Meeting Requirements

15 years passed as the small frail boy turned into a lean 6.3ft monster. His hair was still long and fuzzy, his face now had a burn scar around the bottom half with another scar going over his left eye and up to his hairline where a patch was burnt back.

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Since living with Margaret he started having a proper diet and trained his body to match his past life's physique. His school life wasn't much different from his time with Dad. He was getting viciously bullied by boys, girls and even a few teachers. He took his time dealing with it slowly over the school year.

Everyone became a little apprehensive of him but it didn't stop the stupid/brave from getting their revenge. He was jumped multiple times outside of school with people holding bats, he broke his arm the first time but the other times he was prepared and brought an extendable baton. The one that really messed him up was an acid attack during biology class which lead to his new appearance.

When Thomas was 13 he got into a fight with the cape crusade. Thomas at the time got jumped like he normally does but just as Batman was gonna save him. He saw the kid demolish them in seconds. Batman immediately took an interest in his skills and so he tested them. Thomas lost as the sheer difference in power was obvious. Batman was impressed by Thomas's fighting prowess and tried to recruit him as a new Robin but Thomas turned it down.

Thomas went back to living like it never happened. He didn't enjoy elementary and middle school, everyone was too scared to talk to him leaving him bored. He spent his break and lunch in the library studying programming while familiarizing himself with the world's media.

He had two friends, Gabriel and Sam. Gabriel was a 5.6ft Nigerian tank with a bodybuilder physique and white dreadlock while Sam was the exact opposite 6.1ft boney pale Irish ginger.

Meeting in their freshmen year at the library. Thomas found Gabriel sitting in the corner drawing and Sam was coding.

The three of them started a small studio called Vendetta with the school library and Gotham public library being their place of work. The first game they made was Minecraft. For marketing, they advertised through social media but didn't get much attraction until they decided to start by spreading the word in school.

It was a slow start but after 2 months, they started gaining some attraction from the big companies. Thomas studied music and with it made more games. In 3 years they made Minecraft, Talking Tom, Hollow Knight, The Stanley Parable and Superliminal.

Talking Tom was constantly bringing in money even after three years they were getting anywhere between $5,000 to $10,00 a month. The last three games took the world by storm with stories and gameplay that had yet to be seen.

Their success should have continued but Sam died in a car accident and Gabriel moved his family out of Gotham to start an art gallery in Metropolis.

Thomas announced that the studio would be going on a temporary break and advertised Gabriel's gallery. While on break Thomas put his mind on studying art more as he had learnt more than enough coding from Sam.

He released Enter The Gungeon a year later with great success.

Only a year later he lost his foster mother Margaret to cancer. He held a small funeral inviting Gabriel and some close friends of his Mom. His mom's death brought back the memories of his past families leading to him to go on a three month break.

He spent the next few years making assists for future games and managed to solo develop an original game called Abandon which was a story game lightly based on his first life with some additional things to spice the story up. It was somewhat popular as the story was decent enough to gain some fans but the real star of the game was the fighting styles. He made $50,000 and put half into cancer research.

This brings us to the present day. It was a beautiful sunny day in Gotham and Thomas could be seen standing outside his bank being scrutinized by the guards.

They are right to watch him as Thomas stuck out like a sore thumb. Wearing black timberlands, black cargo pants, a black leather jacket, a turtle neck that covered his scared mouth and his fussy long hair covering his left eye.

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The guard approached him and asked, "Sir can you show your face?"

"Sigh, I'll show you my face and even show you my ID. I'll also pose for security cameras but afterwards, let me cover it again"

The guard tensed up as his hand hovered his holstered pistol.

He pushed his hair to the side and pulled the turtle neck down showing his mutilated face. He then tried to give a harmless smile whilst passing his ID over.

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*Gulp* The guard then took note of the name on the ID and said "Sorry for the misunderstanding"

"Nah it's fine I've gotten used to it," said Thomas as he hid his face again.

Thomas then approached a window with an old woman on the other end. The old woman was Sarah and a friend of his Mom's.

"Good Morning Aunt Sarah"

"Good morning to you too. Why are you hiding that handsome face of yours? You know it's impolite" Said Sarah

"Sorry Aunt Sarah"

"So what brought you here"

"Just paying off the loan"

"Congratulations on your partial freedom" Said Sarah

"Partial?"

"Taxes"

Thomas chuckled "Haha hey I hope you're not having any trouble with IRS"

"I'll just direct them to my scary nephew"

Thomas happily agreed "You can count on me"

*CRASH, BOOM CLANK*

A school bus crashed through the entrance with a group of heavily armed crooks wearing clown makeup.

"Shit it's the Joker gang! Auntie get down!"

10 masked robbers were heavily armed with AK-47s, M4s, Riot Shotguns and Glock 19 as a sidearm. The moment they got off the bus they shot at the guards that barely managed to dodge the bus.

"Get on your stomach, hands out in front of you"

While on the ground Thomas observed them. For a normal group of crooks, they will hesitate to kill and even have a weak member to which you can get some leeway but these are Joker members trying to use common sense leads to more deaths.

'It just had to be the day I paid off the last of my loan. Will this affect it?! What can I use as a weapon. 2 biro pens in my left pocket, a letter opener on the counter. I can kill 2 with the pen and the letter opener can be used as a knife. Fuck sake where's the Bat-family when you need them'

While complaining to himself two of the ten-armed crooks got the manager to escort them to the vault and safe deposit boxes. As they raided the vault and deposit boxes more bad news came in the form of police sirens.

'Great the police are here, at this point normal thieves would look for hostages to get out but these fucker will kill a hostage before threatening to kill the rest of us'

"THIS IS THE POLICE, WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED, COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!!" Hearing the loud megaphone voice the criminal didn't stiffen up or get nervous.

Instead of finding a hostage, two of the Jokers dragged another fellow member out to the front before shooting him in the head.

'Yep, unpredictable psychopaths' Thought Thomas as one of the thieves had finally gotten close to him.

He quickly jumped to his feet and stabbed his pen into the thief's jugular. From the thief's neck, a fountain of blood soared threw the air and splashed across the floor. Thomas placed himself behind the thief as he waved launching the pens.

The two pens darted across the room getting the closest thieves in the jugular. Just like that 3 died desperately holding their throats.

The other 6 thieves reacted quickly not caring for the hostages or the corpse of their friend and shot.

The corps managed to do its job as a shield before wincing in pain as his left thigh goes numb. Gritting his teeth he grabbed the holstered Glock 19 from his 'shield'.

Raising his hand and aiming it he pulled the trigger expecting recoil but he got nothing.

'What the fuck, the safety's on'

Just as he was about to pull the safety down he saw a cluster of bullets moving in slow motion before coming to a stop. It wasn't just the bullets that stopped, everything stopped.

[ C.O.D system requirements achieved ]

Requirements 3/3

1• Access To A Gun

2• Intention To Shoot

3• Outnumbered Gun Fight

In the top left of his vision was a 2D Cogwheel with a mini-map that had 6 red dots mirroring his situation. The robbers now had a red name tag above their heads. On the bottom right was the image of the 2D pistol he was holding with the number of bullets. The edges of his visions were clouded by red blood splats.

Floating in bold in the centre was a tip.

[Tip: Click on the cogwheel to access system features and settings]

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A.N: My system will not follow traditional gamer systems. It was inspired by MHA: 'Serene' Life In Another World. It is not at all the same but I like the idea of using a system based on an IP that seems useless in a superpower world and fiddling with it till it becomes broken. I thought of using Apex since they have octane stems or the lifelines healing drone for something like naruto. Maybe someone else will do it