Chimera Resistance: Fall Of Man Novels & Stories

code from his "Furious Youth." The Return of the "Apex Asset" The door groaned open, revealing a "Labyrinth" of "Recycled" habitats. This was the "Resistance Node"—a community of "Unindexed" scavengers and "System-Error" refugees who lived in the "Data-Voids" beneath New Geneva.

Internal lights flared on, illuminating the contents. Haley screamed. It wasn't a long scream, just a sharp yelp, like a puppy whose tail had been stepped on. She buried her face in Marcus’s back. "Gross! Gross, gross, gross! Why does it have three eyes?" I looked at the tank she was pointing at. Inside floated a humanoid fetus, curled in the fetal position. It had scales covering half its face and a vestigial wing protruding from its spine. A brass plaque below it read: Subject A-14. Chimera Strain. Viability: 0%. Cause of Death: Genetic Collapse.

It didn’t matter in the face of death. My head jerked to the right, founding the blade glistening. Looking at him, my hand reached for the blade. One second, two seconds, three seconds… “When you wake up in the other world, you’ll be thanking me, Winter.” And I struck the blade to his face, eliciting a roar from him. Bang~ The door to my doom opened, and so many people dragged me like I was nothing. Their eyes scrutinized me as if I was a skilled killer. A scream echoed throughout the path. Gone was the respect in their eyes. What I am now is just a fallen Luna.

“It’s time for your answer, Jasmine.” They were quiet for a moment then as she looked determinedly into Lucifer’s eyes, unafraid now and somehow thinking so much clearer than she did before. No matter what she felt for humanity, no matter how much she hated herself, no matter how much evil was in the world humans deserved a second chance. She deserved a second chance and there was no way she was going to be the reason Lucifer took over her world, even as bad as it was. “No.” She replied, finality in her voice. “You can’t have them. The good people still on Earth, you can’t have them.”

The man in front of her was just pure perfection. Damon placed his hand on Raven’s thigh that alone gave her a tingly sensation.” I want to fuck you’”, he said and that gave made her clit throb and she found herself pressing her thighs together. “I’m not a whore,” she said. He moved his hand slowly, “of course not,” he said. Maybe if she got rid of the sexual tension she was feeling she might feel better, besides she had nothing to lose she might not even see the man ever again.

The landscape became a vast white expanse. Ethan nearly lost his balance. "What happened?!" Daniel spun around. The facility was gone. The helicopters were gone. Everything was gone. Only white emptiness remained. Hope screamed. Ava grabbed her. Rachel looked ready to collapse. Mercer simply closed his eyes. Because he knew exactly what this meant. The reset had already begun. --- Below 14 SECONDS REMAINING. Emma looked around. The chamber was dissolving. Pods disappearing. Walls fading. Thousands of versions of herself vanishing one by one.

Not sky. A vast mechanical lattice. The architecture of the system itself. We are not inside a world. We are inside its operating core. The man’s composure finally shatters. “You were never meant to access this layer.” Dylan pulls back slightly, eyes blazing. “Then maybe we’re not your experiment.” The rooftop collapses beneath us. We don’t fall. We rise. Pulled upward by the resonance pouring from our bodies. The mechanical lattice becomes clearer. Massive rotating rings. Energy conduits.

I paid attention closely as she started off. “You have the chimera ability because of your father who is a human. Many tribes have forgotten or don’t know that mating with a human will always result in their offspring obtaining that ability. As I stated before human DNA is unpredictable, thus the ability to become a chimera will always be present. This is the main reason mating with humans is forbidden. Although the chimera ability will lay dormant, it awakens once the offspring shifts for the first time. You activated your chimera ability when you shifted for the first time.” She paused to let the information sink in. I had questions but I felt like if I waited she would answer them.

“Say you understand me. Just once. Say you see it.” Jason’s throat tightened, but he refused to answer. The Nexus Core pulsed violently. The hum built to a painful roar, shaking dust loose from the ceiling. Then… A voice. It wasn’t Andrew’s. It wasn’t human. It crawled into their minds like an icy current, cold, flat, perfect. “Designation: Chimera. Objective: Order. Process: Assimilation.” Leah’s hand shot to her belt. She yanked free a palm-sized EMP charge, her voice shaking with urgency. “It’s awake! Jason, we have to cut him off. Andrew’s still the link! Sever him, and we might keep it from fully crossing over!”

It was a high-pitched whine that dropped rapidly in pitch, ending in a deafening boom that rattled his teeth and vibrated in his marrow. A black shape dropped out of the clouds, hovering just above the water. It was sleek, angular, and terrifyingly beautiful. The Chimera. Armano stared up, his mouth open in shock. Marigold. Of course she came. She never listened to a direct order in her life. He told her to stay away to protect her, to let him be the sacrifice for once, and she had brought a supersonic fighter jet instead. She is going to be the death of me, he thought, but he found himself grinning despite the blood in his mouth. What a way to go. At least she'll be the one to kill me.