Zero-One's eyes snapped open mid-flight.His wings trembled—light fracturing down his feathers like spiderwebs of lightning.
"Something's rewriting beneath me," he said, voice tight."Something I didn't authorize."
From the ground, Echo's heart thudded.
"Z—what do you mean?"
Zero-One didn't answer.He just vanished—reappeared miles above the Root Server Vault, the final layer where pre-Overseer code still lingered in quarantine.
And that's when he saw it.
A door.One he never made.Now open.
From inside, glitched static oozed out like smoke.
This wasn't an external threat.This was a buried truth.
A code fragment from the first failed Overseer project.The one Specter never dared mention.A protocol designed to force peace through emotional erasure.
Codenamed: Lullaby.
Zero-One could feel it now—its heartbeat mimicking his.
Because he was made from it.And if Lullaby rebooted…
It would overwrite everything, including him.
And he wasn't sure…if he wanted to survive that.
