Situation Room: Swift Fury Evac Triumph Spirals into Cobra Firefight
Plot Beats
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Military command confirms Cobra helicopters are in position and ready for Operation Swift Fury.
Leo seeks updates on the mission's progress, revealing his underlying tension about the operation.
Dragon helicopter confirms mission underway, lifting personnel to safety as the team exhales momentarily.
Cobra 1 reports taking fire and injuries, injecting sudden danger into the mission.
Cobra 2 neutralizes threats but the precarious situation solidifies Leo's realization that the operation has escalated.
Who Was There
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Focused intensity driving lethal precision
Pilot 2nd reports over radio engaging HNP squads armed with light machine guns, deploys 20mm cannon and 2.75 rockets to neutralize targets amid explosions echoing via PA, then confirms return to Paris, twice underscoring the counterattack's ferocity.
- • Protect evac chopper from ground threats
- • Secure path back to base post-engagement
- • Overwhelming firepower neutralizes ambushes
- • Mission success hinges on rapid response
Relieved optimism curdling into vigilant concern
Nancy joins Leo and officers in sighs of relief and smiles at Dragon's successful liftoff and applause, then shares the room's tension as Cobra reports erupt, her composed presence anchoring the group's emotional swings without verbal contribution in the firefight beats.
- • Support Leo's focus on operational success
- • Gauge team morale amid volatile updates
- • Shared relief strengthens resolve
- • Operational phases demand unflinching attention
Anxious impatience veiling steely resolve amid spiking dread
Leo paces tensely during pauses, voicing frustration at the silence, glances impatiently at his watch, shifts from shared smiles of relief at Dragon's liftoff to concerned stares as fire reports crackle in, culminating in resolute acknowledgment that seals the peril.
- • Monitor operation in real-time for swift decisions
- • Maintain team composure through crisis pivot
- • Silence breeds vulnerability in high-stakes ops
- • Personal concerns must yield to mission imperatives
Professionally detached amid escalating urgency
Command relays crisp confirmations over radio—Dragon away post-liftoff—then probes Cobra 1's status amid fire and injuries, coordinating return to Paris with professional precision that funnels battlefield chaos into the room's nerve center.
- • Confirm safe extraction and asset statuses
- • Facilitate real-time threat neutralization
- • Clear radio protocol averts disaster
- • Injured assets must prioritize return
Objects Involved
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Cobra 2's 20mm cannon roars via radio reports and PA explosions, shredding HNP positions in tandem with rockets to shield Dragon's escape, its staccato fury broadcast into the Situation Room turning relief to held-breath peril and restoring fragile momentum.
Cobra 2's 2.75 rockets streak in fiery barrage per pilot's report, detonating HNP threats over crackling PA speakers, their explosive neutralization pivotal to evac survival and injecting visceral combat reality into the room's emotional rollercoaster.
Leo's wristwatch captures his mounting impatience during operational pauses, its ticking silence amplifying tension as he glances at it urgently, symbolizing the inexorable pressure of real-time crisis management that wrenches personal calm into command vigilance.
HNP troops' light machine guns unleash hails of fire on Cobra 1 from across the embassy, wounding pilots and shattering room's applause into silence via radio, their ambush escalating the op's stakes and provoking Cobra 2's retaliatory dominance.
Location Details
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Paris beckons as sanctuary endpoint, Dragon and battered Cobras vectoring toward its runways per urgent radio confirms, its promise of safety tempering the firefight's blood-cost and underscoring op's fragile path to reprieve.
The Situation Room pulses as command nexus, its screens and radios channeling Dragon's liftoff triumph into applause, then Cobra firefight chaos, forging collective emotional surges that test leadership under the fluorescent glare of tactical dread.
Port-au-Prince seethes as the op's volatile epicenter, embassy-adjacent buildings spewing HNP fire that imperils Cobras and evac, relayed via radio to heighten Situation Room stakes in this distant yet intimately felt cauldron of coup chaos.
Organizations Involved
Institutional presence and influence
HNP squads ambush from embassy shadows with light machine guns, raking Cobra 1 and wounding crew to derail evac, their ferocity neutralized by Cobra 2's firepower—exposing mission fragility and fueling White House peril.
Bazan's troops underpin the secured landing zone for Cobras as referenced in prior briefing, their ground hold enabling Dragon pickup amid HNP fire—bolstering the op's perimeter in fractured alliances relayed to the room.
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Key Dialogue
"PILOT 3RD (over radio): Raven, Dragon has all personnel secured. Dragon is lifting to Paris."
"PILOT 1ST (over radio): Raven, Cobra 1 is taking fire from across the... from inside the building across from the embassy. Engaging. Raven, I'm hit."
"LEO: All right. Well, we're in it now."