
Evan stepped forward, his face pale, but determined. The room was massive—ceiling lights dimmed to a bluish hue, casting long, flickering shadows. Rows of cylindrical tanks lined the walls, each one filled with a translucent fluid that shimmered faintly. Inside them—babies. Human, at least partly. Limbs twitching, faces contorted in silent agony. Tubes jammed down throats, into arms, skulls partially opened and wired. Some of them weren’t moving at all.
One twitched violently, slamming its tiny head into the side of the glass. Blood spread like ink against the glass.
Kyra let out a soft, horrified whimper. “What the fuck is this…”
Robot Buddy hovered closer, scanning. “These aren't just experiments. They’re forced evolution projects. Genetic blending. They’re… they’re trying to make something that can withstand M63's power transfer.”
“And they’re using newborns?” Evan hissed, his fists clenched.
“They aren’t all newborns,” Robot Buddy replied grimly. “Some are clones. Some are... abducted.”
In another section of the room, metal tables were lined with strapped-down children. Wires dug into skulls. Some had their chests pried open while still alive, lungs barely expanding with each breath. Monitors beeped. Nurses—if they could be called that—drifted through with dead eyes, adjusting dials, injecting fluids. One child tried to scream as a drill began boring into his arm. No sound came. His vocal cords had been severed.
Kyra turned away, her back against the wall, eyes squeezed shut. “I—I can’t look at this anymore.”
“You don’t have to,” Evan said, his voice barely more than a whisper. “But we need to know what they’re doing here.”
They passed into the next area, hiding behind desks and computers tables. stepping over a blood-smeared floor where something had tried—and failed—to crawl away.
And then they saw it.
Floating in the middle of a small circular chamber, suspended in mid-air, was what looked like an ornate lamp. It shimmered gold, pulsing slightly, as though it were breathing. Light bent around it in strange ways. Energy radiated from it—cold, ancient, dangerous.
And next to it—trapped in a containment cell of shimmering plasma—a being of smoke and blue flame hurled itself against the walls, shrieking soundlessly. It had no mouth, but Evan could feel its scream vibrating through his bones. The air grew thicker with every slam against its prison. Its eyes burned like twin stars, filled with rage and desperation.
“What the fuck is that?” Kyra whispered, her voice trembling.
“I think that’s… a genie,” Robot Buddy said. “Or something like it. Not a myth. Not metaphor. Real.”
Kyra stepped forward slowly, almost mesmerized. “It’s beautiful…”
Evan grabbed her arm. “No. Don’t. We don’t know what it is, or what it wants.”
“But it’s trapped—”
“It’s not our mission,” he cut her off sharply. “We get what we came for and we get out.”
Robot Buddy hovered closer to the cell, sensors flashing wildly. “Whatever this thing is, it’s not just imprisoned—it’s siphoned. Look at the lamp—they are drawing energy from the being. Constantly.”
“Can it see us?” Kyra asked.
“Oh yeah,” Robot Buddy replied. “It’s looking right at you.”
The smoke-being slammed again, harder than before. The room shuddered. For a moment, it looked like the barrier cracked before a shimmer of the wall seemed yo heal itself.
Evan stepped in front of Kyra, tense. “Let’s move. Now.”
As they turned away from the cell, the heavy door hissed shut behind them—but the echo of that blue creature’s rage still reverberated in Kyra’s chest.
She didn’t get far.
Her legs locked up halfway down the next hallway. Her breathing hitched, and she stopped cold, arms trembling at her sides.
“I can’t,” she muttered, her voice barely audible. “I can’t just walk away from that.”
Evan turned fast, his face drawn and tight. “Kyra—”
“They were babies, Evan.” Her voice cracked. “Fucking babies. Cut open, screaming without a voice, begging for someone to help them. And we just—walked past it? We’re just gonna pretend we didn’t see it?”
Robot Buddy hovered in front of her, his voice low and calm. “Kyra, I know this is hard—”
“No, shut up, don’t tell me this is ‘hard,’” she snapped, tears brimming in her eyes. “This isn’t hard. This is fucking evil.”
Evan stepped in close, placing a firm hand on her shoulder. “You think I don’t want to go back there and burn this whole place down? You think I didn’t want to rip those people off the tables?”
