The air was charged with electricity, my armor was broken in several places and I had barely any support plates left.
In front of me was the one who had left me in this state, just a young man who awakened the same abilities as me because he was cosplaying as me when he gained his 'trust value', which made this fight happen in the first place. I could tell him the truth, tell him that all this was probably an advertising campaign to replace him, but what would be the point?
Even behind all that hatred he could see in him what he had once seen reflected in himself when he was young, determination.
When he was young, he dreamed of being a hero, he aspired to be the best and surpass Zero. But when he finally became a proper hero Zero had just become corrupted and that started a war of all against the one who was once the number 1 hero, curiously the one who led the last fights against Zero was himself. He remembers the skies tinged with macabre colors, bodies everywhere, both of comrades and civilians. The rage he felt at the time toward his former idol, he also felt the trust of all of humanity empowering him.
They won, but by the time Zero died it was too late, the seed of evil that corrupted him in the first place had spread like wildfire.
____ fought tirelessly for years to eradicate that stain, that 'fear'. But it was too late, over time the associations wanted to control both 'fear' and 'trust' and began to turn heroes into guinea pigs, just commercial puppets. He couldn't escape that end either; he was manipulated into committing horrible acts until he decided he'd had enough and began to ignore them, this didn't bode well with them and I guess they finally decided to take me out of the game and replace me.
He could win, he could just ignore his manager's voice telling him to use his special attack and go head on. It would be easy, that's why until now he has been on the defense, he was better physically and had more experience.
But for some reason his body moved before he could decide. His arm began to rise, the already charged atmosphere became even more so, his remaining support plates rose into the sky and with a bang a violet ray emerged with a roar that resonated throughout the stadium, this is his special attack '_____'. His opponent didn't flinch at this, but that's normal, he knew that the boy wanted to finish him off using the gap that his special attack left. The boy approached with his charged attack and he did the same.
Only the one with more determination and more 'trust' will win.
¡Boom!
A figure stood upright, missing its left arm and with lightning, mostly blue, surrounding him. Another figure lay on the ground, the top of his armor was shattered and barely holding below, he was bleeding out rapidly.
______ never thought his life would end like this, he should feel angry or sad. But he just felt at peace. He finally passed the torch to someone else, even if it wasn't his choice.
'I wish I had a second chance, to do better...' the dying _______ thought in his last moments.
Except they weren't.
_______ opened his eyes to a light, a light that made him close them again. He tried to move his arm to see what it was but it did not obey his command, plus his body felt weird.
'I survived the battle? Well even if that's the case I must have ended in a really bad shape plus the kid must have kept my trust, in this state there's no way I can defend myself if they send someone after me' he thought having already accepted his fate
After a while, his eyes began to adjust to the light. He was in some kind of bed (he could tell from the softness of it) and there were bars surrounding it, it looked like a cell and the ceiling was very high. He looked to his right and saw...a baby's hand?! No, it was the same size as him but it looked like a baby's hand...I tried to look for the person to whom that hand belonged but he couldn't find anyone.
'where the hell have they put me?' ____ thought, bewildered.
~Scretch~
______ heard a noise in the room it sounded like a door being opened, but it sounded much louder than it should have. He also heard voices, a woman's and a man's.
"Oh, darling, our treasure has woken up" The mysterious woman said
"That looks like it, honey. I'll see if he needs anything" The man replied, it looked like a couple.
"Oh, wait for me darling" The woman added before footsteps were heard along with the sound of another door opening.
______ wasn't nervous, if they were enemies he couldn't defend himself so being nervous wasn't worth it. He was more curious, they sounded too 'normal'. He heard them approaching his cell, their footsteps echoing around the room.
He was staring at the ceiling, calm and trying to take advantage of these last seconds of calm when suddenly..¿two giant faces? appeared on the ceiling. He wasn't scared, he had seen much worse things in his life.
'Gigantification abilities?' _______ didn't remember there being heroes/villains who could become that big.
The giants then grabbed him from his prison and carefully lifted him into the air while they were talking to him.
