Page 55 of Charged By the Razorbacks

Captured from multiple angles—surveillance footage, thermal mapping, combat overlays. Her movements slowed, isolated, analyzed in precise segments, each frame dissected for pattern, for intent, for deviation.

“She was not part of the original model,” a voice noted.

“No,” another said. “She is the disruption.”

A pause.

Then—

“She is the correction.”

That shifted the room. Subtly. But enough.

“She understands the architecture,” a third voice said. “Not theoretically. Functionally.”

“Because she built it,” another added. “Because she can complete what we could not.”

The screen expanded, overlaying her work against Chimera’s current system. Two frameworks forced together, unstable in places where integration had never been intended.

“She sees the fractures,” one voice continued. “And she will move to exploit them.”

“Which makes her dangerous.”

“No,” the final figure said. “She makes us incomplete. And that cannot be allowed.”

The data shifted again.

Naomi Bishop. Before capture and during containment.

Medical overlays layered over her physiology—neurological disruption, cellular response, degradation curves that had stabilized where they should have failed.

“She is the one that survived exposure,” one voice said.

“Unexpectedly,” another replied.

The projections adjusted in real time, recalculating thresholds, response patterns, stabilization windows.

“She carries the imprint,” the voice continued. “The system recognizes her. Responds to her. She is a bridge.”

The words settled heavier than anything before them.

“Between baseline human physiology and targeted response,” the voice clarified. “Her system adapted under exposure instead of collapsing. That is not failure.”

“That is compatibility.”

The room shifted again, this time with interest.

“If stabilized,” another voice said slowly, “she could allow for controlled deployment.”

“Without immediate degradation,” someone finished.

“And without loss of asset.”

That mattered.

This was scalability.

“And she is now in E.S.E. custody,” one voice noted.