Last Rites at Monte Cassino

**Last Rites at Monte Cassino** is the fifth mission in *Medal of Honor: Underground* Girls Frontline. The mission is divided into three levels: Roundabout, Prisoners of War and Mayhem in the Monastery.

## Background

Manon volunteers to go a new mission to infiltrate the abbey at Monte Cassino (before the planned aerial bombardment) to investigate a monk's claim that there are American Airmen of the 8th Air Force being held prisoner in the abbey. After getting past difficult obstacles into the abbey, Manon finds that the claim is true. With the aid of the Commanding Officer of the airmen, Manon liberates the prisoners and destroys the command center. She then proceeds to destroy all the halftracks and supplies around the abbey.

## Briefing

This new mission has suddenly opened up, but is strictly on a volunteer basis.

This is the town of Cassino, the gateway to Rome. And this is the abbey that sits above Cassino on a small mountain that sits on the most strategic spot in a most strategic town. The Allies have been stuck here for weeks unable to take the hill or the abbey from the Germans and time is running out. Unlike the ruins on Crete, command has made the decision that it's time to attack the site from the air, no matter the consequences to history or scholarship. The abbey has been there for fourteen hundred years. But tomorrow, it's going to be bombed to oblivion.

Now here's where it gets complicated. Just within the last hour, we finished translating a message that was transmitted from the abbey last night. It was written in, of all things, Latin. What it says is quite troubling. The author claims to be a monk sympathizing the Allied cause, someone who doesn't want to see any more loss of life to either side. Now here's the really distressing part. The monk claims that there are several downed American pilots being held inside as prisoners of war. He says they're confined to cells in the old part of the abbey and would surely be killed in the raid. There certainly have been a lot of airmen from the 8th Air Force lost over Italy, so the monk's claim is not without merit. But let me be clear, Manon. We don't have any independent confirmation of the monk's story or if he even is a monk. The language and diction check out, but the Nazis have fooled us before. This all just might be a clever ruse on their part to prevent an aerial bombardment.

The mission is fairly straightforward. Clandestinely infiltrate the abbey, rescue the P.O.W.s and disrupt the Germans' operation by destroying whatever equipment you can. The monk's message contained very specific instructions on how to sneak inside, which you can read on the plane if you accept this mission.

Mysterious Light: Manon Batiste...!

Manon: Hello There MLG it's been a while not meeting well you send me 2 of greatest gun, the i will bring them again...!

Mysterious Light: No don't I want you bring Sten and This Girl?

Manon: Woaahhh Another T-Dolls?

M1911: nice to meet you Madam Manon My Name M1911 as you can see i'm 4-Star Handgun unlike P38 actually i'm 2-star but i got neural upgrade.

Manon: well neural upgrade?

M1911: Yes because this mission going to be very decesive.

Manon: alright but why Sten?

M1911: because she can upgrade too Huh really why you not tell me soon?

Mysterious light: because previous mission not much threathening but this mission going to be brutal ...

Manon: alright i will call Sten...

....

Sten: Sten MKII in here to report

Manon: Sten is your turn and your comrade M1911 wants meet you

M1911: hey Sten

Sten: M1911 Hello is this Upgrade Neural?

M1911: Yes and come here Mysterious light wants upgrade you.

Sten: YESSSSSS Finally. alright let's do it.

....

Sten: Mother...

Manon: ....

Sten: How do i look?

Manon: you really change? oh that's wonderful.

Sten: Thank you.

Manon: I LOVE IT alright Sten and M1911 we are gonna Storming the Monte Cassino as MLG said the most brutal war.

Sten: so that's why he call me and upgraded to fight alongside M1911 and Mama.

M1911: Sten you call Madam Manon Mama?

Sten: Yes because she loves me much and never allowed me to war because she don't want me hurt.

Manon: don't worry M1911 you will be my new sister if you want?

M1911: Me but thank you i will take that

Manon: both of you don't die and i will protect you both no matter what this might be biggest decisive war but as along both of you upgrade we are more far stronger now....

Steb: YESSSS WE ARE!!!

M1911: WE ARE UNDEFEATABLE!!!

Manon: that's the spirits Monte Cassino i'm coming!!!!.

## Levels

### Roundabout

* Disable guard tower
* Destroy supply trucks (6 in total)
* Destroy supply depot
* Locate crypt entrance

### Prisoners of War

* Free captain
* Rescue pilots from cells
* Protect captain
* Destroy war room
* Eliminate command staff

### Mayhem in the Monastery

* Locate quartermaster ledger
* Destroy munitions
* Destroy supplies
* Destroy all half-tracks

## Characters

* Manon Batiste (Playable)
* Ted Aubrick (Level Briefings)
* Commanding Officer of the 8th Air Force/POW Captain
* Abbey POWS
* Giuseppe Cesar Inesi (unseen)
* Sir Harold Alexander (unseen)

## Weapons

* Colt 1911
* Sten Mark II
* Panzerfaust
* Stielhandgranate
* MG42 (mounted)

## Enemies

The enemies are Wehrmacht soldiers armed with MP-40s, Stens and rifles. In the third level there are also four halftracks.

* Wehrmacht Light
* Fallschirmjäger
* Halftrack