The Infinite Wish Engine

??? Pov

I woke up, finding myself in... a hospital room? Where the hell was I? What happened? A man with glasses and a mustache came walking in a moment later, sitting in the chair of the room. He wore long brown coat, looked like he hadn't gotten a lot of sleep lately. "Hello there! My name is Gordon. I'm the police commissioner here in Gotham. Just wanted to ask you a few questions if you don't mind." I blinked at him, feeling confused, I guess he was here cause his men were busy elsewhere? "Uh sure but can I ask? Where are we? You said Gotham but what's that?"

The look on his face went from a look like he was trying to keep me calm, to one of shock, and then I saw fear in his eyes. "Wait, you don't know Gotham? Can... Can you remember your name? Or what happened to get you put in here?" He asked, suddenly looking like he was about to start sweating bullets. "My name? My names... Wait... W-whats my name?" I asked as I finally realized I wasn't able to remember my own name, I couldn't remember anything from before waking up! I felt like I was starting to struggle to breathe for a moment, then I felt something in my head POP.

A moment later and I felt dizzy as hell, my mind feeling like someone had driven a spike into it. Moments later I felt the pain fading away, flashing images surging in my head, I felt like I was in a whirlpool being pulled into the abyss... I found myself standing in a city, I saw sky scrapers all around, thugs lining the street I was on, like they were guiding me. I began moving towards where they lead me, no words were said, but we got to the next street and saw a massive area that looked cracked, broken. "Damn... You'd think this would be getting repaired..." I had barely gotten those words out when I saw HUNDREDS of robots flying down! They started moving the debris, starting to rebuild and fix the damage it looked like. "Well I hope they build it back up even better..." With that I turned and found a beautiful woman, long red hair like fire, an incredible body with enormous breasts, wide hips and equally enormous butt, long legs leading up into thick thighs. She crooked her finger at me and wordlessly led me deeper, I felt like she had the answers I needed so I asked.

"Who am I?" I heard her giggle and lead me further in, past the destroyed part of the massive city, to a place so deep it looked like an entirely different world! There was a man with purple skin, another with grey skin wearing blue armor, another wearing a black outfit with bits of red and long strips coming off the back of his collar and lastly was a woman wearing a green tunic and full platemail it looked like. The mystery woman led me past them, to the throne they all stood before, she had me sit down and the moment I did I felt my memories coming back. Like a runaway 18 wheeler slamming into me on the street, it hurt and I felt like I might start violently throwing up at any moment, until I felt something happening. Looking at them I watched as they used what I now realized was their combined abilities and powers, all to help me HEAL! I felt more understanding flowing into my mind, memories coming back.

I had a family, they were taken from me. I was a fresh 18 year old, I'd been going to a school in Gotham, I'd been studying hard and had gotten offers to work at numerous company's and groups, guess that's what happens when you net yourself doctorates in several sciences in one go. But HOW had I done it? Ah! There they are, the memories of HOW I'd gotten so far in my studies... Wait... I had some sort of power? Wait... I could alter reality by making wishes! I'd wished to learn multiple subjects while I slept! My mind continuing to work and learn, my body moving on auto pilot as I slept and regained my energy. Technology, Architecture, Engineering, Physics, Geology, Astrophysics, I'd learned about ALL of them and more while I'd slept! My mind would CONSTANTLY be learning while I slept, it all made so much more sense now.

More and more memories returned, with the returning memories I saw what I'd been asked about by the commissioner... I saw how I'd ended up in the hospital, I saw what had happened and WHO had put me there, I saw what had happened to my family... I opened my eyes when the pain was gone and my memories were all back, looking back at Mr Gordon. "My name is Zane... Can you tell me how I got here, Mr Gordon?" I heard him explain it to me, running the memories through my head, memorizing every detail that he wouldn't know. He told me about how Batman was the first to arrive, how they'd found out my family and I were missing, told me about how when the Bat arrived I was already **** with a nasty head wound, that it had been nearly a week since, that some benefactor was willing to help with burying my now dead family. He said it in far gentler **** words, clearly this wasn't his first time giving bad news. I just nodded my head and asked if the benefactor could take care of them, I explained that I just wanted to get out of this dam city, I didn't want to stay here anymore. He accepted that, offered his condolences, I could tell he was genuine about it, he asked if I could remember how they had gone, or who had done it.

