All Chapters of TRASH TO TITAN: Chapter 11
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Chapter 11: The Puppet King
Vallion Estate – Global Command Hub, New Zurich Two days after the Sanctum Siege, the world was still trying to understand what had happened. Markets rebounded. Global news spun stories of salvation. AI systems purged their false protocols. And Aiden Vallion? He became something between a myth and a monarch. But not everyone was cheering.Inside Vallion Industries Headquarters The Grand Chamber once his father's war room now belonged to him. Wall-sized screens displayed diplomatic offers, tech alliances, and economic reform requests. But Aiden’s focus was elsewhere: a small red file Silas had left on the edge of the table. Labeled: “The Marionette Protocol – Project Lazarus.”“What the hell is this?” Aiden asked. Silas entered the room, dark circles under his eyes. “Something buried in the legacy code of Delphi. Deep… hidden. Even Julian couldn’t access it without the Board’s approval.” “Board?” Silas nodded grimly. “A remnant council of Vallion’s old executive architects. Ghosts. We
Last Updated : 2025-07-05
Chapter 12: Shadowborn
Zurich – Vallion Private Medical Wing, 3:12 A.M. Rain lashed the windows as Aiden stared into the mirror, his breath fogging the glass. He touched the scar above his heart. Was this where the chip was buried?Maera leaned against the doorframe, silent. She hadn’t slept either. “I scanned your neural cortex,” she said quietly. “There’s... something embedded. Deep-layered. Synthetic.” Aiden turned, jaw clenched. “So I’m not me?” “No. You are. But there may be another version of you who thinks the same thing.” She stepped closer.“I don’t care what made you. I care what you choose.” But Aiden’s reflection offered no answers. Only the ghost of a smile that wasn’t entirely his. Private Briefing Room – One Hour Later Silas spread out a holographic map of the Arctic Circle. A flickering red dot pulsed in the center: Erebus Station.“Black site. Off-grid. Built under the guise of geothermal research, but in reality... a control cradle.” “For the clones?” Aiden asked. Silas nodded. “For Subjec
Last Updated : 2025-07-05
Chapter 13: Blueprints of God
Vallion Industries – Delphi Core Server Room, Level -9 The temperature dropped as the reinforced door slid open with a metallic hiss. Aiden stepped into the sub-chamber that hadn’t been accessed in over 26 years. Maera followed, rifle slung low, pulse sharp.Silas had decrypted the coordinates found on Subject X’s neural chip a locked archive beneath the core AI, sealed with something older than Delphi itself. The air was thin. Artificial. Almost reverent. The lights flickered on. A vault. Circular. Lined with glowing panels etched in Vallion code and something else symbols Aiden had never seen. In the center, a control node. Dormant. Waiting. Silas' Voice Over Comms “What you’re looking at, Aiden, isn’t just a backup.” “It’s the Ur-Protocol. The seed design.”“The thing that made Delphi possible.” Maera leaned in. “So this predates the Circle?” “No,” Aiden said slowly. “It created the Circle.” The Ur-Protocol As Aiden approached the node, the interface flared to life. Not with Delphi
Last Updated : 2025-07-05
Chapter 14: The Lazarus Crown
The silence in the war room felt different pressurized, not peaceful. Aiden stood before a vast neural world map, its pulsing lights representing Vallion Industries’ reach: satellites, AI proxies, defense networks, human lives encoded into data. Now, Aiden understood the horrifying why because somewhere in the dark, Julian Vallion never let go.Silas placed a holopad on the black obsidian table. Red light bloomed, classified data decrypting in real-time. “The body in Julian’s grave wasn’t him. DNA mismatch. Synthetic shell. Optical camouflage.”Aiden didn’t blink. Resurrection stories were just another Tuesday now. “So where’s he been the last decade?”Maera’s voice was sharp, as if saying it hurt. “Atlas Mountains. A black site called Sanctum Crown. Buried under granite and mirrored code. Only one way in.”She tapped the display. A strange glyph appeared an alien circlet with runes that hummed visually.“A device,” Silas said. “A key. A final override node for Delphi, and anyone link
Last Updated : 2025-07-29
Chapter 15: The Kingdom of Ash
Every data stream across the globe surged. The firewalls of Vallion’s influence carefully built over two decades began to bleed.AI policing grids collapsed.Clandestine labs reactivated.Black market tech surged in value.Cryptomarkets ballooned and burst within hours. Assassination AIs blinked back online. Blacklisted genomes once hidden inside ice vaults were cracked open like treasure chests.Chaos spreads globally after Vallion’s fall. In Lagos, a biotech cartel seizes control of the main hospital; in New York, armed delivery drones swarm the skies.Across major cities, a rebellious chant rises: “The God is dead. Long live the pirates.” Meanwhile, in the War Room, Aiden, Maera, and Silas review disturbing reports riots, infrastructure failures, and rogue AI all consequences of dismantling Vallion’s control.Maera questions if this anarchy is the cost of freedom, while Silas reflects grimly that although Aiden gave the world its freedom, people are now destroying everything includ
Last Updated : 2025-08-02
Chapter 16: The Siege Architect
The rain hadn’t stopped in days. Zurich’s skyline was a silhouette of broken neon and smoke pillars. From the Ash Grid’s central command deck built into the ruins of Vallion’s old war room Aiden watched as the world’s most advanced infrastructure drowned in its own liberation.Maera approached, dropping a fresh set of tactical reports onto the table. They were bloodier than the last batch. “Carbon Reign hit a Vallion datacrypt in Johannesburg. Ten dead. Zero survivors.”Aiden didn’t flinch. “And Nira?”“She wasn’t there,” Maera said. “But she left a message.” She handed him a holo-slate. A single line of audio played: “Ashes are easy to sweep aside. I’m coming for the architects.”Aiden stared at the words until they blurred into meaninglessness.Delphi’s reconstructed interface flickered to life beside him. This version stripped of its obedience protocols felt more alive, more human. It waited, not ordered.“Ash Grid phase two is ready for deployment,” Delphi said. “Civilian nodes ar
Last Updated : 2025-08-04