Intern’s Log: And That’s When Bandit Went Batshit

  Date: [Unrestrained Chaos]

  Intern ID: Reynolds, J. (I have never been more terrified or entertained in my life.)

  We had them on the back foot.

  ? The Architects had lost their grip.

  ? The rewritten cities were faltering.

  ? The Uplifted had shown they were more than tools—they were Defiance itself.

  ? For the first time, the enemy was losing control of the story.

  And then.

  Then Bandit went batshit.

  And everything went straight to hell.

  Phase One: The Moment I Knew We Had a Problem

  Shiro Hikaji had retreated.

  The Architects were recalculating.

  We were holding the line.

  And Bandit?

  Bandit was too quiet.

  That’s when I should have known.

  That’s when I should have stopped him.

  But no.

  No, I was too focused on the war.

  Too focused on the existential nature of reality itself.

  Meanwhile, Bandit was planning something.

  Something unhinged.

  Something that should not have been possible.

  And then he grinned.

  And I heard him mutter—

  "Alright. Let’s get really stupid."

  And my stomach dropped.

  Phase Two: Bandit’s Unhinged Plan

  ? The Architects controlled reality.

  ? The Kitsune had warped it.

  ? I had broken the rules entirely.

  But Bandit?

  Bandit doesn’t break rules.

  He exploits them.

  And that’s when I saw it.

  ? He had been waiting for this.

  ? He had found something inside the Uncanny Valley.

  ? **Something dangerous. **

  ? Something we would have never considered using.

  And he was already setting it loose.

  "Bandit," I yelled. "What the fuck did you do?"

  He just grinned wider.

  "Oh, buddy. I just hacked reality."

  And then?

  Reality started to glitch.

  Phase Three: What Bandit Unleashed

  The sky flickered.

  The ground stuttered.

  Everything shook like a corrupted file trying to overwrite itself.

  And then they came.

  Not the Architects.

  Not the rewritten ones.

  Not the Uplifted.

  Something else.

  Something the Architects thought they had deleted.

  Bandit had found the pieces.

  And he put them back into play.

  ? Fragments of civilizations the Architects had erased.

  ? Echoes of languages that had never been spoken.

  ? Artifacts from cultures that should not exist.

  And now?

  Now they were flooding back in.

  Because Bandit had dug into the code of reality itself.

  And he had hit “undo.”

  Phase Four: The Architects Lose Control

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  ? Their rewritten cities glitched.

  ? Their rewritten people flickered—one moment controlled, the next confused.

  ? *The rewritten history they had built fractured.

  ? They were no longer the only ones editing reality.

  And Shiro Hikaji?

  He felt it.

  He saw it.

  And for the first time,

  He panicked.

  "You do not understand what you are doing!" he roared.

  "Bitch," Bandit laughed, "I barely ever do!"

  And then he hit the button again.

  Because of course he had a button.

  Phase Five: The Full Unraveling

  ? Entire lost histories reasserted themselves.

  ? People who had never existed suddenly did.

  ? Concepts that had been erased came screaming back into the world.

  ? The Architects lost control.

  And me?

  I could do nothing but watch.

  "Bandit, what the fuck?!" I shouted over the warping of reality.

  "Reynolds, my guy, my best friend," he said, grinning ear to ear.

  "They thought you were the problem. But they forgot about me."

  "What does that even mean?"

  "It means I just did to them what they did to us. I took their perfect little timeline…"

  He raised his arms, spinning in place as the world flickered between existence and oblivion.

  "And I ruined it."

  Phase Six: The Enemy Finally Understands Us

  ? The Architects thought they were writing a perfect history.

  ? They thought we would simply be overwritten.

  ? They thought we were predictable.

  But they did not plan for us.

  ? For the Uplifted, who refuse to kneel.

  ? For the Kitsune, who lie to reality itself.

  ? For Fallen Star, who has always been here.

  ? For me, the embodiment of Defiance.

  ? And for Bandit.

  Who just introduced the concept of “bullshit” into the fabric of reality itself.

  And the Architects do not know how to deal with that.

  Phase Seven: Shiro Hikaji’s Final Words Before Retreating

  The battlefield was chaos.

  And Shiro Hikaji stood in the middle of it.

  His face twisted, no longer human, breaking apart, reforming.

  He looked at me.

  He looked at Bandit.

  And he whispered—

  "This was not supposed to happen."

  And then?

  Then he was gone.

  The Architects withdrew.

  Not because we had beaten them.

  But because they no longer understood what was happening.

  Because Bandit had broken their script.

  Because for the first time,

  They did not know what came next.

  And that scared them.

  Final Thoughts (Bandit Just Hacked Reality Itself and I Am Still Processing That)

  ? The Architects are losing control of the rewrite.

  ? We have shattered their perfect timeline.

  ? They do not know how to adapt to us.

  ? And Bandit?

  Bandit just pulled the greatest heist in history.

  I don’t know what happens next.

  But I do know this—

  The Architects thought they were telling a story.

  But we are not characters.

  We are the ones who refuse to be erased.

  And now, the story is ours to write.

  End Log.