The sound of the locks slamming shut echoed through the lab like a death sentence.Kael turned sharply, scanning the room as red emergency lights flickered along the walls. The air grew thick, pulsing with something unseen, something wrong.They were trapped.Elias let out a sharp breath, his fingers tightening around his gun. His knuckles turned white, but they all knew the truth—bullets wouldn’t get them out of this.Pamela stepped forward, trying the door panel, but as soon as she pressed a button, a shockwave pulsed through the walls. The control panel sparked, the screens glitched, scrambling into unreadable static. The whole lab felt like it was humming—alive, aware of their presence.Her hands recoiled as if she’d been burned. “Shit. It’s completely locked down.”Kael’s jaw clenched.Their third brother—no, the mastermind—watched them with an amused expression, hands clasped behind his back as if none of this concerned him.“I already told you.” His voice was calm. “You have to

A heavy silence filled the lab.Thick. Stifling.Kael’s pulse pounded in his ears, every beat hammering like a war drum, drowning out the faint hum of the emergency lights. The figure in front of them stepped forward, bare feet touching the cold floor with slow, measured precision. The crimson glow of the alarms bathed their skin in flickering shades of red, casting long, sharp shadows against the frost-covered pods.Too slow. Too controlled.Too unnatural.Elias’ grip tightened around his gun, knuckles turning white. His voice was a whisper of disbelief. “No way…”Pamela took a step back, the blood draining from her face. “This isn’t possible.”But it was.Because the person standing before them wasn’t just anyone.He was one of their own.Someone they had buried.Someone they had mourned.Kael’s stomach twisted, his breath catching as the truth hit him like a sledgehammer.Milo.The name barely left his lips, no louder than a whisper, as if saying it out loud would somehow solidify

The tension in the lab was suffocating. It pressed down on them like a living thing, thick and unrelenting, crawling into their lungs, their bones. No one moved. No one breathed.Milo remained frozen in place, his enhanced body locked mid-attack, his expression eerily blank. But it wasn’t because they had overpowered him.Something else had stopped him.Something bigger.The intercom crackled to life.“System override. Level: Supreme.”Kael’s heart slammed against his ribs.No.No one should have that kind of access. No one except—The third brother’s voice tore through the speakers, sharp with rage.“Who the hell is in my system?”No answer.Selene’s fingers flew over the controls at the lab’s main console, her eyes scanning the flood of data spilling across the screens. Her breath hitched.Elias stood beside her, gun still raised, sweat dripping down his temple.“Talk to me,” he muttered. “Tell me this is you.”Selene shook her head, her throat dry. “It’s not me.”Kael took a step f

The walls groaned, their steel reinforcements bending under invisible pressure. The entire facility trembled, its very bones shuddering in protest. Overhead, thick cables swung like nooses, sparking wildly as the emergency lights flickered, casting the room in frantic bursts of red. The air was thick with the scent of burning circuits and ozone, mingling with the acrid sting of dust and shattered concrete.The facility was coming down.Kael felt the tremor before he heard it—a deep, resonant rumble that pulsed through his bones like the heartbeat of a dying beast. The ground lurched beneath them, sending a cascade of debris from the ceiling. A jagged crack splintered across the far wall, a jagged wound that widened with each passing second. The alarm overhead was a shrieking banshee, a relentless countdown to their demise.30 seconds left.Selene was still at the terminal, her fingers a blur over the keyboard. Sweat dripped down her temple, but she didn’t stop. “I just need a few more

The ground convulsed beneath their feet, a violent tremor rattling through the collapsing lab as if the earth itself was swallowing it whole. Choking clouds of dust and smoke billowed into the air, thick and suffocating, turning every breath into a battle against the burning in Kael’s lungs. The very structure groaned in protest, metal beams snapping like brittle bones, glass shattering as the facility gave in to its inevitable demise.Kael’s legs burned with exhaustion, every muscle in his body screaming, but he refused to slow down. Not now. Not when they were this close.Beside him, Elias was practically hauling the third brother forward, his grip vice-like, fingers digging into the man’s arm as if daring him to resist. The captive didn’t struggle—he moved with them, his pace eerily unhurried, that same unreadable smirk lingering on his lips.A few steps ahead, Selene sprinted through the chaos, her fingers flying over the screen of her tablet, eyes narrowed with laser focus. Every