The desert station's main room had become a hive of frantic activity. Axel stood at the map table, his eyes tracing the lines that represented the True Origin's operations. They had disabled the Genesis Device. They had rescued Sloan. They had confronted Elias Vance. But the True Origin was still out there, and they were planning something even more terrible. "We need to find a way to stop them permanently," Axel said, his voice flat. "We can't keep playing defense." "I have an idea," Kai said, stepping forward. "There's an underground network. People who've been fighting the True Origin for years. They're scattered across the globe, but they're organized. They have resources, intelligence, safehouses." "Can you contact them?" Axel asked. "I can try. But it's going to take time." Kai

