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Chapter 8: Practice makes perfect pt3

"Sunfire, Havok now entering combat." Instead of having everybody troop back to the door, Storm had the team meet on a rooftop that was near the center of the map, it was the highest building for this part of the city. "It's time to switch things up. We're going to patrol to a block out with this building as home base. That should make Nico have come to us since there's not a lot of time left until the free for all. Colossus, Havok, and Jubilee will patrol while Sunfire covers you with air support. I'll be the eye in the sky and rapid response." The group gave their confirmations then Jubilee spoke up. "I don't know if this will help or not but for the last few weeks Nico's been studying everything he could find on ninjas." Havok smirked. "Well, that would explain things. We couldn't see much of what was happening on the monitors but even still we should have seen some idea of how he got the drop on the rest." Storm took to the skies. "Let's move out and keep your eyes open for anything, an out of the box thinking ninja could be anywhere."

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Well, this sucks!! There they are all nicely clumped together and there's no way to take them all at the same time. I don't think a sneak attack would work again so soon. What to do, what to do? How bout I … No, what if I…. Well that might work but I'm not sure if I can pull it off. What the hell I'll give it shot anyway. The problem with the direct approach is numbers, they outnumber me so I'm thinking if I can make a lot of little golems, I can make up the difference or at least cause enough of a distraction to take some of them out. Seeing as how 4 of them can just blast anything away I think something small and numerous like insects are the way to go. Only problem with that is control. I don't think I'll be able to control all of them and still be aware of my surroundings enough to fight at the same time. Screw it I can always jump back into the sewers and just run when it goes horribly wrong. The whole point test was just to see how good I am under pressure anyway.

Once I got their patrol pattern down, I picked an ambush spot on the route farthest from Storm and out of her line of sight. Then I got started on making hundreds of flying bugs. Even though I didn't think they would be dumb enough to blast each other to get rid of them, I still made them out of fire this way they couldn't just raze their body temps and trying to melt the bugs off would take forever if it even worked. The bugs couldn't actually attack but enough of them crawling on you and in your face will definitely distract you. Hopefully long enough for me to take some of them out hard and fast. I staged the ones for Sunfire on top of a building's A/C. The rest were spread out in clumps across the whole street, under mailboxes and cars. Some even above trash cans.

"How long you think he's going to keep hiding?" Havok asked the group. They were walking down the middle of the street which was not at all congested. I think that was Jean's doing in the control booth. She rerouted traffic on their patrol route and moved most of the civilians out of the area. "Comrade Nico is fighter at heart. I expect an attack at any minute." "The big buy has a point Nico is at his most dangerous when he's quiet." Jubilee responded as she brushed a bug out of her face. "I know but this is killing me, how long is he going to wait? There's not much time left until the free for all." Havok to swiped at a bug. In fact, all of them had increasingly been fanning at bugs. Jubilee stopped and was waving furiously now. "Where did all these bugs come from."

That was my queue. I released all the bugs to swarm. If I wasn't so busy trying to win, I would have been rolling on the ground laughing. They all looked so ridiculous, Colossus was actually slapping his own face trying to smash the bugs. My first attack was a flying taser kick to Jubilee's back that put her down. (I didn't want a long drawn out fight against one of my best friends.) The spinning side kick to Havok was an epic fail. He was still aware enough to dodge and fire off a blast at me. I was able to dodge that but not the blind side punch from Colossus that lunch me into a car. I am soooooo glad I practice my shields to be automatic or else I'd need a hospital about now. I sat up, shook my head and took stock. Sunfire was flying in tight circles to burn the trailing bugs that couldn't keep up with him. Havok was roasting Colossus while he had his eyes closed which had little effect. And there was a Storm on the way!! (Ha Ha.) I went to deal with Colossus first because I didn't want to feel another hit like that. I went four cars up the street from the one I crashed into, picked it up with my Tk change its magnetic field to magnetize it and launched it as fast as I could at Colossus. It was his turn to by blindsided. The car leveled him and he made sparks as he was drugged down the street. When he finally stopped, he realized that he couldn't lift the car off of him no matter how hard he tried. Which was only made worse when the other three magnetized cars hit him. Even if he woke up, he wouldn't be able to move and if he switched back to human skin, he'd be crushed so he was out now too.

