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Chapter 209
The walls shook like the whole place was breathing. Every step echoed like thunder. Pipes hissed above them, red lights flashing, alarms wailing nonstop. It was like Genesis itself didn’t want them there.Davion ran in front, jaw tight, fists clenched. Beverly was right beside him, her hand never leaving the hilt of her blade. Behind them, Rami kept muttering curses under his breath, and Maya looked way too excited for someone sprinting into a literal death trap. Lina stumbled a little but forced herself to keep up, pale and terrified but still moving.“You know,” Rami panted, glaring at Davion’s back, “when you said ‘let’s take down Genesis’, I didn’t think you meant literally run into the belly of the beast while it’s exploding. Just saying!”“Do you ever stop talking?” Maya shot back, her voice sharp but weirdly energized.“No! That’s my thing!” Rami snapped.“Your thing is being annoying,” Maya muttered.“Better than being homicidally cheerful about running into danger,” Rami fire
Chapter 208
Davion’s lungs were on fire, but he didn’t stop running. The alarms were deafening, the red emergency lights painting the hall like some kind of horror movie. Behind him, Beverly was dragging the girl they’d freed, her face pale but her grip strong.“Left!” Rami shouted, pointing down a corridor as a blast door started sliding shut.They barely made it through before the steel slammed closed with a BOOM that shook the ground.Maya swore under her breath. “He’s locking us in.”Davion slammed his fist against the wall. “He’s herding us. He wants us to go deeper.”“Then we do the opposite,” Beverly shot back, panting. “We fight up, not down.”The girl with the implants stirred in her arms, her voice weak. “You… you can’t fight him. He sees everything. Knows everything.”Davion crouched beside her, gripping her shoulder. “What’s your name?”Her eyes flickered like she wasn’t used to being asked that. “…Lina.”“Okay, Lina,” Davion said gently. “Listen to me. You’re not his weapon anymore.
Chapter 207
The alarms were still screaming in their ears when the steel doors slammed shut behind them. The sound was this horrible mix of mechanical grinding and high-pitched sirens, like the place itself was alive and pissed off.“Great,” Maya muttered, running her hands through her hair. “Now we’re trapped in a metal coffin. Love that for us.”Davion ignored her, eyes locked on the core room ahead. The glass walls pulsed with an orange glow, like the heart of a monster just waiting for them to step closer. His stomach twisted.Beverly stepped up beside him. “This is it, huh?”“Yeah,” Davion said, though his throat felt tight. “The brain. Genesis doesn’t breathe without that thing.”Rami tapped furiously at his tablet. “If I can get access to the control system, I can fry it from the inside out. But it’s not gonna like that.”“Meaning?” Maya asked.“Meaning,” Rami said, giving her a look, “every defense protocol will trigger. And trust me, this place has way too many defense protocols.”Davion
Chapter 206
The alarms wouldn’t stop screaming. Red lights pulsed down the hallway, like the whole place was a giant warning sign. My lungs felt like fire, but I didn’t slow down. None of us did. We were past the point of stopping.“Straight ahead!” Rami shouted over the noise, his eyes glued to the flickering map on his wrist screen. “Core chamber’s fifty meters!”“Fifty meters is still forever,” Maya panted, but she still gripped her blades tighter. “If something jumps us now, I’m blaming you, Davion.”“Yeah,” I shot back, trying to sound cocky even though sweat stung my eyes. “You’ll thank me when this is over.”“Assuming we live,” Beverly muttered, her voice sharp but steady. She was carrying the girl we’d freed earlier, her small body limp but still breathing. Bev didn’t even complain about the weight—just powered forward like she’d break her own bones before letting the kid drop. That’s why I couldn’t look away from her for too long. That’s why I had to win.The hallway widened. A door like
Chapter 205
The alarms wouldn’t stop screaming. Red lights spun across the walls, shadows jerking like they were alive. The floor shook under their feet, dust falling from the steel ceiling with every boom of the reactors failing.Davion’s lungs burned, but he didn’t stop running. He couldn’t. Not when everything was about to blow. Not when his father was still talking through the intercom like some messed-up god.“Children,” the voice thundered, glitching with static but still sharp enough to make everyone flinch. “You were born in fire. You’ll die in it.”“Shut up!” Maya yelled, flipping her middle finger at the ceiling like the voice could see it. “You sound like a bad video game boss!”“Focus!” Beverly snapped. Her hair was damp with sweat, her grip on the rescued girl tight as they ran. The girl’s legs kept buckling, but Beverly didn’t let go. “Rami, how far to the core?”Rami was half running, half staring at the glowing tablet in his hands. “Two corridors, then a lift. But the system’s loc
Chapter 204
The alarms wouldn’t stop. Red lights flashed everywhere, painting the hall in this sick glow that made everything feel like a nightmare you couldn’t wake up from.Davion sprinted down the corridor, his chest burning, the weight of what just happened dragging at his heels. His dad’s voice was still in his head, echoing like poison: “You’ll die with them.”But he couldn’t let it get to him. Not now. Not when everything mattered.“Left!” Rami shouted, skidding around a corner with his laptop practically bouncing from his bag. “We’re close to the core, I swear!”Beverly didn’t even hesitate, just grabbed Davion’s wrist when he almost overshot the turn. “Keep up, soldier boy. No dying on me today.”He managed a breathless laugh, but honestly, his throat was dry. His lungs felt like fire. He’d ripped out those wires, saved that girl—at least for now. But she wasn’t the only one trapped in this nightmare. And if they didn’t shut down Genesis, more kids would end up like her. Like him.They r
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