BY J. TNANGA
Chapter 4: My STRATEGICAL genius plan………. that would put other geniuses to shame!!!!
The ape then approaches my direction, then, just like each and every time someone with superpowers approaches me, my Replication ability automatically activated…..
SUPERPOWER DETECTED…..AUTOMATIC REPLICATION HAS BEEN ACTIVATED…..COPYING ABILITY….TIME REQUIREMENT 45 SECONDS
SUPERPOWER: FEARLESSNESS
I knew I had to do something or else people could end up dying, so, I did the one thing I could possibly do. (I ran like my life depended on it, which of course it did. What? Expecting me to fight those GIGANTIC APES CAPABLE OF LIFTING CARS? Don’t kid yourself, my life is way more important than a suicidal mission, this is NO SUICIDE SQUAD!!!!)
Just kidding. (But I did run to my parents though) and that’s when things started to get real. Yeah, that's right, things started to get REAL. Another ape came out of nowhere, he was all out of breath and everything and even though my parents and I were hiding under the ruins of our house (What? Ruins? What, did you think our house got superpowers and somehow survived the car that was thrown at me with remarkable precision?.....)
Come to think of it, I only noticed the Ape that lifted the car and threw it at me because I was looking out the window, yet, it knew exactly where I was and where to throw the car, it was almost as if he could see the whole neighborhood. (No, really, this whole invasion thing was way too precise, waiting for evening time, and attacking the neighbors with such precision, that can’t be a coincidence.
Therefore, I shook what little amount of laziness I had in my system out (And yes I know the joke, I don’t have a “Little” laziness but a huge amount, but it’s just an expression, so just be cool about it), and decided to pay attention to everything that’s going on and figured it out. I decided to concentrate on every movement that those talking apes invaders are doing……and that’s when I figured it out…..
One of those Apes have the ability to see all (Well, I don’t mean everything, just the whole neighborhood) and another must have telepathic ability and is telling the other apes were we humans are…..I have to actually give them credit this whole scene and planning/strategy is just like people when they are playing video games… (You know those team players in live games (Online games) that have strategies and know exactly what to do and how to coordinate with each other very well, well, that’s how it looks like) except I noticed some apes didn’t seem too happy with hurting and attacking humans.
Some even look sad and as much as I couldn’t believe it, I had no choice but to assume it, someone have the power to mind-control (but since some of the apes didn’t seem too happy to do what they are doing, I have to assumed there is some level of awareness left) so it’s either mind-control or persuasion ability.
(Damn it!!!! I really wanted that power!!!! That’s one of my top 5 dream superpowers, you know the typical list : 1) TELEPORTATION 2) ABLE TO MAKE MONEY RAIN 3) GENIUS INVENTOR to create my own video games and light-novels 3) MIND-CONTROL to get free French fries at MC Donald every day for the rest of my life 4) BE AS STRONG AS ONE-PUNCH MAN 5) turn into goku just so I can eat CHICHI’s food….)
You know that typical list of what-five-superpowers-if-you-could-get-would-you-want-and-why. So, with my mind crying for over-time pay (No, seriously, I can totally imagine my brain cells in my mind saying: “with all this concentration and everything going on right now, you better start paying us over-time, you know, we are missing our laziness vacation for THIS!!!!). So, I decided to finally, since the start of my first transmission, to put my life in danger and be (A RUNAWAY HERO)
(Ha!!! Got you again! Expecting me to say: “I am finally going to be a hero and fight” no way, this is me we are talking about, I’ll never put my LIFE in danger, but don’t worry, I have a plan, and if my plan works, than all this mess will be fixed, and I’ll be able to go back to anime watching soon)
TIME TO RUN AWAY WITH EVERYTHING I HAVE!!!!! (No, seriously, that’s my plan, but trust me, next transmission, you will be calling me a strategical genius for my splendid idea that will save my life (I mean, everyone in the neighborhood’s life as well))
So, with everything I had, I ran towards the ape that threw the car at me, and while the ape jump towards me and started acting like a completely wild ape, it tried to punch me using both his hands, and I barely managed to dodge. My replication ability told me it has finished copying the ability and states the following:
SUPERPOWER FEARLESSNESS COMPLETE……..STATUS REPORT: A USER WITH FEARLESSNESS ABILITY CAN REMAINED FEARLESS FOR A TIME LIMIT OF 30 MINITUES. A USER WITH FEARLESSNESS CANNOT FEEL FEAR NO MATTER WHAT, THEY ARE ABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS OTHER USERS WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SINCE THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING NOT EVEN DEATH. CURRENT LVL. 1 [CAUTION: Fearlessness can be activated if user feel threatened by something]
“You got to be KIDDING ME” I said with a very loud voice. “THIRTY MINUTES, I can’t do this”
[FEARLESSNESS SKILL HAS BEEN ACTIVATED AUTOMATICALLY DUE TO DETECTION OF HIGH LEVEL FEAR COMING FROM USER.]
