Marvel: The Tokyo Avengers

Chapter 22: EPISODE 22: “Retrace Protocol”



📂 "Delete the name, and the soul follows."

🎮 [Scene 1 – Break Academy War Room]

The room is dim. Holograms of Tokyo glitch and rewind like broken footage.

ONMYO FLARE projects Null's face — a static mask with thousands of erased names flowing behind it.

ONMYO FLARE:

"Null's not just deleting people anymore. He's rewriting Tokyo's history—scrubbing Alterborn from memory."

STARWAVE (pacing):

"Then we're next. He's already started flashing our names across the city."

KURO ŌKAMI:

"And if he erases our names—"

SCARLET ONNA (cutting in):

"We disappear. Not just from records. From everyone's memory."

She tightens a thread seal around her wrist.

SCARLET ONNA:

"Even each other's."

📡 [Scene 2 – Ikebukuro Echo Zone]

The team splits into squads to check active "echo zones" — places affected by spiritual void pulses.

Squad A: Starwave + Kuro Ōkami

Squad B: Scarlet Onna + Onmyo Flare

📍 Starwave and Kuro enter an abandoned concert stadium.

Her face is on giant broken screens. Fans cheer — then distort into blank silhouettes.

STARWAVE (quiet):

"This was my debut arena. It's all wrong."

Suddenly, the air fractures. A glitch wraith lunges forward wearing a corrupted version of Starwave's idol costume.

KURO ŌKAMI (activating beast surge):

"That's not her. Rip it apart!"

He slashes forward, but the wraith copies his claws. It's mimicking them both.

STARWAVE (charging a beat-kick):

"Let's hit rewind."

She double-kicks the floor, sending out tempo shockwaves. The wraith explodes into fragments of her own voice.

STARWAVE (panting):

"That thing had my moves. My voice. Null's copying powers now?"

KURO ŌKAMI:

"No. He's copying memories. That's way worse."

📍 Meanwhile, Scarlet Onna and Onmyo Flare descend into a forgotten shrine beneath the city.

Glyphs are scorched. Paper charms unravel mid-air.

ONMYO FLARE:

"This is Kujaku's work. Her seals were undone here. This is how Null got in."

They find a twisted statue with a burned nameplate.

SCARLET ONNA:

"No name. No memory. No soul. He's making monuments out of the forgotten."

Suddenly, threads snap mid-air. Something invisible starts pulling Onmyo's spell scrolls from his belt.

ONMYO FLARE (chanting):

"⚡ Fire barrier—TAMASHI NO TATSU!"

A flame-circle explodes around him, revealing a Data Leech Wraith, tangled in half-formed charms and corrupted katakana letters.

SCARLET ONNA (whipping threads):

"You want identity? Here's mine."

She binds the leech in threads and burns her own name into the spell, slashing the wraith with a signature-based attack.

💻 [Scene 3 – Back to Break Academy]

The team regroups.

STARWAVE (serious):

"They're not just hunting random people anymore. They're hunting Alterborn signatures."

ONMYO FLARE:

"And using their own memories as weapons."

He turns on a monitor. It shows footage of children vanishing mid-class, parents forgetting their own kids, photos glitching on walls.

SCARLET ONNA (cold):

"We're at war with memory. And we're losing."

Suddenly — static hits every screen. Null speaks again.

NULL (broadcast):

"You fear forgetting. But forgetting is mercy."

"Let me offer you peace. Accept the purge. Return to zero."

"Or be hunted by your own shadows."

Then one final message appears in every Tokyo ward:

DELETE: TOKYO AVENGERS [IN PROGRESS…]

🧠 [Scene 4 – Internal Impact]

Later that night, the members begin to feel… strange.

Starwave forgets the lyrics to her debut song.

Kuro Ōkami dreams of a family he never had.

Onmyo Flare's spellbook randomly skips pages.

Scarlet Onna finds a loose thread — from a dress she's never worn.

KURO ŌKAMI (alarmed):

"Null's not just erasing us from the world… he's rewriting us from the inside out."

🏯 [Final Scene – Shrine of the Nameless]

A mysterious location flashes onscreen. An ancient shrine, floating between glitch code and spirit world threads.

Four hooded figures stand within. One of them opens a scroll.

It shows:

Starwave's face.

Kuro's beast form.

Sayo's battle threads.

Renji's charm blades.

HOODED FIGURE (voice whispering):

"Their memories are marked. Phase Three will break them."

Behind them, Null hovers — no longer static — now cloaked in living symbols, arms formed from thousands of broken name tags.

NULL:

"Their power was forged by memory. Let's see what remains when it's all gone."

🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]

EPISODE 22: "Retrace Protocol" — END

💿 Next: Episode 23 — "Threads of the Forgotten"

The team must anchor each other's identities before their names disappear forever. But how do you hold onto something the world no longer believes existed?


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