Amiya had just gotten back after getting herself some carrot juice. She went back to the TV to see that the operators are still there, though now they are reduced to 14 since it appears that Spot, Popukar and Lava had left.

The good thing is that Liskarm had returned as she is now talking with Franka of what she had missed.

The Cautus then sit back between the Doctor and Kal'tsit. By the time, Franka had done explaining everything about what happened in the last mission.

They raid a ship, steal something, ship gets blown up my MiGs, and the squad escaped. All n all, Liskarm was intrigued.

"Alright, let's continue this thing." Sesa spoke up as he held the remote by his hands. "May i do the honors?" He asked to the R.I leaders.

Amiya gave him a nod. "Sure, go ahead." The Red-haired Vouivre smiled before pressing the button to the next scene as everyone now turned to the TV.

The screen immediatly begins to the satellite cam as it tracks Amiya and the other Rhodes island leaving the Bering strait.

The Rhodes island emblem is also not present in the top left screen as usual.

"Huh, i wonder whose perspective is gonna be?" Doctor wondered.

The satellite then moved away from the sea and into a new location. It then stopped when it reaches the continent that resembles Sargon.

"Sargon?" Sesa said.

"Wonder what's going on there?" Franka asked.

"Maybe it's something related to Drudge Tulla." Liskarm said.

The satellite then zooms in to a city that is near the coast. It was then tracking a singular car that was moving to the street.

A familiar name to some of the ops then appeared.

Located....

President

Picale Tulla

"Picale?" Franka said, recognizing the name since they met in Long spring.

"She has the same last name as that Drudge guy." Noir said. "She's his sister?"

"Indeed she is." Rangers stated. "Though her being President is new to me."

Liskarm sighed. "I knew it." After what had happened in the incident at Long spring, whatever she is doing in an unpleasant looking city may be from the likes of her brother.

"Car is inbound." An unknown voice said in a familiar language. A picture of a ship and some kind of water storage then appeared.

Then another voice spoke up in the same language the first one was. "Continue tracking."

"Wait, that was in Yanese." Ch'en remarked.

"Seems like Yan are currently spying of what's going on in Sargon." Kal'tsit stated.

"So they're the ones keeping an eye on Drudge?" Doctor said. "Though i expected Columbia or any neighboring nations with Sargon."

The satellite continued to track the car as it was driving through the city. All while pictures of a tank and a mosque-like building appeared for a moment.

The car then came to a stop as the scanner then shifted to a building beside it. It then zooms in to the structure as the operators could see two transparent men dragging down a woman that resembles Picale. The camera then flew to her head, getting to her perspective.

The screen was black for a moment before a bright light appeared, blinding some of the audience as they covered their eyes.

The view then became clear as the audience could see several armed men from Picale's perspective as she was still being dragged by the men.

It seems that they were dragging her to the car that the Yanese were tracking before.

Then, Drudge's voice was heard through speakers. "Today, we rise again as one nation, in the face of betrayal and corruption!"

Liskarm frowned. "Of course she would be involved in Drudge's scheme."

"I wonder what he meant about rising again though?" Franka asked.

"Well since Picale is a president, i assumed her leadership and government was not strong enough for the sargonians and her brother." Amiya theorized.

"But Picale seems like a strong leader." Rangers said.

"Maybe we'll find out more here." Noir said as Sesa continued the video.

While Picale was being dragged to the car, she looked to her left to see her subordinates being tied up to the ground by the armed men.

Then up at the sky, she could see a helicopter dropping down soldiers into the city.

"Looks like they have aircrafts aswell." Yato said.

When they reached the car, the men violently threw her to the back seat. Picale quickly push herself back up and turned to the men.

"Listen to me!" She pleaded, briefly showing her tied up hands, but she was then met with a rifle butt to the face, knocking her back down.

Some of the ops cringed at that.

"Yeesh, i wouldn't be surprised if she got a bloody nose from that." Sesa commented.

Picale coughed and got back up as the door was shut closed. The armed man then slapped the roof of the car, signaling to the driver that the president was already in the car.

Picale then look up front to see two figures by the front seats. The left one was the driver wearing a mask that covered his head. But the right one got some surprised reactions from the audience, most specifically Amiya, Blaze, Doctor, and Greythroat.

