Episode 14: “The Eyes in the Dark”

Scene opens:Rain pours outside. Thunder echoes over the dead city. Inside the base, the team gathers around a flickering screen. Keira watches quietly from the back, drawing a new picture: Aran, standing in front of fire… alone.

Liya (pointing at the screen):"This signal… it's coming from underground. South side of Sector 9. Radiation levels are high, but something's alive down there."

Shaggy:"Another lab?"

Liya:"Not just a lab. The lab. The original one. The one where the virus was made."

Aran tightens his gloves slowly, his face unreadable.

Aran:"...Then that's where we go."

Scene shift: Sector 9 – Midnight.

The group moves through the ruins of a collapsed hospital. Behind it, a crater opens into a massive underground tunnel system. Warning signs are burned. The air smells of metal and rot.

As they descend into the tunnels, strange symbols are carved into the walls. Black wires run along the floors. Something here is still… active.

Shaggy (whispering):"Feel that? We're being watched."

Liya (drawing her gun):"Not watched. Scanned."

Suddenly — a sharp click. The wall lights up with dozens of red sensors. Laser tripwires.

Aran raises his hand — energy pulses through his fingers. The wires disable instantly.

Liya (watching him):"You're changing… more every day."

Aran:"I have to."

They enter the main lab chamber. Dozens of pods line the walls. Most are broken. But one... is still sealed.

A voice echoes from hidden speakers — the same cold voice as before.

"Welcome back, Subject A-01. You've come far."

Everyone freezes.

Liya:"Who is that?"

Shaggy (readying her blade):"Show yourself!"

"I will. But first… let's remind you what we made."

The sealed pod hisses open. Smoke pours out.

Inside is a humanoid — eyes glowing red, body reinforced with black virus-metal armor. It steps forward with claws clicking against the floor.

"Meet Subject A-00. The prototype before you."

Liya (shocked):"There was another… before Aran?"

Aran steps forward slowly, staring at the figure. The two lock eyes — as if recognizing something buried deep in each other's blood.

Aran (coldly):"...You were the first. But you broke."

Subject A-00 (grinning):"And you? You're breaking now."

Fight Incoming

The prototype charges. Aran raises his blade. Liya and Shaggy take position behind him. Sparks light the room as steel and virus collide.

Final scene — back at the surface.

Keira looks up from her drawing, sensing something. She whispers:

Keira:"They found him… The one who made him."

TO BE CONTINUED...