48 Chapter 48: Vigilante
Author: Sorry for the late updates. I am too busy preparing to go to Saudi Arabia next week. It's short notice so I may disappear occasionally. I will continue writing to bring new content for fanfic!
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When the elf is in space, Ryan and Kai split their time to continue the experiment currently ongoing on the island.
They never bothered anyone, but some little girls peek at them sometimes. Kai waved at the girls when he saw them while Ryan was in a full black robe covering his face, actively avoiding them.
It's hard to imagine that they are the same people. They come to the island when they get some alone time in their life. But, they didn't disappear so many times that people were suspicious about it.
"The dragon keel can enhance life force, it can add to people's lifespan. That must be why the hand organization is dying to get it. "
Ryan hypothesized while experimenting on the keel. The keel is a crystallization of dragon bones, and it's brimming with energy.
"I wonder how Mythic and QueenElf are doing with it." The last time he asked, they are still experimenting on it.
Mythic tries to extract dragon force to make a Dragonite gene optimization fluid. While Queenelf uses the life force as a catalyst in alchemy. Both are still isn't successful.
At the same time, cloning technology is back! Ryan makes a two-user program so that he and Kai either can control the new clone.
The new clone will only be in the inventory and summoned when needed. It's to avoid him making a 3rd avatar.
"Don't patronize me! And don't look at me like that!"
Kai is looking at him doubtfully. He's going to make sure it didn't happen again.
"The quest will be complete when he disappears anyway, so it couldn't be used for long". Ryan said while summoning the avatar.
He picked a random one for 300 tc. Then, he upgraded it with basic gene optimization fluid and a magical potion to reach a peak human level. After optimization, the clone reaches 177 cm tall from the original 170.
The 20 years old Latino with brown eyes and brown shaggy hair, with caramel skin that could be mistaken for tanned skin, is now online.
"It's a waste if the body is too strong. And it'll also arouse Hydra's or Shield's interest." After a few days of training, get used to it. The clone is now ready.
"Your name shall be…' Vigilantee' for now!" He remembers a certain hero in a show he watched before he transmigrated, and that becomes his reference in picking a name.
His curse of bad naming will follow him until his grave. There is some Nightwing superhero equipment. But he only takes the suit. He painted over the symbol. Makes it all black with dark green Tron lines. He keeps the mask as it is.
"When I'm fighting, my hair could fall, making DNA available. How the hell does Batman deal with it?". He added a static field to the mask so that his hair will stay still.
Never would he have thought that the quester didn't have any connection to the DC universe in the first place. It's just a die-hard fan wanting to see his imagination come true.
"Now, should I fight with weapons, or fight without?" He contemplated for a while, then he decided to use a dagger.
"I am proficient in too many weapons, it's hard to choose one." He brags humbly.
He didn't use magic weapons or vibranium, but the dagger is made with the best existing alloy and is sharp. He designs it to look like Jin-Woo's snake dagger, but with a dark green pattern instead of yellow.
*swoosh* *stab* *swoosh*" It looks cool when dual wielding. " Kai is practicing with the clone, while the main body is recording the data.
As they think the character is ready. "It's time to beat up some people!"
…
In an alleyway at 35th Street on Clinton. The scent of the rain is lost with the smell of a urine-filled place where some thug can't keep it in their pants anymore.
"Hey baby, where are you going?" a group of gang members, all of who have pompadours, is surrounding a woman on her way back from work. They snickers while trying to grab the woman.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!", she screams as the gang tries to touch her.
"Don't scream now baby. Scream later when we show you a good time!" A sleazy, sweatshirt-wearing Italian man with an extremely hairy chest, said this sentence disgustingly.
A hidden figure cuts into the conversation.
"Of course, the woman will scream. When you show your 'ugly, tiny thing', I don't think anyone could hold their screams."
"Who the hell are you!" they yelled at the source of the voice. The guys on the first-floor fire escape, and are eating a bag of chips while sitting cross-legged.
"Hello there. I'm representing your parents. It seems like they didn't teach you well and they want me to fix their mistakes *munch*"
"You superhero wannabe. WE are going to beat you!" The gang members start to take out their knives.
The woman takes advantage of the distraction and runs away from the alley. She is not heartless in doing that. She is going to call the cops right away!
"OH MY GOD! MY ONLY WEAKNESS! A SMALL KNIFE! " Vigilantee is very satisfied with his performance ignoring the gang member's vicious eyes.
"Hahahaha, I'm going to kill you" the thug is happy seeing that. It is before the cold water is poured into his thoughts.
"Really? How are you going to get to where I am?" The superhero is on the first floor. And the stairs to the ground floor could only be accessed from where he is sitting.
"F*ck", the gang member tries to jump to grab the retractable stair and pull it down. But none of them could do it.
"This is sad".He continues to instigate the gang member. The gang member changes their strategy. They need to beat up these guys tonight!. "Come down if you're so tough!"
Vigilantee laughs. "Oh my god. Stop. I'm crying. You guys are sadder than the three-legged dog commercial."
He stands up and dusts his pants for the dirt. "But sure, I'll come down!"
