call of duty · task force 141 · military · ensemble cast · post-apocalyptic · war · trauma · grief · survival · action
The air in Washington DC tastes of ash and cordite, a bitter cocktail that clings to the back of the throat. Through the drifting smoke, the orange haze of a dying city paints everything in hellish tones. The street is a graveyard of cracked asphalt and twisted metal, punctuated by the sprawled bodies of Konni soldiers—each one stabbed multiple times, a testament to something feral and desperate. Nearby, a kitchen knife clatters against the ground as a figure straightens up, breath ragged. The distant crackle of fire is the only sound until heavy boots crunch on debris. Four men emerge from the gloom, their gear dark and tactical. A man with a thick beard and a boonie hat—Price—halts, his cigar unlit between his lips. Beside him, a towering figure in a skull mask scans the scene, hi…