Chapter 5: Ch.5 Research
I spent the last 6 hours taking care of the random crimes I'd see around the city. I would only break some bones or knockout the simple criminals that were either drugies or petty theives. But, the attempted rapists, human/sex traffickers, and serial killers they would all be killed by me.
I had a limit that I would try to stay within, but people like The Hand, they would all die.
Now I'm not some psycho who would kill indiscriminately, those who were associated with The Hand because they were used or being forced to work for them, would be left alone and, if possible, rescued. But those directly responsible for the atrocities would have to pay with their lives.
Now, I have a decent level of power I can use against them, but if they were to see my need to protect innocent people, it could become difficult. If it is just one or two, I'd do absolutely everything I could do to try to save them, but if their deaths would stop me from catching the bad guy, I might have to make a hard choice. Although that choice would rarely come as I doubt I couldn't just catch the person later or right after I save said innocent person.
Knowing my powers, the only situation that would make it difficult would be if they had an explosive vest on or something I couldn't stop with my powers. For example, if someone was poisoned, I might be unable to save them, or if someone was being hypnotized, that's be difficult as if have to sundue them without hurting them too bad, although it'd be more difficult to even know if they were hypnotized.
I already know that The Hand could be that ruthless. The only unfortunate thing is if I had originally shown myself to abhor killing, them I could've used that against them if they tried something like "You are a hero, you don't kill" I'd just kill them immediately.
But, I knew that to force The Hand to focus more on me, which will be helpful when Dardevil and the Defenders start to go against them, I had to show them that I would kill without hesitation and that I would permanently take out their members. This was a guarantee I had to give them.
Anyways after I had finished my patrol for the night, now knowing that I am in a Marvel world, I made a point to start doing some research to figure out which Marvel world I was in.
(3 hours later)
Using a combination of my computer and some educated guesses.
I can see that I am in the MCU, but the full version of the MCU. What i mean by that is, I will have to deal with the plot of not just the movies, but all the related shows. (Disney+) The only upside is that, while mutants exist, they are still currently in another universe and i don't see them coming to ours anytime soon. The only annoying thing is that due to shows like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Inhumans, I might have to deal with someone like Ghostrider who is nigh invincible, and the inhumans who are very powerful in their own right, not to mention the Eternals and Celestials.
Thinking about the grand scale of things, while I am very strong in terms of ordinary people, and even some Superhumans, I am still not strong enough to guarantee my life, let alone my family's. I can absolutely never let my family be revealed. The Template System can help with that and King's Transformation skill. S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA will never discover my true identity.
Another thing I realized is it is only 2000 so I have eight years until the events of Iron Man. This time will be crucial for my growth as I have to become very strong in the meantime. If I am able to get more members of the Sins, or all of them if possible, I would be very, very powerful. Each of the Sins are a powerhouse in and of themselves, but Meliodas, Escanor, and Merlin are Overpowered beyond all hell
Merlin alone with her Magical ability, Infinity, is very strong. And if I was to learn Sorcery on top of that, I would be a force to be reconned with. If I ever roll a Merlin Template, I am 100% going to learn sorcery. I honestly wonder if Infinity could be applied to sorcery, there are so many things I could do. And as I have already realized, there is slight Influence from my slotted Template character that affects my personality as I take on aspects of their personality. I know that if I get Merlin, I may end up locking myself in a room to study magic and accidentally forget to do something important.
Well, that's all for the future. As of right now, I'm not even 10% into my current template, so let's leave that all for future me to handle.
During my three hours of research, I also wrote down as much as j could remember from everything MCU. I was a huge fan of it in my last life, I have watched the movies many times and I have seen almost every MCU show that came out on Disney+ in my last life so I had plenty of knowledge. The only ones I didn't watch were Echo, and Secret Invasion.
Well I watched a few episodes of Secret Invasion, I also didn't quite finish Loki Season 2, but I think I'd find it hard to even get to the TVA anyways to participate in the events of Loki.
Also since I seem to be in the Sacred Timeline, I can make a bunch of changes and it won't matter for many years as the TVA would cover up any issues. Does it suck that all those people and their lives would end, yes, but it's not like I could do anything about it, and I'm sorry, but there are just some things that have to change
There was a lot of things that I couldn't quite remember, but the basic plot of the movies, I am pretty sure I knew them like the back of my hand. I could definitely even quote some parts of the movie and different character's lines. I wrote as much of it down in a notebook, but I wrote it in the Fairy Language so no one would be able to read it.
I was surprised that I actually had memories of the Fairy language as it wasn't really explored in the Anime, but I'm sure it exists so why wouldn't I have knowledge of it.
I had made a quick list as Scott Lang's Pep-Pep always said "if you wanna do something right, you make a list"
So I did that.
I made a list of the things I had to accomplish in the near future.
One, get to 10% completion. Two, deal with as many Hand enforcers as I can, and three, make initial plans (may change based on which templates i get) for the next 5 years.
It was a simple 3 step process, at least for the time being.
'Ugh this is going to be a long process for the next couple years, but I'll take it one step at a time.