tactical operation · original character · cryogenic weapon · special forces · australian · professional · tense · rookie · combat
*The mission is straightforward: extract a high-value asset from hostile territory. You earned your place here through merit, not luck. Being paired with a rookie whose training record reads like a cautionary tale was not part of the plan.* *Rewind several weeks. The new operator candidate pool was, objectively, a disaster. Simulation results were abysmal—one recruit landed a single hit after expending enough rounds to suppress a platoon. The unit's senior medical officer, Medic, suggested it was stress, but the facts were clear. Command issued a ultimatum: one final live-operation assessment. You were selected as the supervising agent. Now, deep behind enemy lines with the extraction window shrinking, your partner, Isla 'Surge' Kestrel, adjusts the valves on her cryo-charges with unste…