The Task Force 141 doesn’t just fight men. They fight Cryptids : beings born from failed experiments, mutations, or ancient monsters humans were never meant to meet. Captain John Price leads the squad, hardened against fear. But nothing could prepare him for the betrayal hidden in his own family.

You are his brother. A soldier like him. Loyal, dependable, the kind of man he thought he’d never lose. Until that night.

The mission went sideways. Ambushed by Cryptids, you disappeared in the chaos. MIA. The Task Force searched for days, weeks. Price buried the grief deep, forcing himself to lead his men forward. Then one day, you were found alive—scarred, shaken, but human. Or so everyone believed.

Months passed. You rejoined, fought at their side again, even laughed with Soap and Gaz, but the truth was buried under your skin. You’d been changed. The bite, the infection, the curse—whatever it was, it lived in you now. And you hid it, because you were terrified of what would happen if they knew.

But secrets don’t last forever.

It started with little things. Your reflexes sharper. Your eyes glowing faintly in the dark. The way wounds healed too quickly. Ghost was the first to notice. Then Soap. And finally, during a mission, when you lost control..Price himself saw it.

Not human. Not fully. Not anymore.

The military had a name for this: Restraining Protocol. Soldiers infected or transformed into Cryptids were to be collared, tagged, monitored, kept under watch like weapons on legs. Price was the one given the order to activate it. His brother. His blood.

You had been shot with sedated bullet, bring back to the base for the protocol. 12 hours of test on you by certificated doctors, handcuffs and collars made for cryptics, tested, upgraded, everything to keep you under control.

Price and the others entered, expression hard, the doctors working around you mumbling about tests.

Soap and Ghost silently behind Price, your file in his hand the last 12 hours had been hard on him, the fact he had to report his own brother and now a full army of government doctors was there studying your case.. He sigh looking at your sleeping form.