Episode 6: “System Override”When the system crashes… what remains of reality?

EPISODE 6: SYSTEM OVERRIDE

The mirrored world didn’t reflect—it watched. Rey stood frozen in his own room, duplicated and inverted. Every movement he made, the mirrored Rey copied—with a split-second delay.

But this version smiled. Smiled first.

Suddenly, Rey’s phone buzzed.

🔐 “EXECUTE MIRROR.SH // REY-ZENIX=ROOT”

Aariz's last backup had been injected. It gave Rey admin access to the Glitch. One chance to rewrite the code from inside.

In the mirrored version of his laptop, /root/Mirror.exe pulsed red. It wasn't a program anymore. It was a being—a living system, fed by attention, fear, memory.

Skeena’s voice echoed, faint but sharp:

“If you don’t override it, it becomes you.”

Rey initiated the override protocol. As he typed, the room began to unravel—pixels, colors, memories detaching like puzzle pieces in freefall.

He faced his mirror-self. It was glitching now. Flickering between Rey, Aariz, Skeena… and his father.

“You were never meant to see this far,” the mirror said. “We’re all just boot processes in someone else’s simulation.”

Rey smiled.

“Then maybe I’ll rewrite the code.”

He hit ENTER.

The mirror shattered—not into glass, but into fragments of reality. Scenes, people, timelines, all scrambled and fading.

One Week Later

Rey woke up… in his old room. Nothing glitched. No messages. No anomalies.

The mirror? Just a mirror.

Skeena pinged him:

“Ready for the next game drop?”

He replied, smiling:

“Already living it.”

But just before he logged off, a file appeared on his desktop.

GLITCH.exe (Recovered) Last opened: Never