Chapter 5: Do you get the previous two chapter's title now?
[Main Character's point of View]
HM? What is this? I remember entering the portal which should have brought me to my mansion but instead, I am back to this weird place. The same blue and green space filled with small moon-like planets surrounding a green-like mini sun. The strange thing is that some of the planets are donut-shaped.
*Clap*… *Clap*… *Clap*… *Clap*… *Clap*… … *Clap*
I heard a slow clap coming from everywhere before I heard a voice I truthfully never wanted to hear again.
"This might be a new one… getting killed by a fifth-dimensional imp without even doing anything to him."
I was killed by a what?!
"Oh right, your knowledge is heavily restricted here thanks to Moi. Long story short, Superman's biggest dick rider saw you while he was stalking Superman and noticed that with you in the equation, the story would be boring.
You would end world hunger, catch every criminal, and put the Justice League into early retirement. Superman's biggest dick rider could not allow that so he tweaked Eve who exploded once you reached your mansion this blew up half the continent, but the imp managed to repair the damage, minus the Mikk family out of existence.
Anyway, the training wheels are off. This was your second lesson, be prepared for higher dimensional beings, practice your magic and the last lesson from me is… more of an advice really, you should try to find out what your eighth cheat is. A little hint, it's called ?̸͓͇̭̍͛̔͝?̴͎̹̳͉͓̋̄̑̂͋̿̌̒͝͠?̸̨̩̥͉̦̰̥̯̦͒̇̽̃ͅ … Oh right, you can't hear it… Sucks to suck, doesn't it?"
*Snap*
I seriously hate this guy. Before I could insult him or even utter a word, I heard a snap then the mini-green sun flashed a blinding white light but before everything faded away I noticed a discrepancy in my memories. Some of my cheats were not as I remembered them.
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- "Great Thinker" ( Rick Sanchez, He Who Remains, and Azmuth's genius Intellect and knowledge (From Rick and Morty, MCU & Ben 10):
Even by the standards of the super-intelligent Galvan, Azmuth's mental prowess is considered worlds apart from the rest of his race. He is well-regarded as the smartest being in the universe (or at least 3 to 5 galaxies). His genius, particularly his ability to always plan for every scenario and contingency, caused him to be awarded the title of "First Thinker" by his peers.
Rick has the knowledge to pretty much build everything out of anything, this might be an exaggeration of his intellect, but he knows enough to complement his intelligence with Azmuth's. He has many feats that can prove his intellect such as creating a microverse.
Rick put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. This then became the Microverse. Rick gave the aliens in the Microverse another invention, known as the Gooblebox, which is a machine that generates electricity that powers everything in their society.
The machine is activated by their work. Unbeknownst to them, the electricity that powers their society, also powers the giant battery they're inside of, which gives Rick's ship infinite power so that he'll never need to pay money, do work, or run out of battery life ever again. The fact that he managed to transport electricity from the Microverse straight to his own Universe just further proves his level of intellect.
He Who Remains had the intellect and foresight to create the Time Variance Authority, a sprawling bureaucratic organization of enormous size and complexity. He also developed the protocols that the TVA used to pinpoint "Nexus Events" and prevent them from causing new timelines to branch off.
He was successful at maintaining a single "Sacred Timeline" for millions of subjective years and only failed in the end because he allowed himself to be found and defeated. He also had the intellect to tame and successfully weaponize Alioth, a being made of all the tears in time, and make it the guardian of his castle. He also managed to create technology that could block magic in the TVA.]
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[Third Person Point Of View]
The Campbell family was once renowned as a great if not the greatest magician family in all of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Their fame surpassed even the likes of Merlin; due to their fame, they were sought by many lords including King Arthur himself.
They possessed knowledge and magical powers so great that they decided it would be best for the world if no faction had their power and thus became neutral. This was possible due to their strength to fend off the factions that did not agree with their decision.
The smarter factions were fine with that as they mostly wanted the knowledge and power of the Campbell family so that their enemies would not have it. The Campbell family started to become a symbol of neutrality and were sought in the event a peace talk on neutral ground was needed.
