A loud beeping sounded in Patton's room waking him up for the school day to come. He very quickly smacked the button to turn it off and rolled over in his bed cuddling close to his sheets before realizing he's already awake and his body refuses to let him go back to sleep. He pulls the covers away and sighs at the realization that there is yet another school day today and he isn't even halfway through the year though that realization quickly passes by him as he also remembers the importance of today which compelled him to turn around and access his computer desk which was just next to his bed.
His messy black hair gets in his face and he quickly brushes it away with one hand while typing in his password which he would rather remain a secret in the other. After getting in and seeing the homepage he opened up his web app and clicked on his oldest bookmark, the official Arvler website page. Arvler was a multimedia enterainment giant who produced millions of comic book issues every year along with literally every other source of entertainment one could consume in a given year. The reason Patton opened this specific site, besides it being his favorite website to go on of all time, would be to check the live stream that was going on today about a new announcement for his favorite game of all time Heroes Wanted presented by Arvler.
A quick glance at the clock would hint to Patton that he needed to get ready for school right now but a further look back at his computer and quick memory of his grades being the highest in his class helped convince him to stay for a while longer at his desk and ignore school completely to be up to date on the thing that has wholly consumed his life at this point. Since the stream would be live in a few hours he needed to concoct a plan to convince his mom and dad that he was too sick to go to school and that he needed a day's worth of rest at least. Now the plan he came up with was simple all he needed was a tennis ball, some wire, and a mannquin as well as an accurate to life speaker system (which he of course had bought with his saved up money) playing the sound of someone coughing and maybe even thowing up if he needed to. Within the span of a minute though his mother came in and said. "It's time to get up Patton I don't want you to be late today and ruin that perfect record." Patton was caught dead in the act of his scheming though his mother didn't know it yet.
He sighed a sigh of despair but did not concede to the laws of school and life and said to his mother very bravely mind you, "There's an important update coming out today for a game and I don't wanna miss it could I skip today." His mother named Janet nodded with a worried expression and replied, "Are you sure you want to skip school today? You will lose your absolute perfect record of always being there on time."
"Yes please I'll make sure my grades don't suffer for it either I'll study for it."
"Well ok I'll call in that you got sick. I trust you." And with that Janet left his room and Patton air fisted with joy knowing that he had an entire day free to just himself alone in a room with just a short live stream to keep him company. He realized that he'd probably get bored after the live stream was over but decided that he'd just grind up a new character in Heroes Wanted like he usually did in his free time which he started now.
The game was opened after he pulled the stream page into his second monitor. He scrolled down his list of over twelve heroes each completely different from the rest thanks to the insane amounts of customization in this game. Finally getting to the shiny yellow "New Character" button he started making the ideas he had from last night thanks to that little girl's dialogue. First he made her look like the little girl and added a little age to her face to make her look like she was in her mid 20s afterwhich he would give her alittle more color and uniqueness adding her long red braided hair, blue eyes, and fair skin. Then he got to the powers section and realized he didn't actually think about her powers so he just gave her a basic flight power with an added hint of increased acrobatics and martial arts just so he could carry on with the creation. Next a hero suit, title, and name. He spent alot of time on this suit and it showed with the great detail in it. First the most prominent feature besides the basic black eye mask was the center piece of her suit, a silver oval that looked like it was contained by black lines that came from the collar and waist of her suit the lines themselves forming a bigger oval around the silver one. The rest of the suit was silver like the oval. She had a black belt on, that made her suit look like one piece. Her pants were silver with black lines running along the sides ending in silver and black boots. The entire thing was form fitting and man did she look heroic.
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The hero name and title came next which was simple, The Surprising hero Penguin, and he had just finished the character with around a minute to spare before the stream. Knowing his limits Patton decided to make a backstory after the update stream which started now.
A man who looked to be in his early 60s wearing a business suit was in the middle of what looked like a blank white room staring at the camera with a nice bright smile on his face. This man was the president of Arvler Game Studios Matthew Hodrick who actually started out as a writer for some of the comic arcs but quickly rose to his current position after he used his business and marketing talent to get there. "Hello fans of Arvler. Today an important game changing update for Heroes Wanted is coming." Just after that sentence Patton was inching closer to his screen in anticipation. "As you know currently in the hero world there is an invasion going on from a different planet that is kidnapping heroes and turning them against their allies. This arc concluded with a final fight with heroes and villains alike combining forces against this alien threat and right now this conclusive battle is going on." Patton took a picture of his character's attributes and switched to his current main hero "Shade" just to help out in the fight that was still going on. Suddenly though from the screen sirens started sounding and the screen was going in and out of red as if an alarm light was on. "Oh no they're already here. Be safe heroes I'll come help later." Metallic tentacles came through the roof and captured Matthew as a new voice came in. "Ah this is how they report updates to you heroes. Hello I am Ergbor, second general to the Verdant Empire. As you may know you are in a losing fight against us and I would like to tell you of the future to come. Firstly all super powered beings that aren't willingly allying themselves with us shall be captured and depending on how useful we deem their powers to be shall either be executed or turned into something more efficient to us. Of course some heroes will escape our capture. A few notable ones so far have been Quake and Shade so of course expect us to find you later on if we haven't captured you yet." Holy shit I just got mentioned by name. What does that mean I'm so scared and excited! But mostly excited. Patton's freak out lead him to getting Shade get beat by some of those alien foot soldiers. "Your world is ours now heroes and there isn't one of you that can stop us now. Good bye and see you when you get captured." After that the live stream went offline and the aliens started grabbing Shade. "We have him but we want the real Shade." A tentacle went straight for the screen of my computer and I jumped but kept trying to get Shade to break free while holding back that tentacle but soon Shade lost and the tentacle made the screen go black along with my vision as I fainted.