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Marvelous Gamer
🕑 Added 2023-10-16 17:40:55 +0000 UTCAN: Hey guys, new fic.
This is one of the many ideas I had during my break. It is a gamer fic in the marvel verse and it should be pretty fun.
It will also be a lot more smuty than any of my other fics.
Anyway. Hope you guys enjoy this one.
Chapter 1
"Shit, I'm sorry about that, didn't mean to kill you with that one."
I opened my eyes when I heard a voice I had never heard before say that, blinking my eyes until I was finally able to see I looked around and saw a nice office with a view of a lake where a bunch of women in tiny bikinis were playing around. The office was well furnished with a large mahogany desk and comfortable expensive looking chairs, one of which I was currently sat on. The man behind the desk had hair white as paper and his eyes were golden, and the best way I could describe his face was angelic.
"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that." I said trying to be polite.
"I said I didn't mean to kill you. I was aiming for that asshole that was walking to your right, but I miscalculated the lightning bolt." The man in front of me said, scratching his head.
"Are you saying that you killed me?" I ask in the coldest tone I had.
"Like I said, I didn't mean to do it." The man said. "But don't worry too much about it; I will just reincarnate you somewhere else and give you some benefits, you will have a fun time. Trust me; I have been doing this for a long time." The man added giving me a large smile.
"You have been doing what for a long time, killing innocent people?" I ask getting annoyed with the man in front of me. I lived a nice, quiet life, without causing troubles for anyone; I was almost a saint. And the thanks I get is being killed due to some ROB being clumsy? Life truly isn't fair.
"I said don't worry about it, think of it as a nice vacation, you get to go to a fictional world and with a gamer system that will make you absurdly powerful, you get to build a harem of hot women; it will be a fun time for you. I'll even drop you in a nice world without any major conflict like the Pokémon world, sure there are giant reality bending monsters walking around everywhere, and an end of the world crisis happens every month, but things are mostly peaceful." The man said, still smiling at me. "Just be glad you're not the guy I was actually trying to kill; I was going to drop him into Re:Zero, the last one I dropped there ended up having a mental breakdown after a week, from the constant dying." He added still smiling at me, like he was doing me a favor.
"Why can't you just return me to my own world? I actually liked my life, it was nice and peaceful, and I had enough financial security to not worry about rent or groceries. I was living a good life." I complain.
"Why are you complaining man, I'm trying to do you a solid here. If you don't like Pokémon, I could drop you in a world a bit more dangerous but full of hotties like DxD, with your gamer system you could probably become God-king of boob world in no time." The man said still smiling.
"No, put me back in my world." I say, making the ROB on the other side of the desk drop his smile.
"You know what, now you've pissed me off. I was going to be nice to you and give you a nice place where you could have some fun, but now I'm going to drop you into a death world and give you a shitty system, with no stats or perks that you could exploit the hell of, and you'll only gain nice things if you entertain me. Have fun with your new life." The man said and then he waved his hands and I felt myself lose consciousness.
I woke up in the living room of what looked like a small apartment, there was a nice TV with what looked like a game console connected to it and a few games scattered around; I didn't recognize any of them. I realized that I couldn't remember any personal information about my life, or should that be my previous life. I couldn't remember my name, i couldn't remember my family, hell i couldn't even remember the name of that asshole from work that used to leave the water cooler dripping and wasted all of our water.
What I could remember was a new life. My new name was Isaiah Jones, and I grew up in an orphanage in New York; I was twenty years old and currently lived in a rented apartment in West Bronx, I also worked as a financial advisor and stockbroker at R.O.B Inc. (Fuck you ROB.) something that really pissed me off, that bastard took away my memories.
"Rude. I just thought that it would make things easier in your new life, if you didn't remember anything personal from your old one."
I almost jumped when I heard the loud disembodied voice inside my head.
"Besides, you should be happy, my girls convinced me that I was a little harsh on you, so you get to sell me stuff in the game store and I give you the money through perfectly legal ways. It's basically free, reliable money laundering for you."
"Why would I need money laundering?" I ask, afraid of what this ROB has dropped me into.
