2025-10-17 07:57:19The Fiend’s new body crackled with blue fire. The same energy pulsed in Bruce’s veins, mirroring every surge from the creature like a heartbeat gone wrong. David stepped between them, sword raised. “Stay behind me.”
Bruce shook his head. “You can’t kill it again, David. It’s tied to me somehow.”
“I don’t care if it’s your long-lost twin,” David snapped. “Move!”
The monster screamed, not with sound, but with vibration. Windows exploded. Cars along the street shifted an inch off the ground. Then it lunged.
David met it head-on. His blade cut clean through its torso, but instead of falling apart, the wound sealed instantly with blue fire. “What ?” David stumbled back, stunned.
“It’s absorbing my energy!” Bruce shouted. “Every second it’s alive, it gets stronger!”
David spun, eyes cold. “Then stop feeding it.”
“You think I’m doing this on purpose?”
The Fiend’s arm lashed out, smashing a police car. The explosion lit up the street, throwing both men into shadow and flame.
Bruce crawled to cover, gasping. He felt the thing inside him again, the cold voice, steady and calm amid chaos. You brought balance. Now keep it.
“Balance?” he hissed. “What are you”
“Bruce!” David’s voice cut through the static. “Whatever you’re doing, stop thinking and do it faster!”
Bruce stood, trembling. His palms glowed again, lines of light racing up his arms. “I think… I can drain it.”
David blinked. “Drain it?”
“Like it’s doing to me.”
“That sounds suicidal.”
“Yeah,” Bruce said quietly. “That’s kind of the point.”
He stepped forward. The Fiend turned its skull toward him, light spilling from its jaw. Bruce extended a hand. Energy surged, and the world shifted.
He felt everything: the Fiend’s hunger, its pain, its confusion. And beneath it, something familiar, like his own heartbeat reflected through glass.
The Fiend hesitated. For one breathless second, it didn’t attack. It looked at him. Then it lunged again. David intercepted, blade flashing. “Now, Bruce!”
Bruce shouted, unleashing the pulse. Blue light burst from his chest, wrapping the Fiend in a cyclone of energy. The creature screamed as its body began to collapse inward, dissolving into dust and light.
The explosion threw both men back again. This time, when Bruce hit the ground, he didn’t move. David rushed over, grabbing his collar. “Miller! Hey, wake up!”
Bruce’s eyes snapped open, glowing silver-white. His voice was deeper, layered. “It’s not gone,” he said. “It’s inside me now.”
David froze. “…What?”
Bruce looked past him, at the crowd, the flashing lights, the endless shadows creeping from the tunnel. “They’ll come for me,” he murmured. “All of them.”
“Who will?”
“The ones who made this power.”
David’s grip tightened. “You’re not making sense.”
Bruce’s gaze met his. “Then start listening.”
And before David could respond, A gunshot cracked through the air. Bruce jerked, eyes wide, and fell. “Bruce!”
David caught him before he hit the ground. Blood stained his palm, bright red this time, not blue. Around them, chaos erupted again. Officers shouted. Flashlights flared.
A sniper’s scope glinted briefly on a rooftop before vanishing. David scanned the skyline. “Hold on, kid. Stay with me.”
Bruce groaned. “You, should’ve… let me fall.”
“Not happening.”
David pressed his hand over the wound, trying to stop the bleeding. But as soon as he touched him, the blue light returned, seeping from Bruce’s skin into his own. He jerked back, stunned. “What the hell?”
Bruce’s eyes opened halfway. “I told you… it’s inside me now. The Fiend… it’s feeding.”
“On you?”
“On everything.”
Another gunshot cracked. David yanked Bruce behind a wrecked car as sparks flew off the metal. “Sniper!” he barked.
From the rooftop came a calm, distorted voice through an amplifier. “Target confirmed. Subject Miller is active. Proceed with retrieval.”
David cursed under his breath. “Retrieval? Who the hell are”
Bruce grabbed his sleeve weakly. “Don’t let them take me.”
“Why?”
