PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
ressilife flashed before my eyeseverything went black
The entire strip mine violently fractured, the bedrock buckling under the catastrophic kinetic transfer.
Deep inside the smoking, glass-lined impact crater, a heavy silence fell.
For a terrifying ten seconds, nothing moved.
Then, a massive, muscular arm breached the rubble.
Baraka hauled himself out of the crushed rock. The dark indigo glow beneath his skin rapidly faded. The extreme hyper-inflation of his muscles violently deflated as he released the internal pressure, returning to his lean, heavily scarred Base State.
He collapsed onto his hands and knees, gasping for air, violently coughing up a cloud of ash. His entire body ached with a profound, bone-deep exhaustion, but his skeleton wa