The system chat flickered to life in front of me, the glowing blue interface hovering like a whisper between worlds.Everyone had stopped talking about snacks, jokes, and their recent attempts not to accidentally conquer anything. Good. We finally needed to be serious.
[Alexander]:OK, everyone, enough chatting in the system chat. From now on, we talk to our people.
I took a breath. Even as a woman now—reborn as Alexander the Great—I could still feel the old pulse of command in my blood. Destiny had reshaped my body but not my mind, not my ambition.
[Alexander]:Julius, you're in charge of Rome. At least you're high‑ranking now. One of the strongest armies in the world—use it. And try not to get assassinated again. Seriously. We've already lived that once.
A laughing emoji from Julius popped up… followed by a skull emoji… which didn't exactly calm my nerves.
[Alexander]:And remember—we know the future of our historical selves. Try not to let the horrible parts happen in this world too.
This era—this Marvel era—was not something any of us should get cocky about. Sure, we were powerful. But this universe was crawling with things even I had no intention of fighting.
Thanos. Infinity Stones. Dormammu. Celestials.
And now SCPs.
Just thinking about SCP‑001, SCP‑096, or the Scarlet King made my skin crawl. Even with armies, tactics, and enhanced bodies, some of those entities were simply wrong. The type of beings you didn't fight—you survived.
[Alexander]:Let's not get overconfident. For now, we focus on the basics. We build our foundation. Quietly.
A message chimed from Sun Tzu:
[SunTzu]:Victory begins long before the battle. Information first. Always.
Smart man. Always had been.
[Alexander]:Exactly. Everyone gather power. Build influence. Find trustworthy subordinates. And get every piece of information you can about this world. We don't even know if we're in the movies, the comics, or something else entirely.
If we were in the MCU, we had a timeline advantage.If we were in the comics… God help us all.
[Alexander]:Once we know where we are, we start building. Slowly. Secretly. And safely.
One by one, icons lit up as everyone confirmed.
Julius would push into Roman politics.Sun Tzu would begin studying the modern world.Oda Nobunaga was already recruiting in Japan.Cleopatra said she had "a few ideas" in Africa—never a comforting sentence from her.And I… I would begin carving out my own base, the way I always had.
A final message appeared in the chat:
[System]:Objective Updated – Establish the Foundation (Stage 1).
I smirked.
Let the Marvel Universe tremble—quietly.We were just getting started.