Chapter 02 - Revival

Very few people attend Joshua's funeral as he doesn't have many friends and his only family left is his grandfather.

The coffin didn't even have Joshua's remains because his body cannot be found and with that much lightning, it will be a miracle if they found one.

The Stark foundation made amendments by promising that they will take care of Joshua's grandfather and they will do everything to save his life.

Jessica bit her lips hard when she discovered Joshua's financial condition and why he was working so hard. She assumed that Joshua was just insecure because of their economic differences that's why he wanted to earn his own money.

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[System booting...not enough power, System Failed to boot]

[Neccessary Requirements Failed To Achieve]

[Sacrificing Memories...System Retrying...System Activated]

[Welcome to the System as a host does not have a body, the system will recycle SHAZAM body to create another vessel for the host.]

[Processing...Recreating Body Capable of containing a soul complete.]

[Inserting Soul...]

[Intergrating power's with the body...complete.]

[During the recycling process the body loses some of its essences resulting in a drastic decrease in power.]

[S.H.A.Z.A.M The letters in the name Shazam each represent a specific superhuman ability.

"S" - Wisdom of Solomon Lvl1.

"H" - Strenght of Hercules Lvl1.

"A" - Stamina of Atlas Lvl1.

"Z" - The power of Zeus Lvl0.

"A" - The courage of Achilles Lvl1.

"M" - Speed of Mercury Lvl1.

System Completed]

A white-haired young man wearing a black jacket suddenly appeared on top of a random abandoned building.

Joshua woke up with a splitting headache. It's like plenty of his memories had been erased, he didn't even know how he got here but one thing he knows was he had been revived.

The system flooded him with information on how to use it and how to acquire experience for more power.

Joshua still remembers everything that happened the day he died, but can't remember his childhood. Thankfully the system chooses his most unimportant memories but he still wishes that the system will make him forget about his cheating GF as he wants to remember her as a pure and kind lover.

Joshua sways his white hair and now red eyes. He was like a vampire from the movies and what's with the edgy get-up? He can feel the power flowing in his body as he clenches his fist and left to go to see his grandfather.

Originally his hair and eyes were black but it seems the system made some changes.

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A week before Joshua's Revival

Jessica was visiting Joshua's grandfather at the hospital. They both talk about things about Joshua.

"Ms. Neil I'm sorry but the visiting hour was now over. You can visit again tomorrow, the patient needs to rest."

"Well then see you tomorrow, grandfather," Jessica smile with a hint of suppressed sadness then left the room.

"Hohoho, My grandson is such a lucky man to score such a beauty..." The old man cannot hide the sorrow in his voice even with the playful tone.

After Jessica left the Doctor holding important documents entered the room.

"Mr. Williams, I'm sorry for your loss but our establishment finds an experimental procedure that might save your life." The doctor straightforwardly said.

The old man didn't answer and stare at the view of his window.

"We can explain all it tomorrow, I will wait for your decision and we're sorry for your lost," The doctor tries to leave but.

"I don't have money to pay and my grandson passed away so I rather choose to die than to suffer like this every day," The old man cough multiple times as the doctor proceeds to stabilize him.

"We found some sponsor so the procedure will be free, and I think your grandson will want you to live normally...after all, you own it to him so you need to live a happy life."

The old man gently stared at the doctor then said, "Family doesn't own anything to each other as flowers don't own anything from the bees. Families should live in harmony and when a person loses the last of his family...they tend to be a little crazy."

The doctor sweats and slightly fears the old man's words. The truth is the procedure is BS and they only want to do this procedure to milk the Stark Foundation money. The doctor knew that this procedure will be long and will surely kill the old man.

'Does he know?' The doctor thought.

"But you are right for one thing. It's my responsibility to live for my grandson so I accept the procedure."

The doctor then gave a long explanation while the old man just closed his eyes and listen.

The operation then immediately begin that night without Jessica knowing and ended up in an inevitable conclusion...Death.

Jessica was so furious but cannot do anything because Joshua's grandfather fully agree with this procedure. Jessica even asked for the body but the hospital said they can't risk giving her the body as it has a dangerous type of virus so they decided to incinerate the body.

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Dead of night, a few people are sitting in the hospital lobby, one of those people was Joshua as he was recently got to know the news of his grandfather's passing.

'Status,' Joshua thought as data was shown inside his mind.

["S" - Wisdom of Solomon Lvl1.

"H" - Strenght of Hercules Lvl1.

"A" - Stamina of Atlas Lvl1.

"Z" - The power of Zeus Lvl0.

"A" - The courage of Achilles Lvl1.

"M" - Speed of Mercury Lvl1.]

The power of Zeus is the most important part of Shazam because it improves all of his powers and increases his five senses, right now it's level zero so no super hearing for Joshua.

"Operation? Something was wrong, they immediately operate on him when they heard that the foundation was funding him, Those assholes just wanted the money," Joshua murmurs effectively creeping out the people beside him.

"And what was Jessica doing? Did she even care, I don't think so. She probably with her new..." Joshua continued to talk to himself as he heard something crack inside his fragile mind.

The world was cruel, they've taken his parents and now his only relative died because of human greed.

"Sir is everything alright? Are you alright sir?" Two guards, a female, and a male approach Joshua because the visitors are getting scared by him.

Joshua slowly looks up at the guards and smiles naturally, "Yeah sorry for the inconvenience, maybe I'm just lacking sleep."

The guards look at each other then asked, "Is your family currently admitted sir? The administration can inform you about their condition so why don't you go home and rest?"

Their voice has no hint of kindness at all, it's like they just wanted Joshua to leave as soon as possible.

Joshua stood up and removed his hood showing his snow-white hair and slowly opens his eyes.

The guards got goosebumps and unconsciously touch their batons.

Joshua look at them without any emotion then said, "I'm leaving..."

The guards sigh a relief when they saw Joshua leaving the premises.

The hospital didn't give Joshua the information he needed this includes the name of the doctor that authorize the procedure as he was technically dead in this world.

He also didn't have any of his IDs because it was disintegrated with his original body.

So without the guard noticing using his speed Joshua slip by and finds the information storage.

On his way, he encounters some personnel but a quick chop to the nape can solve it. He purposely dodges the security cameras so the guards will not be alerted.

After searching for some time Joshua finally finds a locked door that was guarded by two people so he quickly knocks them out but this time he can't avoid detection as he knows he was seen already.

He quickly destroyed the locked door by kicking it and started searching through the files. Because the of Courage of Achilles which is part of his power he didn't feel any fear and calmly search through the files.

Using the Wisdom of Solomon which increases his mental capacities and gave him vast knowledge he finds the file he was looking for but...it's all confidential every name is marked confidential and he has no way of knowing it.

"Raise your hand where we can see them!" The guards came at the scene said while pointing their gun toward Joshua.

A total of three armed guards are watching Joshua's movements like an eagle.

Joshua smirk and quickly disarmed the guard near him. Using one hand he throws one guard over to another knocking two of them with one remaining.

"I-I will s-shoot don't come n-near m-e!" The guard was shaking and not trained to handle this kind of situation.

Joshua quickly grabs the guard's collar and lifts him using him as a human shield as he walks in the corridor.

If files don't want to give him information maybe the doctors will.

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