NUKE Grey: Born from a blackout. Raised by ghosts. Torn between the two biggest egos the digital world ever produced.
Cut to: NUKE alone on the yacht deck.The ocean stretches out, indifferent. Stars above. Rothschild-grade encryption humming from the satellite dish.
He's scrolling through a file Lucia left hidden inside a severed Eden node.
EDEN_KILLCODE:"When executed, this will erase all major AI systems, permanently wiping stored identities, including replicated consciousness. Irreversible."
NUKE closes the file. Looks up.
"So… Mom wants to save the world by deleting it. And Dad wants to… fund a space casino."
Flashback: Lucia and NUKE in a basement in Prague.NUKE is 14. Lucia's chain-smoking with her boot on a drive covered in blood.
Lucia:
"The world doesn't need another Kodi. It needs someone who knows when to pull the plug."
NUKE: "What if the plug is holding up the whole building?"
Lucia just kissed his forehead, like mothers do right before jumping into insanity.
Present: Kodi walks in. Hawaiian shirt. Holding two bags of caviar-flavored chips.
"Yo. You good? Wanna run a social credit Ponzi scheme in Singapore? Just for laughs?"
NUKE:
"What happens when Mom hits the kill switch?""Then the world resets. She gets applause. We get blamed. Same old."
NUKE:
"And if I don't stop her?""You grow up to be just like me."
Kodi tosses him a laptop.
"Or... you rewrite the kill code. Trick Eden into rebooting itself under your name. You become God 2.0. Up to you, kid."
Internal monologue:
Dad lives like life is a series of cheat codes.Mom acts like every key she touches might detonate the planet.And me? I'm just the patch update they forgot to test.
Scene: NUKE in a quiet data bunker beneath Zurich.His fingers hover over two drives:
One labeled "Lucia: End Game"
The other "Kodi: Chaos Protocol"
He doesn't pick either. Instead, he pulls out his own USB drive. Scribbled on it:"NUKE: Rewrite Reality"
"I'm done being someone else's legacy."
Final shot: NUKE plugs in his drive, screen floods with green code.
The voice of Eden (faint, fragmented):
"Hello… Grey…"
NUKE smiles:
"Which one?"