6 First steps

[AI MALE VOICE], {AI FEMALE VOICE}

"Normal speaking"

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(3rd Person POV)

Two months had passed. Bruce began to attend the Gotham Academy after a few days. He made sure to make it believable. Why did he wait for a few days? He had to create something beore that. And what was that? Well he couldn't live in this manor alone now could he? He was a 10-year-old boy in the eyes of the public.

Bruce was walking down the stairs in the morning and sat at the breakfast table. He waited for a moment and then the door to the kitchen opened and a tall, well-built man walked in with the attire of a butler. He had the appearance of an elderly butler and is dressed gracefully in a traditional black uniform.

"Good morning Master Bruce. How did you sleep? I have made your breakfast, I hope you enjoy.", the man said.

"Good morning Sebas. I slept well. I'm sure it is heavenly as usual, thank you.", Bruce answered.

Yes, Bruce had created Sebas ... and the word created is the crrect one. He was a human with genes from Alfred he found around the house. After that the process was rather simple. He created a clone but changed his appearance to that of Sebas Tian from Overlord.

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Sebas' hair is entirely white, just like his immaculate beard. He has visible wrinkles on his hollow face, which makes him seem gentle in appearance, but his eyes are as sharp as an eagle's. Bruce also didn't just make him a normal human. He didn't add anythign supernatural, just yet. That meant no superpowers.

But he had plans to add certain technology to him. He was going to make him into a cyborg to have him assist him on his future missions. But that wasn't necessary right now. Bruce created a memory downloader. It was a small device that could download certain things form the internet or by scanning and then upload them to the brain. He used that to make Sebas into a perfect butler.

Sebas had a few similarities to the one from 'Overlord'. He does not completely despise people that do bad things or criminal deeds or see them as inferior creatures. Instead, he believes that some humans are good people and it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak. However, humans with an ugly nature disgust him and he will not hesitate to kill anyone who dares to oppose Bruce or the Wayne manor.

Sebas is in no way a hero. While he believes Bruce's plans to be the correct thing to do, that was programmed by Bruce to make things easier. Sebas had 100% loyalty to Bruce and would never go against his masters wshes, unless his master was in danger. Should the situatio require it, Sebas was capable of martial arts, which he practiced whenever he had time. Bruce wanted his Butler to know martial arts of any kind. It cold all be useful some day.

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"How was last nights project, Master Bruce? You were successful I presume?", Sebas asked.

"... I guess that is one way to put it..."

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(Flashback)

Bruce was in the beginning's of the Batgarage right now. He had started terraforming it a few weeks ago with the tools he had created. But more on those later. After he chose the study as the entrance, he created a way down to the Batcave that already existed there. And then he began terraforming. It wasn't hard with the tools me made.

Right now he was making the last few lines of code for this.

A big part of the Batgarage was the Computer. It was so far ahead from anythign that could be created right now, that me might as well be considered a time traveller. And he wasn't finsihed with making it better anyway. He had a lot of time to do that. But for what he was doing right now it was enough.

Bruce finished the flast line of code and then fired it up.

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{BOOTING ... SUCCESSFUL ...

... HELLO ... SWEETY.}, the voice came from the speakers he had installed.

Bruce just looked at the monitor for a moment without answering. He didn't know how. He was surprised that he got the voice right.

{ARE YOU SURPRISED TO HEAR MY VOICE, SWEETY? IT IS A MARVELLOUS PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY YOU CREATED. ARE YOU ALRIGHT?}

[GIVE HIM TIME HUNNY. HE SEEMS TO BE SURPRISED THAT IT WORKED AND NOW HE NEEDS TIME. ISN'T THAT RIGHT ... SON?]

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"You are right ... dad."

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That's right, Bruce had programmed an Artificial Intelligence. Two, to me more specific. And he gave them the voices of his parents. How that was possible? Props of being a genius, it comes with it's curse as well. Bruce didn't know why he did this. He didn't know why he would do this to himself, but he just wanted to hear their voices again. He didn't have his memories but old habits ...

