SABOTAGE – Book One: The Ghost Protocol (C-7)

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✨ Chapter 7: “Alex Remembers”


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INT. DIVISION 9 – OBSIDIAN WING

Alex stood in front of the Mirror Wall—an encrypted surface that didn’t reflect your image, only your data shadow.
His showed no name. No origin. Only a codename:

> “ARCHIVE: GHOSTWALKER-01”



He stared at it, unmoving, as files whispered across the wall.

> “Unauthorized flashbacks are increasing,” said a medic behind him.
“You should submit for sync correction.”



Alex didn’t answer.
He was already slipping into memory.


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🔁 FLASHBACK – TEN YEARS AGO

LOCATION: Mombasa Industrial Freezone – Night

A younger Alex crouched beside a freight container, watching a rebel cell wire explosives beneath a black-market server bank.

He was Division 9’s first field test of NeuroTrace—a memory-detection tech that let agents extract truth through proximity.
He didn't ask questions. He followed protocols.
Until he scanned a little girl hiding behind the crates.

> “Agent 01,” his comm buzzed. “Remove the witness.”



But when he touched her skin, the NeuroTrace didn’t show fear.

It showed… his own face—but younger. Smiling.

He hesitated.

> “This is a glitch,” the handler barked. “Execute.”



But it wasn’t a glitch.
That girl was his sister.

He failed the mission. The girl vanished. The rebels escaped.
Division 9 wiped the incident—but not from Alex’s soul.

They punished him by erasing his entire origin sector.


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🔁 FLASH-FORWARD – BACK TO PRESENT

Alex gripped the edge of the Mirror Wall, breath tight.

His hand trembled—not from fear, but from something worse: recognition.

> “Echo Drift detected,” the wall warned.
“Root exposure at 7%. Repress or restore?”



He pressed REPRESS.

But the image of that girl—the one Division 9 had erased—refused to leave.


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INT. VAULT ARCHIVE 4A – NIGHT

He walked silently past frozen minds in cryo-columns, scanning each name.

> “One of you remembers who I used to be,” he muttered.



He stopped at one file:

> “PROJECT: REDWING”
AGENT: ALEX NDUNGU – ORIGINAL TEMPLATE
STATUS: LOCKED. MEMORY: CORRUPTED.
LINKED FILE: LENCY [CORE MATCH]



Alex’s eyes narrowed.

> “So that’s why I can feel her.”
“They built her from my failure.”




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INT. KIM’S LAB – SAME NIGHT

Lency sat motionless in a feedback chair, faintly glowing lines drawn across her neck and arms as the Root Key continued syncing with her neural spine.

Kim hovered near, watching her vitals.

> “Your blood rejected the shut-down,” he muttered.
“You’re becoming something new, Lency.
Not just a saboteur. A memory virus.”



The words felt heavy.

> “And viruses don’t follow orders.”




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INT. DIVISION 9 – ROOFTOP HELIPAD – LATER

Alex stood in the rain, staring at the city below—flashing neon, broken glass, echoes of the people he once protected, or tried to.

> “If she remembers what I did…”



He closed his eyes.

> “Then I deserve whatever comes next.”




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TO BE CONTINUED…


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