The rain was loud, and the sounds of clashing bullets and weapons rang in my ears... I stepped on the body under me, and I looked around myself...
Bodies I lost count somewhere after 100...
And just as I was breathing and taking in the world around me, another masked man jumped at me, throwing a knife, and behind him were many others with staffs; some had guns, others had swords, and some even had old knight swords and weapons from old times...
I jump back while jumping. I grab the knife that was coming for my neck and spin, throwing the knife back at the man who threw it at me. The knife shoots through the air and hits the man's neck, making him bleed on the spot, but the others don't stop and keep rushing me. I grab one of the staffs that was coming for my head, and my hands glow golden before I twist my whole body and throw the man with his staff at the other group of people...
And then there was a dance with both of my fists turning golden! I rush through all the people coming at me!
BOOMM!! CHASHHH!!! WHOOSH!!!
Punch, dodge, punch... and again and again it kept going on... till all of them were around me and jumping at me, and there was no way for me to dodge...
I smile and clench my fists and swing both of them down hard and fast!
SMASH!
The ground breaks apart, sending huge chunks of rocks, dust, and sand everywhere... but I keep moving fast, grabbing arms, legs, and necks and twisting hard and throwing them around at others. I was using their bodies as weapons! while using the rocks in the air as stepping stones to move even faster!
A golden line flashes through the field, and then there was nothing... just the calm rain. My hands were bloody, and the Ten Rings on my forearms glowed strongly...
But just as I was taking a breath, the Punisher! coming out of the woods and starting to shoot me point-blank! And without a second to think, I jump back and shoot one of the Ten Rings out with the flick of my wrist!
And Frank, with ease, dodges it, and he rolls on the ground, and without a hint of hesitation, he starts to fire again! And without wasting a second, I shoot another ring out from my other hand!
I wave my hands around fast; the right one, which he dodged, comes back flying, and with the snap of my fingers, the 2 rings in the air fly against each other, making them clash in front of me, making a small golden shockwave, and throwing all the bullets in the air, of course!
But not even a second later, I grab one of the guns on the ground and shoot without stopping, dumping the whole mag! in the smoke, and then there was nothing. It felt like he was dead only for a second before I flicked my wrist once more, and one of the rings flew fast behind me, hitting someone and sending them flying... Back, and now in view, I shot once...
"Ah, I thought I would only use the Rings to make my chi and body stronger, but at the end I need to use them, huh? I was wondering where you were. Hiding all this time, you knew I was stronger and faster than you, so you waited for a chance when I was tired, huh?" I throw the gun back on the floor and watch the body. It was the Punisher; he had a bullet hole on his forehead...
System Simulation Ending
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I take the VR headset off my head, stretch my body a little, and yawn.
"Sir, you have broken your record from last time. You have beaten more than 120 trained armed units. Not only that, you took down the Punisher with ease this time. Your body is inhuman... Not only that, those rings also created a strong effect. I don't know how that is possible, but those rings are emitting forces of an RPG..." I smile hearing Ava's analysis...
For the past week I have been going to college like normal, but once I am back home I have been studying the Omnitrix and the Ten Rings, and I have to say the train was fruitful... I can use the Rings like they are my own hands with ease now, but the craziest thing is that I have found so many ways to use the Rings to the point it feels like magic; it's not even realistic...
The adaptability of these rings is off the roof; they can change their size, grow as big as a plate, and grow small to fit my forearms, and they also move at subsonic levels of speed at their max speed. In fact, they almost break the sound barrier... They're just a little slower. The force they can emit is unknown. Even as Gray Matter, without actually testing, I could only assume these rings can maybe throw out 10 kilotons of TNT force at their MAX output...
Do you understand how insane that is? for comparing The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II had a yield of about 15 kilotons of TNT... Yeah, these Ten Rings on my forearms are just a little weaker than a nuke... that's not even funny... in the movie Shang-Chi never uses the Rings like this... ok, maybe at the end where he throws all the Ten Rings at the Dweller-in-Darkness...
But still they did not tell anyone that the Ten Rings were close to a nuke! ... but then again it's also kind of my fault because as Gray Matter I did make a way to use 100% of the Ten Rings to make a bomb pretty much by integrating concepts of motion, rotation, and Chi as energy clashing with each other in a clever and scientific way to bring out nuke-like force.... Wait, I should name this move...
Crimson Annihilation? Yeah, crimson, because the rings glow red when I try to use them in this way, and also annihilation, because if I do someday end up using this move, it will annihilate everything, even me! Because I can't really control the explosion, once it blows up, it will take me with it... But again, I am sure the Omnitrix will keep me alive, but the thing is I still can't use this because everything around me would be pretty much done for...
Right now, even without the Omnitrix... I would be a mid-Avengers-level threat.... Well, to be honest, that's just with the Ten Rings. If you take them away from me, I am again just a superhuman with a few Chi tricks at best... But still, this is good news. To be honest, I never expected the Ten Rings to be this strong. This is a good thing for me and also a bad thing because my theory about this world being stronger than shown in the movies might come true...