"Everyone needs money laundering. Now, let's boot up your system."
I fell to the ground when i felt the worse headache of my life, gasping a little in pain I suddenly feel something happen inside my mind, it feels like there is a door I can open right inside my head; I open the door and hear.
Welcome Gamer
With this system you will be able to buy Items, Powers and Companions with game credits.
You will receive game credits by performing tasks that suit your class.
Now choose your class
(Hero) (Villain)
I feel myself grow pale when I read those words, just where have this ROB dropped me into? I look into my new memories and find a answer quickly, today is 15 of February 2009, and just two days ago Tony Stark was kidnapped in Afghanistan. I'm in the fucking marvel universe; there are people here that could kill me in the blink of an eye. Hell, I'll probably get vaporized by Thanos a few years from now.
"I told you were pissing me off. But it's not as bad as you think; you're just too much of a pessimist to see the good in it."
"How's any of this good? I'm in a fucking death world where some purple alien with a nutsack looking chin will kill me with a snap of his fingers a few years from now." I complain.
"You're being too pessimistic. You have a gamer system, and if you provide enough entertainment for me and my girls your system will be improved."
"Why can't you give me a better system now?" I complain. I know i'm starting to sound like a whiny, spoiled kid; but this bastard admitted that he killed me.
"You're still going on about this, I told you it was an accident, I didn't mean to kill you. And I'm not going to give you a better system because you annoyed me. Now choose your damn class so I can stop dealing with your whiny bitch ass and go back to my threesome."
"Fine, I also don't want you in my head anyway, so the sooner you fuck off, the happier I will be." I responded. Thinking for a few seconds I decided to go with Hero, I don't know if this world runs in comic book logic in which the hero always wins, even if they are far outclassed by the villain. I use the system interface in my head and choose Hero.
Welcome Hero. With this class you will gain credits by stopping crimes, defeating villains and defending the planet from outside threats. You can use game credits to buy items, powers and companions divided in five different levels. Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary. The game will now provide you with a random power.
Rare Power Granted
Super Soldier Serum (Captain America)
"You lucky bastard, you got a really nice initial power."
"Why are you still here?" I ask.
"I wanted to see what initial power you would get, you got lucky. Remember I want entertainment, so that little idea in your head will just annoy me even more, and if you piss me off to much I will just take you out of this world and drop you into Worm right in the middle of an endbringer battle, see how that super soldier serum of your works against leviathan."
Fuck. I was planning in putting in minimal effort, just deal with a few tugs and loot some gang hideouts, sell it all to the game store, and then use the money to buy stocks in Stark Industries when Tony returns from his warzone vacation. Now I'm going to have to put in some effort because some ROB wants entertainment; I definitely don't want to end up in Worm, it is even worse than Marvel, and Contessa would probably kill me as soon as I step foot into that world, or she would kidnap me so cauldron could run experiments.
I feel the ROB leaving my mind, the bastard is laughing at me, he probably read my thoughts. I decide to check the game store and see what I can buy in there, and how I can make credits; there aren't many options to buy from, the items store has guns, armor and tech, ranging from the basic revolvers that one would see in western movies, to star wars blasters and star trek replicators, there are even spaceships for sale, but they are all on the legendary category and cost a fuckton of credits. The powers store is similar, common powers are things like, martial arts knowledge and science doctorates, and legendary powers are things like omega level mutations and saiyan physiology. And the companions store has characters from a bunch of different worlds, I see the likes of Hermione Granger, Starfire, Ahsoka Tano and even Supergirl; there is even a bunch of Worm characters, which once again reminds me of the threat that the ROB made.
Deciding to stop my game store diving for the moment, I search for a mirror in my new apartment and find one inside the bedroom near the bed and use it to look over my new body. Light brown skin and hazel eyes, a nice curly black hair, I look a bit like a young Michael Jackson, just with slightly more aristocratic features, a more defined jawline and a smaller nose, which is pretty cool, and judging by my new memories, it helped me score with a few women who wanted to sleep with a MJ lookalike. My new body is also 188 cm (6'1) which is slightly higher than I was in my previous life. And I'm also ripped, which probably is due to the super soldier serum, since I could feel it changing my body when the game granted it to me. Overall, I look pretty nice, even if it is vastly different from my previous life.
