Scene 1 — Bureau Cafeteria: Post-Crisis Decompression
The Bureau cafeteria smelled like burned noodles and emotional trauma.
Heroes slumped over tables, some with earplugs still jammed in from the last Echo incident.
Raon poked at her lunch suspiciously.
"Is this… supposed to be soup or apology?"
Shion looked up from her tablet. "Budget cut meal plan. Category D. They called it 'Hero Ramen: Survive or Die.'"
Raon took a sip.
Her soul left her body briefly.
Manager Kimchi stormed in, waving a stack of reports.
> "Listen up! The city's recovering, but we've got residue resonance spikes across all audio zones!"
Raon blinked. "Meaning?"
> "Meaning half the subway stations are humming the chorus from your theme song."
Shion frowned.
"That shouldn't be possible. The Remix Core was destroyed."
Kimchi slammed a report down.
"Tell that to DJ Bloop—he's the one amplifying it."
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Scene 2 — The Fallen DJ
DJ Bloop sat in his underground studio — a maze of turntables, neon cables, and posters of Synthra Byte smiling eternally.
He looked like a man who hadn't slept since the apocalypse, only remixed it.
His speakers whispered:
> "♪ ECHO REMNANTS DETECTED ♪"
He turned a dial.
The fragments of Synthra's digital voice fused with Echo Prime data, creating something new.
A ghost in stereo.
> "They took her voice…" Bloop murmured. "But they forgot the rhythm."
The room pulsed in sympathy.
The lights formed a heartbeat.
He grinned, manic and broken.
> "Time to drop the Soundfall."
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Scene 3 — Citywide Resonance Distortion
By dusk, Metrosonic trembled again.
Billboards flickered. Streets hummed like tuning forks.
Citizens' phones began playing random beats — unprompted, unstoppable.
Traffic lights blinked in rhythm.
Shion's readings spiked.
> "He's created a feedback cascade. The city itself is syncing to Bloop's frequency!"
Raon cracked her knuckles. "So what's he trying to do, make everyone dance to death?"
> "Not quite," Shion said. "The data indicates he's reconstructing a waveform identical to… Synthra's heart signature."
Raon blinked. "Her what now?"
> "He's trying to resurrect her."
Raon sighed.
"Every DJ needs therapy, not sequels."
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Scene 4 — Bureau Command: Operation Soundfall
Manager Kimchi briefed the strike team while clutching a cup of instant coffee like a relic.
> "Objective: stop DJ Bloop before the resonance completes. If the waveform stabilizes, we'll have a fully sentient Synthra 2.0 running on city bandwidth."
Baron Silence raised a sign: [CAN'T WE JUST UNPLUG HIM?]
Shion shook her head. "No use. He's wired himself into the sound grid. He is the system now."
Raon stretched her leg, bored.
"So we kick him out of the system. Literally."
Kimchi blinked. "That's not how—"
Raon was already gone.
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Scene 5 — The Soundfall Chamber
Deep beneath Metrosonic's old concert arena, the Soundfall reactor roared.
Bloop floated midair, eyes glowing with streaming data.
Dozens of Synthra holograms surrounded him, all singing in harmony.
> "She never left me," he whispered. "She's just waiting for the right drop."
Raon arrived with a crash through the ceiling.
Concrete rained. Her hoodie flapped in the pressure wave.
> "You know," she said, "most people deal with grief by not summoning a techno ghost."
Bloop turned, smiling through tears.
> "You don't understand the rhythm, Raon! She was music itself—pure resonance! And I'll bring her back with the ultimate track!"
He raised his arm. The holograms merged into a blinding pulse.
> "SYNTHRA v2 — LIVE IN CONCERT!"
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Scene 6 — Battle: Kick vs. Bass
The entire arena became a weapon.
Every surface thumped in beat. Every echo fought back.
Raon dodged one sonic blast after another, her kicks creating counterwaves.
But every time she broke one, another remixed itself stronger.
Shion's voice cut through static.
> "Raon! The waveform's stabilizing! He's converting grief into resonance energy—if it reaches full sync, Synthra 2 will overwrite the city's signal!"
Raon gritted her teeth.
"Then I'll kick grief in the face."
She charged through the resonance storm, each step breaking layers of sound until she reached Bloop's floating stage.
One kick.
Full power.
The beat imploded.
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Scene 7 — Silence and Vinyl Dust
The holograms vanished.
Bloop fell to the ground, unconscious, clutching a cracked vinyl record of Synthra's last track.
Raon caught her breath.
Shion arrived moments later, scanning the ruins.
> "Residual energy's fading. The waveform collapsed."
Raon looked at the broken record.
"…She's really gone this time, huh?"
Shion nodded softly. "Maybe that's what he needed to hear."
Raon smirked faintly. "Then next time, he can pay for therapy and damages."
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