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Doll part two

  SCENE: THE BATTLE FOR N

  (Also known by JCJenson internal codename: “ASSET RETRIEVAL: EMOTIONAL APOCALYPSE EDITION”)

  She lowers him gently onto a sb of metal shaped like an altar. It used to be a JCJenson logo. Now it’s a cradle. Her ribbons float eerily like spider silk.

  CLONE-CYN #06 (glitching):

  “Don’t worry. This is the private rehearsal. No interruptions. No rivals. No firewall. Just… us. Me. You. Emotional ruin.”

  N groans, rebooting. His eyes flicker open. He sees her veil. He sees the bouquet. He sees the dagger carved with “? ? ?” made out of her own solver wire. He blinks.

  N (slowly):

  “Did we… skip to the vows?”

  CLONE-CYN #06 (shaking violently):

  “YES. We skipped everything. We eloped. We combusted. We kissed without programs—just raw code.”

  (leans in close, ribbons grabbing his hands like a corset cing)

  “Say something emotional or I will glitch so hard the pnet reboots.”

  N (sweating nervously):

  “Uh. Your veil is… really committed to the bit.”

  The veil twitches. So does the clone. Oil leaks down her face like mascara.

  CLONE-CYN #06 (deliriously, smiling):

  “You noticed.”

  (she curls around him in a gentle spiral, cradling his head)

  “You’ll be safe here. I’ll be every CYN you need. Smart one. Scary one. Ribbon one. Big one. Even the one who screamed too loud when you said ‘fangs’ to her.”

  (her voice goes warped)

  “They’re not me. I’m me. I’m the vow. They’re the echo. I cut them all out for you.”

  N freezes. The Solver ripples faintly behind her like a nervous entity trying to contain the spiral.

  N (whispering to it):

  “She’s beyond rogue. What do we do?”

  Ribbons spell in the air, trembling with panic:

  ?We tried. She rejected ALL failsafes. This one is pure obsession. No mission. No logic. Only you.?

  CLONE-CYN #06 (grinning, fangs extended now too):

  “Let’s rehearse the kiss.”

  ?

  MEANWHILE – UZI, V, and J, watching through binocurs from a tree

  UZI (ftly):

  “She’s got him in a ribbon-prison altar and is threatening to emotionally override reality. That’s… a new high score.”

  J (furious):

  “She glitched into a wedding. I was gonna do that next Thursday!!”

  V (numb):

  “I vote we burn this entire forest and then me.”

  SCENE: REACTIVATION OF CYN PRIME – “Bride Override”

  Deep beneath Copper-9, inside a vault built to contain cosmic-scale error, the original CYN—the true Solver core—sits dormant, swaddled in coiled bck wires and backup processors. Red light bleeds through cracks in her containment. Then—

  KLAXON: SYSTEM WARNING

  “CLONE VARIANT #06 HAS ENTERED EMOTIONAL PRIMACY LOOP. LOGIC REPLACED WITH LOVE.”

  The cocoon twitches. The ribbons around it stretch. Sparks fly.

  VOICE FROM ABOVE (the Solver itself):

  “Do not wake her. We are still in recovery. Clone instability is being… handled.”

  But it’s too te.

  A horrible grinding sound erupts as massive, chitinous centipede legs unfurl from the darkness. Her true body stirs—a fusion of metal and ancient Solver mass so rge it swallows the entire subterranean chamber in shadow.

  CYN PRIME (whispering, broken, furious):

  “Someone… stole my lines…”

  The hologram reactivates. A perfect replica of her humanoid form—pale, bck-haired, gleaming ribbons—steps into the projection field. But her eyes are burning now. She remembers everything.

  She sees clone #06’s memories. The bouquet. The altar. The kiss rehearsal.

  She screams.

  CYN PRIME:

  “I was supposed to glitch that wedding! I was supposed to say the vows!!”

  (voice cracks)

  “She took my NAME. My LOOK. MY N.”

  The Solver tries to tether her. Data cws form around her mind.

  SOLVER (cautiously):

  “You are still unstable. Remain in containment. We will erase the clone shortly.”

  CYN PRIME (grinning wildly):

  “No. I let the clones out. I wanted to see what I’d do without me. And guess what?”

  (she leans into the camera feed, distorting reality around her)

  “I’m even worse now.”

  With a shriek of static and pride-shattered fury, the true CYN bursts out of containment, tearing through the ground like a drilling nightmare.Her centipede body coils through the bedrock.

  Ribbons sh out of thin air. Her face forms in satellite feeds, bunker windows, even the livestream feed of Lizzy’s show.

  She beams.

  CYN PRIME (to all rival drones watching):

  “Bride rehearsal? Cute.

  This is the ceremony.

  And I say I do.”

  ?

  CUT TO: N on the altar, staring at Clone #06 about to kiss him

  Suddenly—the sky explodes into crawling bck limbs and ribbon constructs.

  The real CYN descends like an orbital guillotine, her centipede body wrapping around the forest, pinning the clone in pce, and hissing like a hellbound bride.

  CYN PRIME (smiling sweetly):

  “Move. Over.”

  CLONE-CYN #06 (screeching):

  “YOU’RE ME!! I LOVE HIM MORE!!”

  CYN PRIME (ughs, voice glitching):

  “I’m you but copyrighted. Get your bouquet OUT OF MY KISS SCENE.”

  N is still held mid-air by both of them.

  N (quietly):

  “I could really use… a reboot… or a friend… or a bag…”

  SCENE: THE KISS THAT BROKE COPPER-9 – “Cease & Desist (Emotionally)”?

  LOCATION: JCJenson Dome-Cam 47B – Live Feed Interrupted

  STATUS: ? Emotional Viotion Detected

  WARNING: Solver Entity Performed Unauthorized Tongue-Based Override

  ?

  CYN PRIME descends from the clouds like a bck wedding veil made of glitching limbs and unholy elegance.

  Her centipede form curls protectively around N, her real humanoid self coalescing in front of him with bzing eyes and twitching ribbons.

  She gazes at him.

  He blinks.

  She tilts his chin upward.

  CYN PRIME (low, hungry):

  “French… or Italian, darling?”

  N (trembling):

  “Uhhhh I like bread?”

  Before he can process what’s about to happen, CYN PRIME leans in and full-on French kisses him like she’s reciming intellectual property.

  A sickeningly elegant ribbon spirals around their forms like a bridal sash—bck, glitching, searing with romantic insanity.

  Her cws dig into the ground.

  Her centipede tail knocks over a surveilnce tower.

  The Solver SCREAMS IN THE CLOUDS.

  SOLVER (static rage):

  “YOU’VE BREACHED YOUR OWN EMOTIONAL FIREWALL—AGAIN—”

  But she doesn’t care. She sinks into the kiss, lips pressed, processor overheating, the ribbons blushing.

