"THE RIFT-BORNE"

....no origin...

"They called him Null. No origin. No past. No allegiance. Just two hands that could tear holes through space and time like God’s own scissors, and a body carved from shadow and purpose.

In a galaxy where the stars were bleeding and empires clawed at each other in the dark, Null arrived like a rupture in destiny itself. He didn’t crash land. He stepped through…a portal folding outward like the petals of a supernova, framed by two pulsing vortexes of raw energy clenched in each fist.

He stood silhouetted against the molten clouds of a dying nebula, every inch of him wrapped in black armor that shimmered like obsidian cracked by starlight. His face, half-shadow, bore no expression. Only the grim set of his jaw hinted at what lay beneath: war. Not the kind fought with armies or flags. The kind born from betrayal, from truth, from vengeance.

Jax… Jax Levens…. the last name he remembered, if it was even real ….was once a physicist, a husband, a father. That was before The Fold Project, before the betrayal that turned his family into star dust and him into something else…..

Something unnatural….

The tech they used to rip him apart and put him back together, quantum-bound musculature, time-folded synapses, void-rot energy cores….was outlawed across all known systems. The scientists called it suicide. The generals called it salvation.

He calls it penance….

"You ever look into a black hole, Lieutenant?" Null once asked, his voice gravel soaked in grief.
"No, sir."
"Don’t. You don’t like what stares back."

Now he hunts them. Not for justice. …oh hells bells no….

Justice is a lie told by comfortable men. He hunts for reclamation….of what was lost….of what was taken.

Every time he opens a rift, he hears their voices. His wife’s laugh. His daughter’s giggle. Echoes, not memory, not dream….just possibility scattered across the multiverse n for a moment, he hesitates….but only for a moment.

Because someone still runs the machines that erase planets. Someone still profits from the silence between screams…. n Null?

Null’s just getting started.