Those were prosperous times for the Campbell family but that did not last forever, when the witch hunt started all around the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the majority of the magic community thought it was the perfect occasion to obtain the secrets of the Campbell family.
They each secret schemed on their own, guided and helped the witch hunt towards the Campbell Family, forcing the decline of such a renowned family. Very few members of the Campbell family survived the hunt but they were forced to live a life of nomads.
They constantly changed their names each time they periodically fled with everything, they owned that was linked to magic, leaving the greedy sorcerers and magicians that had caused their downfall to fight over their fortune due to thinking that the others had managed to obtain the secrets of the Campbells.
The greedy sorcerers and magicians only entertained the possibility that some of the Campbells had survived for a brief moment, but they never had enough peace of mind to go further than that as the power vacuum caused by the decline of the Campbell family was coveted by many.
Each year, alliances and betrayals occurred between various sorcerer factions that hoped to take the place of the Campbell family. Rumors started to spread that the Campbells had placed a curse with their last breath on whoever tried to take their place.
One would think that in a world where magic is real, such rumors were easy to verify but that is not always the case. A talented sorcerer can mask their curse and make them undetectable to most. Due to the previous prestige of the Campbell, not finding evidence of a curse only served to fuel the paranoia of the greedy sorcerers.
The descendent of the Campbell household travelled the world as Nomads which meant they were able to learn new forms of magic that was foreign to their ancestors. They decided to settle in North America at the start of the twentieth century, and they started to cement themselves in with the name of Hargreeves.
Years went by turning into decades, and the influence of the Hargreeves increased. Sir Reginald purchased the D.S. Umbrella Manufacturing Company from its owner J. King. He started managing the company while making smart investments which increased his fortune.
It came to the point that the Hargreeves family started to hold political power in the country. They helped form and manage the All-Star Squadron; a team composed of superhumans who fought during World War Two.
The world's attention was entirely focused on those superhumans, but public attention temporarily faded after the war, the keyword being temporary. Today is what many would call the second age of heroes as many super-powered or special individuals had long since made their debut and each protected their respective City.
Some of those heroes banded together when the earth was in danger and after saving it, formed a group now known as the Justice League. To many, the Justice League is an organization comprised of the world's greatest superheroes, though some's origins are extra-terrestrial.
Together, they operate as a team dedicated to fighting crime and injustice and act as Earth's first line of defense from terrestrial, extra-terrestrial, and inter-dimensional threats. They are under the charts of the U.N and thus must follow the laws applied to their respective situation that each member face.
The governments of many countries view the situation in a different way. The Justice League is home to the most powerful individuals on the planet, if they ever decide to not respect the U.N charts, no one would be able to hold them accountable save for one of them.
Most of the public thinks that their heroes always do the right thing and inspire people to do the same. The aforementioned Governments prefer to let the public think that. It is their only way to keep the heroes on their self-imposed leash but that does not mean that they are not doing anything about it.
Many different projects and some questionable experiments have been made in preparation for the eventuality that the heroes would turn against Earth such as the U.S.'s covert and dispensable team known as Task Force X more infamously known as the Suicide Squad.
They also were dwelling in the cloning research field in order to clone League members who would obey their every command. That however had yet to yield any positive results. Those two plans were classified in Project Cadmus among other things.
Project Cadmus, often referred to simply as Cadmus, is a secret division of the United States government dedicated to countering the power of metahumans in the world, particularly the members of the Justice League.
The U.S. military and several major corporations had been collaborating for decades, experimenting on metahumans, extraterrestrials, and mutants, and hoarding advanced technology, both human and alien, for-profit and defense.
They also employed meta-humans themselves but most of their experiments ended up creating villains. The league would usually clean up their mess without knowing and hand them their escaped lab rats. Other governments were also doing similar activities.
The Hargreeves family may not have as much money as the Wayne Family or a connection as Deep as Lex Luthor but they had enough of both to live by and tweak the system whenever they wished to. One such occasion was when they seemingly adopted a baby without much trouble.
