Vogel Antarctic Facility – Neural Overload Sequence
The world dissolved into static.
Griffin's consciousness fragmented across a thousand synapses, each neural pathway overloading in sequence like dominoes falling through his mind. The facility's quantum processors, designed to amplify and control enhanced cognitive functions, turned against themselves in a cascade failure that rippled through every connected system. He had done this—triggered the overload by forcing his implants beyond their safety parameters, weaponizing his own neural architecture against Vogel's empire of horrors.
Griffin's vision flickered—memories that weren't his flashing behind his eyes like a broken film reel. The neural network that had linked him to the facility's systems was collapsing, but not before dumping decades of stored data directly into his cortex.
Michael's voice, distorted by static: "The perfect heir doesn't hesitate. Emotion is weakness. Control is everything." The memory felt foreign, tinge