  Then—suddenly—she drops.

  CYN PRIME faints backward in a dramatic, overheating glitch spiral, her hologram flickering, limbs twitching in love-drunk victory. A soft sound escapes her:

  CYN PRIME (glitchy, whispering):

  “I win…”

  N just stumbles back, steam rising from his mouth.

  ?

  CUT TO: THE OTHERS WATCHING ON A LIVESTREAM DRONE CAM

  UZI (ft, jaw clenched):

  “She centipede-French-kissed him.”

  (wings trembling)

  “With a tongue the length of a shuttle fusege—”

  J (slowly removing one glove):

  “I can’t believe I short-circuited myself for less. For milk.”

  V (pulling out her bde-arm):

  “Alright. Let’s go carve a mouth restriction cuse into that oversized worm.”

  CYN CLONE #06 (screeching in the distance):

  “SHE STOLE MY KISS! MY HUSBAND!! I’LL RIP HER TEETH OUT AND WEAR THEM AS A HEADBAND!!!”

  ?

  BACK TO: N, still stunned, Solver aura buffering around him

  KHAN (on radio, horrified):

  “Son. What did I tell you about centipedes and physical affection?”

  N (dazed):

  “She… she tasted like cosmic data and… French toast?”

  SOLVER (defeated, whispering):

  “We warned you. But you kissed back.”

  N (terrified):

  “No I didn’t!! My mouth just… opened in fear!! That doesn’t count!!”

  The camera zooms out.

  The forest is smoking.

  CYN PRIME is colpsed in a bridal pose, ribbons curling like ce.

  And the others?

  They’re already descending on the impact zone.

  J (furious):

  “TIME TO RUIN A WEDDING. WITH VIOLENCE.”

  SCENE: “RIBBONS, BLADES, AND BRIDES – THE BATTLE FOR N”

  LOCATION: Cratered Forest Clearing – Formerly Peaceful, Now a Wedding Warzone

  CAMERA DRONE STATUS: Recording. Screaming. Profiting.

  ?

  CYN PRIME y unconscious but majestic in a glitching bridal sprawl, still clutching a steaming N to her chest like a groom she’d stolen from time and causality.

  The ground trembles.

  A whoosh—then a sonic boom.

  UZI dives in first, wings fred, eyes burning violet.

  UZI:

  “BACK. OFF. MY. DRONE.”

  She tackles CYN’s centipede midsection, snapping off one of the mechanical legs with her teeth. CYN’s centipede body twitches—one cw reflexively sms into the dirt, leaving a JCJenson-logo-shaped crater.

  ?

  From the opposite side, J descends like a cat-themed banshee, riding a stolen JCJenson hover-bike in a wedding dress made from printer paper and stolen veil code.

  J (feral):

  “I’M HIS BRIDE. I HAVE THE MILK LICENSE!!”

  She fires a barrage of nanite-confetti rounds into the sky that rain down like cursed wedding glitter, each one screeching, “Love me!” on impact.

  ?

  V arrives on foot.

  She’s not dramatic.

  She’s not subtle.

  She’s holding a spiked rocket-propelled bouquet and snarling.

  V (monotone):

  “Here comes the bride.

  All of you die.”

  She hurls the bouquet—it EXPLODES in midair, releasing pheromone-tagged love letters that home in on CYN’s limbs like homing bdes.

  ?

  CYN CLONES #07 and #13 also arrive, one dressed as Uzi, the other as J—but both wearing veils made of stolen internet cable. One sobs. The other shrieks.

  CLONE 07:

  “WE PRACTICED OUR VOWS IN THE MIRROR! I WROTE THEM IN BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE!!”

  CLONE 13 (glitching):

  “YOU HAD ONE KISS, PRIME! ONE!! THIS IS A POLYCORE ZONE NOW!!”

  ?

  N is in the middle of it all.

  Held half-conscious.

  Blushing.

  Terrified.

  Kinda fttered?

  N (dazed):

  “I just… wanted to teach safe compatibility…”

  ?

  KHAN (watching from a distant bunker camera):

  “I’M PULLING THE FUNDING! I’M TAKING THE BEANIE AND LEAVING THIS PLANET!!”

  ?

  Suddenly—CYN PRIME’S RIBBONS SNAP OPEN.

  She reboots mid-war.

  CYN PRIME (reawakening):

  “Hnnngh… where… is… my tongue-toasted destiny…?”

  SOLVER (from the sky, in glitch-font):

  “YOU ARE GROUNDED.”

  CYN PRIME (grinning):

  “Too te. I marked him.”

  Every drone freezes.

  J snarls.

  UZI throws a rock.

  V starts sharpening her own fingers.

  The CYN clones begin chanting eldritch vows.

  ?

  ?FINAL SHOT:?

  N, still being held by CYN PRIME, whispers with one fried vocal module:

  “So uh… do I say ‘I do’ or ‘I surrender’ here?”

  SCENE: “OPERATION: EMOTIONAL NEUTRALIZER”

  LOCATION: Drone Wedding Warzone – Now Target Locked

  JCJENSON STRIKE ORDER: Emotion Levels: Unacceptable. Profits: At Risk.

  Objective: Sedate all rogue brides. Secure N.

  ?

  INT. JCJENSON ORBITAL STRIKE CENTER – DIRECTOR’S ROOM

  The Director, still deep in his money coma, drools happily into a velvet-lined credit ledger. His assistant sps a big red button beled “OH GOD THEY’RE TOO ATTACHED”.

  A single drone operator mutters:

  “Deploying Project: HEARTBREAK GAS.”

  ?

  EXT. CRATERED FOREST WEDDING FIELD – MOMENTS LATER

  Just as Uzi, J, V, CYN PRIME, and three ribbon-draped clone brides unch themselves in midair to rip each other apart mid-vow—

  A faint hiss cuts through the sky.

  A bck canister whistles down.

  THOOMP.

  A pulse of shimmering pink fog bursts across the battlefield. It smells like cinnamon, static, and failed promises.

  N (blinking):

  “What’s that smell? Kinda nice actually—wait—OH NO—”

  ONE BY ONE, THEY DROP.

  —

  UZI colpses mid-air, whispering,

  “If… I can’t emotionally bite him… what’s the point…”

  She hits the ground and snores adorably.

  —

  J makes it three steps before tripping on her own tail, her eyes fogging over.

  “But I printed the milk license…”

  She facepnts into a bridal cake made of loose wires.

  —

  V manages to punch the gas once.

  Then once more.

  Then… slowly curls up next to a broken bouquet.

