Scene 1: "Fracture Sync"
The shared consciousness worsens.
Gift begins stuttering mid-sentence—half his words belong to a dead engineer who died in the first Collapse.
Jakku has a memory of being a father—but he's never had a child.
Matthew suddenly knows an old rebellion codeword, then forgets his own last name.
And Maiku—he starts hearing a voice no one else does. Soft. Feminine. Melancholy.
Lysera (whispering): "You're not the first. But maybe… the last."
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Scene 2: The Bloom Beneath
Reen finds it.
A signal buried under Julio's crust—ancient, blinking, humming.
She calls Maiku and the rest of the crew through comms and they continue exploring.
She and Maiku descend into forgotten tunnels beneath the planet's core.
Whilst Jakku, Gift and Matthew stay on guard duty.
They pass rooms filled with failed Bloom hybrids—limbs of flowers, eyes of light, mouths stitched shut.
One twitches. Then speaks:
Hybrid: "She dreams of rebirth… but remembers the fire."
He then dies.
The lights go out. The walls breathe. Maiku hears Lysera humming again—closer now.
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Scene 3: "Jiro's Garden"
Jiro stands in a dead grove—once a sacred Bloom archive.
He unroots memory nodes—plucks petals of stored thought.
Each one screams silently as it vanishes.
Wherever he walks, forgetting follows.
He plants a black seed.
And planet Julio, for the first time, stays silent.
Jiro (soft): "Creation is noise. Let the world sleep."
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Scene 4: The Maiku Shift
Maiku zones out mid-conversation.
Next thing he knows—he's in the archives.
Hands bleeding. Pages torn. Memory fragments around him.
He doesn't remember getting there.
His mark pulses—gold and black—now spreading over his shoulder but it only halts there for the time-being
He hums Lysera's lullaby without realizing.
His reflection flickers—and for one second, he doesn't see himself.
He sees a Bloomed One smiling and then he angers.
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Scene 5: "Momonato's Choice"
Inside the Core Chamber, Momonato runs a diagnostic.
Every Bloom firewall is failing. Jiro's signal has infected the old roots.
He opens a forbidden folder: "EDEN RESET PROTOCOL."
He stares at Lysera's Dream File.
Momonato: "If I trigger this… I become soil. And so does everyone else."
He doesn't press the button.
But he doesn't close the file either.
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Scene 6: "Lysera's Memory"
Maiku and Reen reach the Vault.
The room is glass and silence.
A body floats—timeless, ageless. Half-gone, half-here.
Maiku's Bloom mark flares.
The glass cracks.
Her eyes open.
Lysera (barely audible): "You were never meant to touch the seed."
The world shakes. Somewhere above, a spire folds.
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Scene 7: The Bloom is Against Us
They put Lysera in a reinforced stasis cradle. Water. Air. Soft light.
She sleeps again.
Reen and Maiku stay behind.
Jakku, Gift, and Matthew take a walk outside—tense, uncertain.
They see a Bloomed One—passive, silent, back turned.
It turns its neck 360 degrees.
Lunges.
Matthew gets slashed by a petal across the cheek.
Battle Erupts.
The group prepares to fight and Jakku slashes the petals on the Bloomed One's head but they grow back instantly and he punches Jakku straight to the gut and he coughs up blood.
Gift lunges in and cuts it's kneecaps but it grabs Gift by the head and prepares to smash him into the ground but....luckily Matthew saves him and shoots fire at the Bloomed One's face but somehow he dodges with ease and let's go of Gift.
The Bloomed One speaks voice eerie and far from soft and says ;
Bloomed One (snarling): "Why did Maiku—our soil, our final root, our weave—reject us?!"
Jakku leaps and slices his right hand off but the Bloomed One grows it back in less than 20 seconds.
He dashes to Gift and punches him 10 times in the face leaving him bloody. He then dashes to Matthew and punches him 20 times in the face and stomach–13 in the face and 7 in the stomach.
Gift cuts a root and he asks Jakku to stall this thing while he thinks of something to do. Jakku leaps with everything he's got and cuts the Bloomed One's heels and his kneecaps making him fall down. Matthew tries to rip out his head but the Bloomed One spits Flower Ash in his face blinding and disorienting him.
Gift binds it in raw roots. They ride Matthew's back, dragging their wounded bodies back to the lab.
Back at the lab—
Maiku's face pales.
He realizes: The Bloom is now rejecting them.
Because he broke the weave.
Lorian appears—ghostlike, glitching.
Lorian: "The Bloom offers peace—but peace is not freedom. Look into their eyes, Maiku. They have no soul left to dream. They have soulless happiness. That so called peace is fake a lie. Trust me you made a good choice my friend. Now trust yourself, your crewmates and me and we'll make your desired world come true."
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Scene 8: "Pulse"
Julio shifts.
A soundless pulse races through every Bloom spire.
Glass fractures.
Petals wilt.
The central tower bends inward—like something is trying to unfold.
Jiro watches from afar.
He closes his eyes.
Jiro (whispering): "She's awake."
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Final Shot:
Petals fall again.
But now… they bleed.
To Be Continued....
Narrator's Voice:
In Chapter 18: "The Soil Remembers," the line between memory and identity fractures beyond recognition. Our crew—once tethered by purpose—now find themselves unraveling, becoming echoes of lives never lived. Gift stutters through someone else's death. Jakku mourns a child he never fathered. And Maiku… he hums the lullaby of a ghost he's never met. The Bloom—once a symbol of rebirth—now twists, whispers, rejects.
Reen uncovers a forgotten signal beneath Julio's crust, awakening horrors that should have stayed buried. Hybrid corpses twitch and speak of fire and rebirth. Meanwhile, Jiro plants seeds of silence, seeking a world free from the noise of memory. And Maiku? He changes. Slowly. His mark spreads, his mind frays, and a smile not his own creeps into his reflection.
A battle erupts against a Bloomed One—an abomination of petals and rage. Jakku, Gift, and Matthew fight for survival, discovering too late that Maiku's connection to the Bloom is severed. The Bloom rejects them now. And Lorian, half-ghost and half-truth, offers Maiku a final choice: to believe in real freedom—or the illusion of peace.
The planet pulses. Lysera stirs.
And petals fall—bleeding like memories too painful to forget.
The soil remembers, even when its children try not to.
And so, the Bloom begins to bloom… backward.