Inside a bright, heavily secured underground bunker, a small group of scientists and top military personnel were focused around a central monitor.
Their faces spoke of tension and anticipation.
The monitor played a heavily stabilized and enhanced recording captured by a distant, high-resolution security camera—the only surviving footage of the cataclysm. It showed the chaotic, final moments of Vahn and the Creature's battle on the streets of 2005 New York.
The scientists and generals watched in stunned silence:
• The sudden transformation of the attacker into a grotesque, vortex-faced monster.
The terrifying, silent clash of two unseen forces.
• The impossible gravitational anomaly that caused cars to float and then vanish.
The final, terrifying implosion as the vortex creature was utterly devoured by an even darker, more potent energy that seemed to emanate from the central figure (Vahn).
The recording abruptly cut off just as the military helicopters arrived.
