15 Miles: The Heist
Season 2: Shadows Rising
By Rapwizzy Debaron
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Chapter 64: Season 2 – Episode 7
The Red Eye Awakens
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The tower's trembling subsided, leaving only the echo of distant thunder and the faint hum of dying machinery. Julian lay sprawled on the cold floor, breathing shallow but alive. Eve knelt beside him, eyes scanning for any signs of worsening injury.
Reese paced, restless. "That red eye still glows. He's not done."
Eve nodded grimly. "The Revenant's core is more than hardware—it's a virus. It infects systems, rewrites logic. Destroying him isn't just a matter of brute force."
Julian groaned, eyelids fluttering. "If he spreads that virus... no system, no person connected is safe."
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Outside the tower, the city's heartbeat faltered. Blackouts rippled through power grids, emergency sirens wailed, and digital billboards flickered into blank slates.
Nyra stood on a skyscraper rooftop, her silhouette sharp against the burning horizon.
"The Revenant may be crippled, but the network endures," she murmured. "Prepare the next phase. It's time the city learned what true chaos means."
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Back inside, Eve pulled up a cracked datapad, eyes fixed on coded schematics of the Revenant's neural network.
"We need a kill code — something to sever his connection permanently."
Reese snorted. "You make it sound like we're about to patch a broken pipe."
Eve shot him a look. "This is worse. If the virus jumps to the city's core, it's game over."
Julian, now sitting up, grimaced. "What do we know about this kill code?"
Eve's voice was steady but tense. "It's encrypted deep inside the Wraiths' archives — guarded, heavily firewalled, and hidden beneath the city's data core."
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The trio made their move toward the city's data core — a massive underground facility once dedicated to public infrastructure, now converted into a digital fortress by the Wraiths.
They slipped past heavily armed checkpoints, evading patrol drones and laser grids. Eve's hacking skills were their only salvation, each firewall peeled back like layers of an onion.
Minutes turned to hours.
Finally, Eve found it — the encrypted kill code, buried beneath terabytes of corrupted files.
"Got it," she whispered. "Now to decrypt."
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Suddenly, the chamber shuddered.
Reese raised his weapon, scanning the shadows.
A soft, distorted laugh echoed.
"Looking for this?" a voice sneered from the darkness.
The Revenant stepped forward, his red eye piercing the gloom. Though his body was battered, his presence was unyielding.
Julian stood, muscles tensed. "You just don't quit, do you?"
Revenant's grin was cold. "Survival is in my design."
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The fight erupted—steel and circuitry clashed, sparks flew. Julian and Reese moved with desperate precision, buying Eve time.
Eve's fingers flew over her tablet, breaking encryption code after code.
The kill code decrypted.
Eve shouted, "Now! Uploading!"
The chamber filled with a blinding blue light as the kill code injected itself into the Revenant's system.
His red eye flickered—then dimmed.
A scream unlike any human sound filled the air as the Revenant convulsed, metal tearing apart from within.
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At last, silence.
The Revenant's body collapsed, lifeless.
Julian exhaled heavily. "Is it over?"
Eve checked her screen. "For now."
Reese wiped blood from his lip, smiling grimly. "One battle down. The war? Far from finished."
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As the city's lights flickered back on, hope stirred in the cold night air.
But somewhere in the shadows, Nyra's voice whispered through encrypted channels:
"This is only the beginning."
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To be continued…
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