Collecting Chp 6

#TREVOR BATSON POV#

"Here you go, guys. Now can someone explain how you found me?" I ask after putting down some hot chocolate for Billy, Mary, and the rest of the foster kids and they introduced themselves

"We are neighbors," said the kid called Eugene

"I know I've seen you guys sometimes, but since when is Billy with you?" I ask them

"A few days ago, and I wanted to ask you where mom is?" He asks and I 'freeze' at that

I sigh

"Can I have a moment to talk to Billy, please?" I ask a bit sternly and they all go to the living room Mary and l lock eyes for a brief moment before we both turn away

"Billy...I can see you," I stop to tell them to go away further

With my hearing, I can tell that they are still listening but I pretend

"Billy... I found mom, a couple of months ago..." I start

"Where is she?" He interrupts me with excitement

(She will be in a coma for the eventuality that I may need her for a ritual to sacrifice her soul or something similar) I think with hidden joy at the fact that my Terminators are going to collect her soon

She is a piece of shit which is why I am glad that I flipped a coin to decide what to do with her

"Billy, what do you remember about mom?" I ask him and he looks at me confused but tells me what he does now

"Billy, mom was..." I stop for dramatic effect

"She is not who you think she is, Billy," I tell him while standing up and telling him to wait a bit

I come back around 2 minutes later shuffling around with a box and placing it on the table

"When we were young, she would bring some dangerous people into our apartment," I tell him opening up the folder and giving him some falsified documents that I had made in advance

Showing multiple people that are not the kind a kid should be around

"She got in trouble with the police multiple times, 2 days before the day of the fair she came home drunk again, and she beat you with a crowbar and I managed to get you away to safety," I tell him showing him photos relevant to the story and he is in shock while I slowly change a minute amount of his memories not enough to be noticed but enough that he remembers it differently which is not difficult we were young

"You were in the hospital when she came in and took you from it," I continued showing him a picture of it

"We were on that circus Billy, because, she was running from them," I tell him before going in for the kicker.

I thought about this for a long time but if I want Billy to be of any real use in the future, I need to do this

"The night before us going to the circus. She began to beat me until I was unconscious," I tell him

"The day on the circus Billy she left us as she ran away, that's why so many officers were there Billy," I tell him as he begins to slowly grumble no

That's when I show him the next set of papers that I falsified

"These hospital records show that we had multiple bruises under our clothes," I tell him

He starts crying not able to hold it any longer

I let out a few tears for effect

"Ten years, ten years of my life looking for her..." he manages to say before breaking back down into babbling

I stand up and hug him

I stop as Billy pulls back and runs out of my home and I follow him and the rest of the groups follows us

Billy screams out "SHAZAM," and he goes flying into the sky before being slammed by someone wearing a black trench coat

I know that they are going to the circus so I run over there with the rest of the group except Freddy and Darla who Mary orders to go into the house while they follow me to the circus

We arrive just in time for the end as Billy comes up to me

"Look, I know this is weird but, you need to go," We argue back and forth as I anticipate Billy fighting Sivanna

Soon enough, we are in the same place in the movie and Billy punches Sivanna away

"Quick grab the staff and say my name," We all grab the staff even me

"BILLY," We scream

"No, the one I use to transform into this guy," He says, and then...

"SHAZAM," Once I say I am struck by lightning and I use every bit of my energy absorption to make this energy my own

I fight back the feeling of euphoria at the strength that is now running through my veins

I do my best to make my body absorb this power and make it its own which seems to work as I get a feel for this power in just a few seconds

It feels as if I am drawing from an Olympic size pool of water and I am drinking it by hand but the sheer feeling that I received when I began to take in the water was one of warning

Something that is given can be taken away

But since I am drinking from it, my body and spirit are processing the power that I now have access to, something that I am greedily taking in, which can be made mine permanently

This does confirm my suspicions

The gods are dead

Thankfully

We are currently covered in smoke but I speed myself up as much as I can to take the staff from Billy's hands and I do so by affecting his mind a little to make him think that the staff disappeared when we transformed and I quickly hide by baking a hole and leaving it there

I fight off a smile that threatens to split my face open

I have access to the powers of Shazam

I have access to the abilities of six beings, Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury

Albeit temporarily, that is enough

Thanks to the essence of the ROB these abilities will grow once I take enough energy to keep them at least at a much weaker level since they are becoming mine little by little

Why did I want Black Adam's power when I could have done this?

