Marvel: Knowledge Kid

Chapter 1: Death & Rebirth

The first thing I saw when I woke up was… literally nothing, like there was nothing in sight for I don't know how far, cause everything was so damn dark, I wasn't even sure if I had my eyes closed or open, that's how dark it was.

Eyes, wait shit I can't feel my eyelids. The fuck, were are my arms!? After a mild existential crisis of where in the hell I was, I called down. Before this I was just you everyday ordinary first year college student studying web development and app design, now I know I wasn't the brightest but I had help from the only 2 friends I made their, I mean after highschool where I had a decent amount of friends with both genders it was weird, but I mean it makes sense right? I was in highschool for 5 years, and it was only my first year of college.

I enjoyed anime to some extent and I liked movies but after a while I stopped watching them cause I just felt that it was set in stone. But then I found fanfictions and like anyone I was hooked on quite a few because they were almost exactly how I wanted life to be. Oh shit, I just realised my family?! What if I never see them again?! This scary like damn it just hit me that i'll probably never see them again.

Well the only decent thing I guess is that now I don't have to constantly worry about one day waking up and losing them. Anyways my name was Matthew Quilt and I grew up in a small town in South Africa, It seems I died at 18 from a car crash, I was hit but a car while waiting at the stop in the middle of the lanes where the stop light was, so why the fuck did I get hit aghhh.

Anyways after that self reflection i had an important question. where the fuck am I? How did I get here? Is this the afterlife? Is there cheese here? How do they source their entertainment and ingredients? And the most important, how is the signal here? Will I be able to watch what I want??? These are really important questions, okay!? 

Okay I don't know how long I've been floating here for but it's pretty cool and scary, I mean my memory in my life was terrible, like I couldn't remember my cousins birthday and had to ask people about it. But I guess since I don't have a brain I don't have limits anymore? I think?

Eh, still pretty cool. Though it is pretty lonely here. So I think it's been about 2 years since I've come here and I've gotten pretty bored because there isn't much to do but I did find something after a lot of effort and struggles. You may ask how a person without a body struggles and I would ask the same question back because I was just baffled. But anyways I realised that well I'm a soul floating in a void (I know pretty obvious) and I realised I can sense my surroundings, like I can do much but I have given myself arms now, so I guess soul manipulation on a minor level?

It's pretty cool. I also realised that I can somewhat strengthen myself with the void, but like I swear I almost exploded the first time because I just like let it flow in and had no idea how I did it or how to stop it but I imaged I plugged a methodical bath in myself and it stopped, but since then I've realised I can observed the surroundings slowly and while doing so becoming more sturdy? Real? Or something like that. (Glad I fucking did) One day or year I saw something and this caused me major confusion cause I hadn't seen light for who knows how long and so I thought maybe it's like those fanfictions where a ROB will finally come and reincarnate me.

So like any normal person I rushed to it only to feel a suffocating feeling, before i knew what the fuck was happening it felt like my soul was being dragged into something and that something started feeling like a humongous wave and soon enough i felt the crashing feeling of being dumped by a tsunami of power. Before long, as I was trying to get my bearings back I swear to God or whatever there was a gigantic tentacle or something and Holy crap is that thing coming towards me!! Just then I felt tremendous pain and was sent hurtling god knows where. I was fucking terrified because how the hell did I feel pain without a body?!

Now there was a problem I was facing, I didn't know how to stop moving, like I thought that I would be thrown far away but I forgot that there isn't any friction here so yeah I was still moving. Then I smashed into something hard and I now think I know how a tennis fall feels like when you hit it with a racket, it sounded like glass shattering.

'Why did this happen to me? All I wanted was a nice life and all but then I thought I was lucky to maybe be reincarnated and maybe get a cheat system that helps cheat at life. I was really layering it on thick at how i felt so wronged in life, but honestly i had a pretty normal life, but i felt like i could be more but i knew i wouldnt even try, as i was a lazy fucker, i had ambition but i never had the motivation to ever put it into action.

Before long I realised I was still being hurled through this kaleidoscope of colours and planes, but then I noticed something after passing something that, if I had to describe, looked like a beaming white Greek temple but with a hint of sci-fi elements streaming through it. But after passing this specific spot i swear i saw more people, or rather souls and as i was flying through, i felt a drain on myself before it seemed like it hadn't found what it was looking for before i could feel it latching onto my Essence of self or more specifically the void energy i had integrated into myself.