Her eyes locked onto his. “Then why aren’t we doing it?!”
“Because that’s not the mission,” Robot Buddy interjected gently. “Not yet. If we go loud now, we risk losing everything. The footage. The data. The location files. We stop this today, maybe we save a few lives. But if we finish this mission, we might stop it everywhere.”
Kyra blinked, shaking her head like she was trying to physically fling the images out of her mind. “I can still hear them. In the tanks. On the tables. That girl with her fucking chest open—her eyes—she was looking right at me.”
“I know,” Evan whispered, his hand tightening. “I saw it too.”
Kyra pressed her knuckles to her mouth, biting down to keep from crying. Her whole body trembled like a coiled spring. “We better stop it,” she whispered. “Because if we don’t—if this was for nothing—I swear to God, I’m coming back here and killing every single one of them.”
“We will,” Evan promised, eyes burning with quiet fury. “We’re going to make sure this place burns.”
Robot Buddy nodded solemnly. “But not until we get the proof. Without it, we’re just another story they’ll erase.”
Kyra wiped her eyes roughly, took a shaky breath, and finally nodded. “Okay. Let’s finish this.”
Evan turned down the corridor. “Control room’s two levels down. Let’s move.”
The moment Evan, Kyra, and Robot Buddy stepped into the final chamber, the atmosphere shifted. The lights above flickered and dimmed to a sickly blue hue, casting twisted shadows across the sleek metallic floor. The air was thick with tension, heavy like a storm about to snap—and in that silence, something was wrong.
Evan tensed. “Guns up,” he muttered.
Kyra raised her rifle.
Click.
Nothing.
She tried again, flipping the safety, smacking the side. “What the hell?”
Robot Buddy began to jitter in midair, his body spasming with sudden glitches. His voice crackled. “S-Something’s interfering w-with my core functions—too much m-m-magic energy in the room—”
Then the smell hit them.
Not just metal. Not just ozone.
Burned flesh. Hot blood. Rot.
And then it moved.
From the far end of the chamber, emerging from behind a veil of steam, came the abomination. It moved with a sluggish, wet dragging sound, like muscle torn free from bone but still unwilling to die. Metal plating fused with sinew wrapped its frame—twisted blades jutted from its arms, and a distorted face, partially human, partially machine, partially something else, glared down at them through hollow sockets filled with glowing runes.
“What the actual fuck is that?” Kyra whispered, stepping back.
Evan’s voice dropped. “That’s not Mazekielite tech.”
“It’s not,” Robot Buddy choked out, flickering like a candle in the wind. “They've been siphoning power… from the genie. That thing is running on raw chaos magic.”
The creature let out a distorted growl, its voice like broken glass. “Intrudersss… you’re too late. This vessel is... perfection.”
It moved—faster than it should’ve.
Evan reacted instantly, trying to teleport across the room— nothing happened. Confused, he tried again.
A jolt of searing energy blasted through his body.
“AAAGH!” Evan collapsed to one knee, his muscles locking up for a moment like he’d been tasered by a god. “Shit—okay—can’t teleport!”
Kyra’s eyes went wide. “You okay?!”
“No!” Evan snapped, staggering upright. “Room’s blocked. Every time I try to use powers I didn’t manually give myself, I get electrocuted!”
He tried to lift off the ground—another punishing jolt ripped through his spine. He bit down hard to stifle a scream. “Flight’s dead too.”
“What the hell can you do?” Kyra shouted.
“Only what I already gave myself,” Evan growled. “Super speed. Strength. And every martial art known to man.”
The creature lunged. Evan barely dodged the swipe of a blade-arm, the wind from it slicing a shallow cut along his cheek. He didn’t hesitate. His fists clenched, and he shot forward with blinding speed, landing a solid punch to the creature’s chest. It barely budged.
“Shit,” Evan grunted. “It’s like hitting a goddamn tank.”
The creature responded with a backhand that sent Evan flying into the wall with a bone-rattling slam. He dropped to one knee, shaking off the impact.
“Alright then,” he muttered, spitting blood. “Time to go full Bruce Lee.”
He rocketed back in, fists and elbows flying. His body moved like a blur—every martial art he’d ever downloaded flowing through him in one seamless flurry. Muay Thai knees. Krav Maga disarms. Aikido rolls. Jeet Kune Do strikes.