Then I saw something I could use to pierce the ape. With all the destruction going on I found a sharp metal blade, it must have been used by one of the neighbors to attack the apes. Then with an evil idea and evil grin appearing in my face, I pretend to be unbalanced and fall.
The apes completely fall for it and let his guard down, and the moment the ape approaches me to punch me to death, I made one turn around and pierce him directly in the chest (Of course ape skin is very rough, the ape didn’t suffer much damage but he did bleed a little, the sharp blade was unable to penetrate his skin), the ape back away from me a little bit (Not yelling in pain, it came to me that fearlessness also makes you painless?) and the moment he did that, my father was ready for him, and used his fireball to blast that ape out of here!!!!
It was a triple trap (Me falling down and looking helpless, having the blade, and then my father) I completely deceive the poor ape without using my illusion technique (which I couldn’t use anyway with the whole energy requirement thing…..seriously though…..what is THAT ENERGY REQUIREMENT……..)
ABILITY REPLICATOR:
[WITH USER BEING SO EVIL THAT HE TRIPLE TRAPPED A PERSON (APE? BUT CAN BE INTERPRETED AS A PERSON) USER MEETS ENERGY REQUIREMENT FOR ILLUSION SKILL WHICH WAS TO BE REALLY EVIL TO ANOTHER PERSON]
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[CAUTION: SINCE ABILITIES COPIED FROM OTHER INDIVIDUALS FIT OTHER INDIVIDUALS PERSONALITY AND CHARACTERISTICS, USER STILL NEED TO ACQUIRE CHARACTERISTICS AND/OR PERSONALITY]
[TITLE ACQUIRED: SHAMELESS]
[DESCRIPTION: HOW SHAMELESS CAN YOU BE TO RELY ON TRIPLE TRAP TO WIN A BATTLE OF MEN BATTLING AS EQUALS WITH NO FEAR?]
ABILITY REPLICATOR:
[WITH USER BEING SO EVIL THAT HE PIERCED A PERSON (APE? BUT CAN BE INTERPRETED AS A PERSON) USER MEETS ENERGY REQUIREMENT FOR EYE-LASER SKILL WHICH WAS TO HURT SOMEONE AND MAKE THEM BLEED A LITTLE]
ABILITY REPLICATOR:
[EXPLANATION OF ENERGY REQUIREMENT: USER LACKS A CHARACTERISTIC THAT GOES WITH USING THE POWER COPIED FROM THE INDIVIDUAL. I.E.: AN EVIL BULLY HAVING AN EYE-LASER ABILITY, THAT BULLY HAVE HURT PEOPLE AND HAVE EVEN PUNCH ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL TO CAUSE THEM TO BLEED A LITTLE, THEREFORE USER NEEDED TO MAKE SOMEONE BLEED TO USE EYE-LASER TO ESTABLISH SAME CHARACTERISTICS/PERSONALITY AS ORGINAL USER OF EYE-LASER]
[TITLE ACQUIRED: BULLY]
[DESCRIPTION: YOU ARE BULLYING THE WEAK, HAVE YOU NO MORAL?]
