Hello, my name is Jason, an average college student with a completely average life… and maybe below average intelligence that I'm currently in third year engineering but in my fifth year of collage.
In my defense, that was a bloody nightmare. I preferred to enjoy my own entertainment in my own space, I never really went out and tried new things, I was an ambitionless bum with no prospects in life.
Now what friend would an underachieving ambitionless bum with very little prospects in life have, well obviously it would be someone who's ambition and intelligence could be considered a gift to mankind.
I don't know how the hell we ended up as friends but it seemed to be a match made in heaven.
I watched as that man would come up with the most outrageous ideas ever.
You'd think that I would be jealous of him, and admittedly I felt very envious and self-conscious of myself, but those emotions faded overtime.
Another thing that made our friendship unlikely was the freaking age group. He had skipped multiple grades in the education system while I was stuck on my third year of engineering. So despite being at the same level, I was technically five year older.
He was honestly the best friend I could ever ask for… was.
I was on call with him when a loud bang came on the line and a hour later, the news spoke of the incident aswell as the casualties.
Now I'm makeing my way to his house, to clear his browser history… he never asked me, it just felt like the right thing to do.
I knocked on the door hesitantly and there I saw his mother opening it, her face completely covered in tears, "Hello Jason."
"Can I… come in?"
She let me in and lead me to his room… apparently, she has already guessed what I was here for, 'Just what the hell have you been telling your mother Simon!?'
We got to the door and Simon's mother, Ava instinctively knocked twice before realising her lapse in judgement.
We walked in with the intention of finishing my side quest when we found a shocking site. A man in a lab coat laying unconscious of the bedroom floor.
"What… the hell?"
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"Doctor, have you noticed the abnormalities with this patient?" A nurse asked.
"Yes, although he looks human in every sense, nothing about him is evens remotely biologically similar to humans in any fashion." The doctor said before noticing that another nurse was running towards him.
The nurse tried to catch her breath, "He's… he's awake."
"That's impossible, the amount of sedatives should be enough to knock him out for a week."
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I had woken up and immediately noticed the extremely primitive medical equipment at my bedside… well primitive from my perspective.
I sat up and a nurse came in, saw me awake and immediately left in a panic. I walked out in my hospital gown and there came an entourage of SWAT, behind them was a doctor and behind him was Ava and Jason.
Seeing the individuals behind the doctor, I felt a twinge of pain in my chest, 'Hello mother, hello Jason.'
"Sir, whatever you are, I'm sure you must be frightened and confused but if you come with me then maybe we can make some sort of deal?" The doctor slowly approached me in an attempt to coax me to do what he wants.
"Sleep." My whisper echoed and all the SWAT fell unconscious in an instant.
The doctor looked in horror at the scene before him, "Did you assume that I was some deranged and lost individual who was too naive to understand anything?"
"Um- I just… look, I just thought you would be in a little confusion." I moved closer to the doctor which made him close his eyes, until he opened it and realized I had walked past and dismissed him.
I walked closer to Ava and Jason which caused them to shriek in fear, they had heard that this humanoid wasn't actually human but they hadn't expected it to suddenly put everyone to sleep.
I immediately wrapped and unwrapped myself in fog and replaced the hospital gown with black casual clothes that fit the aesthetic of this world.
"Hello, can I talk to you two?"
Ava and Jason looked at each other in fear, but also in grief, that was until my next words, "I want to talk to you two about Simon, his death… wasn't an accident."
That now caught their attention and Jason stepped forward, "You know something about how he died? You better tell us now." Jason stood his ground until he realized what he was doing and what he was provoking.
But I only smiled at his behaviour, 'As brazen, impulsive and stupid as always, I'm glad I was able to see you again Jason.' My thoughts vanished in that instant.
"Who are you, what are you and how do you know my son?" Ava rapid fired questions at me in curiosity, desperation and grief.
"You're Ava, correct?"
"Yes Ava, Ava Winters."
Hearing that made me surprised, 'Winters? My last name in my previous life was also Winters. Does that mean that I chose that name for me and Velzard unconsciously and why don't I remember it?'
"Why don't we go on a roadtrip? It might clear our minds of… well everything."
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We had walked outside, ready to get into the car when we found a couple friends waiting for us.
"PUT YOUR HANDS UP WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!" A LOT of friends were waiting for us outside.
"Men please, let's talk about this calmly, I just woke up-" I walked calmly down the hospital steps which SWAT did not take a liking to.
"LIGHT EM UP!" And here comes the bullet rain… which just bounced off of me.
The SWAT trucks mounted guns sprayed me with bullets. Seeing that it wasn't working, they shot a missile at me.
Seeing that extremely primitive weapon come at me, I caught it in my hand, the missile struggling to trust itself anyway until it ran out of fuel, "That was just pathetic."
I crush the missile, causing it to explode in my face, I walked out of the smoke which caused all of them to look at me in horror. I levitated myself and flew Infront of the captain, "If you know what's best, I suggest that you leave right now."
But pride cometh before the fall, the captain swiftly pulled out a knife and attempted to stab me, attempt being the keyword.
I could tell that the knife was sharp but when trying to pierce my skin, it just seemed like a rubber toy.
"HEY!" I turned around to find someone holding a knife to Ava's neck, "Stand down or I'll slit her throat!"
I looked at the man with disgust, "You would use a grieving women as hostage. You're revolting." When my words fell, the man holding Ava hostage had fell limply, his lifeless body turning to dust.
As Ava fell from her loss of balance, I moved faster then sound up the steps to catch her and Jason just looked at the disintegrating body like a fanboy, " Holy shit, he got Thanos snapped!"
Before there could be another kerfuffle, the grayfog spread across them and scattered them across the spacetime of this current world.
I walked up to one of the SWAT trucks, put my hand on it and reforged it into a white bulletproof Lamborghini.
I opened the door to the shotgun seat and offered it to Ava, " After you Madam."