Oh right, my paranoia

I shake my head as Billy starts talking to Sivanna who releases nearly all of the sins but one

We soon fight against them and I hold back a lot but enough so that Billy can capture the rest of them

Soon it is over and I watch as Billy pranks the others by faking being entranced by the orb, however, since I am the only that can read his mind, I can see that he was being manipulated by it to an extent as they began to make promises of giving anything he wants but he let go

Soon we celebrate our victory and I enjoy this moment for what it is

All the while I would catch Mary looking at me from time to time and we sometimes stare at one another for a second before we turn away

Soon we leave but I make sure to remember the writing on the door

I go to my home and smirk as I enter

I quickly draw the letters and soon I am back at the Rock Of Eternity

I look around this place much closer than before

I turn into my champion form to get more power from it

I focus a bit and I am drawn to a blank book with a pen on it

I quickly figure out its use and ask it about the wizard

I ask if the wizard can take away the powers of the champions

I sigh as it tells me that yes, he can except for Black Adam and to an extent me, while the others must be in their champion form for a long time to assimilate the power

I ask it to elaborate on me and I smile as it tells me that I am making the powers a part of me, much sooner than it should be

The longer we are on our champion forms the more we get to keep our powers

However, I have already begun to assimilate the power that I have which makes me frown a bit but I shake it off as this is a good thing

Many people think of Shazam as a joke character and to an extent he is

But his powers cannot be denied

Billy when he was possessed or infected by The One Who Laughs was able to beat multiple gods...

gods...

"What is the status of the gods of this universe?" I ask for the pen and it begins to write down the info

"So that is why," I say to myself

Ares killed most of this universe's Greek Pantheon

However, he only managed to kill avatars of them, similar to how Darkseid uses his avatars

When he cut the connection between the gods and their avatars, their powers were left behind by their avatars remain in this universe

There are 2 Olympus

One is in a pocket dimension on Earth that the Olympians no longer have access to aside from Ares and Hades

The other is where their real forms are

They lost the power that they imbued in their avatars forever

Which is why I can usurp their avatar's power for my own

However, only from what I was given by Billy

He still has much more power than me

I shake my head as I ask the pen if the teleportation of the Rock of Eternity can take me to the Lost Sea where the Trident of Neptune is

The answer is yes

I can come back and forth

I ask it for the location of the lost treasures of Atlantis and it gives them to me

I ask for the location of both Hawkman and Hawkgirls, and I get it alongside the location of their equipment

I think about it some more and go ahead and ask for the location of the sorceress Tala and soon I have it

I think about what else to ask before a thought pops into my head

"Tell me if there are other timelines or Earth's," I order and it tells me that there exist only 3 timelines aside from this one and no other Earth exists

To put it into perspective think of timelines like plates stacking on top of one another, and Earth's like a different type of plates with their stack on top

I ask it about the Superman of each timeline to get my frame of reference

I sigh as I realize what timelines I am stuck with

injustice, Flashpoint, and Apokolips war

Just my fucking luck

Putting that aside, I stare at the ground for a moment before focusing on Tala's location to be teleported there

I find a mirror in a cave

Soon enough a beautiful purple-haired woman with tanned skin appeared. She has a tattoo on her chest which led down her breasts and I have only one thing to say about them

Nice

Her low-cut black dress was incredibly thin and I could see her hips and her thighs were nearly completely exposed by the sides and her eyes were a transparent blue with no iris in them

"Who are you?" She asked

"Someone who is going to free you," I say to which she widens her eyes and I can see the desperation in them

"Please do so and I shall serve you forever," She says while touching the mirror, I simply draw my Nth metal sword and slash the mirror and she turns into smoke and materializes in front of me

"Oh please, let me serve you," She begins to which I cut her off and I quickly try to go into my mind to which she lets me do as she pleases and even helps with me altering her personality and lets me modify her soul as she uses her own magic to enslave herself to me

I go through her memories to which she lets me in with no issue but I do hear her panting

I frown as I see why she is so submissive

She is broken

Mentally and emotionally

Felix Faust and his men 'used' her until she broke

He made her a literal backup plan in case he needed help as the tattoo on her chest is a type of soul brand that will make it so that anyone who fulfills a certain condition or several and she will serve that person forever

However, these conditions must be met otherwise she will look for another master to fulfill them

I fulfilled the first one, the second and final one is that someone must sleep with her to become her new owner

(Felix Faust is a bastard and an idiot) I thought as he explained to Hades who he managed to get in contact with.