He landed hit after hit, chipping away at the armor—but the monster just kept coming.
Kyra ducked behind a column, yelling, “My guns are bricks! I’ve got nothing!”
Robot Buddy was still glitching midair. “Can’t—hack—the—environment. All functions… critical—”
Evan knew he was on his own.
The monster’s blade-arm came down hard. Evan caught it with both hands, muscles straining as the steel screeched against his skin. The thing leaned in close, its breath reeking of death and ozone.
“You bleed like a man,” it whispered. “You’ll die like one too.”
“Funny,” Evan growled. “I was about to say the same thing.”
He ducked low, sweeping the creature’s legs and driving a heel into its exposed joint. The metal cracked, and for the first time, the monster roared in pain.
Evan smirked. “There it is. Weak spots.”
He backed off for a second, chest heaving. Sweat stung his eyes. His muscles screamed. But he wasn’t done.
Not yet.
But Evan was losing ground. Every breath burned. Blood seeped from a slash across his chest, and the monster was still coming—limping, but unrelenting. Its jagged metal frame twitched with every movement, arcs of stolen magic flaring from the pulsing blue core in its chest. Flesh fused with steel oozed some kind of black bile that hissed as it hit the floor.
His punches weren’t enough.
His kicks weren’t enough.
He wasn’t enough.
The monstrosity charged again, blades spinning out from its forearms. Evan dodged, barely. One of the blades clipped his arm, tearing through muscle. He stumbled back, panting hard.
“Evan!” Kyra’s voice snapped through the chaos. She ducked behind a toppled console, clutching a single, matte black grenade. “My guns are fried, but this… this still works!”
She yanked the pin and hurled it with everything she had.
The grenade soared—perfect arc—headed right for the monster’s chest.
But the beast reacted fast.
CLANG!
With a snarl, it batted the grenade away like a fly. The small explosive clattered across the floor, rolling toward the edge of the chamber.
Evan’s eyes locked on it.
Time slowed.
And he moved.
With a burst of blinding speed, he zipped forward—wind cracking behind him—his body flickering like a glitch in reality. He reached the grenade mid-roll, spun his body, and—
CRACK!
—landed a spinning heel kick with all his enhanced strength.
The grenade rocketed straight back toward the creature’s chest.
The thing barely had time to raise its arms.
BOOOOM!!!
The explosion was violent. Fire and shrapnel tore through its body, ripping armor apart and blasting chunks of flesh into the air.
But Evan wasn’t done.
He was already moving—launched forward by the shockwave. He hit the creature at the exact moment of detonation, both fists slamming into the exposed power core like sledgehammers.
SPLAAAAT!!!
The core imploded into a bloody, pulsing mess. The metal around it buckled, bent inward, and ruptured. The creature screamed, but it wasn’t a machine sound anymore—it was human and inhuman all at once, like a choir of souls being dragged into hell.
Its torso burst open in a shower of guts, wires, and white-hot bone.
Evan’s arms were soaked in blood up to the elbows. His chest heaved.
The monstrosity crumpled forward, a gurgling noise echoing from the twitching mess that was once its head.
Then silence.
Just the soft hiss of cooling metal and the drip-drip-drip of gore hitting the floor.
Evan wiped the blood from his face with a shaky hand.
“Jesus Christ…” he muttered, stumbling back.
Kyra ran to him, wide-eyed. “That was… insane. Are you okay?”
He gave a weak nod, still trying to catch his breath. “Remind me… to never skip leg day.”
Robot Buddy floated over, glitching slightly but managing to speak. “That… was the most badass shit I’ve ever seen.”
Evan dropped to one knee, blood soaking through his shirt, hands trembling from the force of the final blow. His knuckles were split open, coated in bits of bone and scorched metal. The room smelled like burnt flesh and ozone.
Kyra was at his side in a second, helping him up. “Jesus, Evan… that thing almost tore you apart.”
“I’m fine,” he muttered, wincing as he stood. “Just… feel like I went ten rounds with a meat grinder.”
They looked back at what was left of the monstrosity—just a heap of twisted metal and pulpy, red ruin. The glowing blue residue from the genie-like being’s stolen energy still sparked faintly within the carnage, like it was trying to crawl its way out.
