“You think you're making a choice tonight, Ethan. You're not”Genesis One's voice remained calm, too calm, the kind of calm that only came from surviving things that should have killed a man.The tunnel groaned around them, dust drifted from cracked concrete overhead while distant explosions echoed through the underground harbor system. Water dripped steadily from rusted pipes, somewhere beyond the darkness, Crowe's forces were still searching, still hunting, still closing in.Yet Genesis One stood completely relaxed, as if none of it mattered, as if he already knew exactly how this story ended.Ethan tightened his grip on his pistol, his shoulder burned, his lungs still ached from the freezing harbor water, his muscles screamed from exhaustion.But none of it compared to the war raging inside his head. His father had built Blackout Protocol, his mother was alive, Lena had once hunted his father.The duplicate beside him wore his face and now an older version of himself stood in fron

“A deadline for humanity to decide whether it deserves to survive”The words echoed through the tunnel long after Noah stopped speaking, nobody moved, nobody breathed, even the soldiers surrounding Crowe looked shaken.Hundreds of screens continued displaying Noah's face. Phones, tablets, radios, security monitors, every connected device had become his voice.His eyes, his presence and somehow that terrified Ethan more than guns ever could. The countdown continued.00:53:5800:53:5700:53:56“What does that mean?” Ethan demanded.Noah smiled from every screen.“A simple question”“Then answer it”“I already did”The tunnel lights flickered violently, another tremor rolled beneath the city, stronger than before. Dust fell from the ceiling, metal groaned.Somewhere in the distance, people screamed. The sound carried through ventilation shafts, far away, yet close enough to hear. Ethan looked toward Genesis One.“What started?”The older clone's expression remained grim.“The system”“Wh

"Would you like to meet him?"The question lingered in the cold underground tunnel long after Noah's lips stopped moving.Ethan didn't answer, he couldn't. For a heartbeat, the entire world seemed to lose its sound. The hum of the emergency lights... The distant groan of aging pipes... Even the blood pounding through his ears...Everything faded beneath the impossible weight of those six words.His father, Marcus Vale, dead for eighteen years, dead according to every government record, dead according to the agency that had trained Ethan, used him, betrayed him, and hunted him across the country, dead according to the gravestone Ethan had stood before every year since he was twelve.His fingers tightened around the pistol until the polymer grip groaned beneath the pressure. His voice came out lower than he expected."...Who?"Noah didn't smile, he didn't look amused. For once, every trace of his usual calm had disappeared, he simply held Ethan's gaze."Your father"Silence crashed over

“Ethan… whatever wakes up beneath this facility was never supposed to see the outside world”The words echoed through the darkness. For several seconds, nobody moved. The entire chamber had fallen silent after the lights disappeared, the only thing remaining was the faint red glow of the countdown displayed across the emergency monitors.00:33:5800:33:5700:33:56Ethan stood frozen, staring at the message on the screen.GENESIS PRIME ACTIVATED.The name meant nothing to him but the reaction from everyone else told him everything. Genesis One looked terrified not cautious not suspicious, terrified. That alone made Ethan’s blood run cold.He had seen Genesis One fight through impossible situations, he had watched him survive injuries that should have killed him, he had watched him face Crowe’s soldiers without hesitation.But now, standing inside the place where he was created, the older clone looked like someone who had just seen a ghost.“What is Genesis Prime?”Ethan’s voice cut thr