CyberGirl – Chapter 2: Rise of West Corp
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The morning rain fell softly over Sherwood City, turning the skyline into a blurred mosaic of silver and shadow. Down on the quiet edge of town, where the noise faded and the dead slept, a single umbrella stood among rows of headstones.
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Victoria Vega didn’t bother to open it.
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She stood in the rain, her jacket soaked, hair plastered against her cheeks. Before her was a grave no storm could ever wash clean — the name etched deep in polished stone:
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Daniella Vega
She stood where others fell.
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Victoria crouched, placing a white lily at the base. The rain rippled across the petals, tracing invisible scars into her hands.
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“You’d laugh if you saw me like this,” she whispered. “Standing here every week like the world stopped moving.”
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The words caught in her throat. She almost smiled — because Daniella would have laughed. Her sister had always been sunlight and stubbornness, always the one who believed things could change if you fought hard enough.
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Victoria wasn’t so sure anymore.
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“I don’t know if I’m supposed to keep fighting,” she murmured. “Or if I already lost.”
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The faint hum from the watch on her wrist interrupted the silence. A thin blue line of light pulsed from its edge — as if it were listening, waiting. She frowned and tucked it under her sleeve.
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“Not now,” she said quietly.
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A voice behind her replied, smooth and deliberate.
“It listens to you, Miss Vega. You should listen back.”
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Victoria turned, startled. A man stood just beyond the fence — tall, in a dark gray coat, holding an umbrella that didn’t seem to care about the rain. His eyes were sharp, intelligent, but not unkind. She recognized him instantly.
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“You were at her funeral,” she said.
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“Front row,” the man replied, stepping closer. “Garder West. I worked with your sister.”
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“The CEO of West Corporation?” Victoria folded her arms. “Didn’t realize billionaires attended police funerals.”
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West’s smile was small and tired. “Your sister was more than a police officer to us. She was investigating something important — something that involved the device on your wrist.”
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Victoria instinctively covered it with her hand. “You mean this? It’s… just a gift. My father—”
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“Your father built it,” West interrupted softly. “But not in this world.”
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The rain seemed to fall quieter.
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West took a step closer, his tone careful. “She never told you, did she? She wanted to. But she was protecting you. That watch isn’t just technology, Victoria. It’s the last artifact from a world long gone. And now that same technology is waking up again — here.”
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He reached into his coat, producing a metallic access card. West Corp – Private Division.
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“If you want answers, come with me.”
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Victoria’s fingers clenched around the card. She looked back at Daniella’s grave one last time.
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“Guess I’m not done yet,” she whispered.
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Then she followed him through the rain.
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The Descent
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West Corporation’s headquarters looked ordinary from the outside — a monolith of glass and steel rising above the city, glowing with the company’s slogan: Building Tomorrow, Today.
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Inside, everything gleamed — touchscreens, chrome floors, smiling assistants.
But the elevator West led her into didn’t stop at any floor listed on the panel.
It went down.
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The music cut off. The walls shifted from glass to metal. Lights dimmed.
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A robotic voice spoke overhead.
“Security clearance: Level Omega. Confirmed. Welcome to the Division.”
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When the doors opened, Victoria stepped into a world that didn’t belong to Earth.
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Holographic maps floated in the air. Drones hovered in formation along the walls. Engineers calibrated armor suits that shimmered with energy. This wasn’t a corporate office — it was a secret base.
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“This is where your sister worked,” West said. “West Corp’s true purpose — the private defense division. We protect the world from what it doesn’t yet understand.”
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He guided her down a corridor lined with glass chambers. Inside one, a human silhouette of metal and light hung suspended in cables — sleek, elegant, unmistakably alien.
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“Project CYBERGIRL,” he said. “Your sister believed it could redefine how humanity defends itself. The fusion of human empathy and machine precision.”
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Victoria stared at the armor, transfixed. “And it killed her.”
