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**Tao never asked to be marked.**
One moment he’s chasing fireworks on the harbor, the next he’s hunted through the glitch between worlds. Now, alongside his fearless sister TingTing and the elusive Blossom, Tao is pulled into a high-speed war of jumps, data, and betrayal—where every leap could be his last.
But enemies wear friendly faces, allies keep dangerous secrets, and the truth about why he was chosen burns hotter than any firestorm.

**In the Jump, courage isn’t enough. You have to land.**

**The 14 Shields were humanity’s guardians—until their virtues turned against them.**
After a blackout erases thousands of minds, Kai “Shǔ” hunts for the forbidden voice of her mother while battling the Dissonance, a living corruption, and the cosmic judge known as the Dark Angel.
A child born of light and shadow may be the last hope—or the final verdict.

Welcome to EmojiCon-1: The Fission Protocol: This is the first 10,000-word micro-story in an epic sci-fi fantasy thriller where the war for reality is waged in the static between memory and code.In 2074, PsyOps—a corporate power—launches the Fission Protocol, aiming not to erase history, but to own it. Real stories are being replaced with optimized

**Zip has declared war—on his own inner racoonnment.**
When a PsyOps assault brands stillness as sedition, the world’s loudest outrage machine turns its sights on a lone raccoon mystic. But instead of fighting fire with fury, Zip plans a different kind of revolution—one fought in silence, detachment, and laser-focused awareness.
In this satirical, mind-bending adventure, the real battlefield isn’t the streets—it’s the space between your ears.

**A hacker. A junker. A galaxy’s deadliest treasure hunt.**
When Jia Li hijacks a fragment of an ancient star map, she paints a target on her back for Captain Nyx—the most feared PsyOps predator in the void. Her only shot at survival is to resurrect the *Galactic Rose*, a legendary junk cruiser held together by defiance, duct tape, and stolen tech.
But the Rose hides a secret older and more dangerous than Nyx himself—one that could rewrite the balance of power across the stars.

**An ox, a panda, and a demigod walk into a noodle war.**
When a legendary dumpling recipe becomes the galaxy’s most wanted treasure, Kouprey-Tech Ox, Maui the fallen demigod, and Bao the not-Po panda are hurled into a chaos-fueled quest across planets, performance troupes, and cosmic kitchens.
With shadowy foes in disguise and flavor itself at stake, only The Galactic Three can stop the Order of the Golden Ladle from turning the universe bland forever.

**They stole her parents. Now she’s taking back the galaxy.**
When the Syndicate murders her family and brands her an “asset,” Galaxy is thrust into a fight she never asked for. Armed with her parents’ last gift—a pair of legendary BYD boots—and joined by a crew of chaotic rebels, she becomes the voice of a rising youth movement across the stars.
But the Combine’s grip is tightening, and survival means more than courage—it means outsmarting an empire before it erases her, and everyone like her, forever.

**The galaxy’s most dangerous race has only one rule: win… or vanish.**
When Kouprey-Tech, Maui the fallen demigod, and Bao the shifting warrior are drawn into the Grand Prix 500, they’re not chasing trophies—they’re chasing the stolen essence of identity itself. Every lap is a battle against mind-bending traps, blandness-wielding tyrants, and their own fractured pasts.
If they can’t outpace the conspiracy, the finish line will be the end of who they are.

**When the universe breaks bad, Maui rides in.**
Surfing the cosmic breeze on his Harley Hover, Maui never planned to crash into Earth’s ugliest secrets—kids in cages, rogue laser cannons, and storms built to kill. With his AI partner SSAR-Bot, a pack of hover-puppies, and a crew of rescued rascals, Maui turns aloha into a battle cry against the galaxy’s worst bullies.
Saving them all might take more than courage—it might take breaking the rules of the universe itself.

**A curse stole her family. Now it wants her future.**
When the Celestial of Raging Flames shatters Gateway Seven, twelve-year-old TinTing loses her parents in a single, blazing instant. Saved by a trickster guardian and a battered jade fragment, she becomes the target of an ancient malediction—one that twists hope into ash.
To break it, TinTing must navigate a galaxy of gods, warlords, and shadow-stitched curses… before her destiny unravels for good.

**When the sky shatters, love is the only thread that holds.**
A cosmic quake tears the Jade Star from the heavens, unleashing rival Celestials whose fury threatens to burn and drown the human world. In the chaos, strangers Jin and Mei are drawn together by fate, hunted by forces they cannot name, protected by guardians they cannot fully trust.
To survive, they must follow the whisper of an ancient love older than the stars—before the flames and tides erase it forever.