The moment that last notification disappeared, I felt like I wanted to rip this stupid ABILITY REPLICATOR of mine away. Seriously, that was the energy requirement, if I known that I would have been more prepared, but there goes my ability replicator not giving me information about anything until I finally solved it myself. Seriously, AND WHAT’S UP WITH THOSE TITLES, BULLY, SHAMELESS……WTF…….did my ability replicator NOT DETECTED that I was trying to survived over here, that I am risking my life, like seriously…..Not funny (Get the joke? I said “Not detected” get it? My ability replicator cannot see anything, but detects stuff, that’s my revenge on you, you stupid ability replicator even though you are really amazing, you can be very annoying at times, but I’ll give you one thing though (If I meet someone with immortality but that person have killed many people, does that mean I’ll have to kill a lot of people to activate the skill too?)
I didn’t want to imagine something like that, so, I quickly stopped thinking about it and moved on to another area in the neighborhood where I see my neighbors fighting a bunch of apes but for some reason all the apes are able to dodge all the attacks (And I mean all, that remind me of what I was discussing before, the see all ability, I am starting to wonder that it is similar to PAIN FROM SASUKE ANIME).
I remember how OP pain was with his eyes ability, so, here’s the question to you, “HOW IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD AM I GOING TO DEFEAT THAT?” I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE REAL ONE WITH THE EYE-SEE-ALL ABILITY IS HIDING, FROM THE ADVENTURES OF SASUKE AND HIS FRIENDS, SASUKE HAD TO GO REALLY FAR TO FINALLY FIND THE REAL PAIN TO BEAT? (I am Tom; I am no sasuke!!!!!!)
So, I being me ran by my neighbors pretended to be fighting but mostly stayed there until I could copy my neighbors’ ability, and I did that to every battlefield, by the time I was done, I have already obtained 20 new skills, and only 10 of those had energy requirement, seems that my ability replicator looks in my memories and check for things I did already, and if I meet the energy requirement then I am already able to use those abilities, and if I have never done what is required for the ability then I have to do, so during the battle with everyone risking their lives, I was just minding my own business.
I was just walking by talking apes, automatically sensing the apes movements behind me and dodging them(…..oh…wait….wtf? did the protagonist of this story suddenly become a martial artist??) well, yeah, pretty much……there was this kid that got the whole sensing/automatic dodge ability going on, the kid was this bully always running from his bullies (remember the kid that was always getting bullied that I talked about last time, where I made the bully that was beating on him feel really bad (Get it, “really bad”, I used my fear ability….)
So, yeah, that kid ended up with sense and dodge ability (And yes it is a single ability that does two things, not two different ability (I talked about abilities uses before right? How an ability can be used in different ways…) so that’s what the kid have been doing so far….
It’s a pretty neat ability, I thought I was going to get a requirement of “Run away from bullies” or something, I am guessing whatever requirement it might have been I already did it, maybe by stepping up and using my “fear” on the bully. So anyway, been using that a lot, as I make my way around the community and figuring what requirements are which and doing random things (AND YES, I AM TAKING THIS BATTLE AS SERIOUS AS I CAN, I MEAN MY LIFE IS IN DANGER, IF I CAN FIND SOME GOOD COMBO OF ALL THE ABILITIES PUT TOGETHER TO ATTACK ALL THE APES SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH ALL OF THEM, THEN IT WOULD BE AWESOME…….come to think of it…..i may have a way……)
Then an ape way bigger than any other ape that I saw before jumped to where I was walking, and stood before me….
“I am the one showing the apes” said the ape with a sad tone and facial expression.
It took me a couple of seconds to understand what this female ape said, but then I understood it soon enough, as a notification appeared…..
SUPERPOWER DETECTED………AUTOMATIC REPLICATION HAS BEEN ACTIVATED……..COPYING ABILITY…..TIME REQUIREMENT 2 MINUTES AND 20 SECONDS
SUPERPOWER: SPIRIT’S EYES
“Spirits” I said. “Spirits as in ghosts”
……..And a terrible feeling awakened inside me as I start to feel goosebumps throughout my whole body. (NOT MY FAULT GUYS, NEVER BEEN A FAN OF GHOSTS ESPECIALLY WITH THAT WHOLE POSSESSION THING GOING ON (What? But I thought you were a fan of mind-control, isn’t in the same thing? And the answer to that is: NO IT’S NOT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PERSON BEING POSSESSED START SPEAKING IN LATIN AND ANCIENT GREEKS WITH THEIR HEADS MOVING IN THOSE STRANGE PLACES…….)