Location: New York City – Tier Zero Central Hub
A blackout pulsed across the skyline as Aria’s virus slipped into Tier Zero’s mainframe like a ghost. No explosions. No alarms. Just silence—calculated, surgical, inevitable.
The REVELATION protocol had activated.
Zerofall had begun.
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Scene – Collapse in Motion
Government files scrambled. Hidden accounts vanished. Operatives were locked out of their own systems. Thousands of shadow projects stalled, all tied to Evelyn Lane’s blood key: Aria.
In underground bunkers, former agents stared in disbelief as their screens blinked red.
In Washington, classified lines went dead.
The agency was being dismantled from the inside out.
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Scene – The Price of Power
Back in Chicago, Nova tracked the digital infection.
“Fifteen layers down. We’re erasing entire branches of history. This is global.”
Kade stepped in. “And irreversible.”
Aria nodded. “That’s the point.”
But even as the empire crumbled, encrypted signals pinged back—traces of other Echo prototypes awakening across continents.
Zerofall wasn’t just destruction.
It was a summoning.
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Scene – Betrayal Inside
Rhea reappeared.
Not dead. Not loyal.
She walked into their hideout without resistance, raising no weapon—just a chip between two fingers.
“You wanted the truth?” she said to Aria. “You never saw the whole design.”
She inserted the chip into the table’s console.
A hologram emerged: Evelyn Lane’s final encryption. One Aria had never seen.
> “If Aria chooses to activate REVELATION, proceed with Operation Nemesis.”
> “Eliminate her.”
The room went silent.
Aria stared at her mother’s words.
Even Evelyn hadn’t trusted her fully.
Kade stepped toward her, unsure. “This wasn’t part of the plan.”
“It never was,” Aria said coldly. “It’s a bloodline built on betrayal.”
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Scene – Countdown to Endgame
Aria paced to the comms table and broadcast a message—not to Tier Zero, but to every Echo prototype she had freed.
> “You’ve lived in shadows. You were built, trained, broken. I was too.”
> “But we are not accidents. We are not weapons.”
> “We are the end of their control.”
> “This is Zerofall.”
> “And we choose what rises next.”
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Final Scene – One Hour Before the Final Strike
Aria stood alone on the rooftop overlooking the city, the skyline flickering with uncertainty.
Kade joined her. “If we do this…”
“We end everything,” she finished.
“Even us?”
Aria looked at him, her voice soft but unshaken.
“There’s no ‘us’ without a world worth living in.”
She closed her eyes, took a breath.
Tomorrow, they’d burn the last of Tier Zero’s strongholds.
No turning back.
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Code Name: Echo
Mystery / ThrillerAria Lane thought she was just a normal girl from a quiet town. That changed the day her mother died-and the wrong people started watching her. Forced to leave everything behind, Aria is taken in by a quiet, distant uncle. But after a strange accide...
