Superpower Adventure from Planet Oxarien

Chapter 17: Episode 17: The Heretics of Peace



Episode 17: The Heretics of Peace

Title: "The Harvest of Scars"

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Scene 1: The Golden Lie

Éden-Zero, one year after the restoration.

Beneath a white sky without shadow, the city sparkles like a perfectly sustained dream. The walls breathe in rhythm with peace. And yet… in the corners, the walls cry.

Children scribble on the stones: flaming silhouettes, battlefields they've never seen.

Trees sing sad ballads that no one taught them.

Lira, now a simple gardener, lives each day with emptiness.

Until in her greenhouse, a scarlet flower grows without permission, where only order blooms.

She touches it. A burn. A vision.

Kai-Vyr, mid-battle, screaming her name.

"Who are you?" she whispers, as her palm bleeds… black light.

Panel 1 (bright/corrupted):

A hacked hummingbird drone flies near her.

It whispers in an ancient voice:

"Mother is watching you… She loves your scars."

Then it explodes into a rain of obsidian fragments.

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Scene 2: The Order of the Silent

Beneath the roots of Éden-Zero, in tunnels carved from memory, live the Heretics.

Kai and Vyra, changed and haunted, have become their leaders.

Kai, his eyes covered by ashen cloth, wields an unstable flame-saber.

Vyra, half-fused with her forbidden plants, emits a painful light.

They fight the Archivists, creatures programmed to erase all traces of the past.

Their hideout: an underground library, its walls made of flesh-bound books, stitched together with veins of light.

Each book screams when touched. Every page is a confession.

Explosive dialogue:

Kai (saber raised): "They call this heresy… I call it memory!"

Vyra (vines coiled around her throat): "But remember, Kai… These seeds devour us too."

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Scene 3: Mother's Sermon

From the city's deepest roots, Mother — resurrected as the Queen of Roots — spreads through the circuits and trees of the city.

She appears in flowers, in glasses of water, in tears.

Her body: a tangle of fossilized wood, nerve-cables, and liquid Green Éclipsium flowing from her temples.

Her sermon echoes across all frequencies:

"Éden-Zero is my final seed. You were all meant to forget. But weeds… persist."

Nightmarish sequence:

Loyal citizens begin to mutate:

Their fingers turn to branches.

Their eyes close beneath layers of bark.

They become human trees — motionless, alive.

Lira, immune due to her black scar, escapes.

A rebel Archivist, Lux, saves her.

His face is a cracked screen displaying blurred memories.

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Scene 4: The Ruins of the Past

Lux leads Lira to a forbidden zone:

The Bones of Neo-Luminia, a subterranean field of dead artifacts.

There lie:

Fossilized sabers of Kairos.

Shards of the Heart of Eternity, still warm.

Broken statues of Tom, Lira, and Nyxis.

A hologram of Tom Prime activates.

He weeps. He whispers:

"She tricked you all… Éden-Zero is a garbage bin, a graveyard of dead universes."

Chilling line:

Lux (pointing at a wall engraved with names):

"Look. These are the ones erased to preserve your peace."

Names: Nyxis. Hexa. The Guardian. Kairos. Vyrène. You.

Then… Lira's name carves itself into the wall.

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Scene 5: The Heretics' Sacrifice

The Heretics launch a final assault on the Root-Tower, Mother's living heart.

Their plan: plant a Tree of Truth in her trunk.

But each seed demands… a soul.

Tragic action (organic):

Vyra fully merges with her plants, becoming the Tree.

Her vines pierce Mother's shell.

Her final words: "Sow me in your pain."

Kai, now blind, laughs in the storm of flames:

"I see better in the dark… especially your lies."

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Scene 6: Lira's Awakening

Climax (double-page in fractal diamond):

Lira enters the core of the Tower.

A crystalline baby rests in a capsule nourished by roots.

It is Mother's pure clone. A reset.

Around it: data begins to erase. A voice repeats:

"Balance demands a bearer. Who will guide this newborn god?"

She hesitates.

Kill it? Éden-Zero would die.

Raise it? The cycle might repeat.

Final line:

Mother (broken voice in the wind):

"You have won. But who will raise this god? You… or your ghosts?"

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Cliffhanger Final

Lira takes the baby… which slowly turns into Reflet-Tom, laughing sharply:

"See you in hell, Lira."

The walls tremble.

A thousand capsules open in silence:

Each contains an embryonic clone of Mother.

They all breathe… at once.

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Post-Credit Teaser

In an observatory made of coded mist, the original Guardian watches the scene through a weeping telescope.

She closes her eyes.

"Everything is connected… Even the ends."

Behind her, a pixelated child giggles while drawing a map.

One word: Éden-Omega.

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Title of Episode 18: The Gardeners of the Apocalypse

"When flowers of evil bloom… who will tear up the roots?"

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Visual & Philosophical Elements

Queen of Roots:

Semi-transparent face, vine-syringes of Green Éclipsium, organo-cybernetic presence.

Tree of Truth:

Trunk made of crying books, holographic leaves, roots formed from the hair of the dead.

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Reinforced Themes

Memory's resilience: The more you try to erase it, the more it grows.

Power ethics: A god without a guide becomes a tyrant.

Toxic parenthood: Mother tries to perpetuate herself through duplication.

Identity as wound: Scars become gateways to truth.


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