HBWnovel Chapter 196 Last real threat from the 100
Chapter 196 Last real threat from the 100
Chapter 196 Last real threat from the 100
Evil 100 Member’s Point of View
I managed to kill someone during the test which got me enough points to buy many of the upgrades I wanted. I purchased Kryptonian physique, reality warping, speed force access, and power bestowal. With my body-swapping powers I purchased the first time and exchanged bodies with more and more powerful criminals until I was going to swap with Sebastian Shaw... For him to die right before I did and my target changing to Darren Cross just so I could get his suit I slowly stole more and more powerful heroes or villain bodies.
My current body was Vandal Savage. I could have chosen a more powerful villain, but many of my choices were murdered before I could get their bodies. If I retained the abilities of the person I swapped to when I swapped again I’d be a powerhouse by now but I was only an enhanced, immortal human with many tools and gadgets to my name. With the new influx of powers, I was an immortal superman who could think and grow faster the more speed force I absorbed and could warp reality around me.
I couldn’t help but have a smile on my face as I killed my rivals, with power bestowal I removed the biggest flaw in my ability to gain new powers as I could just capture the person, knock them unconscious, transfer over all the powers I gained before swapping to them and killing my previous body. I had planned on waiting for my plans to fall into place, I knew I needed to get stronger and acquire five or six key powers to steal Danny Storm’s body, but I couldn’t help but be excited at the thought of taking his body from him.
I was making my way towards Professor X who I’d speed blitz and knock unconscious before he had a chance to mind whammy me. The fact that I didn’t know all the powers Danny Storm had but knew enough that gaining the mind-controlling and mental defenses from Charles was absolutely necessary for fighting him. Time manipulation was off the table, but I could possibly strengthen my reality-warping abilities by body-swapping to another reality warper.
While I needed his powers... It wouldn’t hurt to pick up some of the more useful powers from the other members. Flying over to Krakoa was only a thought and as I landed on the island... I knew something was wrong. The attosecond I set my foot down an unknown power of my Kryptonian physique warned me that I just set off a magical spell that would let someone know when a powerful non-mutant landed.
It meant that these weren’t our original souls from Earth most likely and they were made from scratch at the same time our bodies were made and our powers were given to us. We were effectively ‘born’ when we came to this universe, which somehow made sense. Most of our ages were adjusted to eighteen. I turned my body to the side as I dodged a laser from behind me.
The magical protections I put on the island would alert other members, specifically the higher-ups in the X-men that someone very powerful just broke through. I looked back toward Scott before pointing at the lifeless but still alive body on the ground. The evil man had stopped breathing but it would take minutes for his body to stop functioning on autopilot as his bodily processes shut down one after another.
“Big threat is dealt with. I’ll stick around to explain what happened... But that guy is missing his soul which is.” I pulled out the soul gem his soul was in. “Is right here. I got to keep his body alive for a reason I’d rather not say so can I move over to him and begin life-saving processes to keep him from perishing?” Scott was in above his head.
This wasn’t the self-assured Scott from the comics but the young man who hadn’t grown into a hero yet. He had the same mentality as comic book Cyclops but lacked the knowledge to know what to do when something like this happened. As I moved over and picked the body up telekinetically, I started making it breathe manually with my molecular reconstruction.
I was keeping his body alive for a few reasons. The first was his Kryptonian blood. I had gone to the third-world country the younger villain had taken over and taken his corpse but it was always good to have a self replenishing supply of super blood. Was it kind of evil to keep him alive for his blood and DNA? Yeah, probably. As more X-men kept arriving I knew I didn’t really care.
The second reason was to have a backup body in case the worst ever did come to pass. It was odd how I could absorb the Kryptonian physique power while his body kept the DNA. Maybe, over the course of a few days, Vandal’s body would go back to just enhanced human but I didn’t think so. I think his body would stay Kryptonian and that it was just a glitch allowing me access to the power while his body retained the DNA.