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Chapter 92: The Weight of Truth
The rebel base was holding its breath.The discovery that the traitor network extended deeper than Kessler—no one moved without suspicion. The corridors felt narrower, shadows stretching too long across the steel walls. Every door hiss sounded like a threat. Every footstep echoed louder than it should have.Mira stood on the upper platform overlooking the command floor, arms folded tight against her chest. She hadn’t slept. None of them had.Below her, technicians worked in tense silence, rerouting systems damaged during the attack. Burned panels sparked faintly. A drone carcass lay half-melted near the far wall, evidence of how close they’d come to losing everything.Or everyone.Kapoor approached quietly, tablet tucked under his arm. “We finished decrypting the secondary packet.”Mira didn’t turn. “And?”Kapoor hesitated. That was never a good sign.“And it confirms what Adrian suspected.”Mira finally faced him. “Say it.”Kapoor swallowed. “The government isn’t just hunting enhance
Chapter 91: The Shifting Battleground
The rebel base had never felt so fragile.For hours after the breach, the tunnels vibrated with the aftershocks of drone explosions, collapsing stone, and the echo of shouted commands bouncing off steel. Smoke clung to the air like a suffocating blanket, thick enough that Lyra had to tear part of her sleeve and tie it around Adrian’s mouth to help him breathe.Even now, long after the last intruding drone had been incinerated, the underground corridors pulsed with fear.Not fear of the government.Fear of each other.Mira marched at the front of their group, jaw tight, blood dried along her temple from the earlier blast. Behind her, Rourke hauled a portable shield generator on one shoulder as if it weighed nothing. Kapoor was limping slightly — a shrapnel graze — but he ignored it, too absorbed in decrypting the corrupted surveillance logs.Sari kept glancing over her shoulder, hand on her blade, every muscle primed to strike again if anything so much as blinked wrong.And then there
Chapter 90: Under the Skin
The medic bay smelled of sterilized metal and old electricity — a scent Adrian hated more than any memory from the facility. It reminded him too much of conditioning rooms, needles, restraints, experiments disguised as “protocol.” Even now, standing in a rebel base, surrounded by supposed allies, the sensation crawled under his skin like a phantom.“Vitals stable,” the medic muttered, eyes flicking between Lyra and Adrian. “No destabilization since extraction.”Lyra sat on the edge of the examination table, arms crossed, foot tapping. She didn’t like being watched. She definitely didn’t like being monitored. And she especially hated the way the medic kept glaring at her resonance signature as if she were a bomb about to detonate.“See?” she said tightly. “We’re fine.”The medic didn’t look convinced. “Your resonance readings spike whenever you get agitated.”Lyra’s eyebrows arched sharply. “Then maybe stop agitating me.”Adrian almost smiled — almost. His muscles were too tense for it
Chapter 89: Fracture Point
Smoke still clung to the halls like a living thing.The breach alarm had finally stopped screaming, but the base felt hollow in the aftermath — a shell rattled by the government’s infiltration team and the traitor they’d allowed inside their walls. Mira moved through the debris-strewn passageway with controlled steps, scanning every shadow as though expecting the next attack to appear from the rubble itself.It hadn’t even been an hour since Kessler escaped.One hour since the rebel base learned someone had been feeding the government their movements for weeks.One hour since Adrian nearly collapsed from the psychic recoil of resisting Kessler’s embedded command triggers.And one hour since Lyra nearly killed a man trying to protect him.The air vibrated with a tension no one wanted to name yet.Rourke kicked aside a chunk of fallen ceiling panel. “You ever think we’re cursed?”Sari wiped blood from the edge of her blade. “If we are, let’s hope the curse applies to our enemies too.”K
Chapter 88: The Fault Line Beneath Us
The rebel base had survived the breach — barely. Smoke still drifted from scorched walls where the drones had cut their way through the lower tunnels. Engineers worked frantically to weld shut cracked support beams while medics triaged the injured in the stone corridors.But the worst damage wasn’t structural.It was trust.And trust was collapsing far faster than the ceiling had.Mira marched down the dimly lit corridor toward the command level, boots echoing sharply across the floor. Her jaw was tight, her shoulders squared — the posture of someone holding in more anger than she could safely release.Behind her, Kapoor jogged with his tablet, still scanning the scrambled logs from the drone incursion. Sari walked beside him, blades sheathed but hands twitching — she hadn’t cooled down since the attack. Rourke brought up the rear, bandaged around the shoulder from shrapnel, but refusing any rest.Inside the strategy chamber, Thale stood stiff as stone before a holographic map of the
Chapter 87: The Faulted Link
The room felt too small for the weight inside it.News of the security breach spread fast through the rebel base. Whispers followed Mira’s team through the corridors, every passing soldier casting suspicious glances — not at each other, but at Adrian and Lyra.Like they were powder kegs waiting to ignite.Mira led the team toward the command briefing hall, her pace sharp and precise. Kapoor clutched his tablet, scrolling through the ship’s data logs with frantic urgency. Sari walked close behind, eyes scanning every corner. Rourke stayed at the rear, one hand on his weapon, jaw grinding.Lyra hated the eyes on them — the unspoken accusation. She kept close to Adrian, whose breath was steady but thin, each step a silent reminder that he still wasn’t fully recovered from captivity.But he walked anyway. Every step was its own act of defiance.Mira stopped outside the reinforced door of the briefing hall.“Thale wants us inside,” she said. “Everyone. Including Adrian and Lyra.”Rourke hu
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