"I'm not leaving without you," Erika said. Her hands glowed with the light of time.

In the lower levels, Erika found the . It was a blueprint for weaponized evolution. Renautas harvested Evos to power a bridge to the future. In this future, only the "worthy" would survive the solar flare.

Erika stopped fighting the shifts. She anchored herself in the present and the past simultaneously.

Erika was an Evo, a human with Extraordinary Abilities. But she wasn't just fast or strong. She was a bridge. She possessed the power of —the ability to shift herself between two distinct points in time: the "Present" of a post-Odessa world where Evos were hunted, and the "Past," just days before the catastrophic event that changed everything.

"Did you see that?" a voice hissed in her earpiece. It was Mason, a hacker and Evo sympathizer who had promised to help her find her missing sister.

Erika wasn’t a hero—at least, she didn’t feel like one. She was a "medical student" with a gap in her memory and a tingling in her palms that felt like static electricity. But as she stepped through the rusted perimeter fence of the Quarry, the static turned into a roar.