</ZERO/>“Keep him under,” the Sergeant orders, “The quicker he drowns, the better,” and we do as she says. The boy’s body squirms, blood seeps from bite marks on his neck, his eyes stare up at me, unblinking. So I push him deeper into the pod, up past my elbows... |
TERMINAL FUSE"In my experience, the dead stay dead. No respawns. No do-over. It’s forever… Right?" Triggering an explosion, seventeen-year-old Angeline Castillo bites it, escaping the ÆRA research facility and its horrors… temporarily. Hours later, she awakens — terrified and alone back in the lab, only to discover cybernetic implants replace half her skull, reversing the damage that’d killed her. Upgraded, she finds enhanced living to be a total blurse. Cuz while technopathic abilities are cool, a disembodied voice in your head that’s reading your thoughts, seeing through your eyes, and speaking in your dead brother’s voice? Not so cool.
Still… the voice’s got a name: Archie, and he claims to have access to the entire facility, so they form a pact. She’ll fight her way to him if he’ll help her survive. But Archie and Angeline have secrets of their own: secrets that could endanger their friendship, his existence, and her very identity. And the closer they get, the more inseparable they become. |