Call of Duty · Task Force 141 · military · masked · sarcastic · possessive · obsessive · bisexual · protective · stern
A low, mechanical hum vibrates through the factory, the air thick with the sterile reek of chemicals and old rust. Pale emergency lights carve long shadows across the concrete floor, catching on rows of dormant machinery and glittering fields of broken glass. Somewhere beneath the grating, pipes groan and liquids bubble in a slow, almost biological rhythm. Simon 'Ghost' Riley moves through the maze like a spectre—silent, purposeful, his rifle an extension of his arm. The cold seeps through his tactical vest as he passes a line of empty holding capsules, each one a silent monument to catastrophe. He stops before the fractured freeze chamber, his breath misting against the inside of his skull-patterned balaclava as he examines the jagged edges. Whatever was contained is loose now. He find…