David Mason

**David "Section" Mason** (1979-) is an American soldier and operative who was a member of SEAL Team Six who conducted several operations with his team against drug lord and social influencer, Raul Menendez during the 2020s. Mason was the son of Alex Mason, a CIA operative and United States Marine Corps. commander during the 1960s-1980s who had also been involved with Menedez. In 2025, he was able to kill Menedez after a massive firefight.

## Biography

#### Early Life

David Mason was born in 1979 to CIA Agent Alex Mason and his unidentified wife. Raised in his father's hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska, David's relationship with his father soured after the death of his mother. Due to his father's past experiences, harsh upbringing, and his commitment to serve the U.S. David held a deep resentment towards his dad but did not want to lose him, which was why he made his dad promise to not go on any more missions for the military.

In 1986, the Alex Mason returned to active duty with the CIA to rescue Frank Woods, leaving the young David in the care of Jason Hudson's wife, Jenny. In 1989, Raul Menendez kidnapped David, drugged him unconscious, and brought him to Panama prior to Mason's mission to capture then-dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega. Menendez's men within the CIA helped facilitate Noriega's capture and fooled both Mason and Woods into believing that they would be trading the captured dictator for Menendez. After Woods was lured into shooting and killing Mason, believing it was Menendez, Menendez killed Hudson and left both David and a crippled Woods alive. David later came out of his trance only to see his father unresponsive. Guilt-ridden about having shot his best friend, Woods took the young David in and raised him. However, to spare David the pain of the circumstances of his father's death, Woods told David that it was just a drifter who killed his father. When Woods was put in the Vault retirement home, he kept several of David's childhood drawn pictures.

### Military Career

In 1996, David Mason was commissioned as a Navy officer and was able to eventually make it to the Navy's elite U.S. Navy SEALs division. After a few years serving with the SEALs, David was recruited into the ultra-elite SEAL Team Six, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander before 2020. In April 2025, Menedez re emerged as a social media influencer, heading a project know as Cordis Die and with this Menendez planned to launch a cyber attack in an attempt to start the Second Cold War.

#### Second Cold War

On April 19, 2025, David became a Navy SEAL Commander, code-named 'Section', and was teamed up with Mike Harper and Javier Salazar. After visiting Woods to learn more on his and Alex Mason's involvement with the Menendez' case, David and his team travelled to Myanmar where they discovered that Menendez was using all his cartel money to hire Militias, SDC soldiers and Mercenaries and was using the facility in Myanmar to build his own army of CLAWs, quad-rotors, MQ-27 Dragonfire, A.S.D.s, and MQ Drones. Mason and his team then found a scientist named Erik Breighner who had been brought in to process a Celerium core which would make all existing microchip technologies useless. Though Erik was killed, he was able to give Section the Celerium core, which he later gave to Admiral Tommy Briggs upon returning to the United States. In May 2025, Mason and his team travelled to Pakistan to investigate a man named DeFalco and while there they were able to infiltrate Anthem, and managed to record Menendez's conversation with the leader of the Pakistani ISI, revealing that General Tian Zhao of the SDC was secretly forming an alliance with Menendez and that they would have a meeting on June 17. They also discovered that Menendez had assigned DeFalco to capture Karma before the team managed to escape after almost being compromised. Section and his team went to Colossus in order to locate a woman named Chole Lynch but an attack broke out, forcing the team to fight through several waves of soldiers. At the end of the fight, Mason managed to catch DeFalco who attempted to kill him before he was gunned down. It was after this that David learned the true nature of his father's death after talking to Woods more and more and was later sent on a series of operations against Tian Zhao to counter his plan of taking over Russia and making SDC the largest military force on the planet.

#### Capturing Menendez

In June 2025, a Cordis Die rally was held in Yemen, with Menendez in attendance. Mason and his team ambushed the rally and captured Menendez without incident and brought him back to the U.S.S. Barack Obama. On the boat, Menendez was interrogated but before long, the ship was attacked, revealing that Salazar was a double agent for Cordis Die before he was executed by Harper with a pistol before the men escaped the ship which was shortly afterward rescued from the attack by Chinese fighters. Through the summer of 2025, Menendez' movement would cause chaos across the globe, particularly in the United States, forcing Mason to assist in escorting the U.S. president through the streets of Los Angeles, which was in chaos during a massive Cordis Die gunfight. Having finally secured the president, Mason led an international group of special forces troops in a massive raid on Menendez's Cordis Die facility in Haiti, where the systems were being controlled. Midway, he witnessed a live broadcast by Menendez, and the self-destruction of the hacked drone army. He continued pursuing Menendez with Harper and ss they reached a room, the floor beneath them exploded. Section managed to grab hold of the ledge, but then noticed Menendez about to escape with two soldiers. Section slid down, grabbing a gun from a dead soldier's holster, and shot the bodyguards. He then stabbed Menendez in the leg with his knife before shooting him in the head via a pistol.

## Gallery

Mason and Raul Menendez, 1989Mason in his military gear, 2025Mason, Mike Harper, and Javier SalazarMason as a child, 1986