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The Beginning Is a Lie

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The black sky over Siberia pulsed with an electric storm as the skiff sliced through the upper thermals, cloaked and silent. Beneath them stretched a vast stretch of permafrost uncharted, unclaimed, unspoken. Leah had called it “the blind spot,” a patch of Earth where no satellite dared linger for long.

Echo-0 was buried beneath it.

Inside the skiff, the air was tight with expectation. The children slept sedated gently by Anna’s formula, giving them a chance to rest before what might come next. Kael stood at the cockpit window, arms crossed, eyes scanning the dark.

“I don’t like it,” she muttered.

“No one does,” Nick replied, checking his weapon. “Which means we’re close.”

Remy finished syncing the comms to a secure loop. “Nothing’s pinging. No heat signatures, no EM interference. Just… blank space.”

“Echo-0’s hiding itself,” Leah said, dragging the last thread of Nova’s data through her cracked tablet. “Every digital trail leads to a dead end. But the closer we get, the stronger the

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The underground lift descended in silence, cutting through layers of ancient stone and steel beneath the Alpine outpost. Every second brought them closer to what Morningstar called the Origin Gate, an artifact buried so deep even Veratech hadn’t dared touch it. At least not officially.Nick stood near the back of the platform, his breath steady, heart still recovering. Kael stood beside him, her gaze flicking between Mira and the children. They had brought only a handful of the war-born those most stable, most aware. Those who had chosen to come.Mira was quiet. Different. Since the Vault battle, something in her had shifted her voice carried echoes, her eyes held light that didn’t belong to this world.Leah studied a portable terminal, decrypting the blueprints as they moved. “This place was built long before Veratech. Look at this plasma tunnels, memory cores, quantum entanglement filaments. Whoever built this… they weren’t human. At least not entirely.”Remy leaned against the rail
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The ground shuddered beneath their feet as the Omega drop-pod slammed into the ridge above the Genesis Vault, carving a molten scar into the ice. A deep, rhythmic hum began to echo—alien and mechanical, as though the earth itself had become a speaker for something unspeakable.Nick grabbed his gear and turned to the others. “We don’t let them get past the vault doors. If Omega accesses this place, it’s game over.”Kael slung her rifle over her shoulder and nodded. “Then we hold the line.”Mira raised her hands toward the central core. “Give me sixty seconds. I’ll prime the Genesis subroutine and upload the resistance protocol into the hybrid stasis banks.”Anna looked at her sharply. “You’re activating them?”“We need numbers,” Mira said. “The ones stable enough to move will fight. The others… we protect.”Outside, the wind howled and then it stopped. Everything went still. Unnaturally still.Then came the sound. Clicking. Scraping. Like thousands of limbs dragging across steel and ic

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