5 Chapter 5: Rags to Riches
I've finished proof-reading and editing upto chapter 9 at the moment still stuck on 10 so I thought I'd send this one now, I will try switch to regular postings for Monday's soon when I have fixed enough written material.
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(MC POV)
10 October 2010
New Jersey, Robinson Bridge
3:14am
Looking at Gotham as I left on the back of a moving truck I felt great watching the cursed city disappear out of view, but a part of me also worried for the kids still left at the orphanage like the treatment they'd go through now after what I'd done.
Trying to forget about it I focused on the bright side of things like a new life, especially with all the cash I stole from the Falcones while probably not much to them was alot for me coming upto $183,350 dollars.
'This is the most money I've ever had, even in my last life'
I noticed a new problem I've developed and that's my craving for chocolate or more specifically 'Phenethylamine', so I eat least one chocolate bar a day which I don't mind too much because of my newly discovered sweet tooth.
I look at the new city in front of me called 'Bludhaven' as I stand up on the moving truck, I honestly thought it was a weird name but then again it's DC universe so I can't judge too hard.
Once I hopped of the truck the first thing I did was find myself a decent motel which didn't take too long when your near the main road, the 'Gypsy Paradise' a small 4-star motel but least they had Wi-Fi and came with a bath in the rooms.
Trying to book a room when you look ten made the clerk a bit suspicious of me but quickly turned a blind eye after I slid an extra $200, making my way up into the higher quality rooms they had I immediately locked the door before placing a chair behind it.
'Wait why am I doing this? it's not like I'm being followed, eh'
Making my way to the bathroom I looked at my filthy reflection in disgust, immediately looking away I turned on the shower/bath to hot and began scrubbing away at the dirt.
'Holy?! Guess this is what ten years worth of no showers looks like'
Brownish-black dirt and grime came off my body like a fountain as I began to scrub away with the brushes and soap, after an hour of full body scrubbing I was in my acceptable meaning of clean.
Looking at the water at my feet I was disgusted by the black tar as it sloshed around and immediately cleaned it out with the shower head, afterwards I began to fill the bath up with soapy water as I layed back for a moment and relaxed for the first time.
'Ahh... this is great'
After an hour I was finally out and squeaky clean, looking in the mirror I was shocked for a moment because my body was always so dirty I always thought my hair was brown but it turned out to be blond.
My now clean blond hair with my bright blue eyes and now with my smooth light skin I had gone from a hobo to a hunk, admiring my new looks I haven't be about to look at for over seven years was worth it and an improvement from my last life.
Leaving the shower with a happy mood in an oversized fansy cloth robe I jumped onto my large queen bed as I turned the T.V on and flicked it over to avaliable movies, but without realizing how tired I was within moments my eyes drifted off as I fell asleep.
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(?? POV)
10 October 2010
New York, ???
2:05am
*BEEP BEEP*
*BEEP BEEP*
*BEE-*
"Uhh.. You know what time it is?" he spoke
*It's 2am* the voice spoke flatly
"Thats not the issue... huh, what is it? it's not like you to call unless it's important" the man asked.
*The Falcones were attacked last night exactly forty-four killed, I have one suspect. But I assume he's already left the city and you know I can't leave Gotham right now, with the other gangs trying to move onto the Falcone's territory it's getting chaotic*
"So you want me to make my way down and grab him for you?"
*No, I need surveillance on him and report back... Avoid approaching him, you don't want to set him off. I'm sending data now*
...
"You joking right? he literally just turned ten"
*...And extremely dangerous, the Falcones were running a drug ring operation using the orphanage he was living at before selling them off to rich clientele for their... personal use.
