📖 SABOTAGE – Book One: The Ghost Protocol (C-4)

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✨ Chapter 4: “Echo Triggers”

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INT. SAFEHOUSE – NIGHT


Lency sat cross-legged on the cold concrete floor, eyes closed. The Root Key floated above her palms, spinning slowly, humming softly.


Kim’s voice echoed from the holo-display.


> “This is risky. The key isn’t just unlocking memories—it’s syncing to your neural network.”




> “I don’t care,” she said.

“If it shows me the truth… I’ll take the risk.”





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Suddenly—


FLASH.


A ripple of light burst from the key and hit her chest like a shockwave. Lency’s mind dropped into the dark.



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INT. MEMORY STORM – MINDSPACE


She stood in a black void. Above her, fragmented holograms drifted like stars.


> Her mother’s voice.

A red valley with twin moons.

Her hands holding something burning—metal… no, bone.

A child’s scream.




She gasped.


Then she saw it.


Division 9 before it was Division 9.


A startup in a glass building. People laughing. And at the center—Steve. Younger. Human. Smiling.


Lency saw herself—no, someone like her—handing him a data chip. Voluntarily.


> “I was one of the first.”





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INT. KIM’S VAN – SIMULTANEOUSLY


Kim’s monitors lit up with warning glyphs.


> ECHO TRIGGERED.

ORIGIN TRACE: LENCY (CORE)




His eyes widened.


> “She’s unlocking Echo memory... but no one survives that unless—”




His sentence froze as his system was hacked—from inside.


A corrupted voice leaked through the comm:


> “She’s not yours anymore, Kim.”




Then static.



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INT. DIVISION 9 – OBSERVATION CHAMBER


Alex and Steve watched a live feed of Lency convulsing inside the safehouse.


> “She’s opened an Echo pathway,” Steve muttered.




Alex said nothing. His cybernetic eye flickered, syncing to Lency’s pulse.

His hand twitched.


> “Do we intercept?” a soldier asked.




Steve shook his head.


> “No. Let her remember. That way, when we erase her again, it hurts more.”





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INT. DIVISION 9 – JANELLE’S PRIVATE QUARTERS


Janelle stared at the encrypted pendant on her bed.


She tapped it twice.


It began projecting whispers—memories smuggled out of the Vault.

Echoes of her brother’s voice. A name. A scream. A command.


> “Run, Janelle. Before they rewrite you too.”




Tears welled. But her face remained still.


She opened a drawer and pulled out a stolen security badge.


> “Time to go deeper.”





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INT. SAFEHOUSE – MINUTES LATER


Lency jolted awake, gasping.


She looked down at her hands—shaking, burning with light.


The Root Key floated above her heart, now glowing gold.


> “Kim?” she whispered.




But there was no answer.


Only static.


And then a message.


> DIVISION 9: TRACE ENGAGED.




They were coming.



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TO BE CONTINUED…

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