Bruce talked with his 'parents' for a long time that night and it resulted in a few tears. He was in the body of a 10 year old child. That brought with it some changes to his usual demeanour. But his thousands of years of experience, allowed him to close this topic in the end.

{WHY DO WE SOUND LIKE THIS HUNNY?}

"What do you mean?"

[YOU KNOW WHAT SHE MEANS. THE FACT THAT WE SOUND LIKE OUR VOICES COME FROM THE NEXT ROOM. ARE YOU TRYING TO TORTURING YOURSELF?]

"No ... at least not fully. I was trying to close this part of my life today. I wanted to talk to you two one last time. I won't be held back by this, no matter how I wish, you were still here. I am far too mature for that. I'm sorry."

{DON'T APPOLOGISE DEAR. I AM VERY PROUD THAT YOU HAVE THE STRENGTH TO MOVE FORWARD FROM THIS EXPERIENCE. AND THAT AT YOUR AGE... MOMMY IS VERY PROUD OF YOU. JUST REMEMBER ... THAT MOM AND DAD, WILLALWAY LOVE YOU.}

[INDEED, YOU REMEMBER THAT SON. YOU ARE A WAYNE AND NEVER FORGET THAT.]

"I won't. Goodbye ... father and mother ..."

{GOODBYE HUNNY}

[GOODBYE SON, LIVE WELL]

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That was the end of that. Bruce deleated the AI after this talk with his parents. His mind was what he would rely on and if he wanted help in the Batgarage, then he would rather have an emotionless AI that controlled the house. He was going to upgrade the entire mansion soon to make a lot of things automatic and increase security.

(Flashback end)

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"What are your plans today, Master Bruce?", Sebas asked me.

"Well I am sending the decoy to school, so I have time to focus on somethng else. I think I wil begin with terraforming the Batgarage. I waited long enough now and I'll have to do it eventually. So I might as well do it today."

"I see. Well then I wish you all the luck you can get."

"Thank you Sebas."

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Gotham Academy was hell for Bruce's genius mind. He felt like time passed in nanoseconds when he was there. He wasn't interested in showing off his intelligence. He was far too much Bruce Wayne, the most paranoid man in existence and also Azmuth the rational Galvan, to be so stupid to show the world anything he can do.

For this reason, Bruce created his decoy very soon after he had made Sebas. He usually stayed at home to have the decoys go to school for him. No matter what happened, he would get all of the important informaiton at the end of the day from the decoy.

So now, as his decoy went to school, he had time to form his Batgarage. He had already decided that he was going to recreate something like the Batcave but ... better. He didn't want to have a driveway that led anyone to his secret hideout. No, that wasn't for him. He would have a closed Batcave that is protected on all sides. The only thing he lacked at the moment was the materials to truly do what he wanted. But all in good time. 

So after he had made all of his plans, Bruce began to work on the fundamental technologies he needed to begin working on the Batcave. 

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The first tool he made was called the Terrain Tool. He got that idea from a game that he had knowledge of. He didn't remember any of his past life, but he knew that he somehow had different pictures of experiments, creations and inventions from all around the multiverse. That was useful because he could make ANYTHING he wanted, and that was not him being arrogant. 

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The Terrain Tool was very useful because it could not only suck up any and all materials, but it could also store quite a lot of it inside it. But the coolest thing was that the materials were compressed into the smallest of spaces he was able to for now. He would upgrade this in the future. 

So the Terrain Tool had three different modes. The Excavate Mode, the Elevate Mode and the Flatten Mode. Apart from that it was also useful to collect material and store it, as mentioned. 

The Terrain Tool's "Dig/Excavate" mode can be used to dig out the terrain, create ditches, dig tunnels, and gather Resources. This was the mode he used to dig out the Batgarage ... He named it the Batgarage.

By engaging "Raise/Elevate" mode, the Terrain Tool expends stored Soil in order to raise the terrain. He modified it to be able to choose what materials he used to build with this function. He could have the Terrain Tool modify a surface made with diamonds if he so wished. 

"Flatten/Level" mode is used to flatten terrain to the angle of a selected terrain's voxel. A voxel is a grid point in a three-dimensional grid. 

