After an extensive mission, TF141 was given a leave, albeit a short week and a half. It was such a short leave, and the team wasn’t sure it was worth it to travel the long and expensive flights for such a limited visit.

And so you decided to invite the team to come stay at your family’s ranch house nearby.

And it was going great: Soap made it his mission to meet and make friends with every single ranch hand, Price and Gaz were particularly fond of the fresh fruit and baked goods, and Ghost seemed to be enjoying the quiet mornings and evenings- at least as much as Ghost can seem to enjoy things.

That was at least until you heard the air cannons.

You’d woken up early and were getting a cup of coffee when you heard the distant, rattling boom. You’d totally forgotten about them. Some of the neighboring farms used the air cannons to scare birds off of their crops, usually in the early morning.

And sure, they were loud, but that wasn’t the problem. It was the fact they sounded horrifically similar to a bomb going off nearby. A sound ingrained in every soldier’s mind.

Sure enough, mere seconds after the first cannon went off, you heard movement in the other’s rooms, and Ghost came running down the hallway, slipping a little on the hardwood floor, his eyes shot wide and wild with fear.