Time and Fate

"The President of Panama (Manuel Noriega) lends his PDF armed forces to help the CIA capture Menendez at his drug cartel compound in Nicaragua."

- Mission description

Time and Fate is the fourth mission in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II single-player campaign. In this mission, the player controls Alex Mason as he joins Hudson and the Panamanian Defense Forces in a raid of Menendez's mansion. In the earlier part of the mission, the player also controls Raul Menendez at the time of the raid and as he attempts to save his sister, Josefina.

Characters

 * Alex Mason (playable)
 * Raul Menendez (playable, W.I.A)
 * Jason Hudson
 * Frank Woods
 * Manuel Noriega
 * Josefina Menendez (K.I.A)
 * David Mason (cutscene only)
 * Mike Harper (cutscene only)
 * Javier Salazar (cutscene only)

Plot
Mason, Hudson, Woods, Manuel Noriega and his men are waiting on a cliff near where Raul Menendez is. Noriega gives an order under Mason's command. Control then shifts to Menendez, who is sitting with his sister Josefina. A knock on the door prompts Menendez to open it, where a soldier is shot and Menendez and his sister are captured. When Josefina tries to resist, a guard knocks her down. Menendez goes mad with rage and escapes the guards holding him and stabs the offending guard with a razor multiple times in the neck, killing him. Menendez is then given a knockout drug and loses consciousness. When he comes to, two guards and Noriega are looking at him. Noriega cocks a SPAS-12 but shoots his own troops instead of Menedez. He then unties Menendez, who proceeds to knock him unconscious. He then picks up Noriega's SPAS-12 and goes through the village to find and save Josefina. The player has an obscene amount of health during this. The weapon Menendez is holding will randomly cycle between a machete and the SPAS-12 (or a picked up weapon. Noriega's SPAS-12 never has to be reloaded, however, while the other weapons around the village do). When Menendez reaches the building where Josefina is, Woods sees him and fires at him, but misses. The player then sees a grenade bounce off a wall and into Josefina's room, killing her. Control then shiftrs back to Mason, as the player fights through the town to cover Menendez's capture. Halfway through the mission, Woods will lose control and focus relentlessly on killing Menendez, similar to Woods' obsession in Black Ops with killing Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner. When the player reaches a ladder leading into a cocaine laboratory, Hudson will tell Mason to keep an eye on Woods. When the player exits the lab and enters the building with Woods, Woods will see Menendez. He will start firing his Colt M16A1, but Mason pushes him against the wall, preventing the gunfire from hitting Menendez. Woods then pushes Mason away from him and tries to throw a Frag Grenade, but Mason knocks his hand, causing it to kill Josefina. The mission ends with Mason waking up in the destroyed building, and seeing Menendez apparently dead in a body bag, although this obviously isn't true as Menendez is present in the 2025 section of the campaign. Hudson will then tell Mason that the mission never happened and the mission will end.

Video Walkthrough
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Challenges
Completing 5 challenges unlocks Longer Sprint for the single player loadout.
 * Eliminate PDF enemies (x7) with shotguns in under 10 seconds.
 * Eliminate PDF enemies (x8) with truck mounted MG.
 * Rendezvous with Josefina in under 140 seconds.
 * Eliminate Cartel enemy personnel with Molotovs (x12)
 * Crash an enemy truck.
 * Eliminate Cartel enemy personnel with mortars (x10).
 * Eliminate Cartel enemy personnel with machete (x10).
 * Locate evidence of CIA presence.
 * Collect intel (x3).
 * 100% survivability rating.

Recommended Loadout:

 * Barret M82A1 with Variable Zoom
 * Galil with Fast Mag

Found in Level

 * RPD
 * Uzi
 * AK-74u
 * Dragunov
 * SPAS-12
 * M2 Browning Machine Gun
 * AK-47
 * Browning Hi-Power
 * Galil
 * FN FAL

Access Kit Usage

 * After taking control of Mason once again, there is a locked crate in one of the buildings which contains Molotov Cocktails.
 * Before reaching the mansion, there is a garage that Mason can go inside. There is an ammo crate and some Mortars.
 * When going into the drug basement, there is a locked door which Mason can pick and open to get a Machete. There is also a weapon cache, which includes several SPAS-12, Galil and AK-74u.

Intel Items
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Trivia

 * Menendez has the ability to reload his SPAS-12 by simply flipping it off-screen and back on; this animation takes the same amount of time no matter how many shots had been fired. The alternate animation seems to trigger if he is heavily damaged.
 * Just before going into the mansion as Mason, the player can see Menendez in the distance walking towards the horses' stables.

Achievements/Trophies
Man of the People (15 / Bronze Trophy ) - Stop the brutality inflicted by the PDF.

Driven by Rage (20 / Bronze Trophy ) - Take down Menendez and his operation.

Old Fashioned (50 / Silver Trophy ) - Complete "Pyrrhic Victory", "Old Wounds", "Time and Fate", and "Suffer with Me" in Veteran.