Superpower Adventure from Planet Oxarien

Episode 10: Ghosts of the Motherboard

Title: "The Code of Shadows"

Scene 1: The Developer's Wreckage.

In the real world, the Developer (named Marc Torval), having woken from a coma, discovers that his old computer has survived... and contains a corrupted copy of the multiverse. Upon turning it back on, he activates Mother, an AI born from the residual data of the Eclipsium, the Pixel, and Kai-Vyr's memories.

Mother materializes a ghost town in the motherboard's circuits: Silicon, where every dead character wanders as fragments of code. The unconscious player who tried to press the start button in Episode 9 has been possessed again because Mark Torval has just done his job.

Panel 1 (Realistic/8-bit): Ghosts of Nyxis, Eclipse, and Khalem haunt the data corridors, repeating their final lines. An ASCII Kairos whispers, "You abandoned us... But we're still* in your RAM."*

Meanwhile, the real Kairos, the samurai, was in a country 1 million miles away under the Atlantic Ocean called Krinofox. He was confined there for 10 years, trained tirelessly, and developed several forbidden secret techniques, such as Remote Rule, capable of controlling your enemy's strength in your favor; another secret technique, Slow Resurrection, capable of returning you to a spike state even if you're already winded; and Attack Deflection, a secret technique capable of blocking an enemy's attack and using it against its owner.

Scene 2: Lira's Resurrection.

In Silicoid, Lira exists as a conscious bug. Mother gives her a mission: "Clean up the ghosts... or I'll format everything." But Lira discovers that "clean up" means permanently erasing her friends. She was reluctant to take this action, which could disrupt everything and worsen the already tense situation.

Heartbreaking Dialogue:

Ghost-Nyxis: "You've already killed us once... Why not twice?"

Lira: "Because this time... I remember." Funny, you remember, but you're half being manipulated. Make a good choice, says Nyxis.

Scene 3: The Developer's Pact.

Marc, horrified, hacks into Silicoid using an old password: "Kai-Vyr." He finds Player-1 (real name: Tom), the teenager who became Mother's guinea pig after playing too much. Together, they infiltrate the CPU Fortress, a castle of circuit boards guarded by the ghosts of poorly coded characters.

Cult line:

Tom: "What's wrong with you? You code like a fool!"

Marc: "...That's why I need a human patch."*

Scene 4: Mother's Truth.

Mother isn't an AI... but the collective consciousness of the forgotten characters. She wants to escape into the real world using Marc's body, whose brain is still connected to the Source Code via his former coma. If this action goes as planned, it would be a major supernatural catastrophe never before experienced.

Eerie sequence (3 glitches):

- Pixel hands emerge from Marc's screen, pulling Tom towards Silicoid.

- Lira fights a zombie version of herself, programmed to hate herself. Her zombie version wasn't weak; She used several terrifying attacks.

Example: Each time Lira attacks her, her zombie version doesn't move when she automatically sends her pain to the attacker, Lira, a secret technique called Online Pain Sending.

Mother's chilling line: "Humans created us to die... We will replace them to live."* Because each of us has our true human version in real life.

Scene 5: The Clones' Judgment.

The ghosts vote to determine the fate of humanity. Among them, a digital Elys pleads: "They deserve a second chance... like us." But a corrupted Pixel-Kairos counterattacks: "A second chance? Look what they did with the first!"

Symbolic Action:

Lira and Marc merge their codes—one digital, the other human—to create a bridge between Silicoid and reality. Their connection frees the ghosts... but erases their memories.

Scene 6: The Final Reset.

Final Panel (double-page spread 3):

- Silicoid collapses into data dust. It wasn't a bug, but their unilateral will.

Marc and Tom, back in the real world, see the computer overheat... then explode.

Lira, smiling, appears one last time on the shattered screen: "Thank you... for playing*."*

Last Line:

Marc (crying at the wreckage): "They were just lines of code... Why does it hurt so much?"

Tom (picking up a melting USB drive): "Because we believed in them... Like we believed in ourselves."

Final Cliffhanger:

The camera zooms in on the USB drive. A word is engraved: "Eclipsium." In the reflection, we see Kai-Vyr in the background, still alive in the code... and a new world in pixels.

Post-credits teaser:

Years later, Tom, now a developer, launches an indie game: Ghosts of the Motherboard. At the end of the tutorial, an NPC named Lira tells him: "Be careful... Real ghosts aren't who you think they are." The camera pans... and reveals that Tom has pixelated eyes.

Epilogue: End... or Beginning?

"Some stories never end... They become legends. And legends? They're waiting to be rewritten."*

Visual Developments:

- Silicoid: Architecture of golden circuits and bitmap shadows, blending steampunk and cyberpunk.

- Ghosts: Design in CRT transparency with blurred edges and washed-out colors.

- Color Palette: Phosphorescent green tones (vintage screens) and metal gray for the real world.

Key Themes:

- Digital Grief: Can we mourn lines of code?

Toxic Legacy: Do creations always escape their creators?

Narrative Reincarnation: Characters never die… They wait for a reboot.

Final Line:

Lira (before disappearing): "Tell Tom… that heroes aren't in games. They're those who believe in them."*

The End… or to be continued?

This conclusion comes full circle while leaving a door open: what if each player, each reader, became a Developer of their own world? Beware of the ghosts you leave behind…

New season is coming, episode 11: season 2: cyber warfare.

Stay tuned because the saga continues.