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 and the third 80's mission. 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 (W.I.A.) (playable)
Jason Hudson
Frank Woods
Manuel Noriega (W.I.A.)
Josefina Menendez (deceased)
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.

One of the soldiers grabs Josefina and begins to assault and taunt her, at one point slamming her into her vanity, breaking a glass object. Menendez then goes mad with rage, escapes the soldiers holding him, and stabs the offending soldier with a shard of glass multiple times in the neck, killing him. Menendez is then given a sedative 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, saying he should be in US hands right now.

Noriega releases him calling it, "a favour". Menendez then assaults him, picks up his SPAS-12 and rampages through the village to find and save Josefina. The player has an extreme amount of health during this sequence, courtesy of Menendez's sheer rage. 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 shifts 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 Mason's obsession in Black Ops with killing Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner (Although Mason was brainwashed). 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, they both will see Menendez. Woods will start firing his Galil, 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 at Menendez, 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 and Woods that today never happened, and the mission is ended.

Video Walkthrough

Challenges

Completing 2 challanges unlocks Quickdraw perk for single player loadout. Completing 5 challenges unlocks the Longer Sprint perk 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.

Weapon Loadout

Recommended Loadout

Menendez loadout

Found in Level

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's, Galil's, AK47's, AK-74u's and a RPD.