Prologue 5
University classroom, a few days later...
The classes was underway, Gerald was seen sitting on a seat comfortably and bored. He's listening to the lecture of his professor but then he got bored and started to play Angry Birds.
Well he has managed to get his PhD a couple of hours ago after submitting his thesis on Quantum Physics field.
Gerald has long since become some sort of a myth, like those heroes of the past such as Hercules, Achilles, and many more.
This new course he's taking is, well, the last field remaining that he still hasn't took. This course was a course that focuses on the study of the Quantum Field Theory. Though that doesn't matter as he already had a good thesis in his mind and will surely graduate a week or less from now.
"Does anyone have any question? Ask it immediately now before the class ends." said the professor as he out down his chalk and observed his students. He has this cliche look of a professor with blond hair and black eyes.
He's been a teacher of Gerald ever since he delved on Quantum Physics study. To he frank, he considers the heir to the Sparrow Group a god. He's basically a walking and personal embodiment of the cartoon show he watched years ago named Biggus and Dickus.
On this show, Biggus was the most Biggus of all Biggus in the multiverse as his intellect far surpassed everyone on the infinite universes full of Biggus.
Just then someone raised her hand to ask a rather special question. The one who raised hands were a female around 23 years old and was clearly a transferee from her looks. This class was her first class at the afternoon.
This class was an elective class for her which she gladly took as her dream of becoming a quantum physicist was greater and she wouldn't let any chance of learning more about Quantum Physics slip out of her hands.
But when she saw a boy casually strolled through the classroom she was first confused. She thought that this bot must be the son of the professor. Frankly, she admits that the boy was really good looking even for his age It's like he's a perfectly sculpted being.
The class went underway as usual but she soon found out that the boy can't be the son of her professor as her professor's social media account clearly showed that he's married to a blonde just like the color of the professor's hair.
So to be safe, she just decided to ask what's the boy doing here and to clarify things as the boy might've been lost or something.
"Yes Ms... what's your question?" asked the professor to his student.
"Professor! Who is he? He looks lost sir. I suggest we contact the kaw enforcement so he can be returned to his family." said the woman as the professor just nodded slightly in understanding. There's literally no one in the school who doesn't know who the boy is. The only explanation would be that she's a transferee.
"Ah he? His name is Gerald. He's a student here." said the professor truthfully which clearly gave the shocking serum to the woman and every transferee present.
"Y-you're not joking right sir?" asked the woman with uncertainty in her voice. She considers herself to be a genius but to be presented with someone who's actually a 13 year old Quantum Physics student and was admitted earlier than she is was the shock of a lifetime for her.
The old students just chuckled including the professor as this was the exact same reaction they had when they learned of Gerald's existence.
"Class dismissed!"
...
"All set? Today's the day! You can't botch this!" said the muscular black man who's the seof proclaimed leader of this group. The group was jam-packed on a small ice cream van as they drove near the university where their target are currently schooling.
They've already done the preemptive surveillance these past few days. They found out that their target, the boy they learned has a name of Gerald was the heir to the whole multi billion and multinational group of companies called Sparrow.
The Sparrow Group was a sensation since the past few years of its existence. They're the single group who's actively recruiting the laid off normal humans with good enough credentials amidst the major recruitment of registered superpowered individuals and massive lay off of people on the military technology field and anything related to it.
He was basically like a walking bank! He can get anything he wants if he points at it. His future was all set and he's bound to inherit the group of companies which is basically the richest in terms of liquid assets.
"If we'll succeed, we'll both have funds enough for us to live a carefree life and popularity amongst the aspiring villains!" reminded the muscular black man as they parked the ice cream van on the gate and went out one by one with different time frames to infiltrate the campus.
The edgy teenager kid wearing black hoodie went out and easily traversed the campus under the guise of a fascinated kid. He wears a forged tourist ID to signify that he's only touring the campus as he took pictures if places randomly. His job was to incapacitate the target as his ability excels there. He was slowly making his way towards spot where they observed their target always go to either eat or do something.
At this moment Gerald was slowly walking towards his usual spot where he eats the lunch prepared by his mom personally. He has no plans on buying overpriced food which tasted like garbage most of the time nor eat on fast food which he deemed unhealthy. The spot where he's going are a fairly secluded one because Gerald hated outside and disturbing noises. Here, the calming sounds of ruffling leaves and the wind was giving him the best feelings.
He then sat there and took out his lunchbox as he wore his earphones and played a podcast about the fascinating secrets of the universe.
The edgy kid saw this and laughed as he approached Gerald slowly, his ability ready to incapacitate Gerald.
Gerald was busy eating and listening but he still felt something or someone was looking at him as he rotated his gaze on his surroundings.
The edgy kid smirked as he used his superpower. He used his shadow as he became shadowless.His shadow traveled towards the sitting Gerald and like a snake, twisted its body tightly around Gerald.
"W-wha-" the words of Gerald was cut off as an explosion suddenly happened nearby. The body of Gerald and the edgy kid was thrown back like a ragdoll as Gerald hit the pond and the kid hit the bricked road a couple of meters back.
"Hmmm do you really think you can snatch our prey from us? Think again!" said a man gently floating a couple of meters from the ground with a grenade launcher at hand as his squad followed his back.
The explosion caused chaos as a stampede suddenly happened. Students tried to escape, some was thrown to the ground and died due to body trauma and lost of blood.
The initial stampede was so bloody and chaotic that some of the faculty members such smas the guards, professors, and many more died.
At this moment, hundreds of self proclaimed villains, wanting to have their named marked as the worst villain of all time attacked one of the most prestigious universities in New York and world.
This attacked marked the start of an era...
The era of heroes and villains...