The Elsewhere Protocol

After an ambush ends her Air Force pararescue career, Korra trades combat for college, hiding her pain behind a steady smile and dark humor. But beneath the university, an experiment with an alien-metal gate recovered from the Arctic goes catastrophically wrong, scattering scientists and students across the Imagiverse—worlds where stories, myths, and impossible ideas are real. Recruited to lead a recovery team, Korra must navigate unfamiliar realities and unpredictable windows of escape, rescuing people who may be lost, changed, or unwilling to return. As stress awakens abilities she cannot explain, the fragments left by her injuries may hold a connection to the gate itself. Every world has its own rules. Every crossing could strand them. And Korra still lives by one promise: no one gets left behind.