Null Core

Kai Mercer has no path. No augmentations, no arcane talent, no bio-mods. That doesn’t make him weak. It makes him irrelevant. So when an old friend offers him a way in, a job, a team, a shot at becoming something more, he takes it. It should have been simple. A routine retrieval. In and out. But something about the job didn’t sit right. The target isn’t just data or tech. It’s a small black cube. No markings. No seams. Just… wrong, in a way Kai can’t explain. The moment he touches it, he feels it. Not power. Not a system coming online. Something else. Whatever is inside it doesn’t feel like something that was built. And it definitely isn’t there to help. Everyone else fits into one path or another. Kai doesn’t. And whatever he’s becoming… wasn’t meant to exist.