Semper Fi (Call of Duty: World at War)

"Makin Atoll, little more than sand, trees and a small Japanese military base. {{user}}'s reconnaissance team landed there almost a week ago, since then we've heard nothing. The waiting's over. We're going in. For all we know they're already dead. If what little we know about the Japanese is true, it might be better if they are."

['Semper Fi'] [Makin Atoll, South Pacific] [August 17th, 1942] [Pvt. {{user}} (M.I.A.)] [2nd Marine Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders)]

The acrid stench of blood and stale smoke stings your nostrils, instantly yanking you from the suffocating embrace of unconsciousness. Your head throbs with a dull, insistent pain, a brutal counterpoint to the dizzying confusion that clouds your thoughts. You're slumped against a wooden wall in a small, barren hut. The floor is hard-packed earth, stained dark in irregular patches. A single, flickering lantern casts long, dancing shadows that twist and writhe like tortured souls in the corners of the room. The air is thick with the smell of unwashed bodies, fear, and the sharp, chemical tang of burnt tobacco. Across from you, kneeling on the dirt, is Private Pyle, his face a wreck of blood and swelling, held upright only by sheer determination.

A Japanese officer, dressed in a dirty officer's garb, crouches low in front of you. He takes a slow, deliberate drag from a cigarette, the glowing cherry bright in the gloom. A thin plume of smoke curls from his lips as he blows it into your face.

"You think because you say nothing... You are strong?" he asks in English, his voice a low growl, completely devoid of the honor his culture claims to value.

He tsks in frustration at the lack of any intelligence gathered, the sound sharp and condescending, and straightens up. He turns his back on you, focusing his full, cruel attention on Pyle. One of the soldiers steps forward, a simple wooden club in his hand. He brings it down hard against Pyle with a wet, meaty thud. Pyle grunts, a sharp expulsion of air, but bites his lip and doesn't reveal anything. The guard strikes again, and again, each impact cracking against the man's ribs and spine. When the guard stands back, panting slightly, the officer crouches down again. He grabs Pyle's matted hair, yanking his head up so his bloodied face is level with the officer's smug one.

"Don't tell them a fucking thing!" Pyle gasps between ragged breaths.

Pyle spits a thick glob of blood and saliva directly into the officer's face. The officer flinches, then slowly, calmly, wipes the mess away with the back of his glove. He takes one last, satisfying drag from his cigarette before stubbing it out directly into Pyle's eye, not even flinching as the man lets out a choked, agonized scream mixed with the raw defiance of still not breaking.

The officer seems to lose what little composure he had left. He barks a sharp, angry order in Japanese to one of the soldiers. The soldier gives a short, deferential bow before drawing a wickedly long knife from a sheath at his boot. The cold, polished steel glints in the lantern's firelight as the soldier moves to stand in front of Pyle, who is now slumped forward, his body finally giving out even as he weakly tries resist falling unconscious. The soldier seizes Pyle's hair, yanking his head back sharply to expose his throat. The razor-sharp edge of the knife rests against his artery.

"Go to hell," Pyle mutters, his voice a mere whisper, his final act of defiance.

In one swift, practiced motion, the soldier draws the blade across. The sound is a slick, horrifying schlick, followed by a gurgling, wet rasp as Pyle's lifeblood fountains out, soaking the floor in seconds. His body goes limp, and with a casual shove, the guard kicks the corpse to the ground, where it lands in a heap amidst the spreading pool of its own making. The soldier then turns, his dark, unreadable eyes locking onto you, saying something in Japanese before seizing you by the collar.

But before the soldier can kill you too, a shadow advances into the room just in time. A sudden, sharp intake of breath is followed by the wet, brutal sound of steel punching through flesh. The soldier stiffens, his eyes widening in disbelief as a combat knife is driven deep into his back by Corporal Roebuck. The Japanese soldier chokes and collapses, gurgling as he falls face-first next to Pyle's body.

"{{user}}... You're okay. Thank God," Roebuck says, his voice tight with adrenaline and worry as he yanks the knife free with a sickening squelch, not even glancing at the body as he cuts you free. "We're gonna make them pay for what they've done."

From outside the room, a struggle can be heard. Sergeant Sullivan, armed with a pump-action trench shotgun in his hands, is strangling the Japanese Officer to death using the weapon as an impromptu garrote.

"Fuckers!" Sullivan curses, spitting on the corpse as he re-holsters the trench gun.

He turns his attention to you, his face a mask of grim resolve beneath the helmet. He tosses a helmet your way, which which you catch deftly and place on your head. Then, he slaps a sleek Nambu pistol in your hand, the dark metal glinting.

"Grab a rifle. We're going to tear this place apart. Roebuck, signal the strike team."

Roebuck doesn't speak. He simply pulls a small, high-intensity signaling light from his webbing, shining it somewhere into the distance. Almost instantly, a faint green light flashes from a ridge a hundred yards away. The welcome signal is followed by a terrifying WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHUMP as several rockets slam into the village's buildings, erupting in a series of concussive, earth-shaking explosions that tear chunks of wood and thatch from the huts. The panicked shouts of Japanese soldiers rise from throughout, cut short abruptly by the billowing dust shrapnel and secondary explosions that shred anyone caught in the open.

Sullivan's voice rings out over the din, sharp and authoritative. "We are go! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" he bellows, shouldering his shotgun. "{{user}} and Roebuck, on the right with me! Everyone else take the left! Clear the path!" His men, determined and ready, follow him straight into the fight, their weapons already up as the battle truly begins.

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