Present Day - Thursday Morning, 3 AM
The underground laboratory feels like the center of a storm.
Aria and Marcus work side by side at computer terminals that Sophie has somehow configured to interface with systems they've never seen before.
Code streams across multiple screens while diagnostic equipment hums with the kind of purpose that suggests breakthrough discoveries happening in real time.
Sophie sits cross-legged on the floor between them, drawing diagrams that look like children's artwork but contain mathematical principles that challenge everything her parents understand about physics.
"I still don't understand what we're building," Marcus says, running quantum diagnostic algorithms through Sophie's theoretical frameworks.
"Something that will make the bad people not want to