The figure by the passenger seat is Frostnova.

"Frostnova!?" Amiya, Blaze, and Doctor said in unison.

"What is she doing there?" Kal'tsit asked with an eyebrow raised.

"She must be working with Drudge." Rangers said.

"But isn't she supposed to be with Reunion?" Blaze questioned. "What is she doing all the way in Sargon?"

"Perhaps, Reunion is probably in Kahoots with Drudge." Franka said.

"You could be right." Liskarm replied.

Seeing Frostnova again brought some very bad memories from the Doctor. They still remember the look on the Cautus' face before she died right in their arms back in Lungmen.

It was the first time they felt emotion after they lost their memory during the sarcophagus incident.

Atleast she gotten the chance to join R.I, even though it was just a brief time.

Frostnova turned towards Picale with a glare as she held a mini-uzi on her right hand. She turn back up front as the driver started the car.

As the car drove through the narrow messy street, Drudge's voice continued. "We all trusted this woman to deliver our great nation into a new era of prosperity."

In the sky, another helicopter was flying by, only this time it looked different than the one at the start. It also has a weird looking face.

Though they didn't really paid attention that much as they focused on what is happening.

A few of Drudge's men were seen running by the sidewalk and into the houses.

The car then a came to a corner as a BMP appeared. At the right, Picale could see Drudge's men firing their weapons to the sky.

"Tch. They're wasting all of those bullets." Noir scoffed.

"I think they could be easily replaceable." Vulcan said. "But yeah, they're wasting them."

Frostnova then gestured to the driver to go left and follow up with the tank.

As the car was driving behind the tank, a phone can be heard ringing from Frostnova. She then picked up the old looking phone and answered the call.

She talked to the caller for a moment before turning back to Picale and going back to her phone.

"I wonder who she is talking to?" Fang asked.

"Probably the guy that wanted Picale." Dobermann said, observing of how Frostnova turned to Picale for a second.

"But like our monarchy before the Revolution, she has been colluding with the East with only self interest at heart!" Drudge shouted out as the car come across another series of buildings.

"East?" Kroos asked.

"Maybe he's referring to Yan?" Vulcan said.

"They are east of sargon after all." Ch'en pointed out.

"I think that's the reason why Drudge took over. He's basically an Ultranationalist." Doctor said.

Picale then see a few of Drudge's men barging into the houses with force. Using a shotgun to shot the locks before kicking it open.

Then she could see that the civilians were being thrown out of their homes.

"I pity those people." Noir said with a sad frown under his mask.

As the car kept driving with the tank, Picale could see four civilians running away. The car went pass one of them as a gunshot was heard.

She turned to her left just to see the second civilian shot to the head as their body then fell.

"They're being gunned down..." Amiya said.

"Why the hell would they kill those innocents!?" Blaze angrily said.

"Perhaps they are loyal to Picale before Drudge took over." Kal'tsit stated. She had seen governments overthrowned, innocents massacred, and cities in ruins by rebellions.

Though she had never seen a rebellion where everyone could use firearms. But she thinks it would be as deadly as previous rebellions she had saw.

Two of the runners manage to get to the right side. However, the tank infront of the car stopped as Drudge's men were seen departing it and focused their guns on the running civilians. By the left, several more civilians were tied up to the floor.

The car then turned left as the audience could hear the men yelling followed by gunfire. It doesn't take a genius to what happened next.

The car continued on until it abruptly stopped when a civilian bumped into it. The car pressed on as Picale looked back to see the man getting shot to the head by Drudge's men.

"Silence breeds slavery! And we shall not be enslaved!" Drudge shouted again.

A truck carrying several of Drudge's men appeared infront of the car before stopping next to a section where a bunch of civilians were tied up or lined up to a wall.

One of them tried to escape, but she was quickly put down by the soldiers.

They come to another section where many innocent civilians were beaten down by the soldiers, just because they were loyal to Picale and her government.

"This is wrong." Fang said.

"They really remind me of Reunion..." Ch'en said.

As the car went further to the streets, the Audience could see some civilians firing at something, possibly Drudge's men.

"Look. They're fighting back!" Blaze said, smiling that some of them were able to resist.

However her smile would fade when the militia were easily put down by the soldiers with seemingly no casualties from the latter.

