The air outside the facility was thick with tension, illuminated by the harsh, overlapping beams of high-intensity floodlights. Twenty-four elite EVA agents held their positions with military precision, their weapons raised and locked onto Jayden.
Jenny stepped fully into the clearing, her eyes cold and sharp as flint. She looked at Jayden with the chilling detachment an officer would give a dangerous criminal.
"Stand down, Hunter," Jenny commanded, her voice cutting through the hum of idling transport engines. "The perimeter is locked. Your invisibility is useless against our thermal visors, and the intangibility disruption grid is already at one hundred percent capacity. If you attempt to phase, the backlash will liquefy your internal organs. Surrender now. Get on your knees and put your hands behind your head."