It felt like it was trying to read me and as i felt it about to finish, i felt it get violently ripped off and i could feel the damage to my soul, but just like that, the void energy that seemed to have been drained kinda flew back to me and i could feel it filling the damage and even becoming smaller but so much denser, merging with my source.

In the back of my consciousness I could hear a very faint voice that sounded rather mechanical before dying out. * "Critical error. Soul leaving authority zone at fast velocity, trying to rectify… process failed emergency capture in process… failed, reboot it process, successful reboot.*

*have a nice reincarnation &#&&$&#^@*

The next thing I knew after that long series of beeps which were worrying because it sounded like a hospital machine that was dying. The next thing I felt and heard was another crack and shattering sound similar to the first one, and then I was seemingly back into the void fast approaching a crack, and when I say a crack I mean it in a literal sense. It looks like a crack on a rock with a swirling texture. Then everything went blank, my vision, my hearing and my senses.

…

'What the hell happened?' I think, groggily coming to my senses. My mind is hazy, a bit like waking up from a deep sleep, but there's this nagging feeling that something's wrong or rather, different. I tried to get a sense of my surroundings, even though I know it's probably useless. But then... I actually feel something. It's faint, almost imperceptible, but it's there. 

'Wait, what is that?' My senses reach out, and that's when it hits me. I'm tethered to something—no, not something—my body. 

I try to pull away, using my soul manipulation, but there's resistance. The connection is there, but it's weak, not strong enough to let me leave just yet. 'Of course...' I realise. That building or whatever it was when it was draining my void energy. 

And speaking of void energy... 'Damn, it's so dense now. like Stupidly dense.' It feels powerful, more than before, but also drained. I guess that whatever that thing was that was draining my energy was really thirsty. But there's no time to dwell on that.

Memories start flooding in, and with them comes a realisation that hits me like a ton of bricks. 'Oh fuck... That's Jean Grey.' I remember her now, in class, the shy girl with the red hair. My heart skips a beat as the rest of it falls into place. 'I've been reincarnated as a boy named Matthew White. Looks kinda like me... but younger. Around ten years old, maybe?'

I don't panic though. After all, I've spent millions, maybe billions, of years in the void. It's not the weirdest thing I've been through. But still, this is... a lot.

Over the next day or so, I also realised something. Those weren't the only memories that had come to me, I also had some basic knowledge of something that I already had, but it wasn't my experience. It was knowledge on my ability to sense my surroundings with my soul. [Soul Sense Lv1] Ex-fucking Scuase me!? Like an idiot, for like the next ten minutes I was trying to call out to this system I thought I had.

"Status!"

"System!"

"Menu!"

"Cheat!"

"TinkerBell!"

Okay that last one was kinda stupid but I decided to stop fooling around and actually examine myself with my skill, and not long after I had it figured out.

It would seem it has to do with my Void energy, yeah, it appears that when my energy was getting sucked out of myself, the residual energy that was ripped out o me as that thing had been ripped out of me, had decided to be petty and ripper out apart of whatever had absorbed it, and from that, it had gained characteristics that were suited to my conscious that i would understand.

So basically, my void energy would grab at nothing and come out with knowledge that is dubbed as 'Skills'. These skills get learned when I do something successfully for the first time. I have no idea what the skill level corresponds to but just level 1 knowledge is a lot. Another thing is that, it's not just knowledge but rather something similar to muscle memory, so I could use the 'Skill' but with muscle memory it becomes easier. So as you level up you would gain both the knowledge and the muscle memory, though you do need to actually train these things for you to be able to progress. So if i somehow do lose levels which to my knowledge would be if i died again i would still have the skills but not the levels, so i could do the higher level skills, but there would be no muscle memory which would make it harder so you would still either way need to practise.

Fun fact, it seems like even if I die again or my soul gets obliterated, I could once again pull it back together after a long period of time because I was now properly fused with the void as at my source. And the reason for this is because of a skill I have which is called [Soul Protection Lv1] which I had gotten when the void energy first fused back with myself. So i don't have a system, but i do have a cheat i kinda made myself which is neat as no one could take it away as it as me and my source. And even if someone could, I would still have the memories of all my skills so I would actually lose my powers. Damn, this is kinda Op.

So currently the skills i have are:

[Soul Sense LV1] 

[Soul Manipulation LV1] 

[Soul Protection LV1] 

[Void Manipulation LV1]

I take note of each one, knowing they'll be useful. But right now, I'm more focused on the fact that I'm in a hospital bed. I sense the sterile environment around me, the soft hum of machinery, the distant murmurs of voices. And then, I woke up fully.

