Still lost in the beautiful view I land on the base with the other choppers.
It's looking like Camp Haskins, but on fire. Some soldiers are running around to help the injured. Hopefully they're not many.
Sims is still fearful but less than before.
"The base is still hot so watch yourselves." - Ripcord advises.
"Roger that, Ripcord." - Adler replies.
Then he looks at me.
"You've done a great job, Bell. We're all safe. You guided this bird trough all those RPGs-"
"You Adler? MACV- SOG?" - a base commander asks coming in front of us with some soldiers behind. They have something heavy and big in their hands.
"Yeah, yeah." - Adler replies annoyed, because he was interrupted." Just hurry the fuck up already!"
"Yes sir. Thank you." - the base commander adds.
The two soldiers reach the chopper and give to Adler the big container with a radioactive sign.
I wonder what it is.
"Don't thank me. Thank Bell. She's the one who just snagged us a fuckin' phone book full of Soviets Intel." - Adler winks to me.
Sims helps Adler to board the heavy container on the chopper.

My heart starts to beat faster again. Why I always feel in this way when he only compliments me?
I show the file to the soldiers; they look at me with respectful eyes.
"Let's go. Now." - Adler cuts off the conversation.
Fortunately this time I'm not going to guide the bird.
"I have enough of piloting today." - I take a seat in front of Adler.
"And your wound?" - Adler asks.
"Relax, it's okay."
"Goodspeed, commander." - the base commander says.
"A fucking nuke? Are you kidding me, Adler?" - Sims exclaims surprised while he's hooking the container to the floor.
"It's a failsafe. That's all you need to know."
The chopper takes off.
Under my feet I can observe the poor camp in fire. The war in Vietnam is one of the hardest to fight.
"We that desperate already?" - Sims continues.
"Not yet."
Now we're flying above the vegetation to reach the camp Haskins.
A bird of ours flies near us.
I would like to be a bird, a real bird, not a chopper.
They just fly free in the sky without the fear of fall on the ground and die.
Also they're lucky because they can see all the sunsets and dawns in this world.
Not like us, blinded by the darkness of war's dust-.
Suddenly a missile comes from down and hit the chopper in front of me.
It takes fire.
Fuck.
"It's not over yet!" - I scream.
"-RPGS! BRACE! " - Chalk One cries.
The chopper losts control and falls in our direction.

God, no. It's going to hit us. And if it does, we're gonna die.
Adler looks into my eyes and understand my thoughts.
I feel a jolt and fall on the ground.
My vision becomes blurry and when it starts to be clear I see a soldier falling out of the chopper. He grabs with only one hand a metal bar.
"GRAB MY HAND! I GOTCHA-!" - Sims tries to help him.
But he wasn't strong enough and he fells out with a big scream.
I can see the panic in his eyes.
The chopper starts to plummet.
"We've lost power!"- Chalk one cries.
As fastly as he can Adler reaches me and then, when the hell is surrounding us, coming closer every second, he covers my body with his to protect me.

"...Somehow Perseus knew..." - Adler explains.

I wake up surrounded by fire and destroyed electric caves over my head.
There is too much dust and smoke so I cough three times.
It's not over yet. I'm still alive.
Then I realize that Adler saved my life... Adler!
I search him with my eyes. I could recognize that face between thousands.
His body is near mine, probably because of the crash.

"ADLER!" - I call him.
"Bell! Sims! Are you okay?" - Adler seems perfectly fine.
Thank God.
"We're okay." - Sims replies trying to get free of the chopper.
Suddenly some bullets hit the chopper.
"Fuck!" - Adler exclaims.
I turn around and look from the window; only now I notice that we're upside down and many Viet Congs are coming.
"Bell! Let loose with that goddamn turret before we're overrun!" - Adler orders.
I start to shoot at every enemy I can see.
After they're finished I take my knife and cut the belt on my waist to get free.
I fall on the floor and so do my teammates.
My head starts to hurt again. But the pain can wait.
"Shit! We need air support!" - Sims says.
"Bell! Call it in!" - Adler gives to me a smoke bomb to call reinforces.
I throw it on the ground.
"Grab a weapon! Keep them the fuck off us!" - Adler cries.
I grab the first weapon I can find.
We start to shoot.
The pink smoke flies in the air but still no sign of reinforces.

"Where's that air support?"- Adler asks angrily.
We hear a big explosion coming far away from us.
"Shit. Did they miss us?" - Sims asks worried.
"RPG!" - Adler screams.
God, not again.
"Why the hell aren't they move their asses?"
"Wait! Here it comes!" - Adler replies.
But I can barely hear him because something hitted me.
I fall on the ground.
I open my eyes and see Adler above my face.
"Bell! Still with us?" - he asks worried.
"Yeah... I-."
When I look up the air support is throwing missiles and that's a good thing, but the bad thing it's that I'm in their way.

Immediately Adler grabs me from my jacket and pulls me on his chest.
The rocks defend us from the explosion.
My feet hit something hard and metallic.
It's the container! We save it!
" You think we can call this a success, Sims?" - Adler looks at the mess behind him.
"Least the nuke didn't go off."
Adler looks at me proudly.
"More importantly... we got intel on Perseus"
I rest on his chest till the rescuers arrive.

"I told you had a job to do
It ain't done yet.
Not by a long way."