Bruce Wayne would later use his status to do the same thing, adopt a kid, without child protective service watching him like a bloodhound twenty-four-seven. The baby boy was named Nathaniel Hargreeves and was raised by Ben and Jennifer Hargreeves in New York.
To the outside world, they raised Nathaniel as if he were their biological son but sadly the Hargreeves couple were already old when they adopted Nathaniel. They passed away due to old age when Nathaniel was nineteen years old.
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A young man is currently walking into a high-rise building complex. He is a light-skinned handsome tall young man with wavy, dark hair, brown eyes, and a mole under his left eye and looks to be in his early twenties. He also wears thick glasses that generally obscure his eyes and hide his distinctive mole.
Under his white lab coat, he wears a dark green jumpsuit, with a large semi-circular swath of lighter green surrounding the neck of his jumpsuit, and a thin strip of light green running down the center of its chest.
Bronze-colored plating covered the base of his neck, shoulders, and wrists. A belt of the same color surrounded his waist. The lower torso of the uniform is completely covered by a simple light green loin cloth, and the feet are made up of sturdy dark green boots.
[N/A: Imagine Azmuth clothes in the original series mixed with Viltrumite attire and Rick's lab coat.]
The Building had a Giant A attached to its top floors. The building was home to A.I.M, Advanced Idea Mechanics, the most advanced research facility on the planet located in Manhattan, New York City.
It was constructed by Ben Hargreeves to further help his son, Nathaniel Hargreeves, research. The tower is powered by an Arc Reactor, one of Nathaniel's most famous inventions, that made it capable of running itself for over five years.
The top ten floors housed Nathaniel's personal research and development initiatives. Very few people had access to them excluding Nathaniel himself. Speaking of which, he was currently exiting the elevator that had brought him to the top tenth floor.
An orange holographic projection of a clock with cartoonish legs, arms, and face appeared out of thin air by Nathaniel's side. It started walking on air as it spoke to Nathaniel who was also walking towards his destination.
"Nate, someone broke into one of A.I.M research facilities in Central City and took the prototype of the Nimrod project. What would you like to do about it?"
"Nothing Miss Minute, just need you to tell me when was the break-in?"
Nathaniel said as he pressed onto his dark green and orange bracelet.
"It happened three hours ago."
Miss Minute answered as an orange rectangular prism appeared in front of Nathaniel, who disappeared once he went inside it. The orange rectangular prism disappeared as it shrunk onto itself. A few seconds later, an orange rectangular prism appeared once more before it disappeared after Nathaniel came out of it.
"I added another security protocol. Search for the security breach, very few people knew where the prototype of the Nimrod project was placed. This means someone leaked it and I want to know who has done this before you send it to the authorities."
Nathaniel spoke before Miss Minute nodded and disappeared only to reappear a second later.
"I have found who leaked the information but the authorities are already aware of that person's identity."
Miss Minute's words caused Nathaniel to stop in his track as she pulled a live-feed of the news in Metropolis.
[Breaking News: Mysterious Robot is fighting Superman! The one piloting the Robot seems to be Albedo Griffith from A.I.M. He managed to make the man of steel bleed! Justice League member, Flash has come to assist the Man of Steel! The Robot seems to be giving them a hard time! Another League member has come to assist Superman!]
"*Sigh* That walking napoleon complex just went overboard. Oh well, at least this will give us valuable data."
Nathaniel sighed before an orange rectangular prism appeared in front of him, which disappeared once he went inside it.
*BOOM**BOOM*
In the streets of Metropolis, a bloodied Superman can be seen fighting a huge white robot with pink outlinings and metalic mask. They are trading one sound dephening blows at each other while Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, Captain Atom, Steel and Plastic Man were lying on the ground.
*BOOM**BOOM*
They were all heavily injured and the street was as damage as their bodies were. In the next second, only Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Firestorm could be seen lying on the ground but they too disapeared as if they had been teleported away.
*BOOM**BOOM*
In truth, it had been the Flash who had taken each and every injured and unconscious League members out of harm's way and in the nearest League affiliated safe base. Upon close inspection, one could noticed the bloodstain on his suit indicating that he too had been injured.