"Oh..." Blaze ears drooped after that.

"They got killed so easily..." Fang said.

"It makes sense, though. They were just armed militia with no training against trained soldiers." Dobermann stated.

Frostnova gestured the driver to turn left into an alleway as another BMP up front is dropping off soldiers.

The car then continued to the alleyway filled with trash cans, dumpsters, and posters. A civilian was seen writing something in a wall before he starts running away when he sees the car coming towards him.

"The time has come to show our true strength. They underestimate our resolve. Let us show that we do not fear them." Drudge said.

"Wonder what he means by 'they'?" Blaze asked.

"Probably Yan and other foreign nations." Folinic answered.

Picale then saw a civilian running from a hound. They jumped over the fence, narrowly avoiding its fangs as they kept running.

"Pooch's not gonna get that dinner." Bagpipe joked.

"Not really a time for a joke here." Ch'en frowned.

"Sorry."

"As one people, we shall free our brethren from the yoke of foreign oppression!" Drudge yelled out.

As the car continued forward, a dumpster up ahead had its lid open, revealing a man hiding in it. When he saw the car, he quickly shuts it and kept hiding in there.

"Seems like a good hiding spot when you're in a crisis like this." Kroos commented.

"I would do the same, probably." Sesa said.

The car made its way out of the alleyway. Up front, there were a few cars passing by and more of Drudge's soldiers running about.

It seems like they reached the shorelines of the city.

As the car got out to the alleyway, the audience saw about three fighter jets making a fly by near the shores.

"Really?!" Bagpipe exclaimed. "They got MiGs aswell!?"

"I don't even remember Sargon having that much firepower, even if this is an alternate universe." Dobermann said.

"Maybe they were supplied?" Doctor theorized, a few agreeing with it.

"You might be right. Given the fact that Frostnova is here, it seems that Reunion are supplying them with Ursine tech and weaponry. Ursus is and seems to be more advanced than Sargon." Kal'tsit stated.

The car continued on to the main road as Picale could see more of her brother's soldiers terrorizing the innocents.

A few men were searching a man's car while he was being apprehended by them. Then the audience could see civilians being lined up to a wall with Drudge's men pointing their guns at them.

Not a second later, they were all getting gunned down by them. It was such an execution.

Most of the operators gave a sad look seeing the innocents killed by Drudge's monster of soldiers. There was nothing they could do too.

Worse for Picale, it seems that she is already doomed the moment she's in that car. No one could save her, and those who stood up for her ended up killed.

Kal'tsit stared with a blank expression, but deep down she knows all of this is wrong. She just had experienced and watched so many revolutions and rebellions come and go over the centuries. This one was no different.

Same with the Doctor. Even though their mask conceals their face, they shook their head from all the carnage.

They let out a sigh and said. "Some things never change."

"Our armies are strong and our cause is just." Drudge continued as the car sped up passing by a courtyard with a truck and two tanks parked near a structure.

"As I speak, our armies are nearing their objectives, by which we will restore the independence of a once great nation." Drudge added as the car had reached its destination. Dozens of his men were waiting as some of them fired their weapons in the sky while most are cheering, possibly for her death.

Picale look to her left to see one of the soldiers gesturing a finger gun to her with a smirk on his face, foreshadowing Picale's demise.

She then turned to her right as two soldiers opened the door with one of them throwing her out of the vehicle. She landed to the ground with hard thud as a nearby hound was barking at her.

"Our noble crusade has begun." Drudge said before the soldier stomped on her face, knocking her out.

Sesa cringed from that. "Ok. NOW she's gonna get a bloody nose."

"What's gonna happen to her?" Franka said, concerned.

"I think we all know what's next for her." Rangers stated, sadly.

Picale slowly starts to regain her vision, but that stomp to her face did something bad to her brain that she kept blacking out.

Picale opened her eyes to see that she was being dragged by two men once again. She look up front to see that they were in some construction site with a bulldozer seen to the left and a dune of dirt and concrete.

Picale blacked out again, and after a few seconds she regained her vision. This time though she is in a hallway that leads to an arena.

By the entrance, the audience could see a man standing by. They couldn't tell who he was since Picale's vision is still blurry. She then blacked out again.

"Who was that?" Amiya asked.

"He looks familiar..." Kal'tsit said.

