It's raining...
Heavy... cold... relentless...
He sits still... alone... in a dim room... no windows... only the soft blue glow of ten monitors flickering like ghosts. His fingers, still. Eyes locked. Mind racing faster than light.
Name: Ayan.Age: 22.Status: Nobody.
No parents. No friends. No dreams... left.
Just silence... and rage. Buried deep. Controlled. Calculated.
He watches the screen... again... and again. Footage from ten years ago. His father—gunned down in a black alley. Case closed. No suspects. No justice. Only a lie buried in a forgotten file.
He rewinds the tape... frame by frame... searching.
Pause.
There. A shadow. A reflection in a glass shard. Just a fragment... a clue... but enough.
Enough to awaken something.
Ayan leans back... exhales... slow. Then whispers to himself...
"It begins now..."
Click.Code floods the screens. Lines of red and green dancing. This isn't hacking. This is war.
Ayan has spent the last six years learning everything… from AI to cybernetics... quantum networks to black market protocols. What he built in the silence was no startup... it was a revolution in the making.
And now… the world will feel the ripple.
He types a single command—
"GHOST//INITIATE_PROBE//CORRUPT_ROOT_CHAIN"
A thousand nodes light up across the globe… governments... banks... megacorps... all connected… and now, all vulnerable.
He doesn't want fame.He doesn't want followers.
He wants leverage.
He wants the truth.
He wants power.
And he'll take it… from the shadows.
Suddenly, an alert flashes on screen—UNAUTHORIZED TRACE DETECTED
Someone's watching.
Ayan doesn't panic.
He smirks.
"So... you noticed me."
Behind him, a black panel opens. A drone whirs to life, scanning the room.
An AI voice speaks softly—
"Target identified. Operation Eclipse has begun."
Cut to—
A lone figure in a high-rise office. A woman. Red suit. One cybernetic eye glowing.
She looks out over the city and mutters...
"He's activated it... The Ghost Protocol…"
She picks up the phone.
"No more silence. Tell the Council... the prodigy is back."
End of Chapter 1