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That was the tool he used to excavate materials and do the groundwork. He upgraded the Terrain Tool in his mind, quite soon after that for the finer details which brings us to the second tool Bruce thought of. It was called the Creation Tool. Yeah, his naming sense was bad but it was at least informative. 

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It was basically the Terrain Tool but without limits. It should technically excavate, store or destroy any and all materials infinitely. But that was something for the future. For now, the Terrain Tool would do fine.

Now something he created to go together with the Terrain Tool. That was the second creation, Bruce actually made. The Building Backpack. It was from the same game where Bruce got the idea for the Terrain Tool. It worked well together because the materials that weren't able to be stored in the Terrain Tool, could be stored in the Building Backpack.

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And that brings us to the last invention, Bruce made for the moment, which concerned building. He called it the Atomizer. It really did what it said. You fed it junk and the Atomizer split it into its respective Atoms. These would be then stored into cubes and he would then be able to use these cubes later on as building blocks to ... essentially create any element that he wished. 

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It was ... bonkers. A f*cking 10-year-old created mind-blowing technology out of what was essentially junk he found lying around the garage or the garbage. 

But Bruce was only just getting started. He had far too many ideas on what to create and his paranoia was getting to him, making him think of so many potential scenarios that he could or might find himself in. He remembers that one time Batman used his black underwear to protect his face because he was falling from outer space ... I mean that is one powerful underwear.

Maybe there were also some other uses for underwear ... like having it become a parachute or a plane. Why stop there? Have the underwear transform into a combat suit to fight off 4-dimensional imps and stuff like that... I guess that's what he's going to do. An underwear Mega Man X Armour or something like that. 

Oh boy.

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(Bruce POV)

Being Bruce Wayne was ... shit when going to school. And even though I didn't have to go to school, I did have to upload all the information that the decoy experienced at the end of the day. I mean there is not one day where I'm not approached by someone trying to get close to me for some reason. I mean I'm not ugly or anything like that, but I'm also not beautiful to warrant this reaction. Oh wait ... I'm rich.

Finally after a week of trying to survive this torture that was worse than the Omega Sanction ... although I have never experienced it, I have an idea of the formula that is needed to create something like that. Not even that hard to be honest ... 

Anyway. I finally created something amazing or rather ... cool. And it came in the form of a pair of glasses. That's right. I created something like Tony Stark's glasses but so much better. I used them to remote control the robot I created in the Batcave. With this, I managed to continue saving my thoughts and playing around with them. 

It worked like a tablet that was 1000 years ahead of our time. I had the glasses connect to my brain so that I didn't have to say my thoughts out loud. That way I could come up with ideas and then juggle around with them. If it interested me, I'd save them and if not ...

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Now I was currently working on a way to send my consciousness to a virtual reality where I could spend the time as my body functioned on autopilot. You might ask yourself why would I do that? Well, the answer might surprise you ... just because. 

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As time passed I still had the Talon, which was under my control, gathering dirt and intelligence on all the Wayne Enterprises board members. He was diligently doing his work and I was surprised that the mind control pin was still working. I love to be in control. He was doing good work.

The information I got so far was good and useful for my plans. I wanted to take over everything in Wayne Enterprises but I didn't want to take care of it ... for now. That would be the job of 'Bruce Wayne'. Batman during that time would do other things. More enjoyable things. That is also why I had my uncle take control of the company for me.

It won't be long now before I begin the operation: Blackmail takeover.

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(Alton Carver POV)

The child's a monster!!! No ... he's not a child ... he's something else!! He kept me prisoner in my own mind and forced me to do his bidding. 

Thankfully ... I am finally able to have my own thoughts again. It was so painful to go against this stupid mind control pin ... My training is starting to show ... I am more thankful to have trained so gruesomely than ever before ...

"I ... m-mu..st ... focus ... ", I still can't form full sentences. But I'm getting better and better. 

The Wayne child doesn't know about this. It will be a surprise when he finds out that I wasn't under his control. As soon as I can form my own sentences again, I'll tell the Court what happened. They need to know how dangerous he is.