PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
The kinetic shockwave of the impact shattered the ground beneath them, blowing a ten-foot crater into the dirt dojo, but Genesis’s arm didn't even buckle.
Impossible, Baraka thought, his accelerated mind racing. No biological structure can absorb that much momentum without anchoring its mass.
Genesis’s chest lattice flared brilliantly. It wasn't absorbing the kinetic energy; it was instantaneously converting the momentum into localized gravitational density. It was using a synthesized version of Malik’s Tier-Four gravity manipulation to anchor itself to the earth.
Genesis twisted Baraka’s fist, stepping entirely inside his guard, and drove a brutal, mechanical knee directly into Baraka’s rib