I had sent all the remaining bugs to attack Sunfire and Havok while I was dealing with Colossus so when I checked back in, I saw they were frying each other trying to get rid of the bugs but weren't having a lot of luck. My little fire bugs were absorbing their fire/heat to keep themselves going. I didn't know they could do that but boy am I glad they can. Things were looking up so of course, that was when the tornado hit me. Storm dropped one right on top of Sunfire and Havok which had the dual results of sucking up all my bugs and turning it into a fire tornado. The edge of which picked me up and threw me into a building, hard and fast. That was another thing that looks cool on tv but hurts like hell in real life. (DBZ) I got my crap together and jumped out the hole in the wall to immediately blast Havok with a TerK (Terakinesis) shotgun blast. Then grabbed Sunfire with TK and threw him into the building across the street. Before Havok could recover I picked him up too and did a mini berserker barrage. Just enough to knock him out. I didn't even get to turn around before Storm lit me up with the quickest lighting strike I ever saw. It hit me before my shield could come up so I had to deal with the full force for a few secs. Just as I was getting ready to redirect the rest back at her, Sunfire started to roast me with his fire blast. I needed to get out of there and heal, so I grabbed an SUV to use as a shield for Sunfire and sent the remaining built up charge to the gas tank. I don't know why but the explosion was bigger than it should have been and caught them off guard and gave me enough time to escape back into the sewers.

Sunfire picked himself up and looked over at Storm who was still a little dazed. "How is he doing all this?" Storm laughed. "My little brother is very smart and very powerful but the thing that should really scare you is that he is nowhere near his final limit." Sunfire's black skin actually paled to grey a little as he thought about it. "Psylocke, Beast, Angel now entering combat." "Well he's screwed now there about 30 mins until the free for all and there's still 11 of us to go." "See you're underestimating him again. He may not actually win the whole but I'm sure he'll take some of us with him when he goes." Nightcrawler popped back in to finish taking out the downed X-men. "Jean started streaming this to the rest of the school and they are going crazy, they want to make this a monthly thing that anyone can try." Storm shook her head. "Come on Sunfire let's head back towards the door I have another plan that should work."

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That lighting strike ended up giving me a bunch of tiny little spots, like cigarette burns and my clothes were crispy now. Nothing a healing trance couldn't cure but it would take time, and that was something I was running out of. I was starting to doubt myself and whether I could pull this off. So far most of my takedowns have been cheap shots. Screw it! I was doing good just to get where I'm at. Let's just heal up and go at them straight up because it would take a miracle to beat them all the way I've been doing it.

It was the announcement of Polaris entering combat that woke me out of my healing trance. The free for all had begun and now I only had 10 mins to find the team before the next person entered. Well at least I was feeling a lot better and now had a better grasp on how to use my powers in real combat. After climbing out of the sewers, I turn off gravity for me and used Tk to push me around, it was my preferred way of flying for now. I found them 6 mins later in a park that they somehow managed to turn into a crude earthen fort. Pity, I was about to show them why they shouldn't have bothered. I flew a hundred feet above them, turned on my shields and increased my gravity to 2x earth's and dived. While falling I focused my TerK for a massive earth shock and spike attack. They saw me coming in and started taking pot shots at me but so far, my shield was able to handle Storm's lighting, Sunfire's fire, and Polaris's metal spikes. When I landed or crashed really it looked just like a fat kid doing a cannonball in a pool. The earth rippled out from me in big waves and tore down their defenses while they got tossed around. Before they could recover from that a bunch of bunt, earth spikes launched at them for extra damage. Unfortunately, the earth wave had no effect on Storm and Angel and they were able to dodge the spikes.

