Wolfgang

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I don't know if the spell succeeded or not but I'm ready to embrace a new playthrough again. I've already lived my second life to the most that I could and I only have a few regrets. One of them is me abandoning my rich and powerful family for even more power…fuck I feel like Heisenberg and his goddamned excuse that he always uses. Anyways where the fuck am I? There's nothing but an empty void around me. No wait, that's a lie, there's something in the distance now. This sort of feels familiar…maybe this is how every transmigration is? You suddenly find yourself floating in the void before getting hit with a flash of light as you're reborn into a new life. BANG!

"Oh fuck!" I try to cover my eyes from the sudden flash of light but I can't. There's nothing there. Where's my body? What the fuck is going on?!?!

"BMO?" A voice calls out to me through the hazy white void. At least I think it's calling out to me. I don't know who BMO is but I know that that was the name I wanted to…

"We activated File 000 didn't we?" I try to float my 'consciousness' towards the direction of the sound as suddenly a mirror appears in my field of vision…well I don't really know what else I would call it. I don't have eyes so I don't really know how big or small my field of vision is. As for the mirror, well that's me over there on the other side.

"Yes we activated File 000. I know we should not have been able to see each other because of scenario Alpha-one but things have gotten a lot more complicated since we split." The me on the other side flicks his finger up into a swiping motion as a new mirror appears next to my current window.

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"Yes we activated File 000. I know we should not have been able to see each other because of scenario Alpha-one but things have gotten a lot more complicated since we split." I stare into the camera on my computer as I swipe my finger upwards on the holographic projection. An animation of a small holographic cube floats towards the screen before disappearing into the digital abyss. "SiChou, we're not on Earth-199999. If we want to survive and make it to battle world we need to work together."

"SIGH" I can feel my other half physically grabbing on to his digital face as he lets out a sigh. "What do you mean we're not on Earth-199999? If we're not in the marvel cinematic universe then just where the fuck are we? Cause I'm sure as hell didn't split my soul in two just to be kicked out of my next reincarnation cycle when this universe collide into another universe."

"Hey if you think you're fucked. Then what about me? I'm the other half of you that can't reincarnate because my other half got fucking digitized. At least you won't feel any pain when the two universes burn up at a temperature we can't even understand. I have to be there in flesh and blood to feel the damn thing. Hell we'll probably get killed as soon as the fight starts because I'll be leading our world into the charge."

"What do you mean you'll be leading the charge? I'm the one who has to do all the planning and calculating just so you can get all the glory of being a king, mother fucker."

"Please don't call me that, you bitch. I know we love our mom too much to take that insult like it's nothing. And if anything, I was the one who was going to do most of the work. The protocol was for you to just wake up and take over when our physical body dies or disappear from this universe."

"Fuck off asshole. I would still be doing all of the work, just not consciously. Who do you think BMO is? A fucking AI that just magically appeared out of nowhere? File 000 was only to bring my personality and memories back. Otherwise I would still just be your digital slave."

I take a step back from the computer because I did not anticipate this to come from my digital self. Just why the hell is he so aggressive and agitated. "H-hey BMO I think we both need to calm down. We're both fucked regardless if we can survive the destruction of our universe or not. Hell even if we had never split our soul in half I doubt that we would ever be able to reincarnate since we're no longer in the layer of narrative from the 'real world'."

"...." My digi-Ned remains silent for a few moments before finally speaking again. "You don't think I know that? I'm well aware that we're living in a narrative under our previous world dumbass. We came up with that conclusion when we were fucking one year old. What I'm trying to figure out now is what we should do since we skipped scenario Alpha-one entirely."

"Well for one I think we should connect you to the internet so you can gather intel for our plan. But most importantly I need to create some life model decoys for you to use. There's no way I can train our army of super soldiers, mentor Spider-Man, live as Ned, date Wanda, explore the universe and return to the Ten rings all at the same time. Our next Avengers deadline is in 10 months and our zealot problem is due in 3 months."

"Well that's on you for not thinking ahead dumbass. Instead of trying to woo Wanda, you should've been back here at the lab hacking at our endless projects."

"I'm doing you a favor mother fucker. We can both date Wanda when you have some life model decoys to use. For now just keep studying the Extremis formula we got from Tony's database for deaging and brain tissue repair. I need to revive an Alzheimer patient if I wanna get team freedom on our side."

