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The Sacrifice Play
The yellow gas crept through the facility like a living thing, hugging the ceiling, spreading through corridors, seeping under doors.Patients were coughing, eyes streaming tears, skin burning where the chlorine touched. The early stages of exposure. Five minutes until it became lethal."Evacuate everyone who can move," Kai ordered, his own eyes burning.Dr. Tanaka was helping patients toward the exits, her voice hoarse. "That's twelve patients. Sixteen can't be moved without killing them. Including Julie. Moving her would tear the artery repair. She'd bleed out in seconds."The Chairman's voice through the radio, calm and certain: "Sixty seconds, Kai. Julie for everyone else. Final offer."Kai looked at his sister, unconscious and helpless. Then at the patients choking on poison gas. An impossible choice dressed up as mercy."There has to be another way," Kai said."There isn't." Nadia was coughing too, struggling to breathe. "We're trapped. No gas masks. No sealed rooms. We all die
The Breach
The first wave came hard and fast.Twenty operators descended the stairwell in tactical formation, night vision engaged, weapons up. Professional. Coordinated. The kind of team that had cleared buildings in Fallujah and Kandahar.They hit the main entrance where Kai and Nadia waited behind reinforced barriers, weapons trained on the kill zone they'd created.The operators entered. Crossed the threshold.The tripwire claymores detonated.The explosion was deafening in the confined space. Eight operators were shredded instantly, bodies torn apart by ball bearings traveling at lethal velocity. The remaining twelve dove for cover, already returning fire despite the carnage.Kai and Nadia worked methodically. Controlled three-round bursts. Conserving ammunition. Each shot placed with surgical precision honed by years of killing.One operator went down. Then another. Then four more in quick succession as they tried to advance.The first wave retreated, leaving fourteen bodies in the corrido
The Defense
Reeves's FBI contact delivered the news with clinical precision: "Consortium kill-team mobilizing. Sixty operators. Military-grade equipment. Target is Julie Cross. Alive. ETA two hours."The underground hospital's hallway went silent."Julie can't be moved," Dr. Tanaka said, her voice firm. "Post-operative complications. Internal repairs are fragile. Transport her now and the artery ruptures. She bleeds out in minutes.""Then we defend," Kai said simply."I have thirty patients here." Tanaka gestured toward the wards. "Cancer patients. Gunshot victims. People recovering from surgery. People with nowhere else to go.""Evacuate them," Nadia said."To where?" Tanaka's voice rose slightly. "They're fugitives. Illegal immigrants. People who can't access regular hospitals because of warrants or status or debts. This facility exists because they have no safe place. I'm not abandoning them."Kai looked at her. Saw the determination. The refusal to compromise. "Then we hold the line here."Th
The underground hospital
Julie's pulse was failing.Torres had his fingers on her neck, counting, his face growing paler with each passing second. "She's got minutes, not hours. I need a real surgeon. Real equipment. Now.""I know a place," Reeves said from the driver's seat, already changing course. "Underground hospital. Forty miles west. They don't ask questions. Don't keep records.""Will we make it in time?" Kai asked, watching his sister's gray face.Torres didn't answer immediately. Then: "Barely. Drive faster."Reeves pushed the vehicle beyond its limits. Running red lights. Blowing through intersections. Highway speeds on surface streets. Every second mattered. Every delay meant death.Forty miles in twenty-three minutes.They arrived at an abandoned factory complex—rusted metal, broken windows, the kind of building that had died when manufacturing left and never recovered. From the outside, it looked completely deserted.Reeves pulled around to the loading dock. A concealed entrance, marked only by
Kai's Choice
The Chairman's ultimatum hung in the air like poison."Kill your team. Save Lila. Or everyone dies."Kai stood in the destroyed study, weapon in hand, surrounded by laser sights and impossible choices. His finger rested on the trigger. The weight of the gun felt like the weight of the world.Nadia was the first to speak. "Don't even think about it. We die together or not at all.""Kai, listen to me." Lila's voice was steady despite the terror in her eyes. "I'd rather die right here, right now, than watch you become what they want. Don't give them that."Through the comms, Julie's voice came weak and strained, blood loss making her words slow. "Little brother... whatever you choose... I love you... I understand..."The Chairman's silhouette leaned forward on the screen. "Ten seconds became five. Decide. NOW."Kai saw them all. Eleanor's face the night she died, whispering for him to stay human. Marcus taking a bullet to protect Lila. Viktor dying to get them the files. Helen sacrificin
THE Kill Box
Laser sights danced across the study walls like malevolent fireflies. Fifty of them. Maybe more. All aimed at the team trapped inside Vance's mansion."Where's the Chairman?" Kai demanded, his weapon still trained on Vance despite knowing it was futile."Right here," Vance said, gesturing to the wall.A large screen activated, showing a video feed—a silhouetted figure seated in a high-backed chair, identity completely obscured by backlighting and digital distortion. The silhouette could have been anyone. Man or woman. Young or old. Completely anonymous."Kai Cross." The Chairman's voice came through digitally distorted, making even gender indeterminate. "The weapon that broke free. Marcus's greatest achievement and biggest failure. You've been impressive. I'll give you that.""Show yourself," Kai said."Not yet. But soon. After you're dead and no longer a threat, I'll reveal myself to the world. Take credit for dismantling the compromised Consortium members and rebuilding it stronger.
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