Did I do this?!

"Wake up!" A disembodied voice called out to me, causing me to stumble around a bit before witnessing the bizarre situation and place I was in. It was a never ending desolate landscape. Buildings were destroyed. Men, women and children were charred in place as if a nuclear explosion had left them forever to stand huddled together. And the Grimm were roaming the streets as if they were in the wild.

"Beautiful isn't it?" The same voice called behind me. I swiftly turned to face the possible perpetrator for all of this. Only to find no one there.

'Okay this is freaky. Where is this guy hiding?'

"I hide from no one. You simply do not have the eyes to see the bigger picture of what you do not yet understand."

Even more weird. He can hear my thoughts clearly. Is that his semblance? If he can hear my thoughts then can he find out who I am? What if my identity is exposed? My family....

"Then help me to understand. Where are you? How can you read my mind? And why aren't the grimm attacking me?"

"Oh dear little baby buzzard. Are you by any chance frightened that what you learned in school isn't really the full truth? And I promise if I wanted to get rid of the Rose family, they would have perished long ago. As for your secret identity....Let's just say I have bigger fish to worry about than to waste my time on a petty thief."

"Then why am I here? Speaking of which, where are we?"

I began to look for my benefactors/business partners, Roman. Along with that traitor Neo who was going to shoot me and take the briefcase full of diamonds and credits.

"Your friends are waiting for you on the other side of this dimension. Same space and time, might I mind you. THIS is Remnant. But a split in realities. Picture this as a parallel universe, where a choice was made, and that choice is me. I was created and then one thing led to another, and Bam! Possible reality gets created where all this is what happens as a major result. And as great it is to finally have some company to see my newfound work, there are more pressing matters."

'So he did do this to the city. Is he planning on doing the same to my universe?'

"Not just the city of Vale, my little buzzard. All of Remnant. But that's not the question you are looking for. The big question to that is do you want me to?"

"Eh?"

"I can bring what happened here...over there. But it'll cost ya a hefty penny price to pay."

It must be some sort of trick right? Why would I want the destruction of the entire planet? I'm not that sorta guy who gets strung along willy nilly off into a bad end game plot for the thrills and chills.

"I'm only asking because you never know what part of the dimension is set in stone across which universe. I can only see four dimensions at a time and we both don't know if whatever happened in my universe spans to an infinite amount of them. If you say yes I can promise you your family will be spared and so will you. Not to mention my powers will be yours for the taking, no catch attached."

The voice sounded upbeat and excited, I could tell. It was as if he was making a sales pitch to an unsuspecting customer in a mall.

"Don't trust me hm?" He noticed my lack of excitement and silence to his offer.

"What exactly can you do?" I asked slightly worried. "And what happened to make this the outcome anyway?"

"Ah ah ah....Deal first, answers later. Either you take this offer or you leave it and deal with the consequences afterward," He curtly replied. If I didn't know any better I'd guess he was folding his arms in annoyance by now.

'Does that even give me a choice? What if my family dies even if I do make the deal?Does he have power to bring them back to life? And if something does happen to my dad and sisters if I don't take the deal, how am I to get revenge on something I can't even see?'

"Using your head there aren't you? I always did like seeing the gears in your head get to turning hahaha.Now you're beginning to see the bigger picture."

"Sigh." I guess I'll have to take my chances with the Joker than to deal with the King in this game he's playing.

"I'll take your offer," I stretched out my hand in front of me. "And let you do what you want by destroying remnant."

"Pft....hahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

His laughing slightly caught me off guard and put me on edge.

"Oh my dear little baby buzzard....I don't want to destroy Remnant. That was just a byproduct of what Jimmy did. Poor Jimmy, he wanted to destroy the grimm from off the face of the planet but lost the detonator. Enough from the past though, its time to look forward into the future."

That's when I felt it. The pain of something being seared into the back of my hand.

"AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH!" I tried desperately to pull it back and cover it with my other hand but it wouldn't budge. As if it was locked into some sort of device to hold it in place.

"I hereby christen you Doug, my little buzzard, as Doug the Condor. You shall be my gateway to kill Salem and to bring the Faunus insurrection to its knees. In doing so I shall protect you and your family from any danger that threatens their life, not excluding your uncle Taiyang Xiao Long,"]

'Wait...What?!' The pain began to increase but what began to grow with it was confusion.

"Or your cousin Yang. I give my deepest respects to your mothers passing. And by the time our deal is complete, you shall have all the skills I possess. You shall not just be any petty thief who wanted to bring terror to Vale. You, Condor, will rule as Overlord and have armies such as this planet has never seen."

"WHAT?!" I yelped as the pain reached its apex and the force that held my hand and wrist finally released me. The whole ordeal caused me to drop to my knee and gasp from utter exhaustion.

"How does it feel to be branded as a future king Condor." The voice began to mix with others and slowly rested with an all too familiar voice. Mine. I quickly look up from the ground and see myself standing in front of me wearing a pair of red converse, black slacks, and a gray buttoned up shirt with a golden trimmed vest. His hair was dreaded with it tied at the back so that it doesn't get in the way of fighting. In his hand was a mask, a Gui Fawkes mask.

' He's wearing my costume. No, "I" am wearing my costume. The masks, shoes, and some colors are different, but that's my face. Wait is this part of his powers?'

"I assure you we are the same Doug. And before you ask, yes, we do not share the same name. As I said, different dimensions, different choices."

"Then...what do I call you since we don't share the same name?" I asked looking down at the new brand that resembled buzzard wings tattooed into my hand.

"Hmm," He hunched over and began to sit in midair as if a chair was really there in a thinking pose. "I see no reason not to tell you, so.... Nice to meet you Doug. My name is David. Or you can simply call me The Buzzard."

He decided to stand straight again and stretch out his hand to help me up. I took it and stood with him. After I did so, I began to look him up and down trying to find any facial or body difference between us. Funnily enough I couldn't find any that stood out at all.

"Satisfied yet? We are the same in almost every way. Only clear differing factor is I have better color coordination than you, haha" He laughed at my vest.

"Oh really? Then please, do tell how red goes with gold to this unlearned one," I mockingly did a slight bow and pretended to humbly ask for his advice.

"Hehe. Maybe another time. As for now though, I need you to go back and to make sure that Cinder stays on course with getting intel on Beacon."

"How am I supposed to do that? I don't even go to there yet?"

He nodded his head. "Fret not. Things'll work themselves out one way or another."

"Well, if you say so. Now how do I get back to that treacherous backstabbing Neo. She's got a lot to answer for."

"Don't blame her just yet, she was actually saving your life." Other me began to tiptoe the railing of the roof step by step.

"How does shooting me, save me?" I was super confused at this point.

"Just remember to duck as fast as you can and then you'll know what I'm talking about afterwards. Now, stay still until I tell you to okay?" He hopped down after reaching the corner and faced me with a look of pure concentration.

"Gotcha." I tried my best to stay as still as humanly possible.

"Aaaaaand...DUCK!"