[OPENING SCENE – FORT CHIMERA, 3:16 AM]
In the cold, high-security vault deep within Fort Chimera, KRKKAK sits chained and unconscious. Surveillance drones hover silently. The Nullborn shard embedded in his horn pulses slowly, then violently.
Alarms whine. The guards freeze.
Krakk (twitching):
"...get… out…"
A sudden explosion of darkness rips from his body — the shard shatters into a vortex. A whisper ripples through the chamber.
Mother Null (voice, distant and cold):
"You were always a temporary vessel."
Krakk screams as Nullborn takes full possession of his body — warping his form into a monstrous version of himself. Bone-horned, crackling with violet-black tendrils of unformed time. Eyes hollow, voice dual-toned.
Nullborn (in Krakk's body):
"Now… let's unmake you."
[SCENE – SKYVAULT HQ – EARLY MORNING]
The team is recovering. Yuna and Kael debrief with General Halron, who's coordinating post-arrest sweeps. Suddenly, the comms crackle.
Echo-7:
"Guys… Chimera's been breached. Internal feed's gone dark."
Irion:
"No."
He's already on his feet, cloak swirling. The others follow.
[SCENE – FORT CHIMERA RUINS]
The Vanguards arrive to devastation. Walls melted into abstract crystal and void shadows. Dead guards fossilized in time.
In the central vault: Nullborn-Krakk, now twice as large, growls as his form flickers between Krakk's body and something else — shapeless, ancient.
Nullborn-Krakk:
"You held onto this husk for too long… I'll make your death useful."
Kael:
"Krakk…?"
Nullborn-Krakk:
"He's gone."
The monster charges.
[BATTLE – NULLBORN-KRAKK VS THE VANGUARDS]
Kael's flames barely hold — the enemy devours light and heat.
Tari attempts celestial sigils, but they're inverted midair.
Jax's sound attacks implode inward, silenced before they strike.
Yuna protects civilians with healing blooms, her aura strained.
Veya takes precise shots, but the body absorbs kinetic force like mist.
Irion (stepping forward):
"Stand back."
Kael:
"He'll kill you."
Irion:
"Then I'll make sure he remembers it."
[DUEL – IRION VS NULLBORN-KRAKK]
Reality bends as Irion enters the Rift. His form pulses — armor cracking open to reveal burning glyphs of forbidden phase-scripts. Voidcast unleashes a full Echo Reversal, catching Nullborn's time-screams and folding them inward.
Nullborn-Krakk:
"You dare twist the voice of oblivion?"
Irion:
"I was born broken. You're just unfinished."
They clash. A hurricane of silence and flame rips across the chamber. The Nullborn form screeches as Irion reaches inside the creature — grabs the last piece of Krakk's identity.
Krakk (distant, weak):
"Don't let… her…"
Irion:
"I won't."
He ignites the core — a collapsing Rift Implosion. Nullborn is torn from Krakk's corpse. The husk falls. Krakk dies, chest scorched.
Irion falls to his knees, exhausted.
[AFTERMATH – FORT CHIMERA SILENT]
Yuna confirms Krakk is gone. The shard is cracked — Nullborn no longer possessing but still whispering.
Echo-7 (scanning):
"She's still out there… but fractured."
Kael (to Irion):
"You stopped a god."
Irion:
"No. I delayed her."
[POST-CREDIT – A BLACK SPIRE FAR FROM SKYVAULT]
Inside a bleak void-temple, Mother Null stands in front of a suspended cocoon of glassy memory strands.
Mother Null:
"You ruined a perfect vessel. But that was only her first tooth."
She turns.
Mother Null:
"Time to break the second."