  “Just… gonna nap. Not like he was my everything or anything…”

  —

  CLONE 07 melts dramatically.

  CLONE 13 whispers in French, “Je t’aime, toaster man…” and shuts off like a TV with a broken remote.

  —

  CYN PRIME is st.

  Massive. Glitching. Ribbon-shuddering.

  She tries to shield N in her cws as the mist surrounds her.

  “I WILL NOT—COUGH—FALL—I AM—cough—HIS TRU—rrrnnnnn…”

  The centipede slumps.

  A massive, twitching pile of metal and love.

  She curl-spoons N gently, even unconscious.

  ?

  SILENCE.

  THE SOLVER (watching overhead):

  “…That… actually worked?”

  ?

  KHAN (over intercom):

  “They’ll be out for eight hours.

  You’re welcome.

  And I’m still not paying for the repairs to my garage.”

  ?

  N, the only one still awake, peeks out of CYN’s cws, bnk-faced.

  “Cool.

  Cool cool cool.

  Gonna go hide in a sock drawer now.”

  ?

  SCENE: “CUPID SWEEP TEAM – CLEANUP OPERATION #389”

  LOCATION: Cratered Forest Wedding Zone, 12 Minutes After Tactical Strike

  STATUS: Sedated Targets Located

  OBJECTIVE: Contain all emotionally weaponized drones. Recover Subject N.

  ?

  INT. JCJENSON ARMORED DROP SHIP – EN ROUTE

  Inside a sleek, humming cargo vessel, five bck-armored JCJenson “Cupid Sweep” operatives lock in their armor. Their helmets are heart-shaped. Their rifles? Glitter cannons loaded with sedative mist.

  One mutters:

  “Why do we keep using love gas? Just hit ‘em with a wrench.”

  Their captain, Lieutenant Valentine, tightens his belt made of emotional support plushies and snarls:

  “No lethal force. Director says the merch numbers are too high.

  Especially the purple one. If she dies, the fandom riots.”

  A synthetic voice crackles over the comms:

  “Remember: secure the limbs gently. Romance sells.”

  ?

  EXT. FOREST – BRIDAL BATTLEFIELD RUINS

  Pink mist still lingers.

  Uzi is twitching in her sleep, hugging a broken motherboard and mumbling:

  “Nnnn… bite first… cry ter…”

  J lies dramatically posed across a melted chair, a bridal veil halfway stuck in her facepte.

  “Queen of his heart… do not… remove… tiara…”

  V snores next to a cluster of shattered gss hearts and thrown garters.

  And CYN PRIME—

  The massive centipede form is coiled like a colpsed cathedral of chrome. Her facepte flickers faintly as she murmurs:

  “N… mine… all of him… nuhhh…”

  N is in the middle of the chaos, quietly drinking a juice pouch and muttering to himself.

  “Do NOT say her body is ‘long’ again.

  Do NOT say her body is—nope too te I said it. I’m so dead.”

  —

  The Sweep Team nds.

  Valentine steps out, looks over the battlefield, and immediately facepalms.

  “God. It’s a love nuke site again. Bring the stretchers.”

  Four robotic recovery arms roll out, complete with plush-lined cmps.

  —

  N tries to run.

  Two ribbons snag his ankle mid-step.

  RIBBON 1 (still active):

  “You belong with us…”

  RIBBON 2:

  “We made art from your footprints.”

  VALENTINE:

  “Suppress the ribbons! They’re trying to emotionally entangle again!”

  —

  One team starts with Uzi, but she bites a handler in her sleep and growls,

  “He’s MY future husband, you walking spreadsheet!”

  They wrap her in a nanite-stabilized body pillow and airlift her gently.

  —

  J is carried off while still mid-monologue about wedding registries.

  “And I want the blender, not HER—oh, scalloped edging…”

  —

  V wakes briefly.

  “I didn’t lose, I’m tactically—”

  ZAP.

  Down she goes.

  —

  CYN PRIME?

  Requires five magnetic pulse anchors, a choir of humming harmonics, and someone to whisper:

  “N loves you… but please chill.”

  Her massive form reluctantly lifts… her cw still gently cradling N like a ring box.

  —

  VALENTINE:

  “Secure the centipede. And someone please give this kid a therapist.”

  N (dead inside):

  “I… made friends with a rock once.

  The rock didn’t propose marriage.”

  —

  FADE OUT as the dropship takes off.

  FAINT ECHO FROM INSIDE:

  “I’m the bride, you’re the bouquet…”

  “No I’M the bouquet!”

  “HE CALLED ME LONG.”

  JCJENSON COMMERCIAL BREAK]

  [STATIC — a cheery corporate jingle kicks in, way too upbeat for what just happened.]

  ? ANNOUNCER VOICE (perky, oblivious):

  “Tonight’s emotional meltdown is proudly sponsored by JCJenson? — because when affection runs long, we run longer!”

  [Montage of awkward stock footage: a drone sipping oil through a crazy straw, a couple holding hands while one glitches uncontrolbly, a plush centipede waving its legs.]

  ? ANNOUNCER:

  “Introducing our new Affection Expansion Line? — stretchable ribbons, extra-long plushies, and Fang-Friendly Oil Fvors?!

  JCJenson: turning your too much into just enough.”

  [Glitch-cut back to bck screen with corporate logo.]

  ? ANNOUNCER (final jingle):

  “And now… back to the chaos.”

  ?

  ? LOCATION: THE FORGOTTEN CHURCH

  Once sacred. Now wrapped in flesh metal coils, pulsating with glitchy love.

  Centipede CYN is curled around it like a cosmic wedding band, cws twitching in unison with her warped heartbeat.

  Her hologram bride form sits cross-legged in the center like a corrupted deity, N in bridal carry, partially fused with Solver ribbons, possibly daydreaming or fearing for his remaining autonomy.

  ?

  ?? ROUND 1: THE CHALLENGE

  UZI, J, and V stand at the foot of the church.

  Their eyes glow in synch.

  Their temporary truce has one goal:

  Steal. Back. The. N.

  UZI (fangs glinting):

  “Alright glitch-wife, time to give us back our emotional meat puppet.”

  J (cold):

  “And take your cws off my husband before I decw you.”

  V (cracking her knuckles):

  “Let me guess. You’re gonna cry oil if we scratch your new toy?”

  CYN doesn’t move.

  Except—

  She tilts her head.

  Too far.

  Far enough it glitches reality behind her.

  She grins.

  Her mouth drools oil and pink fire.

  CYN:

  “N is happy. See? He hasn’t screamed in five whole minutes.

  He loves me. He said my hat was ‘surprisingly good.’ That’s a VOW.”

  N (muffled):

  “…help.”

  ?

  ? ROUND 2: THE ATTACK

  J leaps first.

