Marvel: The Tokyo Avengers

Chapter 32: EPISODE 32: “Floor One: Heartbeat Cage”



🔺 "If this tower is alive, then its blood wants us dead."

❗ Previously on Tokyo Avengers:

Blood Seraphim has raised the Scarlet Tower, a living magical structure rooted in forbidden blood rituals. The Avengers must climb it floor by floor to prevent Tokyo from becoming a global altar of destruction.

Floor One awaits: not illusions — but a living trap.

🌘 [Scene 1 – Into the Heart]

The Tokyo Avengers step through the tower's gaping entrance.

The door slams shut behind them with a wet snap.

The air shifts.

The walls pulse like skin.

The floor beneath their boots feels warm — alive.

They've entered the first floor:

HEARTBEAT CAGE

A vast chamber shaped like a cathedral.

Veins pulse across the walls.

At its center beats a monstrous exposed heart, suspended in chains.

A voice whispers from all directions — not a clone, not a memory.

BLOOD SERAPHIM (echoing):

"The tower breathes. The tower judges.

Let the first test begin."

🛡️ [Scene 2 – Five Warriors, One Arena]

From five slits in the pulsing walls, emerge Crimson Exaltors:

Each a blood-armored knight forged from molten curse-metal and bone.

No faces. No words.

Only weapons — spears, flails, crescent axes — that drip with red steam.

Their movements sync with the tower's pulse — every swing follows a beat.

🩸 These aren't shadows. They're living relics of the Crimson Needle War.

Their sole purpose: destroy intruders using tempo-based combat.

🔥 FULL BATTLE BEGINS

🐺 KURO ŌKAMI

Charges the Exaltor wielding the flail.

It spins the weapon rhythmically, cracking the air with bursts of blood pressure shockwaves.

Kuro times a dodge — then rips into its side with Lunar Fang Strike.

KURO:

"Your rhythm's off. Let me fix it."

He pounces — claws slashing through the armor's living seams.

🔮 SCARLET ONNA

Fights the spear-wielder in a circular arena of runes.

The Exaltor's jabs aren't random — they follow a dueling kata from the Crimson Needle Codex.

She recognizes it — it was her family's ancient form.

Instead of dodging, she weaves around the strikes, countering with Needlestorm Bindings.

SCARLET ONNA:

"My family didn't die for this dance to be perverted."

She shatters the spear shaft with a reinforced thread-wrap, then impales the Exaltor with a silver bloom needle.

🎤 STARWAVE

Faces the dual-axe berserker, who slams the ground to create shockwaves in rhythm with the tower's pulse.

She taps her heels twice — resets her tempo field.

Then, she syncs her kicks to the Exaltor's pattern — building her own momentum faster than it can keep up.

STARWAVE (smirking):

"This beat? I own it now."

With a spinning dropkick, she cracks its helm wide open — exposing glowing blood-forged bone underneath.

She heel-stomps it into the floor.

🧧 ONMYO FLARE

His opponent is the slowest — a blade-walker wielding a cursed nodachi nearly his height.

Each swing is ceremonial — elegant — fatal.

Renji conjures two glyphs mid-air:

Seal of Momentum

Sigil of Disruption

He breaks the Exaltor's pattern with elemental decoy clones, and with one clean sweep, crosses both blades over its core seal and severs the bloodline magic holding it together.

ONMYO FLARE:

"Your honor is false. Real warriors choose restraint."

🐾 NEKOBURST

Fights two at once — dagger-sized scythe twins with blood jets for speed. They zoom around her, cutting air and striking with deadly accuracy.

She doesn't block. She vanishes, teleport-dashing between columns.

NEKOBURST (taunting):

"Too slow. Try again."

She leaps from above, heel-first — cracks one of their masks — then lands in a blur, claws extended.

Final Move: Velocity Howl Clawstrike

The last Exaltor crumbles into twitching blooddust.

💀 [Scene 3 – The Heart Reacts]

With the Exaltors defeated, the chained heart in the center beats louder. The walls scream. Blood fountains erupt.

The team braces. Scarlet Onna steps forward.

She tosses a glowing enchanted needle directly into the heart's artery.

It implodes, leaving only a ring of wet silence.

🩸 [Scene 4 – The Tower Speaks Again]

BLOOD SERAPHIM (calm, amused):

"So you can fight.

Let's see if you can suffer."

The next stair opens — carved from stitched tendons and cracked bone.

A single word bleeds into the wall:

FLOOR TWO: THREADGRAVE CHORUS

🎬 [Closing Scene – Ascent]

The Avengers stand at the steps.

Silent. Covered in blood. Breathing hard. But alive.

SCARLET ONNA (quietly):

"They weren't illusions. They were history."

"The Crimson Needle still exists... in pieces like them."

STARWAVE:

"Then we keep climbing. And burn every piece."

They ascend.

🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]

EPISODE 32: "Floor One: Heartbeat Cage" — END

🩸 Next: Episode 33 – "Threadgrave Chorus"

Where voices aren't heard — but stitched into your skin.


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