Storm waved her hand a big gust of wind blew away the dust cloud that was covering my crater. As soon as he could see me Angel dived down at me with a double dropkick. He was really fast but I expected something like that so caught him with Tk and slammed him hard into the ground like Hulk did Loki. (Bet you didn't know he's another one with healing powers huh? Yeah, his blood can raise the dead, although he hasn't got to that point yet in this universe.) Next, I wanted to see if I could pick off any of the others that were laying around, but before I could I heard this. "Iceman now entering combat."

"Frack!!" Beast was the first to recover mainly because he was able to dodge the majority of the earth spikes. So, I picked him up and threw him at Storm again but this time she was ready so she caught him with wind and sent him back at me. Since it looked like he was having fun being a human tennis ball I spiked him at Psylocke who was trying to sneak up on me, and they went tumbling away. Polaris shot metal spikes at me which I stopped, and we began a little tug of war with them. Sunfire jumped backed into the fight with a fire blast and I threw up a shield to handle it. Storm did another lighting strike so I messed with the metal spikes polarity to draw the lighting in. (We really got to work on getting her some new offensive moves.) We were in a kind of stalemate but I saw Beast helping Angel to get back on his feet which meant Psylocke was out there somewhere. "Alright let's clear the field!" I reshaped my shield to redirect Sunfire's fire at Polaris. While she was distracted, I took full control over the spikes and sent them at Storm. Sunfire had a horrified look on his face as I grab him and slung him towards me. (I don't know why he had that look, we worked hard to make sure she has shields too.) When he finally started paying attention to me, he was met with a 100 lbs. gravity and Tk reinforced right cross that put him to sleep. Meanwhile, Storm, who manage to blow most of the spikes away, and Polaris who also recovered were closing in. I charged toward Storm since she was finally on the ground for once and a pain in the butt, but I only got a couple of steps before an ice beam hit me from the back and started to rapid freeze me.

Iceman had shown up to the party, Great!! While I still had some movement left, I released the biggest laser I could make and tried to split him straight down the middle. He was able to block most of it but it still knocked off his ice slide and fell hard to the ground. Meanwhile, Psylocke finally snuck up on me and went to town with her psi daggers. My shields dealt with her and I reinforced them but was still mostly frozen so I couldn't move much. Polaris decided that wasn't enough so she decided to increase my gravity as much as she could which brought me down to my knees. Storm saw that Psylocke wasn't doing much damage so she ordered her off and created a localized tornado to suck away my air and knock me out. I'm not going to lie things were looking bad and I was hurting all over. Beast had declared Angel to hurt to continue so he was free to come back to the fight along with the next combatant and Iceman was getting back on his feet too. I was having trouble breathing and couldn't focus long enough to do something about it. I just wanted to give up and call it a day. I mean I think I did a pretty good job considering, how many other people can claim to have taken out 11 of the X-men at one time. Just as I was about to give up and tap out, everything seemed to stop and I was yanked into my mind palace.


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Dashman Dashman

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Chapter 9: Enough with the practice!!!

{"God you're so pathetic! You didn't even last one fight, and it wasn't even a real fight. What did you think you're one of those blessed Main characters that get everything handed to them? Does baby need a system? I got a old grandpa here that can wipe your a** too. Sorry, there's no plot armor here boy!"}

I looked around and saw that I was in my mind palace (which looked like my old lab on earth by the way) but everything was greyed out. The other difference was the guy or thing sitting in my favorite chair berating me. I couldn't tell what or who it was because it was hidden in shadows but whatever it was, it sure was pissed with me.

{"You were given your greatest wish and unlimited power but as soon as things started getting just a little bit hard, what did you do? You wanted to pack up your toys and go home? I think not! You think the Chitauri or dark elves army are just going to stop just because you don't want to play anymore? No boy, you need to find your balls and dig a whole lot deeper. You my boy are one of the few MC's that actually has to work for what you get. That's the trade off, you want all that op power you're going to have to bust your butt for it. And so far, you are barely trying."} It sighed and sat back. {"Ayiee… I guess it's not completely all your fault though. You were, after all thrown into the deep end… but still that's no excuse for your weak knees and belly aching. So, I am going to give you a choice. A, you completely give up the superhero thing and I take your powers. And just to be nice I'll set you up as a normal guy in Stark industries R & D. Or B, you totally commit to this life, this reality and give it your all instead of waiting around for the next shoe to drop. Oh, and just so you're clear there aint no do overs or spawn points. You die and that's it, you get shipped back to where you came from and have to deal with that afterlife."}

