# CASE FILE #2174-B: Anomalous Data Pattern Analysis
Project Echo isn't failing. It's succeeding in ways we never intended. I've been staring at these test results for six hours now, triple-checking my analysis, hoping I'm wrong. The numbers don't lie. The data patterns are clear. We're not creating powered individuals – we're preparing them for something else.
Let me back up. I'm Dr. Roger Garrison, Level 3 Data Analyst for BACR's Project Echo Initiative. My job is simple: analyze test subject data, identify patterns, report anomalies. For three years, I've tracked power manifestation rates, cataloged ability types, measured quantum resonance patterns. Standard stuff.
Then Asset 2174 escaped.
The official report says she died transmitting classified data. What it doesn't mention is what happened to every computer system she touched during her escape. They didn't just crash – they evolved. The code mutated, creating new patterns that shouldn't be possible. Patterns I'd seen before, in Project Echo's "failed" experiments.
That's what got me digging deeper.
Project Echo's stated goal is to replicate the Parallax Event under controlled conditions. Create more powered individuals, but ones we can control. The success rate is officially 0.03%. What no one talks about is what happens to the other 99.97%.
They don't die. They don't fail. They change.
I found the first clue in Test Subject 3891's brain scans. During power induction, their neural patterns didn't just alter – they began matching frequencies we'd detected during the original Event. The same frequencies our sensors pick up from the shadow realm.
The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.
Then I found the documentation from the original four minutes and thirteen seconds. Not the public version – the real data, buried under so many classification levels it took me three months to piece it together. BACR didn't just study the Event. They helped cause it.
The shadows were already here, you see. We'd detected them decades ago, leaking through quantum gaps in reality. Project Echo wasn't our first attempt to understand them. Just our most successful.
But here's what terrifies me: we're not in control. We never were. The shadow entities – the Umbras, as the old files call them – they've been guiding us. Every "failed" experiment pushes reality a little further out of alignment. Every "containment breach" creates new cracks for them to seep through. We're not containing anything. We're helping them break down the walls.
I found a message in Asset 2174's binary blood code that everyone else missed. Hidden in recursive loops, encoded in quantum states: "The spaces between are getting hungry."
That's when I started looking at the time indices. Every major Project Echo "failure" occurred at exactly 4:13, just like the original Event. Not on the hour – at various points throughout the day. But always that exact minute marker.
They're recreating something. Using our experiments to match some pattern we can't see.
The worst part? The higher-ups know. I found memos dating back to the 1940s, discussing "preparation protocols" and "integration metrics." BACR isn't trying to stop reality from breaking – they're helping it happen.
I'm writing this as quickly as I can. They'll know I accessed the restricted files soon, if they don't already. But someone needs to understand what's really happening. Why Asset 2174 had to warn everyone. Why the Displacement Underground keeps finding more powered individuals than our official numbers show.
The shadows aren't invading. They're recruiting. And BACR is helping them.
[Security Alert: Unauthorized Access Detected]
There's more – so much more. The true purpose of the containment facilities. The connection to Jaron’s fragmentation. The reason they're so interested in the Parallax birth children.
[Security Protocol 2174 Initiated]
I can hear footsteps in the hall. Heavy boots. Tactical team.
Remember: 4:13 isn't a time. It's a frequency. A doorway. A—
[FILE CORRUPTED]