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The number on the screen continued counting down.01:58… 01:57… 01:56…Inside the control chamber, the air suddenly felt heavier.Wilson stared at the giant display like he was hoping the numbers would suddenly disappear if he looked hard enough.They didn’t.“Oh no,” he whispered.Beverly’s eyes were locked on the screen. A red targeting circle had appeared over a section of Earth’s surface. The station’s weapons were aligning with frightening precision.“Wilson,” she said sharply. “Where is that targeting?”Wilson forced his fingers back onto the console and pulled up the strike data.His eyes widened.“A major coastal city,” he said quietly. “Millions of people live there.”Beverly’s chest tightened.“We have to stop it.”Across the chamber, Davion’s father watched them calmly, his hands folded behind his back as if he were observing a simple experiment.“The world must see that resistance is pointless,” he said. “Once they witness the consequences, order will follow.”Wilson shook
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The entire station trembled.A deep mechanical vibration rolled through the walls and floors as massive systems buried inside the structure began to awaken. The sound was low and powerful, like a giant machine slowly stretching after a long sleep.Inside the control chamber, warning lights flickered across every console.Wilson stared at the screen in front of him, his face draining of color.“Oh no,” he whispered.Davion stepped closer. “What happened?”Wilson’s fingers hovered over the controls as lines of red warning text flooded his tablet.“The station just switched to defense protocol,” he said. “Your father didn’t just build a transmitter.”Davion’s father stood across the chamber, watching them with calm interest.Wilson turned the tablet toward the others.“He built an orbital strike platform.”Beverly’s eyes widened.The giant windows of the control chamber looked out toward the planet below, and now they could see the massive weapon arms mounted along the station slowly rot
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The drones activated all at once.Red lights ignited across their metallic bodies as they rose from the floor panels like a swarm of steel predators. Their eyes flickered to life, scanning the room for targets, and within seconds every weapon barrel rotated toward Davion and his team.The silence in the chamber shattered.“Here they come!” Wilson shouted as he backed against the wall, clutching his tablet like it might somehow protect him.The first drone fired.A bright pulse of energy streaked across the room, slamming into the floor where Davion had been standing a split second earlier. Sparks exploded across the metal surface as Davion dove sideways and rolled to his feet.“Spread out!” Beverly yelled.More drones lifted into the air.Their mechanical wings unfolded with sharp metallic snaps as they hovered above the chamber floor.Reika moved first.She dashed forward like a shadow, her blade flashing under the bright lights of the control room. One drone swooped down toward her,
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The hatch opened with a low metallic hiss.Cold air from the station rushed into the shuttle, carrying a sterile scent that reminded Beverly of hospitals and laboratories. The interior lights of the docking bay flickered softly, casting long shadows across the massive chamber.For a moment, no one moved.Davion was the first to step forward.His boots touched the metal floor with a dull echo that seemed to travel endlessly through the empty structure.Behind him, Beverly followed carefully, scanning the surrounding walls and corridors with sharp, alert eyes. Reika stepped out next, already holding the handle of her blade, her posture relaxed but ready for a fight.Wilson came out last, looking around with visible nervousness.“I just want to say,” he muttered, glancing at the enormous mechanical doors sealing the docking bay behind them, “this place looks exactly like the kind of place where people die in movies.”Reika smirked slightly.“Stay close then.”The docking bay stretched wi
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The Atlas-9 shuttle drifted silently in orbit.For the first time since the rocket launched, the violent shaking had stopped. The engines had powered down, leaving only the soft hum of the onboard systems and the distant glow of Earth filling the cockpit window.Below them, the planet looked impossibly peaceful.Blue oceans stretched across half the horizon, white clouds drifting slowly across continents that looked small and fragile from this height. Cities glittered faintly on the night side of the world like scattered stars.But ahead of them—The satellite station floated like a dark crown above the planet.Massive mechanical arms stretched outward from its central core, each one lined with weapons powerful enough to scar entire regions of Earth if fired. Panels unfolded slowly across its surface as the structure powered up, glowing faintly with blue energy.Wilson stared through the window with wide eyes.“That thing is bigger than I thought.”Beverly leaned closer to the console
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The drones fired at the exact same moment.Two brilliant beams of blue energy tore through the thin upper atmosphere, streaking toward the Atlas-9 shuttle from opposite sides like lightning spears.Inside the cockpit, warning alarms screamed.Wilson’s hands hovered over the console helplessly as the targeting alerts flashed red across every screen.“Okay, okay, okay—this is extremely bad!” he shouted, his voice rising with panic.Beverly gripped the navigation panel tightly, her eyes darting across the radar as the beams closed in.“They’ve calculated our trajectory perfectly,” she said quickly, her voice tense but controlled. “If we keep flying straight, both beams intersect exactly where we are.”Reika leaned slightly forward in her seat, watching the approaching lights through the side window.“So we don’t fly straight.”Davion’s hands tightened around the manual control stick.His father had predicted everything.The satellite.The drones.Even this interception.But Davion had le
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