Titan's Retaliation

The compound smelled like gunpowder and burned rubber. Brothers moved like shadows, patching the fence, tending wounds, reloading weapons. Two Reapers lay dead outside the gate. We’d lost none of our own, but the message was clear: the war had officially begun. I stood in the middle of it with grease on my hands and a wrench in my back pocket, heart still hammering from the fight. Colossus hadn’t left my side for a single second. His massive frame was a wall at my back, one hand resting possessively on my hip while the other held a rifle like it weighed nothing. Viper called an emergency meeting right there in the damaged garage. The evidence from the storage unit was spread across a workbench like a war map. “We hit them where it hurts,” Viper said. “Tonight. We send one full ledger p