SEVER ZERO
"We can't fight the sky, Ren. We can't shoot down satellites from the ground."
"Three days," Torque muttered, staring at the empty sky. "We have three days until the world ends."
Ren looked back at the Apex Spire. He thought about Kara working tirelessly in the Core. He thought about Maya and the baby she was carrying. He thought about the two thousand comatose players waking up in the hospital, finally free, only to be told they had three days to live.
Ren gripped the strap of the Archangel sniper rifle.
"They think they have the ultimate high ground," Ren said, his voice dropping into a deadly, calculating whisper. He turned to face his squad, his eyes burning with a terrifying new resolve