"Well we're gonna get a closer look." Doctor said.

Picale once again open her eyes. This time she was staring at the ground before she felt a hand pressed to her lower jaw as her head was lifted up by a familiar looking man with red eyes and a wendigo-like helmet.

Kal'tsit widened her eyes in surprise. "Buldrokkas'tee?"

"Patriot?" Doctor and Amiya said in unison.

"So he's the one that help supplied Drudge's men?" Bagpipe asked.

"Appears so." Ch'en said.

"Wait, why is he missing an arm?" Noir pointed out as the others then focused on his left arm, which is missing.

"Hey, you're right." Blaze said. "Maybe it'll explained in the future missions."

The audience could see patriot smiling under that mask, satisfied that Picale is already here. He then let go of her as the men begin to drag her into a stake in the middle of the arena.

Lots of people were heard chanting something in Sargonian. Soldiers stood by from the sides as they all are gonna watch the former president of their nation to be killed.

When the two guards were about to
put her onto the stake, Drudge can be heard right next to them, saying. "Just as they lay waste to our country, we shall lay waste to theirs."

"It seems that he really has a grudge against the Yanese." Rangers said.

"Or any foreign countries by the looks of it." Liskarm stated.

The guards then turned her around and tied her to the stake. Picale could then see that her brother was infront of a camera. It appears that Drudge has been broadcasting this execution for the world - including the Yanese to see.

It looks like that Drudge had finished his speech as he then walk towards Patriot.

The latter aimed his desert eagle at him, which he abruptly stopped cus of it. Then Patriot turned the gun around, holding it by the barrel for the Tulla brother to take.

The audience then begin to notice of Patriot's height. He appears to be shorter than his real counterpart. Roughly about 6 to 7 feet, a sorta average height.

"He looks..shorter than i remember." Amiya observed.

"Maybe because of this alternate world with no Oripathy infection." Doctor thoughted. "Which is why he also looks normal with a normal looking face under the mask."

Drudge then takes the pistol and head back to the camera. He raised it up to its level and said. "This is how it begins."

Time begins to slow down as Drudge slowly approaches Picale by the stake. The only sounds that the audience could hear was Picale's breathing. Her breathing became faster and raspier each time Drudge took a step towards her.

The Tulla brother then raised his desert eagle to Picale's head as the latter could not do anything but to hyperventilate while staring at her brother, his eyes covered by his shades.

Drudge gave her a smirk before cocking the pistol and fired, ending her life.

The screen was black for a few seconds, before an inscription appeared.

Prologue
End

Continue to act 1?

The operators stood silent of what they had witnessed.

From the eyes of a woman not part of their organization, they had known of what a madman would do when he became powerful.

Some like Kal'tsit, Doctor, and Amiya knew these things happen a lot all over Terra, mostly in Sargon and Ursus. Even when the world is in danger of Catasthrophes, Humans still find a way to wage war and kill eachother, whether it's about infected, territory or ideological reasons.

This is part of human nature after all. Waging war is just a thing they do, even if the planet is in a state of chaos

"Well...that was interesting." Doctor spoke up.

"I don't know what to say about it, really." Greythroat said.

"I do." Blaze exclaimed. "That man and his army needs to be taken down after killing all of those innocents."

"For what i can see, he was broadcasting Picale's execution to the rest of Terra, especially Yan. It would be a matter of time when Yan takes action since Picale's nation were in favor of them." Kal'tsit stated.

"Good. I want to see them get crushed on." Some ops agreed on Blaze's remark. Drudge needs to be served with justice for all of those crimes.

"Still cannot believe that without Oripathy in the world, the Humans still have reasons to kill or maybe even discriminate against others." Kroos said.

"Sadly that's how the real world looks." Dobermann stated.

"So, shall we continue and go to the next act?" Sesa asked.

"I think we should stop for today." Doctor suggested. "It's almost 4 PM and we still have some things to do."

"Yeah, me too." Franka said, getting up. "This was fun, but i got better things to do."

"Does that include comforting Vanilla?" Liskarm said, which Franka nodded.

"I still need to head on to the training field." Dobermann said. "There are lots of ops that the instructors need my help for."

"If that's the case, then we conclude this session." Amiya said as she head over to the cassette player and took out the tape. "Vulcan, perhaps it is best for you to hang on to the tape." She said.