I stop looking at the mirror and decide to familiarize myself with the world I was dropped into, turning on my computer I start to search for everything I can remember from Marvel movies and comics from my previous life. About an hour later I'm almost pulling my hair.
This world is a mess. It doesn't follow any marvel earth that I can remember, neither the MCU nor the comics. I can't trust that it will follow the MCU timeline, even if Iron Man seems to be the same as the movies; he even looks the same. The Fantastic Four are around for a couple of years already, already with a established rivalry with Dr. Doom; they even already had their run in with Galactus, thank ROB for that; I'm definitely happy I wasn't around when that nightmare came knocking. The Hulk is also already active for a few months now. From my memories, he had his fight with Abomination in Harlem just last month; I can even see some of the broken buildings on the other side of the river if I look out of my window. I also found some mentions of the devil of hell's kitchen, so Daredevil is also active. And don't even get me started on the mutant situation.
Magneto is a recognized world threat, with several terrorist attacks attributed to his brotherhood, and a few fights against the US army, particularly General Ross. There isn't a Massachusetts Academy, a quick search shows that Emma Frost is a seventeen year old, it seems things are going in the cannon direction of her running away from home. I will be keeping an eye on her situation, if she does run away I will step in and help her. A young Emma Frost is still a good person, not the stone cold bitch that her time homeless in the streets of Boston, as well as Hellfire, turned her into. And in North Salem things are even weirder. Xavier Institute doesn't have much internet presence, but teenagers will always be teenagers. A quick search on Instagram and I found a sixteen year old Kitty Pryde and a seventeen year old Jean Grey, both have listed North Salem as place of residence. which is pretty weird since I also found a seventeen year old Madelyne Pryor living in Anchorage, Alaska. I don't remember any marvel world were both Jean and Madelyne are alive at the same time, and have the same age. I couldn't find much on the professors in the Institute, the only one with an internet presence is Hank Mccoy, in LinkedIn of all places.
Searching for older stuff also shows that Ultron already happened, so it won't be going the MCU way. As in the comics, he was created by Hank Pym, and it's not entirely clear how he was defeated, the only thing know for a fact is that the original Wasp died in that fight. Searching Captain America shows his Commandos in WW2, including Wolverine. There is also a Red Guardian in this world, so the Soviets also had their own version of the good Captain. There are also some reports of the Fantastic Four battling with the Kree and Skrull, so the world already knows about aliens. Another person that is difficult to find on the internet is Selene; I don't actually find her, but I do find some things that seems like her moves. That's another terrifying person that I want nothing to do with.
I'm surprised to find a seventeen year old Peter Parker and no Spider-man. It seems that his spider bite still hasn't happened yet. Things are pretty weird in Midtown High, there is both a Mary Jane and a Michelle Jones, Ned from the MCU is also present, but Flash seems to be the jock that bullies Peter, instead of the annoying rich kid from the movies. Harry Osborn is also there, so we will probably be having a green goblin in the future. But the weirdest thing in that school is both Felicia Hardy and Gwen Stacy are also students there, and again, that is something that I don't remember ever happening in any marvel world.
I decided not to search Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D or anyone associated with it, if I did I would probably have agents knocking down my door in a few minutes. But I did find a lot on the many terrorist organizations in marvel worlds. HYDRA was pretty easy to find a lot on, but all of it was WW2 stuff, nothing about they still being active, so it would probably follow the movie verse, but even that is not guaranteed since it is pretty common knowledge that the Red Skull had a daughter, so there is probably a serpent society active as well, something that didn't exist in the movies. AIM is also easy to find, since they are already active. It seems they are the comics version, crazy scientist creating advanced tech and trying to install some sort of technocracy with a Kree like supreme intelligence, so I should probably look out for a MODOK in the future. There is an Aldrich Killian, but he seems to have no connection to AIM, so that one will also not be following the movies. Another difference for Iron Man is Justin Hammer, it seems he is the old guy from the comics and not the weirdo from the movies. Another terrorist organization already active is the Church of Humanity, and they are already burning mutants and creating mass chaos everywhere, all of this being led by William Stryker, so that's another thing going comic book style. And finally, I also found mentions of a mutant terrorist group called Marauders, so Mister Sinister is already active, hopefully that doesn't mean that Apocalypse will be rising soon, I definitely don't want to deal with that guy.
