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Chapter 56 by ir0nfang
A day of rest? Or another BAD day?
Well let's see...
I woke up halfway through the night to see me phone vibrating from a received message, first questions in my head were... "Who the hell is it at this hour, and WHY?" I opened my phone quietly, brought up my messages and then saw that it was a text from Miles... Saying that Peter got kicked out his apartment and didn't want to call right away to ask for help... So while Peter was off finding some of his thrown out stuff Miles was sending me a distress call, ALRIGHT... I sent back a message with the location of the office building, I warned Peter that the place needed work and there currently wasn't a bed there but it was shelter and it wouldn't cost him anything for the night. I added back that I'd be there in the morning to speak to him and with an agreement that Peter would stay there I headed back to bed...
Waking up FOR REAL THIS TIME. I got out of bed and made my way for breakfast, running into Jean and Sarah at the table. "Morning Zane~! You look like your doing better than yesterday..." I heard from Sarah before turning to look at her, my head peering around the fridge's open door. "Got interrupted sleep at best, also now I have to head out and meet with someone in the city. Honestly thinking I should just fly there, it's not like I wear a mask or anything anyways." I heard Jean giggle a bit at that before Sarah offered to drive me, I gently refused saying, "It'll be faster if I fly and for some reason, I got a bad feeling this is gonna be another busy day..." I said as I set myself up a quick breakfast and headed to go get ready, leaving a clone behind to handle the dishes. I made the max number and sent the rest to practice magic as much as they could when a sudden pop up appeared in my face.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your clone summoning has reached Max LVL! You can now spend an Evolution Point on your skill. Would you like to use it now?
I selected yes and watched as the skill slowly began to glow before finally changing into, Warlord Summoner.
Warlord Summoner. This evolution grants each clone a random different weapon from your inventory, increases their durability by a very large amount and all weapons are recalled into the inventory when a clone is defeated or dispelled. You now have an inventory box JUST for weapons for your clones to use.
O-okay that's a surprise to say the least...Wait so I have a personal army of mildly durable clones now that can use any weapon I drop into this new box in my inventory? Okay then! Let's get started.
With that thought I went ahead and used my screens in order to set the Foundry to work on numerous weapons, normal ones for the most part anyways. Following that I headed out, flying towards the Office building where I landed on the roof and went inside. First thing I see is Peter crashed out on a couch, I don't know how he got it here but hey, it's clean at least. "Morning Peter." I said as he got up slowly, looking around seeming a bit surprised to see me. "Zane? What are you doing here?" I chuckled a bit as I realized what had happened. "Well Miles used that number last night to help you find a place right? Who do you think he contacted through that?" Peter looked around for a moment before looking back at me confused. "The Owner... Right?" He asked a moment before I responded. "Yup! Hi there!" Now he was looking a bit more confused. "Uh wait but how did you afford this? I mean this isn't really a small building you know?" I nodded my head in response and proceeded to drop a full PALLET of cash onto the floor next to him from my inventory. Naturally he jumped of course. "That's for you by the way, take it, I don't need it." I said as I started to walk towards a small office kitchen area, Peter following me stammering out questions.
"Wait wait wait! HOW did you do that? Where did that come from? Was that magic?" He asked as I looked around the kitchen, clicked my tongue and walked back out. "No no no. I brought it out of my inventory. My INVENTORY. And NO. Are those all your questions also are you gonna take the money or not?" I answered in response watching as he seemed to get even more flummoxed. "W-wait what? No! I have so many more questions! Besides I can't take your money, you already gave me a place to sleep for the night. I'll figure something out." I stopped moving at that point and spun around on him. "Peter?" I got a concerned yes in response. "If I gave you a job would you take the money then?" I asked looking at him like we were talking about the weather... "I think I just saw the moment your brain rebooted... You okay Pete?" Still stunned Peter tried asking about the money. "Uh, seriously though HOW did you get the money? What kind of job would you actually have me doing? I mean I'm not exactly the best when it comes to keeping hours, especially if there's an emergency."
