Red warning sirens wailed through the crumbling Ouroboros base. The floor vibrated violently as the stolen Genesis energy in the lunar core reached critical mass. Valerik laughed, a wet, rattling sound, eager to drag the Planet's Alpha down into a fiery grave with him."Fifty seconds!" Katherine shouted, her tactical HUD flashing with urgent radiation warnings. She stood beside Marcus, projecting an absolute-zero frost dome over the three of them to ward off the rapidly rising ambient heat. "Jack, the core is going hyper-critical. If that detonates, the shrapnel will rain down on Earth like a shotgun blast. We have to fold space and get out of here!""If we leave, Earth takes the hit," Jack said, his voice a calm anchor in the storm of chaos. He walked toward the main reactor viewing port, staring down into the blinding, boiling mass of volatile energy below. "I'm not letting these squatters trash my neighborhood.""Jack, what are you doing?" Marcus asked, stepping up
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