In more local news I also find out that the Kingpin is already ruling the underworld of New York, so I will probably be coming in conflict with him soon since I decided to go the hero route, although I will absolutely be looting the hell out of any criminal I defeat, and I will be hitting hard any of his stashes that I find, also looting everything not nailed to the ground. So I think I will be more of an anti-hero than a regular hero. There are also a few super villains already active, there were news of a guy in an armored suit robbing a bank just two days ago, looking at the pictures I can clearly recognize Rhino. And apparently Deadpool robed all the ramen in a convenience store just a month ago. Definitely not his style since he is mostly an anti-hero; but just crazy enough for me to believe it was actually him and not a copycat. Speaking of cats, apparently being still in school doesn't stop miss Hardy, there are two robberies that fit her style, both corrupt politicians, and in one of them a bystander saw a woman in a black bodysuit and with silvery blonde hair fleeing the scene trough the roofs, so that is one confirmed action and another potential one.
I didn't find any mentions of supernatural besides the usual crackpot theories in the internet, no Blade, no Dracula and no Ghost Rider. So it seems the supernatural veil is still on, although I did find mentions of Calypso, usually together with Kraven. So at least one sorceress is known to the world at large, but most think of her as a mutant, instead of the sorceress she is. No queen of monsters as well, but I did find some mentions of Belasco and Mephisto in a website that is mostly conspiracy theories, so there is some truth to it. Speaking of demons, at twenty three, Colossus is actually a little older than one would expect, judging by the age of most X-Men, who are still teenagers. And it seems his little sister has already disappeared, so we should have a Magik pretty soon.
But that's not something I should be focusing on right now, I won't be fighting any super powered villains, even if I have the strength due to my super soldier serum; I still have no knowledge of how to fight, one of the things I can remember from my previous life is my Karate training, but I stopped as a yellow belt, definitely not enough to go up against experienced fighters, and more importantly, the serum doesn't makes me bullet proof. I don't want to die, again, so I will be dealing with street level crime for now. I should be fast enough to close the distance on any regular gang member I find on the streets, and my superior speed and strength should help me win any fight against an unpowered criminal, even if they are more experienced than me.
(Quest)
Stop a crime.
Reward: Uncommon level hero costume.
I almost jumped when I saw the game notification appear in front of me. It seems the game wants to help me with my new job, and it is definitely a job, if I don't provide entertainment for the ROB, he will probably kill me, again. I imagine beating up a few tugs count as entertainment, just like an action movie.
I look up what an uncommon level costume would be like. Common level is just a spandex suit, kinda like Spider-Man's own costume, no defenses. An uncommon level costume has some material to protect the vitals, nothing too advanced, but enough to stop a bullet from a regular firearm, definitely good enough for a street level hero, which is what I will be for the near future. When I start to take on more dangerous enemies I will probably need a new suit, but for now, this one should do.
Now I just need to decide if I will be using a mask or not, there are some advantages to being an unmasked hero, especially since I'm an orphan in this new life and don't have any unpowered family to worry about. But in the end I decide to use a mask for now, maybe in the future I could unmask myself in a dramatic moment; give myself a bit of publicity. I also need to decide on a hero name. It has to be something heroic, something that people will feel safe hearing, even if I'm going the anti-hero way, I shouldn't have a name like Daredevil, or Punisher, I imagine those names don't bring any warm feelings to the regular folks. I think I'm going to call myself Guardian. It's properly heroic, and even with me looting all the money, drugs and weapons of the criminals I defeat, something I'm definitely planning on doing; people will still consider me a proper hero, just because of my name.
