A Rock and a Hard Place

is the fifth mission of Operation: Chimera of Co-Op Campaign. The players assumes the role of Pixel One. Command retasks Pixel One towards Beverly Hills to extract Gordon from his mansion.
== Synopsis ==
Reaching the foot of Beverly Hills, the task force has been reassigned of a search and rescue mission for an Area 52 DDA scientist; Gordon in his mansion. Gordon switches comms and informs that he has a possible solution about the unknown neon enemies that attacked Los Blockous, dubbed 'The Coded'. He also informed that a squad of their best soldiers will be looking for him as well due to him possessing classified information that could severely hinder their plans. The task force, supported by an AH-64 gunship, fights through the neighbourhood to reach Gordon's mansion, breaching through The Coded's front lines in the hills. After an uphill battle against Coded mutants, the task force reaches the mansion where they set up defensive positions from the remaining opposing forces in the area, losing Firefly 4-6 in the process. Gordon invites the task force into his bunker, where he would explain The Coded's possible origins. Gordon explains that the Coded is a hivemind-like horde coming from the internet. It was lead by "The Bug" which was created after a certain programmer experienced a bug while working on a "game". Gordon further explains that the Creator was actually reverse-engineering an AI stolen from the Russian government to be used in a game as an enemy, however the bug became self-conscious from the advanced coding and caused a massive uprising against humanity. Afterwards, the team extracts Gordon from his mansion to the extraction point farther up the hills, where they would sneak through house to house to avoid getting caught by The Coded's search party. Before boarding on the helicopter, Gordon offers the fireteam leader a USB containing a program used to disrupt The Coded's spawning in the area, instructing the team to go to the NSA building in Megalopolis and launch the program from there.
== Trivia ==
*When escorting Gordon, he will comment on various objects around the map:
**A car that is based off of a Suzuki Wagon R can be seen parked near Gordon's Mansion with a license plate reading: "DR3AMCAR". If one to escort Gordon to the car, he would comment on the car, claiming that it's "so slow, it should be banned".
**If Gordon is escorted towards his neighbour's home, he will praise on how his neighbour's house is more "destroyed than his entire life".
**If Gordon is escorted to his pool, he will question on why the team is in his backyard pool.
**If Gordon is escorted to a car pile up near the end of the map, he will comment that one of the cars involved was owned by some "obnoxious trust fund kid that has too much time on his goddamn hand".
Category:Levels of Co-Op Campaign
Category:Co-Op Campaign
Category:Operation: Chimera