I didn't attack first. I waited. Let Council forces and Prometheus Initiative surround the building. Let them coordinate. Let them believe they had strategic advantage. Let them position themselves exactly where I needed them.
Then I phase-shifted through the building's foundation. Emerged in the center of Council's formation. Touched three soldiers before they could react. Didn't dissolve them. Transformed them. Made them Generation One like me. Watched their bodies convulse as protocols Elena embedded activated in new hosts.
"She's replicating!" Dr. Walsh screamed into comms. "Generation One can transfer protocols through physical contact! All units fall back! Do not engage directly! Do not—"
Too late. The three soldiers I'd touched stood up. Eyes glowing with quantum energy. Bodies r
