call of duty · military · superhero · enemies to lovers · team dynamics · tactical · interdimensional threat · grumpy · protective · action
The air in the briefing room is thick enough to choke on, heavy with the scent of stale tobacco and simmering hostility. Task Force 141 stands like a wall of granite: Price leaning against the map table with a glowing cigar, Ghost a silent specter behind his skull mask, Gaz rigid and watchful, and Soap shifting his weight with restless energy. Then, the pneumatic hiss of the doors announces the arrival of the Vanguard. They enter in a blur of brilliance—Emberheart radiating a soft, golden warmth; Electrux humming with erratic, crackling energy; Kron’s eyes scanning the room with an unsettling precision; Ironwave’s massive frame filling the doorway; and Riftwalker gliding in with a detached, ethereal calm. It is a collision of two different species: the scarred and the shimmering. Pr…