The facility shook again. Harder this time. Support beams groaned. Emergency lighting flickered between red and darkness."We have maybe two minutes before they breach the inner sanctum," X-Three said, moving with practiced efficiency. "Grab the emergency pack. North corridor. There's a phase-tunnel that leads—""You knew." I grabbed his arm, spun him around. "That voice. They said we couldn't think you were helping me. Past tense. Like you were never actually on my side.""Eva, there is no time—""Make time." I phase-shifted partially, let quantum instability crackle around my hands. Three months of training made me dangerous now. Made me capable of things I hadn't been before. "Tell me the truth. Right now. Or I scatter your atoms across seventeen dimensions and let X-One find the pieces."X-Three looked at me. Really looked. And for the first time since I'd met him, I saw something like respect in his expression."You've learned well. Faster than anticipated. More adaptable than pr
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