Then Evan turned his eyes toward the source of that power.
The lamp still floated silently in its containment field.
And next to it, the smoke-like blue being—the real source—was slamming its amorphous fists against the translucent walls of its prison, snarling silently in a language that vibrated in their bones.
Kyra’s breath caught in her throat. “That’s it… That’s the thing they’ve been siphoning.”
Robot Buddy hovered next to them, glitching badly now—eye flickering, voice distorted. “Magical being… high-density power signature… reality-warping potential... off-the-charts... off-the-charts...”
The being’s eyes locked onto Evan’s.
For a second, everything stopped.
Evan felt it—rage, pain, betrayal, a thousand years of imprisonment compressed into a single agonizing stare. His skin crawled.
“They tortured it…” Kyra whispered, stepping forward.
“Kyra,” Evan warned, “don’t.”
She didn’t listen.
She stood before the glowing cell, eyes filled with horror and guilt. “How could they do this? It’s alive. They’ve been draining it.”
Her voice cracked. “They’ve been feeding its power to monsters. That thing we just killed—that was made using this.”
She backed away, shaking her head, then turned to Evan. “We can’t leave it here.”
“I don’t want to either,” Evan said quietly. “But we don’t know what it is. What it could do if we let it out.”
“I don’t care,” she snapped, tears in her eyes. “This is wrong, Evan. All of it. And the kids… the babies we saw…” Her voice broke completely. “I can’t just walk away from this.”
Evan looked down. His fists clenched. “You think I want to? You think I didn’t see those fucking tanks and want to rip this whole place apart?”
Kyra was crying now. Silent tears streaked down her face as she turned away, covering her mouth.
Robot Buddy’s voice cut through the silence—faint, stuttering. “If we… extract the data… we can find where the others are. Maybe even take down the network. But we need to go. Now.”
Evan looked back at the being one more time.
It had stopped slamming the walls. Now it just floated there, watching them—silent, seething.
“We’ll come back,” Evan whispered, like a promise. “We’re gonna burn this place to the ground. Just not today.”
He grabbed Kyra’s hand. “Come on. We get the intel. We get out info. Then we save them.”
Kyra didn’t speak, but she nodded.
Her hand squeezed his back.
The three of them turned toward the next door, the soft thrum of containment fields buzzing behind them like a heartbeat in the dark.
As the door hissed open, a wave of tension slammed into them like a freight train.
Inside, the lights were low—red emergency bars glowing like hellfire along the floor. And there, standing dead center with a ghost of a smile, was Agent Clark.
Surrounding him were rows of agents.
Dozens. Maybe a hundred.
All armed.
All waiting.
All aiming straight at them.
Clark took a slow step forward, eyes locked on Evan like a wolf that had finally cornered its prey.
“I was starting to think you’d run,” he said, voice cold and smooth. “But this? This saves me a trip.”
He smiled wider—something cruel behind it.
“You’re not getting out of here alive.”
The room stayed silent, but the weight of what was coming was suffocating.
Evan’s fists clenched.
Kyra’s eyes darted toward the nearest cover.
Robot Buddy’s panels pulsed red.