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West’s expression hardened. “No. A man killed her. A man who used our stolen tech. A man we still haven’t found.”
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The name lingered between them, unspoken but understood.
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Doctor Science.
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“You think I can stop him?” she asked.
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West nodded once. “If you let us help you. If you become what she started.”
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Victoria looked at the armor again. Its faint blue glow reflected in her eyes — a mirror of the watch on her wrist. She thought of Daniella’s voice, her laugh, her words before that gunshot.
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The world keeps turning, Vee. Keep living.
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“I’ll do it,” she said. “Not for revenge — for her.”
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West smiled faintly. “Then welcome to West Corp, Cybergirl.”
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Training
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Weeks passed. Days blurred into drills, simulations, and bruises.
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Victoria trained harder than anyone expected. Every fall, every misstep, every failure — she used it. Turned it into fuel.
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Her team wasn’t easy to impress.
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Avan Smith, tall and electric, liked to crack jokes between lightning strikes.
Leon Jones, calm and serious, moved like flowing water — literally.
And Elizabeth West, Garder’s daughter, hit targets before anyone even blinked.
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They didn’t trust her at first. She was the “new intern” with a mysterious background.
But slowly, through long nights and shared pain, that began to change.
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One evening in the cafeteria...
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Avan leaned back in his chair, flipping a fork of fries through arcs of crackling static.
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“We need a team name,” he declared. “Can’t save the world without branding.”
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Leon groaned. “We’re not a boy band, Avan.”
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“Come on,” Avan said. “Think about it — The V-Team. V for victory. V for Vega.”
He winked. “Also stands for Very Awesome.”
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Elizabeth rolled her eyes. “It stands for Very Annoying.”
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Victoria chuckled — a real laugh for the first time since her sister’s death.
And just like that, something unspoken clicked. They were starting to feel like a team.
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Later, in the training bay, Leon and Victoria practiced hand-to-hand combat under dim lights. She lost the match — again — but he helped her up.
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“You fight with your heart too much,” he said. “That’s both your strength and your weakness.”
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She sighed, brushing dirt from her sleeve. “Then I’ll learn to balance both.”
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“Good,” Leon said. “Because one day, this world will need someone who can.”
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That night, Victoria stood on the observation deck alone, watching the city lights far below. For the first time, she felt like she could breathe again.
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And yet… she couldn’t shake the feeling that something was coming.
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Mission One: Blood Circuit
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Their first mission came sooner than anyone expected.
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A West Corp transport had been hijacked by a local cartel, smuggling tech parts off the books. Intelligence pointed to a warehouse near the docks.
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Victoria’s heart pounded inside her armor as the transport van slowed.
She was ready — or thought she was.
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Inside, the air smelled of oil and blood. Drones patrolled overhead.
The team moved like shadows — Elizabeth taking position above, Leon sealing exits with water barriers, Avan charging the lights for backup EMPs.
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Then Victoria froze.
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At the far end of the warehouse, standing by a crate marked with West Corp’s logo, was a man she’d seen before — not in life, but in her nightmares.
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The man who killed her sister.
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He was older, hollow-eyed, wearing the same brown jacket she remembered from that night.
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Everything went quiet.
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She moved before she thought — grabbed him, slammed him against the wall, the cybernetic gauntlet on her arm sparking.
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“Why?” she whispered, voice breaking. “Why did you kill her?”
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He choked, terrified. “I—I didn’t mean to. It was supposed to be a robbery! I didn’t know she was a cop!”
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“You didn’t care!” she screamed. The gauntlet charged, energy rising. “You took her life for nothing!”
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Tears blurred her visor. For a moment, she saw Daniella’s face instead — smiling, alive.
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“The world keeps turning, Vee. Even when we’re gone.”
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Her breath hitched. She powered down the gauntlet and stepped back, trembling.
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“Justice will take you,” she said softly. “Not me.”
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She turned away as police units arrived. Leon placed a hand on her shoulder — silent, supportive.
