Project Null
Loyalty dies in silence. Truth bleeds in the dark.
Interior – Abandoned Phantom Division Outpost, Sublevel B-12. Lights flicker. Dust dances in laser tripwires. Han Lee moves with surgical precision.
AI
Bio-signatures: negative. Surveillance grid offline. But... something’s watching.
Han Lee
He moves through the corridor. A symbol flashes on the wall: the Phantom crest, scratched over with a red zero.
Han Lee
Protocol Null. I remember whispers.
AI
Classified directive. Created post-Operation Revenant. Project tied to neural override tech.
Han Lee
Neural override... you mean control?
AI
Correction: reprogramming.
Han pauses at a reinforced vault. Places his hand on the pad. It sparks—scars on his palm light up.
AI
DNA recognized. Han Lee. Status: Ghost Commander – Obsolete.
Han Lee
Let’s bring the dead back to light.
Vault hisses open. Inside: racks of black drives. One hums with a dim red pulse. A name etched on its side — Eidolon Protocol.
Han Lee
This is where they broke us.
Han Lee
He inserts the drive into his wrist console. Files decrypt. Screams echo in audio logs.
Archive Log – Subject: Phantom Unit Bravo
Voice – Unknown Scientist
“They trust too easily. Loyalty can be rewritten. We don’t need soldiers—we need assets.
Archive Log – Subject: Han Lee
Vox
He’s too clean. Remove his oversight. Inject synthetic memories. If he resists—terminate.
Silence. Han doesn’t flinch
AI
They rewrote your mission logs. Fabricated betrayals. Gaslit your perception.
Han Lee
They didn’t betray me. They were rewritten to.
Security lights flicker. A door opens on its own. Inside, a single containment pod — occupied. Cryo-fog hisses.
AI
Survivor detected. ID: Wraith. Phantom Alpha. Presumed dead.
Han Lee
The pod unseals. A gaunt figure falls forward, coughing. Eyes bloodshot. Metal implants trail his spine
NPC
Wraith - They said you died. Said you turned.
Han Lee
They said a lot of things.
NPC
Wraith - Everything we did... it wasn’t use. I saw the footage. I killed civilians, Han. With your voice in my ear.
Han Lee
It wasn’t me. It was the ghost of me they built.
Han Lee
Because the truth doesn’t breathe unless someone bleeds for it.
Alarms suddenly blare. Outside—auto-turrets whir to life. Red lights scan.
AI
Incoming forces. Not Division. Something worse. Unauthorized black ops. No insignia.
Han Lee
They’re here to bury the past.
NPC
Wraith - Then let’s give them a tomb.
Both draw weapons. Back-to-back. Fog rising. Archive drive still decrypting behind them.
AI
Warning: Data transfer at 61%. Exfil advised.
Han Lee
No. Not until every ghost file sees daylight.
NPC
You’re still the same. Still the executioner of secrets.
Han Lee
No. I’m the last survivor of a lie.
Gunfire erupts. Lights go dark. The sound of footsteps. The hunt begins again
Author
To be continued ...
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