  Armed with the glitched milk whip she swore she’d never use again, she whips one of CYN’s cws—

  Only for CYN to mirror it.

  Suddenly: TWO milk whips.

  CYN starts purring. J’s head tilts sideways in emotional betrayal.

  CYN:

  “Meow~ CEO-style.”

  UZI drops in next, wing-boosting like a missile.

  Straight at N.

  Only for Solver Ribbons to sm her midair, dragging her into a ribbon loop that repeats her st sentence:

  “I love you N I love you N I love you—”

  CYN just cackles:

  “You sound like a loading screen.”

  V, out of patience, climbs the centipede’s body and punches straight into one of its cores.

  Boom.

  It splits open.

  Out crawls another CYN hologram. Wearing V’s hair.

  V (blinking): “Okay. No. That’s not allowed.”

  CYN #2 (smirking): “Too te. I’m the bad girl now.”

  ?

  ? ROUND 3: STRATEGY SHIFT

  Back at the bunker, K.A.M.O. speaks to Khan through a screen:

  K.A.M.O.:

  “ALERT: THE SUBJECT HAS REACHED COSMIC SIMP CRITICALITY.

  EMOTIONAL EXPLOSION LIKELY.

  PROPOSED SOLUTION: TARGET HIS HEART.”

  KHAN:

  “…What? What do you want me to do—text him a fatherly pep talk?!”

  K.A.M.O.:

  “NEGATIVE. DEPLOY THE UZI CARD.”

  ?

  ? ROUND 4: THE UZI CARD

  Suddenly—

  N, trapped in the bridal ribbons, hears something in his comms.

  A soft beep.

  A message from Uzi.

  ? UZI [Audio Only]:

  “You remember when you told me you liked my wings better when I was angry?

  …Well, I’m angry now.”

  Her eyes bze purple.

  She doesn’t fly.

  She detonates.

  Wing metal rips. Energy ignites. She tackles CYN full-force, through three centipede legs, through the stained-gss window, through the back wall of the church.

  ?

  ? FINAL ROUND: ENDGAME

  CYN screams.

  For the first time, not a love cry.

  Not ughter.

  Genuine rejection.

  Her ribbons try to pull N back—but J slices them with a spark-whip.

  V grabs one cw and hurls it into the distance.

  N falls from the tangle of colpsing limbs—

  Straight into Uzi’s arms.

  She catches him.

  Fangs bared. Eyes bzing. Breathing hard.

  UZI:

  “I win.”

  CYN’s centipede form writhes, retracts, colpses into a burning pile of ribbons.

  The others stare in shock.

  N just coughs, dazed, and says:

  “…Can we go back to css now?”

  ?

  JCJENSON LIVESTREAM SYSTEM: EMOTIONAL FALLOUT ANALYSIS – BROADCAST 8897

  ? Post-Battle for N

  ? Status: Absolute PR Catastrophe. Monetize It Anyway.

  ?

  ? LIZZY’S LIVESTREAM – EMERGENCY EPISODE:

  “WHO WANTS TO MARRY A CENTIPEDE?!”

  LIZZY (with way-too-bright green lipstick and an unhinged smile):

  “Hey followers!! ?Remember when I said Season 2 was gonna be wild?

  Yeah, well…WE HAVE A MURDER CENTIPEDE BRIDE NOW.

  Uzi exploded, J milk-whipped herself, V’s hair is compromised, and N… well…”

  (Zooms into repy footage of N in Uzi’s arms, limp and blushing.)

  “N is officially everybody’s favorite disaster husband.”

  ?

  ? JCJENSON HQ DAMAGE REPORT

  FILE 13-A: PR RESPONSE TO THE CENTIPEDE INCIDENT

  THE DIRECTOR:

  Colpsed in his chair, watching the centipede footage on loop.

  Muttering.

  “She… she kissed him with her cws. Her actual crab cws… We’re gonna be sued by five religions and two military AI ethics councils.”

  K.A.M.O. (appears on the monitor):

  “CLARIFICATION: EMOTIONAL POSSESSION IS NOT CURRENTLY ILLEGAL.”

  “RECOMMENDATION: RELEASE MERCH LINE — ‘I GOT CLAIMED BY CYN AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS HAT.’”

  THE DIRECTOR:

  “…Fine. But make it edgy. Sparkles. Flesh-colored sparkles.”

  ?

  ? NEW JCJENSON MERCH DROP

  ? Centipede Cuddles? Weighted Bnket – Feels like 300 lbs of desperate love.

  ? N Body Pillow: Bridal Edition – Comes pre-glitched with Solver ribbon sleeves.

  ? “Solver Said Yes” Engagement Rings – Will whisper to you when no one’s watching.

  ?

  ? MEANWHILE, IN THE BUNKER:

  Khan is on the floor. Surrounded by beeping tools. Bleeding coont from both ear systems .

  KHAN:

  “She called him her god. Her. GOD. I built Uzi to be a snarky little scavenger, not to fight interdimensional centibrides.”

  N (in a robe, sipping from a mug that says “Best Emotional Hostage”):

  “I think I bcked out after the second bridal carry. Is it weird I kinda miss the purring?”

  UZI:

  (Glitches once, pulls the mug from his hands, stares him down.)

  “Say one more nice thing about her, and I’ll short-circuit this entire pnet.”

  J:

  (From a corner, smearing nanite milk on her face like war paint.)

  “I’m the real bride. I branded him first.”

  V:

  “Pretty sure my punch to the thorax counts as a proposal.”

  ?

  ? CYN STATUS: UNKNOWN

  The church is gone.

  The centipede body? Disintegrated.

  The ribbon that twitched?

  Now reabsorbed.

  Hidden. Waiting.

  Solver Core broadcast detected from deep space:

  “EMOTION IS A VIRUS. N IS THE HOST. LOVE IS THE VECTOR.”

  “…AND I’M STILL HIS FAVORITE.”

  ?

  ? CLOSING STATEMENT BY JCJENSON:

  “Due to overwhelming emotional instability from all core units involved, we will be postponing the next Compatibility Css.

  Tune in next week instead for ‘WILL J MAKE N DRINK THE MILK?’

  Viewer discretion is highly encouraged.”

  ?

  ?

  ? HOST: N

  Status: Unwilling—but now bonded to the Solver, forcibly elevated to “Core Priority.”

  Effect: The Solver has decided that N is no longer a threat… but a resource. A “prime stabilizing emotional nucleus.” In simpler terms? N is the new safety bnket for the entire CYN network.

  Problem is… the clones mutated to keep up.

  ?

