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Chapter 37: What a Pity for Mimicry
"Captain Ray? Not hungry?"Chase stared down at the plate without a shred of interest. Cores were the only thing that actually pulled at him and running through a possessed body, even flesh and blood barely registered."Not right now. I think something's coming back to me. I need to walk, clear my head. Go ahead, get back to your rounds I'll manage on my own."Molly's shoulders relaxed at the calmer tone. Good sign. Maybe the memory's starting to resurface.She hesitated a beat, then nodded. "If you get turned around or run into trouble, call me. Anytime.""Will do."Chase straightened up and set off to scope out the rest of the floors, priority one still Miles.Killing Vanessa mid-possession is off the table no abilities in this form beyond the shapeshift itself, and this place almost certainly runs healers strong enough to undo whatever damage I could manage barehanded. Her water control alone probably handles most threats she'd face here.He made his way to sublevel four and found
Chapter 36: First Visit to the Ability Response Base
Chase sent Poppy back to the hotel and turned his attention to Vera, noticing immediately that her speech had smoothed out considerably faster, clearer, more natural than before.Her raw power had scaled up too, and a fresh purple core had materialized somewhere inside her.Wait is her growth tied directly to mine? Every time he leveled up, Vera seemed to level right alongside him. Made sense, in a way, if she really had been born out of some passive extension of his own ability. The stronger he got, the stronger she got by default."Chief while you were under, I wasn't sure how to handle him, so I made the call myself and locked Ray into a loyalty state. I hope that was the right call."Sean delivered the report with careful formality, though Chase caught something eager flickering behind his expression."Good call. He's already lost his memory anyway put him to work.""Thank you, Chief!"Sean's face lit up at the approval, bright enough that Chase found himself oddly flustered by it
Chapter 35: The Third Transformation
"What in God's name actually happened out there?!"Director Grant worked through a cigarette with a grim, unreadable expression. Ten people had gone out. Two had come back including their strongest combat asset and senior command.Zoe kept her eyes down, visibly ashamed."Once we confirmed the steel-whip zombie wasn't at the original site, we pulled nearby camera footage and tracked its departure route. Following that lead, we ran into something else entirely a zombie capable of killing the entire strike team in a matter of seconds.""I managed to teleport Dylan out. There wasn't time to save anyone else."Grant's eyes flicked briefly to the man standing beside her, who gave the faintest nod. Everyone knew what his presence in this room meant an ability tuned specifically to catch a lie the moment it left someone's mouth.Zoe had planned for exactly that. Whatever she'd told Dylan on the way back had been carefully limited to details that were technically true but wouldn't raise flags
Chapter 34: Wesley Joins the Base
Iris watched Chase's cold, dangerous face and the raw power radiating off him, and something in her lit up with pure delight. She'd always gravitated toward the dark and dangerous different tastes, different style, ever since she was a kid, nothing like the girls she'd grown up around.Something like Chase powerful, monstrous, magnetic landed dead center in her personal aesthetic. She could already picture herself standing at his side, running things together.Where Luna needed direct contact palm to forehead to lock down a target, Iris's version worked purely through eye contact. All she needed was a look.She tilted her head slightly, angling for his attention, letting her eyes flare a soft blue as the ability activated."My ability, sister, happens to be the stronger of the two of ours"Before she could finish the thought, a spike of stone punched straight through both her eyes."AH!"She dropped without much of a fight and didn't get back up.Anyone who'd actually known what Iris'
Chapter 33: Testing the Elite Team
Watching his man dangle mid-air, tangled and defenseless, Ray didn't hesitate. He raised both hands, traced a circle in the air, and the reinforced gate sheared open along a perfect laser-cut line a clean passage carved straight through solid metal.Vera stood over the fallen operative, watching him twist helplessly, his flight ability the only thing keeping him from smashing straight into the ground, and even that was faltering under the tremor running through his whole body.Ray didn't wait for an opening. Multiple beams of concentrated light lanced out toward Vera. She dodged the volley with a simple, almost lazy backflip.The whip's momentum had left the airborne operative spinning hard enough to disorient him, but instinct kicked in fast he redirected his flight toward the rest of his squad, desperate to close the gap before Vera could finish him off.The rest of the team surged through the breached gate the second the opening presented itself. Vera's whip snapped upright of its
Chapter 32: Discovering Vera
"You're absolutely certain this is where you spotted the steel-whip zombie?"Director Grant had dispatched several specialists with targeted counter-abilities to reinforce Team Six specifically for this hunt. Getting a read on the steel-whip zombie's actual capabilities had become a priority the moment the first report came in.They arrived to find nothing but a standard cluster of ordinary infected. Plenty of them, sure but nothing that matched the description.Hank, Team Six's captain, swept the area twice more with the group, coming up empty both times."How does something like this just... disappear on its own?"Grant had prioritized the steel-whip case first for a specific reason: the base happened to have a magnetic-tier specialist capable of ripping a weapon straight out of an opponent's grip remotely a clean tactical counter, if it panned out.The giant zombie Ryan had reported, by contrast, offered no obvious weakness to exploit. Nobody had a good angle on that one yet.Hank
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