"Mr. President. An anomaly has been found in New York!"
"What sort of anomaly are we talking about?"
"Class S sir!"
"Class S? What makes this class S?"
"Look at this file sir."
The president was handed a classified document
The file was from 1969
When the U.S landed on the moon.
Although it was hidden from the public.
They did find what they thought to be extraterrestrial life.
A dead man in what appeared to be a lab coat was on the moon.
His body completely preserved.
His biology was completely alien when compared to an ordinary human.
Even his blood seemed to have a mechanical virus in it.
After reading the file, the president asks what that has to do with the anomaly.
"Sir, look at this picture."
The picture he is shown matches exactly that of the body they found on the moon!
"When was this picture taken?"
"This afternoon..."
"Find this man immediately!"
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Zero was just minding his business, sitting on a bench.
Watching the time on the clock go by slowly.
Since he wasn't in the chaos realm, time was behaving normally.
He would need to wait till 12:00 AM to go back.
It is then that he sees a red dot on his shirt.
Then even more red dots.
"Hands in the air!"
He attempts to put his watch away... but upon reaching for his pocket. He is shot.
The bullet bounces off his nanite membrane.
"Why are you guys attacking me? What did I do to you?"
A ball of plasma forms in his hand and is launched at one the men holding a gun.
He immediately is vaporized.
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"FIRE!"
Many bullets bounce off him.
"There is a reason we use lasers in the future. Bullets are useless."
After a few minutes of them pointlessly shooting him.
Zero is then hit by a canon.
His membrane is pierced and he is sent flying all the way into a building.
He gets up and dusts himself off.
"Alright guys, let me get serious."
Lightning appears at the bottom of his feet as he vanishes into thin air.
He didn't teleport.
He was just moving so fast, that to the untrained eye. It appeared as if he disappeared.
You must remember... Zero is superhuman.
He was originally born to be a soldier.
He easily grapples one of the members of the swat team and slams him down.
He then hits the back of the neck of all the others paralyzing them.
"You forced my hand."
A helicopter appears above him... and bullets rain down.
He stands there and tanks them.
Then picks up one of the guns and shoots back at the helicopter.
It blows up and crashes into the ground.
He notices that his chest is bleeding a little bit.
He then hears the sound of sirens.
A man in a suit walks up to him.
"Who are you?"
"Would you mind coming with us Zero?"
"How do you know my name?"
"Isn't this you?"
He holds up a phone and it plays back the conversation he was having with Oat.
It seems to be from her communication device.
"I have things to do, so no. I will not come with yo-"
I begin to get a little dizzy...
My vision starts to fade.
"We weren't really asking for you to answer."
I lose consciousness.
When I wake up I find myself naked and tied up to a chair.
The man in a suit shows me a picture of my watch.
"We assume this is what you use to travel. We were unable to move it. You wouldn't happen to mind telling us the mechanism behind it, would you?"
"Don't I have rights?"
"You are an anomaly, you have no rights. We could kill you and nothing would happen. Just answer the questions."
"Just kill me then."
Zero realizes that he can activate his chip to explode, killing himself and escaping the situation.
But... he is a little amused.
"You guys do realize I can escape anytime I want?"
"Can you though?"
Zero immediately breaks the chains binding him and stands up reaching for his pocket.
The problem is... he is naked.
So he has no pocket.
He coughs and ask for some clothes.
"We have a few conditions. Follow our orders and you will be taken care of properly."
I get another idea.
I really want to try some of the food from this era.
"I hear you guys have food besides nutrient paste here."
"Food? That is what you want as payment?"
"Yes... I want fried chicken... nachos... cookies... umm... pizza. Is that too much?"
"So, you'll follow our orders if we give you food? You're serious?"
"I also want cake! Chocolate- No... I want Chocolate ice-cream!"
"Alright we wil-"
"I also want strawberries."
"Fine, we wil-"
"I want oranges too!"
"I'll add that to the list, now could you stop-"
"hash browns! I want tatter tots!"
"Fine."
"So what are you guy's conditions?"
"We have a few rules."
"#1 no leaving this timeline."
"Rejected!"
"What?"
"I'll leave whenever I want to leave. Nobody can stop me."
"Well... can you at least return once a month?"
"For what?"
"You said you were from the future."
"What we want isn't you."
"I'm hurt."
"We want the technology from your era."
"For example that mechanical virus in your blood."
"You mean my nanites?"
"I am actually something of a scientist myself. I also happen to have a lot of the technology from my era saved in ECHO."
"Echo?"
"Don't worry about it. What do you guys want me to make first? Oh wait! I'll need a lab and some 3D printers as well as as some quantum microscopes. An interstellar persona core. I'll need a e++ environment. I'll need some basic kits as well."
"I want a down payment first though."
"What do you want as the downpayment?"
"Five hash browns!"
"Ok..."
From that day onwards, Zero became a scientist working in Area 51.
He helped develop basic nanites and some combat equipment for the U.S military.
A few years later, when he announced that he would be leaving.
The president himself held a banquet and expressed how grateful they were to have had him working with them.
He also said that he could come back at anytime.
But Zero told them he probably wouldn't be back anytime soon.
At least not until he mastered the chaos realm.
Zero then clicked the crown at 12:00 AM and disappeared.