Chapter 49: Chapter 49
Three months later.
After the appearance of the Singularity and the death of Firestorm, time flew by. Helping a badly damaged city helped my new company to make itself known and demonstrate our capabilities. Hartley built some of the necessary tools for clearing rubble and repairing buildings, and I hired people and sponsored everything. All this can be considered charity, but it paid off well. The company was in good standing, especially with ordinary people. Flash, of course, did not miss the opportunity to also take part in this and sorted out the rubble in another part of the city. As for me, he would rather do a normal job, and not such nonsense, a hero after all. Without meta people, Flash isn't much use, he's almost stopped catching criminals.
I, wearing a mask, stopped hunting, for these months the water from the spring was very useful, so it was not necessary. Catching thieves and murderers was not interesting, so my suit just lay there without use. Of course, I knew that all this would not last long, just in a couple of months there would be a Zoom and then I would have a reason to put on the suit again.
Arrow disappeared, went on a honeymoon with Felicity, and the rest of his team continued to work in Star City. It was much busier than ours, especially with the new criminal gang. The hive was making plans and growing. Damien Dark decided to set up a base in the city or something, so it wasn't as boring as it was here. Barry didn't even move, for God knows why he didn't care. I wasn't worried either, I don't care about Star City at all, they'll figure it out for themselves. Even though I promised someone I'd keep an eye on Central City and the Flash team, that doesn't mean I'm always going to do it. It will be enough to pay a life-saving debt and do a couple of good deeds, and then you can get rid of this delusional promise. Damn my conscience, you think you saved my life? Why did I throw words at the wind then? Well, you can't undo what you've said, you'll have to keep your word. Fortunately, I will have a lot of opportunities to get rid of this load, Zoom will give me a good opportunity. And when the new meta comes out, it will mean that I will be able to become stronger again. I have already planned the capture of some of them, so I just have to wait for the arrival of the fish.
If we talk about power, then everything is ambiguous. On the one hand, I am constantly developing, but on the other, the growth is not particularly noticeable. Constant training doesn't have the same effect as eating the bone marrow of meta-humans. Rainbow raider has only given me his bone marrow a couple of times and each of them was pretty good. Oddly enough, I grew stronger after each absorption, but his basic ability only increased slightly. I could make people angry, but the time increased only slightly from the original time. Previously, it was only ten minutes, but now, it has reached half an hour, which is quite good. According to my calculations, after its complete absorption, I would be able to influence people for several hours, no less, which was good. There doesn't seem to be much difference between completely absorbing the brain and absorbing parts of it. Well, I'm in no hurry, so I'll hold this guy for another six months and then decide what to do next. If there's no progress, I'll just get rid of it, and if there is, we'll see...
Otherwise, I just maintained my form and developed all my acquired strength. I read books, studied the history of this world and was surprised a lot. Here everything was different, many moments from my past world simply do not exist, many books, films, music. It was a good opportunity to implement my knowledge and make money on it. Maybe in the future I will do this, now I was busy developing the company, so I didn't get around to it.
My company, with my support and Hartley's work, was able to establish itself well in Central city. Previously, there was an absolute leader in the face of Stra labs, but now it is mercury labs. We are still very far from them, but we can already be classified as second-class companies, which is already good. We couldn't even count on that before. The staff was recruited from good people, even managed to find a few good talents. Hartley took over their training, although he was dissatisfied. He likes to grumble and whine, but you can negotiate with him. If everything goes as it should, then very soon we will be able to create a competition for mercury labs. You just need to find a lot of talented guys and get hold of funds and new technologies. With money and technology, there may be less problems, they can be stolen and earned, but with people... I think you just need to work harder and search, and then everything will work out. If we offer good conditions, we will certainly find more...
I had an idea to recruit Caitlin, but I turned it down, she'd be better off somewhere else. She's a bio-engineer, and we don't specialize in that yet, and we'll get to that in the future, but it's a little early. And she would be back on Barry's team very soon, so there was no point in that. I didn't bother her, but I kept an eye on her, and it wasn't easy for her after Roni died. It seems that over time she came to terms with it and it became easier, although maybe this is only at first glance...
The only person I had contact with was Cisco. It's funny, but he didn't know who I really was, so I was interested in his reaction when he found out the truth. In the flash team, only Caitlin knows my face, but the rest of Us are completely in the dark. I guess Oliver and felicity told me about me, but they just couldn't show me my face. Although, they could describe him, it's strange...
I've had a couple of drinks with Cisco, and without Hartley, of course, he has a grudge against him, or Cisco has a grudge against him, who knows? I didn't tell Ramon who I was, disguised or not. For him, I'm a simple guy with a cool car, with whom it was not boring to drink. Cisco doesn't have many friends, especially after Barry disbanded the entire team.
Otherwise, everything was normal, the League of Assassins did not bother, no enemies were announced. Although, all my enemies are dead, so that's fine. I kept an eye on the city, as well as the entire Flash team, although I've done that before. But now I will probably even change the Canon a little so that they do not suffer, it will be a kind of payback. When I do this, I will finally be able to breathe calmly, all sorts of delusional communication makes me very nervous. I want to get rid of them first.
Okay, the fun will start soon, just wait. New meta people, new power, more like..
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