But that's just a theory... For now, the other thing I have been working on... Omnitrix, good news, I may have a breakthrough soon... Bad news: nothing in the past week. It seems like I have to use the Omnitrix more and also test it in public... but how can I do that? If I do that, then my cover will be blown! Ugh! To be honest, I want to test myself badly. It's like I have all of these weapons, but I can't use any of them!
Yeah, I feel this need, this craving, to go out and beat someone with the Ten Rings, to be honest, but I can't just do that... Wait, Kilgrave! Yeah, if everything goes normally, Jessica should meet him a few days from now. I could not calculate the date they met perfectly, but I could guess a few good dates with the help of Gray Matter...
Ah, some action is near. After I get Kilgrave, I would have to try to replicate his powers... but this also gives me a new pawn... or should I say ally? Jessica Jones... I already have the Ten Rings under me. Well, I say that, but the Ten Rings are not really under me; more like they're under Xu, but Xu is under me...
Should I build a team? of people who work for me? Now that's a good idea... No, more like a needed idea. There are some people who die without showing off their true powers or some people who go down the bad path... If I could bring all of these people under me... I would truly be unstoppable... You know the saying, "A brave soul can face a thousand foes, but a king holds the power to change the game." True power comes after ruling...
I step outside my room right into the bathroom to take a bath. I look at myself in the mirror. I had changed so much... ever since I got to this world, now I looked so much better, not skinny anymore...
I have changed. I am no longer the deadbeat brother or the emo boy... ha, change...
Change is another thing I have gotten almost used to in this day-to-day life. It feels so much nicer now that I am actually talking to people. Abby is a big reason for my calm mind. She has been nagging me to do every good thing, like taking up reading habits and making me do yoga, because Abby noticed how I started to get dark spots under my eyes after I started to study the Omnitrix or thought about something else in the night...
I walk out of the bathroom and dry my hair as I walk to my closet and put on a casual white shirt, a black jacket, and some casual jeans—really nothing special; it was normal, one of the few things that was still normal in my life... ha, how funny, my clothes are the most normal thing about me... wait, is that an insult to my fashion sense?? No way!
I walk out of my room and sit down at the dinner table, and there she was, Abby. She looked way better too. She was still smaller than me, and she wore a hoodie and pants, and she was drinking tea, and there was no real change; she just looked like she had not been skipping meals anymore, and she looked happy, but she stopped smiling the second my hand went out to grab her snacks...
"Get your own chips! Idiot! You are not eating my snacks in the morning!" And Abby spoke in an annoyed tone, like she was done with me, but I did not even do anything! yet...
I grab the bag of chips fast when Abby was sipping her tea... and then I start to run around the apartment with the bag of chips, and I start to eat them fast! And I mutter, "Mah hey hey, stop, let me have some! I swear I'll buy you more!"
And before Leo knew it, he was sitting on the couch feeling annoyed after Abby was still speaking: "You are so annoying; you act like a child. I swear you are supposed to be the big brother, right? But here you are taking my snacks away! you pig!" And I just look at her like she was at fault here!
The drama goes on in the apartment, which was once dark and quiet...
After that I move out of the apartment for college, and I drop Abby off at her school too. It was a good day! I walk around to the college, entering the gate...
"Hey, Leo, what's up, dude?"
"Yo, Nothing, just going to catch class. You bucking again?"
"Well, yeah! I swear your going to class is useless you ace every test!"
"Well, maybe if you start to go to class, maybe you will also start acing it, John. See you later."
And I keep walking without looking back. That guy was John, pretty much the bully in the college. Why did I speak with him so casually? Well, why would you not make the college bully your friend? Plus, he is actually a cool dude if you stop thinking about how he shit-talks every nerd in class...
Plus, I don't want problems, just a peaceful college life, and that's how you get it: become friends with the cool kids, but don't bully the nerdy kids, and that's how you stay right in the middle! Perfectly anyway, I reach the class door. It was physics class today. I was only going to be there for the physics class and bunk the rest of the day because from now on I have to start stalking Jessica to make sure she does not meet him when I am not around...
I open the door, and the class looks at me because I was, as always, 4 minutes late, and I smile at the teacher and speak in an honest tone, "Hey, Miss, can I come in?" And Savita looks at me in an annoyed way. She just seemed done as she spoke, "Oh, is it not Mr. Leo? What's your excuse today? for being late? Did the bus get late, or was it the train this time?" And the rest of the class was giggling, and I smiled at Savita while walking in and sitting down on my seat.
"Well, you won't believe it. Miss, this time my sister's friend's dog, which was staying with us for today, actually would not let me go, so I had to put him to sleep with some treats and make him do some tricks till he got tired, and that's why I am late today." I speak in a bluntly honest tone, which pretty much makes the whole class burst out in laughter, and the only one who was not laughing was Savita, who seemed done with me, not even angry anymore.
"Yeah, keep your stories to yourself. Anyway, class, open up chapter 6. We are doing a mock test today, and I expect everyone to give their best," and when Savita says the last part, she looks at me, and I just put on an innocent face, acting like I never joked around in mock tests... even though I do that a lot.
