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There was a heavy silence as the massive door creaked open, releasing a wave of cold air from within. A stark, white light poured out from the room, casting sharp shadows on the faces of Jayden, Rhea, and Connor. The sound of slow, deliberate footsteps echoed each step carrying the weight of buried memories, long swallowed by the dark.
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The man who entered was tall, his white beard stained with dried blood across his cheeks. His eyes were like black voids not due to darkness, but because they had seen far more than any human ever should.
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"Jayden," he spoke, his voice soaked in sorrow and rage, "I've been waiting for you... for three years."
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Jayden looked at him, a mixture of shock and suspicion. "You know me?"
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The man stepped closer and placed a hand on Jayden's shoulder. "I was your teacher... but more than that, I was your father's friend."
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His name was Malcolm Arven.
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When Jayden was a child, he grew up in isolation. He was told his parents died in a car accident when he was eight. But every night, as he slept, he felt the presence of someone watching over him. And now, that presence was standing right in front of him, alive and the truth he had never known blazed like an unrelenting sun.
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"Your father, Lucas Crowe, was not an ordinary man," Malcolm said. "He was one of the founding members of Project Rebirth, a prototype meant to enhance human psychological resilience without stripping them of their humanity. But the government, under Ezekiel, hijacked it and turned it into what you now know as Project SIREN."
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Jayden fell silent, his emotions crashing over him like a furious sea. "So... my father was part of all this? What about my mother?"
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Malcolm gave a pained smile. "She was a psychological consultant who helped design mental safeguards for the subjects. Ezekiel needed people with intense emotional thresholds to test the limits of suffering. And you, Jayden... you were their final experiment."
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Jayden's chest tightened. Everything he thought he knew shattered in an instant. He had been part of something monstrous his entire life.
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Connor Black, who had remained quiet, stepped forward. "So we're all tangled in this lie?"
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Malcolm turned to look at Connor. "You are the son of Dr. Orelia Black a scientist who refused to hand over her husband's DNA to the SIREN program. She paid for it with her life."
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Connor trembled. Something inside him broke. He had grown up believing his mother had committed suicide out of madness. Now he realized she had been another casualty of a hidden war.
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Rhea Morgan, now standing close to Malcolm, spoke with a trembling voice. "And me? Am I also chained to this madness?"
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Malcolm looked at her with eyes full of compassion. "You were the final link. A government attorney, defending so-called societal threats when in truth, you were unknowingly protecting SIREN subjects. You helped Ezekiel cover their tracks."
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Rhea staggered. "I believed I was fighting for justice..."
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Jayden placed a hand on her shoulder. "You didn't make the mistake, Rhea. They did those who weaponized our very existence."
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Suddenly, the lights began to flicker. The back door groaned open once more. A voice echoed through hidden speakers Evelyn.
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"So now you know. But are you ready for what comes next? Or do you still believe you can dismantle a system built on your own blood?"
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Connor growled in anger. "What do we do now?"
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Malcolm moved toward a large button mounted on the wall beside a control panel. "I have a way. Beneath this facility is the core server. If we trigger its self-destruct protocol, Project SIREN will collapse and all its records with it."
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Jayden looked him dead in the eye. "What's on that server?"
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Malcolm's voice dropped to a whisper. "Photos. Videos. Experiment data. Torture logs of thousands who were treated like lab rats and the preserved bodies of those who never left."
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Rhea clutched her mouth in horror. "This is beyond evil..."
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Before they could act, all doors slammed shut. White gas began to hiss from hidden vents. Evelyn's voice returned:
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"There's no way out. You will learn, through pain, what your parents failed to destroy."
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Without hesitation, Jayden kicked loose an oxygen pipe from the wall, releasing searing pressure that ignited the gas into flames, consuming the white fog.
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"We end this today," he growled. "The time has come to shatter the chains."
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They scrambled for the emergency exit Malcolm pointed to. Along the way, they were ambushed by augmented guards shells of men, minds erased, programmed predators of the SIREN system. But Jayden was no longer a man running for survival. He had become a leader a phantom of justice carrying the pain of many.
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They reached the server chamber. A massive tank stood in the center, a glass face revealing rows of preserved bodies and over 3,000 names written in blood. Connor spotted his mother's name. Rhea saw the name of her five-year-old daughter the one she was told had died of pneumonia.
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Jayden grabbed a coolant pipe and shattered it. Liquid nitrogen spilled across the room, freezing systems and sending the entire server array into failure.
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Malcolm pulled out a small detonator. "You need to leave now."
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Jayden put a hand on his shoulder. "We're all leaving."
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But Malcolm shook his head. "There's something you don't know. I was part of SIREN for years. My body is infected with their nanovirus. If I leave, I carry that plague with me."
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Jayden clenched his jaw. "You're not a machine. You're human."
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Malcolm smiled. "That's exactly why I'm doing this. So others can live."
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They ran. Through the winding tunnels, out toward the rocky cliffs above. Seconds later, a violent explosion shook the ground beneath them. A fireball blazed behind them burning the records, the evil, and the memory of all the pain it had caused.
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Jayden stood at the cliff's edge, staring into the horizon. Rhea joined him.
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"Did we succeed?" she asked softly.
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"At last... we broke the chains," Jayden said. "But the real war begins now."
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Because Project SIREN was never just a system.
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It was an idea.
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And ideas can't be blown up.
They rise again wit
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h new faces, new names, and the same goal:
To strip humanity... in the name of control.
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