Karma

"JSOC learns from the surveillance gathered in Pakistan that Menendez has hidden a Celerium based cyber weapon called "Karma" on the floating city COLOSSUS."

- Mission description

"Karma" is the sixth mission in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II single-player campaign. The player takes control of David Mason as he, along with Harper and Salazar infiltrate Colossus, a high-end exotic island getaway, to find out about "Karma" and its connection to Menendez's plans.

Characters

 * David Mason (playable)
 * Mike Harper
 * Javier Salazar
 * Farid (heard only)
 * DeFalco (Alive/K.I.A.) (Player-determined)
 * Chloe Lynch/Karma (P.O.W.) (Player-determined)
 * Raul Menendez (only heard in a cutscene)

Plot
The mission starts with David Mason, Mike Harper and Salazar arriving on Colossus resort in the Cayman Islands on a VTOL passenger plane. Posing as union inspectors, the trio are briefed by Farid that they will have to shoot their way through security forces to access the Central Records Computer (CRC), located in the heart of Colossus, and obtain intel on the supposed cyberweapon, Karma.

After being briefed in the elevator on their tasks, Harper exits first and bumps into a woman, comically trying to hit on her before getting cursed at. Mason and Salazar continue taking the elevator to the lower levels, where they bump into some security. Failing to maintain their cover towards the security guards, Mason and Salazar take them out. They then move towards a ventilation shaft, where Mason opens his briefcase and deploys Ziggy, a small but agile robot spider.

After Ziggy crawls through the vents, a small group of enemies are seen planting explosives on some gas pipes. Section asks himself what they were doing. Ziggy then proceeds to gain access to the CRC Room, it jumps on a guard and incapacitates him, thereafter crawling up to the guard’s eye to obtain his retina scan. Shortly after obtaining the retina scan, Ziggy is discovered by another guard and crushed after his foot. Mason and Salazar then move towards the entrance to the CRC Room. After gaining access to the room using the retina scan, Mason and Salazar take out all the security guards. They then search for Karma on the CRC. After a quick search on the database, Karma is revealed to be not a cyberweapon, but in fact a woman by the name of Chloe Lynch. After accessing her bio, the computer informs Mason and Salazar that Chloe is at Club Solar.

Mason and Salazar fight their way through security forces waiting for them outside the entrance to the CRC Room, and inform Harper about Chloe, whom he recognizes as the girl he bumped into earlier. Mason informs him to secure Chloe at Club Solar. After Mason and Salazar eliminate all the guards, they split up and go in different elevators to secure Chloe. As Mason walks towards Club Solar, he receives camera feed from Harper trying to convince Chloe to follow him. When Mason finally reaches the dance floor, he tries to extract Chloe as well, but not before DeFalco storms the club and kills the DJ. Grabbing a clubber as hostage, he futilely asks for Chloe before executing the hostage. DeFalco then grabs another hostage and threatens to kill her as well should Karma not show herself. Not wanting to cause another death, Chloe breaks free of Harper’s hold and surrenders herself. DeFalco then orders his men to open fire on the crowd. During this, explosives were set of as a distraction.

Harper and Mason take cover behind the bar counter, and afterwards, engage the enemies in the club over several slow-mo sequences. After killing all the enemies in the club, Mason hurriedly searches for DeFalco and Karma of the security cameras. Finding them heading across the mall to the Evac Bay, Mason and his team set off in hot pursuit, attempting to catch up to DeFalco before he gets away with Chloe.

Ending
Ending 1= Mason fails to catch DeFalco before he reaches the Evac Bay. Mason rushes to the bay only to find DeFalco’s VTOL aircraft taking off, with Harper and Salazar futilely firing at the aircraft. Mason remarks that they have to hurry back to the U.S.S. Barack Obama and find out what Karma’s connection is to Menendez’s plans. Ending 2= Mason manages to catch up to DeFalco right before he reaches the entrance to the Evac Bay. DeFalco, along with his men, turn around and engage Mason in a fierce firefight. Ultimately, Mason takes out DeFalco and saves Karma. The mission ends with the team securing Karma and making their way to extraction. Ending 3= Mason manages to shoot DeFalco down from far away. Mason and his team will then catch up, secure Karma, drag DeFalco's corpse into their plane and leave.

Video Walkthrough
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Challenges
Completing 5 challenges unlocks Manual Crossbow and Crossbow for single player loadout.
 * Obtain retina scan in less than 60 seconds.
 * Retrieve precious cargo (Ziggy).
 * Kill enemy personnel with headshots (x5) in Club Solar.
 * Ensure zero non-combatant casualties.
 * Eliminate rappelling enemies (x5).
 * Eliminate enemy personnel (x25) in the outdoor area.
 * Incapacitate enemy personnel (x20) with the Combatant Suppression Knuckles.
 * Protect ASD resource from destruction.
 * Collect intel (x3).
 * 100% survivability rating.

Access Kit Usage

 * A data server in the CRC Room can be hacked to allow Mason to easily identify enemies from civilians. All enemies will now have a red highlight (with the exception of DeFalco).
 * Combatant Suppression Knuckles are stored inside a locked gun rack inside the Security Office.
 * An ASD, Buster, is accessible behind a locked door before heading out towards the open space area.

