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THE WHIR OF DEATH
He tripped and fell. It was a jarring, brutal impact that sent a fresh jolt of excruciating pain through his already aching, bruised body, jarring every bone. He hit the hard, unforgiving ground with a grunt, the air was forcefully knocked from his lungs. Carl’s limp form tumbled from his shoulder and landed beside him with a soft, ominous thud.The fall was enough. The little, fragile thread of consciousness Carl had desperately clung to snapped entirely. His eyes rolled back into his head, and he lay utterly still, his breathing was shallow and erratic, barely perceptible. Carl Bowen immediately passed out.Jayden pushed himself up on his elbows, wincing at the fresh aches. He looked at Carl, and a deep worry twisted in his gut. He was truly out cold now. No more talk of giant marshmallows.Then, he heard it. The buzzing sound directly above them. He looked up.Hovering above them was the deadly drone. Its multiple rotors spun with a low thrum, barely audible over the thumping of
RUNNING ON BORROWED TIME
The cool night air, usually a welcome relief, brought no comfort. Instead, it was a chilling reminder of the danger that still clung to Jayden and Carl like a suffocating blanket. Jayden, his formidable strength was long past its limits, his muscles started screaming in protest, and it continued his clumsy, desperate hop. Carl, the unconscious man, was slung awkwardly over his shoulder like a sack of impossibly heavy bricks. Every single step was agony, a monumental struggle against the creeping exhaustion that threatened to pull him down. Carl’s weight was immense, a dead weight that pulled at Jayden's core, making him stumble and nearly collapse with each labored stride across the uneven, shadowy terrain of the abandoned lot behind the warehouse.Jayden’s breath came in ragged, tearing gasps, burning in his throat as if he’d swallowed hot embers. He looked around wildly, his eyes were darting through the oppressive darkness, desperately trying to find any semblance of cover, a
ONE MORE STEP
Jayden didn’t answer. He couldn’t. Every ounce of his focus, every straining muscle, was dedicated to one singular, desperate goal: survival. He just kept moving, his powerful frame kept dragging Carl across the charred remains of what used to be an elegant golf club.The air was thick and heavy, it was a choking blend of scorched turf, smoldering wood, and the bitter tang of burned synthetic materials. The once pristine fairways were now jagged ruins, littered with splintered golf carts and twisted flagpoles.His lungs burned with each shallow breath, but his eyes, though stinging from the smoke and grit, remained stubbornly locked on their only hope—the back exit, a faint, almost illusory rectangle of less oppressive darkness in the crumbling wall ahead. It was a beacon, however dim, promising escape from the inferno behind them.Another brutal round of gunfire cracked through the night, a harsh, metallic symphony of destruction that echoed off the skeletal remains of the collap
NO TIME TO DIE
Another blast of bullets tore through the wall behind Carl.POP! POP! POP!One bullet slammed into his right arm, spinning him backward.Another ripped through his leg, just above the knee.Carl screamed and hit the floor hard.“AAARGH!!”Blood soaked Carl Bowen’s jeans in seconds, the fabric darkened quickly as the wound pulsed red. His breath hitched, as it was coming in ragged bursts. He clutched his arm, his fingers were trembling and slick with blood, his face twisted in pain and disbelief.“GAAAHHH!” he groaned, his teeth clenched as another wave of agony surged through him. His body jolted involuntarily, and he slammed his back against the broken base of the pillar. The concrete was cold, but it gave no comfort.His leg was worse.The bullet had ripped through clean—no exit wound. Blood poured freely, pooling beneath him.“Carl!” Jayden shouted, crawling toward him under a cloud of smoke and dust. Another burst from the drone rattled the ceiling tiles and blew sparks from a
THE KHYBER STRIKE
Jayden stepped away from the shattered table, his boots were crunching lightly over the broken glass and splinters were scattered across the floor. The air felt charged—like something heavy was pressing down on the room.He walked to the center of the broken clubhouse floor, ignoring the flickering lights above. Then, he slowly closed his eyes again.A strange energy moved through the space. It wasn’t electricity. It wasn’t heat. It was… a pattern.“There is a pattern,” Jayden said quietly. “A repeating signal… like it’s echoing inside my skull.”His voice was distant, like he was speaking from somewhere far away.Carl took a cautious step back, his body was tense. His hand moved instinctively to the holster at his hip. “Jayden… are you alright?”But Jayden wasn’t listening anymore.His mind was spinning. Fast.It was as if pieces of his memory were snapping into place—images, sounds, symbols he didn’t even know he remembered. He could feel it now, clearer than ever before.This wa
DO YOU HEAR THAT?
Jayden took a deep breath and stepped back from the broken table.“We need to act now,” he said, his voice was steady. “Project Revenant isn’t just a virus in the system. It’s a seed. And if we don’t stop it now, it will grow into something none of us can control.”Carl nodded slowly, but his hands were clenched at his sides.Jayden knelt and opened his weather-worn bag, pulling out his black nano-core laptop. He flipped it open. The screen blinked to life. His fingers moved quickly, calling up encrypted schematics of the Khyber deployment grid.“If we can isolate their pattern codes,” Jayden continued, “we can trace where they’re embedding these thought loops—how they enter media, training modules, apps, and even kids’ storybooks. But more than that, we need to reverse-engineer the cognitive hooks. Scramble their anchors. Sever the way they cling to neural memory.”Carl watched as Jayden’s screen filled with lines of code and static maps.“We’ll have to map the embeds manually,” Jay
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