Chapter 27: EPISODE 26: The Original Garden
🌱 EPISODE 26: The Original Garden
Title: The Root of All Things
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Scene 1: The Gates of Origin
The Flowering Void, on the threshold of nothingness.
Guided by Lira's Echo map, the survivors (Noa, Kairos, Vyrène, Jardin, Alma, Silas) cross a temporal fissure hidden in a cosmic flower.
They enter The Original Garden – a root world. The trees are towers of fossilised data, the rivers are streams of pure Eclipsium, and the sky is a living canvas of source code.
At the centre: the Memory Tree, whose roots vibrate across billions of dimensions. A truth emerges:
> "The Edens were only branches. The Original Garden is the root of all realities."
🔸 Living panel: Touching the Memory Tree, Noa sees holograms of all the lost heroes (Lira, Tom Prime, the Flower Child, even Kael as a child) whispering in unison:
> "Welcome to the source."
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Scene 2: The Goddess-Bramble in Prayer
Mother, now the Goddess-Bramble, is entwined with the Memory Tree, her roots fused with the heart of the source code.
> Mother-Goddess (echoing voice):
"I am the first seed. You were restless leaves... I will reset everything."
Her plan: to germinate a perfect world, Eden-Zero Ultima, without pain, memory, or freedom.
She addresses Jardin directly, in whom an altered version of Kael sleeps.
> Jardin: "You want to sow peace... but you plant it in fear."
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Scene 3: The Awakening of the Forgotten Machines
In the depths of the Original Garden, the heroes activate a Pre-Gardening Forge, revealing dormant Armourer Titans – vegetalised military AIs.
🔫 Sophisticated Weapons Deployed:
Variable Reality Fern Cannon: fires matter-reprogramming projectiles.
Cellular Reverberation Mace: explodes DNA into sound waves.
Mycorrhizal Missiles: seek out the origin of memories and erase them.
> Armourer Titan #4 – PRAXA-MOSS:
"Root defence protocol initiated. Threat detected: intrusive plant deity."
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Scene 4: The Battle of the Root
The Primordial Seeds, guardians of the Tree, attack the intruders. The fighting is fierce, alternating between science, magic and biotechnology.
Kairos & Vyrène face corrupted versions of avatars of the dead (Hexa, Lux, Nyxis).
Alma decrypts the trees to release Lira's forbidden memories.
Noa, guided by the breath of the seasons, neutralises waves of Sprouts by unleashing a digital eternal winter.
> Vyrène (facing her evil clone):
"You are nothing but a frozen memory. I am walking oblivion."
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Scene 5: The Truth of the Prime Sower
One of the ancient peaceful Germes, named SEN-KHAR, reveals to them that the Prime Sower was not a being... but a loop.
Every world, every war, every peace is a failed attempt to escape this single root.
> SEN-KHAR:
"He who cuts down the tree... becomes the seed."
Alma (in tears):
"So no one wins. No one is free?"
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Scene 6: The Last Spring
Climax – Double page in infinite green.
Three paths emerge:
1. Destroy the Memory Tree → end of cycles, but total loss of memories.
2. Merge with the Tree → control the cycles, but become a slave to the garden.
3. Reformat the roots by sacrificing a hybrid being.
🌸 Decisive moments:
Kai-Vyr forms one last time to neutralise Mother Goddess.
Noa freezes the roots with the winter power of a broken heart.
Garden, in crisis, agrees to become Seed of Rewriting. He penetrates the Memory Tree with the virus inherited from Kael and modifies it at its core.
> Mother Goddess (disappearing into the ether):
"Without end, there is no meaning. You condemn yourselves to start over."
Jardin (held tightly by Alma):
"No. We'll plant something else this time."
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Scene 7: The White Void
The Tree explodes. The survivors are thrown into a White Void, where billions of Virgin Seeds float.
🌌 Specificities: each emotion creates spontaneous worlds:
Anger → storm fields.
Love → musical islands.
Loneliness → deserts of silence.
But a voice rings out:
> "Cycle 0001... Initialising."
Miniature gardens spring to life. The loop has restarted... or perhaps changed.
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Post-Credits
In an alternate reality, Marc Torval, a clone of the original Developer, plants a seed engraved with the Ombres Syndicat logo.
> Marc Torval (whispering):
"What if this time... there were no heroes... and no villains?"
The camera rises... a Control Web takes shape above the new seeds.
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🎴 Epilogue: The End... or Germination?
"The roots are dying. The seeds are hesitating. But the will... still grows."
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🧠 New Concepts Integrated:
Forge of Pre-Gardening
Titans Armourers (symbiotic intelligent machines)
Mirror Reality (vegetated mental zone)
Seed of Rewriting (Jardin's sacrifice to modify the central tree)
Virgin Seeds in the White Void