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Chapter 56 - Chapter 55 – “Dead Queens & Broken Kings”

Subtitle: The Cost of Power, and the Silence That Follows

Lucia's dressed in ceremonial white, fingers laced on her lap, calm as ever. NUKE sent her a meme earlier — something about "President Baddie going to patch the internet." She smirked.

Behind her, black SUVs snake through the city.

Above, a drone.

Just one.

It blinks red.

Lucia's aide (screaming):

"Something's wrong—!"

BOOM.

Cut to: Emergency Broadcast Screens Around the World

"We regret to inform you…President Lucia Blaque is presumed dead after a targeted aerial strike…"

Scene: Kodi's Tokyo penthouse.

The glass shatters inward from the force of the news.

Kodi drops his coffee. The floor trembles beneath him. His face is blank, unreadable, and then—his knees buckle.

A moment later, his security feed cuts out.

The room flashes RED with emergency override.

Unknown Intrusion Detected.

Kodi reaches for the manual override but it's too late.

The last thing he sees is NUKE's face on a scrambled feed, crying.

Then—black.

Scene: Hospital – Undisclosed Location

Kodi is hooked to machines. Coma. Condition: Critical.

A nurse whispers to another:

"He coded twice. He's not waking up soon."

Cut to: NUKE. Alone.

He's in a black hoodie, sitting at the foot of a closed casket surrounded by politicians and world leaders pretending to cry.

He's not crying.

He's broken.

His mom is dead. His dad is comatose. The world is on fire.

And someone just tried to delete the two most dangerous people alive from the board.

NUKE (quietly to himself):

"Okay.Y'all forgot I exist.Bad move."

Cut to: NUKE's Basement

A map of global data centers.Kodi's AI fragments. Lucia's encrypted archives.Stormcloud servers. Rothschild blackbooks.

Everything his parents built. Stolen. Lost. Burned. Or buried.

But not forgotten.

NUKE pulls out a hard drive marked:"PROJECT: ECLIPSE"

Final shots:

Kodi flatlining. Doctors scramble.

Lucia's encrypted will being decrypted by NUKE.

A news anchor sobbing:

"NUKE, the orphaned heir of two of the most dangerous digital minds on Earth… has disappeared."

Cut to NUKE driving across the desert, eyes set on nowhere.

Final line (NUKE's voice, over static):

"They tried to kill my family.Now I'll finish what they started.And then burn the whole system down."

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