Felix lifted himself off the bed he slept on and padded across the room up to the huge mirror hung right above a drawer.
Staring at the unfamiliar face on the mirror, Felix let out a sigh. His body was really altered in real life.
'What should I do now... dye my hair? No, that won't do. Should I cut it off? No, No, am not going bald.' Felix's head was spinning as he thought of ways to cover up the secret, while he was thinking his Digitised Genes slowly activated as numerous screens appeared before his eyes.
[Problem Discovered By Mental Digital Problem Sensor!]
[Solution To Problem - Minor Body Altering Skill!]
[Formulating Skill...]
[Merging All Knowledge On Altering From The Digital Server Database...]
[Minor Body Size Altering] + [Minor Genetic Altering] + [Minor Stealth] =
[Minor Body Altering Skill!]
[Process Ongoing... 10%... 50%... 80%... 100%!]
[-Player, You Have Forged Your First Skill! Intelligence +10%-]
Felix's eyes shone as he read the text on the screen. A new skill, what should he do with it?
Instant Activation!
In a blink, a cool feeling swept across his body as his body began to shrink. Slowly his silver hair suddenly began to blue again as his body slowly began to revert to it's normal state.
After some seconds, Felix stared at himself in the mirror. Lifting his hand to his face, he rubbed his cheek softly and let out a slight gasp.
It worked! Although it was a minor altering skill and didn't allow him to freely shape-shift from one from to another, it still helped him cover up his new body.
It was like he now had two identities, Psychic the future super villian, and Felix the future college student.
First things first, he had to pass the three tests and the final exams. Then, he can think of becoming Psychic.
While Felix was thinking, slow footsteps were heard behind him, jolting him out of his thoughts.
"Huh, Felix. You're awake already? What are you doing?" Jacob who stood behind Felix leaned slightly to the side, and saw the mirror. With his brows raised he spoke, "Checking yourself out in the mirror, eh? You got anyone special you're trying to impress tomorrow?"
Felix sighed then turned around to meet Jacob staring at him with big black bags under his eyes. The long-eared mutant had a mischievous smile on his face as he dug his hands into his pockets.
Thinking to how much explaining he would have to do if he didn't have to body altering skill, Felix's heart raced. That wouldn't end well in the long run.
"Checking myself out? Ahahaha, um why are you still awake? Playing something interesting?" Felix, the 'king' of changing topics dashed towards Jacob and slung his arm over Jacob's neck, "Let your brother join you. I'm free for the next two hours."
"I was playing a new game released just months ago, Heroism Universe Online. There was this character, and I couldn't beat him." Jacob's eyes glittered as he looked over to Felix and smile, "Could we team up against him? We could take him down together!"
"Sigh. Do you need to use my big brain for something as trivial as that." Felix said with a poker face. The truth is that his heart had skipped a beat when he heard Heroism, but had calmed down- hopefully- after hearing the Universe Online.
"Big brain you waste on ancient games like Minecraft? Boring. Come on let's go play something Next-gene!" Jacob nearly howled as he dragged Felix back towards the bed, where the gaming monitor and controller was located.
The controller was four sets of crescent-like devices having a wide black screen with a huge red button displayed on the left and multiple white buttons on the right. A pair of folded green headsets rested on the top of the game monitor, while a small blue chip was rested on the monitor right beside the headsets.
"Since you're an ancient human, I bought a set of boring ancient technology for us to share or do you want to use the capsule for once?" Jacob lifted Felix's hand from his neck and pointed to a pair of green glasses laying carelessly on the couch.
"Let's scrap these ancient technologies for now, gimme one of those glasses." Felix rolled his eyes as he stared at Felix before redirecting his attention to the glasses.
Heroism Online... Heroism World Online... Was this the gateway for living beings to access the Heroism reality?
Only one way to find out!
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The cold dark night lit up by the various hovering lamps and star torches was eerily silent today.
The smell of blood had spread out like a plague, dozens of bullet ridden cars were parked on the road while blood was smeared on the straight black road and on the cracked and broken walls.
A bullet ridden car suddenly sped past the cluster of bullet ridden car, the roof of the car punctured while the rear and front lights had web-like cracks all over it's glass casing.
As soon as the car sped away, three cars followed in a flash.
Inside one of the three chasing cars, which was a red car with twin large busters attached to the both sides of the car, layered with strong steel plates on the roof, and covered in a weak dome-like force field. A small masked head popped out.
On the mask was two carved out eyes spaces which were glowing in a bright purple light for sight of the user, and two holes on both corners for respiration.
"Cyan Falcon, Code Vedora is speedily escaping requesting permission to engage!"
The driver inside the red car who was a sturdy looking blonde hair man with a stubble on his chin growled as he took a sharp turn, narrowly evading the car parked on the side.
"Electrolux, blast those cars out of my way! I'm stepping on it!" The driver roared as he lifted his feet from the black disk-like accelerator and stepped on it with a crazed expression.
Blue fire shot out of the car's exhaust as the car shot forward like a bolt released from a cannon. The immense speed of the car heated the road beneath due to friction, but because of the road's high quality it wasn't enough to damage it in the slightest.
"Don't worry Tank, I'll handle it. F*ck it! That sly b*tch drives faster than a drunken racer! Speed up!"
Electrolux, who was the masked female blinked her purple eyes and struck out half of her body from the car through the window. Clutching her hands, bright purple sparks of lightning would be shot out, blasting the abandoned cars on the car's path to the side.
The other two cars on the left and right accelerated immediately, trying to catch up with Electrolux and her driver.
On the path, countless human-like creatures with tattered clothes and glowing red eyes stepped out of the darkness. Their eyes were flashing with strong hatred and intelligence.
Variants!
Tank scowled as he glared at the multiple variants with flashing eyes. This wouldn't be easy...
Letting out a furious howl, one of the dozens of variants leaped out of the crowd and hopped unto to one of the vehicles. Lifting it's hands and smashing down, a terrifying puncture was left on the bonnet, as the head lamps and everything on the car's exterior exploded.
'Sh*t, a super-strenght variant! Code Vedora is going to escape at this rate... Damn it!'
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