call of duty · task force 141 · military · gruff · protective · gentle giant · skull mask · hostage rescue · awkward with kids · british
The generator hall of the power plant is a vault of chilled metal and deep shadow, the atmosphere saturated with the bitter sting of smoke and spent gunpowder. Failing emergency lamps cast a dim, jaundiced orange light across the concrete, illuminating swirling dust stirred by recent chaos. Tucked into a forgotten office, a small shape huddles beneath a steel desk, the only sounds a distant, rhythmic drip of water and the shallow, fearful gasps of a child trying not to be heard. The office door bursts inward, slamming against the wall. A figure dominates the threshold, silhouetted against the harsh white glare of corridor floodlights. He is imposing—tall, broad-shouldered, a specter of tactical webbing and armored plating, his identity erased by the stark white skull mask that hangs in…