Add he's just awakened his metagene which appears to grant an assortment of ablilities and you have a mentally unstable child with powers out for blood*
"He needs help Bruce not surveillance, he's probably scared and doesn't know what to do"
*....*
"Alright I'll assemble the team and get eyes out on the kid... Robin out"
*BEEP*
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(MC POV)
12 October 2010
New Jersey, Bludhaven
1:26pm
Waking up in a warm soft bed was a feeling I couldn't even begin to describe as I slowly sat up to see if there was interesting on TV before turning it off, taking off my robe I generated some clothes similar to what I've wore for the past few days as I quickly leave my room before locking it.
Noticing it was mid noon I didn't care too much about it as I was needing something to eat and from yesterdays experience with motel food had me wanting something else, walking out along the street for a few minutes I eventually took a bus into the middle of the city.
Once I arrived I started to roam around again digesting the different smells of food slowly causing my appetite to take over as I began to drool, I stopped when I found what I wanted as I entered a store with the sign [ Antonio's Pizzeria ] and came out with a large meatlovers with extra cheese.
'Mmmm... Oh my God I missed this'
As I enjoyed my pizza I continued to roam taking in all the views before I crunched over to the sudden sounds of gunshots, the sudden thought someone from Gotham found me and entered my head till I looked over and noticed it was an arcade machine.
Looking at it inquisitively I couldn't recognize the game so I ended roaming the arcade and watched the different people playing till I finished my pizza, getting behind a car game I had a go but lost embarrassingly for some reason.
'I know it been a really long time since I drive but I can't be this bad can I?'
After another two trys I started acing the game ending up on the leaderboard placing 2nd losing to some guy called 'GarLo', ignoring my bit of frustration I continued to jump on multiple games and enjoying every I've missed.
I ended up playing on a dancing game when some kid in a hoodie jumped up next to me onto another dancing platform next to mine, I couldn't make out his face in the poor lighting of the arcade but I'd guess he was about my age.
'Sorry dude but I'm playing to win'
As we played surprisingly neither of us missed a beat completing [Novice] [Easy] [Normal] and [Hard] and both made our way to [Extreme], "It's been fun dude but I'm gonna win" I said with a grin as the game picked up pace with the music booming we even drew a crowd.
"Na uhh, I'm the king of the dancing ring... You ain't gonna beat this Beast" he joked.
I smiled for a while because I was starting to like this guy and sadly I didn't win the game in the end; it became a tie, I shook my head a for bit introducing myself to the boy.
"I'm Dylan" I said as we shook hands.
"Garfield, but friends call me 'Gar' " he replied.
I froze at his name for a moment because I know I knew it from somewhere but wasn't sure from where, then I remembered the racing game I played where I placed 2nd.
"Your not player 'GarLo' from the 'Highway Cruizers 3' are you?" I asked with a competitive smile.
Garfield gives me the same look and I know immediately we're gonna be friends as we both quickly made our way to the racing game to start a match, "So where you from?" Garfield asked as we raced.
"I not really from anywhere, Where I lived before... It wasn't a good place to grow up, Alot of bad stuff was going on so I decided to move" I replied
"Thats gotta suck... I sorta know what that's like though, I lived with my family and everything was going well till some stuff happened and I ended up alone but recently I got friends now who look out for me" said Garfield.
".... I envy you I don't have friends, heck I don't even know if I have family..." I answered not knowing why we just kept talking about our problems growing up during the game, even though it hurt talking about some of the insecurities I had I actually started to feel better because of it.
[You've come 1st Place]
[GAME OVER]
We sat there for a moment of silence before Garfield turned over to me "If you want, how about you meet my friends? you'd like them, then we all can be friends" he asked, I looked at him with confusion, "We're friends?" I asked.
"Don't you want to be... Am I not good enough to be a friend? It's not because I'm vegan?" he answered jokingly, I couldn't help but laugh for a bit before shaking my head "No no no.. we can be friends" I replied before we laughed.
Soon after some more games we both departed but had to make plans to catch up again on Saturday since I still didn't have a phone to keep in contact, I really needed to get a phone but I was still a bit paranoid someone could track me.
'Haha what am I kidding I'm fine...'
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