Badass in Disguise

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re they'd planned to extract my DNA, then dispose of me like trash. Ironic that they thought mer

eck. Severed carotid. Crushed windpipe. I varied my killing methods out of professional habit.

reading through the facil

ith fear. "How the fuck is that possible? She wa

in me. Thirteen years of their most brutal training had taught me to metaboliz

nits, priority one alert! Subject Shadow has

plan was already in motion. They wanted to destroy me? Fine. But I'd make

I listened to the facilit

epare the directed demolition system. Nothi

is island, I silently

help. Moving to the backup generator room, I methodically broke the safety locks on the diesel storage tanks. The rich, acr

down, who had spoken so casually about harvesting my genetic material before "

estroy research files.

" I whispered a

eam was

y the hair in my left hand. Blood dripped down my arm, but I didn't c

urity office-blew the reinforced door off its hinges. Through the smoke and deb

clutched a hard drive-my genetic data, no doubt. The director

han his trembling fingers. "This entire facility is rigge

s who had stolen my life before it even began. From the moment

estroyed. I remembered the first time they forced me to kill-I was six years old. By twelve, I could assassinate a tar

ing, with zero failures. My handlers celebrated each success, each impossible

y began t

to this island facility, under the pretense of "advanced training." In reality, they wan

lanned to d

had authorized my execution. I saw the research head tryin

nded, my voice sof

owly placed the d

almly. "The diesel fuel from the storage tanks is spre

ected explosives activate, they'll ignite the leaked fuel. The resulting explosion will be sever

trembled over his deto

I replied, feeling nothing. "T

outed, desperation breaking through his p

corrected him. "And now y

ink as I flicked a small blade from my sleeve, catching him in the throat

gether," I whispered

y, precisely placed charges began to detonate in sequence. Just as I had calculate

that shattered the facility's foundations. The island's supporting geological structu

ble futilely for escape. The ceiling cracked, then gave way entirely. The last thing I saw was a