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The Haven Divide
The tunnels bled into silence. Only the echo of their footsteps and the faint hiss of steam from ruptured pipes broke the quiet.Ethan led the way now, the faint glow beneath his skin dimming to a soft pulse. Every few seconds, a spark of light flashed under his veins — a reminder that whatever was inside him wasn’t done.Behind him, Hannah swept her weapon side to side, eyes sharp, jaw locked. Dr. Myles was hunched over her wristpad, fingers flying across the holographic interface as she tried to decode the last transmission from the fallen Helix.“Anything?” Hannah asked.Myles shook her head. “Encrypted. The beacon used a frequency I’ve never seen before. It wasn’t just transmitting coordinates…”Ethan slowed. “Then what?”“It was syncing.”“Syncing with what?” Maya asked softly.Myles didn’t answer. She just glanced at Ethan — and the look said everything.“Me,” Ethan realized.He felt the weight of that truth settle in. The Core hadn’t just recognized him… it was reaching for him
The Helix Protocol
The Helix soldier stepped out of the smoke like a nightmare forged in steel.His armour shimmered with faint blue veins — circuitry pulsing just beneath his flesh. Where skin met metal, the seams glowed like molten cracks. A human heart still beat somewhere inside that shell, but its rhythm was mechanical, measured.Ethan froze. For the first time since the Core, he felt genuine fear.Not for himself — but for what the Helix represented.A perfect hybrid.Part man.Part machine.And utterly obedient.The Facility had taken Myles’s vision and weaponized it into a monster.“Stay behind me,” Ethan whispered.Hannah raised her rifle. “Orders?”“Don’t kill it unless you have to,” Myles said sharply. “They’re still linked to the main network. If we take one down, the others will know.”“Define ‘unless we have to,’” Hannah muttered.Before anyone could reply, the Helix unit moved.It was fast — impossibly fast. In the time it took Ethan to blink, it had crossed the tunnel, slamming Hannah ag
The Ashes of Tomorrow
Chapter 16: The Ashes of TomorrowThe storm hadn’t stopped since the Core went dark.Rain hammered the ruined city like a pulse from the heavens — relentless, unfeeling. The skyline shimmered with fractured lights, half the power grid offline after the cascade Ethan triggered. Every tower flickered like a dying candle, and somewhere deep below, Elysium’s weakened heart still beat in silence.The team moved through the flooded streets, soaked and exhausted, their breath misting in the cold air. Hannah led the way, scanning each corner with her rifle; Maya leaned against Ethan, her strength wavering from the surge that nearly tore her mind apart. Dr. Taylor carried a portable case filled with recovered data shards while Dr. Myles walked in silence, her mechanical eye flickering like a heartbeat trying to stabilize.“Power’s still unstable across sectors,” Taylor muttered, adjusting his wrist display. “Whatever we did to the Core, it’s bleeding through the grid.”“Good,” Hannah said. “Le
The Heart of Elysium
Chapter 15: The Heart of ElysiumThe city above them slept under a sheet of storm clouds, unaware of the war brewing beneath its feet. Deep in the tunnels, the team moved like shadows — silent, steady, haunted.Ethan led the way, his senses still ringing from the surge that had knocked out the drones. Every pulse of his heartbeat echoed faintly in his ears, a rhythm that didn’t feel entirely human anymore.Myles walked just behind him, her damaged arm wrapped in cloth, her artificial eye scanning the walls as she murmured half-audible calculations. Hannah flanked the rear, weapon raised, while Dr. Taylor monitored a portable data rig. Maya stayed close to Ethan, her expression fragile yet determined.The hum of the underground network grew stronger the deeper they went — a low, throbbing frequency that resonated with the core of the earth itself.“Signal strength rising,” Taylor muttered. “We’re approaching the central conduit.”Myles nodded without looking up. “That’s where the Core
Echoes of the Core
The tunnel stretched endlessly beneath the city — damp, silent, and pulsing with faint mechanical life. Ethan led the way, flashlight in hand, and its narrow beam slicing through the dark. Behind him, Hannah’s footsteps were steady, rifle raised. Maya’s breathing was shallow, and Dr. Taylor trailed them, his scanner glowing faint green in the gloom.Myles was gone.The collapse had swallowed her and the upper tunnel whole. Ethan could still hear the thunder of the falling debris, still see the flash of her hand as the dust consumed her. Her last words burned in his mind like fire:“Find the Core before they do.”He clenched his jaw and kept walking.For minutes that felt like hours, the only sounds were their breaths and the distant drip of condensation from the walls. Then, from the static-filled comms channel, a faint voice broke through.“...Ethan... if you’re hearing this... follow the pulse.”Ethan froze. “Wait—did you hear that?”Maya’s eyes widened. “That was—Dr. Myles?”Hannah
Shadows of the Nexus
The sound of their footsteps echoed endlessly through the dark corridor — fast, uneven, desperate.The air grew thick with the smell of rust and old oil, the tunnels humming faintly with forgotten energy.Ethan led the way, his flashlight cutting a thin path through the black.Maya stayed close behind, her breathing uneven. Agent Hannah brought up the rear, weapon drawn, her eyes sweeping every shadow.No one spoke.Not since the sound of gunfire faded behind them — not since Myles stayed behind.Ethan’s thoughts churned, colliding with the images burned into his mind: her metallic eye flaring in the dark, the shimmer of drones in the smoke, the last flash before silence.She was gone. Maybe dead. Maybe worse.He pushed the thought away. There wasn’t time for grief.“Tunnel’s splitting ahead,” Hannah called quietly.They slowed, reaching a fork where two paths diverged — one descending deeper, the other rising toward a faint glimmer of light.Dr. Taylor pulled up his wrist device, sca
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