Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 73

🚀 Scene 1: Entering the Seed Moon

The Chrono Wings tear open space itself as Zeron, Zui, and Serin enter the Seed Moon's atmospheric shell. It's not like entering a planet—it's like diving into a sentient mind.

Inside is a twisted, surreal realm. Buildings float sideways. Rivers flow in spirals. The laws of physics bow to Krono distortion. Their mecha, Last Frame, begins to destabilize almost instantly.

System Warning: Chrono Interference Detected. Mental Integrity Dropping.

Serin: "The moon's fighting us... like an immune system rejecting an infection."

Suddenly, the cockpit flashes red. Zui gasps, clutching her head—visions flash before her eyes.

Zui: "I… I'm seeing things. Mom… Dad… They're… alive?"

But it's a lie.

The Seed Moon is projecting illusions tailored from their memories to wear down their resolve.

Zeron: "Zui, focus! That's not real! That's—"

But it's too late. She breaks mental sync and collapses. The mech spirals mid-air, crashing into the moon's surface.

💀 Scene 2: A Voice in the Moon

As Zeron pulls Zui from the wreckage, an eerie hum vibrates through the crater.

Then, for the first time, Valken Prime speaks—not with words, but directly into their minds:

Valken Prime (telepathic): "Little specks of hope. You burn so bright... only to flicker and die."

Zeron: "Show yourself!"

The sky cracks like glass. A massive silhouette descends—an obsidian mecha, pulsing with living Krono. Its core: shaped like a heart fused with an eye.

This is EX-001: The Eidolon Sovereign.

Valken sits inside it like a god on a throne.

Valken: "You've touched the edge of what Krono can do, Zeron. Now… drown in it."

🧪 Scene 3: Inside the Eidolon Protocol

Elsewhere, Zake and Milo breach the last of the encrypted files from the stolen Valken dreadnought. What they find horrifies them.

The Eidolon Protocol wasn't just a weapon—it's a rewrite engine.

It rewrites the personality, history, and emotion of all beings connected to Krono.

Zake: "He's not just invading. He's trying to erase us."

Milo: "And write something else in our place."

Zake activates the Chrono Memory Filter, trying to isolate who sent Valken the original Earth-bound blueprints.

And the name on the file is…

Zake (whispers): "No… it can't be…"

The file reads: Authorized by—Director Kaien.

Zake's mentor. And the head of the Mecha Guild.

⚔️ Scene 4: Battle for Zui's Mind

Back on the Seed Moon, Zui's body levitates above the ground, Krono spiraling from her chest as Eidolon Sovereign feeds off her memories.

Zeron makes a choice: instead of fighting the mech—he dives into Zui's mind using a neuro-sync bridge.

Inside, he faces mirrored versions of his sister's fears: their parents dying over and over, monsters made of loneliness and guilt.

Zui: "I wasn't strong enough. I never was."

Zeron: "You never had to be. That's what big brothers are for."

He shows her memories she'd forgotten—when she fell from a tree and Zeron carried her for miles, bleeding, crying, never giving up.

The illusion breaks. Zui regains sync.

Zui: "Let's end this."

🌠 Scene 5: The Unleashing

Zeron's Krono begins to flare—not weak or colorless anymore—but shifting.

It becomes Silver—a color that doesn't exist on the known spectrum.

Even Valken hesitates.

Valken: "Silver… that's impossible. That's before the spectrum."

A Krono Singularity forms.

The air bends.

Zeron unleashes a new form: Last Frame: Aegis Genesis—a hybrid of light armor and Krono blade wings, capable of warping through probability instead of space.

The Sovereign lashes out.

They clash in a cosmic ballet of light and shadow.

The Seed Moon begins to destabilize.

🧩 Scene 6: A Traitor Confirmed

At the Guild HQ, Zake rushes to confront Director Kaien, armed with proof of betrayal.

But when he enters the office… Kaien is dead. Poisoned.

And standing behind the desk is someone else:

Guild Officer Ravel—Zeron's work rival, long dismissed as arrogant but harmless.

Ravel (grinning): "Funny thing about trust, Zake. It's just an equation. Once you know the variable, you control the outcome."

He vanishes using a Phase Core—an elite escape module only known to Guild top brass.

🌌 Scene 7: A New Orbit

With the Seed Moon cracking, Valken retreats deeper into its core—but not before severing one of Last Frame's arms.

Zeron nearly blacks out.

They escape just before the surface collapses in a swirl of pure Krono.

But it's not over.

System Alert: Eidolon Protocol—Partially Activated

Krono Disturbance Detected Across 5 Continents

📖 Preview – Chapter 74: Phantom Code

Cities begin experiencing reality glitches—where memory and identity start erasing.A mysterious child arrives at Zake's lab—claiming to be from the future.Valken's next move becomes terrifyingly clear: rewrite the planet's history.Zeron begins unlocking fragments of Silver Krono's origin—and it might not be from this universe.