDEON:

Ilona, take Cormack with you and secure us some evac! There's a scripted sequence up ahead that's meant to separate us, but I'm just getting ahead of that.

ILONA:

Right! I guess a woman taking care of the dead weight is slightly better than the woman being the dead weight!

ILONA takes CORMACK outside while GIDEON tends to MITCHELL.

GIDEON:

You won't be able to reload weapons with only one arm, so be sure to pick up fresh ones as you go. Good thing all the guards suddenly decided to use extended magazines!

JACK MITCHELL:

But Call of Duty protagonists have always been able to reload weapons one-handed! They just move it offscreen for a second and make clicking noises! I even did that when I was dangling from the bus in Lagos!

GIDEON:

Look, just be glad there's finally some variety to the shooting mechanics, okay?

MITCHELL and GIDEON fight their way through some LABS, which are littered with VACUUM-PACKED CORPSES HANGING FROM THE CEILINGS.

JACK MITCHELL:

Oh my God, Irons has been using innocent people as test subjects for Manticore! What horror!

GIDEON:

Hey, I think these corpses are physics objects.

JACK MITCHELL:

(Poking corpses like piñatas)

WHEEEEEEEE! LOOK AT 'EM GO!

GIDEON:

Speaking of things flapping around, you should thank your lucky stars this isn't a third-person game. You look absolutely ridiculous running around with that dead arm slapping the air.

Eventually, they make it over to a TRUCK secured by ILONA and DRIVE OFF.

EXT. ATLAS FACILITY - NEW BAGHDAD

GIDEON parks the TRUCK outside the ATLAS FACILITY.

GIDEON:

We have to stop that rocket launch.

JACK MITCHELL:

But Atlas has an entire army down there. Not that I don't routinely slaughter entire armies for breakfast and clear the red goop from my eyes over lunch, but it might be slightly more of a grind with only one arm.

GIDEON:

Easy, we'll just put on some armoured suits to make it seem somewhat more plausible.

JACK MITCHELL:

The ending to Modern Warfare 3, got it. But where will we get our hands on some?

GIDEON:

We'll use those two heavy mech suits we picked up back at the prison camp. We didn't really do that, but now that I've said we did, here they are!

ILONA:

I'll help by -- being the voice in your ear? Oh well, I had a relatively good run.

MAJOR CORMACK:

And I'm supposed to have a slow and poignant death scene right now, but I'll just expire quickly so you don't have to linger.

(Dies)

INT. ATLAS FACILITY - NEW BAGHDAD

MITCHELL and GIDEON don the MECH SUITS and EXPLODE THEIR WAY into the ATLAS FACILITY.

JACK MITCHELL:

We're in! Now how do we stop the launch?

GIDEON:

Keep pushing forward!

JACK MITCHELL:

Okay good, but where are we going exactly? The control room?

GIDEON:

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