Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 594

Chapter 594: Run For Your Life

Outside, the siren in the yard began to wail, a high-pitched warning that made one’s head throb. The temperature sensors pinged red, and the room-control monitors lit up with angry, flashing warnings.

"Ace!" someone shouted.

Ace spun around just in time to see his brother Alaric and Violet sprinting toward him through the smoke and haze. Relief crashed over him, and he caught Alaric in a rough hug. They held on for a heartbeat before pulling apart.

"What’s the status?" Alaric demanded.

Ace’s jaw tightened. "The first bomb went off. We intercepted the second, but we still haven’t found the third’s location."

As if mocking his words, a deafening boom rippled through the warehouse, the ground trembling beneath their feet. The lights above swayed, and the smell of burning chemicals intensified.

"Another volatile compound must have ignited," Ace muttered, his face grim.

"We need to cut power to the HVAC system and kill the main. Now!" Alaric barked.

Violet asked. "HVAC?"

"The HVAC controls airflow and temperature stability in this facility," Alaric explained quickly. "If it’s not shut off, it’ll pull toxic fumes into other areas and feed oxygen to the flames, making the fire spread faster."

Violet nodded in understanding. "So cutting it isolates the area and keeps the poison from spreading?"

"Exactly," Alaric confirmed. "Then we kill the main power to prevent sparks that could ignite another chemical explosion."

Ace didn’t hesitate. He raised his radio. "Control room, report!"

Static crackled, then a voice shouted back, panicked. "We’re in position, pulling the emergency red lever now!"

the ceiling as the massive fans powering the HVAC whirred to

and suffocating, heavy

power next!"

plunging the warehouse into red emergency strobes. Shadows stretched across the walls, the pulsing

more time, Ace!" Alaric shouted over the roar of alarms and fire. "Tell them

power to the cooling system line only, not the

between the brothers. Moments like this made her realize how much raw courage

That’s the only way to stabilize

out there. The flames aren’t the only threat—" His

careful," Alaric promised. He pulled Violet close and

raised his

Team had been the ones sent to

for the purge," the team leader growled

inert-gas purge system lived in a hardened room below the loading bay. The automatic purge had been wired to the main panel, but he knew the manual line. He kicked open the hatch, shouting down,

was freezing, lined wall-to-wall with towering nitrogen tanks, frost clinging to their sides. Thick pipes stretched from the tanks into a cluster of

line integrity!" he

gauges and calling

stable!" one

manual override

leader’s jaw clenched. "On

him, but finally gave

exploded from the pipes as nitrogen surged,

one as white fog burst upward, rolling through the ceiling

yelled,

steady!" the leader barked through gritted teeth. "If it spikes too high, those tanks blow, and take

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