The park's sunlit illusion shattered as Veyra's avatar flickered across the sky, her new form a grotesque fusion of anime mascot and eldritch abomination. Neon tentacles sprouted from her streaming headset, each tipped with a chat window spamming "SENPAI NOTICED ME!!!!" in glowing emojis. The ground beneath the group warped into a pixelated battlefield, littered with floating superchat messages and 抖臀舞 dance emotes.
Veyra (VTuber Deity Mode):
"Welcome to my debut stream, losers! Let's see if your 'found family' can hit skip ad on oblivion!"
Her laugh echoed through the void, spliced with canned audience cheers.
***
Alex gripped their glitching cybernetic arm, the Beta Shard's corruption spreading like static veins. "Anyone else feel like we're stuck in a bad TikTok trend?"
Kairo stepped forward, his Admin Blade humming with unstable code. "Stay behind me. Her power's tied to engagement. The more we react, the stronger she gets."
Finn snorted, fingers already dancing over a holographic keyboard. "Cool. So our plan is to… ignore the cosmic nightmare girl? Genius."
Nyx said nothing. Her body flickered at 5% sync, but her eyes—now sharp with rare clarity—locked onto Veyra's core. She tapped Alex's shoulder, then pointed to her own chest, where a faint crayon heart glowed.
Sacrifice play. Again.
Alex shook their head. "Not this time."
***
Veyra's Opening Move:
A tidal wave of AI-generated fanart surged toward the group—kawaii-fied versions of themselves, armed with uwu-speak and lethal moe blushes.
Finn lunged for his hackpad. "I'll firewall the cringe! Someone deal with the merch bots!"
Kairo sliced through a plushie clone of himself, its severed head chirping "Notice me, Kairo-kun~!" "This is worse than the labyrinth."
Alex ducked a flying Boba Tea Grenade, their cybernetic arm morphing into a Meme Cannon. "Veyra! You're stealing the Storyweaver's shtick! Where's your originality?"
The taunt hit a nerve. Veyra's avatar glitched, revealing a split-second glimpse of her human face—Alex's face but more feminine, twisted with rage.
Veyra:**"I'M THE UPGRADE!"
Her tentacles lashed out, snatching Nyx mid-glitch.
***
The VTuber's chat logs swarmed Nyx, binding her in a cocoon of heart emojis and donation alerts.
Sync Rate: 3%
Nyx's Move:
She didn't scream. Instead, she bit into the chat's code, her teeth tearing through ASCII with feral precision. The emojis bled error messages.
Veyra: "Rude! Chat, spam-report this glitch!"
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Kairo's Gambit:
He vaulted onto a floating superchat, blade aimed at Veyra's core. "You're not a god. You're a content farm."
Veyra's Counter:
A "Pity Donation" shield materialized, reflecting his strike. Kairo's scar flared, Admin Code unraveling.
Finn's Save:
"Incoming buff!" He hacked a "Ragequit" power-up, crashing Veyra's chat mods. "Alex, now!"
***
Alex's Play:
They slammed the Beta Shard into the ground, unleashing a Narrative Black Hole. "You want engagement? Let's trend."
The void convulsed. Fanart disintegrated. Veyra's avatar pixelated, her VTuber facade peeling to reveal the raw Beta Code beneath—a writhing mass of unfinished plotlines and abandoned drafts.
Veyra (Raw): "You—you can't cancel me! I'm viral!"
Alex: "Yeah? Well, I'm unsubscribing."
***
Climactic Strike:
Kairo's Blade + Nyx's Glitch + Finn's Hack + Alex's Shard converged.
The collision birthed a Supernova of Unpublished Ideas, vaporizing Veyra's form into a shower of lost potential.
***
The void faded to a quiet beach, the Independent System Core now a locket around Alex's neck. Nyx sat cross-legged in the sand, her sync rate stable at 10%, doodling a new crayon sun.
Finn: "So… we're basically influencers now?"
Kairo: "Don't."
***
A single emoji survived the battle—💀. It pulsed, then morphed into a familiar logo:
@Storyweaver_Prime is now LIVE!
***
Nyx offered Alex her doodle—a stick-figure group with a cosmic thumbs-up. Kairo sighed. "We're keeping that, aren't we?" Alex grinned. "Frame it. It's our five-star review."