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The Sleeper Awakens

Author: John Stone
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The Sleeper Awakens

The phrases echoed in my earpiece, chilling me to the bone.

Vanessa: “The sleeper application is live. Whatever it is, it’s already running, Anita.”

I stared at the subdued Dominion leaders earlier than me. Their calm smugness, at the same time as they sat surrounded, showed my worst fears.

Ethan, his weapon educated at the group, growled, “What sleeper application ? What else have you ever bastards been hiding?”

The guy who had dispatched the threatening messages— the obvious ringleader of this faction—smirked. “You’ve been so targeted at the network, on Phoenix and Chimera, that you ignored the actual threat. Dominion doesn’t want servers or leaders to survive. It turned into by no means approximately us. It’s approximately the structures we built, those which are already in motion.”

Vanessa’s voice broke in again, frantic. “Anita, he’s now no longer bluffing. I’ve intercepted a signal—it’s a big fact and bouncing off more than one satellite. It’s lin
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