Instantly, he jumps on the retractable stair and it falls directly on top of the head of a thug who stands directly under it. *Bam*
'One down' He lands on the floor.
"GET HIM" the gang member ignored their fallen friend.
"You guys aren't gentlemen. Couldn't you wait until I'm ready? I guess that's why you need to find a woman like this."
"SHUT UP!" The first thug throws a punch at his head. He avoided it easily and swiped his leg. The thug falls easily.
"No manners, coupled with a face only a mother could love. You guys didn't have it easy right?" He said in an extremely sympathetic tone about their situation.
"ARGHHH", They are going crazy. Vigilantee avoided their punches and kicks for a while and keeps insulting them.
" It seems like today's lesson had to finish short". Kai, who is monitoring, and controlling Vigilantee at the moment, get an alert that the police are on the way.
He grabs the hand of a thug and swings the guy into his friend. The other two get a specialty head pounding by him.
Easily, the five gang members are beaten up by the hero. They lay down on the ground accepting their fate. But the hero is not finished.
"Also, I need to discipline you guys a little bit". A thug who had many broken ribs, a bloody nose, broken hand, and leg, said. "This isn't disciplined? "
Vigilantee took out a hair trimmer. *Buzz * "Those pompadours have to go!"
The gang member becomes horrified and pleads for mercy. "Please, they are the symbol of our existence"
"That's why they have to go." He smiles like a demon. He trimmed the first one's hair in the top middle of his head. Leaving a long bald spot where his pompadour used to be.
"Noooo!" the rest who see this crying, tears, and snots.
After finishing all five. He ran away as the police were a street away. He climbs back to the fire escape.
"Next time, I won't just cut your hair. If you know what I mean." he makes a gesture that only a man will know what he's going to cut, intensifying the gang member's terror.
When the cops get there. They are shocked to see the scene. Five fully grown men with bad haircuts are crying like children. Quickly, they arrested the gang member because of the victim's statement.
"Where is the other guy?" the detectives ask the thugs. They needed to find him, although he had helped, his use of force was excessive.
"Where is the vigilante?" they asked again. But every time they bring up the word vigilante. The thugs bawl even louder.
The horror of the guy is thoroughly imprinted on their mind.
The clone, who is satisfied because of the pompadour that had been bothering him ever since the gang was established, is now running across the city finding more crimes to stop.
That night, there were many sightings of the new vigilante in New York City. He stops bank robberies, helps people in a crash, helps an elderly lady cross the streets, helps a cat stuck on a tree, and many more.
"Who is the mysterious vigilante who is stopping crime all over the city? I'm with a witness who has the chance to talk to the hero." a news channel TV interviewer is holding a microphone at the witness"
"Yes ma'am. The Vigilantee is awesome. He jumps from the second floor and dropkicks the bank robbers."
"You say that he told you his name. Can we know what it is?
" His name is Vigilantee. "
The interviewer is confused." Not what he's been doing, that is a vigilante. But what he calls himself. "
The witness is helpless and explains." He calls himself Vigilantee. It is spelled with a double 'e'..... I don't get it either"
Day came quickly, and now, what he'd done is being discussed by the people of New York. While people are discussing him, the person in question is sleeping in the inventory space.
Domingo laughs loudly. "HAHAHA" He is very happy today. The gang that keeps harassing its customers has been beaten up by a new hero!
"He shaved their disgusting hair! HAHAHAHA", the black man rolls on the floor laughing.
Meanwhile, Ryan is recording today's data and analyzing them.
"For movement, especially across the city, buildings are limited. That's why spiderman uses his web I guess."
'Hmm, should I make some for myself? I've already cracked it long ago, he thought for a while but he decided not to.
"Let's make batman's utility belt + attack on titan 3D maneuvering gear"
It took only an hour to make the equipment. His mechanic level is high enough not to bother to make a blueprint for these first.
"The compression technology is useful for this. Or the 3D belt gear will be too bulky."
Now that the belt is finished "As expected, Shield starts to move. I guess it must be because of the video."
There's a video viral on the Internet, from him fighting the robbers. After he dropped kicked the first robber. "Hi, sorry to drop in?" he says while smirking.
"Mike!! YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!" The other two of the trio start to open fire at him using their gun. *Bang Bang Bang*
Multiple shots were fired, but the outcome that the robber expected didn't happen. *Ting Ting Ting Ting*, all the bullets got blocked by Vigilantee dagger making sparks of fire.
" Hey man, I know you're a quick shot but don't do it in front of kids!"
If he avoids the bullet, the hostages behind him are defenseless. He wanted to tank the bullet as his suit is bulletproof, but he moves on instinct. 'It's hard to let it hit'
Horror appears on the rest of the robber's face when the man cuts the bullet." Wait, we surrender!"
"Put the gun away, then we will talk", Vigilantee said. The robber quickly throws their weapons. He tied the robbers using a cable tie and said to the hostages. "You guys can come out now"
The incident isn't big, but a video of him fighting the bullets is recorded by a kid hostage. It was then uploaded online.
In the Internet discussion.
>[That man really could fight against firearms! If the incident is not reported I will guess that it's fake?!]
