THE WATCHER: REVOLUTION
by Rapwizzy Debaron
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Episode 25: Rise of the Dead Code
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"How much of us is still human, Jax?"
Riven's question came in the silence after our war meeting, his voice quiet, brittle.
We sat by the broken arc tower, the remains of the old world hissing with residual static. Clones moved like shadows beyond the fog, watching. Waiting.
I looked at my hands. Flesh, yes. But the things I'd done— the choices I'd made— left me more machine than man.
> "Enough to still bleed," I answered.
He didn't smile. None of us had, not since Alira.
But hope had teeth now. And it was hungry.
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The Vault's lower chambers were colder than I remembered. As if they knew we were digging into the past— into the rot beneath the rebellion.
Lucien wasn't just a man anymore. He had coded himself into the system. He was the firewalls. The surveillance. The silences.
We found remnants of him in corrupted files, half-deleted logs, AI chatter—
> "The vessel cannot defy the architect." "The watcher must remain blind." "Emotion is decay."
We were hunting a ghost inside a machine. And it was watching back.
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Alira's last message had been traced to a defunct orbital uplink—an ancient satellite once used for off-grid military signals. Riven said it was suicide to go near it.
> "That thing's surrounded by drones, firewalls, auto-defense—" "Then we hack it before it hacks us."
We weren't soldiers anymore. We were ghosts. Shadows. Whispers against the roar of control.
And ghosts didn't fear death. They danced with it.
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The climb to the uplink station was slow. The air here was thin, the kind that whispered memories in your ears— twisted versions of voices you loved.
I heard her.
> "Jax… are you still trying to save me?"
Yes. But I wasn't sure if it was for her. Or because saving her meant saving me.
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The system recognized us before we breached. Defense drones screamed to life. Riven took the left flank, eyes blazing, fingers dancing over a portable code slicer.
I ran center. Through gunfire, smoke, memory.
> I didn't care if I died here. I only cared if she lived.
Inside the uplink core, we found it— a live feed.
Alira.
Strapped into a data siphon. Wires in her veins. Her body barely breathing—but her mind still screaming through code.
Lucien's voice filled the chamber.
> "You came back." "You always do."
I stepped forward, fury choking every breath.
> "I'm not the same boy you broke." "And I'm not here to beg."
Lucien's laugh was static and steel.
> "No. You're here to lose. Again."
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But not this time.
This time, I'd burn the whole system down. Even if it meant losing what was left of me.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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