William "Case" Calderon

William Calderon, also known as Case, is a playable character featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. He is a member of Frank Woods' Rogue Black Ops team.
==Biography==
Not much is known about his early life or his career prior to the trials of the Cradle.
===Development of "The Cradle"===
William apparently volunteered as the first and only trial for "the Cradle", a substance with hallucinogenic and behavior-altering properties, for the apparent purpose of developing a super-soldier, as "Test Subject Case One." However, he became violent and mentally unstable, and allegedly sabotaged the Advanced Technologies and Applications facility he was placed in. Subsequently, the trials were cancelled, and the Cradle was repurposed as a bioweapon, one designed to induce its victims to violently attack others in bouts of uncontrollable fear. He was later "rehabilitated," though one of his symptoms, a female voice in his head, continued to persist in a limited capacity, occasionally flaring up at the mention of topics related to the Cradle. This voice in his head also prevented him from speaking of the project surrounding the Cradle.
===Attempted Extraction of Alawi===
Case was a part of the team assigned to extract Saeed Alawi - but this would fail thanks to the efforts of Adler, who was seeking to keep him out of Pantheon hands.
===Going Rogue===
Case would later join Troy Marshall and Frank Woods at the Rook, the codename given to an abandoned KGB safehouse in Bulgaria, and in an effort to build up their team, would head to Avalon to meet with a possible ally: Sevati "Sev" Dumas, a freelance assassin seeking to dismantle the crime family that originally took her in. With her help, he managed to confirm connections between the crime factions of Avalon and Pantheon, and after killing several Guild higher-ups, managed to extract with Sev in tow.
===Rescuing Adler===
Several days later, with intelligence from Felix Neumann, Case, Marshall, and Sev would manage to infiltrate a rally for Bill Clinton at Capitol Station, with the goal of accessing the CIA black site underneath, where Russell Adler was held. After securing access to the black site however, they arrived to find the facility in disarray, with Pantheon having managed to hit the area before they did, though they managed to push through to retrieve Adler. Despite Pantheon attempts to terminate them, they were able to escape.
===Assisting the SAS===
With further intelligence on Pantheon leading the team to one of Saddam Hussein's castles in Iraq, Adler used his connections with MI6 to secure a brief partnership with SAS squads operating in the region who were intent on bombing the target castle. After assisting the SAS in destroying several Scud launchers, the SAS squad assisting the team in clearing out the castle. There, the team would discover the Cradle in the vault of the castle but were forced to fight off Pantheon reinforcements before securing extraction.
===Investigating the Cradle===
After the team determined the origins of the Cradle as the Advanced Technology Applications facility in Kentucky, Sev, Marshall, and Case would all head there to investigate the biotechnology department. However, when Case fell into an elevator shaft and his gas mask was rendered unusable, he was exposed to the remaining Cradle still in the air, triggering the side effects from his experimentation, with the most significant side effect - the female voice in his mind, guiding him through the facility.
Under the effects of Cradle, he retrieved the four keycards required to re-open biotechnology department from what he saw was swarms of zombies and monsters. When he arrived in biotechnology however, he attacked Sev and Marshall, who managed to restrain him long enough for the substance to wear off. They noted the fact that a batch of the Cradle had been taken out of the facility from the summer of the prior year and left without further incident.
===Infiltrating the Casino Luttazi===
As part of a "heist," Case would surrender himself to Casino security so that he would be positioned close to the Casino's archive room, where Pantheon's data on the Cradle was stored. After Troy, Sev, and Felix managed to initiate a "heist" on the casino's vault, diverting security, Case was able to get to the archive room, where he would collect Pantheon's files related to Pantheon. He and the rest of the team would extract, though there was some resistance from casino security and Pantheon themselves.
===Capturing Matvey Gusev===
Adler would call up Lawrence Sims, now a part of CENTCOM after leaving the CIA, to get him and Case into Kuwait, where Gusev would be attempting to leave Iraq. Despite several setbacks, including infiltrating the incorrect plane, the team was able to get ahold of Gusev and interrogate him. After Gusev gave up the information, Adler encouraged Case to dispose of him, but Sims stopped Case before he could shove Gusev into one of the plane's engines, taking him into CENTCOM custody.
===Attack on Vorkuta===
After Sev infiltrated the Pantheon facility in Vorkuta and sabotaged their defenses, Case and the rest of the team were able to touch down after learning that Jane Harrow was on site, moving the Cradle. While they were able to apprehend Harrow, they were unable to retrieve the Cradle.
===Siege on the Rook===
After bringing Harrow back for interrogation, Felix detected Pantheon forces moving on the Rook from all sides, forcing Case and the team to buy Woods and Adler additional time to continue interrogating Harrow, setting up a final stand at the Rook.
However, Pantheon managed to breach the interrogation room, and retrieved Harrow. When the team arrived back inside the Rook, most of them were incapacitated, bar Case, with a rocket launcher blasting apart part of the safehouse.
Case was forced to give chase, eventually managing to get onto Harrow's escape helicopter, and in the resulting scuffle, sent it plummeting into the waters below. However, as Harrow attempted to escape her predicament, Case was apparently encouraged by the voice in his mind to use the Cradle sample on board, and under its effects (and further encouragement from the voice in his mind) beat and strangled Harrow to death, who had also began to feel the effects of Cradle, as the helicopter sunk into the waters below.
His ultimate fate, however, is unknown, with Marshall attempting to contact him after the siege concluded, to no response.
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