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Neo-Pandora
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Everything went normal after the Overseers withdrawn thier forces.
Lila and her team went back to the labs. There was a woman who was waiting for them. Keiran was shocked to see her. It was him mother. He thought she was dead in the attack of the Chronophage in the Badlands.
Kieran ran and hugged his mother.
Suddenly an warning sound alarmed. Lila looked into the Screen.
"Shit it's a big fracture or a."
"Gate." Jax continues. "Boy go into the bunker."
Kieran and his mother went to the bunker with people .
The Gate opens.
The Overseers descended like falling stars, their crystalline ships piercing the sky. Buildings shimmered and dissolved under precise beams of starfire, citizens fleeing as the streets fractured into prismatic dust. Mirror-Elias stood atop a hovering warship, his voice amplified across the city:
"This is mercy. Your chaos ends today."
Lila Kane gripped the Compass, its once-familiar warmth now cold and alien. Jax spat, phasing his plasma cutter to overload. "Mercy my ass. Let's give 'em hell."
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Bunker
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Kieran huddled in a makeshift bunker, hands clamped over his ears to drown out the screams. His foster mother, Mara, pressed a chrono-bracelet into his palm—a relic from Elias's lab. "They need you out there," she urged.
"I'm done being a weapon," Kieran whispered, but the bracelet sparked, flooding his mind with fractured visions: Mirror-Elias's face, the Compass's true code, a timeline where he never existed.
The bunker door exploded. Overseer drones flooded in, their lenses scanning him. "Anomaly detected."
Kieran's veins flickered.
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Godforge Ruins
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In the ruins of the Godforge, Lysandra's cult chanted over a pulsating Weaver shard. "The Overseers prune, but we ascend," she declared, plunging the shard into the ground. The earth split, birthing a spire of fractal bone—a new Forge.
Wren's drones buzzed overhead, relaying footage to Jax. "They're building something. Something big."
"Then we blow it up," Jax growled, rallying rebels. "Stay sharp. These fanatics bite."
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Lila confronted Mirror-Elias on the battlefield, the Compass trembling in her grip. "You used us. This thing was never ours."
"It was a leash," he admitted, his crystalline armor reflecting her fury. "To guide your kind to peaceful ends. But you broke free. Now see the cost."
He activated the Compass's hidden frequency. Neo-Pandora's stabilizers short-circuited, plunging districts into temporal chaos.
"Stop!" Lila lunged, but the Compass repelled her—it recognized its true master.
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Godforge
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Jax's team stormed the cult's Forge, only to face horrors—chrono-twisted hybrids with Lysandra's spiral eyes. Wren hacked the spire's core, her screens glitching. "It's a beacon! She's summoning Weaver remnants from other timelines!"
A hybrid tackled Jax, its claws phasing through his armor. "You're too late," it hissed with Lysandra's voice. "The Weaver returns—through you."
The spire detonated, and Jax vanished in the blast.
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Bunker
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Cornered by Overseers, Kieran clenched the bracelet. Elias's memories surged—sacrifice, love, defiance. Light erupted from his hands, unraveling the drones.
He sprinted toward Lila, the ground fracturing under his feet. "I know how to stop them! The Compass—it's a key! Use it to lock onto their timeline!"
Lila hesitated. "But the cost—"
"Do it!" Kieran seized the Compass, his paradox energy overloading its circuits.
The Compass shattered, releasing a shockwave that froze the Overseers mid-strike. Mirror-Elias staggered, his armor cracking. "You… destroy order… to save chaos?"
"No," Lila said. "To save choice."
Kieran collapsed, his glow fading. The Overseers retreated, their ships dissolving into the void.
But the victory was ash. The cult's spire had opened a rift—a thousand Weavers stared back, and Jax was gone.
In the silence, Mirror-Elias knelt, offering a shard of the Compass. "You won this battle. But the multiverse is a tapestry. Pull one thread…"
The rift pulsed. Lysandra's laugh echoed.
And deep in the Badlands, a figure crawled from the rubble—Jax, his body fused with Overseer crystal, his eyes burning spiral-blue.
To Be Continued…
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