Avan and Elizabeth exchanged glances. None of them spoke.
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But everyone understood.
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That night, Victoria didn’t cry. She just watched the stars through her window and whispered, “I did it, Dani. I didn’t lose myself.”
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The Invasion
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Two nights later, the sky tore open.
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Sirens blared across Sherwood. Explosions lit the clouds. A massive ship descended from orbit — black, angular, humming with energy. Drones poured out like a mechanical storm.
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“Doctor Science,” West said grimly as the team assembled. “He’s back.”
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Victoria’s heart dropped. “Then so am I.”
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The city became chaos.
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Lightning streaked through the sky as Avan struck down swarms of drones.
Leon flooded the streets to slow their advance.
Elizabeth fired arrows that pierced through enemy cores like rain.
And at the center of it all, Cybergirl charged forward — blades drawn, armor gleaming with light.
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In the middle of the chaos, she spotted a small figure — a middle school girl, trapped beneath debris, staring up in terror as a drone raised its cannon.
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Victoria sprinted. She dove, shielding the girl with her body as the blast hit.
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Pain tore through her. Sparks flew from her armor.
The drone exploded — and when the smoke cleared, the girl was unconscious but alive.
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Victoria lifted her gently. “You’re safe,” she whispered, but her voice trembled.
Her armor flickered — a small fragment broke off, glowing faintly green, and embedded into the girl’s arm. Neither of them noticed.
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“Medics!” Victoria shouted. “Get her out of here!”
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They took the girl away. Her name would later be known — Laura.
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The Final Battle
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Victoria and the team stormed Doctor Science’s ship. The corridors pulsed with energy, alive with his machines.
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When she reached the central chamber, he was waiting.
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Tall, calm, and eerily composed — Doctor Science turned from the console.
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“So,” he said quietly, “the last daughter of a dead world still breathes.”
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“You knew?” she demanded.
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“I built your world’s machines, girl. I built you. Your father and I saw the future — evolution through order. But he chose chaos. Emotion.”
His eyes darkened. “I chose reason. And for that, your world fell.”
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He stepped closer, voice calm but heavy with conviction. “Dementra showed me what perfection looks like — a universe where everything obeys. Where flesh and circuit merge.”
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“You call that perfection?” Victoria’s voice cracked. “You destroyed billions!”
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“I purified them.”
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The word made her stomach turn. “Then let me return the favor.”
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She lunged. Their powers collided — lightning, plasma, raw fury.
Sparks tore through the chamber as her blades met his energy gauntlets.
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“You can’t stop evolution,” he hissed. “You are it.”
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“Then evolution just learned to fight back.”
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With one final surge, she struck — her blade cutting through his reactor core.
The ship shuddered, alarms blaring.
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Doctor Science staggered back, smiling faintly even as flames erupted around him.
“You think you’ve won? You’ve only opened the next door. Dementra will come... and you will kneel.”
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The floor cracked. Victoria stumbled toward the exit as the core exploded.
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The last thing she saw was his silhouette dissolving into light — not destroyed, but gone.
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Epilogue
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Sherwood City burned for hours before the fires died.
The team helped evacuate survivors, and by dawn, the city began to heal.
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Victoria sat alone on the rooftop of West Corp’s tower, her armor scorched and cracked.
She looked at her hands — the same ones that had once held Daniella’s — and exhaled shakily.
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“The world keeps turning,” she whispered. “And I’m still here.”
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She looked to the sunrise and smiled, just a little.
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INT. HOSPITAL ROOM – NIGHT
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A faint beep from a heart monitor.
Laura lay asleep, her arm wrapped in bandages.
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The shard inside her wrist pulsed faintly — once, twice — like a heartbeat of light.
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In the reflection of the window, the city glowed below.
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And far beyond that sky, in the dark of another universe...
two red eyes opened.
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Dementra had heard her name.
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END OF CHAPTER 2: RISE OF WEST CORP
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