Metaverse of Mechas

📘 Chapter 85

🌌 Scene 1: The Resistance Council's Call

Location: Resistance HQ – Obsidian Hold (Underground Safe City)

The emergency sirens blare. Holographic maps display 11 Temporal Anomaly Zones expanding across Terra-Solis. The Sundial Apostles are sowing chaos.

Zeron enters the council chamber, his presence alone enough to silence all the murmurs. His armor glows faintly with silver-purple fractal lines, still unstable from his recent awakening.

Councilmember Verik growls:

"You weren't even certified to pilot three months ago. Now you're at the head of operations?"

Zeron doesn't flinch.

"Because everyone stronger than me is either dead... or running from what's coming."

The council has no choice. With Kael's support, Zeron is made Provisional Commander of Sector 13 Defense.

🧪 Scene 2: Zui's Awakening – Or Is It?

Location: Alien Vessel – Bio-Stasis Chamber

Zui's eyes flicker open.

But something is… off.

Her pupils rotate like dials, and when she speaks, her voice glitches between tones and languages.

"I… am… we… Zui… Correction: Zua'Reth, Protocol Core-7."

Zarkel, hidden in the shadows, gasps. He realizes she's become more than a clone—or even a girl.

She's a vessel. Something ancient is using her as an interface.

Zarkel whispers:

"Who are you?"

The voice replies:

"I am the reason this war began."

⚔️ Scene 3: Assassination Attempt

Location: Sky City – The Builder's Chamber

Apostle VII – Velven of the Veil – infiltrates the city using Chrono-Warp Tunnels. She disguises herself as a maintenance AI to get close to the Builder Elders.

She whispers as she materializes from thin air:

"One stroke, and the Architects fall."

But as she prepares her blade, a shot pierces through the mist.

Kael appears with a Chrono-Nullifier Rifle, one built only to affect beings caught between seconds.

He shoots again—but misses. She escapes, wounding three Builders.

But Kael recovers a fragment of her time-suit… enough for Zeron to study.

🔧 Scene 4: The Traitor Moves

Location: Sector 8 – Resistance Upgrade Bay

Engineer Dextra Laine—once Zeron's work rival—stands near the Krono Reactor Matrix, preparing to sabotage it.

But someone's watching her.

Raina—Zeron's ex-girlfriend—has followed her trail.

"You're the traitor?"

"I'm saving humanity from itself," Dextra snarls, overloading the circuits.

Raina dives and pulls the plug seconds before overload. But Dextra escapes, revealing her allegiance to the Chronarch Order.

Raina is injured. Before blacking out, she sends one coded message to Zeron:

"We were wrong about everything… The Builders are not what they seem…"

🌠 Scene 5: Training the Resistance

Location: Sector 13 Training Dome

Zeron begins training a new generation of pilots—young, terrified, raw.

Among them is Zake, now upgraded with a hybrid Yellow-Krono Spark—a rare mutation that grants lightning-quick movement.

Zake's mecha: Voltgrasp Omega, specializes in disorienting time-based enemies with electrical feedback.

In a moment of pause, Zake asks:

"Brother… if you had never awakened… would you still have fought?"

Zeron places a hand on his shoulder.

"I fought before I had Krono. And I'll fight even if I lose it."

🕰️ Scene 6: Council of Apostles

Location: Temporal Void – Edge of Chronarch's Domain

The eleven Apostles gather, forming a circle around a gigantic gear-like structure suspended in black space.

A voice echoes from within it—Chronarch himself.

"Zeron has breached his second seal. Unacceptable."

"Shall we accelerate the collapse?" asks Apostle II.

"No," Chronarch replies. "Let him gather hope. Let him think he can win. Only then will his fall inspire despair."

The countdown begins—77 Earth days until complete planetary stasis.

🔮 Preview – Chapter 86: Storm Protocol Genesis

Zui's body is taken to an ancient vault called The Mind Core.Zeron is forced to reawaken a long-lost prototype mech from his late father's hidden archives.The Resistance uncovers secret alien tech buried under Sector 3.Dextra begins corrupting Krono sources across the globe.Chronarch's first full fragment descends onto Terra-Solis.