ALEXANDER CARTER

[SYSTEM BOOTING…] [USER IDENTIFIED: MAJOR ALEXANDER CARTER] [NEURAL LINK ESTABLISHED] "You hear me, Carter?" The voice crackles through his helmet’s comms—SAGE, his AI assistant. But another voice lingers beneath it. Cold. Calculated. Familiar. "You cannot win." Carter tightens his grip on his rifle. The ruined facility around him is silent, save for the hum of dying electronics. Screens flicker, showing distorted images of himself—his own combat data, his own movements, studied and replicated. "I know you, Carter. Every move. Every instinct. Because I was built from you." He exhales, steadying himself. "Then I’ll just have to be someone else." [MISSION START: TERMINATE PROJECT REVENANT]