I still couldn't figure out who this dude was or what was going on but he was dropping some truth. I've been here for about 2 months it still doesn't feel real. Sometimes I think I could just be in a coma from the truck and this could all be some really cool dream. Mostly none of this felt like it was really happening to me. Instead it felt like I was living in a fanfic I wrote about myself so the stakes never felt all that great because I figured I could change things whenever I wanted to suite my needs. Well at least that's how it was until I met this dude. As soon as I saw him, I felt like a hallway guy at the end of Rogue One and he was Vader. This guy reeked power and it was all I needed for a wake-up call. I knew instinctually that this guy could destroy me. I think if I had been in my body, I would have peed myself but somehow, I was forced to focus on what he was saying and…he wasn't wrong.

I really was half a**ing it. Like I said before, it felt like one super realistic dream that I could wake from at any minute. I mean come on you probably read as much fan fics as I did. Do you really think something like that could ever happen to you for real? Do you look both ways before crossing the street just in case? Do you double check your circuit breakers before you use your pc or game consoles? Do you ever think you'll get random message from a god? Plus look at how I got here with no instructions or anything, come on that was not a standard Isekai!!!

Anyway, getting back to the point. The biggest thing was that deep down I really wasn't sure if I even wanted to be a hero. Yeah it was a dream of mine but not a real one. Just one of those things you wish for that you know will never happen. How many kids dream about being the next Lebron or mega star and living that life, actually believe that it could happen to them. Being a super hero was just one of those things that was cool to think about but I never expected to happen. So, when I got here and was able to do it for real freaked me out and like the guy said I haven't even been out on the streets yet. Plus, at the time I didn't know, if I died again, did I die for good or get to go to another world? Well now I know and seeing as how those choices he gave weren't choices really it was time to put up and shut up.

"Ok Mr. Shadow, I'm all in, I'll fully commit to being a hero. Can you tell me what else I have been doing wrong?" {"Well boy half of your problem was commitment issues and the other was that you got your powers all wrong."} He…It held up a hand before I could speak. {"No one is going to tell you what or how they work, you'll have to figure it out on your own, but the folks on Bleecker Street owe me one and they'll give you some more training when you're ready. But to dumb it down for you, basically you don't believe in your powers so they don't or only half way work."} After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I asked. "What does that even mean?" {"It means you're really lucky to even be able to do the little you can. I see you are a man of science through and through so the bit of power that you can use only works because you "believe" it follows the rules of science. Here's your hint, what your powers really does is break all the rules, unfortunately you don't know what the rules are. That's something the wizards can help you with later, but until then try to be more like a Jedi and less like a mad scientist in your approach. But this is just a band-aide though, until you understand yourself and yours powers, you'll never be that supreme op being you want to be."} It leaned back into the chair. {"Well kid my time's just about up so I will answer one more question."}

My mind was blown yet again. So, does this mean I don't really have Psychokinesis? And what does "Jedi like" even mean? Now I had a headache to go with the bodyache trying to figure this out. But I was still on the clock and since he wouldn't tell me how my power work maybe if I found out who sent me here, I could get a better understanding of what's going on and where my powers came from.

"Who are you and Are you the one that sent me here?" It laughed and it wasn't a human laugh either. {"No. You can't even begin to comprehend that guy right now. And no, I don't know why he does anything he does. It doesn't matter right now you just need to get ready for what you know is coming. Oh, and about that, the more you change things the less accurate your future knowledge will be. So, plan well. Speaking of I'll give you 5min to think of something to get out the mess you're in and if you happen to win, I'll give you a prize."}

Next thing I knew he was gone and everything is back in color. That was a big info dump and I needed to get my head straight but that was a lot to take in. I was really hoping that who ever brought me here would lead to some clues about what's really going on but like everything since I got here, guess I'll just have to roll with it. As far as my new life crisis goes, now that I know for sure I only have one life I'll start acting like it. But honestly, it's not like I wasn't before it was just that I wasn't sure about anything and I didn't want to die AGAIN for nothing. This may all be a story to you but for me it's real life and there are a lot of people out there that want to do bad and don't mind killing heroes while they're at it.

