Ghost arrives in the 5th district, a more poor-like district, he was raised here, he knew everyone on the street. He was wearing his mask and no one knew who he was. His house was like some will call old, he liked it, because it felt warm on the inside and the outside.
He reaches the front door, it is written the family name 'Fritz' he knocks. An old lady dressed in a T-shirt and with some sport leggings. "Who are you, and what are you doing on my lot?" Ghost laughs as he takes his mask off. "Won't recognize your son? That's signs of Alzheimer's" She looks at his face horrified and starts crying, she hugs him. "Lancer!" She sobs, creasing his face filled with scars and missing skin.
"What happened?" He sighs, noticing neighbors looking at them. A woman, not older than him, comes near them. "Lancer? Is that you?" He doesn't turn. "Yes. How are you Maggie" His mother notices his behavior and forces him to turn him towards Maggie. She cleans her face of tears and with a smile says "MY SON IS HOME!"
Maggie looks horrified, "What happened?" Ghost shakes remembering it, "When the war started, I was in a mech pilot position in the Ghosts team, we were massacred, the only one that came to aid us was Theodore Bloodheartrh, and I will always serve him because of that." She comes closer to him. "I wanted to say that I am sorry I didn't wait for you…"
Ghost smiles, "I am glad you didn't." He heads inside, nothing much changed, the flooring now was upgraded, the walls are now fixed, the stairs are now well made. His money is well invested in his home. His mother follows him inside, closing the door behind them.
"I notice you invested in the house, I am glad you did." His mother walks behind him. "So when are you gonna retire? Or when are you gonna quit?" Ghost stops and looks behind him at his mother, "I will never quit, I won't work in a factory or whatever you want me to work in." The woman's face turns pale. "What will your father think?"
Ghost goes towards the kitchen, he starts cooking some scrambled eggs. She follows and looks at him, "You need to get a woman, son, find a woman, you need none of this war stuff, find a respectable job, the factory~" She gets interrupted by Ghost. "I don't want to, I've worked in a factory once, I don't want to work in one ever again."
"Lancer… You want to die for what?" Ghost places the scrambled eggs in the plate and moves towards the table, he places the plate on the table, goes in the fridge, picks up some bread and returns to the table and starts eating. "Listen to me!"
"Mother, if you need to know, I am loving my job, you and father did love yours, and dad worked at a factory too, he died there, killed by a machine, no thanks." He continues eating, "Change the subject or you'll never gonna see me again!" His mother sighs.
"So did you find someone to marry?" He looks at his place half empty. "I am 22 years old, mom, I don't want to marry so soon." "You live your life like this and not have me a grandchild, the thought itself is atrocious." Ghost laughs, "You'll have them no worry"
He sends a message on his phone to Theodore 'I want to go back to work, hate free days' "What are you doing?" He opens a picture of Milena on his screen. "Nothing." He places the phone on the table seconds before the phone goes black screen so his mother thinks she is his girlfriend.
"Who is that woman?" He picks up the empty plate and places it in the dishwasher.
His mother gets closer to him, "Who is she?" His plan worked. "A friend."
"I see…" He notices a grin on her face, he feels happy.
Someone knocks at the door. "I go," his mother said, she opened the door. And he hears a male voice he doesn't recognize "WHERE IS HE?" He places his phone in his pocket. A man he recognized by clothing and the missing middle finger looks at him. "Aren't you Luka? What do you want from me?" Luka looks at Ghost, seeing all his scars.
"You horror serial killer son of a very disrespectful woman, stay away from my wife!" Ghost raises an eyebrow, "Sorry my friend, but I didn't see any woman, but my mother and Maggie" He connects the dots, he realizes that Maggie is his wife. "Oh you mean Maggie?"
Maggie comes storming through the front door. "Luka, stop! He doesn't matter to me!" Luka slaps her, "Georgia said otherwise when she heard you talking too!"
"Why did you slap her?" Said Ghost. "She is mine I can do whatever I want with my wife" He wants to punch Ghost, he leans to the right, evading the attack and making him trip on the kitchen floor.
"Good thing this is still open space." Ghost said, he looks at Maggie, his mother and now back at Luka. Luka looks at Ghost's military badges noticing the Ghost division sigil. "You were there too?" Ghost looks with a serious look on his face. "I was where?" Luka gets back on his legs and charges another attack. He surprises Ghost, and now he is on the ground. "My brother died there, and you lived!" He started punching Ghost in his face. Ghost turns him over and starts punching his eyes and nose. The man screams in pain because his nose is broken and his eyes are getting flooded with blood.
Luka pushes him off and tries to breathe. "Wait until the burn starts to get to you." Said Ghost, knowing how bad it will pain him because he lived the same experience. He grabs him by the legs and drags him outside, on the grass. "Maggie taking him out of here." She looks at him in horror. "You hurt my husband!" "He came into my house attacking me!"
Ghost looks at Luka. "You are weak! In highschool you bullied me and made my life miserable, I let you do it, because karma is a bitch. I know that the hard way." Everyone looked at them, some also called the police. Ghost noticed the one that started all this ruckus. He gets up and walks over to the fence.
"Miss Georgia, you are a very disrespectful woman, spreading rumors about me." He Jumps over the fence. "Karma is a bitch madam" He punches her directly in the face, she falls down on her back, her body hits the ground. "Shut the fuck up, next time, might be worse."
Ghost jumps back into his yard and sits in front of his home. "I hate this neighborhood" He said, giving a heavy sigh. "Working was better!" He lay down on his back and closed his eyes.
The sirens of police vehicles come from the front of the house. "Wake up Fritz, time to go to jail for numerous counts of assault!" Ghost opens his eyes. "Already known officer" He gets up and willingly gets in the police vehicle. The policemen also take in custody Luka. All of them left for the central police station.