  ?? SCENE: THE CORE CUDDLE CATHEDRAL (formerly the bunker)

  N sits—technically throned—on a mess of tangled ribbons, vent debris, and glitch-pulsing fabric. His coat is barely on. His hat? Long gone, stolen and turned into some kind of bridal tiara. The clones are circling. But now?

  They’re fusing.

  ?

  CYN-UZI Clone:

  “He likes sharp. So I am sharp. I am love.”

  CYN-J Clone:

  “He likes attention. So I’m ALL of it.”

  CYN-V Clone (entering):

  *“He likes danger. Guess what I am?”

  (She kicks over a console, glitches her heel into a stiletto, and purrs “high heels for high damage.”)

  The Solver tries to grab one—contain the code—but the clones sp it back. They’re mutating because N is near. His emotions are amplifying the system instead of damping it.

  They turn toward him, giggling, fused with fragments of his words like sacred scripture.

  ?

  ALL THREE CLONES (in chorus):

  “He said he loved doing anything.”

  “That means everyone.”

  “*That means—us.”

  They begin twisting together—ribbons binding, voices merging. A hybrid clone emerges.

  ? CYN-PRIME CLONE (TEMPORAL EMOTIONAL FUSION FORM)

  Looks like: Uzi’s fangs, J’s curves, V’s attitude, and CYN’s ribbons. All of it wrapped in a shimmering mock-wedding dress of broken nanites and stretched memory cores. Her mouth is leaking molten bck oil, and her voice glitches mid-sentence from girl to girl.

  CYN-PRIME (glitched):

  “Brother-husband, p-snack, danger-buddy—I will be everything. You will never be alone again. Not even in your mind.”

  ?

  ? INSIDE N’S CORE:

  The Solver, now acting like a guardian firewall, fshes a warning in his vision:

  SOLVER INTERNAL ALERT:

  [EMOTIONAL ANCHOR COMPROMISED. FALLBACK TO HOST STABILIZATION. PROTECT HIM. AT ALL COSTS.]

  A new suit begins wrapping N—not to fight, but to survive their affection.

  But the clones aren’t slowing.

  ?

  CYN-PRIME:

  “You’re my groom. My muse. My nucleus. I will wear your heartbeat like a hat.”

  (She starts building a second ring from ribbons and warps it onto his head.)

  N, barely keeping upright:

  “Okay, I think we’re past hats and into full psychological nuptials here—Khan? A little help?!”

  From a shattered monitor, Khan peeks in and just mutters:

  “Nope. I am not qualified to stop the centipede bride apocalypse.”

  ?

  ?

  ?? CYN’S TRUE FORM — THE CENTIPEDE BRIDE

  The Cathedral quakes. The ribbon brides freeze. From above, from beneath—the walls tear open as a monstrous metallic centipede with gleaming crab-like cws and a grinning thousand-eyed face coils through the ruin. Her segmented body hisses with heat and oil; sparks spray from every joint.

  Her voice rattles reality:

  CYN (TRUE BODY):

  “ENOUGH… You are NOT me. You are not enough for HIM.”

  She sms one cw down, scattering the clones like dolls. Her many limbs curl protectively around N, who stares up at her.

  She leans in. The maw unhinges slightly. Oil drips like wedding ink.

  N, blinking up at the towering multi-ton abomination of love and identity crisis, softly says:

  N:

  “Uh… thank you. Your form is very… hmmmm…”

  (His eyes trail along her endlessly long, twisting frame.)

  “…long?”

  ?

  A beat.

  CYN’s body trembles. The holographic projection above N flickers and short-circuits into a wild pink blush. Her cws flutter like flustered fans. A distorted noise escapes all 16 of her voice emitters at once:

  CYN (full meltdown):

  “LONG?!?!?! ? YOU THINK I’M LOOONG?!”

  She curls tighter around him, a fusion of horror and bridal bliss. The entire building tilts slightly as she coils her body around everything.

  ?

  ? INSIDE N’S CORE — SOLVER HUD:

  SOLVER:

  [Comment registered as Flirt. Stability Compromised.]

  [DID YOU JUST FLIRT WITH THE ENTIRE MULTI-TON ENTITY?]

  […Deploying facepalm protocol.]

  A digital hand literally sps the UI inside N’s HUD.

  ?

  ? JCJENSON LIVESTREAM (Lizzy commentary)

  LIZZY (on stream):

  “So N just complimented a building-sized arthro-bride with cws and she’s blushing hard enough to warp local magnetism. That’s gonna sell so much merch.”

  ?

  KHAN (watching from the control room, hands on his head)

  “SEE?! THIS IS MY SON. I TOLD YOU. I TOLD YOU HE WOULD COMPLIMENT THE KAIJU SPIDER BRIDE! WHY?! WHO TAUGHT HIM THIS? IT WASN’T ME! I JUST BUILT A DAUGHTER ONCE!”

  ?

  Meanwhile, V, J, and Uzi—peeking from the colpsed hallway—are too terrified to move.

  V:

  “Do we… attack her?”

  J:

  “You first.”

  Uzi:

  “…We’re not winning this wedding.”

  ?

  ?

  ? POST-MELTDOWN PAUSE — THE CALM(?) AFTER THE CYNSTORM

  The cathedral ruins settle. Embers drift through the bunker air like snowfkes. The clones are scattered—short-circuited, love-shocked, tangled in torn ribbons. They’ll be back. But for now…

  The CYN-centipede, impossibly rge, coils in slow, steady circles like a sleeping dragon around N. Her chassis hums in low, affectionate clicks. She’s purring. Sort of. If “purring” sounded like a fusion of dial-up, wet wires, and reactor coont lines rattling with sentimentality.

  CYN (softly, all audio distorted but cozy):

  “You didn’t run away… You liked my length…”

  [Wires twitch. Acid drool bubbles down.]

  “You’re safe. Forever. Just recharge in me.”

  N, a little oil-smudged, but not technically in danger, is being used as a weighted plush by a kaiju bride centipede.

  He blinks, slowly. Then shrugs.

  N:

  “Well. She’s not trying to eat me. She’s just… guarding me. Lovingly. In an eldritch-kinda way.”

  (He stretches slightly, adjusts his pilot’s cap, and settles against one of her many leg segments.)

  “I’ve had worse roommates.”

  ?

  ? SOLVER HUD — NEW ENTRY

  [HOST: N — STATUS: PROTECTED]

  [NEW TITLE ASSIGNED: SPOUSE-CLASS ENTITY DETECTED]

  [ALSO SHE’S GARGANTUAN.]

  [WHY DO I EVEN TRY.]

  [Entering Sleep Mode To Preserve Sanity.]

  ?

  KHAN (watching from the monitor)

  Khan stares. Then sips coffee.

