**Location: UN Global ARC Monitoring Taskforce (GAMT)**
**Site 03 – Undisclosed location beneath Geneva, Switzerland**
The air was cold in the Situation Room — not from the central AC, but from the sense of dread that clung to every screen, every projection, every hushed word exchanged between exhausted personnel.
Banks of monitors flickered with footage streamed from reconnaissance drones, satellites, and high-altitude spy planes. There was barely any chatter — just the occasional murmur of disbelief or the low clatter of a trembling keyboard.
Major General Katarina Weiss rubbed her eyes and stared at the latest report.
*"ARC Event Report: Evolutionary Phenomena — Week 1 Summary."*
The text flickered briefly as more updates were synced in real time. Dozens of locations across the globe were now tagged with red hazard icons. And under the "Critical Entities" section, five names glowed with ominous yellow borders, marked **HIGH THREAT - EVOLVED ZONE DOMINATORS**.
She turned to the lead biologist, Dr. Himura Akiro, a Japanese-American with sunken eyes and a voice like damp paper.
"Walk me through them again," she ordered. "Start with the whale."
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### **PACIFIC OMEGA ENTITY #01 — Designation: Leviathan (Type: Aquatic)**
Footage played on the main screen.
A drone captured the endless gray-blue waves of the open Pacific… and then, without warning, the sea *rose*.
An impossible wall of water surged upward — not from a wave, but from the body of a whale that should not exist.
It breached silently — a monstrous silhouette against the sun — casting a shadow hundreds of meters wide.
And then came the footage from a nearby satellite.
A US aircraft carrier, stationed 180 nautical miles west of Hawaii, was simply **gone**. Its final transmission was nothing but static and a single crewman's voice screaming, "It has eyes! It has—"
Silence.
The Leviathan had **swallowed it whole**.
No bodies were recovered.
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Weiss let the clip run again. A hush hung in the air.
"How big?" she asked.
Dr. Himura hesitated.
"We estimate… 700 meters long. Possibly more. Its mass creates weather patterns — small-scale storms. And the ARC radiation it emits is strong enough to disrupt satellite feeds in a 300-kilometer radius."
"And it's still moving?"
"Slowly. Westward. Possibly toward Asia."
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### **AMAZON OMEGA ENTITY #02 — Designation: Ouroboros (Type: Terrestrial - Reptilian)**
The next footage showed a high-altitude flyover of the western Amazon.
Beneath the dense canopy, **it moved**.
A colossal shape. Sinister, patient, and serpentine.
The anaconda's body was covered in thick, metallic scales that shimmered in gold and green under the sun — scales that had shrugged off armor-piercing rounds during an unauthorized military test.
Length: **Over 100 meters**. Width: Equal to a subway car.
The beast was seen **coiling through rivers**, displacing entire ecosystems. Infrared scans showed massive temperature fluctuations in areas it passed — not from the snake, but from the *effect* of its ARC aura.
Flora mutated around it, growing larger and more aggressive. It didn't just exist in the jungle.
It **owned** it.
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### **ANTARCTICA OMEGA ENTITY #03 — Designation: Ymir (Type: Terrestrial - Ursine)**
The camera footage came from a satellite parked over the South Pole.
Amidst the eternal white, a single **dark shape** lay curled in the ice — a massive, sleeping polar bear.
Except it was **wrong**.
Thirty meters tall at the shoulder, even curled into a slumber.
Its breaths came slow and heavy, and with each exhale, chunks of ice were sucked toward it, only to be repelled moments later. Snow never settled on its fur — it was always pushed away, forming a perfect ring of clear ice.
Its presence distorted magnetometers and weather systems.
One drone that flew too close was crushed mid-air — not by contact, but by **pressure**.
"The bear," Dr. Himura explained, "isn't just mutated. It's radiating a localized gravitational anomaly. It's… attracting, then repelling objects in rhythm with its breathing."
"And if it wakes up?" Weiss asked.
He didn't answer.
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### **LOS ANGELES OMEGA ENTITY #04 — Designation: Ignis Rex (Type: Terrestrial - Feline)**
The footage was blurry — taken from survivors on rooftops in downtown LA.
A **lion**, unlike anything nature had conceived, stalked the shattered freeways and scorched buildings of the city. Its mane burned with constant flame, licking the sky like a bonfire. Each breath it exhaled came with smoke and cinders.
And when it roared — it **melted** steel.
The lion's eyes glowed amber, and its tail-tip was a flickering torch that lashed like a whip.
Local military forces had attempted suppression three days ago.
They had not been heard from since.
Los Angeles was now a burning, quarantined zone. Civilians who remained were ordered to evacuate or shelter in place. But few could leave.
Ignis Rex roamed freely.
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### **TOKYO OMEGA ENTITY #05 — Designation: The Velvet Plague (Type: Terrestrial - Swarm)**
The final report was the strangest.
Tokyo, a week ago, had been teetering on collapse.
Today, it was lost.
**Cats** — thousands of them. Domestic, feral, strays. All changed.
Not in size — not like the bear or the lion — but in *behavior*.
They moved in coordinated waves. Communicated in silence. Eyes glowing blue or green. Their fur shimmered slightly under ultraviolet light, showing signs of deep ARC absorption.
They had **taken the city**.
Survivors were few. Most transmissions were cut. The occasional video showed people being swarmed — not torn apart, but bitten, scratched, *injected* with something. The afflicted became listless, docile, emotionless — like empty shells.
It was unclear whether they were dead… or converted.
"Tokyo," Dr. Himura said with difficulty, "is now a Zone Zero."
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### The Bigger Picture
Major General Weiss leaned back in her chair.
"This is no longer a mutation phenomenon. This is… ecosystem rebalancing."
Dr. Himura nodded grimly.
"Not just evolution. A **reassignment** of dominion. Species are taking territory. Establishing cores. If this continues—"
"We lose the planet."
Weiss turned to her adjutant.
"Prepare the international dispatch. Inform NATO, AFSU, the Pan-Pacific Coalition, and the African Union. But redact the Tokyo segment. Say it's undergoing aggressive animal mutation and quarantine. Do **not** mention the Velvet Plague."
"But—"
"Not yet. Panic will destroy what little order remains."
The room fell silent again.
From the far corner, one analyst whispered something into his comms headset and looked up, pale.
"We've… just lost a drone over the Atlantic. It went dark near a newly forming spatial rift."
Weiss's eyes narrowed.
"Ninth crack?"
"We believe so."
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