"Apex Zero - A Novella"

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Belarus. October. A defector inside a Helix Bioscience facility forty kilometres south of Minsk has gone dark. The Crown wants him out. The Crown will not be reaching for whoever goes in. Major Sara Vance has three days to put a team together and five to get into country. No support package. No extraction. No second window. She picks three operators from a list she has been keeping in her head for years — a Nigerian breacher recovering in his mother's compound in Lagos, an Australian tracker on an unsealed road in the Kimberley, a Ukrainian comms specialist running a private war out of a Kyiv hotel room. The fourth name on her list, she draws a line through. The defector is dead before they arrive. What they find in his lab — two empty cages scored deep into painted steel, a handling protocol authorising lethal force, four words in pencil in the margin of a folder — is bigger than the operation they were sent on. This is how APEX Unit began. Before Siberia. Before the Volkovs. Before the world knew what Project Prometheus was building.