Atlas Federation…
Atlas City Emergency Operations Center…
"General Kane, still can't reach Ethan and the others?" A cluster of Atlas Federation officials stared at Maxwell, tension written all over their faces.
Maxwell shook his head.
"Under the crater should be a Void Realm," he said. "They're probably inside it."
"That should be the Infernals' home base," someone said, voice tight. "Ethan going in like that… isn't it too risky?"
Worry spread across the room.
Back when Ethan's team had bulldozed the Hale family and forcibly reset the power structure in Atlas City, plenty of them had hated the Fallen Star Squad for it.
But after everything that had happened since, their attitude had shifted—whether they liked it or not.
They were Federation leadership. They understood the bigger picture.
And the bigger picture was simple: the Fallen Star Squad mattered. A lot. Nobody here wanted them dead.
