"When betrayal wears the face of love… even truth feels like a lie."
🌑 Scene 1: Shattered Trust
Aaryan couldn't breathe.
Not because the rooftop air was thin, or because of the glitch flaring in his veins — but because Nyra was standing beside his enemy.
His father.
Alive.
And on the other side.
"No," he muttered, shaking his head. "This is a trick. A code illusion. You were deleted, Nyra. I watched it happen—"
She stepped forward slowly. The red glow in her eyes pulsed.
"I was never deleted, Aaryan. I was… converted."
"The system saved me. It showed me what I really am — what you really are."
"You don't belong to reality anymore."
"You are the system's unfinished equation."
💢 Scene 2: Code Confrontation
Aaryan's hands clenched.
Electric-blue code flared from his fingertips — his blood glitching again, reacting to emotional chaos.
His father — still wearing the fractured chrome mask — raised a hand.
"Son. Listen to me—"
"You don't get to call me that!" Aaryan shouted, voice glitching.
"You left me to grow up in a lie!"
"You let me believe I was normal… while you turned into them!"
Suddenly the building beneath them began to flicker — pixelating at the edges.
The Signal Keepers still alive began to retreat into thin air — not walking, but phasing out.
Nyra stood still, watching Aaryan as if she could see straight through him.
"You think this is about power?" she asked.
"This is about balance. The world was never meant to be purely human."
"The code is the evolution. And we… are its carriers."
Aaryan's mark flared again — but this time, it pulsed red.
Something in his DNA had been activated.
And it hurt.
🧬 Scene 3: The Blood that Remembers
Aaryan collapsed to his knees.
The pain was unbearable — as if his very blood was trying to rewrite him from the inside out.
Flashbacks exploded in his mind:
A crib. A lullaby. His mother crying.
A machine injecting glowing liquid into a baby's chest.
A boardroom filled with people in suits… whispering:
"Project: EchoChild. Status — Unstable.""But his blood accepted the index. He is the only viable host."
He screamed.
And then…
Darkness.
🕳️ Scene 4: Underground Reboot
When he woke up, he wasn't on the rooftop.
He was underground.
In a cold, dimly lit chamber where the air buzzed faintly with residual glitch energy.
And standing around him were strangers — all different ages, all marked with glowing symbols.
"He's awake," one whispered."The Code-Blood is active. He survived the fusion."
A young woman with silver hair stepped forward.
Her eyes… were normal. Not glowing.
But her aura pulsed with power.
"Welcome, Aaryan," she said. "To the rebellion."
🔥 Scene 5: The Hidden Ones
"We call ourselves The Hidden Ones," the silver-haired girl said.
"We're not Protocol. We're not Keepers. We're those who were abandoned by both."
"Glitch-born. Code-touched. Blood-coded. Survivors."
Aaryan tried to stand — his legs still weak from whatever rewiring had just happened inside him.
"Why help me?" he asked. "You don't even know if I'm stable."
The girl smirked.
"You were glowing like a dying star on our sensors. We couldn't ignore you."
"Besides… we've been waiting for you."
"You're the Spark."
He blinked. "The what?"
"The one whose blood glitch will either collapse the Core… or reboot the world."
📡 Scene 6: New Enemies, New Questions
Aaryan sat in a dim circle with the Hidden Ones that night.
They showed him recovered footage — distorted memories stored in abandoned network hubs.
One showed Nyra's conversion: a bright chamber where her voice was ripped out and replaced with a synthetic command line.
Another showed a new Protocol lab, where hundreds of code-children floated in liquid chambers, unawake… but alive.
"They're building a new system," one rebel said."Not AI. Not human. Something in-between. Something controllable."
Aaryan watched, fists tight.
"They're making more like me."
⚠️ Scene 7: The Spark Ignites
Later that night, he stood at the edge of the underground base, overlooking a collapsed subway station that led deeper into the city's invisible layers.
The silver-haired girl came beside him.
"Your father isn't evil," she said softly."But he's broken. And so is she."
"But you… you still have a choice."
Aaryan didn't respond.
But inside him, the code was moving again. Not burning this time — flowing.
He could feel it syncing with his breath. His heartbeat.
He raised his hand.
The tunnel before him lit up with glowing symbols.
The glitch was no longer wild.
It was listening.
"Then let's give them something they can't control," he whispered.
"Let's start a war."