Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 51

🌌 Scene 1: The Cost of a Rewrite

Zeron awoke amidst the battlefield made of paper and light. His wounds were not physical—they were memories torn. Pieces of his childhood flickered in and out like corrupted data.

"What did I just… erase?"

He clutched his chest. His mind struggled to recall a warm afternoon in the junkyard with Zake and Zui. But the scene wouldn't come. Only static.

"They're not just attacking the present," he whispered. "They're unmaking me."

The Codex inside him pulsed, hungry. In his desperation to restore Ivy's memory, he had sacrificed another.

"I have to learn how to use you... without losing myself."

But the Codex only replied in a chilling hum—like a song being hummed by a child that no longer existed.

🔍 Scene 2: The Spy in the Guild

Inside the Global Mecha Guild's Core Room, code flowed across transparent screens. A new communication officer had been promoted last week—an efficient woman with a steel-gray bob cut, named Lyra Tenebris.

Unknown to the Guild leaders, she wasn't human.

She was a Scribeborn, created by the Reframers to exist inside plots.

Every line of Guild communication she touched, she subtly changed. Orders sent for supply shipments were rephrased to delay them. Reinforcement schedules were altered to send troops into ambush zones.

"Small edits change entire stories," Lyra whispered as her fingers danced.

"They'll never suspect the editor works from within."

🧠 Scene 3: Ivy's Rebirth

In a quiet underground lab, Ivy lay in a pod of memory fluid. Around her, flickers of rewritten identity swirled. Her eyes opened—but not with panic. With understanding.

"Zeron... you brought me back."

But it wasn't just Ivy that returned.

Her revived form included the memories of every version of herself erased by the Reframers.

She stood up—her aura glitching, switching between outfits and timelines with every breath.

"I remember all the versions of me you tried to protect," she whispered. "Let's make sure I'm the last version."

⚔️ Scene 4: Zui's Takeover

Zui sat in her room, surrounded by old robotics schematics.

But her hands moved… without her permission.

"I didn't mean to build this…"

Before her stood a Mecha of terrifying complexity—a mirrored frame, with two cores instead of one.

A laugh echoed in her head.

"I told you I remembered the first ending," said the Other Zui, the version of herself who had survived an ending that was supposed to be erased.

"You keep being soft. So I built us a weapon."

The Mecha roared to life.

"We'll call it: Dual Requiem."

🏙️ Scene 5: Eclipse Frame Launches

In Aina's rebel city-state, the Free Core Alliance unveiled their prototype Mecha.

Not built by one pilot—but by a thousand minds linked together in perfect sync.

Its name: Eclipse Frame.

Built to reflect attacks across timelines, it could predict strategies using shared precognition.

"This is how we stop Zeron," Aina announced. "Not by outpowering him—but by showing he's not the only one with destiny."

As Eclipse Frame activated, its shell shimmered with thousands of faces—each a contributor, each a believer in shared authorship.

💀 Scene 6: The Irreversible Death

In the outskirts of the Eurasian Defense Zone, Zeron's group was ambushed by a Reframer squad led by Frax the Redline—a monster of code, whose very movement erased terrain.

The team fought fiercely.

Zake fell behind.

And before Zeron could reach him—

A blade of light pierced Zake's side.

Zeron screamed.

The Codex sparked—ready to rewrite time. Ready to undo it all.

But Frax grinned.

"This death was marked as irrevocable."

"Your Codex has rules. And this one? Was signed by the original Editor."

Zeron fell to his knees.

"No... no... no..."

Zake smiled faintly, eyes brimming with tears.

"You're doing great, big brother."

And then he was gone.

Truly.

Forever.

🕊️ Scene 7: A Page Turns

Back in the Codex Realm, Zeron stood alone, holding Zake's broken ID chip.

The Codex floated in front of him.

He stared at it.

Then, for the first time…

He closed the book.

"I won't write today."

The Codex pulsed, almost in protest.

Zeron turned away.

"You don't get to decide what pain I skip. Not anymore."

🔮 Preview — Chapter 52: He Who Unwrites the Sky

Zeron's grief begins to twist his perception.

Zui confronts her Other directly inside a dreamscape.

Ivy begins building her own Codex-based machine.

Aina and Eclipse Frame move to confront the Guild's traitor.

The sky begins… to vanish—entire constellations being deleted by someone rewriting the stars themselves.