Alex Mason

* 2006
* 2021

*"You telling me to calm down, is like Anslo Garrick telling me to stop doing war crimes."*
— Mason To Woods
**Alex Mason** was one of the three playable protagonists in Chapter 1, alongside Baker & Henry and was one of the two playable protagonists of Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 alongside Gary "Roach" Sanderson.

He is the field commander of task force 141 and a ex-military captain. He is probally one of the most skilled operators on the planet, he is the best friend of Frank Woods, and is also friendly with everyone on Task Force 141. After the death of Simon Riley, he was the commanding officer.

## Biography

### Garrick's Compound

15 years prior to Chapter 1, Woods and Mason were given an operation to raid Anslo Garrick's compound and kill him, after his criminal acts came to light. They breached the compound, killing most of the OpFor and breached his room. Mason shot his eye out but didint kill him, however people thought he was dead for many years.

### War Against the MCP

#### The Oil Rig

Alex Mason leads the team to an oil rig where they clear out most of the rooms, and securing the main area where they find a container with nuclear cargo in it, they are about to obtain it however enemy mi-28's arrive and start taking out the rig, Mason is able to escape alongside most of the squad.

#### The Nuclear Disaster

After getting news about a possible nuclear meltdown, Mason, Phylax, Woods and Henry head to the nuclear station to try and stop the reactors from exploding, they make it to a control room with heavy resistance and despite trying to stop it, they are unable to and Woods convinces Mason to stop trying, they are able to escape and when Henry's exit gets blocked off Mason rescues him.

#### Eliminating Garrick

Alex Mason leads them to a hospital in Detroit where they are able to capture Garrick's associate Jamal Rahar, after interrogating him for a brief minute or two, they are suddenly ambushed by more mercenries and are about to die, however Sentinel Forces help them. They are able to hand Jamal to the spetznaz for interrogation.

Later, they locate Garrick in Greece due to the flawless interrogation by the spetznaz. He and Henry maintain sniper positions and are able to get a sniper shot on "Garrick"; however it's a body double and explosions are heard through the city, they are forced to intercept him VIA car and they are able to get him before he exits the city, and he assists Henry in killing Garrick.

#### Intercepting Cargo

After this, him, woods, henry and phylax assist the marines in securing precious cargo that Arash Kadivar was trying to get into russia, and Mason boards the highway and they intercept the cargo truck and they get the cargo before Kadivar can get it himself.

#### Tracking Down Arash Kadivar

Ghost leads Alex mason and woods on an op to capture Arash Kadivar, and they are able to track down his right-hand in the favelas who gives up the location easily. When escaping, Mason slips off of the roofs and has to escape from the Militia. He is barely able to make it to exfil.They track Kadivar to the Trabzon Airfield, they miss the sniper shot and Arash tries to escape via plane, but Mason takes the plane down and before they can apprehend Kadivar, he shoots himself in the head.

#### Stopping Zakheav

Mason and a squad go into an ac-130 and skydive out of it into a village where they clear houses and eventually find griggs, rescuing him and heading to the nearby nuclear silo once seeing that Zakheav sent out nukes.

Not too long after, they make it to the silo and push through, dealing with BTR-90's and countlesss mercs, they eventually made it to the silo and blew it open, pushing through the nuclear station and getting to the war room where they were successful in stopping the nukes. After this, they were chased by Zakheav's men and boarded a highway with cars, having to avoid mi-28's in the process. They made it to a bridge where they were cornered by Zakheav's men, Mason gets hit in the blast radius of a explosion from a tanker, and shrapnel hits him, he gets knocked out and later gets treated by medic's after the mission.

### Fighting Al-Qatela and Shadow Company

#### Capturing Volk

After getting news about Victor Zakheavs ring of targets Mason along with Zero, Gary "Roach" Sanderson, Frank Woods, and Simon "Ghost" Riley head to a city in urzikstan in order to locate Volk. They fight through a couple groups of mercs, reaching the target building and despite heavy resistance, they were able to apprehend and capture Volk.

