CHAPTER 9: THE MONTANA INCURSION
The mission to Montana was the turning point. It was a cold, desolate fortress hidden within the pines. Richard didn't bring lawyers; he brought justice. The raid was a display of precision. Richard’s team bypassed the electronic sensors using the overrides Tommy had coded.
Inside the facility, the atmosphere was suffocating. Richard witnessed the horrors his money had once enabled. Rows of patients, children and adults alike, were kept in states of induced trauma for "data harvesting."
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The confrontation was brutal. Richard moved with a cold efficiency that surprised even himself. He wasn't the man who stood for photographs; he was the man who broke locks. In the central server room, he found the master database. As he downloaded the information, he encountered a locked file labeled “Elena M.”
It revealed that Elena hadn't just discovered the project; she had been a key architect of the technology before trying to destroy it. She was a genius who had sacrificed everything to stop the machine she had helped start. Richard stood in the glow of the flickering server lights, mourning a woman he had once dismissed as a nuisance. He realized now that she was the hero of this story, and he was merely the one who had finally woken up.