The first thing that came to me where more new skills [Thinking Lv1] [Sight Lv1] [Smell Lv1] [Taste Lv1] [Touch Lv1] [Hearing Lv1] but just then the my skills that related to five sense started to change and as i red my soul like a status, although it's not a status in my subconscious this is how i want to view it so this is how it is, it now says [Senses Lv1] and i could feel that this was actually a boon as not only will my soul not be filled to the brim with skills, but i could also feel the knowledge and muscle memory of how my senses are improving and how to improve them to the peak of level 1. It was quite frankly amazing. After organising things in my soul mind as i hadn't properly connected to the body someone knocks on the door.

A nurse enters the room, her expression soft and sympathetic. 

"Oh, you're awake," she says, her voice gentle, as if she's afraid of breaking me. 

"Where am I?" I ask, my voice coming out weak and raspy. "What am I doing here? Where's my mom? Where's my dad?" Honestly those words just slipped out of my mouth and i had only realised it when i saw the nurses face.

Her face fell, and I knew the answer before she even said it. "I'm so sorry, sweetheart. They... they didn't make it." I knew what she was referring to. The reason this body had died and was in the hospital was because, there was an explosion of sorts in my block where we lived, and i had pierced it together by know, i'm pretty sure it's because of Jean Grey's powers awakening, and that psionic blast had destroyed our house, causing the whole family to die in the process.

Tears well up in my eyes, and I can't stop them from falling. It's strange, feeling this wave of sadness. The emotions are raw, probably leftover from Matthew's memories. But they're strong, and for a moment, I just let them take over.

After a while, a legal team arrives—my parents' legal team, apparently. They explain that I'll inherit whatever's left, which isn't much. Just a normal, medium-sized family income, nothing extravagant. Then, one of them mentions something else.

"There's someone who wants to meet you," one of the lawyers says, and I sense a shift in the room.

When the door opens again, A person I sort of Recognize rolls in. I tense up immediately, knowing exactly who he is and what he's capable of. 'The fuck is he doing here?!' I was rather alarmed not to lie but I quickly calmed down as in all honesty it made sense, as he would need to cover up what actually happened, and he also wasn't a totally bad person but fanfics had kinda screwed my perception of him.

"Hello, Matthew," he says warmly. "I'm Charles Xavier. I'm here to help."

As he introduces himself, I feel a slight fogginess creeping into my mind. My thoughts get a little blurry, but not enough to completely disorient me. I realise, thankfully, that my soul hasn't fully integrated into this body yet. The mind here only holds Matthew's memories, not mine. 

But the Professor doesn't know that. He's trying to erase something that my soul already remembers. It's almost amusing, in a way. 

Then, a new notification pings in my mind:

[Telepathy LV1]

'Well, damn,' I think to myself, feeling a mix of relief and... something else. 'Thanks, I guess.' Who am I kidding? This is fucking sick, i just got freaking telepathy!!

The Professor gives me a sad, understanding smile. "I'm truly sorry for your loss, Matthew. But know that you won't be alone. I sponsor children who've lost their parents, and I'd like to offer you a place at a prestigious private school. It will be a safe environment for you, where you can start fresh."

Wait a fucking moment is he going to take me to the Mutant mansion to study? Does he think i have the X Gene or something, but i soon understand in fact, that is not what he is talking about and in actuality is getting rid of me as the academy he had sponsored me for is all the way in the UK, the school is actually a prestigious school. For now I won't mind as honestly I don't want to be in america for a while, because literally almost everything happens here!

I nod at his words, still feeling a bit dazed, but I manage to look grateful. The emotions in this body are still strong, and I let a few more tears slip out. 

After he leaves, the legal team explains the details. I'm being sent to a prestigious boarding school. It's far away from here—across the ocean, in the UK. Far from the chaos of the Marvel Universe, at least for now.

It also seems that i'm right on time for the events of iron man 2 which had just ended as it is now the end of 2010 and there was news about iron man. And I was born in 2000, so I will be turning 11 soon.

Not too long , only about a week later after being discharged from the hospital it felt like I was being shipped off honestly, but I was off to go to the UK in which I would be studying for the foreseeable future. I was starting middle school so this will be a first as i never went to middle school as it was just primary school then highschool, so this will be a first.