Deciding to look at the time, I look at my watch and see that it is a little over 9PM. The streets should be filled with criminals by now, so I could finish this quest today if I want to. Deciding to do just that; I look for something in my closet to cover my face while I go outside to fight crime; I find a nice black and blue hoodie and a mask that seems to be from an old Jason Halloween costume. I put both on as well as some gloves, looking at the mirror, I see that there isn't anything to recognize me in my new outfit, I didn't change my jeans, it wasn't necessary; with my gloves on my hands, mask on my face and my hoodie up, apart from my eyes, there is not a single part of my body visible, not even my hair since it is cut quite short. This should be enough to go outside and fight crime without being recognized by any of the kingpin's gangsters, or even worse; S.H.I.E.L.D agents.
Walking out of my bedroom, I go towards the front door of my apartment and put on a pair of sturdy boots, instead of my nice sneakers, definitely don't want to use those while doing my hero thing, too recognizable, even if there are probably millions more of those all over the world. Walking down the stairs of my building I suddenly feel a rush of adrenaline. What the fuck I'm I doing? I barely got into this world a couple of hours ago and I'm already looking for trouble, that's not who I am. Sure I can feel how strong I am now, even if I haven't tested yet; I know the serum made me stronger than a regular human, I can feel it. But that doesn't make me invulnerable; a bullet can still kill me quite easily. But I have to do something, or else that damn ROB will kill me again.
Walking out of my building; I keep my head down, looking to my left and right. The streets are quite full even if it is already somewhat late at night in a relatively bad neighborhood, but I guess that's just regular New York; I never been to the city in my previous life, but I heard it was pretty active. Choosing a direction to walk, I turn left and start walking around, keeping my head down while looking at every alley. I stay walking around for half an hour without seeing anything that I wanted to interfere with, no muggings, no women being dragged by some shady guy, the only crime I saw was some public indecency, a couple of teenagers fucking in a back alley, but it looked to be consensual so I left them alone. I was starting to get tired of looking around and finding nothing to do, so I decided that I wasn't going to keep looking for violent crimes, walking another minute or so I looked at a dark alley and found a guy just standing there, looking shady. Drug dealing is still a crime, and looting his money and drugs to sell to the game store should give me a nice bit of cash once my paycheck from my 'wall street job' at R.O.B inc; as the ROB said, free money laundering is an amazing service.
"Hey man, I'm looking for some weed, you got any?" I ask as I walk into the alley and get closer to the guy, still keeping my head down since I don't want him getting spooked due to my mask. Which doesn't work, since the guy seems immediately nervous, maybe I said something wrong, or maybe it is how I made my voice deeper so no one would recognize me, even I can hear how fake my voice sounds.
The guy doesn't respond, He just reaches for something on his back; I see a hint of something metallic on his hand and immediately act, my enhanced speed helping me punch him before he could completely pull out his gun. I can hear the crack of his jaw breaking due to my punch, and I immediately follow it with a kick to the hand holding the gun, making him drop it. The guy drops to the floor, moaning in pain while a go pick up his gun, checking to see if the safety is still on; I then put the gun in my own waist, trapped between my jeans and hidden under my hoodie. Turning back towards the guy I see him still moaning in pain, holding his jaw with his left hand, his right arm in a weird angle, it seems I also broke it with my kick. Searching his body I find a few bags of drugs, the usual selection and amount one would find with a back alley dealer; I also find a couple hundred in cash and a knife. Looting everything the guy had on him I pat him lightly on the shoulder, making him flinch, and say, still in my deep voice.
"Maybe next time you will think twice about a life of crime." I then walk away from the alley and start walking around again, trying to stop myself from shaking due to the adrenaline rush. If that guy was a little faster in pulling his gun I would be in trouble, but it seems like the serum gives me an even larger advantage against a normal human than I thought. I Walk around for another few minutes, not looking for any other crimes, just trying to shake off anyone that may be following me, I don't have any training to know if I'm being followed, but I know enough to hopefully shake off some amateur. After half an hour of cutting trough empty alleys and entering random open buildings just to walk out a couple of minutes later, I finally reach my apartment again. I know the guy I just beat up didn't follow me, and I hope no one else did.
