Time and Fate Mission 4

Time and Fate is mission 4 in the Call of Duty: Black Ops II campaign, set during the 1980s era in Nicaragua (Menendez's cartel compound). You play as Alex Mason (and briefly Raul Menendez).

Story summary

1986. Mason joins Hudson and Panamanian Defense Forces (lent by Manuel Noriega) to raid Menendez's drug-cartel compound. The player also briefly controls Menendez during the raid as he tries to save his sister Josefina; Woods accidentally disfigures/kills her, igniting Menendez's lifelong revenge.

Where it sits in the campaign

As one of Black Ops II's fixed story missions, Time and Fate plays in a set order and cannot be skipped the way the optional Strike Force operations can. Its scripted beats drive the main plot, while the choices you make across the campaign — and the outcomes of those Strike Force ops — decide which of the game's several endings you reach.

Black Ops II's campaign branches on your choices and Strike Force results. See the endings guide for which decisions change who lives and dies, the full mission list for play order, or the campaign cast.