As the cab pulled away from the soon to be crime scean it was quiet with the exceptions of the drivers automatic or prerecorded notices.

Alexander sat slouched his neck laying on the headrest and head rattling against the widow as he paid either complete and raptured attention to the ceiling or attention to nothing at all, I would have typically been disappointed with the childish behavior and the fact that every time we hit a bump his metal coved limp knee would crash into mine, but I understood exactly how mentally tiring this whole ordeal has been so I endorsed not like I could really feel the pain anyway.

And I mean its not very often Ive been shot in the face with my clientell, well its the first time Ive had the he …pleasure of sharing that experience anyway so ill let this one go, and in truth i was in mush the same position just with better posture.

So ignoring the occasional dull thump on my knee I looked down at the seat between us, where my briefcase held the most, unnecessarily probolatic rock I have ever had the displeasure to lay eyes on, was stored.

A light click filled the cabin before a flat dead voice gave us our first non requared message “We will be arriving at your destination in about an hour, so on behalf of Meta Ride here is something that might interest our current occupants.”

The black screen that took the place of your typical partition window came to life its low volume barely reaching me in the tired atmosphere of the cab.

“Welcome back to ISHN dear viewer as always I am your host Chanler Mentum and for those of you who are just joining us we are about to receive a on-site report from the attack that acuured less than an hour ago on post streat, prisoner square, seattle from our very own angela stevenson.”

The sean shifted, as Angela took over whalf the screen caution tape and IXCU officers in both moved about some in combat gear others wear some kind of hazzmat gear.

“Angella, do you have any details you can share from the IXCU officers on site.”

The scene changed again this time Angela took the whole image her live feed filling the screen

“Yes chanler I do, the IXCU on site public information officer has confirmed the hospitalisation of twenty individuals and the loss of two IXCU officers along with one current MIA officer who has not yet been confirmed dead.”

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The camera zoomed out as Angela stepped to the side allowing all viewers to see the attack in question.

The once paved street was covered in a smoking grass that looked to be made of tar, the faces of buildings on the street were warped just as bad with strange textures and geometries covering their surfaces. “The missing officer is believed to have been caught in the blast of the currently unconfirmed device or power that was used in this horrible act of terror.”

This time the camera looked past Angela fading into a new camera angle showing an overhead of the street and theteardropp shape of the mutated zone lingering just long enough for the scope of the alleged attack to be understood without giving enough time to memorize any details.

Then it shifted right back to Angela, however this time the camera was farther back providing a wide shot of Angela standing next to a IXCU officer in what looked like formal millitary attire her sleak black and yellow uniform was in prestine condition, her tie was tight and centered, her shoes polished and her cap perfectly centered.

“I am here now with senior investigator Natala Sokolov who will be giving her statement and has agreed to answer some questions.”

The camera shifted focusing on Sokolov as she began to speak.

“Thank you, We responded to an emergency call at proximity twenty-one hundred hours, this was originally in response to reports of strange creatures in homes and businesses subduing anyone found, with unconfirmed methods involving physical contact with the creatures, however, once agents arrived on scene multiple reports of some unregistered and previously unclassified xeno”

At those awful words both alexander and myself sat up a little strieghter all attention locked on what she said next..

“Along with an armored companion quickly appeared, when agents came into contact with thesis unknown threats they were met with swift violence, one such encounter is belived to have lead to the creation of this zone.”

“And may I ask what the unregistered xeno has been classified as.” Anglea asked, earning her a clearly suppressed glare from investigator Sokolov.

“Yes, the P,A,P,I system has classified the individual as a B rank Transversal class.”

There was silent as solokovs words echod thru the cab leaving it so quiet i could have swore i heard the turning of alexandes neck.

“Investigator, can you confirm that the xeno responsible was a Transversal.”

Solokov stared her deminor unchanging and her speech steady “We can confirm, the P,A,P,I system detected both signs of domain doorways and fading energy with growth potential along with some yet to be identified elemnts within the zone.”

Solokovs delivery was bland but informational due to the fact that she knew once my new class was assigned the network was going to ignore all els

“Dose the IXCU believe this to be a new Pale King, or possibly an attempt to escape from the King himself.”

And there it was straight for the collective public throte, after all that's what sells.

“The I,X,C,U has no reason to believe this individual has any connection with the Pale King.”

Solokov and angela continued there back in forth solokov trying to defuse the situation and keep the public calm as anglea kept fishing for a headline, not that it mattered much, saying that name alone will have this incident searing itself into everyone who watches this interview.