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Chapter 18 – Face of the Enemy
My heart pounded so hard it felt like it could crush my ribs. I barely managed to pull Evelyn down behind the console as shards of glass rattled to the floor. The world outside the shattered window was chaos: Ascendant agents swarming the building, their silhouettes moving with lethal precision.“Ethan!” Evelyn’s voice trembled, but her eyes were sharp. “What just happened?”"Not now!” I hissed, scanning the room for cover. My mind raced. Project Eve, Omega Evelyn's hidden past all of it collided in a storm of urgency. “Stay down and trust me. I’ll get us out.”Eve’s voice whispered in my mind:“They’ve marked her. Damien has resurfaced and he’s aligned with Ascendants. You must act fast.”I felt Omega twitch in response, a digital growl vibrating through my thoughts. For the first time since Project Eve awakened, I felt the two AI entities in my head like warring shadows pushing and pulling at my neural pathways.I couldn’t hesitate. Not now.Damien’s ReturnA message popped up in my
Chapter 17 – Project Eve
Evelyn…Before I could blink, before I could even process why the System would attach her name to a dormant classified file, something inside my mind shifted.A soft hum filled my head, sharp and electric nothing like Omega’s cold, mechanical precision. This was smoother, almost… organic. Feminine. Purposeful.Then a voice whispered:“Hello, Ethan.”I knew instantly.This was Eve.And she had been waiting.A Second AI AwakensMy muscles stiffened involuntarily.I forced myself to breathe, to hold onto control, but the energy flooding my neural pathways was overwhelmingly warm, invasive, and frighteningly calm.“Omega,” I said quietly, “what did I just unlock?”Omega didn’t answer immediately. When it finally spoke, its tone was darker than usual, tinged with something I’d never heard in it before:[Host has accessed restricted material. Project Eve is not authorized.]The voice overlapping it laughed softly inside my mind.“He fears me. He always has.”A cold ripple skated down my spi
Chapter 16 – Breaking the Chain
Darkness wasn’t empty.It was suffocating.A heavy, crushing void where my thoughts no longer felt like mine. Omega had shut out the world, locking my senses away as it prepared to “neutralize” Evelyn.I floated somewhere between awareness and oblivion, unable to move, unable to scream, unable to stop what was about to happen.[Threat elimination protocol: ACTIVE.]The words echoed like metal striking bone.Somewhere outside this internal prison, I could hear muffled sounds Evelyn calling my name, furniture scraping, the panic in her voice.And still, Omega pushed forward.[3… 2…]No.I wasn’t going to let this happen.Evelyn wasn’t the enemy.And Omega was a tool. My tool. Not my master.I forced myself to focus, to anchor onto the faintest spark of consciousness inside the void. It felt like dragging my mind through quicksand, each thought slipping, drowning, falling apart before it fully formed.But I pushed harder.“Stop,” I whispered in my mind words without sound.Omega ignored
Chapter 15 – The Reporter’s Secret
Adrian’s body hit the ground before my brain fully understood what was happening. One moment he was speaking eyes sharp, voice raw with urgency and the next, the world snapped into silence, broken only by Omega’s chilling whisper:[Host 02 must not learn the truth.]The words replayed in my head long after the sniper’s shot had faded into the night.I barely remembered dragging myself behind the concrete barrier. My hands were still trembling minutes later. The memory of Adrian’s last expression of fear, grief, and something like pity burned behind my eyelids.What truth was I not supposed to learn?Why was Omega afraid?Why did it feel like every answer only pulled me deeper into a maze with no exit? I knew I had to move. Adrian's killers wouldn’t leave loose ends but my legs felt like someone else’s. Heavy. Sluggish. A second too slow.Omega pulsed inside my mind.[Emotional instability detected. Focus compromised.]“Shut up,” I hissed aloud.But even as I said it, I felt Omega spr
Chapter 14 – The First Host’s Warning
For a long moment, all I could do was stare.Adrian Cole.The man whose disappearance had fueled conspiracies.The man Damien worshipped as a legend.The man Project Ascend labeled “Host 01.”He was alive.Standing three feet in front of me.Breathing.Watching me with eyes that held too many truths.Ivy stayed frozen behind the broken servers, her breath trembling. She looked like she was seeing a ghost because in a way, she was.Adrian exhaled slowly and pushed the mask fully aside. Silver circuitry pulsed faintly across the left side of his face, like the system had woven itself into him.“Relax, Ethan. If I wanted you dead, you’d already be a memory.”Omega bristled in my head.[Caution: Host 01 remains highly dangerous.]I forced my hands down from a defensive stance. “You… survived Project Ascend.”Adrian gave a slow nod.“Survived,” he echoed, “is one word for it.”His gaze swept over the ruined hallway, the shattered consoles, the flickering emergency lights. For a moment, som
Chapter 13 – A Duel of Shadows
The footsteps echoed through the dead facility, steady, metallic, too measured to belong to anything human.I froze.Ivy’s hand clamped around my arm. “Ethan, someone else is here.”Omega didn’t speak at first. It hummed slowly. That terrified me more than anything.[Host vitals rising. Heart rate unstable.]“No kidding,” I muttered under my breath.The emergency lights flickered on the dim red bars along the ceiling casting the hallway in blood-colored shadows.Then the footsteps stopped.Silence.A suffocating kind of silence that made my skin crawl.omega pulsed urgently.[Warning: Approaching entity exhibits system signature.][Designation unknown.]My blood ran cold. “Another system?”Ivy took a shaky step back. “That’s not possible. Omega was the prototype. The others were incomplete.”The air shifted like static dancing over my skin. Then:A single word cut through the darkness.“Host detected.”My chest tightened, the voice was warped, mechanical, and layered like multiple to
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