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She'd never heard of Blood Gulch, but from what she understood, the Red base in the area was short-handed, and needed a commanding officer to oversee operations. Why they'd chosen Riley for the job was beyond her, but she'd gladly taken the post.

It wasn't until they were five minutes out that pilot and passenger realized that something was wrong.
"Alright, ma'am. We're beginning our final approach. You alright with the cargo back there?"
"Fine, pilot. Honestly, I'm surprised that Red Base needed this many targets. My briefing said that there was only one Red soldier down there."
"These targets are for Blue Base, ma'am." The pilot said. "You feeling alright?"
That put Riley on alert. "Pilot, where exactly are we going to be landing?"
"We'll be putting down near Blue Base. Aren't you one of their new recruits?"
Riley shot into the cockpit. The pilot was wearing solid blue armor, in stark contrast to the brown that she was wearing.

"Oh. Sh-"

In retrospect, distracting the pilot like that on the final approach was the last thing that Riley should have done. The Pelican ended up overshooting the Blue Base landing point, and crashed in the middle of the field. The sudden stop threw Riley and the pilot through the cockpit and into the dirt. She missed the rock that the pilot slammed into by about a foot, and kept going.

Groaning, she picked herself up, and looked at the crashed Pelican, then scanned the ground for her M7 SMG. Picking it up, she switched to the Red comms channel frequency, and started walking towards the Red base. "This is Red Captain Riley Owens. I've arrived in Blood Gulch and will be inspecting conditions to figure out how best to help out. Do you copy?"