"I'm sorry, but no... I can't... All I can remember is my name..." I explained to him, a dead look on my face, that wasn't hard to fake, I just lost the only family I'd had after all. I knew I'd get asked about it, I knew I'd get bombarded by media and who knows how many interviews about what I'd gone through... FUCK. THAT. I already KNEW who was responsible, I saw his fucking grin when I closed my eyes, I heard his laugh as I watched him pull the trigger on my loved ones. THAT was my last memory before waking up here, and I wasn't gonna come back to Gotham until I was ready to put that clown from hell back where he belongs.

I used my wishes to give myself a new ability, one that allowed me to hide myself completely. Made it easy to sneak out of the hospital and get back home, to gather up all the cash savings I had and leave. I booked whatever I could, a one way trip to anywhere would be better than staying here. I needed to focus, needed resources, money, training. I needed TIME to prepare, that's what I was thinking at that moment. I boarded a plane and got off in another city, nothing but the clothes on my back, money in my bag and job offers in another. I needed resources and money the most, so the place with the best offer would get what they payed for, I'd do the work and get what I needed to do what I had to. My family wouldn't want me doing this, not this way, but I wasn't gonna give him a quick and easy ****. No no no, I'd catch him first, turn him over to the cops, tell him he shouldn't come out again. If he ignored that one warning? Well there was no need to give him another one...

While I was on the plane I slept, I opened my eyes to a nightmare though. Not my family's ****, no this was much MUCH worse... Best I could describe it as was a vision of things to come. I saw psychopaths running rampant, being's of tremendous power waging war throughout the galaxy, the biggest battles all happening right here on earth. I saw factions waging war, the Black Lantern Corp war against life, the worst of the worst taking place over and over again, monsters ravaging the planet for years to come, all of it culminating in a final calamity that would wipe out the entire universe... When I landed and got off the plane, **** didn't feel nearly worthwhile as a reason to go after The Joker as it had when the plane took off... All life was going to end, all of it, that was WAY too real to be just some dream, no that was a vision of things to come. Of things I could STOP from happening... But not as I was now...

My destination hasn't changed, only my reason. Now I have bigger reason to gather resources, to get stronger and better, to grow my power further. So now here I am, walking up to the place I was sure would provide the biggest rewards for me working there. I just had to convince the guy in charge I was WORTH the money and resources now... But how to do that? I asked at reception where the bathroom was, said I had gotten a job offer and wanted to try and take a moment to calm myself before it. I got pointed to the restrooms and went inside, slipped into a stall for a moment before sighing. "I need something, something that'll convince the big guy to increase his offer... I wish I had some sort of material that would get his attention, something he'd never seen before that would make him want to hire me more..." Sure enough, even though I whispered it, there was a case of melted liquid that appeared in front of me. I held onto it and could feel warmth from the case, thankfully the handle wasn't burning hot or anything. With that I went back outside after a few minutes, trying to calm myself and steady my nerves. I got asked what was in the case, I said I wanted to show it to the boss himself, that I wanted to negotiate rather than to just accept the job offer right away, I heard the woman working the front desk sigh before she made a phone call. I heard a chuckle for a moment before she pulled further away out of earshot, a minute later she hung up, told me to follow her.

We went through the massive lobby, got to an elevator and took it up to a massive office, sitting behind it was a man KNOWN for his money and power. "You want to negotiate? What makes you think the offer wasn't good enough?" I heard him say, looking up from his work as I held out a case with molten metal inside. "You've never seen this before...