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The next day

[Breaking News]

[Yesterday night at 10:20 pm, an enhanced attacked a small local bar, resulting in several injured. Here we have the bar where it happened. Hello Evans, can you tell us more?]

[Certainly. Last night a masked individual wearing all black was seen walking on the streets, he walked into the alley behind the small bar and proceded to destroy the fuse box with what looks like his bare hands. After that, he went inside the bar where he met his primary victim, Edward Jones, and his friends. Edward's friends got beaten and cut whereas Edward himself was tortured.]

[Tortured you say?]

[Yes. His hands, feet, eyes, and ears got stabbed, crushed, and popped.]

[Where was the police?]

[People were confused at first and when they heard the screaming the police were called. The police didn't get there fast enough because the attack only took a few minutes. He was able to escape.]

[Alright, Evans, is there anything else?]

[Yes, in fact, witnesses said that the enhanced had glowing orange eyes.]

[Thank you. Now to the weather forecas- One moment, please... We just received news that the tortured Edward Jones died on the surgery table after a 10-hour surgery. Now to the scene.]

*cling*

[Mr. Jones! Do you have any comments about your brother's death?]

[I'll just say this. My brother was a good person! He didn't deserve this!! If the beast who TORTURED my brother is hearing this, THE POLICE ARE GOING FIND YOU AND GOING TO PUT YOU WHERE YOU BELONG!!!]

*Crack*

Andrew thew the controller at the TV, breaking both.

"That sh*t head was supposed to be a cripple for the rest of his life!! He didn't have the right to die after what he did!"

Andrew had avenged his parents, while it did feel good to torture Edward, deep down he knew just Edward wouldn't be enough.

"I need to do something... do more... and I know just where to start..." Andrew saw Edward's brother. The guy's claim that the police are going to put him down, was just him saying that HE was going to kill Andrew.

"Don't worry, I'LL find you FIRST, hahahahaha..."

*

Somewhere unknown

A confused and terrified man hurriedly made his way to the door located at the end of the hallway. He didn't even bother knocking on the door.

"S-sir, there is a situation!"

"This better be good, I'm in the middle of something."

"Well... I-I was just w-watching the n-news and..."

"Spit it out already!"

"Eek... please watch this s-sir," The man said as he handed the other a tablet.

[Breaking News]

[Yesterday night at 10:20 pm, an enhanced attacked...]

[...witnesses said that the enhanced had...]

"..."

"..."

"What... is the meaning of this!?"

"Sir?"

"The test subjects! Are they all accounted for!?"

"Just a second, let me c-check." The man took a minute looking at files. Every second longer his boss' patience growing thinner.

"They are all here s-sir. All deaths... w-well... there is no way death can be faked."

The boss started pacing around the room, muttering 'how' and 'when'.

"We have to capture him."

"Y-yes."

"Make it happen by any means necessary!"

"Of course"

"...What are you still doing here? Get out!"

Now alone in his room, he started to smile devilishly.

"I have to see what secrets you are hiding..."

*

Andrew did some research on Edward's older brother. he found out his name was Mason and he was in a gang. It wasn't some big notorious gang, it was smaller, they couldn't bite the hand that feeds them just yet.

Andrew also thought about last night and how satisfying that was. There was only one major problem, however. He spent too much time and energy escaping the police and evading any other organizations. He realized he lacked a stealth ability. Andrew had two choices for a stealth ability. He would ideally like the cuttlefishes' ability but they are much harder to come by in America. Cameleons though are a lot easier to acquire.

And so Andrew waited for his power to 'recharge'. In the time he waited researched some more animals and checked if the timeline was changed in any way. He had also checked for mutants and other comics stuff. In the end, he found out that this was really Universe-199999, in other words, the MCU.

'Why did he give me that as my third wish? I'm never going to use it...' Andrew thought as he made walked to a pet store. Upon entering he saw the same clerk from last time, he imagined they would be meeting a lot in the future. In the lizard section, he spotted a chameleon and touched it.

[Chameleon's abilities]

[Chameleon's Camouflage - Able to slowly change colors. While chameleons manly use this for other purposes, it is possible to willingly change colors]

[Chameleon's claws - Tiny claws on your fingers]

[Chameleons eye - Better vision than humans. Capable of seeing ultraviolet light]

[Chameleon's tail...]

Andrew chooses [Chameleon's Camouflage] and left, but not before deactivating the ability and getting a stink eye from the clerk.

Andrew went home and tested the power. He found out that he had to be naked to use it, or otherwise it would look like clothes walking by themselves. Luckily, he was able to make his suit invisible, he would have to time the camouflage and edit the suit at the same time.

In the meantime, the news kept reporting about him, reshowing the footage of Mason after his brother's death. Because of that, he was dubbed as The Beast, a wanted and dangerous enhanced.

Since they kept calling him that, he had an idea. He just had to wait another week.

*

After the week was up, he went to a black market. They sold whatever you can think of. If you can imagine it they have it, if not they can point you to a person who has. Fiding this place took quite a lot of time and effort for Andrew, it was not just something anyone can find.

He came here with [Chameleon's Camouflage] active so there was no need to worry about others seeing him. The thing though was that the ability just made you blend in with the surroundings and not invisible, so if you move too fast or someone was especially looking for you, you still would be spotted.

Andrew made sure to stick to the shadows and slowly made his way to the cage of the near-extinct animal he was looking for, where he touched it.

[Addax abilities]

[Climbing - makes it easier to climb and find better footing]

[Addax's horns - long screw-like horns on top of your head]

[Heat resistance - Addax are natives of the Sahara desert where it incredibly hot during day time]

[Simple digging...]

Andrew chose [Addax's horns] and something growing on his head. He touched his head, feeling the horns. He willed it to deactivate and he felt the horns going back into his head. It was a weird feeling, to say the least.

Andrew made sure to remember this place in the future, he could get some interesting animals here or at least know of their whereabouts.

"Hehehe, I'll show you a real beast"

Hi guys. I'm sorry for not posting yesterday but my new author's writing brain cells all died with the last chapter and I needed to rest. Don't worry though, for I won't be dropping this novel.

On a better note, I have made some changes to the third wish. The more I thought about it the worse it got so I added a little something to it.

I also have decided the pairing for our MC! It may be a little hard to write her but I'll try my best.

I made auxiliary chapters for the abilities and the suit.

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