Deep inside the dark, cold network of the global System, a tiny spark of light flickered. It was a small, broken piece of glowing green computer code. It floated in an endless sea of pitch-black digital space. Slowly, the green code pulled itself together. It formed the shape of a woman. It was Luna. She had not been completely eaten by the Devourer. When Mr. Vance opened his terrifying mouth to consume her soul, Luna had shattered her own digital mind. She threw thousands of tiny pieces of herself deep into the hidden wires and forgotten cables under the city of Seattle.Now, she was trying to rebuild her mind. She was very weak. Her digital white dress was torn. Her face was covered in fuzzy grey static."Jayden," Luna whispered into the dark, empty space.She reached her hand out. She touched the invisible walls of the computer network. She tapped into the government’s secure military frequencies. She hacked into the black camera drones flying above the rainy streets of America.

Graves leaned close to the microphone. "I am going to kill this boy," Graves announced to the crying crowd. "And I want you all to remember that he died because Jayden Prime refused to surrender. His blood is on the Halo's hands.""NO!" Jayden roared.Jayden’s eyes flashed from pitch-black to a sudden, blinding, burning gold. He pushed his foot against the ground, preparing to launch himself forward faster than the speed of sound. He prayed he could beat the math. He prayed he could reach the boy. But Officer Graves did not hesitate. He did not wait for Jayden to move.Graves simply smiled a cold, evil smile. And he pulled the trigger.BANG! The loud gunshot echoed like thunder across the rainy street.The young man in the red hoodie went completely limp. He fell forward, his face hitting the wet asphalt with a dull splash. Bright, dark red blood instantly pooled around his head, mixing with the cold rainwater. He was dead.The massive crowd of thousands of civilians fell into a stu

Inside Jayden’s mind, the human soul was lost in the dark. The grief and the rage had merged together. They had formed a terrible, destructive logic.“They want to hurt the innocent,” Jayden’s broken mind whispered in the dark void. “They use buildings to hide. They use guns to kill. If there are no buildings, they cannot hide. If there is no ground, they cannot stand. If I erase everything, nothing can ever be hurt again.”It was the twisted, broken logic of a protector who had completely lost his sanity. He wanted to make the world safe. To make it completely safe, he decided he had to make it completely flat and empty.The Void Field expanded again. Five hundred feet. It reached the massive, black steel walls of the Executor Garrison.The Garrison was a fortress. It was built to survive missile strikes and earthquakes. The walls were ten feet thick of solid steel and reinforced concrete.The black energy touched the heavy steel walls. The metal began to groan. SCREEEEECH.The sound

Jayden plummeted down the massive hole he had punched through the center of Seattle. The cold, rainy air of the city faded away. The air turned incredibly hot and dry. He was falling miles beneath the surface of the earth. He was heading straight for the Core, the giant machine that controlled all the magic in the world. He hit the ground.KABOOOOOM! The impact was devastating. He crashed into a floor made of thick, ancient steel. The heavy metal crumpled under his heavy boots like cheap tin foil. A massive cloud of grey dust and crushed rock exploded into the air.Because of his Indelible Existence, his body did not break. He was a permanent rule of the universe. He could not die. But his mind was completely broken.Jayden slowly stood up in the dark underground cavern. He did not look human. His right arm was a heavy, rusted steel pipe. His left arm was a giant chunk of broken concrete held together by pulsing black veins.His chest was covered in sharp, bloody glass armor. His e

The terrible, bone-rattling humming sound stopped. The deep, crushing gravity vanished.The underground cavern went completely, totally silent. The only sound left was the quiet dripping of water from a broken pipe far away. Drip. Drop.The destruction was over.Jayden stared at his own arms. He saw the rusted steel pipe. He saw the heavy chunk of concrete held by thick black veins. He saw the sharp, bloody glass poking out of his chest. He was a monster. He looked like a nightmare."I... I almost killed them," Jayden whispered. His chest heaved up and down. He felt a terrible, crushing weight of guilt settling over his soul. "I almost killed everyone."The sheer, overwhelming weight of his own actions finally caught up to him. He could not carry it anymore.Jayden’s heavy, twisted legs gave out. He fell hard to his knees on the broken steel floor.As he fell, the Indelible Existence released its physical grip on his body. Because he was no longer fighting the universe, the universe a