"How's our champion doing? Yes, you're doing very well, aren't you? You've been born strong, just like your dad" The man, and the one who was holding him said
'Why they are treating me like I am a child? I am older than you, young man' ________ asked in his mind, he wouldn't talk yet because he wanted to see if he could get some information out of this exchange.
"Yes, but he inherited her mother's beauty" the woman said what seemed like a joke that ______ couldn't understand.
________ had already observed everything he had to observe and decided to ask directly what had happened in what he intuited were days. But when he opened his mouth to speak, his voice didn't come out, just baby noises.
Oh
Oh
In ______'s mind something clicked
The baby's arm, the 'giants', the little control he had over his body and the sound that just came out of his mouth confirm everything he needs to know.
'I'm a fucking baby?!'
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Timeskip: 16 years
{Ray Meiner pov}
A/N:I chose the name 'Ray' after thinking of 'Rai' which (as far as I remember) means 'lightning' or 'thunder' in Japanese and with the surname I spent a long time searching but I didn't find anything symbolic enough, so I put what seemed best to me, i'm open to suggestions.
Ray, that was my new name, ironic I guess.
It's been 16 years since I reincarnated in this world, I don't remember much of my first year since I was sleeping most of the time.
What I do remember is that it was the most embarrassing year of my life, of my two lives. I couldn't control my body and I would defecate on myself, I didn't feel 100% in control of my emotions and senses, and I still remember when my 'mother' fed me for the first time...when that happened, I prayed to be killed again.
That makes me think about my 'family' in this world. His mother in this world was the owner of one of the largest companies in the world, which specialized in designing and creating weapons, usually for the army but sometimes they also worked with private companies and police forces. Meanwhile his father was a highly decorated soldier who was already retired and currently served as an intermediary between the army and my mother's company (basically the head of marketing when it comes to the military).
Both were around 50, with their mother being a year older than his father.
This new life has been full of emotional difficulties, on the one hand the relationship with his parents was uncomfortable on his part, in the end he remembers other parents who raised him and taught him everything he knows and that made it difficult for him to deal with them at first, although that is now water under the bridge and his relationship with his 'new' parents is very good as of now.
And the worst came when he started going to school, he thought it would be interesting at first, but not at all, he already knew everything they taught and he couldn't stand how immature most of the children there were, so his parents started teaching him at home hiring personal tutors. They didn't last long, everything they 'taught' him was something he already knew for the most part, so by the age of 10 he was already studying at university levels.
They called me a 'genius among geniuses', his tutors wanted him to come out into the light and make it to the news, but his parents didn't think the same and decided to cover him up. He respected that decision and preferred it to the pressure of facing the press without his mask.
Right now he was on his way back home from buying tools from the store. I was near the a crosswalk when I saw it, a child under 5 years old had let go of his mother's hand when she was not looking and had tried to cross, the bad thing was that it was red and a car was about to run over the child.
Ray, who was watching this happen in slow motion, decided to act, checking that there were no cameras, he quickly took a step and disappeared from his previous position like lightning. Literally, since he covered all that distance in less than a second and placed the child on the other side of the crosswalk, where he would be safe and then return to its previous position as if nothing had happened.
Oh, did he forgot to mention it?
His powers also accompanied him into this new life.
Ah, he still remembers the day he got his powers back...
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Andddddd cut-
Yes, I'm going to leave it here, because I'm that bad hahahaha.
No, now seriously it's because I'm tired and as a pilot episode it seems enough to me.
I really wanted to do something with Tbhx but since there is still a lot of lore left for most of the characters I decided to use one that is already out of the card deck, that is, the old 'e-soul'. I think I'll be able to do some fun things with this fic, and I'm telling you now that you won't be able to guess the world he's in, at least not until the second or third chapter. I warn you that E-soul in this world is very broken, meaning it will be more of a slice of life than an action fic.
I will continue this fic randomly since I am more focused on my fic of being reincarnated in Teyvat as the heavenly principle.
-MrMotivated out :)