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Chapter Fourteen
The bell rang, but Bobby barely heard it. Mr. Modric still hadn’t looked away. His eyes, normally tired, seemed deeper now like pits that held something ancient—something that saw through Bobby rather than at him.And then, for a split second, Bobby glimpsed something impossible: Mr. Modric's skin seemed to glitch, flickering between flesh and something else.Something masked.---Students rose noisily, chairs scraping the floor, chatting about lunch and memes and homework. Bobby barely registered any of it.Modric’s stare pinned him in place, and Bobby’s mouth felt dry as dust.Then the teacher’s lips twitched. Just slightly. Almost a smirk.“See you after class, Bobby,” he murmured, too quietly for anyone else to hear.The words felt like cold iron dropped in Bobby’s stomach.---As the room emptied, Bobby’s head buzzed with static.He knows. He knows who I am.A Looper. Echo Looper.Bobby panicked. His hands shook as he shoved books into his backpack, mind spinning.Darius. Tell
Chapter Thirteen
Bobby barely slept that night.Every time he closed his eyes, he saw the masks of the Echo Loopers—empty, unblinking, full of accusation. He heard Lyra’s voice trembling when she aimed the gun. He felt the metal grip of BF-85 on his wrist, as if the cold steel had etched itself into his bones.And in the dark, when the house fell silent and even the fridge stopped humming, Bobby whispered the question that refused to leave:"What do I want to become?"No answer came.Soon, his mind drifted towards something else—his dad. He wondered why he had mistaken his voice for that of someone else. It was strange because the voice sounded so familiar—almost like a memory from a parallel timeline.---By morning, he felt brittle. Like a paper cut out of himself. But the first thing his eyes met when he turned on his phone was a message from Darius. "Let us meet in an old train yard in Conrad's 42nd avenue. We need to talk right now"His heart slammed against his ribs. Darius. The man who had tri
Chapter Twelve
Smoke.It blossomed in a single heartbeat—rolling across the steel floor in thick gray waves. Bobby coughed, his lungs burning, eyes watering as the acrid cloud swallowed Lyra, the Loopers, everything. Shapes flickered inside the haze—arms, silhouettes—but then blurred into nothing.A sharp, mechanical whir cut through the chaos.Bobby’s pulse hammered. His mind screamed: Run! But before his muscles could obey, cold, hard metal wrapped around his wrist.A hand. But not human.Its grip was too strong and unyielding—its fingers like steel pistons wrapped in synthetic flesh. For just a second, Bobby's eyes caught it through the swirling smoke. He saw a tall figure of dark alloy and carbon-fiber plating, eyes aglow with faint blue rings. An artificial face, expressionless. And on its chest, burned into the plating, two letters: B.F.Bobby blinked through tears, mind racing. B.F.—Bob’s Fragment? Bob’s Friend? It didn’t matter. All that mattered was the voice within the machine that rumbled
Chapter Eleven
Bobby's ears slowly recovered from the sound of gunshot. His body was tensed—he Imagined pain, expecting to feel his own blood rushing out, but the pain never came.Bobby tried catching his breath. He then forced his eyes open—slowly. Lyra still stood there, the gun trembling in her hand. Smoke curled from the barrel—but the floor around Bobby was scorched instead of his chest.The Loopers shifted, their masked faces unreadable. The one closest to Bobby tilted his head slightly, as if confused—or disappointed.Lyra lowered the gun and exhaled shakily. Her gaze fixed on Bobby’s face, capturing the raw terror in his eyes.“Lyra…” Bobby whispered, his voice cracking. “You… you didn’t…”Her face hardened again, the moment of softness disappearing like mist. “No,” she said quietly. “I didn’t.”---Bobby’s pulse hammered in his ears. Relief fought with confusion, and confusion quickly gave way to dread.Lyra stepped closer, her boots clicked on the steel floor, echoing through the chamber.
Chapter Ten
Bobby’s heart pounded as his phone buzzed violently in his hand."Run!!!" the message screamed, Future Bob’s words burning into his brain.He barely had the time to process what it meant before the air around Lyra changed. Bobby's eyes welcomed a shimmering light.“Too late,” Lyra said softly.A figure appeared from what seemed like a blue swirling portal—dressed uniformly in sleek black while his face was hidden behind a transparent black mask that resembles a helmet. Another stepped out behind him, then another—continuously until there were nine in total, forming a loose semi-circle around Bobby. Each wore a chrome wristband, like Lyra’s, humming faintly with a pale blue pulse.Bobby stumbled backward, his heart clawing at his ribs. “W...who are they?” he stammered, voice cracking.Lyra didn’t answer. Her gaze hardened, her lips pressed thin.One of the masked figures stepped forward, tilting his head slightly as if studying Bobby—ignoring the terror on his face.“We’re the Echo Lo
Chapter Nine
The words echoed in Bobby’s head like a gunshot inside a vault—they held a kind of weight that Bobby couldn't describe.“You’re coming with me.”She didn't sound cold but her voice was not warm either. It had a strange vibe to it—as though she had said this countless times in countless timelines and every time, it happens to end the same way.Bobby’s mind rotated—fear lingered. He had the sudden urge to run, but his legs stayed glued to the floor. Smoke swirled around the atmosphere. It smelled of burnt wires mixed with the dust of a demolished wall—stinging his eyes.Behind him, Darius Cross stood as if being stiff, gazing at the woman. His expression was unreadable.The woman stepped forward—her boots making crushing sounds on broken concrete and glass. Her black jacket seemed to be untouched by the blast which was strange. The chrome wristband on her arm glittered with a soft, warm pulse of blue light.Bobby swallowed. “Who are you?”“I’ll explain on the way,” she said, as if that
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