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He looked at his reflection in a lab window: a pale imitation of himself, like a bootleg toy from a capsule machine.

“Time for a reload,” he said, plugging a frayed data cable into his wrist port.

As the transfer began — Normal to Ultimate — he realized: even a stripped-down version of himself refused to stay weak.

By the time he reached the main server core, the “Normal” Shadow had rebuilt himself into something patchwork and furious — not the Ultimate Lifeform, but his will, running on junk code and spite.

“It’s standard backup protocol, Shadow,” the scientist said, tapping a tablet. “If you’re going after Black Doom’s remnant code in the digital realm, we need a fail-safe. Your biological form stays here. A copy of your consciousness runs the mission.”