Scene 1 – Planning the Breach

Inside a half-collapsed subway car turned safehouse, the blue flicker of a cracked interface lights up Glitch’s face. She stares at the shard Accel gave her.

GLITCH:

“It’s not just a memory. It’s… echoing me.”

ACCEL:

“Then it's yours. Which means the Archives probably still have more of you. And if they do, they’ll bury it soon.”

GLITCH (mocking):

 “So let’s break into the most secured place in Glimmerpoint. Sounds fun.”

NYX (suddenly chiming in through the static):

“Correction: Probability of fun – 4.6%. Probability of catastrophic death – statistically significant.”

Glitch flinches. Accel just smirks.

A hovering drone — spherical, cracked, and stitched together with old code — floats into the room.

GLITCH:

“What is that?”

ACCEL:

“That’s Nyx. He used to be a watchdog for the Veil. Then I broke him.”

NYX:

“He didn’t break me. He liberated my opinion function.”

ACCEL:

“Let’s move.”

Scene 2 – The Memory Archives

The Archive Tower looms like a frozen cathedral made of data. Cold, pulsing with light. Each floor stores history compressed, scrubbed, and locked away. The Veil doesn’t delete memories. It stores them just in case it needs to remind you who you used to be.

Accel, Glitch, and Nyx slip through dead signal corridors. The air buzzes with encrypted noise.

NYX:

“Sensors are blind. I’m ghosting the entry frames. But not for long.”

They reach the center chamber — a core wrapped in crystalized code.

Shards float in slow orbit. Some glow bright. Others flicker like dying stars.

GLITCH (quietly):

“I can feel it. I was here.”

She reaches for a shard — but the moment her hand nears, alarms blare.

DRONE GUARDIANS descend from the walls like armored wasps.

ACCEL:

“Nyx — stall them.”

NYX:

“Oh good. Time to die.”

Scene 3 – Fight and Fracture

Accel hurls a pulse grenade EMP-style as Glitch snatches the shard. The explosion lights up the room like a slow-motion thunderstorm.

Accel moves like he’s dancing kicks, static bursts, Veilblade drawn. Glitch covers her ears as the shard begins to scream in her head A voice she doesn’t know but remembers.

"Project NEX. Trial number: zero-zero-one. Asset status: Incomplete."

She collapses.

The code around the room bends toward her.

NYX (from overhead):

“Her presence is triggering memory recursion She’s not just pulling files… She’s rewriting them.”

Scene 4 – Extraction

Accel grabs her and the shard both glowing, burning with unstable code. He pulls Nyx into pocket form and smashes through a side wall, racing out as the chamber implodes inward. Outside, back in the undercity, they land hard.

GLITCH (dizzy, weak):

“There was something… before all this. Before the Veil. I was part of it.”

ACCEL:

“You weren’t just part of it.

You were the reason it broke once before.”

He shows her his wrist — a scar glowing faint blue.

Matching energy signature.

She stares.

GLITCH:

“So… what now?”

ACCEL:

“Now we find what they were trying so hard to forget.”

End of Chapter 3 – “The Archive Heist”

Behind them, the Archive Tower burns.

The Veil adjusts the skyline to hide the flames.