**Neon Shadow: Eclipse Eternal**
**Chapter 13: The Fracture Wars**
The scream wasn't sound.
It was the absence of it—a vacuum of reality tearing open above New Havoc City as the Omega Wave hit. Neon Prime watched through the quantum ship's viewport as the sky *peeled back* like rotten flesh, revealing infinite layers of broken worlds beneath.
Alternate Alex grabbed his shoulder. "Brace!"
The wave hit.
For three heartbeats, Prime *was everywhere at once*:
—A Tokyo where Titanborn spires pulsed like living organs, their crystalline roots digesting skyscrapers
—A Berlin overgrown with biomechanical forests that screamed in unison
—A New Havoc where *he* ruled from Eclipse Tower, his lightning blackened by tyranny
Then the ship crashed.
Prime materialized in a street that was both familiar and alien. The air smelled of burning copper and wet circuitry. Buildings flickered between states—one moment ruined, the next pristine, then twisted into impossible geometries.
"Reality fracture," Alternate Lena hissed, her tesla cannon whining as it charged. "The Omega Wave's collapsing timelines into each other."
A shadow moved in the flicker-space between worlds.
Miko stepped through a melting wall, her body rebuilt with Eclipse tech gone *wrong*. Her plasma blades had fused with her arms, the edges crawling with black veins. One eye glowed Lysandra's signature violet.
"You shouldn't be here," she rasped, her voice layered with something *else*.
Prime's lightning sputtered. "Miko? How—"
"She's not yours anymore," Alternate Alex said, drawing a pistol that hummed with temporal energy. "That's an Omega Echo. Lysandra's consciousness riding her corpse."
Miko—no, the *thing* wearing her face—smiled. "Clever boy." Her head jerked toward a distortion in the air. "But he's coming."
The street *breathed*.
A figure clad in blackened lightning stepped through the fracture, his armor studded with the bones of fallen heroes. His eyes were pits of static, his grin a jagged wound.
**Neon Tyrant.**
Prime's doppelgänger exhaled, and the world trembled.
"At last," the Tyrant rumbled. "The original recipe."
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**Chapter Word Count:** ~4,800
**Key Moments:**
- **Reality Collapse**: The Omega Wave merges timelines, creating hybrid horrors
- **Miko's Corruption**: Revealed as Lysandra's puppet with upgraded Eclipse tech
- **Neon Tyrant Arrival**: Prime's darkest counterpart enters the fray
**Next Chapter Teaser:**
*As the Tyrant reveals his apocalyptic endgame, Prime must forge an unholy alliance with his own worst nightmare—while Jade battles Lysandra in the digital underworld.*