BARNABBAS

In a world where the most celebrated healthcare company on Earth publicly cured malaria and cancer, Maltex hides a far darker truth. They created Barnabbas— a drug that either grants a supernatural ability or makes the recipient inflate and explode. To force compatibility, they developed **Vitamin X**, a stabilizer with a 97.775% chance of completely erasing the user’s mind. Only 2.225% keep their memories. Using these drugs, Maltex runs a secret facility known as **The Cube**. Every year they kidnap children, inject them, train them into supersoldiers, and sell the survivors as living weapons to the highest bidder. Cubian 104 was never supposed to escape. He kept his mind.   He kept his rage.   And he took a new name: **Leo Carter**. Cold, driven, and sharp-tongued, the 18-year-old possesses a rare ability called **Timeskip**. By entering **The Zone**, he can suppress the flow of time around him for up to 35 seconds, moving freely while the world freezes. When pushed to its absolute limit, the ability evolves into something far more dangerous — **Apex Protocol**. Now hunted across the globe, Leo has only two goals:   Destroy Maltex… and free the older sister still trapped inside The Cube. But he is not the only one who got out.   Other escaped Cubians are gathering.   And the Cube never lets its investments walk free. This is the story of a weapon that refused to stay broken.   This is Barnabbas