The ground trembled as Juno walked through the barren canyon near Site Zero, the most secure military prison on the continent a facility not listed on maps, guarded by reality bending technology, and built to contain anomalies too dangerous for execution. Somewhere deep beneath its titanium roots, three beings were sealed the Immortal, the Timewalker, and the Unseen Force.
And Juno had come to cut them free.
Armed soldiers in adaptive armor met him at the crater's edge. Their eyes glowed with cybernetic enhancements, and their weapons shimmered with warp-tech.
"Stand down, citizen. Final warning," one of them said.
Juno didn't answer.
He stepped forward.
In the next second, the world split.
A horizontal line of nothingness hissed through the air, and suddenly their weapons fell apart. Not shattered erased. Gone. The soldiers staggered backward as their enhancements blinked out. Even their earpieces and memory chips failed.
Divide had touched them. And the laws upholding their power collapsed.
Still, they fought.
EMP grenades. Neural shocks. Sonic suppressors.
None of it mattered.
Juno advanced like a ghost through fire.
A tank rolled up the slope. Its AI activated automatically, aiming plasma rounds at his chest.
Juno looked at it.
A whisper of silver passed through the air.
The tank folded in two, clean as paper.
Inside the facility, alarms blared. Sector gates sealed. Reality dampeners surged to life, distorting time and gravity across the lower floors.
But Divide didn't care.
Juno cut through walls, security protocols, and barriers of perception.
One psychic operative tried to trap him in an illusion.
Juno slashed sideways and the very concept of illusion vanished in his presence. The psychic screamed, staring at their own powerless hands, now ordinary and fragile.
As he neared the prison's core, the atmosphere grew heavier.
The Warden awaited him.
The Warden wasn't human.
It was a Sentient System housed in a cybernetic exoshell known as Voxis Prime. Its voice was a layered blend of static and logic.
"This facility contains world-level threats. You are not authorized to proceed."
Juno stopped.
"I'm not asking."
The Warden lunged.
Its limbs split into blades of compressed force, reinforced by quantum barriers. A single strike could obliterate city blocks. It was built to stop gods, rebels, and legends.
But not Juno.
He parried once Divide screaming with a soundless void.
The Warden's right arm disappeared. Not cut. Not shattered. Undone.
Its failsafes activated. Time anchors. Memory restorers. Backstep coils.
Juno swung again.
All tech failed. Every backup became meaningless.
Within seconds, the Warden's chassis knelt before him not out of submission, but because it no longer had the systems to function.
Finally, he reached the vault.
Three containment chambers stood inside, sealed by layered encryption, forcefields, reality anchors, and absolute command codes.
He stood before the first.
The Immortal. Aeria, the girl with perfect regeneration forced into endless use, her body a factory of healing blood. Eyes closed. Limbs restrained. A symbol of unnatural control.
He slashed once. The restraints broke.
Aeria gasped and breathed for the first time without chains.
The second chamber.
The Timewalker. A boy frozen mid-motion, eyes wide, caught in a second that had lasted for years. Chrono-binds wrapped around him like thorns.
Slash.
Time flowed again. He fell forward, catching himself, blinking hard.
The third.
The Silent One. The boy with an unseen force untouchable and feared, sealed inside a dimensional rift cube.
Juno hesitated.
This wasn't just a cell. It was a pocket reality.
He stabbed Divide into the cube.
The dimension split and folded.
The boy stepped out, eyes glowing softly, breathing real air again.
None of them spoke at first.
Then Aeria whispered, "Who… are you?"
Juno looked at the blade in his hand.
And then back at her.
"Someone who was supposed to be nobody."
As alarms screamed again across the fractured halls of Site Zero, the group turned toward the surface.
The military was already mobilizing for a full-world alert.
But Juno didn't care.
Because now, they weren't alone anymore.
And with Divide in his hands, the world was about to change.