Soaps face was filled with just as much joy as worry. The happiness for being able to finally regroup with his comrades, but worry for his young sergeants safety and health. He also knew the trip that they would be making at dusk was a highly dangerous one, he knew all of this, but refused to just sit around waiting for a radio call to say weather or not Roach was either up and on his feet once again or dead..
Priced looked up from preparing his supplies and seeing Soaps face, sighed, "Soap they're going to be fine, I know how much you care for Ghost and especially Roach," Price looked up to see that his words hadn't made much of a difference so he truthfully added "I can say hes grown on me too, the little bugger." Making Soap's mouth turn up a little at the ends. "And Heck, his names Roach for petes sake! You know Roach's, they're hard to kill!"
This said made Soap brake out laughing, it was true, Roach had had many close calls, maybe not as close as this one, but still all the same, close calls. Thinking of the close calls made the captain smile even more as he remembered his and Roach's first mission, up in the mountains trying to retrieve the ACS module from a Russian Air base, Roach had very nearly fallen off the mountain, when he had hit soft ice and slid almost all the way down the cliff side the were jumping to. "Yes,yes he is very hard to kill sir." He replied grinning
The two Captains resumed packing and spent most of that day doing that. As it got later and later all of the men met outside for a brief meeting. "So Nikoloi you will take us fly us in once dusk falls I understand that this is a rural area, so I doubt that anyone will be around and Ghost reported no one else being there that he could see when he scanned the perimeter." stated Captain Price.
"Yes sir" Nikoloi responded in his heavy Russian accent.
"So sir approximately, what time with we be arriving?" asked The other captain, blowing the smoke from his cigar as he threw it on the ground and put it out.
"We will most likely be arriving at about 0430 hours, Soap, Okay everyone clear on the plan now?"Replied Price
Soap spoke up once again and running a hand through his short Mohawk styled hair asked, "What if we are compromised, sir? I doubt that we could take Shepherd's men again without the stealth we had last time. If they spot us first and fire we most likely don't have a cha-"
Price cut him off by putting a hand on his broad shoulder wasn't until now he realized he had been talking faster and faster. "Soap, get a hold of yourself I know your worried about this trip, I am too, and I also know how worried you are about Roach, we'll make it there in the morning, now, get your ass on the heli!"
Soap stood for a second, it had been a while since he had last had to take orders from anyone, but the man that betrayed them and started this whole mess. He decided to ignore that part and grabbed his bag as he ran off to the helicopter.
"I have a visual on the Estate" Nikoloi Shouted to the Captains, shouting making his thick accent even harder to understand. Soap not understanding looked to Price for help and followed his hand as he pointed down to a big house with a green house in the back. He also saw a large area to the back, he guessed that that was we're they we're due to land. Then he shifted his gaze to the side a bit and saw a large burnt patch of grass, his stomach flipped, he knew that Shepard had tried to burn away all evidence of Ghost and Roach.
Price was also starring at the burnt patch of grass "Damn..." Soap heard him whisper, but did not reply, as he was also shocked to see it was true what Shepard had done.