Back at base, he gave up information revealing the mole general who has been manipulating the war alongside the Zakheavs being General Shepard. However Volk doesent know who the general was; only being allowed to say a certain name who wasent shepard.

#### The Banker

Two days later, they went after a close ally of Victor Zakheav, in order to find who the mole is; tracking the banker down to a bank where he was planning to make a money transfer. They fight through tanks, juggernauts and guards before reaching the banker on the roof. He talks about a deal with Shepard. Before they can ask anymore questions, he gets into a helicopter and escapes.

They see Shepard there already trying to get to the banker first, along with Ghost and Henry, he goes inside to find the banker and find more information. They fight through multiple groups of mercs and reach him, before he is able to reveal anything Shepard steps in and shoots at The banker killing their only lead which makes the whole team suspicious.

#### Ramos

Later, they go after a possible link to al-qatela who has now defected and after a brief confrontation Unkown Hostiles and Al-Qatela ambush them, taking out Ramos's wingmen and then Ramos tries to escape.

Mason and Henry split up from Phylax and Ghost and are on Ramos's tail, succesfully cornering him inside of his office and apprehending him at the cost of Henry who gets captured.

Back at base, Ramos gives the intel about Shepard which confirms everyones theories that Shepard was manipulating them.

#### Rescuing The Team

After the team was shot down on an exfil attempt, Frank Woods and Alex Mason along with a group of marines went into the forest where they were and provided secondary exfil.

#### Failed Operation in Verdansk

Mason and Woods went to an old Soviet outpost which Al-Qatela now functioned inside of The Ural Mountains. They fought through plenty of enemies but they eventually reached a control room where they got exact intel on where the ICBM Silo was where Zakheav was planning to launch nukes.

The team launched a full assualt having an advantage during the first half; taking over Tavorsk District and almost got the stadium before multiple cruise missles were dropped in and Victor Zakheav captured the team.

After being transported to another place in verdansk using a prison bus, Gideon did the team a solid once again planting C4 on the prison bus to have them escape. After the team began escaping they had to encounter several al-qatela operators throughout the city using makeshift knives and stealing enemy guns against them. They were able to escape after stealing enemy helicopters.

#### End Of The War

During the day of the missle attacks, the team launched another invasion on verdansk having way more firepower and air support at bay. They succesfully took over the military base, the riverside and later the airport which they used the radio tower in order to hack into Victor's comms.

After the team located the exact missle silo; they split up to do different missions. Woods listened in on Zakheav's comms, Ghost and Phylax were in charge of creating a diversion which they succesfully did, blowing up an oil tanker to keep the al-qatela away from Alex Mason and Henry who were able to kill Zakheav and barely stop the ICBM.

### Stopping Al-Asad For Good

#### Rescuing Roach

Mason, alongside Henry and John Edwards Jr., provided suppressive fire for Sarah and Ghost as they rescued Roach inside the outpost, and after they rescued Roach, the team were surrounded by the mercs, however, an unkown group saved them, and they later got extracted by Phylax.

#### Weapons Factory

They then infiltrated Al-Asad's weapons factory in South America. Once inside the Atrium, they saw several hover tanks, without any time to react, they went towards the control room as Mason started the information download. Phylax attempted to hold them off but more kept coming. It seemed as all hope was lost, but Ghost used the hover tank and shot down all of the mercs, just enough for Mason to complete the download and they then exited the factory, detonating C4 to explode the hover tanks and other weapons. They then moved towards exfil point where Roach rescued them.

#### London

With intel from the briefcase Andrew Zimmer had on him, it was intel about a massive bomb being moved into Piccadilly Square to be exploded. Ghost, Mason, Phylax and Zero, alongside some CTSFO operatives attempted to stop the bomb to no avail, the bomb detonated causing several civilians to die, and terrorists took hostages, Ghost assisted in rescuing the hostages and neutralizing the terrorists.