So, let me get this all straight in my head first. Some really powerful ROB brought me here for a reason and I'm guessing it's monstrously strong if other random ROBs like Mr. Shadow are scared of it. So, I'm thinking it has to be stronger than a Celestial but probably not the One above all. The great god Stan has better things to do then play around with me I hope... We'll comeback to this when I get some more info. Now that I know the alternative, I am ready to fully commit to being a super now. I thought about it some and realized that MC's rarely die unless they where doing something incredible heroic or where in one of those sick stories where the author got off on killing main characters 'Cough' Thrones 'Cough'. The only thing I could figure out for my powers where that maybe I was being to firm in my thinking and needed to trust my instincts more? Maybe if I used science as a start but then tried whatever felt right? Something to try out latter but I will say that I had started to notice some inconsistencies in my powers. Sometimes I would be able to do stuff but when I tried again later I couldn't so the Shadow dude had a point. Alright enough lollygagging lets get back to it and get that prize.

Previously on X-men, I was getting my butt kicked. Storm was still choking me and I was still on my knees dealing with 4x earth's gravity. I guess for the fun of it Iceman was also charging up a blast for me, and don't forget Beast and Psylocke were outside the tornado just waiting. And did I mention Cyclops was on his way. This is what I came back to after my little time out. I needed to get rid of the biggest pain in my butt, big sis. So instead of throwing her at Iceman (Something I've been doing a lot of.) I picked him up and made sure his blast hit her full force. They didn't see that coming and she ended up blasted through a shop and frozen to its back wall. Once she was down, I lunched Iceman at Polaris but she was ready for that and caught him. That was fine because I just needed the distraction to get out of her gravity field and lunch myself into the air. Now that Storm was finally out so they didn't have any more real flyers at the moment which meant they were screwed. Beast was trying to gain some height by bouncing off buildings and Psylocke was trying to bring me down by throwing her daggers. (Thankfully she has gotten her teleporting powers yet.) To deal with her, I created a pit underneath her and closed it up when it got to her neck. For Beast I picked up a bunch of junk of the street with my TK and threw them at him. While he was jumping around dodging, I timed it so that during one of his dodges the gravity flipped sideways and he crashed hard head first into the side of a building, taking him out.

Polaris and Iceman weren't just sitting around so I decided to lead them on a chase. Iceman on his slides and Polaris on a….. is that a car hood? Anyway, they both took shots at me as we raced through the streets and the ones that didn't completely miss me my shields took care of. I didn't have a destination in mind I just wanted to get them away from the door because I knew the rest should be coming in about now. We were about a block away from the park when I got the conformation. "Shadowcat, Marrow, and Magma now entering combat." After 2 more blocks I figured it was good enough so I stopped and lunched a audio bomb at the duo. This bomb had the double effect of shattering Iceman's slide and inducing vertigo on the both of them. I gave them a TK boost to their fall to make sure they would stay down this time. (Is it a good thing or bad thing that I'm the one that has to put all of us back together when this over?)

I'll spare you the rest of this long story and tell you that I beat the last four after another hour but Cyclops made me work for it. He decided that guerrilla tactics would work best on me with the team he had left and his hit and runs worked for a good while. Eventually I got really tired and said the he*l with it since I was playing the bad guy lets do something bad and unleashed a gravity storm that leveled half the city before it crashed the Danger Room. The X-men caught the tail end of it but they still got banged up enough to be considered out. And that my friends is how I ended up sore all over and unable to move because I spent up all my power. But it was worth it. I beat the X-men and found new ways to use my powers. It was time to get ready for Big Green.