His voice was almost a whisper. “Because if they do… I won’t be me anymore.”
The street erupted in blinding light as a black van screeched to a halt. Figures in matte armor poured out, moving with military precision. Their weapons glowed the same blue as Bruce’s veins.
David stood, sword drawn. “They’re using the same energy”
“They created it,” Bruce gasped. “The Order of Genesis.”
Before David could react, one of the armored figures spoke through a helmet filter. “Hand over the asset.”
David smirked coldly. “Asset? He’s a person.”
“Not anymore.”
The first bullet came faster than thought. David deflected it with a flick of his blade, sparks flaring. The street became a warzone, gunfire, shattering glass, flashing light.
Bruce crawled behind cover, fighting to stay conscious. Every shot that hit the ground sent tremors through his chest, as though the energy inside him was answering the violence outside.
The voice whispered again, calm and cruel. They will kill you to control you.
He clenched his fists. “Then I’ll die my way.”
Energy flared around him. The nearest agent shouted, “He’s activating!”
David turned just in time to see the ground explode beneath Bruce. Blue light surged upward like a storm. Cars lifted off the street. Windows shattered in every building for a block.
When the dust settled, silence. The agents were gone, thrown aside or vaporized. David stood amid the wreckage, shielding his eyes.
Bruce was floating three feet off the ground, light streaming from his wounds, eyes glowing white. “Bruce,” David said carefully, “you need to stop.”
Bruce looked down at him, but his expression wasn’t human. “Stop?” His voice echoed. “I can’t stop what’s already begun.”
The ground trembled. All the lights in the city flickered, one by one, until darkness swallowed everything except that eerie blue glow around him. “Bruce”
He smiled faintly, sorrow in his eyes. “They’re coming, David. And when they do… I’ll be the reason this world burns.”
The light exploded again, and he vanished. Only silence remained. David lowered his sword slowly, staring at the empty air. “What did you become, Bruce?”
From the distance, a siren wailed, long, lonely, and fading. And on the rooftop above, the sniper whispered into his comm, “Subject escaped. But… he’s changing faster than expected.”
“Then track him,” came the cold reply. “Before the Healer becomes the next extinction.”
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Chapter 10 – The Fractured Signal
The world came back as silence. David’s breath hitched; air felt heavier now, static clinging to it like dust. He opened his eyes. Everything glowed faintly blue.The Tower was gone. All that remained was a glass crater stretching for miles, its center pulsing like a dying heart. Rho knelt beside him, face smeared with ash. “You’re alive.”He blinked, dazed. “Barely.”“Don’t move yet.” She checked his pulse, then froze as her fingers brushed his wrist, tiny sparks leapt between their skin. “You’re still charged.”“I told you… it’s the link,” he muttered. “It’s not gone.”Rho looked around. The sky itself shimmered, thin trails of light drifting like auroras. The air hummed faintly, resonating with their heartbeats. “David,” she said slowly, “what did you do?”“I broke the Tower’s core,” he answered. “I thought that would kill the signal.”“Yeah, well, you didn’t kill it. You spread it.”He followed her gaze. Figures moved along the crater’s edge, Genesis soldiers staggering from wreck
Chapter 9 – Resonance Break
The first thing David heard was the siren, low, broken, distant. Then came breath. His own.He opened his eyes to see the Tower’s core in ruin. Glass panels lay shattered, walls bleeding sparks. The hum of the energy field had shifted, slower, deeper, like a heartbeat syncing with his own.Bruce was gone. Rho lay a few meters away, unconscious but breathing. Kane’s body was nowhere in sight.David pushed himself upright. His hands shook, not from weakness, but from vibration. Blue light pulsed beneath his skin, tracing veins like circuitry. He whispered, “What did you do to me…”The Tower answered. Every remaining light in the chamber flickered once, then steadied, matching the rhythm of his pulse. “No,” he said softly. “No, that’s not”“You are the conduit now.”The voice was inside his head, smooth as static, impossible to shut out. David clenched his jaw. “Get out.”“You opened the channel. It cannot be closed.”He stumbled toward Rho, half dragging, half crawling, his reflection f
