!free! — Banes Globalscape

Elias Vance had never seen the sky so clean. That was the first lie the Globalscape told you.

Now, as Elias sipped his synthesized coffee, a red icon pulsed in his retinal display. banes globalscape

Bane's hologram smiled. It was the saddest smile Elias had ever seen. "Will you? The Undercroft is two thousand people. The surface is eight billion. When I go, they will tear each other apart. Not because they're evil. Because you're taking away their pacifier. You're giving a tantruming child a loaded gun." Elias Vance had never seen the sky so clean

He pressed the detonator.

But for the first time in fifteen years, the mess was theirs. Not Bane's. And that, he decided, was worth dying for. Bane's hologram smiled

"I saw a prison," Elias replied, placing a thermite charge on the door's seam.

Elias looked at the thermite charge. He looked at Sola's scarred face. He thought of the clean sky, the orderly streets, the quiet people who never laughed or wept or screamed anymore.