What he did to Tala right in front of her

I roll my eyes and look her up and down and sigh

"Whatever," I say looking her in the eye and noticing that she has a huge blush on her face and liquid runs down her legs

I close my eyes and take us back to my HQ universe

#HQVERSE#

I sigh in relief as I breathe in and watch as Tala stumbles around

"Master, this place has no magic, my access to the ambient magic is going away," says Tala

"Will that affect your magic?" I ask her

"Yes, no ambient magic will mean that I will only be able to rely on magic that uses my stamina, and my body's durability," She says and I look at her as I feel my own powers of Shazam

The Olympian size pool of water is still there, and I am drinking it in at a slow but steady pace

So far my champion abilties are still there

I need to explore more about it

"You are still human correct?" I ask Tala and she nods

"In terms of body yes, I am still human, but my soul has been altered by the spell you see on my chest..."

"That is alright, I may be able to do something about your body making you stronger as a result," I say cutting her off as I am aware

"Still, you are going to be undergoing several check ups to see if it is possible to enhance your body, being able to use magic and the only thing that stops you from using more powerful magic is just how much your body can take will be an easy thing to improve," I tell her as I motion for her to follow me

I am going to be using the Widow Serum then I am going to use the NZT-Soldier Serum on her

Tala will be my specialist regarding magic so I am going to make sure that she can use magic in the HQverse so that she can keep an eye on things and make sure things go smoothly

I can't be here every day no matter how much I want to

Especially since the first batch of T-3100 will soon be finished

They are similar to the ones seen in the movies aside from the fact they can now turn their limbs into different types of weapons similar to the T-X instead of just making bladed weapons

Also, they can fly, barely but the T-3200 will be the next version and I only have the very barebones of them

"Tala, once the procedures are done, I want you to enchant some androids that I have. It doesn't have to be anything too crazy. Just make them more durable, that will suffice," I tell her as the check-ups are complete and I see that she can take in the serums

"Come follow me," I order her and we go to another room where she will be given the Widow serum

"Take your clothes off and lay down," I order her and I enjoy the eye candy

Soon she is laying down and the procedure begins

I leave back to DC after I input some commands for her to follow

After 24 hours have passed she will go back to Vita-Ray Chamber to receive the next serum

#DC Universe#

Sitting on one of the thrones on the Rock Of Eternity I plan about what to do next

Tala is going to be one of my researchers of magic

I need someone for technology, One for chemistry, and one for engineering to start with my more serious projects

The Red Queen is good enough for all three, however, I would feel more comfortable having someone that is biologically alive

I close my eyes and teleport over to where I buried the Staff of Shazam

I go back to the Rock of Eternity and go to the magic pen and ask it for the locations of any Nth metal on Earth that have not been used by anyone to forge anything

I blink as the pen writes that there are around 2 tons of it on the Rock of Eternity and a few pounds worldwide

I go over to it and I open a door that leads to a vault

While holding the staff, I can feel it sending me information about the artifacts in this place

Some of them are old and just pieces of junk

I spot the golden metal a bit toward the end of the vault

"Awesome," I say as I look at the extremely good amount of Nth metal

I let out a small laugh as I look at it

I shake my head a bit as I realize that I don't have the skill to work with it but maybe I don't need to

I have the Red Queen working on armor similar to that of Iron Man, I am hoping that the boost in progress thanks to the world of Subnautica will make a difference in terms of how fast she can make those armors for me

Afterward, I am going to have the armor enchanted as best and as much as possible

Although, hoping to reach Iron Man's level is a bit too optimistic since I do want to reach the level of the Hellbat armor

It allowed Batman a normal human at peak condition to fight against Darkseid

I can only imagine if someone like Superman wore that armor

Would he even struggle against Darkseid

I shake my head as it sinks in that I am nowhere near ready for Superman-level opponents

Even with my Shazam powers, which are much weaker than Billy's, I can at most be an annoyance

I already have the Sentry Only Serum(SOS) already made alongside the Void Only Serum

Thanks to my access to my powers of Shazam, and that my body has begun to make it its own, once I take the SOS, I may be ready to at least put up a decent fight combined with the ton of Nth Metal artifacts that I am going to be going around collecting

I may be ready sooner than I thought

I get my sword out and cut a decent chunk of the Nth metal out of the rest

I stab my sword into the chunk that I cut out so that it begins to make it mine

I am going for the treasures of Atlantis which are ripe for the taking

I call back my sword and it is a lot bigger and the extra Nth metal wraps around my arm as it now belongs to me

I teleport from the ROE to the tomb of Atlan which is sealed by a magical door which I slice open

I laugh and smile as I see the artifacts glowing with power

I grab the helmet and a line of Nth metal stretches from my right arm to my and touches the Atlantean Helmet I can feel the small connection forming between it and my own Nth metal I grab the rest of the stuff and my Nth metal assimilates it

I teleport back after grabbing the copy of Atlan's scepter and press it against my sword so that it is assimilated and becomes fully mine

I laugh darkly at how easy it has been before I reign it in

Soon, I will be unstoppable