I honestly don't care about mock tests; I never did. What's the point of trying on a test that does not matter? It's like running for a race, but that race is just you running around in your backyard. See, it does not matter, well, unless you are unfit to run, then it matters, but me? Ha, the last thing I worry about is college tests...
I get the test paper and the answer sheet. I was supposed to write the answers on the answer sheet, but, well, I did not do that. I just made a few doodles on the side while thinking about, well, everything...
What's next? After I take Jessica under me, then the race actually starts. Once that happens, I will go visit the Ten Rings and get the info I want, and then I will actually have information about this world... Sure, Ava is smart, but she has limits, mainly because the internet is not that big right now. The big boom of tech in my past life happened somewhere in 2007; that's when the first phone came out...
iPhone It was the big thing because now things like Facebook and other social media are actually easy to access... but, well, this world is weird as hell again because it's 2006 and the first phone is already out... that means in this world, tech has evolved one year faster than the normal Earth's tech, which is honestly not shocking. The crazy high-level tech that Shield and other big shots use in this world is actually insane, so this Earth's normal tech, like phones existing one year ahead, is actually pretty understandable.
Not to say stuff like this is no big deal; it is a big deal. It's just another thing about this world that is weird, another reason to remind me that this world is different... but that will all end, or at least let's hope it ends once. I visit the Ten Rings. Xu will have close to all the info I need about this world, and then I can plan from there...
! Poke ! Poke...
I looked behind me, and there he was, the guy poking my back with the pen. It was Eliot. He mutters, "Hey, do you know what the answer for the 6th question is? I have done everything but am stuck there, bro!" And I just look at him, and with a calm face, with a flick of my wrist, I shake my answer sheet just a little so Eliot gets a view of my answer sheet, and Eliot's face goes from stressed to pretty much giving up. I could see his soul leaving his body when he saw all that I had done was some doodles...
And while smiling, I look back at the front, and well, I caught a glimpse of... I caught it when Savita was leaning down to pick up the chalk; she was wearing a red dress today... Unknowingly, she had given me a good view of her cleavage... and that's when I realized how beautiful this world is. Like, I don't know what I was talking about; this world is honestly great! God is on my side, showing me views of heaven.
I close my eyes and shake my head and then take a deep breath and then look down at my answer sheet... Damn, I have to calm down. I am not some teenager! ... Well, if you really think about it...
I grab the pencil and start drawing. It always used to help me take my mind off things... and, well, at least my mind was off things by my eyes? and fingers? Well, uh, let's just say they were looking at a good view...
"Ok, class, come here one by one and give me your papers, and then leave quietly, ok? I don't want any noise! Pin drop silence!" Savita spoke in a stern tone and started to take the papers one by one...
'Mmm I hope everyone at least tries to do there best last time most of the students did not get good marks in the mock test but they did pulled it up in the final exams but still if everyone starts studying form now on everyone would over all have a higher grade in there final exams there is no exception to this... well other then that leo... he is such a different student its not even close he dose not try at all in the mock test he pretty much fails but then in the actually exams he gets a casually 89% in my class he has never got lower then 80%... and this is not in my class this is pretty much his marks in all other subjects too his attendance was lower then 40% but then he still some how aces everything...
He must be taking classes out of college or something, but whatever it is, he does not have the right to act like he is an honest, best student. Even if he passes with really good marks, he can't misbehave in my class, not this time. He always jokes around! This time, if he does nothing on this mock test, I will show off this answer sheet to everyone! Make an example of him to make sure other students who are at the top should not follow Leo's actions. Plus, he also acts all different around me. I have heard how he does not even talk to the other teachers; he only talks nicely to me, trying to act good? or something?'
And Savita seems to have made up her mind, and by now it was actually Leo's turn to give his answer sheet to Leo. Leo casually walks to the front of the class and, with a wide smile on his face, gives Savita the sheet and speaks up, "There you go, Miss! I tried my best! just for you!" Then I turn around and walk back to my seat...
I smile as I watch Savita's reactions to what I wrote in the answer sheet other than the doodles... and Savita sternly goes through the sheet, and then her eyes stop, her hands almost shake a little, and she just looks at me with a glare, and then she puts my answer sheet in her bag with all of the other answer sheets, and she grabs her bag, and she speaks in a stern tone, "Class dismissed! And for those who did not pass this mock test, I will make sure you have 3 times more homework!"
And after that she walks out of the classroom clearly pissed off for some reason, or at least that's what it looked like...
Well, good thing I at least wrote a few answers to make sure I get the passing grade anyway. Other than doodles, that drawing must have gotten to her, huh?
I stand up and casually grab my bag and start to walk out of the class with pretty much everyone else, and yeah, I drew her well on the 3rd page of the sheet. Well, it was something like the 1st page was just doodles, the second page was actually a few answers just to get me a passing grade, and the 3rd page? It was a sketch of her face, ha! You can't even say it's bad because the sketch was beautiful; calling it out would be too shameful, and saying it's bad would be pretty much like insulting your face,
Ha! I am way too good with pranks!