Venom Protocol — Cybernetic Fracture, pt VI

Red light blinks, heartbeat syncs, Black file burns, bloodwork stinks, Something inside me begins to blink, Then every chain snapped its links. Small-town calm, White-picket grin, Blackfall marked, then sent me in, Said, "Firewall lit this world in sin", Now I’m the knife beneath her fucking skin. Blackfall leash in my black op file, Dead man walking with a service smile, Broadcast burned through the satellite, Now they want her gone by morning light. Lightning stitched through my vertebrae, Dog tag reads, “unstable state!” Ash in my blood, rust in my veins, They fed me death and called it change. Step from the van, floodlights quit, Floorboards scream with every hit, Orders spit through a broken kit, “Erase the girl. Don’t question shit.” Blade in my sleeve, twitch in my palm, Something else moves when I stay calm, No soul left, just teeth and psalms, Cold corpse tagged for combat arms. Chains in my head go clink-clack-snap, Every breath makes the protocol crack, Venom locked me in this fucking mask, Forgot my name when the needle passed. Town shakes hard when I exhale, Blackfall ghosts on a dead-end trail, She stole the truth from their murder screen, Then sent me in to kill her feed. Blood on my boots, file stamped “test,” Cameras blink, don’t catch the rest, Blackfall killers close the ring, Moving slow, killin' every fuckin' thing. VENOM — VENOM — VENOM IN ME, Lock broke open, now I’m free, VENOM — VENOM — CAN’T CONTAIN, Every breath rewrites my brain. RUN — RUN — SYSTEM FAIL, Small-town streets turn into hell, BITE — BURN — LET IT SING, I ain’t your crown, I’m their fuckin’ thing. Sirens fade, grid goes dark, Main Street waits with a cold-dead heart, Sodium lights make shadows bark, I don’t fit in my own damn parts. They said, “Observe,” said, “Hold your ground,” “Maximum loss, burn the town,” Then I heard her cry through static sound, Then Diamondback came riding down. Her voice cuts through the kill-feed haze, Green light crawls through my comms and veins, I came to kill what she made known, Now Diamondback walks through my fucking bones. Tongue tastes metal, jaw unhinged, Something talks when the signal bends, Cross my mind? What? Nah, you crossed the line, Now my thoughts bite back with your design. I see through walls, when pressure builds, Hear drones hum while they count the kills, You pray to God, I prey on sound, I move when the whole world quiets down. Firewall screams, I hear her code, Her fear turns sharp in my frontal lobe, Blackfall orders start to blur, Then every command comes back as her. You hear that, Blackfall? That motherfucking grind? That’s your future dragging teeth, Through the back door of your mind. Every tremor is a warning, Every heartbeat is a clock, Every breath you fucking stole, Comes crawling back unlocked. You built me for the slaughter, Made a leash and called it law, Now there’s a ghost inside the signal, And she found the fucking flaw! Soon, you will see, There's a part of me, Your lab rats couldn’t map. Diamondback is in my nerves, And your leash just fucking snapped! Who am I? Wait, who was I first? Name tastes wrong when I say it cursed, Hunter? Subject? Weaponized skin? Voice in my skull says, “LET ME IN!” Fire in my spine as the kill squads land, Boots hit dirt with the Blackfall stamp, I hear her scream, then silence dead, And something in me turns its head. I freeze. I shake. I lock it down, Quiet scream in a nowhere town, Drop to my knees with my hands on my face, For half a second, I hesitate. Orders bark through headset static, “Finish Firewall, erase the panic,” But Diamondback chews through my chain, Turns my hands on the ones who trained. I see my squad through borrowed eyes, Clean black masks, corporate lies, They made my teeth, they made my leash, Now every bite goes back to the beast. Rounds go wild, comms go blind, My body moves but it ain’t fucking mine, Firewall breathes in the house behind, While Diamondback eats through my mind. Toxic pulse, people stall, One wrong breath and systems fall, Emergency tone, flatline ring, Fuck your crown, now I'm her fucking thing. VENOM — VENOM — VENOM IN ME, Lock broke open, now I’m free, VENOM — VENOM — CAN’T CONTAIN, Every word rewrites my brain. RUN — RUN — SYSTEM FAIL, Small-town streets burn into hell, BITE — BURN — LET IT STING, I'm her weapon...a motherfuckin’ thing. Blackfall finishes their sweeps, A small town burns, no witnesses breathe, Except for one house, where the green lights seep, Something huge wakes under the street. One young woman, one room awake, Green eyes blink through the dark heartbreak, Metal stirs where the fucking floor shakes, The Diamondback King, stands guard at the gate.