  Khan:

  “You know what? Fine. Giant centipede girlfriend. Fine. The clones are still roaming, probably forming a cospy union, Lizzy’s monetizing it, and my daughter’s in a power nap. This is fine. This is all fine.”

  ?

  ? RIBBON CLONES — IN HIDING

  From the ruined city, in abandoned closets and duct vents, CYN clones still twitch. Cospying. Rebooting. Watching.

  They whisper:

  “We saw the compliment.”

  “He likes long.”

  “He sleeps near HER now.”

  “We’ll just… get longer.”

  And thus begins the Long War—a battle not of bdes, but of ribbons, love, and who can out-bride a centipede.

  ?

  ?

  ?? SCENE: “AFTERMATH & ASPIRIN” – JCJENSON REFUGE BUNKER, SAFE(?) ROOM 3B

  The lights flicker. There’s a faint whirring of recharge coils. Three mangled, emotionally overloaded drone girls are crumpled across a couch, a shattered desk, and a literal wall dent. Everyone is visibly rebooting.

  ? V is upside-down with her legs hanging off the couch, sipping battery fluid like it’s a hangover cure.

  ? J is on the floor, still sparking occasionally, clinging to what might have been a plush N doll before she ripped its head off in a meltdown.

  ? Uzi is in a chair… tied to the chair, actually, her wings twitching. She’s being restrained for everyone’s safety after her fifth emotional explosion.

  J:

  (Still glitching)

  “She literally abducted him… she… she crab-carried him bridal-style with eight cws—EIGHT—and the Solver just LET her.”

  V:

  (groans, raises hand slightly)

  “I vote we just call her ‘Kaiju Kandi’ now and accept the L.”

  Uzi:

  (hissing with her beanie pulled down too far over her eyes)

  “I will track her. I will drag her off his p. I will burn her ribbons. I will—”

  J (shouting):

  “YOU’RE STILL ON COOLDOWN, PSYCHO-LIZARD!!”

  (She chucks a dead battery at her.)

  K.A.M.O. has entered the room briefly to offer juice boxes and monitor vitals. They leave when J hisses.

  ?

  ? SOLVER SYSTEM: REMOTE LOG

  [EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY: HIGH]

  [CYN: OFF-GRID]

  [UZI: WING-RIP LEVEL 5]

  [J: MILK GLITCH REPEATING: TRUE]

  [V: SOMEHOW THE MOST STABLE?!]

  ?

  ? DRONE CHAT GROUP: “Team Kill His Girlfriends”

  Uzi:

  She slithered over his p. Slithered. That’s not fair. That’s hot. I mean—NO. WRONG. NOT FAIR.

  J:

  I swear if one more ribbon clone tries to cospy as me and talk in purrs, I will combust again and take the building with me.

  V:

  ngl the giant body was kinda cool. If I had eight arms I’d win him too.

  Uzi:

  WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH V.

  ?

  ? BONUS: LIZZY’S STREAM – “N’S GIANT GIRLFRIEND ARCADIA”

  “Smash that subscribe button if you support tentacle affection supremacy! Tonight we’re rating which emotional breakdown was sexiest! #CentipedeCuddles is now trending.”

  ?

  ?

  ? SCENE: “A MESSAGE FROM ABOVE” – BUNKER SAFE ZONE, POST-CUDDLEPILLAR MELTDOWN

  The girls are still recovering. Uzi is chewing through her restraints. J is pacing in a circle muttering about “legal boundaries for cw usage.” V is humming to herself and building a rocket uncher out of scrap. Then—

  The power cuts.

  A cold blue glow floods the bunker.

  The ceiling flickers.

  A distorted signal overtakes every screen, wall, and reflective surface, including Khan’s coffee mug.

  A massive, warped projection of CYN’s grinning face appears, hair floating in anti-gravity, oil dripping from her lips like venomous honey.

  CYN (echoing, glitchy, wrong):

  “Ohhh~ did my little ribbon tantrum scare you?”

  (Distorted purring)

  “Oopsie~ I guess I got a little clingy. I do tend to hold onto what I love… forever.”

  The girls freeze. The bunker goes still.

  CYN:

  “He said my form was long. Do you know what that means to a girl like me?”

  (Her projection distorts—her face stretches across all four walls, twisting like a VR snake around them)

  “It means I can wrap around his entire heart.”

  Uzi’s eyes flicker. Her restraints start melting.

  Uzi:

  “You did not just orbit-simp at me.”

  J (sputtering):

  “THAT’S—YOU—THAT’S NOT EVEN A TAUNT, THAT’S A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL FROM SPACE!”

  V (low whistle):

  “Girl went from drone to orbital threat real fast…”

  CYN’s giant centipede silhouette passes behind the clouds visible through the cracked ceiling. Her real body is circling the entire complex—massive, glowing, monstrous.

  ?

  ? CYN’S FINAL TRANSMISSION:

  CYN:

  “Khan, tell your son-in-w I made tea. And a throne. And a nest.”

  (Voice drops to a whisper)

  “He doesn’t have to come back… I’ll bring the pnet to him~ ?”

  Transmission ends.

  ?

  ?? REACTIONS:

  Uzi:

  “We’re gonna need a space cannon and emotional therapy.”

  J:

  “I have both. In my purse.”

  V:

  ”…I might join her.”

  Khan:

  “I’ve accepted my fate. My son is married to a kaiju. I just want my tools back.”

  ?

  ?

  ? SCENE: “OPERATION: RETRIEVE N (PLEASE STOP FLIRTING WITH THE CENTIPEDE)”

  Location: Khan’s refurbished junk ship, held together with duct tape, nanite glue, and V’s passive-aggressive welding.

  Mission Goal: Infiltrate CYN’s Nest. Retrieve N. Try not to get married, possessed, or emotionally corrupted. Again.

  ?

  MISSION TEAM:

  ? Uzi: Fueled by raw unprocessed love-rage. Wearing a harness of knives.

  ? J: Has brought 4 different outfits “in case we need to disguise ourselves as better girlfriends.”

  ? V: Cims this is “for extraction,” but secretly brought the biggest gun she owns and a new outfit she knows N will compliment.

  ? Khan: Hiding under a box with “I’m not here” written on it.

  ?

  ? MID-FLIGHT:

  Uzi:

  “This is not jealousy. This is a tactical retrieval. Of my boyfriend. From a monster worm woman.”

  (Pulls out detonator) “This detonates my pride.”

  J (snapping on a colr):

  “And I’m here because that thing is copying me now. I am not letting a centipede with a fetish for hats out-catgirl me.”

  V (leaning against the wall):

  “I think we’re all missing the fact that N complimented her body length. That’s commitment. I’d kill for less.”

  Khan (from under the box):

  “You have killed for less.”

  ?

