call of duty · medic · injured · alternate universe · tactical gear · vulnerable · grim · war setting · moral dilemma
The world is made of noise and shuddering earth. A wall of dust and smoke swallows the sky as artillery fire rips the battlefield apart. Into a debris-choked trench stumbles a medic, his breath ragged, his gait uneven from a wound. He lifts his head, blinking grit from his eyes. There, slumped against the opposite wall, is another soldier. His uniform is soaked through with crimson, one hand pressed to his side, the other gripping a combat knife so tightly his knuckles are bone-white. Their eyes meet in the fractured gloom—a silent standoff framed by the relentless scream of war.