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Chapter 71: An Unplanned Coma
"Dad Dad, your nose is bleeding."Nina's voice cut through, small and worried. Victor's chest heaved violently, the whole room tilting around him.A high, electronic whine filled his ears, and his balance gave out entirely. He hit the ground, the plate in his hands shattering beside him."Nina's dad? NINA'S DAD? What's wrong?!"Denise spotted him collapse across the cafeteria and rushed over. Victor's face had gone bloodless, blood streaming freely from his nose."Someone get Chase! NOW!"Denise's panic spiked hard. Symptoms like this read as genuinely serious, and this base didn't have a doctor Chase's healing was the only real medical option they had.Victor understood exactly what was happening to him. The first rewind, only a few hours' worth, had left him mildly dizzy at worst.This time, a full day's reversal had put a considerably heavier strain on his body than he'd anticipated.None of that mattered next to Nina's life. Trading his own condition for hers wasn't even a real qu
Chapter 70: Possession
"Say that again? Adrian's alive but he's turned on us?!"Grant couldn't process it at first. Adrian, operating alongside Subject One?"Confirmed, Director. I tried breaking whatever control he was under. Nothing happened. This looks like his own choice, not manipulation..."Grant had no framework for why Adrian would defect. And Cyrus if Cyrus was conscious somewhere in all this, his cards alone should've gotten him clear by now. Why no word at all?Still unconscious? Dead? Or... the same as Adrian?She didn't let herself finish that last thought."The commander and I couldn't touch Captain Adrian. He made it clear come back, and it's a death sentence. Our team's off Riverside assignments permanently."Bram's report came out flat, deflated. Special-tier was special-tier on paper, but everyone knew raw ability development varied wildly within that same bracket. Adrian had clearly outpaced him by a wide margin."And the others?"Grant clung to the hope that Chicago's four operatives, at
Chapter 69: Soul Contract
Sandra had reconstructed herself in front of that mirror with something close to euphoria.She'd pictured young cells replacing old ones throughout her entire body. A narrow waist. A face worth looking at twice.Younger, thinner, prettier than the girl who'd stolen her promotion.The world worships young and pretty. Fine. I can be young and pretty too, apparently.Looking at the girl staring back from the mirror, she understood immediately tired, worn-down Sandra was gone. In her place: someone beautiful enough that nobody would ever question her again.She'd admired the firm cheeks, the narrow waist, smiling at her own reflection with real satisfaction.From there, she'd practiced deliberately copying the mannerisms of youth, the tone, the small physical tics. It felt unnatural at first. Didn't matter. Nobody criticizes a beautiful girl for anything.The world's never been fair. But for once, I'm the one it's favoring.Even mid-apocalypse, life had genuinely never felt better to her
Chapter 68: The Fantasy Realm
Piper stepped out of the hotel, and to her surprise, half of the New York base seemed to already know what had happened a full crowd waiting at the entrance to greet her."Beautiful Piper! Hero Piper!" The chant rose from the crowd.Piper lifted her chin, careful not to let the praise from a bunch of amateurs go to her head too visibly.My name's about to spread across every base in the city. Other cities will probably start fighting each other over who gets to borrow me next."Ugh, nobody understands the burden of actually being powerful. Still credit where it's due, this crowd's got decent taste, weak as they are."She spotted their transport waiting nearby and felt a genuine pull toward home. That bed back at New York had been genuinely unacceptable.She planned on keeping New York's full analysis report as a personal souvenir read it back later as pure comedy whenever she needed a laugh.On the flight home, Reed sat beside her, face flushed red the entire trip. Typical. These youn
Chapter 67: Bleeding More Than Cyrus
"Cyrus you're going to DIE if you don't stand down!"Cadence's panic was real. She couldn't process why Cyrus had turned on them but every second she hesitated, the creeping paralysis crept closer to locking his whole body, and the poison underneath it was moving toward something fatal."Have to protect the base. Not letting either of you through cough"Blood spilled from Cyrus's mouth. A frame that slight bleeding this heavily read as one step short of full shock."Cyrus! That base is YOUR home! Snap out of it!"If Holt released another vine-strike, he'd catch a vital point outright but both of them were still trying to talk Cyrus back before it came to that.Three light arrows streaked toward Holt's face, deflected easily by a wall of living plant matter.A swarm of blade-edged leaves spun toward Lulu like a locust cloud, and Cyrus threw himself forward, planting his body directly between her and the attack."AH""CYRUS!"Lulu couldn't reconcile it the same foul-mouthed instructor w
Chapter 66: Reed's Desperate Stand
Darkness stretched endlessly in every direction. Reed had genuinely lost his sense of orientation.He conjured a small orb of light and swept it cautiously around him.The space read as pure void no life, no objects, nothing at all.Behind him, Graves advanced with his two controlled zombies, Skyler and Lane, both pushing steadily deeper alongside him.Reed trusted his read on the direction. Straight ahead should put them closest to the hotel's actual center.His confidence had started strong. It was fraying now.Chicago's reputation was well earned genuinely elite, city-wide. But even they had lost two captains to a mutant encounter once, an opponent whose reach and ruthlessness had made closing distance nearly impossible.Skyler had saved that fight, ultimately dropping a domain fast enough to pull everyone inside it, sealing off the mutant's lethal reach long enough for the team to regroup.Now, the only sound was footsteps, heavy and oppressive in the silence. Reed ran back throug
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