When the Clocks Jump

Narrator (spoken):

Six months later…

The city learned how to breathe again.

Tonight—

It learns how to fight.

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Same streets, different scars on the wall,

I trained in silence, learned how to fall,

Fear don’t move me like it used to do,

I broke my limits just to stand here with you.

I watched Isaiah turn focus to flame,

Turn raw power into disciplined aim,

But this part’s mine, you hear me clear—

I started this war,

I end it here.

Isaiah (spoken, firm):

Don’t do this alone.

Hero:

I’m not.

Just first.

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Villain (amused):

Look at you… still pretending symbols matter.

Hero:

They do—

When people remember them.

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Villain:

You failed once, you’ll fail again.

Hero:

I failed alone—that’s what changed then.

Villain:

I am the order, the final say.

Hero:

Order built on fear decays.

Both:

Say it loud, let the night decide,

Who really stands when the city’s wide.

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I held this city when you broke apart,

While you bled guilt, I played my part,

Crime went quiet, streets behaved,

They slept at night ’cause I was brave.

You come back now with borrowed light,

Thinking time healed you for this fight?

Hero:

Time didn’t heal me.

It sharpened me.

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Isaiah (low):

I feel it—pressure in the ground.

Villain (not looking):

Good.

That’s fear finding its sound.

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You don’t scare me anymore,

I know what monsters really are,

You wear control like it’s the truth,

But you’re terrified of what we choose.

This ends with you exposed tonight—

Not beaten by force…

But losing the fight.

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Villain:

You can’t win what you can’t contain!

Hero:

I don’t need to—I make it plain!

Villain:

Then fall again like last time!

Hero:

I will—

So he can rise!

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Villain (surprised):

So the student finally speaks.

Isaiah (calm, powerful):

No…

Now the city does.

Hero (from the ground, quiet):

Your turn.