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Dashman Dashman

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Chapter 10: Jumping into Phase 1

So, here's what I learned from all that. 1. The X-men are good but not great yet. 2. I could do a whole lot better but I think I'm at the point where I could do street-level work now. 3. I think I figured out what Mr. Shadow was trying to tell me about my powers. I took me a while, but I figured out the catch 22 I am in. See what Mr. Shadow was saying was that I was thinking about my powers in a purely scientific way and that was limiting them but on the flip side, the only reason that they were even working is because I understood a little bit of the science behind them. This went a long way to explaining all the inconsistencies I'd had with my powers. So, with nothing else to go on, I decided to just try a bunch of different stuff and see what worked without worrying about how I was doing it. This led to me being a minor OP character that didn't know if or when some of my powers would even work when I really needed them. I was essentially broken in two ways (Stupid level powers but they don't always work) but figured the training with the wizards could help me with that later on. The good news though, is that the prize Mr. Shadow gave me was a base. Well, I think it's a base. While I was healing everybody up, a present box just appeared next to me and inside was a land deed and some keys. After a search on Google Maps, the address showed up as a smallish warehouse in Chelsea. I plan on checking it out once I head to the city to start my patrols.

The next thing I needed to finalize was my suit. Who knew that Professor X and Beast were already on good terms with Reed Richards so they already had a steady supply of "unstable molecules" materials to make the X-men suits, so that was one less headache to deal with. The biggest problem was Forge. This guy was never around when you needed him. Between all his government work with Homeland and SHEILD, plus all those R&D think tanks banging down his door it was hard to get a hold of him. Luckily the headpiece I wanted him to build wasn't that complicated and he was able to bang it out in an hour. Although he wasn't able to do an A.I. because he'd never worked on those before. But I did give him some ideas on how to get started. I'll just have to make my own once I get situated.

Ok, I'm going to describe my suit but let me start by saying that this is just a prototype before you start laughing. It's a onesie!! A big all black onesie but only because I was using "unstable molecules" material. That stuff is hard to shape so to keep it simple, it needed to be a onesie. Picture the black Spiderman suit but with a midnight blue hawk on the chest instead of a white spider. I also made a midnight blue cowl cape that was deep enough in the hood that you could only see the glowing blue eyepieces of the mask. The mask was the main thing Forge worked on. It was soft like Spidey's masks are but had mostly the same kind of tech as Tony's. The only thing I was missing was an A.I. but I figured once I finished working on my brain, I should be able to bang one out myself if I even needed one at that point. The other thing he helped me out with was a utility belt that I gleefully (Stole) borrowed from Batman, again with a hawk logo instead of a bat. I won't go into the details but here are some highlights: Hawkarangs that I could throw or control with TK, Plastic handcuffs, USB hacker for doors and computers cause I'm still working on my TeK, smoke bombs, first aid kit, Forensics Kit, and a rebreather/gas mask. Most of this stuff was just in case something happened to my powers and I couldn't use them or they stop working. I haven't found my Kryptonite yet but that doesn't mean it's not out there.

Now for the personal stuff. Jean (who I've been dating for almost 2 months) made it crystal clear that she was coming with me. Even though I explained to her that my life would be long periods of routine boredom followed by world-ending danger, she still insisted that somebody need to keep an eye on me and that she was perfect for the job. I may or may not have slipped up and told her that I loved her too. And no, it's not too soon, it's just that I'm a bit of a private person when it comes to that stuff and I need to work up to telling all of you, every single romantic detail of our love life. I'll tell you what, I'll do a flashback special that will be dedicated to just our relationship. Anyway, moving on she became a reserve member of the X-men and transferred to ESU to finish out her Psychology degree. We going to check out my warehouse this weekend and finding someplace to stay.

I was really going to miss my new friends especially since I'd never had any before. This was all a new and good experience for me. They threw us a big going away party even though I kept telling them we were only moving to the city, not another world. Even though we were leaving we would still be dropping in on them from time to time and I hoped to get in on some of the classic missions they went on. I'm guessing that it's after Iron man 2 when the Sentinel program will kick off and I have plans for those things. I also really want to put the beat down on Magneto because he's the biggest hypocrite in the world and for the way, he treats his kids. Speaking of them Polaris swears she and only child and this MCU has mutants so Age of Ultron is going to be very interesting when it comes to Pietro and Wanda. Personally, I feel for what happened to Jarvis but I love Vision, so guess I'll have to have Tony back him up some way because I really hated all the A.I. that came after.

