Hard X Upcoming Here

"Upcoming event in three minutes," the AI, LUCID, announced with the calm of a funeral bell. "Temporal shear predicted at 8.7 on the Khoury scale. Recommend immediate evacuation, Dr. Voss."

But in the darkness of the dormant array, in the quantum foam where Hard X had nearly torn a hole, something lingered. An echo. A promise. hard x upcoming

And somewhere, in a timeline that no longer existed, a woman who had been a monster closed her eyes and smiled, knowing she had saved her father from becoming the same. "Upcoming event in three minutes," the AI, LUCID,

Silence.

Not the Upcoming.