"I see, then I guess there's no point in running from this."
Grapple quietly said to himself.
"So, when do we start my training, and how long will it take to complete said training? I'd like to know so I can continue my brother's work as soon as possible."
"hmm id say around 2, maybe 3 years. We can start as soon as possible, so get your affairs in order, and don't worry about the city for the time being ill have some people I know look after her in your stead."
grapples eye widened in shock upon hearing that this training will take that long.
"I can tell by looking at you that wasn't the amount of time you'd like to have heard, but I assure you I personally will be doing your training had it been someone else hed asked, it wouldve taken a decade."
Hearing this grapple just let out a sigh and nodded his head, realizing that this would be for the best. Of course, he didn't feel right about his city being left to random people, especially for that long, but what was he to do?
"ok lets get started then."
"wonderful you accepted much faster than your brother assumed you would. He said it might take months."
With this strand, let out a laugh. After concluding his laugh, they left the room and headed out into the main part of the building. Strand led them down to a room off to the left of the storefront, leading to a room possibly 6 times bigger than the store and 8 times bigger than the black room. The room appeared white with a black-lined grid around the entire room, forming the perfect training room.
"This is a holochamber, it's one of the ways we magicians can train without the risk of harming others or destroying the terrain. It can absorb magical essence and force it through the entire area, effectively dispersing the spells; not only this, but it can create holograms for better training purposes."
With this, Grapple began his training with minimal knowledge of magic. This task would be very boring, so Hacker decided to look for another person to observe. After looking around for a bit without finding much, a knock was heard at his door, and a man walked in. Hacker did not initially turn around, wanting to be left alone.
"Mr. Hacker, sir im here because I need power, and I've been told you have the ability to give it to me."
"youve heard correctly, state your name."
"Most people just call me sweetooth."
"ok sweetooth i assume you have the payment ready?"
"of course.."
sweetooth following this swong the bag on his back to the front and opened it up, pulling a weapon from it, a rather large dagger, looking to be based on a dragon, having a guard looking like wings, the handle going down to a small curved loop like a tail with a brown wrap upon it, the sheath was rather large with a blue gem within the dragonic design, leading up to a curved point somewhat resembling a handle. The entire dagger was completely platinum, so it had been nicknamed the platinum dragon.
"Very good," the hacker said with a smirk on his face, taking the weapon and unsheathing the blade, seeing the shiny blade that was around 6 inches from top to bottom at the start of the blade and 14 inches from tip to guard with a pretty well-sized curve, causing the weapon to have great slicing capabilities, not to mention blocking.
"So what is it you desire?"
hacker said while placing the weapon onto a pedestal set up for it
"If it is possible i want the ability to control
momentum?"
odd but easily done,
"Are you certain no refunds?"
"I'm certain."
With this confermation hacker swung his arm out and adjusted his fingers, looking as if he were typing something, and within a moment, an odd single-hand keyboard appeared below his hand, he began to type, it was bright purple and was mostly just lines with no physical element to it almost like a hologram, and after a few seconds, he removed his hand and outstretched it, grabbing a small box from what would be the monitor, with his other hand hed repeated the process at the same time and after a moment he placed the box in another moniter. With this, hed finshed and the spell closed.
"alright done now, leave me."
"Thank you."
The man bowed slightly and left the room.
After the small event that just transpired, the hacker returned, looking for another soul to watch and report, and just then, he spotted him a few cities over, a man with a rather large blue-bladed sword and a silver handgrip and cross guard. This was a "hero" known as Godblade.
Godblade was a very arrogant, selfish, and appearance-oriented person; this was known by most, if not all, who had met him or even been saved by him. He had longer brown hair, just long enough to reach his soulders it was typically put back to keep it out of his eyes, green eyes, and he was almost always seen wearing sunglasses. He wore a deep blue button-up flannel that was half- or fully buttoned down to show off his body; he was also wearing blue jeans and boots. Typically, he had a belt with a rather large buckle on it. At almost all times, he wore a hat of all types, from a normal baseball hat to cowboy hats and even a kasa on rare ocations right now, he had been wearing a cowboy hat to match his outfit.
The large greatsword on his back seemed to float just above his back, with no other way to have it attached godblade had decided this was the best way to carry it.
Godblade was and is a member of a team known as the planetary defenders. He was the 3rd current strongest member, yet he'd never admit this.
At this very moment, he was heading towards the hq to discuss a new development and the replacement of a member.
Reaching the building godblade entered the large tower that was around 70 stories tall and went up through the elevator towards floor 70 to start the meeting.
In this meeting, the following members were present:
8, known as "The Machine," a cyborg;
7, referred to as "Metal Glove"; second oldest in the family
6, a young man around 19 known as "Redrunner V12," a new member replacing the last Redrunner who recently passed away;
5, "K47," another new member who is incredibly strong but lacks any personality, is always seen in an odd-looking suit. His true intentions and power are unknown.
4, "Invincible Man," a former soldier with a large metal gauntlet on one arm and a torn sleeve on the other, serving as the leader of the group;
3, "Godblade";
2, "Light," the Goddess of Light, known simply as "Light." She is a primordial goddess from the fourth generation of her family line.
and finally, 1, "MPT," a telepath. He is almost always asleep, exhibiting a sleepwalking personality that performs tasks for him, with no known weaknesses and no upper limits, which places him at number 1.
"Now that you're all here, we need to discuss the replacement of one of our founding members."
"Hold on, there were staff?" Godblade asked without much concern,
" you havent heard?" Light asked
"Heard what?"
"That's what were here to discuss, staff have been killed."
Upon hearing this godblades arms slightly loosened from the cross they were in, and quickly tightened again to hide his shock.
"I see i guess he had someone who didn't like him."
With this, invincible man gave the 5 names that were being thrown out for a replacement member angel, Soundwave, Loadout, Red Rose, and Deadly.