"Give up now Superman, you can not hope to defeat me. I possess the ultimate tool that can only be weild to its optimum efficient due to my unparalleled genuis! I am still feeling magnanimous, Superman, Bow down and you may have the privilege to serve Earth's Newest and Greatest Super Vilian, Albeto weilder of the Ultimate machine!"
Superman groaned at the voice that came from the Robot although he was in pain the reason for his groan was that this Albedo had been giving him the same speech every five minutes. Just as he was about to give him the same answer he had previsious given, an orange rectangular prism appeared in front of both. The orange rectangular prism disappeared as it shrunk onto itself after Nathaniel stepped out of it.
"N-N-Nathaniel! What are you doing here?!"
Albedo asked and Superman as well as the Flash who had just arrive noticed the fear that was in Albedo's tone.
"I came to take back what was stolen from me. Now hand it over before you embarass yourself even more."
Nathaniel said in a monotone voice.
"You think you can take this away from me! I'm not the same Albedo as before, I'm a super Villain now, I don't need to litsen to you!"
Albedo screamed as the robot pointed its right hand towards Nathaniel, readying to fire and blast his body apart.
"Oh you're a villain, alright. Just not a super one."
Nathaniel said.
"Yeah? What's the difference?"
Albedo gritts his teeth as he promise himself to blow Nathaniel's head off his body.
"presentation!"
*Snap*
As soon as Nathaniel snaps his fingers, the robot's armor starts to come off Albedo and reconstruct itself in the shape of a floating cube above Nathaniel's open palm. An orange rectangular prism appeared in front of Nathaniel, who was heading towards it.
"Hold on just a sec-"
*FABOOM*
Flash said as he tried to grab Nathaniel's shoulder but a forcefield which caused himto be pushed back and fall to the ground. Nathaniel looked back before speaking as the prism closed.
"Can I help you with something?"
"I'm sorry but we can't let you leave with that, it's too dangerous to be left unsupervised."
Superman said as he walked up to Nathaniel.
"And what makes you think you have the authority to confiscate A.I.M's stolen tech that has just been... recuperate?"
"Look kid, I get what you mean but you have to trust the grown ups here, if that thing fell into the wrong hands, a lot of people could get hurt or worse."
Flash tried to reason with Nathaniel due to the forcefield preventing him from snatching the weapon. Flash word's caused Nathaniel to laugh.
"And what makes you think that it won't fall into the wrong hands if I leave it with you guys?"
"Star-Labs has a state of the art security-"
Flash answer only to be interupted by Nathaniel.
"Handing over our work to a competitor? Pass!"
"The authority will keep a close eye on-"
Superman tried to answer this time only to be also interupted by Nathaniel.
"Do you really think, Luther is not going to bribe his way into getting it by the end of the day? Pass!"
"Then we can send it to a different city to be safeguarded by the authority there."
Superman counters.
"Another city, like what?"
Nathaniel inquires.
"Like Gotham, with Batman there no one will-"
"Do you even want the possibility of Joker gaining this?"
Nathaniel interupted Superman who froze after imagining it and before Flash could add something Nathaniel resume.
"And it could be stolen on its way to any city. To my knowledge, I am the only one on this Earth that can built it, once it gets stolen then it literally falls into the wrong hands as you are so keen on stopping. Pass!"
"Then the Justice League will keep it safe-"
Superman spoke but was once again interupted by Nathaniel.
"A.I.M will not allow the Justice league to detain their project and according to the agreement between A.I.M and the U.N which the Justice League falls under, any and all product from A.I.M is the sole property of A.I.M and can not be taken by any members of the U.N without A.I.M's consent.
You have zero right or authority to take it away from me, not that you could even if you wanted to and bottom line is that I'm going and you can't stop me. Have a nice day gentlemens."
An orange rectangular prism appeared in front of Nathaniel, who heads towards it. The orange rectangular prism disappeared as it shrunk onto itself. Flash and Superman are left speechless. They were left bewiledered but not for long as Albedo tried to make a run for it which caught and shifted their attention to him. Needless to say, he was caught and sent to prison.