Leon gripped the wheel tightly as the Diomas Nilo darted left and right, weaving through collapsing debris.
Massive slabs of concrete and steel came crashing down like meteors from the sky—but Leon's reflexes and the Nilo's responsiveness let him slip through every gap with razor precision.
Behind him, Dr. Dog sat frozen in awe, eyes wide at the cataclysm unfolding.
Smoke and dust surged like a tidal wave, blotting out the sky. Giant fragments of the power plant's cooling towers fell one after another, slamming into the earth with deafening booms that sent dirt plumes ten meters high.
The hundred-meter-tall cooling towers toppled like dominoes, crashing one after another. It was a sight one could barely hope to witness in a century.
"Magnificent…" Dr. Dog muttered, tilting his head back to capture everything on his phone.
He typed furiously on Twitter, posting one message after another.
"To see such a sight in my lifetime, to record it—it's enough to die without regrets."
Leon smirked. "That's just the appetizer. Buckle up—I'm about to push it harder."
His voice was calm, but the way it carried raw excitement sent chills down the spine.
Hattie, Elena, and Dr. Dog exchanged horrified looks.
This is just the appetizer?
If the destruction of an entire power plant was only a warm-up, what kind of apocalyptic scene would the main course bring?
"No way… this isn't enough for you?" Elena gasped, covering her mouth.
Leon explained without lifting his foot.
"The supergravity wave hasn't fully detonated yet. Right now, the Diomas Nilo is still inside its radius. That's why it's holding back. Once we're at least fifty kilometers out… that's when the real explosion will unleash. And when it does—it'll be remembered in history."
"Exit ahead!" Hattie shouted.
Leon slammed the gearshift, flooring the accelerator.
The Nilo's engine roared like a beast unchained, a brutal surge of power pressing everyone deep into their seats.
The speedometer surged past 500 km/h—and was still climbing.
Dr. Dog paled, his face nearly green at the speed.
"Five hundred… and it's still going up?!"
Outside the collapsing plant, two patrol officers had been standing watch.
They froze, jaws dropping at the apocalyptic sight of towers crumbling in sequence, like skyscrapers felled by invisible hands.
"My God… what's happening?" one whispered.
"Earthquake?" the other asked, but quickly shook his head.
The tremors under their boots were too small to have toppled towers. No earthquake could have leveled two hundred cooling towers simultaneously. This was something far beyond nature.
Pipes buckled, snapping apart under invisible pressure. Metal warped and groaned before collapsing in on itself.
The fragile buildings gave way instantly, falling like paper under a crushing weight.
Then they heard it—the engine.
A razor-sharp roar cutting through the dust.
"Someone's in there!"
Both officers drew their guns instinctively, tense and alert.
And then it appeared.
Out of the smoke shot a jet-like car—its silhouette sleek, its aura wild and unstoppable.
The Diomas Nilo burst forward like a horse breaking free, soaring through the dust cloud.
For a moment it hung in mid-air, all four wheels spinning so fast they blurred into nothing but streaks.
BOOM!
The front end landed first, four-wheel drive biting hard into the ground, launching the Nilo into an unstoppable sprint.
It tore across the ruined ground, dust trailing behind it like a storm cloud chained to its tail.
The two officers stood frozen, stunned speechless.
"Chase it!" one finally yelled.
They dove into their patrol car and hit the gas—only to find themselves baffled.
"Where did it go?"
"It was right there!"
In the blink of an eye, the Nilo had vanished into the horizon, faster than their eyes could track.
But before they could regroup, a thunderous shockwave erupted behind them.
The ground shook violently. A colossal gravitational force slammed down, as though a meteor had crashed from the heavens.
BOOOOM!!!
The sky filled with dust clouds over a thousand meters high. The earth convulsed as though struck by a magnitude-12 earthquake.
Concrete, steel beams, twisted rebar—everything was swept up into the choking storm that rolled outward with terrifying force.
The patrolmen screamed as their squad car was swallowed whole by the roiling wave.
Back in Detroit, the city stirred in alarm.
Seismic departments, meteorological offices, hospitals—all emergency services lit up simultaneously.
But the fastest responders were the news outlets. A helicopter crew raced to the scene, driven by instinct for headlines.
When they arrived overhead, everyone aboard went silent in shock.
The power plant was gone.
In its place, a colossal dust cloud roared skyward, battering the helicopter with turbulent winds. The pilot's face turned pale as he fought for control, barely keeping them stable.
As the dust thinned, the true devastation became clear.
Where once stood cooling towers and factories, there was now a perfect, square-shaped crater, its edges smooth like a fistprint slammed into soft dough.
At the bottom lay twisted wreckage of pipes, beams, and crumpled vehicles.
The mighty power plant—obliterated.
"Did… did the plant explode?" the reporter whispered into her mic.
Even as she asked, she didn't believe her own words. No explosion could ever cause this.
It looked less like an industrial accident, and more like something from space—a meteor strike.
But meteors leave round craters. This was a square.
Experts were called in live to give explanations. One gray-haired professor declared confidently:
"Nothing unusual here, just a collapse of underground caverns."
His smug tone sparked outrage.
"Collapse, my ass—show me a cave-in with edges that clean!"
"Did you buy your degree on eBay?"
"Even a grade-school science teacher wouldn't say that!"
The studio filled with laughter and jeers, but the professor remained straight-faced, spouting theory after theory with false certainty.
On the ground, police, firefighters, medics, and rescue teams finally reached the site. They climbed out of their vehicles and froze at the sight.
The crater stretched wider than the eye could see, swallowing the entire plant.
There was no smoke—only silence, rubble, and a scar on the earth so vast it seemed like the edge of hell itself.
"Horrifying…" whispered a nurse.
"Like Godzilla had clawed the ground."
Everyone knew—if such a force ever struck a nuclear plant instead of a coal-fired one… the result would be unthinkable.
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