It feels like he's trying to make excuses or find reasons to NOT take the money OR the job, regardless I'm not gonna make it easy for him. "I wanna hire you on basically as a scientist, for most of the time you'd be picking your own projects to focus on however for larger ones that needed all hands on deck I'd need you to join in with others I plan on hiring. Work together to help improve not only the city but hopefully, EVENTUALLY the world. I'm already looking into hiring some people I feel would be more than qualified for certain positions as well as some people I feel would make for EXCEPTIONALLY good security. The intention of the business I plan on building here won't be to go up against Oscorp, but it will be to do things that can better the lives of everyone and if that means outdoing Oscorp then I'm not gonna let them stop me. As for where that money comes from? My powers allow me to basically print money endlessly if I put in the work to EARN it. THAT pile of money is both a gift and for you to consider as a signing bonus, if that's not enough I have more I can give you. At this point I can basically make money as fast as Stark earns it... Well almost." I explained to Peter watching his face as the stunned look didn't seem to be going away...
"I'll tell you what, how about you join me for a few hours at most? See how I earn the money for yourself. You'll see there's nothing illegal about it and it'll help explain more about my powers to you. I'm sure the others can handle your main job for a little while right? And if there's an emergency we can cut it short and come back to help." I offered him as he finally looked like he was starting to get out of the stunned state, he looked like he was really considering it for a moment. Then we heard someone else speak up. "Go for it Peter! We can hold things down for a while." Gwen said walking up alongside Miles. "Besides this will give Miles something to focus on BESIDES his date with Hailey later~" Gwen practically sang out, Miles reaction being a bit of embarrassment. "Yeah Pete, we can handle this. Besides it doesn't seem like a bad deal from the sound of things honestly." Miles responded, trying to get the focus back on Peter. "Besides you'll get to keep your own hours and have a more private lab for any spider related things you wanted to take care of." I added in. Peter starting to look backed into a corner. "Okay okay! If all 3 of you are gonna start teaming up on me I might as well give it a shot. Knowing my luck you'd call in May just to convince me." Peter said as a moment later Miles raised his hand, phone already out, a text message partially written out from what I could see to someone named May. Peter reacting with "Okay that's just not fair..."
"Alright so about that demonstration of where the money comes from? Let's start with this!" I said before sending a party invite to all three of them, I thought about making some clones to clean up the place but there was just too much ground to cover, besides I needed to get the rest of the money to Fisk to pay him back, not to mention paying to get this place looking like an actual business instead of an abandoned building. "Wait... Do your powers work like a video game? That's awesome!" I heard from Miles as all three tapped accept, each of them talking a bit about the HUD they were able to see with among other things. With that Peter got into his suit and joined me as I flew back to the mansion, Miles and Gwen leaving the party to focus on taking care of any trouble that pops up.
When we arrived I headed straight for the training room, sending out a message asking if anyone wanted to join in for a training session with me and the web head. Helen and Illyana meeting us at the danger room for a training session, Illyana wanting another fight after being left out of the missions yesterday especially. With the team chosen we all headed in to train, I put down the EXP Multiplier field again after we decided on doing a Survival training. As we arrived in the middle of... oh, that's a surprise. "Alright so this is the same city I got dropped into last time I did, its basically been taken over by thugs, it's also always winter and night time here for some reason. Good news is we're not in constant combat, there's lots of different objectives we've got here. most involve taking down buildings with numerous thugs inside, this place is basically a prison city with civilians that have been thrown in here alongside some of the worst scum you could deal with." I explained, going further into explaining how looking at the sky would allow them to see markers for different area's with different objectives in them. Some were for sneaking into places to save hostages, others involved getting inside places and beating down all the criminals to clear the place out, there were others that involved dealing with bosses that for the most part wouldn't be too difficult. "Quick head's up Bane is somewhere in this city by the looks of it, and he's not the only boss that's a giant powerhouse either." I said, warning them about Killer Croc while we had this time to prepare. With everything I knew about this place shared we headed into training with all we had.
Where to first?
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Mind Controlling Mutant
Xavier's School for the Gifted
A mind controlling student is enrolled at the academy.
Updated on Jun 17, 2026
by Cross C
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