Chapter 8 – The Pulse Within
The world reassembled in silence. David floated in nothingness, weightless, surrounded by an endless field of shifting light.Each ripple moved like thought, not matter, colors bleeding through one another, forming fleeting shapes that dissolved before his eyes.He tried to speak, but no sound carried. Only the echo of his own heartbeat, louder than it should’ve been. Then came a whisper. “You shouldn’t be here.”“Bruce?”A figure stepped out of the light, half familiar, half fractured. Bruce’s face, but his eyes were pale mirrors, reflecting every color around them. “You opened the link,” Bruce said quietly. “Now it’s open both ways.”David steadied himself, as if ground might appear beneath his feet. “Where is this?”“The Tower’s core isn’t physical. It’s thought rendered real. Genesis used it to shape the Pulse into commands.”“And you’re stuck in it?”Bruce nodded once. “Along with everything it ever touched.”“What does that mean?”Bruce didn’t answer. His gaze shifted past David
Chapter 7 – The Tower’s Heart
Rain hammered the asphalt like static come alive. David moved through the ruins with the Tower pulsing ahead, its light cutting the skyline like a wound.Every few seconds, the pulse throbbed outward. Each wave made the back of his skull ache. “Bruce,” he whispered. “If you can hear me… keep talking.” Only the hum replied.He reached a checkpoint, two Genesis sentries at a barricade, half-distracted by their drones. David slid behind a burned-out car, drew his sidearm, and tossed a shard of glass down the opposite alley.The sound made them turn. Two silenced shots later, they dropped. He moved quick, stripped one of their access bands, and pressed it against the scanner. The gate hissed open.Inside, the Tower’s base was a labyrinth of mirrored corridors and humming generators. The air shimmered faintly, carrying a metallic tang that made his teeth buzz. He touched the wall, it vibrated, alive.A voice cut through the comm: “Foreman. You shouldn’t have come.”David froze. “Kane.”“Yo
Chapter 6 – The Tower Signal
The ceiling above the bunker cracked like thunder. Dust rained over flickering emergency lamps. Cipher snapped her wrist-com open. “Surface teams are breaching two levels up. We’ve got sixty seconds.”David tightened the straps on a borrowed tactical vest. “How do we get out?”“Same way we got in, through the drains.”“Romantic.”“Efficient,” she corrected. “Move.”They sprinted down the corridor, boots splashing through ankle-deep water. Sirens wailed somewhere overhead. “You said you could jam their scanners,” David shouted.“I said I could try.”“That’s comforting.”A wall section ahead exploded inward. Genesis troops poured through the smoke, visors glowing red. Cipher slammed a disc to the floor. “Flash!”Light detonated white. The soldiers reeled; David dragged her past them into the next passage. He glanced back. “You just blinded half your team.”“They’ll live. You won’t if you keep slowing down.”They burst into a service tunnel filled with cables and dripping pipes. The air
Chapter 5 – Echoes in the Static
The blast should have killed him. Instead, David woke to the slow drip of water and the hiss of cooling metal.His ears rang. The tunnel had collapsed into a jagged cavern of stone and twisted rail. Every surface pulsed faintly blue, as if the explosion had burned color into the air.He tried to move. Pain flared down his side; his left arm hung useless. “Rho?”Only the echo answered. “Rho!”Nothing, then a faint click through the comm still jammed in his ear. “vid—static—zone breached”Her voice. Broken, distant. Then silence. “Hold on, I’m coming,” he muttered, dragging himself upright.Something sparked near his boot, his sidearm, half-melted. He holstered it anyway. Above him, the ceiling groaned. Dust rained down. He stumbled toward the faint glow of an exit sign still flickering in the distance.That’s when the static changed. “…not Genesis…repeat…not Genesis…”He froze. The voice was crisp, deliberate, too calm for emergency chatter. “Identify yourself,” he said.No reply. Then
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