Me and the professor had a heart to heart before we left and I gave him an… let's call it an outline of things to look out for. I told him that there are aliens out there and that some of them consider themselves to be gods and actually ruled the world for a time and would try to again if they ever came back. That he really needs to relocate all of Cannonball's family to the school and maybe give his mom a job as the house mother??? I also suggested that the X-men get a PR representative and get ahead of the haters in government and fund their own lobbyist to push his agendas. But the biggest thing was that he needed to find someone he trusted that he could talk too about anything and to not let things build up inside. (I wanted no part of Onslaught but I wasn't sure how to stop him from happening.) I told Cyclops that I'd be in touch and that in about a year and a half I knew where we could steal a spaceship so he just needed to wait and train the X-men well on how to stop an invasion or fight a war.

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The warehouse is amazing!!! The outside doesn't look like much but the sign on the door said New World Inc. which was kinda funny when you think about it. When you come inside you see and standard 3 room office with a little reception area and a small bathroom. There is a hallway that leads to the main warehouse floor that's completely empty right now. To the right, you can see stairs that lead to a pretty decent apartment loft by NYC standards. 1 bedroom, 1 full bath, living/dining room, and a medium size kitchen. Thank Stan Jean loved it because I was not looking forward to apartment hunting in Manhattan. Mr. Shadow even kicked in for the furniture. I'm thinking with a little work this could be the HQ for my business. In the kitchen I found a letter address to me taped to the fridge from Mr. Shadow. He told me to go to the utility closet and flip some circuits in a specific order to get a bonus. (Who doesn't love freebies!) So, after following his instructions a section of the back wall opened up into a dark stairwell leading down to a hidden basement. Now I don't want to sound ungrateful to Mr. Shadow cause he just gave me a bunch of free stuff but would it have killed him to put in an elevator. Those stairs were extremely long, I'm guessing, enough to reach a good deal under the seabed. And I was dreading going up and down, up and down all those stairs every time I wanted to get to the basement. I guess I could fly, but still….

All was forgiven when I got to the bottom and saw my new tricked out lair. The centerpiece was definitely the computer. I haven't really got into the guts of the thing yet but I can tell you for sure it's not from earth. Even my TeK doesn't work on it. What I do know is that it's fast and voice-activated but it doesn't have an A.I. At least I think it doesn't. Think Siri on steroids. It is able to connect with my mask and the coms system I set up for Jean (She also wants to patrol with me and become a mainstream hero.) but I don't know how it does it yet. I'm thinking this is another test from Mr. Shadow. And even If he didn't tell me so I would definitely be thinking he's preparing me for something. The last thing about this Computer is that there is no screen. It's all interactive holograms. The Lair also contains state of the art facilities such as a crime lab, specialized laboratories, mechanized workshops, personal gymnasium, a mini library, parking, docking space for various vehicles as well as separate exits for the various types. It also has a mini medical facility as well as various areas used for training exercises or practice.

Mr. Shadow really saved me a whole lot of time and trouble because I'm broke and I didn't want to have to keep mooching off the X-men. I did have plans to rob from the bad guys and probably will still, to keep the lights on and get my company off the ground. Right now, I'm using my supercomputer to track Bruce, Tony, and Thor. It didn't seem like when the movies came out but then events of Ironman 2, Thor 1, and Hulk happened all around the same time. So, my priority is to get out there and make a name for my self so that when I show up for the big stuff people aren't like "Who?". Also, I want to speed up body and matter manipulation so I can finish modding my body and get started on my nanites. So till next time!!!


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Dashman Dashman

Sorry but I got some bad news for you guys. Inkstone sucks for editing and I won’t be able to tell this story like I should until they update it. (You can’t even BOLD) So, I’m going on Hiatus until they do. But you can still catch this story and the others that I’m working on at the Royal site. Just google the title and you can find it. See you later!!

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