"Shadows blocking the way." Ghost called out as they moved towards the entrance of the prison. 

"Let's send 'em to hell and get inside." Soap said, appearing to the left of Grimes. She gave him a quick nod in acknowledgement. Soap and Grimes lead the way, with Ghost just behind Grimes and Rudy just behind Soap. 

"Soap drop the right," Grimes spoke lowly as she and Soap trained their weapons on one of the two Shadows ahead. 

"All clear," Rudy called as they quickly moved to the metal green doors. Soap tried to open them only to find them locked. 

"We'll need to breach it." Rudy stated as they looked around; Grimes looked over to Ghost, who shook his head.

"No, Rudy." Ghost spoke before nodding his head at the door. "Knock." Grimes stood behind Soap on the right side of the door while Ghost was behind Rudy on the other. Rudy switched weapons to his pistol before knocking on the door. Moments later, the door opened, and Rudy pulled the Shadow out before shooting him and making his entrance through the now-open door. Ghost followed the Soap, with Grimes following up the rear. 

"Time to go loud; they know we are here," Grimes called as they rushed out into the main cell area.

"Enemies on the second deck!" Rudy called out while firing at them. Bullets rained down, some ricocheting off things. 

"Soap, Grimes, We'll keep 'em busy up top. Press forward!" Rudy called out as Grimes tapped Soap's shoulder, signalling she was behind him. They moved forward while Soap aimed his rifle and fired. 

"Out," Soap called before lifting his weapon and stepping slightly to the right to allow Grimes to step forward and shoot in his place while he dropped behind her. He quickly changed his mag before Grimes's mag ran out. She followed exactly what Soap had done and dropped back to allow him to fire. 

"Shit, Frag!" Grimes yelled as a frag appeared just at her feet. She reached down and picked up while Soap took a knee, continuing to lay down fire as Grimes threw the frag right back to the Shadows. They took down a couple more Shadows before they made it to the stairs at the other side of the room. They quickly began their way up the stairs to the next floor.

"Alejandro is on this floor off to the right." Rudy explained as they moved onto the landing. 

"Expect contact." Ghost spoke as he appeared on Grimes's right side. Just as they both rounded the corner, two Shadows came into view. "Light 'em up!" Ghost yelled as they fired several rounds at them, taking them down quickly.

"There's Alejandro's cell." Rudy said, looking at the door with the number one on its right side. "Open it up; I'll cover you." Ghost pulled out a pair of bolt cutters, ready to take out the lock. 

"Grimes, When I pop this  lock, you push in." Ghost told her as she nodded at him before standing in front of the door frame, ready to move. "This is what we came for." Ghost nodded to her as he cut the lock. Grimes reached out and pulled open the door before entering, ready for anything. 

"Alejandro?" Grimes called out just as she was grabbed from her right side as soon as she entered the door. She could tell straight away that it was Alejandro; he grabbed her and pinned her to the wall before returning his right fist, ready to punch. "It's me, hermano!" Grimes called out, ready to duck if she needed to. But Rudy rushed in and grabbed his fist, placing a hand on his chest to calm him. 

"Coronel, relájese. Somos nosotros." (Colonel, relax. it's us) Rud told him. This snapped him out of his trance as his gaze moved to Rudy, and he visibly relaxed.

"Grimes," Alejandro smiled happily as he turned to look at the others, "Soap, Rudy, Ghost."

"Didn't think we'd leave you, did you?" Soap called as he and Alejandro reached out to take hands as a greeting. 

"What the fuck took you so long, Pendejos?" Alejandro chuckled as he took a rifle off Rudy.

"Place is crawling with Shadows. There'll be hell ahead." Ghost called out as he stood guard at the front of the room. 

"Let's fight fire with fire." Alejandro smirked as he turned and looked at Grimes. "Good to see you, Hermana." 

"Glad you're alive." Grimes smiled at him.

"There's more Vaqueros in the cells upstairs," Rudy spoke.

"Time to get 'em out then." Soap smirked as Ghost moved forward as began to exit the room. 

"Orale, on you, Rodolfo." Alejandro smiled proudly at Rudy, who nodded and began to lead the way. They made their way up the stairs again to the next floor so they could let Alejandro's men out. 

"You seen Graves here?" Soap asked as they moved up the last set of stairs. 

"No, but I plan to pay that Cabron a special visit," Alejandro spoke in a low dangerous voice. 

"You ain't the only one," Grimes muttered as she followed behind Soap on the rear of the group again. 

"They have guards on all the floors, be ready," Alejandro said from what he remembered while moving here. Soap went to move around the corner only to have a hail of rounds fired at him. He stepped back behind the wall.

"Shit, they have riot shields." Soap muttered as Grimes reached into her pocket and pulled out a flashbang. She quickly pulled the pin and threw it around the corner.

"Flash out!" She yelled as they covered their ears and closed their eyes. Once the flash had gone off, Grimes walked around the corner and fired precise rounds that hit their targets the first time. "Clear!" She called out as the men walked around the corner.

" Los Vaqueros are locked in these cells," Alejandro spoke as he joined Grimes. Rudy began to call out to his men that they were here to rescue them, and it was time to go home. 

"I got the doors," Grimes said as she walked over to the controls and pressed several buttons before hitting the big red one, which opened all the cells. The men began to flood out of the cells and grab whatever rifle they could get their hands on; some picked up rifles from dead shadows. Grimes moved behind the group as they made their way to a blown-out wall section. 

"This was the mess hall," Alejandro muttered as they jumped onto the ground floor. There were tables scattered about as they manoeuvred their way around the hall. 

"Let's make a mess then." Soap joked as Grimes let a small chuckle escape. As they made it hallway, Shadows began to fire on their position. Alejandro instructed an open fire order to take out the Shadows. Grimes began to throw flashbangs and frags to help in their fight. 

"Soap on your right!" Grimes called just as Shadows appeared and aimed at Soap. Grimes moved, so she had a better firing position to take out the new Shadows. Without dropping her rifle. She unclipped the empty mag letting gravity unload for her as she reached her left hand to grab a new mag. As soon as the click sounded, she released the working parts to load the round into the chamber before firing it off again. 

"Check clear!" Grimes called out as she walked into a room on the right to check there were no more Shadows. "Clear!" Grimes confirmed her checks. 

"Re-group at the door," Alejandro called out to everyone as they moved to the door. "It's padlocked." 

"I got it!" Ghost sighed as he pulled the bolt cutters again to cut the lock.

"El Fantasma, siempre preparado." (The Ghost, always prepared.) Alejandro smirked with a chuckle.

"Sí, siempre está listo para cualquier cosa " (yes, he's always ready for anything). Grimes smirked back as Ghost cut the bolt. 

"On you, colonel." Ghost said as Alejandro kicked open the door. 

"Weapons hot, hermanos!" Alejandro called as he led the way. "Stairwell leads down and out; We'll link up with the others and exfil the fuck out of here." 

"Exfil vehicles are set. Grimes planted charges to help us get out." Rudy nodded to Grimes.

"With Johnny's help." Ghost added in the back.

"I can't call Soap 'Johnny'," Alejandro shook his head; it didn't sound right to him to hear his real name.

"Don't." Soap muttered. "Only Ghost can pull that off." 

"Oh, touchy, touchy." Grimes smirked at him. "I kinda like Johnny," Grimes smirked, putting a lot more effort into his name than needed.  

"Doesn't sound right." Soap chuckled as her as she scrunched her face slightly.

"Yeah, you're right. Shit name." Grimes smirked as she moved out of the building. 

"Hey," Soap said, slightly hurt at her words, but he knew she was pulling his legs.