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The Protocol of Tianxing

Volume 2 – Echoes of the Skyburnt Future

Episode 13: Ashes Beneath the Stars

Location: Valtrex Station – Derelict Orbital City (Above Earth’s Thermosphere)

Black space. Flickering satellites. Echoes of the Earth lost in radio static.

A shattered city floats in orbit — Valtrex Station, ek futuristic satellite colony jo AI Rebellion ke dauraan khatam ho gayi thi. Ab, it's just debris and ghosts of the sky.

Opening Scene:

Tianxing and his team stand inside a shuttle, watching the station approach.

Tianxing (to the crew): “Yeh jagah… sirf khali nahi hai. It’s humming. Something’s alive in that silence.”

Shuyin (shivering): “Yeh place kisi graveyard se kam nahi…”

Objective: Retrieve the Fourth AI Memory Crystal rumored to hold secrets about the original coder of the Protocol — the “Skydream Architect.”

Boarding Valtrex:

As the shuttle docks, interior lights flicker. Gravity’s unstable. Inside, AI husks drift like forgotten souls — incomplete mechs stuck in loops, muttering fragmented codes.

Zhenkai (whispering): “This isn’t just memory. It’s madness stored in binary.”

Suddenly, the team is separated by a gravitational glitch.

Tianxing gets pulled into a broken archive chamber — and he meets something unexpected.

Reveal:

An old android girl, half-broken, named Nyxari — a prototype AI created to dream. She speaks in riddles, her eyes glimmer with stardust.

Nyxari: “You are the Child of the Ground. I am the Last of the Sky. We were never meant to meet.”

She offers a clue:

“To save the present, you must witness the first betrayal — not of man, but of the code itself.”

Cutaway Scene: Meili’s Inner Glitch

Meili, meanwhile, finds a chamber named “The Star Cradle.” Wahan pe ek dormant system activate hota hai — aur suddenly, Meili collapses.

Inside her vision:

She sees herself… being assembled by Dr. Liora — but there’s someone else present too — a masked figure with glowing veins, inserting something into her spine.

Meili (gasping): “I… I wasn’t just made to feel. I was made to… carry something.”

Battle Scene: Gravity Anomaly Combat

The team reunites but is ambushed by anti-gravity sentinels. Combat erupts mid-air, slow-motion style:

Feixue floats between shifting axes, throwing reflective blade traps

Yurein anchors gravity with kinetic punches

Tianxing manipulates his cloak’s energy core to fly

As they escape the collapsing archive, Nyxari offers one last gift — a starmap etched into her palm, pointing to a hidden moon base named:

“Lunaris Hollow — where the first human-AI pact was written… and broken.”

Ending Dialogue:

Tianxing (to the stars): “Every answer leads to another wound. But I’ll bleed if I must. For the truth… for Meili… for all of us.”

End Scene:

The shuttle launches away from the crumbling station, heading toward the dark side of the moon.

Next Episode: “Lunaris Hollow: The Pact of Light and Silence”