30Please respect copyright.PENANAjg71ffeX93
30Please respect copyright.PENANA2EmYXVGyAI
30Please respect copyright.PENANAyEnGN0hPrV
30Please respect copyright.PENANAwMGmus389F
30Please respect copyright.PENANAPb6K3Gwmck
30Please respect copyright.PENANAEhTBmkS5uJ
30Please respect copyright.PENANAR8X731f9QW
30Please respect copyright.PENANANYu7O7diGq
30Please respect copyright.PENANAAr7HTOi1Fd
30Please respect copyright.PENANArRkR5cFVlN
30Please respect copyright.PENANAGUmK0V6YQe
30Please respect copyright.PENANAgCZknLBTsN
30Please respect copyright.PENANACQbrL96HJP
30Please respect copyright.PENANANxyi9IGg26
30Please respect copyright.PENANAv9DaUX4q4u
30Please respect copyright.PENANA5hT5F58gVs
30Please respect copyright.PENANAgh2Imsu3ym
30Please respect copyright.PENANAHmmRUWKtom
30Please respect copyright.PENANAOXviC86RgL
30Please respect copyright.PENANAdtH2KfD9YR
30Please respect copyright.PENANA96UfYP0FSC
30Please respect copyright.PENANAnp1mcDzxvZ
30Please respect copyright.PENANA4PsiW4kEvl
30Please respect copyright.PENANA1fMGaNotzo
30Please respect copyright.PENANArCq3sRKbL7
30Please respect copyright.PENANAnTtewbJosa
30Please respect copyright.PENANAcXRBzD6Ul5
30Please respect copyright.PENANAWEuRnqzRvo
30Please respect copyright.PENANABe10Zyv1Lu
30Please respect copyright.PENANAovVAZhsSz5
30Please respect copyright.PENANAdLV8xZiEym
30Please respect copyright.PENANAujMXnAFbuw
30Please respect copyright.PENANAmaCInOw4cK
30Please respect copyright.PENANACbi9VbT1qn
30Please respect copyright.PENANAUNdY5f7nNu
30Please respect copyright.PENANA1dcq277bVA
30Please respect copyright.PENANAyfEM3F3MET
30Please respect copyright.PENANAQVT9ozWNtI
30Please respect copyright.PENANAjm70kXEINx
30Please respect copyright.PENANAjuEpF1skeE
30Please respect copyright.PENANA23sdwYp3TZ
30Please respect copyright.PENANAhhJ6UZbRa3
30Please respect copyright.PENANAiXmbMw2zps
30Please respect copyright.PENANAxTPNj9Z9H3
30Please respect copyright.PENANAYVNtKBO51P
30Please respect copyright.PENANAYnVZtjPhLm
30Please respect copyright.PENANAFcnxqJlUnt
30Please respect copyright.PENANASJSt748H2V
30Please respect copyright.PENANAYspM62Qrg3
30Please respect copyright.PENANAAj0kyagCbQ
30Please respect copyright.PENANAXPq5Lj5UEQ
30Please respect copyright.PENANAVVcgpyLZ9p
30Please respect copyright.PENANAFH3QYBiF4B
30Please respect copyright.PENANAvKJEG7B2hi
30Please respect copyright.PENANAFbra2v5gSy
30Please respect copyright.PENANAWzzfqDPQKk
30Please respect copyright.PENANAq6tl7edI9p
30Please respect copyright.PENANAH9TaCHuDZb
30Please respect copyright.PENANANlDYuQIeQM
30Please respect copyright.PENANAgtGqQ1NQd2
30Please respect copyright.PENANASXa2JO9G8x
30Please respect copyright.PENANA2YY4eI30oB
30Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6MIji3RAh
30Please respect copyright.PENANAc3dtVHwdel
30Please respect copyright.PENANA7WOvwDY4qT
30Please respect copyright.PENANAnV02c9BOlD
30Please respect copyright.PENANAbMjJsUGqYM
30Please respect copyright.PENANAJbcI3ikODn
30Please respect copyright.PENANAATv3lZqUVi
30Please respect copyright.PENANAAzJUIuPeg5
30Please respect copyright.PENANAC8ZSDyyblY
30Please respect copyright.PENANAQTFoZ0WzJr
30Please respect copyright.PENANAM0AkvP816z
30Please respect copyright.PENANAwGBi0qkgWT
30Please respect copyright.PENANAE0Ygw5Pke2
30Please respect copyright.PENANAO0MsDchKWt
30Please respect copyright.PENANAfugAVgNzkD
30Please respect copyright.PENANANBwdBWTwNu
30Please respect copyright.PENANAMc5VvsYmrx
30Please respect copyright.PENANABXsd4cZZS3
30Please respect copyright.PENANA4fbBbnZoOG
30Please respect copyright.PENANA294956D3Zw
