Mission Time: 0600 Hours264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLlwDFYB5G
Location: Eastern Reach – Quarantine Zone: Sector 9
The sky bled orange behind a curtain of decaying trees.
Six tactical transports hummed low over dead soil, engines cloaked. Ravenfall and their expanded squad sat in silence — suited up, visors down, weapons locked. In the distance, a gnarled silhouette loomed: Sector 9. The condemned Seraphim vault.
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No wind.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5WN4BNRL0
Not even the static hum of nature dared to exist out here.
Just the thick, choking fog that wrapped around the broken world like a warning.
Insertion Point – 2 Klicks from Target Zone
Luce stood at the edge of the drop ramp, cloak billowing. Sayaka and Lev flanked him, scanning the horizon. Behind them, team members checked gear, tight with tension.
“Team leads, sound off,” Luce ordered.
Sayaka: “Forward recon, locked.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyuEPEGuyzY
Kaia: “Data team ready.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0N5QNnoNnp
Raiden: “Combat squad’s synced.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSd93kbKQp
Dev: “Search and extraction standing by.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWlmV0gBoV1
Ishaan: “Rear guard up. Veer still eating chips.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDLuR4bF2r
Veer (mouth full): “These could be my last chips, thank you.”
Gianluca’s voice came through comms for the final time before signal loss.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGky5otVBk
“You are now entering blackout. Godspeed, Ravenfall.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3iMncy2ze
“Comms cut in 3… 2… 1.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmncVtoGGOE
Click.
The ramp dropped.
Fog devoured everything.
ENTRY PHASE – 0609 Hours
Sayaka, Erik, Sol, and Elior moved ahead, vanishing into the mist with zero sound.
Kaia’s scanner blipped once — then died.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1c0TxTVcb5
“Electromagnetic interference just spiked,” she muttered.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ODoRxrKyk
Laziel tapped his visor. “My HUD's lagging. Something’s jamming us.”
Saira added, “It’s not just jamming. It’s mutating signals. Twisting the feedback loop like it’s… alive.”
Lev grunted. “Because that’s not terrifying at all.”
Vance Reznov adjusted the safety on his rifle and muttered something in Russian. Sol Ardent, walking beside him, conjured a flickering flame orb in his palm — it shivered, like it didn’t want to exist here.
Veer eyed them both.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDuh6yRSxU
“If Sol catches on fire, do we just… roll him in dirt?”
Ishaan: “No. We throw him at the enemy. Fireball style.”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5DuYmNSJY
Sol (deadpan): “Heard that.”
Vance didn’t laugh. He was too busy watching the forest — or maybe trying not to think about his dead father (Gianluca told him before the joining of mission.).
First Visual – Outer Wall
The facility rose out of the land like a mausoleum.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqiScztdXMX
No signs of recent activity. Just rot.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4XxjjYMvA
Its outer security doors were cracked open, warped.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFc37F4kV9m
Inside? Nothing but darkness.
Raiden stepped forward, jaw tight.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHdqf63cGmi
“Doesn’t look breached. But doesn’t look sealed either.”
Elior returned from recon, pale.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2qBZsbKeI
“We didn’t see anything moving. But… I don’t think we’re alone.”
Luce nodded once.
“No lights. No noise. No movement in or out in four days. Either they’re dead… or they’re waiting.”
Anomaly One: Bloodless Trail
Inside, lights flickered dim blue from emergency backup power. Rust clung to the walls. The air was heavy — wrong.
Dev knelt near a long smear across the floor. No blood. No scent.
“Drag marks,” he muttered.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdb84Po04p
Saira: “Where’s the blood?”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fNeRvfNVk
Raiden: “Where’s the body?”
Laziel murmured, “This zone was supposed to be decontaminated.”
Sayaka (over comms): “Negative. This place is active. Heat signature just flickered in Sublevel C.”
Kaia tapped her interface. “Patchy visuals, but there’s something… humanoid. Tall. Movement erratic. It’s gone now.”
Erik tensed.
“It’s watching us. I can feel it.”
Conflict
Dane shoved past Kaia to get a better look at the visual feed.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv8U7fq7Vvc
“Let me see—”
Luce’s hand caught his collar mid-motion.
“You don’t get to shove my people.”
Dane shoved back. “Your people are wasting time.”
Lev snapped, “Say that again and we’ll find out if you bleed, unlike whatever the hell’s down here.”
Vance watched, silent. Observing everything.
Avni raised an eyebrow. “Someone remind me why we brought the frat bro from hell?”264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVis1MPxnZ
Raiden muttered, “We didn’t. He showed up.”
Sayaka’s voice cut through again:264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFvVAsKwXr
“Enough. Movement in Sublevel B. Multiple pings. Nonhuman pattern.”
Descent
Luce stepped forward, pulse calm, voice cold.
“Data team: hold this level. Rear guard: stay alert. Combat team with me.”
He looked back once at the squad.264Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvq1rY2rst
“We go quiet from here. Whatever’s inside… is not dormant anymore.”
They descended into the dark.
The camera feed from Kaia’s drone glitched once.
Then again.
Then showed a figure. Barely visible. Elongated arms. White eyes.
It smiled.
Then the feed cut.
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and then Add to home screen.