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Chapter 92: The Dominion Counterstrike
Morning came without light. Gray clouds hung low over the city. Rain fell in thin lines that felt sharp on the skin. Screens across Milwaukee flickered to life at the same time.Every screen showed the same image. Landon Hale. His face was framed in red warnings. Bold letters burned beneath it.DOMESTIC TERRORIST.WANTED FOR MASS DESTRUCTION.APPROACH WITH EXTREME CAUTION.His name followed. The Vanguard followed. Civilians stopped in the streets and stared. Some whispered. Some backed away from anyone who looked armed. Some believed it without question.Aether Dominion’s voice filled the air. A calm voice. A clean voice. A practiced voice. “This city has suffered enough,” the announcer said.“Extremist cells threaten order and safety. Aether Dominion will restore peace.”Footage played. Edited footage. Explosions from the industrial complex. Fire. Smoke. Screaming. None of the context. None of the tanks. None of the drones.Only chaos. Only blame. Deep underground, the Vanguard watch
Chapter 91. Corporate Battlefield
Smoke rolled over the industrial zone like a living thing. It crawled between steel towers and broken loading docks. Sirens cried in the distance and then went silent. The air smelled of oil, hot metal, and fear.The industrial complex once made machine parts for farms and trains.Now it made war.Landon Hale stood on the edge of a rooftop and looked down. Below him, floodlights cut through the dark like sharp knives.Aether Dominion tanks moved in slow lines across cracked concrete. Their engines growled low and steady, like patient beasts. Drones hovered above them in perfect grids, blinking white and blue.Navarro crouched beside Landon and checked his rifle. His jaw was tight. His hands were steady. “This place is a fortress,” Navarro said. “Walls. Towers. Kill lanes everywhere.”Claire’s voice came through the earpiece. She was calm, but it took effort. “Not a fortress,” Claire said. “A machine. And machines have weak parts.”Jin sat three blocks away in a dark van. Screens fill
Chapter 90. Wolfe’s Fatal Secret
Landon Hale stood beside the small metal table in the safehouse basement. The lights were dim, and the air was heavy with the smell of old concrete and damp wiring. Dr. Harin Varos sat across from him, wrapped in a blanket Claire had given him, his hands trembling but his mind sharp. Everyone else stood nearby, watching and listening with tight, anxious faces.Claire leaned against the wall, arms crossed but eyes focused. Marcus paced slowly, one hand rubbing the back of his neck. Jin tapped at his wrist screen but only half-paid attention to the glowing code. He was waiting for something far more important.Priya sat closest to Varos, gently adjusting the small device that checked his vitals. She kept her voice low and calm. “You are safe now. Whatever Dominion did to you is over.”Varos gave a tired smile. “Thank you. But I fear what I must tell you is far worse than what they did to me.”Landon nodded once. “Then start from the beginning.”Varos took a slow breath. His eyes were
Chapter 89. The Dominion’s Hidden Hostage
Rain hammered the windows of the Vanguard safehouse like a thousand small fists. The sky over Milwaukee was dark and heavy, and every rumble of thunder made the walls seem thinner. Priya sat at the long metal table with three screens glowing in front of her. Her hands moved fast, her eyes locked to the scrolling data like she was following the pulse of a living creature.Landon Hale watched her from across the room. His shoulders were tense, and his jaw was set tight, but he kept still. He knew Priya worked best when no one interrupted her. Claire stood near the door with her arms crossed, tapping her fingers against her sleeve in a slow, worried rhythm. Marcus and Jin sat farther back, ready but restless. Suddenly Priya gasped softly. “Found it,” she whispered, but it sounded like a shout in the quiet room.Everyone turned toward her. Landon stepped forward. “Found what?”Priya swallowed. Her voice was low and careful. “Aether Dominion is holding someone. Someone very important. S
Chapter 88. Tangle In The Ruins
The arena had been abandoned for decades. Concrete walls cracked, steel beams twisted, and rust claimed everything that hadn’t already fallen. Once, it had been a place of cheer and sport. Now, it was a graveyard of echoes, shadows moving like ghosts along the debris-strewn floor.Landon Hale crouched behind a fallen metal beam. His chest heaved, sweat running down his forehead despite the chill of the night air that filtered through the collapsed roof. The Vanguard had tracked intelligence that Tangle, one of Wolfe’s Serpent Triumvirate, was hiding here. Now, silence pressed down on them like a physical weight. Even the wind seemed to whisper warnings through the broken rafters.Claire’s voice crackled over the comm. “Landon, stay sharp. We’ve got a live one. Tangle isn’t just strong, he plays with physics itself. His limbs can reach impossible angles. Watch the ceiling, walls, everything.”Navarro muttered under his breath as he checked his rifle. “This place feels like a trap. E
Chapter 87. Corporate Deep Freeze
The night felt wrong from the first minute. Landon Hale stood on a rooftop overlooking the lower east sector. Wind pushed cold air across broken streets. Neon signs flickered like tired eyes. The city was restless, breathing in fast, shallow gasps. It felt like the whole place was waiting for something painful.Jin’s voice trembled through the comm. “Landon, I am seeing strange signals. I have never seen this pattern before. It is moving between networks like ice spreading on water.”Claire’s tone sharpened “What kind of pattern?”“Cold. Slow. Infectious. And it is heading straight for Syndicate-era biotech implants.”Landon stiffened. “You think Dominion is doing this?”Jin answered quietly. “I know they are.”The night suddenly felt colder. Down below, crowds moved through the streets. Workers heading home. Civilians gathering supplies. People trying to pretend their world was not collapsing. None of them knew death was already creeping through the digital veins of the city.Lando
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