Golden light reflected off the Executioner's polished armor, contrasting sickeningly with the neon-blue blood dripping from its massive, jagged axe. "Let me show you what real wrath looks like," Jhonatan’s voice still hung in the heavy air of the command center. The three-meter-tall biological nightmare didn't bother offering a villainous monologue. It simply moved. For something so massive, its speed was a total violation of physics. The Executioner crossed the twenty-foot gap in a fraction of a millisecond, swinging its colossal axe horizontally, aiming to bisect Jhonatan at the waist. Jhonatan didn't flinch. He brought up his heavy abyssal sword in his human hand, bracing his stance. CLAAAAAANG!The collision between the dark silver blade and the golden axe created a shockwave that threw the nearby rebel soldiers off their feet. Jhonatan's boots violently carved two deep trenches into the reinforced titanium deck as he was pushed back. "Holy shit, you hit like a fucking astero

Footsteps echoed frantically down the ruined, smoking corridor of the Architect Heavy Cruiser. Jhonatan 402 burst through the shattered blast doors of the command bridge, flanked by a half-dozen heavily armed rebel soldiers. They expected to find a grueling, ongoing battle. Instead, they found a pulverized, unrecognizable pile of blue gore on the floor, and the younger Jhonatan slouched in the luxurious Captain's chair, looking like a corpse that had just been dragged behind a speeding truck. "Holy hell, Jhon," the older variant muttered, rushing over to the console. He reached into a tactical pouch on his white coat and pulled out a thick, metallic vacuum-sealed pouch. "Catch. Eat it slowly or your stomach will reject it."Jhonatan didn't have the energy to catch it. The pouch hit his chest and fell into his lap. His hands were trembling so violently from the catastrophic caloric depletion that he could barely rip the seal open with his teeth. He squeezed the contents into his mou

"I'm about to show you what happens when you steal a package from a fucking courier."Jhonatan didn't wait for a dramatic villain speech. He pushed off the metallic floor with explosive force, his abyssal sword gripped tightly in his human hand. He swung the massive blade in a brutal horizontal arc, aiming to cleanly decapitate the pristine, white-suited Architect. The blade stopped a mere millimeter from the Architect's neck. There was no sound of impact. There was no clashing of energy. The abyssal sword simply froze in mid-air, completely immobilized by an invisible, absolute force.Jhonatan grunted, his muscles straining as he tried to push the blade forward, but it felt like he was trying to push a mountain with his bare hands. "You really don't understand where you are, do you, Experiment 00?" the Prime Architect sighed, sounding genuinely disappointed. He didn't even blink. He just raised a single, perfectly manicured finger. BAM!An invisible sledgehammer of pure kinetic f

Pain. Pure, agonizing, unadulterated human pain radiated from his abdomen. Jhonatan opened his eyes slowly, staring at the sterile, white ceiling of the Sky-High medical bay. The rhythmic beeping of a heart monitor echoed in his ears, completely replacing the apocalyptic sounds of cosmic voids and collapsing dimensions. He tried to sit up, but a sharp, stabbing sensation tore through his gut. "Ah, fuck," Jhonatan hissed, falling back onto the pillows. "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Your Majesty," a dry, sarcastic voice came from his left. Val was sitting on a metal stool beside his bed, wiping a blood-stained scalpel with a piece of gauze. She looked utterly exhausted, her tactical suit covered in dust and dried alien blood. "Your auto-heal is completely locked out by the system's seventy-two-hour cooldown. I had to manually stitch your stomach closed. Forty-two stitches, no anesthesia. You screamed like a dying goblin.""I did not scream," Jhonatan grumbled, glaring at her w

Harsh morning sunlight violently pierced through the reinforced, adamantium-laced windows of the Sky-High penthouse, hitting Jhonatan directly in his silver eyes. He groaned, burying his face deeper into the pristine white pillow. Every single muscle in his body still ached with a dull, throbbing intensity, but it was nowhere near as agonizing as the night before. His abdomen, currently held together by Val's emergency stitches, merely itched like a colony of fire ants had made a home inside his liver. [System Alert: Biological Rest Cycle Complete.][Cooldown Timer for Alpha-High Abilities: 48 Hours and 12 Minutes Remaining.][Host Combat Capacity currently capped at Baseline Awakened Human.]"Shut the fuck up, I know how to read a clock," Jhonatan grumbled, blindly swiping his human hand through the air to dismiss the glowing blue holographic screen. He carefully pushed himself into a sitting position, gritting his teeth against a sharp spike of pain that shot through his gut. He l