Sierra 2 Hit!

With the beach resort area clear, Sergeant Michael "Psycho" Sykes looked up to the sky to notice the Sierra air strike team was now under attack. In the center of the dog-fight was his long-time friend, Sam O'Neill.

O'Neill was a great bomber, but was probably least skilled in dog-fighting. The fact of the matter is that few jet fighter pilots get the opportunity to engage in an actual dog-fight. So it was something that wasn't valued as much as bombing skills. As previously noted, O'Neill's bombing skills were second to none.

The three bandits seemed to focus their efforts directly on O'Neill's plane. I am not sure if they targeted him out of random or if he had been tagged from below, based upon the damage he had done on the ground thus far.

Two of the bandits approached him from behind and the third just off to his left-hand position. He jerked the fighter jet from left to hard right, then pushed the jet into a barrel roll and pulled back hard on the flight stick to try to shake the enemy.

When he leveled with the horizon, he heard the missile lock alarm sound. He immediately dumped all the CM that he could, but it was too late.



The missile hit and destroyed his left engine. His plane was going down. Psycho saw the hit and watched the plane disappear out of sight. There was certainly no recovery for the fighter. O'Neill would certainly need to eject to safety. However, ejecting to safety was targeted right in the middle of a huge Korean People's Army (KPA) stronghold.

Psycho received word from JSOC. O'Neill's plane had crashed less than a few miles from his position. Sierra 2 was down. Still no word from O'Neill yet.

Emerson from JSOC indicated that the camera aboard Sierra 2 snapped some interesting intel photos prior to the dogfight.



The photos stopped downloading shortly after the missile strike to the engine of the fighter. However, it appears some action was taking place at a harbor near by.



It was unclear who was involved in the action, but there appeared to be some heavy fighting going on. The heat-thermo reading on the image centered on the blast shows an explosion the equivalent of about ten C-4 explosive packs. Things were certainly heated in this area.



The pictures did not tell enough about what was going on. However, the remaining photos inside the camera of Sierra 2 may tell more of the story.



Psycho wanted to find out the status of O'Neill. He wanted to rescue him as a first priority. However, his orders were to secure the camera.

In the back of his mind, he wondered the fate of his fellow soldier. He wondered if they had chatted for the last time, during the battle for the beach resort. Had he acted better or quicker, would Sierra 2 still be high above the skies? Psycho could not help but try to place some of the blame on his own shoulders.


Time to head towards that camera.

Secure the Camera

As Psycho raced toward the camera, he noticed a helicopter heading in the same direction. You could have given him three guesses regarding the content of the chopper, but he only needed one. That air unit was filled with more Korean People's Army (KPA) troops planning to secure the area.



The Nanosuit's Speed mode became the only option at this point. Psycho had to make up time and had to do it without hesitation. This is the time where being "psycho" plays well into the equation. This is the time where someone like myself (Nomad) would have no chance and getting to that camera and taking out the KPA troops who have strict orders to protect the area at all costs.



Before reaching the location of the Sierra 2 jet crash, Psycho met his first group of troops. They were armed with various weapons and they were ready to tango. Psycho opted to wield two AY69 short-range micro-machine guns and a ton of ammo. With a capacity of 40 bullets per mag, he was able to pump 80 charges of hot lead in a matter of seconds.

Psycho also planned to unload his arsenal of grenades as well. Whatever it took to eliminate the KPA on his way to the crash site.



The battle was intense to say nothing else. Psycho continued to race around the area, pumping lead from the AY69s directly into the soul of the KPA troops firing back at him. When he saw a cluster of troops, he cooked a grenade and launched it at the last possible second.



The hits became very punishing for Psycho and on a number of occasions he felt as if he could not keep pushing. However, he wasn't going to fall to a group of KPA troops with inferior technology. He leaned on the Nanosuit to protect him with speed to escape the source of the gun fire.

He pushed to the distance of the arms from the KPA, let the suit heal his body and then launched two cooked grenades into the cluster of troops.



With that double-explosion the area was mostly clear. Just a few troops remained - which seemed almost elementary based upon the events only a few moments earlier.

Following the beacon on his radar from the crash site, Psycho was able to reach the camera with ease. No time to view the pictures now, he had his own secondary mission. That is, find out the status of O'Neill and rescue him if there is any chance of survival.