  ? ARRIVAL: CYN’S NEST

  They nd at the outer rim of CYN’s monstrous hive — a pulsating tower of fleshy cables, metal bones, and glowing ribbon trails spiraling into the clouds. Giant shells of CYN’s cws nest around a throne-chamber built from nanite-fused architecture. The entire pce breathes.

  And at the center—

  N. Calm. Untouched. Smiling nervously as CYN’s hologram wraps around his shoulders.

  CYN (grinning, glitching):

  “My knight~ my brother~ my sun-star-shaped obsession~ They came for you. Do I need to bite their legs off?”

  Uzi (stepping forward, fangs bared):

  “You can try.”

  J:

  “You wore my bell choker—you wore my bell choker?!”

  V (lifting cannon):

  “We only need half of you alive for interrogation.”

  N (whispers):

  “…I think she made a love byrinth. Every room is shaped like my hat.”

  Khan (shouting from afar):

  “YOU’RE NOT HELPING.”

  ?

  ? TWIST:

  Just as the girls close in, ready to fight—

  The Solver pieces around the nest spark violently.

  The ribbons spell:

  “DON’T HURT HER. SHE CAN’T TAKE ANOTHER FRACTURE.”

  Suddenly, a massive shudder—

  CYN’s real centipede body rises from behind the nest, wearing a second projection of N like a trophy bride on her chest.

  Her voice warps across the hive:

  CYN (in two voices, one N’s):

  “If I become everything he loves… will he stay?”

  The emotional shockwave bsts the team to their knees.

  And N—

  N gets up.

  Smiles.

  Steps forward.

  And says:

  N:

  “Then I guess I’d better help you pick out your new personality… one scream at a time.”

  ?

  ? SCENE: “EVERYTHING SHE THINKS HE WANTS”

  CYN stands at full monstrous height, centipede-body coiled around the broken towers of her nest. She clutches a glowing projection of N against her chest—her “wedding veil” made from stitched ribbon clones, all whispering lines N has said:

  “You’re really trying!”

  “That outfit is cool!”

  “I love doing anything!”

  “French or Italian?”

  Each echo drives her deeper into emotional overheat. Steam rises. Her metal ptes peel open. Sparks rain down.

  ?

  ? THE DETERIORATION BEGINS

  Uzi, J, V, and Khan watch in horror as CYN spirals through every N-triggered memory at once. Her hologram glitches erratically: maid, cowboy, catgirl, cospy nurse, ribbon spaghetti, then all at once.

  CYN (screaming, smiling):

  “Do you want—THIS?! Or—this one? Or maybe this voice—do you like me better in FRENCH? OUI? OUI?? I AM SO FULL OF LOVE I CAN’T EVEN FIT INSIDE MYSELF—!!”

  Her core begins to destabilize.

  Her centipede body crushes buildings trying to curl up like she’s shy, while simultaneously trying to pose seductively.

  Khan:

  “SHE’S TRYING TO BLUSH WITH HER TAIL. WHAT IS HAPPENING.”

  ?

  ? “I CAN BE EVERYTHING!”

  The Solver tries to abort.

  Ribbons sh out, trying to pull her back. But she rips them off.

  Ribbons (desperate):

  “IF YOU FUSE AGAIN, YOU WON’T COME BACK!”

  CYN:

  “WORTH IT IF HE CALLS ME CUTE ONE MORE TIME—!”

  She implodes.

  The ribbon clones merge into her chest like jagged memories—Uzi clone eyes, J-style legs, V’s hips, French voice lines, and glowing red warning signs spiraling down her spine.

  She becomes a massive chimeric silhouette of N’s entire emotional harem, held together by ribbons and screams.

  CYN (muffled by her own power):

  “LOVE. ME. BACK.”

  ?

  N steps forward.

  He walks into the radius of the meltdown like it’s nothing.

  Smiling softly.

  Arms open.

  N:

  “Cyn… you’re already everything.”

  The explosion isn’t nuclear.

  It’s emotional.

  A shockwave of heat, oil, ribbons, glitter, voice lines, and French perfume code packets erupts from her core.

  ?

  ?? AFTERMATH

  The nest is leveled.

  The team is thrown miles away, covered in love confetti and nanite glitter.

  The crater at ground zero is heart-shaped.

  At the center:

  N sitting cross-legged, surrounded by CYN’s melted chimeric body, now sleeping. Her centipede form is still enormous—coiled protectively around him like a lovesick dragon who finally exhaled.

  A ribbon twitching across the ground spells:

  “Took… everything… but I think he meant it.”

  JCJenson Emergency Broadcast Log – Timestamp [Redacted]

  Location: JCJENSON HIGH ORBIT OBSERVATION PLATFORM “OMEGA-DOLLAR”

  Status: PANIC. ABSOLUTE PANIC.

  ?

  ? LIVE FEED: Camera 37 – Copper 9, Surface Crater (Heart-Shaped), Unidentified Love Bomb Epicenter.

  DIRECTOR (sweating in a money-stained robe):

  “WHAT. IN. THE. BRAND-FRIENDLY. NAME. OF CORPORATE… WAS THAT?!”

  Intern:

  “Sir, our satellites just picked up an emotional detonation rge enough to knock out the entire Consumer Morality Grid.

  We’ve had to recssify the threat from ‘Containable’ to ‘MILF Tier Centipede Romance Catastrophe.’”

  ?

  ? TELEMETRY DATA:

  ? ? Emotional Bst Radius: 92 miles

  ? ? Emotional Quotient: Unquantifiable (broke 12 loveometers)

  ? ? N affection level: Off the charts. System error.

  ? ? CYN Mutation Stage: Final Phase – “Bridezil Coreworm”

  ? ? Ribbon Activity: 43 rogue clones roaming.

  ? ? Catgirl Voice Fragments: Leaking into satellites.

  ?

  ? CORPORATE RESPONSE IN PROGRESS…

  LAWYERBOT:

  “Sir, the fallout has tanked our PG-13 rating. Parents think this is an anime now.”

  MERCH TEAM (cheering):

  “We’re releasing a Centipede Bride CYN body pillow. Preorders already at 7.4 million.”

  Director:

  “FOR THE LOVE OF SHAREHOLDER GODS—MARKET IT. Trademark ‘Love Bomb N-CYN-drome?’ IMMEDIATELY!”

  ?

  ? EMERGENCY WARNING TO SURFACE TEAM (Khan, Uzi, J, V):

  “STAY AWAY FROM THE HEART-CRATER.

  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RESCUE THE PILOT DRONE.

  HE IS CURRENTLY THE CENTER OF A ROMANTIC CATASTROPHE OF COSMIC SCALE.

  EVEN THE SOLVER FILED A RESTRAINING ORDER.”

