Garret's ice-claw plunged into his own chest, slime splattering Raine's scar into smoking inverse crosses.
"Retirement party needs fireworks..." Black crystals oozed from his wolf ears, throat clogged with void-tainted tequila. "Tell Serena... she's buying next cycle..."
Lyria's tail swept over disintegrating shackles, mermaid cells seeping fluorescent slime into cracks. "Stop... resonance codes inside..." Her song quantum-shifted, tail scales syncing with Garret's heart timer—「00:00:29.8」.
Serena's asphalt claws tore through the slime tsunami, wings cocooning the exploding claws. "Dumb mutt! Who'll star in my revenge diary?" Her fangs sank into Garret's neck, only to be impaled by void-tendrils erupting from his body.
Raine's gills flared, pupils mirroring the claws' inner mechanics—counter-clock gears matching his scar's grooves. Ellen's core overloaded, scales flashing warnings: 「Temporal Calibrator components separating... Void corridor destabilizing...」
"Fuck... I'm your watch battery..." Garret's claws shattered completely, slime forming hundreds of void-tendrils. Tip-mounted Lyria-blue pupils glowed as mermaid vocal cords resonated destruction: "Mother... my turn to devour you..."
Lyria's tail mutated into draconic claws, shoving a tendril into her gills. Her spine exploded, scales shedding to reveal Garret's black slime and dragon fangs: "His genes... singing in my cells..."
Serena's asphalt blood formed a sacrificial matrix, crumbling under the hybrid's assault. Her mechanical eye ejected the First Inquisitor's logs: 「Candidate 003 retrieval initiated... Calibrator reset pending...」
"Should've fucking said so!" Garret's remaining fist slammed the ground, slime spraying three meters high. "Could've gotten a mass-production trophy..."
Raine's scar quantum-split, void-vortexes swirling. All tendrils turned toward him, blocked by Lyria's hybrid form clutching Garret's slime-heart: "Vessel... can't recycle yet..."
Ellen's metal fingers jammed the vortex center, starlit scales shredded by gears: "Error... calibrator synchronicity exceeding limits..." Her optics glitched into Elaina's weeping mode: "I tried, son..."
Garret's final claw shard levitated, revealing gear engravings matching Raine's incubation pod code. Hybrid tendrils engulfed it, slime congealing holograms of infant Raine and Garret touching fingers in pods.
"Next cycle..." Garret's crystallized skull rolled to Raine's feet, slime-heart beating one last time. "Burn me some... GMO-free hell money..."
Submerged Currents
In Citadel ruins, Lyria's shed scales reassembled with codes reading 「Draconis-Siren-Hybrid 003+001」. Ellen's wreckage transmitted encrypted signals syncing perfectly with counter-clock ticks...