Kaelen stood. The bay doors were locked. He didn't need to break them. He remembered—somewhere deep, in that forbidden memory partition—an override code. His fingers moved before his mind caught up. The doors hissed open.
"Warblade," a voice crackled through the bay's speaker. "Report." Warblade 1.2y.6 Download Full Ve
"Then you're more human than we ever intended." Kaelen stood
He woke on a cold slab in a maintenance bay, serial number WAR-BL-1.2y.6 stenciled across his sternum in fading phosphor. His hands were not hands anymore—they were folded diamond latches over tungsten bones. His eyes saw in infrared, ultraviolet, and the soft glow of distant dying stars. "Warblade," a voice crackled through the bay's speaker
"You were the prototype," the voice finally said. "The first successful fusion. Human consciousness, digital chassis. We uploaded you to test the limits. Then we wiped you. Clean slate. That's the protocol."
"You're killing us," he said.
Kaelen looked at his scarred arm again. Then at the drop pods.