"Don't you dare leave all of this homework for me to do bitch. And why are you calling me a mother fucker when you just told me to not call you a mother fucker."

"Oh shit. I'm sorry Sam. Force of habit." I smirk at the camera before the two of us begin to laugh at each other. "Even when I'm split in two I can still make myself laugh. Oh God. I have officially crossed the line of insanity like every other Isekai story." I grab on to my head to try and keep it all together.

"Don't worry about it Ned. I'm just fucking with you. I'll need a few minutes to get used to things and I need to go through everything that BMO has gathered for me. Shall we create a new scenario Alpha-one?"

I stroke my chin for a few seconds as my brain begins to fire on all cylinders. "Mhmm sure why not but it'll be more or less the same as before. You'll remain acting as BMO and will only come out to the world once the original fulfillments of Alpha-one are completed or we decide to let someone in on our little secret."

"Sounds like a fucking scam to me asshole but I'll take it. I've always been curious as to how cyberspace would look like. I've always imagined it like that ancient cartoon Cyberchase or digi-mon or Sword art online"

"Yeah? Well tell me about it when you rediscover virtual reality pornography for us. For now let's rename scenario Alpha-one to protocol Kayfabe. Because you know, we have to protect the family secret." I wink at my camera as the other me chuckles through the speakers.

"Kayfabe? Really? Come on man. What are we, 7?"

I shrug my shoulders while putting on a blank face. "I mean that's when we lost our childhood soooo" I shrug my shoulders again.

"Alright whatever kid. Protocol Kayfabe it is. I'll go and edit that in a bit but ah hey when are you going to install the mind stone anyways? Because things can go a lot faster once that baby is installed in me…."

"Yeah not anytime soon pervert. You gotta figure out how to use the tools at your disposal first before we upgrade our Miata hardware into a 918 Spyder. Mhmm speaking of which, I wonder if Tony can get me a hook up on a 918 because we sure as hell never even got the chance to see our dream car before we died."

"Haha I know right! It only took us dying and being reborn into a rich family to finally get the chance to touch our dream car. Hell, if Ultron could buy billions of dollars worth of vibranium in mere seconds, I'm sure I can figure out a way to get that kind of money too. It's all just ones and zeros in here and most of the world's currency is fake and digital anyways."

I can only put on a smile as I think I might have created a monster way worse than Ultron ever was…welp at least we share the same personality and goals right? AHEM. I let out a fake cough to move our conversation to a different subject. "Well for now just try to stay under the radar okay? Vision is still around and now Tony has a new AI doing his homework for him. I don't want two of our teammates asking me questions about an AI that looks and sounds like me that's been causing trouble on the internet."

"Sure thing Ned." The voice of other Ned slowly reverts back into the pitch of BMO as the computer screen slowly fades to black. Welp, that's my cue to begin doing my work I guess. Now let's see, it's been a while since I summoned the book. How do I do it again? I extend my hand out and imagine the Darkhold manifesting into reality as I put my will towards calling it out. Out of thin air, the metal shards of the book begin to materialize and assemble itself into the book of the damned. I swipe open the book like an ipad and after a couple minutes of flipping through the encyclopedia it finally dawned on me. "You're an idiot Ned." Digi-Ned calls out to me as I smack myself in the forehead.

"I can't believe I made such a dumb mistake. The Darkhold doesn't contain the secrets to creating LMDs. It only contains the secrets to turning a soul into a different form of consciousness and vice versa. Aida was always an AI inhabiting the body of a life model decoy. She just used the book to create a 'soul' for herself, not to create LMDs." SIGH. I let out a sigh of disappointment as even though this book can show its user almost anything they want, it just does not have the technology that I need.

"!" The computer screen flashes an exclamation point before showing me a picture of Dr Cho. "Ned, what about the cradle? Vision is a synthezoid and he was created using technology we already have."

