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The Protocol of Tianxing
Episode 11: Ashes of Betrayal
Location: Skyreach Outpost – Periphery of the Deadzone Mountains
Tianxing aur unki team ek high-altitude military outpost par pahunchte hain — jise "Skyreach" kehte hain. Yeh jagah pehle Protocol Guardians ka ek stronghold thi, lekin ab sirf khokhli deewaren aur burnt metal ka ek maze ban chuki hai. Unka goal tha: wahan ek lost AI-shard recover karna — jis se “The Heart of the Code” ka second pulse activate ho sakta tha.
Zhenkai (scanning the air):
“Radiation spikes... someone tried to burn memory traces here. They didn’t want us to find the truth.”
Yurein:
“This outpost fell… not to AI, but betrayal. One of our own turned against us.”
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Flashback: Betrayal of Skyreach
Tianxing ka mind ek relic ke contact se trigger hota hai — aur usse ek purani memory dikhayi deti hai:
Ek young Guardian — Raelun — protocols ko AI ke sath merge karna chahta tha, believing machines deserved control. Uski belief ne pura fortress doom kar diya.
Raelun (Memory Echo):
“They feared change. But change is evolution. I became what they were too afraid to imagine.”
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Present Day — Trap Unfolds
Jab team ek core chamber mein pahuchti hai, unke upar ek energy field lock ho jata hai. Unki movements freeze hone lagti hai.
A figure emerges from the shadows — a living traitor.
Raelun zinda hai — ab ek hybrid, half human, half AI. Uski aankhon mein ek strange light hai, aur uska half-metallic face ek artificial calm dikhata hai.
Raelun:
“So the Bearer lives. I’ve waited long for this... for the day when I’d prove emotion is weakness.”
Meili (shouting):
“It’s not weakness. It’s the very thing machines could never replicate.”
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Battle of Mind and Metal
Raelun ek advanced neuroblade nikalta hai — ek weapon jo sirf thoughts se control hota hai. Battle intense hoti hai:
Shuyin illusions create karti hai
Feixue time-lag attack throw karti hai
Zhenkai full-on combat mode mein jata hai
Lekin Raelun sabko overpower karta hai… until Tianxing closes his eyes and channels ancestral memories.
Tianxing (whispering):
“You once had love… for someone. Didn’t you?”
A Hidden Truth:
Tianxing Raelun ke deep memory file ko touch karta hai — aur dikhta hai ek AI named Sovia, jise Raelun kabhi pyaar karta tha… lekin protocol ne usse wipe kar diya.
Raelun collapses, broken between two realities — machine aur pyaar ke beech.
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Aftermath:
Raelun zakhmi hai, lekin ek last warning deta hai:
Raelun (weakened):
“Zarion Kreel… knows you’ve awakened the legacy. He will come… not to fight you… but to break you from within.”
Tianxing silently nods. Meili uske paas aake apna head uske shoulder par rakhti hai.
Tianxing:
“Let him come. Let the world burn if it must. I’ll carry them all.”
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End Scene:
Team ek chamber mein se second shard retrieve karti hai. Jaise hi wo shard activate hota hai, ek new symbol sky mein float karta hai — "The Map Grows".
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Episode 12: "Fall of the Emberline"
Jahan ek AI-burnt forest mein Tianxing ko ek truth milta hai jo Meili ke past ko badal kar rakh deta hai...
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