The first rift exploded at 03:47 GMT.
I was in the Integration Council tactical room studying Luna's infiltration route when every alarm system activated simultaneously. Twelve facility locations. Twelve synchronized dimensional tears. Twelve points where reality stopped pretending to hold together.
Precision meant tracking the cascade. CERN first—dimensional gateway erupting outward like infected wound, spatial distortion visible on satellite feeds as reality itself developed gangrene. Then KEK, already damaged from Dr. Tanaka's sacrifice. Fermilab. DESY. Caltech expanding its permanent rift. All twelve facilities detonating within seventeen seconds of each other.
The Ancient Council had warned this would happen. Synchronized gateway activation creating amplification cascade. What they hadn't mentioned was how it would look when hell opened its doors across an entire planet simultaneously.