"Ah, thank you BMO. I can't believe I've completely forgotten about that. I should probably pay her a visit since it's been a week since Ultron shot her in the stomach. Maybe if she hasn't already healed herself with a new cradle, I can pull in a little favor and use some chi healing. It's been a hot minute since I actually got the opportunity to use it. Can you send her location to my helmet? I wanna pay her a visit since the broken cradle is still at Avenger tower and I don't really want to mess with that right now." I tilty head down to look at the golden box that's laying on my desk. I pick it up and set it inside of a drawer before turning around to head back towards my room. I step through the dimensional rift and enter the real world. I call for my helmet and suit to float into my hand before quickly putting the suit on. As soon as the HUD comes to life I get a notification for the whereabouts of Dr Helen Cho.

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Man, I knew Dr. Cho and her family lives in South Korea but I did not think that she would be smart enough to live outside of the city. Too many times I've seen Doctors, executives, and high society people living in the big cities because it's a shorter travel time to work. Especially since I live in New York City. If I was a multi-millionaire or billionaire I would be living elsewhere and just fly on a helicopter to work and home...wait that's exactly what my dad does huh? SIGH. Even when I tried to separate myself from my inheritance, I still end up back at the house of Wu.

Anyways, back to Dr Cho. Her house is pretty modest really. I was expecting something on the scale of Parasite or Stephen and his expensive taste but it seems like Helen is pretty 'humble'. And that's me using the word generously. Her home is similar on the scale of a Midwestern suburban home with about three bedrooms, a large and spacious living room with floor to ceiling windows and a good chunk of space for a backyard. Definitely a huge difference when compared to your typical homes in Seoul but not so much when compared to American standards.

I had portaled to the front of her house as I did not want to barge in and intrude on whatever business she may be doing. I may not respect most people's privacy but I have to for those who I want to build a good relationship with. I walk up the little steps of the porch to press on the door bell. DING DONG. It didn't take long for a voice to come out of the speaker box next to the doorbell. "Who are you?" The sound of a prepubescent Korean kid calls out as if they weren't expecting anyone to come and visit this earlier at…one in the afternoon.

"Annyeonghaseyo, I'm a friend of Helen and I'm looking for her. Can you let me in? I'm here to check on her." I spoke into the microphone and the only thing that came from the speaker was just silence. I tried speaking again but in full Korean and as soon as I did the voice interrupted me mid sentence. "I can speak English. Who are you and why are you looking for my sister?" Wait sister? Helen doesn't have any siblings. She made an appearance one time in Age of Ultron and then never again…is this the effects of the alternate universe?

"Okay well I'm an Avenger and I'm here to check on Helen because she was shot last week at the U-GIN resear-" BUZZ. The locks in the door automatically disengage as the door opens slightly. I shift my eyes to the bell and speaker box before shifting back to the door. Well Helen definitely doesn't live in a normal house. This is probably where most of her money went because I can't imagine someone like her and her occupation living in such a modest and isolated house with no security of some kind. I step into the house and as soon as the door closes behind me, all the locks quickly re-engage. SIGH. Please tell me I'm not going to have to beat up a child today because beating up children is something I can only justify for pre-sorcery Ned, not post serum Ned.

From around the corner I see a little Korean boy welding a bat walking towards me. "You better not be here to hurt my sister. I'm warning you. I may be small but I can use this well." He points the bat at me as a little chuckle escapes from my lips. I can't help but laugh because the sight of a little child trying to threaten me with a toothpick is just hilarious. I slowly put my hands up as I try to calm myself down. "Hey hey it's alright. I'm really not here to hurt you guys." The boy squints his eyes at me with suspicion as he tightens his grip on the bat just a little bit more. "I don't believe you. Take off your helmet so I can remember your face." I let out another laugh as I shake my head. "Haha no kid. I can't just show you my face. I'm a superhero, I need to keep my identity a secret otherwise everyone would know who I am. How about this? I can give you my utility belt to hold on to. It has all of my tools and gadgets. Without it I'm as useless as your average Kim." I reach down and quickly snap off my belt buckle before extending my hand out for the child.

The boy hesitantly accepts the belt as he slowly guides me through the house. After a minute or two we finally arrive at what I can only assume to be Helen's room. The little boy knocks on the door before announcing that we're coming in. Sitting up in the bed is a bandaged Helen looking at me with a slightly shocked face. "Hey weren't expecting to see me this quickly were you?" I wave two fingers towards her. "Amadeus, can you leave us alone? I believe Mr Spider and I have something important to discuss."