His door dissolved in a shower of white light. Lena stood there, wearing an old corps jacket, her eyes red.

"You’re not stopping me," Aris said. "The download is distributed. Even if you kill me, the patch activates."

"What are you doing?" Aris stood.

Dr. Aris Thorne didn’t want to save the world. He wanted to own it. But to own it, he first had to empty it of its heroes.