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Chapter 15
"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
Chapter 14
The deadline had never been a warning, it had already started. The realization slammed into Ethan harder than any bullet ever could.The soldier's screams echoed through the tunnel, everyone stared, frozen, helpless. Blue light raced beneath the man's skin like living electricity, his veins glowed brighter with every passing second.The radio fused deeper into his hand, metal melted, skin burned. The smell of roasted flesh filled the air. The soldier collapsed onto the concrete floor, convulsing violently.“No... Help him” someone shouted.Two nearby soldiers rushed forward. The moment they touched him, blue sparks erupted between them. One of the men screamed, the other was thrown backward into a wall, the tunnel descended into chaos.“What the hell is happening?”“Get away from him”“MEDIC”The countdown continued.00:49:4100:49:4000:49:39Ethan couldn't look away, the soldier's body arched violently, then suddenly silence, the screaming stopped, the convulsions ended, the blue li
Chapter 13
“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
Chapter 12
“Sixty minutes”The countdown glowed crimson against the darkness.00:59:5900:59:5800:59:57Every second felt louder than gunfire. The tunnel shook violently as Crowe's soldiers flooded into the underground passage from both directions.Flashlights cut through the darkness, commands echoed across the concrete walls.“TARGET VISUAL”“DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE”“TAKE THEM ALIVE”Ethan stared at the glowing screen, his pulse thundered inside his ears, his father, he had seen him.Only for a fraction of a second, a shadow behind Noah, a face hidden behind static, but Ethan knew what he saw.Marcus Vale, the man everyone claimedwas dead. The man who supposedly created Blackout Protocol.The man who spent twenty years haunting every secret connected to Ethan's life.“Was that him?” Ethan demanded.Noah smiled, the image flickered.“Focus on the countdown.”“Answer me”“Your father isn't the problem anymore”The tunnel exploded with gunfire, bullets slammed into concrete around them.Genesis O
Chapter 11
“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
Chapter 10
“Hold your breath, Ethan… because if we hit the water wrong, every bone in your body will shatter,” the duplicate said, his voice steady but urgent as his grip tightened around Ethan like a vise.They were falling through a storm-slashed night sky, swallowed by wind and chaos. The air tore at them, screaming in their ears like something alive trying to drag them apart. Above, the rooftop they had just escaped erupted in a violent explosion as the missile struck its mark. Fire bloomed outward, lighting the clouds in orange and red, while shattered concrete and twisted metal spun into the air like burning paper pieces.Ethan forced his eyes downward and immediately regretted it. The harbor rushed up to meet them with terrifying speed, dark and endless, like a mouth waiting to swallow them whole. The lights of the city blurred through rain and smoke, making the world feel unreal, like a collapsing dream.“We’re not going to make it” Ethan shouted, his voice cracking under the weight of
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