**In the Oligarchy PsyOps Reign of Terror, survival isn’t the prize—it’s the bait.**
Raine wakes in a sterile death trap built for broadcast, where each “challenge” forces impossible choices and every move feeds a billion‑credit betting ring. Alongside allies who could be executioners tomorrow, she must outthink the architects of this global psy‑op before the rules change—and they always do.
In a world where the ratings are god, rebellion is the only way to live long enough to die on your own terms.

**They took her name. She’s taking it back.**
In the Oligarchy’s slave auctions, defiance is a death sentence. But when a captured girl shouts “I am Heartzen!” in front of the galaxy’s most ruthless buyers, her cry ignites more than fury—it sparks a rebellion. Hunted by drones, betrayed by hunters, and trapped in a system built to erase her, Heartzen must turn her identity into a weapon before she’s sold, silenced, or destroyed.

**The President‑King owns the galaxy. Or so he thinks.**
Armed with nothing but her gamer’s instinct and a knack for humiliating tyrants, BG turns his ego‑fuelled empire into her personal leaderboard. But every victory makes her a bigger target—until the game spills into reality, and the most dangerous player isn’t on a screen anymore.
Now, toppling the galaxy’s biggest ego means risking everything in a war where love, rebellion, and survival are all on the same kill‑streak.

**In the Influencer’s Paradise, you’re either running the game Players—or you’re the game, Pawn.**
When Earth’s last days force Comet, his brother Atlas, and their friends into the neon sprawl of Calculus City, they think they’ve escaped disaster. Instead, they’ve landed in a high‑stakes contest where status is survival and every move is tracked by unseen powers.
To win, they’ll have to outplay billionaires, algorithms, and each other—because in this city, you’re either a player… or a pawn.

**A princess sold. A legend buried. A galaxy on the brink.**
When Starlit is traded to the ruthless General‑King, she becomes the pawn in a conspiracy to control the fabled *Galactic Rose*—a ship that may be more than a myth. Hunted by assassins, manipulated by tyrants, and shadowed by a guardian who may not be human, Starlit must decide whether to surrender to her fate or reclaim her family’s shattered legacy.
If she fails, the Morphstream will fall to the wrong hands—and the galaxy will burn.

**X’s word is law. Defy it, and you vanish.**
When a single post destroys Angelica’s family, she’s marked for “reassignment” by the galaxy’s most ruthless regime. Torn from her parents and thrust into a nightmare of detention camps, propaganda, and algorithmic control, she vows to turn their weaponized networks against them.
To survive—and to strike back—Angelica must navigate a shadow war where truth is treason, allies may be plants, and the only way to win is to become the story they can’t control.

**His parents won the galaxy’s most dangerous race. Now it’s his turn.**
When Meteor discovers his family’s secret legacy, he’s thrust into a high‑speed war for survival against tyrants, traffickers, and a race that kills more than it crowns. With tech‑savvy Galaxy, fearless Star, and a chaos‑loving hover‑puppy at his side, Meteor must outrun the President‑King’s forces and cross the finish line first—because in the Great Galactic Race, second place is a death sentence.

**They came to shatter the Yin. She came to weave it stronger.**
When the PsyOps Lucifers unleash their ultimate Fission‑Farming attack, Grandmaster Jingya dives alone into the most corrupted zone on Earth to defend the elder‑Yin—and the cosmic balance itself. Her strike team of celestial warriors, digital tricksters, and chaotic hackers must fuse their Qi in a battle that spans flesh, code, and spirit. In this war, mercy is extinction… and Qi‑Fusion is the only way to survive.

**They don’t hack your data. They hack your mind.**
In the glitch‑scarred sprawl of the Megapolis, Jade, Kael, and Jax are pulled into an invisible war where PsyOps rewrites reality at the speed of thought. Every choice they make is bait, every memory a weapon, and every alliance one breath away from betrayal.
To survive the Lucifers’ reign of mental corruption, they’ll have to master the one thing the enemy can’t simulate—human emotion—and fuse it into a power that could burn the system to the ground.

**Three points of view. One collision course.**
In the chaos of the Rift, Anya burns with empathy that can melt PsyOps control, Kael calculates every move like the city’s a chessboard, and Jax drifts between realities, nudging fate from the shadows. They’re tangled in each other’s orbit—one to feel, one to control, one to rewrite the rules. But the Rift isn’t just tearing the city apart… it’s pulling them toward a choice that will decide if they save each other or destroy everything.