They were able to track the terrorist cell to a townhouse in Camden Town, Mason assisted in this operation with Ghost and Phylax, and then finding an intel tube with a location of a compound inside Urzikstan.

#### Urzikstan Compound

Mason assisted in raiding the compound where Al-Asad's assistant was, reaching a teahouse with a tunnel system located under it and he and Mason dropped down first, a suicide bomber detonates their vest, collapsing the tunnel behind them. Leaving Mason and Woods to get the job done their selves. After several minutes of fighting, they reach the room where the assistant is located and capture her. Escaping the tunnel system before the whole entire thing collapses.

#### Georgia

Mason then participated in the raid of the Weapons Factory. He and Woods pushed through towards the pipelines, with assistance from the Spetsnaz, they successfully planted the c4 and escaped in time to explode the pipelines as Roach killed Al-Asad.

### Betrayal and Vorkuta

#### Panama

Before his death, AL-Asad gave the team a USB which showed Martin Li's true nature, causing them to go to a possible location where he was, in Panama. Mason was kidnapped by CAJ forces, and was made to believe he was Martin Li with a bag over his head. Woods sniped him, in the leg wanting to capture him, but then saw Mason behind the bagged head, he was then ambushed by CAJ Forces, and witnessed Hudson die in front of him by the hands of Martin Li. Mason and Woods were then transported to Vorkuta Prison.

#### Time In Vorkuta

After being brought to Vorkuta, he was interrogated and brutally tortured by lead interrogator Bohai for several days, with Bohai attempting to get information about their previous operations to no avail. During July 6th, fellow prison mate Minotaur plotted an escape plan with seven steps, the rest of the prison mates assisted Woods and Mason on their escape, they made it to the armory where Minotaur killed Bohai, and they all got geared up where they then proceeded towards the exit killing the rest of the guards. They then stole motorcycles, and jumped onto a train, escaping Vorkuta.

#### Getting Back To Base

After their escape, they fled into a forest near a U.S Base, and they avoided search parties led by CAJ operative, Velikan. They then killed a few patrols and making their way to a nearby city. Upon reaching the outskirts of the city, they are discovered by a U.S. Military reconnaissance team operating in the area, who then briefed the trio about the situation and where their stronghold and commanding officer, Major Campo was stationed. They fought through more CAJ and then stole a BTR-90 and used it to engage the rest of the CAJ.

They eventually reached the bridge leading into the U.S stronghold and they assisted in pushing the CAJ back from the entrance point. They got out of the BTR and made their way to where Campo was, and are provided with an exfiltration out of the area via manned recovery system by a low passing C-130 back towards the headquarters.

### Stopping Martin Li

#### TV Station

After he and Woods escaped Vorkuta, and with a possible location on where Martin Li was, Mason and the team went to a broadcast station which led to be a trap, Li revealed a captured Sarah on a TV screen, plus explosives hidden all around the room. Mason escaped but Ghost wasent so lucky, and was put into a coma.

#### Ending The CAJ

Mason and Phylax extracted Roach, Woods, and Henry out of a CAJ Stronghold inside Prague.

Mason then participated in raiding a CAJ stronghold after going over the intel from the castle, when driving over they were ambushed and forced to go on foot towards the base. Going down a hill and using explosives to kill the remaining guards, after entering the base Woods and Mason took another corridor and eventually reached the armory where they extracted several weapons, notable one being a Railgun, after this, they escaped the stronghold using a helicopter.

Mason assisted the main attack team to the CAJ main Aircraft Carrier which turned out to be ariel. They cleared out the guards but at the cost, Sarah ended up dying from a stab wound by a CAJ guard, and then once they reached the bridge, Phylax ended up getting ambushed and killed. Woods and Henry both then executed Martin Li for his crimes personally.