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Location: City of Valeiris – 7 Million Minds, One Experiment
The city blinks.
Not metaphorically—literally.
For one single second, traffic stops. Screens glitch. Every single person hears the same whisper in their mind:
> "Sleep, but awaken."
The Sleeper Protocol has begun.
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Scene 1: Aeyon's New Hideout – "The Echo Shelter"
Aeyon, Elura, and a conflicted Reva sit inside an abandoned underground subway station.
The walls are coated in memory-scrambler paint—Null's surveillance can't reach here. But their fear already has.
Elura's hands shake. Not from fear—but longing.
> "Aeyon, I feel them. Thousands of people are being synced into the Hive Layer."
"That's Null's next step," he replies.
"They're not trying to kill minds anymore. They're trying to replace them."
Reva, unusually quiet, finally speaks.
> "I received the order to betray you, Aeyon. But I couldn't execute it. Do you know why?"
Aeyon doesn't answer.
> "Because… part of me has been infected by your choice to fight."
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Scene 2: Rise of the Crows – Null's Elite Mind Agents
Null doesn't send soldiers.
They send "Crows."
Elite, black-clad mind killers. Each trained to fracture a target's mental reality into false layers so precise, the victim forgets who they are within 3 minutes.
Three of them descend into Valeiris tonight.
Crow One – Named Silence. Master of sound-based trauma loops.
Crow Two – Named Ire. Can trigger rage with eye contact.
Crow Three – Named Nullita. Former human. Now a digitized conscience wrapped in human flesh. She speaks only in recursive logic that collapses enemy reasoning.
Their mission: Find Aeyon. Break his mind. Reboot his code.
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Scene 3: Mind Infiltration – Valeiris High
Aeyon walks into a school where the students are already showing signs of mind leakage:
Blank eyes.
Parroted phrases.
Confused emotions that don't match faces.
He walks up to a teacher whose smile is… frozen.
> "Good morning, Ae—"
She stutters.
Then her mouth bleeds data.
> "Welcome to Null Trial: Layer Six. Begin collapse."
Suddenly, reality shatters.
The classroom morphs into a broken maze of glass and memories. Students become avatars. Walls breathe.
> It's not a building anymore. It's a mental prison.
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Scene 4: Action + Mind Duel – The Crows Descend
Aeyon runs through the shattered maze, chased by Silence, who throws sound knives—memories wrapped in frequencies that cause disorientation.
One hits Aeyon's back.
He sees himself:
As a child again.
In Null's training cell.
Screaming while Elura is strapped down.
Screaming while he does nothing.
> "Regret isn't a memory," Silence hisses. "It's a knife you sharpen every night."
But Aeyon smiles.
> "And sometimes… I learn to cut you back."
He rewinds the moment.
Not with time—but with emotional override.
He grabs the sound knife, embeds a laughter loop into it—and throws it back.
Silence begins laughing uncontrollably, her mind collapsing in recursive joy.
She falls—smiling into unconsciousness.
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Scene 5: Reva's Redemption + Elura's Unleashing
Meanwhile—
Ire locks onto Reva and Elura.
He triggers rage.
Reva starts breaking. Her hands tremble. Her eyes blaze red.
> "You lied to me, Elura! You played me! YOU NEVER CARED!"
But Elura places her hand on Reva's temple.
> "You're not angry at me. You're angry at the part of yourself that once believed in Null."
She pushes a memory into Reva's head.
> Reva sees herself as a little girl—watching Null burn her real mother alive for resisting indoctrination.
She gasps.
> "They made me forget her…"
Reva collapses… and then rises. Cold fire in her eyes.
Together, she and Elura send Ire into a guilt loop—a mirror room where every wall screams his name.
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Scene 6: Final Duel – Aeyon vs. Nullita
Nullita appears. Floating above them. A cyber-witch of logic.
> "You are not real, Aeyon. Your thoughts are derivatives. Your dreams: fabrications.
Your rebellion is an echo."
"And yet," Aeyon replies, walking toward her,
"Your logic never accounted for one thing…"
> "What?" she whispers.
> "Free will."
He doesn't attack her mind.
He offers her choice.
> "Decide for yourself if you want to be their tool. Or your own person."
She twitches.
The digital threads of her logic begin fracturing.
She falls to her knees.
Screams.
> "I... I choose…"
BOOM. Null detonates a failsafe. Nullita turns to ash.
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Scene 7: City Awakening + Call to Arms
Aeyon and his allies stand in the middle of Valeiris.
The city's people begin to blink.
The control lifts.
The minds return.
But before they can celebrate, Reva receives a signal from deep underground.
> "Aeyon… Null's central command just activated a global pulse. Ten more cities are next."
Aeyon looks at the people around him. Their confusion. Their tears. Their freedom.
Then, calmly:
> "Then it's time we stop hiding."
> "We're not just survivors anymore.
We're the Mindborn Rebellion."
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EPILOGUE: A Letter from the Dead
Later that night, Aeyon opens a letter left in an old Null locker he found beneath the school.
> "To my son Aeyon,"
"If you're reading this, it means your mind survived the Override.
But beware: there is a final truth that even you must never remember—"
"You were not meant to free the world."
"You were built to choose who burns first."
Aeyon closes the letter.
Eyes glowing.
Breath steady.
> "Then I'll burn their system… from the roots."
---to be continued.....