Chapter 17: EPISODE 17: “Threadfall”
🧵 "If they can corrupt my past… they can cut my soul."
🎬 [Scene 1 – Break Academy, Midnight]
Scarlet Onna lies in the infirmary — pale, trembling. Her spirit-weaving threads are fraying around her wrists, glowing a dim, sickly red.
STARWAVE (whispering):
"She overused her memory seal. It's like her threads… are haunted."
ONMYO FLARE (examining runes):
"No — not haunted. Hacked. Null used Bytecutter to corrupt her soul stitching."
🧵 [Scene 2 – A Letter from the Past]
Scarlet Onna awakens holding a folded prayer tag in her hand. It's written in her mother's handwriting — a spell that shouldn't exist.
"To my daughter, Sayo: I left you this one final weave…"
But her mother died when she was seven. And this spell? It's too advanced, too malicious.
🕷️ [Scene 3 – Null's Trap]
Null broadcasts into her dreams.
Glitched cherry blossoms fall. She stands in a warped version of her old shrine — where her mother once performed rituals.
NULL (echoing):
"You claim to weave memory. So let's test yours.
What if the only thread holding you together… is a lie?"
🧵 [Scene 4 – Enter the Dream Weave Zone]
Scarlet Onna is pulled into a thread-realm, a metaphysical space constructed from her own memories — now corrupted.
Her shrine is half-mechanical, spinning with digitized paper cranes.
Her mother appears, reciting spiritual blessings… but the kanji symbols glitch.
Scarlet Onna's own threads attack her, forming claws and nooses.
⚔️ [Scene 5 – Rescue Team Formed]
Kuro Ōkami, Starwave, and Onmyo Flare realize Null is using her own weaving ability to imprison her.
ONMYO FLARE:
"She's stuck inside her own soul stitch. If we don't go in now, she'll become part of Null's code."
STARWAVE (tightening mic-grip):
"Then let's cut through the static."
They perform a Soul Dive Ritual — blending Onmyō talismans, moonlight essence, and sound-based resonance — entering the thread-realm together.
🌌 [Scene 6 – Inside the Corrupted Mindweave]
The three Avengers arrive in the twisted shrine of Scarlet's memories.
Kuro battles giant thread spirits shaped like her regrets.
Onmyo Flare seals unstable fragments of corrupted shrine spirits.
Starwave uses soft pulses to trigger real memories, guiding her voice toward Sayo's heart.
STARWAVE:
"Sayo — what was the last thing your mother really said to you?"
Scarlet Onna (tearfully):
"She said… 'You'll never be alone. Even if the threads fray.'"
🕯️ [Scene 7 – Final Confrontation with the False Mother]
The corrupted memory form of her mother begins to unravel, revealing a Null avatar, shaped from her pain.
NULL (inside her mind):
"I am every forgotten promise. Every broken vow in the fabric of Tokyo.
You weavers lie. I reveal."
SCARLET ONNA (rising):
"Then let me stitch a truth you can't delete."
🧵 ULTIMATE SPELL: "THREADFALL: FINAL EMBRACE"
She summons a massive spirit-weave phoenix, made of red-gold thread and ancestral sigils. It envelops the shrine, purging the corruption — not with rage, but grief woven into beauty.
The corrupted thread-space collapses into light.
🧍♀️ [Scene 8 – Back in Reality]
Scarlet Onna awakens — stable, smiling through tears.
SCARLET ONNA:
"She was never really gone. I just stopped listening."
ONMYO FLARE:
"And now your thread is stronger than before."
STARWAVE (teasing):
"Can't believe you fought your way out of Null's virus with embroidery."
KURO ŌKAMI (grins):
"I call that magic."
🗡️ [Scene 9 – Meanwhile: Null Plans the End]
Null stands before the final memory gate — Tokyo's Forgotten Well, a sealed crypt containing "forbidden erased events."
Beside them, Bytecutter glows red-hot.
NULL:
"Time to end the lie of heroes.
Tokyo's reset begins… in three days."
🎴 [End Card – Tokyo Avengers]
EPISODE 17: "Threadfall" — END
🌀 Next Time: Episode 18 — "Echo Chamber"
Null traps the entire city in a reality where the Tokyo Avengers never existed. No one remembers them. The heroes must survive in a world that hates them… and doesn't even know why.