A big thank you to all of you who follow, favorite and read this story. I hope you still like it and enjoy reading. I know I haven´t updated for months but I was really busy. I´m gonna try to update regular now. I would love to know what you think of the story so far and if you have some good advices what I could do better feel free to let me know. But enough of that, enjoy this chapter.
„What are you doing here? " Ghost asked surprised to see the Captain.
"We saw you on TV. You got captured."
"Oh that´s a long story." Price answered.
"We have a couple of hours before we arrive on base." Ghost just said.
Price took a deep breath and started to explain.
He looked at his former Captain in disbelief. What was he doing here? He wants to take him home? Was it really that easy for him to get him out of here? A few minutes passed before MacMillian took a few steps in Prices direction, put a hand on his shoulder and shoved him out of the door and out of the office.
"Just keep on walking." MacMillian told him and they got on a black car, which was waiting for them in front of the huge building.
They drove a few meters as Price wanted to know how MacMillian got him out of there.
"I told them the mission was my idea and you're under my command. They proved the files I gave them and then they had no other chance than to let you free." MacMillian explained.
"Why have you done this? I never had orders to kill Makarov."
"Would you prefer to stay there?"
"No, but I just don´t understand your indents." Price answered and looked out of the window.
"You´ve changed son. In the old days you never asked about any indents."
"Maybe you´re right but remember I know you very well. So what are we up too?"
"I need you to reunion the Task Force." MacMillian said and earned a suspicious look from Price.
"Do you have the right men for this?"
"Oh you´re gonna be surprised what men I have for it. Let me just say you know the most of them."
"What? Don´t say you recruited some men from the S.A.S?"
"No, I didn´t need to recruit men from the S.A.S!"
"What else could you do? Almost all of them got killed in the war. Or do you want to tell me they´re still alive?" Price looked at MacMillian with a bitter smile on his face, but as Mac didn´t answer Price got serious.
"What´s going on here Mac?"
"For now I can tell you that we´re on our way to a chopper which brings us to Moscow to pick up Ghost and Roach." Mac answered.
"You´re kidding me. Ghost and Roach got killed by Sheperd. I heard it through the comms."
"Really? You only heard Sheperd giving instructions to burn them. You don´t know what happened after Sheperd left."
"Someone saved them? Who was it?"
"I´ll explain it later to you. I´m sure the others want to know too why they are still alive."
"That´s it." Price finished his speech and looked at Ghost.
"General? Can I ask you something?" Roach asked.
"Of course. What is it Sanderson?" MacMillian answered.
"Did they save us in your name?"
"Yes, you could say that." MacMillian answered and everyone stayed quiet for the rest of the flight.
After a few hours the chopper arrived at the secret base of Task Force 141. MacMillian explained them that the base wasn´t secret anymore because it was everywhere in the news after Sheperd tried to destroy it. In a matter of fact the Task Force wasn´t secret anymore either and everybody in the military knew what they were doing.
All four stepped out of the chopper and Mac led them inside the base and into the conference room. They could hear some voices as they got close to the room and Gary noticed he knew some of them. As they entered the room everyone went silent and stared at the four people coming in.
Ghost looked around and saw a lot of familiar faces. In the room there were Archer, Toad, Scarecrow, Meat, Royce, Ozone, Worm, Chemo, Poet and Peasant. Wait! Meat and Royce? Ghost looked back at them and needed to blink a few times ´cause he couldn´t believe his eyes. Meat and Royce died in Rio, he was sure of that, he heard it through the comms. What was going on here?
"Meat? Royce?" Ghost looked to his left and saw Gary stare with the same confused look on his face.
"Hey Roach, Ghost. Whoa they told us you were alive but we didn´t think you were in that good mood. „Meat and Royce stepped up to them and gave both of them a very hard but lovely hug.
"Hey, what´s up? You two look like you´ve seen some Ghosts." Royce laughed.
"You died. I heard it. You screamed that Meat´s down and you got shot too." Roach answered.
"Oh, that was true. They shot Meat and I thought he died and as I was hit I thought I´d die too but out of nowhere there came some soldiers and brought us out of there."
"But why didn´t you come back? You could have joined us again?"
"We told them the same but they didn´t let us go. They said it´s for our best to stay with them and so we did. By now we must admit they were right. If we would have come back I´m sure Sheperd would have killed us." Meat said and patted Roach on the back, shoving him to the others in the room.
Ghost glanced at Price and followed Royce to welcome all the other soldiers in the room.
"Would you tell us now what happened?" Price asked MacMillian and everyone went silent, excited what Mac had to say. The addressed closed his eyes for a short time, smiled, opened his eyes again and said:
"We have to wait a little bit longer, one more soldier is on his way."
Everyone wondered who´s the last soldier to come here. They were looking around, discussion who wasn´t there. Ghost knew the one person which was missing but he didn´t want to ask Price where he was. He dared to say he got killed on a mission.
"Hey, where´s the Captain?" Worm asked out of the sudden.
Everyone immediately looked at Price, waiting for an answer but he just stood there and didn´t know how to start. How could he explained that Soap died and he was still alive? Would they blame him? Would they wish he had died instead of him? Price knew they had all the rights to hate him for letting him die. He just wanted to answer as a voice was heard from behind them.
"He´s alive."
Every man in the room draw his attention to the man standing in the door. Price himself couldn´t believe his ears. He was afraid to turn around but to satisfy his curiosity he turned around and was almost getting a heart attack.
"This cannot be. This is a dream. This can´t be real." Price stammered, he was sure to see a Ghost.
