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2 Blue Light, Black Blood

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The heavy steel doors sighed open on tired hinges, coughing out a draft that smelled of disinfectant and hot wiring. Jack slipped through first, the Ghosts fanning in behind him, swallowed by a vast entry hall where darkness pooled in the corners and pulsing blue LED floor strips ran like veins of electric ice. The glow skimmed polished concrete and turned metal edges alien—every angle a blade, every reflection a trick.

Bruno tipped his NVGs down, tested the image, scowled. “This place creeps me the hell out.”

Wolfgang tried his own. The world dissolved to useless haze. “They don’t work for shit.”

“It’s the blue lights,” Pauly murmured, tracing a strip with his beam, fascinated despite himself. “Scrambles NV—wrong wavelength balance, overloads the tubes.”

Jack’s jaw hardened. He kept his voice low. “Torches on. NVs are useless in here.”

White cones lanced out, slicing a grid across slick corridors and glass-walled offices. The place looked more like a boutique biotech startup than a black lab—tasteful signage, frosted panels, brushed steel, ergonomic chairs sitting like patient insects.

They moved with the silence of habit: feet rolling, muzzles floating, breath pulled through balaclavas in careful sips. At the first intersection, Jack raised a fist. The team froze. Voices bled through the air, thin and urgent, riding the ducting.

He motioned them down.

Two researchers stepped from a door marked RESEARCH—lab coats, badge lanyards, shoes squeaking softly. One had the soft round shoulders of a man who belonged to screens; the other had a sharper posture, a neat beard, a voice with a thick Middle Eastern cadence.

“These latest results are good enough,” the bearded one said, low, the kind of certainty born of long nights and bad bargains.

“It took six months to crack Supernatural,” the other replied. “The politician better be pleased.”

They turned the corner, oblivious to the shadows that watched them leave.

Jack’s hand flicked forward. Ghost Team flowed, soundless.

At the RESEARCH door, Jack split the unit with a glance. Michelle’s element peeled off, shadows slipping to secure the next block. Jack took his core—a knife of four—and slid inside.

The temperature dropped a few degrees. Sterility lived here. Stainless benches glinted. Fume hoods purred. Glass tanks held malformed embryos suspended in preserving fluid, their chalk-white eyes milked over. One had a second jaw budding from its throat like a cruel idea. Another had limbs budding where ribs should be.

Cages lined the far wall—tigers drugged and breathing in slow tremors, monkeys slumped like discarded coats, owls and eagles hooded and motionless. The air tasted like iodine and pennies. Somewhere a compressor coughed and settled.

Sonja leaned into the cold glow of a jar and stared at a rat with two skulls fused along the temple. Her voice came out near a whisper, as if the room might correct her. “This place is wrong.”

Will worked a fridge, breath ghosting on the gasket, and pulled rows of colour-coded phials that clinked gently in their rack. He held one up: green cap, label neat and minimal. “Supernatural.”

Jack slid a red folder off a terminal, cracked it with his thumb. Touch. Hearing. Smell. Taste. Sight. — SUPERNATURAL. The headings stacked like a threat. He didn’t read the rest; he didn’t need to understand it to hate it.

Pauly, what the hell is this?” Jack asked without looking up.

Pauly angled the vial under his torch, eyes narrowing, brain already mapping molecule families he couldn’t see. “Prototype enhancement. Sensory pathways. Looks clean on the outside—what matters is the carrier and the dose curve.”

“To what end?” Jack said.

Sonja didn’t move her gaze from the jar. “Predator instincts. Give a man a tiger’s nose and a hawk’s eye, he’ll start thinking like a blade.”

Jack grunted. “Overclock the senses and you cook the brain. We’ve seen what happens when soldiers get more input than judgment.”

The lights snapped to full, panels booming up the lumens. Their torches were suddenly ridiculous, too bright on bright.

“Torches off,” Jack snapped, pupils fighting.

Comms tore themselves open with a burst of static and panic—Michelle, clipped and breathless: “Help! We need help! Contact with hostiles in rear factory room!” Gunfire ran under her words—controlled, disciplined, then skidding into something uglier.

“Michelle, respond!” Jack barked. “Ghost Team, we move—now!”

They spilled out into the corridor and straight into a storm of muzzle flashes. Iraqi guards in matching kit, firing in trained volleys. The ceiling sloughed plaster. Drywall spit out puffs like chalk bombs. Rounds chewed ragged holes inches from Jack’s cheek.

Jack and Bruno slid behind the intersection jamb, dust waterfalling over their shoulders.

