Yelena Gorgo finalizes her takeover of a video production company to infiltrate XWF broadcasts with subliminal cult messaging. Emilia Glazkov aids the indoctrination of key staff as part of the plan to distribute a corrupted broadcast at May Day that triggers mass hysteria—unleashing the Black Rainbow’s influence on the XWF audience for the first time. The chapter concludes with Maraeth’s ritualistic promo targeting James Shark for the Universal Championship.
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As SynteX completes its transformation from GreenLit’s ashes, Yelena oversees the first successful human trial of Substance V—a new Unity variant laced with her blood and Vorazd’s will. Dr. Chen’s Resonance device quietly controls the staff. Back in Florida, Marisol initiates seven clients through Unity’s metamorphosis. From the doorway, Yelena watches in silence as bodies convulse and rise transformed. Inside, a new cultist waits beneath the Resonance—Billie Morgan, barefoot and grinning, ready to join the symphony.
Yelena Gorgo arrives at GreenLit’s Colorado facility to investigate resistance from within. Accompanied by Emilia Glazkov and naïve hacker Steve Goldberg, she uncovers the buried remnants of a forbidden neurochemical experiment: Project Scarecrow. After ousting the anxious Dr. Thorne, she recruits the unnervingly calm Dr. Chen and recovers a living sample of the compound—Unity.
Invading Casanova English’s dream, the Eater of Dreams torments him using the guise of his murdered father. Revealing its connection to Yelena Gorgo and knowledge of Casanova’s secrets, including dealings with the entity called the Veil, the Eater demands he sell CU:LT for protection, threatening dire consequences if refused, before abruptly snapping him awake.
In Miami, Yelena presents the Chrysalis to Marisol. Compelled by Yelena (influenced by Vorazd), Marisol turns its key. Mirrors emerge, consuming Marisol’s memories and desires, transforming her reflection until she declares herself a “Better Me,” corrupted. Later, in New York, Yelena uses nature-bending powers linked to the Chrysalis to attack wrestler Sev Yurievich. She taunts him, implying his corruption is next “underneath The Black Rainbow.”
Yelena finds herself in a decaying ring within her psyche, surrounded by alternate selves. The Entity (Vorazd) reveals her family line are its “Vessels,” causing Spiral’s/Nathan’s fates due to their resistance. It offers a choice: willingly merge with all selves, becoming whole, or be replaced and face oblivion. Yelena submits, absorbing the others. Awakening changed in the hidden chamber, she takes the Chrysalis, now bonded with Vorazd.
Yelena opens the iron door, descending a rune-marked spiral stairwell into a deep hexagonal chamber filled with grotesque thrones and art. She finds her brother Nathan’s medication and a note from Spiral mentioning Nathan’s inheritance and a mysterious “Box.” Feeling betrayed, Yelena sees the black Box appear. Touching it, she’s overwhelmed by dark energy, her consciousness pulled into a psychic vortex, dissolving her physical form as she senses other presences.
Yelena wakes disoriented on her jet heading to Copenhagen, influenced by her “Other Selves” after a loss. Realizing she’s going to her father’s abandoned castle, the Entity forces her unconscious. She awakes driving nearby, lured by a music box. Guided by the shadowy Entity, she enters the derelict castle, finds a hidden door, and steps into a dark chamber, compelled towards a grotesque iron door.
Yelena finds herself before a surreal “Council of Yelena” – seven alternate selves criticizing her recent wrestling losses and weakness. Presided over by her “Other Me” (The Entity), the council argues Yelena failed by not inflicting enough suffering and by letting Fukuyama live, leading to an assassination attempt. The Entity demands Yelena embrace brutality and kill Fukuyama, threatening a takeover if she fails, leaving Yelena facing her darker self’s ultimatum.
EXT. ROOF TOP — NIGHT. The caw-caw of a crow foreshadows the arrival of a large, black raven before it comes swooping down to land on the eave of one of many historic buildings looming above the dark, empty streets of Savannah, Georgia. ANGLE ON the raven. A worm dangles from its beak. In one… Continue reading Scion 02-12-2025