"Before the Rangers, before the Grid, before even color—there was still something. It watched. It remembered. And one day… it woke."
Scene 1: Atlas Archives – Forbidden Layer
Location: Phantom Atlas – Subdeck 09, Memory Vaults
Cast: Mira, Rin, Zara, Ayla
After Rin's collapse, Mira dives into the Atlas's forbidden layers — ancient records sealed behind Zara's highest clearance. There, only fragments remain. Data scarred by time, corrupted by dimensional bleed.
Zara appears as a flickering projection, more glitch than guide.
Zara:
"You're accessing the First Layer Echoes. These weren't meant to be seen."
Mira:
"I need to know what attacked us. I need to know what's inside Rin."
Zara pauses, then speaks as if remembering something painful.
Zara:
"You won't find an answer. Only the beginning."
Scene 2: Flashback – When the Grid Was Born
[Visual: Hazy memory-reel. Black skies. No stars. No time. Only whispers.]
The Morphing Grid, contrary to legend, was not created by Rangers. It emerged like a flame from a dark vacuum — a reaction to something colder, something that sought silence.
A world called Pravael once existed. It was the first test site. Before even colors were assigned to Rangers. The Grid sparked here.
But the moment it flared…
Something noticed.
A being — not of matter, not of color, not even of intent — stirred. It had no name, only a concept:
Erevis.
It wasn't evil. It was absence.
It didn't destroy. It returned things to what they were before.
The birth of the Grid offended it.
"You lit fire in a realm that was ash. I will not extinguish it. I will remind it."
Scene 3: Pravael's Last Days
Cast (in memory):
Zara's past self
Commander Elios (young)
A researcher named Seray (Mira's ancestor)
The Rangers of Pravael tried to shape the Grid. They built the first morpher prototypes. They experimented with color frequencies, power harmonies.
Seray, a sharp-eyed scientist eerily similar to Mira, discovered something awful:
Seray (recording):
"We've layered over something ancient. The Grid is not a foundation — it's a cage. And we've broken it."
Commander Elios (yes, the same Elios who would become the Eclipse Knight) stood before the seal.
A voice—Erevis—reached into his mind.
Erevis (to Elios):
"You seek control. But all grids collapse. You cannot color a void."
Scene 4: Mira Snaps Out of It
Back in the present, Mira gasps, yanking herself out of the memory vault. Her eyes are wide, her pulse racing.
Ayla:
"What did you see?"
Mira (shaken):
"It's not ancient like a relic. It's ancient like… gravity. Like it was here before concepts."
Rin (coldly):
"And now it's inside me."
Zara appears again, looking deeply worried.
Zara:
"You triggered it. The seal you found wasn't its prison. It was a warning label."
Mira (darkly):
"Then it's not just a threat to the Grid…"
She turns to the team.
Mira:
"It's a threat to conceptual reality. It wants to erase not just power… but the idea of power."
Scene 5: The Whisper That Never Ends
Late at night, Rin sits alone in the quiet engine bay of the Atlas.
A dark mist gathers around him. Not harmful… just there.
Erevis (whispering):
"I knew you before your color. I knew you when you were not shaped. You think I am voice. I am memory. I am what remains when you are gone."
Rin grips his morpher tightly. But for a moment…
He doesn't feel like the White Ranger anymore.
He feels like a canvas the void is painting on.
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