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Part 4 - Sanguinary Affliction

Part 4 – Sanguinary Affliction

London, 2209 – 276 Years Before Impact Day Alarms blared around him as Tyson watched the catastrophe unfold on the monitors in front of him. A knot began to twist in his stomach even before Mason’s orders came through. “Fuck me.” The order came through. Meet me in my office. He didn’t waste any time. Despite the situation, Mason seemed calm, almost preternaturally so. It was almost worse than the…

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Part 3 - Genesis

Part 3 – Genesis

London, 2184 – 301 Years Before Impact Day Mason stood over his daughter’s bed, barely able to feel. She looked so peaceful in death, and he wished he could cry. James had cried. Mason just felt hollow. For nearly a decade, his research had consumed him. He’d neglected Alice, assuming there’d be more time. Then she was gone, and he had nothing. His research had failed to yield the answers he…

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Part 2 - Nothing, From Nowhere

Part 2 – Nothing, From Nowhere

London, 2175 – 310 Years Before Impact Day Shortly after sitting down, Tyson found himself watching an attractive young redhead enter the cafe. To his surprise, she walked straight to his table, and sat down opposite him. Her intense yellow eyes bored into him, catching him completely off guard. “Tyson Briggs?” she asked, with a tone to her voice that suggested it wasn’t really a question.…

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Part 1 - Deus Et Machina

Part 1 – Deus Et Machina

London, 2173 – 312 Years Before Impact Day Charles Mason stood outside, waiting for someone to let him in. While he waited, he admired the architecture of the place, hands in his pockets, wandering aimlessly. It was definitely the sort of place he could picture himself working, if his application was accepted. And why shouldn’t they accept him? His work was years ahead of anyone else in the…

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Epilogue

Glory waited for a host. As good as it felt to be free of XO, they still needed a body. Here, in this world, they had no power. It wasn’t their world. They needed to be careful. Needed to take things slowly. After all, they’d never left their own world before. Any host would do. All they needed was a conduit, a puppet they could use to collect enough power to stand on their own. A puppet they…

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Chapter 60 - Impact Day

Chapter 60 – Impact Day

Liz, Impact Day Charlie’s scream pierced my ears, resonated with every surface I could see. It wasn’t a human scream, but then, Charlie clearly wasn’t human. I didn’t know what she was. A demon, maybe? Something unholy. I held Aidan, his head resting on my lap, groaning in pain. I tried to say something soothing, but the burning sensation around my throat hadn’t passed. No sound came out. All I…

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Bonus - Inviolable

Bonus – Inviolable

Charlie, Impact Day I didn’t know where I was. Nothing around me felt real. It wasn’t darkness, it was just… nothing. Void. Absence. My bedroom? Similar, but wrong. Not quite what I remembered. Or rather, perfectly what I remembered. Not the reality. A fake. “Charlie,” a voice whispered. I turned. It was standing there, dark and hulking, insubstantial but very present. Destructive energy radiated…

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Chapter 59 - She Deserves This

Chapter 59 – She Deserves This

Liz, Impact Day Aidan and I arrived back at Wendy’s cafe, but she was nowhere to be seen. There was a piece of paper sitting on a table, with two seats arranged as though people had been sitting in them only recently. Next to the paper was a small case. Aidan approached the table, opening the case first. He held up a syringe, and shrugged. I walked over, and picked up the note. Liz, Aidan, I…

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Chapter 58 - That Was A Horrible Experience

Chapter 58 – That Was A Horrible Experience

Rachel, Impact Day Watching Charlie reassemble herself from a tiny piece was simultaneously beautiful and unsettling. It wasn’t like a body growing in high speed motion. It was more like each and every cell was comparing its current location to where it should be, and simply relocating itself in the world to be in the right spot. The visual effect was almost more like pixels appearing, one after…

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Chapter 57 - We Need To Get You Out Of Here

Chapter 57 – We Need To Get You Out Of Here

Liz, Impact Day A splash of cold water roused me from unconsciousness. I was chained to an uncomfortably metal chair. Aidan was beside me, dripping wet and looking slightly confused. “So, there are more of you?” a well dressed man with a featureless face asked, pacing in front of us. It took a few moments to get my bearings. We were in a small room with concrete walls, no windows, and a single…

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Chapter 56 - Tell Me You Weren't Expecting This

Chapter 56 – Tell Me You Weren’t Expecting This

Charlie, Impact Day Being dragged to the interrogation room was never fun, but there was an urgency to them that lit a spark of hope in me. Something had changed. Something had unsettled them. My old friend greeted me, his standard impatient scowl replaced with an almost ecstatic grin. That was less encouraging. “You look happy,” I said, refusing to be intimidated. “Good day?” “The very best,” he…

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Chapter 55 - For Charlie

Chapter 55 – For Charlie

Liz, Impact Day “This feels incredible,” Aidan said, flexing his fingers in front of his face. I just watched the rise and fall of his chest, wondering if he was feeling the same thing as me. If I didn’t know better, I’d have described it as anxiety. My body surged with restless energy, discontent with simply standing still. It wanted to be in motion, to act, to live. “What is this?” I asked.…

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Chapter 54 - Charlie Can't Know

Chapter 54 – Charlie Can’t Know

Liz, Impact Day It felt strange, being in the café with nobody else around. There was something strangely transgressive about it, like being behind the stage of a play. Wendy seemed different, too. In a sense, she seemed relaxed, as she shed the veneer of innocence and banality. In another, there was a different kind of tension filling her, like she was dreading a coming storm. She sighed,…

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Chapter 53 - Impossible Is Her Bread And Butter

Chapter 53 – Impossible Is Her Bread And Butter

Rachel, One Day Before Impact Day “What are you doing here?” Sadie asked. The holographic version of her projected onto my glasses folded its arms, pouting. I knew from what she’d told me that Charlie could actually see Sadie, as clearly as any corporeal person. That had confused me for a while, but so far as I could figure without Charlie herself to test on, what she was seeing was a psychic…

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Chapter 52 - This Is Some Real Conspiracy Theory Shit

Chapter 52 – This Is Some Real Conspiracy Theory Shit

Liz, One Day Before Impact Day Six months, and we weren’t any closer. Six months of one plan after another failing. Everything we tried seemed to almost be sabotaged. Either that or we had the worst luck in the world. “What do we do?” Aidan asked, pressing his forehead into his desk. “What else is left?” “I could try to get in,” I said. “If anyone could…” “It’s a slim chance, and if you get…

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Chapter 51 - Until You're Dead

Chapter 51 – Until You’re Dead

Part 6 – Impact Day Liz, Four Months Before Impact Day I stared at the young woman, unable to shake the feeling that something about her felt off, in a way I couldn’t quite explain. It was like she’d been superimposed over a scene in a movie, maybe? Nothing in the world reacted to her the way that it should. She wasn’t paying attention to me. Rather, she stood over the body, unperturbed by the…

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