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Garrison Eighteen.

Sites across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.

Hidden facilities.

Financial accounts.

Biological inventories.

Research archives.

Names.

Then each location began disappearing.

At every connected dispersal site, Aegis initiated the sterilization systems built into the containment units.

Heat.

Chemical neutralization.

Pressure destruction.

The portable unit beside Elena shut down.

Its timer stopped at:

00:03.

The lights on the device turned green.

BIOLOGICAL AGENT STERILIZED.

Roth exhaled.

Elena closed her eyes.

Across the network, source files erased.

Accounts vanished.

Laboratories disconnected.

Every biological unit displayed the same message.

AEGIS COMPLETE.

FATE DESTROYED.

For one heartbeat, no one moved.

We had done it.

We had ended Project Fate.

Then Kane fired.

The shot exploded through the speakers.