30Please respect copyright.PENANAY7CnKtepUG
30Please respect copyright.PENANAsk2xHcv5Rn
30Please respect copyright.PENANARpjeeCtb3l
30Please respect copyright.PENANAO56Q7tpFjp
30Please respect copyright.PENANAxriRJKlWvj
30Please respect copyright.PENANAjItqcJF0Wy
30Please respect copyright.PENANA3WCi7eAjjq
30Please respect copyright.PENANADG7O7Wy9Oe
30Please respect copyright.PENANAoBCkAK81aG
30Please respect copyright.PENANAtP7POtldcA
30Please respect copyright.PENANABQjJ8qsp9Q
30Please respect copyright.PENANARpV2EUPe65
30Please respect copyright.PENANAk8j1dl22A5
30Please respect copyright.PENANASZczgrskMG
30Please respect copyright.PENANAdsYrzCnvok
30Please respect copyright.PENANAgoFOK078mE
30Please respect copyright.PENANANbBu1428hS
30Please respect copyright.PENANAEMLk88yoFw
30Please respect copyright.PENANAZu4aJboj5i
30Please respect copyright.PENANAVCN4CfvZej
30Please respect copyright.PENANA7wMTZCJ6iu
30Please respect copyright.PENANA5yl7YnAG2w
30Please respect copyright.PENANAuxwRBCduod
30Please respect copyright.PENANA8XPxiMaoKL
30Please respect copyright.PENANAHK2AinyXP3
30Please respect copyright.PENANA0UF7FSUb7w
30Please respect copyright.PENANAbFOwEJLhXL
30Please respect copyright.PENANAxPSIPQTBGR
30Please respect copyright.PENANATLQT7UtCkg
30Please respect copyright.PENANARm97YEJ4eS
30Please respect copyright.PENANAMNRQFvzBzo
30Please respect copyright.PENANAie4i5TzozR
30Please respect copyright.PENANAXd6uHKPt20
30Please respect copyright.PENANATj8tLrZSgm
30Please respect copyright.PENANAD7CJNz8GI3
30Please respect copyright.PENANAgEnZ7MCfRi
30Please respect copyright.PENANAkk7CTA1kN3
30Please respect copyright.PENANA5La6wLUuIf
30Please respect copyright.PENANA9VsEef4WSn
30Please respect copyright.PENANAStA0HZQMqg
30Please respect copyright.PENANAyDNsInQk6L
30Please respect copyright.PENANA3qMfDWQ9h0
30Please respect copyright.PENANAG1rkH3LcL7
30Please respect copyright.PENANA8Esubv1KzP
30Please respect copyright.PENANAOMLjtgytd0
30Please respect copyright.PENANADwmtSiyeCI
30Please respect copyright.PENANAG3oHh2PGRC
30Please respect copyright.PENANA1WofETZHOV
30Please respect copyright.PENANAbasSS0efQ3
30Please respect copyright.PENANAh4tF7K0keK
30Please respect copyright.PENANAXDkg9eZn2C
30Please respect copyright.PENANAsUPnErm7rc
30Please respect copyright.PENANAkBXtqjeUZB
30Please respect copyright.PENANAogR3Vg3Qcc
30Please respect copyright.PENANAPeFvMPMHq4
30Please respect copyright.PENANAQs6TqIKqcm
30Please respect copyright.PENANAdbXbIMM6Dq
30Please respect copyright.PENANAmmW7wPraGB
30Please respect copyright.PENANAkJaSC8qZqL
30Please respect copyright.PENANAl0briai8qB
30Please respect copyright.PENANAq6ATv4Qco0
30Please respect copyright.PENANArDL09BgIkQ
30Please respect copyright.PENANAv9t2NNxJaW
30Please respect copyright.PENANAVq9aW5K14b
30Please respect copyright.PENANAiHuvZr91E4
30Please respect copyright.PENANAwUVlGWrzKQ
30Please respect copyright.PENANAEJif0NVjfC
30Please respect copyright.PENANApXN3DIwg67
30Please respect copyright.PENANAxGcmeJ3HPz
30Please respect copyright.PENANAwyjyNLMk37
30Please respect copyright.PENANAOVMovo4WBp
30Please respect copyright.PENANAqcIxz1VuWu
30Please respect copyright.PENANAIOTenwrGGu
30Please respect copyright.PENANAa0m7hLPGx4
30Please respect copyright.PENANAj5S6NLxP8P
30Please respect copyright.PENANA0U70gvP2vV
30Please respect copyright.PENANATPxNyeNvk0
30Please respect copyright.PENANAuX7OQVMVhs
30Please respect copyright.PENANAGzJMnY66tF
30Please respect copyright.PENANAbeGrXWtuO9
30Please respect copyright.PENANAxhGycZiwSe
Then—static.
ns3.135.214.241da2