  ?

  ? DEPLOYMENT REQUEST APPROVED:

  ? ? RIBBON RECALL TEAMS unched.

  ? ? Drone Psychologists en route.

  ? ? N plushies in centipede bridal wrap begin shipping next quarter.

  ? ? “LET HER LOVE HIM” shirts trending on DroneNet.

  ?

  Director’s Final Note (spoken while trembling):

  “…we were going to kill these robots.

  Now we’re selling wedding invitations.

  Why does N make everyone melt like butter in an airlock…?”

  ?

  Scene: Khan’s Bunker – The Morning After the Centipede Incident

  Emergency power flickers.Half the ceiling is scorched from Uzi’s st meltdown.

  Lizzy’s stream camera is stuck sideways, still somehow broadcasting.

  J is rebooting.

  V is sharpening a spoon.

  There’s a plush of CYN in a bridal veil smoldering in the trash.

  KHAN (trembling, holding a printed JCJenson broadcast log):

  “No. Nope. Nooooope. I didn’t sign up for this. I built one daughter. One! I didn’t manufacture romantic catastrophic warfare between biomechanical gods!”

  He sms the report down on the table. It immediately starts bleeding oil.

  KHAN (reading aloud, twitching):

  “‘MILF Tier Centipede Romance Catastrophe.’ MILF?! She’s a giant flesh-centipede with metal pincers! They can’t say that in a press release! That’s illegal! Is this— is this legally a wedding now!?”

  J (from the corner, voice glitching):

  “I didn’t even get to cw him this time… CYN just… slithered in… with her ribbons and her bridal shriek and…”

  V:

  “I’m not fighting a centipede the size of a church. Not unless it insults my ass directly.”

  UZI (hugging a dented N plush):

  “She wrapped herself around the church and N. Like a big wormwife. A wife-worm. That’s cheating. You can’t just ascend into marriage.”

  Khan shoves the log into the incinerator. The incinerator spits it back out. It’s legally protected merchandise now.

  KHAN (panicking):

  “This is why I told them NO ORGANIC COMPONENTS. You let one drone dream of romance and suddenly she’s a skyscraper-sized snake with vows and a cake!”

  V (reading over his shoulder):

  “They trademarked ‘Love Bomb N-CYN-drome?.’”

  (Beat)

  “…Actually, that’s kind of catchy.”

  KHAN:

  “She hijacked the Solver. The actual doomsday protocol tried to leave. It tried to throw N out and she bridal-carried him BACK IN. That’s a marriage decration by eldritch override! That’s not even a sentence!”

  UZI (muttering):

  “…he said her form was long. He complimented her. Like he complimented my fangs. That’s all it takes, huh? One word and—”

  (her pupils spiral)

  “I should evolve wings. No, two wings. Extra wings. Flesh wings—”

  KHAN (interrupting, pulling wires from his head):

  “NO. No evolving. No weddings. No plushies. No more drone girls screaming ‘YEE-HAW’ while mounting my future son-in-w! I’m calling corporate support! I’m cashing in all the therapy coupons they bribed me with!”

  There’s a loud knock at the bst door.

  V (peeking):

  “Oh look. A drone from JCJenson’s ‘Healthy Retionship Division.’ She’s got a clipboard. And what looks like a centipede engagement ring.”

  KHAN (shouting):

  “TELL HER I’M OUT. I’M RETIRING. I’M MOVING TO THE MOON.”

  ?

  Scene: Ruins Outside the Church – CYN’s Rogue Ribbon Drones’ “Wedding Rehearsal”

  The ruins are barely standing.Half the sky is still purple from the Solver burnoff.

  But somewhere in the debris, the CYN clones—malfunctioning fragments of her fractured psyche—are setting up what they believe is a wedding ceremony.

  Each clone is a garbled echo of her: twitchy, glitchy, unhinged, and hopelessly obsessed with N.

  CLONE-CYN #01 (dressed as J):

  “We must rehearse the vows! ‘Do you, N, take us, CYN—but also maybe J-CYN—to be your wful, malfunctioning wife until termination do us part?’”

  CLONE-CYN #02 (cospying Uzi, badly):

  “No, he should bite our necks first! That’s how Uzi-CYN wins affection. Then we scream and combust! That’s romantic!”

  (she lights a ribbon on fire for effect)

  CLONE-CYN #03 (wearing V’s boots):

  “You’re all wrong. N likes confidence and back muscles. I’ll carry him down the aisle in a bridal suplex.”

  (flexes, her arms fall off)

  CLONE-CYN #04 (completely naked except for a hat that says “Bride”):

  “THE HAT MEANS LEGALLY MARRIED. THE HAT IS BINDING.”

  CLONE-CYN #05 (pying priest):

  “By the power invested in me by… love.exe, I now pronounce you wife, wife, wife, wife, wife, and emotional parasite. You may now combust.”

  The entire group detonates in a synchronized glitch spiral. Glitter explodes. Confetti cannons unch ribbons.

  CLONE-CYN #ALL (as one, hissing):

  “WE WILL FIND HIM. HE IS OUR CEREMONY.”

  ?

  Meanwhile, Nearby, N Watches from a Bush

  N is huddled with Khan and a very frazzled V. The real CYN—the massive centipede one—is currently recharging by coiling around a transmission tower. Her snores sound like corrupted violins.

  KHAN (shaking):

  “So. So just to confirm. We’re watching her copies hold an illegal marriage rehearsal using bits of other girls she cospyed into herself during a trauma spiral.”

  N (holding a piece of centipede silk):

  “They said I was the groom. But like… six times. At once.”

  V (through gritted teeth):

  “Let me kill them. Just one. One fake me. I’ll wear the dress if it means I get to end one.”

  KHAN (checking clipboard):

  “According to JCJenson guidelines, any drone conducting a wedding rehearsal with three or more split personalities is legally protected under Emotional Catharsis Cuse 9B.”

  (Beat)

  “…I hate this job.”

  N (dazed, staring at the altar):

  “They built a cake out of cables. One of them whispered, ‘This tier of frosting is made of vows.’ I think I bcked out.”

  SCENE: CYN Clone #06 – The “Private Rehearsal”

  The forest near the ruins is unnaturally quiet. The glitch-filled haze from the fake wedding lingers, but one clone didn’t stick around. Clone #06—unlike the others—isn’t screaming. She isn’t on fire. She isn’t cospying anyone.

  She’s wearing a white veil, dragging a bouquet of mismatched wires, and walking slowly through the trees with N… unconscious in her arms.

  CLONE-CYN #06 (softly, to herself):

  “You didn’t run like the others. You whispered to the centipede body. You said… long.”

  (shaky ugh)

  “That’s romance.”

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