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2025-05-26 19:24:33Chapter 56: The Ghost in the Sky
The shadow was fast.It didn’t fly like a drone or a standard aerial unit—it glided, almost silent, but with a strange distortion trailing behind it, like light warping around something not meant to be seen.
Ethan’s hands moved rapidly over the controls, flipping off the main nav to manual override. “They’re jamming passive radar. I’m flying blind.”
Christopher was already at the rear hatch, rifle ready, eyes scanning the external screens. "Do we engage?"
"Not unless they do first," Isla said.
But she didn't sound sure.
Because something in her bones told her this was no ordinary hunter. The pressure in her head was building again, like hands squeezing inward. Her fingers curled into fists.
"I've seen this thing before," she snarled.
Ethan looked back. "Where?"
In a dream. Or a memory. I don't know any longer."
The shadow dropped altitude. Now it flew alongside them, just out of vision—a shimmering echo on the edge of the skimmer's screen.
Then it spoke.
Not on the comms, not with sound—but in Isla's mind.
"Return."
She stumbled, grabbing the edge of a seat for balance.
Christopher was at her side in a moment, holding her as she wobbled. "Talk to me. What did you hear?
She swallowed. "It told us to return."
"To where?"
"I don't know. But I think." She paused, eyes wide, ".I think it knew my name."
No one had time to reply before a thunderclap split the air.
The ship bucked violently. Alarms wailed.
"EMP charge just detonated above us!" Ethan yelled. "We're losing all non-hardened systems!"
Lights flickered. The skimmer dropped precipitously as backup power took over.
Christopher slammed the emergency panel. "Prep for crash landing?"
"More like forced landing," Ethan snarled. "Buckle up!"
The trees loomed up.
They hit the ground in a shower of flame and smoke, the skimmer careening off snow and ground before slamming to a halt against the jagged foot of a ridge. Sparks flew. Metal screamed.
Then—stillness.
Nothing stirred for a moment.
Then Isla stirred, coughing harshly as she undid her buckle and dropped to the floor. "Is everyone alright?"
"Still breathing," Christopher growled, pulling Ethan out from under a half-fallen panel.
The hacker groaned. "Remind me never to let you two plot flight trajectories again."
Isla looked around. Outside the broken viewport stretched a frozen expanse in every direction. Pines. Fog. Ice. Nothing human to be seen.
But she felt it. A pulse, far underground. Like a heartbeat.
They had arrived.
ECHO-3.
They opened the side hatch by hand—cold air and fog rushed in instantly. Isla stepped out first. Wind cut at her face like knives, but she didn't flinch.
For before them, half-buried in shadow and snow, was a building.
A black alloy dome, softly pulsing with internal lights.
It looked alive.
"What in hell is that?" Ethan breathed.
Isla's eyes were slitted. "That's not a building. That's a vault."
Christopher stared around. They're still no movement signs. But let's presume that we are being watched."
"Presume?" Isla said, turning to him. "We know we are being watched."
There was a growl behind them.
The shadow.
It had landed—quietly, without fire. It simply. appeared. A figure in a tall coat stepped out of its hull. Pale skin. Eyes that reflected faint silver.
Christopher raised his gun, but Isla caught him. Her voice was barely a whisper.
"I know him."
The man's gaze locked onto hers. He didn't speak.
But she knew him.
From the hallway. From the cell. From the cage.
"He was one of the guards," she said aloud. "Before they. reprogrammed him."
The man finally moved.
"Subject 13," he said, voice mechanical. "You have returned."
"I didn't come for you."
"You came for the others. They will not follow you. They are no longer who they were."
"Neither am I," she said.
The man bowed his head. "The awakening is not complete. If you proceed, there will be consequences. You are the catalyst."
Christopher's grip on his gun hardened. "What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means," Isla said, stepping forward, "I'm not the only one waking up."
She turned back to the vault.
And at that, the earth beneath them shook.
A low hum vibrated in the air, like a melody from under the ground.
The door to the vault began to open.
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