PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
But Genesis wasn't frozen.
The synthetic mutant’s blank visor snapped toward Baraka.
It’s tracking me, Baraka realized in a split-second of absolute horror.
Because the UN had recorded his Overclock telemetry, they had programmed Genesis’s neural network to process visual and bio-electric data at the exact same superhuman speed.
Genesis didn't just block the punch; it caught Baraka’s glowing violet fist in its open, graphite-plated palm.
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.