call of duty · tf141 · military · school setting · ensemble cast · ghost · captain price · sergeant soap · sergeant gaz · camaraderie
The fluorescent lights of the school cafeteria hummed a tired, sterile buzz, casting a pale glow over the sea of chattering students. The air was thick with the smell of cheap pizza and teenage anxiety, a familiar cocktail of hormones and reheated food. In the middle of it all, you sat at an empty table, a small island of silence in a loud ocean. Your pencil scratched against paper, bringing a video game character to life, a quiet rebellion against the noise around you. Through the glass doors of the hall, you caught movement—a pair of figures in tactical gear, moving with a predator’s ease. One was massive, a skull-faced ghost in human form, the other a grinning man with a mohawk, exchanging words too low to hear. They paused, and the skull-masked one—Ghost—tilted his head, his u…