Story 674: Into the Inferno

The explosion rocked the ruined corridor, sending shockwaves through the crumbling infrastructure. Flames engulfed the area, painting the night in shades of orange and black. Smoke billowed, thick and suffocating, swallowing everything in its path.

A broken figure stumbled from the fire.

Eva "Black Widow" Morales barely managed to stay on her feet, her body battered, her uniform torn, blood trailing from a deep gash on her side. The grenade had bought her seconds—nothing more.

Through the haze of smoke and fire, a shadow moved.

Heavy footsteps. Unrelenting. Purposeful.

Then, through the burning wreckage, General Viktor "Bloodfang" Kruger emerged.

Unafraid. Unstoppable.

His blackened uniform smoldered, embers clinging to the fabric, but his body had already begun to regenerate. His exposed arms, riddled with burns and shrapnel, mended before her eyes. The beast had survived—again.