Zenith: The Kinetic Fuse

High above the clouds in the jagged Glaive Range sits the Zenith Institute. To the public, it’s a prestigious academy; to its inmates, it’s a cold, high-security cage for metahumans deemed too volatile for society. Sloane, a living kinetic battery who absorbs every blow dealt to her, is the most dangerous of them all. Alongside Jax, who bends gravity to his will, and Mina, whose touch yields lethal biological overgrowth, Sloane navigates a sterile world of clinical cruelty. The status quo shatters when Director Vance initiates 'Protocol Zero'—a systematic purge to harvest genetic material. Suddenly, the school’s automated defenses turn lethal. This isn’t a mission to save the world; it’s a desperate, vertical descent down a fortress designed to keep things in. Hunted by power-dampening Nullifiers and facing a three-thousand-foot drop, Sloane and her squad of outcasts must choose between the roles they were assigned and the survival they crave. In a world that fears what it cannot control, these accidents are about to become a revolution.