The Black Citadel. Flight Deck. Twelve Hours Later.The heavy cargo doors of the stealth dropship hissed open, venting white steam onto the reinforced tarmac of the Citadel.Seven individuals stepped out into the glaring hangar lights. They were a chaotic, mismatched group of strangers, torn from their lives just hours ago. None of them wore military uniforms.There was Kael, a nineteen-year-old underground street fighter from the slums of Neo-Tokyo, his knuckles still wrapped in bloody tape. Beside him stood Captain Elias Vance, a disgraced former Royal Air Force pilot from London, reeking of cheap whiskey and bitter regrets. Then there was Maria, a hardened inmate pulled straight from solitary confinement in a Texas maximum-security prison, her eyes darting around the hangar with calculating suspicion.They were surrounded by heavily armed Shield operatives, but the guards weren't pointing their rifles at them. They were saluting."Welcome to the end of the world, kids," Jack’s boom
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