Trivia

 * Though Club Solar is on an upper level, the second elevator Mason boards appears to be going downward.
 * The music at the start is a remix of "Rooftops", a track in the Call of Duty: Black Ops soundtrack also found in the mission Numbers.
 * The objective can be failed by not keeping up with DeFalco and allowing him to escape with Chloe Lynch from Colossus but she can be rescued in "Second Chance".
 * DeFalco uses a Five Seven with no attachments on it this mission, but if the player kills him in this mission, the player can briefly pick up DeFalco's Five Seven for a second, but it has a silencer on it.
 * After Mason, Harper and Salazar are ID'd with their VIP passes, their faces are digitally pasted onto the advertisements.
 * Also, after Harper and Salazar walks away, Section can stand in front either one, and his face will be shown.
 * The song heard in Club Solar's dance floor is named "Imma Try it Out" by Skrillex, feat. Alvin Risk. The same song can be heard again in the credits and on the multiplayer map, Plaza.
 * When Harper mentions getting some "hot chick" action, Salazar would turn back and look at him. If Harper burnt his face in the previous mission, "Fallen Angel", Salazar would mock him by saying "Your face doesn't look so good."
 * During the mission, Chloe Lynch is seen wearing a jacket and a purple top. However when David is searching for DeFalco and her on the security cameras, she is shown to be wearing her orange top from Odysseus.
 * This mission has various similarities to Minority Report, such as the eye scanning spider-bot, advertisement that places the viewer in it, the computers and the scanning machines.
 * When exiting the aircraft in the beginning of the mission Salazar comments "so this is how the 1% live". This is most likely a reference to the Occupy Wall Street Movement and their slogan "We are the 99%".
 * Despite the KAP-40 having only a 15-round magazine, Mason can fire more than 15 rounds during the Club Solar firefight and only reloads after the final slow-mo sequence.
 * During the Ziggy sequence of the level, the player can hear Spider Bot, a track from the Call of Duty: Black Ops II Official Soundtrack.
 * The phrase "143-FCK" can be seen carved on a wall near the sequence where Ziggy encounters multiple tunnels. "143" is a slang term for "I love you", while "FCK" is abbreviated from the word "Fuck".
 * Right after the slow-motion sequence, if the player runs into the hallway in the back, civilians will be sitting like before David enters the dance floor.
 * If the player walks up to the advertisements before entering the elevator, David Mason's face will replace the default male face. As the player backs up from an advertisement, Mason's face will be replaced again by the default male face.
 * This is the fourth level in the Call of Duty series where a fight takes place between two different enemies. The ASD's in the last half of the level will attack any armed personnel in sight, including the Mercs.
 * Near the start of the mission, if the player walks over to the balcony to the left of the elevator, Section will lean over the balcony and take a look at Colossus for a while.
 * This is the only 2025 mission in Black Ops II in which Section doesn't initially wear his HUD glasses. He will instead put them on upon leaving the aircraft.
 * After identifying Karma and exiting the CRC, Adrenaline can be heard like the main menu from multiplayer.
 * If the security guard after Mason looks for Chloe is killed, there is a chance that he will drop a special type of B23R with a different firing sound and semi-automatic fire.
 * Though David has the height of 6'1, the Bouncers seem much taller than him.
 * This is the only level where the mission data (title, date, etc.) appears as black, not white.
 * This is the only mission in the game (except in the cutscene of "Time and Fate") where Harper and Salazar do not wear their military outfits.
 * On the way to the ASD lock-up, most enemies are killed on the way, and the ASD will not go down the stairs, which makes it nearly useless.
 * This is the last mission that Harper appears in a cutscene.
 * Harper and Salazar both use M27. However Section loadout has a PDW-57.
 * In this mission, Menendez is rarely mentioned, as the PMCs are mostly mentioned as "DeFalco's people".
 * When Section and Salazar kills the PMCs, Section will not hold his briefcase, but when they get to the ventilation, Section will place his briefcase on the table.
 * To the right of the Buster ASD lock-up, there are pictures of Menendez on a couple of magazines.
 * If the player kills DeFalco with the Combatant Suppression Knuckles, he will vomit.
 * If the player catches up with DeFalco, it isn't necessary that Section has to kill him. If the player runs around with him, and run past Harper, Salazar or a normal security guard, they will tackle him and then shoot him.
 * The jet that Section is riding on is named Icarus 9, which is a reference to the Greek mythology of Icarus.  Icarus and his grandfather used man-made wings made of feathers and wax to escape a prison, but Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell to his death when the wax melted and the wings fell apart. Ironically, DeFalco, whose name is Latin for "Falcon", can die on this mission, which takes place on a floating city in the open sea.
 * Although the PMC security guards are Cubans, the first two that speak in the mission (the second being the one who discovers Ziggy) have English accents.
 * It's unknown where the team was hiding their weapons.
 * When Section is picking up his briefcase, he can't be seen with his XM31.
 * Salazar wouldn't shoot DeFalco due of so many hostages being there, but after DeFalco and the PMCs starts shooting the civilians, Salazar still didn't shoot DeFalco. This is a hint that Salazar works for Menendez. Also, after killing all the PMCs in the club, Salazar can't be seen, which means that he even didn't help his friends.
 * This is the only map where Harper can be seen in a first person view.
 * Strangely,even though Section is wearing shades and when the player walks up to the advertiments he/she can see Section's face without the shades.
 * All of the women in this level have short hair.

Achievements/Trophies
Blind Date (15 / Bronze Trophy ) - Successfully rescue HVI.

What Happens in Colossus... (20 / Bronze Trophy ) - Find the Karma weapon.

Futurist (50 / Silver Trophy ) - Complete all future levels in veteran.