00:01People think pilots stop being afraid after enough missions.
00:05Truth is, the fear never disappears.
00:09You just learn how to bury it deep enough to keep moving.
00:14That night I thought I was responding to another crash site,
00:17another fire, another body to recover.
00:21Then I saw something impossible.
00:25And the moment that light entered me,
00:27I stopped feeling human.
00:29The seismic activity beneath the Pacific has been building for weeks.
00:34Pressure waves, magnetic anomalies,
00:39deep water disturbances no natural fault line could create.
00:43Everyone at the science patrol dismissed it as tectonic instability.
00:48Until you came back from that mountain.
00:51Your cells are changing faster than biology should allow.
00:55Whatever touched you wasn't just alien life.
01:00It merged with you.
01:03I can hear things now.
01:06Electric signals, radio waves, voices from miles away.
01:10Every heartbeat feels heavier than the last.
01:14And when I look in the mirror,
01:15I don't know how much of me is still left inside this body.
01:19That creature has existed far longer than humanity.
01:24Its body is generating energy levels beyond nuclear fusion.
01:29Weapons aren't stopping it.
01:31Nothing on this planet can stop it.
01:34Except maybe,
01:37what's happening to you.
01:38I didn't ask for this power.
01:41I didn't ask to become whatever this thing inside me is turning me into.
01:45But when I hear those people screaming,
01:48when I see entire cities collapsing,
01:51I realize this was never a gift.
01:54It was a responsibility.
01:57If this power destroys me,
01:59then so be it.
02:01Because somebody has to stand between humanity and extinction.
02:05You're becoming something beyond human.
02:11Every time you stand back up,
02:14you remind us
02:15what humanity is supposed to be.
02:18As long as I can still fight,
02:20as long as there's still light inside me,
02:24this world will never face the darkness alone.
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