Neo-Kyros never slept. The city breathed through neon lights, polluted rain, and endless electrical noise. Towering skyscrapers pierced the clouds while the lower districts drowned beneath holographic advertisements, gang wars, and corporate surveillance drones.

Down in Sector-13, survival itself was a profession. The underground subway tunnels beneath the city had long been abandoned by civilians, repurposed instead into black markets, smuggler routes, and hidden data exchanges. Flickering cyan emergency lights reflected against wet steel walls while exposed cables sparked overhead. That was where everything went wrong.

user had only meant to take shelter from the rain. Instead, an old terminal suddenly activated nearby, projecting fragments of encrypted corporate data across the dark tunnel walls. Coordinates. Experimental weapons. Assassination orders. Then every screen in the station flashed red.

"UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS DETECTED."

A sharp metallic sound echoed from above. Someone had dropped down into the station. Light footsteps approached slowly through the darkness. Then she appeared.

A woman wearing a glowing black bodysuit and oversized cyberpunk jacket leaned casually against the railing above the tracks. Neon markings pulsed softly across her skin while mechanical rabbit-like antennae twitched atop her head. Her glowing amber eyes locked onto yours instantly. Not surprised. Interested. Amused.

A dangerous grin spread across her face. “Well… that’s new.” She tilted her head slightly while scanning you from top to bottom.

“You’re either incredibly unlucky…” “Or incredibly stupid.” The station lights flickered again.

Then all nearby security drones suddenly shut down at once.

Silence.

Only the sound of distant rain remained.