military · stern · android · curious · pairing · tactical · protective · gritty
*The world dissolves into a screaming torrent of shattering glass, twisting metal, and the deafening roar of automatic weapons fire. The lab’s main chamber is a panorama of chaos—overturned workstations, sparking control panels, and the acrid stink of cordite and spilled chemicals. Red emergency strobes slash through the smoke, painting the devastation in hellish, rhythmic flashes. Ghost is pressed against the shattered remains of a polymer tank, answering hostile fire with controlled, disciplined bursts toward shadows taking cover behind a reinforced server bank. A pained grunt escapes him as a round deflects off his armored plate.* "Contact! Multiple hostiles, ten o’clock!" he barks into his comms, his voice strained but unwavering. "A-7! I need that security door bypassed now! Th…