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Episode 15-The thing That Waited
The clouds didn’t just part—they tore.It was like some invisible hand ripped a wound in the sky, peeling back the storm to reveal something that had no right to exist above the world. A vertical slit of blinding light cut through the black clouds, its edges jagged and shifting like it was alive.Through it, shapes moved. Not clouds. Not aircraft. Things with too many limbs, their silhouettes twisting in ways my brain didn’t want to understand.Liam stood rigid at the hatch, his fingers tightening on the frame. The flare’s dying glow barely lit his profile, but I could see his jaw clench. He’d seen this before. He recognized it.The light poured into the transport, making the rain look like silver needles in the air. My mask’s visor dimmed automatically to shield my eyes, but it didn’t make the sight any less wrong.One of the shapes pushed closer to the tear. I thought it was just blackness until its head—or what I assumed was its head—tilted toward us. Even from this distance, I fel
Episode 14- When the sky Opens
The red lights slid across the rain-smeared window like the eyes of something alive.My breathing echoed loud inside the mask Liam had shoved over my face. The tranquilizer gas swirled in the cabin, turning the edges of my vision hazy. The pilot’s voice was no longer on the intercom—only the low rumble of the engines and the occasional metallic groan as the shadow clung to the roof.“Liam…” I managed, my voice muffled under the filter.“Stay with me,” he said, moving toward the rear hatch. His stance was a strange mix of calm and urgency—like a man who knew the danger was inevitable but was already three moves ahead.A heavy thunk reverberated through the ceiling. Another. Then the shriek of metal being cut.Liam whispered, "They're cutting in."He looked over at the cockpit."Vega, lower your altitude!" The floor seemed to tilt beneath my boots as the transport lurched downward.Outside, the rain turned into a wall of grey, pounding so forcefully against the fuselage that it sounded
Episode 13- The Shadow in the Rain
The hum was getting louder. Not the steady thrum of the transport’s engine, but something sharper—mechanical, high-pitched, and circling.I tightened my grip on the edge of the seat as the cabin light flickered once, twice, then went out completely. For a second, the only illumination came from the staccato flashes of lightning through the rain-smeared window. Each burst of light revealed the same thing: a dark silhouette hovering in the storm, matching our speed.“Tell me you’re seeing that,” I said, my voice lower than I intended.Liam’s eyes snapped toward the window, then to me. “Stay still.” He pushed himself up and reached for the latch above his seat, his other hand never straying far from the weapon at his hip.The hum shifted pitch, rising higher, almost impatient. I couldn’t tell if it was some kind of drone or something far worse.The pilot's voice crackled over the intercom from the cockpit.We have a tail.Adaptive stealth mode is activated. I could hear the tension benea
Episode 12: Storm Roads
The rain started two hours after they left the bunker. It wasn’t gentle or forgiving—it came down in sheets, pounding against the broken asphalt of the highway like the sky itself was trying to scrub the world clean.Jared gripped the handlebars of the old military bike they’d found in an abandoned checkpoint shed. It roared down the cracked road, tires skimming puddles, engine groaning from years of disuse. Mei sat behind him, arms wrapped tightly around his waist, face pressed to his back to shield against the cold wind.They hadn’t said much since escaping the bunker. There was nothing to say. Every second counted now.“We’ll need fuel in the next twenty miles,” Jared shouted over the storm.Mei nodded, wiping water from her eyes. “How do you even know this bike will make it?”“I don’t,” he replied flatly. “But it’s faster than walking.”The sky above them flashed—lightning streaked jagged through the clouds, illuminating the skeletal remains of a once-bustling town. The buildings
Episode 11: Beneath the Surface
The entrance to the uplink bunker was buried beneath layers of moss, rotting leaves, and a collapsed thicket of tree limbs. No one would have known it was there unless they were looking. And even then, it took Jared nearly twenty minutes to uncover the old steel hatch hidden beneath a camouflaged tarp coated in decades of forest debris.Mei knelt beside him, shivering from the cold sweat that came with fear. She held the rifle tightly, even though she hadn’t fired it once yet. Her hands trembled, but her stance didn’t break.“This is it?” she asked quietly.Jared gave a slight nod. “Used to be a failsafe command post. Remote systems control. It was taken offline before the Collapse.”“Why would they hide it way out here?”“Because it wasn’t meant to be found. Not by the public.”The badge Finn gave him still felt warm in his hand. Like it carried the weight of all the ghosts it had passed through before reaching him. He slid it into the scanner beside the hatch. There was a long silen
Episode 10: The Ones Who Wait in the Fog
The fog hadn’t lifted by sunrise. If anything, it had grown thicker—so dense Jared could barely see past the tree line without straining. Nature didn’t move like this unless something unnatural had disturbed it.He was already dressed in full tactical gear, rifle strapped tight across his chest, boots laced up to the shin. His breath was slow, even, but everything about his body was alert. Primed.Mei stood on the porch in his old hoodie and jeans that didn’t quite fit, trying to shake the cold out of her limbs. She looked at the treeline and then at him.“You’re going out there, aren’t you?”Jared nodded once. “North Ridge sector. Something pinged the motion sensors.”“Could it be an animal?”He strapped on his knife. “Not unless it knew how to disable the backup camera first.”Her mouth parted slightly. “Someone’s watching us.”“They’ve probably been watching for days.”She took a breath, trying not to panic. “Let me come with you.”“No.”“I’m not staying behind while you walk into
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