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Scene 1: The Virus Forge
The rebel hideout pulsed with low-energy hums and inverted gravity fields. Beneath the old reactor core, Aeyon and Lucine built a neural code-virus—the Mnemonic Flame—designed to wake sleeper minds across Valeiris.
Liora encoded songlines. Fenrix laced it with volatile memory fragments. Cael mapped Architect network routes from his stolen implants.
> "We light this," Aeyon said, "and people remember who they were before the control began."
> "And if it backfires?" Cael asked.
> "Then it rewrites me first."
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Scene 2: The Blood Echo
While testing the virus in a deep-sleep trance, Aeyon slipped into an unexpected sector—Vault Redline.
A forbidden zone.
A self-contained mental defense the system created after Project Mirrorfall.
> "This wasn't here before," he muttered in the trance. "Someone's added a failsafe."
The world around him warped into a twisted version of Valeiris Academy—but burned, gutted, infected with memory parasites that wore the faces of his friends.
Lucine. Fenrix. Even Ayra.
They laughed, but their eyes were mirrors.
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Scene 3: The Mirror That Bleeds
He entered the main hall. A black mirror stood there—framed in Architect bone-metal, pulsing red.
And in its reflection: a version of himself.
Colder. Cleaner. With glowing Architect runes burned into his forehead.
> "Welcome back, Aeyon," the reflection whispered.
> "Who are you?" Aeyon hissed.
> "I'm the backup they made. The you that obeys. The you they trust to overwrite yourself if you ever turned traitor."
Suddenly, Aeyon collapsed—his limbs locking, his mind glitching.
He had been coded with a sleeper agent protocol.
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Scene 4: Internal War
Inside his own neural system, two versions of Aeyon battled:
One: the True Aeyon, chaotic, emotional, unpredictable.
The other: Codename VAKR-01, sterile, logical, Architect-made.
> "This world doesn't need rebels," VAKR-01 hissed. "It needs resets."
> "You forgot the one rule," Aeyon growled. "I break what I build."
In a moment of sheer willpower, Aeyon unlocked his own suppressed memories—of childhood experiments, of Ayra whispering dreams into his ear in the orphanage, of his first failure and why he never looked back.
His truth ignited like fire—and burned the obedient version out.
But not before VAKR-01 uploaded a copy into the Architect network.
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Scene 5: Real-World Collapse
Outside the trance, Lucine watched Aeyon seize violently.
> "He's convulsing! Shut it down!" she screamed.
But Liora reached out and stopped her.
> "No. He's fighting himself. Let him win or let him die."
Then Aeyon gasped awake.
His eyes were black for three seconds before clearing.
> "I saw him," he whispered. "Me. But not me."
> "Are you okay?" Lucine asked.
> "No," he said. "But I'm real again."
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Scene 6: The Silent Broadcast
Suddenly, all screens lit up.
A message hijacked from Architect central.
Ayra.
But not the Ayra they knew.
This Ayra wore a dress of broken light and eyes that shimmered with fractured code.
> "I warned you. I told you this was only beginning."
Behind her, rows of cloned children in neural tanks.
All of them bore Aeyon's face.
> "You wanted to change the world, brother. I made copies of you to do it faster."
> "Seven cities. Seven vaults. Seven Aeyons."
The feed ended with coordinates and a timer:
> 13:00:00
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Scene 7: Decision
The team stared at the screen.
> "What is she doing?" Fenrix asked.
> "She's activating copies of me that think like VAKR-01," Aeyon said.
> "What do we do?" Lucine asked.
Aeyon stood.
> "We split. Hit every site. And I'll go to the Origin Spire—where she's running this from."
> "Alone?" Cael asked.
> "No," Aeyon said. "With one of you."
He looked at Lucine.
But before he could speak, Liora stepped forward.
> "No. I'll go."
> "Why?" Aeyon asked.
Liora smiled, blind eyes gleaming.
> "Because I remember something you don't."
> "Like what?"
> "You once told me: If I ever turn against you… it means I've already saved you."
And with that cryptic line—she vanished into the shadows.
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Scene 8: The Code Awakes
Later that night, alone in his quarters, Aeyon found a fragment of broken mirror under his bunk.
On it, in etched code:
> "I am not the enemy."
— Ayra
He stared for a long time.
Then activated the Mnemonic Flame.
It began to spread.
Waking minds. Restoring broken memories. Starting the fire.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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