Fighter (Simon Ghost Riley!)

On the run

"Soap" Ghost repeated more confidently, he lent forward ripping the duct tape that was across soaps mouth off.

"ah ya fucking bastard!" Soap shouted, his Scottish accent music to his teams ears. His usual Mohawk grown out and messy. He had cuts littering his face, his left eye black and swollen shut, his lips dry and now bleeding from the duct tape. He wore a matching blue Adidas track suit, exactly what Zachaev would wear. His beard grown out and thick.

"Mate!" Ghost spoke as he began cutting soap free, the rope around his legs and wrists painful and red. Ghost helped soap to stand his arm resting over ghosts shoulders. Adder rushed over looking over soaps face as she held it in her hands gently.

"We thought you were dead" she spoke her voice cracking slightly, she swallowed the lump in her throat.

"Bold of you to assume I can die" he weakly smirked. Roach joined the team as they welcomed their captain back from the dead.

A loud explosion interrupted the reunion, debris and dust fell as the room shook slightly, everyone looked around.

"Come on we gotta get out of here!" Adder shouted leading the team, roach helped ghost support soap, his legs weak as he struggled to jog with the team.

"Bravo Six - be advised, they've started the bombardment early! Get the hell outta there now!" Shepard's voice called through the coms in their ear. Ghost and roach were practically dragging soap, adder shooting a few hostiles that had been left behind clearing their way.

Adder could see the hole at the end of the tunnel, their bird was hovering waiting to collect them.

"Go come on!" Adder shouted as ghost and roach pushed harder.

"Get ready to jump!" Ghost shouted towards adder as they neared the hole. Another loud explosion rang through the gulag shaking the team slightly.

Adder covered her eyes turning away slightly as rubble fell blocking off the exit, the bird disappeared. Their only means of escape gone. Adder sighed as she looked at the now blocked exit.

"Fuck!" She shouted frustrated.

"Go back we need another way out!" Ghost shouted adjusting how soap was stood, trying to make it easier for roach and himself. Although his captain had now lost a lot of weight and muscle he was still a big bastard.

They ran back through the halls reaching an old abandoned cafeteria, there was a large hole in the ceiling, a large undetonated bomb buried into the floor.

"It's a dead end!" Roach shouted looking between adder and ghost. Adder ran over towards the bomb looking up through the large hole in the ceiling.

"Six-Four, where the hell are you, over?!" She shouted through her coms.

"CharlieSix, there's too much smoke, I can't see you I can't see you!" The pilot replied, there was a large crack as a piece of debris fell landing on ghost, soap was sat on the floor roach helping him to sit up.

"Ghost is down! Ghost!" Roach ran to help his friend, lifting the debris off of him as he began to come round.

"Whatever you're gonna do Addy, do it fast!" Soap ordered. He was still bossy. Ghost began to come to, he watched as adder lifted her gun sending a flare up through the hole of the roof into the sky above them, she covered her eyes once more protecting them from any fall out.

"Charlie Six, I see your flare. SPIE rig on the way." A rope came down through the hole as roach helped ghost up before returning to soap.

"Come on lets go!" Adder ordered clipping herself onto the rope. Ghost roach and soap followed suit clipping themselves to the rope.

"Hang on" Roach shouted as adder was roughly pulled into the air, ghost soon after, then soap. Roach was last to roughly be yanked from the gulag.

As they flew up the building a number of explosions erupted causing the team to cover their eyes protecting themselves from any damage. As they exited the building the watched as the gulag slowly fell to the ground.

The ride home seemed to drag, soap sat at the edge of the bird, one of his legs gently dangling off the edge, he looked over his team. His family. The people who he had been thinking about the whole time Zachaev had him.

Adder was asleep her head resting on her own shoulder, her eyes gently fluttering in her deep sleep, Ghost was laying down, his head rested on adders lap, her hand gently on his chest. His mask was lifted and his mouth hung open slightly, roach was sat next to soap, roach elbowed the captain gently nodding towards adder and ghost.

"Their in love ya know" he spoke casually. Soaps eyebrows pulled together in confusion switching his gaze between the sleeping pair and roach.

Ghost wasn't the type to fall in love. With anything! He thought back to before he left, the countless nights ghost would complain about adder, adder would complain about ghost. And soap would have to pretend he cared about their childish behaviour. Soap chuckled at the Sargent words before looking back over to the sleeping couple.

Ghosts gloved hand found adders, in his sleep he gently rested his hand on hers wrapping his fingers around. He shifted closer to the girl swallowing slightly before more soft snores left his mouth.

"Toad said he caught adder sneaking into his room the other night" roach half smirked raising an eyebrow at the captain.

"Get some sleep roach" soap simply replied, roach nodded his head gently leaning it back against the wall or the chopper.

Soap would have to question the pair later.