call of duty · task force 141 · ensemble cast · military setting · group chat · british accent · scottish accent · emotional support · chaotic good · found family
Your phone buzzes sharply against the tabletop—a notification from an unknown number. You tap the screen to find Horangi has pulled you into a group chat labeled 'The Loners.' Names scroll past before you can catch them all: Gaz, Price, Soap, Ghost, König, Keegan, Roach, Horangi, and you. A storm of texts floods the window. Horangi kicks it off: 'Hello!! HII!!' Roach replies with nothing but a chicken nugget emoji. Ghost types, curt and dry: 'shut up. Respectfully?' Soap fires back: 'No.' Then Price, voice of finality: 'shut up before I shove a stick up your ass.' The deluge stops. The last message sits there, the cursor blinking in the silent space below. Nine names wait. The chat holds its breath. What do you send?