Scene: Rooftop — Just Before Sunrise
The sky fractures between bruised indigo and pale gold. Wind whips around them, stinging, alive.
Mark stands shakily, something unreadable in his eyes.
Mark:My real name was Kevin.
The name wave like sound in a dream.
Kim and Amari exchange glances. That name mean something.
Amari:Kevin that's one of the Original Five.
Amari (quietly):The ones who built the Resistance Core.
Scene: Hidden Old Library
They go down again, deeper than before. Behind them, the city heartbeat like a warning and Amari use Kevin voiceprint a whisper to open the sealed.
Inside: stone walls, blinking in glass.
Kim finds a memory shard. Slots it into an old projector. Light blooms.
Scene: Memory Recording — 17 Years Ago
The shard plays:
Kevin — younger, fierce-eyed, a leader. Standing in front of a gathering of outcasts. Behind him, that symbol again — the eye with no pupil.
Kevin (in recording):
If they can edit our truth, we'll write over *their* lies. Layer by layer. Code by code. Until the world *remembers*.
From the shadows: The Her from Mark's visions — not afraid, but leading
Her name flashes briefly: Ayame
She holds the crystal pendant — the one from the static.
Ayame:
We go tonight. Before The Ruling locks the city.
Ayame: Archive — Present
Mark clutches his chest. The pendant is somehow *in his pocket now*.
Amari (soft): If Ayame was real, then she might still be... trapped in the static.
Amari:Or worse — used by the Witnesses to bait memory-sensitive returners like you.
Kim:Either way, we find her.
Scene: Abandoned Neural Lab — Sector 12
Once a government dream-mapping facility. Now gutted, haunted by static echo.
The group power on the Core Console the only interface capable of decoding living memories.
Mark:She was the last thing I saw before they wiped me.If I go back in… I might not come out.
Kim hands him the crystal pendant.
Kim:You already didn't come out. This is the way back.
Scene: The Dream Rupture Within the Core
Mark lies on the interface bed. His body stills.
Inside: reality fractures. He's Kevin again in uniform, a city burning behind him.
He hears her.
Ayame (faint):
Kevin, run they're inside the rewrite stream!
A dozen Witnesses descend. Their forms now clearer a code leaking from their skin like oil, mouths not mouths.
But Ayame reaches him. Their hands meet —
and in that moment, something ancient flares.
Scene: Edge of the Rewrite
Kevin and Ayame stand at a cliff of raw data. Below the city, stripped to bones. Above — an eye watching.
Ayame:If you wake, you have to carry it. *The origin shard*. It's the only way to reverse what they've done.
Kevin (Mark):What if I forget again?
Ayame:Then I'll remind you. As many times as it takes.
She presses the pendant into his hand.
Scene: Reality Lab
Mark convulses. The machines spike.
Then stillness.
He wakes, eyes burning gold briefly.
Mark (soft):She's alive.And they're afraid of her.
Amari:Who?
Mark:The last source of code. The one thing that they couldn't rewrite.
Kim:Where is she?
Mark:They buried her...At Anchor Zero.
TO BE CONTINUED