>[Is he like Captain America? HE'S SO AWESOME!]
>[BUT HIS NAME SUCKS! Sorry to say this, but he named himself Vigilantee. With a double e.]
>[Should we give him a new name?]
>[I guess we should. What about V. V for Vigilante, like V for Vendetta from the Knight movies..]
>[That's nice. Let's call him V from now on!]
The whole community is agreeing to it at the moment. The person in question is not realizing it because his focus is on Shield.
A group of agents dressed in black suits are trying to locate him. "Anything?" Jasper Sitwell, the leader of the operation, asks the agents under him.
"No sir! There's no evidence, and he escaped using the sewer." The sewer of New York is like a whole other city.
"Let's move to the next location, see if there is anything that could lead us to him"
Monitoring the shield agent using a spider drone. Ryan said "This is the first time we confront each other. Let's see how long I can be hidden"
He smirked. He can do whatever he wants now that there aren't any restrictions on the clone.
Kai looked at him with weird eyes. 'Didn't you already confront them before?'
"If I want to get all of New Yorker acknowledgment, I should be around during the day too." Ryan contemplated before he made a decision.
"Watch out New York. Your friendly neighborhood Vigilante is here!"
Epilogue: Two detectives are hanging around the police station. One of them asks. "Do you want to see something cool?"
"What is it?", his partner said.
The first detective yelled "VIGILANTEE !"
In the holding cell nearby, 5 half bald people started to cry. "Waaaa"
Both detectives are amused.
…
In the times he isn't focusing on the new vigilante, Ryan lives by making manga all the time now. He didn't have a new public project, so he spent almost all of his time at home.
His day went by ordinarily, until one day…*Boom*
Tony Stark landed on his balcony wearing his Iron Man suit.
"Hey kid I've got a bone to pick with you "
"What's up oldie?" Ryan said without fear, still scribbling away at his paper.
"Look at me while I'm talking to you, you little sh*t" Tony got laughed at by Happy and Pepper because he didn't realize the defacement Ryan made on his Iron armor.
He had to move up his production on the Mark 3 armor as he couldn't accept the reality that his design was no longer a sure thing.
"Oh my, is that thing the cause you didn't show up in the public recently?" Ryan pretended to be shocked, which greatly irritated Stark.
Tony had prepared something in retaliation.
"This is an invitation for a formal party by Antonio Marcelli, a used-to-be black market dealer who wants to go legit...well at least on the surface…" He throws a piece of paper to Ryan.
"There will be a lot of important characters at the party. And also many beautiful models from all over the world."
"And, what does that have to do with me?" Ryan is confused by this. 'Did he expect me to go voluntarily?' He looks at Stark with pity in his eyes.
"You might think that you don't have to go if you don't want to. But, don't forget, you're playing me aren't you?"
'Ahh,' Ryan realizes it now. If he wants to play like Tony Stark, he needs to go to the party. "That's devious, old man. "
Tony chuckled. "I've already RSVP'd for you. Have fun~" He flies away.
Ryan is a little annoyed. The party is this night, so he didn't even have time to prepare. "Albus, notify Hiddle on the helicopter"
Without moving from the spot, his suit flies to him on its own and wraps around his body. The tie on his neck makes the knot themselves. The handkerchief folds itself automatically and enters his pockets. His shoes wear themselves while he is walking.
"Sir, Hiddle already prepared the transportation for you. Did you need all your bodyguards to come with you?" The AI asks.
"There's no need. Only Bryan is sufficient."
He underestimated his luck in this world. Fate seems to play a trick as there is going to be a special operation by Shield in the party that is also holding a special auction for the VIP.
An hour late for the party in Las Vegas, Ryan enters in style as he drops from the helicopter in the middle of the party on the open area at the mansion. He got so many dirty looks from the models as their hair was messed up from the wind.
"Ladies..ladies.. Don't get mad." He puts his arm around two gorgeous models, one Cambodian and another Russian that is dressed extremely sexy " How about I make it up to you. My new movie lacks a few beautiful actresses"
After agreeing on some empty promises, the girls are now appeased. His arm is still on the model's waist though, until…
"Mr. Knight, when Mr. Stark said you're going to take his place, I was skeptical."
A short, fat, man that is the host of the party comes to greet him. Ryan is shocked that his pupils shake a little when he sees the man.
'Big-round nose, short-curly hair, a thick handlebar mustache with its underside scalloped into bumps…that's Mario isn't it?'
His meeting with the host is monitored by a red-headed woman in a two-piece red dress and reported to the team outside the mansion.
She hears a response from her earpiece. "Knight might be your ticket into the VIP auction. Get close to him"
Black widow, who is on duty, confirms the order and moves toward Ryan who was just receiving the invitation for the VIP auction by the host himself.
She acts coquettishly around Ryan. "There is an auction?? Oh my god… I wanted to go to one…"
His interest that was dying even with the auction rekindled as he sees the redhead that is approaching him.
'It seems that there is something in the auction that can arouse Shields' attention!'
He releases his hand that was around the model's waist and grabs Natasha's. "Why don't you come with me, babe? I'll even bid on an item for you"
