ORIGINAL BURN ARC — EP01
"On With The Show (Original Burn)"
The glitch didn't start with a scream. It started with silence.
The chord was clean.
Too clean.
Manny knew it.
So did the dust.
The saloon was packed — MusicMakerz, Echo Sector W-7.
Moby working the crowd. Skip tuning. Disco pouring.
Even Jonny Bingo had his shades off.
Manny played. Unplugged. Honest.
They weren’t ready.
Then Jake Barron walked in.
Tattoo inked, not lit.
Biker leathers, silence sharp as a blade.
One step. Two. Up the stage.
Guitar raised. Crack.
Strings screamed.
Manny hit the floor.
Blood in his teeth.
Hat lost.
Third chord broken.
The Piper was already watching.
She came not with sound, but with static.
Reality shimmered. The room flickered.
Manny blinked — and he wasn’t in the bar anymore.
Brass light. Fog. A moving lab. Instruments like relics.
The Piper stood over him — her eyes hidden beneath dread-cabled robes.
She didn’t ask. She began.
Needle lines. Neon thread.
Subdermal circuits.
Arm cabling.
A jack in the chest.
Last — the chrome plate at his jaw.
When he woke — the world hummed differently.
Sideshow Manny had been born.
He didn’t return through the door.
He ripped through the wall.
Skip flinched.
Moby whispered, “No way.”
Disco grinned, “Told you he’d get back up.”
Manny stepped onto the same stage.
Trilby on.
Lines glowing.
Strings humming with power not from wood — but from wire.
He strummed.
And the saloon shook.
A glitchwave pulsed out.
Chairs flipped.
Glass burst.
Voices bent sideways in pitch.
Jake Barron staggered.
His tattoo flickered — trying to respond.
It failed.
He turned.
Ran.
His crew followed, synth-bikes stuttering against the neon sand.
Manny stood in the dust.
One man. One Show.
He walked past the bar, past the wreck, past Moby’s stunned grin.
Skip nodded.
Jonny lit a smoke.
Disco raised his glass.
The sign above flickered.
Then held:
ON WITH THE SHOW
And into the static night, Sideshow Manny walked.
Glitch burning behind him.
Guitar humming like prophecy.
The Piper watched.
And the desert waited.
FRAME 01: Crack the Chord
— One final performance. No cybernetics. Just hands and chords. He’s unaware, but the glitch has already noticed.
FRAME 02: Smashcut Reality
— Wood breaks. Blood flicks. Jake Barron doesn’t speak. He just acts. The camera catches the moment the story collapses.
FRAME 03: Piper’s Deal
— This isn’t science. It’s ritual. The Piper doesn’t speak. She rebuilds. And in the shadows, the guitar begins to hum.
FRAME 04: Return of the Sound
— No more doors. He re-enters reality like a glitchwave. Skip blinks. Moby swears. And the neon begins to pulse.
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