Taking of my clothes, I hop into the shower and try to calm down my heart rate, the adrenaline still hasn't left me yet. After a few minutes I walk out of the shower, put on some sweatpants and turn on the TV on some random channel, just to use it as background noise. Opening the game interface, which is still weird since I can somehow see myself seating in front of a PC inside my mind; I see a message for me, I didn't even know that the game had a message feature. Opening the message I see it is from the ROB, praising me for providing entertainment so quickly. At least the bastard is not talking inside my mind again; I also feel a little bit relieved that he seems to not be thinking of killing me, again.
Opening my quests window, which I didn't even know I had, since the game's explanation was really lacking, I click in finish quest and see my reward appear in front of me. My new costume is black and blue, just like the hoodie I used; it looks a bit like Nightwing's classical costume, just with a full, black and blue, Iron Spider style helmet, instead of just a mask. The suit also has some armor to protect my vitals. Overall, it looks pretty nice, and I can definitely see myself using it in the future.
I spend some time familiarizing myself with my gamer system. It is a pretty bad system, compared to some of the ones I remember reading about in fanfics in my previous life. No stats that I can abuse the hell out of, the quests window says I will get quests at random, so no quests with massive rewards either. The game store seems quite nice, I could find almost anything being sold on it, all of it costing game credits. I look at my credits tab and see that I have a grand total of one credit. I click on it and saw that I gained this one credit when I defeated one unpowered criminal, it seems like it will be a nightmare to gather credits since every single criminal will only give me one; also, there is no explanation of how many credits I would gain by defeating a super powered villain, so I don't know if it would give me more credits or if it would give me the same as a unpowered criminal.
I sold the gun, knife and drugs I looted from the dealer to the game store and saw a new window appear, this one just said money. Opening the window I saw that my next paycheck from my 'job' at R.O.B Inc, would be a little below $ 2,000, It seems the game takes 10% of the sales, since when I sold everything it went for exactly 10% more than the amount I have on my paycheck. I don't know why; maybe the ROB wants some money but doesn't want to work for it; he seemed lazy, so it is possible.
I spent an hour thinking about what I would need in the future. I could buy knowledge and powers from the game store, so I'm definitely going to buy martial arts proficiency, my biggest strength and the moment is my serum enhanced body; knowing how to fight would put me in a nice position. I should also buy some kind of healing factor, or better yet, a healing companion. Mercy, from Overwatch costs 100 credits on the companions store. Expensive, but possible to buy in about a month or two, if I spend most of my nights beating up criminals. I should also find some way to be more effective in searching for crimes to stop, it is ineffective to just walk around looking for crimes. Emma Frost could help me a lot with that; her telepathy should cover a few city blocks, enough for me to know exactly where a crime is being committed. But I still don't know when she is going to run away from home. I could definitely use a hacker as well. Another girl from Overwatch catches my eye; Sombra also costs 100 credits, and she is one of the better hackers I could get quickly, her cybernetics enhancements making her vastly better than a baseline human. I'm I only thinking of buying female companions because I want to build a harem? No, not at all. Don't judge me ok. If that bastard ROB can have a harem, then so can I. And it's not like i wouldn't give the girls a choice, even if the game says that all companions would be unable to disobey my orders. It is way better to have a willing woman, than one that is just doing it because she has to.
But all of that is for the future; for now I should be going to sleep. I have a long day of crime fighting tomorrow.
AN 2: Isaiah had a nice little start on the marvel world. despite the minor panic attacks.
Things should be advancing quickly in the next chapter. Which may or may not include a major strike against the kingpin.
See you guys in the next one.
Comments
Matheus Araujo Sousa
If all things go according to plan there will be another two chapters of this fic coming out this week. The next one will be out probably on thursday, and the third on friday. Tomorrow and wednesday will be two chapters of Lily's Journal.
Shannon Smacher
I am liking where this story is going! Keep them coming!
