Meeting (2)

(Just to make sure whenever I refer to someone as a 'woman' or 'female' i meant Lindy, our mc just doesn't know her name yet.)

Adam POV:

I arrived exactly at 5 PM, which considering the traffic was surprising, to say the least.

taking a quick look around me, I noted down all of the possible routes of escape in case things go wrong.

You can never be too careful after all.

This area of the city was a sort of 'slum' or as close as this city had. The roads were relatively clean but you could see homeless people crawling around everywhere, including the alleys where I would be meeting my 'business partner' beside the homeless there were some trash cans and scraps along with other debris, The houses were dirty and in poor condition.

Soon enough I went into the designated alleyway and spotted the individual I spoke with yesterday.

The individual was a man with a large cloak that covered him completely from head to toe a mask covering his face.

Anon: "The weather today is..."

The man waited expecting Adam to say something.

Adam was surprised at how deep his partner's voice was but quickly returned to his senses.

Adam: "Truly disgusting."

Adam answered.

This was the password they came up with while discussing the deal.

The man, taking one quick look around asked.

Anon: "You have it?"

Adam: "Do you have the money?"

The man, let's call him anon from now on, took out a large case that he was hiding under the cloak, one would almost think it appeared out of thin air...

Anon: "Here." He opened the large case and Adam was shocked.

There must be around 20 thousand dollars inside...

Anon: "C'mon I don't have all day!" The man raised his tone growing impatient with each second that passed by.

Adam: "Oh sorry, here they are."

They quickly exchanged items, gave each other a nod, and began walking away.

until.....

A car Blocking the exit of the alley appeared out of nowhere!

"Found you asshole!" a familiar woman's voice rang out through a speaker inside the car, although Adam didn't recognize it.

"FUCK!" Anon Yelled. "RUN!" He yelled at adam while running in the opposite direction of the car towards an emergency ladder.

Adam did not hesitate to follow his advice and ran off as well.

"No, you don't!" she yelled as two hooks came out the front of her car catching them both and dragging them to the ground.

"NOT AGAIN!" a desperate cry sounded next to Adam.

"Listen, kid! we have to work together you hear me?!"

"You don't need to tell me twice!"

As soon as Adam said that the man pulled out a sword from his cloak and cut both of their chains.

"How the f-" Before adam could voice his question he got interrupted by Anon "No time, just move!"

Surprised, adam froze when a bullet came at him.

"Shield!" Adam instinctively yelled out, space bending around him and twisting the bullet into the wall next to him grazing his shoulder.

"Tch." Adam let out while holding his shoulder, which was now slightly bleeding.

"Keep moving moron!" Anon shouted as he charged forward, dodging as many attacks as he could while taking cover behind the debris in the alley using trash cans as improvised armor.

His coat was now surrounding him with a green, scale-like see-through armor that was starting to crack with each hit it took.

"Right." Adam got up and started to maneuver toward the car.

The woman seeing things weren't going well for her began turning her car trying to get away.

"OH NO, you don't!" Anon yelled, his voice filled with rage "YOU think you can kill my friends and get away with it?!" As he finished speaking he slammed his hand on the ground a large vine came out in response and attempted to grab the car.

"Fuck off!" the woman screamed in desperation shooting with all her might, pushing her gun to its limits, and damaging the vine that had now successfully grabbed her car and was pulling it closer and closer...

"Shit!" She yelled and jumped out just as the vine fully consumed her car and crushed it with a satisfying crunch.

"Jezus christ..." Adams's thoughts slipped out

"OH, you are on!" The woman yelled out, a red ring around her middle finger glowing brightly creating a true fireball above her.

"Holy shit. Kid do something damn it!" Anon yelled.

"What do you want me to do?!" Adam yelled incredulously

Before Anon could reply, the woman launched the fireball straight at Anon, who raised his vine in a desperate attempt to defend himself.

as the two forces collided against one another Adam stood there speechless.

This wasn't something he was expecting to happen, how could he possibly have predicted this?

'I'm going to die.' Adam thought.

What was he supposed to do? he wasn't strong enough to help and if he ran he probably wouldn't make it in time.

"AGghhh!" Anon screamed out in pain snapping adam out of his panic.

The fireball had successfully burnt the vine away and was now slowly breaking the defense mechanism of the cloak, crawling closer and closer to Anon's flesh.

"System show me my skills!"

Time slowed down as the system responded to Adams's command.

DREAMER(2)

you want, you desire and unlike most, you are willing to do whatever it takes to get what you want

REALITY BENDER (2) LVL UP

the world itself must acknowledge your will.

(you can change reality in a 0.2 m radius around you for 0.2 seconds (will increase by 0.1 at every level))

THE SANE (LVL1):

you have gone down the path of the sane, good choice! this path will allow you to keep your humanity and become the best you could ever hope to be!

(increases stats by 0.1 every level up)

BREEZE

Blast a small quantity of air.

LIGHT

Throw a small amount of fire out of your hands.

SHIELD.

Create a shield that can deflect bullets away from your body.

AVERAGE HUMAN:

STRENGTH: 4

AGILITY: 4

ENDURANCE: 6

WILLPOWER: 4

HOST'S CURRENT STATS:

STRENGTH: 3.1

Represents how strong you are and how much weight you can lift.

AGILITY: 4.1

How fast you can run.

ENDURANCE: 6.1

How long you can run.

(and do other things... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )

WILLPOWER: 6.1

how much you can take before you snap.

how much you can do with your powers.

"Any ideas system?"

RUN.

"She will find me again tho?"

NEXT TIME YOU WILL HAVE TO BE READY THEN.

"...Wait! didn't she have a gun?" Adam struck by his new realization, looked and indeed her gun was on the ground next to her broken car!

The woman has been slowly approaching Anon and was only focused on him leaving her gun several meters behind!

Adam cut off the connection to his system and time resumed like normal.

Using her distraction Adam made his way behind and toward the gun.

Anon seeing that Adam was finally doing something useful put more energy into his shield bringing even more attention to himself.

"Oh come on! is this all you T.U.C assholes are capable of?!"

Adam officially reached for the gun and pointed it straight at the woman.

His shaking finger hovered over the trigger.

Anon glancing at Adam was almost screaming for him to pull the trigger.

Lindy noticing this looked behind her and saw Adam about to kill her.

The fireball weakened from her lack of concentration allowing Anon to use the last of his strength to summon a vine that smacked Lindy's neck knocking her unconscious.

"Holy shit that was close" Anon mumbled clearly out of it.

Adam dropped his newfound gun, his hands shaking, knees weak and arms heavy.

His breathing ragged and his vision blurred.

He knew something might go wrong, which is why he prepared, but preparing for something and going through it is a lot different.

THE HOST'S MENTAL LIMIT REACHED!

GOING INTO PRESERVATION MODE.

And so adam fell to the ground unconscious, the system erecting multiple cloaking and shielding barriers around adam.

Anon ran away as the sirens blared in the distance.