Bought by the Feral Billionaire
The sensory overload of freefall was deafening. Eighty stories of steel, reinforced glass, and concrete split in two, plunging down into the yawning subterranean trench beneath Vance Tower. Rubble crashed around them like falling mountains, illuminated only by the blinding, violent crimson of the orbital targeting beacon locked onto their falling coordinates.
High above, the clouds tore open. A kinetic rod of pure, dense tungsten—dropped from the council's stealth orbital platform—sliced through the atmosphere at Mach 20, turning the night sky into a streak of white-hot plasma.