Team Trident: Explosion! The Frozen Hearts of Babylon City
The neon glare of Babylon City didn’t pierce the smog so much as stain it, casting a bruised purple hue over the rusted iron of the Limitless Fortress. They stood at the precipice. Behind them lay the miles of grueling, vertical wasteland known as the Beltline—a graveyard of pipes, forgotten technology, and desperate people. Ahead lay the glittering, tyrannical spires of the upper echelon. "I am impressed you made it," a disembodied, synthesized voice echoed from a nearby security drone before Kyogi Kagimi shot it out of the sky without looking. The drone sparked, crashing into the metal grate beneath their boots. "This marks the end of the Beltline and the entrance to Babylon City." Ban Meadow wiped a mixture of grease and sweat from his forehead, looking up at the towering monoliths that seemed to stretch into eternity. "Do they do anything up there except manipulate people and watch what happens?" Ban asked, his voice laced with bitter exhaustion. He lo...