Pauly!” Jack yelled without looking. “Where’s Michelle?!”

Pauly’s wrist display blazed—a thermal map spooling like a heartbeat. “Far end—last door left. They’re boxed—no out.”

At the corridor’s far end, a tall man in a black turban stepped neatly out of shadow. His face was a map of healed violence, a lattice of pale scar tissue. He lit a cigarette with a slow match, watched it take, and spoke in Arabic without raising his voice: TaharkuKhudhhum al-aan!” Move. Take them now.

Ten guards changed shape—five dropped to a knee, five stood behind—a perfect two-tier wall. Their muzzles leveled as one. A kill box drawn by someone who’d built them before.

Bruno flattened himself to the tile and risked a glance around the corner, the angle bad, the picture good enough. “We’re not letting them die like this.”

He slid a 40mm into the M203 with a click that sounded like a promise.

“Bruno, wait—” Pauly started.

BOOM.

The grenade tore down the corridor with heat and metal. Fire rolled low and fast. Glass screamed. Ducting ripped itself free. The ceiling remembered gravity and surrendered in sheets.

They charged through smoke and floating grit. The corridor belched them into a wide-bellied space: the factory floor turned shipping hub—containers stacked by forklift choreography, steel walkways webbed overhead, winches hanging like iron fruits. Fluorescents flickered, stuttering the world like bad film. Somewhere a warning siren trilled once and died, as if it had thought better of it.

Stillness now. The aftershock kind.

Michelle’s team were on the deck—two not moving at all, another trying to breathe through a punctured lung, a fourth clutching a thigh and leaking. Jack’s blood went cold in that particular way that keeps you alive and ruins you after.

Something moved in the negative space.

Fast.

It came like gravity, low and heavy and wrong, a blur of muscle wrapped in black lightning. Claws flashed in the strobing light; the sound it made when it hit bone didn’t belong in a human building. Limbs tore loose as if they’d only ever been taped on. Blood sprayed the sides of containers and tagged them with a design language older than language.

Bruno’s voice lost colour. “Oh my God…”

For one hiccup of time, the thing was clean in Jack’s sight picture: massive shoulders, a slick oil sheen on not-skin, knee joints working like a big cat’s, eyes a forge’s throat. Its mouth was not a mouth—it was a decision.

It looked at them. Head cocked. Evaluating. Hungry. Malicious. Curious, in the way storms are curious where cities put their windows.

Then it folded.

Bones cracked like gravel under a boot. Muscle rippled and withdrew. The black became cloth. The shape uncoiled itself and stood in the shape of a man. The scarred face. The same cold eyes. The black turban tightening as if a hand had twisted it.

He smiled with a kind of weary amusement. A silenced pistol came up in his hand as if grown there.

Michelle, half-sat, half-fallen, looked up at him—recognition flickering with something like betrayal, confusion, fury.

Bang.

The sound was small. The moment was not.

She tipped sideways. Her scream lived only in Jack’s memory, sawed off at the start.

Jack’s vision tunneled. The world contracted to the thin circle of his breath. Rage didn’t surge; it condensed—diamond-hard, purpose-shaped.

They moved like one organism. Bruno and Sonja and Will ripped charges from their carriers, planted them along the stencilled words—SUPERNATURAL—on the nearest crate stacks. Pauly threw a block to Jack; it smacked his palm and he slapped it home, thumb lingering on the familiar ridges of the detonator.

“This is for them,” he whispered, and the night took the vow.

Click.

Heat bloomed in a daisy chain. One crate became six became twenty. The floor kicked. Fire chased itself through ducting, found oxygen in the right wrong places, and roared. Glass lenses burst with popping sounds like cheap applause. The cages howled—then toppled and went silent. A chemical sweetness curled into the back of the throat, stuck there like an old lie.

They didn’t run. They did what Ghosts do—vanished between the beats of a siren, bodies finding the negative space between flames and sightlines, feet remembering the way out they hadn’t taken in.

Outside, the desert was still terrible and still honest. The night accepted them without comment. The lab burned behind them, a red wound stitched across the horizon, black smoke unrolling into a starless sky.

On the ridge, Jack looked back once, the heat brushing his face like a hand. Somewhere inside the blaze, the memory of Michelle’s half-smile and sharp voice refused to be burned.

“Captain,” Bruno said, quiet, a statement and a question.

Jack nodded once. “We’re not done.”

They moved, shadows against sand, fire at their back, a new war walking in step with them.

Because whatever that thing had been—whatever wore a man’s face and smiled before it killed—it was still out there.

And now, it knew their names.

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