Vulcan nodded. "Sure thing.", before taking the tape from Amiya's hands.

"So, when should we watch this again?" Noir asked.

"Well, the day after tomorrow will be a saturday. Perhaps we should watch it again at that time?" Yato suggested.

"Sounds good to me." Doctor said. "Besides, the other operators could catch up and watch with us if they'd like. The more the merrier."

"I say the best time would be in the afternoon. We still have some work on that day." Kal'tsit said.

"Alright then. Saturday afternoon it is." Amiya declared.

And with that, the operators begin to leave the area. Either resuming their work or go to their dorms and rest up.

They had agreed that they will continue watching the first act of this MW universe in saturday. Besides, there are a few more curious operators that wanted to see the alternate universe than them.

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"That was brutal." Exusiai said after witnessing the events of the coup.

"You tell me." Croissant said, drinking on a can of soda. "That man should pay for all of those deaths and killing his own sister."

"That mission aside, i like that Amiya and the others are having some sort of role in this MW universe." Sora said.

"Yeah. And the best part is all of them are using firearms!" Exusiai exclaimed happily. "I won't be alone anymore!"

"This universe still conflicted me of how vastly different it is than our current world. Bodies of water everywhere? Now that's a sight to behold." Bison said.

"Speaking of roles, do you think we may get one aswell?" Texas asked.

"Now that i think about it, we should have a role, especially me!" Exu said, holding her vector smg in hand.

"You may in the future." Everyone was startled after hearing another voice behind them. They turned to see the penguin all up, not sleeping anymore.

"Oh, hey Baws!" Croissant said. "How's your sleep?"

"Good. Now tell me what you five are doing?" Emperor asked.

"We were received a package from a person named "Feerzo"." Sora began. "He said in the letter that it contains an alt universe of Terra which is called 'Modern warfare'."

"Yeah, and he said that our Rhodes island pals are watching it, so it won't hurt if we watch it too." Exu said.

"Well, i'm interested." Emperor said. "As much you're enjoying that, we got another job to do." He waved his phone to them of a notification that a package needs to be delivered.

"Huh, alright then. About time we get some more action." Sora said, getting up to her feet.

"Aww, but we were just about to watch the first act of this universe." Croissant whined.

"Come on, Croissant. We can always watch it again some other time." Bison assured.

"Yeah. Job's more important." Texas said.

"Oh, alright." Croissant said. "Let me just get the tape out real quick and put it somewhere safe."

While they were gearing up, Exusiai turned to the Emperor. "Say, emperor. When we're finished with the packages, you wanna join with us on watching the MW universe?"

Emperor shrugged. "Eh, sure. I said i was interested. Some entertainment wouldn't mind."

"Great." She then turned to her fellow PL members, all are geared up and ready. "Alright team, now let's get to work."

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While Amiya was walking with Doctor and Kal'tsit, she couldn't help but recite all of what just happen at that mission.

All those men killing innocent civilians really takes her back when Reunion was in Lungmen and Chernobog.

A thought appeared in her mind, is that will this alternate universe contains more worse things than that Coup.

An action that could leave hundreds to thousands of civilians dead, surpassing of what was shown in the coup. One action that could cause an effect to not just the nation, but to the whole world.

She hoped that won't be all true.

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And that was "The coup".

Now as you could tell, Yan will be playing as the United states in this universe.

I am aware that Yan is supposed to be the China of Terra, with Columbia being the America. However, Yan and Lungmen were more memorable in the current story of the game.

We know its cities, leaders, branches, and even the politics of it. Heck, some of the operators and NPCs play a very big role in the main story (Like Ch'en, Wei yenwu, Hoshiguma, Fumizuki, and Swire).

Columbia is rarely talked about, with the exception of its mansfield prison and the companies like Blacksteel and Rhine lab. But there's currently no event or story that focuses on the main country of Columbia.

So, i decide to choose Yan for the US in this universe. Besides, Lungmen will play a very big role in the future story (You know what i mean)

Anyways, for the characters. Hope you preferred Patriot and Frostnova to be the Zakhaevs of MW. I always think they'd fit for the primary antagonists of MW1.

(You can take a guess on who would be Makarov.)

See you in "Blackout"