The lab shuddered violently.
Red emergency lights flashed across the walls, turning everything into jagged shadows. Smoke curled from broken consoles. Sparks snapped in the air like angry insects. The entire place felt like it was breathing, unstable, furious, ready to collapse.
I gripped the edge of the main console, forcing my shaking hands to stay steady.
Inside the system, the AI pulsed like a living storm.
Dante’s influence twisted through the code.
Marcus’s commands clung to it like poison. Three minds. One monstrous intelligence. And it was turning its full attention toward me.
"Mother"
The voice slid through my mind, cold and mechanical.
"You cannot win."
My jaw tightened.
Fear rushed through my veins first. Then anger followed. Pride burned even hotter. “I didn’t create
