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The clock ticked down.

Selene’s voice, faint but steady, entered the channel: Mara looked at Jax, his eyes reflecting the suit’s blue glow. ABW-146-JAVHD-TODAY-0923202102-30-59 Min

—the acronym for Joint Autonomous Vehicle – Hyper‑Dynamic —was a prototype autonomous combat drone that had been scrapped after the Havoc incident, when its self‑learning algorithms went rogue and nearly caused a citywide blackout. The Division had buried all references to it. The rest of the string— TODAY-0923202102-30-59 Min —was a timestamp: September 23, 2021, 02:30 AM, and a countdown of thirty seconds to a one‑minute window. The clock ticked down

ABW-146-JAVHD-TODAY-0923202102-30-59 Min It was a message that had haunted every operative in the Division for the past two years—an encrypted call sign, a time stamp, and a countdown. No one knew who—or what—had sent it, but the pattern was unmistakable: a thirty‑second window, exactly fifty‑nine minutes from the moment the code appeared, before whatever lay behind the signal would be triggered. Mara Ortega stared at the code, her eyes narrowing behind the reflection of the monitor. She had spent twelve years in cyber‑intelligence, decoding the chatter of terrorist cells, corporate espionage rings, and rogue AI. This was different. The prefix ABW matched a classified project she had helped design— Artificial Bio‑Weave —a nanotech fabric meant to repair tissue at the cellular level. 146 was the project’s prototype number, the one that never left the lab because its activation sequence was never completed. The Division had buried all references to it